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Hi folks,
I bought a Sony HTIB back in 2004, the HT-DDW760:
I'm not exactly an audiophile, and I've always been reasonably satisfied with the sound of the speakers. My usage is:
Movies with surround sound - 85%
Music - 10%
Games - 5%
My room is about 14x16, carpeted, and I share a wall with another homeowner so I don't need/want earth-shattering volume or bass.
Anyways, I just bought a new receiver, the Yamaha rx-v575 and I'm wondering if I would notice much better sound if I upgraded the speakers? It sounds decent to me, but movie dialogue seems a bit muddy and low at times and means I have to crank up the volume to hear it all (lacking clarity?). It's worth noting that the speakers are connected via very thin speaker wire (18 gauge I think).
My budget would be $300-$500, but I would rather stay below $400 if possible. I know I have to listen to systems in store to find what I like, but it's hard to gauge if there will be an appreciable improvement over my current set-up once I get them home and in the room, at that price point.
Things I'm considering (these systems are on sale at Best Buy Canada currently for under $400):
1. Polk Audio TL250 5.0 speaker system (and keep the old Sony Subwoofer)
2. Polk Audio TL1600 5.1 speaker system (with sub)
3. Just staying with my current setup
Any suggestions/recommendations/feedback help would be most appreciated!
P.S. I've included some details about my current speakers below in case they are too old/cheap for people to have heard of! lol
- Front/center speakers:
- video-shielded
- 3-3/16" full-range driver
- 4-1/16"W x 5-15/16"H x 5-1/16"D (8-15/16"W x 4-1/16"H x 5-1/16"D for center)
- Rear speakers:
- 3-3/16" full-range driver
- 4-1/16"W x 5-15/16"H x 5-1/16"D
- Powered subwoofer:
- video-shielded
- 7-7/8" driver
- built-in 100-watt amplifier
- 10-11/16"W x 12-13/16"H x 17-1/8"D
Satellite Speakers: The speaker system consists of two SS-MSP760 front satellite speakers, two SS-MSP760S rear satellite speakers, and a matching SS-CNP760 center channel speaker. Each speaker has a 3.15" full-range driver. The rear-mounted spring clip terminals on each speaker will accept bare wire and pin connectors. Each enclosure is covered by a non-removable gray cloth grille. Speaker wire is included.
Mounting: The M5 threaded female inserts on the back of the satellite speakers allow them to be mounted using optional brackets or stands. If you do not wish to mount the speakers on the wall or stand, you can place them on any flat surface using the supplied self-adhesive foot pads.
Subwoofer Driver and Enclosure: The SA-WMSP76 has an 7-7/8" front-firing woofer powered by a 100-watt amplifier. For extended bass response, the woofer is loaded in a bass-reflex enclosure with a front-firing port. A subwoofer cable is included.
Subwoofer Controls: A front-mounted level control on the front of the subwoofer allows you to match the output of the subwoofer to the rest of your system. The power button is located next to the level control.
Video-shielded: The front satellites, center channel speaker and subwoofer are video-shielded, allowing them to be placed near your television without causing picture distortion. The rear satellites are not video shielded.
SA-WMSP76 Subwoofer:
- Power Output (28-200Hz, 6 ohms, <0.8 total harmonic distortion): 75 watts
- Power Output (100 Hz, 6 ohms, 10% THD): 80 watts
Speakers affect the sound you hear more than anything else. So if you want improved sound, get better speakers.
Your best option is to go to all of your local audio shops, and listen to as many types of speakers (e.g., ribbon, horn, dome, whatever) as you can find, of as many brands as you can stand, with all of the types of music to which you listen, with music with which you are familiar. Making a CDR for this is a good idea.
You then listen and decide if you think that the improvement is worth the cost.
Now, given that you seem to have a very tight budget, you might want to just replace the front three speakers, and use the subwoofer you have (since you say you don't care much about bass) and use the best two of your current speakers for surround. That way, you can get better speakers, as all of your budget goes into only 3 speakers instead of 6 (the 5 plus subwoofer).
This is a good idea. Would I have to worry about matching up the surrounds and sub with the new speakers later if I have further money to invest? And should I be looking at satellites? Towers?
Also, since my primary requirements are clear movie sound, what would be the best kind of media to bring in and play on the speakers to test them?
Finally, this may seem obvious, but do you think the difference with new speakers will be noticeably better than the current speakers? (eg, is what I have crap?)
Thanks! Any other opinions/feedback welcome.
Ideally, all of the main speakers would be identical. This is so that when a sound pans from one to another, it does not change its tonal character at all, just its spacial location in your room. So it would be good if you can match the front to the back. However, it matters far less for the rear than for the front, for two reasons. First, the surrounds are typically used for sound effects rather than very important sounds (like dialog). Second, humans hear better in front of them than behind them. So, with a tight budget, it can make sense to not bother with the rear matching the front, so that more of one's budget can go to the important front speakers. That is why I recommend that you continue to use a pair of your current speakers for the rear. The better the front speakers, the clearer the dialog and the better the important front sounds will be.
As for the subwoofer, there is no need to match it to the main speakers at all. It is reproducing a different set of frequencies from the main speakers, and consequently it does not have to be very similar to them at all. It is totally fine to use a different brand of subwoofer from the main speakers. In fact, it is often best to do that, as most of the time, the best makers of subwoofers are not the best makers of other speakers, and vice versa.
As for your particular issue, it would be good to have a range of human voices, preferably talking. You would want bass and tenor for males, and soprano and alto for females. But I also recommend that you have music and singing, too. Everything should be clear and understandable, to as loud or slightly louder than you ever want to hear it.
And, although I have not heard your speakers and cannot say absolutely, I think it highly likely that you can get better speakers that will render dialog more clearly than what you have. Most cheap speakers are not great for dialog, or much of anything else. Listen to your test disc (that CDR that I advise you to make) on your current speakers and then immediately go to a store to listen to other speakers with it. Depending on what is available locally to you, I would expect a fairly dramatic difference between different models, and so I think it highly likely that you can get significantly better sound, that you will regard as dramatically better.
I personally would be looking for 3 bookshelf speakers (if you can position one vertically in the middle), the best that you can afford. If you decide to go with a center channel speaker made to be a center channel, get front right and left speakers that are "voice matched" to it. And make sure that center channel gives you clear dialog.
The reason I would be looking at bookshelf speakers instead of towers is that for the same price, you can go with a higher line of bookshelf speaker than a tower speaker. The subwoofer is going to be given the deep bass (though yours is probably not very good), and so the main speakers do not need to do deep bass. I would look for something that is flat down to 70Hz or preferably below (that is, the -3dB point should be at 70 Hz or below, so a speaker rated as 60-20kHz +/-3dB would be fine, as far as this aspect goes). I have speakers retailing for well over $6k, and I use bookshelf speakers for all channels (other than subwoofers, obviously). The subwoofers deal with the deep bass, so the main speakers do not have to. The really nice tower models that have the same tweeter and midbass driver as my bookshelf speakers would cost twice as much, and so I would either have had to spend significantly more, or I would have had to drop down to a lesser speaker model to be having tower speakers. Or I would have had to spend less on the subwoofers, which would also degrade the sound.
Generally speaking, tower speakers of the same line give you deeper bass and the ability to play louder. You do not need deeper bass in them (because you are using a subwoofer), and bookshelf speakers can play loud enough for sane volumes in a typical room. If you had money to burn, then you could go with whatever strikes your fancy (which you can do anyway). But you are wanting clear dialog, and that is not deep bass nor does it require crazy high volumes. Go for better bookshelf speakers.
JDR - thank you for taking the time to post such a detailed and informative response! Sounds like I would benefit from shopping for a really good set of bookshelf speakers with a matching surround speaker (a vertical center channel would not really work for my room). Can bookshelf speakers be easily mounted on stands?
Do you think it is even worth my time to listen to a satellite system like the Polk TL250 or TL1600?
Also, if you have any suggested brands to try during my search, that would be very useful.
Finally, is the gauge of speaker wire going to matter all that much?
Thanks again, really appreciate the advice :-)
You mean a matching center speaker, not surround.
I have not listened to any current models of bookshelf speakers in your price range. So any brand listing I might suggest will be of limited value. In the past, I liked the bottom of the Polk RTi line for its price point (and did not much care for anything lower). In cherry, they actually look nice, too. But they might be just above your price point, given that you are needing three speakers. I see from looking at ebay, you can buy refurbished ones directly from Polk:
But I recommend that you go to your local store and listen to speakers. Unfortunately, you will likely have trouble finding those exact models, as I believe they are discontinued (which is one of the reasons they are within your price). Also, I have not listened to these models; my experience is with older ones, and compared with other speakers available in the past, not with what is available now. So I am NOT saying that these are the best at their price point, although they might be.
Bookshelf speakers can easily be put on stands. In fact, "bookshelf" speakers are more properly called "stand mount" speakers, but they have been called "bookshelf" for so long that that terminology has stuck. For stands, you want something sturdy. Unfortunately, good stands tend to be surprisingly expensive, so if you have another option for placement, you may wish to consider that. For example, if your TV is on a very wide piece of furniture, you might be able to place the speakers on it on either side of the TV, though how well that will work will depend on all of the particulars involved.
As for the sets of speakers, go ahead and listen to them. You will then know for yourself if they are worth considering or not, and have a better idea of how they compare with bookshelf speakers.
For wire, there is a chart here, but you will want to read the whole page to avoid being suckered:
Ah yes - I meant to write "center" speaker - the problem with responding too quickly :-) Will the sale people know what I mean when I ask for something "voice matched?"
Great info and links, thanks again. Next up, making my CDR!
Also, if you or anyone else think of anything additional I may need to know in this endeavor, let me know. In the meantime, I probably have several weeks of speaker listening ahead of me. Yahoo!
Cheers, Alan
Take your time, and do not make a rushed decision. Although it is possible that you will miss out on some special deal that way (and salesmen may try to sucker you with some such claim), you will be far less likely to buy something that you soon regret if you take your time.
For "voice matched," it should be the same brand, from the same line of speakers (usually this will be indicated by a similar sort of name; the RTi series from Polk, for example, that are from the same model year, are all "voice matched" to each other). The manufacturer's web site should help you in this if you have any doubts.
Also, at your price point, sacrifices are inevitable. They will not be the greatest speakers ever, and if you listen to some really nice models out of your price range, it might make you unhappy with everything you can afford. I recommend that you go up to the most expensive you are willing to buy, and compare with models costing much less as well. Price is not the same as quality, and it may be that you will find a bargain that makes you happy. Although, most of the time, I have tended to like more expensive speakers better than less expensive ones, it is not a hard and fast rule. And anyway, it is your preferences that matter in this, not mine.
If you can upgrade your front speakers to larger speakers like the RTi4's mentions with a CSi3 center that isn't a bad upgrade.
Unfortunately you can only set one crossover for your speakers with the Yamaha RX-575.
This means that even with larger speakers in front they will most likely still require a crossover for 80hz, where as your Sony speakers if you used them as surrounds need a crossover of 120hz due to their smaller size. That means if you use a 80hz crossover and the front speakers as 'small' to activate receiver to cross the lower frequencies to the subwoofers you might be missing some of the audio from the surrounds,
So unfortunately it would be best if your kept similar sized speakers all around most people will say.
HOWEVER I previously had a similar issue when I had just my Polk RTi4's and CSi3 upfront with my Polk RM6750 speakers as surrounds. I choose to run an 80hz crossover and I never felt like I was missing enough sound from the surrounds to make any real difference
Check these out, they are the AJ Pioneers with upgraded tweeters and crossovers. They are sold out right now, but should sound great for the money.
Well, technically - he's built one pair which zieglj01 liked a lot. Dennis still has backorders for about 40 of them which he hasn't started as PE doesn't have the replacement tweeters in stock yet. But if you're willing to wait until sometime in Feb......
If you are only looking at other satellite speaker systems for "upgrading" don't bother. You like the sound of the Sony's so keep them.
If you can upgrade your front speakers to larger speakers like the RTi4's mentions with a CSi3 center that isn't a bad upgrade.
Unfortunately you can only set one crossover for your speakers with the Yamaha RX-575.
This means that even with larger speakers in front they will most likely still require a crossover for 80hz, where as your Sony speakers if you used them as surrounds need a crossover of 120hz due to their smaller size. That means if you use a 80hz crossover and the front speakers as 'small' to activate receiver to cross the lower frequencies to the subwoofers you might be missing some of the audio from the surrounds,
So unfortunately it would be best if your kept similar sized speakers all around most people will say.
HOWEVER I previously had a similar issue when I had just my Polk RTi4's and CSi3 upfront with my Polk RM6750 speakers as surrounds. I choose to run an 80hz crossover and I never felt like I was missing enough sound from the surrounds to make any real difference
Thanks for the response! Crossover is a term I am unfamiliar with and I'm glad you brought it up. Would I lose a noticeable amount of audio from the surrounds, if I upgrade the front three speakers and keep the cheap Sony surrounds? i.e. would the improvement in sound from the front outweigh the drawbacks of losing the surround audio?
Sounds like an amazing deal, and I am in no hurry. Where could I hear something like this?
good work, they are not a wimp - you can always Email Philharmonic Audio
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St. Teresa of Avila's in Bodega, four miles inland from Bodega Bay, is famous in our part of the world. Built in 1860, its first parishioners were mainly immigrant Irish farmers, soon followed by Italians. It has been beautifully photographed by Ansel Adams, a shapely splash of white among the green rolling hills. Maggie and I are not Catholic, but when Nicholas died, we each thought independently how much we would like him to be buried in the cemetery there. While we were still in Rome, we had asked if it was possible. The church's reply was immediate: "Of course." I remember the relief I felt. It was something to hold on to at a terrible time, a vision of soothing visits on quiet afternoons.
Now it was time to attend to the details. Father Dan Whelton, who arranged to meet us at the cemetery, is the very spirit of an Irish priest, warm, generous, and studious too, who spent several years in Rome and is visibly pained by man's cruelty to man. He was with Tom Chapman, a kind and gentle man, who at that time looked after the graveyard and had steadfastly refused to raise the price for gravesites set decades before. We chose a site almost at the top of the hill, in a section where almost all the names are Italian, the Gonnella and Maretti families, Mazzonis and Ponzas, Piazzas and Mantuas. I thought of Nicholas dwelling on a little Italian street among friendly neighbors.
Our own neighbors in Bodega Bay took the rest of the work out of our hands. As All around town, homemakers chopped, buttered, and baked, and every restaurant donated one of its special dishes. For the next two weeks, neighbors took turns to make us a hot dinner every night, some with a bottle of wine or a rose in a vase, and all brought to the door without the slightest fuss.
Saturday, October 8, was one of those exquisite fall days on the California coast, blue and gold and green. By the ocean, the wind blew and the flag at the clubhouse crackled at half staff, and I smiled at this final tribute to Nicholas' staunch heart. But inland all was calm. Entry to the church was restricted because of the large numbers wanting to be there, the Sonoma County police volunteered to direct traffic without pay, and the road from Bodega village to the graveyard was lined with cars.
Many people had helped with the funeral arrangements, but we wanted the service to be ours. "Is there anything special you'd like?" Maggie had asked on our last night in Rome. As she said it, I remembered something vividly from my own childhood. It was a song called "Sonny Boy," about a small boy dying and his father's broken heart. My father had a scratchy record of it, by Al Jolson, and was always saddened by it. I have a memory as a six-year-old of putting my arms around his shoulders as he sat in a chair and telling him not to worry, I wasn't going to die, not for a long, long time. "We should ask my grandmother to sing it," Maggie said, without hesitation. We telephoned when we got back home, and Thelma found the music. "It's perfect," she said. But, although she has spent a lifetime performing and teaching singing, she added, "I couldn't sing it in church. I'd never get through it." Instead she recorded it and we played the tape, her strong maternal voice filling that old building.
"But the angels, they grew lonely
And they took you because they were lonely
And now I'm lonely, too, sonny boy."
For a moment four generations of our family came together as one.
Loretta Smith, Nicholas' teacher in kindergarten and first grade, whom he adored, gave the eulogy. "Nicholas was the most giving child I have ever met," she said. "He was very wise, and he taught me about love and patience and caring. He stood out as someone so well adjusted, so confident, and so full of love that he could afford to be giving. I always knew he was my teacher." "Mine too," I thought. "But I had no idea," she went on, "that this smiling little boy who walked into my class every morning would be a teacher to millions."
As the solemn service went on, Eleanor dabbed Maggie's eyes with the Sally Rabbit she had brought as her own comforter. It was photographed, and the world responded to the heartrending purity of it all. "I can never forget the picture of your little daughter," said a stranger from Chicago, one of dozens who wrote later. "That this little girl had the power to deal with her own grief and still be able to console her mother moved me beyond belief."
We walked the few hundred yards from the church, led by bagpipes played by Maggie's stepfather, Richard Sheridan, a former captain in the Marines. The sound filled the narrow valley, adding something from my own traditions. A few months before I'd read Kidnapped to Nicholas. Night after night we followed Stevenson's young hero, as principled and truthful as Nicholas was, and as brave as he wanted to be, dodging his way across the Scottish Highlands. What pleasures I'd looked forward to then as Nicholas grew in body and mind. Now, as we walked up the final hill, I heard on the bagpipes a tune that has conjured up poignant visions for me since childhood.
"The minstrel boy to the war is gone.
In the ranks of the dead you will find him."
The brief, choking ceremony at the graveside over, the local children watched in a mixture of awe and curiosity as the casket was lowered deeper and deeper into the ground, farther and farther from those he was leaving behind. It was a dreadful moment. Would it ever stop? I asked Eleanor to wave good-bye and we both did, for the very last time.
We drove to the reception, where Andy Harris, the father of Luis, a special friend of Nicholas, read a poem he'd just written, recalling how they never knew in what role Nicholas would lead the game that day, centurion or Mercury or a general on a silver saddle, but they could count infallibly on what he wanted to eat:
"Always spaghetti, spaghetti please,
No sauce, no sauce, just Parmesan cheese."
Susan, the preschool teacher, told how one day he'd put on the sailor's peaked cap we'd bought in Venice, announced that he was a taxi driver, and offered to drive the other kids to the best restaurant in Paris. Even in death he was kind: the Paris he knew was covered on foot, searching for cheap restaurants.
Then it was my turn and this is what I said:
"He was a liability to any sports team he was on: he couldn't throw a ball, he couldn't catch a ball, and he was always falling over his own feet. He was one of the most finicky eaters I've ever met. And his room was a mess. But in his short life he was Robin Hood, George Washington, and St. George of England. In the Colosseum he was both a Christian and a lion. At his seventh birthday party a few weeks ago, he was Robinson Crusoe: prophetically, perhaps, because it was Daniel Defoe who said `the good die early.'
"He had traveled so far that the airline still owes him a free trip to Europe. He won two gold medals in Rome, has had trees planted in his name, and will have parks named for him. He has already helped save the lives of other children and indirectly perhaps many more in the future. He could have lived to a hundred and done less. He has also struck a spark of love in the hearts of millions of parents and children around the world. If this isn't immortality, it must surely come close.
"But now, little boy, although your radiance is still with us, it's time for you to sleep. From all of us, good night and sweet dreams."
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The Smallframe airbox made by POLINI makes setting up dead easy. There is no filter in the box. The air delivery is regulated about the white plugs. The more plugs you use, the less air can be breathed in and your engine runs richer. And vice versa.
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Berkeley earthquake called off
It will be very interesting to see what happens to these papers as they go through peer review. No doubt, they will improve: that's one of the benefits of the peer review process (suddenly popular again!). In the meanwhile, Muller & Co. have a long way to go before they can claim to be the best (as opposed to just the BEST). By launching his BEST project, Muller has no doubt ensured a place for himself in shaping the narrative on climate change science, but it remains to be seen to what extent he is going to contribute to the science of climate change.
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Fifth graders take part in disaster drill and career day
INDIO, Calif. - Fifth graders from Dr. Carreon Academy participated in a county-approved disaster drill hosted by the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP) and Dr. Carreon Academy School, Dr. Carreon Foundation and JFK Memorial Hospital. A helicopter from Mercy Air made a quick landing, while a fire engine arrived and an ambulance full of children unloaded. All the agencies took part in the drill so the students could get a behind-the-scenes look at emergency and health services. "We pretended that there was a bombing at Dr. Carreon and we had a bunch of victims come, and get checked out and pretend they got hurt," said fifth grader Briauna Ramirez.
Ramirez played the role of a public information officer, while her classmates played victims. The students met and learned from different emergency responders including a K-9 unit from Indio PD. For the professionals, the drill was a real chance to practice. "With schools and stuff and things that happen throughout the United States, we want to be prepared to respond efficiently and effectively," said Gary Honts, the CEO of JFK Memorial Hospital.
The goal was for the students to gain exposure to the operations of the hospital during a disaster and to the variety of career opportunities in the health and emergency medical services. "It is the fulfillment of the Dr. Carreon legacy always to striving to better the community and to inspire the youth to have big dreams," said Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz, a board member for the Dr. Carreon Foundation.
Dr. Ruiz spent time with the students, encouraging them to follow their dreams of serving. "To be a hero, he's basically saying to help other people," said Dominique Hollis, a fifth grade student.
Though all these students may not line up for jobs in public service, at least one found a real passion. "I'm leaning towards being a PIO now, because it just seems like a lot of fun," said Ramirez.


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Hydropower development – Sustainability for ANDRITZ HYDRO
Sustainable, renewable, environmentally friendly
ANDRITZ HYDRO is strongly committed to a sustained protection of the environment in harmony with economic growth and social progress. The guiding principle is to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to fulfill their own power requirements.
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Hydropower currently supplies about 16% of the world's electricity needs. Most medium-term scenarios predict that power requirements will be covered primarily by a combination of various new, renewable, and fossil fuel resources. According to current forecasts, awareness of global warming (due to CO2 emissions from fossil fuel plants and other sources) will lead to significant political pressure in the next decade. As a result, the demand for hydropower - a well-proven and the most developed form of renewable energy - will grow.
ANDRITZ HYDRO's customers also attach great importance to sustainability. Their sustainability strategies are based on installation of modern, environmentally friendly technologies and processes, and on social responsibility. Therefore they are investing in infrastructure, health care and education at the locations and communities in which their companies operate.
Additionally, new jobs are created for the local population, sub-suppliers, and other industries, improving the living standards of thousands of people.
Advantages of hydropower
So far, only about 30% of global hydropower resources have been developed. Compared to other energy sources, hydropower offers some important advantages:
- Hydropower is a well-proven form of power generation.
- Water is a renewable source of energy.
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Corrin + Dewey
January 2011
Washington State
Shannon Boettcher of fotoNovella (artistic photo-stories), encourages her couples to dream-up a date for their sessions whether it be for an engagement, first look, or just because it's Valentine's day. She says that "the personalized 'dates' make the sessions fun for the couple & genuine emotions easy to capture." Corrin styled a Valentine's dateNovella for her & her boyfriend, Dewey. Vintage bikes, toasted homemade alfalfa-sprout bread paired with a cuddle session in a vintage trailer fit their hippie-at-heart personalities perfectly.
Their Dreamed-up Date:
Dewey is a little bit hippie moving from place to place, from the mid-west to California & later the Pacific Northwest. For now, there's a girl anchoring him in the tumbleweeds of Eastern Washington. Corrin's okay with that…and for now enjoys making-out with him in his orange sofa chair & listening to Bob Dylan on his retro record player. Dewey is up for rides on their vintage bikes & wearing matching couple socks that make Corrin smile.
Darin Warnick told Corrin & Dewey's story perfectly with his dreamy-surreal fusion reel. Hippies & Hearts…the perfect Valentine's dateNovella! Check it out:
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Hedges portrays a diseased nation, corrupted by false narratives
By Chris Hedges
Published by Nation Books, $24.95
Reviewed by RAYMOND A. SCHROTH
Chris Hedges is mad. As was Jeremiah. Whether Hedges is the best prophet to read the signs of our times as we hurtle toward a catastrophe will depend how his readers respond to his jeremiads.
In fall 2008, at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J., Hedges shocked a room packed with students and faculty when he announced that in November he would vote not for Barack Obama but for Ralph Nader. Obama's Iraq strategy was little better than Bush's, he said. And on March 1, 2010, he wrote on his Web site, Truthdig, that "Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush."
Hedges had earlier shocked a college audience when, in a 2003 graduation address at Rockford College in Illinois, he opposed the Iraq war and was hooted from the stage. Though as a war correspondent for The New York Times for 15 years he was obliged to project impartiality, he left the paper rather than keep silent on that war's moral issues.
He went on to write two outstanding books. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning was an ironic title, since combat both gives warriors a "high" and degrades them. Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America, an analysis based on his Times reporting, lists our idols -- a rock band, drugs, sex, money, war, envy and greed -- that have taken the place of God.
Today Hedges works at the New York-based Nation Institute as a freelance apostle for a gospel he first learned from his father, a Presbyterian minister, and absorbed for himself at Harvard Divinity School.
Drawing on the scholarship of Daniel Boorstin, Theodor Adorno, Jared Diamond, C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi and others, Hedges implants his warning about the end of time in Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, on the forces that have corrupted the American spirit to the point that he no longer recognizes the country in which he grew up.
His targets include the media's adulation of celebrities, pornography, the elite universities that have sold their souls to capitalism and the military-industrial complex, the positive-thinking gurus and psychologists who have reduced employees to slaves of corporations, and finally the American left, which "has crumbled and sold out to a bankrupt Democratic party" and thoroughly abandoned the working class.
For Hedges, professional wrestling matches, the cemeteries of Hollywood celebrities, and TV "reality" shows corrupt us with false narratives. In his most bizarre example, on the FOX reality makeover show "The Swan," Cristina, a 27-year-old Ecuadorian-born office administrator from California, was transformed over three months by a brow lift; eye lift; nose job; liposuction of chin, cheeks and thighs; dermatological visits; collagen injections; LASIK eye surgery; tummy tuck; breast augmentation; dental bleaching; gum tissue re-contouring; a 1,200-calorie daily diet; 120 hours in the gym; plus a glamorous dress and hairdo, from a "completely ordinary person," to what resembles a beautiful celebrity. Seeing her new self she exclaimed, "I'm so beautiful … Thank you! Thank God! I'm in love with myself."
For the chapter on pornography, a business that raked in $97 billion in 2006 and turns out 13,000 porn films a year, his researcher tours the annual Adult Video News expo in Las Vegas. Ninety percent of porn stars, we learn, work as prostitutes and can make $30,000 a week. The chapter itself takes on the flavor of an X-rated film, with its males spilling seminal fluid onto and into brutalized whores, where the latest trend is torture porn that treats women as abject sexual commodities.
If we imagine that the elite universities will rescue our culture, think again. From Harvard to Paris, says Hedges, they do only a mediocre job of teaching students to question and think. Their standardized tests, entrance exams and Advanced Placement classes produce not intellectual leaders but competent systems managers. While the wealthiest elite schools assign dorm rooms by an egalitarian lottery, the University of California at Berkeley, which led the 1960s student revolution, now assigns rooms by how much a student can pay. In 2008 the University of California destroyed 40 huge oak trees to build an athletic training gym. One of Hedges' classmates, now on the Harvard Divinity School faculty, talks unintelligible academic jargon. Literature -- discarding the tradition of Charles Dickens, George Orwell and Upton Sinclair -- is "no longer a tool to enlighten societies about its ills."
Finally, with the force of a tank commander rumbling into enemy lines, Hedges argues that democracy as we knew it 50 years ago is dead, that "only the shell remains." The economy sustains only the wealthiest 10 percent, Wall Street, and insolvent banks. We witness the moral decay in the physical decay -- roads, bridges, sewers and mass transit in disrepair, while we sustain an empire through 761 military bases around the world and wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hedges introduces us to Elba Figueroa, 47, suffering from Parkinson's disease, jobless with no health care, negotiating the soup kitchen and food pantries of Trenton, N.J., to stay alive -- one of the 36.2 million Americans who suffer from hunger, and 50 million in poverty. Is she the image of the future?
Powerful corporate entities, says Hedges, are waiting for their moment to strike. Allied with the Christian Right, they will exploit the fear of terrorism and of left-wing dissent to impose draconian control. Hedges' portrait of a diseased America resonates. But, having beaten his readers into a coma, he offers no cure other than three pages in favor of hope and love.
Perhaps it's sufficient to alert us to the coming crash.
[Jesuit Fr. Raymond A. Schroth teaches at St. Peter's College in Jersey City.]
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We're celebrating International Babywearing Week by featuring some of our readers' stories and pictures while breastfeeding their babies in carriers.
The resounding response to the question, "what is your favorite carrier to nurse in?"
A soft structured carrier, the most popular of which is the Ergobaby.
|April breastfeeds her 6 month old in an Ergo.
|Breastfeeding a sweet 4 month old in an Ergo Sport.
Lisa shares: "the Ergo is super easy! We went to the Memphis Zoo this summer when my son was 7 wks and I nursed him while we walked around. We were with some friends and she didn't even notice I was nursing until I switched sides."
Amy assures us how discreetly one can nurse in an Ergo: "I LOVED nursing in my Ergo. I nursed her so often, in so many places and in front of so many people who would have otherwise been aghast. Alas, they never knew."
|Suzi communes with nature while nursing her 8 month old in an Ergo.
You can read a great review of the Ergo at Adventures in Babywearing. And here's a video tutorial on how to nurse in the Ergo.
|Nursing a 14 month old at the beach in an Ergo.
|Kristi makes dinner while breastfeeding her 20 month old in a homemade pouch sling.
|Dorothy nurses her 11 month old in a hip carrier - the Side Rider.
|Melissa snuggles up to a sweet 3 month old in a Beco Butterfly 2 - another type of soft structured carrier.
What is your favorite baby carrier to breastfeed in?
Do you have any great stories of nursing while babywearing? If so, consider submitting them to our "Joys of Nursing in Public" series!


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Your Child. Our Future.
There is nothing more important a government could do than invest in our schools. That's why we've got a plan to do just that.Posted by Australian Labor Party on Sunday, 31 January 2016
Will you support better schools?
Bill Shorten wants to make the biggest investment in our schools in two generations. Can you add your name and say you want a better future for our kids?
Talk about innovation is just that: talk. I honestly can't think of anything more important a government should do than invest in our kids
Focus On Every Child's Needs
It's a simple idea – every single child in every single classroom having their learning needs met so they can meet their full potential.
Labor's Your Child. Our Future plan for schools puts the needs of your child at the centre of our school system.
Every Australian child should have the same chance of succeeding at school as any other kid in the country – no matter their background, no matter where they live, and no matter what type of school they go to.
A Shorten Labor Government will deliver the most significant improvement in school education in Australia for a generation.
Labor will fully fund the Gonski reforms and reverse the Government's $29 billion cuts to schools, ensuring that the schools and students that need the most support, get the most support.
There's so much we can gain from making sure that student needs are actually met. Investing in our classrooms is investing in our children's future.Read More ›
More Individual Attention
One-on-one attention can't just be a goal in the classroom – it should be a given. More individual attention means students who start to slip are noticed sooner, students who are comfortably meeting benchmarks are challenged to learn more, and teachers can better track the progress of their entire class.
Labor's positive plan for schools will mean every child receives more of the individual attention they need.
Parents will know more about how their child is doing at school, how their achievement is tracking, and what they can do to support learning at home.
With Labor's Your Child. Our Future, teachers will be empowered to give more individual attention so they can truly understand the learning needs of every student.
In contrast, Malcolm Turnbull's cuts are the equivalent of sacking one in seven teachers – leading to more pressure on class sizes and less one-on-one time with studentsRead More ›
Better Trained Teachers
Our teachers are the lifeblood of our education system – the success of our schools is literally in their hands. A great school system starts with great people.
If we want our school system to be among the best in the world, we need make sure we attract excellent candidates to the teaching profession and equip them with the skills to make a difference in the lives of students.
Labor's positive plan for schools will provide more professional support for teachers in the classroom, including support from specialist and lead teachers.
The reforms will toughen entry standards and improve teacher education, to make sure that we have the right people from day one.
Your Child. Our Future will make sure that secondary teachers who teach maths, will have a qualification in maths. If they teach science, they will have a qualification in science.
Labor's plan will better support our educators to play a transformative role in every student's life.Read More ›
More Resources
Your Child. Our Future will mean more resources for schools, teachers and students.
It's not about money – it's about the difference more programs and extra support in the classroom can make.
Labor's plan will mean every school can provide the support and programs their students need.
It will mean early intervention programs, including remedial literacy and numeracy programs, are in place in every school, so that no student is left behind.
Schools will have increased access to allied health professionals, like speech pathologists, as well as extension programs and extra-curricular activities.
Labor's plan will increase Year 12 completion through more alternative and vocational pathways, so all students leave school with the skills they need to make the most of opportunities in the modern economy.
On the other hand, the Liberals' cuts will leave every school in Australia an average of $3.2 million worse off. Under the Liberals, schools will be left with a vicious dilemma, which of the essential resources do they cut first?Read More ›
Support For Students With A Disability And Learning Difficulties
Every student deserves to reach their potential and flourish at school. And yet, students with additional learning requirements or a disability are still waiting for help.
Labor's Your Child. Our Future plan will provide much needed funding for students with special learning needs, reversing this Liberal Government's cuts.
It will include more one-on-one time with students including one-on-one literacy and numeracy programs and support, and more early intervention programs in every school so no student is left behind.
Labor will immediately deliver $320 million in funding for students with disability from the 2017 school year, so schools can meet individual student's learning needs.
On top of our commitment to fully fund the Gonski reforms, Labor will work with the states and territories to fully implement a national disability loading once we have complete data about the levels of adjustment required.
We will make it mandatory for student teachers to develop high-level skills to support the inclusion of students with disability and will fast-track a national approach to adapting the curriculum for students with disability.Read More ›
Every School, Every Child
Labor wants the children of every Australian parent to have the same chance of succeeding at school, and in life, as any other kid in the country.
No matter what their background, no matter where they live - city, suburb or in the regions, no matter what type of school they go to – Government, Catholic or Independent, every child should be guaranteed a great education.
Labor's plan will provide longer term-funding certainty so schools can get on with improving student results, and spend less time worrying about their budgets.
Transparency and accountability will be increased, so that parents can be confident that Federal funding is actually making it to classrooms, and making a difference.
On the other hand, Malcolm Turnbull's cuts will hurt every student in every school – State, Catholic or Independent. No exemptions.
Ensuring every child in every school has access to a great education isn't only fair for our children – it's what our country needs to succeed.Read More ›
Find out about Bill Shorten's plan to support innovation through education.Read More


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Good news is that 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' is looking way better then the first film so hopefully this sequel will be the rare one to improve on the original. Check out the slew of images that have hit below.
When it was announced that there was going to be a sequel for 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra', many sighed and just figured this was just another stupid studio movie, but then they began adding some meat to the cast. Dwayne Johnson was a big one, and he seems to be that actor who gets added to film sequels to beef up the star wattage, and then Bruce Willis was added. The studio was obviously counting on the fact that Channing Tatum's star has risen considerably and he's in 5 films this year. 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' and 'Magic Mike' (released on the same day for some interesting counter programming) will be the final movies of the year for him.
"In this movie putting a face on who Joe is — in Bruce Willis — and that idea of having the original Joe is great for the audience that doesn't know the Joe of the 1980s but knows the Joe of the 1960s and 1970s," Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura said. "There's a combination of these things coming together in a really great way."
di Bonaventura also confirmed that with Tatum's rising star, this would help draw in the crowds, but obviously adding Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis gave the studio a better night of sleep. "We have a couple of advantages: Channing is a bigger star [than he was when the first was released], Bruce is a well-established star and Rock is a well-established star," di Bonaventura said. "That's a big advantage over the first movie. That positions us in a way that we can say to the audience that we're trying for a certain kind of film."
As you can see in the trailer and Super Bowl spot, you have to look really hard to find Tatum, and the same goes with the movie stills. Johnson and Willis are the stars giving our Magic Mike man a nice boost. As we all know if the film kills at the box office, then every studio and Tatum's agent will say that it proves he's a star.
[callout title=G.I. Joe Retaliation Movie Synopsis]The the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Ray Park, Joseph Mazzello, Arnold Vosloo, Elodie Yung, Walton Goggins, Jonathan Pryce, Byung-hun Lee, RZA, D.J. Cotrona, Matt Gerald
Directed by: Jon M. Chu
Release Date: June 29, 2012[/callout]
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MMA Forum - UFC Forums - UFC Results - MMA Videos (http://www.mmaforum.com/forumindex.php)
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BJJ or Sambo
I am looking to learn some grappling, but in my area there are no BJJ schools but I found a place that teaches Sambo. I would like some feedback from anyone that has some first hand experience with Sambo. I know that BJJ is the most popular grappling art right now, and everyone seems to be taking it. How effective is Sambo? Is it comparable to BJJ and more importantly is it worth investing my money and learning it? I would appreciate any constructive feedback thanks. John
Though I do not know too much about Sambo I know that it is very good if you pursue a career in MMA. I believe you do learn grappling though with it. Keep us updated with a decision.
BJJ for sure, well its kinda byest because i dont do sambo and i train bjj.
They are both very good fighting styles but i would choose BBJ over Sambo although Sambo is very good and if thats the only thing in your area take it for sure...Fedor and Aleksander Emelianenko have big back grounds in Sambo and they are 2 of the worlds top fighters.
Sambo is very much worth it.
Knowadays, if you watch MMA you'll learn some rudementary BJJ skills. Definitely take the opportunity to learn BJJ, because it's really important to know how to use the submissions, but it's even more important to know what submissions an opponent is going to be trying to use on you.
Sambo is a better style for modern MMA, in my opinion, because you learn takedowns that most opponents aren't used to dealing with and you learn submissions that some opponents have never seen before. It's one of the reasons why Andrei Arlovski was able to submit Tim Sylvia so quickly while Jeff Monson couldn't. When you have submissions an opponent hasn't seen before, you're way more likely to land them.
If you are looking at a career in MMA, definitely train in Sambo full time, but go to some BJJ classes and watch tape of BJJ fighters so that you see where they attack from most of the time and what the signs that they are setting up a submission are.
Thanks for the feedback guys, I really appreciate it. I am definately going to sign up for the Sambo lessons. I will let you know how it goes. John
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As Euro Cup fever grips Toronto for the second week running, more and more residents are fed up with the non-stop honking, high-fiving and street partying that has paralyzed a number of neighbourhoods. But, as with so much European culture, what appears to some as idiotic celebration hides a continental tradition of profound intellectual inquiry .
"We probably look like a bunch of morons driving around the block for four hours," says Mimo, who drove his Jeep Wrangler around the block for four hours on three separate evenings this week. "Through ritual action," he explained, quoting Carl Jung, "attention and interest are led back to the inner sacred precinct."
"Yeah, guy," added his enthusiastic cousin, Nick, who was wearing a muscle shirt and pumping his fist in the air. "It's like what Nietzsche said about the eternal recurrence of the same," he said.
But while some see the Euro Cup as an opportunity to celebrate European philosophical notions, others favour a more forward-leaning continental analysis.
"I see it all as this raging post-feminist commentary on the defunct hegemonic tradition," yelled Angela over the din of pounding bass in her white Hyundai Sonata, which was filled with four similarly festive girlfriends. "You've got these two extremely skilled teams who can't score on one another, revealing the futility of so-called dominance in a post-postmodern value system."
"I see it more as a study in changing gender narratives," interjected her friend Sasha, who was simultaneously putting on lipstick and dancing in the back seat. "You have a field full of men embracing homoeroticism, displaying heightened levels of emotion, and exhibiting an almost comically low pain threshold – all traditionally feminine traits, quote-unquote."
And to some fans, the Euro Cup isn't isn't so much about soccer as the European mathematical concepts the game sometimes portrays.
Following Monday's match between Spain and Croatia, the 1-0 score reminded Mike, who took off his shirt to display his well-defined chest and biceps, of the binary algebraic system on which modern computing is based. "It's called Boolean logic," Mike said between beer belches, and then pointed out that the high-definition broadcast he and others watched at a sports bar was, fundamentally, just a stream of ones and zeroes.
As Mike reveled in cosmic meaning, nearby Alex was driving his Honda Civic and honking his horn incessantly. When Mike gave Alex the finger, Alex stopped the car and rolled down his tinted window. A crowd formed.
"What is honking," Alex shouted out the window, paraphrasing Gustave Flaubert, "but a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to when we long to move the stars to tears?" Then he squealed his tires and drove off.
Several blocks north in Corso Italia, meanwhile, a fan named Sylvia saw the Euro Cup as an opportunity to engage in the existentially informed questioning of national identity that is as old as European nationalism itself.
"What is the meaning of 'Italy'?" she implored a crowd of fans whose faces were painted like the Italian flag. "The north, an industrial giant that puts the Rhine Valley to shame, wants a divorce from the South, a feudal basket case. A single tiny village can't even agree on the recipe for a ragu, let alone the entire so-called country."
Her remarks were met by hooting and fist-pumping. The philosophically charged crowd then marched west on St. Clair licking gelato and obnoxiously chanting "Viva Italia!," the irony lost on everyone but themselves.Report Typo/Error
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Mother Loading Gun Shoots Son
A nine-year-old Rockdale County boy remains hospitalized at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston after authorities say he was shot in the stomach as his mother was trying to load a gun.
Sheriff Jeff Wigington says authorities believe the shooting of Johnny Andrews early Saturday was an accident. But he says authorities have questions about why people would have been using a gun at 1 a.m. in the morning when children were present.
His mother, Carey Fitts, faces a charge of reckless conduct, a misdemeanor.
The sheriff's department says it appears the woman's boyfriend was showing her how to use a .45-caliber gun when two shots were fired, one hitting her son in the stomach.
Authorities say it appears the 30-year-old woman was pulling the slide back to load the weapon and her finger must have been on the trigger.
Two other children, ages four and ten months, were in the Brandon Glen apartment at the time.
The sheriff says the boy was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he underwent surgery.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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posted by Nichole .
A wooden block with mass 0.26{\rm kg} rests on a horizontal table, connected to a string that hangs vertically over a friction-less pulley on the table's edge. From the other end of the string hangs a 0.20{\rm kg} mass.
What minimum coefficient of static friction \mu _{{\rm s}} between the block and table will keep the system at rest?
Find the block's acceleration if \mu _k =0.17.


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NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
The NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms features 8,119 terms related to cancer and medicine.
- gadolinium
- listen (GA-duh-LIH-nee-um)
- A metal element that is used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other imaging methods. It is a contrast agent, which helps show abnormal tissue in the body during imaging with a special machine.


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One of the things that frustrated me was the lack of control in my life. My life was chaos, and it was all tied to my husband. He insisted on doing the car and house maintenance. He promised to fix things around the house—and never did. I eventually bought some tools of my own, which I had to mark with pink tape so they wouldn't disappear into his work truck, and began learning how to do minor things for myself.
We own a business together. When he's sober, that's not a problem. Unfortunately, he's not sober often. His alcoholic rages, however, have diminished quite a bit, as I have changed with the help of the Al‑Anon program. There were so many nights when he told me he'd be home for dinner, then not show up until two in the morning. I learned not to hold dinner for him, sometimes to spite him, and other times because we were hungry and tired of waiting.
We moved into the unfinished new house we were building, against my wishes, and just before a hurricane. As I suspected, as soon as we moved in, progress on completing the home slowed down to a snail's pace. With the downturn in the economy, our business took a major hit, and financial problems were piling up. This of course, only added to the reasons for my husband to drink, which meant he did even less with the house than usual.
I was doing what I could, but managing our business affairs, the household, and my family was very difficult. I was angry, hurt, disappointed, frustrated, tired, and I felt trapped. To top it all, every day I had to look at what epitomized everything I was angry about—a huge pile of dirt in our back yard. The dirt came from the excavation for the foundation of the new house.
Our house sits on a lot that is just shy of one acre. The backyard is almost exactly one-half of that, and the dirt pile took up almost one-half of that space. It was between four and five feet high. It showed up on aerial images of our neighborhood. Even though my husband owned a backhoe and had promised to use it to level out the dirt, he never did.
After seven years, the dirt pile had become its own ecosystem, with birds happily making nests in the small trees that had sprouted, creepy crawly things, and rabbits wandering into our backyard and attacking my small garden.
I nicknamed the dirt pile "Mirkwood" after the dark, evil forest in the Lord of the Rings, a bit for fun and because it represented so much of what was wrong in my life. Our yard was a lake every time we had a hard rain—except for "Mirkwood." I could mow the grass everywhere else—except for "Mirkwood." I wanted to organize my backyard, but I couldn't—because of "Mirkwood." My husband had promised over and over he'd flatten that pile of dirt, but there it was—"Mirkwood." The more I looked at it, the angrier I became.
I finally decided one day that I'd had enough. If it took me 20 years, I would move that pile of dirt myself. I couldn't control my husband and the chaos in my life, but I could begin to control that pile of dirt in my own backyard—one shovelful at a time. I bought my own shovel, marked it with pink tape, and walked with grim determination towards that ominous, weed-covered mess.
I can't even begin to describe what that first bite of the shovel into that clay felt like. I was finally doing something to bring some order into my life. I took my first shovelful of dirt, carried it to a low spot next to our house, and dropped it. That felt so good, I went back for more, and more.
I asked for a small yard cart for Christmas, and I got one. That meant I could move more than one shovel-load at a time! I went outside as often as I could, and spent an hour or two at a time on my project. It was slow going.
When I started, my maximum workload was 12-13 carts of dirt. After a year or so, when the weather was cooler and I had some practice under my belt, I could easily move 20 carts or more in a couple of hours. My husband would occasionally tease me about how he could move the dirt quickly with his backhoe. I would simply invite him to bring it over, and I would not be heartbroken if he did not. He stopped teasing me.
I was getting some good exercise, which I needed, and I was getting some good therapy, which I also needed. As I was digging, I wasn't worrying about my husband, or my overloaded desk, or anything else. My biggest concern was where the most strategic place for my next bite of the shovel should be.
I discovered the value in taking breaks and resting. I learned how to pace myself, and I learned patience. It didn't seem that I was making much progress, but I could see the low spots in my yard slowly filling up.
We held a bridal shower for my daughter, and while showing "Mirkwood" to a friend of mine, I stood at the original boundaries of the dirt pile. It was then that I realized just how much I had accomplished. I had moved the front of the pile at least ten feet, and I had shaved off over a foot of the top for about six feet. One side had also been pushed back a few feet. I had never stopped to look at what I had done before.
So, what has my dirt pile done for me? As I was digging one morning, I realized that moving "Mirkwood" exemplified the many lessons I learned in my time with Al‑Anon:
- Problems don't appear overnight, and they won't disappear overnight.
- Use my tools!
- Solving one problem sometimes solves another.
- Solving one problem sometimes causes another.
- There's more than one approach to a problem.
- Sometimes by waiting, a problem can solve itself.
- Find something that occupies my mind—or allows me to escape my daily stresses.
- Physical exertion helps my mental stress.
- Sometimes I need more than one tool.
- Take breaks.
- Measure my progress.
- Work smarter, not harder—don't force it!
So many other analogies came to me as I repeatedly filled my cart with dirt, but I cannot list them all here. I can look at my slowly shrinking hill of dirt, my slowly rising backyard, and I can take comfort in the fact that I am proving to myself my worth and my ability.
I have a long way to go, with Mirkwood, and with my program. Even if my husband were to show up with the backhoe and finish the job for me, he could never take my accomplishments away. All of us have our Mirkwoods, those dark, chaotic places in our lives. I suggest getting a good pair of work gloves, the right tools, the right attitude, and start taking them all down.
By Teresa D.
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- Carol (music), a festive or religious song; historically also a dance
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- Carol (Chara album) (2009)
- "Carol" (Chuck Berry song), a rock 'n roll song written and recorded by Chuck Berry in 1958
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by Martin Staubus
It's well known that the Beyster Institute provides consulting guidance to companies and their leaders on the development of effective employee ownership programs. Less familiar to many is the work we do in classroom education. In fact, one of the most important ways that we build understanding and support for employee ownership among business leaders is through the teaching we do in the MBA program at the UC San Diego Rady School of Management. Our offerings include a whole range of classes from Equity Compensation to Managing an Employee-Owned Company. Among those is one especially interesting course with a human resource slant.
Currently, Beyster Institute Senior Consultant Martin Staubus is teaching a course entitled "Creating a High-Performing Workplace," which is offered as an elective course in the organizational development area. In a recent interview, Professor Staubus described the content of the course.
"In Creating a High-Performing Workplace, we explore five themes. As a bit extra fun, I play a theme song for each theme — students get extra course credit for naming the song and the artist." The themes are:
High Performance in the Innovation Age.
Before we can explore how to create a high-performing workplace, it only makes sense that we know what that is. If you don't know what you're trying to create, how can you talk about the steps to create it? Our first theme, therefore, begins with the observation that, in the U.S. and other developed economies, the Industrial Age that dominated most of the last century has evolved into the Innovation Age of the 21st century. Yes, there is still traditional manufacturing in the U.S., and there are workers who do repetitive manual tasks. But the work that really drives economic growth in the U.S. now involves activities that require employees to use independent judgment and creativity and to collaborate effectively with others. There simply aren't many jobs left where employees just carry out the instructions handed down by the boss. If your organization isn't constantly striving to make your customer experience better and/or cheaper, it's unlikely to see long-term growth. An important point here is that innovation doesn't only mean "product innovation" — coming up with the next iPad or other big hit. And innovation doesn't just mean one heroic individual coming up with a brilliant insight. Rather, companies thrive when its people are constantly figuring out lots of small ways to make the company's existing products or services a little better, a little easier to produce or a little cheaper. And most innovation actually results from people interacting, pooling their knowledge, bouncing ideas off each other, and collaborating to come up with improvements on the status quo. In the Innovation Age, then, a high-performing workplace is one in which the people in the organization are proactively applying not only their technical training, but their creativity and good judgment, collaborating as a team to continuously improve their company's ability to deliver value to customers. One of the great challenges of American business — and the reason for this course — is that the management methods that were developed for the Industrial Age now are very poorly suited to meet these needs of the Innovation Age. Yet American business is being led by old guys (like your instructor) who in turn were mentored in their younger days by executives who cut their management teeth in the heyday of the Industrial Age. Too much of current management remains rooted in Industrial Age practice.
Our theme song? "The Times They Are a-Changin'" by Bob Dylan.
Historical Development of Workplace Management.
American business didn't just wake up last week and decide that perhaps it should try to get its workplaces to operate at a high level. In fact, since the industrial revolution, when large-scale production first became dominant, people have been trying to figure out how best to organize people in workplaces so as to achieve high productivity and performance. What have they learned along the way? The "science" of management as an applied technology dates to Frederick Taylor, a man originally trained as a mechanical engineer, who became a management consultant around the start of the 20th century. Interestingly, he also was from a Quaker family, and was deeply troubled by the often-bloody workplace conflict that was prevalent in industrial America at that time, as managers Taylor deemed ignorant applied brute force in their efforts to maximize productivity. As might be expected of a mechanical engineer, he conceived of the workplace as a great machine, with efficient productivity being achieved through an engineering process that assigned clear, consistently repeatable tasks to employees, so that they functioned like parts in a machine. In this model, it was imperative that the workers never depart from the assigned process. Not even managers were authorized to engage in improving the production process. That authority was reserved to "industrial engineers" specially trained to design workplaces as machines. Ultimately, Taylor's methods never did quite achieve his goal of harmonious, high productivity in the workplace. Despite the failure of this approach, the mental model of "workplace as machine," with top management manning the controls, has had tremendous staying power. As the 20th century went on, people with advanced training in human psychology began to study workplace performance issues, and soon identified the fatal flaw in Taylor's machine model of the workplace: people aren't cogs, and don't react well to being deployed that way. Leading thinkers of the time — Abraham Maslow, Kurt Lewin and Douglas McGregor — developed better-informed ideas about fostering workplace productivity, taking into account the unique emotional make-up of human beings that make us so different from machines. Perhaps the biggest flaw in Taylor's machine model, however, is that it fails to take advantage of the remarkable creative capacity that is in everyone. Indeed, he insisted that employees do only what they are told and nothing more. "Don't ever change a thing!" was the old message to employees. In the Innovation Age, that command and control system is a recipe for failure.
Our theme song? "We Didn't Start the Fire," by Billy Joel.
Human Motivation in the Workplace.
So people are not cogs and can't simply be deployed like machine parts. They have wills of their own, and will perform at a high level only if they want to. So when it comes to motivating employees — to get them to want to — what works? The most popular motivational method traditionally used by business management is a collection of carrots and sticks — more than anything, monetary incentives. These practices endure despite a mountainous pile of research studies showing that monetary incentives are minimally ineffective in most cases — and in fact can be counterproductive, actually lowering output. They are especially ineffective in a context where workers need to be engaged in creative, judgment-based, innovative activity — exactly the kind of work that is central to today's Innovation Economy. So, if monetary incentives don't drive high performance in the Innovation Age, what does? This question gets to the heart of the course. The concepts we explore suggest that in today's innovation-oriented economy, companies foster a high level of performance by:
- First and foremost, establishing a clear sense of mission and purpose that establishes the venture as something meaningful and worthwhile to the people in the organization.
- Second, assembling a group of dedicated people around that mission and purpose — a community of people who have come together to pursue that purpose successfully.
- Third, establish operating values, principles and practices for that workplace community that enable people to assume responsibility, deliver valuable contributions, and earn a sense of achievement and self-worth from what they accomplish. People want to be part of something worthwhile, something larger than themselves, and as individuals they want to grow, develop and progress. Workplace communities will be highly productive when they enable people, through their contributions and accomplishments, to feel that they are achieving valuable things and that they are respected and appreciated for that by their peers.
Our theme song? "Can't Buy Me Love," by the Beatles.
A Stake in Business Success.
If an organization's mission is to find a cure for cancer, end world hunger, or create break-through technologies, clearly that's something that will provide a compelling sense of purpose and meaning to many people who might want to work there. But what about a company with a more mundane mission: supplying commonplace components or providing routine services? How can such a company create compelling meaning that provides motivation and determined drive to the people working there? An answer may be found by looking at what motivates the typical entrepreneur who works hard to build a successful venture. The rewards from doing that are apparent: the creation of personal wealth; providing abundantly for one's family; a sense of achievement; pride of accomplishment; a sense of identity with a successful venture; satisfaction in making a contribution to the community; etc. Even in industries that aren't inherently sexy and compelling, then, companies can build a motivated community of employees by drawing them into the challenge and rewards of building and running a successful business. The foundation of this workplace strategy is the practice of employee ownership. The rewards of entrepreneurship, after all, are mainly ones that flow only to those who own the business. Ownership is a formal claim to both the financial and the emotional benefits that are generated by successful business outcomes. Owners claim the wealth that is generated by business success, and also claim the sense of pride, accomplishment and identity that comes from that success. In short, the cause of building and operating a successful business can provide the sense of purpose that will support the sense of purpose that is needed to support a high-performing venture. A key take-away here is that it's not enough to simply distribute shares of stock among the workforce as though it were pixie dust. People need to understand the rules of the game — how the business works, what the team needs to do to succeed, and how to track progress against budgets and goals to see how well the team is doing. In short, they need to be "business-literate." This not blazing a virgin trail. It is a well-established strategy known as "open book management."
Our theme song? "Reasons" by Earth, Wind and Fire.
Hire for Attitude; Train for Skills.
We have spent most of the course exploring how to build a workplace that encourages and enables employees to deliver their best ideas, their best judgment, and their best performance. Yet logically, even if the people are highly committed and motivated, isn't the capacity of a workforce to perform at a high level going to be constrained by the extent of their knowledge, skills and abilities? Of course it is. So companies need employees who have both: a) excellent technical skill sets; and b) constructive attitudes that foster teamwork, effective collaboration, a willingness to take responsibility and show leadership, and that align with the company's mission, purpose and values. The challenge for business is that few hiring candidates come to your door with all of the desired skills and attitudes. Given that reality, what hiring and development strategies will support a high-performing workplace? Organizations that continue to adhere to the machine model of the workplace, seeing employees as "units" to be plugged into slots, continue to focus on the technical "specs" of the unit. High-performing companies in today's Innovation Economy, however, have found that it is essential to prioritize the constructive attitudes that will fit with the company's innovation culture. Specific skills can be taught; but attitudes about how we deal with others tend to be a fundamental aspect of individual outlook and personality, and thus much harder to change. Ego-driven individualists, for example, are unlikely ever to really dedicate themselves to achievement of team goals. So if a new hire has the right attitudes, but not all of the needed skills, the skills gap can be remedied through training. But if a new hire has the full technical skill set but lacks the constructive, mission-oriented, team-player attitudes that are desired, it may be difficult to turn that person into a high-functioning member of the organization. Thus the motto of these companies is, hire for attitude, train for skills.
Our theme song? "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder.
That's it! Those are the five themes that comprise the curriculum of Management 269: Creating a High-Performing Workplace as taught at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego.


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Maybe her summary of some radical feminists was a little dismissive. But I was eight, and her definition convinced me to adopt the latter interpretation into my worldview. Soon after, I began using my mother's name (my mother kept her name when she married my father and gave me and my brothers her name as a middle name) as part of my everyday name. The name didn't stick until college, but it was a key shift in the way I thought of myself.
Fourteen years later, I remain a feminist. My use of feminism as a belief system, a coping mechanism, and a method of processing the world is about the only thing about me that didn't change during my identity crisis, which began in sixth grade and should end any day now. But while my identity as a feminist is one of the most core parts of my conscious thought, I find that my life is becoming more and more deeply heteronormative as it becomes more and more deeply satisfying.
I am living very happily with a young man who is everything I want in a partner – smart, funny, kind, and honest. While he is respectful of my beliefs and is always willing to engage in discourse of a feminist nature with me, he does not share that part of my ideology, and he never will. As a primary benefactor of the patriarchy, he doesn't feel the need to fight the system that feeds him. And as I grow closer to him, I find that my sympathy for the devil grows. I am coming to a feminist understanding and appreciation of patriarchal undertakings – particularly in art and media. I enjoy artists of occasional virulent racism and misogyny like David Allen Coe and less offensive but still status-quo-advocating television like King of the Hill. And while I am glad that I am moving away from the impulse to demonize that which does not immediately adhere to my beliefs, I fear that I am starting down a road that leads to ignoring their threats to equality instead of viewing critically and finding a balance.
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