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Michael J. Zigmond
Back in 1995, I thought it would be a fairly simple job to draft a set of guidelines for the responsible communication of scientific results. The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) wanted such guidelines, and I chaired the committee that drafted them. At first, we assumed that a small group of people would easily prepare a simple document of a few pages. The reality proved to be quite different: The process spanned more than three years, during which our text evolved from a few paragraphs written by two people to about 5,000 words written by a committee of seven, and finally to 13,500 words composed by 13 individuals with experience in academia, industry, publishing and law.
In the end, our guidelines didn't just give instructions; they explained the reasons that researchers should behave in certain ways. And in generating those explanations, we sometimes decided to modify the very rules we had set out to justify. The SfN continues to refine its guidelines today, and the process has stimulated much reflection on the role of professional societies in establishing ethical guidelines—and keeping them alive, relevant and effective.
Professional societies have a long and honorable history, tracing back at least to the 15th century. But only very recently have scientific societies begun to establish guidelines on research ethics for their members. Today, more than 50 societies have written guidelines, and this is as it should be: Professional organizations are in a unique position to promote the responsible conduct of research.
Responsibility for overseeing research ethics has typically fallen to research institutions rather than societies. But institutions can set standards only for the most basic and universal matters, such as plagiarism and fabrication of data. Other aspects of research, including authorship, data management and the sharing of reagents, can be too specific to a given field to be regulated at the institutional level.
True, professional societies are generally ill-equipped to investigate claims of misconduct. They also have limited powers of enforcement and few penalties to impose on those who misbehave. But societies are often in the best position to understand and set standards of conduct for the specific segment of science that they represent. Moreover, although there are some 2,500 colleges and universities in the United States alone, there are far fewer scientific societies—each of which can efficiently communicate with a large number of scientists. Finally, societies are increasingly involved in publishing research journals and organizing conferences at which scientists present results. In such venues, these organizations have a unique opportunity—and an obligation—to educate their members about responsible conduct.
My own work developing guidelines for professional conduct is almost solely with the SfN. But my experiences may illustrate how other societies could begin such an endeavor, what they might do once guidelines are adopted, and what problems they might encounter. The SfN example also illustrates how a society can go beyond guidelines alone to promote research integrity in other dynamic ways.
The SfN is a relatively young society. The word neuroscience itself did not even appear in the literature until the 1960s, and the SfN was created in 1969. Since then, both the field and the society have expanded rapidly. Indeed, during the past five years, a quarter of a million research articles on aspects of the nervous system were published. That amounts to more than 100 papers every day! And the size of SfN membership has expanded dramatically since its inception, growing from a few hundred to more than 40,000 members.
Shortly after its inception, the SfN began to take on ethical issues. In the early 1980s, public concern arose over the treatment of monkeys at the Institute for Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. In response, the SfN organized a symposium on the use of animals in research, established a standing committee on the treatment of laboratory animals and human subjects, and developed a formal policy on those issues. The society also established a general policy on research ethics and an initial statement about fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, which was replaced in 1999 with a comprehensive set of guidelines for responsible conduct in scientific communication.
Also in the early 1980s, the SfN began to offer a Social Issues Roundtable at the society's annual meetings. Sessions have included "Neuroscience in Developed and Developing Countries: Partnership or Exploitation," "Perspectives on Gender in Neuroscience" and an overview of several other ethical issues. The series continues today and adapts to encompass timely issues. Shortly after the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, for example, the program committee abandoned the intended topic in favor of a special session on the impact and treatment of trauma.
As another addition to the SfN meetings, my colleague Beth Fischer and I began in 1997 to hold annual workshops on professional skills such as writing research articles and making oral presentations. We firmly believe that research ethics are best taught in the context of other skills rather than in isolation, and our workshops adhere to this principle. Skill-centered events tend to attract more students than those that address integrity alone. And where better to discuss authorship criteria and plagiarism than in a workshop on writing research articles? We use the lunch hour for case discussions led by neuroscience faculty members, thereby emphasizing that ethical concerns are worth the time of working scientists. And we establish a supportive culture by acknowledging that students and researchers do need guidance in professional skills that they might not learn in traditional training programs. Melissa Anderson, a social scientist at the University of Minnesota, and her colleagues have shown that such a culture fosters research integrity. To use the words of Addeane Caelleigh, former editor of Academic Medicine, we provide a "hidden curriculum" by presenting a "message of actions rather than formal statements."
The twin objectives of educating and promoting a culture of responsible conduct also led the SfN to establish in 2003 the ongoing annual Neuroethics Lectures. At the most recent lecture, Henry Greely spoke of the many ethical issues raised by discoveries in neuroscience. Among the difficult questions he addressed were: If we develop cognitive enhancers, should they be available to anyone or only to those with special needs? And should we try to detect neurological diseases before symptoms appear even when there are no treatments? At the same meeting, the SfN held a special session called "The Brain on Trial," in which neurologists testified before an actual judge about whether a fictitious individual should be convicted of murder despite evidence in his brain scans.
In 2006, growing interest in the intersection of neuroscience and ethics spawned a whole new organization, now named the International Neuroethics Society. It coordinates its meetings with those of the SfN and hosts symposia on topics such as global health, predictive biomarkers for disease, and neuroscience and national security.
It was in the context of these expanding ethics initiatives that the SfN decided to develop guidelines on responsible conduct in communicating scientific results. The stimulus for this committee, which I chaired, was a concern among some society members that a few journals were fast tracking papers—that is, soliciting and then prioritizing certain papers rather than evaluating manuscripts in the order in which they were submitted. But the scope of our committee quickly expanded.
It is often said that one should not reinvent the wheel, and scientists often (but not always) examine what other people have written about a topic before initiating research in that area. Of course, learning too much about what has already been done can close one's mind to new possibilities. At least that is the committee's excuse for the fact that when we started working on our guidelines, we were not hampered by knowledge! (For those embarking on the task anew, I would now recommend doing a little homework. This might include examining existing guidelines and reading "Eighteen Rules for Writing a Code of Professional Ethics" by Michael Davis, a philosopher at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Caelleigh's "Roles for Scientific Societies in Promoting Integrity in Publication Ethics" is another excellent resource.) We did eventually make considerable use of the pioneering efforts of the American Chemical Society, which kindly gave us permission to adapt and extend its guidelines for our purposes.
We might also have begun by considering our objective: How did we want our guidelines to be used? Mark Frankel, a senior staff member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been a major force in encouraging professional societies to promote research integrity. He has noted that codes of ethics come in three flavors: aspirational (what would we like everyone to do?), regulatory (what must we do?) and educational (why should we do this?). Education researchers Felice Levine and Joyce Iutcovich have made a related distinction, noting that such guidelines generally focus on "(1) general education and professional development, (2) prevention and advisement, and (3) complaint handling and enforcement of codes of ethics." Levine and Iutcovich add that societies also vary in the level of effort they devote to each objective.
But our committee did not begin by contemplating either set of distinctions—or how much effort we would expend. We started out developing what would have been, in retrospect, a brief set of aspirational guidelines. But over three years, we transitioned to a more regulatory and educational approach, so that our final document included extensive discussion and reasoning for each guideline. I believe that this approach made the document not only more valuable but also more honest. By forcing ourselves to justify each directive, we found instances in which we could not do so. And rather than use the "because we said so" explanation, we modified the guidelines.
For some topics, our guidelines were at odds with the codes of other organizations, and we were explicit about this in our document. A case in point involves the matter of placing pre-publication copies of manuscripts on a website. Although this practice is common in some fields, such as physics, some journals do not wish to consider a manuscript that has already appeared on the Web or been circulated widely among colleagues. They may consider such papers to have been previously published or to have lost their novelty. But our committee felt that both practices were not only acceptable but desirable because they helped promote communication among scientists. We did, however, feel obliged to warn authors that, if they followed our recommendations, they might risk having certain journals refuse their manuscripts.
The question of sharing manuscripts evoked little debate in our committee or in the governing council of the SfN. Some issues were even more straightforward: One cannot imagine, for example, a serious argument in favor of falsifying data. But few aspects of responsible conduct are so simple. Like most sets of guidelines, our document dealt with many subtler issues, some of which have led to a good deal of discussion. Among them were authorship, dual publication, plagiarism and sharing reagents.
Authorship: Should the head of a research group automatically be listed as an author of every publication that derives from his or her lab? Does a technician who spent many hours collecting valuable data qualify as an author? The SfN guidelines say no in both cases, stating clearly that intellectual contribution is an essential criterion for authorship. But it took a lot of discussion for our committee to reach this position, and it is still not universally accepted within our field.
Dual publication: Although we encouraged informal sharing of manuscripts, our guidelines say that publishing the same material in two primary research journals is always wrong. But what if an author works in a country where English, the language of nearly all internationally known journals, is not well understood by those who would benefit from reading the paper? In such cases, a translation could be beneficial, and some have argued that the "no dual publication" rule hampers the distribution of knowledge.
Plagiarism: The prohibition against publishing someone else's text or data without permission is clear enough, but what about the use of someone else's ideas? If, for instance, a 1993 publication by Jones states: "We believe that maternal stress often leads to a marked change in the endocrine response to stress in offspring," then the use of those very words would require quotation marks and a specific reference to Jones, 1993. But what if a later author writes: "We think that stressing a mother can alter the hormonal reaction to a stressor in neonates"? Quotation marks are no longer appropriate, but surely the minor change in wording still warrants a reference to Jones. How many words must one change to absolve oneself of providing a citation? Often this is a judgment call, but it is always better to err on the side of giving Jones some credit.
Sharing research reagents: The SfN guidelines are quite emphatic about this, stating that "unique … materials used in studies being reported must be made available to qualified scientists for bona fide research purposes." This directive is consistent with the regulations of most biomedical journals and funding agencies. But what of the student who spent years developing a reagent in order to conduct specific experiments and now wishes to reap the benefits? Surely, in evaluating what is best for science, one should also consider what is best for the careers of scientists, especially junior ones. This tension became all too clear to me at an event that I wrote about in 2003 in Science and Engineering Ethics. I quote from that report:
A year after the publication of the [SfN] guidelines I decided to help promote an awareness of the document by organizing a workshop at a small conference of neuroscientists. My focus was on the stipulation that authors be prepared to share with other investigators any materials developed in a lab and described in a peer-reviewed publication—a requirement that … had been considerably strengthened as a result of input to the guideline committee. I invited several "opinion leaders" to help with this task, including a member of the editorial board of a prominent neuroscience journal and the director of a federal agency that supports research in neuroscience. To bring a little bit of levity to an otherwise very serious discussion, party hats were provided for each of the discussants. For example, the editor was given the shade of a copy editor and the director of the funding agency received Uncle Sam's top hat. Then I distributed an ethics case:
"Dr. Michelle Tyson is happy. She has just completed three years of hard work as a postdoc and has a great deal to show for it: She's developed a knockout mouse (Syko) that is a model for schizophrenia, published a paper on that mouse in a prestigious journal, and has secured an assistant professorship at State University. She knows that the new mouse and the paper were critical in getting her the job and she's ready to show the search committee that they did the right thing: She will immediately set up her new lab and then begin to reap the benefits of her hard work by exploring the neurobiology of this mouse. However, no sooner had she arrived at State University, than she received an email message from Dr. Max Megalab asking her to provide a dozen mice from her Syko colony. It is clear from the email that Dr. Megalab understands the potential of the mouse line and will have no trouble figuring out and completing the very experiments that Dr. Tyson had plans to pursue. Should Dr. Tyson provide the mouse?"
Imagine my surprise when no one on the panel felt that Dr. Tyson should provide the mouse and thereby follow the guidelines for sharing! Instead, concerns were raised about the fairness of asking a hardworking junior researcher to turn over the fruits of her labor to Dr. Megalab, the possibility that people would rather postpone publication than share a unique resource that was critical to their ongoing experiments, the absence of funds to facilitate the distribution of those materials, or the means by which the guidelines would be enforced. (For comments on this case, see [http://skillsandethics.org].) I was still trying to deal with this unexpected outcome the next morning when I returned to the location of the workshop only to discover that my own key reagents—the party hats—had apparently been stolen! I have not tried to repeat this experiment.
In a recent review of the original guidelines, the SfN reaffirmed its mandate that reagents must be shared if they are not otherwise available—a practice that reduces the waste of funds for making duplicate reagents and also promotes attempts to replicate published results. But just as in the case of honorary authorship, the regulation is not universally followed.
If some senior scientists refuse to follow an ethical guideline even in a mere case study, perhaps it is fair to ask: Do guidelines for responsible conduct matter? Do they make a difference? Unfortunately, we have little information with which to evaluate this essential question. But then, we actually have little information about the impact of any ongoing effort to reduce scientific misconduct—behaviors that are almost certainly very rare but are nonetheless of great significance to science. And we must ask, as we do of the proverbial tree falling unheard in the forest, does a set of guidelines that remains unread make a sound?
In an earlier essay in this series (March–April 2011), John Ahearne quoted the Roman poet Juvenal, who observed that "honesty is praised and then left to freeze." And Caelleigh has written:
Anyone who works to change human behavior engages in "magical thinking" at some point—such as the irresistible hope that small, simple changes can produce large complex results in behavior… Magical thinking also underlies the situation when a scientific society passes a resolution that its members are committed to the highest standards in all aspects of research and then, based on the resolution alone, expects members to meet the standards.
As the chair of the initial SfN committee on guidelines for communicating research findings, I worried a great deal about the fate of our document. How might we avoid letting our guidelines "freeze," sitting in the archives only to be thawed when a potential ethical breach was discovered and procedural guidelines were required? How would we avoid "magical thinking"—something that should, after all, be anathema to any group of scientists? As a researcher in the field of brain disorders, I am interested in preventing diseases as well as treating them, and I believe that guidelines should serve a similar pair of functions. Thus, my colleagues and I have sought ways to make our code a more effective educational tool, not just a reactive mechanism to deal with misconduct. And I believe that we are beginning to be successful.
To accomplish this, the SfN has added to its lively array of lectures and workshops on ethics, providing several specific programs that complement the guidelines. This has been particularly evident since 2010 when the society issued revised guidelines for responsible communication and established an e-mail address through which individuals can make comments or raise questions about those guidelines. The SfN has also recently hosted two international symposia on responsible conduct in communicating scientific results, along with a two-day workshop on the subject. And the society has commissioned a manual that will contain its guidelines on research communication along with related ethics case studies, discussion notes and a bibliography for further reading. That manual will be ready for distribution to SfN members and other interested individuals later this year. We anticipate that it, too, will help the guidelines serve the educational purpose for which they were designed and keep them from being relegated to the archives. I urge other professional societies to take similar approaches if they have not already done so. Let us do away with magical thinking and rewrite Juvenal's quote to state: "honesty is praised and then helps us change the world around us!"
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2011/4/making-ethical-guidelines-matter/1
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Last week, we explained what a codec is and why we need them, before looking at the two main container formats - QuickTime and Microsoft Video for Windows. We also explained what DV does to reduce video data rates. But the kind of frame-based compression it uses was not going to be sufficient for consumer digital video consumption, nor the HD revolution. A new type of compression was required, and the end result was MPEG, from the Motion Picture Experts Group.
MPEG now comprises a whole family of codecs. Most of these can be embedded within AVIs and QuickTime MOVs as well as operating standalone. The most important MPEG standards for the computer user are MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. It's worth noting here that MP3 audio is not MPEG-3 but a shortened name for MPEG-1 Layer 3. So MP3s are part of the original MPEG-1 standard. The MPEG-3 standard was originally meant for HDTV, but this was rolled into MPEG-2.
The most important thing to know about MPEG is that it is the father of all interframe formats. As we touched upon in Part One of this series, MPEG only records a single I-frame every so often, with the intervening P-frames referring back to this. It's also possible to include B-frames which refer forwards as well as backwards. So, instead of being based around a single frame, the basic unit in MPEG is a bundle of frames called a Group of Pictures (GOP).
The exact structure of a GOP is variable. Typically, 12-15 frames will be included, defined by a parameter N. Of these, only one is a full I-frame. The rest of the frames will be a mixture of P and B frames, indirectly defined by another parameter M, which dictates the spacing of P frames. A figure of 3, for example, means that every third frame will be a P frame. So, for a GOP with N=12 and M=3, there will be one I-frame, three P-frames, and eight B-frames.
Motion-compensated predictive coding (MCPC) helps prevent rapid motion from throwing the forward and backward referencing out of whack. With bidirectional B-frames involved, the frames have to be read in a different order to the one in which they end up on the viewer's screen. This is one of the reasons why MPEG is much more complex to edit than video compressed using intraframe-based methods only.
It's also possible to specify a much larger group of frames called a Long GOP, which can allow much higher compression but won't be compatible with certain playback devices. It can also cause colours to drift towards green. A version of the DVD specification called XDVD with GOPs up to 60 frames was announced in 2005, promising as much as 10 hours onto a single-layer 4.7GB DVD. A somewhat outdated list of supporting players is available here.


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Exports were up 15 per cent or $405 million in August from a year earlier to $3.2 billion, led by higher prices for dairy products.
Imports last month were up 3.6 per cent or $126m to $3.6b, leaving a trade deficit in August of $437m, or 14 per cent of the value of exports, Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) said today.
The August trade balance was typically negative, with last month's deficit half the average of the five August months before 2010.
The milk powder, butter and cheese category recorded the largest increase in exports last month compared to August last year, rising $136m or 38 per cent due to higher prices, SNZ said.
Cheddar cheese and some butter varieties also contributed significantly to the rise.
The second largest rise in exports was for aircraft, which lifted $54m due to the re-export of large aircraft.
Next was the logs, wood and wood articles category, up $40m or 19 per cent, led particularly by pinus radiata logs and sawn or chipped pinus radiata, SNZ said.
The largest fall in exports was crude oil, down $42m or 24 per cent, while fruit exports fell $38m or 24 per cent.
Meat and edible offal exports recorded the lowest August value since 1998, dropping $20m or 7.6 per cent from a year earlier to $242m led by a fall in frozen lamb cuts with bone-in.
Among imports, the largest increase was in capital goods which were up $65m or 12 per cent, due to a $66m or 14 per cent lift in machinery and plant, SNZ said.
The second largest rise in imports was for cars which gained $63m or 32 per cent to be similar in value to August 2008.
Consumption good imports rose $57m or 6.1 per cent, mainly due to durable goods and semi-durable goods. Durables include textiles, household appliances, lawnmowers, televisions and furniture, while semi-durables include items such as glassware, clothing and footwear.
The largest fall in imports was recorded by intermediate goods, which fell $67m or 4 per cent. Falls in parts and accessories of transport equipment, and processed fuels and lubricants (other than motor spirit) were partly offset by rises in processed industrial supplies and crude oil, SNZ said.
For the year ended August there was an annual trade deficit of $866m or 2.1 per cent of exports. That compares with an average deficit of 15 per cent of exports for the five previous August years.
For the three months to August exports were up $1.4b or 15 per cent from a year earlier to $10.5b, while imports lifted $526m or 5.1 per cent to $10.9b.


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Selena Gomez vs. Beyonce vs. Katy Perry vs. Madonna: Who Looks Best in an Aristocratic Wig? – Readers Poll
When pop royalty dresses up, who better for them to emulate than iconic aristocrats? Selena Gomez, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Madonna prove that with their eye-catching and dignified looks showcased in music videos, ads, and tour performances. But who looks the best in the high-rise wig?
Selena Gomez showed many sides to her personality in her video for 'Love You Like a Love Song,' but our favorite was when she channeled Mozart. Laying on a purple piano and wearing a floral dress in style of the composer's era, Sel proved that a tall powdered wig can be timeless!
Beyonce lived up to her nickname, Queen Bey, in an ad for her Mrs. Carter World Tour. Intensity was the name of the game as the visual showed the singer preparing for war, or in this case, ticket sales to her upcoming concerts. Lots of sultry stares and a crazy corset contraption were the perfect accents to Bey's grey wig. Pop music hath no fury like Beyonce on tour.
Katy Perry took on the appearance of a legendary ruler to shill her new perfume, Killer Queen, to us peasants. Rocking a tall, white wig that would give the ill-fated Marie Antoinette a run for her money, Katy gasped and gave a few wide-eyed stares before the camera cut to show her faux tresses falling to the grown. End scene.
Madonna is always one to bring the drama and her performance of 'Vogue' at the 1990 MTV Awards was no exception. Madge also channeled Marie Antoinette for her 18th century-themed show. The superstar's sky-high powdered wig was adorned with feathers — perfect for the Queen of Pop.
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|Passing Down the Doll Collecting Gene
I took my five and eight year-old daughters to their first doll show on Saturday. Before we left, I had to make them swear (in blood) that
My worry was unfounded. My daughters had a wonderful time. They looked at every booth with enthusiasm--enjoying each table, pointing out tiny dolls, miniature furniture and stuffed animals--to the delight of older collectors attending the show. Kate spent her allowance on a Dolls of the World Princess of England Barbie, and Lauren hers on a gigantic grab bag of doll-themed stickers. They were truly delighted to look and enjoy the sights.
I enjoyed myself, too, and can't wait for the next local show in October. It gave us something to do together--just the girls. I love that I have passed the love of dolls to my daughters, and I hope that it will "stick" past their teenage years as well.
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Then in the early 90s, they opened the internet up to the general public, and it became Amateur Hour. Newcomers, with no knowledge of the existing culture, nor the patience to observe and absorb it, saw these writings and mistook them for Righteous Anger. And they got it into their heads that the Way Of The Net was to spout off whatever idiotic thought that crossed your mind, because that person will never be able to get back at me and Free Speech, Murica!


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Pop star Jason Derulo is coming back to New Zealand - but he won't be performing for his hysterical fans.
The singer, who had a worldwide No. 1 hit with Whatcha Say that is currently sitting on 106 million YouTube views, will be in Auckland on October 21 to promote the release of his new album Future History.
He was last here in November 2010 for a concert at Auckland's Logan Campbell Centre.
Despite only having one album to his name, Herald reviewer Jacqueline Smith praised his performance and said Derulo's constantly shrieking fans proved they had had a good night.
Derulo will be meeting fans and signing autographs at JB Hi-Fi's Queen Street store from 12pm.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
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A simple logo that reminds people of the important link between food and human health, and shows food is not just a source of engergy but can be fun, tasty and at the same time can be use as medecine.
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People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games:
Final Fantasy IX, a group of 62 people
Final Fantasy X-2, a group of 59 people
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, a group of 54 people
Kingdom Hearts: Re:Chain of Memories, a group of 50 people
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There's a reason Virginia calls its musical heritage trail The Crooked Road.
Around every bend in the road in this region is a place where musicians gather for jam sessions.
Add another stop along that tour with the addition of the Allen Hicks Mandolin shop in Scott County.
There's hardly time to make instruments anymore as the crowds get bigger and bigger at his friday night jams.
A lot has changed at Allen Hick's mandolin making shop. When we first visited three years ago it was just a musical woodworkers shop that doubled as a place for a friday night old time musical jam. It started with musicians checking out his handmade instruments.
"Started with about two or three and now it's up to 75 to a 100 every Friday night. Tonight I'd say we'll have a jam packed house," Hicks says.
A packed house because the workshop becomes the newest venue on The Crooked Road Virginia's musical heritage tour.
"They just started coming in and jamming, having a good time I guess checking instruments out. It just kept growing," he said.
In eight years untold numbers of musicians and fans have gathered each friday night and they're coming from everywhere.
"Week before last I had a lady from Israel, had two from Pennsylvania, two from San Francisco. I've had people from Holland, France, England, Switzerland, Canada, Belgium," He recalled.
A corner of the building is still dedicated to making instruments but with so many visitors, it's hard to get any made.
"Well they ran me out of my workshop. I've got most of my tools stored over in the barn. I'm going to make me a shop over there I think this winter and make one or two," He said.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. spent about $236 million ($A307 million) on employee severance payments and other "workforce rebalancing" programs between November and April.
HP took restructuring charges of $US177 million in its fiscal first quarter and $US59 million in its fiscal second quarter, according to a filing on Wednesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The computer maker said the charges would allow it to slash its worldwide work force by approximately 3000 employees, including 1600 people who were laid off before April 30. The rest are expected to be terminated by October.
Despite the company's tradition of lifetime employment in the 1980s and 1990s, HP has been sacking staff for more than three years, and many rank-and-file employees have gone years without raises. Executives spearheaded a companywide wage review on May 1, the first time since 2003.
For years, HP's stock performance has badly lagged that of its fiercest rivals: Dell, one of the world's most efficient retailers, and IBM, the leader in technology consulting services - a lucrative niche HP wants to penetrate. The company is in a similar position to retailer Kmart Holding, whose profits are squeezed between Wal-Mart Stores, a model of retail efficiency, and high-end discounter Target.
HP chief executive and president Mark Hurd, who joined the company earlier this year after the board ousted Carly Fiorina, appears to be escalating a cost-cutting campaign that earned his predecessor the moniker "Chainsaw Carly." In a conference call with Wall Street analysts last month, he characterised HP's cost structure as "off-benchmark."
HP executives have been among the technology industry's most aggressive proponents of exporting jobs to low-wage countries, and Mr Hurd has said that the company would continue to send jobs abroad. Only about 35 per cent of HP's revenue comes from the United States.
Wednesday's SEC filing caps several tumultuous quarters for HP, whose board fired Ms Fiorina for failing to slash costs and boost sales quickly enough.
Throughout 2004, Ms Fiorina became the target of intensifying criticism for her ambitious diversification strategy. Through the 2002 acquisition of Compaq Computer, she attempted to change HP from a bloated company focused on printers and ink into a Silicon Valley consulting and computing powerhouse.
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What Are Your Opinions About The Mayor and Each Councilmember?
Original post made by Stacey, Amberwood/Wood Meadows, on Jun 28, 2008
Matt Sullivan - Tends to bend an ear towards whoever can shout the loudest. Believes that is a sign of not including everyone in "the process" and tries to find a way to placate everyone. It is certainly a leadership style. Does it work? I think the jury is still out on that.
Jerry Thorne - Tends to stick to the relevant and substantive facts on issues. Speaks quite eloquently.
Jennifer Hosterman - Seems to be practicing for higher office. Has gotten quite good at non-committed politician-speak.
Cindy McGovern - Tends to fixate on a single issue and will vote accordingly, even if the Fire Captain whose job it is to deal with the problem will tell her otherwise.
Cheryl Cook-Kallio - Places value upon the principles embedded in the Constitution and Bill of Rights (considering she teaches the stuff). Appears to vote accordingly.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jun 30, 2008 at 7:41 am
What? No biters? Everyone satisfied to leave anonymous comments about these people hidden in other threads?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Stacey, you have way too much time on your hands!
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Jun 30, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Bored is so much so that Bored found time on Bored's hands to comment on Stacey's time being too much on her hands.
With that said, I would go further and say:
Sullivan: Tries to always be on both sides of an issue and will always defer his franchise as elected council representative to yield to those who squawk the loudest in the name of direct democracy. Fails to perform his charter as an elected official and best outcome is he should be voted off the council in the next election.
Thorne: Straight shooter. Takes positions based upon careful weighing of inputs and votes accordingly. Articulates clearly the what, the why, and the how he votes.
McGovern: Clearly has her mind already made up on issues, which most observers can predict ahead of time. Finds singular issues which may or may not make sense as reasons for her vote. These issues never involve the larger picture but in her mind these narrow reasons serve as good reasons for usually voting NO. This pleases the factions that support her. In the next election voters should send her packing. We need someone who looks at complex issues and works through the complexities.
Hostermann: Moved somewhat to the center from the left when she became mayor. Continues her left leanings regarding using her mayoral role as a platform to speak out on national issues, but learned that at home she must fulfill a role to broadly represent the interests of ALL stakeholders. Not just those of narrow interest factions but those of property owners too, for example. Good job, in my opinion, but you decide whether she stays.
Cook-Kallio. The new face on council that brings a fresh approach. After teaching government for many years she is now practicing it. As time goes on she is finding her backbone and speaking up forcefully and convincingly at council meetings. We really need this.
a resident of Danbury Park
on Jul 1, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Sullivan: Typically tries to preserve neighborhoods. Consistantly slow-growth or possible "almost no growth".
Thorne: Usually a follower. Is afraid to take a stand that might not be liked by others unless the position is supported by a majority of the Council. He has voted for all developments in front of him. He has also been a consistant pro-growth and has worked on most initiative campaigns in the past on the pro-growth side of issue.
McGovern: She spends the most time researching issues and talking with city staff on the issues. She has consistantly been slow-growth and supported many slow-growth campaign/initiatives before she was on the Council.
Hosterman: Her mind is already made up before the meeting so she cut the public talk time to 3 minutes so she does not have to "waste" much of her time. Has a habit of interrupting speakers in mid-sentence before their time is up and is condencending to those who do not have her viewpoint. She leaned much to the left and was advise to not do this by her campaign advisor and did so until recently when she could not help herself this month at the mayor's conference. She used to be slow-growth but now has approved everything that has come her way. Feels that all prior planning documents are meant to be "flexible" (i.e., does not rely on planning documents). She has her eye on higher office but is getting frustrated since she keeps flunking the California bar exam that she finds important for her resume.
Cook-Kallio: Thinks she is smarter than anybody else. Cites constitutional law when it benefits her cause. She also supports all development because she strongly believes that property owners have rights to do what they want with their property. She has never been on a city commission or task force and was only involved in the city of Fremont where she works. She has no background in planning concepts and ignores any previous planning work and has stated she was elected to make decisions and she could interpret any previous planning document the way she wants.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 2, 2008 at 11:11 am
OK Stacey, but lets take a look at some of the other likely candidates as well.
Matt Sullivan: Serious minded, well meaning Socialist. Unfortunately, Matt has recently joined the ranks of the Ayala mob whick is a situation hopefully will not last long. Unless Matt can finad a way to move to the middle politically his extreme leftish views are not reflective of this community and he should be removed from office in November.
Cindy McGovern: Mouthpiece for the Ayala Mob. Every single issue becomes emotional. Seems to make up her mind before the Council meetings ever start based on inputs received from the Ayala Mob. Must be removed from public office in November. We need a voice for the community as a whole and not one small segment of it.
Jennifer Hosterman:July is still out on her recent"move to the middle" politically. Not sure what will trigger her sprint back to the left, but expect to see it sooner or later.
Jerry Thorne: Analytical voice of reason. Makes decisions based on facts rather than emotions. Should be mayor.
Cheryl Cook-Kallio: Seems to be another voice of reason. HJoopefully that she will continue to govern from a moderate polition rather than moving to her leftist roots. At some point she may be a good candidate for State Legislature or County Board of Supervisors in a Demotratic district.
No for some of the other likely candidates.
Kay Ayala: Godmother of the Ayala mob's "Character Assiaaination, Inc.". The Boss. Must never be allowed to hold public office again.
Steve Brozosky: "made" Under Boss in the Ayala Mob's "Character Assassination, Inc." Reputations and Characters assassinated after becoming a City Council member: Debra Mckeehan, Jennifer Hosterman, Michal Roush and anyone else who dared to disagree with his point of view. Reputations and Characters assassinated after becoming a choll Board member: Pat Kernan(used Julie Testa for dirty work)and John Casey. Contracts currently out: Cheryl Cook-Kallio, Jerry Thorne, Nelson Fialho, Matt Sullivan(removed Temporarily)thePleasanton Business Community, etc. Karl Rove has nothing on this guy.
Julie Testa: Potential candidate for School Board "Made hit person" for the Mob's "Character Assassination, Inc. Most recent hit was Pat Kernan. Very confrontational approach to negotiation. Must never be allowed to hold public office.
Jerry Pentin: Could be our next voice of reason on the Council. Should be elected.
Brian Arkin: Another member of the Ayala Mob's "Character Assassination, Inc" who should never be elected to public office. Hypocrite. Scolds others for accepting large sums of money from developers when he accepted the largest check ever from a developer. Claimed he would not take PAC money only after everyt PAC he applied to turned him down.
Dan Faustina: Limited background. Very little involvement between elections. Good candidate for city commission.
a resident of Downtown
on Jul 4, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Well Greg, it sounds like you have a point of view that does not support anybody who asks questions or challenges the city to do a better job. Your anger for anybody who supports slow-growth is quite obvious. You might be happier in Dublin.
I moved to Plesanton some 35 years ago because of the downtown area and the scenic hills. I am thankful for those who have campaigned for protecting the hills and limiting our growth thoughout all these years. Our council today has centainly become pro-growth. To make it worse, they are willing to do it at the expense of destroying our hills and cutting down our beautiful native oak trees.
While I do not consider myself a true environmentalist, it makes me sad to see these recent project approvals by the mayor and council which require the cutting down of many, many oak trees. You cannot just replant a tree to take its place. It will take many generations for new trees to be the same magnitude of the trees they are cutting down. In just a couple of years, this Council has approved items that have destroyed our environment for generations.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 4, 2008 at 1:36 pm
What are your opinions of each person? I meant for this thread to be a chance to let people give their opinions on the Mayor and Council (and eventually candidates) without being criticized for them.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 4, 2008 at 3:22 pm
If you listen to the last council meeting, the slow growth issue was somewhat addressed. This council is the slowest growth council in recent memory. According to the council meeting (and this can be verified) between 1996 and 2005 there were something like 2200? 2500? units approved. Since 2005 there has only been 200.
Don't let facts stand in your way. To characterize any of the five council members as progrowth is ridiculous.
The city has an arbolist and the tree removal issue is tightly controlled. Trees do have a lifespan and when any are removed many are replanted and then it is monitored to make sure a certain amount will grow into adult hood.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 4, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Factchecker, I wrote those stats down too.
Between 1995 - 2004, 2000 to 2500 units were approved (roughly 277 units per year)
Between 2005 - 2008, 200 units approved (roughly 67 per year)
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Jul 4, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Mike moved to Pleasanton in 1973 (according to him) because of the downtown and scenic hills. It would be interesting to hear what about downtown attracted him. The downtown was not anything in 1973 near to what it is today. It was maybe 20 years after he lived here that it became today's downtown... (I came in 1979, and downtown had mostly gas stations, a few restaurants, the old St. Vincent de Pauls in place of the Rose Hotel, the museum was the police station, etc....). And the hills are very much today as they were when I came. Meanwhile, during this time Pleasanton more than doubled in size and today has a lot of traffic problems. All of this occurred on Mike's watch, so to speak, not in the last five or so years. It seems that Mike was not too concerned by all the growth that was not limited through the years by earlier councils as he watched.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 6, 2008 at 1:40 pm
This is an opinion of our CC from the Valley Times.
I agree.
Should have done job!
MediaNews editorial
Article Launched: 07/02/2008
THE PLEASANTON CITY COUNCIL should be embarrassed by the lame excuse for a ballot measure that it's planning to pawn off on voters in November.
It's been more than 10 years since the city adopted a general plan that called for developing a ridgeline preservation ordinance to guard against "negative visual impacts" of building in hilly areas.
Since then, the council has done nothing to carry out that mandate. Meanwhile, last year, the council approved the Oak Grove subdivision of 51 custom homes, ranging in size from 6,000 to 12,500 square feet, in the southeast hills.
Not surprisingly, residents were upset. They are fighting the subdivision approval in court. At the same time, they have collected more than 5,000 signatures to place an initiative on the ballot that, if approved by voters, would finally establish some hillside development guidelines.
The initiative would amend the city's general plan to prohibit grading on slopes of 25 percent or greater or within 100 vertical feet of a ridgeline.
The measure would also establish a stricter definition of a housing unit, reducing the number left under the voter-approved citywide 29,000-unit housing cap.
A majority of the City Council — Cheryl Cook-Kallio, Jerry Thorne and Mayor Jennifer Hosterman — doesn't like the initiative. They've known since last fall that it was coming. They've had plenty of time to develop alternatives,
or, better yet, to approve the ordinance that residents were promised more than a decade ago.
Instead, the council last week voted to put a second, competing measure on the November ballot. It's the old political trick of putting up a competing measure with hopes that both will fail.
So what is the bold solution the council is proposing? Why, it would commit the council to preparing a comprehensive hillside regulation ordinance.
In other words, the council is planning to put up for a vote whether it should do what it promised more than 10 years ago it would do. How's that for bold leadership?
If that's the best solution the City Council can offer, it should keep its alternative off the ballot and allow residents to vote on the citizens' initiative by itself.
If the initiative loses, nothing would prevent council members from preparing a reasonable alternative. It's a shame they couldn't do their job when they were supposed to.
a resident of Vineyard Hills
on Jul 6, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Stacey and Fact Checker, I believe most people knew the 90's as part of the fast growth era of Pleasanton. I believe it would be better to analyze each administration/term. How about 2000-2002, 2002-2004, 2004-2006, 2006-2008. I do not have the info in front of me but it seems more has been approved in the last two years than then previous 4 years.
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Jul 6, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Seems like "should be embarrassed" has conveniently forgotten that three of the loudest advocates of the Hillside Initiative (Kay Ayala, Cindy McGovern, Steve Brozosky)have been on the City Council over the last 10 years and did nothing to move a Council Ordinance forward. I wonder who really should be the most embarrassed here.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 6, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Pam, you may not have lived around here then, many from the previous councils ran as slow growth advocates. The council from 2000-2004 included Kay Ayala, (ran against the mayor in 2004), and the council from 2002-2006 included Steve Brozosky (ran against the mayor in 2006).
Cindy McGovern has been on the council since 2004.
The General Plan has had info in it for protecting the Southeast hills since 1996. The first time it has appeared in the council's priority list is in 2007 right after Cook-Kallio and Thorne were elected. (Thorne was reelected after winning a special election in 2005).
Keep in mind that the Times has run articles labeling Kay as a former mayor which is untrue. She lost that election.
a resident of Gatewood
on Jul 6, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I would say the Times nailed it this time!
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Jul 6, 2008 at 8:57 pm
thank goodness for fact checker and the like. a lot of bs flying around these days about how this council is SSSOOOOOOO causing growth. get over it, folks. past councils made the decisions resulting in the overgrowth you see today. ayala and brozosky are alumni of some of those councils. all this cr...p about thorne and cook-kallio being evil pro-developer council members is so much hokey. hostermann also has not been around that long either...
many residents have been here long before most of you complainers arrived... if we were to possess the same attitude you have, we would, to take a quote from George Carlin, say that "you are all diseased!" for moving here and producing this overcrowding.
CC times nailed their feet to the floor - what real connection do they have to this city and its recent history? Some editor writing this stuff sitting up in Concord somewhere only to replaced as they further downsize?
a resident of Valley Trails
on Jul 7, 2008 at 1:07 pm
CC Times has no obvious political agendas unlike the Weekly. The CC Times is easily able to step back and look at the issue without being caught-up on the personalities. But Frank I would not expect anything less from you. You consistantly attack the people behind an issue instead of the issue. You should also check your facts as this Council has approved more houses, especially in environmentally sensitive areas, than the previous Council with Brozosky.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 7, 2008 at 8:57 pm
The constant refrain that this council has approved more houses than the last council is patently false and easily checked. Just because someone says it over and over again does not make it so even in an election year. Just call the planning department and ask. Check out the Times and look at the way the articles are written. Often you will see a direct quote from a petitioner or citizen and followed by a summary of what one though a council member "meant" at the last council meeting. Why not call the council members and ask? I have never had trouble getting in touch with any one of them. The numbers stated at the last council meeting are correct, 2200-2500 units from 1996-2004 and 200 units from 2005 to the present.


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Site: Evanston, Ill. (Combe Tennis Center)
Score: Michigan 5, Northwestern 2
Records: U-M (13-9, 6-4 Big Ten), Northwestern (11-12, 2-7 Big Ten)
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No. 2 -- #50 Jason Jung (U-M) d. Spencer Wolf (NU), 6-2, 6-1
No. 3 -- Shaun Bernstein (U-M) d. Sidarth Balaji (NU), 7-5, 6-4
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No. 1 -- Jason Jung/Shaun Bernstein (U-M) d. Joshua Graves/Spencer Wolf (NU), 8-1
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No. 3 -- Chris Jackman/Raleigh Smith (NU) d. Chris Cha/Justin Rossi (U-M), 8-5
Order of Completion: Doubles 1-3-2, Singles 6-2-3-4*-5-1
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Michigan improves to 67-25-1 all-time against Northwestern.
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Michigan is now 6-16 in its attempts to win the doubles point this season. The Wolverines are 5-1 when they win the point and 8-8 when they lose it.
With his doubles win, Jason Jung now has 87 for his career, three shy of tying the all-time record for most doubles wins in a career (90). The record is held by three men, former Wolverines Brian Hung (2004-07), Matko Maravic (2005-08) and Mike Sroczynski (2007-10).
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The tandem of Jason Jung and Evan King finish the regular season with a combined record of 36-8 at the top two spots of the singles lineup (dual matches only).
Shaun Bernstein won his 20th singles match of the season, joining Evan King and Jason Jung at the 20-win plateau.
Evan King and Alex Buzzi lost for the first time as a doubles tandem (4-1).
Justin Rossi played in his first doubles match since Feb. 13 against Vanderbilt. He was also a late scratch in singles, being replaced by Chris Madden at No. 6.
Northwestern is coached by former Michigan tennis player Arvid Swan (1995-98). He was an All-Big Ten pick in 1996 as a sophomore, and went 30-13 (singles) and 23-13 (doubles) as a senior in 1998.
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On the match ... "I thought our guys did a good job in singles. To win five out of six against a good team on the road isn't easy. And even though Chris Cha lost, I thought all of our guys were very competitive. We're progressing. It certainly was a good team effort on the road."
On the upcoming postseason ... "Whoever we play, we're excited to go. We've talked to these guys about the postseason. We need everyone's full commitment to extend the season for as a long as we can because we don't want it to end for our seniors. We're looking forward to getting back at it. It seems like it's been a long season, but we want to keep playing. We aren't ready to stop."
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