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Skip to comments.Why layoffs are for lazy corporate overseers (sign of failure to properly manage a business)
Posted on 03/05/2013 1:52:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Layoffs are often a sign of failure by top executives to properly manage a business and forecast needs -- and failure of board members to ensure that the right management is in place.
Probably every worker today has experienced -- or known someone who has experienced -- at least one layoff. Layoffs are an abomination -- for the pain they cause innocent victims -- and the lack of accountability they often represent.
Before the great recession, in 2006, Lou Uchitelle sent out a warning about the terrible costs of layoffs in his book The Disposable American: Layoffs and their Consequences. The book traces the history of job security -- and layoffs -- in the U.S. and explores the psychic trauma created by corporations' overuse of this so-called right-sizing tool.
Soon after his book came out, Uchitelle explained to me that he "made a presentation at a meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and at the end, there was a vote taken among more than 30 psychoanalysts. They were asked, 'Do you, from your experience, consider a layoff a traumatic experience?' And all of them put their hands up."
Many workers today don't know of a world without layoffs. But they haven't always been common. I was in New York attending a disaster recovery conference in 1992 when IBM (IBM) announced its very first layoff. I remember the shock among the IBMers attending that conference. The Big Blue rug had been pulled out from under them, and they told me they would never feel the same way about IBM again.
Twenty years later, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2012 alone there were over 17,000 U.S. mass layoff events. (The Bureau defines mass layoff events as 50 employees or more laid off at a single employer.)
(Excerpt) Read more at management.fortune.cnn.com ...
The corporate movement away from job security coincided with the advent of big executive bonuses and the rise of global competition. Consulting firms seized the moment and devised practices to teach companies how to eliminate staff.
"Those jobs are gone, boys, and they ain't comin' back!"
Here's the dirty little secret.
In the Era of Baraq, there's no jobs.
So you flush 10% of your employees and work the rest like rented mules, and most don't have options to go elsewhere.
Job mobility is a tiny fraction of what it used to be, but you'll never see a series about that on the MSM.
Didn't you mean to post this at DU or maybe the HuffPo?
Just for your consideration.
You are always free to agree or disagree and refute the author.
Depends on your local labor laws. When I worked for a company based in Washington state layoffs were the best way to fire people. We had layoffs every year, always some good excuse cooked up, but when you examined the list it was really all the folks that in a normal state would have been fired months ago.
I must reiterate that this is a left wing article, written by an anti-business left wing blogger, and it's posted on a CNN website (NOT Fortune Magazine BTW). The article assumes running a business is easy and that corporations exist to produce jobs first and foremost.
FINALLY, someone recognized that layoffs are a failure by management.
Unless you are simply going out of business or were making buggy whips and have no alternatives there are much better alternatives than layoffs. Layoffs are also a product of offshoring work. Let's face it, you don't need manufacturing employees when you can get Juan or Wang to do it much cheaper.
Someone is right... the management consultants started this crap and the quarter-to-quarter mentality of short sighted foolish and tool managers looking after only their own skins and pocket books is what fosters layoffs. Get mine and get out. To hell with the future of the company, the share holders or anyone else.
I won't say never but I have not worked as an employee for going on 15 years because of layoffs and I have not missed a single day I wanted to work either in all that time. There is a price to pay and I pay it.
There was an article in the American Management Magazine back about 1998 that said layoffs will change the face of corporate America for 40 years. Out with the people who valued people and in with the people who "make the hard decisions" to let people go while they still stay and collect bonuses for "a job well done". They are nothing but Judas Goats.
uh, um, well....I think that's what I was doing, as well as inviting you to chime in on why you posted it (which you are free to do or not to do of course).
You shouldn't have skipped so many of your ECON classes.....it's showing now.
RE: its posted on a CNN website (NOT Fortune Magazine BTW)
Well, I guess CNN Money owns FORTUNE then, or they have a tie up somewhat.
The website is :
Note the word : "Fortune" embedded in the URL.
Oh come on. It is hardly "always" business owners' faults.
Government can screw things up that they don't see coming that wind up negatively affecting their business, which otherwise would have kept on going okay.
So when taxes get punitively higher on businesses and materials increase and deductions erased and the government becomes more anti-business across the board, it's still the businesses' fault they lay people off? Ridiculous. Utter bullcrap.
This is transference of anger from politicians onto business people/private sector. Those mean evil rich business owners are the reason you're fired, they didn't anticipate our agenda would screw them in ways they couldn't imagine, or to the degree they got screwed.
Gimme a damn break.
I agree, this kind of anti-business anti-property anti-free enterprise garbage has no place on FR. Oh, I'm not for banning it by any means, but I am for exposing it and demeaning it and criticizing it - as you have done. The writer is a lefty, CNN is a left wing organization, and Fortune Magazine is only sometimes conservative - as shown by semi-liberal and semi-ignorant Nina Easton's role there.
I would like to know why the OP thought it was worth posting.....
How is that?
Your agreement with this absurd article demonstrates a total lack of understanding of economics, why businesses and corporations even exist in the first place, not to mention how government rules and regulations torture private concerns.
It's not a company's job to to value people, it's their job to make money. If people were willing to work for less they wouldn't get laid off. That's the way it goes. This notion that private industry owes people a job is absurd. Companies will go where they can maximize profit, that's free enterprise. Eventually when other people are willing to work for less they get the work and the company moves. Let's face it, that's the way it should be. Otherwise people should move to a socialist country or work better, harder and more competitively and keep the job.
Oh, it's worth posting here, you gotta confront it and refute it. I wasn't upset at the poster posting it. All my anger is directed at the idiot who wrote the piece.
It's necessary to post because we have to make people aware at what the latest strategy is. that is, government is floating a new trial balloon that the reason for layoffs and unemployment is BUSINESS' fault for not anticipating the future well enough, not government policies or spending, etc.
Not that we wouldn't expect marxists and socialists to do something like this, but when they do, it must be pointed out and refuted soundly when epxosed.
I totally agree with everything you said - but I am disturbed to see at least one, maybe two Freepers who agree with the idiot author....and how miss the point of the piece. I also would like to know the OP's motivations.....normally a poster will defend the piece they post, or acknowledge that they posted it as example of left wing idiocy. When the OP goes silent, it makes one wonder.....
Did not even read the piece. I kinda figured the slant given the times but the premise remains... layoffs are the poor tool of poor management. I've seen it far too many times. Easiest tool on the shelf for panic and self-preservation by people who are managers in name only.
As stated, given the times, I expected the premise that it is business' responsibility to employ people... it is not. It is business' job to make money and it is management's job to sustain the business by managing valuable resources until they are of no further value.
The problem is the incestuous relationships across different Boards.....Executive compensation is rubber stamped. Profits are privatized, while losses are socialized, and those who make bad decisions don't suffer the consequences. For a market economy to work, good decisions must be rewarded, and bad decisions must be punished.
Your comments prove you've never been an entrepreneur and don't even understand the premise. You've never been in management either, and like most who have not, think it's easy. And you haven't mentioned a single word about how government bureaucrats make running a business impossible. You really belong on DU or Huffpo......or CNN.....
....which means government must get the hell out of the way....and we're a LOOOONG way from that status at the moment....
Ever sat on a compensation committee or read the compensation committee report in the 10Q?
You are right, they take care of each other... for the most part, a lot.
You're wrong on all counts and I don't have any more time for you.
I don't lay people off I give them an opportunity to be happier and apply their talents somewhere else. Kinda like fired only realizes we both may have made a mistake. Me for hiring and the employee for failing.
Now you're not making any sense...you "fire" people but you don't "lay them off" - which is fine....but not necessarily any difference between the two, especially in certain states where certain businesses must use certain terms to help them navigate the law. Seriously, you are being postus schizus phrenius here....
"...that in a normal state would have been fired months ago."
I got laid off from a large company years ago when things got slow. Two years later they asked me back. Then several times afterwards. They also did not like to purchase equipment (they rented it). With people you can lay them off, but millions of dollars worth of gear sitting on a shelf is a problem when things get slow.
I can understand their thinking, but it is short-sighted I think. I used to work for a small company before that and he never did lay anyone off - although there were some tough years for him. But he always made payroll.
"Eventually when other people are willing to work for less they get the work and the company moves."
Depends on the workers. Workers should learn to make themselves valuable. I've long thought that American workers can recapture market share if they innovated and learned to create greater value for their labor. A good marketing campaign to consumers could work (like 'look for the union label' but, hey, the union bit the hand that fed them). But that would require some kind of investment and effort, both lacking in today's collective.
Folks need to consider the fundamentals in our economy.
Globalization - deal with it, it's here to stay.
Techonology - Even FoxConn workers are being replaced with robots.
Demographics- An aging population with less needs and wants.
Learned dependence or Earned success. Chose
Ah, trial balloon.
Perhaps, to further obama's corporatism. The day after his first inauguration, he said we would have a 'government guided invisible hand'. That's when we went 'slow roll'.
How can this woman be a consultant? She doesn't even understand one of the most basic tools of management....SWOT. She evidently has forgotten that there are other players besides management and employees. That said, most American management fails to use SWOT, which shows how poor management is in this country.
I have worked for a company (in WA) that uses lay-offs to clear the chaff, but I was also laid off by them as a very new employee once upon a time (and later brought back). I have seen many people who were laid off who well deserved it and some who should have been (and innocents- like I was- like when the cuts go deep.) However, the actions of (all friends with each other) boards and quick lay-offs to increase cash flow is short-sighted.
Yeah, "FINALLY" some left-wing, business-hating writer admitted it. What an event!
The question I have is why you admire that.
Now, I suppose the argument could be made that management has made a mistake by trying to sell an unprofitable product -- resulting in the need to cut expenses. But should management compound its mistake by failing to cut expenses [labor included] to regain profitability?
And so what if they off-shore? Business ain't charity. If our government can't resist the urge to tax and regulate business out of business, then where's the moral necessity for us to labor on as patriotic slaves?
Office Space is still the most accurate documentary film ever made about what life is really like in Corporate America. :)
The irony in that is that IBM was the origin (or an adherent to) the idea that happy employees are productive - and in turn was able to be profitable for a long while. The business and the people working for them would recognize each other as equals - working towards a more profitable company. Now, you see an adversarial attitude develop along with the beginnings of a European labor system - where people have long since lost a strong work ethic or the desire to work for the long term.
On globalization:
How about making it work for more than just the ambiguously defined consumer? Pushing everything onto the worker while expecting (little to) nothing out of the other party will result in mismatches. When both parties work together as equals, requirements are made clearer with less mismatches.
With the transition away from manufacturing, there was a clear and long term path away that would lead to more certain prosperity. Such clarity must return if you want people to improve themselves in the way that you wish. Otherwise it will be seen as having too much cost for too little benefit (where MB is less than MC).
On technology:
It is the most humane alternative to offshoring. That, and you dont have the Foxconn complaints crop up as much or as loudly.
you might want to change the word in front of "cat" on your screen name....
Pathetic responses. No arguments refuting anything said in the article, only accusations of stalinism and similar crimes against humanity. And the old cliche that the article and anyone reading it belongs at DU.
I must say that it is the first article in the business press that I've seen, that attempts to examine the phenomena of layoffs, which as it notes did not exist on such a mass scale 30 years ago. I've seen so many of them, so many done perfidiously, age discrimination, ethnic discrimination (no Hindus laid off), position discrimination (staff members laid off, no managers, managers left with no underlings), and layoff sizes small enough so that neither the SEC, nor the Wall Street has to be notified.
But anyone seeing the dark side of the issue is a Communist, right?
Heh heh. That is a great point that the writer makes. I don't care what the writer's political affiliation is - that is a great point that she makes.
The question is if you're willing to consider government's contribution to any harm and to have them step out of the way.
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Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (1997)
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I liked it, although I kept thinking I had read it before... in fact, it reminds me so much of a later book by the same author I will have to re-read that one... except that one was with Dave Robicheaux and this one with the un-hero-like Billy Bob...
The slowness of my reading is partly down to this book, which took me a loooonng time to get through. Not that it isn't well written; but I had a hard time with so many people making so many bad choices, especially the protagonist. This is the first in the Billy Bob Holland series, and I'll read another just to see how in the heck Burke turns him into a series character when he seems to be burning bridges at every step. The addition of a "ghost" and the device of quoting from Billy Bob's great-grandfather's diary add some literary feeling to the story and differentiate Billy Bob a little from Burke's other character, Dave Robicheaux, who otherwise has a lot of similarities to Billy Bob (and in fact I've only read one of the Dave stories, so who knows....)
I might not have finished this book at this time, except it was one of the Edgar Best Novels which I'm going through in order. It does have a strong sense of place and history both local and family, but I just hate to see people act stupid.
In some ways, this book is not really that different from the Dave Robicheaux series (same author) in tone and pacing. In both series the main characters are strong, silent and violent but... I actually prefer Billy Bob over Dave... I think it's because much of Dave's angst stems from a military background to which I can't relate, and has a lot of alcoholism-taint to his behavior. Billy Bob has issues, but they aren't related to drugs or alcohol and the source of his angst makes sense, even though it's a bit far-fetched at first glance.
The plot is quite detailed - lots going on - and there are a couple threads where you wonder if everyone really will get what they deserve (you'll want them to). I think in the end things work out in a sensible way, though I think the "sex interest" was a bit out of place and both oddly started and oddly wrapped up. I did spend most of the novel wondering if (okay, worrying that) one of the "good guys" was going to be killed... that's a good thing because it means the story, and the characters in it, weren't predictable.
It is a gritty noir with a decent mystery and distinctive characters. I will be reading the rest in the series.
not up to his best
I've seen Burke praised for his wonderful style. I know an acquiring editor who gave Burke as an example of the best in terms of line-by-line writing, and if you look inside the covers of his books, you'll see him praised as the epitome of hard-boiled detective fiction. I think my problem with him is I really don't like hard-boiled fiction.
My first try was Neon Rain, the first Dave Robicheaux book, and I didn't like the book or the hero at all--only read about 60 pages before dropping it, because I don't find attractive the kind of testosterone-laden fic where police officers use their fists rather than their brain to get information out of suspects--Mike Hammer vigilante types do not charm me. Despite that Billy Bob Holland is possibly even worse than Robicheaux in that regard, I did find him more sympathetic, which is probably why I got further into this book. At least when Holland does get violent and takes the law into his own hands, he does so with style. *thinks of a certain scene with a horse ridden into a saloon and a bad guy lassoed* I think the other reason I liked Holland more is because the stakes are so personal. Holland is a lawyer in a small Texas town and a former Texas Ranger haunted (literally more or less) by his dead partner, L.Q. Navarro. The mystery Holland's trying to solve involves his own unacknowledged son, conceived from an adulterous relationship, Lucas Smothers, accused of rape and murder. There are even (more than one!) strong female characters.
However, I don't intend to keep this book on my bookshelf or try more James Lee Burke after this. I think it's that, given I don't care for the grittiness of noir, you really, really have to charm me to keep me reading. Dennis Lehane does that with his Patrick Kenzie series despite it also falling into the hard-boiled genre. Kenizie is such a wise ass, I enjoy the journey, the actual narration, and I love the chemistry between him and his partner Angie. Because of that, I can take the sordidness, the cynicism of the corrupt, violent world they navigate. Holland doesn't have as engaging a voice so that I want to follow him further, and more than once he struck me as too-stupid-to-live. That, and testosterone poisoning, is a deal breaker for me. This is a better than average mystery in terms of its prose writing, but it doesn't have the turns of plot or engaging characters to push it to really memorable for me.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0786889306, Mass Market Paperback)Billy Bob Holland, the protagonist of Cimarron Rose, is an attorney in the dusty Texas town of Deaf Smith. An ex-Texas Ranger (cop, not ball-player) who mistakenly killed his partner during a drug bust, Holland is jolted from his brooding when his estranged illegitimate son is accused of the rape and murder of a party girl. He takes the case, of course, and things get complicated mighty quick. On a hunch only a father could believe, Holland is sure his son is being railroaded. Doggedly pursuing the truth, he runs afoul of sadistic cops, a powerful family, and the euphoniously-named Garland T. Moon, a feral thug with something to hide. Luckily, the folks on his team are just as tough. Burke's book isn't gritty realism--Holland's dead partner visits him often--but the characters ring true in a weird way. They are quirky and appealing, and even the criminals make good company while the whodunit unfolds.
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I'm getting into the holiday spirit and joining a Christmas reading challenge hosted by Margaret at Creative Madness Mama. Here are the challenge requirements (and I'm paraphrasing):
1. Challenge will start Monday November 15 and end Friday, December 31.
2. You can read anywhere from one to five books on the challenge and you are welcome to surpass that number.
3. They must be Christian fiction books.
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These are the Christmas books I plan to read:
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Making small talk with a friend at a party last week…how's your family, how's your job, you know, the normal stuff. When I told her I was working on content for a series of eLearning courses on ethics and compliance, she said she'd just taken some online training at her company – a huge, financial services company. "How was it?" I asked. "Oh, you know – the usual, lots of screens, too much information, some scenarios, that kind of stuff." "Was it interactive? I asked. "Yes, there were five questions at the end you had to answer."
I try not to cringe. Given the explosive growth of gaming technologies, simulations, infographics and other advanced graphic design techniques, "interactive" should mean something other than five questions at the end. If the amount of engagement required for ethics training is to simply hit the "next" button and choose "yes" or "no," companies are missing an opportunity.
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Every time you click the shutter, your digital camera records valuable picture data that describes the image you just captured. Data such as time, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, and ISO are written to the file header in the EXIF format (Exchangeable Image File). This information becomes part of the total image file and can be displayed with applications such as Photoshop 7 and iPhoto 1.1.
In essence, each picture file contains a complete photographic history of the decisive moment that can be analyzed to help you understand why the image was successful, or give you clues as to what went wrong. In this article I'll show you how to retrieve this data and use it to hone your photography skills.
The EXIF format is an international specification first established in 1995 that enables digital cameras (and other imaging devices) to write data to the file header of the image. EXIF files use the JPEG DCT format specified in ISO/IEC 10918-1. The picture portion of the file can be read by any application supporting JPEG including Web browsers and image editors. The metadata can be accessed by applications designed to extract that information out of the header and display it. The most common imaging applications for Mac OS X have no problem displaying at least some of the EXIF data: iPhoto 1.1, Photoshop 7, and Graphic Converter 4.5.
However, the picture file usually contains more information than what's typically displayed by a given application, unless that app is specifically designed to output EXIF information. For example, iPhoto provides the basic time, date, file size, and camera information when you click on the Photo tab of the Show Info window. If you click on the Exposure tab you get more data such as shutter speed, aperture, focal length, exposure compensation, metering pattern, and flash status.
But iPhoto doesn't provide you with other goodies sitting there in the file header, such as ISO speed and white balance. If you need that information, you'd have to open the file with another application designed to grab that data. The point is that the EXIF specification dictates what goes in to the picture file, but image editors typically only give you a portion of that information. So if you get serious about reading this stuff, you might need to add a couple tools to your imaging bag of tricks. More on this later.
When you take pictures, some turn out better than others. Why is that? Beyond good composition and subject matter, there are many factors that we know contribute to powerful images. These include time of day, depth of field, proper shutter speed, and exposure compensation as needed.
If you look at a picture of running water, for example, and you like the way its rendered, wouldn't it be nice to know the settings that you used so you could duplicate the effect again? Before digital cameras were available, I would take handwritten notes to help me remember the settings for particular shots. I hated that. Now the camera records all that information for me, and I'm free to concentrate on taking good pictures.
After studying figures 2 and 3, I know that I can control the way water appears by adjusting the shutter speed. The 1/50 of a second exposure stopped the action to some degree, and the 1 sec. exposure created a very soft look. Now the next time I shoot running water, I can capture the exact effect I want by adjusting the shutter speed.
Time of day also has a dramatic impact on pictures. (Make sure you have your camera's time and date settings correct so they are accurately recorded with the picture.) Over the course of a few hours, a scene can totally change in appearance. Take a look at the two following images.
Even though these pictures were captured from approximately the same location only a day apart, they are much different. The sun was higher in the first picture, and it flattened out the scene, rendering more even highlights and shadows. The same picture shot two and a half hours earlier the next day shows the difference when the sun is lower and creates harsher highlights and shadow areas.
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If I were to go back to these lakes at the same time next year, then I could determine what time to start shooting based on my review of the metadata for the pictures above. If I wanted flat, less dramatic lighting, then late morning seems ideal for that effect. On the other hand, if I like the harsher contrast of darks and lights, then I know I have to get there a few hours earlier.
These are just a couple ways to review EXIF data to analyze your pictures. Other settings such as flash on or off, exposure compensation, white balance, and aperture setting (for depth of field) are all important clues to understanding the success or failure of your images.
You have many options for viewing the EXIF data your camera captures. As I mentioned before, iPhoto provides you with most of the important information that you commonly would need. Also, take a look at the software bundled with your camera. For example, both Nikon and Canon provide image utilities that are compatible with Mac OS X, and they are pretty good at giving you the data your camera captures.
Since I shoot many of my pictures with Canon cameras, I use their bundled Image Browser when I want to access all the important metadata accompanying my pictures. Here's a sample of the EXIF output I get from Canon's Image Browser application:
Dig deeper into digital photography! In addition to reading the O'Reilly Digital Photography Pocket Guide by Derrick Story, you can also learn more helpful techniques like these by attending his all day workshop at the San Francisco Graphic Art Institute on Nov. 22, 2002. More cities are being scheduled.
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This application shows me settings such as white balance that aren't displayed in most image editors. I don't always need this level of detail, but it's nice to know it's there if I want it.
Photoshop 7 does a pretty good job of reading and displaying metadata too. Just go to File -> File Info, then select EXIF from the dropdown menu in the dialog box. It's the last one at the bottom of the menu. Photoshop doesn't provide everything, but it does give you lots to chew on.
Another handy tool that I keep on my Dock for quick and dirty data checking is EXIF Viewer for Mac OS X by Ali Ozer. This free download provides you with most of the data you need plus displays a thumbnail image to boot. I simply drop the file on the application icon on my Dock, and the information is quickly displayed.
The only bug that I've discovered so far is that sometimes the viewer incorrectly displays the flash information. For my Canon images it says that the flash was on when indeed it wasn't. But other than that, this nifty app is a reliable time saver.
I recommend that you keep a set of original files for all of your important images. In part, I think this is just good file management. But I also like to have those original pictures because I know that the metadata will be intact for me to review whenever I want.
When we manipulate pictures and save them in optimized formats, important metadata is sometimes removed from the header. If you don't have those original files to fall back on, you might lose that information forever. Plus, it's always wise to have the unaltered, uncropped picture stashed away safe and sound.
We're just scratching the surface of picture metadata. Soon GPS-equipped cameras might be able to record positioning coordinates to the EXIF file, that could later be translated into locations when browsed with the image editor. Who knows what else? But for now, tapping EXIF data can certainly help us take better pictures and serve as a permanent record for when we recorded them.
Derrick Story is the author of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, The Digital Photography Companion, and Digital Photography Hacks, and coauthor of iPhoto: The Missing Manual, with David Pogue. You can follow him on Twitter or visit www.thedigitalstory.com.
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• In his first year in Congress, Hinchey helped to initiate and spearhead the successful legislative effort to preserve more than 15,000 acres in Sterling Forest, the last significant area of open space in the New York metropolitan region and an important watershed for southeastern New York and northern New Jersey.
• As a member of the House Banking Committee, Hinchey's pointed and persistent questioning of Alan Greenspan forced the Federal Reserve Board Chairman to admit to the existence of taped recordings of the meetings of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the board's policy making body. As a result, the public now has direct insight into the thinking of the FOMC, and the logic behind the decisions affecting interest rates and other important economic policies.
• In 1993, Hinchey and the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored legislation designating New York's Route 17 as Interstate 86, in order to bring increased economic activity to the Southern Tier and Catskills regions. After their legislation was passed as part of the 1998 Building Efficient Surface Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (BESTEA-21), the 381 mile stretch of Route 17 was set on a path to becoming I-86, making it eligible for a wide array of new federal funding. The conversion of Route 17 to I-86 will eventually provide a federal interstate connection from I-90 at Erie, PA to I-87 at Harriman, NY. The New York State Department of Transportation is currently planning a major reconstruction project for Prospect Mountain in Binghamton, New York, which will create more than 200 jobs.
• In 1999, Hinchey succeeded in passing an amendment that required the CIA to report to Congress on its involvement in the 1973 coup of Chile's democratically elected President, Salvador Allende. Following the coup, President Allende was assassinated and General Augusto Pinochet began his 17-year dictatorship. The report, now known as the Hinchey Report, makes a clear case that the United States - at the very highest levels of government - was deeply involved in the destabilization of Chile's government and economy over a period of nearly 20 years.
• In 1999 and 2000, Hinchey successfully secured emergency assistance for U.S. apple farmers who suffered severe weather-related crop damage. Without this emergency aid, many apple farms in New York would have been lost.
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On Thursday, Chris Paul was traded to the LA Lakers in a three-team blockbuster deal, but hours later the NBA killed it, according to Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski.
It was a shocking move, and many wonder what will come of it on Friday and on through the weekend. Yahoo! Sports staff has obtained an e-mail that Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert sent to NBA commissioner David Stern. In that e-mail, Gilbert shares his frustration of the news about the Chris Paul trade, calling it a "travesty."
It was a raw deal for Paul, but hopefully things work out for him in the end. We will definitely keep you informed once anything happens.
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Story: A double bill of Tom Cruise/Tony Scott action flicks. One of the definitive films of the 1980s, 'Top Gun' is a high-octane, high-concept mixture of slick images, hard action and non-stop music. Cruise plays Maverick, a young fighter pilot enrolled at Naval college, training with the most gifted flyers of his generation, and competing for the prestigious Top Gun award. Maverick soon establishes himself as one of the best in his class, but his insistence on doing things his own way soon brings him into conflict with his superiors and his main student rival: the Iceman (Val Kilmer). Celebrated for its vividly realised flight sequences, its keen sense of style, and featuring the Oscar-winning song 'Take My Breath Away'. Whilst in 'Days of Thunder' Cole Trickle (Cruise) dreams of winning the Daytona title on the stock car racing circuit, but his career seems to be ruined when he is involved in a near-fatal accident. However, with a young doctor (Nicole Kidman) inspiring his recovery, he determines to attain pole position on the track once more.
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Albert Dancer, age 29, was arrested for Domestic Violence – Aggravated Assault (Strangulation) after he strangled and struck his girlfriend in Plantersville last night at her residence while her children and mother were present.
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As a strange coincidence, the Plantersville Police hosted an Attorney General's seminar this morning on Domestic Violence Stalking and Strangulation.
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I've always hated the Copenhagen and Many-Worlds interpretations of QM. I find them philosophically offensive. And now, perhaps, they may have been experimentally falsified. Yay!
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The space age arrived on the doorstep of the Smithsonian Institution in the first week of November 1935. It came in the form of a rocket, carefully packed in a long wooden crate, looking more sleek and streamlined than the sputtering craft that would carry Flash Gordon and Dale Arden to the planet Mongo and back at the local Bijou every Saturday afternoon. Measuring 15.375 feet long, 9 inches in diameter and 21.5 inches across the fins, it was covered with a shiny aluminum and stainless steel skin, one quadrant painted red.
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The donor, Robert Hutchings Goddard, had consigned his creation to an express company in Roswell, New Mexico, on November 2. "The rocket has been greased inside and out," he explained to Smithsonian officials, "and the nozzle plugged with a shellacked cork." He went on to insist that under no circumstances was his rocket to be exhibited, or even shown, without his permission. Having agreed to those conditions, Frank A. Taylor, curator of the Division of Engineering, reported on November 16 that the new acquisition had been moved into deep storage in a basement corridor of the Smithsonian Castle. There it would remain for more than a decade.
Robert Goddard's long relationship with the Smithsonian had begun in 1917, when the Institution had provided the young Clark University physics professor with a $5,000 grant to support his earliest experiments in rocketry. Charles G. Abbot, then director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, was intrigued by Goddard's suggestion that rockets could boost scientific instruments into the upper atmosphere. No one was more pleased than Goddard's mother. "I think that's the most wonderful thing I ever heard of," she remarked. "Think of it! You send the Government some typewritten sheets and some pictures, and they send you $1,000, and tell you they are going to send four more."
The Smithsonian published Goddard's classic treatise on rocketry, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, in 1919. The document was a serious engineering study filled with equations and tabular data designed to prove that existing solid-propellant rockets could carry instruments into space. Though the paper concluded with a remark that it might even be possible to send a multistage rocket to the moon, the author did his best to understate the more sensational aspects of his study.
Goddard's valiant efforts to preserve his scientific dignity were a dismal failure. The shy professor and his "moon-going rocket" were front-page news from the New York Times to the San Francisco Examiner. A Hollywood agent cabled a request:
Burned, Goddard retreated from the limelight and continued his work in relative secrecy. He achieved a genuine milestone on March 16, 1926, when he sent the world's first liquid-propellant rocket sputtering aloft to a peak altitude of 41 feet above a Massachusetts cabbage patch. He continued to build, static test, and launch his rockets for the next three years, gaining useful experience in the design and construction of the bits and pieces that make up a rocket.
The steady, comfortable pace of his research was broken on July 17, 1929, when a new rocket left the launch tower with its usual roar and reached an altitude twice as high as that achieved in 1926. As Goddard and his crew were packing up that afternoon, a police car and an ambulance, summoned by neighbors who had been frightened by the noise, appeared on the scene. Goddard was back in the news once more and, in effect, barred from flying his rockets in the area.
But this short-term disappointment opened the door to Goddard's most fruitful years. He was sitting at his desk on the afternoon of November 22, 1929, when he received a telephone call from the most famous man in America, Charles A. Lindbergh. The flier had noticed an article in the latest issue of Popular Science Monthly detailing Goddard's work.
The two arranged a meeting the next day. By the end of his visit, Lindbergh's limited interest had given way to a much grander vision. "I am sure Professor Goddard had no idea how his words set my mind to spinning," the aviator recalled in his autobiography. "A flight to the moon theoretically possible!...Who dared, now, to say anything was impossible!"


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Last night we spotted British singer Cheryl Cole attending the National Television Awards in London wearing a revealing black dress that showed off her back tattoo.
Her little black Gucci dress had a touch of Liz Hurley's safety pin dress about it. Her sexy backless dress was just low enough to give us a glimpse of her latest artwork - a vine-like tattoo on her lower back. She also revealed a touch of side cleavage.
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We can't all scale Everest. We can't all hit a ton of home runs or sink a clutch Ray Allen-style three-pointer. The vast majority of us don't have the ability to do something big and headline-grabbing. We have to settle for the little things -- the small, everyday achievements that jolt us with pride. The little things that fill us with an astounding sense of success that quickly fades away because, ultimately, who gives a shit? It's not impressive in the least. But in that moment, to you, it's an astonishing victory that can lift your spirits, if only by a fraction of a percentage point, and act as a dim yet much-appreciated light in the midst of an otherwise dreary day.
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If you can consistently get a USB cable into the port in fewer than five attempts, I think you're a wizard. If you can do it on the first shot every time, you are a god who can bend and shape existence to your will. I assume that, when you sit at a table, you just fall back into empty space and a chair from across the room glides beneath you. A USB cable shouldn't be at all difficult to plug in. Nearly all of our devices use them, and we plug at least one or two into something every day. But here's the problem:
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USBs don't do a good job of conveying which side is up, so that little white strip in the center bangs against the incongruent end of the port, meaning I have successfully failed at my first attempt at plugging it in. Here's where it gets interesting: There's blood magic and voodoo curses in USB cables. Flip the plug, stab it in -- nothing. No obstruction, no white thingy getting in the way -- the cable knows. It knows you're trying to be cute by finding a solution. It summons its dark magics and prevents itself from being plugged in correctly. Flip it back and blah blah blah failure failure failure. This can go on for upwards of 30 seconds. If anything as basic as plugging a thing into a second thing goes on for more than seven seconds, it's a challenge thrown down by the God of Mundane Mischief -- a naughty, giggling cherub-looking bastard who takes great delight in igniting my short temper when it comes to uncooperative technology.
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It's a battle of attrition. Eventually, if I wear down my USB foe, it will concede. It grows bored with making me think I have a learning disability. Much patience and shit was lost in this battle, making it an ugly victory, but a victory nonetheless. I commemorate each battle by taking that day off the following year.
Thankfully, we will soon be able to tell our grandchildren of our battles with USB cables and they'll have no clue what we're talking about, because in the not-too-distant future there will be directionless USB cables. We have won.
3Opening the Microwave With Zero on the Clock, Beating the Beep
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On most microwaves, there seems to be a faint, fleeting whisper of a moment between when the countdown hits zero and when the beep does its beepy thing. That moment is precious. It's mythical. It's an elusive beast only the brave and stupid attempt to capture. I attempt to catch it every time I use the microwave. I don't set the time and walk away -- I stand there, waiting. A good hunter fuses himself to his surroundings, knowing that moving will only degrade his shot at glory. Time slows around me, even though I'm staring at a countdown of time that is very clearly moving at the regular speed of time. My vision Instagrams -- a vintage-looking black ring circles my periphery, bringing my target into a sharp, duckfaced focus. I will beat the beep.
Most microwaveable food outside of water and popcorn isn't glorious. It's actually kind of depressing. The food always looks mopey and soggy, a little sad, like its dog just died.
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Like eating the memories you're running away from.
It's the microwaves themselves that offer glory, and it is the glory of defeating time itself. Or maybe just victory over the speed at which the timer communicates with the beep mechanism? Whatever. Glory is glory.
Three seconds. The clock ticks down as the intoxicating scent of a 79-cent frozen burrito wafts into my nostrils. Two seconds. My nimble fingers grasp the handle, primed for an explosive pull. One second. My eyes are so focused on the time that I can almost see the goop within the digital clock begin to bleed into the form of the next set of numbers. Zero. Pull. CH-THUNK!
No beep. Just burrito and silence. Zero on the clock. That's how you make an awful microwaveable burrito delicious -- by seasoning it with the spice of victory.


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- Posted by DChristoff
on 4/25/12 at 5:20pmI am in Arizona and we hit 105 the other day...
- Posted by sissyboogs
on 4/25/12 at 5:20pm
I'm in PA. Last week it was in the 80s, this week it snowed =/
- Posted by kansasmom1978
on 4/25/12 at 5:21pm
Yup it's hot in KS too. 95. I have been hanging clothes to dry all day. It takes about 20 mins to dry them lol
- Posted by jen.mom.of.four
on 4/25/12 at 5:22pmI'm in Nevada yesterday was 102.... Gonna be a looooooong summer
- Posted by Alliemad_3
on 4/25/12 at 5:23pmWhere in Texas are you?? We're only in the mid 80s up here in Dallas.
- Posted by LntLckrsCmQut
on 4/25/12 at 5:24pm
I live in TX and it's only 88 here.
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on 4/25/12 at 5:25pm
I'm not used to turning the ac on yet, Usually its the last part of May but i looked at my thermometer and it was 85 in the house , so i reluctantly turned it on.
- Posted by prdmomnarmywife
on 4/25/12 at 5:26pmThis ... However we are supposed to get rain and lose 20 degrees tomorrow :)
Quoting DChristoff:
I am in Arizona and we hit 105 the other day...
- Posted by momofhnd
on 4/25/12 at 5:26pm
Brownwood, about 2 or 3 hrs from where u are ( I think )
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Where in Texas are you?? We're only in the mid 80s up here in Dallas.
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UnCensered: Parity? Maybe. Growth? Definitely
by Joel Censer | LaxMagazine.com
|Colgate's Peter Baum, an Oregon
native, put together a near 100-point season to win the Tewaaraton
and Loyola took home the Division I men's national title. It wasn't
a great year to be a lacrosse prognosticator, writes Joel
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This wasn't a great year to be a lacrosse pundit.
Back in January, we media types were all pointing to teams other than Loyola. Virginia, fresh off its unexpected title run, returned almost everyone. Duke and Denver both seemed primed to make the final four again. North Carolina, after adding a couple high-profile transfers and another gold-plated recruiting class, looked ready to shake that 20-year-old Championship Weekend gorilla. Hopkins' talented junior class spurred Lacrosse Magazine to buy ink/bandwidth and the Homewood faithful to furiously type message-board posts.
As for the personal awards, reporters seemed ready to cast Tewaaraton votes for either Cornell's Rob Pannell or Virginia's Steele Stanwick as soon as the 2011 season ended. Who you voted for probably said more personal preference than anything else. Long Island or Baltimore? A square-shouldered pitbull who could get a step on anyone or the more traditional quarterback with the traditional string job? The "Red Mamba" or the "King of the Restart"? If there were a wrench to be thrown in the projected two-man race, we all expected it to be tossed by Denver's Mark Matthews (who could throw in a toe-drag and a box fake for good measure).
Maybe the Mayans stumbled on to something. Because in 2012, predicting what was going to happen in late May meant ignoring both precedent and pedigree.
On Memorial Day, it was Loyola — which hadn't been relevant since program-builder Dave Cottle bolted for Maryland — that cut down nets and rapped about being champions. The next week, Colgate's Peter Baum, an Oregon native whose near 100-point season often had to be tracked through live stats and live streams, won the Tewaaraton bronze.
At the podium, the junior professed: "I wish I could say this was something I dreamed of growing up. But I don't even think that in my wildest dreams I could have imagined this, growing up playing lacrosse in Oregon." Stanwick watched from the audience. Pannell, who missed all but two games with a foot injury, is returning to Ithaca for another year.
Were the past few weeks a watershed moment for the sport? Loyola was only the ninth school to take home an NCAA title and just the second new winner since 1992. Unlike Duke, the Greyhounds weren't some warm-weather ACC superpower with enough resources and ranked recruits to make a championship seem inevitable. But whatever institutional advantages Charles Street's second-class citizen may have lacked, in 2012 Loyola was the best, most complete team in the country.
So what does this all mean? Has parity arrived? Can more schools now compete for post-season hardware? Who knows? I'm not going to pretend like I'm some sort of lacrosse Miss Cleo who saw this coming. But I do think a couple of developing trends will continue to change the landscape of college lacrosse.
The growth of the game was on full display in the post-season. Going beyond Baum taking the Tewaaraton, look at probably the most important matchup in the title game: Atlanta native and Loyola long-stick-extraordinaire Scott Ratliff taking on Maryland midfielder/Seattle slinger Drew Snider (it should also be noted, however, that both their fathers played ACC ball).
Obviously, the spread of lacrosse has made more quality players available for more teams. And it's not just raw athletes still trying to learn the sport. Slick-sticked offensive studs like Baum, Loyola's Mike Sawyer (Waxhaw, N.C.), Hopkins' Lee Coppersmith (Boca Raton, Fla.), Virginia's Rob Emery (San Francisco, Calif.), Cornell's Roy Lang (Mill Valley, Calif.) and North Carolina's Thomas Wood (Dallas), all made an impact this season. And coaches continued to outsource various offensive duties to Canadians with alarming regularity.
Not only is there more talent — particularly offensive talent — to go around for more programs. Offensive sets have become smarter and more efficient and not as reliant on unique kinds of players.
In the early parts of the century, scoring goals in the post-season meant having premier athletes who could always run by their guy. Because those types of players are rare and generally easily identifiable in high school, they usually end up playing for a couple programs with history, or warm weather, or both. That's why the Tewaaraton winner was almost always an offensive stud who just led his team to the championship. Ned Crotty, Mike Leveille, Kyle Harrison, Mike Powell and Matt Ward all fit the mold.
But this post-Stanwick/Canadian box inspired two-man era, teams just don't necessarily need a premier Rabil-like midfielder, or a Powell-like attackman to draw slides and generate offense. Now, it's all picking, re-picking, screening and big-little games from behind.
So a team like Denver can put the rest of the country on notice with a heavy dose of box influenced pick-and-rolls. Or Maryland — which relied on those grinding two-man games that could make paint dry — reached the final despite not having much of a bonafide offensive star. Loyola won the title when its two best offensive players, Eric Lusby and Sawyer, were of the planted-feet, catch-and-shoot variety.
The media-friendly "parity" meme has been hashed and re-hashed. Usually there hasn't been much to pin it on other than some early-season upsets or a rogue school with a dominant faceoff man or a bevy of Canucks making some playoff noise. Whether Loyola's win was just a right mix of lock-down defensive midfielders, veteran leadership, and some slingers on offense, or the ushering in of a new era remains to be seen.
But as the nation's talent base grows and early recruiting makes it even harder to identify who the best kids are; and as offenses continue to find ways to score settled goals without "Rabil-esque" midfielders, winning will likely be even harder to contain to the upstate New York, ACC or Homewood sightlines.
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