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Girts commented on the post, Button wants F1 calendar capped at 21 races 4 months, 2 weeks ago
@andrewt Well, if the quality of racing is bad, then we should either improve it or have 0 races. But maybe markp has a point and F1 fans are indeed too demanding.
Sonics commented on the post, When should F1 introduce 'elimination qualifying'? 4 months, 4 weeks ago
@andrewt I get where you coming from, but I think I don't agree with your conclusion. The biggest problem is (I'm not counting Mercedes here because they're anomaly) how much time you can afford to relax while […]
Sonics commented on the post, When should F1 introduce 'elimination qualifying'? 5 months ago
@andrewt How this new rule is rewarding people who not driving flat out?
mickey18 commented on the post, Revealed: Which drivers have enough superlicence points to race in F1 next year 7 months, 3 weeks ago
I like your points @andrewt
Optimaximal commented on the post, Renault boss casts doubt over 2016 driver line-up 7 months, 3 weeks ago
@andrewt Renault would likely be happy to see the back of PDVSA because they're a industry rival to Total.
Fixy commented on the post, The 2015 turn-off goes on in Brazil 8 months, 1 week ago
@andrewt if one day I manage to get into a relevant position at FOM I swear I'll bring you with me. Keep yourself free in case you get a call!
MattyPF1 commented on the post, Vettel doubts Red Bull will carry out quit threat 9 months, 2 weeks ago
@andrewt I hope so. He's come from the same kind of path as Paul di Resta has through his racing career. But, unlike di Resta, Wehrlein (if he makes his F1 debut next season) will not only be much younger than di […]
PorscheF1 commented on the post, Haas won't end 2016 point-less – Manor 9 months, 3 weeks ago
@andrewt Don't forget Red Bull is a privateer and they did pretty well. Granted Haas does not have their budget but I think they have a good shot at finishing ahead of Sauber.
Optimaximal commented on the post, Grosjean joins new team Haas for 2016 10 months ago
@andrewt the 2014 Ferrari engine was rubbish though – they'd probably be ahead of McLaren with the 2015 unit.
dragoll commented on the post, "It doesn't matter how good you are at overtaking" – Hamilton 10 months ago
Haha, I just responded to @andrewt post in the previous article. Great COTD.
dragoll commented on the post, Alonso hails 'best lap of Suzuka' 10 months ago
@andrewt Great comment.
We don't know if the upgrades are working or not, purely because the engine/ers/kers issue is such a dominant factor. But your point is valid, if he wants to respond to the press without […]
David Not Coulthard commented on the post, Rate the race: 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix 1 year ago
@andrewt In all fairness Vettel's lead, if untaken apart from the pitstops, weren't exactly unchallenged either.
Slowhands commented on the post, Penalty points mount up for Maldonado 1 year, 4 months ago
Mayank commented on the post, Not difficult to implement Safety Car changes – Vettel 1 year, 9 months ago
I also agree with u @andrewt, this is perhaps the most feasible option we could have right now. Also what @ferrox-glideh said, cars require different speeds at different part of circuit so may be we can have a […]
David-A commented on the post, Vettel wins F1 Fanatic Driver of the Year and Pass of the Year polls 2 years, 7 months ago
@andrewt – No, it's like a shootout when one uses up all their equally allotted ammo shooting inaccurately and failing to finish off the opposition, while the other saves his ammo for a later attack.
Max Jacobson commented on the post, Vettel wins F1 Fanatic Driver of the Year and Pass of the Year polls 2 years, 7 months ago
Max Jacobson commented on the post, Vettel wins F1 Fanatic Driver of the Year and Pass of the Year polls 2 years, 7 months ago
@andrewt that argument was dispelled a long time ago by Christian Horner. They were fighting for position in fair equipment, just Vettel had saved his brand new option tyres for a push at the end and Webber hadn't […]
infernojim commented on the post, Hulkenberg should have had a seat sooner – Gutierrez 2 years, 7 months ago
@andrewt "There are more eskimos than seals" is a fantastic expression. I'm going to start using it as often as possible! :-)
forcef1 commented on the post, Rival team reneged on Magnussen deal – Whitmarsh 2 years, 8 months ago
@andrewt don't you think it would be difficult for force india to backout considering they are customers of mclaren? If they did, they must have a damn good reason, which i can't think of..
@HoHum commented on the post, Raikkonen trouble reveals state of F1 – Ricciardo 2 years, 8 months ago
@andrewt, Agree, when you see motoGP riders breaking bones one weekend and being back in the saddle the next it puts a bumpy ride in F1 into perspective.
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Barbour backtracks on opposition to BP escrow account: "I think the President was smart"
Lasst week Dirty energy lobbyist-turned-Governor Barbour was concerned that escrow account will cut into BP's profits, saying "It bothers me." On Sunday, on NBC's Meet the Press, when host David Gregory asked Barbour why he opposed the account now that the oil giant has agreed to pay into it, Barbour made a statement that might find its way into a bar reelection campaign ad. Think Progress has the video
BARBOUR: Right, well, I thought that they were talking about taking $20 billion from BP all at once and my fear was if you took $20 billion from them all at once, put it in an escrow account then they wouldn't have the working capital to generate the revenue to pay us. I think the President was smart, and I congratulate him and BP that they reached an agreement on. Instead of $20 billion taken out of that working capital all at once, it's actually going to be $5 billion this year, $5 billion the next year, $5 billion the following year and $5 billion the fourth year.
If Barbour ends up running for the GOP presidential nomination, I'm quite certain that clip will be showing up over and over again.
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President Barbour? Puhleez. I'm tired of hillbillies like him and Palin being talked about as candidates for "higher office". Americans aren't that dumb.
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I take acception to Mr. Roddy's comment. Are you sure that Americans aren't that dumb? Looking back over that past decade or so I find that I can't agree. Americans over and over again have shown themselves to be intellectually lazy, anti-science and 'dumb.' Just an opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.
"Americans over and over again have shown themselves to be intellectually lazy, anti-science and 'dumb.' "
Isn't this a global situation? At least everywhere you see the combustion engine rule, i would suppose.
The Dick Cheney proteges are coming out of the woodwork. Put on your dancing shoes!

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Last year, the US Women's soccer team was the pride of the country, making it to the finals of the World Cup. They fell just short of the title, losing an epic final match against Japan. During the shootout, Tobin Heath had her penalty kick blocked by the Japanese goalie. This caused true fans to wonder what could have been.
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Heath currently plays for Sky Blue FC, but as we mentioned earlier played collegiately at North Carolina. She is just the next in a line of many successful players from that school, following those such as Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and fellow national teammate Heather O'Reilly.
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In the past, managers aimed for success in a relatively stable and predictable world. Today, however, in the hyperturbulent environment of the twenty-first century, managers confront accelerating change. They are facing constant innovation in computer and information technology and a chaotic world of changing markets and consumer lifestyles. Today's organization must be able to transform and renew to meet these changing forces.
This is a book about human resource management (also known as HRM). HRM is a management discipline aimed at improving organizational effectiveness by utilizing a firm's human resources. It is also about managing in a changing world. We have tried to make this the most "user-friendly" text available. Human Resource Management: An Experiential Approach offers a practical and realistic approach to the study of human resource management. Through the applications of a new procedurethe Success System Modeleach of the functions is described from the standpoint of its relationship to the overall program of human resource management. This book is written primarily for students who are learning about human resource management for the first time. The text relates the student to the real world through the use of numerous illustrations and company examples, showing how human resource management is being applied in today's organizations.
HRM is an emerging behavioral science discipline that provides a set of methodologies for systematically bringing about high-performing organizations. The goals of HRM are to make an organization more effective and to enhance the opportunity for the individual to develop their potential. It is our view that these HRM goals can be accomplished best by using the experiential approach to learning.
This text differs from most HRM texts by providing both conceptual and experiential approaches to the study of HRM. A revolution is underway in how individuals use education to improve their performance. Our approach is to focus on the development of interpersonal skills. Students are provided with a conceptual framework necessary to understand the relevant issues in HRM. In addition, individuals will be actively participating in individual and team exercises that require the application of chapter content to specific organizational situations. This approach is aimed at developing those critical interpersonal skills needed to manage in a changing world.
This text is the first to directly relate student learning experiences in HRM with those skills judged by experts to be essential for potential HR managers. As noted in chapter 1, recent studies have been critical of recent business graduates for deficiencies in a number of areas, including communication skills, problem solving, decision-making ability, and leadership potential. This is the first approach to provide coverage of HRM topics while also developing student skills in a "learn-by-doing" context.OBJECTIVES
The basic objective is to provide the student and practicing manager with an integrated and comprehensive view of the field of HRM. We hope to present, in a clear and organized manner, the newest approaches, concepts, and techniques of this discipline. We have attempted to include most of the current state-of-the-art HRM techniques of this discipline. The stages of the Success System Model are presented so as to provide a step-by-step description of the various techniques and problems involved in organization HRM efforts.
Our second objective is to present HRM from an experiential learning approach; that is, the student not only reads the concepts but also practices and experiments by doing and using these techniques in a simulated organizational situation.
There is much evidence to support the success of this approach. Our own experience and student evaluations support this. Students report an enhanced level of learning, greater course satisfaction, and rate the overall course learning higher than in more traditional courses.
The HRM concepts, techniques, and skills that make up this book were selected because of their usefulness to practitioners. To achieve this goal, we have integrated materials from a diverse set of approaches. Our strategy has been to try and integrate these various approaches to provide a comprehensive view of HRM.
Every successful HRM program is the result of a concerted group effort, and each failure is a failure for all organization members. Therefore, peopleas agents of change, not forces or structuresdetermine whether the HR manager will manage change effectively. Because the HR practitioners' effectiveness results not only from the concepts learned but also from their managerial style and the way they influence others, our emphasis in this book is on the experiential approach to learning.
As students progress in the book, the simulations will allow them to continually utilize growing knowledge and experience, thereby building a foundation of management skills to carry forward into their managerial career. By analyzing successes and failures, students begin to develop the ability to learn from experience and to develop insights into organizational functioning that would normally take years to acquire.METHODOLOGIES
This HRM text is designed to present the complex and fascinating world of managing people in a easy-to-grasp, user-friendly way. In addition to its comprehensive, innovative coverage, the text provides an HR practitioner a managerial approach to the field. It provides a rich depth of practical examples and applications, showing the major problems that managers face in their efforts to change organizations to meet a changing environment.
Each chapter presents an HRM skill application, a major example describing actual company situations, practical examples, a case, and a behavioral problem-solving simulation. Finally, this HRM text makes learning this discipline easy and enjoyable. Its writing style and level are well suited to the beginning HRM student.
The text sets forth incidents that reveal the drama of today's HR manager, such as how Apple Computer's culture focuses not just on products, but also on the hopes and dreams of its members; Walt Disney's legendary emphasis on making the customer happy; and Johnson & Johnson's attempt to change to an entrepreneurial culture.
The manager of the future will probably be acting as a people manager and will be involved in initiating, designing, or implementing organization-change programs: The material in the text will provide the manager with new methodologies and techniques for implementing FIRM programs, as well as an opportunity for personal growth and development. The book is designed so that each one may assess their own behavior and begin setting some personal development goals. Also, opportunities are created for feedback on the effectiveness of one's behavioral style, which encourages greater effectiveness.
The text is designed so that the instructor may incorporate new methodologies into the learning situation, including simulations and cases. All of the experiential skill exercises in this text were designed to focus on critical personal skills in the HRM field.
The text is organized to present an overview of HRM concepts and theories and provides behavioral skill simulations for each major stage of an HRM program. This book may be used as an independent study guide for those wanting to learn more about organization change or as a comprehensive set of materials on how to initiate HR programs for the practicing HRM or operating manager.FEATURES
This HRM text gives the student a comprehensive, innovative, and practical introduction to the field. Its style and extensive use of applications and exercises make the book straightforward, easy to read, and enjoyable.
The text contains 19 chapters to fit a one semester course and has been thoroughly edited to improve readability. Illustrations and figures add to the book's visual appeal. All tables, facts, figures, references, and dozens of current examples are provided within the text materials. Chapter objectives and a list of key terms are supplied for each chapter to enhance learning.
Human Resource Management: An Experiential Approach, Second Edition offers coverage on several important topics: organization renewal, changing the corporate culture, self-managed work teams, organization compensation, managing diversity, total quality management, and empowerment.
The text has many significant features that we have included to promote the readability and understanding of important human resource management concepts.
- The Success System Model presents a visual, graphic display of the major stages relating all human resource management topics. We believe that the model (in each section) will serve as an excellent teaching device.
- The approach is dynamic rather than static. Time is considered as a significant variable in changing organizations.
- Case studies involving human resource management are provided at the end of each chapter to provide for discussion of the major topics.
- HRM in Action examples are included in many chapters. These examples allow the student to become involved in situations that are occurring in the business world.
- A comprehensive exercise called HRM Skills Simulation is provided for each chapter. These exercises provide for extensive class participation.
This book was designed to provide a variety of learning methods. The skill exercises are fun and involving, cases often make the concepts more understandable, and text readings provide a set of concepts to be applied and challenged. The book can be used as the primary text or as a supplemental text for college courses at the junior or senior level. We have successfully used the material with undergraduate students, as well as with students from many fields, including communications, public administration, engineering, administration, and health care. The material has also been used for management training and executive development programs in a variety of fields with bankers, engineers, nurses, teachers, public administrators, military officers, production managers, and marketing managers, and at a variety of levels from first-line supervision to top management teams.TOPICS
Corporate culture, goal setting, organizational compensation, empowerment, and self-managed work teams are the subject of chapters. These chapters represent recent theory, research, and applications in literature.
Each case emphasizes a particular HRM issue or managerial technique. They cover a variety of different types and sizes of organizations and include problems at all levels of management.
The HRM in Action segments have been enthusiastically received by students and instructors. They report actual applications of concepts and theories presented in the chapter and appear at the exact point in the text where the concept or theory is being discussed. Many chapters in this second edition contain an HRM in Action application. Through the identification of actual organizational applications of text materials, the gap between the classroom and the real world can hopefully be narrowed.
We have also added an international emphasis by including Our Changing World of HRM sections to present the application HRM concepts in a global context.
In addition, we have included a number of self-report questionnaires for the reader to complete. These questionnaires allow students a close look at personal style, attitudes, and behavior patterns.LEARNING AIDS
Many learning aids are provided within this book to help students learn about HRM. The main ones are:
- Chapter objectives. Each chapter presents objectives that prepare the student for the chapter material and point out learning goals.
- Figures and illustrations. Throughout each chapter, key concepts and applications are illustrated with strong, visual materials.
- FIRM applications/highlights. Current examples of HRM practices and important information are highlighted in boxed exhibits throughout the text.
- HRM international applications /highlights. Current examples of FIRM topics focusing upon global changes.
- Summaries. Each chapter ends with a summary that wraps up the main points and concepts.
- Review questions. Each chapter has a set of review questions covering the main chapter points.
- Key terms. Key terms are highlighted within each chapter, and a list of key terms is provided at the end of each chapter.
- HRM skills (exercises). These self-learning experiential exercises include both individual and team learning. The exercises take theories and principles covered in the text and bring them to life in team activities. This hands-on team interaction serves to generate feedback, lively discussion, the testing of personal ideas, and sharing of information.
- Case studies. Cases for class discussion, written assignment, or self study are provided throughout the text. The cases challenge students to apply HRM principles to real companies in real situations.
- Index. A subject index helps students quickly find information and examples in the book.
We are grateful to the many people who contributed to this edition. Special thanks go to Professor John Hulpke, University of Technology, Hong Kong, for Our Changing World sections, and to Dean Ron Eaves, California State University-Bakersfield, School of Business and Public Administration, for their support. Many students and managers have been involved in the development of the simulations and cases.
Special thanks go to Johanna Alexander of the California State University-Bakersfield, Walter E. Stiern Library for her splendid research efforts. It was a delight to work with one so knowledgeable and enthusiastic to help.
We would like to thank our typist, Carolyn Gomez, for her skill and dedication in meeting publication deadlines. Her accuracy and attention to detail is appreciated.
Our sincere appreciation is also extended to Natalie Anderson, Melissa Steffens, and Samantha Steel of Prentice Hall for their support and assistance.
The authors would like to thank the following reviewers
Carol Carnevale, Ithaca College
Wallace Duvall, Wayland Baptist University
Mark Wesolowski, Miami University
Roger Weikle, Winthrop University
Robert Figler, University of Akron
Vishwanath Baba, Concordia University
Philip Quaglieri, University of Massachusetts
Dennis Dosset, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Craig Tunwall, Ithaca College
Ann Cowden, California State University-Sacramento
David A. Gray, The University of Texas-Arlington
Tom Anastasi, Boston University
James C. Wimbush, Indiana University
Satish P Deshpande, Western Michigan University
Don Harvey would like to thank his sons Scott and Dave who have contributed in more ways than he can enumeratenot just in allowing the time for writing but in a form of involvement that can never be fully appreciated or repaid.
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Unique in approach, this book provides an interactive, learn-by-doing experience for developing HRM skills--readers are provided with a conceptual framework necessary to understand the relevant issues in HRM, and then develop behavioral skills in each area of HRM by actively participating in individual and team exercises which require the application of chapter content to specific organizational situations. Exceptionally straightforward and real-world throughout, it shows readers the relevance of topics from the very beginning through the extensive use of real-world illustrations and company examples showing how human resource management is being applied in today's organizations. It not only familiarizes readers with new methodologies and techniques for implementing HRM programs, but provides them with opportunities for personal growth and development as well. Walks readers systematically through a model "Success System" that shows them how to attract a high performing workforce, develop a high performing workforce, motivate a high performing workforce, maintain a high performing workforce, change a high performing workforce, and look toward the future. Ideal as an independent study guide for those wanting to learn more about organization change, or a comprehensive set of materials on how to initiate HR programs for the practicing HRM or operating manager. For management training and executive development in a variety of fields and at a variety of levels (from first-line supervision to top management teams)--e.g., bankers, engineers, nurses, teachers, public administrators, military officers, production managers, and marketing managers.See all Product Description
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Do people who live in eastern Russia look more Asian or more European?
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The quick answer is they look more European.
The total population of Russia is 145.1 million people with 79.8% ethnic Russians (2002 Census) which means they are European-looking.
If you look at the density map of ethnic Russians by region you will find that there are only two administrative districts in the Eastern part where density of ethnic Russians is less than 50% -- the Republics of Tuva and Sakha: Ethnic Russians by Region
Now the number of ethnic Russians in Tuva represents 20.1% of the total 306,000 local population, and the number of ethnic Russians in Sakha is 41.2% of the total of 949,000 local population.
Compare that tiny prevalence of non-ethnic Russians (452K people) to at least 50-60% of ethnic Russians living in Siberia (total population 20M) and the Russian Far East (total population 6.7M) and you will find that on average people look more European in either Siberia or the Russian Far East, or both combined.
If you really want to find places where Russians look more Asian you gotta look for Republics and Autonomous okrugs which are administrative divisions meant to cater for specific ethnic minorities. Within the constraints of a small number of Republics and Autonomous divisions, you might find people looking more Asian on average.


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How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Scene.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue. We used the translation by S. Gilbert found in No Exit and Three Other Plays, published by Vintage Books in 1989.
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This is too much – I'll shut that foolish wench's tongue. [Stretches out his right arm.] Poseidon, carabou, carabou, roola. [The big stone which blocked the entrance to the cavern rumbles across the stage and crashes against the temple steps. Electra stops dancing.] (2.1.91)
Notice that Electra stops dancing of her own accord. She interprets the stone as an impassable barrier in her attempt to free the citizens of Argos.
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It is not our fault, we are innocent. That woman came and tempted us with her lying tongue. To the river with her! Drown the witch. (2.1.94)
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China's Stocks Decline on Rate Concern, Higher Energy Costs
China's stocks fell for the first time in three days, led by property developers and power producers, on concern the central bank will boost borrowing costs and higher energy costs will hurt corporate earnings.
Poly Real Estate Group Co. led declines for developers after the 21st Century Business Herald quoted a central bank adviser as saying interest rates should be raised. Huaneng Power International Inc., the listed unit of China's largest power group, slid 2.7 percent on concern higher coal prices will erode earnings. Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory Co. advanced to a five-month high after Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Co. boosted its earnings forecast for the Chinese liquor maker.
"Inflation expectations are still there and concerns about more tightening such as interest-rate increases will provide a drag on the broader market," said Wu Kan, a fund manager at Dazhong Insurance Co., which oversees $285 million. "Consumer stocks are good hedges in this scenario."
The Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks the bigger of China's stock exchanges, slid 13.20 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,859.57 at the 3 p.m. close. The CSI 300 Index retreated 0.6 percent to 3,120.64.
The Shanghai Composite has fallen 6.5 percent from a five-month high on April 18 amid concern government measures to cool inflation will slow corporate earnings growth. The central bank has raised the reserve-requirement ratio for banks 11 times since the start of 2010 and boosted rates four times. The drop pared this year's gain for the Shanghai gauge to 1.8 percent.
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Chinese stocks will trade in a "range" until the middle of the year amid concerns over inflation and slowing economic growth, according to Nomura Holdings Inc. The brokerage remains "optimistic" on the market for the full year, saying the economy will likely enter a "soft landing," according to a report by analysts including Henry Wu.
A gauge tracking 34 property companies on the Shanghai Composite dropped 1.7 percent, the most among the five industrial groups. Poly Real Estate, China's second-largest developer by market value, lost 2.1 percent to 10.11 yuan. Gemdale Corp. slid 1.4 percent to 6.32 yuan.
China's home prices rose in 67 of 70 cities monitored by the government in April from last year, led by smaller cities that are defying efforts to control property prices nationwide, government data showed yesterday.
The government should raise the deposit rate to eliminate negative real interest rates, the 21st Century Business Herald reported today, citing central bank adviser Li Daokui. Inflation may be within 4 percent this year, the newspaper reported, citing Li, who made the remarks at a forum in Shenzhen.
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Inflation may exceed 6 percent in June or July due to a lower comparison base last year, the National Business Daily reported today, citing Liu Yuhui, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Huaneng Power, the listed unit of China's largest power group, slid 2.7 percent to 6.23 yuan, its lowest close since April 29. Datang International Power Generation Co., a unit of China's second-biggest electricity producer, fell 2.8 percent to 7.07 yuan.
The Bohai-Rim Steam-Coal Price Index, or BSPI, rose 0.9 percent to 827 yuan ($127.2) a metric ton as of yesterday compared with a week earlier, according to the Qinhuangdao Seaborne Coal Market website. The weekly gauge tracks power-station coal prices at six major Chinese ports.
China's seasonal summer electricity shortages may worsen this year as a surge in coal costs deepens tensions between the nation's power-generating companies and regulators who cap the rates they can sell to utilities. The nation's power shortage may last beyond summer, said Dave Dai, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Daiwa Securities Capital Markets.
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A measure of 19 consumer staples stocks rose 0.4 percent for the second-biggest gain among the CSI 300's 10 groups. Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine climbed 2.4 percent to 71.69 yuan, the highest close since Dec. 16.
The Chinese liquor maker completed 40 percent of its annual sales target for 2011 in the first quarter and may lift the whole-year target, Tong Xun, an analyst at Shenyin & Wanguo Securities, wrote in a report today. The brokerage boosted Xinghuacun Fen Wine's earnings per-share for this year by 3.3 percent to 2.19 yuan and for 2012 by 5 percent to 3.17 yuan.
Kweichow Moutai Co., China's biggest producer of baijiu liquor by market value, gained 2.5 percent to 199.88 yuan. Wuliangye Yibin Co., the second largest, added 1.5 percent to 34.34 yuan.


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Music by the local band, "Jazzique," will be featured at a brunch this Sunday at Osage National Golf Resort in Lake Ozark. The Feb. 23 event is sponsored by the Ozark Jazz Society and the Lake Arts Council.
Jazzique features Michael Vyrostek on piano, Jerry Frank on saxophone, the vocals of Kathleen Marco, Matt Wallace on drums and special guest Dick Crockett on guitar.
The buffet serving brunch will be open from 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. with Jazzique performing from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
The menu will include Scrambled Eggs, Biscuits & Gravy, Bacon, Sausage Links, Danish/Coffee Cake, Fruit Salad, Assorted Salads, Fried Chicken, Kielbasa Sausage w/ Onions & Peppers, Roasted Potatoes, Mixed Vegetables, Dinner Rolls with Butter, Fruit Cobbler, Iced Tea, Coffee and Water.
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Updated: 01/23/2008 - A DeKalb County man is dead tonight after the car he was driving was hit by a train.
Updated: 01/23/2008 - A DeKalb County man is dead tonight after the car he was driving was hit by a train.
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Cascada San Rafael is the highest waterfall in Ecuador. It is situated only a few kilometers from the Quito - Lago Agrio road, so it is quite easy to visit. The short trail to the viewpoints makes a pleasant walk and it is surrounded by lush green vegetation.
You can easily visit on a daytrip from Baeza, which is 1.5 hours away by bus. You can also do as I did, stay the night at Hoster�a Reventador a few kilometers away from the waterfall, or only stop for a couple of hours on your way to Lago Agrio. If you come by bus and have a lot of luggage you might want to go to Hoster�a Reventador first to leave your luggage there (for a fee) while visiting the waterfall.
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The Falls are simply stunning
What a wonderful waterfall, and what great scenery too! A very different Ecuadorean landscape from any that we saw :-) And such a cute little monkey!!
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I'm synchronizing reader and writer processes on Linux.
I have 0 or more process (the readers) that need to sleep until they are woken up, read a resource, go back to sleep and so on. Please note I don't know how many reader processes are up at any moment. I have one process (the writer) that writes on a resource, wakes up the readers and does its business until another resource is ready (in detail, I developed a no starve reader-writers solution, but that's not important).
To implement the sleep / wake up mechanism I use a Posix condition value, pthread_cond_t. The clients call a pthread_cond_wait() on the variable to sleep, while the server does a pthread_cond_broadcast() to wake them all up. As the manual says, I surround these two calls with a lock/unlock of the associated pthread mutex.
The condition variable and the mutex are initialized in the server and shared between processes through a shared memory area (because I'm not working with threads, but with separate processes) an I'm sure my kernel / syscall support it (because I checked _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED).
What happens is that the first client process sleeps and wakes up perfectly. When I start the second process, it blocks on its pthread_cond_wait() and never wakes up, even if I'm sure (by the logs) that pthread_cond_broadcast() is called.
If I kill the first process, and launch another one, it works perfectly. In other words, the condition variable pthread_cond_broadcast() seems to wake up only one process a time. If more than one process wait on the very same shared condition variable, only the first one manages to wake up correctly, while the others just seem to ignore the broadcast.
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Shigeno Shuuichi (born March 8, 1958) is a Japanese manga author famous for the anime and manga Initial D. Shigeno has also created Bari Bari Densetsu, Dopkan, and Tunnel Nuketara Sky Blue ("First Love in Summer") all prior to the manga that would make him famous in 1995. In 1985, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for shounen for Bari Bari Densetsu.
He owns a 1980s Toyota Sprinter Trueno with a panda white color scheme, like his manga's main character Takumi. He also owns a Steel Blue Mica-colored 1999 WRX Type STi Version 5 with a STi sports bumper (a part from the STi sport catalogue made to look like the 22B STi bumper but fits non-wide body Imprezas) just like the main character's father, Bunta. One of his notable students is Morikawa George, creator of Hajime no Ippo.
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Online gaming is a complex, branched industry. It covers everything from the games played on social networks to massively multiplayer titles, including many mobile games, free or paid alike. And all of them have one goal (beyond entertaining): to generate profits for their developers and publishers. But they aren't the only ones to make money…Continue
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Pettitte, Rivera pitch Yankees past Red Sox 4-2The Associated Press | April 05,2013NEW YORK Andy Pettitte pitched the Yankees to their first win of the season and Mariano Rivera made a successful return to the mound in New Yorks 4-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night.
Brett Gardner and Francisco Cervelli homered for the Yankees, providing some unexpected power to a depleted lineup missing the sore four Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson. All those All-Stars are on the disabled list, and without them New York dropped its first two games at home to the rival Red Sox.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Members of the Alabama Army National Guard's 621st Troop Support Command will be honored Saturday for
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A "Freedom Salute" ceremony (10 a.m.) will recognize 30 members of the 621st, their families and community supporters. The unit, based at Fort McClellan, deployed to Iraq in July 2007.
The ceremony will be conducted in the former WAC Chapel at Fort McClellan.
A similar event will take place Sunday at 2 p.m. in Eufaula for members of the 1103rd Combat Sustainment Battalion. The unit's 75 soldiers returned from Iraq in May.
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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says he will "seriously" look into running for president in 2012 if he and his wife decide "it's necessary." Considering how widely disliked he is, we're not sure what would make a no-shot bid at the presidency necessary, but that's his call. Regardless, with Gingrich stepping back into the spotlight, Rush Limbaugh as powerful as ever, and the Dow at 6,500, we're beginning to wonder what year it really is. It's like a weird Twilight Zone where we only get the annoying parts of the nineties. [Ben Smith/Politico]


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text: QSpace Community: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/185 2016-07-29T00:09:03Z 2016-07-29T00:09:03Z THE DARK PERSONALITY AND JOB SUCCESS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY: USE OF INTERPERSONAL MANIPULATION IN THE WORKPLACE Stead, Rebecca http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14661 2016-07-19T05:10:39Z 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Title: THE DARK PERSONALITY AND JOB SUCCESS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY: USE OF INTERPERSONAL MANIPULATION IN THE WORKPLACE Authors: Stead, Rebecca Abstract: This dissertation relates job desires and outcomes to the Dark Personality (Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Low Agreeableness, Low Honesty-Humility) in the United States Army. It purports that individuals high on the Dark Personality desire more power, money, and status, and that they obtain jobs that afford them these luxuries by using manipulation at work. Two pilot studies used samples of United States Army members to create and test index variables: Dark Personality, Total Manipulation in the workplace, Desire for Job Success, and Total Job Success in the Army. Individual personality traits, manipulation tactics, and job desires were examined in secondary analyses. Using a sample of 468 United States Army Members, central analyses indicated that Army members high on the Dark Personality desired Job Success. Likewise, army members higher on the Dark Personality used more Manipulation tactics at work, including the egregious tactics. Yet, using more Manipulation tactics at work predicted lower levels of Job Success in the Army. Most manipulation tactics had a negative impact on Job Success, with the exception of soft tactics like Reason and Responsibility Invocation. Together, these results indicate that selective use of soft manipulation predicted Job Success, but use of more manipulation tactics predicted less Job Success in the Army. Curvilinear results indicated that being either very low or very high on the Dark Personality predicted more Job Success in the Army, whereas having intermediate levels of the Dark Personality predicted less Job Success. Finally, possessing the Dark Personality and using more Manipulation tactics at work, together, predicted less Job Success in the Army. Collectively, the results indicate that army members with intermediate levels of the Dark Personality want more powerful and high paying jobs, yet their strategy of manipulating their coworkers to move up the job ladder does not result in higher ranking, higher paying Army positions. However, Army members highest on the Dark Personality achieved job success, defying the maladaptive influence that antisocial personality traits and manipulative behaviour had on job success for most Army members. Therefore, this dissertation indicates that successful corporate scoundrels exist in the Army, but there are few of them. Description: Thesis (Ph.D, Psychology) -- Queen's University, 2016-07-15 10:49:24.683 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Straight but not Narrow; Within-Gender Variation in the Gender-Specificity of Women's Sexual Response Chivers, Meredith L. Bouchard, Katrina L. Timmers, Amanda D. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14660 2016-07-18T19:08:32Z 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Title: Straight but not Narrow; Within-Gender Variation in the Gender-Specificity of Women's Sexual Response Authors: Chivers, Meredith L.; Bouchard, Katrina L.; Timmers, Amanda D. Abstract: Gender differences in the specificity of sexual response have been a primary focus in sexual psychophysiology research, however, within-gender variability suggests sexual orientation moderates category-specific responding among women; only heterosexual women show gender-nonspecific genital responses to sexual stimuli depicting men and women. But heterosexually-identified or "straight" women are heterogeneous in their sexual attractions and include women who are exclusively androphilic (sexually attracted to men) and women who are predominantly androphilic with concurrent gynephilia (sexually attracted to women). It is therefore unclear if gender-nonspecific responding is found in both exclusively and predominantly androphilic women. The current studies investigated within-gender variability in the gender-specificity of women's sexual response. Two samples of women reporting concurrent andro/gynephilia viewed (Study 1, n = 29) or listened (Study 2, n = 30) to erotic stimuli varying by gender of sexual partner depicted while their genital and subjective sexual responses were assessed. Data were combined with larger datasets of predominantly gyne- and androphilic women (total N = 78 for both studies). In both studies, women reporting any degree of gynephilia, including those who self-identified as heterosexual, showed significantly greater genital response to female stimuli, similar to predominantly gynephilic women; gender-nonspecific genital response was observed for exclusively androphilic women only. Subjective sexual arousal patterns were more variable with respect to sexual attractions, likely reflecting stimulus intensity effects. Heterosexually-identified women are therefore not a homogenous group with respect to sexual responses to gender cues. Implications for within-gender variation in women's sexual orientation and sexual responses are discussed. 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Inhibitory Control is a Rate-Limiting Factor to Preschoolers' Use of Irregular Inflection Yuile, Amanda Rose http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14649 2016-07-14T05:10:04Z 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Title: Inhibitory Control is a Rate-Limiting Factor to Preschoolers' Use of Irregular Inflection Authors: Yuile, Amanda Rose Abstract: We investigated whether children's inhibitory control is associated with their ability to produce irregular verb forms as well as learn from corrective feedback following their use of an over-regularized form. Forty-eight 3.5 to 4.5 year old children were tested on the irregular past tense and provided with adult corrective input via models of correct use or recasts of errors following ungrammatical responses. Inhibitory control was assessed with a three-item battery of tasks that required suppressing a prepotent response in favor of a non-canonical one. Results showed that inhibitory control was predictive of children's initial production of irregular forms and not associated with their post-feedback production of irregulars. These findings show that children's executive functioning skills may be a rate-limiting factor on their ability to produce correct forms, but might not interact with their ability to learn from input in this domain. Findings are discussed in terms of current theories of past-tense acquisition and learning from input more broadly. Description: Thesis (Master, Psychology) -- Queen's University, 2016-07-13 15:17:00.283 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Please Stop Rubbing Your Relationship In My Face(book): An Investigation of Online Romantic Social Comparison Leung, Pauline http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14647 2016-07-14T05:10:20Z 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Title: Please Stop Rubbing Your Relationship In My Face(book): An Investigation of Online Romantic Social Comparison Authors: Leung, Pauline Abstract: It is well-documented that social networking sites such as Facebook set the stage for social comparison. Such comparison has been linked to a number of negative outcomes including envy, negative moods, and lower self-esteem. The present research aims to extend current understanding of online social comparison by investigating how it pertains to romantic relationships. I hypothesized that for individuals high in attachment anxiety (compared to those low in this construct), online romantic social comparison might be related to negative consequences—which, in the current project, was operationalized as lower mood/affect and state self-esteem. Further, I hypothesized that there would be an interaction between attachment anxiety and relationship insecurities on these negative outcomes, such that the expected difference of attachment anxiety would be more pronounced under conditions priming relationship insecurities, relative to a control condition. Two experiments were conducted, one of which focused on single individuals, and the second focusing on individuals who were themselves in dating relationships. The paradigms of each entailed experimental manipulation of a key relationship-related variable (for single individuals, pessimism for future relationships; for dating individuals, the presence or absence of rejection threat), subsequent exposure to romantic content from Facebook, and finally, measures of affect and state self-esteem. I discovered partial support for the hypothesis that some single individuals—particularly those with higher, rather than lower, attachment anxiety—do indeed report feeling more negative moods and lower state self-esteem following exposure to romantic online content, in contrast to single individuals who had instead viewed neutral online content. The association between attachment anxiety and negative outcome was especially pertinent if individuals had been primed to believe that their own future romantic prospects were grim, or if attention had been drawn to their singleness. Among dating individuals, less support for hypotheses was found; however, exploratory post-hoc analyses revealed a promising (albeit weak) trend indicating that reinvestigation of the current hypotheses would be prudent. Description: Thesis (Master, Psychology) -- Queen's University, 2016-07-13 01:01:54.309 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z


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Long-term tax-exempt municipal bonds fell Tuesday after President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders declined to include an extension of the popular Build America Bonds in a bill extending tax cuts for two years.
Prices of tax-exempt municipal bonds maturing between 2033 and 2040 fell enough to boost their yields—which move inversely to price—by 0.07 to 0.10 percentage point.
If the BAB program is allowed to expire on Dec. 31, ending the sale of those federally subsidized, taxable securities, state and local governments would issue more tax-exempt long-term debt. To attract buyers, issuers would have to have to offer higher interest rates at an inopportune time as they struggle with diminished tax revenue and growing budget deficits.
"It'll be a crush of new issues," said Marilyn Cohen, president of Envision Capital Management. At the same time, with few exceptions, "the finances of the issuers are no better off than they were a year ago," she said.
At the same time, the municipal-bond market is girding for a wave of last-minute BAB sales as issuers race to take advantage of subsidies available under the program. November was the biggest month yet for BABs, both as measured by the face value of debt sold and as a percentage of total municipal issuance, according to Thomson Reuters. Issuers sold $15.8 billion, 35% of the municipal issuance deals that month.
An additional $4 billion of BABs were scheduled to be sold this week, before the taxable-bond program's extension was put in doubt. That accounts for about one-third of the week's expected sales of municipal bonds.
Dan Solender, director of municipal-bond management at investment firm Lord Abbett, said the fact that BABs weren't included in the tax agreement was "definitely not the best thing" and it appeared that, as the market anticipates more tax-exempt supply next year, "it's definitely having some impact."
The rush to sell BABs before the deadline is also driving up yields on those securities, adding to state and local government borrowing costs. Wells Fargo's index of Build America Bonds shows yields since Nov. 9 hovering above 6% for the first time since August.
New deals this month are "going to come at a wider spread than they were three months ago, that's for sure," said Matt Dalton, chief executive at Belle Haven Investments.
Still, Mr. Dalton said he thought the program would be revived in 2011, even if it doesn't happen by the end of this year. "Every municipality in the country is going to be whining to Washington that they need better access to the market," he said.
Citigroup municipal-bond analyst George Friedlander said he hadn't given up hope yet that concerted lobbying by states and cities could persuade Congress to renew BABs. "It's unlikely but not impossible," he said.
These are high stakes for states, cities and towns, which are facing the worst economic climate since the Depression. However, the situation could be advantageous for individual investors. Envision's Ms. Cohen is advising individual investors to take advantage of the yields in tax-free munis, focusing on issuers that are managing their budgets well.
Ms. Cohen and others see prices on existing BABs climbing or at least maintaining their value because of the lack of supply going forward. Larger, more recognizable names, such as California, were moving up in price Tuesday while smaller issues were lagging behind.
—Stan Rosenberg, Martin Vaughan and Rob Wells contributed to this article.
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Cartoonist Ruben Bolling took to his blog today to reveal that the online magazine Salon has canceled his long-running political/editorial comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug.
According to Bolling, the comic was canceled due to "severe budget constraints" rather than lack of traffic — indeed, as Bolling points out, Tom is frequently one of the site's most-read features. He later added that Salon, which had hosted the strip since the site's 1995 inception, seems unlikely to reverse the decision regardless of reader outcry.
I'm sure Tom Spurgeon will have further analysis, but even for someone with my casual dislike and distrust of all political cartooning, the cancellation seems notable for two reasons. First, Bolling is an obvious talent whose imaginative end-runs around the cliché-ridden visual vocabulary of your average political cartoonist made his comics that much more entertaining and his points that much more hard-hitting. Second, it's almost creepy to think that editorial cartoonists may have just as hard a time making a go of things online as they do amid the staggering carcasses of America's newspaper industry.
At least he'll have an easier time getting health care.
(via Greg Pak)
"even for someone with my casual dislike and distrust of all political cartooning"
I'm sorry if you've explained this elsewhere, but… why come?
Too bad, it's a great strip.
Corey: In general, I think the task before political/editorial cartoonists is to take complex issues and boil them down into simplified, simplistic…well, whatever the visual equivalent of a "soundbyte" would be, usually in such a way as to communicate solidarity with people who already agree with the cartoonist's take on things and shame/mock/irritate those who don't. In other words, what we condemn TV talking heads for doing, we praise editorial cartoonists for doing. I think there are MAYBE half a dozen artists in the history of the form who are exceptions to that rule.
So we know that the other cartoons on Salon can't be paid anything much, if they're ditching one of their most popular features for budgetary reasons. I suppose I'm with Sean, as a rule, about editorial cartoonists. They either can't draw or have nothing to say besides "the other side is evil."
This is terrible news. Tom The Dancing Bug is one of the best features in Salon. Where will we go to read about the adventures of God-Man now?
Still, Ruben Bolling is extremely talented, so it probably won't be long before he finds a home somewhere else for his work.
Thanks for responding, Sean. I guess I tend to see it more as using satire/comedy to make a point on a particular issue, similar to John Stewart and Stephen Colbert doing similar things with current events. While I agree there can be a fair bit of preaching to the choir and the easy 'out' of oversimplifying or vilifying, I think it's an important form of commentary and communication that, when done well, can be great.
Well, Salon.com has just given me another reason not to go to their site.
First dropping Keith Knight's strip and now this.
Slate runs a regular roundup of editorial cartoonists from around the country, but they overwhelmingly prove Sean's point about them, sadly.
I'm updating my bookmarks now to follow Mr. Bolling's wonderful comic at GoComics (or whatever combination of upper-case, lower-case, and exclamation points it really is). I'm looking at other options for Tom Tomorrow as well. Apparently the syndrome of "We're sinking! Quick, punch holes in all the lifeboats!" isn't limited to paper news.
Early this year I began to notice the absence of new comics from my favorite Salon strips. I' m happy that I can find those strips (Bolling's & Keith Knight's) elsewhere. I'm sorry to see Salon suffer from the current economic conditions.Now I understand why Mary Elizabeth Williams turned herself into Salon's equivalent of a Page 3 Girl from the Sun: her notoriety will help her keep her job or find another one.


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"Today the most important thing was not to make any pointless mistakes since it would seem that the rest of the weekend will be dry. This was our first real test with the 17 inch rain tyres and we are in the top three, so if it rains for any of the coming races we know we'll be ready.
"If the weather forecast bears out tomorrow we'll begin working in view of the races. So on our long distance pace we will be aiming for a good result in Superpole, so that we can do well on Sunday," said Laverty.
Team-mate England based Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli was also another rider who excelled in the wet conditions. He finished the last practice qualifying session of the day in second, but however hard he tried he could not go faster than Kawasaki Racing's Tom Sykes.
"I'm pleased with our work today since we are in second place without really trying for a quick time. This is the second time for me on the RSV4 in the wet and these sessions will probably not be much use to us for tomorrow and Sunday, but it is always good to gain experience in all the different conditions.
"I had the same good feeling in the wet that I already had during the tests at Jerez, and even though the rest of the weekend will be a completely different story I'm happy with these two sessions," said the French rider.
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