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Expand Your Mind: January Leadership Development Carnivalby Miki Saxon
Mark Stelzner at Inflexion Point looks at the January Leadership Carnival through the lens of Valentine's Day and the non-romantic relationship of worker and boss.
Who (And What) To Choose?
We've all found ourselves in a questionable relationship and wondered if it was worth staying together. At a pre-Valentine's crossroads, our wise and helpful friends would recommend sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and itemizing what redeeming qualities may exist. Let's see what these leadership list makers conjured up:
- Molly Cunningham suggests 5 Ways for Leaders to Improve Productivity.
- Oliver Wang of BSchool.com offers 15 Inspiring Biographies for Aspiring Leaders.
- Kelly Davis shares 21 Excellent YouTube Videos to Learn About Organizational Development.
- MacKenna Stevens of Masters in Social Work catalogs his list of the Top 97 Unemployment and Joblessness Blogs.
- Natalie James of Dr. HR, PhD itemizes the Top 50 Up and Coming HR Blogs.
- Trainer, coach and consultant Mike Rogers provides 8 Important Tips to Help You Waste Time in Meetings.
- Bernice Frankel shares 21 Surprising Facts About Leadership Research.
- QAspire's Tanmay Vora helps those Creating a Learning Organization: 10 Actions for a Leader.
So Many Questions.
So you've decided to press forward and pursue your leadership development sweetheart with complete abandon. Yet still, there are so many questions left unanswered. Here are some shower-worthy items to ponder as you prepare for your big business date:
- Working Girl's Laura Schroeder wonders, Why Would ANYone Work for House?
- Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership asks, How Do I Praise Thee?
- Mary Jo Asmus of Aspire-CS wants to know, What Assumptions Are You Making?
- Adi Gaskell of Chartered Management Institute ponders, Is Business Planning A Waste of Time?
- Women of HR's Lisa Rosendahl asks, What Kind of Role Model Are You?
- Lynn Dessert of Elephants at Work wonders, Can You Measure The Payback or ROI In Coaching?
- Tanveer Naseer wonders, Are You Leading From Inside a Fishbowl?
Polite Dinner Conversation
You want to make a good impression and seem like a decent conversationalist. Attentive, but not too needy or self-involved. Here's are some items sure to allow you a measure of whimsy while maintaining the panache and flair of a modern leadership guru:
- Jane Perdue of Get Your Leadership BIG On shares Leadership and the Power of Storytelling.
- Sylvia Lafair opines on Business Leadership Strategies: Teaching Multi-culturalism.
- Dean L. Forbes of Powerful Principles of Personal Growth reminds us of The Whole Person Concept.
- Management is a Journey's Robert Tanner helps us Create the Guiding Coalition.
- Stephen Warrilow suggests Facilitative Leadership as The Key To Dealing With Resistance to Change.
- Next Level Blog's Scott Eblin shares some new math with Sorry, You've Used Up All of Your Meeting Budget.
- What Do You Want From Them's Anna Smith demonstrates The Rise of Female Leadership.
- All About Living With Life author Charles Chua C K offers his thoughts on Effective Ways to Lead.
- Positive Organizational Behavior's Bret L. Simmons shares his thoughts, With Honor.
- Great Leadership's Dan McCarthy teaches you How to Pass the Leadership Baton.
It's Not You, It's Me
Of course, even the seemingly best planned leadership romance can end in an ill-conceived malay replete with hurt feelings and charged emotions. So if a bended knee to pick up a dropped napkin doesn't turn into the organizational proposal you were hoping for, excuse yourself from the table and grab your cell. Aren't you fortunate to have friends like these to talk you through it?
- Leadership and Learning's Kevin Eikenberry asks for Five Minutes – A Key to Successful Time Management.
- Judith Lindenberger of The Lindenberger Group suggests we Take Charge of Conflict.
- Miki Saxon of MAPping Company Success questions whether you Manage Like Microsoft.
- Art Petty of Management Excellence offers How to Handle a Feedback Attack from Your Boss.
- Libery Buzz SC's Vidal tackles Aggression: Life Lessons Learned from Girls Basketball.
- What Is Personal Growth's Sean Burrows takes the edge off with How to Stay Calm and Relaxed When Feeling Angry.
- The Fortune Group's Andy Klein feels that Effective Leadership is Founded on Accepting Personal Accountability.
- Janna Rust of Purposeful Leadership helps you Survive the Role Transition: Be Strategic.
- Ajax Social Media's Jason Seiden reminds us of Why You Should Hire Moms.
- Lead Change Group's Heather Coleman-Voss gives the wink and nod with Just Trust Me.
Check Please!
Now calmly return to the table and flag down the waiter – it's time to wrap up this romantic rodeo. And don't let your leadership date get all pushy or touchy. No amount of office flowers or sugary treats can replace the respect you'll have from walking away. There are plenty of other leaders in the "C" and you're a strong swimmer. Just remember…
- Chris Edmonds of Driving Results Through Culture calculates The HUGE Toll of Workplace Bullying.
- Create Learning's Michael Cardus recalls that Before the Promotion He Was Nice and Had Potential.
- The Human Race Horses' Mike VanDervort suggests that Resistance Is Futile – You Will Be Assimilated.
- Michelle Cramer of LinkToPro teaches an important skill in Learning How to Say "No".
- Linda Fisher Thornton of Leading In Context connects Leadership And… Ethical Thinking.
- ReThink HR's Benjamin McCall sees A Bad Opportunity For Someone Else, A Better Opportunity For You.
- John Gibbons of i4cp wonders if you're Playing Not To Lose.
- Cultivating Creativity's Bob Lieberman suggests Letting Go Of The Task.
Live to Love Again
Return home, pour a glass of wine, kick up your feet and breathe. You're going to be just fine and it's time to go back to basics and begin to look toward the future. You're good enough, you're strong enough and doggone it people like you!
- The People Equation's Jennifer V. Miller suggests Making the Most of Leadership Assessments.
- Wilson Insight's Amy Wilson offers Simple, Practical Advice on Motivating Staff.
- Kevin W. Grossman of Marcom HRsay offers Baby Zen and the Importance of Mindful Presence in the Workplace.
- Epic Living's Eric Pennington provides The Path To An Epic Life.
- The LeaderLab's David Burkus shares Happiness and Hierarchies.
- Alice Snell of Taleo Research offers In Succession.
- Be Good Ventures' Nick McCormick suggests you Go Out and Co-Create!
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Olímpia is a municipality in the northern part of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The population, measured in 2010 by the IBGE, is 50,024 inhabitants. The city has an area of .
Olímpia is not named after the ancient town in Greece (see Olympia, Greece), but from Maria Olímpia Rodrigues Vieira, daughter of the politician Dr. Antônio Olímpio Rodrigues Vieira, one of those responsible for the founding of the city.
The city belongs to the Microregion of São José do Rio Preto.
The mineiro Antônio Joaquim dos Santos established a farm on the region in the 19th century. He named the farm, "Sertão dos Olhos-d'Água" (Eyes of Water Backwoods). The engineer Robert John Reid arrived, to demarcate lands of the farm. In March 1903, parts of the farm gave birth to the village of "São João Batista dos Olhos d'Água".
On December 18, 1906, the town was elevated to district of Barretos, receiving the name of "Vila Olímpia", after Maria Olímpia Rodrigues Vieira, daughter of the potician Dr. Antônio Olímpio Rodrigues Vieira, one of the responsibles for the city creation. In 1907 the first cinema theater was built in Vila Olímpia, the Cine São João, by Miguel Haidar and Guilherme Costa. In 1910, Cap. Narciso Bertolino founded the first school in town. A cemetery named São José was first opened in 1914.
The municipality of Olímpia was established in December 7, 1917, with the emancipation from Barretos.
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A FOURTH consecutive win moved New Earswick All Blacks ARLC up to fourth in the Pennine League Championship table.
The White Rose Avenue side won 10-8 at Slaithwaite Saracens to maintain their recent surge.
The Huddersfield hosts took the lead in the first minute with an unconverted try, but the All Blacks narrowed the gap when scrum-half Tom Holmes converted a penalty midway through the half.
The All Blacks cranked up the pressure on the Slaithwaite line, but were unable to break through.
Slaithwaite extended their lead with an unconverted try to hold an 8-2 advantage at half-time.
The All Blacks levelled the scores five minutes into the second half when good handling down the line saw winger Dean Smith touching down in the left corner, with Holmes adding the touchline conversion. A penalty goal from Holmes gave the visitors the lead.
The remaining 20 minutes saw both sides probing, but the All Blacks managed to hang on.
The man of the match was loose forward Adam Kirby.
Sherburn Bears kept their division five title hopes alive with a 14-10 win at fourth-placed Wakefield City.
The win was vital for a Bears side currently in second place, six points adrift of leaders Kinsley Raiders with two games in hand.
Tom Speck and Ryan Smith provided the tries, while scrum-half Martin Leahy weighed in with two conversions and a penalty goal to give the Bears a crucial victory.
The Yorkshire Laser man of the match was Leahy.
Relegation-threatened Selby Warriors crashed 46-0 at Boothtown in division one.
Man-of-the-match Andy Rowe and captain Wayne Fennell played well in the difficult circumstances but the most pleasing aspect for the Warriors was the debut of 16-year-old forward Ben Copeland.
Selby Warriors 'A', of division seven, gave their best display of the season before going down 24-20 to division four side West Bowling 'A' in the Supplementary Cup first round.
Simon Baxter and Jason Dunwell scored tries as Selby built up a ten-point lead, but Bowling clawed their way back to lead after half-time.
Paul Scott dived over to equalise and, although Bowling broke away to go 18-14 up with ten minutes left, Selby stand-off Danny Milton went over in the corner.
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im a wyatt im in chattanooga tn don't really know much of my history but i would like to
Danny Wyatt
My understanding from my cousin that keeps up with the wyatt family tree told me that there were 7 brothers and one sister that came across the big lake..lol Supposedly on the Mayflower.
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B Wyatt research, I can say that the ''Wyatt'' family from Ireland started coming across to the new world very early in history. Apparently, because of the decade long potato famine. .... Wyatt family in Ky had connections with frank james, which was jesse james brother. Frank james taught school near austin, ky. There was also a ''Steenbergen'' which was apart of the wyatt family that was a language interpreter for General George Washington. Also, the first Confederate soldier killed in the civil war was a Wyatt.
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Hello Wyatts!! My great grandfather was Oscar Wyatt married to Merle Ellis and My grandfather is Noel Wyatt married to Kathryn Herdes. My father is Kenneth Wyatt married to Dorothy Conner and I have a sister, Shawn, and a brother, Chad. We are all in southern Illinois, Clay County...
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I wonder where my Wyatt family originated
HI MY GRANDMOTHER WAS VIOLET AGNES WYATT FROM WORTHING WEST SUSSEX UK, HER FATHER WAS JAMES HENRY WYATT AND HER MOTHER WAS AGNES ALICE COLLARD . SINCE STARTING ON ANCESTRY.COM HAVE FOUND LINKS TO TREES IN THE USA AND AUSTRALIA. IF ANYONE WANTS TO CHECK MY TREE OUT http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/pedigree.aspx?tid=53817772 YOUR WELCOME TO LOOK AT MY TREE AND SEE IF YOUR LINKS COME BACK TO THE UK
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John Thomas Wyatt and Mary irene Wyatt were my grandparents from ottumwa iowa.My dad was Robert E Wyatt and his brother was Jack D Wyatt.All from iowa wapello county.Anybody?
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Hello Wyatts Ann Wyatt from Cape Town, South Africa. Father and grandfather Harold Douglas Wyatt, Stockport England.
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Hello to all you Wyatt's and what a lovely name it is. All though mine changed when I married I still think of myself as a Wyatt. My family settled some where in North Carolina in the 18th cen. then moved to WV. Any one in N. Carolina with history on the Wyatt's please let me know.
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The laws will range from allowing undocumented citizens to have lawyers, as well as limiting deportations.
This weekend, the governor of California, Jerry Brown, signed a series of laws, 8 in total, which will benefit undocumented immigrants in one way or another, some of them will surely cause some controversy.
One of the 8 laws is AB4, from Tom Ammiano, a Democrat from San Francisco, which establishes that no undocumented immigrant can be deported or detained for "lesser" crimes that would normally not merit any grave consequences.
With this law, undocumented immigrants will only be detained or deported in serious cases, which is more in line with the Federal standards. The District Attorneys Association of California is against this legislation, which they see as incompatible with Federal rules and also, they consider that it would "Frustrate the cooperation of local authorities with federal authorities, who should be the only ones who execute migration laws."
Another law within this pro-immigrant package is one of assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, Democrat from San Diego, which allows lawyers without legal residence to request their official registry to the school of Lawyers from California.
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PokerStars EPT Berlin underway
One of the most provocative stops on the European Poker Tour over the past few years has been the EPT Berlin. The EPT Berlin got off to an inauspicious start in 2010 when the final stages tournament was the scene for an event usually reserved for movie plots: A brazen daylight robbery. The robbery aside, the EPT Berlin has quickly built-up a reputation as one of the hottest spots on the tour, typically commanding some of the largest fields and prize-pools on the EPT tour, and the 2012 running was no different on that front.
Day 1a of the EPT Berlin saw 243 entrants take to the tables and when the smoke cleared and the chips were bagged-and-tagged, it was 2011 EPT Snowfest winner and PKR Poker pro Vladimir "Beyne" Geshkenbein who sat atop the leader-board, the only player in the Day 1a field to break the 200,000 chip-mark.
Day 1b saw a much larger field, with 502 total entrants anteing-up the €5,000 buy-in. The huge Day 1b turnout swelled the prize-pool to an impressive €3,725,000, with €825,000 waiting to be claimed by the winner of the event. In all 112 players will make the money in the tournament. The 745 entrants was nearly equal to last year's 773, but a far cry from the 945 entrants at the inaugural EPT Berlin in 2010.
The chip-leader at the end of Day 1b Cengiz Ulusu, who finished the day with 242,800 chips; Geshkenbein was pushed down to third place on the overall leader-board, as Calvin Anderson also eclipsed the 200,000 chip-mark, edging out the young Russian for second place by a few thousand chips.
Here is a look at the Top 10 chip-counts heading into Day 2 of the PokerStars EPT Berlin:
1. Cengiz Ulusu – 242,800
2. Calvin Anderson – 205,100
3. Vladimir Geshkenbein – 201,600
4. Jens Weigel – 199,600
5. Mario Puccini – 198,900
6. Davidi Kitai – 197,700
7. Joao Ribeiro – 196,600
8. Cesar Garcia Domínguez – 184,400
9. Marc Wright – 182,600
10. Brahim Oubella – 176,700
Some notable names still in the running for the EPT Berlin title include Belgian all-time money winner David Kitai, former EPT champ Kevin MacPhee, online sensation Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, PKR pro and Triple Crown Winner Jake Cody, and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.
Day 2 will kick off with 329 players remaining in the hunt. The players will find themselves in Level xx with the blinds at xx when play resumes at Noon local time.
Past winners of the EPT Berlin Main Event include Kevin MacPhee and Ben Wilinofsky; stay tuned to see which poker pro will add their name to that list, or if an amateur will steal the spotlight.
Here is a look at the top prizes the field is competing for:
1st place — €825,000
2nd place — €500,000
3rd place — €290,000
4th place — €220,000
5th place — €172,000
6th place — €133,000
7th place — €97,000
8th place — €72,000
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Jamwee is another form of saying the name Jamie... but Jamwee just sounds cute and funny and instantly makes the person saying it and the person being called it very adorable! If you ever meet a jamie... call him Jamwee! :)
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Russia: State Duma adopts amendments to religion law
Another change in Russian law on freedom of conscience forebodes reregistration of charters of religious organizations
Azerbaijan: Latest secret police prisoners - two female Jehovah's Witnesses
Amid a widening crackdown on religious, political and social activity the Azerbaijani government does not like, two female Jehovah's Witnesses have been ordered held in the National Security Ministry ...
Russia: Misuse of Anti-Extremism in October 2014
The following is the Sova Center review of the primary and most representative events in the misuse of Russia's anti-extremist legislation against religious groups or individuals in October 2014
Japan: A landmark court decision: Kidnappers and deprogrammers to pay dozens of million yen for attempted forceful change of religion
Toru Goto confined by relatives for 12 years and 5 months for 'deprogramming' by an Evangelical pastor and another person; Brother, sister-in-law and sister to pay 22 million yen (1 EUR=145 yen); Depr...
Ukraine: Kidnapped protestant pastor released
Pastor Sergei Litovchenko released from captivity of militants of "DPR"
Georgia: Severe harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses in Georgia was tolerated by the authorities in 2000-2001
The case Begheluri and Others v. Georgia(application no. 28490/02) concerned the severe harassment of a large number of Jehovah's Witnesses in Georgia in the years 2000-2001.
Turkmenistan: HRWF: Prison terms for conscientious objectors and members of unregistered religious groups
OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting - Working Session 14: Freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief
France: HRWF: Social hostility towards a number of minority religious groups
OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting - Working Session 14: Freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief
Eritrea: Twenty years of imprisonment - Will it ever end?
Twenty years ago, Eritrean authorities arrested three young men and detained them in harsh conditions in the Sawa prison camp, where they remain until this day.
Russia: Misuse of the anti-extremist law agains religious groups in July 2014
In late July, the Moscow City Court came to a guilty verdict on the case of the four followers of "Hizb ut-Tahrir." ...
Azerbaijan: Jehovah's Witnesses deprived of their freedom to share their beliefs
On 21 May 2014, at 12:00 p.m., Khuraman Abbasova and a fellow believer named Khanumwere sharing their religious beliefs near a shopping centre. They read a Bible verse to a man and gavehim a copy of a...
Russia: European Court looks into Russia's treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) communicated a vast collection of complaints this month to Russia in connection with the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses throughout the country.
Netherlands: Dutch 2013 study on alleged abuses by "sects" confirms results of 1984: No danger to the legal order or to public health
Before the 2013 study, the most recent comprehensive one conducted in The Netherlands dates back to the early 1980s. It was organized in the wake of the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana (1978), after inte...
Russia: Summary of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in February
Nine police detentions during witnessing ministry: in Elatma (Riazan province), Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod province), Stepnoe (Saratov province), Krasnoobsk (Novosibirsk province), city of Orel, Malo...
Japan: Change of religion, kidnapping and confinement for over 12 years: A Japanese wins an important lawsuit
A Japanese man who had been kidnapped by family members, confined for 12 years and subjected to violent attempts to renounce his new religious affiliation has won a court ruling against his captors an...


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Patricia Noland, Clerk of Pima County Superior Court since 1999, will be retiring March 31.
"The past year has brought many changes to my family and personal life," Noland said in a news release. "It is now important that I make my family my number one priority."
Noland was first elected Clerk of Superior Court in 1998, and has been re-elected three times, most recently in 2010.
Prior to that, Noland has served as a state representative and state senator.
In her news release, Noland said under her direction, the clerk's office has been fully automated, online records made available for viewing, and processes streamlined. She created the court's collection unit at the request of the Board of Supervisors, and has collected more than $5 million annually in past due fines, fees, restitution and child support.


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Clitheroe Cricket Club's, Cobras under 15s have won the LCB Cup on finals day at Elton CC in Bury.
The day consisted of semi-finals and finals with the Cobras taking on Sefton Park CC and Ormskirk up against on Brooklands from South Manchester.
Clitheroe booked their place having beaten Adlington and Whalley Range in the earlier rounds.
The Chatburn Road side won the toss and put Sefton in to bat on a damp wicket.
Dom Stuart was unplayable on a pacey bouncy track, and he soon struck removing the opening bat in his second over thanks to a catch behind by Tom Stones.
He was ably supported by James Scorah and Harry Ellis and the arrival of Eli Smith soon paid dividends as he took 2 for 9 off his four overs.
With Scorah, Frankie Jackson and Callum Spink-Baines exemplary in the field, Sefton struggled to post a decent total.
Harry Lang came into the attack and took an impressive four wickets backed up by tight bowling from Jackson.
Despite some aggressive late batting, the Merseyside club only managed a total of 78-9 off their allotted 20 overs which didn't appear to be enough.
This proved to be the case as the Cobras knocked off the score in quick time, with Callum Birtwell-Jones and Harry Lang passing the total inside eight overs scoring 25 and 30 respectively.
The locals then watched the other semi-final which was a closer affair, but Brooklands ran out comfortable winners.
The final turned out to be an absolute thriller.
Clitheroe again won the toss and again opted to bowl first.
But after 11 overs this seemed to have been a poor decision as Brooklands were destroying the Clitheroe attack.
Despite losing two wickets to Jackson and Lang they were 81 off 11 overs.
The usual tight fielding had slipped and mistakes were aplenty.
It appeared that this was one step too far for Clitheroe, but cometh the hour cometh the men.
Callum Birtwell-Jones came onto bowl and he performed a remarkable piece of fielding making a diving stop off his own bowling, releasing it to keeper Stones who ran out their star man.
This one piece of brilliance kick started the Cobra's recovery, and they built on this to restrict Brooklands to 130-6, when 160 was looking a realistic possibility.
Birtwell-Jones took 2-17, Angus Spencer nipped in with a vital wicket at the end thanks to the keeping prowess off Stones. He had three stumpings in the innings and was faultless throughout.
However, the reply got off to the worse possible start with Birtwell-Jones being run out for just one.
Lang was joined by under 13 Sam Mulligan who displayed a great maturity taking the attack to the opposition.
He scored a run a ball 38 before he was bowled.
Captain Dom Stuart came to the crease and with Lang anchoring the innings, he was free to play his natural hard-hitting game – and after a couple of enormous sixes he was out for a quick-fire 27.
With 28 needed off the last four overs, Tom Stones kept up the momentum and he and Lang saw the innings through with Stones hitting a four off the first ball of the last over to ensure Clitheroe under 15s firs ever LCB cup win.
Lang showed great resolve holding the innings together finishing on 33, and Stones hit 16 off eight balls.
The victory backs up the under 13s LCB success last season, where a number of current crop of Cobras players were involved in lifting that trophy. Clitheroe will take take on Cheshire Cricket Board's Nantwich CC in the Regional stages of the ECB NCC U15 competition.


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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is leading a class-action lawsuit with hundreds of thousands of Americans against President Barack Obama's National Security Agency (NSA) over its spying on the American people, Breitbart News has learned.
Sen. Paul will be discussing the lawsuit in an exclusive appearance on Fox News with host Eric Bolling at 10 PM ET on Friday. Breitbart News has learned that Paul will file the class action lawsuit soon in the D.C. District Court and that he will be filing it as an individual, not as a U.S. Senator. For a U.S. Senator to file a such a class action lawsuit against the President of the United States would be extremely rare.
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The issue of unintended acceleration has hit the news again and this time it has nothing to do with Toyota cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, has begun a preliminary evaluation of the Ford Taurus, 2001-2006, and the Mercury Sable, 2001-2004, after receiving 14 complaints from owners of the cars unexpectedly accelerating.
NHTSA says that the problem may be the result of a problem with the cruise control cable that becomes loose over time and causes the throttle to remain open even when the driver is not applying the gas. Several dealers who repaired the issue in customers' cars noted finding a loose cruise control cable and reported it to the agency in 2010. Ford said it is currently investigating how many dealers have received complaints.
While there are no reports of car accidents, the complaints logged indicate that drivers sometimes had trouble stopping the car with the brakes and that some drivers' cars ran red lights and that the drivers had to shift into neutral or turn off the engine to bring the car to a stop. Some drivers reported that their cars' engines were revving as high as 4,000 rpm after shifting into neutral or park.
The Preliminary Evaluation is the agency's first step in determining if a recall is necessary. If a recall is issued, about 1.9 million Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable cars will be affected.
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(CNSNews.com) - The federal government has spent $550,496 on a project that involved conducting "focus groups and in-depth interviews" with American long-haul truck drivers to learn about their sex lives in order to assess their risk of contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted infections.
The project has failed to find any instances of HIV among the truck drivers studied.
"Several international studies have documented substantial levels of sexual risk behaviors and high rates of STI and HIV amongst long-distance truck drivers living in diverse settings including India, Bangladesh, South Africa and Thailand," says the abstract for the grant published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "In the United States, while it is known that STI and HIV cases are frequently concentrated around major transportation routes, less is known regarding specific HIV/STI risk behaviors and HIV/STI prevalence amongst the over 3 million truck drivers in this country."
To gather information about the "risk behaviors" of truck drivers, the study proposed doing five things, starting with the focus groups and interviews: "1) To perform focus groups and in-depth interviews based on the constructs of the transtheoretical model with long-haul truck drivers to guide development of both a behavioral risk assessment instrument and an acceptable HIV/STI screening protocol for long-haul truckers; 2) To perform in-depth interviews with trucking industry executives to determine barriers to routine HIV/STI assessment and screening of their employees; 3) To adapt existing theory-based measures of behavioral risk based on focus group data from long-haul truck drivers so as to reflect the attitudes and culture of this understudied population; 4) To estimate the prevalence of key sexual risk behaviors and examine the predictors of those prevalence rates; and 5) To determine the prevalence of HIV, N. gonorrhoeae, and C. trachomatis, in long-haul truck drivers."
The NIH Web pages for the grant do not say how much federal money was spent on the study, but NIH spokeswoman Charlotte Armstrong told CNSNews.com that $550,496 has been awarded for the research to date. The grant was made by the National Institute of Mental Health, a division of the NIH. The project began in September 2005 and is scheduled to end in August 2010.
"Overall, we have not found really significant numbers of STDs, and we haven't found any HIV," Dr. Laura Bachmann, the principal investigator on the project, told CNSNews.com. "Part of the issue is: I moved in the mean time, so that's why it's taking awhile to get it done."
Dr. Bachmann began the research when she was an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and is continuing the study in her current position as an associate professor of infectious diseases at Wake Forest University, Wake Forest, N.C.
The research is a "preliminary type study," Dr. Bachmann said, designed to assess the risk level and prevalence of sexual infections through focus groups and in-depth interviews with truck drivers. Screening of truckers has been "episodic," not ongoing and continuous, she said, and she and her research team have interviewed around 300 truckers since 2005.
The project was designed "to figure out what the level of risk was going on, and the prevalence of these different infections," Dr. Bachmann told CNSNews.com.
"In terms of the prevalence of infections, we're not seeing, as I mentioned, significant numbers of STDs or HIV, and so now the issue is: Do we need to change the sampling strategy because we're not finding a lot of misbehavior or STDs in our small sample--which is opportunistic screening and kind of getting drivers as you encounter them?" said Dr. Bachmann. "So it may be that some other type of screening strategy or way to approach them would find a different population than what we have found."
CNSNews.com asked Dr. Bachmann if the study was an appropriate use of taxpayer funds.
"I think that HIV and STDs are significant public health concerns, and there's been data from, primarily, other countries, but many other countries--and then some domestic studies--that have suggested that it could be a significant problem," she said.
"[T]hey're infections that you can treat, and if you find out, even though you can't cure HIV, if you find out about it early enough then you can prevent complications and then further transmission which is a public health threat," she said.
"In addition, there's a lot of other health issues that drivers face because the lifestyle's difficult, and we also have described some of those even though it didn't start out being the focus of the study when we met with the drivers, and they gave their input in how we did the screening protocol. They wanted general health checks. And so we did that," she said.
She added: "I think it's an important population for the economy of the United States, and then as well for safety on the roads. So I think there's multiple things that can come out of this in terms of, even though we didn't find the level of risk that we thought may be going on."
"Once again I don't know, I can't say that the study settles that absolutely, but we also learned that we can work with trucking companies, that you can work with truck stops to access drivers, and that most drivers are willing to participate," said Dr. Bachmann.
Dr. Bachmann pointed out that this was part of NIH's "R34" program—or what the NIH calls on its Web site a "clinical trial planning grant." "[S]o the point of it is to figure out which strategies work before you do a bigger study," she said.
When asked if she is planning to reapply for a new grant soon, Dr. Bachmann said, "Not right now."


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JIM LEHRER: Now our story on a return to record compensation in the financial industry.
Jeffrey Brown has our report.
JEFFREY BROWN: Profits are rolling in again on Wall Street, just a year after it led a crash that nearly brought down the global financial system.
MAN: The New York Stock Exchange has just passed down Dow 10000 2.0 hats.
JEFFREY BROWN: And now, after trillions of dollars in taxpayer-funded rescues, it was reported today that the financial sector is also on pace to set a new record for executive compensation.
A Wall Street Journal analysis says 23 top firms will pay out $140 billion this year. That's 20 percent more than in 2008. And it's up by $10 billion from 2007, when executive pay peaked. Average pay at those companies will be just over $143,000 when all workers are taken into account.
In Washington today, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs had this to say.
ROBERT GIBBS, White House press secretary: We can't go back to the type of pay structure that incentivized wild speculation, like we had before this economic collapse.
JEFFREY BROWN: The renewed debate over executive pay came as Kenneth Feinberg, the administration's executive compensation overseer, pressed to scale back bonuses at AIG. The financial services and insurance firm received $180 billion in rescue funds last year.
AIG is now scheduled to pay nearly $200 million in bonuses next March. That's on top of $168 million last March, a payout that drew fire from the president on down.
U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I mean, how do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers, who are keeping the company afloat?
JEFFREY BROWN: A report today on the AIG furor said that, in the midst of the bailout, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department did not communicate with each other on the company's compensation structure.
Neil Barofsky is the special inspector general on the federal rescue program, the TARP. He presented his report at a House hearing.
NEIL BAROFSKY, special inspector general, Troubled Asset Relief Program: The Federal Reserve did not view until very recently — I mean, until recently, before the payments were made — didn't really view these as much of being a — of a big deal.
And that's the problem about Treasury outsourcing this, because while Treasury may have been and would be required to have been more sensitive to these issues, the Federal Reserve was looking at this from a creditor. And $168 million, from a creditor's perspective, just wasn't that much of a concern.
JEFFREY BROWN: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner came in for particular criticism. He was head of the New York Fed last year when it helped bail out AIG, and he had assumed his present post when the bonus issue blew up.
NEIL BAROFSKY: Much like if anything goes wrong in my organization, I'm responsible, and it's my failure, since we are criticizing both the Federal Reserve and the Treasury for failures of communication, management and oversight, of course, he's ultimately responsible.
JEFFREY BROWN: The Treasury Department would only say it continues to work on compensation packages for firms that participated in the federal bailout.
And we have our own debate on the pay issue now with Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a research center in Washington, D.C. She co-authors the group's annual report on executive compensation. And Steve Bartlett, president and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade association representing 100 of the country's largest banking, insurance and securities companies.
And welcome to both of you.
Sarah Anderson, start with this report from the Wall Street Journal that large institutions are on course for record bonuses. What's your response?
Back to 'business as usual'
SARAH ANDERSON, Institute for Policy Studies: Yes. Well, unfortunately, I think it's a sign that it's business as usual on Wall Street. And I find it very disturbing that, more than a year into this crisis, about nine months since President Obama gave a very powerful speech in which he identified executive compensation and -- and that system as a key cause of this crisis, that we're still not seeing significant changes in the system.
And, to me, it's just more evidence that we can no longer think that we can rely on the financial industry itself to just voluntarily do the right thing on executive pay. It's time for government to come in and play a responsible role to fix this problem, because, otherwise, you know, the Dow was up today -- hooray about that -- but unless we fix the problem that caused this crisis, we could see more of these bubble-and-bust cycles.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, we will come back to the question of government role.
But, first, your reaction.
STEVE BARTLETT, Financial Services Roundtable: I have to say, this is a such a bizarre report and a bizarre story of political voyeurism, if you will, that it's hard to know where to start.
So, let me just start with the basics. What did the report -- what does the so-called report say? The -- this report took 23 companies from Wall Street, not banks, not TARP, by and large, but 23 companies that are sort of involved in the securities business on Wall Street, and reported that, at the end of the year, they plan to pay their employees, just like TV stations do and convenience stations do and others.
And they reported that, as the stock market is up and profits are up and earnings are up and the economy is looking better, they will pay their employees more. That makes perfect sense. I mean, so, the idea that you sort of take these 23 companies and the snapshot and say, let's take a snapshot and, therefore, infer all these evil things that are happening or good things that are not happening is just frankly bizarre. The basics just aren't there. It's a snapshot of 23 companies involved in the stock market that are pay -- that -- some of whom are paying more -- more to their employees and as their profits are up.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right. But it's not just in any industry, as Sarah Anderson has said, as the president has said. These...
STEVE BARTLETT: It's in these 23 specific companies that are named in the report. They have an involvement in the stock market. The stock market, as you have just seen, is up, so one would expect their earnings to be up, as they are. And that helps the American people, 56 percent of whom invest in the stock market.
And that, therefore, their compensation is up.
Any changes on Wall Street?
JEFFREY BROWN: Right. But the question is, has anything changed on Wall Street in terms of the way people are compensated, or are we still at business as usual?
STEVE BARTLETT: Absolutely changed, and that should be the story here.
Ken Feinberg is doing a pretty good job on the TARP funds. The idea that he has to -- he's trying to jawbone someone, he just orders what happens at AIG in compensation. And that is what he's doing. We think he's doing a pretty good job on that, as well as those handful of the large TARP companies.
The Federal Reserve is proposing -- and we support and we have worked with the Federal Reserve -- to examine the pay structure, or the compensation structure, which, frankly, was what President Obama was alluding to, was the structure, to make sure that you avoid structures that cause excess risk. That's what the issue is.
And that's what both the government is doing, Federal Reserve is doing, we're doing. And every company is going through clawbacks, restricted stock, longer vesting periods for stock options. That -- because that's what it takes to bring smack about some stability in the system.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right. Well, those are some things.
STEVE BARTLETT: Things are happening.
The government's responsibility
JEFFREY BROWN: You brought up the government's what you say is responsibility to do more. There are some things that he put on the table that the government has at least talked about doing and started to do.
SARAH ANDERSON: Well, talking about it is one thing, and actually doing it is another.
The pay czar, Ken Feinberg, we don't know exactly yet what he is going to do. He hasn't come out with his report yet. We have heard news stories that he's asking AIG to not give the full amount of bonuses to their employees.
I think a lot of American taxpayers would still wonder why bonuses are even on the table for a company that is completely reliant on taxpayer money. In fact, a lot of the companies that -- that now are seeing some recovery wouldn't even exist today if it weren't taxpayer support. And, so, it is not an appropriate time for them to continue to be doling out these kinds of massive payouts.
JEFFREY BROWN: Let me stop you right there.
STEVE BARTLETT: Well, it's not doling out. And it's not massive payouts. It's compensation.
JEFFREY BROWN: But respond to that. The companies that did take the TARP money...
STEVE BARTLETT: Right. Created a foundation of capital to rebuild the economy. And that's what they have done. Many of them have repaid that.
JEFFREY BROWN: Right. But a lot of people would still wonder at the situation now -- it's not even a year later -- why would they be doing bonuses at all?
STEVE BARTLETT: Pay is set with tens of millions of businesses in this country, hundreds -- 150 million employees. Pay is set by 100 -- by millions of individual decisions every single day, in TV stations, in newspapers, in convenience stores, in technology companies. That's how the pay is set.
If you pay too much, you will lose money and go broke. And some of those companies did. If you pay too little, you will lose talented employees and lose money and go broke. So, it's an art, not a science. And it's set by these hundreds of millions of decisions.
Now, the fact is, is that Ken Feinberg, in the case of the TARP money, has a thumb on them, a tough hand, the same with AIG. He doesn't have to negotiate with AIG. He's trying to get it right. We think he's -- we think he's getting it right. We think he's getting it about right.
But that's only because the government has this huge $170 billion investment in AIG, which we all wish they wouldn't have. Because they have it, he has this special role to oversee pay. That's what he's doing. He's doing it very transparently, seems to be getting it about right.
He's doing the same with the major TARP companies, same thing. The law says that the TARP companies can't pay bonuses this year, as long as they're in TARP. That's why many of them are getting out, so they can retain talented employees. That's what they should be doing to finance the economy.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right. I stopped you as you were about to say what more you would like the government to do...
SARAH ANDERSON: Exactly.
JEFFREY BROWN: ... even on companies that are not taking TARP money?
Compensation and the free market
SARAH ANDERSON: Absolutely.
If the compensation system, as the president and our treasury secretary have said, was a cause of this crisis, we need to fix the system in order to prevent future crises. And I'm hoping that our regulators are going to come in with a firm hand. And the focus right now in Washington is looking at the structure of pay and how it can be formulated to encourage more long-term thinking, deferring bonuses over a number of years.
We can't any longer have these guys cashing in massive bonuses on high-risk investments that then blow up a few years down the road. That just has to stop.
But there are other things that I think government should be doing to use the power of the public purse to encourage more rational pay practices throughout the economy, even going beyond the financial industry. They could be using tax policy. They could be limiting how much companies can deduct from their taxes for the expense of executive compensation.
They could be using procurement policies to give preferences to companies that have more reasonable gaps between what their executives and their workers are making. So, there are a lot of ways that government could play a responsible role in turning around this problem.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right. We just have a minute here. So...
STEVE BARTLETT: Or an irresponsible role, if you will.
JEFFREY BROWN: Well, are those irresponsible, or are those legitimate?
STEVE BARTLETT: To have the government set pay in this country, that is irresponsible. It would destroy the economy.
SARAH ANDERSON: That wasn't what I was saying.
STEVE BARTLETT: Or influence pay, or tell what the pay should be, or those things.
I said a year ago on this show, when President Obama came out with a very reasonable plan to limit bonuses to restricted stock, good plan. I endorsed it. But I said at that time, this is a slippery slope. Once you start putting into Congress or government agencies to set what the pay of other people should be, you will begin the destruction of the economy.
And that -- you now see where the slippery slope is going, in that direction. We haven't gotten there. I don't think we will get there. I think calmer heads will prevail. I think we do need to restrict the excessive risk. And that's what companies are doing and the Federal Reserve is doing.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right.
SARAH ANDERSON: That's what we should do.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right. I remember when you said that a year ago.
And we will have you back and we will see where this goes.
Steve Bartlett and Sarah Anderson, thanks very much.
JIM LEHRER: On our Web site, NewsHour.PBS.org, you can read economics correspondent Paul Solman's take on compensation for CEOs.


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And, seriously, does any adult look at pictures like this and not think it's an idiotic idea? Nothing but transparent and sick political manipulation? Do rational adults really think, in the wake of a horrific massacre like Sandy Hook, "I know! I'll ask my 8-year old what she thinks we should do to fix this!"
If you ask me, Washington has a terrible shortage of adults as it is. The biggest problem we have with the Orcs in Mordor on the Potomac is their inability to think and act like adults.
In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and then tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. Here are mental droppings from a newly retired radio engineer running from tech news to economics; from firearms to the world at large; from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of stuff.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
It's Cartoon Day
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- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2013 at 8:36 PM
More like a bunch of druken marxists deluding one another that they're doing the right thing! I wonder how they would act if they knew they were on the perge list after their usefullness is unwarrented.ReplyDeleteReplies
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The month of November can be puzzling for folks with families learning to garden. With the weather starting to turn cold, wet and gay again, long periods of time outside seem less enticing.
Visually, the vegetable garden appears to have less going on. However, November is a great time to begin composting your kitchen waste.
Worm bins
There are many methods and devices that you can employ to compost your food waste at home. Popular methods of composting are digestion, burial or tossing your scraps in your curbside collection bin, but for the gardening family, none offers more fun and excitement than a worm bin.
Unlike other food-waste composting methods, worm bins allow decomposition to happen above ground. All the biological processes and fauna of composting can be easily observed in a worm bin, and the vermicompost that a worm bin produces is practically ambrosia for houseplants or seeds in need of a starting medium.
One challenge many families face is ensuring that their worm bin will be able to accommodate all the food waste they generate. This is a great educational opportunity for a mini "waste audit."
Collect all organic scraps that your family generates, and separate it from the rest of the waste for one week. Place them into a few quart-sized yogurt containers with lids in the refrigerator marked with a big "X." Weigh out the collected scraps.
The golden rule for worm bin processing is 1 pound of food waste per 1 square foot of container per one week. So if your family generates 12 pounds of food waste in a week, you'll need a bin that has a floor plan of 12 square feet.
There are worm bins available on the market and plans available on-line.
Siting the worm bin
You can construct multiple bins to meet your needs, or put some of your food scraps in your worm bin and the rest in your curbside collection bin. Both approaches are good for the environment.
To get started, set your worm bin in a site that will neither be too warm or too cold, depending on the season. If you are placing it outside, make sure you can protect it from marauding raccoons, possums and rats, and if you live in bear country, consider an indoor space like a basement or garage for safekeeping.
Bed the bin with moistened leaves from your garden trees or shredded newspaper (do not use shiny, colored inserts).
Add red worms (Eisenia foetida) available locally, as well as on-line from Yelm Earthworm and Castings Farm.
Begin feeding by placing handfuls of food buried into the bedding, in a different spot each time you feed your worms.
In three to six months, you can begin harvesting once you see all the bedding and food materials have been digested and deposited as beautiful, fine, dark-brown castings by your worms.
Push all materials to one side of the bin. They will have reduced in volume so there should be plenty of room to do this.
Re-bed the empty side of the bin, and begin adding food to that side. The worms will migrate over on their own to find their dinner.
In about a month, you can pull the finished compost from the bin and use it in your garden.
Another method that only takes a day is to spread a tarp in the garden and add all the contents of the bin to the top of the tarp. As the light reaches the worms, they will work their way deeper into the compost, and you can harvest from the top of the pile.
Let it sit an hour, and come back and do it again.
Eventually, you will be left with the pile of worms in a little bit of compost at the bottom, which can be returned to your freshly bedded bin.
Worm compost is often called "The Cadillac of Compost." Try it for yourself and see!
For personalized questions, to find local worm sources and to discuss the best system for your use, call the Garden Hotline at (206) 633-0224. Or visit our website for composting brochures, www.gardenhotline.org, and e-mail a question from there.
LAURA MATTER is an educator and program coordinator for Seattle Tilth's Garden Hotline. Graham Golbuff is an educator of resource conservation for Seattle Tilth.


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We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Coronet Street, N1. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Coronet Street, N1. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
This business centre is a considered, progressive and design-led project which has seen the out-moded and dilapidated building restored and improved. There is modernist lighting and interiors with contrasting traditional wood floors, enhancing existing, exposed steel and brick features. The latest technology will be employed to ensure maximum business efficiency. Extensive works throughout have been completed to a high standard with character features, original wood floors throughout, black steel framed and glass windows coupled with a black facade will provide an imposing yet sleek presence on Hoxton Square.
This impressive, fully furnished centre is in the heart of London City and near to many fine cafes, restaurants and wine bars.
Ist floor - Classic warehouse space with high ceilings, big windows, exposed brickwork, wooden flooring, conference room, kitchen area, Office is over 1500 sq ft and arranged in a completely open plan format.
In the heart of Shoreditch and just off Rivington Street, this attractive courtyard building offers a range of office suites to suit all needs. Shoreditch is one of London's most exciting locations, fashionable, gritty and artistic, a favoured destination for tech, creative and media companies. Lots of pubs, bars and award winning restaurants enhance this 'must be there' district. Boasting a newly refurbished Ground Floor space, it now offers: a new reception and waiting area, new meeting rooms, showers, extra toilets, gym, breakout area, plus private booths.
The building is a mixture of private floors, private offices, co-working and hot desk options, plus meeting rooms and communal areas throughout the building. Also is boast a beautiful roof terrace. The ground floor appears as a coffee shop but it will only serve internal clients. The centre is scheduled to be completed by September. The third floor is to be kept as open plan at this stage so that potentially one client may take this as a self contained floor (on same level as roof terrace).
On a prominent corner of Great Eastern Street this tasteful office building is in the heart of Shoreditch Triangle and at the centre of Tech City.We have a wide range of office suites available, all carefully created, spacious and comfortable. The building is suitably capped with a roof-top garden.Shoreditch is one of London's most exciting locations, fashionable, gritty and artistic, a favoured destination for tech, creative and media companies.Lots of pubs, bars and award winning restaurants enhance this 'must be there' district.
Located in a Victorian converted fire station minutes from Old Street tube, Silicon Roundabout and fashionable Shoreditch, the Old Fire Station has 30 offices over a 5 floor open atrium, giving an office environment full of character. On visiting you will be welcomed by a friendly reception and full back up onsite management. Fully furnished office suites are complimented with top quality services which include a full range of facilities: Manned Reception and Reception services, Telephone answering, Administrative support with postal & courier services, Fast broadband access, Mail forwarding & full virtual services, Cycle parking, Parking nearby.
This centre is a self-contained unit situated in a former warehouse which has been converted in to a creative business hub. The space is situated on the first floor and is 1,150 sq ft - £9,500 pcm – all in (rent, bills, business rates, service charge, IT, daily cleaning, meeting room usage. The space features solid wooden flooring and exposed wood beams. There are large windows allowing excellent natural light which face out onto Great Eastern Street. The unit benefits from an internal kitchenette with dishwasher and fridge and a private WC. The space has been subdivided with an internal meeting room and an internal office separated by a glass partition. Entry to the building is controlled via an Intercom system, there is an internal alarm which is serviced regularly and 24/7 access is available.
Architects Buckley Gray Yeoman have helped to create 4 floors, 3 meeting rooms, a roof garden, 5 roof terraces and a co-working space within this building, black on the outside, white on the inside. The building was originally built for furniture manufacturing so has iconic high ceilings and large windows. The building has private office space, co-working space and meeting rooms.
Decorated to a superior standard with lovely wooden floors. The building has a fresh appearance and the advantage of many excellent cafes, restaurants and wine bars, all close by. The building benefits from a Wireless Router which will allow all P.C's to link up to the Router through a Wireless PCI for direct access to Broadband and the Internet. Security intruder alarms, 24 hour access, no hidden charges, central heating, fully carpeted, fully air conditioned and security entry phones.
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News Briefs 08-06-2012Posted by Grail-seeker at 11:29, 08 Jun 2012
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- Timewave Zero: did Terence Mckenna *really* believe in all that 2012 prophecy stuff?
- 'End of the world as we know it': Kaspersky warns of cyber-terror apocalypse.
- Mars One: a privately-funded mission to put humans on Mars by 2023. Too late?
- The quantum mechanics of life.
- Micah Hanks on active dream states and the otherworldly.
- Seeing little people: folkloric figments of a misfiring brain?
- H.P. Lovecraft's alien legacy.
- Can plants hear each other?
- Nick Pope warns of possible Olympic Games UFO invasion (where else but in the Daily Mail).
- Are spacecraft killing thousands of antelopes in Kazakhstan?
- Terra Sacra: a short time lapse film featuring remote landscapes and ancient monuments from around the globe (h/t Dangerous Minds).
- Elvis Presley to be 'virtually resurrected'.
- Rare 'floating rainbow' brightens sunset skies over southern China.
Thanks RPJ & Greg
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Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
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That's with the 'L' in the middle, right? :P
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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Chinese rainbows come from pollution, not water droplets :P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
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Senators defence prospect Jared Cowen said Monday that "there were a lot of numbers" surrounding the team, referring to the number of players in camp, the relative salaries of each and the possible options for Senators management.
I have another random thought about numbers and what they mean. Trust me, it's not as complicated as trying to figure out the number of plots, subplots and conspiracies on that rather bizarre new TV show Rubicon.
Here it is: Should Senators fans read anything into the fact that pesky, hard-working centre/winger Zack Smith was allowed to wear 15 during training camp, dropping the 45 he draped over his shoulders last season? Beyond the fact it's Dany Heatley's old sweater — insert joke of choice here about Heatley being replaced by a guy who always forechecks and backchecks as hard as possible — it seems like a fairly strong indication Smith figures in the Senators plans from the outset.
Guys wearing numbers in the 40's during training camp typically have to work their way onto the roster by outshining someone else. In that same vein, Peter Regin is also sporting 13, not the 43 of a year ago when he entered training camp as an outsider looking in.


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Hello. Sorry, I am totally ignorant when it comes to bees and I'm looking for some advice. Through your comparison page on the web, I think that I have bumble bees which have made a home in the outside wall of my house, a small hole where my bedroom window sill finishes and the wall begins. I obviously don't want to get in any form of pest control, but I'm worried about any property damage this may cause. I'm assuming they are bumble bees but your website doesn't mention anything about brick house walls when talking about nests. Also, If I just leave the bees alone, will this 'home' just die out at the end of the season or is there something else I need to do? Can you advise?
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Secondly, please could you give us a description of the fur colour of the bes that are going into your wall - or even better a photo.
The photo doesn't have to be all that sharp, because we are going to be looking at fur colour bands, body shape, furriness etc.
Yes, bumblebees do sometimes nest in house walls - usually in the cavity. And they can use cavity insulation material to keep themselves snug to keep their heat in and the nest warm.
A nest is not all that big and the colony usually only lasts for a few months. Come the autumn, when activity has ceased you can stop up the entrance gap.
Also, sometimes some types of Solitary bees can use small gaps like yours to make a nest. Activity is even more limited with them.
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An intermediate-level physics laboratory: A system of two coupled oscillators with low-cost accelerometers
Mary Lamont and Minjoon Kouh
Physics Department, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Wiimote is a wireless controller for the Nintendo Wii game system. This device can measure acceleration along three orthogonal axes and broadcast the data via Bluetooth, which can be captured and recorded by free software like GlovePIE (http://www.glovepie.org). Recently, there have been a number of reports on the innovative usage of Wiimotes in physics laboratory and demonstration projects, such as vector decomposition on an inclined plane, harmonic and circular motions, collision, and other motion-tracking experiments1,2,3.
Using commonly available equipments (springs, airtrack, and aircarts) and Wiimotes (Figure 1), we have designed an intermediate-level mechanics experiment about a system of two coupled oscillators. This experiment complements standard theoretical coverage of this important topic, and provides an opportunity to incorporate a lesson on data analysis and scientific-computing software.
As covered in many mechanics textbooks (such as4), a system of two coupled oscillators can be described by a set of coupled differential equations, and has two normal modes, commonly referred to as the symmetric and antisymmetric modes. The symmetric mode occurs when both masses are displaced equally from their equilibrium positions in the same direction. The antisymmetric mode occurs when the masses are displaced in the opposite directions from the equilibrium positions. In general, the masses will oscillate as a combination of the two modes. The frequencies of the normal modes are determined by the spring constants and the masses.
Sample data from our setup are shown in Figure 2 for the symmetric and antisymmetric modes, as well as the mixed modes, over a few seconds. We have performed the discrete Fourier analysis on the acceleration data, using the FFT function in Matlab5,6. As expected, the Fourier transformation of the pure mode reveals a single peak, and that of a mixed mode reveals two peaks at the expected frequencies (in our case, 0.3 and 0.6 Hz).
As further explorations, we have (a) varied the starting positions of the two masses, and analyzed the relative amplitudes of the two normal modes, which depend on the initial conditions, and (b) analyzed the mass-dependence of the frequencies, by putting extra weights on the aircarts. In both cases, there was a good agreement between the theory and the experimental data. For details, please see the extended version of this report7.
By incorporating a low-cost wireless accelerometer and scientific-computing software, we have designed an intermediate-level mechanics experiment, suitable for typical sophomore or junior physics students in college, allowing them to study this important topic in quantitative details, to deepen the understanding of the theoretical concepts about normal modes and Fourier analysis, and to learn and use computational tools. With its $40 price, 100-Hz sampling rate, and within-5% accuracy, this relatively new sensor package opens up many possibilities for innovative lab experiments beyond the first year of physics curriculum.
Figure 1. Experimental setup. Two aircarts per Wiimote were necessary to provide enough lift on the airtrack.
Figure 2. Sample trials with different initial positions of two aircarts. The accelerometer data from two Wiimotes (left) and their FFT analyses (right) are shown.
- R. Ochoa, F. G. Rooney, and W. J. Somers. "Using the Wiimotes in introductory physics experiments." The Physics Teacher. Vol. 49 (2011)
- A. Kawam and M. Kouh. "Wiimote experiments: 3D inclined plane." The Physics Teacher (2011)
- S. Tomarken et al. "Motion tracking in undergraduate physics laboratories with the Wii remote." American Journal of Physics. Vol. 80 (2012)
- J. Marion. "Classical dynamics of particles and systems" (2nd Ed.) Academic Press (1970).
- N. Preyer. "The coupled harmonic oscillator: Not just for seniors anymore." The Physics Teacher. Vol. 34 (1996)
- D. Easton. "Simplifying the motion of coupled oscillators using FFT." The Physics Teacher. Vol. 44 (2006)
- M. Lamont and M. Kouh. "An intermediate-level physics laboratory: A system of two coupled oscillators with low-cost accelerometers." arXiv.org: phy-ed (2012)
Disclaimer–The articles and opinion pieces found in this issue of the APS Forum on Education Newsletter are not peer refereed and represent solely the views of the authors and not necessarily the views of the APS.


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Hi all, By default a pict is printed in the interaction window of DrScheme as a real picture and not as a <struct:pict>, however if you have a function foo which returns a pict and if you do (write (foo)), (display (foo)) or (printf "~a" foo), in all cases you get <struct:pict>. How is DrScheme printing the picts? I though that grabbing the current-display/print/write-handler would do the job but neither of these work. My real need is the following. I want be able to grab the object which results in the evaluation and if it is some kind of specific object I know it calls foo with it to return a custom pict to be printed as an image, else I just release the object to drscheme care. I tried: (let ([old-display-handler (port-display-handler (current-output-port))]) (port-display-handler (current-output-port) (lambda (val port) (if (is-a? val myobj<%>) (old-display-handler (foo val) port) (old-display-handler val port))))) but this is not working. It's printing the pict resulting of foo as <struct:pict>. Any ideas? Thanks, -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at sat inesc-id pt Web: http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~pocm Computer and Software Engineering INESC-ID - SAT Group
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Falmouth and Penryn Amateur Boxing Club enjoyed a succesful night at the Truro Boxing Club show on Saturday night at Threemilestone Community Centre.
Brett Ralph, Jemma Tann and Chris Sloggett boxed exceptionally well - especially Brett, who boxed a very tricky southpaw.
Brett put lots of pressure on his opponent and caught him with some strong combinations, some solid right hands and left hooks.
Gemma Tann and Chris Sloggett both boxed outstandingly for their first bouts and showed real potential for the future.
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Sugarless Licorice Stars Recipe
You can enjoy this candy even if you are on a restricted diet since it's sugar-free. Use small seasonal cutters to make shapes everyone will be sweet on.
- 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
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- 3 packages (.3 ounce each) sugar-free cherry gelatin
- 2 teaspoons anise flavoring
- 1. In a large bowl, soften gelatin in 1/2 cup soda. In a small saucepan, bring remaining soda to a boil. Remove from the heat; add to gelatin mixture and mix well. Stir in flavored gelatin; until dissolved. Add anise.
- 2. If necessary, skim foam. Pour into a 13-in. x 9-in. pan. Chill until firm. Use small star-shaped or other holiday cutters or cut into 1-in. squares. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 7-9 dozen.
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