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Emanuel "Manny" Genn, Einstein's former associate dean for finance and administration, and his wife Myra have established an endowment to support professional staff development at the College of Medicine. The Genn Prize, as this generous $100,000 gift will be known, provides financial assistance for the professional and career development of Einstein's career managers and administrators. The award's goal is to aid in developing skills, knowledge and other qualities that prepare career staff employees for career growth within the College of Medicine.
"Manny spent more than 36 years working tirelessly for the overall improvement and success of Einstein. We have seen firsthand how his professional commitment enhanced the learning and research environment at the College of Medicine," said Yvonne Ramirez, chief human resources officer at Yeshiva University and Einstein. "While here, Manny sought new and innovative methods for improving operations and administrative structures, often looking externally to identify ways in which to solve problems or develop solutions for new initiatives. The Genn Prize is an extension of Manny's commitment to Einstein, assuring its excellence going forward."
The Genn Prize will be awarded annually to a management staff employee who has demonstrated outstanding performance and commitment in improving the College of Medicine. To learn more about the prize, the level of support it will provide for professional development and how to apply, please visit the human resources website.
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The attitude of Seattle University's School of Theology and Ministry is incredibly inclusive and humble. Because of a dinner meeting for Buddhist leaders in the community, organized by the school, I became friends with Buddhist monks from different countries and traditions. Now we are frequently inviting each other and co-organizing various events. The school actually strengthened the Buddhist community in Seattle, and I am grateful for the astonishing generosity of the school. I would never have expected a Jesuit university to support and foster Buddhist sanghas. Thank you very much.
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Having worked with the school as an adviser, and seeing how eagerly the school stepped up to co-sponsor a play that dealt with a tragic historical event in the Sikh community, I am convinced that the school's mission of "interreligious dialogue and cooperation" are not merely words on paper, but rather a plan of action that the school is actively pursuing.
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Did "League of Denial" Change the Way You Feel About Football?
October 10, 2013, 5:06 pm ET
The response to League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis has been remarkable. We're hearing from NFL players — past and present, football fans across the country, journalists who cover the sport, and from parents concerned about their kids' safety playing the game.
The show has sparked a national conversation about the future of the sport. We'd love to hear what you think on Facebook, Twitter, and in the comments below.
One theme is clear — this film changed the way many of you feel about football. Here's how:
Gandhi Harb This will be my 11 year-old's last season. Might even pull him out.
Tariq Bashir My wife & I decided to pull out our 11 year old from football forever. Thank you so much for this eye-opening ending documentary
Pete Pazmino I think the show, or sections of it, should be required viewing for anybody who's considering allowing their child to play full-contact ball. Very well done.
Jeanne Kettinger Walker It sort of makes me feel that we all have blood on our hands; those of us who watch and buy the NFL. We are spectators at the Coliseum, entertained by watching legal violence.
Joe Mancinik Yes, it has changed the way I feel. As an individual, ethically, I cannot continue to support something that subjects kids to such danger. I'm really conflicted, too. I'm a lifelong college football fan. It's one of the only ways I can relate to my father and my brothers...
Marci Rodriguez Applewhite After your show, I will not be watching football anymore. I truly admire the achievements of the athletes and the business example of the NFL, but I won't be able to enjoy it knowing the risks to the players.
Jeremy Johnson No, it didn't change how I feel about football; it did change how I view the NFL. It's disgraceful, how the league tried to silence anyone, especially doctors, who presented information they found unfavorable. The players deserved to know the risk.
Park Chapman Not really, but I was shocked at the league's deception. It was stated well in the movie. The NFL ruling cabal is no better than the big tobacco executives.
Alfonso Villalpando It's a contact sport. There are risks. I love the sport, just disappointed at the NFL for not being proactive back in the 90's.
Elizabeth Bassinger Absolutely NOT I have three boys playing tackle football now with the oldest in high school one in 8th grade and one in 3rd grade… bottom line if you can't handle the risk take up ballet. No wonder our society is full of wimps.
Chuck Nelson Nope. Now that we know the dangers, the players are aware of the tradeoffs to be a millionaire. As long as cigarettes are legal, the government has no business interfering for health reasons.
Tammy Gaddy-Egelston Nope I have always known it would cause brain damage. Doesnt take a rocket scientist to know that bashing heads as hard as you can will eventually cause harm. If not death! We wouldnt EVER let our son play the game...
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You know it! Whenever I'm in a maxi skirt, I twirl and sway like there's no tomorrow. It's my money shot. LOL. I'm so glad I found this maxi skirt when I went to Malaysia last year because it's always so hard to find maxi skirts that are long enough to wear heels with. If […]More
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If you watch "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" and its many spinoffs (I know you do, don't deny it haha!), I'm sure the word "Dash" rings a bell. It's the store the 3 Kardashian sisters own and run. I actually got to visit a Dash store in SoHo last summer and liked a number of […]More
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Obviously, this post's title was inspired by the stripes on my skirt. Stripes as bold as these always remind me of the "get out of jail free" card from Monopoly. Ooooh!!!! Oooooh!!! Sudden light bulb moment! That would be a cool couple Halloween costume!! The Monopoly police and prisoner! CUTE! Okay. That was so random. […]More
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When my bestie told me her theme for her birthday party is glitz and glam, I knew exactly what to wear. This perfect party/club dress from Dress Empire arrived just a few weeks ago and it definitely screams glitz and glam, don't you think? Scala dresses are always so beautifully embellished. This one is actually […]More
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Premiership leader Michael Cahill has been suspended for seven meetings after being charged with careless riding at Doomben on Wednesday.
Cahill, who only returned from a six meeting suspension two weeks ago, was outed for his effort on Rock Me Fast in the fifth race.
It completed a mixed day for Cahill who earlier won the CBS Air Conditioning Handicap on Tiger Dimejan after a successful protest against Bobby El-Issa first-past-the-post on County Commands.
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We don't really need a holiday or a season, a new year, a new moon or a birthday to remind us that every moment is an opportunity to be new.
Give yourself a fresh start.
Folks come into therapy wondering how long it'll take to change. That all depends– mostly on YOU. Granted, some things can't be rushed. They can't be forced. Progress takes time and it tends to favor baby steps. On the other hand, the velocity of your personal growth is largely up to you. One tiny action in the right direction creates momentum that may take on a life of it's own. So do the small step. Flow will take you from there. If you want excellerated change, O.K. Fasten your seatbelt and let's go!
Intention has a crazy power all its own. Yes, you have to do your part, but it may be easier than you think. Once you put it out there that you want to change, the Universe rallies to support you. Before you know it, presto! You're new and improved. Grant yourself another chance to change. You're in charge. We don't need to hit rock bottom before we bounce back. We can just say, "Hey, I'm ready to be my best self." If you're ready to change, start NOW. Tomorrow is seductively promising. It's lovely to ponder what we might become one day. But this moment is the one that counts. No excuses. No self-sabatage. No delay.
I recently heard Wayne Dyer say, "You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are." Brilliant. So for example, is it more powerful for me to say, "I want to get organized" for the thousandth time? Or "I am organized?" Shazam. And so it is. If I own, "I'm organized," amazingly, I behave that way. The same is true for anything. Take, "I want to be a non-smoker." OK. How about, "I'm a non-smoker." It's a short cut. The funny thing is, as soon as you believe it, so does everyone else.
Claim it. Mean it. Be it. Done. Congrats!
Yesterday I missed an oppportunity to make contact with my yoga instructor. I sensed we needed to connect after class, and yet I shot out of there like my feet were on fire. Sure, I was under time constraints. And yet, I know I need to make time to connect meaningfully with people rather than obey my self-imposed pressure to get on with the next thing. This is something I'm changing today. I will take a few extra minutes to interact when it matters. I'm also fond of my old story that I can't cook. And yet, it dawned on me recently that that's not really true. I wonder how much more excited about cooking I'd be if I decided I'm good at it. I know the potential is there. It's just latent. But I need not fear shallots. I need not be intimidated by the term "reduction." I can cook. That's the truth.
Shed your old stories– those that don't serve you.
In my family of four, it's not uncommon for someone to shout out, "Remember: Today is the first day of the rest of your life!" on the way out the door in the morning. That morsel of inspiration is always delivered with a profound oration to rival Abe Lincoln, with a hint of silly sarcasm. And even though we laugh or smile at the thought, it's a great way to start the day. Today I am kind. Today I am patient. Today I am healthy. Today I am grateful. Today I am helpful. Today I am productive. Today I am wise. Today I am forgiving. Today I am friendly. Today I am organized. Today I'm a mean cook. Today I am new.
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As divine order would have it, those I am most qualified to serve in therapy and spiritual guidance seem to find me. A common theme is blocked creativity. I know about this first hand and it is a passion of mine to help others break through resistance and get into the flow. This entry is for those who have a burning desire to write, sketch, sing, dance, sculpt, paint, act, cook, design, invent or dare to express creatively in any way, and are stuck idling on the launch pad.
Over a year ago, I blogged about the need for a book that affirms and inspires spiritual mavericks who bring the same creativity, authenticity and dynamism to spirituality that they bring to other aspects of their lives. Despite my long list of "why nots," it is now written. It had to be. Perhaps Jesus summed it up best: "If we don't bring forth that which is within us, that which is within us will destroy us." Can you relate? Resistance to creative expression is a form of self-destruction. Sometimes, we have no choice but to give birth. I see this book, IS: A Street Smart Guide to Inspire Your Spiritual Side, as a co-creation with Infinite Source ( "IS," for short–my name for God). I don't know about you, but when I'm called, I answer. By the way, those creative inklings you feel…? Ring, ring.
If you, like so many of my brilliant, gifted clients, have a deep yearning to answer your artist's pleas but are squelching that voice to pursue more "sensible" endeavors, I recommend reading Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. Creative recovery is catapulted with this book. I have seen the results on stage, on the canvas, in print and in the sparkling eyes of my fulfilled clients. Reading it and journaling as described are baby steps which lead to giant strides towards transformation and liberation. Your artist is worth it. Your art must be born.
Here are some common excuses we make to stay stuck and some wisdom to remedy that.
You: It's too overwhelming. I don't know where to begin.
Agatha Christie: "The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
You: It's been done.
Eugene Delacroix: "What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."
You: It's too late now.
George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans): "It's never too late to be what you might have been."
You: Artists are crazy.
Charles Bukowski: "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
You: I can't take the time for this.
Henry Ford: "Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right."
You: It's too painful.
Anais Nin, "And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to bloom."
You: I need a clearer vision before I start.
Nietzsche: "One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
You: There are too many obstacles.
Albert Einstein: "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
You: "I'm afraid to try."
Abraham Hicks: "There is no need to try. Just do it."
You: I can't expose myself like that.
Muriel Rukeyser: "What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open."
George Carlin: "Those who dance are considered crazy by those who can't hear the music."
You: I'm not good enough.
Carl Jung: "I'd rather be whole than good."
Now, friends, in the words of Paramahansa Yogananda, "Do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world!"


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SEPANG, Malaysia, April 7, 2011 (AFP) - Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso said he is expecting more from his Ferrari team at the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix after a disappointing season opener.
In spite of some strong results during winter testing, the Spaniard was unable to match the pace of reigning title-holder Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton in Melbourne two weeks ago.
However, Alonso is expecting a positive reaction from Ferrari and believes that there is more to come from the team. In Melbourne, Alonso finished off the podium in fourth while team-mate Felipe Massa was seventh.
"We know we have to improve our performance level, but we are equally aware that in the end, the race result was not such a disaster," Alonso said on Ferrari's website.
"We will have a few minor updates on the car, but nothing very significant, or the sort of thing you could say would be the key to take a leap forward in performance terms.
"I believe we must stay concentrated on our own work and try to understand how to get all the potential out of the 150 degrees Italia (Ferrari's race car) and I'm sure there's plenty to come."
Alonso said it was impossible to predict how the weekend will pan out, but believes that reacting well to the ever-changing weather conditions could be an important factor.
"The fact that the weather can change so quickly here makes the preparation work for the various phases of work on track more stressful," he said. "Suddenly it can go from sunshine to a short sharp shower and you need to be prepared for every eventuality.
"It's not just a problem for us drivers, as its affects the whole team: in some cases you need to be ready with a plan B or C, or even maybe a D for all the various scenarios."


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The price of Brent crude futures has risen by $7 per barrel on the IPE in London since January, bringing calls for Opec to increase its output and prevent further rises. Those calls have been dismissed as premature, but the oil exporters' determination to control production may yet be tested in the coming months.
Saudi Arabia has been a hard market for western oil majors to penetrate, making this latest opportunity for greater involvement highly attractive. The pace of change is certain to be slow, and delays inevitable. Even so, this is not likely to deter the oil companies. Many are likely to try and take advantage of this opportunity to build their Saudi presence.
Developments at this month's World Summit in South Africa have left the US as the victor. No global targets or timetables were set for renewable energy; the EU and developing countries have been left to set their own. The only concrete targets the US has agreed are for sanitation. Unsurprisingly, environmentalists have been left smarting.
While the WTO has not yet made a breakthrough on the issue of patent-free HIV drugs for developing economies, something must be done to alleviate the human and economic cost of the HIV epidemic. Western pharma companies will inevitably lose out - the only question is how well their profit maintenance strategies can cushion the blow.
Selling formula baby milk to mothers in developing nations to replace breast milk has long been a touchy issue. As consumers become ever more suspicious of the motives of big business, some companies have allegedly still not mended their ways, courting bad press every time they reappear in the headlines.
Analysts expect that increased volatility in commodities markets globally will drive spend in risk management IT. However, commodities present their own unique characteristics that must be observed, making it fundamental for IT vendors looking to capitalize on the opportunity to have a full understanding and appreciation of the underlying physical market and of their potential client's business.
In the wake of large-scale outflows from money market funds late last year, Datamonitor argued that investors' fears around this fund class were unjustified, and predicted significant movements of cash back into the category. The latest data shows that we were right: money market funds are back in fashion, although they will have to fight for investors' attention during 2009.
Trade ministers have agreed that the Doha round of trade negotiations is the best step global leaders can take to avoid a protectionist backlash to the current economic crisis. Although the market is expected to contract in 2009 and 2010 regardless of any political intervention, resolving the Doha round will at least help towards reducing the impact of the downturn.
The long list of banks raising new money in the current crisis has been joined by HSBC, with the announcement of a GBP12.5 billion cash call. What singles the company's money-raising exercise out from the others is less the scale of the operation than the fact that it is acquiring cash in the traditional way, pointing not just to the bank's strength, but to fledgling faith in the banking industry.
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Please tell me the first movie you'll be screening outdoors will be Blade Runner? That movie just lends itself to being shown on a summer night on a white wall with a star lit sky overhead.
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Please tell me the first movie you'll be screening outdoors will be Blade Runner? That movie just lends itself to being shown on a summer night on a white wall with a star lit sky overhead.
I am impressed. I remember a friend of mine having one of those, had the rear speakers hooked up to some Jamo 3 way speakers which looked like refugees from a disco, and sounded about the same. I was sufficiently impressed with the Akai VCR to buy it's smaller brother minus the surround sound processor which lasted until I upgraded to a Mitsubishi M1000 S-VHS deck. Good memories!
Excellent, valuable advice that should be taught and echoed at every opportunity.
Just because it's last year's (or 2 years old) doesn't mean it won't be fit for purpose and resolve the problem you have.
Likewise the idea of using lower or zero cost community versions of enterprise systems is a good one with, as is mentioned, the caveat that you need the technical people capable of implementing and supporting it.
It's sad that too many people with 'Director' and 'Manager' in their title don't realise that the product to fix their problem doesn't always come from someone wearing an expensive suit, a designer watch and who takes them for £100+ lunches.
Intractable Potsherd:
You hit the nail right on the head, distance learning is a fact, it works, it's results are as good as any fixed university, and it's cost effective, so why are we paying for all of these university buildings and students accommodation when they could stay at home studying, have lectures delivered via webcasts and if they need to speak to the actual lecturer, they can speak via video conference applications like Skype. You could house the actual teaching staff in an anonymous office building on an estate and get rid of many of those costly university buildings and extra staff to run them. Big savings all round! Now the only university facilities you need are for those with highly specialised equipment in the fields of research (and even then much of that could probably be virtualised) whilst the purely academic courses such as maths don't really need any specialised equipment, so need no space on a university campus.
Meanwhile we could remove the high costs of the intangible courses (such as your humanities, arts and others which have no tangible return or use) and just have those vanity courses taught on line in an efficient manner, the reduction in building and staffing would make the whole cost of the vanity courses affordable to those who were interested and remove another burden from the tax payer.
"(Apologies if you don't work in a university. But if you don't, you are wrong to write misleading things. Ha, I win either way!)"
I don't work in a university, never have, never will! As for writing misleading things, another writer here commented on the expectations of students to fix their broken IT by the University IT dept. As for the cost to the tax payer, who do you think ultimately pays for all this? It comes from corporation tax and tax paid by people working in this country. Both entities are tax payers. All I ask is this, does my tax deliver acceptable ROI to me? I don't see what the money spent on Universities does for me, or for the companies which I work for. Given the higher education budget for the Uk, the return seems poor. BYOD seems an extravagance we cannot afford, students should be todl what to buy and what is supported, it's up to them to supply compliant equipment which are to IT policy of the Universities, this would be more efficient and economical. I really don't see the problem other than a bunch of spoilt students wanting to do what they want at my expense.
"Students have never paid more for the higher education than they do now. The tax payer is steadily reducing the available subsidies to higher education, and has been for decades."
So essentially students have been freeloading off the tax payer for years and now you're upset because you're asked to take resposibility for what you cost the country (which is made up of tax payers who fund it's continued operation). The tax payer subsidy does not need reducing, it needs removing completely, and students should take responsibility for their education, like companies and individuals have to in the private sector.
"Bandwidth? Yeah, the university pays for it through a combination of corporate R&D money and student fees, and the taxpayer benefits from the enormous pipes that university institutions have laid between them (and a few taxpayer subsidies implied - good use of money IMHO)."
No, we don't benefit, the pipes are part of JANET (again paid for by the tax payer), if you want a truly good use of tax payer subsidies, try superfast broadband for 100% of the UK, in case you've not noticed the roll out is being slowed down to consumers by the massive investment required by the private sector. I don't see the benefit to me from the high bandwidth JANET network.
"I wouldn't pass too much blame onto the media studies students either - they pay 9 grand same as I would if I was studying engineering. My labs and full week of lectures cost considerably more than their space in the library and their 5 hours contact time a week. I think if you look at the books, they're paying the subsidies to train engineers and doctors - you know, these people that you and society has come to take for granted."
Yes, and exactly what does a media studies graduate do for a living, I can't think of a valid use for one of them, and if they can't be found ause for, the loan doesn't get paid back and that costs the country. As far as taking engineers and doctors for granted..you're joking, I pay via tax and NI for the doctors in this country, and I work with 30+ engineers at one of the sites I look after and have respect for their field and their education, they actually do produce something valid - a profit for the company employing them!
"For the time being, executives in industry listen to their scare stories of viruses and pen drives being open gateways to the pirates in the East who will steal all IP they can get their hands on (i'm not arguing that these are false threats), but the world is changing, and corporations will have to start tackling this problem head on."
These are not scare stories as anone with 20+ years experience in running and securing systems will tell you. the recent PRISM scandal should tell you all you need to know, and if you don't see the relevance, then it proves you've never had to be accountable for IP and data protection in the real World.
" I've often heard that brand new graduates are often the cause of the most major security breaches at corporations. When that is happening, it's time to up your game."
Wrong, it's time for you to grow up and learn to follow corporate IT policy, you're paid to do a job according to company rules, learn how to do it or there is a P45 in your near future.
"Restrictions that work with your current employees do NOT work with my generation, we've had years in school to learn how to circumvent filters to do what we want, and to use our IT for our purposes efficiently. IT security is generally not something we take seriously, but that is your problem to solve"
No, you follow the restriction or you don't have a job, employees do not dictate policy, you learn to work within it or you're shown the door. If you don't like it, a job on the checkout a Morrisons beckons.
"It's getting to the point where I can either obey IT policy or I can do my job, but not both"
When you actually have had a few real jobs with resposibility, and you have experience, come back and start talking with some facts under your belt. I have 25 years under my belt and given the attitude of people like you, many more to come!
Basically this article explains where my tax money is going, into providing high bandwidth torrent access for a bunch of students who take out massive loans and cost me, the tax payer, the better part of £100K for their higher education each, who take out loans which are only paid back once they earn over a certain amount of money.
This mob then expect me to pay to maintain their broken IT crap, whinge incessantly when they can't stream the latest episode of Big Brother, and who have no real SLA demands other than cheap access to beer at the student union bar, yet this is still meant to be some example to business IT?
Add to this the fact that they're poncing around studying media studies or humanities, which no employer in the known world who has to actually make money is interested in, they spend 3 years passing around viruses (both computer and STD's), then leave to go work part time for a minimum wage in a supermarket, or if the likely grade is really bad, the girls get themselves pregnant and live off the state for the next 16 years.
Somehow, I really don't see the commercially relevant example here!
You make a good point, storing ageing data in a proprietary format is fraught with problems.One site I worked at had a badly organised backup & storage system which eventually failed. Recovering the data involved building a Netbackup server from scratch to recover the data. If those files had been stored as a regular tar ball or a filesystem dump they could have been recovered far more rapidly.
Don't confuse the backup with the archive. When I backup archive data, I always use the original format and ensure an O/S install disk is kept with it. I tend to favour optical media now, I find it durable and readers are easy to come by (I can still read CD-ROM's from 20 years ago). This way, once the O/S is up and running, the data can be accessed easily.
Avoiding proprietary formats means there is one less problem between you and your data.
If Daisy Group have taken over this company, then I would be avoiding them like the plague. Every company I have dealt with that has been owned by or taken over by Daisy Group has turned into a disaster. I would say those people who are keeping their jobs should be sending out their CV's right about now, they won't keep their jobs. One client of mine had a mobile phone contract with a mobile phone provider which was taken over, mid contract, via Daisy Group. Under Daisy's leadership, none of the original staff stayed, the company broke the terms of it's original agreement and Daisy made it a nightmare for my client to leave their contract, eventually requiring the intervention of the mobile phone company itself.
If I were an 2e2 client, I'd be making plans today to leave, your contract won't be worth a thing now these clowns are in charge.
This is just my take given what clients of mine have been through.
PS...This will be the first of many cloud failures I predict.
I wonder what has happened to the PC software which allows you to upload and download to a Tivo hard drive, and to watch Tivo programs on a PC.
I know this software is available in the USA, but Virgin have been very quiet about this functionality here in the UK.
Has anyone heard any further news about this software?
£125 seems rather excessive - this is available via Lovefilm.
I can't help but hope we'll see the headline that Apple has had to go crawling back to Samsung to ask if it will make it's iPhone 5 screens after Sharp crashes out of the business. It would be even funnier if Samsung said yes......at twice the price to cover it's escalating legal bills!
How come the British press missed out on this superb tournament, instead focusing on a few people aimlessly running around in London's East End. I would have preferred to have has this televised instead.
How about a European tournament next year, with competitors bringing not only balloons and payloads, but also their own nations beer, that we can see three battles at the same venue, for altitude, payload functionality, and best beer.
I'm sure we can get a contingent of BBC reporters in for that one!
BTW, congratulations to all concerned, all these photos are of superb quality and something to be proud of.
Actually the days of the dedicated Hi Fi salesman are long since over, now the best salesmen in these stores are almost invariably the stores owner. I remember a store local to me which I frequented as a teenager, and when the late 80's recession hit, the bank sent in management consultants, who decided that the owner could get down his operating costs and pay their vast interest rates and consultancy fees by firing the experienced sales people who had a relationship with the cusotmers, and replacing them all with students working part time at a fraction of the price (this was before minimum wage). This was basically inflicted on the poor store owner to reduce his costs in order to keep the 'support' of the bank. The store owner complied, and within 24 months was in receivership.
the other problem is the greed of both distributors and stores, with some distributors demanding 30 - 50% profit margins, and dealers wanting 25 - 35% on source components and amps, 30 - 50% on speakers depending on brand and marketing power, and 40 - 60% on 'accessories' like stands and cables. It's no wonder the actual cost price of this equipment has little bearing on the final retail price, a typical relationship in Hi Fi is of 7 - 8:1 relationship of cost to final selling price.
it's this kind of thing which makes Hi Fi equipment seem so expensive.
Now the staff in many of these stores are little better than Currys staff, thoughb I will say the staff in Richer Sounds are the exception to this rule, courteous, intelligent and genuinely helpful, if you are buying any lower to midrange component you can do a lot worse than speak to someone in Richer Sounds.
You're spot on here.
I used to review Hi Fi equipment for a couple of magazines, and I would never review digital cables, because I could not credibly recommend anyone to buy them. I tested £1K super high end digital cables on S/PDIF (phono & BNC) against some cable I built from true 75 Ohm connectors and Belden video cable. I had a friend switch between inputs blind, and I could not tell the difference. My cable cost me around £10, and that was only because the connectors were from the USA as most RCA Phono connectors are not true 75 Ohm devices.
The truth is that most CD transports and DAC's do not have true 75 Ohm connectors on them, and if the loading is wrong, this can introduce measureable signal problems. So the claims that digital cables sound different are not wrong, it simply mean that they work better with an interface which is out of spec then another cable, and there is no guarantee that the cables are true 75 Ohm items either.
Thankfully USB to DAC has removed this nonsense, though the audio industry is now desperately trying to sell us high end USB cables which sound better. I await to be convinced!
I'm sorry, but Meridian is really taking the p**s with the Media Core 600. Can you imagine going to an IT supplier for stroage and them asking you for £6K for 2TB of storage? If a salesman came here quoting me those kinds of figures he'd be sent down the road in 30 seconds flat.
Let's be clear here, Meridian are asking £6K for a 2 bay NAS with a pair of 2TB Samsung HDD's. I can buy that kind of thing from PC world for under £400.
This kind of stupidity is really destroying the Hi Fi business today, I know they're struggling, as the CD player of yore are now irrelevant in a world of media streamers and NAS devices, but the industry does itself no favours by trying to sell storage at vastly inflated prices, and the damn dealers are still demanding 30%+ margins with minimum wage Saturday boys in the shops with questionable knowledge and skills.
The future for the whole business looks very bleak indeed.
You can already do this for a very low price. Mini ITX based computer with Windows 7, store the music on a NAS (you'd be amazed at just how much uncompressed music fits into 1TB, so much it's almost not worth worrying about compression anymore to save storage), Now install a 128GB Intel SSD and run the machine with 4GB RAM. Load it up with a piece of software called XXHighEnd, which copies the tracks to RAM for playback, and you have a silent computer which plays the music back lossless from RAM. Now supplement with USB DAC to your liking, sit back, and enjoy the music. The whole system can be built for around £400 + DAC, and for me this lossless playabck system betters a £6K CD player when used with a modest (sub £400) USB DAC.
I have a collection of over 700CD's, and I don't recall actually playing one of them in the last 3 years because I rely on a streaming system now, and yes, that entire collection fits in under 1TB of storage.
Has an omission been made in the team listings, or is there no entrant from UK?
Joseph: Can't argue with anything you say, I think your anlysis of the marketplace is right on the money, people want the 'look' of the panel rather than the unadulterated 'performance' of the direct panel with the slight aesthetic downside of having a thicker panel, they go for the looks of the device rather than pure performance, though local dimming edge lit panels are better than they used to be, they still lag behind direct backlit displays. Likewise, the digital bling is there for the mass market and it does pull down the price of the finished product, I just mourn the mass market going towards digital widgets rather than demanding the best possible display quality.
Yes, the chipset choice was probably made a couple of years ago, but I still found ti odd that the review didn't chastise Sony for this oversight given the more technical audience reviews on here usually attract.
Whilst local dimming edge lit TV's are much better than they used to be, I can still see light traces at the edge of the screen on dark scenes with bright details. This is less of a problem for me as I am fortunate enough to use a video projector, but for many people they have to use panels, so they will have this slight but irritating side effect of edge lit screens vis a vis direct illuminated screens.
REgarding the broadcast option, yes, you're projections are pretty much spot on, broadcast reference panels are hideously expensive, but I just wish there was still a market niche big enough to justify Sony resurrecting the Profeel name from the late 80's. Probably just a hankering for the old Sony at it's best.
I note it is not mentioned whether this TV's backlighting is via edge backlighting, or direct?
I am surprised that the review didn't highlight the folly of producing a supposedly 'smart' TV which cannot natively decode MKV's? Most of my video is now held either as ISO images or MKV files, so this TV's media playback facilities would be rendered useless to me, LG 'smart' TV's can natively decode MKV's, this would seem to be a major oversight.
Increasingly in our fashion led World, image and styling is everything, actual performance seems to matter very little apart from digital bling like making TV's 'smart' or supporting 3D. I've found that very few companies seem to make the direct backlit panels any longer, yet TV's featuring those panel are (were) often cited as having the best picture quality, without multiple post processing measures being required. Does this mean that the consumer is no longer interested in true performance, instead being placated with mediocre image quality with lots of digital bling?
If Sony really wanted to capture it's past glories, maybe resurrecting the Profeel name with a direct backlit panel would be the way to go, with the tuner and image processing hardware in (optional) remote modules. SIM2 do a very similar thing with their high end video projectors.
I am now being driven to buy high end TV's with a multitude of irrelevent 'features' just to get a good basic panel. It's almost like the manufacturers are deliberately keeping the direct backlit panel for their high end sets with their prices inflated due to unnecessary gadgetry.
Whilst this can't be faulted on either technical or ease of execution grounds, I would have a major problem with content.
I live in Lancashire, do you know how often you see a woman who looks like Charlize Theron or Cameron Diaz around here?
The definition of an audiophile according to the OED is 'a hi-fi enthusiast'.
That I am, guilty as charged, I love music, I love hearing music in my home that actually sounds like music, not some bass bloated thumping noise or something coming out of a mobile phone speaker.
A great audio system to me brings me closer to the sound of the artist in the studio, and I don't waste money on £50 + tickect to live events with sound so loud and so bad it should carry a health warning, with a stage which I can see clearly, as long as I have a pair of Swarovski binoculars. That way my system pays for itself many times over during a lifespan which, for a good component, can be 20 years or more.
And yes, I still consider the sending of a Blackpool ICT boss to London conference a waste of MY money!
I don't get why a representative from Blackpool Borough Council is burning through council tax payers money at Infosec in London and pontificating about BYOD practices when the council has presided over some of the most moronic wastes of money in the last 15 years which has systematically destroyed any sort of commercial future for the town?
This is the council which has spent 10's of millions of tax payers money rebuilding a tram infrastructure run by a private company which made so little money they couldn't afford to maintain it themselves. They should have just made it a dual carriageway right along the promenade, at least that would have had value for residents and those in the town that do work (a minority). They wrecked the promenade road and removed traffic capacity without thinking about how to increase it anywhere else to compensate. They ahve put buildings on the promenade which everyone believes are ugly and the butt of jokes locally, which no one seems to use. The deficit the council is running at means they are wrecking local services.
All this, whilst this idiot is pointlessly prattling on about BYOD to accomodate people wanting to carry vanity with them rather than learning how to use the employer supplied devices effectively.
In case you're wondering, yes I am unfortunate enough to live in Blackpool and keep harbouring this hope that the town realises that it is no longer a viable tourist destination, and realises it's future is in commerce and as a commuter belt town for Preston and Manchester with excellent road links.
I will be writing to my councillor asking why this fiasco is being paid for by me!
Well said Sir - a beer does seem somewhat an inadequate accolade, but I am sure many of us will raise a drink to Mr. Tramiel and remember the many house of enjoyment he brought to us, and for many of us the effect his company and his equipment had on our lives.
Like Steven Roper, I also owe Jack Tramiel my career, starting with the VIC-20, them moving through the CBM-64, Commodore 128, Amiga A-1000 and onto the A-2000, I was a major devotee of Commodore computers, and consider them to be as important in the history of our industry and the BBC Model 'B' and the Sinclair ZX-81 in terms of getting young people enthusiastic about computers and working in IT. I learned more about programming and hacking on these machines than just about any other platform, and as such I can say Jack Tramiel's company and it's products have had a truly profound and important effect on my life.
In losing Jack Tramiel we have lost one of the great's. Most can only wish they can have the effect on as many as Jack Tramiel had. May you rest in peace, Sir. I am sure many on this forum and in IT would wish to convey their condolences to his wife and children for their loss.
Those who do not blindly believe in Anthropomorphic Climate change are simply saying that the present evidence presented is of insufficient quality to convince them.
The climate change models are provven to be inaccurate, I have not heard of a single prediction made by a climate change model which has actually tracked with what is happening in the real world, there would appear to be many contra indicators that anything we do is having a measurable effect on the climate. I have still to see the evidence which shows a climate change which is irrefutably caused solely by something man has done, which could not possibly have happened without man's influence. I am sure if that could be shown, then we could start talking about the supporters of anthropomorphic climate change actually having a fact to work with, up to now everything is conjecture based on manipulated data and questionable models.
If the Prof. is suggesting that we should be made to believe in anthropomorphic climate change, rather than the onus of irrefutable proof being put on those expecting us to change, then maybe the salutation of Prof should be changed to reverand?
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." - Name the Quote.
OK, I'll bite, Men In Black, Agent K (Tomme Lee Jones) addressing agent J (Will Smith) before he joins the MIB.
They have only closed the one Game store in the main shopping center in Blackpool, and whilst this is the one with the highest costs being in the major shopping center, they still have a Game Station store nextdoor to a Grainger games store with a HMV less than 5 minutes away and a CEX around the corner. I would have thought with that kind of competition they'd have decided to close both outlets in Blackpool, especially given the low income levels in this area and around 30% unemployment. There simply isn't the money to support this number of stores, and those who do frequent them are the same people who know where to go online for the best deals, undoubtedly frequent fleabay and probably have modded consoles for running backups.
I'm afraid I don't see a place any longer for games sales on the high street. It's just low earning square footage which could surely be used more profitably.
Whilst I personally would be glad to see the end of the TV Licence, as for me there are simply so many means of obtaining programming other than from a state funded broadcaster, I am troubled by the assumption that any NewBBC (subscription, PPV or ad funded) should have an automatic right to the programming of the state funded BBC.
As I see it, we, the licence payers, have paid for this, this state funded company is owned by us, the licence payers, therefore the programmes are commissioned on our behalf. Therefore, as we paid for them and commissioned them, we own them! Any private company should not have an automatic right to them unless either:-
A) The program archives are put into the ownership of another company, the shares of which are given to each licence payer and then the new broadcaster pays licence fees to that entity, and these rights are then licensed to overseas & satellite broadcaster, the profits of which are returned to the shareholders or used to commission new programming for onward licensing.
B). As the licence payers have paid for the infrastructure, the new company's shares are given to the former license payers, and the BBC then becomes a profitable PLC with profits paid back to shareholders.
I see no toher way for this to be done fairly, any other method is theft from the British public, pure and simple, but I am strongly in favour of a privatisation of the BBC using either of the above models.
This whole initiative is going to cost those that join up $$$$'s, and they've not asked the fundamental question, who will buy?
The public right now seem pretty happy with 1080p MKV's of the latest movies with Dolby Digital and DTS sound, and increasingly TrueHD and DTS-MA, if the numbers of these files being downloaded is anything to go by. People are used to the freedom this gives them, so the question becomes, what does the user gain from this? Forget about selling most users on the whole 'It's licensed by the movie makers" line, most of the public don't care, they just want a high quality file that they can play on their big screen TV, Tablet and laptop, if it does that, they really don't care where it comes from.
This is yet another standard set to die like Ultraviolet and "Triple play" sets with time limited digital editions.
If the Government had any sincerity in their desire to get people out of cars, stop trying to pitch public transport, it's as desireable as spending time in a public toilet on a Saturday night, and instead encourage employers to to implement truly effective home working environments. You'll reduce stress, wasted resources in people sitting in traffic jams, make the roads faster flowing (due to less traffic) and given the cost of public transport or fuel, it will probably be cheaper for the employee.
Maybe the way to do this is to give grants to get companies to adhere to a target (say 20% of all work done from home) and possibly penalise those that don't achieve a minimum standard (5 or 7%). Obviously in the case of manufacturing, shiop employees etc. this would not apply, but for most administrative and desk based work, I can see little reason why this would prove a technical problem, more a cultural issue for old fashioned bosses, and amployyes who want to be seen by their management.
Personally speaking, I worked from home full time for 6 years, and now work form home a couple of days a month, and far prefer it to working in an office, no travel, no distractions from banal conversations with others and a better working environment. Why would anyone reasonably want to maintain the office work paradigm?
This is not only going to run and run, but will probably turn rather nasty before we're finished.
The situation for the 4G auction is rather different than the 3G one which went before it. When the 3G auction took place, there was far more money and cheap credit around, so the teleco's could make big bids in the full nkowledge that there was a demand for something faster than EDGE.
This time around the teleco's know the government is desperate for the cash, they are still trying to make money on 3G spectrum they purchased and the demand for faster mobile access doesn't seem as strong this time as 2G to 3G. The teleco's are more than happy to file injunction after injunction, take decision to the EU and challenge the government on any and evey point in the auctio document in order to protect their profit margtin and their business. It doesn't matter to them if this takes years to go through, because the longer this is delayed, the greater the utilisation of 3G is, and the more likely it is that the government will capitulate to their wishes as the government need the money from this auction.
The rent or lease options to me look unlikely. What if the telecos don't want that option, they simply don't rent the spectrum and we either have to hope that someone new comes along with very deep pockets to build 4G infrastructure and site new masts throughout the UK (and how long would that rollout take?) or that the rent is so low that it suits the telecos, but that's sure to be bad for the government coffers.
I fear we are still years away from seeing 4G in the UK.
I've been with VM since they were Telewest offering free dial up access back in 1999. I then moved to their 1MB broadband offering as soon as it became available. Back then they were superb, the customer service was the best available and any issues were swiftly resolved, usually within an hour or so. All the techies I spoke to were well trained and knew their stuff.
Then NTL got involved and it started to go downhill, but if you got through the front line tech support then the guys were still very capable.
Then it became Virgin Media and the rot set in, overseas call center operators who would ahppily lie to you, if they understood you, and customer services who were only interested in selling you more products, rather than actually answering your questions.
I am still with them solely because their 50 Mb service is finally stable since we moved to R30 of the SuperHub firmware and I cannot get BT Infinity in this area. Most of the issues would be resolved if they moved their CS back to the UK and recruited quality UK support engineers, then actually invested in their backbone so it didn't die in the evening when you try to stream iPlayer HD streams.
I can't help but wonder if the availability over the last year of custom firmware has helped drive sales of the hardware.
If you look back, the XBOX 360 was hacked in a matter of months and it was taken for granted that XBOX 360's could have their DVD drives flashed with new firmware to give them 'enhanced' functionality.
Until the last year this has been denied to PS3 owners, so maybe a proportion of these new owners now see the PS3 as offering a better value proposition now the running costs of buying games has been reduced through the benefits of custom firmware?
Could it be that the locking down of consoles and the lack of availability of custom firmware has an inverse effect on sales of hardware i.e. the more secure the platform, the weaker the hardware sales due to higher running costs?
I suspect this will have a bad knock on effect on media sales in the UK.
Right now we're already paying high prices for media, which is driving scores of people into the hands of various torrent sites and download repositories. Now you're talking about taking away the mechanism by which UK citizens can legitimately purchase CD's and DVD's at lower prices, and whilst the VAT man loses £130 million, the media businesses gain from actual sales of media. Now, in the middle of rising prices and pay freezes in almost every market sector, you want to ramp up prices of media by 20%??? Are we trying to drive traffic into the hands of bittorrent sites? What the media business should do is fight against this with eveything they've got, because the losses to the media business could be double or triple the VAT losses.
I should mention, I don't like the media business, I just see where this is going!
I have seen what pupils are now being taught in GCSE ICT lessons, and I know what I was taught 25 years ago at 'O' level standard, and frankly what they're teching now is more basic office skills than actual IT.
There is no information given about the hardware, how it works, it's history etc. There are simply no fundamentals. Furthermore there is no programming involved, and surely any course covering IT must include the skills required to analyze the problem, devise a solution then implement it? When I was 13 I spent every spare hour in front of my VIC 20 / CBM 64 both playing games and writing programs, I can't believe that same interest and inquisitiveness is not there today.
We also need to make these courses commercially relevant and respected, which means at 16 the skills they're taught need to mean enough to at least get them a foot in the door, and companies need to know that someone with this qualification is actually useful and worth employing. The current course is considered a joke and as useful as domestic science in a commercial IT environment. Teach these kids about networks, firewalls, backup procedures, virtualization etc. and they may actually be of some use when they leave school.
Finally, let's show these pupils the fundamental motive behind working in IT, it pays very well compared with most jobs today. You maybe called a geek, but you're a geek with a nice car, a decent home and hopefully a very good income. Appeal to their greed and desire to want to buy stuff, and you'll be surprised just how enthusiastic and interested they become. Emphasise that a higher income could lead to a better looking girlfriend, and you'll have to run extra classes ;)


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Chapter Fifteen: Stupid Girl
Adam came to pick me up exactly on time. I stepped into his car and smiled. He was wearing a blue shirt that made his eyes pop and Khaki shorts.
It had taken me half an hour to pick out what I was wearing, and I ended up settling on a pair of white shorts and a navy blue tank top that had a butterfly on the side, leaving my room in a total disaster. It was one of my favourite shirts that I had. Though I was defiantly not a shopper, when it came to going places I wanted to go, I was very finicky picking out the perfect outfit.
"Hi" I said shyly. I'd never been good talking to boys that were more than friends. If I was just friends with them it was one thing, but once I started to like them, I felt like I couldn't breathe around them anymore. And this was my first official date. Sure, I'd gone out with some of the guys from the swim team after practice, but those didn't count because they all ended up being just a date as friends, and never anything else.
"Hey Ellie" he said smiling "nice seeing you again"
"And you" I told him "and again, sorry about yesterday."
"no worries" he replied, pulling out of the Blake's driveway "I'm sure if I caught my little sister kissing someone I'd be pretty pissed."
I laughed. In all honestly, I really wasn't going to go see Adam again. I just wanted to make Blake jealous by being seen with another guy. But after last nights 'episode', when Adam texted me this morning, I had no doubt in my mind that I wasn't going to go on a date with him. I kind of felt bad, but at the same time, I wasn't really hurting anyone by going on a date with Adam, maybe Blake was a little pissed because he obviously didn't like Adam very much, but other than that no one was getting hurt.
I had found it weird that I'd never been kissed until that Friday night when Blake kissed me in my backyard, and now, not even a week later, I had already kissed a second boy and was going on my first official date. When Rachel comes back from camp and I'm finally able to text her, she's going to be shocked. This defiantly wasn't the usual Ellie behaviour; this was her kind of behaviour. It was hard getting dates when your best friend was gorgeous, but I didn't mind, I had swimming to worry about anyways. Unlike Rachel, dating wasn't a top priority on my list of things to do.
The drive to the movies wasn't far, and the theater was small, with very few cars parked in front, meaning that the theater was going to be practically empty. Adam pulled into the parking lot and we got out.
"Do you want anything?" he asked me when we were in line to get our tickets to the movie. I shook my head. Though I was dying for some movie theatre popcorn and a pack of Twizzlers, I didn't want him buying anything besides the movie ticket for me.
"Come on" he said "I can't take a pretty girl to the movies without getting her anything. That would be rude"
I smiled. "Maybe a pack of Twizzlers then"
We walked over to the concession stand where he bought my Twizzlers and some buttered popcorn for himself. He was being so nice to me. I couldn't understand why Blake was saying that he was a player. I would be able to tell if he was a player, and Adam was way too nice to be a player.
There were only a few people in the theatre we were in and Adam led me to the back row of the theatre. The large popcorn that he bought for himself ended up sitting in between us before the movie started, because I kept mooching off of it.
The movie started and I watched, though I really want interested in watching some old action movies from the nineties that I didn't even know the name of.


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Anthropology professor Nan Rothschild is spearheading an excavation project this summer in Central Park examining the remains of Seneca Village, an African-American village that was displaced when the park was created in the 1850s.
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The two men received their awards during a ceremony following the city's Fourth of July Festival parade Monday at the community center. Gibraltar police Chief Ray Canterbury presented the award to Officer Trush, and fire Chief Jim VanCalbergh gave the award to Mr. Harrison.
Gibraltar Mayor Jim Gorris served as master of ceremonies.
Officer Trush, 26, has been a member of the police department for four years. For the past two years, he has led the force in having the most arrests for drunken driving, assaults and batteries and domestic violence, Chief Canterbury said. Officer Trush heads the neighborhood party patrols, drunk driving detail and seat belt education campaigns and has worked with other agencies to help secure grants, the chief said.
Officer Trush recently joined the Downriver Mutual Aid SWAT Team after undergoing an interview and completing the certification training. A Carlson High School graduate, Officer Trush is married to the former Vicki Schearhorn, and the couple lives in Gibraltar.
Large crowds were evident throughout the day during city's annual all-day festival at Hy Dahlka Park behind the community center, said Gil Talbert, director of the center and festival chairman.
"People were coming and going all day," Mr. Talbert said.
The city's downtown development authority sponsored the festival, which concluded with a large fireworks display set off by the Wolverine Fireworks Co.
Mayor Gorris also presented awards to the following: Karlie Arp, Miss Gibraltar; Ashley Shier, runner-up to Miss Gibraltar; Gibraltar baseball queens Holly Holbdy, Shelby Gutekunst, Olivia Owsinek, Madison Yoakum, Alexis Farnsworth and Madelyn LaBeau.


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Dow Chemical expands worldwide
Published November 10, 2011
"The Western China region is a new strategic area for Dow to accelerate our business growth in China," said Peter Sykes, president of Dow Greater China. "We expect to continue expanding at a double-digit annual rate over the next five to ten years, and we foresee significant opportunities in Western China thanks to major government infrastructure investments and the size of this region."
Today, Dow operates 18 manufacturing sites and six business centers across the Greater China region, mainly in the Eastern and Southeastern coastal areas and Taiwan. In 2010, Dow recorded total sales of more than $4 billion in Greater China, which is Dow's second largest international market.
Dow also announced plans to expand its operations in Africa by opening offices in Algeria and Ghana. The company reported that the decision to open the new offices and employ more sales staff in Africa follows a dedicated study to identify opportunities and to finalize an operating structure that will deliver maximum effect and return for the company in Africa. This is directly in support of the Dow business strategy to multiply sales in the medium term.
The new sales offices will complement existing Dow operations in Egypt, Kenya and South Africa, where the company has more than 50 years of operating history and employs more than 240 people. This expansion supports Dow's commitment to growth from emerging geographies, bringing the company closer to its growing customer base in Africa.
"With a population of over 1 billion people, significant and consistent economic growth rates over the last 10 years and improved corporate governance and transparency, there has never been a better time to expand Dow's focus and participation in Africa," said Dow chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris. "This expansion signifies Dow's commitment to investing in the needs of growing regions to help our customers address tomorrow's challenges today.''
Dow recently opened a new office in Rio de Janeiro, further strengthening its commitment to Brazil. Dow, a worldwide partner of the Olympic Games through 2020, opened its new office in the city with an event at Copacabana Palace for customers, public authorities and guests. The new office aims to create businesses focused on the opportunities arising from the sports events to take place in Rio in the next years. Additionally, the company wants to be closer to the production and distribution chain to the oil and gas industry, one of Rio de Janeiro's high growth sectors.
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My Recipe For: Historical Fiction – 1940s Edition
I love a good alternative take on a well-known topic. The two book choices for this week feature characters we don't normally meet in historical fiction written about WWII. Both books were highly enjoyable and left me wanting to research some actual history on the topic (I know my old history teachers are leaping for joy at the thought 😉 ).
The Book Thief by Mark Zusak
Death needs a vacation. But, that's not really possible, since he is, after all, kind of irreplaceable. So, because Death doesn't get to take a break, he finds little ways to achieve peace. What does this have to do with book thievery? I'll just say that Death becomes fascinated with the story of a German girl he knows as "The Book Thief."
But, this is a book not just about Death or the girl herself, but it is about the relationships that the girl finds with a neighbor boy, a shopkeeper, an accordion player, and a Jewish fist fighter among others. Despite all of the sadness surrounding Germany in WWII, this book manages to achieve moments of brightness and laughter in the spots of sad.
I highly recommend the audiobook for this piece. The narrator, Allan Corduner, does a brilliant job of creating voices that feel real without being unintentionally comical. Plus, his lovely British accent gives Death quite the rakish flair.
Quote: "The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both."
You'll enjoy this if: you're a fan of the movie Life is Beautiful¸ you enjoyed The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and you're not afraid of slightly sad books.
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
"Careless words costs lives" as our heroine says. So, I'm going to keep our little debriefing, well, brief.
Our main character is a young woman with many names and with good reason. She's a being held captive and tortured for information. Her captors are torturing her for information, and in an effort to capitulate, she's telling the story of Queenie and Maddie two best friends that just happen to be a wireless operator and a pilot in the middle of WWII. But keep in mind that she has a propensity to be both unreliable and jump around in her narrative as she is writing down the story for the purposes of her captors. So, we get to see both the past and the present in her tale.
I've never been a serious history buff, but I really enjoyed how the author plotted this story. There are some interesting twists and turns, and you feel wholly invested in both the lives of Queenie and Maddie. The author really did her research on this book, and although the storyline isn't true, the occupations of the girls during the war did actually exist. Women really did fly planes, operate wire systems, act as spys, and serve in very real and necessary occupations during the war. The story is truly haunting (in a good way). The two women stick with you, and make you really believe in their story and hope for their success.
You'll enjoy this if: you're a fan of the History Channel (like old school History Channel), you enjoy a good kickass girl story, and you want a fast-paced realistic gasp-inducing story.
Quote: "I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old."
Disclosure in agreement with FTC Guidelines 16 CFR Part 255 and other legal nonsense: One or more of the books reviewed on this blog was provided as an advanced review copy. However, I am not paid for or required to write positive reviews. In fact, if I don't like it, you won't hear about it! Are you still reading this? Here, go read one of these instead.


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...you can make your excuses, impostor!
*wipes brow* THANK GOD.
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When I would go to the mall, I would park far away and leave my purse in the car. If I thought I wanted something, I would have to walk all the way to my car and back. Most of the time it was not worth the trip back.
When I have a negative thought, whether it be about my weight, goals, or ex-boyfriend I make myself do 5 pushups for every thought
I am eating clean no products with a bar code, in the ingredients description i word ex: lentils, lentils/ broccoli, broccoli
A friend of mine once said:"You might want it, but do you really need it?"Yes, she said it when I was 14 years old and I wanted a pair of fluorescent neon pink platform heels which were actually awful! BUT that quote has stayed with me ever since she said it. I am still a shopaholic, everyone that knows me would agree, but sometimes I think of this and realise not to take it to far :)


text: Irving White | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season Irving White Writer Male Productions ProductionsDate of ProductionsFly Away Home[Play, Comedy, Original] Written by Irving White Jan 15, 1935 - Jul 1935 Find out where Irving White and are credited together © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)