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The Future of Mobile Gadgets
How many will we carry? What will they look like? What will they do?
I got my first cell phone a little more than a decade ago, just as I was finishing college and looking for my first job. I didn't need a mobile phone; none of my friends had them, and I was pretty sure they'd all mock me for getting one. (They did.) At the time, there was still something ostentatious and vaguely shady about mobile communications devices. There seemed to be only a handful of reasons why someone would need to carry a phone or a pager at all times: a) You were a doctor; b) you were a drug dealer; and/or c) you were a self-important schmuck. Neither a) nor b) applied in my case. I wanted a cell phone because I like gadgets. If you pressed me on it, I might have pointed out that Europeans and Asians were flocking to mobile phones, so it seemed likely that Americans would soon, too. But mostly I wanted a cell phone because it seemed cool to be able to call people from anywhere. In other words, c).
I wasn't alone. Between 1997 and 2002, the number of American mobile phone subscribers jumped from 55 million to 141 million. What happened? Sure, technology was part of the story. Cell phones kept getting smaller, cheaper, and better; by the turn of the century they offered good enough coverage and call quality that you could use them pretty much anywhere. But all gadgets keep getting better—and even if they were cheaper than before, getting a cell phone typically required a commitment of at least several hundred dollars a year, so it was by no means cheap. Why did nearly everyone suddenly decide that mobile phones were worth this cost? The big reason, I think, was the network effect. As more people got cell phones, cell phones became more useful—there were more people to call, more people to text, and more people who began to assume that you, too, had a cell phone. At some point there were enough mobile phones that the cultural attitudes about the device flipped. People stopped thinking you were a self-important schmuck if you carried a mobile phone. You were a self-important schmuck if you didn't.
Over the next few weeks I'll be writing a series of articles on the future of technology. This week, I'm looking at mobile devices—not just phones but also tablets, music players, video cameras, and the other tiny computers that seem certain to represent the next computing frontier. I'm obviously interested in how these gadgets will evolve technically—their physical design, their user interfaces, their processing power, battery life, and software. But I think it's just as important to think about how society will morph to accommodate these mobile devices—which ones we'll accept, which ones we'll reject, what we'll use them for, and how well we'll tolerate their interruptions and annoyances. The future of mobile tech won't be just a story of shrinking computers. It's also a story of how we, as a culture, respond to all these shrinking computers.
But let's start with the devices themselves. The most basic question about tomorrow's mobile gadgets is one that we're struggling to answer today: How many different devices will we have? At the moment, we have a lot of different tools with overlapping functionality. You can read books on your smartphone, tablet, or e-reader. You can play tunes and watch movies on your music player, phone, or tablet. If you're going on a trip, do you carry your phone and your laptop, your phone and your tablet, your phone and your e-reader, or just your phone? Some people will carry everything—see last year's Wall Street Journal profile of tech geeks who carry too many electronics when they travel. (Phil Libin, the CEO of the software company Evernote, carries a 26-pound backpack stuffed with computers, tablets, phones, cameras, batteries, and cables.) Most of us, though, are going to spend our time and money on just one or two of these devices. Now imagine it's 2016. Which gadgets are you taking along on your morning commute?
I'm betting on the smartphone and the tablet—in other words, you'll carry a small computer for your pocket and a bigger one for your purse or backpack. I'm not predicting that other devices will die out—people will still use e-readers, laptops, video cameras, and music players, but we'll think of them as niche devices, things you reach for when you want to do something specialized.
I'm guessing readers will disagree with me that tablets will overshadow laptops as our main mobile machines. At the moment, the laptop (which we can define as a portable computer with a keyboard and a traditional PC operating system) has a couple major advantages over the tablet (a keyboardless, touch-screen gadget with a mobile OS). The laptop has more processing power, and it's got a keyboard and pointing device that allow for faster text entry and application switching. This makes it an ideal computer for office productivity. If you need to enter a lot of text or data, copy and paste stuff between apps, and do other kinds of tasks you get paid for, there's no better machine than a laptop.
But the laptop has several disadvantages, too. The increased power comes at the cost of battery life (no laptop can match the 10 hours the iPad lasts on a single charge), and the keyboard, pointing device, and user interface make it less well-suited to tasks that go beyond productivity apps. It's easier and more comfortable to surf the Web, read long articles, play games, and interact with media on a tablet than on a laptop. These might not sound like "important" tasks, but important isn't what sells mobile gadgets. Fun does.
PCs were an office-centric technology; they changed how you worked, but they didn't greatly alter how you spent your evenings and weekends. Phones, tablets, and other small computers infiltrate our lives much more deeply, and they'll overshadow their PC counterparts mainly because they're more enjoyable. When Apple released the first iPad last year, it created a keyboard dock and special office apps for the device. As Marco Arment points out, Apple now seems to have abandoned the push to make the iPad a productivity machine. It discontinued the iPad keyboard dock, and the apps it created for the iPad 2, GarageBand and iMovie, are about having fun rather than doing work. I'm sure that phones and tablets will have improved enough by 2016 to make doing some work on them palatable; you'll probably be able to take just those two devices on a business trip. But I suspect we'll still see a major division between machines meant for the office and machines meant for fun. You'll have a laptop for work. For everything else, you'll reach for a touch screen.


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How to become a cop doesn't just want to be one; it is also wanting to and needing to know what type of officer you want to be. There are many to choose from. So when you select one, select one that is in your liking.
Depending on the county, this position is very hard to tame, but how to become cop doesn't deal with doubt. It's about being a protector of the people, for the people, and acting for the innocent to protect them. To be a Sheriff, you must have a few years under your belt and the police department. The more years you have, the better of chances of you becoming sheriff in the department. Plus, Sheriffs can tell you on how to become a cop, too.
The sheriff's duties would include looking out for the public safety. That is a really big deal on being in the law enforcement. Plus, they run various task in the police department. They are also teaching children and go to schools about how to become a cop. There biggest job would be transporting inmates.
If this is one of the types of police officer you want to be, you are going to have to earn it with experience, dedicated, and how to become a great person in blue.
After you learn on how to become a cop, you may want to try to be a detective. This is a very rewarding career, but every officer field is awarding. There are many types of detectives. They are homicidal detectives, police investigator, CIA detectives, crime scene detectives, and private investigators. There are many to choose from in this type of police officer career. Depending on their job, there job will consist of looking for clues, going undercover, and interrogation, that is just naming a few things they do.
Detectives are great people to learn from on how to become a cop. They are dedicated and hardworking. Their job is to get the information that is needed. The requirements of being one of the detectives is you have to be over the age of 21; you must have your GED and some college education, and work as a cop for a few years. Some detectives require you to have a degree in Criminal Justice. If this is something you want, then you are going to go the 'extra mile.'
State Trooper
State Troopers are about like the regular police officers, but there job is way more dangerous. You must know how to become a cop before you can become a state trooper. Their jobs are more stressful because they never know when a person is going to shoot, snap, or be out line, sometimes uncooperative.
First all make sure you are fit physically because sometimes you are going to have a hold a criminal down, or have run after them. State troopers can tell you on how to become a cop, too. They will tell you they had to work in the police department before they got to do what they are doing.
Also make sure you are ready to take an exam. The exam will consist of gauge readings, and understanding certain concepts. Next thing you will need to do is make sure your background is clear, this is just like on how to become a cop, you must have a good moral standing. Then you will be interview, make sure you do your best.
This may not be all the types of officers, but these officers knew how to become a cop, too.

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June Issue: John J. Kim Talks About His Pulitzer-Prize Winning Photos
2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting spells victory for long-form journalism and Chicago Sun-Times Photographer John J. Kim
by Elizabeth Eun
IT WAS A MONDAY, and John J. Kim was taking a much-needed vacation from his job as a photographer with the Chicago Sun-Times. He spent the morning taking care of such mundane tasks as dropping his car off at the shop to get a wobbly wheel fixed. When he got around to checking his cell phone, he noticed he had 17 messages, including several from the newsroom.
"That's why I thought maybe something bad happened," recalled Kim, 36, who had not even checked his email yet that day and feared he might be getting laid off.
He was even a little peeved. "I was like, 'Wait, I'm on vacation. Gosh, at least leave me alone until I get back to work or something.' I finally ended up checking email and found out this happened."
By "this," Kim meant he, along with Sun-Times reporters Frank Main and Mark Konkol, had won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. The jury for Columbia University's annual honors recognized the three journalists for a riveting series documenting violence in Chicago neighborhoods that ran in 2010. Their work was the result of a year-long, immersive project that looked specifically at murders plaguing Chicago's Northwest Side, the resulting community devastation and the Chicago Police Department's homicide detectives charged with solving the crimes.
For four months, Kim and Main, a beat reporter, shadowed detectives Tony Noradin and Don Falk of the department's Area 5 Homicide unit, meeting with and following them from pre-roll call hours to crime scenes in the middle of the night.
Eerie and insightful, the resulting chronicles are an unflinching look into a world that might be taken for granted, but isn't readily talked about.
"The reporters did a lot of work beforehand—a lot of meetings, everyone from the superintendent of the police had to sign off on the project," Kim said. "It wasn't your everyday thing. In general, you wouldn't be allowed to do what we got to do.
"We had to sign papers saying the cops aren't responsible if we get shot."
Although Kim says he rarely felt in danger, there were times when he and the police would arrive at the scene of a shooting, and people were still running around with guns. "When those times happened, we obviously knew not to get in anyone's way."
From the looks of the comprehensive coverage captured by the series, the few volatile moments when the crime scene was still hot are the only times Kim's camera wasn't shooting.
Street images of murder victim Miguel Loreto, along with the detectives and coroner's autopsy investigations and the ensuing grief of his family were all captured in the series. Taking place one "balmy summer night" on July 15, 2009, the shooting is examined in detail, and has had a particularly disturbing effect on Kim.
To the average viewer, the photos depicting a pool of glistening, just-spilt blood; a pale, still-bloodied body; and bruised, lifeless fingers being fingerprinted might be the most distressing. For Kim, what happened afterward ended up being the most difficult to process.
"Being a news photographer, we experience our fair share of violent moments," Kim said. "With this specific case, the kid got shot by a rival gang member. That unfortunately happens all the time—literally, all the time.
"What was sad about that specific project was meeting the dead kid's parents. They're migrant workers who emigrated from Mexico only a few years ago to a kind of dangerous part of the city. The father actually moved the whole family to another part of the city so their son wouldn't get caught up in all this gang stuff.
"He wasn't even living there at the time. He was just visiting a friend and went back for a night to hang out with his buddies. And he got shot dead.
"Meeting the parents, and seeing how hard they struggled to get their child out of this bad way of life, only to have him be murdered … that was really sad."
While the series received praise for its depth of coverage—somewhat of a rarity in the age of new media journalism—the community reaction to the stories was surprisingly matter-of-fact.
"A lot of the comments read, 'Yep, this sounds just like a typical Chicago murder,'" said Kim.
Though the local underdog paper, competing with the Chicago Tribune and which narrowly escaped closure a few years ago, is still struggling, the staff is predictably proud of its Pulitzer-winning team. When Kim returned to the newsroom April 18, the day the Pulitzer winners were announced and his day off, he witnessed a rare sight: literally everyone in the newsroom was smiling.
"The award is a local reporting award, which means it's about the local journalists who wrote these stories and the newsroom, and a really hard-working group of people," Kim said. "So everyone is recognized when something like this happens. It was good to see my co-workers very happy. It's a boost for all of us, not just the three of us."
Kim, who began taking pictures seriously while attending the University of Illinois, got started in photojournalism with his college newspaper. After a five-year stint at the Oakland Tribune, he moved back to Chicago in 2004 to work for the Sun-Times.
Kim, whose self-effacing humor creeps into personal references (his SportsShooter.com profile lists his job title at the Sun-Times as "kitchen help," and he states, "When I grow up, my goal is to brew beer for a living" on his website), is more sober when reflecting on his chosen career.
"It's not easy being a journalist for several reasons, one very obvious one being that people have stopped reading newspapers," Kim said.
"But what makes me want to do this is that I get to do a job where I get to shake hands with somebody new just about every day of my life. Fortunately, most of the time, I get to meet someone on the best day of their lives because they did something really well, or something good happened to them.
"What is life if you don't get to meet people? I get to peek in on somebody's life and get to tell other people about it."
To view photos from the Pulitzer-winning series, visit http://www.suntimes.com/pulitzer.
This article appeared in the June 2011 issue of KoreAm.


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You better watch out, you better not cry,
Better not pout, I'm telling you why,
A new coach is coming to town.
I'm making a list and I'm checking it twice
Doesn't include Mike Tice, surely not Charlie Weis.
A new coach is coming to town.
Fewer than 30 shopping days remain until the Broncos will choose a new general manager, then a new coach.
There must be no fooling around. Too much stuff has hit the fan . . . and the fans.
The Broncos can't wait to make the two critical hires until after the Super Bowl on Feb. 6, and certainly can't wait until after Pat Bowlen has to send out a letter as he did in April of last year imploring the Broncos' dedicated disciples to believe in the "honesty and integrity" of the organization and that Josh McDaniels shared his vision of getting back to the "the highest championship level."
So much for all that.
The list of candidates for the GM's job is extensive, but the list of potential coaches is longer than Santa's beard.
At least 25 former NFL head coaches, current assistant coaches and one current NFL head coach and one current college coach will get a look.
Shall we start with the general manager, who will be selected by a search trio composed of Bowlen, COO Joe Ellis and probable team vice president John Elway? Bowlen again will make the final decision.
Among the serious possibilities, in no particular order, are Brian Xanders (general manager-in-name now), former Broncos GM Ted Sundquist (an executive with the Omaha UFL team), Ernie DeCosta (Ravens director of pro personnel), Rick Smith (Texans general manager), Randy Mueller (Chargers exec), Bill Parcells (late of the Dolphins), Charley Casserly (CBS analyst) and Tom Telesco (Colts director of player personnel).
Anyone with the Patriots need not apply. That ship has sailed — and sunk.
Xanders has been a part of this mess and won't be a part of the solution. No way is Parcells coming to Denver in any role.
Sundquist was well-respected by most in the Broncos' organization, but not by former coach Mike Shanahan. No other NFL team has hired him. Mueller was GM in New Orleans and Miami, but was fired by both franchises and is in a senior adviser capacity with San Diego.
Mueller will get an interview, as will Casserly, who was in football for two dozen years and served as GM in Washington, then Houston.
Smith is in his fifth season with the Texans after being a scout and pro personnel director with the Broncos. He has been wise in the draft. If Texans owner Bob McNair elects to get rid of everybody, Smith could come back to Denver and bring coach Gary Kubiak and a collection of assistants with backgrounds with the Broncos and/or Colorado college teams with him.
Telesco would be my choice. He's been with the Colts for 13 years, the past four as director of player personnel. Examine all the lower picks and undrafted free agents who have made, and become stars, in Indianapolis. Telesco was a contributing force in the Colts' two trips to the Super Bowl, and he will be a GM someday.
Who then will be coaching candidates? I mentioned Kubiak and (Rick) Dennison last week. Jim Fassel wants to return to the NFL in the worst way, and this is it. He took the Giants to a Super Bowl. Unknown to most, Fassel, the Broncos' offensive coordinator in 1993 and 1994, was Bowlen's backup plan in case Shanahan turned down the position back then. Jon Gruden is the popular people's pick — and has said privately he would be intrigued about the Cowboys, the 49ers and the Broncos.
A couple of former head coaches — Mike Mularkey (Falcons offensive coordinator) and Mike Nolan (Dolphins defensive coordinator) — should be interviewed. Mularkey coached Buffalo's last winning team, and Nolan, the former 49ers coach, improved the Broncos' defense last year before his relationship with McDaniels blew apart, and he left abruptly.
Leslie Frazier, second runner-up last time, would be No. 1 on the Broncos' list if he hadn't been named the interim coach with the Vikings. He will stay there. Bill Musgrave, the Panthers' offensive coordinator and a Grand Junction native and Colorado prep star, may get a call. He was an Elway backup briefly with the Broncos, and coached under Shanahan in San Francisco.
Several other coordinators are on the radar, but only one college coach is big on the screen.
That's Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, who would be my choice. He was masterful in turning around the Cardinal program. His brother John has been an outstanding coach with the Ravens. Stanford offered a raise (from $1.25 million) and a contract extension, but Harbaugh hasn't accepted. He played quarterback in the pros and was a Raiders assistant.
Harbaugh will be 47 on Dec. 23, just in time for the Broncos' Christmas.
Ho-ho-ho, a new coach is coming to town.
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Regan Martin stopped believing in Christmas miracles the day she discovered her fiancé was already married.
The fallout cost her everything - her career, her home, and her impeccable reputation in the wine industry. But now she has a second chance with a dream job in the Napa Valley, and a cozy cottage for her and her daughter, whose one Christmas wish is for a forever home.
But those hopes are threatened when Gabe DeLuca, the scorned wife's brother, tries to drive Regan out of town - even if he can't seem to drive the luscious beauty from his thoughts. When his attempts to get her to leave backfire, he sees that Regan may hold the key to tracking down his sister's stolen start-up capital. As Christmas nears, Gabe realizes Regan might even be his Christmas wish and hold the key to his heart.
©2012 Marina Adair (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
"Mixed Feelings on this One!"
I don't know what my true feelings are about this book. Regan was nineteen years old when she was taken advantage of by an older man, who was her mentor, and who also neglected to tell her he was married. Absconding with the funds from the project he was overseeing, abandoning his wife, and leaving his lover pregnant, Regan becomes the target of the DeLucas, who believed she was in on the swindle with him. She was blackballed from every job she got, from California to Oregon, the only thing she knew was the wine industry,but whereever she went the DeLucas found her and used their influence to get her fired. This really bothered me because how long and how far will someone go to make someone's life miserable, and to keep them from making a life for themselves. The De Luca's are rich, powerful and with lots of influence in the wine business, was their hounding of this poor girl necessary? Was Gabe DeLucas sister so fragile that she needed her brothers to hound this poor woman for 6 years? Did they ever consider how young she was when she was involved with their brother in law? How suave his brother in law was, and how he used his position to manipulate this young woman, just as he manipulated the De Lucas and their sister, his wife?
Admittedly, Regan made some silly choices and mistakes in this story that annoyed me to no end. However, I loved the three Mrs. Clauses, it seemed to me they were the only ones in this story with an ounce of sense. Gabe DeLuca was redeemed later in my eyes, when he realized what his interference in her life had cost her and her daughter, his guilt kicked in, he then realized maybe she was the innocent she seemed and had been a victim as much as his sister had.
One thing I can say about Regan is that she never gave up, she was determined to make a good life for her daughter. Though the story ended happily, I was still unsatisfied, I never heard an apology from the rest of the family for their treatment of her for the past 6 years.
Renee Raudman did an excellent job with her narration of this story.
"Great Book, HORRIFIC Narrator"
It is a testament to the author's skill and her ability to create a story interesting enough for me to power through the AWFUL narration. I had forgotten the name of the narrator for Ilona Andrews' Clean Sweep who ruined that book (and that author since she apparently narrates many of her books) for me. Renee Raudman...NEVER again. Weirdly, my problems with her are different in the two books. (In Clean Sweep, she made a 20-something girl sound like an 89-yo southern belle in an old folks home- which was a major turn off for me.) In this book, it sounded like she was narrating with a retainer in her mouth. The resulting "schw" sound for all the "s" sounds was like a cross between Humphrey Bogart and Daffy Duck, "Schweethearth, yer deschpicable." Sadly, you can't tell that from the audio sample since it is only seconds long and mostly consists of intro music. I'm guessing that's intentional.
As for the story, the characters were well-developed and interesting. There was great comedic humor mixed with pretty serious drama in a fairly realistic setting. It is romance, hence, "fairly realistic." I really liked the story, obviously, or I would never have gotten through the first chapter. I found myself liking these people and their town and wanting to know what will happen to them in the future and how they will grow and change. This is my first book by Marina Adair, and IF there is a different narrator for her other books, it will definitely not be my last. Unfortunately, I just DO NOT have the time to sit down and read, so if RR is contracted for more books, I will have to pass. This was a Kindle Unlimited Read and Listen for Free title. As such, I am satisfied with being introduced to a new-to-me author. However, had I spent a credit or cash, I'd have to ask for it back due to the heinous narration.
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"Had this been my first"
I would never read or listen to this author again! Gabe is a complete jerk and continues being a jerk throughout the book! How or why he ends up with the girl is beyond me. I have read and listened to other books in this series prior to to this one that I like much more. If you listen to this one first please give her other books a try.
"I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it."
It was a more or less mindless listen. I went in not expecting greatness. The 'hero' was an as*hat, and in my opinion his acts were unforgivable. But, it is fiction, and one has to suspend the whole reality thing and just take it as it is.
Absolutely not. It is one of my favorites.
All the same, I think she's a good narrator, does well with the different voices.
I picked this up with the Kindle Unlimited, so it was utterly free, I'm not sure I'd have been so accepting of its mediocrity had I paid money for it.
"Supposed to be humorous."
Many uninteresting misunderstandings, adding troubles upon troubles for poor Regan. Some readers will enjoy this type of humor in a slapstick sort of way, but it did not work for me. I was impatient, wanting it to be over.
Regan is a single mom who has been unable to find work in her field (wine marketing) for six years - because Gabe repeatedly sabotages her career. He is wealthy and influential in the wine industry. Regan's goal in life is providing the best she can for her daughter Holly. Regan does stupid things and makes stupid choices which snowball into problems.
The story opens with stupidity. Regan sees Gabe in a grocery story. She's so upset that she walks out of the store without paying for her purchase. Then she damages Gabe's car by running her grocery cart into it and throws several small statues from the nearby Christmas display at his car causing a broken window, dents, and scratches. He watches her do this. Then she puts one of the statues (Randolph a reindeer) in her trunk and drives away. The subject of who will pay for the damages to his car and the statues never comes up in the book. The town is upset at the theft of Randolph, with the sheriff planning to arrest the thief.
Randolph in her car trunk causes repeated problems for Regan. Notices are posted asking for help to find Randolph. So why does Regan tear down a bunch of notices to throw them away? And then she is seen doing that. She tries a few times to return Randolph but people are there. Why didn't she go in the middle of the night? Or leave him somewhere with an anonymous note or a phone call to the authorities. No, she creates embarrassing situations for herself.
Another poor choice:
Isabelle wants to hurt and humiliate Regan every chance she gets. Regan knows this. Regan is a single mom working as a hotel maid. So why does Regan let Isabelle sign her up to volunteer for the children's Christmas play? She later discovers that Isabelle signed her up as chairwomen of the most expensive and time consuming job. Instead of getting out of it claiming there was a misunderstanding, Regan takes it on. Has she no brain? Has she no backbone?
One part I liked:
One dimensional Isabelle. For those who have volunteered for charitable organizations, you will find parts of Isabelle in the most unpleasant people you've known and had to work with.
As to the romance:
Regan and Gabe desire each other and begin a relationship, but during the book a series of things happen causing misunderstandings and problems for them. These problems did not entertain me - maybe because they were one person assuming something inaccurate about the other - causing angst and worry. For example, she doesn't tell him a minor thing from her past. When he later discovers it he is angry and disses her in public - won't take her phone call. It's a problem because only part of the story was told to him, not the whole thing. When he later learns the whole story, it's no problem after all. Yes these types of misunderstandings are commonly used in romances. Sometimes they work. But for me they did not work here.
The narrator Renee Raudman was ok.
Genre: contemporary romance.
"Fun read!"
Sweet story written with humor and just enough hotness to be steamy without smut. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
"Great book"
Good book Thoroughly enjoyed it can't wait to listen/read more. On to the next one.
"Fun, fun, fun"
This was so much fun....needed a fun read, needed to laugh and smile. This is a good read if you want to just have fun. The narrator is excellent.
"Humorous and sweet romance"
Yes, I love this series and the characters Adair introduces.
I loved both Gabe and Regan. We see growth in both of them making the romance feel genuine.
Regan, she brought out her snark and frustration
I giggled and thoroughly enjoyed the banter between the characters.
"totally great read"
Lovely first book of the series and was absolutely great, fantastic characters that had me hooked from beginning to end
"Totally Feel Good!"
I love it when a book ends and I'm left smiling and feeling all loved-up. Sigh!
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By Charles Hallman
Staff Writer
Gopher basketball has previously had parent-sibling combinations on its bench: Former head coach Clem Haskins hired his son Brent as an assistant, and Saul Smith currently is an assistant coach on his father Tubby Smith's staff. But K-Anna Loyd is the first Black female team manager on the school's women's basketball team since 2000. Second-year Assistant Coach Curtis Loyd is her father. This might be an historic first in this regard in Gopher hoops history — a father-daughter duo. A student team manager's job is more than just that of ball boys and ball girls, as most people believe. Continue Reading →


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Windows Vista will lead to green savings, IT heads say
IT directors have estimated that they could save hundreds of thousands of pounds through energy saving by using the green features in Windows...
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IT directors have estimated that they could save hundreds of thousands of pounds through energy saving by using the green features in Windows Vista.
Adrian Davey, head of IT at Tube Lines, said, "Our planned upgrade onto Windows Vista had to be economically efficient. With 2,500 seats, we estimate we would save £40 to £50 in terms of power savings." Over the life of PCs, Davey said this would equate to savings worth half a million pounds.
Davey said the energy savings would help Tube Lines meet its targets to reduce its carbon footprint. Tube Lines is due to roll out Vista in September 2007.
Geoff Connell, chief information office at the London Borough of Newham, estimated the council would save £50 per PC across the 5,000 PCs the councils has. "Even with all the internal PR efforts and green initiates, we found that 1,200 people were still leaving their PCs on overnight," he said. Connell said he expected he would save £50 per PC in energy costs by making use of the power-savings features in Vista.
Energy saving would vary depending on how the PC is used. "if someone is running a screen saver picture of their family on their desktop PC, this will consume power from the graphics processor," Connell said.
Connell said Newham would upgrade to Vista in 2009.
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A lawyer for the ten former "American Idol" contestants suing over alleged discrimination on the show has filed a new brief in the case that attempts to use statistics to prove racial disparity among disqualified contestants.
Per The Hollywood Reporter's Eriq Gardner:
The original complaint filed in New York was 429 pages long and covered a good amount of ground from "unconscionable Willy Wonka contracts" to allegedly manipulated reality television to support the notion that there was something fishy about the disparate amount of African Americans who were disqualified from competition over the years.
Since being filed eight months ago, the lawsuit has undergone a couple of revisions and is headed towards a judge's determination about whether it should go forward.
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Build It...and They Will Come? Really?
A website is just as important in today's market as the physical
showroom. Some may argue that the value of the online showroom
has more influence over the shopper's decision making than the
physical showroom. With a website being as crucial as a physica
showroom than it is quite crucial to the success of a dealership
that the online presence clearly communicates the image and reputation
the dealership desires. If a poor image is unintentionally marketed
it will actually detour shoppers from contacting the dealership
instead of encouraging contact. The dealer may never know.
Consider having the most beautiful well maintained physical showroom
but that is off a side road that is not visible by any traffic.
If no one knows how to find the store than it doesn't matter
how nice the image is, the performance will most likely be dismal.
The shopper must be invited to visit by being encouraged that
the products and services being offered fit their wants and needs.
Terms like SEO, SEM, Google, Social Media, etc.. are being sold
to dealers as the "answer" on how to get those shoppers to
their store on that side road. Traditionally a dealership draws
traffic in through advertising, marketing, merchandising, location,
referrals, etc… All the same principals apply to the online
showroom but with a twist and that is what you will learn in this
section is what merchandising looks likes and what a balloon and
window sticker is to the online "world". We will discuss how
popular advertising mediums such as radio and tv work with the
new media such as facebook & Google ads, online listing sites
and social media. Most important is learning what not to focus
on and what is a waste of the dealerships time and money.
This site will take you on a step by step process from crawling
to running in attracting to managing online customers. In the
end it will be revealed why the car business really hasn't changed,
just the way we communicate has. It's time for dealers to
stop being sold internet "snake oil" and keep their
hard earned money. Let's begin.
To achieve traffic from customers typing in your website address directly, customers will need to know your website/domain name (WWW.MYNAME.COM). This can be done through marketing your website address during your traditional media campaigns such as TV Ads, Radio Spots, Direct Mail Post Cards, etc....
(FREE) SEO is the acronym for search engine optimization.
To achieve traffic organically, the content of the website
must be relevant and rich in relatable content to the search
terms. Since the majority of searches include the dealer's
name, make and city in 80% of sales searches it is important
to have those three words repeated in relevant ways in all
sections of the website. P.S. That's the secret!
Relatable includes meta tags, video, indexing, linking,
etc... This can be a complex process and should be done
during the construction of the website to get best results,
and should be an ongoing process with the goal of obtaining
results. Organic searches can also include optimization
of local community sites, Google maps, reviews, news articles
your business appears in, etc.. It is a good idea to optimize
your site to have as many other websites link to you as
possible. When other sites link to yours, your relevance
with search engines increases, and they drive more traffic
your way.
(PAID) SEM encompasses paid advertising searches such
as pay-per-click advertising on sponsored links at the tops
and right side of Google search results. SEM also includes
Google video searches, micro-sites, banner ads and pre-roll
on videos such as on YouTube.com First page placement
can be achieved by paying to be there. This is accomplished
by using a tool such as Google's Adwords. The goal is
to place bids on relevant search words such as the city,
dealership name, make and model that customers are searching
to find you. This can include words potentially searched
to locate your competition as well. Your "ad"
links to your website, and will appear at the very top of
the page and right hand side depending on your keyword bid
amount and relevancy of link to keyword. This is an auction
business model, and must be managed several times per week
to be effective.
This is a great alternative to direct mail. Not only can the content be delivered for a few cents or less but it is also dynamic, real time and has the ability to get the recipient to take action via phone, email or text instantly. When content is valuable and relevant recipients will respond to this form of communication. The return on investment will prove to be one of the least expensive, yet most effective.
Today more adults are sending text messages than
making phone calls. Almost a 4:1 ratio. With a read rate
of 90% it sounds like the golden ticket. In addition the
cost to get that response is less than a few cents a text.
Texting is one of the most effective and least expensive
forms of advertising. The user must give permission to
contact them via text otherwise the dealership may run into
legal issues and lose the customer before contact has been
made from someone at the dealership. Permission is gained
by providing value and therefore opt-in.
Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIN, YouTube, blogs, etc. These are all avenues that allow online users to socialize with each other and to be entertained and informed on only the people and things that they want to be connected with. To be successful a dealership must have a product or service that entices a shopper to want to "connect" with them. You will learn how this can be the most effective way to build a relationship or tear it down depending on how you use this permission based marketing.
Websites like DriveThePrice.com, Autotrader.com and Cars.com
provide dealerships with shoppers that are in the market,
know the competition, have picked the car out on the lot,
and already been through half of the sales process. By
the time they contact the dealership through phone, email
or the most preferred method now which is just showing
up these buyers are ready to take a vehicle home. These
sites are great advertisement for a dealership and give
shoppers exactly what they want. Which is why they have
gained such a foothold in the market.
There are many changes in the perception of the effectiveness
of this form of advertising. With the rise in internet usage
and relevant content more and more shoppers are using it
to make buying decisions based on permission advertising
vs. interuptive advertising. That being said traditional
media is still very effective at getting out a message to
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i have a rash that goes all the way around my penis like right before the head and like a small part looks like its peeling or cut. it doesnt bother me too much, and it looks like lil red bumps but tiny ones and this is only at the top of my shaft. i have been working out alot for the past couple of weeks and i sweat alot. i am also 5′ 7 225 pounds so i dont know if it is from the sweat or if its irritation from jogging or what. anyone have any answers? oh and i dont sleep around so i dont think its a std.
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but do you have intercourse regularly? It can cause irritation even bleeding around the head from being chapped, sweat will also cause this
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Paige Kinsella Cripe, Eric Murphy, Lindsey Burns and Justine Weber will be inducted on May 2nd as the 2013/14 Cintas Graduate Ethics Fellows in the MBA Program of the Williams College of Business at Xavier University.
These 4 MBA students were selected for their commitment to ethics in the work place, the business community, and their own moral code.
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As a business leader I recognize my role in society.
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ASIFA's Next Step: A Continuation of the History of ASIFA's Patronage of Festivals
by Michel Ocelot
June 1998: Following lengthy discussions through all kinds of correspondence, the ASIFA Board of Directors held working meetings in Zagreb and reached the following decisions:
After 20 years of varying degrees of success, ASIFA has now decided to replace the system of Festival PATRONAGE. The new structure, tentatively called PARTNERSHIP, is open to any worthwhile festival, including non-specialized ones.
Partnership introduces regular input from the filmmakers themselves via forms they are invited to fill out at a festival's close. These opinions, together with additional information supplied by festival directors, will form the basis of new RATINGS for festivals.
Festival regulations will not lose their use, but they will instead serve more as GUIDELINES, which are less restrictive than the old regulations and more adaptable to the particular needs of both filmmakers and festivals.
The official recognition letters will remain one of the instruments of ASIFA when they prove useful to festivals.
The ASIFA Board of Directors will endeavor to establish and publish the texts defining these new arrangements by September, 1998.
A Word on the Ottawa Festival
In June 1997, ASIFA was informed that the Ottawa director, staff and advisory board had decided to maintain their relationship with ASIFA for the next festival and requested the approval of their regulations. Since they were the standard approved ASIFA recommended rules, patronage was readily granted.
In April 1998, there was a change of mind. The Ottawa director officially informed me he was not satisfied with ASIFA and that his festival was withdrawing from being an ASIFA-sanctioned festival. In a separate personal message he stressed that he had no intention of going public and was not going to issue press releases or announcements on the Ottawa web site.
In my previous article, ASIFA And Festivals: A Changing Relationship, I refrained from naming Ottawa, even if I spoke of festivals not feeling the need to request ASIFA patronage anymore. A little later, Ottawa issued press releases on its withdrawal from ASIFA sanctioned festivals, and its director, in a personal letter to me, strongly reproached me for my discretion on the matter. Adapting to this, I will now make these changes public.
Ottawa `98 is not an officially ASIFA-sanctioned festival. The festival must be reminded that patronage was never imposed on festivals in any way. Instead it was to be requested each time by the concerned festival organizers from the ASIFA Secretary General. There is no such thing as `ASIFA International.' There is just one ASIFA, with built-in internationalism. As far as I know, ASIFA members will go on helping with the Canadian festival as before, seeing things in perspective.
One last note: In a recent ASIFA News issue somebody added Ottawa to the list of ASIFA-patronized festivals, thinking it was an oversight. I apologize. Such things happen. The Annecy festival, to which we unquestionably expressed our disapproval on the way they conducted their annualization, printed on the first mailing of their rules and regulations that they were under ASIFA patronage, a message that was sent to 26,500 addresses.
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text: New nanosensor sniffs bombs, one molecule at a time Technology 11 May 11 by Spencer Ackerman Los Alamos National Laboratory Neither von Wandruszka nor his colleague at the university, Patrick Jerzy Hrdlicka, have read Strano's paper. But Hrdlicka is intrigued."Single-molecule detection is clearly interesting and something people are striving for these days," Hrdlicka says. "Surely that's going to be a very interesting result, provided their sensor technology is reproducible, easy to commercialize, easy to use, and so on."Indeed, if so, there's a market for it that extends far beyond the airports. The threat from homemade bombs to troops at war has prompted billions in spending over the last decade.But the state of the art technology is still a dog's nose, according to the Pentagon's anti-bomb squad -- which is why the Navy SEALs took a canine companion along when raiding Osama bin Laden's house.Explosives-detection tech modelled on a dog's nose is also the claim to fame of the director of the Pentagon's blue-sky research agency, Regina Dugan. (It's also what her family firm, RedXDefense has controversial contracts with Darpa to study.)Nanoscience isn't even the most baroque method of explosives detection around. A biologist at Colorado State University is breeding plants that change colour in the presence of bomb materials.There are limits, though. Von Wandruszka thinks a sensor that sniffs down to a single molecule would be subject to false positives. And while the sensor doesn't have a "clear distance after which it can't be used," Strano says, it's meant more for "looking for contaminated surfaces" -- not remote detection.At the same time, while Strano's sensor isn't designed for detecting explosive compounds at a distance, there's a simple engineering solution: Make the device mobile.It's an engineering and finance problem to get the sensor mobile, Strano figures, a matter of shrinking down an infrared microscope that can see the sensor's flickering signal. Because his work has been funded by the Army's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT, he might be able to find some deep-pocket sponsors who'd be interested in taking it mobile."If you walked through the airport after a shower, you'd be dripping wet," he explains. "Anyone you touch or brushed up against would get a little bit wet. That can help me follow everyone you've touched. But if I get closer to where you are, I'll find a lot of wetness." Beats having your junk touched. Source: Wired.com Edited by Alice Vincent Back to start 12 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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Wake Forest Baptist Health is seeking a board certified Dermatologist to join us in our Mission to Care, Mission to Cure. The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:
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The Department of Dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Health is the region's leading Dermatology Department. Our internationally renowned clinicians see patients from western North Carolina, Tennessee, southern Virginia and beyond, in our state of the art clinics specifically built for Dermatology needs. The department houses a Dermatologic Surgery/MOHS unit, specialty clinics in Hair Disorders, Complex Medical Dermatology, Patch Testing and Cosmetics.
The Pediatric Dermatologist will provide additional pediatric-centered clinics, additional and quicker access for patient care, and targeted resident education in Pediatric Dermatology. The incumbent will also run general Dermatology clinics and conduct hospital consultations at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, located in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Wake Forest Baptist Health is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to achieving diversity among its faculty and staff. The Department of Dermatology faculty members have lectured all over the United States and the world and are regularly listed in the Top 100 Doctors in America by U.S. News & World Report. If you are interested in joining an esteemed team of professionals at one of the nation's leading academic health systems, we invite you to apply online at: http://www.wakehealth.edu/HR/Faculty/Current-Opportunities.htm and key in Job ID #3450.
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Argh! Finally, I have the free time to post this tutorial, hope this can giving you guys a brief description on how Ive done this.
Dremel kits
Hobby knife
Hair dryer
Super glue
Epoxy glue
Male/female adapter
Thin wire
Flat black paint
1.5mm Fiber optic cable
200 ohm resistor x 3
3mm LED:
2 red for eyes
7 white for chest
4 white for headlights
2 orange for signal.
After removing the screw, take the head apart. [Then], take down the black gear part that [is] linking the head. Dremel the head area as shown. The picture shows only one side Dremel because [you can] clearly [see] the before and after. Paint the area to flat black, [leave] only 2 spots for the plastic to transmit the red lights to the eye:
File down two (2) red LEDs to fit the length of the head. Fit the LED to the back part of the head. [Place] the LED's positive point downwards. Drill a hole there to allow your resistor and a thin wire to sneak inside. Solder resistor to the LED's "positive". Connect the thin wire to "negative". Notice (after removing the black gear part) the head will go off of his body because nothing blocks it beneath. Now this problem is solved with [placing]the resistor like that:
After making sure the lights is on, always seal the part with epoxy:
Now, drill the chest with a 1.5mm drill bit. Cut the side with hobby knife, making sure the part is well fitted to your switch. For mine, I cut both sides - another side is my adapter for external power:
Fill in the fiber optic and seal it with putty. Using hair dryer to heat the fiber optic, bend them all to close enough. DO NOT overheat; it will melt, and the shape will run:
Dremel the area large enough to fit your battery pack:
Place two (2) LEDs in the hole. Beware [of] the back wheel when transforming it back to vehicle [mode]. Make sure the LED doesnt block the hole that lets the back wheel to fit into the hole. Put some putty to make the LED hold in place. Then, wire the on/off switch to the LED's "+" and battery pack's "+", and wiring the LED's "-" to [the] battery pack's "-". I put an aquarium tube to the fiber optic; it helps lock the LED in place:
After that is complete, you can now link all the LEDs to the place. Just make sure the "+" and "-" is wired correctly. If you wanna make external power as mine, thats easy - just link the adapter to the LED [as] there's no need go over the switch.
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Now solder the HEAD to the chest's middle LED. And i solder the female adaptor to the led as well. Is is to connect the LEGs part of the longhaul later. And seal it again with epoxy.
The vehicle headlights now. Dremel ur headlamps, signal, make a place to allow led to fit in. Make a drain to bury the wire later at the black part.
File ur orange led to as flat as possible after u place it. Apply small drop of super glue. Solder 2 white led and also super glue it to the head lights. Wired the orange led and now bend it to bury into the drain u've make. Apply small drop of super glue. Make sure u din block the hole there, the hole need to attach to the knee of long haul when he transform.
Notes: small drop of super glue is easier when you have to replace led, jus use hair dryer heat it up and jus take it off with plier. If too much of glue, u hav to drill it out, coz it will stick too tight.
Orange led's "+" wired to resistor, and another side of the resistor solder to the white led's "+". And so on the orange "-" to white's "-".
Now drill a hole to the back of the longhaul. Make 2 wire attach to the male adaptor, 1 for left leg 1 for right. After done, jus wire them to the correct "+" "-" to the white led.
You are done. So now what u have to do is jus join the adaptor, screw it back, switch it on and enjoy.
Minor problem occur when u transform it back to vehicle. The wire will block the front part to join with the vehicle. Easy, jus dremel tat area. Then everythings is settle. Hope this can give u guys a little help.
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Editor's note: The following is an open letter by Move Inc. CEO Steve Berkowitz addressing the distributed denial of service attack that disrupted realtor.com® and other sites the company operates this week.
Industry colleagues, consumers, and customers,
I am writing to make you aware that Move, Inc. is the target of an ongoing malicious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This means that a person or group of people is illegally generating massive amounts of Internet traffic and pointing it at our sites, including realtor.com, Top Producer and other Move corporate sites.
The amount of traffic makes our services unavailable to legitimate consumers and customers. Like other technology companies, Move has defended itself from DDoS attacks in past, however the scale of this week's attack is large enough to impact the company's network service providers. Other major online portals received similar attacks in recent months. We have spoken with some of these companies to learn from their recent experience.
Attacks of this kind typically do not result in data loss or security breach, and we do not believe that this attack jeopardizes any data or its security on any of our websites.
Appropriate law enforcement is working to determine the attack's origin. In connection with the attack, Move received a ransom demand, which it did not respond to. DDoS attacks on Internet-based businesses and associated ransom demands are unfortunately becoming more common.
Feel confident that Move's technical team is working around-the-clock with the Prolexic division of Akamai Technologies, Inc., Internet security experts, and its network service providers to resolve the problem and help prevent future attacks.
Our focus is to restore operations as quickly and securely as possible to provide consumers access to residential listings and to support our real estate industry customers.
Because the design of the attack is to overwhelm a system with traffic, even the redundant aspects of our systems are impacted. Move is working to migrate all its systems to a different network architecture to increase their protection. We operate a large suite of websites so its migration plan is complex and will take several days, which is typical for companies under a DDoS attack of this strength.
In addition to hearing from me, you might also hear from other leaders of our businesses. We will provide status updates on our Facebook pages. For realtor.com, visit http://ht.ly/yehzs and for Top Producer, visit http://ht.ly/yehWQ.
Fighting the good fight,
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This luxury lodge is situated in a national park.
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This lodge features a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a bar/lounge. Additionally, laundry facilities and a garden are onsite.
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The lodge offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This luxury lodge also offers an outdoor pool, a garden, and laundry facilities. A total renovation of this property was completed in February 2012.
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Hoyo Hoyo Safari Lodge has a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Prema is a family friendly Arts Centre, promoting performance, live music and art exhibitions as well as accessible workshops, classes and creative experiences for kids and adults.
Prema, near Dursley in the Stroud valleys, offers an affordable day out for all folk in the South West.
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The Prema Knitting Group meets up on the first Thursday of each month in our newly refurshed and toasty-warm Old Schoolroom. Here's the perfect opportunity to meet up with other knitters and crafters to exchange ideas, yarn-stashes and pick up a whole range of tips to boost your portfolio of knitting skills. It's all very friendly and informal - you'll love it, totes!Find Out More
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Connecting the Parts: On Mindfulness, Empathy, and Listening to Learn
A central feature of conflict is division. Parties see themselves as "I" versus "you" rather than as "we". When conflicts are constructively addressed, that sense of division often lessens. "I" and "you" do not fully disappear, but "we" somehow emerges too. This session will explore three tools for helping to make such connection: mindfulness, empathy, and listening to learn.
Leonard Riskin, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL
Jennifer Brown, Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden, CT
Jonathan Cohen, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL
Best Commercial Arbitration Practices
A review of best practices and practical suggestions for making your service as an arbitrator more cost effective and productive. Consideration of procedures designed to minimize problems with counsel and parties and to maximize efficiency and understanding of the core issues. Analysis of specific practice tips for use at the preliminary hearing, during discovery, regarding motion practice (if any), at the hearing, and in drafting the award. Reference to the College of Commercial Arbitrators' Protocols and Best Practices Guide.
Edna Sussman, College of Commercial Arbitrators, Scarsdale, NY
Tyrone Holt, College of Commercial Arbitrators, Denver, CO
Eugene Farber, Farber, Pappalardo & Carbonari, White Plains, NY
Conflict Management in the Boardroom: New Opportunities for the Dispute Resolution Professional
This presentation will examine an exciting new practice area for the dispute resolution professional – assisting dysfunctional boards of directors, or any other collaborative decisional body, whether in business, government or voluntary organizations, with respect to any and all of the board's activities. The panel will begin by differentiating this practice area from the traditional practice areas of mediation, arbitration and facilitation of discrete disputes. Following this, the panel will present a process for reliably moving a board from dysfunctionality to effectiveness. Finally, the panel will explore marketing opportunities in this new practice area.
Kendall Reed, Alternative Resolution Centers, Los Angeles, CA
Reginald Holmes, The Holmes Law Firm, Pasadena, CA
Maria Simpson, Personal Skills Management, Los Angeles, CA
Eric van Ginkel, Agency for Dispute Resolution, Los Angeles, CA
Innovative Strategies to Resolve Family Business and Other Organizational Conflicts
Dealing with conflicts can take up 80% of our work time. Family businesses make up approximately 80% of enterprises. The added complexities of family dynamics, including delegation difficulties, new family members, responsibility assumptions, succession processes, and other types of conflicts cause 70% of these businesses to fall apart in the second generation, and 93% in the third generation. Effective resolution requires members to acknowledge how they contribute to the conflict and may even be the cause (Complex Theory), and understand the context and relationships (Systems Theory). Third parties are necessary to support and facilitate resolution processes that enable organizational sustainability. This presentation examines workplace conflicts, with a focus on family businesses, and innovative resolution processes through interactive discussions and role-plays that enhance conflict resolution skills.
Stephanie Stobbe, Menno Simons College at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Lilian Vargas, Fundacion Instituto de Mediacion (FIMe), Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
Using Collaborative Skills with Other Processes in the ADR Toolbox
The panel will demonstrate how skills used in collaborative law may be applied to other dispute resolution procedures. Focusing on the interests, goals, and concerns of their clients rather than positional or rights based bargaining will lead to more creative and satisfying results for the parties. The panel will explain how a slight adjustment in the way lawyers handle their clients' issues will increase their ability to provide opportunities for successful resolution. Each panel member will comment on a segment of representation beginning with the screening interview and ending with resolution.
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Lawrence R. Maxwell, Jr., Attorney - Mediator - Arbitrator, Dallas, TX
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Robert Lopich, Collaborative Lawyers Pty Ltd, Shellharbour Village, New South Wales, Australia
Literary Intelligence for Mediators
Literary intelligence is a prime tool for helping mediators develop empathy and creative responsiveness to parties in conflict. The self- awareness and relationship-awareness skills of emotional intelligence can be enhanced by engaging literary representations of conflict. Patterned language in poetry engages the whole person through the senses, emotion, and intellect; drama creates visuals and actions from revenge to reconciliation; while story and the novel offer narrative world-making, helping us imagine possibilities for peace. From Homer, Aeschylus, and Shakespeare, to Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Toni Morrison, literary conflicts can help mediators gain strategies to create real-world peace.
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Inga Watkins, Watkins Law and Dispute Resolution, PLC, Alexandria, VA
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This program presents and demonstrates the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of the mind and potential benefits of integrating it into conflict resolution. IFS, one of the leading approaches to family therapy, rests on the construct that the mind is composed of "Sub-Personalities" or "Parts," each of which behaves like a person—and can be prompted into action in a negotiation. (Examples: Scared Child; Big Shot; Critic, and an Internal "Self") IFS can help people access an open-minded state of calm, compassion and clarity and provides tools for mediators and parties to manage their own internal "negotiations" and external negotiations.
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Leonard Riskin, University of Florida College of Law; Northwestern Law School, Gainesville, FL
Richard Schwartz, Center for Self-Leadership, Oak Park, IL
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Mediating Positional Bargaining in Insured Claims and Other Claims for Money
Impasses in negotiations about money are numerous and predictable: The parties threaten to "walk out"; they tell mediators to "go get me a reasonable proposal"; and they make low/high ball proposals in retaliation against the other party's "inadequate move". These negotiations are characterized by positional bargaining which stubbornly resists reframing as interest-based conversations. This session is a practical skills seminar using presentations, demonstrations, and interactive discussion to show how mediators can deal with the accusations of "insulting offers" and "bad faith proposals" which are so prevalent in positional bargaining, by using classical mediation skills and processes instead of the directive and evaluative techniques that are often associated with civil court mediations.
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