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location: Watch Hill, R.I.
designer: Centerbrook Architects and Planners
"The challenge at the Ocean House was to replicate the historic icon precisely, down to every piece of original, curved molding and every stone in the old fireplace, while simultaneously updating it to modern standards," Jefferson B. Riley, FAIA, partner at Centerbrook Architects & Planners, says of his firm's task of restoring the 1868 ocean-front hotel in Watch Hill, R.I.
The Ocean House structure that was demolished in 2006 bore little resemblance to the original building, as a result of numerous changes, additions, and years of neglect. However, many of the design features from the original Ocean House that lent the hotel its historic character were salvaged, and the design team utilized these elements to restore the beach-front property to the grandeur of its heyday. The front door balcony, fan light doors, reception desk, stone fireplace in the lobby, and oak paneling elevator cab all were saved for reuse, while the modillions, cornices, columns, railings, and floor dimensions were precisely replicated.
Dinah Saglio, director of communications at Ocean House Management, says that the main goal was for Centerbrook Architects' designs to "pay homage to the original hotel and its Victorian-style architecture and design…while incorporating all of the amenities of current five-star hotels." The client team also wanted the designers to add residential units, a spa, and banquet space. So the challenge became how to maximize space by including the necessary programming while making the hotel appear smaller, mimicking its original footprint.
The 156,000-sq.-ft. hotel, which is a third larger than the original, now includes two new wings to accommodate modern upgrades with 49 hotel rooms, 23 private residences, and the addition of a spa. A pleased Saglio notes, "The exterior is an exact replication from the front, with the new elements blending in seamlessly." She appreciates how the Centerbrook team strategically utilized previously unused space to effortlessly integrate old and new.
Dealing with an historic restoration always presents unique challenges, and Ocean House was no different—from fitting fire stairs while maintaining the historic open balustrades to enlarging the historic elevator to meet code but without a trace, to "building with modern materials that just are not the old stuff," to keeping the very low historic floor-to-floor heights while fitting in modern utilities, according to Riley. "These were some of the challenges I think we answered successfully," he offers. Centerbrook also created a central kitchen in the basement that could accommodate all food service areas, including events and meeting spaces, pool and outdoor lawn area, restaurant, and each hotel floor.
And while the restaurant is overflowing with patrons during the summer, the client wanted it "to retract to a smaller, cozier enclave around the fireplace during the winter," Riley explains. So the designers delineated four rooms that can be shut down, one by one, as the seasons change.
"Some of my favorite parts of the interiors are the quirky odd things that we saved and reused—things you would never design today," Riley notes. For example, the designers dangled original art deco light fixtures from the wood paneled meeting room ceiling; they turned an old Greek revival fireplace mantel into a disappearing bar; and they inserted an odd, oval window into the Club Room, restored the swirling, beaded board ceiling from the haunted "Captain's Room," and maintained an old telephone booth—"Who uses one of those now-a-days?" Riley jests.
Project: Ocean House Hotel. Owner: Bluff Avenue LLC. Architect: Centerbrook Architects and Planners; Jefferson B. Riley, FAIA, design partner; Meg Lyons, AIA, associate, co-project manager; Peter C. Majewski, AIA, LEED AP, associate, co-project manager; Erik Lubeck, job captain; Nathaniel Moore, job captain; Chad Floyd, FAIA, partner, historic re-use study. Interior Furnishings: Niemitz Design Group Inc. (overall hotel furnishings and interiors of Club Room, Board Room, and Restaurant Bar); Rinfret, Ltd (Tower Suite furnishings); Ilianna Moore Interiors (Oceanfront Suite 1 furnishings); ADI (Third Floor Suite 1). Contractor: Dimeo Construction. Lighting: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design. Structural engineer: Odeh Engineers, Inc. MEP/fire protection: WSP Flack + Kurtz. Civil engineer: Cherenzia & Associates, Ltd. Acoustical engineer: Acentech Incorporated. Kitchen: Ricca Newmark Design. Photographer: Jeff Goldberg/Esto.
Lounge seating: custom, some restored from the original Ocean House. Other seating: ADI, custom, through GS Associates, Inc. Upholstery: Schumacher (spa chaise upholstery). Fabrics: Schumacher, Lee Jofa, Clarence House, Kravet, Brunschwig & Fils, Pindler & Pindler. Conference/dining tables: Custom through purchasing agent (GS Associates, Inc.). Other furnishings: Custom by Cynthia Rinfret (Tower Suite), custom by Ilianna Moore (Oceanfront Suite 1) Deck Furniture: JANUS et Cie, Lloyd Flanders. Fireplaces: Miami Beach Pebble Tile. Fountain: Kenneth Lynch. Pool Tile: Heath Ceramics. Lighting: Vaughn, Icon, FDO Group, Hunter Lighting Group, Troy Lighting, Ironware International, Newstamp Lighting, Brass Light Gallery, ICON Group. Doors: Original fan light doors, Kolbe & Kolbe, Harring Doors. Window treatments: Dracor. Flooring: Westwind vertical grain fir, Wood Flooring International, Casa Grande (porcelain tile). Carpet/carpet tile: Crossley Axminster, Niemitz Design Group (custom area rug). Paint: Benjamin Moore, California Paint, Farrow & Ball. Dry wall: U.S. Gypsum Company. Ceiling: U.S. Gypsum. Architectural woodworking: Polybois, Inc. Plumbing fixtures: Kohler.
Location: Watch Hill, R.I. Total floor area: 156,125 sq. ft. (35,171 sq. ft. of exterior decks). No. of floors: 7. Average floor size: 22,305. Total staff size: 150. Cost/sq. ft.: 475 sq. ft.


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BOURBONNAIS — While there was some debate Thursday about whether every player successfully completed coach Marc Trestman's conditioning test — three 300-yard shuttle runs with only two-minute breaks in between — the message behind it was received by all.
"It's all about the commitment," defensive tackle Stephen Paea said.
"You saw guys that put in work in the offseason," linebacker James Anderson said.
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So it can be said that Trestman got the results he wanted by his self-described "accountability test." Plenty of players were nervous about the test, which Trestman used with the Montreal Alouettes, but some didn't think it was needed.
"As a veteran, it's something you don't really like," cornerback Tim Jennings said. "But it's something to kind of let you know where you're at. We know what it takes and what it feels like to be coming into camp. We're used to it. We know what's at stake.
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Veteran defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis did not to report to camp, informing the team he intends to retire. The Bears moved quickly to fill the roster spot, signing veteran defensive lineman Jamaal Anderson to a one-year deal. Anderson (6-6, 280 pounds) started 48 of 77 games in six seasons.
Anderson was cut by the Cincinnati Bengals earlier this month. He played for the Indianapolis Colts in 2011 and for the Atlanta Falcons from 2007 to 2010. Anderson was the eighth overall pick in the 2007 draft out of Arkansas.

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When: First round Thursday; second round Saturday; quarterfinals Feb. 19; semifinals Feb. 21; finals Feb. 23.
Where: First and second round at higher seed; quarterfinals and semifinals at Wells Fargo Arena; championship at Jobing.com Arena.
First round schedule (all games at 7 p.m.): No. 17 Red Mountain at No. 16 Mountain Pointe (winner plays No. 1 Corona del Sol); No. 24 Sunnyside at No. 9 Brophy (winner plays No. 8 Millennium); No. 21 Buena at No. 12 Deer Valley (winner plays No. 5 Desert Mountain); No. 20 Highland at No. 13 Dobson (winner plays No. 4 Mesa); No. 19 Cienega at No. 14 Westview (winner plays No. 3 Pinnacle); No. 22 Desert Vista at No. 11 Gilbert (winner plays No. 6 Chaparral); No. 23 Mountain Ridge at No. 10 Mountain View (winner plays No. 7 Hamilton); No. 18 Ironwood at No. 15 Marcos de Niza (winner plays No. 2 Chavez).
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Contender: Cesar Chavez — The Champions lost to Corona del Sol in last year's title game and a rematch could happen. Cesar Chavez went 27-2 during the season and has the talent to make a deep run.
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Best draw: Cesar Chavez — Neither Hamilton nor Mountain View is likely to have the offensive firepower to stay up with Chavez in the quarterfinals, and Corona del Sol is on the opposite side of the bracket.
Toughest draw: Dobson — It's the Mustangs' own fault for missing out on a first-round bye, but they will potentially need to knock off Highland, Mesa, Desert Mountain and Corona del Sol just to make the championship game.
Outlook: There has been a lot of parity this season, but the Aztecs have emerged as the team to beat. Pinnacle is the hottest team in Division I entering the playoffs with 13 consecutive wins, while Cesar Chavez has the best record but isn't as well known because it didn't play against very many of the East Valley elite. Desert Mountain, Mesa and Gilbert could all make runs, but it would be pretty surprising if any team outside of those six comes away with the championship.
Division II
When: First round Thursday; second round Saturday; quarterfinals Feb. 20; semifinals Feb. 21; championship Feb. 23.
Where: First and second round at higher seed; quarterfinals, semifinals and championship at Jobing.com Arena.
First round schedule (all games at 7 p.m.): No. 17 Cactus Shadows at No. 16 Notre Dame (winner plays No. 1 Sunnyslope); No. 24 Flagstaff at No. 9 Saguaro (winner plays No. 8 Sahuaro); No. 21 Canyon del Oro at No. 12 Desert Edge (winner plays No. 5 Shadow Mountain); No. 20 Coconino at No. 13 Cholla (winner plays No. 4 Paradise Valley); No. 19 Amphitheater at No. 14 Copper Canyon (winner plays No. 3 Sierra Linda); No. 22 Queen Creek at No. 11 Greenway (winner plays No. 6 Salpointe); No. 23 Prescott at No. 10 Poston Butte (winner plays No. 7 Nogales); No. 18 Agua Fria at No. 15 Kellis (winner plays No. 2 Catalina Foothills).
Favorite: Catalina Foothills — The Falcons went 29-3 during the season, won their section and knocked off Division I contender Cesar Chavez.
Contender: Sunnyslope — The Vikings came on strong with 21 wins in their final 22 games to nab the tournament's top overall seed.
Darkhorse: Paradise Valley — The Trojans have been inconsistent, but led by Fresno State signee Paul Watson, have the talent to win it all.
Best draw: Sierra Linda — The Bulldogs will probably have to beat Copper Canyon and then Salpointe to reach the semifinals. Not a walk in the park, but not overly tough.
Toughest draw: Poston Butte — The Broncos should win their first-round game over Prescott, but then will have to hit the road to play Nogales, followed by a potential matchup in the quarterfinals with Catalina Foothills.
Outlook: This division might be even tougher to call than Division I. Catalina Foothills, Sunnyslope, Sierra Linda, Shadow Mountain and Paradise Valley are the top teams, but even Poston Butte, Nogales, Salpointe, Saguaro and Greenway have shown the ability to excel. Catalina Foothills might be the slightest of favorites but Division II is almost impossible to gauge based on the inconsistency of the regular season.
Division III
When: Second round Friday; quarterfinals Feb. 18; semifinals Feb. 22; championship Feb. 23.
Where: Second round at NAU; quarterfinals at Tim's Toyota Center; semifinals and championship at Jobing.com Arena.
Second round schedule: 9 a.m. — No. 24 Winslow/No. 9 Valley Christian winner versus No. 8 St. Johns; 10:30 a.m. — No. 23 Valley (Sanders)/No. 10 Florence winner versus No. 7 Cortez; 12 p.m. — No. 22 Empire/No. 11 Thatcher winner versus No. 6 Estrella Foothills; 1:30 p.m. — No. 21 Fountain Hills/No. 12 Alchesay winner versus No. 5 Chinle; 3 p.m. — No. 20 Morenci/No. 13 Blue Ridge winner versus No. 4 Snowflake; 4:30 p.m. — No. 19 Page/No. 14 Tuba City winner versus No. 3 Scottsdale Christian; 6 p.m. — No. 18 Safford/No. 15 Rio Rico winner versus No. 2 Gilbert Christian; 7:30 p.m. — No. 17 Benson/No. 16 Show Low winner versus No. 1 Window Rock.
Favorite: Gilbert Christian — The Knights haven't lost to a Division III opponent this season as they aim for a repeat.
Contender: Window Rock — The Fighing Scouts are 27-2 on the season and seem to be the chief competition for Gilbert Christian.
Darkhorse: Thatcher — The Eagles enter the tournament on a two-game losing streak and fighting the injury bug, but the potential is there for a run.
Outlook: The Knights are looking for a second straight title behind the trio of Sam Jones, Roberto Reyes and Dylan Bliss. Gilbert Christian has been the No. 1 ranked team from start to finish and its only losses are to Division I foes Pinnacle, Corona del Sol and Brophy. Window Rock seems like the biggest challenger, but Scottsdale Christian, Valley Christian, Thatcher, Chinle or Estrella Foothills could possibly put a wrench into the anticipated finals showdown between those two teams.
Division IV
When: First round Friday; second round Saturday; quarterfinals Feb. 21; semifinals Feb. 22; championship Feb. 23.
Where: First round at neutral site; second round TBD; quarterfinals, semifinals and championship at Tim's Toyota Center.
First round schedule: 9 a.m. — No. 20 Tempe Prep vs. No. 13 Phoenix Christian at Tim's Toyota Center (winner plays No. 4 Grand Canyon); 12 p.m. — No. 18 Red Mesa vs. No. 15 San Miguel at Tim's Toyota Center (winner plays No. 2 Desert Christian); 1:30 p.m. — No. 22 Northland Prep vs. No. 11 Veritas Prep at Tim's Toyota Center (winner plays No. 6 El Capitan); 3 p.m. — No. 17 Valley Lutheran vs. No. 16 Hayden at Prescott (winner plays No. 1 Joy Christian); No. 23 Arizona Charter vs. No. 10 St. Gregory at Tim's Toyota Center (winner plays No. 7 Scottsdale Prep); 4:30 p.m. — No. 19 Chandler Prep vs. No. 14 Pima at Bradshaw Mountain (winner plays No. 3 Arizona Lutheran); 7:30 p.m. — No. 24 Phoenix Country Day vs. No. 9 Duncan at Prescott (winner plays No. 8 Yuma Catholic); No. 21 Bagdad vs. No. 12 St. David at Tim's Toyota Center (winner plays No. 5 Ray).
Favorite: Joy Christian — The Eagles are 28-2 and have one of the deepest teams in the division.
Contender: Arizona Lutheran — The Coyotes lost to Joy Christian in the sectional title game but are battle-tested and talented.
Darkhorse: Yuma Catholic — The Shamrocks are only a No. 8 seed but if they can get past Joy Christian in the quarterfinals a title game berth is likely.
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13-Year-Old Boy Wonder Figures Out How to Increase Solar Panel Efficiency by 50%?
(UPDATE: After this story broke over the weekend, at least one science blog is debunking these claims as impossible. As is the case with many stories on the Internet, take it with a grain of salt…)
Let's see. When I was thirteen, I cared about getting good grades, obsessed over whether I should grow my hair out or get a boy cut, and surfed the web with prepaid Internet cards (yes, I used to do that, and it feels like ages ago. Which it sort of really is.)
What I wasn't doing was using the Fibonacci sequence to increase the efficiency of solar panel systems by up to 50%.
However, that was exactly what Aidan Dwyer was doing. Instead of doing what 13-year-old boys normally do (play video games, build LEGO figures, pick their noses, or whatever it is – I wouldn't know), Aidan was coming up with a new design for the stand that holds solar panels in place.
While hiking up in the Catskills, Aidan glanced up and happened to notice that the trees' branches form a pattern that can be described by the Fibonacci sequence. This is a sequence of numbers formed by adding the sum of the two previous numbers in the sequence to come up with the next one. (It goes something like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on.)
He constructed his own tree-like stand fitted with small solar panels and noted an increased efficiency of over 50% with his design. Aidan now holds a provisional U.S. patent for his solar panel stand re-design, which already has some interested parties eager to put his design into action.
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I wonder if this isn't just bogus. Since solar panels should work best when they're standing at an right angle to the sun and the energy efficiency is directly proportional to the amount of sunlight hitting the panel, there's no reason why a fibonacci-tree should work better at all.
Considering how all light comes from the same direction (the sun), that tree he built should reduce the amount of sun rays hitting the solar panels instead of increasing them; first because the panels aren't all perfectly directed at the sun, second because the "tree" itself might cast shadow on the panels.
The only explanation, if this isn't just a hoax, is that the tree's panels were placed in a way that they've taken the sun's movement during a day into account, while the flat panel was deliberately placed in a way that it only got, say, the light during morning hours.
Either the kid knew what he was doing and wanted to see how easily he could fool others, in which case he's a good con artist. Or he actually believed what he was doing in which case he is just another dumb kid.
Honestly only a the most oblivious of the human race would truly believe this. When I saw the tree design I burst out laughing. I want to see the moron who awarded him a patent.
Obviously trees look the way they do for aesthetic purposes rather than energy efficiency. Thousands of years of evolution and survival of the fittest is just lies.
@y4: Learn to read. Click the second link and think again, please.
I read your article. It lacks any sort of scientific proof, and your reasoning is shaky at best.
y4 are you serious? How old are you? Im a physics and math major, apart from being a post-graduate doctor. Mh's article is spot on.
Sadly, Aidan is wrong. His experiment is flawed in multiple ways and the results are incorrect: Optimal angle is mathematically impossible to improve upon, Aidan was measuring voltage which doesn't measure power generated, etc. However, kudos to Aidan for being the only human being "thinking" out of hundreds of others who just go along with whatever sounds good. For a complete breakdown of the problems with Aidan's findings go here: http://optimiskeptic.com/2011/08/21/this-is-where-bad-science-starts/
The poor lad. I reckon he is onto something. I am not surprised that it has been labelled "flawed" as the scientists that are saying this receive million of pounds euros dollars whatever from their governments, who incidently more interested in oil because oil has an value to them and creats a reason to invade countries such as Lybia and Iraq. If we have total renewable energy then the massive oil companies owned by the government corporation would have no power or reason to have control over us by rising fuel prices etc etc. Instead of flawing this arguement they should be helping the boy and taking his theory on board, as he has a valid point. Trees collect the suns energy in the most efficient way knowen to man. Its nature. Nature is correct and more efficient than we are hence why we cannot make a camera lens as intricate and efficient as the human eye. Its being played down and will be played down because of coporate control.


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St Barth's is the tiny island, only about six miles wide, in the Caribbean that has become quite the holiday hotspot. It was formerly a French colony, which means it's full of beautiful, wonderfully snooty people and lots of delicious buttery carbohydrates to feast upon. Around New Year's, big boats drop anchors around the port and swanky pads with beach views open their doors to a slew of holiday parties. Some say it can be an intense experience — I liken it to the Upper East Side on amphetamines — but since I spend the first part of the holidays in a rather slow paced Midwestern pattern with my family in Missouri for Christmas, I've come to crave the excitement. In fact, this is the fourth time I've found myself down there to ring in another fun filled year.
The cast of characters isn't too dissimilar to those I see in other parts of the world. The Brant boys (including the illusive Dylan, who joined Peter and Harry) are always a welcomed spitting to see at any party, as was their mum Stephanie Seymour this year, and friends like Olympia Scarry, Elisa Sednaoui and Elisabeth von Thurn and Taxis made the pilgrimage too. Dasha Zhukova, a very lovely lady who introduced me to the island, is the girl to know down there. I bunked with my St. Louis sister Karlie Kloss on Gouverneur Beach with some friends; we had a truly jovial time in no small part because girlfriend knows how to cook. Samantha Boardman led us on morning hikes through the cliffs and foliage of Colombier beach, and Marjorie Gubelmann and Rachel Zoe would meet us on Flamands Beach for rehydration and sun damage afterward. There were boat rides and dips in pools and long lunches with fresh fish. And, this being a former French colony and all, there was also a fair amount of Eurotrash, which I love, at clubs that had novelty pillows that said things like I Heart My Yacht. And no, I'm not talking about Puff Daddy's, though we did end up on his yacht at a New Year's after after party and he definitely did love his yacht.
But, as always, what's most important when it comes to any vacation is that you're with people that you love. While I've never made New Year's resolutions (actually, last year at this time I made a list of Non-Resolutions, things I hadn't ever done, which you can read here), I do believe that the head space and the people with whom you start a year will set the tone for the rest of it. That's why I'm happy to report that after a too-short stay in a Caribbean paradise, I'm ready to sink into a fabulous 2013. Happy New Year!
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The view from a morning hike around Colombier Beach; a sandy crew on a last dip in 2012, composed of Josh, Karlie, Elisa, Alex, me, Olympia, Dasha and Neville; the Brant boys in all their beauty, Dylan, Harry and Peter; the Caribbean sun setting on boats in port; Alex and Elisa; Constance spreading peace around Flamands beach; this picture of Guy Oseary, Rick Rubin and Brian Grazer, taken on Puffy's yacht, may be my favorite from New Year's Eve; Lizzy after midnight; Dasha, my queen of the island; Edward Sharp from the Magnetic Zero's; Mr Pigozzi and Anna; Puffy on the mic; Rachel, Samantha and Marjorie at Dasha's party; a four legged, hard shelled friend I met on a morning hike; Josh getting carried away with a view; Elisa, Dasha and Alex on a submarine expedition; me with not one, but two Stephanie Seymour's, both on my chest; an offensive pillow; sails in the sky; Neville on Olympia showing me up on the paddleboards; my favorite ladies on the island, Lizzy, Elisa, Dasha, Karlie, Olympia and Wendi; Karlie as my New Year's kiss; and a heartfelt farewell on our last day at the beach.


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We decided to spend Diwali night in the inland town of Mapusa, the biggest modern city in Goa, where we had heard the best effigy-burnings would be. There we checked out an endless array of local boys, each commandeering a demon more aggressive than the last. (One was done up in a black vest and a giant belt buckle that said rock on!) A talent show taking place in a vast parking lot by the bus depot featured 10-year-old girls lip-synching and gyrating to Hindi pop like cast members of Grade School Musical. Families were everywhere, with their babies out way past their bedtime, and they were as enchanted by the lights and the noise as we were. The firecrackers and singing and parading and torching went on till dawn.
One of the most visually striking areas in Goa, where the local and colonial aesthetics are most keenly felt, is in Panjim. Anyone who has spent time in conquest towns in Brazil or Mexico will find the winding, narrow lanes of the old Fontainhas neighborhood, which is Panjim's atmospheric draw, deeply familiar. Wood-framed row houses in saturated hues and neat little shops predominate, but the 17th-century Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception is the jewel in the neighborhood's Latin-style crown, planted atop a hill where the sun kicks off its blinding whitewashed exterior like a faithful torch. Panjim is tidy and sedate compared with other Indian cities, and spending a few afternoons there was like a vacation-within-a-vacation. Panjim is where Danelle and I shopped (no haggling!) for elaborate Indian gold jewelry, where we meandered aimlessly without interference or questions, and where we ate one of our best Goan meals, at Mums Kitchen.
As much an archive of home recipes as a popular lunch spot serving up crab fritters and prawns caldin (a green-chile-and-coconut stew), Mums is another proud preserver of Goan tradition that takes a stand against the encroachment of fusionism that is seen at so many other restaurants in the state. Where Western taste is indulged in loungey cocktail bars and Euro-flavored beach restaurants like La Plage and Sublime, the food at Mums, Siolim House, Elsewhere, and chef Urbano de Rego's Beach House restaurant at the Taj Holiday Village is much more authentic. Goan food is southern Indian (think coconut milk, fish, fresh herbs, and tamarind), but it's uniquely Portuguese-influenced, as Chef Rego, as he is called, explained during a discussion of piri-piri, a base for many Goan sauces made of toddy vinegar and chile peppers. Chef Rego was the first to bring Goan food to the world's attention, having cooked for the elder President Bush and at the World Economic Forum. "Our food takes time," he said. "Time to marinate, time to simmer." We tasted his pork piri-piri at the Taj, and then four other varieties at O'Papagaio, which serves regional, though technically illegal, wild game. (Locating the restaurant was a monumental challenge for able concierges and two Goan drivers. Be sure to have your hotel call ahead, give thorough directions to a driver, and bring along the restaurant's phone number, just in case.) On the menu that night were porcupine, venison, wild boar, and frog's legs—sadly, no monitor lizard—and all were boiled, then curried, to surprisingly subtle effect. Since we were the only guests in what is basically the large front room of a house, we popped back into the kitchen, watched the owner add endless pinches of dozens of spice powders, tasted some of the venison before he curried it, and were given the quills of one of the beasts we'd soon be eating. It was a fitting tribute. The porcupine was delicious, like unusually delicate lamb fed on lavender flowers. As development eats away at the remaining stretches of forest, hunting is becoming more challenging, so the porcupine's days as a blue plate special could be numbered. At least we already knew the same would never be true for still-legal and plentiful frog, which translates from the local Konkani language as "jumping chicken."
Despite Goa's pride in its unique cultural identity, there's worry about cultural dilution. (The dramatic tagline at Mums Kitchen is "A Move to Save Goan Cuisine.") The state's Hindu and Muslim populations are growing because of immigration from the neighboring state of Maharashtra, and native Goans often leave to seek their fortunes in the Gulf states or Canada. There are strong non-Goan elements in the evolving cultural mix: the frenetic hustler's pace of the Delhi and Mumbai natives who have set up shop here; the squajillionaires like Kingfisher chairman Vijay Mallya, who throws the party of the year in his enormous Sinquerim beach house each December; the Europeans in their Speedos, in search of a tan; the just-furloughed Israeli soldiers looking for the party. The Indian government is enthusiastically bureaucratic, and protecting one of the country's most distinct regional cultures is not its highest priority. For the moment, that's left up to the Goans themselves, whose live-and-let-live shrug is not the best weapon with which to battle the onslaught. Pitted against the forces of rampant capitalism, it's not clear who will come out ahead.
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Officers' Quarters: In defense of guild talents {WoW}
Jun 21st 2010 3:11PM Wow, there's a lot of officer/GM hatred out there. I agree with the OP completely, I thought most of the same things when I read the first report about them removing the talents. I liked the idea of having more variety amongst guilds, and something to truly differentiate between casual/leveling/pvp/etc guilds. All types of guilds serve their purpose, and refining them further wouldn't have led to any more /gquits than the current model.
I've also always enjoyed reading negative comments from people regarding GMs and officers. The guild system is very much a free market. If you don't like your current officer structure, you'll leave. A guild has to provide you with services you want to keep your loyalty. I can recall putting up with a lot more in a server first progression oriented guild than I ever would in a casual raiding guild. Frequently the people bad mouthing their prior guilds officers were new members resentful of the perks established raiders did. It typically fails to register in their conciousness that the guild wouldn't exist witout the hard work that the original members put in. Guilds start off small, and they require considerable effort and time to get off the ground, especially if you're trying to be competitive in the raiding scene. You have to offer something other guilds don't or you'll just end up as a revolving door, like so many leveling/casual raiding guilds become. Those guilds have their place, but their officers also understand that's the end result.
TL;DR - If you're unhappy with a guild's officer structure and philosophy, leave. And next time do a bit more homework before you choose a guild if its going to matter to you in the long term.
Debunking another hacked authenticator story {WoW}
Feb 10th 2010 2:42PM One thing that most people tend to overlook is that authenticators still can't be shipped to Canada from the US, and the EU store directs you to the US store for Canadian accounts. I learned this one the fun way when a guildie had his account compromised from a script (I've since managed to get him away from IE). So to everyone out there with Canadian guildies, lend a hand and have their authenticator shipped to you in the states and forward it on, costs you all of $4.00 in shipping and it'll save a lot of hassle later on. Nothing like losing one of your core raiders and the top DPS the week LK becomes available.
Enter to win a Creative WoW headset from WoW.com and Creative {WoW}
Oct 14th 2009 7:24PM MMMM delicious WoW headset with glowy rune power!
The OverAchiever: Guide to Brewfest 2009 achievements {WoW}
Sep 19th 2009 1:44PM HoP doesnt stop fall damage sadly. Only DS or DI are gonna do it.
World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.2.2 Paladin changes {WoW}
Aug 14th 2009 7:30PM Even with all the changes Blizz made to blocking, its still not a very effective tank stat. It's still relegated primarily to the realm of trash. Icehowl was hitting my full Ulduar25 geared tank for up to 25k headbutts on average and up to 19k melee. Even if I dropped a lot of avoidance and stam to pick up the gear itemized for block I'd still cap out around 3k, and I personally don't want to lose 5%+ dodge/parry and 6k stam for another 1k SBV, call me crazy.
And for the "SS or it didn't happen crowd":
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World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.2.2 Paladin changes {WoW}
Aug 14th 2009 7:21PM I can't see any way to gain a boost to SP with the new system unless you're running around in ilvl 200 purples. Past that point any raiding prot pally is going to have considerable health. I currently run just over 36k health unbuffed, and I can't say I'd be comfortable dropping any stam at all considering content just keeps hitting me harder and harder (enraged Icehowl or IC hard mode both spring to mind). If blizz is going to finally nerf how hard a mob hits me I'd be more than happy to drop stam and pick up threat gear in its place. In relation to holding threat, no, this isnt really that big of a deal single target. Most equally geared prot pallies I know can put out 8-10K TPS single target, considerably more with hunters and rogues helping out. What this DOES effect are trash pulls, as my cons drops back down to forcing everyone to wait for a few ticks, slowing down raids needlessly. Hopefully the changes won't make it to live, at least not in their current state. 75% str would be just groovy and leave me at basically the same point in terms of SP, and I'll just have to live with the RF nerf.
World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.2.2 Paladin changes {WoW}
Aug 14th 2009 6:22PM Not sure how either can be taken as a minor change for prot pallies. The threat reduction from RF is a pretty solid 8-9% threat hit (on the average boss my top 4 damaging attacks work out to be SoR, Cons, HotR, and melee). The change from stam to str is quite a nerf, at least to well geared raid tanks. I have 2990 stam unbuffed, which equates to 897 SP total. My unbuffed strength is only 1336, dropping my SP post nerf to 802, over a 10% reduction. Maybe this isnt a giant nerf bat to people running heroics or Naxx, but those of us in full 226+ gear this is pretty painful. Oh well, time to make someone else cleanse on Hodir so I can concentrate on keeping threat over melee doing 13k, thanks Blizz.
Patch 3.2 changes the tiered Emblem system {WoW}
Jun 18th 2009 7:15PM Completely apart from discussions of hardcore and casual gamers, having the same tokens drop from Heroic dungeons as those that drop from the top tier of raiding is going to invite more and more grind for raiders. You won't be able to claim you're competitive as a raider without running more and more heroics to get more and more badges to acquire more gear. And personally, I had my fill of heroics on my tank when I was gearing up in the early days for Naxx, I have zero desire to go back now and blaze through content that offers no challenge whatsoever. Whenever I run friend's alts through heroics I find myself playing Bejeweled for most of the instance. I can't say I look forward to doing that on a regular basis for actual upgrades.
I agree that it can be difficult to find heroics for alts and people new to the game, but I can't see how this is going to improve things. You really think people in Ulduar25 gear are going to bring along people to slow them down? I'll just take along 4 other Ulduar25 geared guildies, and so will everyone else. If anything, I'd 2 or 3 man them before I wasted time getting a PuG involved.
Forum post of the day: Great idea, poor implementation {WoW}
Feb 13th 2009 2:31PM I know whenever I'm out grinding quests I always carry a full set of my offspec gear. You do realize for dual spec to work you need to have the other gear on you. If you're going to a bank, then it's a short jump away to a trainer, so you save approximately 1 minute. And I personally leveled my pally as prot and my priest as holy through vanilla, BC, and WotLK. It's not difficult, especially with spellpower and the way most prot trees are set up now. Personally I'd just as soon not have even more noobs out there claiming to be tanks or healers because they can instantly respec. Fail PUG runs =! fun times. If you want to learn a spec, you need to level with it, or at least spend a good amount of time solo grinding before you go and impair a run with your desire to learn.
But hey, apparently tanking and healing is hard, so why shouldn't your life be made easier by letting you waste countless people's time claiming to be a spec you have zero practice with.
Again, you can respec without having access to dual spec. You can also ride a ground mount before you can fly. You can fly slowly before you can purchase an epic flying mount. There are level limitations on virtually every purely cosmetic aspect of WoW, this isn't exactly a break from the past or a slap in the face. Go level to 80, like you said, it's easily done with northrend quests.
Forum post of the day: Great idea, poor implementation {WoW}
Feb 13th 2009 12:42PM So your argument is that because respeccing is expensive, it should be allowed for lower levels. Which leads me to question where exactly you are collecting this offspec gear to change specs so frequently. Unless you're only looking at classes that go from caster healing to caster DPS, which means its only a matter of time before we go into blaming blizz for not making one godlike stat that applies to every single class so that whenever we respec for free to try something out we don't have to change gear or spend gold.


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SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Robert M. Taylor, 47, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and mutilation of a corpse, in the death of his mother, and larceny and vandalism from a church near her Narragansett residence in May.
Taylor was indicted by a Washington County Grand Jury on charges that he murdered his mother, Alison Taylor, cut her body into pieces and placed the remains in a trash bin near her residence in Narragansett between May 3 and May 7.
The other charges involve vandalizing collection boxes and stealing money and knives from St. Thomas More Church in Narragansett.
He was ordered held without bail. His next court date is Jan 6. Taylor, was originally scheduled to be arraigned in Washington County Superior Court on Nov. 25.


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Updated: 08/26/2009 - Edward Moore Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on February 22nd, 1932. He was the fourth son and last of nine children of Joseph P. (1888–1969) and Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995) Kennedy.
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Updated: 08/26/2009 - Senator Kennedy authored more than 2500 bills during his time in the Senate. Several hundred have become Public Law, providing a significant change in the quality of life for the American people.
Updated: 08/26/2009 - He was a leader and pioneer in the United States Senate, and often called the 'Lion of the Senate'.
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returns my site as number one in Google.
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What is this indicative of as far as SEO goes?
It's also indicative that your site isn't ranking as well for X,Y or Z than the 20 pages of sites above you!
Sounds like you need to get more inbound links! Also, may sure that X, Y and Z are in the <title> and <h1> of the page that you want to do well for that search.... DerekH
The thing I'm missing are inbound links. I don't think I have any yet.
Also: optimizing anchor text for your internal links sometimes works wonders. Do not use "Home" for the 'back home' link on all your pages. Use "Home: X Y Z" or something similar.


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Organize Your Closet for Spring Cleaning
It's that time of year again!
Soon enough, according to Punxsutawney Phil, winter will be a thing of the past and spring will be here. As the snow melts and we head toward the crocuses and singing birds of spring, many homeowners begin sweeping and scrubbing away the traces of winter in a routine that we refer to as "spring cleaning." Once it's warm enough to open windows and let the fresh air in, we're eager to banish the dust of winter and start over with a newly cleaned home.
If you ask the average person which area in their home most requires spring cleaning, she may be likely to say, "the closets." When we want to get our living areas decluttered quickly, we tend to toss items that we need but don't have an immediate home for in the nearest closet. Also, this is the time when we start packing away our heavy winter wear and boots, and bringing out the spring jackets and lighter shoes. All of this can add up to chaos in our closets! If your closet could use some spring cleaning, here are a few tips:
Take Your Time
If you don't have a full day to devote to whipping your closets into shape, then plan on the task taking several days. During this time, you may have piles of belongings in your bedroom. Don't do this if you're going to feel pressured to put everything back; the day before your mother-in-law arrives for a weeklong visit is not a good time to start the process! Choose a time when you'll be able to put aside a half hour or an hour per day for several days in a row.
Separate and Categorize
Shelf by shelf and drawer by drawer, separate items into the following piles: things to give away, things to throw away, things to put away (in another room or area of the home) and things to keep in the closet. Use a box for each of the categories except for "things to throw away." For that, you can use a garbage bag. Once a box or bag is full, deal with it right away. Put the things to give away in your car to drop off at your local Goodwill or other charity. Throw out the garbage. Put the items away if they belong in another room. Hang onto the things to keep in your closet until the whole thing has been gone through.
Once everything is out of your closet, give it a good cleaning. Dust off the shelves, vacuum the floor, wipe out any drawers and run a cloth along the clothing rods. If the closet needs to be repainted, consider doing this now. Otherwise, use a sponge to remove any fingerprints. If desired, tuck a lavender or other scented sachet in a drawer or hang one from one of the rods to make everything smell nice.
Put away the items that belong in the closet. If you need more hangers, then go and buy some. If you find that you don't have enough room to neatly store all of your closet belongings, you have a few options: Find another place in your home for some of your items to reside, invest in custom closets, or come up with a new organization system.
Remember that spring cleaning usually means deep-down cleaning, from the living areas of your home to the hidden areas, such as your closets. When you have every bit of your house clean and neat, you'll be able to relax and save time otherwise spent dealing with clutter.
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Michael Arrington, Co-Editor of Website About Startups, Launches Fund to Invest in . . . Startups
Fortune's Dan Primack broke the news this afternoon that TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who co-edits the AOL-owned blog, will be raising a venture capital fund for early stage tech startups. Mr. Arrington's partner will be VantagePoint Ventures Partners' Patrick Gallagher and investors will include, "many of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms and tech luminaries" (i.e. the sources that TechCrunch regularly covers on its blog.) Read More


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In any discussion there's always the danger of allowing the arguments and line of thought to stray ever farther from the reality of any given situation — the facts on the ground so to speak. This is especially the case where politics are involved, because making a moral case takes on such importance, as opposed to, say, engineering, where the goal is to make things work in the physical world.
Because of this peculiarly irrational nature of politics, great acts of folly have been undertaken in the name of "progress." For example, Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward, which directly caused the unnecessary deaths of millions of people in an effort to realize a Communist utopia. The Communist Party demanded nothing less than the impossible from everyone from farmers to industrial engineers, causing catastrophic failure.
What this demonstrates is that there are limits not only to the stress a structure can withstand, but to the feasibility of political programs as well. In an often misunderstood gesture, a wise old ruler of England once sat on the seashore and commanded the advancing tide to stop. The story about Canute, a Danish viking who ruled over England, Denmark and Norway, may have been apocryphal, but the event may have occurred as a demonstration carried out by the king. As the saying goes, the sea ignored his command, and Canute then proclaimed that the power of kings is as nothing compared to the might of heaven. Some think Canute was trying to make a point about the limits of his earthly authority, and was rebuking the flattery of sycophants.
Today, armed with high technology, power and wealth beyond the dreams of Canute, it is easy to forget that despite our advances we are still subject to the same reality as medieval English kings. Our politicians promise to manipulate the weather and thereby save the world, to create wealth out of nothing, and to elevate all our children above the mean. Perhaps it is a result of democracy — one wins an election not so much by obtaining results in the real world, but by making the most fantastic promises for tomorrow.
As we discuss the plight of men in our society we tend to focus directly on the promises made by politicians, feminists and others wedded to the status quo. In so doing, we run the risk of losing sight of reality as well, and, ironically, in aiding them in their attempts to impose the impossible.
What we need to remind ourselves is that feminism as envisioned by most of its supporters is at best an unfeasible plan. At worst, it is an impossible effort. The distinction between the two is quite important, because where the former may siphon off work and waste time while people explore the plan and attempt to find a way to implement it, ultimately it will be abandoned as they realize it simply can't be done. The latter, as Mao's Great Leap Forward, would be an all-out attempt to impose a system doomed to catastrophic failure.
Some may say: "But look at all that feminism has accomplished! It is well on its way to total, permanent victory forever and always." No, this is far from the case. While feminist policies may have been imposed in a great many places in our society, this has come at great expense; an expense that we probably cannot maintain for much longer. Disassembling the American family has been enormously costly over the last generation. Millions of children are failing to live up to their potential as productive citizens, and social costs have been piling up as a result of fatherless homes and single motherhood. The divorce industry may be very lucrative for those involved with courts, but it does not add one cent to national wealth. Higher education has been successfully promoted for girls, and now we have millions of young women wasting several productive years obtaining useless degrees that give them little more than a sense of entitlement. The lower number of boys in higher education is not the real problem; it is the excess of females that we ought to worry about.
Although some have cheered the fact that productive male industry and occupations, such as resource extraction, manufacturing, construction and engineering have been on the decline for decades, and suggest that we have "advanced" to a service economy, they seem blind to the fact that the success of that service economy depends on our ability to force people to use it through the dollar's primacy as the world's currency. This is directly tied to our status as the world's policeman — a job Americans are no longer all that enthusiastic about. The service economy is a house of cards; platitudes notwithstanding, our women and girls have nothing of particular value to offer the rest of the world.
Countries that have built themselves up largely on the backs of their women have existed, particularly in East Asia, where developing countries turned to light industry as a source of much-needed foreign capital. Korea pursued this strategy in the 60s and 70s, and China more recently in the 80s and 90s. However, these countries did not develop through services provided by females, but rather by putting women to work in materially productive occupations.
There is only one country in the world where services provided by females form a pillar of the national economy, and that country is Thailand. Through prostitution, Thai women bring in over 10% of Thailand's GDP, which would make them some of the most economically productive women on the planet, but somehow that does not seem as though it would be a viable strategy here.
So what we have here is a movement and policies that were paid for first by economically productive men in the US, and then as the productive, male economic base shrunk, by what amounts to foreign subsidies, and finally by loans from Chinese industrialists. For all the triumphalism, proclamations of eternal victory and articles rubbing men's collective face in women's piles of cash, feminism has been an economic failure. It is an enormous money pit that sucks wealth and productivity into oblivion. It is a hothouse flower maintained in an artificial environment.
Given continuous, strong economic growth, it is plausible that the current state of affairs could continue indefinitely, but not probable. In fact, more likely than not feminism would eventually consume itself even in an economically healthy environment, because it is counterproductive by its nature, and even if we did not face bottlenecks now and in the foreseeable future, it would sow the seeds of its own destruction by reversing the traditional flow of wealth into the creation of and out from the fruits of productive endeavors, i.e. the men who finance them as well as those who profit from them would be forced to turn their wealth over to women. At its core, feminism is about nothing more than resource distribution from men to women, and after a certain point such redistribution causes a breakdown of the mechanisms that keep an economy functional.
However, we do face some bottlenecks, chief among them the energy issue, so whether or not feminism could survive during sustained growth is moot. Humanity will not run out of gas all of the sudden, but the cost involved in procuring the energy that allows us to maintain such a complex economy will certainly rise, and the return on our investment will fall. We're running out of easy oil, environmental pressure is limiting the fruits of the Green Revolution, and political resistance is cutting into the profits of global trade.
We are not looking at another period of sustained prosperity such as the one that began after Word War II and ended some time in the last decade. Instead, we are facing a struggle that will require some tough decisions if we want to maintain anything like our current lifestyle. We will need scores of new nuclear power plants, advances in agricultural technology, new modes of transportation and an overhaul of our infrastructure, to name a few things. Although we have the native talent to achieve these things, it's entirely possible that we will fail.
This is relevant to feminism because it suggests two scenarios for the end of feminism: the first, and more favorable one being a conscious political choice to let it die so as to focus effort and energy on tackling the more pressing issues of sustaining economic and technological progress despite the challenges we are facing. The second and less comfortable scenario would be a failure of political will and the eventual end of feminism due to economic contraction and the concomitant lack of means to enforce and support it. Given contemporary politics, the latter appears more likely, however, this outcome may not be as bad as it sounds — it could happen sooner than we expect.
Speculation aside, the reality is that feminism has already begun to decline. That so many media outlets and women are declaring its victory means nothing; the fact is that they have far less of value to offer women than they did ten years ago, and they will have even less in another ten years. Every man who is ruined so that his hormonally deranged wife can realize her soap opera fantasies, every business dismantled by a sexual harassment lawsuit, every man tossed in prison at public expense, and every productive job replaced by a woman pushing paper at a government-funded nonprofit is a material loss for women in aggregate. Because we no longer have significant excess wealth, women are going to have to pay for each feminist victory with a decline in their wealth and standard of living. It may not be entirely obvious yet, but it will be soon enough, and at that point we will see a rise in anti-feminism amongst women themselves.
At this point, feminists can demand all they want that the world and reality follow their command and conform to their wishes. They can proclaim eternal victory and shout their power and omnipotence into the wind. For our part, we men can take a step back and watch, knowing that no matter how much they wish it and order it to happen, the tide won't stop, and just like old king Canute they'll end up with nothing more than wet feet.


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What do economists write?
Each person within our discipline probably has a slightly different approach. My area is labor economics. The course I teach is personnel economics, which is really a combination of labor economics and human resource management. I teach a completely case-based course which means we focus on cases instead of a textbook, and write reports and memos based on these cases.
What's a case report?
A case report is a tool for analyzing a business problem. The idea is to apply what you know about economics to a real-life scenario using a basic problem-solving process. The report is broken up into specific sections: introduction, problem statement, analysis of alternatives, and then your recommendation (which is really like your conclusion section.)
What's the point?
The main purpose of a case report is that it helps build a bridge between theory and practice. In classes, we often focus on quantitative theory using a lot of equations and graphs. It often seems like just a bunch of numbers. And students ask, "How would I actually apply this in the real world?" A case report is a chance to see those theories in action.
What is the real-world application of that?
Most students are taking economics because they're business majors who have to take economics, and most of them are going to find themselves in managerial roles someday. When they're out there working, it is important for them to make informed choices - they will be dealing with real people, real money. So in a very broad sense, a case report is a way to practice making managerial choices that students will - five, ten years down the road - have to be making.
So managers will be writing case reports?
What they will do is write memos, which is essentially the executive summary, if you will, of a case report. But the thing is, when you're out there working, your boss is not going to read a 20- to 30-page report. He's not going to sit through 50 PowerPoint slides. What he's asking for is the recommendation - the conclusion. The bottom line is, to come up with a recommendation that holds water you have to go through that case analysis process. It's a thought process more than anything. It may not even be written. But that boss - if you give him the one-page memo - will expect you to be able to explain it and justify it very quickly. And the only way to do that is if you've come up with alternative ways of solving the problem. You have to think about the pros and cons of each alternative and then come up with a recommendation in order to become reasonably confident that you're coming up with a realistic and appropriate answer. That's a problem solving process, which is what a case report really is.
What if you follow the process and reach the wrong answer?
There's never a perfect solution. Some solutions are better than others, but there's never a perfect solution. There is never an answer.
Some problems economists solve have a very specific solution: "The answer is seven. You should price such and such at seven dollars." But in real life, when you go out there in the business community, you wrestle with decisions all the time. There is no perfect guaranteed answer that is going to work for everybody. You have to accept that. You do the best you can with the information you have at hand, you think about it from multiple perspectives, you figure out what the objective is, and you come up with a solution that most closely achieves that particular objective.
Beauty in a case report is recognizing the enormity of problems, the fact that there are no easy answers, there is no perfect solution. That opens your mind. Right? That's my goal. It's all about the process.
What are the consequences of not mastering this process of good writing in economics?
If you don't have a good decision making process backing you up, you tend to make uninformed decisions that hurt not only yourself but other people. So it can affect your ability to get a job, your ability to keep a job, and your ability to excel at a job.
The other thing is communication. You can have a great problem solving process, but if you can't communicate that to anyone so they can understand it, you're back to square one. When you say, "writing in econ," okay, I don't really think of it as "writing in econ." I think of it as writing. Writing effectively is communication. And if you can't communicate, it doesn't matter how smart you are. All your thoughts, ideas, innovations, and creativity - stay trapped in your mind.


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