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Jaguar eyeing off compact SUV
Richard Blackburn British brand says it's not thinking big with its proposed SUV.
Quick spin: Ford Ranger Wildtrak
Richard Blackburn It's expensive, but the top-of-the-range one-tonner has plenty going for it.
Reviewed: Lexus LS460
Richard Blackburn The new range-topping Lexus has some big shoes to fill.
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Richard Blackburn German maker's M performance division to develop a sports version of the Gran Coupe.
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Richard Blackburn Once nothing to write home about, the little Korean has made a great leap forward.
Mercedes-Benz C250 CDI coupe
Richard Blackburn This sporty new two-door has the looks to tackle its rivals.
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Richard Blackburn The Korean brand's latest city car is a big improvement, but with a bigger price tag to match.
Ford Focus Trend
Richard Blackburn An improvement on its predecessor, this small car will challenge the class leaders.
Volkswagen Passat 125TDI
Richard Blackburn There are some new bells and whistles on offer in VW's mid-sized sedan but most of the changes are evolutionary.
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Richard Blackburn Updated SUV has plenty of showroom appeal but lacks polish of many rivals.
Toyota Corolla
Richard Blackburn The Corolla has been the cornerstone of Toyota's success for more than 40 years. It was the world's biggest-selling nameplate last year, trading on a reputation for quality and reliability.
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Richard Blackburn The Mazda3 was the benchmark car in this class until Drive's 2009 Car of the Year, the Volkswagen Golf, swept all before it.
Hyundai i30
Richard Blackburn The i30 is easily the best car Hyundai has produced. While other recent releases have been let down by less-than-inspiring interiors and average road manners, the i30 delivers on both fronts.
Block busters: Holden Cruze v Toyota Corolla v Mazda3 v Hyundai i30 v Mitsubishi Lancer
Richard Blackburn Box-office clout is not the only measure of success. Richard Blackburn assesses which best-selling small car deserves to win critical acclaim.
New Suzuki Swift: review
Richard Blackburn It may look familiar but this popular hatch is now bigger and better, writes Richard Blackburn.
$11,990: New car for the price of a 1986 Corolla
Richard Blackburn The cut-price Chinese invasion of Australia has entered the mainstream car segment for the first time with the new Chery J1 hatch and J11 compact SUV.
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Dwyane Wade's surgically repaired left knee looks to be just fine. Wade scored 21 points and handed out five assists in 23 minutes, and the Miami Heat beat the Detroit Pistons 105-78 in a preseason game on Thursday night. Chris Bosh scored 17 points and LeBron James scored 13 for Miami, which led 27-11 after one quarter in its first exhibition since returning home from China earlier this week. Combined, the Wade-Bosh-James trio shot 19 for 31 from the floor, with 14 assists, 13 rebounds and five steals - all getting the fourth quarter off after Miami built a 95-60 lead. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said the team wasn't planning for Wade to practice every day in the preseason, but that his body is allowing him to be out there. ''I just like his progress right now,'' Spoelstra said. ''You see bursts of his old speed and quickness.'' Greg Monroe scored 15 points for Detroit, which missed 18 of its first 22 shots. Brandon Knight added 12 for the Pistons. Detroit lost veteran Corey M...
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No your not stupid. Some guys can catch the clues girls give to them and then some of us aren't so lucky. This is something that may change over time for you. One thing I can say some times when we see a girl as a friend we don't put the clues together or just see them as anything more. and they just say friends.
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great question! no...no...no...you are not socaially inapt. you are mearly inexperienced. if she was flirting she's at leat interested in the "lets go to dinner or the movies" kind of way. never be self doubting, you never come out on top.
Its just that it felt wierd, I mean I always thought she kind of liked me, but I'd go like "uggggh no way", and I thought about it, but I never realized it
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Tom Cruise kicks butt and drives real fast, but is he 'Jack Reacher'?
One of things I was sorry to have missed at CinemaCon this spring was the Paramount presentation for "Jack Reacher," if only because I wanted to see for myself what's being done with one of my favorite ongoing characters in current fiction.
After all, I've written several times already about my hesitations involving Tom Cruise playing the role of Jack Reacher. First and foremost, he's just plain physically wrong for the character as he exists in the books. Reacher is an ape, a huge guy, well over six feet tall, and in almost every book that Lee Child has written about him, there's at least one moment where Reacher's size plays a part in the handling of a situation. I spent at least a year stumping for Dwayne Johnson to play the part, and I think Joseph Manganiello would also have made a logical and interesting choice.
But let's set aside questions of scale. Can Tom Cruise step in and play the character anyway? Based on the trailer that Paramount released today, I think that question no longer matters, because whatever the movie is… and it could end up being a lot of fun… it's not the Jack Reacher that exists on the page. Two minutes of footage proved conclusively that they've refigured the character so much that it's just not the same thing anymore. This is "Tom Cruise, moral crusader with a hot car," and I have ever confidence the film will be entertaining.
Christopher McQuarrie is the writer-director, and I look forward to seeing him do a tough-guy mainstream romp. My biggest fear about hiring Tom Cruise for the part was that his movie star gravity would pull the material out of shape, and there are some choices here that run directly counter to the way Reacher was created. In the books, he took his discharge from military service and hit the road. He travels by bus or by hitchhiking, and he has no plan, no end game in mind, and carries only the clothes on his back. When you see Cruise dressed like a million bucks here and driving a muscle car, it's obvious that they've made Reacher "cool" for the movie, and so this will be a Reacher movie in name only.
Sure, he's still a white knight who will wade into any fight simply to make sure the right thing is done, and he's still an ex-investigator, and so I'm guessing the film will follow the same general shape as the book. I just wish they didn't feel the need to bend the character's defined nature so much just to get a movie star attached. I shouldn't be surprised, though. If you want to fully understand how a character as sharply written as Reacher can be changed so much on his way to the screen, just read William Goldman's "Adventures In The Screen Trade." Everything he wrote there about working with movie stars is still completely true today.
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By Maisie McCabe, mediaweek.co.uk, Thursday, 26 July 2012 09:45AM
Although ITV's adjusted profit before tax was £235m, up 15% year on year, its reported profit before tax was £167m, down 7.7% year on year, due to the company's decision to buy back some of its bonds [debt].
Despite a strong first half, ITV's outlook remains cautious for the rest of the year. The broadcaster said it expects its TV ad revenue to decline by 10% in July and 11% in August, and to be between flat and down 5% in September.
According to ITV's interim results announced this morning (26 July), group revenues were £1.13bn in the first half of 2012, up 10% year on year.
Broadcast and online revenues, which include TV and online ad revenue, as well as revenue from the pay HD channels, were £924m in the six months to the end of June 2012, up 4% year on year.
ITV said net ad revenue (NAR) across its family of TV channels (ITV1, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4) was £765m during the six months, up 3% year on year and outperforming the ad market, which ITV said was up 2%.
Adam Crozier, chief executive of ITV, said broadcasting the Euro 2012 football tournament helped ITV's figures. Crozier said: "Clearly, the brands that have been up year on year will have been aimed at male audiences again, as you might expect.
"A lot of our outperformance came in the last half of May and June [during the tournament]. Categories like cars and finance have been strong."
Crozier dismissed the suggestion that ITV had not benefited from Olympic advertising and he said sponsors started to promote their association with the Games on TV much earlier in the year.
He said: "If you have been watching ITV you will have seen Olympic advertising running since February. Since March most of P&G's advertising has been Olympic copy. It's not as simple as looking at the Olympic period."
Yesterday, the Daily Mail & General Trust, publisher of the Daily Mail, attributed a 3% year-on-year rise in ad revenue in the final three weeks of July to brands moving spend into press from TV.
When asked about DMGT's observations Crozier said: "It is not for me to comment on other companies results but I have not recognised that."
Year on year comparisons in September will be worsened by the strong performance in the Rugby World Cup in September 2011, Crozier said, but he said had not noticed the worsening economic outlook having an effect.
Crozier said: "Sometimes the best way of picking up what's happening is to talk to advertisers and by and large there doesn't seem to be a marked shift in behaviour."
ITV's revenue from its online, pay and interactive segment was £47m during the six months to 30 June 2012, up 24% year on year, but still only representing 4.2% of overall group revenues.
The company said "other commercial income", which includes sponsorship, minority revenues, media sales and other income, was £81m in the six months to the end of June 2012, up 5% year on year.Follow @MaisieMcCabe
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White Chocolate Cranberry Scones
July 18th 2013By Tamar Genger MA, RD
My husband loves scones and so it has become tradition for me to make them for him every Father's Day. I often try out different recipes and forget to write down the best ones, but this time I did it. His favorite combo is white chocolate and craisins or cherries, so here it is in all it's perfection so that I won't forget it and you can enjoy it too. I did go out all with white flour and even half and half, but it is a special treat and overall not too high in calories.
The Post Thanksgiving Hand Pie
November 17th 2014By Chef Tami Weiser
After the weekend Thanksgiving cooking-fest, my refrigerator is bursting with leftovers. I often make a variation on Cornish pasties, or hand pies, that are different enough to appeal to those weary of the same Thanksgiving redux. It's a day-after-the-day-after recipe, when you have odds and ends left over. Allow time to chill the dough for at least 1 hour or up to overnight. Allow time to chill the dough for at least 1 hour or up to overnight.
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May 19th 2013By Stellas Cookbook
Stuffed pastries are always a crowd pleaser.
No Margarine Pastry Pie, Tart or Quiche Crust
August 23rd 2011By Ahuva Staum
Making a pie crust is actually really easier and so tasty. Generally made with butter or margarine, this recipe uses corn or canola oil to avoid the hydrogenated oils! The dough will be sticky so make sure to flour your surface well. and always be very gentle and patient when working with pastry dough!
Lower Fat Pie Crust
April 24th 2014By Tamar Genger MA, RD
This lower fat pie crust is adapted from a cooking light recipe. I made it for a quiche and placed it up against a full fat recipe and this one was actually preferred!! I made it with coconut oil instead of butter and shortening.
Choux Pastry Chopped Liver Puffs
August 19th 2013By The Kosher Butcher's Wife
I have gone choux pastry crazy! and all because of a demonstration I attended in New York by David Kolotkin, Executive Chef of the Prime Grill in New York. Please don't skip this one saying, "oy! it too patshkedik!" This will give your dinner the wow factor.
Chocolate Cigars
November 26th 2013By Joy of Kosher
Light, flaky layers of phyllo dough oozing with warm chocolate, this dessert is somewhat reminiscent of baklava and its sweet almond filling. These cigars are playful and definitely outside the box - think of them as upscale finger food. For a hot and cold combination, serve just out of the oven with vanilla ice cream.
Chocolate Chip Pecan Scones
January 14th 2011By Rachelle Ferneau
Scones, which can be made sweet, savory or plain, are similar to biscuits, both in their texture and in how they are made. These chocolate chip pecan scones can be easily made with ingredients you already have in your kitchen.
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Delicious traditional Purim treat. When it's time to mix, do it with your hands.
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November 17th 2014By Chef Tami Weiser
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Aviva Premiership: Gloucester host Worcester at Kingsholm
Last Updated: 22/12/13 10:32am
Gloucester aim to end a five-match Aviva Premiership losing run against Worcester at Kingsholm on Sunday.
Gloucester's only home win in the Premiership so far this season remains a 26-24 success over Northampton in Round Three and they are still without a victory in the competition since beating Newcastle 22-16 on September 29.
But opponents Worcester Warriors are in a run which has seen just one win in their last 20 matches in all competitions, a 21-16 success at Cardiff Blues in the Anglo-Welsh Cup on November 8.
Gloucester coach Nigel Davies knows that bottom side Warriors, although still looking for their first win in the competition, have been competitive in most of their games to date.
"It's going to be a difficult encounter for us because you look at Worcester, and how they've played, and they've been in games for long periods before falling away late."
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"It's going to be a difficult encounter for us because you look at Worcester, and how they've played, and they've been in games for long periods before falling away late," he said.
"They'll be a tough nut to crack, and we have to be in the right frame of mind, which means not just being physically ready for the challenge but also being prepared to play rugby, our style of rugby."
Billy Twelvetrees will continue to captain Gloucester in the absence of club captain Tom Savage who has undergone surgery on a pectoral injury.
On Sunday, he will lead the side from the fly-half position, with Freddie Burns named amongst the replacements.
Mike Tindall will partner Henry Trinder in midfield, with Charlie Sharples also returning to the starting line-up.
Nick Wood is back at loose head prop, and Tongan international Sila Puafisi will make his first full start at tight head.
In the back row, Matt Cox and Matt Kvesic will line up against their former club. Cox comes in for Sione Kalamafoni who picked up an ankle injury against Edinburgh last weekend.
Meanwhile, centurions full-back Chris Pennell and outside centre Alex Grove will return to Warriors' starting line-up.
The duo, who both signed contract extensions at Sixways earlier this month, are named in the backline after being rested for last week's trip to Biarritz.
Director of Rugby Dean Ryan makes nine changes to the side which travelled to France. Ofa Fainga'anuku, Chris Brooker and Rob O'Donnell return in the front-row, while James Percival and Mariano Galarza are recalled to the second row.
Captain Jonathan Thomas will start at number eight and there could also be a return to action for Argentinian international Leonardo Senatore, who is handed a place on the bench.
James Stephenson is the only other change in the backline as Warriors go to Kingsholm looking to close the gap on their local rivals.
Ryan said: "I asked a lot of people to put their hands up last week and I was really pleased with how well some people did. It has given me more choice in terms of this weekend's selection.
"In reality, winning would be a huge lift. I think it would be a catalyst and reward for the progress the players are making."
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Samsung has unveiled its flagship handset for 2009, with the launch of the Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition and Pocket-lint has managed to get its hands on one of the very few pre-production samples in the UK.
The new handset announced on Monday will feature a full touchscreen with the "everyday familiarity and convenience" of a 3 x 4 keypad according to Samsung.
The phone offers a 2.8-inch, high contrast, AMOLED full touchscreen with haptic touch technology, an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash in a slim 12.7mm body.
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Ottawa to reverse CRTC Internet billing decision
The CRTC's controversial decision to increase Internet costs for some Canadians could be reversed as soon as next week
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OTTAWA—A controversial CRTC decision that effectively imposed usage-based Internet billing on small service providers will be reversed, the Toronto Star has learned.
"The CRTC should be under no illusion — the Prime Minister and minister of Industry will reverse this decision unless the CRTC does it itself," a senior Conservative government official said Wednesday.
"If they don't reconsider we will reverse their decision."
The promise to reverse the ruling comes as CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein is scheduled to explain the decision Thursday before the House of Commons industry committee.
While the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is an independent agency, its decision can be overturned by cabinet. The Star was told that could happen as early as next week.
The CRTC decision has sparked outrage across the country with Canadians rushing to sign petitions asking the Conservative government to reverse it. Industry Minister Tony Clement has received tens of thousands of emails requesting that it be struck down.
"Frankly, a decision like this is clearly not in the best interest of consumers," the senior official said.
"This is a bread-and-butter issue."
The CRTC's ruling affects the wholesale business of the major Internet service providers, who sell capacity to smaller resellers. To encourage competition, major telecom operators that have spent heavily on infrastructure are required to lease bandwidth on their networks to small providers.
Major providers charge customers extra if they download more than the monthly limits they set, typically between 20 and 60 gigabytes. Small providers, however, offer plans with 200 gigabyte ceilings and even unlimited use.
The issue came to a head last week, when the CRTC denied independent service providers the right to continue offering unlimited Internet plans.
Although critics say the CRTC ruling will lead to lower download limits and higher rates, major Internet service providers say usage-based billing based is fair because it means heavy users pay more than those who just surf the web and use email.
As it invests billions in new broadband capacity, Bell says old pricing structures need to be brought in line with the huge amount of growth in Internet usage. Businesses and consumers are increasingly relying on the Internet to download videos, documents and even software. Rogers says its customers are using about 40 per cent more data each year.
Consumers' Association of Canada president Bruce Cran said the CRTC decision is nothing but corporate gouging by Canada's monopolistic communications companies.
John Reid, president of CATA Alliance, a group that advocates for innovation in Canada, said, "This has to be a decision that Canada makes — that it wants to be the best in the world in the provision of high-speed Internet."
He added, however, that usage-based billing is not the answer.
"You don't want to stifle the sort of richness that comes from using high-speed Internet," says Reid.
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What I'd give to share a cup of coffee and place a hand on the shoulder to thank you — friends long held, new, and unknown, but friends all the same. I'm grateful for the encouragement and camaraderie I've received. And I'm sorry distance and time prevent this circle from gathering at a single table, my kitchen table, to talk writing, laugh over stories, admit frustrations, and share these scones. They are a lot like me right now, tender and not too sweet. I prefer them with a steaming mug of coffee mellowed with cream (which, I believe, is how my husband prefers me — at least in the mornings).
Barley Scones with Coffee and Molasses
Recipe by Dawn Woodward of Evelyn's Cracker. More of her recipes can be found at The Bread Lab.
Yield: 4 6-inch rounds (8 pieces per round)
4 cups/400 grams barley flour
4 cups/445 grams spelt flour
4 teaspoons/12 grams baking powder
1 teaspoon/4 grams salt
2 2/3 cups/400 grams brown sugar
1 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
4 teaspoons ground ginger
1 pound/454 grams unsalted butter
1 1/3 cups heavy cream
1/4 cup molasses
1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla
1/2 cup/120 grams strong, cold coffee
Mix dry ingredients and cut in butter until coarse and lumpy. Combine liquids and drizzle over top. Mix gently and quickly until dough comes together. Divide into four equal pieces and shape each one into a six-inch round. Place on parchment lined tray. Cut into eighths. Sprinkle with coarse sugar. Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes. Test with toothpick. Scones should be soft but not wet in the center.
Jan 2015
I've come to a place without a view, a place where I conserve words and watch my footing because there are rocks to trip me and my ankles have been known to give out. In this uncertain place, my contributions seem small, unimportant, overlooked. You noted my silence. I invite you to walk with me a while, mindful of E.B. White's advice that a writer "should tend to lift people up, not lower them down," as together we tread this uneven path.
As I said, I'm uncertain, blurred at the edges as a writer and mother, and this scares me. For years I've thrashed about with my writing, much like the inexperienced swimmer flails in the water, managing to stay afloat, yet nothing akin to swimming. In these same years, I've worked to raise independent children, and with three of the four now adolescents the job's description changes. For the mother, better or worse will depend on my children's choices. As for the writer, better or worse will depend on my determination, and honestly, I am so tired of flailing I sometimes want to sink.
That admission sounds like defeat, and giving up on the dream of writing feels like giving up on the self. But writing for its sake alone isn't enough for me. I want the work to be accepted, and praised. I feel embarrassed to admit this, and so I take solace in the words of Leah Hager Cohen, a wise and successful writer who still shares my craving.
"At best, such a desire grows out of valuing a connection with others, wanting to be informed by their perspectives, and hoping for a feeling of mutual recognition, a feeling of: yes, I am not alone in the world. I don't think there's anything shameful about wanting our art to find a home in the hearts, the souls of others. Where I think we get into trouble is with the notion that whether or not we reach this goal gets determined by a highly selective elite in whom we have invested sole authority to confer access…," Cohen wrote in "The Fortress and the Fool." "Because the very natural wish for evidence of our worth can mislead us into thinking that writing is about winning accolades."
I have no mentor to share my doubts with, no one who might guide me back to my writing notebook, no one to gently close my fingers around a pen and tell me to continue. Now that I'm alone for five hours a day people expect results. Now that three-fourths of my children are teen-agers capable of caring for themselves (though to a lesser degree than I'm comfortable with so I stick around to make sure they regularly eat salad and shower), I expect results. But now is not enough. I'm aimless, tripping over stones, unable to navigate my way. I'm a white woman, middle-aged, and privileged because I can choose to either write or waste those five hours. And today I'm idling them away, nursing a cold as I sneeze ten times and a small amount of pee escapes my bladder and wets my underwear. A price of motherhood. There is a tightness in my shoulders, and my feet will not warm. I pull back the quilt on my bed, made an hour earlier, and crawl in, sighing because it's warm there and the sun's shining through the eastern window. I close my eyes and red glows beneath my eyelids. I sleep for a little while.
You wrote about a mother-artist's struggle with aimlessness in your book "After the Sour Lemon Moon," where a young mother leaves her family for a year in order to recover all she'd "lost and wanted returned."
"I was tired of holding up the foundation, being so vital. I wanted to shed my importance and become a mere cog, a simple expendable part of the whole," the mother, Sophia, said. "… It is widely believed that if a mother leaves her family there is something irreparably wrong with her, something rooted in her core being, something present long before she was a mother."
I was simultaneously drawn to Sophia, who would abandon her family in order to preserve herself, and repelled by her because she could, with ease, build a new life that included little thought and no space for her two little girls. The persistent, binary view that a woman's life must be either work or family, books or babies, shackles me, enrages me, defeats me. I put your book down. Months later I read it to its end and learned that Sophia abandons this second life, too, so that she might wear the mantle of motherhood, again, although not that of wife.
"There are many ways to live a good life. Mustn't there be as many ways, if not more, of being a good parent?" she asks. "Is our culture too rigid in defining our parameters? I believe the answer is yes."
I'd have liked the book to contain a road map to that sweet life because I'm in need of such direction. I ask myself "Where is the story?" as if it's a place, a land from which I wandered away. Rest eludes me. I sleep, heavy and deep with dreams, sometimes, and sometimes without, but always, every morning, I wake and am tired. I drag my body up from this nightly death and walk among the living. They have places to go. They have ideas. They have plans, projects, people. I have emptiness: An empty mind and an empty day except when there is laundry, and cleaning, and trips to the grocery store, and paying the bills, and a walk with a friend, and doctor's appointments, and physical therapy appointments, of which there are many, so my days are filled, only not with what I want.
Recently, I discovered a map and a mentor in Ursula K. Le Guin, who worked after her three children went to bed, and, when they got older, during school hours. In her book "Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places" is her 1988 essay "The Fisherwoman's Daughter," which explores the rewarding and difficult experience motherhood is for a woman artist.
"The artist with the least access to social or aesthetic solidarity or approbration has been the artist-housewife. A person who undertakes responsibility to both her art and her dependent children with no 'tireless affection' or tired affection to call on, has taken on a full-time double job that can be simply, practically, destroyingly impossible. But that isn't how the problem is posed — as a recognition of immense practical difficulty. If it were, practical solutions would be proposed, beginning with childcare. Instead, the issue is stated, even now, as a moral one, as ought or ought not," Le Guin wrote.
It's easy for me to be preoccupied by the small, technical issues of my work, things that will not matter at the end of the day, like whether I shall write with a pencil or pen, or if this desk promotes bad posture and causes carpal tunnel syndrome. Perhaps both, because as I write the last sentence I note that my back is curved so belly meets breast bone, and my wrists ache. I straighten my spine, rotate my wrists.
Continue, I say to myself.
About what? I ask.
For whom? I ask.
For you, I answer.
But you will not read this, no one will read this ever. Typed into a program that no one can read because of a password that I cannot remember, it is protected. Disappeared off the computer the second I disconnect from the internet, it is lost. Sentences protected and lost. This is my life, protected and lost.
It's taken me all morning to get to this point. To open the screen and begin filling a blank page with new sentences. First I copied old sentences, written maybe six years ago, and then rewritten and published, then copied again and rewritten into a longer story that was not published but critiqued by a class, and just now copied a fourth time into this space with the intention of rewriting it. Again. Words so dramatic and dull they desperately needed to be deleted, so I did. I deleted the words, some five hundred words, and started with zero, an honest number, reflective of my ideas at this moment and my energy level, since, remember, I'm also catching a cold.
You asked about now, me, this morning's state of mind, and why it's been so long since I've sat at my cramped desk and written sentences whose only physical manifestation will sit in my muscles as cramped shoulder and aching wrist. But let me continue because pain is a sum gain over emptiness, especially pain which I can use to justify my irritability with others, with my children, with Marcel, but really with myself, though no one will know it, not even me after I close the computer and forget the words.
"There is less censure now, and more support, for a woman who both wants to bring up a family and work as an artist," Le Guin wrote. "But it's a small degree of improvement. The difficulty of trying to be responsible, hour after hour day after day for maybe twenty years, for the well-being of children and the excellence of books is immense: it involves an endless expense of energy and an impossible weighing of competing priorities."
The morning began after I returned from biking Ivan to school. It began with a third cup of coffee and a cream truffle, and then time spent in bed sleeping, and then time spent in a hot bath with the last slice of cold pizza whose red grease smeared the two pages I'd printed of the aforementioned story that I tried to resurrect, but couldn't. It was no Lazarus and I am no savior. I'm not serious about reviving the story, but I'm going to try to save myself from this cold by taking handfuls of vitamin C and a shot of fire cider, which leaves the taste of onion on my tongue and sends me searching for a second truffle and the cup of coffee, now cold. I wash the onion away and replace it with a taste I prefer, bitterness and black grit at the bottom of a cup.
Where was I? Somehow, after being in and out of bed two times, after feet were warmed in a bath, and hot water eased the knots in my right shoulder, after I dressed for a second time noting that the day was half gone, I began this. Is it story? No. There is no beginning, no ending, only a bit from the middle, the soft core gone lax, muscles cut by childbirth and atrophied from inattention, so that the spine can't hold itself erect but curves into a defeated and deflated navel-gazing letter C. Could it be a story? Only if my life, protected and solitary, soft with silence, is a story. Which, again, it isn't because story is an artifice, a fake form imposed on the bits and pieces of life that included sneezing and wetting one's underwear and choosing not to change it but to let it dry, knowing that the rest of the day I would trail the slight scent of urine, which none but a stray dog would detect as we waited together in the school yard for the bell to ring, and it would wag its tail in friendship anyway.
Dec 2014
The squiggly line moved over the snowy land, marched up the hill and over its humped back. Two straggling cows joined its end, followed nose to tail the line of cows that the man and his horse read. Black cow, white space. Black then white then black again, each cow a word, each space a pause in a landscape of blank verse. The line was thirsty and hungry, having slept through a bitter night and woke to a water trough frozen into a block of ice and grass that cut the tongue. Thin sunshine smeared itself over a thicker layer of snow that covered rabbit brush and sage. Grasses bowed under the weight of ice. The desert was a crumpled paper smoothed flat. The cowboy was cold. A bandana covered his mouth and nose, but there was nothing he could do for his eyes, which watered in the cold and iced his cheeks. He nudged the final cows to hurry along, and the squiggly line ran alongside the highway that flowed out of the Blue Mountains and dropped into La Grande. Steam rose from the cut in the hillside made by the road. Smaller clouds of steam rose from the cows. The moans and mooing of the suffering verbs joined the sound of semi-trucks breaking around the curves. In the puffs of steam and breaths of space, the cowboy read. Her eyes were like champagne. The line peaked the hill and black cow and white space pooled in the cold morning. Words were warm bodies yearning for home, and nothing more was written that day.
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Mary Main
Mary Main (born 1943) is a researcher at University of California, Berkeley.
Together with Judith Solomon, Main identified and empiricized a fourth attachment style in children, namely an insecure disorganized attachment classification. In the Strange Situation, the attachment system is expected to be activated by the departure and return of the caregiver. If the behaviour of the infant does not appear to the observer to be coordinated in a smooth way across episodes to achieve either proximity or some relative proximity with the caregiver, then it is considered 'disorganised' as it indicates a disruption or flooding of the attachment system (e.g. by fear). Infant behaviours in the Strange Situation Protocol coded as disorganised/disoriented include overt displays of fear; contradictory behaviours or affects occurring simultaneously or sequentially; stereotypic, asymmetric, misdirected or jerky movements; or freezing and apparent dissociation.[1][2] However, Lyons-Ruth has qualified that '52% of disorganized infants continue to approach the caregiver, seek comfort, and cease their distress without clear ambivalent or avoidant behavior'.[3]
There is a growing body of research on the links between abnormal parenting, disorganized attachment and risks for later psychopathologies.[4] Abuse is associated with disorganized attachment;[5][6] yet a parent's ongoing experience of an anxiety-disorder or multiple forms of social and economic disadvantage have also been found to predict disorganised attachment in the infant [7][8] - which is why it is not appropriate to use disorganised attachment as a screening tool for abuse.[9] The disorganized style is a risk factor for a range of psychological disorders although it is not in itself considered an attachment disorder under the current classification.[10][11] For example, longitudinal research by Sroufe, Egeland and Carlson has found that a classification of disorganised/disoriented attachment in infancy has a .36 association with dissociative symptoms in adolescence.[12]
Mary Main is also co-author of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) which uses questionnaire and interview to assess attachment status of adults. Developed by Carol George, Nancy Kaplan, and Mary Main in 1984, this is a quasi-clinical semi-structured interview that takes about one hour to administer. It involves about twenty questions and has extensive research validation to support it. The AAI Protocol is available for review.
Selected publications[edit]
- Main, M., Hesse, E., & Kaplan, N. (2005). Predictability of attachment behaviour and representational processes at 1, 6, and 18 years of age: The Berkeley Longitudinal Study. In K.E. Grossmann, K. Grossmann & E. Waters (Eds.), Attachment from Infancy to Adulthood. pp. 245–304. New York: Guilford Press.
- Main, M., & Solomon, J. (1990). Procedures for identifying infants as disorganized/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation. In M.T. Greenberg, D. Cicchetti & E.M. Cummings, Attachment during the preschool years: Theory, research and intervention. pp. 121–160. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- ^ Main M, Solomon J (1986). "Discovery of an insecure disoriented attachment pattern: procedures, findings and implications for the classification of behavior". In Brazelton T, Youngman M. Affective Development in Infancy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. ISBN 0-89391-345-6.
- ^ Main, M & Solomon, J., (1990). In Greenberg, M. T., Cicchetti, D., & Cummings, M. (Eds.),. Attachment in the preschool years: Theory, research, and intervention (pp. 121-160). The University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
- ^ Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Jean-Francois Bureau, M. Ann Easterbrooks, Ingrid Obsuth, Kate Hennighausen & Lauriane Vulliez-Coady (2013) Parsing the construct of maternal insensitivity: distinct longitudinal pathways associated with early maternal withdrawal, Attachment & Human Development, 15:5-6, 570
- ^ Zeanah CH, Keyes A, Settles L (2003). "Attachment relationship experiences and childhood psychopathology". Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1008: 22–30. doi:10.1196/annals.1301.003. PMID 14998869.
- ^ Van IJzendoorn M. H., Schuengel C., Bakermans Kranenburg M. J. (1999). Disorganized attachment in early childhood: Meta-analysis of precursors, concomitants, and sequelae. Development and Psychopathology, 11, 225-249.
- ^ Carlson, V.; Cicchetti, D.; Barnett, D.; Braunwald, K. (1989). "Disorganized/disoriented attachment relationships in maltreated infants". Developmental Psychology 25: 525–531. doi:10.1037/0012-16220.127.116.115.
- ^ Cyr, C., Euser, E. M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & Van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2010). Attachment security and disorganization in maltreating and high-risk families: A series of meta-analyses. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 87-108
- ^ Manassis K., Bradley S., Goldberg S., Hood J., Swinson R. (1994) Attachment to mothers with anxiety disorders and their children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33: 1106–13
- ^ Main, M., Hesse, E. & Hesse, S. (2011) Attachment theory and research: Overview with suggested applications to child custody. Family Court Review, 49(3): 426–463
- ^ Lyons-Ruth K, Jacobvitz C (1999) "Attachment Disorganization: Unresolved Loss, Relational Violence, and Lapses in Behavioral and Attentional Strategies". In Cassidy J and Shaver PR (Eds.) Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research and Clinical Applications. pp. 89—111. Guilford Press ISBN 1-57230-087-6.
- ^ Lyons-Ruth K, Yellin C, Helnick S, Atwood G (2005). "Expanding the concept of unresolved mental states: Hostile/Helpless states of mind on the Adult Attachment Interview are associated with disrupted mother-infant communication and infant disorganization". Dev Psychopathol 17: 1–23. doi:10.1017/S0954579405050017. PMC 1857275. PMID 15971757.
- ^ Sroufe, A. Egeland, B., Carlson, E. & Collins, W.A. (2005) The Development of the Person, NY: Guilford Press


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Inger Andersen takes up her duties as IUCN Director General
This week IUCN extends a warm welcome to Inger Andersen as she takes on her new role as Director General. …
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Madagascar's reptiles: Highly threatened but not yet over the edge
Reptiles are among Madagascar's most bewildering creatures but nearly 40% of them are facing an elevated risk of extinction according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. A study published today in the journal PLOS ONE says that successful management of Madagascar's protected areas is crucial to the survival of many of these species. …
12 Aug 2014 | News story
Rising murder toll of park rangers calls for tougher laws
With poachers responsible for more than half of ranger deaths over the past two years, IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the International Ranger Federation (IRF) call for a toughened stance against wildlife crime globally, marking World Ranger Day celebrated across the globe on 31 July. … | French | Spanish
29 Jul 2014 | News story
IUCN Releases An Economic Framework for Analyzing Forest Landscape Restoration Decisions
We depend on land for everything essential: food, water, shelter. When land loses its function and productivity - how should we go about restoring it? Where do we start? How shall we pay for it? A new framework for decision-making helps answer these questions, using the simple but powerful lens of economic analysis. …
16 Jul 2014 | News story
IUCN welcomes 11 new Members
The IUCN Council has admitted 11 new Members to IUCN. … | French | Spanish
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Gaming for good: RuneScape raises awareness of rhino conservation challenge
RuneScape has joined United for Wildlife to raise awareness of the illegal trade of rhino horn. A multiplayer online role-playing game, RuneScape has millions of players around the world and takes place in a fantasy world called Gielinor, made up of kingdoms, regions and cities. …
10 Jul 2014 | News story
Natural World Heritage reaches 228 sites, including 19 'in danger'
Delegates from over 100 governments met last month in Doha during the 38th World Heritage Committee meeting to take decisions on new and existing World Heritage sites. As usual, IUCN experts were there to give advice on natural World Heritage and the action needed to assure its conservation. The outcomes of the meeting are now available online in English and French. …
10 Jul 2014 | News story
Developing negotiation skills to support protected areas decision making in Eastern and Southern Africa
One of the key focuses of the BIOPAMA programme (Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management) in the Eastern and Southern Africa region is the cross-sectoral engagement for integrated sustainable planning. In order to address the growing threat of land and resource use conflict around protected areas, BIOPAMA supports dialogue processes at various levels that aim to develop sustainable solutions to specific conflict situations, particularly with sectors and stakeholders active at the interface of protected areas, including extractive industries, agriculture, infrastructure development, and fisheries. … | French
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From despair to repair: Dramatic decline of Caribbean corals can be reversed
With only about one-sixth of the original coral cover left, most Caribbean coral reefs may disappear in the next 20 years, primarily due to the loss of grazers in the region, according to the latest report by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). …
02 Jul 2014 | News story
IUCN welcomes emphatic 'no' to extractives in World Heritage
Following IUCN's advice, the World Heritage Committee has sent a strong message to oil and gas and other extractive industries not to operate in World Heritage sites. The message came during discussions about World Heritage sites in Danger, including Africa's iconic Virunga National Park, at the annual World Heritage Committee meeting taking place in Doha, Qatar. … | French | Dutch
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by Joni Astrup Associate Editor When Kelly and Jeff Michelson got married in December, she carried a sweet memory of her mother with her. Michelson's bridal bouquet was made of old brooches and the centerpiece one belonged to her mother, Evelyn Becker, who died when Michelson was 13. "I absolute...Read More
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Identity Theft Victims Website
The Federal Trade Commission has created a new website that will provide a more efficient way for identity theft victims to report and recover from identity theft. Included in the new website is an interactive checklist which takes victims through a steop-by-step recovery process. The checklist will help victims understand which recovery steps should be taken after learning their identity has been stolen. The website also provides victims tips for specific kinds of identity theft, including tax-related and medical-related identity theft. In addition, the website provides advice for people who have had personal information exposed in a data breach.
The English version of the website may be found at: www.identitytheft.gov.
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Please click on the following link to read more about the data breach that occured at Anthem, Inc. which is a service provider for BlueCross and BlueShield.
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Dridex Banking Trojan: Worldwide Threat
Phishing Campaign Uses Malware Embedded in Word Documents
Attackers are targeting online banking users' account information worldwide through sophisticated phishing attacks designed to deliver Microsoft Word documents containing malicious macro code known as Dridex. Dridex is a variant of the Cridex malware, which is also designed to steal personal information.
Attackers leveraging this new banking malware have dusted off a legacy tactic in which infection occurs through a believable spamming campaign. The new banking Trojan may not be as significant as other variants because it relies heavily on social engineering to get someone to open an infected file, something that in our modern times of security awareness isn't as successful as it used to be. However, once installed, the malware is just as dangerous as other variants currently out. Still, accountholders can be fooled through this latest social engineering scheme, so we are continuing to educate our customers about phishing threats.
How It Works
To launch an attack, criminals send a spam message with a Word document attached that contains the Dridex malware. If a user opens the Word document, they must enable the macro feature, which is disabled by default, in order for the malware to be downloaded. Some malicious attachments state that the content will not be visible unless the macro feature is enabled.
Once downloaded, Dridex monitors for activity related to online banking. The malware then performs information theft through such methods as form grabbing, screenshots and site injections.
By collecting online banking data, cyber-attackers can access bank accounts and transfer funds to their own accounts. Like any Trojan infection, Dridex is a highly harmful infection that must be removed upon detection.
Effective October 17, 2014, MasterCard is extending its zero liability limitation in the U.S. to include all MasterCard PIN-based and ATM transactions. This is in addition to coverage already provided on signature debit and credit transactions. To be covered by the zero liability limitation, the cardholder must promptly report the loss or theft as soon as becoming aware of it.
What's My FICO Score and Why Does It Matter?
Many adults become aware of their FICO score when applying for a home mortgage or other loan. They may learn that their score is 690 or 740 or 770. But what does it really mean?
FICO is a firm once known as Fair Isaac Company. It specializes in analyzing data to create a financial grade for each potential borrower. The score is used to help banks and other lenders predict how likely it is that a consumer will pay his or her bills on time and be able to handle a mortgage amount or credit line. The score is also a factor in the interest and terms of your loan.
To create a score ranging from a low of 300 to a high of 850, FICO uses information provided by the three major reporting agencies: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. When creating a score, FICO considers the following factors:
What does your score mean?
By now, you may be wondering how to find your FICO score. While you can find your scores based on information from the three major reporting agencies online at www.myfico.com, these are not free. In addition, they may not be the precise scores used by your lender.
A better value is to request a free credit report from the three major reporting agencies online at www.annualcreditreport.com or by toll-free phone at 877-322-8228. Keep in mind the factors that FICO considers when reviewing your credit reports to get a handle on your approximate score. Also be sure to check these reports annually and inform the agencies if you spot any errors or inaccuracies.
To learn more about your financial health, visit the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions' Financial Wellness Checklist Center at www.wdfi.org/ymm/wellness_checklist.htm.
Computer Security
Scammers, hackers, and identity thieves are looking to steal your personal information – and your money. But there are steps you can take to protect yourself, like keeping your computer software up-to-date and giving out your personal information only when you have a good reason.
Don't buy security software in response to unexpected pop-up messages or emails, especially messages that claim to have scanned your computer and found malware. Scammers send messages like these to try to get you to buy worthless software, or worse, to "break and enter" your computer.
Treat Your Personal Information Like Cash
Don't hand it out to just anyone. Your Social Security number, credit card numbers, and bank and utility account numbers can be used to steal your money or open new accounts in your name. So every time you are asked for your personal information – whether in a web form, an email, a text, or a phone message – think about whether you can really trust the request. In an effort to steal your information, scammers will do everything they can to appear trustworthy.
Check Out Companies to Find out Who You're Really Dealing With
When you're online, a little research can save you a lot of money. If you see an ad or an offer that looks good to you, take a moment to check out the compnay behind it. Type the company or product name into your favorite search engine with terms like "review," "complaint," or "scam." If you find bad reviews, you'll have to decide if the offer is worth the risk. If you can't find contact information for the company, take your business elsewhere.
Don't assume that an ad you see on a reputable site is trustworthy. The fact that a site features an ad for another site doesn't mean that it endorses the advertised site, or is even familiar with it.
Give Personal Information Over Encrypted Websites Only
If you're shopping or banking online, stick to sites that use encryption to protect your information as it travels from your computer to their server. To determine if a website is encrypted, look for https at the beginning of the web address (the "s" is for secure).
Some websites use encryption only on the sign-in page, but if any part of your session isn't encrypted, the entire account could be vulnerable. Look for https on every page of the site you're on, not just where you sign in.
Protect Your Passwords
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While law
enforcement agencies chase their tails in an international hacker hunt, hosting
providers and eCommerce CIOs have surprisingly escaped the wrath of accountability.
Stockholders of Internet companies should be asking who inside their investment
holding is responsible and is being held accountable for security. If no one
is held accountable, you can be assured that security will continue to be a
low priority.
too often in Internet companies, security is an afterthought. The executive
management team chooses not to take enough measures to protect its customers
and systems until after a security incident of considerable magnitude has taken
place. This consistent pattern of locking the barn door after the horse has
been stolen has been going on in Internet companies for years. In fact, it is
incredible that many large-scale corporations have experienced significant security
violations and have managed to keep these violations from reaching the front
page of the Wall Street Journal.
hosting providers knowingly expose customers on insecure backend networks simply
because internally security is not given a high-enough priority. Typically,
getting new customers up and running has a lot higher priority than securing
old customers. When it comes to provisioning new customers, hosting providers
often become neglectful after the honeymoon period is over.
an Internet company is outsourcing its web hosting to a service provider, a
member of the executive management team needs to be held responsible for making
sure its service provider has taken due security precautions. If your service
provider claims your site is secure, they should not have any qualms about their
customers performing audits on them.
For publicly traded companies, when a site goes down due to a security attack,
this affects the bottom line.
has seen steady declines in the valuation of its stock since its site suffered
a pro-longed outage due to a Distributed Denial of Service Attack on February
9th. According to the Yankee Group, eBay, Buy.com, E*Trade, and Amazon cumulatively
suffered losses in excess of $1 billion in the second week in February when
they were hit with what is known as a Distributed Denial of Service attack.
General, Janet Reno, testifying before a Senate panel, called the challenge
of averting cyber-crime "one of the most critical issues that law enforcement
has ever faced," the Associated Press reported. Among security professionals,
time spent chasing hackers has long been regarded as something that typically
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Recent and archived news articles by Patrick McGeehan of The New York Times.
Fast-Food Restaurants Should Raise Minimum Wage, New York Panel Says
The three-man panel said it was not yet ready to make a complete recommendation.
June 30, 2015, Tuesday
De Blasio Appoints New Head of Economic Development Corporation
The new president, Maria Torres-Springer, is the first woman to run the agency, which manages New York's assets and negotiates with companies seeking subsidies and other breaks from the city.
June 30, 2015, Tuesday
Carnegie Deli to Remain Closed at Least 2 More Weeks
The famed delicatessen, which its owner's lawyer says will remain closed, has been shut since late April, when Con Edison discovered it had been stealing natural gas.
June 19, 2015, Friday
Kennedy Airport Hopes Work on Runway Won't Add to Summer Delays
The busy, delay-plagued airport in New York City hopes to operate at almost-full speed while one of its four runways is being rebuilt.
June 16, 2015, Tuesday
Board Hears Support for Raising Food Workers' Minimum Wage
Fast-food workers and supporters turned out for a public hearing, before a wage board created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to argue that they cannot support themselves on the money they now make.
June 16, 2015, Tuesday
Con Edison and New York City Are Faulted in East Harlem Explosion
The National Transportation Safety Board said the primary cause of the March 2014 fatal blast was a faulty connection between two of the utility's pipes under Park Avenue.
June 10, 2015, Wednesday
Port Authority Picks Group to Remake La Guardia Airport
A consortium led by the operator of Vancouver's airport was selected to construct and operate a new Central Terminal Building at the airport in Queens.
May 29, 2015, Friday
Amtrak to Install Cameras to Monitor Locomotive Engineers
The innovation would not have averted the derailment of a speeding train in Philadelphia that killed eight passengers, but it might have explained it.
May 27, 2015, Wednesday
New Communication System, Tested at Newark Airport, Could Ease Takeoff Delays
With a new electronic-messaging system, pilots can receive a revised route from the control tower more quickly.
May 22, 2015, Friday
Amtrak Crash Illuminates Obstacles to Plan for Controlling Train Speeds
Nearly seven years ago, Congress instructed the nation's railroads to install an automatic speed control system by the end of 2015, but most railroads are expected to miss the deadline.
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Network technicians work with vendors, programmers, and customers to aid with installation and troubleshooting needs. Some other key tasks that network technicians perform include (but are not limited to): troubleshooting hardware, software and network problems; configuring and installing operating systems; training users; installing and troubleshooting network cable infrastructure; and writing scripts and creating files to enhance operating systems. Network technicians should possess the following abilities: being able to effectively troubleshoot a wide range of problems; multitask; communicate well in person and over the phone with vendors and customers (who will inevitably have varying degrees of knowledge in the network technician's field); the ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks; and the ability to work alone and to work well with others.Read More...
Network technicians typically work indoors and can work for companies in a wide range of fields. The minimum educational qualifications for network technicians usually include an associate's or bachelor's degree and two years of related work experience. Depending on the job offer, network technicians may need a degree in a specific area, such as computer science, engineering or another field. Some companies may also require their technicians to hold a valid driver's license when their job position entails driving a company vehicle to jobs and work sites. Schedules and work hours vary from company to company, but in general, network technicians will work a standard Monday through Friday work week.
Verizon Wireless does shell out the biggest paychecks — the median in that office is $67K — but the company pay scale is greatly mixed, meaning that workers on the low end may earn only $51K while workers on the upper end may rake in up to $105K.
Bringing up the rear, Comcast Cable, Inc.'s median pay of $48K is the lowest in town; however, employee salaries widely range, with some making up to $73K.
Survey takers working as Network Technicians report using a large range of professional skills. Most notably, skills in Telecommunications, Windows 2003 Server, Cisco Networking, and Switching and Routing are correlated to pay that is above average, with boosts between 4 percent and 8 percent. Skills that pay less than market rate include Information Technology Support, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Help Desk / Desktop Support. The majority of those who know Network Support also know Network Management / Administration and Cisco Networking.
Median of all compensation (including tips, bonus, and overtime) by years of experience.
More years of relevant experience do not necessarily translate to higher paychecks. Respondents with less than five years' experience take home $39K on average. In contrast, those who have been around for five to 10 years earn a noticeably higher average of $47K. For Network Technicians, 10 to 20 years of experience on the job amounts to an average salary of $53K. Network Technicians who surpass 20 years on the job report pay that isn't as high as one would expect; the median compensation for this crowd sits around $55K.
With a pay rate for Network Technicians that is 35 percent greater than the national average, Los Angeles offers a comfortable salary for those in this profession. Network Technicians can also look forward to large paychecks in cities like San Diego (+25 percent), Baltimore (+24 percent), Phoenix (+22 percent), and Houston (+13 percent). San Antonio ranks last in the field for pay, reporting salaries 14 percent below the national average. Two other places where employers offer below-median salaries are Little Rock (7 percent less) and Atlanta (6 percent less).
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