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Omen or Skada threat meter.
Any Prot Paladin worth his/her salt should use a threat meter, the ingame threat indicators are not adequate for tanking purposes. As a Ret Paladin, its also helpful to know when you're getting close to overtaking the tank in threat.
Pro Tip: to save on space, click the button in the options "Hide When Not In Combat", because if you're not in combat, threat is not something you should care about.
I totaly agree about Tidy Plates. While I don't particularly like the "Threat Plates" skin, the addon itself is amazingly helpful when tanking. I prefer the "Gray Plates" tanking skin, as it's cleaner in my opinion and provides the same details as Threat Plates (i.e. tells you when you have full threat and when you're starting to lose threat on any particular mob). You might need to toggle the "tug-of-war" option to show the threat level on each mob, but it works great. In raids, especially when tanking trash, I like to turn on the DPS/Tank symbol on the plates to show whether a mob that you do not have threat on is attacking a DPS or whether it is being tanked by a co-tank.
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Don't know about skada, but Omen has implemented the 30 second threat fade from TotT and MD; when someone casts misdirect or tricks, you'll see a countdown from 30 seconds appear next to the tank at the top of Omen. Extremely useful for both tanks and dps classes.


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Two page helpsheet and formula list regarding Logarithm rules and Indices rules, with common mistakes to avoid!
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Hi wcy;
Links of a promotional nature or for profit are against forum rules. The forum must be kept free of spam. I am sure you understand.
No Spam. Spam includes messages that have no relevance to the topic, that are annoying, repetitious or promotional in nature. Overuse of short comments is also spam.
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I have the result, but I do not yet know how to get it.
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Schools Behind Bars?
Designing safe and secure environments for schools and colleges doesn't mean they need to look like detention facilities
Creating safe schools is the responsibility of the entire community where a school or school system resides. Yet, the day-to-day operation is primarily the responsibility of the teachers, administrators and security or law enforcement officers at the school. But, before the first student walks the halls, an architect creates the design of the school and what will be the subsequent relationships between people and their buildings. The success or failure of that school is predisposed to the quality of design and the limitations of budget.
The basic Crime prevention through environmental design ( CPTED) premise is that through the effective use and design and management of the built environment, there can be a reduction in the opportunity and fear of crime, and result in the improvement in the quality of life. If we can build effective spaces using CPTED in the next generation of schools, we will substantially reduce the opportunity and fear of crime in them.
There is a connection between the design and management of schools and the relationship to crime. Some examples of potential environmental design problems for schools are:
• Campus borders are often poorly defined
• Informal gathering areas are out of sight
• Building layout produces isolated spots
• Bus loading areas are often in conflict with cars
• Student parking lots are often on outermost areas
• Periphery parking creates conflict with the neighborhood
• Parking areas are often obscured by plantings
• Locker areas often create conflict and confusion and hiding of contraband
• The overuse of corridors creating blind spots
• Restrooms located away from supervision
Schools must address the conflicting goals of being an accessible facility to its students and faculty, yet be secured and controlled environments. The design of elementary schools through college campuses needs to address the functional integration of CPTED and security features to control access onto the site and in the buildings, reduce vandalism, document activity on the property, control movement in areas of the building that are restricted and provide communication between faculty and administration and emergency assistance.
Safe and Secure School Design Principles
Beyond specific designs that may vary from school to school, there are some general principles for success in security. They are defined here as Safe and Secure School Design Principles, which are:
• Effectiveness of security design modifications and security programs;
• Affordability of security programs and features;
• Acceptability of security technology and practices;
• Definition of assets that are worthy of being protected;
• Definition of threats of what is vulnerable to attack and loss; and
• Characterization of the environment and balancing the needs to the threats.
Safe and Secure School Principles involve five key areas, and each area should include security layering planning practices:
* Site Design includes features of: landscaping, exterior pedestrian routes, vehicular routes and parking, and recreational areas.
* Building design features: building organization, exterior covered corridors, points of entry, enclosed exterior spaces, ancillary buildings, walls, windows, doors, roofs and lighting.
* Interior spaces include features of: lobby and reception areas; corridors; toilets and bathrooms; stairs and stairwells; cafeterias, auditoriums, gyms; libraries and media centers; classrooms; locker rooms; labs, shops, music and computer rooms; and administrative areas.
* Systems and equipment will include features such as: alarms and surveillance systems; fire control; HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning equipment); vending machines; water fountains; elevators; and telephone and information systems.
* Community Context : Schools need to be functionally integrated into the community. Impacts of schools to surrounding neighborhoods include traffic, parking, pedestrian flows, crime and disorder.
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Is it part of human nature to have a hierarchy?
This question was mainly inspired by my history class. We were going over some Russian Marxists, and I thought it was interesting that even a communist regime will have a leader. This brought up the question, "Is it natural for humans to have a leader?" I thought about any organization and realized they all have a decently-defined hierarchy. I also thought about our cavemen ancestors and the sort of familial hierarchy with the father as the provider of food and safety (I haven't really studied anthropology, so tell me if I'm incorrect).
Feel free to ask clarifying questions, and I am looking forward to your responses!
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Nov 1 2013: A great question and I think Mr. Clegg points to an even better one. I think the idea of hierarchy gets muddled by the more simplified idea of dominance. Our cooperatives must be in some way different from that of a wolf pack or a lion pride but why? Does language allow us to understand our roles more clearly? Is it our ability to specialize our contribution to make ourselves vital to community success?
Whatever the case. Remember that we are not animals. But then again I've never met a powerful leader who would willingly step aside when his expertise was no longer required so maybe there is still too much animal left inside us.
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Quite a simple problem, but a major pain in the ..... I can't get anything into Autocad!
Basically, every time I go to export from Fusion Inventor on the Mac...I get the rainbow ball. It's crashed, but it's it's still running, sucking up 30% CPU on all 4 cores.
Very annoying. Anyone else get this work? Can anyone else try exporting my diagram if I share it?
I'll be happy to take a look at the file. Can you post it here?
Thanks for the file. This is now with development. I was able to reproduce the crash on export. I'll follow up with this post when I know more about your file.


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Straus News Enters the Manhattan Neighborhood News Market
Family-owned media company returns to its NYC roots
Straus News, a leading community news publisher and owner of weeklies in the tri-state region, today acquired Manhattan's premiere weekly newspapers.
The weeklies include one of New York City's best-known papers, Our Town, along with its sister publications Our Town Downtown, The West Side Spirit, The Chelsea Clinton News and The Westsider, as well as NYPress.com.
These papers reach more than 180,000 unique weekly print and digital readers through free distribution to more than 3,000 upscale Manhattan apartment buildings, news boxes and in-store racks.
NYC roots
The purchase also puts the papers into the hands of a successful publisher owned by a family with longtime roots in New York City.
With the acquisition, the Straus family re-enters the New York City media market. The family made radio history when it owned WMCA Radio, 570 AM. Playing rock n roll in the 1960s, and known to Baby Boomers as the "Home of the Good Guys," Straus-owned WMCA ranked #1 as the most listened to New York City radio station.
Later, the Straus family transformed WMCA Radio into New York's premiere talk radio station, with well-known hosts such as Barry Gray, who also wrote regularly for Our Town.
"We're committed to local news and covering the issues that matter to people's everyday lives," said Straus News Publisher Jeanne Straus, who lives in West Side Spirit territory. "We relish the opportunity to take over publishing these terrific papers in the greatest city in the world."
Tom Allon, the long-time publisher/editor of the Manhattan Newspaper Group, will remain as president and CEO of Manhattan Media.
"I'm very happy that we have found in Straus News a buyer who understands community journalism, the neighborhoods of Manhattan and recognizes the need to keep these five newspapers vibrant parts of our city," Allon said. "After more than a quarter century of being involved with West Side Spirit and Our Town, I look forward to being a regular reader of these award-winning publications."
Richard Burns, general partner of Isis and chairman of Manhattan Media, added: "We've been pleased and proud owners of the newspapers for more than a decade. They've not only played important roles in their communities but have also produced consistent financial returns for us. We know that Straus News has the know-how and commitment to make these papers a continuing vital part of the New York landscape."
Following today's sale, Isis continues to own and produce media properties like New York Family, the New York Baby Show, City & State (for professionals in city and state government in New York), as well as AVENUE magazine and Dan's Papers LLC in the Hamptons.
Isis bought the newspapers it is selling in 2001.
About Straus News
Prior to acquiring these five publications, Straus News has been publishing nine local weekly newspapers and associated Web sites in the New York-New Jersey- Pennsylvania region.
Straus News also publishes Dirt, a magazine covering the local "green scene."
Owned for decades by the Straus family, the papers focus on neighborhood issues that matter to people's everyday lives, with a commitment to reporting the tough local stories while highlighting neighborhood successes and achievements.
The newspapers have won numerous awards for news coverage and editorial and advertising excellence, including first place for in-depth reporting for a series about heroin addiction and a prestigious National Education Writers Award.
The newspapers are distributed weekly to more than 80,000 homes.
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Eye gloss is tricky business. It's one of those backstage beauty techniques that looks so good on the runway but becomes a sticky mess when you try to duplicate it at home. That fact does not deter us from pursuing the coveted texture, of course—especially in the summer months, when it works particularly well (wet eyes and bronzed skin go together like cutoffs and crop tops). Paul & Joe is feeding our frenzy with new limited-edition eye glosses that—get this—come in a dual-ended tube with a corresponding shade of lip lacquer. Each is named after a sun-drenched vacation destination: Santa Monica offers two variations on rose gold; Nice pairs a shimmering lilac for lids with a watermelon pink for pouts; Monaco proves that two sandy beiges are better than one; Maui partners a bright tangerine with a glimmering icy lemon; and Bahamas groups a pale pink with a silver shimmer. The lip glosses are a bit…glossier than the more cream-based eye pigments, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The formula's jojoba and sunflower-oil base ensures gleam without tackiness, which means it doesn't necessarily offer the kind of Plasticine shine we often long for—but is all the more wearable because of it.
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AWeber Email Marketing Tips
Get Your Audience Excited: How To Really Wow Them
Award-winning ads can teach us a lot about what works and what doesn't when it comes to marketing. That's why we've been looking at some exceptional ones and extracting important lessons from them.
This last ad we'll cover won four International Advertising Bureau's MIXX Awards and an AdWeek Buzz Award.
HBO and Campfire Tell a Story
HBO and Campfire put together a highly effective marketing campaign for the "True Blood" series.
Here's a detailed look at the marketing campaign for the show:
Vials of a mysterious red liquid with messages in a "dead language" were mailed to goth and horror bloggers, leading them to a "vampire-only" website. Videos featuring "real vampires" debating whether or not they should reveal themselves to an unsuspecting human populace were "leaked." An outdoor poster campaign promoting a new beverage called TruBlood and featuring PSAs supporting equal rights for vampires appeared in major metro areas – none of which ever mentioned the TV show.
By creating a complex backstory about a synthetic beverage that enabled vampires to "live among humans," HBO and its creative partner, Campfire, were able to tap into an existing community of horror aficionados and organically build an audience that made True Blood one of HBO's most anticipated and successful show debuts.
The result? 6.6 million viewers tuned in for the premiere.
Lessons From This Campaign
The True Blood Story has two lessons for marketers:
2. People like stories. If you can create a story around your business or product, people will pay more attention. The story tied in with the show, but the marketing campaign never focused on the television show.
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Hi Crystal
You're right that proven ad campaigns can teach us a thing or two about marketing, however, there's not easy to spot them, so thank you for doing proper research and giving us the insights.
I wonder what key lessons we can learn about this and tie them in to email marketing. Injecting stories within our follow-ups is one which comes into mind, and which you've touched on in the article.
Are there any other tips you could further share?9/19/2013 11:41 am
I generally get my audience excited by giving them a bunch of free stuff lol… ranging from free reports, webinars, CD's, DVD's… and I tie in a promotional campaign to inspire more sales.9/19/2013 9:18 pm
"People like stories. If you can create a story around your business or product, people will pay more attention…"9/24/2013 3:12 am
Yeah, that's a good idea. The audience is more attractive by a "good stories". You easily creat a trust stamp for your brand through this kind of stories.
Thank you for your sharing!
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Fabulous video--thanks! I wish I had seen it before putting thousands of miles on my Ksyriums. I just dropped my freehub & wheel off the my LBS for an overhaul, but after seeing this video, I'm wondering if it is salvageable. I didn't know these required servicing every 1500 miles(?). That's three times a year for me!
Does anyone know why mineral oil rather than grease is used? Wouldn't grease last longer? Does grease interfere with the function of pawls?
Thank you so much for this great video! It helped me so much. By the way, if I can't get hold of mineral oil ... can I use TriFlow Superior Lube? Hope that's okay ... ?
This was a very good and informative vidoe as was your older ones I saw on Youtube. Thanks for having them out there...
I have a pair of '09 Ksyrium SL's (with the red hubs)and I need to do this service. I don't have any Pedro's or mineral oil handy, but I do have DuMonde Tech road chain lube (the lime green blend), which is great stuff for my chains. I've also used it on my Cane Creek freehub and it worked great there.
Is it ok to use on the Ksyriums? Also, can I quiet the ratcheting sound at all by lubing the pawls and mating surface with the DuMonde oil?
Thank you again and keep up the good work.
Great blog, very informative. I just got a set of Mavic Ksyrium ssc sl and intended to run a Campy 9 speed cassette. After install I am able to rotate the cogs about 1mm as if the lockring is not quite tightening enough. No play as in your video, just on the rotation. Both the hub and the cassette are in great shape. Am I missing a spacer that goes on the freehub first? Thanks
Excellent video. I'm about to do this with an FSA freehub body and was a little scared of it. This helped a lot.
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Sneak Peak #2
So this past weekend I went to Moby Arena and shot our Lady Rams volleyball team playing against Nebraska. It was a tough start, losing the first two sets, but we seemed to kick it in high gear by winning the next three sets living us the win. I'd say this was my most successful sports shoot so I figured i'd post a few of my favorites!
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Supporting Parent Engagement in Children's Learning Outdoors: A Single Case Study
Teachers as Co-researchers: How the Co-researcher Role has Transformed Teachers and Nature Education for Young Children at an Early Education Program in the Midwest
This Never Would Have Happened Indoors: Supporting Preschool-Age Children's Learning in a Nature Explore Classroom in Minnesota
Young Children Develop Foundational Skills Through Child-initiated Experiences in a Nature Explore Classroom: A Single Case Study in La Canada, California
Young Children's Authentic Play in a Nature Explore Classroom Supports Foundational Learning: A Single Case Study
Helping Children Learn to Love the Earth Before We Ask Them to Save It: Developmentally Appropriate Environmental Education for Young Children
Our research began in February 1998. In the early years, we spent a significant amount of time developing and revising our research protocols; specifically protocols for teachers to record their observations of children and protocols for analyzing those observations.
The early data we analyzed included teachers' visual notes (primarily of children working with blocks and other three-dimensional materials), photographs teachers had taken of children and their structures, and children's documentation (e.g., sketches, maps, artwork, writing). Later, we added protocols for documenting Nature Notes in Dimensions' Nature Explore Classrooms™.
For the first few years, our research findings were primarily published internally. In particular, they were used to inform our teacher/co-researchers, staff, and parents about our discoveries. We also incorporated key findings into our internal staff development (teacher training) program, grant proposals, our series of Nature Explore™ and Train-the-Trainer workshops, the development of the Nature Explore Classroom concept and design consultation process, and the Learning With Nature Idea Book. Though our research continued to evolve over the years, our early insights became the foundation for many of the guiding principles Dimensions uses today in creating spaces and selecting materials to support meaningful learning for children.
Working Hypotheses
One of the first major documents we produced was titled, "Working Hypotheses–Insights from Visual Notes – Fall 1999-Spring 2002". This document was a summary of four years of data analysis, which was collaboratively conducted by Dimensions' Executive Director, teachers, our architect consultant, and qualitative research specialist.
This document was intentionally titled "Working Hypotheses" to reflect the evolving nature of our research. The concept of working hypotheses applied to qualitative (naturalistic) inquiry suggests that our data are viewed in context (based on the characteristics that are unique to this site). In their hallmark text, Naturalistic Inquiry (1985), Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba suggest that working hypotheses are not nomic generalizations that become "laws" (cast in stone) to support theories that result in deductive hypothesizing for future studies. Rather, working hypotheses come from (and are ground in) the data – they are arrived at inductively and are applied based on the situation and context. Rather than conclusions about "The Truth", working hypotheses are framed tentatively and examined repeatedly with the addition of new data and when situations and contexts for the research change. The researcher's task is to describe and interpret the uniqueness in each new setting and situation and uncover the working hypotheses that fit within each specific context.
At its inception, our research was exploratory and broad. We had few preconceived notions about where it would lead us. Our overarching purpose was to explore how young children developed visual-spatial skills, and how teachers could best support that development. We were working with a "blank slate" as we examined our early data, and the categories identified in our working hypotheses document reflect the key themes that emerged during our first years of analysis. In summary, our early insights related to:
The working hypotheses document represented the culmination of our careful analysis of each data entry in teachers' journals, and our attempt to "make sense of" the emerging patterns. Since the internal publication of this document, we have added five years of data and three formal, weekly analysis teams. We have incorporated a focus on children's learning in nature and our Nature Explore Classrooms. Teachers record Nature Notes outdoors and continue to document children's visual-spatial activities inside and outside. We continue to compare our emerging findings with our original working hypotheses, which continue to ground our practice and serve as guiding principles.
Key Skills Children are Developing
As we began to examine each data entry, we constructed an analysis protocol. to help us identify the specific skills children were developing through their visual-spatial work, and interactions with nature, natural materials and other manipulatives. Continuing our use of an inductive process as we examined teachers' documentation, we identified a list of key skills we saw children developing, noting specific examples in our data that provided "evidence" of those skills. Over the years, we have continued to add to the original skills list. We published the skills list internally for teachers, who requested that the list be reproduced on the backs of the forms they use to record their observations of children. The skills list serves as a checklist for teachers when they are recording why they believe each data entry is significant. Copies of teachers' documentation also go home in children's portfolios, so parents see the skills their children are developing.
An important part of the skills development process is teacher support. In April 2009 our researcher compiled data from focus group interviews with teachers and teachers' documentation that specifically identifies the variety of ways teachers support/scaffold children's learning. A collaborative team (two teachers and our research director) are currently working on a paper on the role of teacher support. The attached table summarizes our data.
More than Play – An Early Article Summarizing our Findings
In February 2004 our research consultant wrote a short article titled, "More than Play: Children Learn Important Skills Through Visual-Spatial Work". The primary audience for this article was Dimensions' parents and teachers. It was published internally as a supplement to the Parent Newsletter. The article summarized some of our key findings, based on the analysis of teachers' early visual-notes. It includes samples of teachers' sketches (scanned directly from the raw data), one child's sketch, and sample categories from the Construction Typology that Dimensions uses in our workshop on Developing Observation Skills.
Construction Typology
The Construction Typology was created inductively from our data. The architect who was part of our original research team developed the typology based solely on data drawn directly from teachers' observations (i.e., sketches of children's building). Rather than developing an exhaustive list of construction skills apriori, based on her knowledge of architecture and construction, the architect was careful to represent on the typology only those skills we had observed in the data.
Dimensions first published the typology internally, for teachers to use as a tool in their observations of children's visual-spatial work. Teachers indicated that seeing the categories of skills on the typology validated their documentation and affirmed that they were recording important skill development. Teachers carried copies of the typology with them as they observed children, and suggested enlarging and laminating it and placing copies on the walls (at children's eye level) in the block areas of our early education classrooms. The benefit to teachers was that the typology served as a visual guide for them as they depicted children's work. The categories on the typology also helped teachers notice things children were doing in their visual-spatial work that teachers had not previously seen children doing. The Construction Typology gave teachers a new lens through which they could view children's work.
An unexpected outcome of posting large, laminated copies of the Construction Typology in the classrooms was children's interest in them. At times, the Construction Typology inspired children's building. Children consulted the drawings on the typology prior to building and selected materials to reproduce the skills represented on the typology (e.g., bridges, tunnels, a stepped structure, an imbricated wall). Sometimes children consulted the Construction Typology after building, to see if they could match the visual depictions on the typology to what they had created. Often, the typology provided an opportunity for teachers and children to dialogue about children's work, and for teachers to share vocabulary with children (e.g., "I see you've made a steep ramp"; "Where is the door to your enclosure?"; "What shape is the inside of your tunnel?"). The Construction Typology also served as a two-dimensional representation of children's three-dimensional building process, which provided children withmultiple perspectives.
The Teacher/Co-researcher Role
One of the unique features of Dimensions' research is our commitment to the Teacher/Co-researcher model. All of our teachers are trained on qualitative research methods, including close observation and documentation skills. Dimensions partnered with a local college to offer a three-credit, graduate level qualitative research course in 2001 and 2007. Fourteen of our teacher/co-researchers and three Dimensions consultants completed the course (including our senior landscape architect).
Ongoing, weekly staff meetings encourage Dimensions' teachers to be reflective practitioners. As is characteristic of qualitative research, in their role as co-researchers teachers serve as the primary instruments for data collection. Part of their job description includes submitting weekly documentation for our research. In the fall and spring each year, all teachers also participate in focus group interviews to give them the opportunity to dialogue with other teachers regarding what they are observing about children and what they are personally learning. Teachers are involved in all phases of the research process, from framing research questions, to collecting and analyzing data, and writing and presenting our findings.
In the fall of 2007, Dimensions' Research Director presented a paper on the Teacher/Co-researcher model at the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) Annual Research Symposium. The focus of the paper was on teachers' perceptions of how the teacher/co-researcher model had transformed them personally and professionally and transformed nature education at Dimensions Early Education Classrooms. The data presented in the paper were collected between fall 2004 and Spring 2007, in a series of eight focus group interviews that included all teacher/co-researchers, plus individual interviews with five teacher/co-researchers. The paper describes:
Dimensions' teachers directly attribute their involvement as co-researchers to job longevity. Our teachers have an average tenure that exceeds ten years. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) estimates that turnover for preschool teachers averages 30-50% annually (January 2005, Smart Money). When this paper was written in 2007, 16 of 21 teachers employed on the preschool staff (76%) had been with Dimensions since the beginning of our research in 1998. Several teachers attributed this longevity to new "opportunities for growth" and "new eyes" their involvement as co-researchers provided, "increased professionalism", "increased job satisfaction", and a greater sense of "mission" in the "important" work they are doing.


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Our school is moving forward at a rapid pace these days. The new principal is WONDERFUL! She has some exciting changes in place for next year and has already taken steps to improve the educational programs for all of our kids. Our kids are scoring better on the state tests and we have more parents involved in the school these days. Kids always improve when the parents are more involved in their education. Winfield School provides a good education to our children, if the kids and parents make the most of the opportunities that are available to them.
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I find that only a small percentage of students who graduate from Winfield school go on to college. To my knowledge many of the students do not make it out of high school. For having such a small teacher student ratio they should be scoring higher than 29% in math achievement! Although, I can say that the Kindergarten teacher and the first grade teacher are excellent, but from there on (with the exception of a few) it is all down hill. I would not recommend this school to anyone.
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To be honest, while I did initially get frustrated or downright nervous and apprehensive about entering one of the Cataclysm dungeon heroics or raids (especially the troll dungeons after a while), looking back on it all now, I can appreciate the hard work the devleopment team put in all of them, trying to make them challenging, and while I think they DID overdo it, it still provided for some very memorable encounters. And isn't memories what playing these games are all about? We're going to be saying to ourselves, "remember when this was hard?" as usual. Maybe not so much "fun" as "hard," though... But regardless, good or bad, I had plenty of them from the latest expansion. Looking forward to what else they've got in store for us.


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Rockingham County attorney suspension continues amid probe
Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams, right, listens to his attorney, Michael Ramsdell, at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord on Thursday. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER)
No specific allegations against Reams have been made public.
When asked by McNamara, she said she could not commit to a timetable as to when the investigation may wrap up.
Edwards said the investigation kicked off in mid-October, when her office received a call from a Rockingham County attorney alleging incidents of misconduct. Staff from the AG's office interviewed witnesses outside of Reams' office, and the U.S. Attorney's Office and Federal Bureau of Investigation were brought in on the investigation as well. The evidence was corroborated, and Foster decided to remove Reams from office, doing so on Nov. 6, in order to have "an unfettered investigation" when speaking to additional witnesses and examining documents.
Reams' attorney, Michael Ramsdell, on Thursday again argued against the attorney general's right to remove his client from office, while also requesting discovery information into the investigation against Reams.
Judge McNamara denied Ramsdell's request in a 12-page order emailed to both parties on Wednesday.
Ramsdell said that the judge's statement that Thursday's hearing was a preliminary injunction was wrong, and that he instead he was before the court asking for a reconsideration of the decision to suspend Reams from office last month. Ramsdell said that the only other case on record involving the removal of a county attorney in New Hampshire, Eames vs. Rudman in 1975, involved an attorney that was removed after authorities brought a misdemeanor charge against the attorney after completing a brief investigation. Ramsdell said that in this case Reams was suspended without notice, when he "wasn't even in the state," and that seven weeks later no charges have been brought against his client.
McNamara argued that the attorney general had "no authority to remove," suggesting that if the AG's office wanted to remove a county attorney for misconduct, it could bring forward a complaint and outline the reasons, a process that would include the discovery that Ramsdell was requesting, along with a trial.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
In California alone, 40 percent of women responding to a survey said they experienced intimate partner violence at some point in their lives. The American Bar Association notes that one in three murders of women is committed by an intimate partner. Almost 20 percent of violent crime against women without a fatal outcome in the United States involves an intimate partner. Over 80 percent of intimate partner violence involves female victims.


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Recipe: Margaritas Made with Beer
Margarita purists may need to sit down and take a few deep breaths before reading this post.
We know, this is an unconventional recipe for margaritas. But we promise it's good — and, it turns out, the idea is not really that uncommon.
Epicurious and Rachael Ray both have recipes for margaritas made with beer, and ours is very similar — a mixture of tequila, beer, and frozen limeade. We refer to these as Markaritas, named after the friend who created them.
We like them because they are so, so easy to mix up, and don't require us to squeeze dozens of limes. Also, we're more likely to have extra beer on hand than triple sec. The beer cuts the sweetness of the limeade, and yet the finished product doesn't taste like beer at all. It tastes like a margarita. Enjoy!
Margaritas Made with Beer
6 ounces frozen limeade, undiluted
6 ounces tequila
6 ounces light beer
See? We told you it was easy. Combine limeade, tequila, and beer in a blender, fill with ice, and blend until smooth.
(Thanks, Mark and Renee!)
Related: How To Rim a Cocktail Glass for Margaritas
(Images: Elizabeth Passarella)
Per serving, based on 4 servings. (% daily value)
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Oh no! For people who really don't like beer--like me--these do totally taste like beer. Had them last weekend not knowing what they were, & it was so bad...for me, though; others seemed to think they were fine.
Beergaritas!!! We used to drink these in college all the time.
I was taught years ago to always put a little beer in margaritas, it cuts the sour and makes it so much better.
We, too, drank beery margaritas in college. Corona Light works very well. Fizzy and delicious!
I think these are somewhat bastardized versions of Micheladas which are extremely popular in Mexico City. Beer, Lime Juice, and Hot Sauce mixed together...there are countless of variations on a Michelada...this maragarita recipe seems to be inspired by that drink....I'm totally trying it!
I thinks it's a soured-up version of a Michelada as well. I think many American palates don't quite know what to do with drinks that aren't boldly flavored. A Michelada has subtle sourness, a little spice, a little salt but it still tastes like a beer. This version takes it from a seasoned beer drink to a cocktail. Another example would be a Mojito. Believe it or not, I've known several people who do not like Mojitos. But if they are juiced up and sweetened, they like them.
My wife made us margaritas last night with jalapeno jelly cubes in them. I was very impressed with the results.
Due to the blue laws in MN, many bars and restaurants do not have liquor liscenses, only beer and wine (or maybe this is common?). So things like this are sort of common. Also, bloody marys made with sake and other drinks made with wine. It is how you adapt.
oh please tell me more about these jalapeno jelly cubes!
These are nothing like a michelda... michis are more beer than anything else and unsweet.... these don't even taste like beer it is more about the margarita than the beer. Sorry I am a huge michelada drinker.
Beergaritas RULE. We use the Amy Sedaris "Long Neck Rita" recipe: dump in one canister of frozen limeade, then use the same canister to measure the rest. Half a canister of tequila, a quarter-canister of triple sec, blend, then dump in a bottle of Corona Light. Blend again. Serve as is or over ice. It's a delicious, easy sipper (she says they make you feel mellow, "like a quaalude"--I can't vouch for the quaalude part, but they are relaxing).
We created Beergaritas out of necessity while in Rocky Point, Mexico...can't use the water to make margaritas so use the beer!
I used to make a drink called the Nono special. It was beer ontap usually heinken, shot of gin, and margerita mix. So good, and reallllllly gets you drunk hahah
Here's my beer marg recipe. No beer taste at all. Recipe can easily be halved.
2 cans frozen limeade
2 bottles of lighter Mexican beer (I use Corona)
1 2-liter bottle of 50/50
Mix and serve over the rocks with a salted rim, adding tequila if desired. Also, a splash of triple sec is yummy. They're great for a crowd and quite the crowd-pleaser.
This is the only way I make margaritas. I use whatever mexican beer I have on hand, preferably Corona. We use the empty limeade can to measure the tequila. They are fabulous.


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Thanks to Mr. Charles Odom, Juror WPPJ District 8, and Allied Waste/Republic Services Team: Mr. J. Roy Walters III, General Manager North Louisiana, Mr. James Geiger, Operation Manager Webster Parish Landfill, and Mr. Chris Alderete, Environmental Manager.
Many of the citizens of Webster Parish would be better informed if they would visit the landfill and get a first-hand look at the overall operation of this facility. The management staff that we communicated with was able to provide a clearer understanding of this operation and cited the safety measurements that are in place to minimize system failures. Also, there are backup plans in place to address potential system failures.
The CAP members that toured the landfill were able to conclude that much progress has been made in operating this controlled facility. We strongly encourage our citizens to get involved to get a better understanding of this facility and its operation.
However, in light of the tour, it was brought to the attention of Mr. Geiger, Operation Manager, and Mr. Charles Odom, Juror of District 8 that Louisiana solid waste regulations requires* each parish, in conjunction with its municipalities, to prepare and maintain a recycling and reduction plan detailing educational programs; recycling programs; incentives to promote recycling and waste reduction, review of recycling programs, markets, and backup markets; a review of existing recycling programs; contingency measures; a mathematical formula detailing how the parish intends to calculate the percentage of waste reduction.
The plans must be reviewed annual by the local governing institution that prepared the plan and the LDEQ. Annual progress reports are require to be submitted by December 31 of each year.
We, members of CAP, are constantly seeking out more citizens of Webster Parish to get involved to help us keep our communities a beautiful and healthy place to live.
We recognize the disappearing species native to the area, such as: owls, whippoorwills, toad frogs, and native wild cherry trees, etc. It would be favorable for the Webster Parish Police Jury to address this concern to eliminate a possibility these species becoming extinct.
The purpose our organization, CAP, is to foster cooperation and communication among individuals and organization to address the environmental problems of Louisiana, with special focus on clean water and the Sparta Aquifer in Webster Parish and North Louisiana.
*See LAC 33:VII.10307.A.
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Best ever, better than Probiotic pearls
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I have used the Pearls and even Natures Biotic which is a good product but this by far has led me from Crohn's Disease to the path of recovery. Doctors and the medication they gave me made me worse not better. As far as the other person who rated this product BEWARE! Fruits and berry extracts are just as they are extracts they are not the sugar from the product. A good candida clease has Grapefruit extract in it from a well known product Renew Life. This is not a mistake the extract is where the most beneficial antioxidants are taken from, the seeds. Research before you listen to doctors or anyone else. The alternative medicine (herbalists) and alternative health professionals have done there research and would not make a product that would counter act the good effects of this product. Countrylife has been selling Pharmaceutical Grade products for a long time now. This is the highest grade available. Don't take everyones word for it. Try it yourself. This in conjuction with the proper diet can dramatically help. Your diet plays an important role in your wellness. Common sense and research goes along way. Good Health to you all.
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Just wanted to let you know my husband and I have been taking the Country Life-Daily Dophilus Am/PM Probiotic System Veggie Caps for the last month. we are very impressed with this product both my husband and myself feel so much better our energy level has increased and in general our digestive tract has greatly improved I am reordering today since we both do not wish to run out of this product. Respectfully yours, Patricia and Frank
The best probiotic I've tried
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I used this for an elder with chronic, severe constipation. She took the entire course, and nothing improved. About two weeks later (6 weeks total after beginning the Daily-Dophilus), it was like a miracle. The pain and dread were gone, and things moved smoothly. The improvement in her quality of life was awesome. We had to repeat this therapy after a course of antibiotics, and it worked just the same for her the second time. An excellent product!
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My health food store always runs out of this and when they do I get whatever is on the shelf. Because of that, I have had to opportunity to try many probiotics. NONE have compared to how this product makes me feel. THANK GOD for this product and to IHERB for making it available at an affordable price!
Works great!
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Lost track of how many different probiotics I've tried over the years. These help my digestion better than the pearls, as well as specialty blends from nutritionists and high end altertnative practitioners.


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Gag order issued in Perrywinkle custody case
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Rayne Perrywinkle, the mother of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted and slain in 2013 returned to court Wednesday morning in an attempt to regain custody of her two other daughters 6-year-old Destiny and 5-year-old Neveah.
Multiple parties were represented in court, including both parents, paternal grandfather and the state.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less
This is a Google TechTalk with Barry Schwartz. The Paradox Of Choice, in a nut shell, is that given an abundance of options the user is likely to not pick anything at all or make the worst choice possible. It's a good talk, an old one but i hadn't seen it. You might like it if you're interested in software interface design. Makes me wonder where is the tipping point between simplicity and complexity. How many controls and functions before you choices become too difficult. Audio Damages Reverence and Dubstation both have around 11 or 12 controls. Most modules in a modular synth have about the same if you include pots, switches and plugs. Is 11/12 controls the tipping point? Just enough so as not to be boring but not so many that the amount of choice seems too complex.
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John Q. Walker: Re-creating great performances
Cool TedTalk with John Q.Walker. He uses a Disklavier Pro and some fancy signal processing to analyze and recreate solo piano performances from old recordings. It is spookily accurate and very human... except of course perfectly repeatable.
The first thing that I thought when I saw this was the inevitability of some new kind of MIDI quantization. Highlight all your MIDI notes and from a drop down box select the playing style of your favourite dead performer. It would be kind of depressing. Cool, but depressing. Who needs to step on the shoulders of giants when we can just kick them into the ground and walk all over them.
EDIT: Quick update - John Walker sent me an email clarifying some points. "What we do does not work on a Yamaha Disklavier. They have an entirely separate model called the Disklavier Pro. I wished they had called them something like Ford and Ferrari – the difference is like the difference between regular TV and HDTV. What we do does not work on a regular Disklavier – the nuance simply isn't there." I changed the post above and it links now to the Disklavier Pro. Thanks for that.
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Friday, August 08, 2008
Ghetto Talk Box
More from Instructables....how to turn a toilet plunger and some PC speakers into your very own 'DaftPunk-a-like' talkbox for robo-speak action!
Paper Plate Speaker
Over at Instructables there's directions for making a speaker out of a paper plate n a coupla paper cups. Probably not very hi-def but ya can burn em up!
Friday, August 01, 2008
Max/MSP vs. PlanB Modular, Analog with Digital Control
So after building my little sequencer I was a bit frustrated having to scale the lovely wide range of numbers max gives you into a 128 steps for MIDI pitch. I asked a question on the Cycling 74 forum and there does not seem to be an easy way to have full voltage control of a synth from a computer. The easiest method is to use the MOTO 828 MK2. You can read about Joel Richs investgations with the MOTU 828. MOTU got in contact with Joel and told him "The 828Mkii is not designed to pass DC voltages. We do not recommend doing this since there is a good chance that it will damage your 828Mkii."
However this does not seem to deter everybody as you see in the clip above.
"I had read rumors of the MOTU 828MKII being able to send out low frequencies, low enough to be used as control voltages. So I had to try it to see if it works. Well, it does. The control signal is a little aliased, looks like a 8-16 bit signal. Not too steppy, fester than MIDI by far (but not precisxe for any real scale, need more tests to see how that is. But a very successful test to see if the MOTU 828MK2 could send out low frequency signals to control the modular synth without MIDI, a la VC. I patched together a simple little patch from the LFO tutorial on the Cycling 74 website (I'm a lazy ass programmer would would rather copy/paste). The 4 scopes on the left green side of the patch are the waveforms and clicks. The two waveforms on the scopes on the right are simple combinations of the 2 LFOs on the left. My camera sucks and the menus got overexposed. I'll cover what's going on in the annotations once again. I like watching videos for sound and music with no talking, so I make mine that way now that annotations are on youtube.
This is not meant to be a flex of my musical prowess or anything like that, just searching for interesting sounds, and testing out Max/MSP MOTU828MKII control of the PlanB modular.
Everyone who ever read those postings, but didn't want to shell out cash to test a theory, well, here's the proof it does, and now I have almost unlimited quick and dirty analog LFOs. At least good enough for almost unlimited 8 to 16 bit LFOs (that's about the resolution it looks, still better than an Arduino or other ATMEGA controller with a resister ladder DAC which is what I was going to try invstingating again next if this didn't work. It worked OK for teh theremin to Max before. Now on to integrating Max and the modular . Digital logic meets analog logic (Grenader & crew meets Zicarelli and crew). :)
I think one of my next MaxB tests will have to be making it stutter, afterall, isn't t a rule I have to make something stutter in real time as a Max user?" - Thanks to dkimcg
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One issue I've had with many Rumple characterisations - and maybe this is a personal preference, I'm not trying to pass judgement on anyone here - especially in Rumbelle fandom is that Rumple is often written too soft and too gentle, too nice in fact. Rumpelstiltskin isn't nice, not to anyone, until The Crocodile he's not even always nice to Belle. There's a reason she had to lay down the law to him: it took him a long time to realise that he had to truly change if he wanted to be happy with his true love.
In The Crocodile Charming has to explain to Rumple the difference between "literal truth and honesty of the heart". Rumple between Skin Deep and The Crocodile is not a nice man, and Belle even says in Broken that he's "still a man who makes wrong choices". In Time of Day, the tryst with curse!Belle is one of those wrong choices. He makes the selfish, dishonest choice so he can have a superficial version of everything, rather than having to do the right thing and sacrifice what he loves yet again.
He does love her, from the first moment of the first fic until the very last. I have no doubt in the world of that. But he's also bitter, and hurting, and angry as hell, and he's so very used to the world destroying everything he wants to protect. I don't think he trusts himself with her: he threw her out of the Dark Castle for a reason after all. He's here offered a facsimile of what he wants: a version of his true love who it won't matter if he breaks, and he takes it.
And it's also important to remember that this isn't the Belle he remembers. This is a Belle who is closer to Lacey, and in fact I'd have written her as Lacey had I not begun a year before that episode actually aired. She's not especially brave or good-hearted or perceptive, not in the way the real Belle is, and Rumple can see it. It took him a while in FTL to warm up to her, after all, and Regina's Storybrooke version doesn't even have the special qualities that originally drew them together. She makes shit decisions too, along the way, and I think part of his motivation in being such an asshole is to drive her off, because his Belle wouldn't stand for it.
He's playing the part she wants: dominant, powerful, derisive, even predatory, but with an unexplainable soft spot just for her. And he's angry with her and with Regina and with himself when, of course, she doesn't see through him as her true self would have.
She doesn't realise until Valentines Day that she's in love with him, either: as far as this Belle knows, Gold is the cold, sardonic bastard who bullies her father and scares the whole town. She knows there's more to him, but to be honest to begin with it's a mix of physical attraction, intrigue, the unconscious pull of their past in FTL, and her own daddy issues. He's nice to her and only to her, and for someone like curse!Belle who's never been truly valued by anyone that's a powerful thing.
She's complicit, and that makes the whole thing worse because if you look at Rumple's history, if there's a shortcut or an easy way out or a loophole he'll take it. He even finds himself a good reason to act this way, because being vulnerable and honest and/or noble and self-sacrificing would be a lot more difficult than just doing the easy, stupid, wrong thing and carrying on as they do.
The moral of this story being don't ask Ru about ToD or you'll get an essay.


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NEW ROCHELLE, NY - Three members of the Iona College women's outdoor track squad qualified for and will compete at the 2013 NCAA Championships East Preliminary Round at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, NC this weekend.
Senior Marion Joly-Testault is the highest ranked Gael on the women's side and will compete in the 10,000-meter semifinal. She ran a 34:32.40 at the 2013 Penn Relays on Apr. 29. It was the 26th fastest time in the East this year and the third fastest time in Iona history. The event is scheduled for Thursday (May 23) at 9:00 pm.
Junior Kirsten Stewart qualified for the 1500 meter preliminary round Thursday (May 23) evening at 5:30 pm. She ran a 4:22.05 at the Virginia Challenge on May 10, the seventh fastest time in Iona history and was ranked 32nd in the East this year. Should she advance, Stewart will compete in the 1500 quarterfinal Saturday at 6:30 pm.
Sophomore Regina Neumeyer will compete in the 3,000-meter steeple chase quarterfinal on Friday at 8:50 pm. Neumeyer qualified with her 10:29.47 at the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford University on Apr. 28. It was the second fastest time in school history with only her finish at last year's NCAA East Preliminary (10:17.75) standing ahead of it. It was the 33rd best time in the East region this spring.
The three harriers compete for the right to advance to the 2013 NCAA Championships at the University of Oregon from Jun. 5-8.
Schedule of Events:
Thursday, May 23
Women's 1500 first round - 5:30 pm (Stewart)
Women's 10k semifinal - 9:00 pm (Joly-Testualt)
Men's 10k semifinal - 9:40 pm (Kowalsky)
Friday, May 24
Women's 3k chase quarterfinal - 8:50 pm (Neumeyer)
Men's 3k chase quarterfinal - 9:30 pm (Bayley)
Saturday, May 25
Women's 1500 quarterfinal - 6:30 pm (Stewart)
Men's 5k semifinal - 8:45 pm (Goose, Clorley, Gillespie, Clements)


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The United States is a competitive location to the extent that firms operating in the U.S. are able to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for the average American. Changes in the U.S. that help firms compete but undermine living standards, such as lower wages or a cheaper dollar, do not boost U.S. competitiveness by our definition. Whether a nation is competitive hinges on its long-run productivity—that is, the value of goods and services produced per unit of human, capital, and natural resources.
Seen through this lens, America is suffering not only from a deep cyclical downturn but also from underlying structural threats to its long-term competitiveness. The authors cite evidence of structural problems in trends that predate the recent recession. These concerns also reflect the findings of a survey of nearly 10,000 HBS alumni, the vast majority (71%) of whom foresee a decline in U.S. competitiveness in coming years. The authors trace out the most significant dynamics leading to the competitiveness problem that looms before the United States. Although the U.S. retains profound competitive strengths—for instance, in higher education and entrepreneurship—those strengths are increasingly threatened by weaknesses in areas such as the tax code, basic education, macroeconomic policies, and regulation. Steps to reverse the loss will require a new focus by government and business leaders.
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Tags: Challenge, Choose U.S.
17 Dec 2011
Nicolas SERGE
I really do appreciate and suuport this project: " The looming challenge to US Competitiveness. I've a strong conviction that this 21st century will be the American's one despite speculation. The time has come to put into place the efficient and accurate framework which allow all the Americans to spreadout all of their full potential and overcome all challenges of the globalization. I believe in the sight and the strengh of "Veritas" of Harvard which is playing an overwhelming role in the implementation of this framework. God bless you all! God bless the United States of America.
Regards, Nicolas SERGE, Think Tank Dynamic 2012
20 Dec 2011
Let me open by saying that, as an alumni of HBS, I appreciate the intent and effort of this initiative; it models a critical and desperately needed role academia can play in society. That said, however, it struck me that the initiative is looking for solutions to far toward the end of the competitiveness value chain; e.g., business leaders and higher education. I wonder if a key to the issue doesn't start much further upstream; specifically, our educational system and attitudes / values at home. As a society we under invest in education (both money and time invested by parents in their children's learning) and fail to measure impact appropriately. Focus these days is less about gaining an education but, rather, grades and scoring well on standardized tests. And despite the critical role played by human capital in business, industry passively waits for the output from this arguably flawed educational system as opposed to proactively engaging in it as a strategic partner. Suffice it to say, industry does not remain so passive about other areas of critical resource to their success. In summary, I suggest the initiative take a deeper, more inclusive look at the issue, perhaps engaging colleagues from the Schools of Education to take a look much further upstream.
29 Dec 2011
Barry Johnson
I suggest that the US Competitiveness Project consider how its findings will be deployed to ensure that this research produces its intended impact on improving competitiveness. Great research does not deploy itself just as great innovations require diffusion and use to deliver on its promised benefits. I suggest the working group look at "excellence programs" that focus on assessing and improving the competitiveness of organizations in their countries. The Baldrige Program for Performance Excellence is the US program in this area. I am sure Dr. Harry Hertz or someone from the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) or the Department of Commerce, where the program resides, would be available to participate and would make valuable contributions in the area I suggest.
11 Jan 2012
Our educational system has failed to consistently develop the intellectual potential of our citizens. We seemed to accept that, and began to import much of our human capital. There seemed to be a ready supply of bright immigrants who were attracted to the U.S. by our still superior higher education system. Many stayed to chase the American Dream. Now that we're at the bottom of the ladder relative to the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Canada, etc..in terms of economic mobility, according to a recent report by the Economic Mobility Project at the Pew Center on the States, and our traditional sources of immigrant brainpower have homegrown opportunities for greatness and wealth, I wonder if we will continue to be a magnet for the best and brightest with ambitious aspirations? I worry about our future...Money is not the only motivator, and we've lost sight of many of the values that made us great.
12 Jan 2012
Kamal Gupta
US competitiveness stayed much above European levels in the years to 2008, because US was seen as a welcoming country for immigrants.
Immigrants account for an increasing share of US population and also almost the entire growth in population. This not only provides competitive wages but also a growing and young market.
The knee jerk reactions to the 2008 meltdown - tinkering with money supply instead of launching public works, and restrictions on immigration - are doing long term damage to US competitiveness.
All of you have access to census figures, I won't waste your time in quoting these. But the writing is there on the wall.
18 Jan 2012
Dennis Nelson
We first must answer "Competitive at what?" What are America's core strengths and capabilities? No athlete or other competitor can be first at everything. Even decathalons and triathalons are limited to a few events. And, who must participate? All who can be motivated to participate should participate. Should the right answers to how America can regain or increase its competitiveness be determined, significant, at least "tipping point" participation from all stakeholders must be ensured for those answers to be pursued and implemented. As each stakeholder group is defined, what each group has to gain or to lose by participating or not participating needs to be clarified and extensively published and discussed. Individuals with at least national and preferrably international credibility and expertise in both succeeding and ensuring stakeholders succeed, as well, should be recruited as spokespeople for the effort .
08 Feb 2012
History has to be review, in lates 1800's and early 1900's studies revealed the importance of treating workers with dignity and having them happy in productivity. Years have passed and this matter is still an issue. Happy employees does not only include paying more it has to be united with respect. Lets try to learn from the past.
27 Feb 2012
Competitiveness in the direction of "your definition" should be keen in every economy . If an economy lacks such competitiveness then i believe there is the need for a study into the dynamics that threatens such an economy's competitiveness as well as recommendations on the way forward.
27 Feb 2012
Joseph Jeanes, II
The issue of productive persons is always rational. There are several methods of production and not all are inventory. Quality is something that rides over production. The issue of the vision in control is the overwhelming calculus.
The United States has to examine the methods of control it intends to hire. Control is ultimately going to be democratic in some nature and it is important that the papers used in control be attainable to filings of all courts to maintain public verity.
The issue of hiring control is from worker to management and is intrinsic to all nations. As long as individuals never give up, they have a control of some sort. How to attenuate that control into a constructive policy is hiring control that has experience that provides a constructive platform of the various natures of people in the productive pyramid.
There is a sense of court due all people and the position of people being hired needs to be able to sell its papers as well as defend them.
For instance, though we are in a large country, you will always have control that is in synergy or control for the quantum and rarely do they share much in common as the models of the past have one in the future and the other in the past. They are two fixed markets vying for goods and services. Both think they are all it is and yet neither is all of what it is.
The world includes everyone and at some point a Dean Kamen providing water in rural villages that prevent a hospitalized person is as important as the latest technology to make a better world. They are facts that the world is our employer or else it goes some place else for its control. We would like to be a fair player and have the highest vision in the pyramid, but it is also just a keystone over a door that we either play up with or play out with.
Money is a commodity and needs to be treated as an incentive at the level of site and hiring. Better control is better vision. Hire by where people look, that is the heart of the economy. You are head over the audience, not the audience to the head.


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