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A litigator represents either side in a civil court case and oversees all phases of the process for their clients. The first step in the litigation process is a Writ of Summons and a Statement of Claim. These and other documents must be filed to initiate the formal legal process. After each party has had his/her chance to express his/her opinion and views in writing, the process of discovery begins. This is where both sides collect information to present in trial. The trial is held in front of a judge and possibly a jury. Finally, the judge or jury makes a legally binding decision.
A litigator must have a Bachelor's degree in English, history, economics, government, or a subject closely related to the type of law to be practice. A litigator must pass the Law School Admission Test and then earn a Juris Doctor degree. After earning the degree, a litigator must pass the bar exam. Once the bar exam has been passed, the litigator can begin practicing law.
Karl Heideck, from Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, is a perfect example of a litigator. He graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelors of Arts in English Language and Literature/Letters. Karl Heideck continued his education at Temple University-Beasley School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor degree in law.
Karl Heideck has been licensed for seven years. Heideck began his career in 2010 as a Project Attorney at Pepper Hamilton LLP where he specialized in fact investigation, trial, and discovery. In April of 2015, Karl Heideck accepted a job as a Contract Attorney at Hire Counsel. He has experience in litigation, compliance, risk management, corporate law, legal research, legal writing, commercial litigation, and employment law.


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tangle traffic and poetry and you're left with some sort of flower.
28 july. aeroplanes are the technologically beautiful. in love with the new the bravest boys the latest steps perpetual motion a devotion to movement leaves a bittersweet taste on a tongue that should be kept in check more often in love with the new escape for the night or wait until the last flight out of here your fear of consistency sloppy promises of aeroplanes as the technologically beautiful you make me dizzy (i say with a sigh, and turn from the mirror)

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Hello!!! Quietfire Design has been having a blog hop this week over on the Quietfire Creations Blog that focuses on the A Way With Stencils. Fun, fun, fun!!!! Here is just a snippet of my project :) I'd love it if you had time to pop over and take a look. You really must check out all the other projects this week also and there are prizes to be had. Go on... pop on over!!
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Tapped In: Ryan on Ottawa and Olympic break funby Kathryn Tappen
Drafted No. 2 by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2005 NHL Draft, Bobby Ryan played five seasons for the Anaheim Ducks before being traded this past summer to the Ottawa Senators. Ryan, 26, has endeared himself to his new teammates this season, totaling 22 goals and 45 points while playing solid defensively with a plus-9 rating. The New Jersey native talks about how he learned to play the game, his involvement in helping the victims of Hurricane Sandy and why proposing at the top of the Eiffel Tower was a necessity.
Kathryn Tappen: I heard you were quite busy during the Olympic break. Congratulations on your proposal to longtime girlfriend Danielle Rhodes.
Bobby Ryan: We did; we got engaged in Paris. It was pretty cool, so thank you.
KT: You do realize you've set the bar incredibly high for men everywhere by proposing atop the Eiffel Tower?
BR: I waited so long to propose I had to go all in, so that was my only choice.
KT: Did you coordinate your proposal with [former teammate] Cory Conacher?
BR: Yeah, we planned to do it the same day. We knew we were both trying to get it done over the break. They went to Turks and Caicos, and while we were on vacation we didn't want one of the girls to post the engagement pictures two days before the other one. We didn't want one girl to be upset while on vacation that the other one got engaged. We planned to propose on the same day and it actually worked out to be only a few hours apart so it was perfect.
KT: You grew up in southern New Jersey, in Cherry Hill. How did you get started playing hockey?
BR: It's odd. I got started after seeing the movie "The Mighty Ducks." It wasn't until I saw that movie that I really got interested in it. On top of that my mom took a job at a local ice rink so I was able to skate every day and had an opportunity that other kids just weren't able to do. That helped fuel my passion because I was there all day, every day. I fell in love with being at the rink.
KT: When did it become apparent that you had a real talent and could make something of yourself in this sport?
BR: It wasn't until years later when we moved to California. My last year living there when I was about 13, 14 years old, when I was getting ready for the [Ontario Hockey League] draft, we began to realize this could be something good. We weren't sure. I was a pretty good player in New Jersey and California, but until you get into a program like in Canada or Michigan, which we moved into for a year, is when you really get a feel for where this could lead. You're among many more players your age who are just as good, if not better, than you. Unfortunately it happened late for me, but still early enough for me to evolve into the type of player I've become.
KT: You've moved around quite a bit. Who was your idol growing up?
BR: It's funny; I was all over the map but I'm still to this day a diehard Flyers fan. It was always for me Pelle Eklund when I was really young. As I got older and started to understand the game a bit more it became Mike Modano and Brett Hull. Once I knew I wanted to become an NHL player and an American Olympian, those are the players I really watched. Mike Modano is the reason why I picked No. 9, and before that I was 16 for Brett Hull.
KT: Modano was my "Tapped In" column last week. Did you get to watch his jersey retirement ceremony at all?
BR: It's a small world. That's funny. I didn't see the ceremony live but I watched the highlights of it. My first game wearing No. 9 in the NHL was against him. They kept the number from me in Anaheim for a while, but then about 45 minutes before our game with Dallas they told me I was wearing it. I got to wear No. 9 playing against Mike Modano, which was a pretty surreal moment for me.
KT: Have you had the chance to get to know Mike through the years or pick his brain on hockey-related questions?
BR: We go back and forth on Twitter a bit. We talk mostly about golf and I got a chance to hang out with him a little bit at the Olympic evaluation camp back in 2009. I just wanted to get to know him. For me to put a person to this figure who was my hockey idol forever was very cool for me.
KT: You mentioned golf. I know that's one of your offseason hobbies at your home in Idaho, on the Wyoming border. How did you end up there for your offseason home?
BR: We are just across the border from Jackson Hole, Wyo. We got up there a few years ago and I had never had the opportunity to see a place like that before. It's a place where you can really disconnect and turn our minds off hockey for a while. That's what I love to do in the offseason. Nobody up there cares what you do or where you play as long as you can drop a line in the water on the river and do some fly fishing. That's all anybody wants to do there. It's a different experience and different place for me to live, which is what I love about the summers.
KT: After Hurricane Sandy devastated the region close to where you grew up you participated in "Operation Hat Trick," a charity hockey game in Atlantic City to raise money for Hurricane Sandy victims. Why was that so important for you to do?
BR: I still have a lot of personal ties in New Jersey with my family all still back there. JVR [James van Riemsdyk] reached out to me right away. I had talked to a couple of people about trying to put something together, whether it be a concert or something else. We were going through the lockout, which in that sense, was a blessing in disguise because we were able to get that many guys of that caliber of hockey together to try and put these people's minds at ease and take them away from something terrible for about four hours. We got the ball rolling but the local residents took control of it. It was about giving back and understanding what these people were going through. Growing up 40 minutes from Atlantic City and going to the Jersey Shore as a kid, it was a devastating and emotional time seeing what happened there. For us, we knew friends who lost houses. Anybody can write a check; but to put something together of that magnitude and have all those players show up from all around the country meant more and showed that we cared more than just donating money and putting our names on something.
KT: What has been the biggest transition for you from Anaheim to Ottawa, and not the easy answer of the weather.
BR: [laughs] I was going to say, as I'm in my car and it is 10 degrees outside. I think the accountability is higher. If you're having a tough stretch in Anaheim people get distracted by the L.A. Lakers or whatever it might be, USC. I think for me, here in Ottawa, seeing yourself on TV every single day or going to a restaurant and TSN or Sportsnet is playing behind you, the anonymity factor of playing in a place like Anaheim is essentially lost. You have to take it in stride. I pick and choose where I want to eat dinner or be seen. That's been an adjustment for me.
KT: How do you spend your free time in Ottawa?
BR: We are still getting used to the area. For us, taking a walk around the city, discovering places to eat. This is my fiance's first winter so we've been to the touristy areas. We love having a hot chocolate, seeing the sites; it's something we really enjoy. We both fell in love with the downtown of Ottawa.
KT: It's her first winter?
KT: No wonder you proposed in Paris.
BR: [laughs] Yeah, I know.
KT: Who is the toughest person to play against in the NHL?
BR: Brooks Orpik. He can skate well but he moves around and is always in position. He always has a position on you. He doesn't get beat 1-on-1 too often. Tough guy to play against, that's for sure.
KT: Who is the best player to play with?
BR: I think [Ryan] Getzlaf. He makes the game easy on everyone around him. He will get a big head reading this but he's obviously one of the best passers in the League and I benefitted greatly from playing with him.
KT: Don't worry, we won't tell him you said that.
BR: [laughs] Sounds good.


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Onyx Webb: Book One: Episodes 1, 2, & 3, by Andrea Waltz
"In the case of this book, Onyx Webb, every single page was a golden nugget. This story had danger, intrigue, love, betrayal, and a graphic novel sensibility that appealed to me, personally, on every level. Honestly, I couldn't put it down, and my dismay at reaching the last page quickly turned to determination as I found my way to Amazon to download the second book. In conclusion, I can only say that as an author, I wish I'd written Onyx Webb, and give Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz major kudos for a job extremely well done." -- Amazon Reviewer
Best-Selling Authors Fenton & Waltz Welcome You to the World of Onyx Webb. This is Book One. (Episodes 1, 2, and 3)
Onyx Webb is a multi-genre mash-up that combines elements of supernatural suspense, crime, horror, romance, and more. One reviewer says, "Fabulous. Different. Odd. Crazy. Wonderful. I've never read anything like it. You've created the weirdest, coolest new genre of fiction and I love it."The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times. The billionaire Mulvaney family, piano prodigy Juniper Cole and her brother Quinn, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and a few others make up the core of the series. Written like a book version of a supernatural soap opera, each character's story moves forward with most every episode. It may appear that the characters are entirely unrelated and yet episode by episode, the connections will become clearer. Like being an inch away from a spider web, with each book, the web will move further and further away revealing the full story of every character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself.
In Book One...
- It's June, 1980 and piano prodigy, Juniper Cole is on the way to her senior prom.
- It's January 2010, and Koda Mulvaney has blown through his 20 million dollar trust fund and is told by his father to return home and get to work.
- It's August, 1904 and little Onyx Webb is on her way to the famous World's Fair in St. Louis with her father, Catfish.
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I'm a professional speaker, co-author of multiple business fables and most recently have added fiction to my resume. As co-author of the best-selling title, Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There I am wildly passionate about teaching audiences how they can overcome fear of failure and rejection and reprogram how they think about the word No! My newest passion is writing and creating a paranormal suspense series, Onyx Webb with author Richard Fenton. Onyx Webb reads like a supernatural soap opera in book form. Our writing is inspired by great t.v. series' such as Downton Abbey, Bates Motel, The Americans, The Fall, and many others.


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Three students killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week are being awarded posthumous medals of heroism, the Miami Herald reports.
"One will be presented to the family of Cadet Peter Wang this morning at his service," U.S. Army Cadet Command spokesman Michael Maddox told the Herald on Tuesday. "It's my understanding that this is an open casket service and the family requested their son be buried in his JROTC uniform. The JROTC Heroism medal will be on his uniform, but a second 'keepsake' medal will be given to the family."
Wang, 15, died in his uniform while holding the door open to allow his classmates to escape as accused gunman Nikolas Cruz opened fire in the school's freshman building last Wednesday.
A petition calling for a full honors military funeral called Wang a hero, saying his "selfless and heroic actions have led to the survival of dozens in the area."
Maddox told the Herald that the family of 14-year-old Alaina Petty was given her medal at her funeral on Monday, while the family of 14-year-old Martin Duque will receive his medal during his funeral on Saturday.
According to the Army's website, the medal is "a U.S. military decoration awarded by the Department of the Army to a JROTC cadet who performs an act of heroism. The achievement must be an accomplishment so exceptional and outstanding that it clearly sets the individual apart from fellow students or from other persons in similar circumstances. The performance must have involved the acceptance of danger and extraordinary responsibilities, exemplifying praiseworthy fortitude and courage."


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News came out the other day that Diamond, the company that handles all the distribution of all comic books in the west, have raised their purchase order benchmark from $1500 to $2500 - they now demand that each title they distribute generates at least $2500 worth of revenue to Diamond, or lose their distribution. This basically means that, in order to get their comics stocked, indie comics publishers are going to have to raise their cover prices for the second year in a row, row from an already costly $3.99 to a line-crossing $4.99/$5.50 for 20-odd pages of story and art.
"Diamond is in essence asking everyone to sell more in a recessionary environment or find themselves out of the catalog," said Slave Labor chief Dan Vado in an email published on Newsarama. "Short term, a lot of publishers are going to find themselves with no distribution."
"Diamond actually stopped me from opening a comic shop back in '03 with their unreasonable minimum stock order demands," wrote Colin in an email today. "Now that they have the monopoly, it would seem that they have started to bugger it all up. Soon there wont be any comic shops aside Forbidden Planets, which are great but just the comic HMV. I feel download guilt (Only for comics though)..."
And there's the rub. While this minimum-return policy will force most independent comic books off the shelves and online, along with a great number of legitimate customers, the big Two - Marvel and DC - are still refusing to sell digital copies of all their comic books, despite the rapidly increasing free download culture sweeping the web.
Nowadays, every comic book that hits stores is collected as one illegal torrent download, and upped online every Wednesday, with update packs following every couple of days. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people download them, every week. What we're seeing is pretty much exactly what happened to the music industry between the late nineties and the mid naughties. And the comics industry is reacting in exactly the same, goonish, self-destructive manner.
Right now more people are reading comic books than have for decades. A recent spate of credible comic-based movies has piqued the curiosity of the mainstream, while their image as pure-geek fodder seems to be dissipating at the same speed that geek culture itself becomes celebrated, and accepted, by that mainstream. It is now possibly for anyone with a half-decent internet connection to cop all the comics they could want. Decent comics are now recognised by many as valid art - after decades of scorn, comic inspired art sells albums, books, movies and furniture polish by the truckload. Comics culture is reaching a tipping point.
And the industry isn't around to capitalise.
For as long as I've been alive, the only place you could buy a decent comic book was a comic shop. And there just aren't that many of them around. Where I grew up, the nearest comic shop was a four hour drive away, in another country - I only really discovered comics above the Beano age bracket when I was in hospital in Liverpool, aged seven.
Even here in London, finding a comic shop, and then finding a comic shop that stocks the comics I want to read, is a giant pain in the ass.
Then there's the shops themselves. The vast majority I have visited have been dusty, grotty, stinky bumholes full of overpriced toys and marked-up back issues, staffed by incredibly rude, overweight men with personal hygiene issues. I wish that this were just a stereotype, but in my experience, that has not been the case. Comic shops are usually anti-joy and anti-female (unless the female in question happens to be a cardboard cutout of a triple-F baring vampire that is).
Right now, a person need never visit a comic shop ever again. A person can download one of these illegal torrents, and read all the comics they like, whenever they like. If a person likes that comic, they can cop a hard copy from the publisher, or they can wait until it's collected in trade paperback format and buy it from Amazon. Most comics take 10 minutes to read anyway. I think we can all agree that 5 dollars for ten minutes of entertainment is a bit steep. It's like crack or something. Best to wait for the trade paperback, and enjoy the digital copy in the meanwhile. Its not like anybody sees digital as the be all and end all of the thing - reading a physical copy is, for now, a better experience. Comics, unlike music, are a thing best enjoyed, and treasured, in a physical format.
The idiocy of the big publishers on this one is absolutely staggering. Had they, when the idea was mooted, years ago, digitized all of their published work, new and old, and made it available on a monthly subscription basis, or one off, dollar-a-book charges, they would be rolling around in huge piles of cash, and they would have halted the emergent pirate trade before it became the all encompassing, all-scanning beast it is now. If they'd brought in, and paid those early "pirates", scanning old books in order to preserve them for eternity, to share with friends, scanning new books so that they might be read by more than few hundred people... Well. We can only imagine. What is clear, is that if these dinosaurs don't change their ways immediately, there won't be all those comics for the scanners to upload every Wednesday, and what remains of the industry will continue its long, sad slide into bankruptcy.


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Hold my hand when crossing the road
Hold on to the swing
Hold the door open for everyone.
Unless they're too far away— it gets awkward
Don't spend longer than 10 minutes on hold
Don't hold onto your pee too long. It's bad for you
Maximum hold hairspray is only for special occasions
Hold your breath when using maximum hold hairspray
Hold on, I'm a coming
Hold your head up high
Don't hold onto people who aren't trying to hold onto you
Hold faith
Hold yourself in high regard
Hold the people in your life to high standards
Hold yourself to higher ones
Hold your bag across your body
Hold the line
Hold dinner parties
Hold up those who can't hold up themselves
But make sure someone is holding you*
*I will always be holding you
Hold on tight
Especially when you think you can't hold on anymore
Hold fast
Hold out for the right man
Don't hold back
If someone promises you something, hold them to it
Don't hold back your tears, emotions or thoughts. They all have value.
Hold that plank a little longer
Hold everything in perspective
Hold my hand when crossing the road… and the path… and the raging river and the slow stream and when you've gone ahead across the ocean and when we're only a metre apart and when you don't want to and when you don't need to and when you do and when you try and when you're not sure and especially when you just don't know.
Hold my hand and don't ever let go.
Thank you for holding me in your womb, your arms, your respect, your esteem and in high regard. I hold you dearer than you will ever know.
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1555 Wallum Lake Road Pascoag, Rhode Island 02859
The following article is reprinted with permission from Heritage Eagle, where it first appeared in issue No. 30, 1995.
I am quite sure that some of you have had a bad experience with your boiler inspector and consider him/her public enemy No.1. In this article, I'd like to try to convince you of the fact that your boiler inspector deserves your respect and attention.
Now that I have your attention by this statement, I'd like to continue as follows.
As the owner of an ASME Code boiler manufacturing shop, I deal with my insurance inspector and many jurisdiction inspectors throughout North America. I find that, for the most part, your boiler inspector doesn't have a clue how your tractor operates and surely does not appreciate or understand why this chunk of iron is the most important object of your affection, even superseding, in many cases, your family! You start off at odds as soon as the inspector wants to examine your tractor's inner areas. You shudder with horror when he/she (there are many female inspectors now) takes out that hammer and taps everywhere chipping some fancy painted areas with little or no concern, merrily tapping away, poking tubes, stays and sheets.
Your boiler inspector's vocabulary is insulting as you are informed that your boiler shows advanced signs of corrosion, thinning and, his big gun, red tag! This can't be your boiler he's referring to. You plead with him to pass it anyway, because there's that big show you got her all dolled up for, but he's suddenly deaf, packs his little bag, hands you an Inspection Failure Report and drives into the sunset with a smile. Surely no one can be this mean!
He's not mean. He may have saved your life by red tagging your boiler. Your boiler inspector is trained to look for telltale changes in the condition of steel that often may cause sudden, severe changes in the integrity of a pressure vessel. He is not blind to the beauty of your tractor, but he can't allow himself to be swayed by cosmetic trappings on and around the heart of your tractor which is the boiler. Many of you have no conception whatsoever how devastating a boiler explosion can be. I have been on site for cleanup and repairs of a few boiler failures, which have left a lasting impression on my mind. I cannot emphasize enough how critical it is to properly maintain and operate any boiler.
Did you know that the original thought at the time your tractor was built was to figure a life expectancy of 15-20 years, tops! Today's boilers will last three or four times that long. No one dreamed that these rusty hulks found in the woods, behind barns or buried in the fields would be hauled out, cleaned up and run again at original pressure50-plus years after their life expectancy expired.
Many states are tightening their laws concerning these old tractors with good reason. They don't want one to blow up in their state and kill or maim people. Think what could happen at one of the shows you attend if one of these beautiful tractors let go. I think it would cause a domino reaction and all old riveted boilers older than twenty years would be condemned.
You can do a few things to keep you and your tractor safe. You should never
1. Weld on a boiler unless you are an ASME Code certified welder. Only an ASME Code certified welder working for an R stamp holder should ever touch a boiler. They have been trained and tested to use the proper procedures and materials to make a safe weld.
2. Tamper with or adjust a safety valve. Only an ASME Code VR company should adjust and reset all safety valves. To be on the safe side, have your safety valves checked annually.
3. Put your boiler away dirty. Proper maintenance demands that your boiler be cleaned often to prevent unnecessary corrosion which can ruin any boiler.
4. Run low water. This is the biggest cause of explosions or failures of a boiler and also speeds up metal fatigue.
5. Open the firebox door while the engine is working. A sudden rush of cold air on the front tube sheet causes thermal shock and eventually failure. Wait until engine coasts as on a saw mill, then open the door and feed quickly. There are some situations when you must open the door at the wrong time. Be careful not to upset the heat zone in the firebox.
Take seriously any recommendations given to you by your boiler inspector it could save your life.
In conclusion, you should find a reputable ASME Code company with an R stamp familiar with your type of boiler to work with on all your boiler problems. These firms can save you a multitude of heartburn dealing with a boiler inspector. They speak the same language and respect each other's capabilities and responsibilities.
I hope you will see that your boiler inspector is indeed your friend and his concerns are based upon the safety of you and all those who will attend the many shows throughout this land.
If any reader would like a copy of Recommended Care and Maintenance of Steam Boilers, I would be happy to include you on our mailing list. We have made a sincere commitment to promote safe operations of all boilers and pressure vessels, and we will answer any questions asked of us. Write: Benson Mountain Company, P.O. Box 427, Thompson, Connecticut 06277-0427.


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This article will help you export and organize your stems for stem mastering. It will provide you a quick walkthrough for making, exporting, and organizing your stems into folders.
SECTION 1. How to export your stems from your workstation / console :
- Use your digital audio workstation or your mixer. You don't need any additional equipment.
- Bounce or record your final mix as you would usually.
- Your file must be at the same resolution and sample rate than your source file. For instance, you have create a session in 24 Bits and 44k, you keep rolling with the exact same for export.
- The output level should be approx. 3dbFS (check the link at the bottom of the page about dbFS) on your stereo peakmeter.
- Without changing levels, plugins, automation, or else, bounce each stem with all effects and reverbs linked.
- The resulting stereo file must have the same starting point.
- If you work with an analog console, it will be necessary to create an audio tick on each track ( a short percussive sound for instance ). This will allow to perfectly synchronize each track, with the same starting point, and will ease track implementation.
SECTION 2. How to name and organize your stems in your folder.
You'll find below an example of stem organization and naming of stem :
1. Organizing your stems
- stem - kick
- stem - drums ( the rest of the beat without cymbals )
- stem - bass
- stem - synths
- stem - guitar, keyboards, or second synthe
- stem - a cappella ( all voices : lead, backing vocals, ambiance, voice over )
- stem - FX, white noise, cymbals, synthe FX, drums FX, or others
- full mix ( reference for mastering )
- After making your stems, open a new session in your DAW ( Digital Audio Workstation ), and import your stems.
- Listen the session to assure yourself it sounds the same and all tracks are included. Don't skip this step, it is the only way to make sure there was no exporting error. Proceed to export.
2. Name your files and folder(s).
- Name your folder like this : artist_song
- Then, name your files such as : fullmix_song.wav or drums_song.aiff
- Please do not use ".", "•", or any special characters in your files or folder name.
Important : About .zip and .rar. The pupose of sending your folder in .zip format is only to allow the upload of your entire folder as one single file. Don't smash your files, it will damage them and we will not be able to revert damage, nor to use them.
Useful links :
- dbFS on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBFS


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"Communicating science is not just the noble thing to do, it's the smart thing to do," said adolescent brain expert Jay Giedd, M.D., at Saturday's annual Brain Awareness Week reception at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting. Dr. Giedd, below, the recipient of SfN's Science Educator Award in 2012, was alluding to the fact that in order for the public to want to invest in brain research, they have to be able to understand its benefits.
The importance of public outreach is a resounding theme within the Brain Awareness Week community, and the audience at the reception was surely in agreement with Giedd's statement. He further advocated communicating early and often, by going into classrooms and engaging with young students, explaining that kids ask the best (and sometimes difficult) questions. A child once asked him: If Einstein's brain was moved into another man's head, which person is Einstein? (Feel free to answer that one in the comments section below.)
Certainly some shining examples of future neuroscientists were two teenagers presenting posters at the reception. Adam Elliott, a junior from Matawan Regional High School in New Jersey, is this year's National Brain Bee winner (he was announced as the winner in March, when he was a sophomore). SfN is sponsoring an eight-week summer internship at the lab of Elliott's choice, and he is investigating a lab at Harvard where he could study plasticity or memory-making mechanisms. After graduation, he hopes to continue his studies at Harvard, possibly in the primate lab.
Hasna Rizwan, a 14-year-old homeschooled student in the tenth grade, planned her first Brain Awareness Week event last year (when she was 13!) at the Ashburn Library in Virginia. The Brain Awareness Day featured two scientist presentations and hands-on activities, and drew more than 150 people. She is working with members of the library to expand next year's program and has already enlisted the help of several organizations.
There were many other wonderful examples of Brain Awareness Week programs on display at the reception, and ample time for people to mingle and share ideas.
Brain Awareness Week 2015 will take place March 16-22. Visit our website to learn more about the campaign and how to participate!
–Ann L. Whitman


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Burma's referendum among ruins
I've been reading today's edition of propaganda rag The New Light of Myanmar. Normally all the railing against 'foreign stooges' and exhortations to 'national duty' (ie following the diktats of the ruling generals) is good for a cynical chuckle. But, as the song goes, that joke isn't funny anymore.
The paper is full of images of life returning to 'normal' in Rangoon and pictures of planes stocked with relief supplies being unloaded by soldiers. The generals are everywhere – Prime Minister Thein Sein apparently 'comforts' cyclone hit people. The photograph shows him standing ramrod straight with a reception committee fanning out around him. Missing are any images of the monks who mobilized first to clear roads and help people with whatever means at their disposal. The junta sees them as troublemakers, so instead it keeps up its self-aggrandizement while impounding planeloads of food sent by the World Food Programme. In the Netherlands, where I live, there is news of a Dutch aid group attempting to smuggle in food aid via the Thai-Burma border using Burmese ground staff. By now everyone one knows what a murderous mess the official relief effort (or lack thereof) is turning into, with each passing day pushing the death toll of the cyclone-hit higher and higher.
Burma's generals clearly have other fish to fry. Todays' paper opens with the announcement (in large type of course): 'To approve the State Constitution is a national duty of the entire people today. Let us all cast "Yes" vote in the national interest.' The reference is to the referendum on a new Constitution which the generals insist must go ahead tomorrow throughout the country (except for the worst-hit areas where voting has been postponed by two weeks). Imagine the huge state machinery and resources that such an operation will take up and contrast it with the pitiful official aid effort.
This referendum is the most contrived effort of this regime for a while yet. The junta started the process of drafting a new constitution for the country way back in 1993. The candidates chosen for the job didn't include the opposition National League for Democracy or people who could be considered representative of civil society. Instead the handpicked candidates nodded through the lumbering process dictated by the junta until suddenly this year it was announced that the draft constitution was complete and the people would be allowed to vote on it.
Until a month ago, the text of the constitution wasn't available for people to read for themselves though key aspects of its contents had been leaked out. Instead there was continuous propaganda for a 'yes' vote. When the text did appear it was available only as a few copies in bookshops, hardly the widespread dissemination needed for people to make an informed choice. Laws appeared which made criticizing the document or campaigning for a 'no' vote offences with jail terms attached. Burma's 400,000 monks were excluded from those who could vote. People working in government jobs were threatened with loss of employment if they voted 'no'. Reports began trickling in that the regime's thugs were beginning campaigns of intimidation in villages to force a 'yes' vote. Yup, this is the process that's going to the lead the Burmese people to democracy according to the junta.
The constitution itself is widely interpreted as sanctioning the rule in perpetuity of the military. It guarantees a 25 per cent presence in any future parliament for the military and that 25 per cent is also going to be the top executive layer. Anyone with foreign family connections may not be in government (thus neatly eliminating Aung San Suu Kyi from this vision of democracy). Thus all the constitution will aim to do is confer a patina of legitimacy to this most illegitimate of governments.
The New Light of Myanmar also carries the third lengthy installment of an essay entitled 'The most appropriate constitution' in which the author is at pains to put a positive gloss on continued military involvement in politics. Here are a couple of extracts to give you a flavour:
'It is common knowledge that the Tatmadaw [armed forces] played a leadership role in the national politics of the independence struggles and in safeguarding the independence. And it is still playing the leadership role, standing by the nation and steadfastly loyal to the national politics...
'In truth, there is no need to ask why the Tatmadaw wants to engage in the national politics. Whenever politicians committed misconduct, they were disunited, and vied each other for power, they turned to armed revolt, and the Tatmadaw had to sacrifice many lives of its members… The people had to withstand various forms of havoc triggered by the activities of the politicans. So I don't think it is prudent to let opportunist politicians to monopolize political affairs at will. The Tatmadaw does not want to let any situations to happen that make the people get into troubles, nor can it sacrifice the lives of its members due to the plots of the politicians. Tatmadaw members have to sacrifice their lives in times of emergency. So, they should have the rights to give advice and make suggestions of politicians' acts, shouldn't they? Therefore, it has become clear that the Tatmadaw should participate in the national political leadership role of the future State.'
Well, that's that settled then. The writer goes on to voice a universal truth: 'Actually, politicans by nature are harmful to the nation.' Without mentioning that the alternative on offer here is even worse. The piece ends thus:
'Very clear, we will have to unanimously cast "Yes" vote for the new constitution. Only then, will it be possible for us to get the most discipline-flourishing and developed democratic nation. We have to be convinced that casting "Yes" vote for approval of the constitution is shouldering a national duty.
'In conclusion, I would like to urge all to lead an easy life in the new democratic nation after casting "Yes" vote for the constitution in the referendum.'
The bitter irony of this reference to the 'easy life' in the current circumstances was obviously lost on the state censors.
In the end, many feel, it will matter little how those who turn up vote. There are no international observers and the stage looks set for rigging. The generals have also probably learnt lessons from the elections of 1990 in which they were routed, when they hubristically thought they would win. This referendum, planned to take place under near-universal condemnation, needs to deliver a result more conducive to them.
That this charade must be played out during a crisis on a scale of the Asian tsunami... well, there are just no words for it.
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Tips for Healthy Happy Summer Holidays By M.D. Thordis Berger
1 Diarrhoea
Travellers' diarrhoea is usually caused by unfamiliar germs, particularly in drinking water. Be cautious about local water and ice. Don't ever drink the local water if it is of suspicious quality and never take anything with ice in it. Replace it with clean water from previously unopened bottles for drinking as well as for cleaning teeth and making ice for drinks. Avoid salads and unpeeled fruits too.
2 Sunburn
The best way to prevent a sunburn is to avoid sun exposure. Especially between noon and 3pm, UV radiation is very aggressive. Find shade if you need to be outdoors.
Use a minimum of factor 15 sunscreen and apply generously before you go outdoors – and reapply after swimming, even if it's waterproof.
Seek medical attention if a baby or child has sunburn or if your skin has blistered or you feel dizzy, nauseous or feverish.
3 Insect bites
Whether you're spending your vacation at the beach, at the countryside or in the mountains, it is very probable that you will suffer from some kind of insect bites during the summer. Most bites only cause swelling. But sometimes they can cause an allergic response, become infected if scratched and, in some climates, cause malaria.
Keep skin covered at dawn and dusk, wear light colours as mosquitoes are attracted to dark clothing and don't use strong-smelling deodorants.
In general, insect bites improve within a day or two. If you start to get flu-like symptoms after you've been bitten, or the soreness starts to spread into general aches and pains you should go to see a doctor.
If breathing difficulties or swallowing occur, call for an ambulance immediately.
4 Food poisoning
Maintaining food at the right temperature prevents food poisoning. If food is not kept at the right temperature, or kept out for prolonged time, there is increased growth of bacteria and food poisoning risks go up. Be wary of salads, seafood and uncovered dishes in all-inclusive buffets. Stick to fresh, thoroughly cooked food – ideally, cooked to order – and fruit that is easily peeled or sliced open, such as bananas and papaya.
5 Heat stroke
The best advice is to gradually build up your tolerance to the sun and don't exercise when the sun is at its strongest. Avoid direct sunlight during peak hours, stay in the shade, wear a hat and drink enough water to stay hydrated.
Too much sun can cause heat exhaustion (when the body's core temperature rises up to 40C) and heat stroke (if the temperature exceeds 40C). Symptoms include nausea, dizziness, sweating, confusion, loss of consciousness and rapid breathing. If symptoms don't improve once you've cooled down, seek medical attention.
6 Constipation
Changes to your diet and exercise regime can mean a lack of fibre and insufficient gut movement, causing constipation.
Choose fibre-rich food – such as fruit and vegetables and wholegrain bread and drink plenty of water and keep active.
7 Ear infection
A common holiday ear infection is otitis externa, or swimmer's ear, caused by repeatedly exposing the ear to water. If you're planning to spend a lot of time in the water, wear ear plugs or a cap that covers the ears and thoroughly dry your ears after swimming.


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Taco Wonton Cups
1 lb. ground beef, cooked and drained
1 package taco seasoning
36 wonton wrappers
1 can refried beans
2-3 c. grated cheese
1 bag tortilla chips, crush 1/2 the bag
Optional toppings: diced tomatoes, sliced olives, diced onion, shredded lettuce, sour cream, ranch etc.....
Cook ground beef with taco seasoning. Set aside when done. Spray muffin tins (2) with pan coating. Place one wrapper in the bottom of 18 muffin cups. Place 1 Tablespoon in the bottom of each wonton cup. Sprinkle some crushed chips on top of beans. Top with 1 Tablespoon of ground beef and a sprinkle of cheese. Top with another wonton wrapper and some more cheese. Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes or until done. Serve with your choice of toppings or eat as is...either way they are yummy!


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A few months back I had an experience I met to post about. I'm a bit late with it and I'm still processing it so…
When Grenwinae was off visiting his mom in her city, I went off alone on a junk shopping trip for the shop. When I'm off on these trips I am looking for specific things and one of those things is mirrors that I can convert to black scrying mirrors.
Buying these mirrors is fun but always a bit tricky when checking out as the store owners want to know what we are going to do with the mirrors. I've tried responding we do a "craft" project with them, but they ask again on what we will be doing and conversation quickly gets convoluted and sticky.
Grenwinae is up front and tells people. His argument is that it is promoting the shop and we could let them know we are in the market for more mirrors, getting an inside track. I've watched the confused looks on people's faces and they don't get what he is saying anyway!
It goes against my Owl-Nature to be blurting this stuff out to just anyone. I prefer to be secretive about what my plans are.
I disagree with his philosophy because we live in a conservative area and most people would go black scrying mirrors? WTF!? and probably bring out the garlic and the silver crucifix (that is if they were Catholic, but being predominately Baptist or Protestant, they would probably just spit and key my car).
So on this trip, I was at a store where I've met the shop owner a few times and thought I'd be honest with her (as Grenwinae suggested). Her husband was in the shop helping her with some heavy furniture. I could tell she was a bit out of patience (he kept correcting her in HER shop) with him – probably hoping he would go home or get some lunch and leave her be!
I'm trying to explain what black scrying mirrors are and what people use them for when he interrupts (think 50 year old, potbellied Good Old Boy, thumbs in pocket, slightly dumb look on his face) with a loud "Are you a Witch!?" HAR HAR he laughs.
I reply with a calm no, but after I left, I was like "of course I'm not a witch…" and a Vulture flies over me. No, I do not identify as a witch… and a hawk stares down at me and watches me go by.
Okay, I don't really know what I am, but it does not spring to my mind to consider myself a witch. But yet, I'll have to think more upon that. We always want easy labels but in the long run it doesn't matter to me – I exist and I do what I want to do.
From now on I just tell people I collect vintage mirrors and resale them online. Enough already!


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Growing up in the 1970s, a common depiction of computers, at least by Hollywood film-makers, was a room full of wardrobe sized cabinets, with innumerable flashing lights and switches and spinning tape drives. Frequently, the plot of the movie was centred on the computer malfunctioning in some malevolent way, and chaos breaking out. The Italian Job, Westworld and 2001 A Space Odyssey all relied on computer failures to spice up the plot.
The reality was that throughout the 1960s, computer hardware was large and cumbersome, covered in lights and switches, and you only had to point a camera at any mainframe of that era, and you had the perfect cheap shot to enhance any sci-fi movie.
By the early 1980s, computers had entered homes and schools, and teenagers, such as myself at that time, were spending countless hours typing BASIC program listings from computer magazines, into low spec home computers, with dubious keyboards and scungy TV displays. In just 5 years, the first micros of the mid 1970s had evolved from homebrew rack systems with lights and switches, to mass produced machines on sale in every high street. In homage to the early micros, the classic example of that era, was the MITS Altair 8800, which had a role in the 1983 film "War Games".
At about the same time that Matthew Broderick was pretending to program the Altair 8800, I had invested in an 8 bit input output card for my ZX81. At about £20, and solder it yourself, it had cost me several weeks pocket money. Here for the first time, for me, was the means to connect to the real world and make the computer do something under program control. The first thing was to connect 8 LEDs to the pins of the output port and with some simple BASIC programs, create a whole load of different "Knight Rider" LED chaser display effects.
Fast forward 30 years, and technology has developed by several orders of magnitude. The average Smartphone now has 1 million times as much RAM as my first ZX81 and is clocked at 1000 times the speed. Not to mention that it has four 32 bit ARM processors acting as a quad array, plus a specialist graphics processor unit. This type of processing power and memory storage capacity in your pocket was inconceivable just a few years ago.
However, just because millions carry around this sort of processing capability in their pockets or bags, does not mean that we have become a population of computer scientists. In fact, the average citizen has no more inkling today of how a computer works, than 30 or 40 years ago, watching computers malfunction on Hollywood movies.
Fortunately, in recent years there has been an active and vocal campaign to help educate a tiny percentage of the population into the workings of computer technology. The $20 Arduino and it's spin offs, has done more for teaching computing science, hardware, firmware and programming skills than any other device in the last 30 years.
So, in homage to those early homebrew computers with their flashing LED displays, I have connected a dozen LEDs to the pins of an Arduino, and recreated some of my light chaser memories from 30 years ago.
I have a new toy to play with, and a programming language SIMPL that lends itself to simple interactive physical computing. A few lines of SIMPL and I have a LED chaser display that demonstrates the benefits of having an interactive programming environment.


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How to… adjust stock in MultiTAS
This is a very common issue and it usually crops up three or four times in a week. With a little bit of luck, this should help explain how you can go about managing your stock in MultiTAS.
What are Stock Adjustments?
Stock Adjustments are used to adjust stock levels. They can be used for any number of reasons. These could be write-offs, stock takes, location transfers or simply to set an opening balance. Outwith of Sales Orders and Purchase Orders, the only way to adjust stock levels is via a Stock Adjustment. Unless, of course, you are using assemblies in which case you need to use the Build Assembly facility which is whole other kettle of fish.
How do I access Stock Adjustments in MultiTAS?
You can access the Stock Adjustment function from Stock > Stock Adjustments (program 5.2.1)
What can I do using the Stock Adjustment function?
The Stock Adjustment function allows you to process Stock Adjustments by entering a product code, the level the product is to be adjusted by and whether there is a cost involved.
On processing, the stock level of the product(s) is adjusted and – if necessary – a nominal transaction is created to update the product(s) cost of sales and stock nominal accounts.
Anything else I should know
You can't process a stock adjustment for a product that is set up as a service. Nor for one that is set up as an assembly. Using MultiTAS, you can process stock adjustments en-masse by importing them. You can learn more about importing stock adjustments here.
MultiTAS stock adjustments can work in two ways. The default is to adjust BY a particular number (Adjustment mode). But you can also adjust TO a particular number (Actual mode). This is set in the mode field in the top right corner of the form.


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As part of our work to support coach development, a series of coaching opportunities are to be held throughout the winter. These are in addition to other workshops and events available to support coaches working in the areas of athletic development, speed, endurance, jumps and throws.
A range of opportunities are available for speed event coaches throughout the year. These include:
Technical Coaching Clinics
The coaching clinics are designed to help coaches develop a sound understanding of how to coach the event, building on the technical content presented on the Coaching Assistant and Athletics Coach Award.
These training and education opportunities are aimed to bring together coaches and their athletes to train and develop expertise in their respective fields of interest.
The sessions will involve practical activities using athletes to demonstrate key coaching points with clear take home messages for both coach and athlete.
Who can attend: Coaches with a Coaching Assistant and Athletics Coach Award (or equivalent). Coaches can bring an athlete as a demonstrator on the day.
Who will deliver: The session will be delivered by experienced, national-level coaches who will clearly and simply demonstrate how to develop efficient and effective techniques for sprints and hurdles within a club environment.
Planned workshops
19ESS001 – 09 March 2019. Pitreavie Athletics Stadium 10.00am to 1.00pm
19WSM001 – 30 March 2019. Emirates Arena 10.00am to 1.00pm
19WSH001 – 10 March 2019. Ayrshire Athletics Arena 10.00am to 1.00pm
19ESH001 – 30 March 2019. Grangemouth Stadium 10.00am to 1.00pm
To book a place, please click on the course code which will take you to the booking page on uLearn. Please note, coaches will need to sign in to their uLearn portal to complete the booking. Places are free to scottishathletics coach members with a valid coaching licence.
Places will be limited to the first 10 coaches on a first come first serve bases to make sure we can deliver a valuable coach learning experience.
Additional coaching clinics will become available once confirmed.
For more information on these opportunities, please contact Darren Ritchie, Head of Coach Development


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Climate change negotiations need strong scientific background and environmental Conferences impose tight deadlines on communication officers.
Our networking organization includes lots of freelance translators and scientific advisers.
When the International Panel of Climate Change released its 2007 Report, the meticulous approval procedure of this Panel led to a very short timeframe between the English language release and the scheduled release in all UN official languages. We stepped in just before the very last minute and were able to deliver over a thousand pages of scientific material within three weeks, and the same deadline for the layout in Russian, Spanish and French. Although sometimes demanding, such challenges are happily met if they allow the ideals and objectives of global organizations to foster evidence-based policy making at the global scale.
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to my "homespun" PSP Activities!
I'm having so much fun with this
Click here to see my Grapic Bud's Gallery of Arches.
(Mine are the three on the right.)
Click here to see my Cyberpussycat Shelter Dreamouse.
I almost had to cry when I did the photo manipulation activity. This is my precious angel, Holiday Inn outside one of his favorite windows. He's among his flowers now. God bless that sweet face.
Activity 1 by Chay.
Ta Da! I think I'm understanding masks now. I downloaded some at a site I found searching. The mask zips are at Graphics by Honey. My whole problem was that I didn't HAVE any masks in my PSP. ~L~
Activity 13 by Destiny
FINally! Here's my balloons:
I now understand layers, gradiant flood fills, and noise. Thanks, Liz. I'm gonna have lots more fun with this activity!
Activity 23 by Liz Fietelberg
Here's my dingbat lace doilies:
(I love the surprises you get with this activity. The one on the left reminds me of the bread covers you use in bread baskets. Southern belle-ish, aren't they? ~L~)
Activity 24 by Purrcat


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Russia - Hard Rock
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|Limberjacks from Prairie Wind Toy Co.
I've been thinking a lot about those days with our Papa's family, mostly about how I thought they would never end.
So this little poem is about lost childhood and a generation that is slowly slipping away. Even so, we won't forget what they've given us.
This poem is for Aunt Lerlie.
Never again
Will the little wooden man
Dance as he did
Like he danced with you
And never again
Will his jitterbug limbs
Spin as they did
When he spun with you
In our childhood dreams
of watermelon teeth
and sweet gum trees,
He jigs and he jumps
To your knuckle-bump thumps
On the pine wood plank
where he danced
But never again
Will he swing and sway
As he did back then
In those huckleberry days
None of us learned
How to play the spoons
And the cuckoo clock springs
Have sprung too soon
And never again
Will they rewind
While the limberjack man
Lies on his side


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Our partners firm's workforce management suite, composed of time and labor management, human resources, and payroll, makes it possible for you to accurately manage all aspects of your workforce through one web-based application. From recruitment to offboarding, the suite uses intuitive employee and manager self-service (ESS and MSS) features that empower employees. A robust reporting engine lets managers customize reports, address employee issues directly, and dynamically view and export data in a variety of formats. By automating many of the manual, time-consuming processes associated with managing your workforce, our workforce management suite helps you improve operational processes and grow your business while you ease compliance and save time and money.
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How does an affluent mid century artist from the Northeast depict "exotic" island cultures? And does that artist's gender and race matter and take a role in that depiction? How do you experience faces and cultures different from your own? As we explore a 20th century painting we'll see how artists can depict stereotypes and deeper realities and ultimately find themselves as they explore other cultures. And in turn we'll discover how we as viewers visiting the culture through the artists eyes, experience the work in the lens of our own personal identities.
Join Josiah Golson, attorney, artist and founder of "the 800 project," as we explore these ideas and more. Like all art + issues programs, this evening is free and open to the public.


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14 July 2016
Bags of Help projects in England and Scotland have rolled out the green carpet to welcome Her Majesty the Queen and The Archbishop of Canterbury to their projects.
Bonnie Dundee's 'Slessor Garden' project opened their gates to Her Majesty The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh on Wednesday 6 July 2016 where the Queen officially declared the garden open and unveiled a plaque before meeting members Slessor Garden team.
The beautiful new garden was a result of winning £12,000 of Bags of Help funding and will provide an event space for concerts, exhibitions and markets and has been named after the Dundee missionary Mary Slessor.
Pupils and teachers at Kingnorths Church of England Primary School in Ashford, Kent were also delighted to receive a visit from The Archbishop of Canterbury who blessed 'Wildlife Sensory Garden'.
The school, which also received the maximum £12,000 grant, welcomed The Archbishop earlier this week to proudly showcase their new greenspace for outdoor learning which boasts raised beds for growing sensory plants and vegetables and a storytelling area.
Groundwork UK chief executive, Graham Duxbury, said:
"We're delighted that Her Majesty and The Archbishop of Canterbury have been to see the excellent work by two Bags of Help projects, both of which will bring people together, protect wildlife and reconnect children with nature.
"It's places like these that are the lifeblood of our communities and we're sure that the Queen and the Archbishop's visits were an experience that will live long in the memories of everyone involved."
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Marginalia Vol.5 Relearning the Business Cycle
Marginalia are brief notes written in the margin of a book or article. John Vandenbrink, Deputy Dean of GLOBIS University, will share his notes on topics that have caught his attention in his readings on finance, business, and economics.
During the two decades before the financial crisis of 2008, the severity of business cycles in developed economies dampened and interest rates declined over time, stimulating these economies to ever-higher levels of activity. For business managers, planning for business cycles became less and less important.
However, this unique period has ended. Following the recovery from the current global recession, business cycles will return, probably at their historical intensities.
Business managers need to relearn the concept of business cycles and prepare their enterprises to meet them. Business schools, for their part, need to train for prudent financial management through cycles.
In 2007 I needed to choose cases for two MBA finance courses. I skimmed the Internet to get ideas from the business school syllabuses posted there. I remember noticing that many more materials were available for teaching how to grow businesses than how to manage them through business cycles. Although I have no empirical evidence, I doubt it would be hard to prove that business schools pay scant attention to business cycles. This must change, because the conditions that have prevailed in recent decades cannot continue.
The Great Moderation
Since the early 1980s, the volatilities of GDP, inventories, employment, and related macroeconomic indicators have declined markedly in developed economies. Economists have named this phenomenon the "Great Moderation."
In the United States, for example, during the period 1984–2007 there were only two recessions, and they were mild. This contrasts with the more frequent and deeper recessions in previous years. Note the frequency and duration of the shaded areas in Figure 1, which I have copied from a paper produced at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2008 by economists Steven J. Davis and James A. Kahn.*1
Economists have documented similar experiences in Australia, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Japan, among others. *2 There are many variations—with Japan the most divergent, starting a decade earlier and subject to later shocks*3 —but overall the pattern of reduced volatility of macroeconomic activity is consistent across major nations.
The Great Moderation, which led business mangers to plan less and less for business cycles, was due to a complex set of causes. What were these causes?
Ambiguous Causation
Economists have suggested various causes for the Great Moderation. They fall into three categories:
・Improved macroeconomic policies
・Structural changes in advanced economies
The first category includes developments among central banks, notably the spread of rules-based policies linked to money supply and inflation and also the increased independence of the central banks themselves.
Probably the best-known discussion of improvements in macroeconomic policies in the United States is the 2004 speech by Ben Bernanke, then a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank, and now its Chairman. The title of Bernanke's speech was "The Great Moderation." He surveyed the economic literature and argued that in the United States, at least, improved monetary policy had probably made important contributions to the reduction of volatility of inflation as well as volatility of output. This reduced macroeconomic volatility had many benefits, he said, and was associated with the fact that "recessions had become less frequent and less severe." By no means did he contend that improvements in monetary policy were the sole cause of the Great Moderation, but he did clearly point to them as a major factor.
Empirical research tends to support this view, although the estimated degrees of impact are quite modest. For example, in a large study on the U.S. experience completed in 2002 economists James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson attributed 10% to 25% of the decline in output volatility since the mid-1980s to the Fed's more aggressive response to inflation. *4 Other researchers, including both those looking at U.S. data and those looking at data in other advanced economies, have found similar levels of impact. However, yet others have found no evidence of impact. *5
The category of structural changes in advanced economies is headed by supposed improvements in inventory management due to networking of supply chains through new information technologies. This cause has widespread support among economists. However, Stock and Watson found that while short-term (month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter) volatility of inventories declined, improved inventory management appeared not to reduce volatility over longer horizons, and so could not have moderated business cycles. *6
Also in this category of structural economic changes is the shift from manufacturing to services. However, the case for this proposal suffers from timing problems: the shifts in composition do not coincide with the reductions of volatilities of macroeconomic measures.
Other structural causes that have been suggested are deregulation and greater depth and sophistication of financial markets. Neither seems to have had large advocacies before 2008, and in view of their impacts during the crisis presumably neither will be put forward again.*7
The third category is luck: the view that the Great Moderation emerged because adverse shocks hitting economies were smaller and less frequent than usual.
This view has a reasonably large following. Stock and Watson analyzed monetary shocks, fiscal shocks, productivity shocks, oil price shocks, and other commodity price shocks in the United States and concluded that having smaller, fewer shocks accounted for 20% to 30% of the reduction in volatility of annual GDP growth. *8 However, a comparative study of G-7 countries and Australia by the economist Peter M. Summers found no causal link. *9
Unfortunately, while it is certain that volatilities of major macroeconomic indexes fell significantly across major developed countries during the Great Moderation, there is no consensus among the scholars about the causes. Clearly, a highly complex set of factors was at work. Probably, improved macroeconomic policies, structural changes, and luck each played modest roles, but their interactions and net impacts are ambiguous. There is in fact little evidence to give confidence that the world indeed changed in the mid-1980s.
On the contrary, the depth of the current global recession tells us that business cycles refuse to be things of the past. Perhaps business cycles were not moderated, but deferred. Perhaps ever declining interest rates—which now can fall no lower—played a role. Perhaps the central banks' tendencies to cushion each recession with successively lower interest rates constrained what Joseph Schumpeter famously called creative destruction: the incessant process of change that destroys old forms of production from within, with established businesses giving way in competition to businesses with improved technologies and more efficient forms of organizing production. In hindsight, declining interest rates seem as plausible a cause for the Great Moderation as the candidates mentioned above.
Why Business Cycles Will Reassert Themselves
Thus, the causes of the Great Moderation were complex and ambiguous. Moreover, they cannot be counted on to persist into the future.
This is true, in particular, for the supposedly improved macroeconomic policies of the Great Moderation. If indeed they were material in the first place, they will nevertheless be powerless for decades to come.
Recall what the world witnessed through the decades of the Great Moderation. Central banks in developed countries cut interest rates to the point that they destroyed any semblance of balance between savers, on one hand, and investors in real, productive assets, on the other. By 2007, bank depositors earned historically very low nominal interest. Professional fund managers, pressed for yield, pushed down credit spreads on junk bonds to finance risky corporate mergers, and they unwittingly moved their clients' cash into highly rated, supposedly safe mortgage bonds and related instruments, inadvertently facilitating an enormous asset bubble in U.S. real estate. Foundations, dependent on returns to fund their activities, invested endowments in risky bonds linked through derivatives to high-interest-rate currencies.
Savers were starved for returns. Investors in real assets were awash in cheap borrowed cash. Central banks will not repeat the low interest rate policies that over stimulated economies, propped up weak businesses, and led ultimately to the crisis in 2008.
By the time of the outbreak of the current global crisis, central banks had used up their traditional ammunition—their powers to reduce interest rates and expand the supply of money. Immediately, they faced the zero lower bound: the inability in practice to push interest rates below zero percent in nominal terms.
Lacking traditional powers, they were forced to adopt new, untested policies on a massive scale. Central bankers will not want to repeat this scenario. It will remain fixed in their minds for decades to come. They will be much less ready to help troubled businesses through the downturns. They will not quickly reduce the cost of funds, flood economies with cash, and press banks to lend, as they once did.
When prosperous times finally return, central bankers will raise interest rates more quickly and higher than they did during the Great Moderation. They will still attempt to temper business cycles, but the economic climate will no longer be as business-friendly as during the Great Moderation.
Looking Back to Schumpeter
Thus, businessmen accustomed to managing growth will need to come to grips with cyclicality, and business schools will need to help train them. How to begin?
They could do no better than to start by reading Joseph Schumpeter's seminal work on business cycles in "The Theory of Economic Development," which he first published in 1911. Schumpeter's contribution was to present business cycles not as monetary phenomena or things rooted in bank credit, but as an essential aspect of economic development wherein private entrepreneurs engaged in competition are the primary actors. Business cycles, he says, are not the only manifestation of creative destruction; they merely speed up a process that is ongoing in the economy and society. His discussion remains insightful today, particularly for businessmen, because it is they who are at the center of his analysis.
It may be hard to envision today, but in a few years the "Great Recession" in the United States, the deep-seated economic malaise in Japan, and the threatening structural faults in Europe will give way to renewed confidence and activity. These new forces will then precipitate the return of a once unquestioned but in recent decades much tamed phenomenon, the business cycle.
In their future appearances, business cycles will be much stronger than during the Great Moderation, when, deceptively, the actions of central banks appeared to tame them. Business managers will need to guide their firms more prudently. Business schools will need to teach them how. The one saving grace is that time to prepare will be ample, because working through the depths of the current, long-delayed downturn in the business cycle may take years.
*1 Davis, Steven J., and Kahn, James A., "Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels," Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report No. 334, July 2008.
*2 This particular list of countries is from a paper by Peter M. Summers, "What Caused The Great Moderation? Some Cross-Country Evidence," Federal Reserve Board of Kansas City, Economic Review, Third Quarter 2005.
*3 Ko, Jun-Hyung, and Murase, Koichi, "The Great Moderation in the Japanese Economy," Research Center for Price Dynamics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Working Paper Series No. 60, July 5, 2010.
*4 Stock, James H., and Watson, Mark W., "Has the Business Cycle Changed and {{{Why}}}?" National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2002, Volume 17, January 2003, p. 199, URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11075
*5 Benati, Luca, "The 'Great Moderation' in the United Kingdom," Working Paper Series, No. 769, European Central Bank, June 2007.
*6 Stock and Watson, pp. 185–186.
*7 Den Haan, Wouter, and Sterk, Vincent, "The myth of financial innovation and the Great Moderation," Vox, Nov. 8, 2011, http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/7237. The authors write, "[We] find very little evidence for the idea that financial innovation contributed to greater macroeconomic stability."
*8 Stock and Watson, p. 162.
*9 Summers, pp. 17–20.


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TORONTO - From the notorious rape and murder of two Ontario school girls to the notorious wrongful conviction of Thomas Sophonow in Manitoba, from the grisly to the tragic to the weird, Canada has thrown up its share of riveting, horrific and even bizarre criminal cases.
Billed as a Canadian first, a new anthology being published in the coming week aims to capture a unique perspective on the headline-grabbing crimes that gripped the public — both locally and nationally — in their thrall.
That perspective is provided by the men and women who defended, or prosecuted, the accused.
"Tough Crimes — True Cases by Top Canadian Criminal Lawyers" comprises 20 readable essays that detail the crimes along with the writers' ethical and strategic decisions, their reactions and feelings to finding themselves in the media and legal maelstrom that engulfs high-profile, high-stakes cases.
Such cases leave an "indelible mark" on those defending or prosecuting them, retired Supreme Court of Canada justice John Major writes in a forescript.
"The conclusion of a criminal trial," Major says, "is not a closure."
Although decades have passed in some cases, many of the crimes stand out for the grip they held on the public imagination:
The 1977 murder of 12-year-old "shoeshine boy" Emanuel Jaques on Toronto's sleazy Yonge Street strip; the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 that killed 329 people, initially had 1,185 prosecution witnesses, and took almost 20 years to come to trial; the 1990s killings of teens Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French by Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka that prompted defence lawyer John Rosen to wonder if he really was the "devil's advocate."
"The heinous nature of the allegations and the public's revulsion threatened to impair my ability to do my job properly," Rosen writes.
"I survived by doing what I always understood to be my job: I analyzed the problem facing the client, developed a credible strategy, advocated my position in court and ignored the media hype."
The strength of the anthology lies in its insider view. Its weakness flows from the same point: Bound by solicitor-client privilege or afraid of giving offence to colleagues, the writers stick largely to what is solidly on the public record and, occasionally, descend into insider back-slapping.
Still, their stories showcase both the powerful safeguards of Canada's criminal-justice system and the fatal flaws that can condemn the innocent to decades behind bars.
"No legal system is perfect or mistake-proof," writes Edward Greenspan about a 30-year-old guilty verdict in a Toronto murder case he's convinced led to an ongoing miscarriage of justice.
"Even a seemingly perfect trial can lead to the conviction of a perfectly innocent man."
At times, the puzzlement shines through, as with the whodunit in the apparent murders of two people in 1988 in Red Deer, Alta., who vanished.
The lawyer who successfully defended Jack Wanner in the case, still doesn't know what happened.
"I suppose it will just have to remain a mystery," Noel O'Brien writes.
Calgary-based editors Chris Evans and Lorene Shyba spent two years on the project published by Durance Vile. They say leaving threads hanging was deliberate.
"We didn't mine for answers to unanswered questions as these often provided the energy," they say in their foreword. "Seething frustration is sometimes what the story is about."
Although written by lawyers, the writing seldom strays into legalese.
Instead, they provide a window on their thinking: How do I cross-examine this witness? Do I let my client testify? How do I cope with the horrors? How do I justify defending someone who seems so obviously and abhorrently guilty?
"This book could be used in school classes, law schools and help the public understand what we go through," says contributor Bill Trudell, who defended Stan Koebel, convicted in the 2000 tainted water tragedy in Walkerton, Ont.
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version misspelled the surname of Emanuel Jaques.


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1887 James Barnet (CA) (major rebuilding and upper floors)
1903 Walter Liberty Vernon (NSWGA) (top floor)
1995-97 Tonkin Zulaikha and Jackson, Teece, Chesterman & Willis
|45 Alfred Street, Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW 2000 (cnr Alfred, Loftus and Young Streets)
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The Sydney Customs House occupies a unique
symbolic and physical position on the site of the First Fleet Landing.
Its location is a physical reminder of the importance of Circular Quay
as the original maritime centre for the colony.
The Customs House contains parts of the oldest surviving building of its type in Australia, used continuously for 145 years. It is a physical record of the history of the Customs Service and its importance in the history of Australia.
The Customs House embodies the work of three successive and individually distinguished government architects: Mortimer Lewis, James Barnet and Walter Liberty Vernon.
Because of the scarcity of documentary evidence about the early stages of construction, the surviving building fabric from these stages constitutes the principal source of additional evidence about the early history of the building and its occupants. (Phillips 1993: 5-6)
The building is a composite load-bearing and framed structure.The external masonry walls range from 680mm to 750mm thick, with internal walls about 200mm. Internal beams vary in fabric from wood to steel. The load-bearing masonry on the perimeter of the building and the steel-framed structure in the core are fairly readily separable in the upper reaches of the building, though the edges of concrete floors do bear on the earlier masonry at the perimeter of the framed structure of the core. The panel walls contained in the 1917 frame are of brick. Floors in the perimeter building are generally suspended timber, joisted with added steel beams, while the framed core has reinforced concrete two-way slabs. Lift shafts exist on the central axis of the building.
The roof is a pitched roof on king-post trusses finished with Marseilles tiles of Australian make. Extensive box-gutters run around the perimeter of the 1903 roofs.
Internal walls are finished with lime plaster, repaired with cement render. Some areas have significant plaster mouldings. Ceiling types are mixed. Window joinery, doors and architraves are generally french polished or varnished. Windows are timber, of french door and vertical sliding sash types, where overlooking the street. (Hansford and Maclaren 1991: 51-62)
The site of the Customs House is the presumed spot of the landing and official flagraising on the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. This event marked the foundation of the colony of New South Wales. The site has been occupied by buildings since 1843 (Hansford and McLaren 1993: 5-20).
The site at Circular Quay was chosen in 1843 to house the Customs Service for the rapidly growing colony. They were responsible for all imports and exports, exise on locally manufactured goods, immigration control, control of narcotic substances and morally corrupt goods such as books and films. During the war years this included items of enemy origin, or having socialistic or communistic tendancies (Phillips 1993: x - xiii). Accordingly, areas for storage, administration and public business were included in the original design of the building. As trade increased, so did pressures on space within the Customs House and two new wings were constructed between 1883 and 1889. These wings provided accomodation for the Shipping Office and Maritime Board (Hansford and McLaren 1993: 5-20).
These demands increased again with the approach of Federation. Custom's roles of immigration control and administration of trariffs were major reasons for Federation. They became, at this time, the major revenue raiser for the Commonwealth Government. Extensions were timed to co-incide with the change in government . More floors were added to cope with new and expanding duties brought about by the massive political change. More revisions were made between 1915 and 1917 to further accomodate these changes and pressures brought about by the war. (Phillips 1993: v-vii)
Few major sturctural changes have occured between 1917 and 1995. This reflects the movement of international shipping away from Circular Quay to other areas of the City and the State.
In June 1990 operations of the Customs Service were relocated. The site is currently undergoing refurbishment and is due to be reopened in June 1997 as a combined commercial, performance, tourism and museum space.
Special thanks to http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/
The present Customs House represents a
complete redesign and enlargement of an earlier 1844 building by
Mortimer Lewis (1796-1879) by James Barnet (1827-1904). The earlier
building had become too small and overcrowded for the expanding customs
work in Sydney, and it took six years before the problem was addressed.
The original client department occupied the building until 1990, after which the Federal Government made a gift of it to Sydney City Council together with funds for its refurbishment. There was, however, a proviso that the building be put to majority public use.
Tonkin Zulaikha and Jackson, Teece, Chesterman & Willis were commissioned to convert the building into a culture and information centre with restaurants and a large central atrium space. The future of the building had been hotly contested by various interests including music organisations that wished to convert it to a recital hall.
Information appearing in this section is reproduced from Sydney Architecture, with the kind permission of the author, Graham Jahn, a well known Sydney architect and former City of Sydney Councillor. Sydney Architecture, rrp $35.00, is available from all good book stores or from the publisher, Watermark Press, Telephone: 02 9818 5677.
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"Isserley always drove straight past a hitchhiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up."
In Michel Faber's suspenseful first novel, Isserley, an unusual-looking woman with strangely scarred skin, drives through the Scottish Highlands both day and night, looking for just the right male hitchhikers. She picks them up, makes enough small talk to determine she's made a safe choice, then hits a toggle switch on her car, releasing a drug that knocks her victims out. She then takes them to the "farm" where she lives-and where the "processing" takes place-a terrifying procedure involving the removal of various body parts.
In this upside-down world that Faber has so strikingly created, animals are human, and humans are known as "vodsels." Isserley, at one time a beautiful "human" covered in fur with a long tail, is now a foreigner in the "vodsel" world, sent there to collect as many victims as possible. And what becomes of the men she collects is just the beginning of an even more sinister secret. In this world, looks are extremely deceiving; it's what's Under the Skin that truly counts. A disturbing, yet thought-provoking metaphor for a society run amok, this ferociously creative fiction debut will linger in readers' imaginations long after they've passed the last hitchhiker on the highway.
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The monsters in the Highlands are not in Loch Ness, but picking up hitchhikers on the A9. In Michel Faber's eerie first novel, bodies are morphed and consumed, damaged and deranged as the alien protagonist harvests the itinerant and the wandering. Crisp and stealthy prose clinically unravels the paradox of a monster becoming human both physiologically and psychologically. -- Stuart Kelly
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