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Apple Post-Jobs May Lack Charisma, Maintain Success: Commentary
IPods, iPads and iPhones would have baffled the German social scientist Max Weber, who died in 1920. Yet the father of modern sociology would surely have understood something about the man behind those gadgets.
Weber defined the "charismatic leader" as one whose influence stems from almost preternatural insights and imagination and who inspires devotional loyalty from his followers -- which adds up to an uncanny description of Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs.
Weber also argued that organizations structured around a charismatic leader are doomed to lose their vigor after the great one leaves the scene. That prediction became relevant on Jan. 17, when Jobs, perhaps the most charismatic chief executive officer in business history, announced yet another medical leave from Apple, the company he has led to breathtaking heights, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Jan. 24 issue.
In a letter to his 50,000 employees, Jobs handed off daily control of the company to Apple's chief operating officer, Timothy D. Cook. He didn't say when he would return or why he was leaving, though the undertones were ominous. He referred to his management team's plans for 2011 and sounded an unusual emotional note: "I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can."
Queasy Shareholders
The announcement triggered speculation about Jobs's health -- and minor indigestion among shareholders. It also posed yet again the unavoidable question that now looms over 35-year-old Apple: What happens to a modern company whose innovations and inspirations are so closely tied to the vision of one leader when that leader's influence is in decline?
The only thing certain is that the Apple of the future -- whether in a year or a decade -- will look a lot different from the reliable engine of innovation and profit that investors and customers know so well.
Jobs's health has been an issue for so long that many investors have grown inured to it. In 2004 doctors diagnosed Apple's co-founder with a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He took an undisclosed leave of absence for treatment and a six-month leave in 2009, when he underwent a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis.
Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton declined to comment further on Jobs's condition. According to a person with direct knowledge of his health, who requested anonymity because the matter is private, the Apple founder has had trouble gaining weight, and immunosuppressant medications related to the transplant have made him susceptible to colds and the flu.
Hits Factory
Jobs's health problems have not interrupted Apple's historic run of successes. Apple devices and online services such as iTunes have, one by one, disrupted the music, mobile phone, media and video-game industries.
Even the Macintosh is on a tear. It now commands 9.7 percent of the personal-computer market in the U.S., up from less than 3 percent a decade ago. Along the way, Apple has become the second-most highly valued company in the world, behind only Exxon Mobil Corp. and well ahead of tech nemesis Microsoft Corp. On Jan. 19, Apple announced its latest results: $6 billion in profit during the last three months of 2010, a record that surpassed the previous high by 40 percent.
With all that momentum, Apple can thrive for years, even without Jobs's daily presence. The company's lineup for 2011 is set. It includes the iPhone for Verizon Wireless and, in all likelihood, new versions of the iPhone and iPad as well as fresh takes on old hits like the iPod and iMac.
Thinking Ahead
Plans are no doubt taking shape for 2012 and beyond. Jobs recently revealed that the company was working on the iPad even before the debut of the iPhone in 2007. Similarly, the Apple skunkworks has probably cooked up new versions of the iPhone and iPad for next-generation 4G mobile networks. Some analysts even believe Apple could be preparing its own high-definition television, with Apple TV software built in, as an alternative to the lightly selling $99 Apple TV set-top box.
"They know what products they are launching at least two years, and maybe even three or more, into the future," said Ben Reitzes, an analyst at Barclays Capital in Toronto. "They are on autopilot to a degree, at least in terms of the big picture."
Although the product plan may be mapped, Apple without Steve Jobs will be a less interesting company. Jobs, according to the portrait laid out in countless biographies and articles over the years, is a control freak with a compulsive attention to detail. He routinely sends products back to the lab, kills them in their crib, demands new features or euthanizes old ones, all while keeping Apple's attention narrowly focused on just a few products with potential for high returns.
Just Say No
"We're always thinking about new markets we could enter," Jobs told Businessweek in 2004. "But it's only by saying no, so that you can concentrate on the things that are really important."
Jobs's obsession with process and detail even filters down to how he rolls out products. Besides exhaustively rehearsing his own presentations, he often insists that executives from partner companies submit to a week or more of dry runs -- and has been known to bounce execs at the last minute if they show signs of nerves that could mar a Jobs keynote.
Jobs commands Apple with the discipline and improvisational confidence of John Coltrane. It's not clear who else, if anyone, at the company can groove with equal flair. Executive grooming, like much else at Apple, is handled in an unorthodox way.
Specific Skills
Most corporations aim to enhance the leadership abilities of their employees. Some, such as General Electric Co., are veritable factories for seasoned executives. At Apple, rather than recruiting or developing the most promising and versatile general managers, Jobs focuses on hiring the best person in a given discipline.
The result is a team of highly skilled specialists who operate in a system that still resembles a startup. There are no separate lines of business and no business-unit chiefs with responsibility for their own balance sheets. Important decisions are usually made at weekly Monday strategy sessions with Jobs overseeing his 10-member executive team. New executive hires -- such as former International Business Machines Corp. executive Mark Papermaster, who joined as a senior vice president in 2008 and left for Cisco Systems Inc. last year -- typically don't last long.
Who will steer the ship when, inevitably, Jobs is gone? Most analysts are unreservedly enthusiastic about the talents of Tim Cook, who is widely viewed as Apple's next chief executive if and when Jobs permanently steps aside.
Operations Genius
Cook, 50, is an operations genius, adept at cutting costs while delivering complex products on time and coping with staggering growth targets. He's also monastic and incredibly devoted to Apple. He has oversight of sales, customer support and logistics -- meaning much of the company already reports to him.
During Jobs's previous two absences, Cook steadied the corporate ship so capably that in 2010 he was rewarded with $59 million in salary and stock. Still, during those past medical leaves and now this new one, Jobs has remained involved in all major strategic decisions, Apple says. In that respect, Tim Cook is untested as a potential CEO.
The rest of Jobs's team is studded with star role players but not accomplished generalists. Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief, joined the company during its descent in 1992 and is now easily the most famous industrial designer in the world. Yet he lacks overall business expertise and credibility with Wall Street.
Marketing chief Philip W. Schiller is a burly, jovial Massachusetts native and a devoted hockey fan. He's known as loyal and effective, though he isn't considered a tech visionary.
Software, Not Hardware
Scott Forstall, Apple's software chief, carved out a high profile in Silicon Valley by creating a platform for the iPhone that made it easy for developers to create applications. Yet the longtime Jobs ally has little experience minting new hardware.
Ron Johnson, the head of retail operations, has helped turn Apple into one of the world's most profitable chains -- and somehow manages to coach youth baseball at the same time -- though he is a retailer, not a technologist.
Some outsiders are concerned that Jobs alone can stir this mix of talent. Take him out of the picture and the water goes calm, says a manager who does business with Apple, who didn't want to be quoted by name because it would hurt his business relationship with the company.
Playing It Safe
During Jobs's last absence, this person says, the creative tension disappeared, replaced by a play-it-safe ethos. The unavoidable fact is that lots of people can manage the company. Only Steve Jobs could have had the visionary spirit -- and risk tolerance -- to turn Apple into a mobile-phone company.
In the short term, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. Without Jobs's obstinacy at the negotiating table and unrelenting dedication to simplicity, it's possible that Apple could have avoided its rare mistakes, such as waiting too long to move the iPhone to Verizon (which gave momentum to phones powered by Google Inc.'s Android operating system) and blocking Adobe Systems Inc.'s popular Flash video format on the iPad.
An Apple without Jobs might one day even allow the iTunes media store to appear on devices such as HDTVs made by the likes of Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Or perhaps Apple could introduce a stripped-down version of the iPhone to compete with lower-cost handsets. These moves would likely horrify Jobs; he would see them as muddying the user experience and diluting the Apple brand. Yet they also make some business sense.
Ford Without Ford
Business history is replete with visionary founders whose companies survived and even thrived after they stepped away. Ford Motor Co. reached its zenith in the 1950s, a decade after the death of Henry Ford. Hewlett-Packard Co. continued to grow after its namesake founders retired. Walt Disney Co. foundered after Walt Disney died in 1966 and was revived two decades later under Michael Eisner.
Those founders were 20th-century inventors who didn't think much about implanting perceptions of entire lifestyles in the consumer mind. Twenty-first century leaders such as Jobs are holistic innovators of both product and brand, says Warren Bennis, a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.
"There is a different kind of innovation today that has to do with crafting the overall experience," he says.
Customer Emotions
Jobs may be the best example of a new breed of business leader who can intuit customer emotions. Another is Howard Schultz, the longtime CEO of Starbucks Corp., who is selling not just high-priced coffee but also the idea of a "third place" between home and work. Such leaders are not easily replaced. When Schultz retired from Starbucks in 2000, the company went into a steep decline, and he was compelled to return in 2008.
There is also evidence that operations-minded co-pilots fare poorly when they take over the control of companies in rapidly moving industries. Iconic founders such as Michael Dell and Charles Schwab stepped aside at their companies to make way for their operating partners -- their Tim Cooks, if you will -- and then were forced to return when the successors ran into trouble.
"The period after the charismatic leader is gone is always perilous, but in hypercompetitive, fast-moving industries, the loss becomes apparent much more rapidly," says Jay Conger, a professor of leadership studies at Claremont McKenna College.
Less Sexy
Even without Jobs at the helm, Apple could still deliver satisfying returns for shareholders. It can continue to press its gains in PC and mobile market share around the world, and it could build a sizable business selling to corporations. In that respect, Apple without Jobs could come to resemble a successful, if less sexy, company such as IBM, moving from a business of generating reliable "hardware hits" to one focused on recurring revenue from online ads, cloud services and long-term contracts with companies.
All this is speculative, of course, given the uncertainties about Jobs's health. Yet there is nothing speculative about the eventual mortality of any leader, as Max Weber noted long ago. He saw much of human accomplishment, from the world's religions to the great railroad companies of the era, as the work of revolutionary individuals whose legacies survived only when their wisdom was preserved in institutions.
Those institutions inevitably become less radical over time, as obedient disciples take over and eventually form a less innovative, more risk-averse bureaucracy. It's not an especially auspicious way to look at Apple's future. Yet it suggests that whatever happens, the spirit of Steve Jobs will live on within Apple, and when it finally has to, Apple will carry on without him.
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MoDo, eight years late
It's amazing how so many pundits who spent the entire 2000 [1] mocking Al Gore, telling us how phony and abnormal and boring [2] he was, and how authentic George W. Bush was, now try to rewrite history and pretend that they saw right through W. eight years ago. Add Maureen Dowd to the list of fictional I-told-you-so's.
In her Sunday column, Down writes:
The really scary part of the Palin interview was how much she seemed like W. in 2000, and not just the way she pronounced nu-cue-lar. She had the same flimsy but tenacious adeptness at saying nothing, the same generalities and platitudes, the same restrained resentment at being pressed to be specific, as though specific is the province of silly eggheads, not people who clear brush at the ranch or shoot moose on the tundra.
Palin's a lightweight just like W. in 2000, Dowd warns us. It would have been nice if Dowd had, y'know, actually warned us about that eight years ago instead of obsessing over Gore's trumped up faults.
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|13th June 2011, 12:40 PM
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Whoops. Took one look at the box, saw the ribs on the inside of the enclosure and thought "plastic".
I'm not as concerned about watertightness since every speaker efficient enough to be used in a Boominator (HP-10W, GW-1058's, the Eminence ones I'm considering) are all paper cone - you don't want to leave it outside in a rainstorm. The MDF box itself also won't be water resistant unless it's given a very generous coat of marine paint or similar.
By poking this card under the lid of the box you're providing direct shielding from the elements, and to handle mist/condensation I'm planning on using gold plated connectors for corrosion resistance, watertight pot/switches and coating the assembled PCB in clear conformal coating.
If I got rid of the "user interface" on the PCB and went to terminal blocks instead, which I'd have to do for an aluminum box, here's what would have to be on it:
- DC input (2 wires)
- audio input (3 wires - L/R/audio ground)
- USB power output (2 wires, 5V/ground)
- USB enable switch (2 wires, one side grounded)
- volume knob (3 wires - 3.3V/volume/ground)
- audio enable switch (2 wires, one side grounded)
- "charging" / "low battery" LEDs (4 wires)
Which is currently 16 wires. By combining grounds, making the LED a single bicolor LED, etc. I could get it down to 12 to match the rear terminal block.
|14th June 2011, 08:50 AM
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And they might be paper cones but they are all weather resistant coated. They wont last being soaked in water for very long while playing but the occasional rain storm doesn't have any effect. I tested this the hard at Roskilde Festival 2007 which was the rainiest festival ever in Denmark.
The reason I insist it must be water tight is because of the use conditions dictate use under very high under cooled humidity situation, ie morning dew. The first year I just had the PCB board naked with no casing which resulted in visible drops of dew dripping of the PCB while playing. Luckily nothing happened but it a risk. Next year I stuffed in a case but didn't take into account that it had to be water tight which resulted in some funny noises from the amp after 4 days of playing more or less constantly. When I opened the case to check I found that there had assembled a small pool of water inside the case that shorted the input ground to the case. Shaking it dry and leaving it in the Sun for 30 minutes was enough to revive it.
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|16th September 2011, 12:57 AM
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Switched jobs so I haven't had much time to work on this project since initiating it, but lately I've found the time to work on it again. Design update:
- Switched to a TI BQ24650 MPPT charger IC.
- Added a MSP430 to the design. Handles LED blinking, low battery shutdown, SigmaDSP booting, buck converter synchronization, other odd duties.
- Audio stuff is 100% figured out. Spent some time playing with SigmaStudio on an evaluation board and the ADAU1701 SigmaDSP is an awesome chip.
Remaining bits to figure out:
- Mechanical form factor, user interface, etc. The new job has me designing stuff which has to exceed IP68, and stuff I've learned has made me paranoid to even use the Hammond box
- How to get a board full of QFNs built without going completely over budget.
|19th September 2011, 02:05 PM
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If there's a DSP... an option to biamp using one or two subs might be of interest. If the woofer doesn't have to cover midrange, it could go in a bandpass enclosure or maybe tapped horn for extra punch.
As for connections to the board, it can be very nice to just unplug one connector. Having to unscrew or worse, desolder a bunch of wires can get old very quickly. There are terminal blocks that consist of a screw terminal block that plugs into a socket on the board. Phoenix, Weidmuller, etc. I'm tempted to suggest 0.1" headers, but crimp tools are expensive. The Molex 0.156" connectors can be crimped with a relatively cheap tool, or bodged with pliers in a pinch. They aren't that great electrically, but I think I saw gold-plated versions somewhere (Digikey?). Maybe if board area allows, provide a couple of options.
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|20th September 2011, 07:01 PM
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I was thinking of having the DSP configured two ways:
(1) Biamping, 2 channels going to stereo tweeters, 2 channels going to stereo woofers, and front/back speakers wired in parallel. This is how I plan to wire my cabinet when I build it.
(2) Full range, but driving "front" and "back" speakers with separate amplifiers. This gives double the output power for a louder system, but requires 4 ohm speakers and a passive crossover.
I have access to a calibrated mic and Audio Precision gear. I think I'm going to build a "classic" Boominator cabinet with GW-1058 and NTX3711 components, wire the cabinet in both configurations, and EQ the cabinet flat.
Still scratching my head on what connectors to use. Contemplating a 12x2 double row terminal block, or even a DB25.
|9th December 2011, 12:37 PM
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Schematic's finalized. Working on layout now, about halfway there. I started out hoping to make everything work on a 2 layer board, but I'm moving to 4 as it makes for a much neater, compact, electrically better design. And the PCB isn't that much more expensive.
I'm doing the "bare PCB bolted to the bottom of the lid" mounting method (Sorry Saturnus ) to give a single user interface. The card will be assembled with everything but the connectors, given a dip in conformal coating to protect against condensation/moisture, and the connectors soldered on afterwards. This way the only water damage you can get is to the connectors themselves, and that's straightforward to fix. But there's no reason you can't run wires to a remotely located user interface and put the card in something completely sealed.
The board will be 3.5" wide to match a single 12V/12aH battery. These batteries are the same shape as a typical 12V/7AH battery but a bit wider, and they're commonly used in UPSes. Going with one of these batteries instead of two 7aH makes a fair bit of room available, giving a nice sheltered compartment you can tuck your MP3 player into.
User interface is: 3.5mm audio input, rotary encoder, bicolor LED, double USB port for charging, 5.5/2.5mm DC input for charging. Rotary encoder turns to give volume control, you push it to turn the system on/off. LED blinks with on/off status and battery status. On the opposite end of the card is a 12-pin terminal block with 8 speaker leads, battery connection and solar panel connection. The front DC connection can be used for solar charging also, if you want to use a separate solar panel instead of building one into the top of the box.
When I'm done, I'll post the files here under a creative commons license for people to use, modify, whatever. I'm using the hobby/non-profit/student edition of Eagle for layout (required for doing 4 layer boards, unfortunately).
|4th January 2012, 08:48 AM
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This is exciting! I'd be interested in getting one when it's all hammered out.
|4th January 2012, 11:59 AM
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I laid out the board as 4 layers, then decided to go for 2 layers and 8x10cm to fit the free Eagle tools - and I've got most of it done. Excepting the 5V/solar switchers and class D filters, which I still have to lay out, I've got a fairly tight but electrically decent layout done.
I've run into a couple of snags:
(1) 5V USB regulator: I still haven't found one I'm happy with, for various reasons (thermal, parts count, standby current, price, etc..)
(2) Output inductors: I chose Coilcraft JA4575 duals but you can only order them direct from Coilcraft. I've considered some other options (T60-2 toroids, etc) but since there's 8 of them, they take up a lot of space on the board. At this point I think I'll just bite the bullet and go with the Coilcrafts.
(3) Enclosure... I'm designing my card to fit my own modified Boominator enclosure, where it'll be conformal coated and mounted bare under the lid. But at the same time I'm trying to design a card everyone else can use in the stock Boominator, and that means using an enclosure.
The Hammond case Saturnus suggested doesn't have "proper" PCB supports. Not really an issue for an Amp6 since you can just screw the Tripath chip to the box, but in my case everything's mounted to the PCB, and the PCB has to either slide into the case or be screwed to the case. I s'pose I could use snap-in PCB mounts that glue to the case. Secondly, if the thing's mounted in an enclosure, you have to get wires in/out of the enclosure. Which means either IP rated connectors ($$$) or an IP rated cable crimp which will protrude into the box and potentially create mechanical issues.
|4th January 2012, 05:10 PM
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The mounting problem can be easily solved by using non-electrically conductive double adhesive thermal conducting tape since I suppose the PCB will need some sort of cooling contact with the enclosure anyways.
As for contacts I just use RCA phono plugs. Neutrik types costing less than a buck each are rated at 16A per contact at 50V, plenty for a low powered amp. But your design might need more contacts than the 6 phono plugs needed on the amp6 (actually only 5 needed, 4 for left/right input/output, 1 for power, and the final one is used for MUTE as I use a mini-jack with a built in DPST switch on the connection panel that turns off mute when a minijack is inserted correctly into it).
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|4th January 2012, 07:21 PM
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I actually thought of that idea right after I made that post - using a Berquist "Gap pad" to glue the board to the case. It'd definitely work, I just wish the stuff wasn't so expensive. There's probably cheaper stuff available, plus the ground plane of the card provides a lot of heat spreading so there isn't really a need for a high performance material.
Using the 3.5mm jack to switch the audio on and off... I think I'll implement that, that's a damn good idea, gets rid of the audio enable switch. Only thing left to get rid of is the USB enable switch.
I really wish they'd make a USB connector with a connector presence switch so I could make the USB charger turn on/off automatically. Such a connector strikes me as something that should have been invented already, allowing USB wall chargers to go into a lower power standby.
Or, I wish they made the stupidly-low-Iq, Linear LT3690 in a nicer package. I'd just leave the USB port on all the time.
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|Seventeen years ago, Leland Jensen built a bomb shelter in the basement of his Stephens Avenue home. It was not an idle task--the leader of the local Baha'is Under the Provision of the Covenant predicted that tensions in world affairs were about to culminate in a nuclear holocaust.
Before his death in 1996, Leland Jensen led a sect of Baha'i in Missoula. His warnings of nuclear holocaust never panned out during his lifetime.
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The moment of truth was to be 5:55 p.m., on April 29, 1980. While many Missoulians took Jensen's forecast with humor (including numerous downtown businesses, which held End-of-the-World sales during the week leading up to the projected apocalypse), others joined him in preparing for the war. As Jensen readied his home, filling the window wells and the first floor rooms with sand and thousands of pounds of rock, about 80 Baha'i members toiled over a makeshift shelter in a warehouse basement near the train yard on Missoula's Northside.
As the afternoon wore on, things were not coming together as smoothly as the Baha'is had planned. Members raced the clock, flushing rust out of the water system with just minutes to spare. Workers put the finishing touches on a safe room in the middle of the basement for the children. As the clock ticked down, they frantically poured wet sand between walls of plywood that were nailed to two-by-fours. As the weight of the sand increased, the plywood walls popped off.
At 5:55, the frenzy of activity ceased and all became subdued. No one spoke for a few hours.
A non-believer, University of Montana sociology professor Robert Balch, joined the group for their doomsday watch. When Balch first entered the shelter, he says, people came up to him and said-- "So you're just here to do research, eh?"--the tone of their voices insinuating that he might just be hedging his bets, taking cover with them in case the bombs began falling. Then, as time passed and nothing happened, people began to avoid making eye contact with him.
"They became acutely embarrassed," he says.
By 11 p.m. the last of the faithful abandoned the shelter and went out to eat at a downtown restaurant. Jensen declared the fiasco a "fire drill."
For years, Missoula and national media have gotten voluminous press releases from Jensen's group, predicting bombings, assassinations and the dawning of a New Age. The local Baha'is have been featured on national television a number of times, including a tongue-in-cheek special a few years back when Michael Moore (of Roger and Mefame) sent his TV Nation camera crew to Missoula to talk with the group.
But as the millennium draws near, the Baha'is aren't alone in their fears of widespread war and devastation. Many Americans share the Baha'is' pre-occupation with matters Apocryphal, Balch points out. And despite comparisons to the folks who went out in varying degrees of blazing glory at Waco and in Heaven's Gate, Balch says that Missoula's Baha'is are non-violent, not self-destructive, and may actually be becoming more church-like.
The original Baha'i faith holds that throughout history, God has sent messengers, such as Christ, Mohammed and Buddha, in a progressive series as man evolved spiritually and intellectually. The Baha'i founder, Baha'u'llah, taught that there is only one God who has been called by many names. Worldwide, the Baha'i faith has five million adherents in 123 countries.
From her office near the United Nations complex, Baha'i spokesperson Pamela Zivari distinguishes between two groups.
The Missoula sect, she emphasizes, is not connected to the international Baha'i faith in any way, even though they may teach some of the same beliefs.
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In a 1994 interview, Jensen said that the original Baha'is broke a covenant in 1957, by refusing to recognize the successors picked by Baha'u'llah to lead the group before he died in 1892. This is what compelled him to branch off with his own group. Jensen fought and won a court battle in the 1960s to use the Baha'i label as part of his sect's name. What followed were nearly three decades of peculiar predictions and preaching, before Jensen died at the age of 81 in 1996.
The warnings, issued forth in the form of press releases, and often via a cable access television show, include a prediction that Saddam Hussein would be assassinated with U.S. backing, provoking an Iraqi nuclear attack against New York City. U.S. retaliation would galvanize the Russians, touching off a nuclear holocaust. All cities with more than 100,000 people would be destroyed.
The most recent press release elaborates, saying that "Madeline Albright (who is not bright at all) has already sworn, on Larry King Live, to nuke Baghdad and all Iraq off the face of the earth when they destroy New York. This will alienate Russia, China and the East and all the Muslim world making Saddam Hussein a religious martyr in the eyes of the Muslims, and like the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand that sparked off the powder keg of World War One... will be the spark of thermonuclear obliteration for all western material civilization as we know it, destined to arise like the phoenix from out the burning fiery flames of its own making... and redeem all mankind to the everlasting Kingdom of God for the true second International Baha'i Council/Universal House of Justice of Baha'u'llah."
Although the Baha'is say the war will last only an hour, the world's troubles won't be over yet. A comet or meteor will then crash into Earth, causing massive earthquakes and a shifting of the planet's plates. Half of those who survive the nuclear blasts will perish in this catastrophe, as North America slips into the Tropics.
The safe havens will be at 3,000 feet. Missoula could turn out to be one of the last best places after all.
The survivors will elect an international peace council–headed by an anointed male descendant of King David–and life will proceed without today's social problems. But all this trouble can all be avoided, they say, if the peace council is elected now--hence the Baha'is' constant warnings to the world.
Although he was raised in a traditional Baha'i household in Wisconsin, Jensen's conversion to his own brand of Baha'i belongs in the realm of supermarket tabloid headlines. After serving a stint in Montana's Deer Lodge state prison for molesting a teen-age girl who was under his chiropractic care, Jensen declared himself to be Jesus the teacher (as opposed to Jesus Christ). Borrowing from the Bible, the Koran, medieval soothsayer Nostradamus, Native American mythology and pyramidology, Jensen began teaching and gathering followers.
Among Jensen's chosen forums is the Missoula Cable Access Television station. For a few years now, Missoulians have had the chance to watch members of the local Baha'is on TV every Friday evening.
|These days, the main spokesperson is Neal Chase, formerly Jensen's right hand man. A serious young man with dark hair who dresses in a navy blue suit and tie for the TV cameras, the 32-year-old is married, has a three-year-old daughter and works as a manual laborer, often employed to hang sheetrock. He attends the University of Montana part-time and is working towards a mathematics degree. Chase discovered Jensen's group when he was trying to make sense of world hunger and despair.
Victor Woods and Neal Chase host a four-hour theological discussion on MCAT Friday nights.
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"When I was 19 years old I saw the world had a problem," he said. "And I went on a search for the return of Christ. Jensen was the only person who taught that the meaning of Christ was a person who was a direct descendant from the sperm of King David."
The association of King David and the Messiah was a strong draw for Chase, who was raised in a Jewish family in Connecticut. Jews believe the Messiah will be descended from King David, he says, and so Jensen made sense to him.
"We are not a cult at all," Chase said. "We all have our own homes, we all have families. If you want a cult, take 12 people, put their money in one basket and wander homeless with a guy named Jesus Christ."
|In Jensen's absence, the group (which claims 200 adherents and 75 core members) is run by a 12-person committee--a temporary board of directors, Chase says, who will step aside if the world decides to elect a peace council. Among those holding a leadership role within the group is Beth Jaffe, who used to own and operate the Java Jungle located at Missoula Public Library.
Baha'i musicians Victor Woods, Beth Jaffe, and Kay Woods sometimes go to local hospitals to play for patients.
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Jaffe says she heard about Jensen's group while canoeing down the Yukon River. She listened as a Baha'i explained Jensen's teachings while they drifted through the wilderness. At the time, Jaffe was on a spiritual quest of her own. Her curiosity aroused, Jaffe began sitting in on discussion groups when she returned to Montana.
Jaffe, Chase and others interviewed all profess to having normal lives beyond the Baha'is; they don't spend every waking moment poring over documents for evidence to back up Jensen's prophecies. They like to watch basketball, discuss boxing, read and go to movies, just like everyone else.
Even Balch, who says that the group has cult-like tendencies, says he doesn't think there's any danger that the local Baha'is will become involved in violence, or meet a suicidal end like the Heaven's Gate cult. Balch, who garnered national attention a couple months ago for his knowledge of Heaven's Gate, has spent much of his life studying cults. Such groups tend to move in one of two directions, he says. They either become encapsulated and isolated, or more open. The Baha'is, he says, are headed in the latter direction.
"They are beginning to do charity work," he said. "And they have formed a choir."
Like many churches, the Baha'is hold their weekly services on Sundays. They meet in a house on South Third Street for an hour, with around 20 to 30 worshippers in attendance. A volunteer host leads the service, which includes prayers and singing. The main talk focuses on the 12 Baha'i principles, including the independent investigation of truth, equality between men and women, and world peace.
Members are free to question the lecturer after the presentation. There are no confessions and members are not asked to donate money.
But Chase doesn't feel comfortable with the 'church-like' description. "We don't have any paid clergy," he said. "We don't have any clergy at all."
Missoula's Baha'i members closely follow political news from the Middle East for signs that their predictions are close at hand. They often link affairs in countries like Israel, Iraq and Syria to prophecies in the Book of Revelations. In this they are not alone.
Pentecostal Christian groups also keep close tabs on the Middle East. Many Americans believe, among other things, that the Battle of Armageddon is imminent, and will bring an end to the world as we know it. The Earth's human inhabitants will either rise up to Heaven or sink into Hell.
Mainstream Christians themselves are divided over just what the "end times" mean. Most Protestants and Catholics believe human history will continue as it has until the second coming of Christ. Mainstream denominations tend not to focus on destruction and the Apocalypse. They interpret the Book of Revelation as having predicted the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.
But plenty of smaller churches favor a literal interpretation of the Bible. They believe that "Tribulation," a period of war, earthquakes, and comets will precede a "Millennial Kingdom," which will last a thousand years until eternity begins. The last defining battle of the nations of the world will be fought in the valley of Megiddo, which is about 60 miles north of Jerusalem--thus, their interest in Middle East politics.
Many of these churches can be found in Missoula--Seventh Day Adventists, Four Square Gospel Church, First Church of the Nazarene and the Church of Latter-Day Saints, just to name a few.
But don't add Missoula's Baha'is to that list. During the 1994 interview, Jensen emphatically stated there will be no end to life on Earth. He held nothing but contempt for those who believed in the Apocalypse.
"Don't include me with those crackpots," he said.
In Jensen's absence, Chase seems at ease on the MCAT broadcasts. Well-versed in the Bible, he goes head-to-head with callers who challenge him on his interpretations of scripture. But Chase knows how to play the call-in game, and often cuts people off mid-argument.
Every week, about a half dozen viewers phone the program during the two hours devoted to live calls. Chase says this is an indication that hundreds of people tune in, at least for part of the show.
Scripture rolls off Chase's tongue like lines from the mouth of an actor reciting Shakespeare. He quotes the word of God, confident that listeners have not only memorized the passages, but also literally believe them.
His own role, however, is merely that of spokesperson. God has given him a responsibility to warn others, he says, so that they have the chance to change their ways before it is too late.
"I'm not a prophet," he says. "I don't have dreams or see visions. But I believe in the prophets."


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- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
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- In a blender, combine first five ingredients; process until smooth. Add egg quarters, one at a time, blending well after each addition. Add cream cheese, salt and pepper; process until creamy. Stir in dill if desired. Yield: 2 cups.
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Guess what? No politics either unless somehow self-defense, 2nd Amendment, or firearms related.
I need to close the thread BUT, you can post it over on ConservativeStronghold.


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WRAPUP 1-WHO to consider new evidence on Zika, Olympics next week
By Stephanie Nebehay and Julie Steenhuysen
GENEVA/CHICAGO, June 7 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it will convene experts next week to discuss the Zika outbreak, including its impact on the Rio Olympics, as new research suggests only a slight risk that more tourists will be infected at the Games.
The emergency meeting set for June 14 will be the WHO's third regarding the Zika virus outbreak. Such panels are required to meet every three months to review new evidence and consider whether Zika and its ability to cause a rare birth defect should still be classified as an international health emergency.
The meeting comes amid intensifying concerns over holding the Olympics in Brazil, the country hardest hit by Zika. Brazilian authorities have confirmed more than 1,400 cases of microcephaly in babies whose mothers were exposed to Zika during pregnancy. The WHO has advised that pregnant women avoid travel to Zika outbreak areas and that men who have been infected by or exposed to the virus practice safe sex, or abstain from sex, for up to six months.
The group of independent experts, who declared an international emergency on Feb. 1 and last convened on March 8, will "look at evidence around the Olympics and most likely review the travel guidance around that," WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said.
A letter signed by more than 200 bioethicists and health experts has called for the WHO to recommend postponing or moving the Olympics to prevent an acceleration of the epidemic's spread. WHO has rejected the call, saying the Games would not have a significant public health impact.
But last week, the agency said it would take up the issue during its emergency committee meeting.
"The role of the emergency committee is to review all new science and all new evidence which has come in over the past months and to review their own recommendations, to make new recommendations or give out new guidance," Lindmeier told a news briefing.
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How old is your grandson? Was he seen by and optometrist or an ophthalmologist?
He is 7. I feel that he went to an optometrist.
Well, first of all he should be evaluated by a pediatric ophthalmologist.
Just for your information, an Optometrist is to an Ophthalmologist as an Eagle Scout is to a Sgt. Major of the Marine Corps. They both are experts in their area however one of them has a lot more training, ability and experience. Which one would you choose to save your vision…… or your family?
Does this sound like an eye problem or another kind of health problem?
That being said, however, it is not unusual for kids to go through a few glasses Rx in a year. A significant change in 3 months? If he sees well out of the new glasses there may have been an error in the Rx of the old pair.
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'Cake Boss' flagship bakery to remodel but vows to stay true to its roots
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HOBOKEN, N.J. (Reuters) - By spring, the little New Jersey shop where the "Cake Boss" got his start will have a different look, but Buddy Valastro, the self-taught master baker behind the hit reality TV show, vows the renovated store will still have "icing in the walls."
"That's what I tell people," said Buddy, laughing. "The building's 200 years old and has always been a bakery."
His business, known as Carlo's Bake Shop in Hoboken, doubles as the backdrop for "Cake Boss" on TLC, a cable show that has been beamed to some 2 billion people in 190 countries worldwide
On the show as in life, Buddy runs the family bakery, opened in 1910 and acquired by his father in 1964. There the Cake Boss directs his team in creating elaborate, over-the-top cakes, not to mention pastries, cookies and fudge, while balancing an ample helping of family drama.
Starting Feb. 17, Buddy's flagship shop, across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan, will close until early March for renovations, the bakery said on social media last week.
The announcement may have come as a disappointment to Buddy's fans. Legions of them travel from all over the world for the opportunity to come into Carlo's and buy some authentic Cake Boss sweets.
"We'll have new showcases, a fresh new look with an old world feel," Buddy explained to Reuters. "What I love about the plan is that there will be an open kitchen, so our customers can see our cakes come fresh out of the oven."
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Flashback to the 80's at Boston College's 15th annual: Eagles for a Cure 5K Race / Walk! Dig out those neon leg warmers and figure out how to rock some acid-washed denim, because this race is all about embracing the music (and the questionable fashion) that the decade is famous for. The course circles the scenic Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, MA (just 6 miles from downtown Boston and accessible via the Green Line). Proceeds benefit the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute whose mission is to provide expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. Registration Includes: Entry for one to the Eagles for a Cure 5K Race / Walk Event t-shirt Post-race 80's dance party and raffle prizes with 80's DJ Additional surprises to be announced! Event schedule and timesRace Day: Saturday, April 12th, 2014 7:45 am - Registration / Check-in Opens 9:00 am - Start Time 10:00 am - Post-race 80's dance party and raffle prizes!
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text: NOISE AND MENTAL HEALTH: Is chronic noise more than just a nuisance? HEALTH WATCH – July 5, 2011David Prescott, Ph.D. – Acadia HospitalWhy Worry About Noise? In much of Maine we are thankful for our ability to step outside of our homes and hear almost nothing. The peace and quiet of the majority of Maine communities is a benefit of living here. But, for many people across the nation and the world, chronic noise is not only a nuisance but a significant hazard to mental and physical health. The World Health Organization recently reported that over 1 million health years of life are lost each year due to ill health, disability, or early death due to traffic related noise. While most research has been done on the impact of noise that is difficult to control, like traffic or airplanes, there is mounting evidence that trying to reduce the amount of everyday noise in our lives can have important health benefits. How much noise is too much? Noise is measured in weighted decibels. The recommended noise level in a bedroom to help with good sleep is no more than 30 decibels. In a classroom, the ideal level of noise for learning is less than 35 decibels. Standing next to a vacuum cleaner is usually rated at about 70 decibels. While studies of American cities are still not completed, recent research found that about 40% of people in Europe live in a place where traffic noises are at an average of 55 decibels. Noise and Mental Health: The impact of chronic noise on mental health is not quite direct, but not hard to follow. Our bodies react to chronic high levels of noise with responses such as: • Increased production of hormones that are released in response to stress• Decreased sleep. • Increased blood pressurePoor sleep and chronic stress response are clearly tied to increased risk for depression, anxiety disorders, and a variety of mental health disorders. Also, being in an environment with chronic stress, such as high noise levels, make it harder to recover from health and mental health problems. For example, preliminary research suggests that high noise levels in acute care hospitals is associated with slower progress in recovering from an illness. Noise and Development in Children: Exposure to high levels of chronic noise appears to slow the cognitive and learning development of children. Naturalistic studies of children who live near airports shows a decline in reading levels and long term memory associated with chronic noise. Interestingly, a group of children who had chronic noise removed, due to relocation of airports, showed improvement in the same tests of reading and memory. Are there any simple steps that can be taken to reduce the impact of noise? Obviously, people have limited ability to control things like where airports and roads are built. However, becoming aware of noise levels that you can control may have important health and mental health benefits. Some examples might be: o Consider turning off televisions and stereos in your home that are on "all the time.†o Be sure to reduce noise levels in the house when children, and adults, are sleeping. o If you work at home or your children study at home, consider setting aside agreed upon times for quiet, when radios, movies, and television are turned off. o Simply being aware of reducing your voice level may help, particularly if someone in your home is recovering from illness or mental illness. For More Information: American Psychological Association: www.apa.org/monitorWorld Health Organization: www.euro.who


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Manley's technology of biscuits, crackers and cookies is widely regarded as the standard work in its field. Part one covers management issues such as HACCP, quality control, process control and product development. Part two deals with the selection of raw materials and ingredients. The range and types of biscuits is covered in part three, while part four covers the main production processes and equipment, from bulk handling and metering of ingredients to packaging, storage and waste management. Eight expert authors have joined Duncan Manley in extensively updating and expanding the book, which is now some 25% longer than the previous edition. Part one now includes a new chapter on sustainability in the biscuit industry and the discussion of process and efficiency control is more detailed. In part two the information on wheat flour has been extensively revised to reflect recent developments and there are entirely new chapters on fats and oils and packaging materials. Photographs of the major types of biscuits now illustrate chapters in part three, which also includes a newly-composed chapter on the position of biscuits in nutrition. Finally, part four has been comprehensively reviewed and revised with the assistance of an author from a major machinery manufacturer. With its distinguished editor and team of expert contributors this new edition consolidates the position of Manley's technology of biscuits, crackers and cookies as the standard reference work in the industry.
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I want to tap into one of the reversing wires so that I can send a 12v control signal to my car PC screen, so that it automatically switches over to dislplay the signal from my new revesing camera when the car is put into reverse. I just need a line that sends a radio type 'blue wire' (low current) signal to the screen when reversing. My car is a 97 e36 328i. Any ideas how I can do this?
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Twitter Adds New Activity And @ Panels
The social networking site revamps features to monitor your presence and see how communities overlap.
Select Twitter users received a notification Wednesday, upon signing in to their accounts, drawing attention to two new features on the social networking site, a reworked '@' panel and an 'Activity' feed.
The Activity panel brings a lot of different information together in a Newsfeed-like stream. Favorites, follows, retweets, list adds and more from the people you follow. Whenever anything happens in your Twitter community, it will show up here. It is designed in a way to encourage a look beyond just who you follow by bringing their public interactions to one place, effectively creating a space for network overlap.
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While the newest neighbor on Missoula's North Reserve commercial corridor is putting the final touches on a massive 130,000-square-foot retail space, established hardware stores are left to wonder about their future on the local market.
Home Depot, Inc. of Atlanta will add to its current total of 930 outlets worldwide and open Missoula's largest home improvement store early this summer. And while the $38 billion per year corporation sees itself as a good and conscientious neighbor, long-established local stores and smaller chains know they could be in a fight for economic survival. Reactions from the locals range from hurried preparations to wait-and-see.
Some, like the homegrown Boyce Lumber outfit have made plans to spiff up their operations before the orange giant hangs its sign. Boyce, started in Missoula in 1937, has decided to sink $1.5 million into their Russell and Mount location for a new drive-through warehouse and revamped retail center.
"We had a choice to make," Steve Boyce said at a recent City Council meeting dealing with expansion projects. "We could cash it in or make a stand." Boyce officials say their expansion will see a completed warehouse in the next few months and a renovated retail center finished some time next winter.
Others, meanwhile, are preferring to stick to their guns.
Local home improvement center Ziegler Building Center won't be expanding its smaller operation to compete with Home Depot, but expects that its 12-man customer service team will give his store an edge, says manager Keith Albert. "Zieg's" West Broadway location—one of 17 family-owned operations in the West—has employees at the door to help a customer get what they need and get them back to work, Albert says, while a person might get lost in a big store like Home Depot.
"It takes you a half-hour to get in and a half-hour to get out," Albert says of the "box-store experience."
And still others say they believe that there is room for all comers to town. Home-improvement stalwarts Ace Hardware, Inc. say they are looking forward to taking on Fortune magazine's Most Admired Specialty Retailer.
"We welcome them to our community," says Gwen Pearce, Ace's Broadway Avenue store manager. "We're not scared. We're not overconfident." Pearce says that while Ace is not taking any extraordinary measures to prepare for a fight for customers, she believes that the burgeoning Missoula area can accommodate more competition.
"To see your hometown go from a little logging town to what it is now is amazing," says the Missoula native, who remembers the days when ducks and geese, not shoppers, bustled about what is now North Reserve.
Other retail giants on the west end of town see Home Depot as another attraction to the consumer landscape. Officials at Costco say that their wholesale offerings won't conflict with Home Depot's, and, if anything, the home-improvement center's opening will add more pull to the area that both stores inhabit. Wal-Mart appears to want a piece of the action, too, and is in the planning stages for a mammoth 200,000-square-foot superstore on the corner of Mullan Road and North Reserve Street.
But what does the landing of a multinational corporation mean besides new jobs and more things to buy?
Home Depot's company statement says that its financial success allows it to practice a tenet of Judaism called "tzedakah"—"to give back." According to a company rep, many of their 150,000 employees volunteer to help efforts such as building playground or assisting in disaster relief efforts. The company, which earmarked $15 million for volunteer activities in 1999, also employs nearly 100 Olympic hopefuls in a special work program.
But local companies stress that they are also active in the community.
Lori Cornwall of Boyce Lumber says that every one of her fellow employees is a volunteer for groups ranging from youth baseball to Big Brothers & Big Sisters. Cornwall herself is active in the Hugh O'Brien Leadership Foundation, which hosts a three-day conference for high schoolers from around the state. In addition, Boyce Lumber donates $7,000 in materials and $4,000 in cash each year to local charities and volunteer organizations, she says.
Home Depot also has received attention for their much-heralded environmental policy that asks their vendors to follow sustainable forestry practices outlined by the Forest Stewardship Council, an international consortium of environmentalists and timber interests.
But Ron Ramsey of Intermountain Lumber on Russell Street says that, while trying to be "green" is a good marketing technique by Home Depot, it isn't necessarily that much of a distinction.
"The [timber] industry as a whole does a good job harvesting and replanting," Ramsey says of Intermountain's Northwest suppliers. His store, one of 56 across 10 states, sees itself in a slightly different market than Home Depot, he adds, because Intermountain Lumber primarily supplies contractors.
So while the amount of Missoula's new growth may ultimately determine who stays and who folds in the local hardware market, the addition of an industry superpower will cause somewhat of a crunch.
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'Great, but how do you propose we go about that, asked Bill? Well, Hillary responds, We'll go down to a local Wal-Mart, get some cheezy clothes and shoes, like most middle Americans wear, and then we'll stop at the dog pound and pick up a Labrador.
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A few days later, all decked out and with the requisite Labrador at heel, they set off from New York in a westerly direction. Eventually they arrived at just the place they were looking for.
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They then order a couple of beers from the bartender and proceed to drink them down, all the while chatting up a storm with anyone who would listen.
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Several years ago, Matt had a business trip in Bentonville, Arkansas. Em had a dance competition in Oklahoma City the weekend prior so we decided to tag along since Bentonville was just a few hours away. I was so glad we did. We found a great place to explore while Matt has at his meetings. We dropped him off at the office, and then we headed to War Eagle Mill for the day.
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We loved exploring the beautiful area. From the mill itself to the river to the old wooden bridge, we didn't have any problem finding things to explore to occupy our time while Daddy was in his meetings.
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Subjective and objective stress in construction cost estimation
Leung, Mei-Yung, Skitmore, Martin, & Chan, Yee Shan (2007) Subjective and objective stress in construction cost estimation. Construction Management and Economics, 25(10), pp. 1063-1075.
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Cost estimators play an important role in an organization, as they produce the majority of predictions of probable final construction cost. Care is needed as both under and overestimates can be costly. The nature of the task is also such that the work has to be done in a restricted amount of time. It is likely, therefore, that the people involved are likely to experience a considerable amount of mental and emotional stress as a result.
Types of stress can be divided into objective stress (OS), occurring as a result of events experienced, and subjective stress (SS) and emotional exhaustion (EE), which are a function of the demands of the situation created by those events. Since stress may be influenced by different stressors, and subsequently affect the type of stress management needed, the research described in this paper examined the relationships between OS, SS, EE and stressors by a survey of 73 construction cost estimation personnel. T-test, factor analysis, correlation analysis and linear regression analysis were applied to identify differences between the professional estimators and other personnel and the types of stress endured.
The results indicate that the stress levels of both the professional estimators and other personnel are similar, with OS being significantly higher than SS, which is in turn significantly higher than EE. For professional estimators, increased levels of OS were found to be mainly associated with workload, lack of autonomy and inappropriate feedback. Increased SS and EE, on the other hand, appeared to be a function of conflict (team/value/family), distrust, inappropriate feedback, and unfair reward and treatment.
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Guy Mucklow and Jamie Turner set up PCA Predict (formerly Postcode Anywhere) over 15 years ago, having recognized the potential of using the internet to provide a much more efficient means of delivering data.
PCA Predict is now a leading provider of cloud-based address management services, processing millions of transactions for over 10,000 customers for some of the largest global organizations.
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Captain Zachary Lloyd was a soldier fighting in Alaska in the year 2077.
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The Yankees and Astros got into it on Tuesday night over nothing.
The club found an outfielder on Friday after a near-miss on Carlos Gomez.