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Yesterday's post, No Time for KM, discussed what happens when present oriented people are not motivated by the promise of future rewards to engage in knowledge management efforts. No sooner had I published it than Jeff Hester rightly pointed out the flaw in my approach:
#KM should be intrinsic to our work process. RT @VMaryAbraham: No Time for KM via @VMaryAbraham aboveandbeyondkm.com/2012/04/no-tim…
— Jeff Hester (@jeffhester) April 25, 2012
Jeff is absolutely right. Time orientation matters most if you are still pursuing "above-the-flow" KM rather than "in-the-flow" KM. As you may recall, Michael Idinopulos first articulated this difference:
Wikis can be used for many different activities, which fall into two broad categories:
- In-the-Flow wikis enable people do their day-to-day work in the wiki itself. These wikis are typically replacing email, virtual team rooms, and project management systems.
- Above-the-Flow wikis invite users to step out of the daily flow of work and reflect, codify, and share something about what they do. These wikis are typically replacing knowledge management systems (or creating knowledge management systems for the first time).
In-the-flow efforts are exactly the sort of intrinsic approach Jeff was advocating. People get on with their jobs and the knowledge is shared without much extra effort on their parts. The challenge for the legal industry is that our knowledge management heritage lies in creating and maintaining stores of validated documents. Before putting them into law firm knowledge repositories, we take them out of the flow for review and approval. In reality, practice support lawyers all over the world will tell you about the stacks of draft KM documents that are sitting on the desks of senior people who are too busy with billable work to review them.
Are there any adventuresome lawyers who are insisting on working via social platforms? Have they achieved "in-the-flow" nirvana? If they are out there, I'd love to hear their stories.
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Everyone is busy. No one has enough time. We're racing to get as much done as quickly as possible.
Welcome to the real life version of Beat the Clock.
If we superimpose on our busy lives the legal industry's focus on the billable hour, we end up with some challenges about how to spend our time. Clearly client service needs trump all other demands on our time. Then there are the business development needs, and the continuing legal education needs, and the law firm administrative needs. All of this adds up to more work than we can complete in a reasonable work day.
Now please tell me: where do the lawyers in your firm find time for knowledge management?
The Secret Powers of Time
If this wasn't bad enough, have you considered that the time perspective of your law firm colleagues may also have a negative effect on their willingness or ability to contribute to KM efforts? To be honest, until I saw the video below on The Secret Powers of Time, I hadn't given much thought to time orientation. I had just assumed that most of us were in identical races against the clock. As with many things in life, it turns out that things are a bit more complicated.
So what makes our relationship with time more complicated? According to Dr. Philip Zimbardo, it's that people can have different time orientations or, has he describes it, they can inhabit one of six different time zones:
- Past positive: These people focus on "the good old times"
- Past negative: These people focus on past failure and regret
- Present hedonistic: These people live for today — seek pleasure (avoid pain), sensation, novelty
- Present fatalistic: These people believes that their future is a matter of fate so there is no point in planning
- Future positive: These people work and plan for the future
- Future negative: These people believe that life begins after death
According to Zimbardo, we all begin life as present hedonists. He believes that one key function of the family and, especially, of schools is "to take present oriented little beasts and to make them more future oriented." (While this may be true in the US, he acknowledges that some cultures aim to make the child more past oriented).
But there's more intriguing news about our relationship with time:
- Geography affects your perspective on time: the closer you live to the equator, the more likely you are to be present oriented.
- The pace of life differs from place to place and culture to culture. In the US, researchers have ranked 60 cities according to the pace of life in each city. They found that in the cities with the highest pace of life, men have the most coronary problems. (See The Geography of Time by Robert Levine.)
- A recent study shows that by the time he is 21, a boy has spent 10,000 hours by himself playing video games. This means that he is used to a virtual world in which he has more control, action and excitement than he has in the real world. And, since he has been alone at his computer, he hasn't learned key social skills or developed emotional intelligence. His brain is being digitally rewired and he won't fit into an analog world or in an analog classroom that emphasizes passive learning.
- All addictions are addictions of present hedonism. However, most public service messages are focused on future consequences. This is a message that resonates with future-oriented people, not the present hedonists suffering with addictions.
- There is a fundamental change occurring in our society with respect to how we view time. People now get angry while waiting for technology– especially when waiting for their computer to boot up or for something to download. This anger is disproportionate given that these functions usually occur in a matter of minutes. Even so, we consider waiting for even a short while to be a complete waste of time and we increasingly have a negative emotional response to waiting.
If a lawyer in your firm is oriented towards the present rather than the future, it will be difficult to convince that lawyer to work on a KM project that promises future rather than present benefits. If a lawyer is future-oriented, they should be more inclined to invest in KM now for a future benefit. This suggests that you should target your KM program requests carefully so that you focus on future-oriented people. The others most likely will not participate with enthusiasm.
I'll give Dr. Zimbardo the closing word:
I think many of life's puzzles can be solved by simply understanding our own time perspective and that of others. Lots of conflict we have with people is really a conflict in different time perspectives. Once you're aware of that, you stop making negative attributions like you're dumb or you're childish or you're pigheaded or you're authoritarian. It's really the most simple idea in the world.
See also, The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life.
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What dataset informs your mindset? That's the question that Dr. Hans Rosling would ask you if he could. When he probed this issue with his university students in Sweden, he discovered that some of their views in the 21st century were based on a dataset that reflected the reality of … the 1950s. In fact, their responses to his questions were so bad that he said that chimpanzees could do better. (Apparently chimps are able to get the answer right 50% of the time.)
Dr. Rosling is a Swedish professor of public health who has become famous for his ability to take dry statistics and convey them in a clear and compelling fashion. Along the way, he has been dispelling many of the myths that inform our mindset. He challenged a US State Department audience in 2009 with the following words: "Does your mindset correspond to my dataset? If not, one or the other needs upgrading…." The unspoken premise was that his dataset should trump the flawed mindset of anyone who does not have a fact-based view of the world.
Building a Fact-Based Worldview
If you go the website of Gapminder, the organization Dr. Rosling co-founded, you'll find the following appeal:
Gapminder is a non-profit foundation based in Stockholm. Our goal is to replace devastating myths with a fact-based worldview. Our method is to make data easy to understand. We are dedicated to innovate and spread new methods to make global development understandable, free of charge, without advertising. We want to let teachers, journalists and everyone else continue to freely use our tools, videos and presentations.
Your contribution will help us in our efforts to explain how the world is changing. Your generosity will strengthen our independence.
Help us achieve a fact-based understanding of the world. Support our work by making a donation today.
As I read the appeal, I found myself wishing that the legal industry had a Gapminder-like organization to help us move from myth to a fact-based worldview. What data is your firm collecting? Do the data have integrity? Do you have capable people who can analyze that data and communicate what's meaningful? Or are your firm leaders making decisions that reflect their favorite myths?
Ron Friedmann has a recommendation for law firms intent on developing a fact-based worldview: "Law firms should collect data to measure the multiple aspects of `service delivery' and the `client experience'." If you were to follow Ron's recommendation, what would that mean for your firm? What would you count? What would matter? I suspect you're going to have look far past billable hours and realization rates to examine the profitability of matters and individual lawyers. What about measuring the rate at which lawyers of your firm innovate? Or the rate at which they convert business development opportunities into sustainable income streams? How do you measure client engagement and client satisfaction? How do you measure the contributions of law firm administrative departments? (In terms of dollars under budget? Or in terms of value delivered to clients?) And, how do you measure the contribution of each person in your firm towards the health and welfare of the firm?
There are many opportunities for us to learn more about our business through the careful gathering and analysis of data. However, I don't mean to minimize the challenge. Most folks in law firms are not trained statisticians. We don't always know what to count or understand the problems implicit in how we collect and analyze what little data we have.This is an area in which our entire industry could benefit from some training and some standardized approaches.
What dataset informs the mindset of your law firm leaders? That's the question Dr. Hans Rosling would ask them if he could. But, since he can't, shouldn't you?
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Lawyers have many special gifts, but one of the most vexing is the ability to "issue spot." They are trained to take a proposition in both hands and then turn it upside down and inside out until they have identified all the potential problems. This is hugely helpful to a client who is trying to weigh the risks and benefits of a proposed business transaction. However, this tendency can be hugely challenging for IT and knowledge management personnel who are trying to persuade a lawyer to adopt a new tool or a new way of working.
Now don't get me wrong — some of my best friends are lawyers. In fact, I'm a lawyer. Even so, I must admit that lawyers can be a little negative from time to time.
But lawyers are not the only ones. Tony Schwartz has observed that the negativity bias is something that all humans share and it can lead us to wallow in the slough of despond:
Because human beings have a strong "negativity bias," we pay more attention to our bad feelings than to our good ones. It once clearly served our survival to be vigilant about what might go wrong and that instinct persists. Today, it may serve to buffer us from disappointment, but it also promotes disproportionate and destructive discontent. The simple question "What's going right?" provides ballast in tough times.
So What's Going Right?
This can be the best question to ask when you are seeking feedback on new technology or a new law firm knowledge management initiative. It can change the energy in the room and draw out the truly constructive comments. Best of all, it encourages the lawyers involved to use their considerable brainpower to focus on opportunities for growth rather than obsessing about potential problems that may (or may not) stop a project dead in its tracks.
Focusing on the positive is not intended to sidestep reality or allow you to bury your head in the sand. Its purpose is not denial. Rather, its purpose is to elicit feedback at an early stage — before the tool or resource is so fully baked that it cannot be adjusted. Asking about what's going right can help the anxious stop obsessing about the impossible goal of perfection and start focusing on what's necessary and possible.
If you want to be agile, if you want to innovate, start asking about what's going right. You might be pleasantly surprised by what you learn.
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We should have learned our lesson by now: the lesson that one shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Nonetheless, time after time, we rush to judgment with precious little objective evidence to support our position.
I was reminded of this when a trail of links led me to some clips from Britain's Got Talent. In this instance, Simon Cowell could have been any one of us. He clearly reached a negative conclusion based on appearances alone and then had to backtrack in the face of evidence that completely undermined his premature judgment.
For those of you who are devotees of this show, the encounter with Jonathan Antoine will remind you of Susan Boyle's introduction to the world:
And there was Paul Potts as well:
In fairness, research indicates that we may not be able to help ourselves when it comes to judging faces:
…when we see a new face, our brains decide whether a person is attractive and trustworthy within a tenth of a second, according to recent Princeton research.
Princeton University psychologist Alex Todorov has found that people respond intuitively to faces so rapidly that our reasoning minds may not have time to influence the reaction — and that our intuitions about attraction and trust are among those we form the fastest.
"The link between facial features and character may be tenuous at best, but that doesn't stop our minds from sizing other people up at a glance," said Todorov, an assistant professor of psychology. `We decide very quickly whether a person possesses many of the traits we feel are important, such as likeability and competence, even though we have not exchanged a single word with them. It appears that we are hard-wired to draw these inferences in a fast, unreflective way.'
Nonetheless, we owe it to ourselves to try to be as rational as possible when making decisions. We owe it to ourselves to be aware of the tendency to act without rational thought and then counteract it with an evenhanded search for evidence. If we aren't always capable of rational thought, we should at a minimum be honest about that failing.
Lest you think it is only folks in the entertainment industry who persist in reaching judgments on the strength of the cover alone without bothering to read the book, consider how some folks in the legal industry reach their judgments on non-legal matters. Have you heard someone dismiss a technology out of hand without taking the time to try it properly? Have you seen someone purchase a device or software without doing much due diligence beforehand? Have you heard anyone make a pronouncement about the adoption or usefulness of "X" without first looking at the relevant data? (You can replace X with the name of almost any law firm knowledge management system or IT system.)
Rapid cognition may be supremely helpful in a life-or-death situation where quick reflexes and decisions can mean survival. But, for all the other circumstances in life, what do we lose when we make snap decisions?
Kudos to the International Legal Technology Association! The organizers of the ILTA 2012 Conference are putting real effort into finding new ways of turning their already rich educational sessions into true interactive learning opportunities. That's a big change from the presentation mode of three or four experts (with PowerPoint deck) that has been the standard fare at so many tech conferences. The new interactive sessions will begin and end with the participants. Yes, participants, not audience. The focus will be on ensuring that the participants engage in something useful during the session, and then leave with something actionable.
This is about a creative and pragmatic educational experience.
The challenges of these types of sessions should not be underestimated. They take a lot of thought and planning on the part of the organizers. And they require very special moderating and listening skills on the part of the session facilitators. Above all, they depend upon attendees who are interested in being part of the learning rather than simply being on the receiving end of an information transfer. Admittedly, these sessions won't be to everyone's taste, and that's just fine. ILTA 2012 will also have sessions in the more traditional format.
For those of you who really believe in the power of PowerPoint to reach an audience, I offer the following demonstration by Don McMillan entitled Life After Death by PowerPoint:
All joking aside, if you're ready for life AFTER death by PowerPoint, be sure to look for the interactive sessions at ILTA 2012. And then, participate!


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Rockets Spend Time Volunteering at Local Boys & Girls Club
Toledo, OH - The University of Toledo women's tennis team recently spent time volunteering at a local Boys & Girls Club. Players and coaches took a break from offseason training to provide tutoring for kids, as well as having some fun with ping pong, pool and air hockey.
The women's tennis team will go back to the Boys & Girls Club on Dec. 3.
"It is so important for our athletes to give back to the Toledo community," head coach Tracy Mauntler said. "I believe Rocket student-athletes can be such great role models for these kids. I know that these experiences help to shape our athletes as well, showing them the importance of helping others."
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Dec. 21, 2012 rumor is the world's gonna end on this date. It's not the first doomsday prediction (most recent was April 21, 2011, which of course turned out to be false), but I have to say it's probably got the most publicity since the new millennium. Continue Reading


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Paris: Poinsettia Bowl could have a red and black bloom
Anyone with a sense of SDSU-BYU football — long live the instant replay fiasco! — grasps the spirited competition this pairing brings.
"We'd love to have a game that has a big rivalry," Binkowski said. "That would be cool."
The sizzling Aztecs are doing their best to make it happen. The Cougars already stamped their RSVP for the Dec. 20 game.
With SDSU soon departing for the Big East, this could be the Poinsettia Bowl's last chance to snag the Aztecs.
Two future Poinsettia Bowl teams, if qualifying, are set to play the MW representative: 2013, Army; 2014 Navy.
If the Aztecs aren't anchored to the Las Vegas Bowl, what goes on in San Diego college football will stay in San Diego.
"We don't know when we will have the opportunity to get them again," Binkowski said. "If they are available to us, we would take them and we would be excited to take them. It would be awesome."
Similar to SDSU having its bye so late in the season.


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WHY BAD NEWS MAY BE GOOD NEWS FOR SEQUESTER FIX. With the sequester increasingly seen as unstoppable, interest groups and others who favor a rollback are now banking on the public pressure that could erupt after the across-the-board cuts go into effect to compel lawmakers to act, National Journal's Stacy Kaper reports. For defense hawks worried about putting national security on the line and liberals fretting about teachers receiving pink slips and health research being slashed, the burgeoning strategy is to hold their fire and seize on gloom-and-doom headlines that bring attention—and hence legitimacy—to their pet issues as the cuts start to kick in. Read more
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BIDEN: THE U.S. WOULD TALK TO IRAN. At a security conference in Munich this weekend, Vice President Joe Biden said the United States is ready for direct talks with Iran "if it is serious about negotiations," Reuters reports. Iran, which has endured harsh sanctions for its continued development of nuclear weapons, says it is enriching uranium to use in peaceful energy development. According to Biden, there is still time and space for diplomacy to succeed. "The ball is in the government of Iran's court," he said. Read more
SAFETY BOARD HEAD LIKELY TO REPLACE LAHOOD. Deborah Hersman, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board, is the leading candidate to replace Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who has announced his intention to leave. In her time as head of the independent safety board, Hersman has focused on promoting highway safety and pushing for quicker investigations into commercial-aviation accidents, drawing bipartisan praise from Congress, The Wall Street Journal reports. Previously, Hersman has served as a congressional staffer for both parties. Most recently, she has been in the news for leading the probe into burning batteries aboard Boeing Co.'s new 787 Dreamliner jets. Read moreA BRAND NEW, IDENTICAL OVAL OFFICE. The government is working to recreate a nearly exact replica of the Oval Office at the south end of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to provide President Obama a workspace during a two-year overhaul of the West Wing, Real Clear Politics reports. Obama could move in as early as August. "The timing of Obama's move to a substitute executive suite is in part dependent on the president's readiness to begin working in the temporary quarters for what could be as long as two years," RCP writes. Read more
ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE IN SYRIA ALSO TARGETED CHEMICAL WEAPONS RESEARCH. Breaking several days of silence, Israel's defense minister this weekend acknowledged that his country was behind an airstrike in Syria last week, according to The Wall Street Journal. Initially, the strike was believed to target a convoy of missile shipments heading to Lebanon, but American officials are now saying that Syria's main biological and chemical weapons research center was also targeted, The New York Times reports. Secretary of State John Kerry spent the first days in his post reaching out to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, according to Reuters, affirming his commitment to both Israel and a solution to the ongoing tensions between Israel and Palestinian. Read more
IRAN MAY BE OPEN TO NUCLEAR TALKS. Long-stalled talks with Iran about its nuclear program took a small step forward when Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that his country was amenable to multilateral nuclear negotiations with the United States and five other countries. Reuters reported that Ali Akbar Salehi, the foreign minister, pointed to Vice President Joe Biden's indication on Saturday that Washington was open to direct talks with Iran as a "step forward." But according to The New York Times, Salehi does not have the pull within the Iranian government to make a decision about talks unilaterally. While the comments were seen as a positive in the U.S.-Iranian relationship, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in a Wall Street Journal interview, accused Iran of smuggling anti-aircraft weapons to militant groups around the Middle East. Read more
CHANCES OF ONGOING TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN RISES. Although the NATO mission ends in Afghanistan in December 2014, it appears increasingly likely that American troops will remain in the country beyond that date. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stressed this weekend that no final decision had been made, but that they expected a long-term partnership that would include military assistance, according to The New York Times. A negotiating office for the Taliban that was meant to open a month ago in Qatar has also stalled, giving the U.S. pause in permanently removing troops, reports The Washington Post. Read more
FRANCE CONTINUES AIRSTRIKES IN MALI, DISCUSSES A WIND-DOWN. Although France has reclaimed all major cities in Mali that had been under the control of Islamist extremists, French troops have not completely eradicated their enemies. Many rebel groups took to the desert to hide out. The Wall Street Journal reports that France has launched airstrikes this weekend in northern Mali, and sent convoys of food and fuel. Despite the airstrikes, French President François Hollande, in a visit to Timbuktu on Saturday, said the military is attempting to wind-down its campaign. Foreign Policy reports that the French government might have more problems at home, where the public has quickly lost faith in its government. Read more
REPORT BREAKS DOWN 'WAR ON DRUGS' SPENDING. Wired highlights a new report from the Government Accountability Office that details the government's spending on the ongoing drug war in Central America. The report shows that between 2008 and 2011, the government spent $97 million on gear and training for its Central American partners. Among the biggest money sucks? "Vehicles — like aircraft and patrol boats — night-vision goggles, body armor, radios and weapons, and X-ray equipment for scanning cargo containers." Read more
TRACKING CLINTON'S CAREER BY THE NUMBERS. Pew has dubbed outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "the comeback kid." In two decades in the public eye, her favorability ratings have only dipped below 50 percent four times. As she leaves for retirement, she's as popular as she has ever been, with an approval rating of 65 percent. But she can also be a polarizing figure. In 2008, for instance, when she was running for president, the country was evenly split on whether they liked her or not. A National Journal graphic looks at the ups and downs of Clinton's two decades in the spotlight. Read more
SCOTT BROWN COULD RUN FOR GOV IN MASSACHUSETTS. Former Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., won't run in the special election to replace former Sen. John Kerry, a potentially crippling blow to Republican hopes of gaining the seat. Brown, who lost his reelection bid in November to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, was viewed as Republicans' best and perhaps only hope of winning the special election in June. Attention will now turn to former Gov. Bill Weld, who hasn't given any firm indication he intends to run. Brown could choose to run for Massachusetts governor in 2014, setting up a potential primary showdown with Charlie Baker, the 2010 Republican nominee for governor. Read more
TAGG ROMNEY MULLS MASSACHUSETTS SENATE RUN. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's eldest son, Tagg Romney, is considering whether to enter the special Senate election for Kerry's seat, the Boston Herald reports. Heavyweight Republicans have also urged his mother, Ann, to run. Romney, who currently runs the successful venture capital firm he founded, Solamere, would have the infrastructure to run, the paper notes—but his father lost Massachusetts by 23 points in the presidential contest. Read more
DEMS WILL THROW BOOK AT KEN CUCCINELLI. Pragmatic Republicans looking to hang onto the governorship in Virginia have been hoping that their nominee, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, would tailor his outspoken conservative views for a more-moderate Old Dominion electorate. But based on excerpts released from his new book, Cuccinelli is making no apologies—and comes out swinging hard against all government entitlement programs. The book has opened up a clear line of attack for his Democratic rival Terry McAuliffe, who is trying to cast Cuccinelli as anti-Medicare and anti-Social Security. McAuliffe campaign officials say they expect it to use it to cast Cuccinnelli as outside the mainstream. Read more
ASSERTIVE OBAMA PLAYING WELL WITH PUBLIC. Obama and Biden are settling into a good-cop, bad-cop routine — and it's working, writes NJ's Jill Lawrence. Biden supplies empathy, negotiating skills, and comic relief. Obama is assertive, sometimes combative, clear about what he wants and when he wants it, and given to reminders that a) he won the election and b) polls show the public agrees with his agenda. Polls show that a majority of Americans like this unapologetic second-term Obama. Six in 10 people viewed him favorably in one recent poll. And the positive polls come after plenty of public exposure to Obama 2.0, from his aggressive campaign to his forceful moves and language in recent weeks. Read more
MANCHIN CHARTING OWN POLITICAL COURSE. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has carefully cultivated the kind of record that defies prediction. On Thursday, he was the lone Democrat to vote nay along with tea-party Republicans on bipartisan legislation backed by the White House to raise the debt ceiling. Earlier in the week, he announced his support for former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., Obama's controversial pick for Defense secretary, and showered him with praise at Thursday's Senate hearing. That's life in the upper chamber for a conservative Democrat, a disappearing breed of lawmaker whose ranks could thin even more in 2014 with seven red-state Democratic seats in play. Manchin's behavior shows what happens when conservative home-state politics crashes against the national Democratic political reality. Read more
LIGHTS OUT AT THE SUPER BOWL. The lights quit in the Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, sending part of the stadium into darkness for roughly 34 minutes during the Super Bowl and stopping the game. Entergy, the utility that supplied the power, said the problem was confined to the stadium, CNN reported. Though lighting was restored, the blackout was widely credited with sparking a late-game rally by the San Francisco 49ers. But it wasn't enough to beat the Baltimore Ravens, who won 34 to 31. Read more
POSSIBLE CHU SUCCESSORS INCLUDE WESTERN GOVERNORS, MIT PHYSICIST. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced on Friday he will resign from his post once a successor is confirmed, Politico reported. He concludes the letter announcing the move with a lengthy section on the importance of addressing climate change. Chu, the longest-serving Energy secretary, said he plans to stay on at least through the end of the month. Likely contenders to succeed Chu include former North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, according to Politico. If the president decides to again avoid a political appointee for the post, he could give MIT physicist Ernest Moniz, who served in Bill Clinton's Energy Department, the nod. Read more
MURKOWSKI TO UNVEIL ENERGY BLUEPRINT TODAY. Leading Republicans in both chambers this week will frame up their energy agendas for the 113th Congress. On Monday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, rolls out an "Energy 2020" policy blueprint, a listing of energy-policy goals that she'd like to see achieved by the end of the decade. Despite the partisan gridlock in Congress, at least some of her proposals may gain real traction. Murkowski is a moderate pragmatist, and she's been working closely with her Democratic counterpart, Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden of Oregon, to find points of agreement.
EPA AIR QUALITY CHIEF IS LEAD CONTENDER TO HEAD AGENCY. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation, is Obama's preferred pick to succeed Lisa Jackson as the head of the agency, Reuters reported. McCarthy served as an environmental advisor to Mitt Romney during his term as Massachusetts governor and, according to Reuters, "Her no-nonsense style could be an asset in dealing with Congress if Obama embarks on ambitious new measures to tackle climate change." Bob Perciasepe, EPAs deputy administrator, is reportedly also being considered, with a final announcement expected in coming weeks. Read more
CHEMICAL GIANT COURTS CONGRESS ON GAS EXPORTS. The biggest chemical company in the country is lobbying Republicans to oppose unfettered exports on natural gas, putting it at odds with a central GOP value: free markets. Dow Chemical, which had revenues of about $60 billion in 2012, is the most vocal private company urging the Obama administration and Congress to deny uncontrolled exports of natural gas. Dow lobbyists and its CEO, Andrew Liveris, have met with top congressional leaders from both parties on this issue, including the offices of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. Read more
WARNER ASKS EXPERT PANEL ABOUT ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., is guest-moderating National Journal's Energy & Environment Expert Blog this week, and he's asking how energy productivity can jumpstart the economy. On Thursday, Warner will join other experts to announce recommendations on energy efficiency in conjunction with the Alliance to Save Energy. "This 'Energy 2030' plan provides policy solutions through investments, modernization, and education and includes an in-depth analysis that shows how these gains in energy productivity can increase U.S. GDP up to 2%, create annual savings of $327 billion, and save the average household $1,039," Warner writes. Read more
REID: SEQUESTER DEAL MUST INCLUDE REVENUE. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, when asked Sunday whether he would require revenue in any deal that averts the sequester cuts, responded: "The answer is definitely yes. And I've got a pretty good fan base for that: the American people, Republicans, Democrats, and independents." Reid, speaking on ABC's This Week, also said that Democrats would resist a deal that would spare defense cuts at the expense of domestic cuts. Unless a deal is reached by March, the automatic cuts will begin. Aides tell The Wall Street Journal that the two sides remain far apart, and many Senate Republicans believe that the sequester cuts will be implemented, at least for a brief period. Read more
GOP RENEWS EFFORTS TO BLOCK CONSUMER BUREAU PICK. Ever since its creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a target for congressional Republicans, who have attempted to weaken its powers. Heading into the weekend, Senate Republicans vowed to block confirmation of any nominee to head the bureau unless changes are made to its structure, The Hill reports. In a letter to Obama, 43 Senate Republicans—including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—vowed to block the nomination of Richard Cordray, who is serving a recess appointment. Republicans say the bureau lacks accountability and also want to alter the bureau's revenue stream so that it comes under Congressional control. Read more
HOW THE FED BUILT ITS $3 TRILLION BALANCE SHEET. Reuters has produced an eye-opening video on how the Federal Reserve created a multi-trillion dollar balance sheet in a few short years. Not too long ago, prior to the financial collapse, The Fed had about $800 billion on its books, but the collapse, and subsequent programs like quantitative easing, have sent that number soaring. For perspective: if you combined the current market capitalizations of the two biggest publicly traded companies—Exxon and Apple—and then triple that, you would reach $3 trillion. Even more stunning: the balance sheet could reach $4 trillion by the end of this year. Read more
CONTRACEPTION COVERAGE REGULATION SPARKS REACTION. The Obama administration released a new contraception-coverage regulation Friday, after its original rule, which required most employers to offer their employees insurance that covers contraception, set off a firestorm last year. The proposed rule differs little from an administration proposal months ago: churches and other religious organizations are still exempt. Nonprofits that claim a religious affiliation, on the other hand, will not have to pay for contraception directly, but plans covering their workers will still offer it. Planned Parenthood quickly praised the announcement in a statement, saying "This policy makes it clear that your boss does not get to decide whether you can have birth control." And while leaders in the Roman Catholic community have stayed quiet, saying they will evaluate the rule, others expressed their disappointment quickly. "This proposal does nothing to change the scope of religious employer exemption," Kyle Duncan, general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told Reuters. Read more
NEW SUNSHINE RULE FROM CMS. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a long-awaited final rule designed to increase public awareness of the financial relationships between drug and device manufacturers and certain health care providers. Under the rule, CMS will collect and post data about hospitals and physicians that accept payments or other transfers of value from drug, device and other health manufacturers. The American Medical Association responded cautiously to the release of the final rule, saying it would continue to review the matter, but others were quick to applaud. "Public reporting of the financial relationships between doctors and drug or medical device companies will protect patients and help restore trust in our healthcare system," said Allan Coukell, director of medical programs at The Pew Charitable Trusts.
OUT OF NETWORK? PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH. Physicians that don't participate in health insurance networks are charging patients 10 times – or even 100 times—the Medicare reimbursement rate for the same service in the same geographic area, according to a new report from the insurance lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans. The group highlighted an out-of-network physician in New York who charged a patient $115,625 for lumbar spine fusion, roughly 62 times what Medicare would pay ($1,867). Another in Texas charged $8,040 for a tissue exam, nearly 76 times Medicare's $106 fee. AHIP President and CEO Karen Ignagni told The New York Times, "When you're out of network, it's a blank check. The consumer is vulnerable to 'anything goes.' Unless we deal with cost, we won't have affordability." AHIP blamed such high costs for exacerbating the health care cost crisis. But the American Medical Association pushed back, saying research shows total physician services account for only 16 percent of healthcare costs. Read more
HOUSE ISSUES FINAL DEADLINE ON MENINGITIS. Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee set a final deadline for the Food and Drug Administration to hand over documents concerning the meningitis outbreak last fall. The documents were first requested in mid-October of 2012, and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg assured members her agency would provide the documents, but the agency still has failed to comply. In a letter sent Friday to Hamburg, the lawmakers said if the FDA does not produce the documents by Feb. 25, 2013, "the committee will move forward with a business meeting to compel their production." Read more
(YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW. Apparently President Obama spent his last birthday—Aug. 4—shooting skeet at Camp David—and the White House wants you to know it. This weekend, several Obama allies Tweeted to "skeet birthers" this picture of the president staring down the barrel of a gun, sporting sunglasses and noise-cancelling headphones, smoke drifting out of the barrel. Enter the Internet and Photoshop. See some of the better efforts, which The New York Post ran under the headline "Mock & Load.")
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Bestmann, S; Ruff, CC; Blankenburg, F; Weiskopf, N; Driver, J; Rothwell, JC; (2008) Mapping causal interregional influences with concurrent TMS-fMRI. EXP BRAIN RES , 191 (4) 383 - 402. 10.1007/s00221-008-1601-8.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) produces a direct causal effect on brain activity that can now be studied by new approaches that simultaneously combine TMS with neuroimaging methods, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In this review we highlight recent concurrent TMS-fMRI studies that illustrate how this novel combined technique may provide unique insights into causal interactions among brain regions in humans. We show how fMRI can detect the spatial topography of local and remote TMS effects and how these may vary with psychological factors such as task-state. Concurrent TMS-fMRI may furthermore reveal how the brain adapts to so-called virtual lesions induced by TMS, and the distributed activity changes that may underlie the behavioural consequences often observed during cortical stimulation with TMS. We argue that combining TMS with neuroimaging techniques allows a further step in understanding the physiological underpinnings of TMS, as well as the neural correlated of TMS-evoked consequences on perception and behaviour. This can provide powerful new insights about causal interactions among brain regions in both health and disease that may ultimately lead to developing more efficient protocols for basic research and therapeutic TMS applications.
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For Cody Caldwell (No. 13 @ 152) and Austin Blythe (No. 9 @ HWT) Named Iowa?s Mr. Wrestler?s and many other topics visit HSWrestling.net
The Iowa High School Sports Network introduced*the inaugural IHSSN.com Mr. Wrestler awards, presented by Fareway, and announced the winner from each of Iowa?s three classes Tuesday.
Among the recipients is Williamsburg?s three-time state champion and four-time finalist heavyweight Austin*Blythe (No. 9 @ HWT). He earned the 2A honor, pinning his was through the bracket at the Iowa High School Athletic Association 2A state meet Feb. 16-19 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. He*became Iowa?s*43rd four-time state finalist and the 73rd to win three championships. Waverly-Shell Rock?s Cody Caldwell (No.13 @ 152) (3A) and Brandon Welter of Don Bosco in 1A were also selected as Mr. Wrestler winners.
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iPhone to Become One Stop Video Production Shop?
Business Week (via Daring Fireball) is adding fuel to the rumors of Apple's iPhone 3.0 may not only be shooting video come WWDC, but editing and sharing as well:
I've spoken with a source that is familiar with Apple's plans for the next iPhone, which may well be announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in early June. Evidently, shooting video is as easy as it is with a Flip, the ingenious device made by Pure Digital (recently purchased by Cisco). Then there's an iMovie app that lets you quickly save the sections you want, right there on the phone itself. There may also be support for MMS, so the clips can be shared wirelessly with friends. And because of the iPhone's relatively large screen, your friends don't have to schlep to your PC or their Facebook page to see that video of your kids or your safari. Just hand them your iPhone.
Questing -- will this only be available on the next generation iPhone or will current (and older) iPhones be so blessed, lower-quality camera and processors not withstanding?
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iPhone to Become One Stop Video Production Shop?
I'm afraid Steve may be right. Looks like it's about that time to sell your iPhone.
You very well could be right.
OR they could just be holding it back for the "AHHHHH" factor. Apple is notorious about not showing their hand at once. It's possible that they are still working on this feature and the API for it. They have delayed announcing it, and they plan on revealing it in grand Apple fashion at WWDC, i.e. "And this will be shipping to every iPhone with the new 3.0 firmware."
I really hope that's not just my wishful thinking.
One Stop Cluster LoFi Video Shop...? That's more likely. Love that headline!!
Curious what the shakey cam action is gonna be. Should make for some cool apps if they open it all up.
Probably won't be for Edge iphones.
Will it be just capture, save and send or will it also include stream, even if that requires wifi, that'd be nice.
Also where is the iphone case with the tripod adapter screw port on it. While we're at it, how about iphone video light kit? And why support external mics, get that sony wireless lapel mic on there.
This is wonderful... If they deny iPhone 3G owners this people will start illegally downloading the next ten iPhone firmwares and flashing their iPhone 3Gs with it...
I think it will at least be on the 3g solely based on the fact MMS is also on it. Probably a few more things up their sleeves I really didn't plan on purchasing another phone within a year. I will if this new iphone has better battery life.
great idea.


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Video:What is a Slopestyle Competition?with Charlie McKeague
Slopestyle competition is one of the most popular events in the Winter X Games where the goal is to perform difficult tricks while getting maximum air. This About.com video explains more about a Slopestyle competition.See Transcript
Transcript:What is a Slopestyle Competition?
Hey I'm Charlie McKeague for About.com. Today we're talking winter action sports and explaining what a Slopestyle competition is.
What is Slopestyle?
Slopestyle is an event in which riders complete a series of jumps and rails while performing a combination of complex tricks. The competition is typically held in a mountain's terrain park. A panel of judges watch and judge a riders run based on landings, amplitude, degree of difficulty, and style among others. Riders usually get at least two runs through the course for judges to evaluate. Basically the rider who can perform the tricks with the highest degree of difficulty making it look the easiest usually wins.
The event was first made popular by snowboarders in the Winter X Games, and will make its debut for both skiers and snowboarders in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Slopestyle Tricks
The tricks performed during a Slopestyle competition are spins, grabs, grinds, and flips. A spin is when a rider rotates his or her body in mid air over a jump or while going on and off of a rail. Grabs are when a rider holds onto a certain part of his ski or snowboard. Usually these are performed while spinning. Grinds are when a rider slides his ski or snowboard across a rail. Riders will perform spins on and off of the rail making a grind more technical.
Riders can also choose which part of their ski or boards they want on the rail like a nose slide or tail slide. Flips are also very common during Slopestyle. Riders have progressed to the point where one flip doesn't cut it. Double flips and flips with spins are more common. The combination of tricks is seemingly endless.
Slopestyle Terrain
The terrain used during a Slopestyle competition consists of a series of jumps and rails. The jumps range anywhere from 20-100 feet, and the rails come in all shapes and sizes.
And that was a look at what a Slopestyle competition is, for more information on winter action sports or the X Games go to About.com


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President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday accused the media of irresponsible reporting ahead of general election. Kibaki said the media should practice responsible reporting so as not to stir ethnic tension.
"I call upon newspapers, radio and television, as well as internet news sites and bloggers to exercise their freedom of the media responsibly.
"The content of our media should be limited to what unifies, promotes national integration and gives hope to Kenyans," said Kibaki.
Kibaki spoke in South Coast where he officially opened a two-day joint Parliament-Kenya Private Sector Alliance conference on elections preparedness.
Raila on said Kenya's media should be professional adding that some media houses are not professional. "No one should interfere with the duty of journalists to comment fairly on issues of national importance. On the other hand, our media should not make their business to spread vitriol, character assassination, unsubstantiated allegations and factual misrepresentation," said Raila.
The PM gave an example of a report that appeared recently in section of the media where it was reported that he had been admitted to a hospital in Nairobi yet he was fit.
Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere also joined the two principals in calling for responsible and professional reporting. "If you ask the media personality about these biased and irresponsible reporting, they say you are trying to gag them but I want them to think about the effect of literature they write," said Iteere.


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After a good night's rest in La Misíon, I rode to Ensenada.
I didn't get my "tourist card" at the border, and read conflicting info about getting one in Ensenada. The internet is full of stories about people being fined in Ensenada, being sent back to the Tijuana border, etc. I started to worry.
As I rode into town, there were big signs pointing the way to Customs and Immigration near the port area. I parked the bike, and 15 minutes later my paperwork was done! The immigration official couldn't be more helpful. It's easy to worry about nothing.
Flag at half-staff
The town center in Ensenada is easy to spot (just look for the huge flag). As I walked around town, the flag was lowered to half-staff: 1000 miles to the east, terror had struck. Armed narcos attacked a casino in Monterrey and
massacred 52 people
I checked into Motel America. It was cheap and the courtyard-style parking hid the bike from the main road. Plus it was across the street from a police station.
Basic accommodations at Motel America
Later I checked out
Hussong's cantina
, home of the margarita. Lots of locals do frequent here, though it is a tourist trap (with a second location in Las Vegas). I expected a bunch of drunk rowdy guys, but most of the patrons were groups of women just having a good time.
Lasso show at Hussong's
It was here in October 1941 that the first margarita was poured. Legend has it, Hussong's bartender invented the drink for Margarita Henkel, daughter of the German ambassador to Mexico at the time.
Martin pouring a Margarita
There's taqueria next door to Hussong's (called Mexico Lindo) which has some really yummy tacos. I think I ate every other meal there.
I didn't stay in Ensenada for long. The plan was to ride east to San Felipe and then head south along the coast via the dirt roads there.
Up the hill from Ensenada
Coming out of the city are some small mountain ranges. Not to mention, junk yards!
There are many "questionable" cars in Baja. Some have Californian plates with expired tags from years ago. Some have stickers denoting that they are in the process of being legalized ("nationalized") into Mexico. Many others have no license plates at all. The cops don't seem to care either way.
Where the cars come to die
On the road to San Felipe, two riders on big BMW 1200GS bikes were heading the opposite way, towards Ensenada. We waved, and I stopped further down the road to take some pictures. Meanwhile the two riders did a u-turn and joined me.
Fernando and Osvaldo are from Querétaro, a city in central Mexico. They told me that they rode to San Felipe that morning, but was told that the dirt road conditions further south were very poor. So they decided to ride back to Ensenada and take the (mostly paved) western route instead.
They were going to ride to the
and invited me to come along, but I wanted to press on to San Felipe. Fernando gave me his business card and told me about some great riding around his city. I had never heard of Querétaro but made a mental note to check it out on Google.
Osvaldo and Fernando gearing up to go
Closer to San Felipe, slowly the flat desert replaced the barren mountains. The sun was strong and it was a harsh ride. I began to worry about overheating the engine (after the coolant incident) but the bike's temperature remained normal, and thankfully San Felipe was only about 3 hours away.
Cutting through Baja
Arriving in San Felipe, the town was deserted. The mid-afternoon sun was oppressive; everyone stayed indoors.
All quiet in San Felipe
I looked for Hacienda de Jesus but by mistake ended up at a different motel nearby. It was cheap, clean and most importantly, had AC!!
Done for the day
I saw palm trees and was happy to stay.
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This year the UTAS Energy Challenge, held over the month of August, has been a great success. It was made up of three separate challenges. The combined monthly energy cost saving for the three challenges exceeded $5,300.
Thirteen departments, sections and schools across the state participated in the Switch Off Challenge to reduce out-of-hours energy use from appliances and lighting.
The winners for best performance in this challenge wereZoology in Hobart with 88 per cent of equipment switched off and the English Language Centre in Newnham achieving a 75 per cent switch off.
The department most improved over August was the School of Sociology and Social Work in Launceston. First prize in the Switch Off Challenge was $1,350; $900 for second prize; and $450 for third, in addition to a hamper of Fairtrade goodies for each winner.
Prize money is to be spent on sustainability initiatives around the winning offices.
Accommodation students from each campus committed to reducing their energy usage for the month in the Kill-a-Watt Challenge. The North West Rural Clinical School Apartments came in first place with a massive decrease of 47 per cent. Residents in Block 8 at Newnham came second with a nine per cent decrease and John Fisher College only just missed out on prizes with a six per cent decrease.
Four labs from northern and southern campuses participated in the Shut your Sash Challenge by switching off fume cupboards and/or shutting their sashes to reduce energy expended from the exhaust.
The winners for this challenge are the School of Pharmacy (best performance at 86 per cent) and the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability (largest improvement 20 per cent).
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Total energy savings for each challenge over the month of August were:
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- Switch Off – 9,850 kWh less energy, saving $1,000.
- Shut your Sash – 36,000 kWh less energy, saving $1,300.
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Michael Bay is not great at public speaking. This became very clear when he melted down during a presentation for Samsung at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Samsung brought Bay onstage to discuss how the company's new curved-screen televisions could revolutionize the movie-watching experience at home. Unfortunately, their teleprompter system didn't seem to be working right, and the director-producer couldn't read his lines.
Although Bay tried to "wing it" for a couple of seconds, he quickly stammered to a stop. Head down and walking quickly, Bay left the stage with only "I'm sorry" as an explanation.
Known best for his big-budget productions like the "Transformers" franchise and the new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," Bay is also a producer behind TV shows like the upcoming "Black Sails" on Starz and "The Last Ship" on TNT.
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I didn't watch the webcast at all this weekend, nor did I visit the board. Too much drama in my life. At least it's good drama this time.
I didn't watch the webcast at all this weekend, nor did I visit the board. Too much drama in my life. At least it's good drama this time.
05/15 Say Lou Lou @ Rickshaw Stop
05/20 Neal Stephenson @ PW
05/22 Skream & Scuba @ Mighty
05/31 The Kids in the Hall @ The Warfield
06/19 Purity Ring @ The Fox Theatre
07/03 toe @ The Independent
07/09 Spor @ 1015
07/11 Death Cab for Cutie @ The Greek
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07/24 Social Studies @ GAMH (?)
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10/02 The Tragically Hip @ The Masonic
Anything with E becomes a dance party. My vacuum cleaner becomes a dance party on E
Quick question, has anyone else here actually held a fetus? They're not very cute.
I'll be back in 2013 with HB and others. The webcast helped with my pain a little.
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I was a best man at a wedding this weekend so that pretty much consumed up all of my time so I didn't even think once about Coachella, except when I mentioned how it was the only weekend I had planned the whole year and they picked the wedding date that weekend.
I'm so sad. Drained, of course, but morose. It was lovely seeing all of you in good spirits. It's important that we get together every year and do this. It's like new years really - a time for the public to stop it's busy nonsense for a second and pat each other on the back. Good job everyone.
Have fun next year, friends.
No, I wasn't even interested in the pre-sale. I'd say I am pretty much out. Unless or until Bowie.
This shit is bananas... between the 11-months-in-advance presale, the fact that Avicii will be on the main stage next year, and the hotel I stayed in this year doubling its rates... I'm more or less out for 2013. You win, teenage ragers.
3rd week 25+ coachella?
See everyone in 2017.
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I can't plan this far in advance. I need a fucking lineup.
But I might have to beg mom+dad bro to book the timeshare again as it was pretty much the most amazing part about this year. Maybe mom+dad bro will come to Coachella? Hehehe.
I didn't even bother with the pre-sale this time around. Bigger fish to fry in 2013.
4/8 Ride @ The Roxy, 4/10 St. Vincent @ The Cosmopolitan, 4/14 Barry Manilow @ Staples Center, 5/2 Desert Daze, 5/8-10 Levitation, 5/16 The Juan Maclean @ The Regent, 6/10 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Cafe, 6/12 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Utah
Yeah...wasn't interested in the presale either. I think from now on im going based on lineup.
Flight Facilities 02/25 @ Fonda
It's going to take one hell of a lineup to get me to change my 2013 plans (Bestival if the lineup is impressive, otherwise Iceland Airwaves), but most of what I really want to see won't be at Coachella (if anywhere), so it's not likely.
4/8 Ride @ The Roxy, 4/10 St. Vincent @ The Cosmopolitan, 4/14 Barry Manilow @ Staples Center, 5/2 Desert Daze, 5/8-10 Levitation, 5/16 The Juan Maclean @ The Regent, 6/10 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Cafe, 6/12 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Utah
Yeah like a few people in here this is the first time in 6 years I have had no desire to get tickets. Count me out as well unless if they get something amazing to bring me there, which really means Bowie.
Yeah, I had no motivation to buy presale passes.
Courtney Barnett - 6/5 - The Mohawk
The Avett Brothers/Old Crow Medicine Show - 6/27 - Whitewater Amphitheater
Death Grips - 7/18 - The Mohawk
Kraftwerk - 9/25 - Bass Concert Hall
It's not necessarily sold out, right -- so just how many passes were allotted for this presale?
I wasn't interested either, but bought passes just in case I have another stupid year and need my retreat/there's an off-chance they pull off a ridiculous lineup.
Count me as tentative, but likely not there.
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The alternative to symmetry is intriguing (Image: Simon Danaher)
Forget symmetry, it's asymmetry that could be the key to life, the universe and almost everything
SYMMETRY is deeply satisfying. It has harmony and balance – it feels right. But while physicists use it as a guide in building theories, nature is more often lopsided than manifestly symmetric. Asymmetries are often far more informative. Trying to understand why a particular asymmetry exists can reveal clues about the profound nature of reality. That's exactly what Peter Higgs and François Englert were doing 50 years ago when they came up with what's now known as the Higgs mechanism, which imparts mass to fundamental particles. In October last year, their efforts were rewarded when they shared the Nobel prize in physics.
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PEOPLE with pacemakers face surgery every five to ten years to replace their worn-out batteries. Researchers at Osaka University in Japan hope to avoid this by building in a battery that can be recharged through the patient's skin.
The prototype pacemaker measures 40 millimetres by 30 millimetres by 5 millimetres and is attached to a solar cell 20 millimetres square. The researchers implanted the pacemaker in a mouse, with the solar cell 5 millimetres under the animal's skin. Shining a beam of laser light onto the skin charged up the battery.
Because skin absorbs visible light, the researchers used near-infrared light with a wavelength of around 860 nanometres. Skin is transparent at this wavelength. The light was generated by the same type of laser used in CD players.
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For the last eight years, Connecticut has ranked last in the nation when it comes to number of schools offering breakfast to students. In the last national report in 2012, less than half of students who received free and reduced lunches in Connecticut ate breakfast at school. There's a clear economic divide between the schools where breakfast is offered and where it isn't. The state's larger, lower-income cities generally offer it, and many of the smaller, wealthier communities do not.
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Joe Kulik, a mechanical specialist at 4moms, services a mamaRoo seat at the company's headquarters. Joe Wojcik
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The high-tech, high-end baby products by Thorley Industries, under the brand 4moms, are hot. They're on morning news shows, prime-time TV, they're in celebrity pictures and car commercials. But the business plan has never changed.
Co-founder Henry Thorne's plan: If electronics are getting cheaper, let's put them in new places. Like a baby seat. Or a stroller.
From the beginning, Thorne and co-founder Rob Daley talked about what the exit for such a company would be.
Talking about the exit can be a tricky thing. One school of thought is to focus on building a company and not the exit, while others think knowing the exit story up-front is vital to building the business.
At 4moms, all the talk led to showing they could execute on their word. However, it's also a cautionary tale; Thorne noted that one of their early ideas did get taken by a competitor.
Thorne talked about how the duo have built the business, from the two of them to its current staff of roughly 80 people, at the latest MIT Enterprise Forum of Pittsburgh panel, talking to local companies about their big deals.
For Thorne and Daley, that big deal was landing $20 million last summer from Bain Capital Ventures.
With so many companies looking to grab the attention of outside investors, it was the opposite at 4moms. Bain approached them and had done its research, and that impressed Thorne. A deal was hammered out within a few months.
And Thorne has been pleasantly surprised about working with the venture capital firm.
"Turns out they are really smart. They know what is ahead of us," he said, adding that neither he nor Daley have built a company to the more than 100 they are soon expecting at 4moms.
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From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences edited by Connie Barlow, MIT Press, pp 255, Pounds sterling 15.75
In his book Three Scientists and Their Gods, Robert Wright explains some of the events that shaped the intel-lectual development of that dis-tinguished entomologist and the founder of sociobiology, E. O. Wilson. The most extraordinary was a freak fishing accident that happened when Wilson was seven years old. The fish he was hauling from the water struck him in the face and a fin pierced his right eye, causing a serious cataract. The accident left him unable to appreciate nature at a distance, but free to peruse the tiny details of insect anatomy without handicap.
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NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- Block trading activities for shares of Alcoa reveal that 144 block trades
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