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There's danger in every aspect of firing, from WARN Act layoffs and exit interviews to constructive discharge and more.
Learn how to fire an employee and sidestep wrongful termination lawsuits, with battle-tested firing procedures, and employment termination letters. At last, you can fire at will!
Terminating an employee is never easy. Plan the meeting in a way that's private; and don't prevent the employee from leaving.
An employee who had a state interference-with-contract claim dismissed—the court said he had been legitimately fired for insubordination—can still file a federal whistleblower retaliation lawsuit based on the same facts.
If you supervise employees in any capacity, there will come a time when you need to let someone go. Here are some tips for making the best of a bad situation.
Do you have an angry, dissatisfied employee that no supervisor seems capable of making happy? Then document any behavior that demonstrates the employee is difficult or insubordinate and discipline accordingly.
Public employees have limited First Amendment rights to speak out on matters of public importance. But when that speech is actually part of the employee's job, it's not considered "speaking out" in the Constitutional sense. It doesn't come with job protection.
Are you afraid to discipline, or even discharge, a pregnant employee? You shouldn't be, as long as you have a rock-solid reason unrelated to pregnancy.
It's fine to offer an early retirement buyout. It's a very bad idea to say that, if not enough older workers accept the offer, they might be fired.
Check out this cartoon as a manager handles documentation for firing.
A federal court has refused to expand possible reasons for employment lawsuits to include so-called "bullying" claims.
When can you legally terminate a worker for what he or she does on their own time? The answer is an unsatisfying, "It depends."


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The craft beer industry just keeps growing and in this episode we visit Brew Hub, a company that is helping small brewers meet the growing demand. You'll also get behind the taps at Urban Chestnut, Mother's Brewing, Earthbound Beer and Cinder Block Brewery to meet the brewers who are pushing the industry forward and find ...Continue Reading
Mike Shanin interviews Bill Lacy, Director of the Dole Institute of Politics, about the upcoming election. Then Ron Freeman, Mary O'Halloran, Gwen Grant and Steve Mirakian discuss the future of the GOP if they lose the presidency and both houses of Congress, the current status of the Mission Gateway project, and the KCMO city council ...Continue Reading
With this 360-degree video, you can take a virtual walk through the Ewing and Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden. Explore the beauty of the two-acre garden while listening to its resident horticulturalist, Duane Hoover, explain the significance of the many fountains, sculptures, archways and flowering plants. This video is supported on desktops through Firefox, Chrome and ...Continue Reading
Missouri Star Quilt Co. (MSQC) welcomed thirty-seven enthusiastic KCPT donors and staff to Hamilton, Mo. for a custom retreat experience on Wednesday, October 19! KCPT thanks the diverse group of women who brought their quilting knowledge, fabric buying experience and love for Jenny Doan to this retreat —the first of its kind for KCPT—for an ...Continue Reading
The two biggest ballot questions on both sides of the state line are debated in this Kansas City Week in Review election special: Tobacco Taxes in Missouri and a Public Safety Tax in Johnson County. Tobacco Taxes Missouri voters will be coming to grips with the longest ballot in memory. Along with deciding the presidency, a U.S. ...Continue Reading
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I have a Motorola Defy XT and there has been a couple times when I needed wifi for my computer. Has anyone figured out if we can use our Defy XT for a hotspot, and if so, how. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I have a Motorola Defy XT and there has been a couple times when I needed wifi for my computer. Has anyone figured out if we can use our Defy XT for a hotspot, and if so, how. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I have read the terms of service, and it does say it is not allowed unless republic wireless approves it. How would we get approval to do so? I refer to 19d (also in b) which states: unless specifically identified and approved by Republic Wireless. Any ideas?
I'd like to know too.
After all, if RW can use WiFi all the times it's available for other devices, then it only seems fair that your other devices should be able to use your cellular connection when WiFi isn't available.
Tethering is the way to go. A WiFi hot spot is nothing but another device to carry around/troubleshoot/leave at home/break/maintain/upgrade/lose. Moreover, it shouldn't be necessary to walk around paying for two cellular lines that you're trying to not need in the first place. It would be nonsense to buy one ADSL line for your computers and another ADSL line for your VoIP handset, and so the same is true for cellular lines. The right thing to do is for the device with cellular access (your RW phone) to share it when needed and not just leech off of everybody's ISPs.
Interesting concept in that, if approved across the customer base, it would drive up RW's cost of doing business. That would ultimately force RW to violate their business plan by increasing their rates. And I don't believe anyone bought into this program with the desire to drive up the monthly charges for everyone. Why would you? I'm just curious.
The more people actually use their phones, keeping a constant WiFi offload percentage way beyond 60%, the higher the cost of doing business might be. We're both speculating. Surely you aren't arguing that people look for reasons to not use their phones so much; nobody claimed that is RW's business model. Why wouldn't their business plan be based on typical usage patterns but with a high-enough offload percentage?
So the question really is, why should typical usage not include tethering, as long as the overall offload percentage is high enough?
A very-low-cost option to tethering over your RW phone is to purchase a MiFi-like hotspot from FreedomPop.


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Panthers 42 Junior Warriors 30
John Ackland's farewell from the Warriors didn't quite work out as he would have planned.
His Junior Warriors side have lost their Holden Cup grand final against Penrith 42-30 at ANZ Stadium in Sydney in a disappointing end to Ackland's eight-year stint at the club.
Ackland, who leaves the Warriors after an apparent difference with NRL coach Matt Elliott, will begin work at the end of the month as the NZRL's national game development manager.
The 55-year-old is the most successful NYC coach of all time and tonight was chasing his third title in four years.
But Penrith's regeneration under Phil Gould and Ivan Cleary was apparent in their performance as they held out a second half revival by the Warriors.
The Panthers win showcased brilliant talent, but more importantly resilience under pressure.
The Warriors couldn't compete with the speed and power of the Panthers, who raced away to a 34-6 lead.
But with 24 minutes left on the clock and on the back of eight consecutive penalties, the Warriors piled on four tries to get within four and set up a thrilling finish with 12 minutes left.
Penrith fullback Kieran Moss was sin-binned for a professional foul in the set before, and the Warriors appeared destined for their third Holden Cup premiership as they took all the momentum into the final 10 minutes.
Despite still being in front on the scoreboard, it was the Panthers who now needed to fight back.
The final courageous effort came from Jack Gibson medal winner James Roberts, who dashed 40 metres downfield to lay the platform for opposite centre Waqa Blake to crash over and seal the result.
Speedster Roberts proved almost untouchable in his six NRL games this season, and it was much the same in the National Youth League decider.
Roberts scored two scintillating first half tries, while winger George Jennings set the grand final tone for Roosters' brother Michael, nabbing a try and setting up another.
The Panthers fought bravely in first grade this season, finishing just one win out of the top eight with an inexperienced roster.
And the performance of Garth Brennan's Holden Cup team to convert a second-placed finish to a premiership, was confirmation of the club's promise.
The Panthers faced a heap of adversity throughout the 80 minutes, losing halfback and captain Daniel Foster after just 15 minutes with the scores locked at 6-6.
The Warriors, despite the inspired attacking play of halves Tuimoala Lolohea and Mason Lino, couldn't quite complete a comeback which would have been extraordinary even by Holden Cup standards.
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Docket Management
Docket: 00D-1598 - Voluntary Labeling Indicating Whether Foods Have Been Developed Using Bioengineering
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I am very dissappointed in this department. A government department that is supposed to be a watchdog for the people and is not doing anything, except watching our health decline through products and foods that have gone through your department without any real research or comments from this department. I am appalled that you have not issued a warning about GMO's or GE foods! It is not a hard thing to do, just tell companies that there needs to be labeling with further research is completed. There needs to be long-term research and the public has the right to decide whether-or-not they want to buy a product, but without labeling, the public cannot decide without the help of outside interpreters such as GreenPeace's Truefoods organization. Please do what you are supposed to do and what you were started to do, and protect the people, be out watchdog like you were when you first started. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Patrick Espinosa


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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Jets coach Rex Ryan said that that a suggestion by former defensive coordinator and current Cleveland Browns coach Mike Pettine that New England might have obtained a copy of New York's playbook is "ridiculous" and "disrespectful" to the Patriots.
Pettine made the comments during an interview with Sports Illustrated's theMMQB.com, saying Ryan once gave Alabama coach Nick Saban a copy of the Jets' playbook — and Pettine warned that Patriots coach Bill Belichick and Saban are close friends.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The company most associated with the Washington Redskins is keeping its distance from the debate over the team's name.
FedEx has its name on the Redskins' stadium, and its president is a member of the team's ownership group. But the company is remaining neutral on owner Dan Snyder's efforts to keep the name.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The bidding for the Buffalo Bills is set to begin now that prospective ownership groups are being contacted by a law firm representing late owner Ralph Wilson's estate.
Two people familiar with the sale process told The Associated Press that prospective buyers, including real estate developer Donald Trump and Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula, began receiving a seven-page non-disclosure agreement, and a brief outline of background material on the Bills franchise and stadium. The documents were distributed by Proskauer Rose, the legal firm overseeing the sale.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly took a break from his recovery from cancer treatments to make a surprise appearance at the Buffalo Bills' practice.
Kelly made his way to the sideline while players were stretching before the start of the final minicamp practice. Coach Doug Marrone gathered his team at midfield before introducing Kelly.
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Everest Fatality on Climb for Mother's Charity
Newswatch50 reports an Oswego, NY, man on a charity climb Everest for his mother fell into a crevasse.
Mike O'Brien and his brother Chris were on their way to Base Camp through the ice fall. This is the second fatality on Everest in three days and the second fatal accident for Summit Climb this season.
Late March this year, the outfitter lost two climbers while acclimatizing on neighboring Pumori, when two climbers died while descending from the summit. The Pumori climbers slipped down from 100 meters and fell in a crevasse. According to Mounteverest.net several expeditions are now voicing concerns over unsafe climbing practices – including climbers not clipping in on the safety lines in the Everest ice fall.
The brothers – whose mother and sister died from complications from Huntington's disease – were climbing Mount Everest to try to raise $100,000 for the Hereditary Disease Foundation.
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The clock is ticking , unemployment is rising, foreclosures are up, and economists say we are at an all time low but the GOP continues to oppose the president on the passage of his stimulus package.
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Chemical Security Program Comes Under Scrutiny
The Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards Program (CFATS) was the subject of another oversight hearing by the Environment and Economy Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Sept. 11.
Problems with the program came to light at end of last year when an internal memorandum detailing an array of management failures and implementation flaws was leaked to the press. This hearing was called to obtain a progress report on the status of the CFATS program.
Although water agencies are not covered by the CFATS program, there is regularly an effort in Congress to move drinking water and wastewater security into the CFATS program. At this hearing members of Congress were focused on the program's flaws, and there was little discussion of water security issues.
However, Paul Orum, testifying on behalf of the Blue Green Chemical Security Coalition and the Center for American Progress, once again made the case for DHS oversight of water facilities. Orum was one of the witnesses on the second panel along with Anna Fendley of the United Steelworkers; Mathew Leary, corporate EHS&S manager, Pilot Chemical Company; Timothy Scott, chemical security officer, Dow Chemical Company.
Orum characterized drinking water and wastewater facilities' exemption from the CFATS program as a "fundamental deficiency" and encouraged committee members to close this "security gap". Additionally Orum made the case for incorporating the concept of "avoidable chemical hazards" or "inherently safer technology" into the CFATS program. This concept encourages facilities to switch from a "hazardous" chemical to a safer one. In previous testimony Orum has cited water facilities' use of chlorine gas as an "avoidable chemical hazard."
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It also has its backside: many people have ridiculous self-made jobs just to be able to survive. In terms of poverty I have seen things that could be like a street scene in India or Bangladesh. But like it is with most developing countries, I think that the people are very friendly and hard working, more than back home. Also the food is better, it is all around, cheap and locally prepared by old women. Sometimes when I walked the streets at night during heavy traffic, especially in Santa Cruz, it felt as if I was back in India. After having travelled for so much, I got addicted to trying all the food there is to buy, that is: only street food. I don't like eating in restaurants because they are anti-social places, expensive, and in general not as good as on the street. Moreover, eating in restaurants takes more time and I would rather spend that time hanging out with people or experience the country's vibe on the streets. For some reason, most western people falsely assume that whenever there are four walls and a ceiling missing around a kitchen, it means that eating food from it is dangerous for your stomach. I really don't understand this link, but it is programmed in our brains as we come from a Western society where we think that whatever we do is the best way. I have been very happy in my travels trying out most of the world's cuisine and I really love it. Without my streetfood that would not have happened.
Nuestra Se�ora de La Paz
La Paz is officially the highest (administrative) capital in the world, sitting in between 4058 and 3100 meters halfway the north western end of Bolivia. It is a huge terracota city built on steep slopes allowing for many spectacular viewpoints. At night it gets really cold and some people struggle with the lack of oxygen. It is however one of my favorite places ever (together with Hong Kong and La Habana), the city just has it all: it is safe, easily navigatable, it has awesome surroundings, with crazily big open-air markets the shopping is one of the best, cheapest and easiest I have ever experienced, there are great party hostels like the Wild Rover and Loki, and since it is a big place (900.000 people), tourism only puts a small dent in the city's day-to-day business. Thanks to all of this I spent 7 days in that place, which is unique in my travels. I cannot remember all the nights I spent in the bar of the hostel but I know they were good, as I could tell from the bill I had to pay in the end.
La Paz at work
People in Bolivia are poor, someone on the streets earns less than 150 euro a month; a technician with an education gets around 400 euro. While walking around in La Paz during the dark, you get to see many awkward things: children (completely by their own) are kind of dancing to a song being repeated from a small old portable stereo device hoping to get some money. On every little space available in some streets, old woman try to sell whatever they can sell, however no one is really buying things as there is way too much competition. Taking photos of these usually grumpy ladies will definitely lead to problems as they will demand for money. It did not make my job easy as I never pay for shots but I managed to get some things recorded with my camera in the way it should be. Here are some shots I took during the week, due to the very basic layout options a lot of good photos I have not been able to put in the text, just scroll to the bottom to look at all of them:
Lucha Libre
While you visit La Paz, you gotta make sure you're there on a Sunday to witness the Lucha Libre (=show wrestling) in nearby El Alto. It is in this show where you can see La Paz's biggest eye-catcher, its Cholita ladies, kicking the shit out of each other (fake of course).
I know you are thinking: what the heck is a Cholita? Well, Cholita women are indigenous to La Paz and dress in a distinct colourful way by wearing multilayered skirts and bowler hats with two braided hair pieces hanging on the back. Some call them thick-skinned, I call them extremely obese, they have swollen ankles and the tiniest feet you've ever seen. I did see some Cholitas with a normal physic but that just didn't look right, they are supposed to be fat. It has been very hard for me to photograph the Cholitas since they don't want to (shyness is one of their characteristics). It is for this reason why coming to the Lucha Libre was so good, since I could capture some of them without any problems.
The show pretty much is like any other show wrestling performance, apart from the fact that in this one there is a strong focus upon the tourists, which seem to make half of the 300-people audience and have to sit front row. Occasionally some of the wrestlers threw themselves on the first row, which was quite shocking because 2 petite American girls don't stand a chance when a 100kg wrestler literally comes flying into them. But it made the show really entertaining. Also one highlight was when two crazy guys from my hostel joined the show for 5 minutes. I reckon these guys did not do less than any of those crazy guys you all know from Jackass or Dirty Sanchez.
What is left?
There are two things left I have to tell you about what I have done more, which are:
- I cycled the Death Road, a crazy 3-hour downhill road on the edge of a mountain, which is so dangerous that it was closed down 4 years ago to big lorries as the risk that they fall of the cliff is to great. It is the same road where Top Gear shot part of its Bolivia special and where multiple tourist get hurt. One Dutch guy that I met a week before fell of the road the day before I went, he plummited 10 meters and broke his back in two different places. He survived but he is still in hospital. Pictures of this trip are coming soon...
- I went to one of the highest cities in the world, Potosi, which sits at a nominal 4090 meters. In this place you can visit a working mine, to see how the locals struggle to earn a pay by mining for silver and some other minerals. It was quite brutal, especially because I went in with my full camera equipment under primitive circumstances, but for this one too: you have to wait for the pictures...
For now, hope I survive my flight and see you guys soon. My final rating for South America will be my next blog post so stay tuned!


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Eighth Blackbird in Flight at Miller Theatre
This installment of the 2011 SONiC Festival was recorded on October 15 at Columbia University's Miller Theatre. Titled Fractured Jams, the show featured the Chicago-based ensemble Eighth Blackbird performing works by Dan Visconti, Timothy Andres, Bruno Mantovani, Amy Beth Kirsten, Caleb Burhans and Fabien Svensson. In addition to being one of three NYC premieres, Bruno Mantovani's Chamber Concert No. 2 was an Eighth Blackbird commission.
Eighth Blackbird formed in 1996 and since its inception has received two Grammy awards, is responsible for numerous commissions including Steve Reich's Double Sextet, holds ensemble-in-residence positions at the University of Richmond and University of Chicago, and is eagerly anticipating its fourth record release on the Cedille label featuring works by Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert.
SONiC Festival Program: October 15, 2011
Eighth Blackbird from Miller Theatre
Fabien Svensson: Two Sides^
Amy Beth Kirsten: Pirouette^
Caleb Burhans: Lullaby for Madeline
Dan Visconti: Fractured Jams
Mayke Nas: DiGiT #2°
Timothy Andres: Crashing Through the Senses
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DURHAM--The Catholic Outreach Committee will be holding a Water Buffalo Bake Sale this weekend at Notre Dame Church.
"We are again raising money to donate to Heifer International to purchase water buffalos for farmers to plow their fields and provide milk for their families," a press release reads.
This Saturday and Sunday will the mark the church's sixth time hosting a bake sale to raise money for Heifer International, a global nonprofit organization with the goal of ending poverty and hunger.
The bake sale will be held Saturday from 3:30 to 5:15 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon at the church located at 272 Main St.
It was parishioner Judy Hurlburt who introduced the church to the idea of raising money for the organization, after traveling with her husband to China in 2000.
While on her visit she spoke with a farmer who said, "If I die my family will grieve. If my buffalo dies my family will starve."
Hurlburt said those words really hit home and with the help of Sylvia Fazzino, she was able to hold a bake sale for the many families who rely on farm animals for their daily meals.
"Heifer International raises these beautiful animals and gives them to farmers who are taught good farming methods," Hurlburt said. "The organization requires families to pass off their first offspring to another family in need."
The church raised more than $2,000 at its very first bake sale, she said.
According to Hulburt, that was enough to buy about 10 water buffalos of which cost $250 a piece.
"Because of these gifts families are often able to afford education, which further lifts them out of the poverty," she said.
However, the committee hasn't held a bake sale in a little over a year since the interest seemed to be dwindling, Hulburt said.
"Then people started asking "When are you going to have the Water Buffalo Bake Sale?" she said. "We didn't want to push something too hard but if the interest continues to stay, we'll keep having them."
Though the bake sale is titled "Water Buffalo," it's just a symbolic thing, Hulburt said.
The organization decides how the money, often raised by community groups, will be utilized based on the needs of individual families. Not all families receive water buffalos; some are given other farming animals, Hurlburt said.
Residents who belong to other churches in town have also participated in the bake sale by baking goods. Even the Middlefield Federated Church held an event called "Pin the Check on the Water Buffalo" in support of Notre Dame's efforts.
Hulburt said a parishioner of Notre Dame already baked 15 cakes.
"She always goes out of her way [to support the cause]," she said.
Tons of baked goods including sour cream coffee cake, coconut custard pie, homemade chocolates and peach cheesecake will be offered at the sale this weekend.
"Hopefully it's successful," Hulburt said. "It's really based on trust. I don't know how much we're going to get to sell until that day."
Every customer will receive literature on the Heifer organization, pencils and buttons, she said.
Customers who wish to make a donation to memorialize or honor a loved one will also be able to purchase gift cards.
For more information about the sale contact Judy Hulburt at (860)349-3248.
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THE opinion polls have, since late 2010, told us two apparently contradictory things about Tony Abbott: he is not popular, and he would win an election in a landslide. The same polls have contained seemingly less contradictory information about Julia Gillard: that she is not popular but would lose an election in a landslide.
For the Labor Party, the last feature of the political landscape that still provides it with the faintest sliver of hope is Tony Abbott's consistent disapproval rating - the fact that his dissatisfaction figure always exceeds his satisfaction score. The government's thinking runs along these lines: no matter how low the Prime Minister's personal standing is, the Opposition Leader remains stuck in the same negative territory.
This supposedly leaves open the possibility that when voters have to make up their minds at the next election, their long-held doubts about Abbott will cause them to have one last look at Gillard and the government, and to at least consider whether Labor deserves to be re-elected on the basis of going with the devil they know. Within this scenario, Abbott is held to be ''unelectable'' because of his brash, aggressive persona.
It is a fine theory but it fails to get around a few things, chiefly the fact that most of the polls this year have shown Gillard with a higher disapproval rating than Abbott, and the history of political polling, which pretty much by default awards opposition leaders lower personal ratings than their incumbent opponents.
Let's face it, if you're looking to the next election who would you rather be: Abbott or Gillard? The Nielsen poll taken for Fairfax papers after last month's budget showed Gillard with 25 per cent net disapproval, Abbott with 8 per cent and the Coalition holding a 16 percentage point lead after preferences.
This week, there were stirrings in the breasts of some ministers when Newspoll registered a two percentage point lift in Labor's primary vote to 32 per cent, a fall in Abbott's personal standings and a lift in Gillard's approval. Those movements put the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader virtually on level pegging: Gillard with 30 per cent net disapproval and Abbott with 29. On voting intention, however, it was a different story. After preferences, Labor is on 46 per cent, the Liberal-National parties on 54 per cent.
Whether the number of Abbott's detractors in the community is the same as Gillard's or not, the truth is that his problems with voters do not appear to be getting in the way of the Coalition's electoral prospects, which, by any measure, are very, very good.
The times have suited Abbott and his approach to politics. Abbott's prosecution of the Liberal cause is relentless and unyielding. He eschews nuance, concedes very little, if anything, to his opponents, and he is in the fortunate position of believing what he says. Abbott rarely bothers to hide his contempt for Gillard. His lack of regard for her and for the government is genuine.
When Abbott was health minister, Gillard was his opposite number in 2003-06 and the two expressed a good deal of regard for each other. At the very least, they enjoyed mutual respect as political rivals, with probably an element of personal warmth there too.
Clearly, the relationship broke down a couple of years ago. Gillard gives all appearances of having the same disregard for Abbott, but her problem is that she has not had the clear air that he has enjoyed as leader.
She has had to contend with questions about the manner in which she came to the leadership in June 2010 and then more concerns within the electorate about the nature of the minority government she was able to form after the August 2010 election.
At the same time, Gillard has to run the government while trying to form a political offensive against the opposition, the predictable burden of a prime minister. Abbott, on the other hand, has been unencumbered by other responsibilities and has been free to run a purely political campaign against the government without pause.
It has worked spectacularly well for him, partly because of good fortune but also because his personal style suits the modern political and media environment. And he can thank his Coalition colleagues for showing great internal discipline - a discipline that was noticeably absent the previous time the Liberal and National parties found themselves out of government.
This week some Coalition eyebrows were raised by the slight shift towards the ALP in the Newspoll. There were suggestions in the media, and from Labor, that the hardline tactics pursued by Abbott and the opposition manager of business, Christopher Pyne, against the member for Dobell, Craig Thomson, had turned some voters back to Labor. Abbott's subsequent attempt to scamper from the lower house on Wednesday when Thomson sided with the opposition on a procedural vote underscored their worries.
Abbott can afford to see quite a few more polls like that before he needs to start worrying. In the political world, the terminology most often used by politicians who decide to go in hard against their opponents equates with traffic accidents. If an opposition leader knows he will hurt his own standing with an attack, he will say that he accepts that he will lose a few coats of paint in the collision but that the damage to the opponent will be greater.
The Coalition right now is so far in front of the government that Abbott could afford not just to lose more paint, he could go back to the bare metal and then suffer a breakdown in the bodywork before he is in trouble. Bear in mind, a 38 per cent primary vote in 2010 left Labor four seats short of a lower house majority. To be re-elected, it would have to get at least 40 per cent - a long way off Nielsen's 28 per cent or Newspoll's 32.
The role of opposition leader seems to be one Abbott was born to play. As a minister, he was determined and dutiful but rarely inspired or creative. As opposition leader, his determination has defined him. In the two years after its 2007 election defeat, the Coalition got through the trauma of its defeat quickly, burning through two leaders in Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull.
Abbott in late 2009 concluded that Turnbull's approach of accepting the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings of Labor's climate change policy led to a political dead end. In triggering a challenge to Turnbull he offered a simple alternative: oppose everything, which was easy for the Coalition to enunciate and easy for the public to understand. After making that initial, clarifying judgment, of concluding that politics had to be simplified to its essence, luck has been with Abbott.
First, he was underestimated by the government and the political media, typecast as bumptious, crude and ineffective. Then, he was able to exploit another of his insights, which is that in the modern media environment, information is disseminated in ways that approximate a hit-and-run. News and views arrive in small bites now, and the easier they are to transmit and present, the more effective they are.
Again, here was a combination of luck and insight helping Abbott on his political mission. In living memory, there has not been a more complicated set of policy issues as those surrounding climate change and a market scheme to reduce carbon emissions. And as the digital revolution upends traditional mass media, there is a diminishing capacity and desire within much of the established media to embrace and explain, or even tolerate, complex concepts.
Whether this has been good training for Abbott as a prime minister can't be known, but he has been, for the most part, a devastatingly effective - if not particularly well-liked - opposition leader.
Shaun Carney is an associate editor.


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Last month, Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie and her actor husband Josh Duhamel announced that they had named their son Axl. It's not a very common name, and Fergie has said she's a big Guns N' Roses fan, meaning the kid was likely named after Axl Rose. This week, TMZ caught up with Slash and asked him his thoughts on the name (watch video above).


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During times of national or global urgency, artists become bellwethers—many redirecting their energies in an attempt to respond to, or at least make sense of, political and social upheaval. From dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's recent solo work Once, a stirring examination of American militarism set to the Vietnam-era music of Joan Baez, to theater artist Richard Maxwell's rumination on today's…
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"Newson, Roger B" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
st: RE: RE: RE: significance test between two kendalls' tau coefficents ?
Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:31:35 -0000
Al states, correctly, that -somersd- does not yet calculate confidence
limits for the difference between 2 within-stratum tau(X,Y) parameters
specific to 2 strata that may both appear in the same cluster. To make
this possible, I would probably have to upgrade -somersd- to create an
output dataset (or resultsset), with 1 observation per cluster and data
on the delta-jackknife influence functions or pseudovalues of that
cluster for the various tau-a or Somers' D statistics. If we created 2
such resultssets, one for each stratum, then we could merge the 2
resultssets using the cluster() variable as the key, and then use the
-mean- command to estimate a covariance matrix for the tau-a or Somers'
D statistics, and then use -lincom- to estimate the difference. Such a
method would be a rank-methods analog of -suest-.
Best wishes
Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
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To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: st: RE: RE: significance test between two kendalls' tau
coefficents ?
Roger Newson wrote:
Sometimes, by contrast, we may want to estimate the difference between 2
tau(Y,X) statistics in different subpopulations, from which we have
taken 2 different subsamples. In this case, we can use the -somersd-
package with the -parmest- package, also downloadable from SSC. The
-parmest- package creates and processes output datasets (or resultssets)
with 1 observation per estimated parameter and data on estimates,
standard errors, confidence limits and P-values, and is described in
Newson (2003), Newson (2004), and Newson(2008). If the variable -subpop-
indicates which of 2 subpopulations an observation belongs to, then we
may type in Stata
But what about the case of clustering? In this case, there may be two
distinct subsets of data on which tau(X, Y) is estimated, but there is a
common pool of subjects. So, for example, Subject 1 contributed to tau(X
,Y) on both subsets. The within-data comparison of tau's in -somersd-
won't work, because it only applies to common observations in the data
set. The between-sets comparison is invalid as it ignores the clustering
due to subjects.
Al Feiveson
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Date of Stay: May, 2010
Park is in a nice location beside the White River but the park is very rustic for the cost. Facilities were good and the manager was accommodating but the park was in need of mowing for the week we were there.
Date of Stay: May, 2010
Lots of long term RVs (construction workers) and dealer does not accept reservations means that you do not have much of a chance to get in here. Sites are very close together, lots of road noise from I-35 as well as the noise generated by the folks working in the RV dealership. Rest rooms were not clean and the laundry has too few machines, even when all are working. This RV park had declined a lot in the past few years and the price has gone up.
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Great park and great folks managing it. We were there with our Winnebago group for over a week and we were treated like family. We will be going back again, for sure. Lots to do in the area or just pull up a chair to the lake behind your RV and wet a line. Also check out Poches Meat Market for excellent plate lunches and Cajun food.
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Large, very busy, campground. Clean facilities and the grounds are well kept. The mosquitoes are terrible, swarming you as soon as you leave your RV. WIFI is OK at best but you only get 2 hour coupons?? Not a value for $40+ a night. Will stay elsewhere on our next trip.
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Campground is in the middle of nowhere. Grass with gravel pads. No cable and the WI-FI didn't work. Grounds and facilities are well maintained.
Date of Stay: June, 2009
Good park, but a little close quarters. Camped in the back portion of the park and it was well maintained. Would camp here again.
Date of Stay: June, 2009
Just off of I-80, this is a great little campground. All of the things we needed and a reasonable price. Park was clean and well maintained. WI-FI worked great. Will use again.
Date of Stay: June, 2009
Nice park with friendly staff and a good place to stay if you are in the area.
Date of Stay: May, 2009
Rained during our stay and the full hook up area turned into a pond and mud hole. If it is raining stay up front and live with electric only. OK for an over night stay.
Date of Stay: May, 2009
Typical KOA, you pay for everything but the air you breathe. It is expensive for what you get. It rained several days while we were there and the main street in the park turned into a creek. The sites were muddy. The park and facilities are well maintained. An OK place to spend the night but not my first choice.
Date of Stay: April, 2009
Nice park. Stayed 3 days and enjoyed the area very much. Campground staff was great. We will be back.
Date of Stay: March, 2009
Park is in a nice location beside the Mississippi river and across from the bluffs of Natchez, MS. Campground needs work, roads are gravel and rains left big mud holes to deal with. WIFI was bad to non-existent. Not worth the price.
Date of Stay: March, 2009
This is a great place to put the jacks down and stay a few days. You are in the heart of cajun country and you will never meet more friendly folks. The Poches do whatever it takes to make your stay a fun one. We will be back, a lot..
Date of Stay: January, 2009
This is a nice, well maintained park that is convenient for those traveling on I-20. There is a helpful host and and lots to do in the area. We gambled some in the casino, and our camp site fees were comped, and we paid nothing for a 3 day stay. We will be back again.
Date of Stay: December, 2008
We have spent the winter here for the past two years and love the park. It has close access to the beach and all of the upper gulf region. There is a great camp host this year that sponsored a lot of activities during the holidays. This is a nice location and reasonable rates for the area. We will be back.


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I have the public defender with 2.5" cylinder. I have noticed that when the cylinder is locked in place, loaded or unloaded, I can sometimes gently manipulate the cylinder to rotate. I am not sure if this is a problem. It doesn't seem to affect the function but I am thinking it might be an issue if I was ever in a stress situation such as gun being wrestled from my hand or if dropped and then picked up up the cylinder might rotate out of battery and be rendered useless.
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Success factors in an alliance contract : a case study in Australia
Rowlinson, Steve & Cheung, Yan Ki Fiona (2005) Success factors in an alliance contract : a case study in Australia. In Sidewell, Anthony (Ed.) International Conference of AUBEA/COBRA/CIB Student Chapter, 4-8 July 2005, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Many studies have been carried out in relation to construction procurement methods. Evidence shows that there needs to be a change of culture and attitude in the construction industry, moving away from traditional adversarial relationship into cooperative and collaborative relationship. At the same time there is also an increasing concern and discussion on alternative procurement methods, drifting away from traditional procurement systems. Relational contracting approaches have become more popular in recent years, and have appeared in common forms such as partnering, alliancing and relationship management contracts. This paper reports the findings of a survey undertaken with a private organisation based on an alliance project during its design stage, identifying the critical factors that influence the success of the alliance project. Legal aspects focusing on dispute resolution in alliancing are also highlighted.
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Abbreviations, Months and Numbers in Foreign Languages
ALA-LC Romanization Tables (Library of Congress) This resource has 55 languages. Some links are useful for looking up letters and numbers. None of the links includes months or the cursive alphabet.
The "Arabic" link leads to a 10-page pdf file for Arabic letters of the alphabet with corresponding Romanization, but does not include numbers.
- The "Chinese" "Japanese" and "Korean" links lead to a large pdf file about the Romanization system but does not provide numbers or names of months in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
The "Greek" line leads to a 2-page pdf file showing the Romanized alphabet and cardinal numbers. It does not include ordinal numbers.
Arabic Language Romanization of Numbers (Library of Congress) The link labeled "Romanization of Numbers in the Arabic Language 3" provides Arabic numbers from 1-28.
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cardinal and ordinal numbers, days of the week, months of the year, seasons, common terms.
Hebrew and Yiddish (Yale University) This resource is a chart of letters and numbers adapted from the ALA-LC Romanization tables.
Initial Definite and Indefinite Articles (Library of Congress)
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Yes. An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of security that tracks a basket of assets or an index (such as an index fund), but trades like a stock.
Just like any open-end mutual fund, an ETF falls under the supervision and control of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). A fund company must get the SEC's approval for incorporating and registering an ETF. Mirroring the structure of a regular mutual fund, an ETF has a board of directors, officers, and an investment advisor and uses third-party providers to handle organizational functions such as accounting, legal, tax and custodial services.
In addition, an ETF uses the same type of fund documentation – prospectus, statement of additional information, and annual, semi-annual or quarterly reports – for shareholders. A review of these documents will clearly show that an exchange-traded fund and an open-end mutual are not exactly the equivalent of identical twins but would most certainly qualify as the fraternal variety.
Details concerning an ETF's board of directors – composition, credentials, compensation and fund ownership positions – can be found in the fund's statement of additional information (SAI).
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I am preparing to launch my Online Marketing / Consulting Business and the name i like is "Marketing Next" and the domain would be MarketingNext.net / MarketingNext.org
The most obvious domain MarketingNext.com is taken by someone else and that person is not using is since 2004 but never been used till date.
The term "Next Marketing" is already been registered by an event management / marketing company in US and the website is NextMarketing.com
Can i apply for "Marketing Next" term and get the domain and start business on this name?
I will highly appreciate your help.
Avvo gives analysis, not legal advice that you can rely on.
The criterion is deceptively confusing in the relevant market. Switching the order of the words does not appear sufficient.
Total originality, not descriptive terms, are your best approach.
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The question as to whether your mark would be allowed boils down to whether it is "confusingly similar" with a mark that is already registered and in use. From your description it sounds like there is at least 1 other company out there that might argue that your proposed mark violates their rights. I'd retain a good trademark attorney who can further advise on this issue.
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Q: "Can i apply for 'Marketing Next' term and get the domain and start business on this name?"
R: No attorney can say one way or the other without first performing a trademark clearance search and conducting an analysis of the results. Properly clearing the rights to your branding is a critical business chore that's required before starting the business. Good luck.
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I have to agree with all my colleagues on this. No one can say as any TM lawyer will first conduct the proper due diligence (see link below on this topic) under both federal and common law before filing an application with the USPTO. It is important to know that common law mark holders can and do file petitions to cancel against federal registrants.
I suggest you reach out to a few TM lawyers and get a sense of how they might help and charge, etc and discuss your mark in private. Most of us here, including myself, offer a free phone consult and I too am in NYC.
Here is a great explanation of why hiring a lawyer to assist with your trademark can really make a big difference:
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Actually, the legal measurement is whether you mark is likely to cause consumer confusion. The focus of the trademark law is on what the consumer sees. The law presumes that if a consumer sees a good or service that is similar or related to another good or service, and they have identical or similar names, that the consumer will be confused. In that case, the prior user wins. The question here is: why do you want a similar name? If it is to describe your services, avoid that as it will be difficult to register and hard to enforce. If it is to capitalize on an existing mark's goodwill, don't do that at all unless you like litigation: in a dispute: they will find out you knew about the previous mark and adopted a confusingly similar mark anyway - which could be indications of deliberate infringement and bad faith (get out your checkbook). Bottom line: get a good, experienced trademark attorney to help you select, register and protect your marks - it is worth the investment.Ask a similar question
By reaching out for answers before spending time, money and effort on a business name and brand that may or may not work puts you way ahead of the curve as an entrepreneur. I would suggest you work with a dynamic business and trademark attorney with prior marketing experience to help guide you through your dilemma. There are many of us around and available for free consultations.
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You should not be using a web-site like this as a substitute for legal advice. This web-site exists to match attorneys and lawyers----it is not intended as a substitute for retaining counsel.
I can see by your question that you do not have even a basic education regarding intellectual property rights. Changing the order of words in a phrase, or using the same phrase with a .com rather than a ,net in a domain name, is almost never sufficient to avoid allegations of trademark infringement. Indeed, if you think this is even remotely possible, then you are sadly and profoundly uneducated about the basics of IP law. I cannot fathom how anyone could purport to go into an on-line marketing/consulting business with such an obviously deficient understanding of basic concepts in IP law.
Your first step should be to read a bunch of articles and books on the basics of copyright, patent, trademark and unfair competition law---particularly as these areas of law apply to marketing and advertising, You might also want to take a course in the basics of IP law for business (I recently lectured in such a course at the business school of Columbia University---these bright, intelligent future business leaders understood how crucial it is to become educated in these basic concepts).
Your second step should be to retain legal counsel to assist you in laying the proper legal foundation for your business, You cannot possibly launch a business such as this in a responsible manner without retaining legal counsel to assist you in addressing the many intellectual property, privacy law, internet law, FTC and state regulatory issues that you will face. Anyone going into a business like this will need IP/business counsel on retainer (and on speed dial). If you think you can do this without legal counsel---you are not ready to run this business.Ask a similar question
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Jerry Stackhouse has made a successful comeback with the Brooklyn Nets. Rasheed Wallace is also back in the league (and he sure emphasized that yesterday morning). Ex-Maverick Michael Finley is thinking about making a comeback and so is Antonio McDyess.
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Hoopshype talked to former Grizzly/King/Hawk/Wizard/Knick Mike Bibby about this recently. Here's what Bibby had to say:
"I'm getting ready for any call," Bibby told HoopsHype in an interview. "It's reassuring that Derek Fisher got that call. People are still getting calls right now. It can happen somewhere down the line, I'm not worried about that. I'm just keeping myself ready when that call comes."
He has made no secret that he wants one more run at a title. The closest Bibby ever got to the NBA championship was in 2011 when he made the NBA Finals with the Miami Heat. The Heat eventually fell to the Dallas Mavericks in six games. As a core player, Bibby helped take the Sacramento Kings to the Western Conference Finals in 2002. The Kings fell in seven games against the Los Angeles Lakers. Bibby famously kept the Kings in the game in overtime with his fantastic shooting but, in the end, the Lakers won the game and, eventually, the NBA championship.
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He might get a call for name recognition alone. Some team is going to come calling for a back-up point guard. But if you've seen Bibby play as of late, well, it's kind of a chore watching him play. He did shoot .412 from the playoffs last year for the Knicks but the faster, younger point guards would have a ball leaving him in the dust. But, hey, if Fisher can return to the NBA, right?
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