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The percentage of women in the top ranks of US corporations has barely moved in the last two decades. At the executive level, women remain particularly scarce: in 2008, women accounted for less than 3 percent of CEOs in US firms, an increase of just two percentage points since 1992. Similarly, the representation of women on corporate boards remains low. The Alliance for Board Diversity found that in 2010, only 18 percent of directors on the boards of the Fortune 100 companies were female.
A recent study of the top companies in New York State, jointly sponsored by Columbia Business School and the Women's Executive Circle of New York (WECNY), found similar patterns. The most recent biennial study gathered data from fiscal year 2010 for the top 100 revenue-producing companies in New York as identified by Crain's.
In 2010, women held only 11.7 percent of the top five executive positions in these companies, with no increase since 2006. On boards of directors, women held 17.2 percent of board seats at these companies, slightly better than the 15.6 percent figure for 2006. However, these statistics mask the fact that in a majority of companies in the New York sample, there are no women in executive roles. The 2012 graduating class at Columbia Business School will be 38 percent women, and Columbia, like other top business schools, has been educating large numbers of female business leaders. Why is female representation in top executive positions and on boards of directors not in line with the numbers for MBA graduates?
There are several potential answers to this question. First, women may cut back on their commitment to their careers in order to raise families. Indeed, a recent study of University of Chicago MBAs found that, although male and female MBAs have nearly identical earnings at the outset of their careers, a decade after MBA completion, female MBAs are earning 60 percent less than their male counterparts. Differences in career interruptions and differences in weekly hours, both of which were largely associated with motherhood, accounted for this large gap.
Bias in the workplace is likely another contributing factor. In a study of Danish companies my colleague Professor David Ross, found that, if the CEO has a daughter while in office, the firm's gender wage gap shrinks. This study suggests that bias need not be permanent. A cautiously hopeful note comes from the work of another colleague, Professor Katherine Phillips, whose recent research counters conventional wisdom in finding evidence that black women may be received in leadership positions on par with white male colleagues and more readily than their black male or white female peers. [Read about these findings and related work from Columbia Business School faculty members mentioned here in this issue of Ideas at Work.]
One positive note in the WECNY report shows evidence that in some industries, there is a sizable representation of women on boards of directors and in top executive positions. In three industries (food and drink, retail, and consumer products), more than 25 percent of board directors were women. In two industries (chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and food and drink), at least a quarter of the top executive positions were held by women. One explanation for this remarkable level of representation is that industries such as retail and consumer products have a strong female consumer base, and those companies recognize the business case for having a diversified board and executive suite. My colleague Professor Ernesto Reuben has new work showing that women who perform as well as or better than their male colleagues are less likely to be selected for leadership roles, which suggests that firms may not be allocating their human capital efficiently. One challenge, then, is to help companies understand the business case for parity.
Some countries, such as Norway, have legislated steep quotas for female representation on corporate boards. A quota could improve the opinions that male decision-makers have regarding the competence of women and the key role that they can play in shaping corporate policy. Quotas could also create a pool of women who have board experience and who then might be tapped for future roles on boards. But a 40 percent quota like the one Norway instituted is unlikely to be received favorably in the United States. Acknowledging this, my colleague, Professor Bruce Kogut, uses network science to model smaller quotas, finding that quotas in the 10 to 20 percent range could produce permanent, significant changes in board composition over a relatively short time.
Clearly, the reasons that women have not achieved parity at the highest levels are deep-rooted, complex, and nuanced. With this in mind, it is more important than ever that we dig into and sort out the whys to surface insights that will bring women into leadership roles now, and for years to come.
Ann Bartel is the Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation and chair of the economics subdivision in the Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School.
Ann Bartel
Professor Bartel is the Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation at Columbia Business School and the Director of Columbia Business School's Workforce Transformation Initiative. She is an expert in the fields of labor economics and human resource management and has published numerous articles on employee training, human capital investments, job mobility, and the impact of technological change on productivity, worker skills, and outsourcing decisions. Bartel...


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Minimum wage in Canada: One woman's story No fancy meals and no vacations: 'I am working poor'
CBC News Posted: Jan 14, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 14, 2014 7:06 AM ET
This is an article that could have been written forty-odd years ago, when I arrived on Canada's doorstep as an immigrant. Knew that I would have to start at the bottom because citizens got the preferred jobs…and that was acceptable to me.
Over the years, I worked at several not-so-great jobs, got a University degree…and immediately found my final job as a labourer..a (Read more…)

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It's my favorite book from early American literature....
Now that we have this thread all to ourselves, it's go time! Also, please no clowns.
Ugh now I feel sick.
Oh and morning.
I've nursed at both of my kids' schools. I use a cover, but it is a good way to keep them quiet!
Is Lydia here yet this morning? I meant rich bitch in a really nice endearing kind of way! Junebug will back me up, its a Nene Leaks thing.
And my husband is sneaky too. We;re doing the Whole30 together... but he went to Starbucks and had a spinach feta wrap yesteray.


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MARTINSBURG - Martinsburg officials would seriously look at joining a home rule pilot program in West Virginia if it is extended by state lawmakers.
"The pilot program has been a savior for some cities without taxing individuals and families," Martinsburg Mayor George Karos said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "We would certainly discuss it with council and get everyone involved with the decision."
In 2007, the West Virginia Legislature created the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program and the Municipal Home Rule Board to oversee the program.
"Essentially, the Home Rule Pilot Program allowed pilot cities to implement changes in all matters of local governance without regard for state laws or rules," according to the Legislative Auditor's report on the program.
There were exceptions, such as having to comply with the U.S. Constitution; West Virginia Constitution; controlled substances; crimes and punishment; and criminal procedures.
The report was delivered to the Legislature's Joint Committee on Government Organization subcommittee A during interim meetings in November. The Joint Committee and subcommittee A is co-chaired by Sen. Herb Snyder, D-Jefferson.
"The Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program has been effective in improving local governance and broad-based home rule should be extended," the report's finding said.
Initially, the program was open to five municipalities, but only four chose to participate: Bridgeport, Charleston, Huntington and Wheeling.
Martinsburg officials decided not to take part in the program, although it was discussed at the time, Karos said.
The cities had to present a plan to the Home Rule Board with the problems they wanted to address and how to solve those problems.
The board consisted of the governor, executive director of the state Development Office, chairs of the House and Senate committees on Government Organization, a representative of the Business and Industry Council, a representative of the largest labor organization in the state and a representative of the state chapter of American Institute of Certified Planners or their designees.
The board was to review the cities' requests and approve or deny them.
Karos would be interested in the authority to streamline licensing procedures, having more power to clean up blighted areas of the city and more power to force landowners to maintain their properties among other items.
The pilot program is set to expire on June 30 under the statute. The Legislative auditor's report recommended the pilot program be allowed to expire when scheduled, but a permanent program be enacted and opened to all municipalities with populations of 2,000 or more.
However, the West Virginia Municipal League prefers to extend the pilot program, opening it to four more municipalities.
Karos agreed.
"We would be interested in another pilot program for a couple of years," he said.
Contacted by phone Wednesday, Snyder said no bill extending and expanding the pilot program would come from subcommittee A's interim meetings, but he was sure legislation would be introduced during the upcoming legislative session.
"We saw a draft bill that would continue the pilot program for five years, but the stumbling block is taxing authority," he said. "The draft bill said the cities would have no taxing authority not provided in state statute. I'm definitely against taxing."
The Municipal League wants to retain taxing authority for cities if the program is extended.
Snyder also wants to know if the program is constitutional.
"I want to hear from constitutional scholars about its constitutionality," he said. "The constitutionality has never been challenged in court."
Snyder was not a member of the Senate when the program was approved five years ago.
He said municipalities should come to the Legislature to get specific authority to tax and to enact new statutes not already provided for by the state.
"The Legislature has abdicated its responsibility by turning decisions over to a home rule panel," Snyder said. "Without my questions about its constitutionality answered, I'm not willing to vote it up or down."
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I run a drupal site that I am interested in converting to WordPress. The site is in swedish called Möbler.se , its a lot of nodes and needs to be carefullt done. The reason for the change is that wordpress is easier to handle for the not so tech people administrating the site. WP is also probably better for SEO.
Is this a difficult thing to do?
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The Los Angeles Lakers tightened up their defense after a rough first quarter to beat the New Orleans Hornets running away Tuesday night in Los Angeles, 106-90.
A balanced Lakers attack, led by 19 points from Kobe Bryant were too much for the Hornets to handle, as the Lakers take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Trevor Ariza led the Hornets with 22 points, and Marco Belinelli added 21 points in his best game of the series.
The Hornets travel back to New Orleans to try and extend the series on Thursday night. The winner of the series plays the winner of the Dallas Mavericks and Portland Trailblazers in the Western Conference Semifinals. The Mavericks currently hold a 3-2 lead in that matchup.
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Pay Online You can now pay your citation online!
The Sandy City Justice Center is located at 210 West Sego Lily Drive (10000 South) in Sandy, just southwest of City Hall.
Except for holidays, the Sandy Justice Court is open to the public every weekday from 8:45 A.M. until 5:00 P.M.
The Justice Court is located on the 2nd floor of the Justice Center.


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Google is on the march again - with plans to be selling eBooks by the end of 2010. They hope to scoop business from Amazon and Apple and I think they have every chance of success. Google Books is a really great service and it will surely be linked to Google Editions. I have not tried Apple's service but I have not been at all happy with Amazon's service, either as a reader or a publisher. My guess is that you will be able to preview some of a book's content on Google Books then lash out some cash and see the rest of the book whenever you are logged into your Gmail account.
It is believed Google will pay publishers 63% of revenues and keep 37% for itself when e-books are sold directly to consumers. Publishers will like having 63% of the revenue much more than having 50% (which is what they get from retailers). But will they keep the extra 13% for themselves or will they share it with authors? I think they will want to keep it. But authors will be able to sell their own books directly on Google Editions and, presumably, get 63% of the revenue. My guess is they will like this much more than the 10% +/- they currently get from publishers. It looks like a 6-fold rise to me!
Another interesting aspect of Google Editions is the deal for an equavalent of Amazon Affiliates. Website publishers are going to be able to get eBook revenue from material promoted on their websites.
Will they have a deal for libraries? It would be a great thing for a University Library, for example, to be able to give its students full access, from home, to all the world's books. Ditto for municipal libraries. BUT I have not seen any deals of this type for access to movies and music, which have long been available in physical libraries.
All-in-all I am expecting the biggest shakeup to the book market since Amazon went live. Google Editions will of course be available in colour for the Android tablets which are waiting to engulf the market. Apple are said to be the BMW of the phone/pad market. They could find themselves as the Rolls Royces of this market before long. I hope so!


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The Hang clothes hangers by Hay are simple steel hangers that are ideally suitable to hang suits, jackets, trousers or shirts.
They are weightless, handy and optimally suitable for purism-enthusiasts. Not only is an exceptional design focussed at the Hang hangers by the Danish company hay, but simply its function. Therewith the clothes hangers possess all necessary characteristics and moreover a favourable relation between price and function. The Hang clothes hangers – delivered in a set of 5 – are available in different colours.


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Missing and Abducted Persons
If you become concerned that a family member, friend, or acquaintance is missing or cannot be located through reasonable means, please report your concerns to the Huntsville Police Department at (256) 722-7100.
It is not necessary to wait twenty-four hours to report someone as "missing". Special situations and circumstances, such as a potentially serious medical condition, may heighten concerns about a friend or family member who cannot be contacted or located.
If reasonable and repeated attempts to contact a person have failed, a
call to the Huntsville Police Department will initiate a search for that person. Once you have called, a police officer will be dispatched to your location to begin the search by gathering certain factual information about the person. After this information is received, it may then be entered into local, state, and national computer databases enabling searches to be made nationwide, if necessary.
When calling HPD, give an exact description of the person, including hair color, eye color, skin tone, weight, build, scars, tattoos and height. Make sure to give as much information as possible, also including the length and style of hair, body type and
what clothing items the person was last known to be wearing. Be sure to give a clear description of shoes, hats and any other accessories, such as glasses, that you remember the person wearing. Also, give a list of any known medical conditions or any medications that the person may be in need of. For example, a diabetic may be in need of insulin.
Give the police any photographs that you have of the missing person. The most recent photographs will be the most helpful.
If the person is under the age of 18,
the parent of the missing child should ALSO call the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Provide the organization with all of the information you have given to
Huntsville Police. You should also contact the
Alabama Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Location: Pala, CA
Responsible for the safe operation and transport of vehicles on company property, in accordance with established policies, procedures and controls.
- Must possess a valid driver's license from the state, as well as a good driving record.
- Physical endurance and stamina, as well as effective communication skills required.
- Ability to relate effectively in one-on-one situations with guests and other team members.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions or decimals.
- Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Must read, write, speak and understand English.
- High School Diploma or GED required.
Essential Job Functions:
- Assists guests promptly and courteously in valet check-in and checkout.
- RUNS (never walks) for all pick-ups from the valet lot (weather conditions permitting), in accordance with established safety guidelines.
- Parks vehicles in designated areas of the property, then accurately records the location of the vehicle onto a valet receipt, which is attached to the appropriate keys and stored in the valet office until the guest is ready to leave the property.
- Effectively communicates with the valet captain.
- Promptly clears ramp area of cars to be parked.
- Presents a clean, neat and well-groomed appearance, wearing only the designated valet uniform while on the job.
- Ensures a maximum level of guest service and satisfaction is achieved and maintained.
- Held accountable for the accuracy and thoroughness of departmental records and reports.
- Maintains a working knowledge of Pala Casino facilities, as well as special events on property in order to advise guests and fellow team members of same, whenever possible.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
To apply for this position, please go to our on-line Application Form and complete it.
Thank you for considering a position at Pala Casino, Resort & Spa. If you meet the requirements listed below and would like to work in an exciting industry, you could be someone we're looking for.
- In order to maintain the safety and health of our Team Members and Guests, Pala Casino Resort & Spa is committed to providing a drug free workplace. If offered a position, successful completion of a pre-employment drug test is required.
- If offered a position with Pala, you must be able to obtain and maintain a Pala Gaming License, which requires fingerprinting and a background investigation.
- Because we are open 24 hours a day, 365 day a year, most positions require flexibility in scheduling and may require that Team Members work nights, weekends, and holidays.
That's all it takes to be considered for employment at Southern California's Most Spectacular Playground.
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The Magpies have not won in 5 Premier League games and it has caused reason for concern on Tyneside with supporters frustrated as the slide lie perilously close to the relegation zone.
Last night's defeat being particularly painful with the side 1-0 up with 10 minutes to go before conceding two last gasp finishes to Walters and Jerome at the Britannia Stadium.
Tiote was able to see the positives in the display, as there were signs that the team is improving and finally starting to turn the corner from their bad form. He was happy with the display his teammates put in.
He told the club's official club website "This was so difficult for the team to take.
"We played well and were the better team on the pitch. We tried to pass the ball well and scored the first goal, but after that we were unlucky because it was two sloppy goals that cost us the game.
"Everyone is very disappointed, but we were much brighter than we have been recently and had more energy on the pitch.
"If you play well like we did, then you expect to win the game, so if we continue to play like this, we will get three points again very soon."
Newcastle's next Premier League fixture on Monday is at St James's Park where they will welcome visitors Wigan Athletic.


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Dealing With Your Enemies
3- Don't let them get to you
Always remain cool. Don't let yourself get distracted from everything else you have going on in your life. Don't let your business go down the toilet. Don't neglect the wife or the mistress. Don't run around scared like a little girl. Don't let your enemy get under your skin. Pick your battles wisely. But don't let yourself be disrespected either. Sure, you can't go blowing your temper at every little provocation, but there is a line for everyone. As long as the line is not crossed (even if it's stepped on), stay cool.
4- Keep them close
When you can't annihilate your enemies, join them. Sort of. Let them think you are joining them. Befriend them. Get closer. There is no easier way to keep tabs on your fiercest opponent than to be right next to him. I'd rather see the barrel of a gun in front of me than wonder if it's behind me all the time. Same applies to your enemies.
why do you have enemies?
Now it's fine and dandy to know how to get rid of your nemeses (or contain them when planting them six feet under is not on the agenda). But you also have to ask yourself a fundamental question: Why do I have these enemies in the first place?
Eliminating the enemies you have also means making less of them in the first place. It's always easier not to have any enemies than it is to wipe out several of them. Blood is very expensive. You want to avoid any drawn out vendettas. It's distracting, it's exhausting, and it can be deadly. Why take a pill for a headache when it's easier to avoid the headache in the first place?
If you find yourself always drawing enemies, you have to ask yourself what it is you do to draw so many beefs with so many people. Understanding the kind of enemies you have will help you minimize them. If you run a successful and lucrative business, there is very little you can do to avoid having adversaries. If you live by yourself on a mountain and people want to nuke your property, maybe you got the problem, not them. Determine if the reason for having enemies is justifiable and inevitable (i.e. a competitive industry), or is caused by your personality.
Even enemies have to be on a level playing field...


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Ohio unemployment rate drops again, to 7.2 percent
Ohio officials say the state's unemployment rate dropped again in December.
Ohio officials say the state's unemployment rate dropped again in December.
Thousands of poor Ohio residents have lost food stamp benefits for not fulfilling work requirements, more are set to be cut off.
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey has sent a letter detailing reasons not to close a Pittsburgh-area Air Force base.
Union leaders are trying to save some of the 900 Ford Motor Co. jobs threatened with layoffs in northeast Ohio.
The Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle supermarket chain is expanding into Indiana.
Pennsylvania's jobless rate dropped last month as more people left the work force, and payrolls fell even though a higher proportion of peop…
A driver who challenged the way Cleveland handles traffic camera tickets has won a jurisdiction issue but couldn't get his fine overturned.
UPDATE: A Mercer woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident in Greenville.
Friday was the last day on the job for workers at the General Electric Lamp Plant in Warren.
The public library of Youngstown and Mahoning County unveiled its plans for a new Canfield branch.
The Youngstown State men's basketball team dropped a tough 74-71 contest to Valparaiso on Thursday night at the Beeghly Center.
It was an exciting matchup as Springfield took on South Range in girls basketball action.
Three men are hoping to put their Farrell company on the map by putting better-fitting shoes on your feet.
Mahoning County's Emergency Management Agency director is stepping down.
After spending much of his life in elected office, one-time Warren Mayor Mike O'Brien now has his eyes set on the Ohio Statehouse.
Mercer County Commissioners are considering a corridor study, which will include a stretch of Interstate 80 from Hermitage to Mercer, as wel…
A Mercer County corrections officer was recognized Thursday for his hard work.
Wendell August Forge is disputing a fee Mercer County charged them during a grant application, saying the price tag is just too high.
The Argentine peso is suffering its fastest fall since the country's 2002 economic collapse. It's lost 16 percent of its value against the d…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford arrived more than an hour late for a speech to the Economic Club of Canada, saying he had been stuck in an elevator f…
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Definition of inver in English:
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The mouth of a river; an estuary: Inverness
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- Her remains were removed from her residence to Inver Church, burial took place following Requiem mass in Inver Cemetery.
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Good morning. Let's begin at the beginning.
This year has now officially surpassed 1911 as the warmest to date with a week of very warm highs and lows. As a result our average temperature is now 72.6 degrees for the year-to-date. Here's the rest of Houston's top-10 warmest years from Jan. 1 through Aug. 11.
1. 72.6 (2011)
2. 72.5 (1911)
3. 72.3 (1962)
4. 72.1 (2009)
5. 72.1 (1953)
6. 72.0 (1927)
7. 71.9 (1957)
8. 71.8 (1999)
9. 71.7 (2000)
10. 71.7 (1950)
Charles Roeseler, who keeps the weather records at the National Weather Service, noted: "A hundred years apart. I don't think I will be around in 2111 but I bet it'll be warm."
Houston also notched another 100-degree day on Friday (101 degrees), bringing our streak of 100-degree days to an even dozen. With just three more we'll break the all-time record set in 1980.
Today's forecast high at Bush Intercontinental Airport is 100 degrees, and the thermometer will get there only if clouds remain fairly thin this afternoon.
There's the potential today and Sunday for rain — albeit slight, at about 20 percent — and increasing cloudiness due to a slight weakness in the high pressure system
Unfortunately, that system is going to build back over Texas next week. So if we don't get any relief this weekend, which seems unlikely, next week looks really dry.
If you've noticed, the tropics have really started to heat up with the formation of Tropical Storm Franklin and several other systems as possibilities for development during the next week.
Only one of these, Invest 93L, is a threat to possibly reach the Gulf of Mexico, and even that may be a stretch. This tropical system currently is quite disorganized, but could develop during the next week or so as it moves westward toward the Caribbean Sea. Here are some of the latest track forecast models:
Yesterday the GFS model suggested a tropical system would move into Houston in about two weeks' time, bringing several inches of much needed rain. This morning's run has backed off that scenario, and it's not surprising there's a lot of flip-flopping in the back end of long-range model outputs.
Nevertheless, ImpactWeather's Fred Schmude believes the model is trying to decipher heightened activity in the tropics:
The computer model is correctly forecasting improving conditions over the tropics leading to an increased risk of tropical cyclone formation during the last 10 days of the month. Right now this model and many of the other ones are all over the place in trying to decipher tropical cyclone tracks, and since trying to assimilate the flow pattern that far out is very difficult each model run will have a completely different solution.
My take on the situation is the tropics are becoming slowly more favorable and we will likely see an ramp up in tropical cyclone formation over the next week to 10 days. Fortunately with that large upper high situated over Texas, the main threat region for a tropical cyclone will remain well to the south of the area over Mexico or much farther to the east of the region over the eastern Gulf and Atlantic Seaboard.
There's some suggestion the upper high will weaken and shift west of the region by the end of the month which could lead to a higher risk over the Northern Gulf; however, that upper high has had a tenacity to stay over Texas this summer and I'm still skeptical we will see the pattern shift this much by the end of the month.
So we'll see. With our weather luck this year the high will move out of the area just about the time a major hurricane develops in the southern Gulf of Mexico.


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Scanner traffic indicated that a home was fully engulfed in flames in a neighborhood just outside of the Colorado Springs city limits Wednesday night.
The fire fight was happening at a home on Kachina Drive, which is near Platte & Peterson on the southeast side of the Colorado Springs metro area.
A KRDO NewsChannel 13 photojournalist is at the scene getting video.
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Anne's "A Shot of Red" Room
A Shot of Red
Location:Oakland, California
Colors Used
Red, Slate Blue, Chalk White
Color Inspiration
Red accents are used throughout the house, so this was continued in the kitchen to help connect it to the other rooms. The Slate Blue wall color was inspired by the exterior spaces. I wanted to connect the kitchen to the back yard, which contains slate patios and stacked slate walls, so we chose this as an accent color for the wall as well as the material for the kitchen counters and backsplash.
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Use the color thoughtfully and sparingly to help organize the room visually and reinforce the key spatial qualities.
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I'm not a fan of red, but I love this look! Just a little goes a long way. The dark wall is great, too, drawing your eye to the dining space.
yes I painted a wall gray - and I like it! You don't have to throw up a cacophony of color into a room to be effective.
Totally stunning!!! What a wonderful place to make a great meal and sit to enjoy it.
Great taste Anne!!
Elegant. I love the spark of red with that rich blue-gray. Would love to see more photos of this house, inside and out.
Very soothing to look at. I imagine my style eventually evolving into something like this. Thank you for the inspiration!
Glorious colour, and thoughtfully put together. I'm a softie at heart, though, and felt that the overall impression was a bit hard-surfaced and stern. Was glad there was that bowl of fruit on the countertop to balance it a bit.
I love those red chairs, and good restraing on the color. Anymore of that dark blue and the room would've seemed too cavelike.
I love how everything works together! Beautiful. Besides a small amount of entries (yours included) I haven't had many Oooo moments. thx!


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In 2006, a DJ by the name of Spam Chop brought together an eclectic group of likeminded Nottingham soundsmiths for the first official WigFlex club night. From then on, the sound, the night and the movement has twisted and evolved into what it is today: the region's most buzzed-about crew, at the very forefront of cutting edge electronic music.
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|Kristine A. Bertness; Joshua R. Montague; Norman A. Sanford; Victor Bright; C. T. Rogers;
|Capacitive readout technique for studies of dissipation in GaN nanowire mechanical resonators
|November 11, 2011
|A variable-temperature, homodyne reflectometry measurement technique for detecting nanoscale mechanical motion has recently been developed. We have extended this technique to make the first all-electrical measurements of an ensemble of as-grown, c-axis, single-crystal, gallium nitride (GaN) nanowires. These nanowires are approximately 15 µυm in length, 100 nm in diameter, have fundamental resonance frequencies near 1 MHz, and mechanical quality factors, Q, (resonance frequency divided by resonance width) in excess of 104. These high-Q values are sensitive to surface conditions and offer the opportunity to study intrinsic damping mechanisms in the nanoscale resonators. The new microwave measurement technique has allowed us to study the ensemble behavior of nanowire resonances while varying extrinsic variables (e.g. temperature) and obtain statistics on nanowire resonance behavior. Our apparatus allows measurements to be made in either a two-phase lock-in mode, or in a power spectrum mode, both of which have unique advantages. Our measurements demonstrate a position spectral noise floor of 0.3 nm/√√Hz, largely set by the dynamic range of our microwave readout system.
|Proceedings of the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
|pp. 1 - 6
|Denver, CO
|November 11-17, 2011
|Research Areas:
|Spectroscopy, Nanomaterials, Nanomanufacturing


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Just days before the scheduled start of trial in a major copyright lawsuit, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison vowed Tuesday to present evidence that incoming Hewlett-Packard chief Léo Apotheker was at the center of a scheme to steal Oracle's intellectual property when Apotheker led the German software maker SAP.
"A major portion of this theft occurred while Mr. Apotheker was CEO of SAP," Ellison said in a statement to the Mercury News, in which he also challenged HP to make Apotheker available as a witness in the case.
"I hope I'm wrong, but my guess is that HP's new chairman, Mr. (Ray) Lane, will keep HP's new CEO, Mr. Apotheker, far far away from the courthouse until this trial is over," Ellison wrote.
Redwood City-based Oracle is seeking more than $2 billion in damages from its longtime rival, SAP, in a case in which SAP has acknowledged that workers at its TomorrowNow subsidiary accessed Oracle's computers and used pirated copies of Oracle's software to perform maintenance services for TomorrowNow customers.
SAP maintains that Apotheker and other top executives didn't initially know about the abuses and moved to stop them when they found out. But Oracle has argued that Apotheker and other top executives knew about TomorrowNow's practices and allowed them to continue for more than three years.
Oracle has listed Apotheker as a prospective witness in the trial, which is scheduled to start Monday, the same day Apotheker is to start work at HP. While declining to say whether Apotheker will testify, HP noted in a statement that he previously gave a sworn deposition in the case.
"Given Léo's limited knowledge of and role in the matter," the statement said, Oracle's effort to call him as a trial witness "is no more than an effort to harass him and interfere with his duties and responsibilities as HP's CEO."
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The expansion of agriculture over the past three decades involved the cultivation of marginal areas, or clearance of important natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. Such conversion is a major driving force behind land degradation. In the Western Indian Ocean islands, for example, competition for land is so intense that coastal wetlands have deliberately been destroyed, and inland swamps have been drained and used as construction sites (UNEP 1999b). Many African rural communities survive by moving their cattle and crops as subsiding floodwaters expose enriched bottomlands and floodplains. More than 1.5 million people in Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and Sudan depend on this resource, as do vast numbers of wild herbivores (Maltby 1986). Draining wetlands for agriculture therefore threatens not only habitats and biodiversity but also the livelihoods of pastoralists and wildlife.
Loss of natural habitats has reduced vegetation cover and exposed soils to wind and water erosion. Wind and water erosion is extensive in many parts of Africa with about 25 per cent of the land prone to water erosion and about 22 per cent to wind erosion (Reich and others 2001).
Soil erosion also causes increased rates of siltation of dams and rivers, and increased risk of flooding in rivers and estuaries. In Sudan, for example, the total capacity of the Roseires reservoir - which generates 80 per cent of the country's electricity - has fallen by 40 per cent in 30 years due to siltation of the Blue Nile (Conway 2001).
Soil erosion reduces the productivity of land, requiring farmers to apply more and more fertilizers and other chemicals that help check falling productivity. However, many small-scale farmers cannot afford to buy these inputs and so get low yields.
As a result of the increasing recognition of soil nutrient depletion, a soil fertility initiative for sub- Saharan Africa (where the problem is particularly widespread) was established in 1996 (New Agriculturalist 2001). The objective is to strengthen action by the participating agencies to improve productivity and increase farm incomes through a combination of policy reform and technology adaptation. National soil fertility action plans are currently being prepared in 23 sub-Saharan countries. Organic farming systems offer considerable scope for addressing soil fertility problems as well as raising farm incomes.
Policies on land management have generally failed to address the root causes of land degradation which stem from colonial imbalances in land distribution, lack of incentives for conservation, insecure tenure and the failure to provide for diversified rural production systems (Moyo 1998). The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) points out that land degradation is intricately linked to poverty and that addressing this problem requires the participation of the resource users and, where appropriate, providing them with alternative livelihood options. Many African nations have signed and ratified the convention, and 15 countries submitted national action programmes in 2000. The Maghreb Arab Union, Southern African Development Community, the Economic Community of West African States and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel also submitted sub-regional plans. This has served to raise public awareness about issues of environment and resource sustainability, but the resources required to enforce these plans have frequently been inadequate (UNCCD 2001). A recent study estimated that desertification processes affect 46 per cent of Africa, and 55 per cent of that area is at high or very high risk. The worst affected areas are along desert margins (see map), and in total about 485 million people are affected (Reich and others 2001).
The success of land conservation programmes depends on several factors, and is closely linked with socio-economic conditions. Improving the distribution of wealth, access to resources and economic opportunities are key factors (SARIPS 2000). Peace and political stability are vital to improving resource and food security, as shown by the low per capita food production of countries where there is conflict, and resource security is necessary to implement and sustain conservation programmes. Improving extension services and access to appropriate and affordable technology, rural credit schemes and marketing assistance, and breaking down trade barriers are other essential requirements for sustainable agricultural development.
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Ventura awarded $1.8 million
A jury awarded former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura $1.8 million Tuesday in his lawsuit against the estate of "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle.
On the sixth day of deliberations, the federal jury decided that the author of the 2012 best-selling book defamed Ventura in its description of a bar fight in California in 2006. Kyle, regarded as the deadliest military sniper in U.S. history, wrote that he decked a man whom he later identified as Ventura after the man allegedly said the Navy SEALs "deserve to lose a few."
Ventura testified that Kyle fabricated the passage about punching him. Kyle said in testimony videotaped before his death last year that his story was accurate.
Franklin a fan of state fair food
Aretha Franklin is jazzed about more than music at the Ohio State Fair: She's also looking forward to the food.
"I love the state fair, and I love the elephant ears," says the Queen of Soul, who is scheduled to perform Thursday night.
There may be plenty of opportunities for fried, sugary treats ahead, given that her busy 2014 tour also includes performances at the Wisconsin and Minnesota state fairs in August.
Franklin made headlines last week while on tour after publicizing that a server at a Johnny Rockets restaurant in Niagara Falls, Ont., screamed at her for trying to sit down to eat her takeout order. The franchise owner apologized, citing the employee's youth and inexperience.
After some health issues, the 72-year-old R&B diva says she's feeling as good as she did in her 50s. She says she's planning a vacation to New York after her Wisconsin gig, including a stop at the U.S. Open.
'Girls' to be filmed at New Paltz
Some scenes for the HBO series "Girls" will be shot at New Paltz State College.
The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports that series star and creator Lena Dunham will be directing scenes Tuesday afternoon on the campus 75 miles north of New York City.
Scenes will be shot outside the Haggerty Administration Building and at the campus quad.
Some students and staffers will serve as extras.
'Superstar' halting causes rift
The abrupt cancellation of this summer's North American arena tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar" is apparently not being forgiven.
The Really Useful Group, the London-based production company of "Superstar" composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, said Tuesday that it was taking legal action against music and theatrical producer Michael Cohl for the "unilateral decision" to scuttle the tour, which was to star punk legend John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child.
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A thinly veiled contempt for all forms of physical exertion and an open adoration of all things Mod, Ian was recently voted by fellow comedians as 'Man most likely to run amok with a firearm'. Fortunately this hasn't stopped him achieving great success on the London and National circuits where he has spent the last two years supporting the likes of Lee Evans, Jack Dee and Mark Lamarr.
'One of the country's top comedians' (The Guardian).
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Winner of the amused Moose New Act of the Year 2011.
'Combining off-beat jokes with songs about dying pets and choice fatigue, Cahill's unpretentiously surreal and absurd outlook has seen him win numerous awards and secured him firmly in the one to watch category' (PBJ)
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A-Rod's Phone Number Stunt with Kyna Treacy, MLB Playoff Low
He can't hit. He's getting old. But he still has a $117 million paycheck coming. He's still a New York Yankee. It's no secret Alex Rodriguez's game is hardly what it used to be, even now in his post-doping era. He's getting paid like he's playing like a 29-year old, not the 37-year-old that he is. But all this aside, and worst of all? He can't even behave on the bench, acting like a 16-year-old boy, not a professional athlete.
By way of his ridiculous flirting stunt with a luscious brunette sitting behind the Yankee dugout in MLB's championship series Game 1 against the Detroit Tigers, Alex Rodriguez started one of the stupidest controversies the Yankees has ever had.
When the rest of the Yankees worked their asses off, benched A-Rod had only one eye focused on the field, and the other focused on Kyna Treacy, 27, sitting a few rows behind him. In the ninth inning, he grabbed a ball, wrote his number on it, and tossed it to her. The media spazzed, and everybody had to know who A-Rod's mystery girl was. Hell, Derek Jeter even broke his ankle (cringe) but the buzz around A-Rod hasn't stopped. All week, in fact. So here's what we know: her name is Kyna Treacy. She's from Austrialia and she's a barely-there swimwear designer and bikini model. She's 27 (not 33, according to her tweet after the story broke on internet tabloids) and to be honest, she'll probably have the five minutes of fame it takes to read this blog, before fading back into normal life. Now, please, let's get on with the playoffs.
Do we care about A-Rod's love life? No, not really. And to be clear, we're not hating on him just to hate on him (goodness knows there's enough of that already). If it had been any other high profile professional athlete in any other sport, we'd call him out too. Our main thought? Come on man, save the flirting for the bar, and get your head in the game. Even if you are just sitting on the bench.
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Metal Blade Records has announced the signing on Minneapolis-based symphonic metal band EPICUREAN.Formed in early 2004, EPICUREAN quickly gained the attention in the Minneapolis metal scene and developed a reputation for being a powerful and unpredictable live act. In July 2006, EPICUREAN released their debut CD, "A Consequence of Design", and in February 2007, Metal Blade Records approached EPICUREAN with an offer that they promptly accepted. EPICUREAN comments on their signing: "We are extremely excited about the signing, and what that means for the future of our band. To be a part of the Metal Blade family, along side so many bands that we have looked up to, is an honor indeed, and something we have only dreamt of until now." EPICUREAN's debut release, "A Consequence of Design", will be available exclusively on iTunes, Napster, Music Net, Sony Connect and MusicMatch in June 2007. Digital records offered via Metal Blade will also feature two exclusive bonus tracks.
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So you want to make a career out of creating something that everyone in America tries to skip?
Because that's essentially what being a television commercial director is all about: creating short commercials that everyone just wants to skip through as fast as they can. A television commercial director manages every production stage in order to design and execute these minutes-long commercials. To begin the process, a director works with ad agencies, art directors, copywriters, and other media types to create a specific vision to sell a certain product.
And then, to make that vision a reality (insofar as commercials reflect "reality"), the director works with (or, "is trapped on set for 16 hour days with") the artist types: grouchy cameramen and set designers, melodramatic actors, and interfering producers, among others. So directors need superhuman patience and teamwork abilities. This isn't a job for the kids who dreaded group projects in high school.
This also isn't a job for the kids who were always running out of money and never knew where it "went," as though it stood up and walked away. (Hint: It doesn't.) Directors need to be budget-conscious. You can be sure the company that hired you to get a project done under a certain budget won't just let those couple tens of thousands of dollars you spent on catering and expensive hotels slide. Respect budgets, respect deadlines.
But you can't just be a "numbers guy." You aren't an accountant. You are an artist. And if you're pretentious, you might even call yourself an "artiste." Although, you won't have total freedom. You're not Spielberg. You still have to more or less present the ad agency's vision. But still, directors are first and foremost visual thinkers with some formidable technical skills. They understand trends, and they know what sells. (Usual suspects include violence, sex, exotic locations, and celebrity cameos.) They know their way around a computer. After sketching out concepts on storyboards, directors rely on software to make the film they shot look cool.
How does one acquire such skills? While there aren't any formal educational requirements to become a commercial director, most directors aren't born with a working knowledge of Final Cut Pro. (If you know of someone, let us know.) Even Ridley Scott, arguably TV commercial's most famous director who also made a successful transition to full-length movies, had to learn somewhere.
The majority of commercial directors pick up some skills by pursuing a four-year degree in something related to fine arts or graphic design. Courses in studio art, graphic design, computer-aided design, and advertising tend to be pretty helpful. In fact, those courses are pretty helpful for a lot of related careers. If you find yourself leaning towards art and design aspects, and the idea of designing layouts and page spreads appeals to you, you might be more interested in becoming an art director for newspapers and magazines. Or maybe you lean towards computer graphics, in which case animation might be more your style.
What we're saying is, keep your options on the table as much as possible. The life of a television commercial director isn't the black-beret glamor you've envisioned. In fact, television commercial directors make average money at best, work long hours no matter what, and are rewarded with very little job stability and an only average job outlook for the career in general.
No wonder most people get into the television commercial business as a stepping-stone to higher things (like paychecks and movies that people actually watch).
In a nutshell? Your intended career might be, well, a little moot in a world where most people are able to skip (or at least mute) their commercials. Of course, you might be the exception, creating commercials so fresh and innovative that they go viral, and everyone actually wants to watch your commercial.
But more likely, you'll work for low pay and long hours to create a 30-second ad spot for TurboTax that 90 percent of viewers will skip through so they can find out what happens next on Biggest Loser. And the remaining ten percent who actually watched your commercial won't be able to recall a single detail about your work two minutes later.
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PANIPAT: The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has set up its most awaited styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) project at the Panipat Petro Hub with an investment of around Rs 900 crore. The joint venture project of IOC, TSRC, Taiwan and Marubeni Corporation of Japan is expected to kickstart the rubber industry in the city of textile.
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New Hampshire-based ethanol company Mascoma backed out of its plans for an initial public offering last March, citing unfavorable market conditions. Today, the company announced its board of directors now has two new members from big oil: Steve Percy, the former CEO of BP America, and Dan Nelson, former VP of ExxonMobil.
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Zhong, L, Ma, YM, Su, ZB, Salama, MS (2010). Estimation of land surface temperature over the Tibetan Plateau using AVHRR and MODIS data. ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 27(5), 1110-1118.
AbstractEstimation of large-scale land surface temperature from satellite images is of great importance for the study of climate change. This is especially true for the most challenging areas, such as the Tibetan Plateau (TP). In this paper, two split window algorithms (SWAs), one for the NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), and the other for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), were applied to retrieve land surface temperature (LST) over the TP simultaneously. AVHRR and MODIS data from 17 January, 14 April, 23 July, and 16 October 2003 were selected as the cases for winter, spring, summer, and autumn, respectively. Firstly, two key parameters (emissivity and water vapor content) were calculated at the pixel scale. Then, the derived LST was compared with in situ measurements from the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) Asia-Australia Monsoon Project (CAMP) on the TP (CAMP/Tibet) area. They were in good accordance with each other, with an average percentage error (PE) of 10.5% for AVHRR data and 8.3% for MODIS data, meaning the adopted SWAs were applicable in the TP area. The derived LST also showed a wide range and a clear seasonal difference. The results from AVHRR were also in agreement with MODIS, with the latter usually displaying a higher level of accuracy.
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Ozark Fall Burn
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A fire crew from the Buffalo National River in Arkansas completes a fall burn in late October 2012. A firefighter (in the background) was clearing this creek of fuels using a backpack leaf blower and the 'lighter' was following up behind him with his drip torch to ignite along the line. Two more firefighters were lighting to the interior of this one. The fire was being lit in order to reduce the fuel load of the unit and to promote the growth of rare, fire dependent plants in glade habitat.
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Tarzan looks ridiculous scaring those hounds, in his tan loafers too!
Tarzan also speaks dog! And when he gets Big John out in his own element, the wild (be it jungle or bayou), Tarzan will cut him down to size….
Tarzan is more than a match for any human hunter, and offering to meet him in a natural setting is like giving a chess master all of your knights, rooks and bishops before the start of the game.
I'm going back someday
Come what may to Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine
And the world is mine on Blue Bayou…
Which is why I suspected he left the tracking device on the cage. Now he can track where the hunt will be.
A true bayou hunt in the swamps with the 'gators, moccasins, quicksand, and characters who live there…..:)> WhoDatAGowa!!
And so John LaSalle takes the part of The General in "The Most Dangerous Game," unaware that Lord John Clayton makes the protagonist in "The Most Dangerous Game" look like an novice cub scout.
Don't confuse the man with the outfit.
Considering Tarzan's prowess, no regular hunter has a chance against him. However this is LaSalle's country so he may have an upper hand, along with all his cronies in the area.
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Hypertension/High Blood Pressure Health Center
Low Birth Weight May Be Risk for Developing High Blood Pressure
Poulter says he cannot describe the mechanism. "In dizygotic [fraternal] twins -- they have separate placentas -- it may be that one just implanted better than the other. In the monozygotic [identical] twins, they share the same placenta, but one artery from the baby to the placenta was bigger than the other; it was just an unequal distribution of the goodies," he says.
The second study, led by Terence Dwyer, a professor at the University of Tasmania, studied the association between blood pressure and birth weight by analyzing data from almost 900 eight-year-old children. The researchers found that blood pressure decreased with birth weight and increased with current body mass.
Like Poulter, Dwyer and colleagues list unequal distribution of nutrients and oxygen as a possible factor that could be associated with birth weight and blood pressure. They write that reduced nutrient and oxygen availability could lead to permanent adverse programming of the cardiovascular system.
Finally, words of caution from Poulter. "We are not saying maternal smoking [isn't responsible] for small babies; we are not saying that diet doesn't affect the size of the baby," he says. "What we are saying is that it isn't those maternal [factors] which produce a spurious association between birth weight and blood pressure; it is a real association, independent of what the parents do."
"And this also doesn't say that if you're born small, you've had it, you are bound to get hypertension [high blood pressure], or if you are born fat you are bound not to get hypertension," cautions Poulter. "It in no way suggests that the major environmental factors aren't still very valid."