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bestmich, I agree somewhat with woman but not men. Especially when you talk about career growth for black men. A key part of growth that is significant is mentorship. Even though there are intiatives around this with some company's, they are just not there yet when it comes to mentoring. I'm actually comfortable and open to receiving mentorship, as most black professionals, from anyone black, green, purple it doesn't matter. However, from my personal experience even when I seek it from a non-black person there is little support. Even when I ask insightful questions and try to be more open. Maybe there is a subconscious fear that I may threaten there advancements if I grow and get advice on moving up the latter. The reality is people like to mentor those that are more like them. Personally, I wish that wasn't the case. Also whether your black and your name is Bob, you still face the same issues as if your name is Shante. The reality is that blacks are less likely to be seen as individuals from the start than whites. For the most part, seen as they are portrayed negatively in the media. I've become numb to this fact as a means to avoid frustation.. simply won't let it effect my success.
As for women, I agree to a point. If I was compensating a women and I got a sense that her career was first and foremost and she did not have kids and wasn't married (very typical with black women professionals). Whereas, it is not as typical for white women professionals to have family priorities that would lend to slowing down there career advancement.
Frank...Your stating facts but your comments as to why there are significantly fewer blacks that revolutionalized industries through entrepeuneurship, business founders,etc is shortsighted. I assume your understanding of the dynamics of race in america only comes from books, but I won't fault you on that if that is the case. I commend you for dialoging and being concerned about this issue.
However, Please think about the people in which you compare, Bill Gates (whose parents: father..prominent lawyer, mother..Board of Director United Way) and Sergey Brin (both parents mathematicians), now compare that to the education level, prosperity to the average of the several black entreprueners that exist today, visit Atlanta when you get a chance. Not to say Bill or Sergey didn't have challenges getting to the point of prosperity/success, but the head start and early family support is significant.
As a 28y/o black man, son of Jamaican immigrants, I don't dwell on blaming anyone, I have an optomistic approach and plan on owning my own business following building my credentials within my current corporate america profession. I recognize that my challenges getting to the point I'm at today was more challenging than the average person, however I don't dwell on it, I move forward and do my best to catch up...maybe not in nanotechnology, but in other areas that will make this world a better place.
Also as I'm sure you know, starting a business requires not just ideas but significant amount of investment/capital. It wasn't long ago that minorities struggled to just get loans, much less money from angel investors. Another key part of business is networking and building relationships, unfortunately the people that minorities need to build networks/relationships with are the majority if they want to maximze their revenue..and just as Obama has dealt with during this election, there are some of the majority that just won't do that no matter how open you are as a minority. It's not just minorities that have a long way to go, its all of us in resolving the inequalities. Oh wait, maybe Bill Gates could do that too :)
R.A.M. I think the data you put forth supports the fact that capable, highly qualified black women actually have greater opportunity for career growth due to their minority status. This isn't shocking to me. I'm willing to bet the same holds true for men. Institutions love to pat themselves on the back for fostering a "diverse" community when they promote well-qualified blacks to positions of higher pay. Unfortunately most of these people are from the suburbs, not the inner city; and most aren't named Shante or Shaniqua.
Black and white America have taken their eye off the ball. We have become lazy and are standing back and expecting the government to make every decision for us. Barack is promising the world and voters are expecting him to deliver. Somebody should have the guts to tell America that the ship is passing us by(literally) because other countries yearn for what we have and are willing to bust their backs to make it happen. Google the Emma Maersk, the ship from China that delivers the US all their goodies. An amazing chip with cargo that comes loaded to us and empty leaving. Sad, really sad. Barack isn't encouraging those "bitter" workers to suck it up and step up to the plate, he is giving them an out by thinking for them and planning to make them even more dependent.
frank: fan of ayn rand? i think it's funny that only CEOs impress you. there are other contributions one can make to this world.
The discussion about the gap between black/white test scores is one that really hasn't been addressed correctly and is therefore misunderstood. I have a friend who has a PhD in psychology and spends most of her time testing and treating juvenile offenders from all races. Her obersevations about the so-called test gap is something that is really quite simple: if test scores of middle-class black/white students who attend private schools are compared, the so-called gap would be negligible if a gap existed at all. It would be valuable for people to read Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink, The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking" to determine if how students are tested is yielding these results. The press, at least once a year trots out the statistics to prove the disparaity between black/white test scores. Black students are aware of how they are perceived academically by the society that they inhabit and many black students are saddled with teachers who make it clear that black students are worth their efforts. If you think these attitudes have disappeared in America...you better think again.
My daughter, like Baracak Obama is bi-racial and we have been fortunate to be able to send her to great schools. She scored as well as her white counter-parts and in many cases better than her white classmates. She is graduating at the top of her class from a prestigious east coast college, one of the seven sisters and even though she's been raised in a racially diverse household she recognizes that there are few black professors and administrators whenever she attends conferences.
So, even though things have changed and there are a few, very few prominent black faces that have "pierced" the glass ceiling, the fact remains that there isn't true parity for blacks in American society.
It would be nice if the "intelligence test" data on 8-12 month old infants really was valid enough to justify Fryer's conclusion (that black underperformance is purely a consequence of environmental factors which can be systematically identified and corrected). Alas, the available evidence suggests that different races have different child developmental patterns. If I recall correctly, if you used the same test on East Asian infants (who develop more slowly, on average, in some ways) and proceeded to interpret the score in the same way as you would for white infants, (i) you would see lower scores on average than that seen for whites and blacks, and (ii) you would tend to underpredict future performance.The test results are still good scholarship, but it is unlikely that they mean what this article claims they mean.
I enjoyed this article and thus have a few thoughts to share. I have actually thought a lot about racism throughout my life having grown up in Plainfield, NJ which certainly had its share of racial tension. Barack really does not represent the black community from my experience, but he does fit the image of the right black candidate in the eyes of many white voters. Jesse Jackson would NEVER be accepted by the white community because his message of constant doom, mistakes made by whites, is so offending that his entire message gets lost. I think his son, another generation, has a bit different message and will be accepted much better. If I was looking at a resume the last thing I would look at is the name of the person. It really means nothing and I would not want to be prejudiced against a name. I mean over a person's lifetime certain names will be hard to stomach because of personal relationships gone sour, not just a racial bias. I disagree strongly that giving money to kids to learn is the right answer. As I recall, Oprah took her millions to Africa because the DESIRE to learn there is much stronger as compared to any city here in the us among the black community. I believe she is right in saying that, but I equally believe she should have stepped up to the challenge and found a way to inspire education among the black community. From my perspective the white community in the US is equally pathetic about the gift of learning which speaks of a broken system here in the US. The almighty dollar is exactly the problem here in the US and the reason kids are sour today and lacking motivation. They can get money somehow so easily today just by tapping into a variety of sources. During my youth a quarter was a big deal. Kids searched for bottles to turn in to get some spending money. Today there are no kids doing that searching, but instead very elderly folks combing the streets for a few dollars. Kids have cars, technology toys, lots of clothes that they got with somebody else's money. It all boils down to doing something for its intrinsic value and not for it's monetary value. The intrinsic value of work today is missing and causes self-esteem issues with both blacks and whites. If you knew you were doing the best job you could no matter how mundane the chore was you would never worry that somehow you will not measure up no matter your skin color. Hard work, desire to always do better, eventually gets recognized because frankly it is rare to see today. It is easy to standout no matter what the color of your skin. Years ago a black woman that was hired to take care of myself and my sister was gunned down by her then husband. The loss of that woman in my life has stayed with me every day. She was the person that inspired me to do things for its intrinsic value. She washed dishes until they shinned. She baked each cookie to look perfect. She had an upbeat view of life. She always did her job never needing any supervision. She made sure we did our homework. She was the most special person in the world to me. The man that shot her shared none of her qualities and I believe meant to kill her because she wouldn't stay down in life and be angry and bitter with him. They lived in two different worlds, and still today both worlds can be represented with the one having tragic consequences as seen with so many blacks spending their lifetime in jails.
To yrvora: Senator Obama has the least qualifications for the Presidency of any candidate in recent history. Judging by your comments if he is elected President he will be expected add new social programs to the already immense ones that encompass our government. What will benefit blacks more than more social programs will be stability in their families and neighborhoods. If this can be attained then we should see blacks begin to match non-blacks in educational achievement even more so in the past.
"A black woman with a degree earns as much as a white woman with a degree. But with a professional degree, the black woman earns 30% more"
I'm surprised that among all of the comments posted thus far, no one has pointed out what seemed to me to be the most relevant and little discussed point of this article - namely that black women and white women at most levels are essentially earning the same amount of money, with black women with advanced professional degrees earning more than white women. If racism is institutionalized in the U.S., and is the reason for lower achievement rates among blacks in general, how is it that this racism seems to have not impacted black women as much, at least in terms of earning potential? Or is it simply that women of all races are earn less, and thus achieve comparable incomes?
Let me first say where I'm coming from. I'm a 60-year-old white American woman who left the country in 1973 to go travelling and who has lived outside the country ever since (in Italy and France until 1979, and in Bali, Indonesia up to the present. I'm married to Balinese man and will probably live here for the rest of my life). Nonetheless, I remain a US citizen; I continue to vote and to visit America when my family needs me; and I am passionately anxious about what America has become.I am familiar with the sensation of difference between white and black among Americans. It increasingly strikes me as peculiarly American—a tragic unwillingness to be self-critical, a tendency to treat difference in a spirit of accusation. Years ago, The Economist called on Americans of all colours to drop their qualifying identity markers ("Native American", "Afro-American", "60-year-old white American woman") and see each other as just Americans. Surely that will be necessary before we can start thinking in properly global terms—as we must do if we are to survive the effects of our ingenuity—as "living beings".The candidacy of Barak Obama is exciting (to me) not because he is black—although that is exciting—but because he stirs people's higher nature. I commend and admire his determination to stay above the fray. Still it must have been hard to turn his back on his former pastor and explain why, in so many ways, Reverend Wright rocks.
I am an asian immigrant and have been a repubican all my life. Yet, during this election, I am more inclined to vote for Obama this time around (but definatly not Clinton) not because he has the right solutions to our problems (he does not), but because of his message that he wants to change the way business is done in Washington. He has stedfastly stuck to this message through thick and thin. If elected, even if he succeeds in changing a little how things are done in Washington, that would be worth it. If he os not, then he will be no different than any elected politician. Being black, he will be under tremendous pressure to try to decide on policies that will be more balanced towards blacks than not. And that would be good for the country. Our focus will be more towards equality under his guard than under Clinton or McCain. If Obama is elected, it will be the greatest experiment this country will go through with respect to racism, equality and injustices that many of us perceive. What a ride this is going to be!
also i agree whole heartedly with new york student, and i think some gangster rappers ahve a good message behind the glorifying of violence and defamation of women....succeeding through their own merits on their own terms to make their own money. While they may have employed this great entrepreneurial spirit to earn money selling drugs, many of the most successful and rich rappers (jay-z, t.i., 50 cent, who all came from the crack trade) have started their own companies, invested, and made great deals of money. The hate of gangster rap needs to be subdued, and channeled into listening to the hungry capitalistic spirit rappers possess and then turning this message into a suitable one for a life that abides by the rule of law. Anyone who wonders about this "'entrepreneurial spirit" should listen to Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, and realize that the same fire that drove him to sell crack drove him to make hundreds of millions of dollars legally.
I really think that you can divide all racial minorities into two groups: those who act like a racial group and have an "us vs. them" mentality, and those who have outgrown racialism to accept that they can live with all types of races in the same neighbourhood.Guess which side of this mentality divide gets hired by employers in a multiracial workplace? From my perceptions of black Americans it seems that the "us vs. them" have had the most sway, and as such this has made black Americans poor and destitute. As Obama, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Oprah and Tiger Woods have led the black community to start thinking along post-racial lines, expect the integration of the black community into rich america and through that the black americans to prosper.
First off, this is a above-average article with many points i concur with. First i would like to restate racism is ever present in America. It always will be. White/black, black/white, black/mexican, etc. People will always fear the unknown, and unfortunately for many Americans other races are unknown commodities to them. The problem holding blacks back today is a lower bar. The law school and bar exam records were a perfect example. TO hold blacks to a lower standard based on the color of their skin is racist in itself. ANd with these benevolent, yet racist policies one should not expect anything more than the expectations placed on blacks. Like Mcwhorter said, if blacks are only expected to achieve at 70% of whites in shcool, admissions, work, etc, why would anyone expect blacks to earn anymore than 70% the average white income?
Another example of expectation discrimination i'll take from my buddy who is black. 8th grade year in a public school he did not make the regular honor roll, however he was on the "African American All Star" honor roll. In high school he has not earned a spot on the honor roll yet. And to our school's credit there is no African American honor roll either. Granting to success to people based on race, not results further deters them from advancement.
With respect to many black neighborhoods having lower property values or real estate values that should be attributed to crime, not race. What businessman wants to invest in a community ravaged by violence and plauged with drugs? Its hard to sell a product when customers are too scared to come to the store. Also it is unfair to state that the property values are lower due to race, because there are affluent black neighborhoods where property values rival white nieghborhoods of the same stature.
Finally, Black American must end its infatutation with barack obama. He may be African-American and has reaped the affirmative action benefits that were put in place to alleviate racism bestowed on black americans whose descendents were FORCED to come to america and labour, whereas obama's father CHOSE to IMMIGRATE to the land of opportunity. Aside from his playin of a race card that is a spade where he is a club mixed with a heart, obama supports policies that have helped detoriorate inner city black communities in every city. Big government has failed to help blacks achieve substantial economic achievement since the times of the failed reconstruction. Welfare, Affirm Action, etc have undermind black work ethic, created a culture of poverty and despair in the inner city that is much different than rural poverty. One must note that in most urban cities where blacks live in murderous drug infested communities a democrat is the mayor. Obama has been educated, many of it self imposed, by marxist leaning leftiests. Aside the fact from marxism being an idealistic and impossible form of economics given the first economic law stating unlimited wants meet limited resources. It also stresses the importance of the WORKER, and obama seems all too concerned about the WORKER, but for blacks to advance in society more need to strive to be the OWNER or PARTNER. In a socialist economy the worker is always the worker. Blacks won't advance with that rhetoric. In America, our mixed market form of capitalism tries to allow for entreprenuership and innovation (tho progressive taxes stunt these opportunities...see ohio) and blacks can surely succeed through their own means because we believe all men are created equal, don't we?
On the whole, this was a well balanced article; but I can't imagine how neither its writers nor its editors corrected the biased side comment about gangsta rappers. Gangsta rappers wouldn't have been so popular were it not for the mostly white corporate types who gave them advances, sold their music, produced their videos, and generally pushed them far beyond even their own traditional limits of decency. As Jay-Z said, "If you grew up with holes in your zapatos, you'd celebrate the minute you was havin' dough." The rise of gangsta rap culture wasn't just a product of its artists. Its spread to the mainstream was mostly facilitated by the rich, mostly white, men who waved investment money at anyone talking about booty and bling. These guys would just be local venue freestylers if not for the corporate types who spent the late 90's and early 00's cherry picking the most "gangsta" among them instead of pushing hip hop artists with uplifting and intelligent music. Otherwise, it was a very smart article.One,NYStudent
Interesting comments! I am a 67 yr old bi-racial or a white man who had a black father!! I've always found it intriguing that blacks and others who are imigrants to the USA as a group do better than the home-grown variety. As intriguing is that fact that Obama's ancestory has no spector of slavery in the USA! Maybe its just coincidential, but its my believe that he and other blacks so situated take/have a different view of the USA, although they may be treated no better or worse than "home-grown blacks! Some of the survival mechanism developed over generations of USA blacks poresent a obstacle difficult to overcome when much of the basis for those mechanism no longer exist or exist to a far lessor degree!!!
Prof - you are of course correct, but we cannot divorce cause from effect. i.e. why are the bad neighborhoods now worth considerably less? Could it possibly be becauee there is a drug dealer with a gun on a nearby corner?
I personally think that this all comes down to AH Maslow's heirarchy of needs:
Survival, Security, Belonging, Self-Esteem, and Self-Actualization. Many in America are stuck in Belonging, and unable to reach Self-Esteem because of both internal and external factors. Perhaps, as the author implies, electing Mr Obama will enable some to expand beyond Belonging as their primary need fulfillment issue. I hope so, beacuse there really isn't another mechanism in sight.
The things Senator Obama has accomplished so far is amazing.
This is a movement taking place right before our eyes.
He has broken the back of the Coporate money control of American politics right when the change of world politics has broken down into three spheres of influence of the EU, China and the United States. The world has lost trust in people like the Neocons who say one thing and do another.
Michael, I think they were referring mostly to real estate wealth. I forget the name of the book, but I read in college that for some overwhelming percentage (~80%) of Americans, that is the most valuable asset they have. If you have real estate in a nice neighborhood, it is worth several hundred thousand dollars(and you paid a pittance). If you have real estate in a bad neighborhood (because you were segregated out of the nice neighborhood), it is worth considerably less (you might have lost money in real terms).
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What made you install Clean Master app on your phone?
i am thinking whether is should install it or not, but first i want to hear why you guys who already have it installed it...
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What made you install Clean Master app on your phone?
i am thinking whether is should install it or not, but first i want to hear why you guys who already have it installed it...
You don't need apps like this installed on your phone. Android OS will shut down apps after a certain period of inactivity. This is the way Android is designed. By using an app like this you are using more resources from your phone, thus, using more battery. Again, no use for apps or software like these.
I haven't. My phone has never run out of cache space, which is the only thing Clean Master should be used for, so I don't need a cache-cleaning app. (Killing files in RAM is actually counter-productive - it slows the phone down - so that function shouldn't ever be used.)
About the only thing I ever ""kill" is apps I no longer need, or those I just installed to try, and I don't need an app to uninstall an app, its cache and its data.
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My friend said clean master can make your phone faster.. did anyone install it for this reason?? Thoughts?
In Android, apps sitting dormant in memory don't consume any additional battery or CPU power than if that memory was free. Hence the phrase free memory is wasted memory. The OS is designed to keep the memory full as possible by not killing apps completely, and even initializing some of your common ones in the background. This allows for better multitasking and app switching due to simply leaving apps in memory and not having to restart them from scratch all the time.
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Not sure Grant has the length to be an effective DB on the edge like a Sherman in Seattle. Especially with the NFL's bigger WR's.
I wouldn't be surprised if Grant ends up transitioning to safety at some point. Let him use his smarts to be a more zone guy. I think he could cover a ton of ground being a free safety.


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My family and I stayed in this golf resort hotel in December to visit family in the area. The rooms were clean and acceptable but not notable. I did appreciate the clip provided by the hotel to keep the curtains together. Kept the room nice and dark in the morning. The balcony was so small that it was almost useless, but if we had been here in fall or spring I might have ventured out. My wife liked the separate vanity from the bathroom. This gave her time to get ready while I was showering. All in all the hotel is a little run down, but a great price/value hotel for the middle of Chandler arizona. I would not choose this to vacation at unless I was needing to intentionally stay in Chandler. Price might lure me in for a golf getaway, but the golf course is pretty flat/boring.
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Visiting family in Chandler over the holidays and decided to try someplace new in Chandler. This was the nicest hotel I could find in this part of town, and although I did not bring my golf clubs this trip, the course looked reasonable. The facilities are a little 1980's. The elevator was slow, the amenities were a little worn, the rooms were clean and nice but not too nice. I would never recommend this hotel to someone staying in PHX/Scottsdale area, but if you have to stay in chandler this was acceptable. We were right on the Chandler town square. Rooms were clean. Was pretty annoyed that the vending machines didn't work and had to walk all the way to front desk, 3 buildings over, to get a couple of bottles of water.
Unique Quality: Golf resort in the center of downtown chandler.
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Unique Quality: We could not afford a place like this, I'm sure, but it was fun to wander around the grounds. Very nice indeed.
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Asarina scandens/Climbing Snapdragon..seeds
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Does anyone know how long it takes to get mature seeds from these? The plants have had pods for at least 2 months, but still none of them have turned brown or dry! They still bloom at maybe one or two a day and have proven frost hardy. I'm thinking next year I'd like to keep a few from setting pods and still have healthy blooming plants this time next year, but need some mature seeds first!
The plants I tried taking inside btw, died on me. Apparently they make a good houseplant where they aren't hardy but obviously I messed that one up LOL!
By the time seedheads turn brown they will disperce seeds.
Look at those seedheads that have dark end or middle- usually they will have black seeds inside. I gathered my first asarina seeds today. Have been doing it for several years and it is ok to remove green seedpod as long as seeds inside are black.
you might want to stop watering the plant and let seedpod get ripe. Stress will quicken natural ripening process. If there are seeds inside of reasonable size but they are still green you might need to do nothing but wait another week or two at most.
Vera, I swear, you are always just one step ahead of me! I was just going to ask what the hold up was on these Asarinas, and here the questions was already asked and answered! Mine don't have any purple on them at all, so I guess I have an even longer wait ahead of me.
My flowers were purple - what colors are yours? The reason I ask is because I also bought & sowed red seed, but it didn't germinate, although I treated both pots the exact same.
Funny you should mention the Mina lobata -- I ws'd 3 seeds last year I got in lazyweeder's wishlist swap (they came with a note from the person fulfilling the wish that they were sorry, but they could only spare 3 seeds.) Through a series of mishaps, I only ended up with one live plant and it has taken over its alloted space and then some! Yikes! I keep thanking my lucky stars that some people send smaller seed packs because everything is growing bigger and better than expected. I can't imagine what would have happened if I had gotten, say, 15 seeds!
I heard they made good cut flowers (the foliage wilts in 5 minutes, but the flowers *do* make good cut flowers) and I wrapped a birthday present for my sister in some vines -- foliage stripped. I'm not saying Martha Stewart would approve, but it was *wild* looking! And they are so unusual looking, too, especially for this area.
I ought to put my Asarina with the Clematis -- the Clematis isn't growing as well as it should and I wonder if the black wrought iron pillars and posts I have them growing on get too hot in the summer with the sun beating down on them. ?


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They closed, so no opportunity for growth. They also did not offer me any benefits, but I believe there benefit programs are usually top notch
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"If you get a great manager then you will love it. "
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For the operations class you get overtime which is wonderful. In addition, a work life balance is encouraged. The second most important thing is to network. If you do not do this then you will be stuck an analyst forever. Therefore you must attend events with WILL and various volunteer gigs. If you get sick then there is always a nurse and rest rooms. If they think that you need to go home, they send you off in a town car. Typically your managers are great and there is no closed door. People are really nice and laid back.Cons
Your expierance all depends on your manager. If you work in the New Jersey office and plan on moving to front office BEWARE. You much absolutely network your butt off to get ahead. Try to meet MD's or VP's from other groups, it would typically be middle office. From there you would network with the sales traders. Visit the trading floor as much as possible and try to attend as many happy hours as you can. These are the keys to success as lehman. It is not who you know, rather it is who knows you. Oh and be friendly and laid back and you will fit in.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Encourage mobility and increase bonuses for the support function. They are very very small compared to the other banks.RecommendsNo opinion of CEO
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The people at Lehman were great. Everyone was very intelligent and I learned a lot while I was there. The work was interesting and challenging. Although there is a decent amount of bureaucracy, the managers I've had were all very understanding and approachable.Cons
Like any other investment bank, the hours are tough. Even in the technology department, I often worked 12+ hour days. Since this is a bank, the guys in technology were not treated with as much respect as say the traders or investment bankers. Bonuses were pretty great, but they were obviously not as good as the traders were getting. There was little transparency in terms of what was going on with the company when things started going bad.Advice to ManagementAdvice
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edible ginger...
googled it and said it doesn't bloom much....nice!
bought this in a pot from hd. tag listed it as "edible ginger." nothing else, rest of the gingers in the hd were ornamental. had to rely on google for my info. showed the same blooms. have split it up in three locations and the side yard with the most sun is where it bloomed. not the best location, mixed in with a bunch of Xanadu's. cold hardy here.
My 'super market' ginger was damaged by the cold snap, too. But when I dumped the pot, there was good, viable ginger root growing - the cold damaged parts were at or near the surface.
I 'planted' and lost a dozen pieces of ginger before I discovered one doesn't 'plant' ginger; one simply makes a slight depression in the soil and sets the piece of ginger root in it. Keep it moist and in a week or two, you will see signs of growth. Being this far north, I plant in pots in order to move them to shelter during cold snaps.
Thank you for the planting technique. Glad to be educated! Is the same method used for Variegated Shell Ginger (Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata')? Does shell ginger have a root/tuber similar to the edible kind? I have only purchased growing, potted plants - never just a root - so I don't know.
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News: Staffing Reductions Curtail Prevention, Investigation of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
The economic downturn in recent years adversely affected the readiness of local and state food safety agencies to respond to foodborne illness outbreaks. A report that the National Environmental Health Association distributed in May found that budget cuts and financial constraints led to stagnating salaries, staff reductions, inadequate or underfunded training, and a decreased ability to respond to outbreaks.
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A controversy that was brewing over the use of byproducts from beer production as animal food may have been turned aside by an FDA official's recent reassurances regarding language in the proposed animal feed rule. Brewers and others have raised concerns that, as written, language in the animal feed rule of FSMA would have a significant economic impact on the beer brewing industry and on farmers who rely on the byproducts of brewing for use as animal feed.
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On April 21, the Vermont House of Representatives voted to accept a Senate-passed bill that would make the state the first to require food makers to label products that contain genetically modified crops. Vermont's Governor, Peter Shumlin, has said he will sign the bill, which would take effect in July 2016.
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Talented female Regional Managers. Work from home position.
Misrepresented Regional Manager compensation in the interview process. Constantly changed compensation and goal structures to not have to pay both Regional Managers and District Consultants. Upper management is very cold and has selective memory when it comes to things they've promised. Fired the entire Regional Manager team after wining and dining them in San Francisco, including one woman who left a job on Friday to be fired the following week. Very reactionary.
Go find some new jobs. The company won't be around long. Then there's that Karma thing.
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"Good idea, some great individuals, lots of funding but incompetent leadership. "
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I worked at Plum District full-time (less than a year)Pros
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- Culture was depressing: employees from interns through management spent a huge amount of time talking negatively about company prospects and questioning the leadership team
- All of the best people I thought I could learn from had left
- Leadership was always telling us a story, but you could tell from employee buzz that people didn't believe it
- Employee satisfaction surveys in which I (and other co-workers I talked to) would give constructive feedback and low reviews never had an impact. Why ask if you don't plan to do anything?
- People disappeared with no explanation
- Sales goals were nearly impossible to reach
- Hitting an unrealistic number is not motivating--I joined to create jobs for moms and help local businesses
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- CEO cheerleads all the positive growth, but the whole company knew if we didn't run 20-30% discounts, nothing would sell
- CEO treats employees like children (and not like a Mom). Morning roll-call, time wasting "Inbox zero" and time management exercises, people would leave her office crying, etc
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Your employees talk a lot more then you think they do. Everyone knows that you're spending way too much money and the revenue just isn't there. Spend less time trying to manipulate your people and more time helping them succeed. It's not about CEO cheerleading and making empty promises. Start 'Know(ing) your values and who you are and liv(ing) your li(ves) accordingly'. Stop copying everyone else a year too late and start doing something original. Decide if you care about moms. If you really do, then actually do something about it. Thank your lucky stars the people holding the purse strings haven't tossed you out yet.Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEO
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A Feb. 4 report from Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee slammed several federal agencies for failing to maintain even the most basic of IT security practices on internal networks and computers.
Minority staff under the committee's ranking member, Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, compiled numerous instances of egregious security oversights, including unsecured servers, failures to install security updates and patches, known vulnerabilities in government websites and the use of weak and default passwords by officials.
More than 15 agencies fell victim to hacks that accessed, stole and took control over their networks – and those were just the incidents that were made public, the report notes.
"Largely invisible to the public and policymakers are over 48,000 other cyber 'incidents' involving government systems which agencies detected and reported to [the Homeland Security Department] in fiscal year 2012," the report states. "And one cannot ignore the universe of other intrusions that agencies could not detect: Civilian agencies don't detect roughly four in 10 intrusions, according to testing reported in 2013 by the White House Office of Management and Budget."
The missteps of nearly a dozen federal agencies were outlined in the report, but some of the most troubling issues have been at DHS, the agency charged with leading federal cybersecurity efforts.
"it was selected to shoulder the profound responsibility of overseeing the security of all unclassified federal networks, one might expect DHS cyber protections to be a model for other agencies, or that the department had demonstrated an outstanding competence in the field," the report notes. "But a closer look at DHS efforts to secure its own systems reveals that the department suffers from many of the same shortcomings found at other government agencies. ... In fact, in some key areas DHS lags behind many of its agency peers."
Among those shortcomings: hundreds of vulnerabilities found in 2010 in the systems belonging to members of DHS's cyber team, including failures to implement basic Microsoft software updates; below-required usage of secured trusted Internet connections; repeated failures to install software updates and security patches; weak or default passwords used on sensitive databases; outdated antivirus software on computers controlling physical access to DHS facilities; websites riddled with known vulnerabilities; and poor physical and information security, such as passwords written on desks.
At other agencies, IT security deficiencies present alarming potential threats to the general public.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which maintains the nation's nuclear facilities, harbors a "perceived ineptitude of NRC technology experts," an inability to keep track of its computers and "general sloppiness," any of which could result in hackers gaining access to highly sensitive nuclear-related information. And despite being called out by the inspector general in 2012, last year the agency was "still not effective at monitoring the progress of corrective efforts ... and therefore [does] not provide an accurate measure of security program effectiveness."
At the Energy Department and Securities Exchange Commission, similar problems pose serious risks to the public, whether through weaknesses at power distribution centers that provide power to millions, or via transmission of sensitive non-public information on major financial institutions, including stock exchanges, through SEC officials' personal e-mail and personal computers, sometimes on unsecured public networks.
The Coburn report, which drew on more than 40 public audits and other public reviews, does note government strides in implementing better security, including through the president's executive order on cybersecurity and the Federal Information Security Management Act. However, it also notes that despite spending at least $65 billion on computer security under FISMA, agencies "continue to leave themselves vulnerable, often by failing to take the most basic steps toward securing their systems and information."
"As a taxpayer, I'm outraged," Alan Paller, research director at the SANS Institute, told the Washington Post after reviewing a draft of the report prior to its release. "We're spending all this money and getting so little impact for it."
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I'm from the Philippines. But although my heart is entrenched deep into the sands of Philippine shores, traveling is one my favorit-est. It's not just about discovering new places, more often than not, it is meeting new people from different cultures that I find very interesting.
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Michael is a very communicative host and willing to help with anything. The location is great, but if you have an aversion to stairs, this is a victorian house with many stairs.
The bathroom floors and floor towel were not cleaned, as well as the kitchen appliances and surfaces being dirty. There was a full dishwasher of dishes, that I had to run again as they weren't clean, which after 12 hour working days, wasn't the most fun. Parts of the kitchen were falling apart as well as the dishwasher almost falling out of the wall. I felt like I was staying at a friends house and not paying for an Airbnb experience. I've been using Airbnb for 3 years as a guest and it was an unfortunate stay for work trip, even though Michael is a very nice guy.
We liked Michael's apartment location, near beautiful Dolores Park, Castro and Missions areas with many nice restaurants.
Michael leaves his own place when the apartment is rented, so it is quite a personal place without a closet to hang our clothes, far from an hotel room.
Michael gave us useful advices for restaurants in the area and replyed our emails verypromply.
Michael was amazingly helpful. I was literally on the BART heading to the city, not knowing where I'd stay. A bunch of messages to hosts later, Michael was ready to accommodate my last minute reservation. The apartment matches the description, PERFECT location (especially for gay pride festivities, which I was there for). Dolores park was right outside the door, and was tons of (website hidden)-rite market was two blocks away and completely amazing produce, meats, etc. KILLER views of the city. Very comfortable place, nicely stocked kitchen. He even left tons of organic fruit for me to eat. Totally great. Thanks, Michael!
My only point of info to potential guests would be to bring some sort of eye mask if you're not an early riser. Morning sun galore!
A wonderful apartment, in a charming part of town. I only wish I had more time to enjoy it and did not work as much as I did.
The location of this apartment was perfect for me. Dolores Park is like a festival when the sun is shining. Valencia and Mission both have tons of restaurants, cafes and bars. Castro is walking distance as well. There is a light rail station right on the corner of dolores park, and the BART is just a few blocks away as well. There was no need for a car here, actually with parking being tough, i would avoid a car. All in all a perfect location. The fireplace was the icing on the cake! There are palm leaves in the park that make for the perfect kindling. Michael met us at the apt, gave us the keys and made himself available should we have any additional questions or needs.
Would definitely stay there again. Very nice apartment on a high floor with lots of light.
I had a great stay at Michael's place. It is a nice Victorian apartment which is right at the upper corner of Dolores Park. If you haven't heard of Dolores Park of San Francisco, you have to checked it out. I have lived in the bay area for seven years and Dolores Park is arguably the more beautiful park in the San Francisco Bay Area, and you can get the view of the part directly from your living room and bed room from this apartment! The apartment is very spacious so you have a lot of room for yourself. The neighborhood is safe and quite. However, it is only one block from the J Line which takes you right to downtown and it is several blocks from the most hip area of the mission, which is a neighbor that's very popular among young people and there are a lot of nice restaurants and bars. I wish this was my own apartment :)
Michael was an optimal guest. He was easy to communicate with and treated our house with care. We hope he decides to stay again. I recommend him to all other owners.
It was a pleasure to host Michael. He was a great guest, very communicative and considerate. Hope he will stay again some day.
Very friendly, communicative and tidy! Would definitely host him again!
Michael was the perfect guest. I literally walked into the apartment, put new sheets on the bed, and it was like I never left. He and his girlfriend even left flowers - a nice touch (and a first).
Stayed at Michael's place in July
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Amazing location, right next to Dolores park
The place is quiet, renovated, neat
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No elevator which was not a problem for me but an issue if you have heavy bags
Michael and I know each other from primary school and I can only say good things about him. He is a curious traveller and always takes his time to get to know the new place and the people. As a host he is attentive and reliable.
Michael is welcome to stay at my place any time for as long as he'd like. I can pass him the house key and leave recklessly :)
I can afford being reckless knowing someone trustworthy has my back :)
Michael is a wonderful person, an amazing host and has vast knowledge of all local destinations. His place is in a most enjoyable part of San Francisco, and the views are indeed impressive. I am sure Michael will be an excellent guest just as well.
Michael is a great host. He can also advise lots of authentic places for visiting and going out in SF. The appartment has great location close to Dolores Park and Mission area and perfect view.
Michael is a wonderful host! He is super welcoming, hospitable and helpful! The appartment itself is amazing, the location, the view from the window, the design - it is all just perfect! Highly recommend! Oh yes and ask Misha for suggestions where to go in the city – he knows it better then Yelp! Really when I think of SF I think of Michael!
I stayed in Michael's apartment for a couple of days an really enjoyed it. He was a great host. We benefited a lot from the great location of his place and his excellent knowledge of amazing dining options in the area.
I always stay with Michael when I am in SF for a day or two. He is extremely hospitable and his apartment is really nice. The view from the windows is also very inspirational.
I know Misha for a while and visited his place several times. Misha is a great host and I love location and the layout of his apartment. Misha is a very interesting person to talk to or to go out with. He knows San Francisco very well and can recommend best places for visiting.
I've known Michael since business school, he's a very reliable guy. I wouldn't hesitate to let him stay at my place.


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Not that I ever really wanted to go to the Seminole Hard Rock, but we were in the area for a concert across the highway at Ford Amphitheater, so we decided to stop in for a bite to eat. The roads here are a bit confusing, but we just followed the signs to the "Seminole Cultural Center," knowing full well that casinos are the truest sign of modern Indian culture (OK, I'm slightly kidding; there actually is a culture and arts center here with Seminole history). The casino was very busy, even after 11pm when we arrived, so we ended up parking on the fourth floor of the parking garage. The casino entrance from the garage is on the third floor of the hotel building, and is well marked with signs. The casino itself is either on the first or second floor, not sure which.
When we arrived it was a very busy Friday night. Maybe 50 percent of the slots were in use, and almost all of the table games were packed. I was a bit disappointed that none of the slots actually allow you to use change (I had a quarter burning a hole in my pocket), instead you have to use bills or get a ticket that tracks or losses. The crowd here is a bit unique, with lots and lots of the expected gray-haired old ladies, but also a huge number of young thugs. I guess the thugs are drawn by some of the upscale dance clubs in the casino.
We only spent about 45 minutes here, enough time to explore the casino and grab a bite to eat at their better-than-expected food court.
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located on orient road off of I-4 east of downtown tampa is the seminole hard rock casino. the hard rock casino is the only gambling venue in tampa. they offer poker, slots, and bingo. recently the state of florida has also allowed black jack tables in the seminole casinos. recently expanded and renovated it is a nice place to gamble in the tampa area. there are also off shore gambling boats located at the port of tampa.
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- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format: Paperback | 224 pages
- Dimensions: 171mm x 241mm x 15mm | 472g
- Publication date: 31 December 1995
- Publication City/Country: Cambridge, Mass
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To read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to enter a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the Archaic and Classical Ages, completes our picture of ancient Greek society.Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position--and how they were regarded by men. Here are women as portrayed in Homer, in Greek lyric poetry, and by the playwrights; the female nature as depicted in medical writings and by Aristotle; representations of women in sculpture and vase paintings. This is evidence filtered through a male view: Sappho is the only female writer of antiquity much of whose work survives. Yet these sources and others such as regulations and law court speeches reveal a great deal about women's lives and about their status as defined by law and by custom.By examining the roles that men assigned to women, the ideals they constructed for them, and the anxieties they expressed about them, Blundell sheds light on the cultural dynamics of a male-dominated society. Lively and richly illustrated, her work offers a fresh look at women in the ancient world.
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Sue Blundell is a Lecturer for both Birkbeck and Goldsmiths Colleges in the University of London as well as for the Open University. She is the author of The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought.
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In her introduction to Women in Ancient Greece Sue Blundell notes how few overviews have appeared among the plethora of books and articles on women's lives and representations in the ancient Greek world...Her book is an admirable response to the need for such an overview. In a concise narrative account incorporating much of the recent scholarly work, Blundell offers a broad survey of the most relevant topics for the study of women in Greece during the period 750-336 B.C...Blundell's narrative is seldom merely descriptive; rather, throughout her exposition, she guides her readers to recognize the ways ancient representations and institutions associated with the female are a production of male issues, concern and power. -- R.J. Schork New England Classical Journal Blundell offers here an excellent, brief survey of women in archaic and classical Greek art, literature, and history. It is the sole comprehensive account in English of women in ancient Greece (as opposed to Greece and Rome). Blundell's reading is wide, her thought judicious, her prose clear, and her insight penetrating. She has a good bibliography, decent notes, and well-chosen illustrations...Recommended for all college and university libraries. -- J.M. Williams Choice
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To read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to enter a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the Archaic and Classical Ages, completes our picture of ancient Greek society.
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Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: WOMEN IN MYTH 1. Myth: an introduction 2. Creation myth 3. The Olympian goddesses: virgins and mothers 4. Women in the poems of Home 5. Amazons PART II: THE ARCHAIC AGE, 750-500 BC 6. Women in an age of transition 7. Women and the poets 8. Women as poets: Sappho 9. Women in stone PART III: THE CLASSICAL AGE, 500-336 BC 10. Women's bodies 11. Women in Athenian law and society 12. The lives of women in Classical Athens 13. Sparta and Gortyn 14. Women and religion PART IV: IDEAS ABOUT WOMEN IN THE CLASSICAL AGE 15. Women in drama 16. Women and the philosophers 17. Women in Classical sculpture POSTSCRIPT 18. The Hellenistic Age Notes Bibliography Quotation acknowledgements Illustration acknowledgements Index ILLUSTRATIONS Plates 1-26 Plates 27-45


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davidchance(7a)May 14, 2011
This one is an old rose planted by my mom, probably at least 35 years ago.
It's growing totally wild in good sun, no feeding or anything. Very good classic rose smell from such small blooms.
I should have gotten a pic of how huge the canes are.