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From the Department of Crazy-Sounding Ideas Dismissed Too Quickly: Democrats recently introduced new legislation that seeks to provide pension plans for private sector workers.
Given the huge unfunded obligations that California governments have incurred for the existing pension obligations for public workers, this idea has been quickly dismissed in public debate. Over at Calwhine.com, Chris Reed wrote that it wasn't even worthy of being called "half-baked;" those who introduced it, including Democratic leadership in the state Senate, are completely baked.
That reaction is understandable -- but completely backwards. This legislation represents an opportunity -- indeed a model -- that should be embraced by everyone, from conservative critics of pensions to liberals determined to preserve retirement security.
Here's what everyone is missing. While this proposal offers a modest, low-risk pension plan for private workers, it has even greater potential as a new, smarter, safer approach to pensions for everyone -- including public sector workers.
Because this is a private sector plan, Democrats proposed it in a way that would limit risk -- exactly the kind of outsized risk that is contained in existing public plans. Under the legislation, businesses with more five or more employees would be required to enroll employees in a state "personal pension plan," or offer an alternative plan of the employer.
Employees would contribute 3 percent of their pay via payroll deduction. Employers would not have to match those contributions. And the fund would be managed conservatively, with investments tied to US Treasury bond rates. Losses would not be covered by the state, but by the private underwriters of the plan. Another advantage of accounts like this -- they could conceivably be made portable, so that workers could take them from job to job.
If only this were the basic structure of the public pension system. Instead, that has big employer contributions and taxpayer support in the event of losses. And CalPERS, rather than having a low-risk discount rate tied to treasuries, sets a discount rate of 7.5 percent; they are just so confident that they can do that well in the markets.
Which is why this is an opportunity for those worried about pension obligations and retirement security. Such folks should step up and say this is a much better system -- which preserves pensions and defined benefits and replaces the risky, deferred salary public pension system that is such a risk to taxpayers, and thus puts governments on a much more solid footing.
Some of the politicians offering up this proposal have been the strongest defenders of the existing public system. By proposing this for private workers, they are offering -- probably unintentionally -- a path not only to providing more security for people in the private sector, but a better system for the public sector as well.
Read More: "Democrats want to extend guaranteed retirement savings to private sector" (SacBee)
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Seriously. It feels like I've dealt with more rude behavior on the road this week than the sum of all of winter combined. I'll get to that in a bit.
Over lunch, I took a trip to Raglan Road, a new authentic Irish restaurant drawing its inspiration from real Irish pubs. You know, the ones in Ireland. The interior was strikingly vivid, rich in detail, and pleasing to the eye. This was just across the street from Sprint Center where the Big 12 tournament games are going on, so the game was on TV and the place was packed.
I had the Fish 'n' Chips. Good Stuff! But not worth waiting 90 minutes for.
Okay, so on with the commute. I saw this happen right after I left work:
I actually came from the other side of this wreck, but rode up to make sure no one was injured. I was on the phone with 911 as I took this photo. The cop (visible left) was just pulling up. The Tiburon hit the curb and stopped, then got bumped by the semi, which swung the car about, destroying the rear suspension (which the two drivers are examining). No one hurt, but north and southbound traffic was stopped on Broadway at 3:40ish on a Friday afternoon. In short, this is A Bad Thing.
So, I'm on a bike, home free southbound on Broadway with virtually NO traffic going my way. It's about this time that the stuck northbounders start making impromptu u-turns in the middle of the road. This includes a taxi, who nicely let me pass before completing the turn. Then, there's this guy:
He did a u-turn after the taxi, then got up on me at a stop light. Ahead in my lane, a UPS truck blocks the road. Common for this time of day, and if I were driving I'd NEVER use the outside lane on Broadway going southbound. I used the sidewalk. I beat the taxi through the intersection, and hopped off the curb after the UPS truck back out into the road. The taxi was behind me in the other lane, and mister "I have a new Volvo XC90" pulled in right behind me after the UPS truck. Then he tried nudging in between me and the taxi. Then he saw he wouldn't stand a chance of getting around me, and pulled in behind me as I turned right onto Southwest. All along Southwest, this guy was bullying cars around. At one point, he almost ran another car into oncoming traffic. At the next stop light, I took the above photo.
Passing Boulevard Brewery, I ran across Karen. A little ways past Antioch, we both nearly got right-hooked at the same time by a red Civic. Sorry, no pictures of that one.
Oh well. I'm done ranting.
Friday, March 14, 2008
It must be in the air
Seriously. It feels like I've dealt with more rude behavior on the road this week than the sum of all of winter combined. I'll get to that in a bit.
3 comments:
- MRMacrum said...
Whose fault was the accident? I read it as the 4 wheeler screwed up first.
I have never understood the "I am in a hurry and everyone is in my way" mentality when in city traffic. You never win with traffic by being a flounder. The Volvo idiot though is found driving in enery town all over.
- March 15, 2008 3:41 AM
- Noah said...
Well, the four wheeler caused it. It's hard telling what the officer wrote up. I didn't stick around. A lot of times the officer will fault the rear-ender (in this case the 'rig) with following too closely or some such but I'd doubt that happened in this case.
- March 15, 2008 10:52 AM
- Unknown said...
You know, the Missouri Bicycle Federation will send a nastygram to the home of the driver who gives you trouble if you get the license plate number. I'm not sure if it applies to those with Kansas plates, though. Might be a nice reminder for this friendly driver.
- March 17, 2008 6:08 PM
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Could Sheen's firing from Men Behaving Badly be a sign of the end times for pop culture's Valhalla, that people will no longer put up with stars' egotistic bullshit? Nah, it's more like Ragnarök in the Thor comics, a cycle that's created by them, for them, but marketed to all of us -- diversionary entertainment at its purest. Here are some other recent examples:
Peter Biskind covers Mel Gibson's id in "The Rude Warrior" for Vanity Fair. Anyone who's read the author's books (e.g., Star, Down and Dirty Pictures) knows he has a penchant for overstatement, particularly when it comes to analogizing between a filmmaker's films and his or her personal life. This results in a hilarious reading of the movie I'm most anxious to see:
[The Beaver] features Gibson talking through a hand puppet that enables him to voice feelings he's incapable of expressing directly, has been the object of much raillery. It hits every note in the Gibson songbook, and then some—most prominently, a suicidal dad redeemed by his son. (Foster says she took the script to Gibson because she thought it would speak to him personally.) But the film is so uncompromising, and directed with such delicacy, that it cuts through the sticky sentiment that is Gibson's stock and trade. Foster manages to find in his preoccupations an authenticity that he has never been able to convincingly dramatize himself; she's his beaver, so to speak.
I'm not sure he actually realized what he was writing in that last sentence, but what a double entendre.
In "The Apostate" at The New Yorker, Lawrence Wright interviews filmmaker Paul Haggis (e.g., Crash, Million Dollar Baby) about his fallout with The Church of Scientology, while detailing, along the way, the cult's history and its calculated relationship with Hollywood. There's so much great material here that it's hard to pick just one example, but Scientology's use of Sea Org (its missionary wing) for slave labor is fascinating. Take ex-member John Brousseau's involvement in providing favors for Tom Cruise:
In 2005, [Church leader and chairman David] Miscavige showed Cruise a Harley-Davidson motorcycle he owned. At Miscavige's request, Brousseau had had the vehicle's parts plated with brushed nickel and painted candy- apple red. Brousseau recalls, "Cruise asked me, 'God, could you paint my bike like that?' I looked at Miscavige, and Miscavige agreed." Cruise brought in two motorcycles to be painted, a Triumph and a Honda Rune; the Honda had been given to him by Spielberg after the filming of War of the Worlds. "The Honda already had a custom paint job by the set designer," Brousseau recalls. Each motorcycle had to be taken apart completely, and all the parts nickel-plated, before it was painted. (The church denies Brousseau's account.)


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Not that the Denver Broncos ever have a problem filling Sports Authority Field at Mile High, but with star quarterback Peyton Manning making his orange-and-blue debut on Sept. 2, well, let's just say that everybody and his brother wanted to be there.
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None of it went to waste, though, thanks to a Denver nonprofit called We Don't Waste. Founded and directed by Arlan Preblud, We Don't Waste collects unused, leftover food from caterers, events, restaurants and venues and delivers it via a single van to Denver's hungry.


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HEIFEI, China, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Gu Kailai, wife of a once powerful Chinese leader, Monday got a suspended death sentence for murder, ending a hugely important case in the country.
A municipal intermediate people's court in Heifei city in China's eastern Anhui province, which had conducted the one-day trial of the 53-year-old former attorney and wife of ousted party leader Bo Xilai earlier this month, sentenced her "to death with a two-year reprieve for intentional homicide" in the poisoning death last November of British businessman Neil Heywood, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Such a sentence in China means a likely life term for the woman.
Zhang Xiaojun, a family aide and fellow accused, was sentenced to nine years in prison, the report said.
The Heifei court also tried four Chongqing police officers for allegedly covering up the crime but they are yet to be sentenced.
In sentencing Gu, the court might have taken into consideration her mental state at the time of Heywood's death as she feared for the safety of her son.
During her Aug. 9 trial, Gu did not contest the charge of poisoning Heywood, only saying an economic issue led to the threat against her son. Zhang also did not contest the charge against him.
The case was seen as being of enormously significant because of her husband Bo's stature. He had been the chief of the Communist Party in the large city of Chongqing and had been fast-rising party official on track to become a Politburo member before being ousted in March for alleged disciplinary violations. The trial also came at a time when the party is preparing for China's once-a-decade leadership change set for later this year.
A lawyer for the family of Heywood, said: "I respect the sentence from the court. I have not met the relatives. We will discuss this later. The court had reasons," Britain's Guardian reported.
There has not been much reported about Bo since the trial or what might be his fate after Gu's court verdict. It is not yet clear if he also will face criminal charges. Though out of favor with top party leaders, he still remains popular in Chongqing.
The Wall Street Journal reported party leaders may also want to avoid public focus as the Bo case has raised issues such as the private wealth of the families of some of the top leaders.
CNN, quoting a family source, said neither Gu nor Zhang will appeal their sentences.
In the case of Bo, CNN said under his leadership, millions were spent on social housing, making him highly popular in Chongqing. However, such economic policies of Bo were seen as a challenge to the economically liberal and reform-oriented faction within the Communist Party, it said.
Bo's ouster was triggered after his chosen police chief Wang Lijun sought to defect to the U.S. consulate in the neighboring Sichuan city.
The New York Times quoted legal analysts and political experts that Gu's sentencing appeared to be aimed not only at satisfying the public and the British government, but also supporters of Bo.
The Guardian said Gu's guilty verdict was never in doubt as China's courts are controlled by the Communist party. But at the same time, the report quoted analysts as saying officials also had to ensure against a lenient court verdict lest it been as bowing to powerful leaders.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A new report finds that special interests that support easing regulations so a new iron ore mine can open in northern Wisconsin far outspent opponents.
The government watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign reported Monday that supporters of the mine donated $15.6 million to the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker between 2010 and June 2012.
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Walker received $11.3 million from those who support mining while members of the Legislature got $4.25 million.
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The Ultem films are created from Sabic Innovative Materials resin technology. Ultem Polyetherimide resin, PEI, is an amorphous high performance polymer, which is characterized by excellent thermal properties, good chemical resistance, and exceptional dimensional stability.
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No matter what's going on in your life today, there's always something else around the bend, something to anticipate or dread. This countdown clock helps you keep your hopeful sights on the former. Or the latter if you're a masochist.
The Mr. Jones countdown clock, aside from being a rather spiffy looking analogue clock on its own, has its own, built-in countdown mechanism that can support a wait of up to 999 days. When it comes to what you're counting down to, the clock comes with a built-in list including specific holidays to more vague goals like "Freedom" and "The party" to ones that can be construed as more terrifyingly forboding, like "They arrive" or "It's over."
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Abstract: This dissertation examines post-consumer textile waste from the fashion industry's perspective, and addresses how business model innovation can facilitate reuse and recycling of garments and a transition towards a circular economy of fashion. Focusing on the emerging reuse and recycling practices of fashion brands the study builds upon one explorative and two in-depth case studies of industry pioneers and their endeavors of integrating reuse and recycling activities in their business models. Theoretically the study rests on business models, business model innovation for sustainability and circular economy. The study seeks to provide a unique contribution as it synthesizes the theoretical and empirical insights from the field of business model innovation and circular economy in the context of post-consumer textile waste. By highlighting and extending the idea of business model innovation for circular economy it makes a justification that product end-of-life phases require attention and can include new value propositions that companies can create, deliver and capture. This dissertation contains three articles, each of which contributes to an improved understanding of post-consumer textile waste management in the context of the fashion industry and its related opportunities and challenges. The findings cover both broad industry-level and more specific company-level discoveries. The industry-level findings provide a general understanding of existing practices among fashion companies while the company specific findings identify key issues and challenges of integrating a product's end-of-life aspects in an existing business model. Collectively, the findings demonstrate that end-of-life management of products is an emerging field among fashion companies and used garments can provide new value propositions for fashion brands. The findings also illustrate that the field is in its infancy and lacks best practices within business models, supply chain infrastructure, technological solutions and consumer engagement. Transition towards a circular economy implies full systemic change, and innovation not only in business models, but also in technologies, society, policies and finance methods as well as consumer behavior. None of these aspects can work in isolation and require that different stakeholders work in tandem. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9282
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Studying Influenceon Ethics in the MBA CurriculumRasche, Andreas; Gilbert, Dirk Ulrich (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper discusses the impact of four key issues in MBA programs: (1) the geographic location of business schools, (2) a school's ranking in the Financial Times list, (3) the length of the MBA program, and (4) a school's participation in the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). Our discussion is based on detailed coursework data underlying the 2009 Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey of full-time, in-person MBA programs. We find that the four discussed issues influence whether ethics education is delivered through core or elective courses. Further, we find that the four issues also impact whether schools teach ethics through standalone courses or integrate relevant content into other disciplines. However, our results also indicate that the four issues do not significantly influence in which disciplines ethics-related content is infused. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8839
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Abstract: This Working Paper for the Department of Intercultural Communications and Management (IKL) of Copenhagen Business School is being filed to record a path that combines educational concerns related to the European Undergraduate – Research Oriented Participatory Educational model of Copenhagen Business School with comparative industrial relations research stream concerned with labor law and contemporary enterprise ecology studies of employee participation in management prerogative. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7003
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Abstract: Film festivals are claimed to be leading events establishing the reputation of directors and producers in the film industry and they constitute a well-established field in itself. Film festivals have become a widespread phenomenon over the last fifty years with specialization as an emerging feature, profiling festivals on the basis of the participating genre and quality of movies, directors and actors. Such a structured field constitutes an interesting domain to analyze challenges and advantages of late adopters in an institutionalized field. This paper is concerned with the strategic responses and efforts made by two late adopters film festivals – Copenhagen international film festival (CIFF), launched in 2003, and Festa del Cinema di Roma (FCR) launched in 2006 – in order to establish themselves as international film festivals within the international film festival field. The comparative study of two film festivals is based on qualitative data and thrives on business ethnographical methods. The paper investigates how the two festivals have positioned themselves and how they face the inclusion-exclusion dilemma (Brewer, 1991; Alvarez et al., 2005) establishing themselves within the institutionalised field of international film festivals. Combining the classical work by Tolbert and Zucker (1983) on early and late adopters in the diffusion of management ideas and practices with Suchman's (1995) forms of legitimacy and Lawrence and Suddaby's (2006) notion of institutional work, we analyze how imitation and innovation pressures have shaped the frames used to position and legitimate the film festivals and their relation with the industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7782
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An Integrative ReviewChristensen, Bo T.; Jønsson, Thomas (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: It seems to be an established fact in the organizational psychological literature that participation in decision making leads to creativity and innovation in work groups and organizations. A quite extensive amount of research has claimed that the link exists, although only a somewhat smaller amount of research has established that there is a link between the two constructs of participation in decision making and creativity. But although this link has been clearly documented theories with clearly stated causal explanations of why participation in decision making (pdm) would lead to creativity and innovation are extremely rare. The literature has pointed to a large number of mediating variables and possible effects of pdm that could possibly explain the link to creativity, but explicit causal theories and experimental evidence of the validity of such theories remain relatively few. Suggested mediating factors include such different models as enhanced intrinsic motivation (Amabile, 2001; Conti & Amabile, 1999), reduction in resistance to change (De Dreu & West, 2001), pooling of unshared knowledge (Latham, Winters, & Locke, 1994) and better utilization of individual differences in cognitive style (Kirton, 1989), and improved work environment for creativity (e.g., Isaksen, Lauer, Ekvall, & Britz, 2001). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8256
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The case of municipal parking officesDahl, Dorte Boesby (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper is about the work and management of parking patrol officers in a Danish municipal department responsible for parking law enforcement. The job as a parking officer is un-skilled and fairly light in terms of physical demands, but quite demanding in terms of contact and coping with disgruntled car-drivers. In recent years the municipality has developed a strict policy in regard to parking, increasing both the enforcement of parking rules and the prices for parking. Alongside this development, the municipal department has become renowned for management's active and ambitious work to improve the working environment for parking officers, and to employ diversity management. Regarding parking officers as street-level bureaucrats (Lipsky 2010), the paper addresses the characteristics of their work and the challenges posed to the individual employee and manager. Becoming a parking officer is not only a matter of being able to cope with people on the street, but also being able to cope with colleagues and managements' particular expectations to your personality. Since the department of parking is part of a public organisation these expectations become all the more complicated (Hoggett 1996). They rely not only on the revenue from parking tickets and organizational credibility, but also on the availability of unskilled work for job-seekers and integration and retention efforts in staff-management. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8605
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Calvin Innes Instagram Update
A quick doodle in preperation for tomorrow's illustration workshop at Ings Library in Hull running along side Hull Libraries' current exhibition of Quentin Blake's work, The Roald Dahl Centenary Portraits….#art #illustration #hull2017 #hull #instart #instadraw #roalddahl #quentinblake
Award winning illustrator Calvin Innes has worked with some of the worlds most recognisable brands, creating all sorts of weird and wonderful characters and cartoons. He has illustrated over 50 children's books, is one of the official Wasgij Jigsaw puzzle artists and has created toys, games, storyboards for film and TV, concept art for games and illustrations used in advertising around the world. He is known for working in a wide range of styles and media, ranging from children's illustrations and cartoons to graphic novels and large-scale painted murals.
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Aplastic anemia is a rare condition in which the bone marrow is
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The new 5E Series tractor applies John Deere's engineering expertise to meet the basic needs of small-scale and part-time farmers, as well as specialty users and gardeners.
Compact has evolved. Brimming with power, and loaded with features for versatility and comfort, the new 5R is in a class by itself. This is the tractor for all you do, and everything you've always wanted to do.
The 5M Series Tractors offer more choices than ever before. Choose between extra-large comfort cab or open station. There's a low roof version ideal for your low stables or barns.


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It says much about Andre Villas-Boas's predicament that a positive display from one of his players could provide him with a negative. Doubts linger about the Portuguese's relationship skills since his feud-flecked stint at Chelsea and that, combined with Tottenham's deadline-day purchase of the France goalkeeper, Hugo Lloris, meant Brad Friedel's excellent exploits against Norwich City raise fears as well as cheers.
Friedel may have been unable to stop Robert Snodgrass plundering a late equaliser for Norwich after Moussa Dembélé had come off the bench to give Spurs a barely merited lead in the second half but the 41-year-old produced enough fine saves to prevent the visitors from punishing a mostly listless performance by Spurs. Friedel's display also suggested that Spurs' new £12m goalkeeper will have to accept a stretch on the sidelines.
If Lloris thought the size of the fee paid to bring him to White Hart Lane immediately conferred No1 status, he has been disabused of that notion, with Villas-Boas declaring that the France captain is seen as a prospect to be developed rather than an immediate starter.
"When you transfer it's not written in the contract that you have to play," Villas-Boas said. "Brad is doing extremely well and deserves to be playing and he'll continue to do so.
"The Premier League's a specific league and we want to build for the future, so we decided to bring in Hugo now as he can be our keeper in future. We have to work with that and he will have to adapt to the Premier League.
"There are players that need more time, players that need less time. But again, when you have a keeper that gives so much confidence to the team and is doing so well like Brad, he deserves to be in goal."
Villas-Boas could be commended for fair-mindedness, which may be how Friedel feels when he says "the manager has spoken to me about what he wants to do and I like what I hear", yet there is a perception born of Villas-Boas's Chelsea woes that triggering such intense competition is to set the scene for a potential explosion of egos.
For now no one is rocking the boat. "I'm here because I believe in Tottenham," Lloris said. "There are lot of great players here and a great manager. Everything is in place to qualify for the Champions League. But the most important thing for me is to show that I am up to the challenge on the pitch. I'm ready to do my utmost for the team and supporters."
How long he will wait for an opportunity to do that will be interesting. The Norwich defender Sébastien Bassong, who played with Lloris for France's Under-21 side and used to play with Friedel at Spurs, reckons the Frenchman should be grateful for the opportunity to work under Friedel. "I think he'll learn a lot," Bassong said. "He's a really good goalkeeper but now he's in a new competition and new country, he'll need Brad's help."
One recruit who did not have to wait long to demonstrate his worth is Dembélé, who was introduced at half-time and quickly brought some pattern and purpose to a Tottenham display that until then had been curiously timid and disjointed. The pining for the creativity of Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart abated a little after the Belgian's introduction.
"He came on and changed the game for Tottenham," said Norwich's Bradley Johnson. "Tottenham have got a great signing. He's a world-class player."
Equally encouragingly for Tottenham, Dembélé says that he, for one, has been impressed by his interaction with Villas-Boas so far: "The manager is very clear what he wants me to do and he just told me to play my game the same way as I always play. He has tried to give me confidence and you need that at any level."
Dembélé is also looking forward to renewing his relationship with Clint Dempsey. "Clint is always dangerous and if he plays he is so hungry to score," Dembélé said. "He fights and he is fantastic to have because he does the work of two men."
And if he plays, he will take the place of one man. Villas-Boas's options have been enriched: Tottenham's success will depend to a degree on his man-management not being poor.


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Smartphone apps, video game technology and Twitter feeds are to be recruited to help survivors of disasters as part of a British government scheme aimed at making increased use of social networking technology in rescue work after earthquakes, floods and famines.
The scheme will support projects with £48.5m of Department for International Development funding over three years out of existing aid funds. Technologies to be explored as part of the project will include:
■ Mobile phone and satellite technology – already used in the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake – to track survivors and help deliver aid.
■ Twitter and social media channels to reach those affected, including direct guidance on medical issues.
■ Gaming technology to train people in disaster response scenarios.
■ Smart cards to deliver cash payments to those worst affected by disaster.
■ The use of Google Earth and e-mapping to locate people and disaster hotspots.
"The simple fact is that the frequency and severity of disasters will continue to increase and international governments need to stay one step ahead, encouraging a Tomorrow's World culture," said international development secretary Andrew Mitchell, who will outline his proposals at the World Bank on 20 April.


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DevOps for Dummies
Today's fast-moving world makes DevOps essential for any business aspiring to be agile and lean in order to respond rapidly to changing customer and marketplace demands. This book helps you understand DevOps and how your organization can gain real business benefits from it. You'll also discover how a holistic view of DevOps that encompasses the entire software delivery life cycle - from ideation and the conception of new business capabilities to implementation in production - can bring competitive advantage in a continuous delivery world.


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Just above the site where thousands of wagon trains forded the Humboldt River on the long trek to California, sits the Humboldt Museum. The modern brick building mirrors its historic predecessor, a church turned museum. Also on site is the Greinstein Building-- an 1880's store, and the Richardson-Saunders House-- an 1899 Eastlake style home. Together, the buildings house the story of the community.
Remains from the Ice Age of 13,000 years ago, wonderful beaded and quilled regalia from an American Indian collection, vintage automobiles, keepsakes from Winnemucca's "art Nouveau" period, and an early soda manufacturing scene are just some of the displays awaiting your visit.
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Tobias Kuhl is currently writing his doctor's thesis at the University of Bonn. Whenever his head gets overloaded with thoughts about specialist literature, he heads out into the countryside with his camera and the Tamron 150-600mm super-telephoto lens. In the Tamron blog, he gives tips about how he manages to create his impressive wildlife photographs …
Jörg Mayer and Nadine Horn run the blog "eat this!" together – combining vegan cookery with creative photography. Before enjoying their culinary creations, the pair first take pictures of them using a Tamron lens. Just a short time later, their fans can then read online how the recipe was put together. As graphic designers, Jörg and Nadine both know what makes a great food photo. In our interview they reveal the secrets of how they carry out their work and give some tips on how best to take photographs of food you have prepared yourself – while still being able to enjoy it straight afterwards while its still hot.
Christoph Oberschneider captures thrilling action shots set against majestic mountain scenery. He was also accompanied on his sporty jaunts through the Salzburger Land region by the new, high speed, 15-30 mm ultra-wide-angle zoom lens from Tamron.
The shutter speed together with the aperture control the exposure. However, depending on the subject, not every speed is suitable. Here are a few tips for taking better photographs.
Tamron's state-of-the-art lens design features an XGM (eXpanded Glass Molded Aspherical)*1 lens element and eBAND Coating*2 for outstanding detail and performance from the center to the edges of the frame over the entire zoom range.


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As an Activations Consultant for the MacroPoint product, you will be working with carriers of all sizes to help them support their customer's visibility mandate. With the ability to support the various ways our carrier partners want to "MacroPoint Enable" their fleet, your relationships with these carriers will grow fast. We provide our employees with technology, training and a relaxed, fun work environment, which helps us succeed in this growing industry.
We are looking for people to join our team that are service minded, goal oriented, and results driven. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have experience supporting trucking companies of all sizes. If you are looking for a competitive base salary, bonus opportunity, advancement from within, and a fast paced and exciting work environment – apply today!
Manage the Carrier Activation process for multiple MacroPoint customers simultaneously.
Follow Up with carriers to connect their assets to MacroPoint.
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Data Entry – capture current status of all carriers in the process via CRM, HubSpot, or Excel.
Integration setup and support – Learn the capabilities and options of the Universal Connector and be able to explain those to a carrier's IT team.
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In this tutorial, it is assumed that you are a developer for a company called My Company. You have been asked to publish some content on the company intranet. Human resource managers for each branch should be able to view this content from any location. You must use the company's template (which is an HTML file) to make the data look good on the Web. At the same time, managers must be able to print out a paper version of the report.
In this tutorial, you will build a report for the Web using JavaServer Pages (JSP) that displays the required information about employee salaries in each department. You will also create a graph so that managers can see an overview of the data. At the end of the tutorial, you will learn to generate a paper report based on the same data model.
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Figure 1-1 Tutorial Overview: Creating the Web Report
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You will open the Web page that we have provided for you, which contains some simple HTML, then create a data model for the report, which will pull data from a sample data source into the report (Chapter 2, "Adding Data to a Report"). This Web page contains the template for My Company's look and feel.
Figure 1-2 Adding Data to an HTML Page
In Chapter 3, "Reviewing the Source Code of the Web Report", you will review the resulting report to analyze what the steps you completed in Chapter 2, "Adding Data to a Report" did to the sample Web page to help you understand what Reports Builder did to the sample Web page. You can compare the sample Web page we have provided with the resulting JSP-based Web page. Here, you will be able to examine how the data model looks in Reports Builder, and how it looks in XML.
In Chapter 5, "Creating a Report Block for the Web Report", you will use the Report wizard to add a report block to the JSP and generate a simple JSP-based Web report to your Web browser.
Figure 1-3 Creating a Report Block for your JSP-based Web Report
In Chapter 4, "Reviewing the Source Code for the Report Block", you will analyze the Web source of your report to review how the report block was inserted into your JSP-based Web report. Again, you will examine the XML code to see how the source code has changed.
In Chapter 6, "Creating a Graph for the Web Report", you will use the Graph wizard to add a graph to the JSP, then generate the completed JSP report to your Web browser.
Figure 1-4 Adding a Graph to a JSP-based Web Report
In Chapter 7, "Reviewing the Source Code for the Graph", you will review the new code that Reports Builder added to your Web source to produce the graph.
In Chapter 8, "Generating a Paper Report", you will generate a paper report based on the same data model and layout that you created for the JSP-based Web report.
Figure 1-5 Generating a Paper Report from a JSP-based Web Report Data Model
Now that you know what this tutorial covers, you can go on to Chapter 2, "Adding Data to a Report" to learn how to create a data model for your report using the Data Wizard.


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"He has respected that and been a prince about that. And he's had every right to question and ask what's his future. If that question were to be asked, I'd have to say 'I don't know.' All the numbers and projections aren't in. I'll get a payroll number at some point in November, I'd imagine. And then we'd have to see how the team fits as a whole, and he's been here long enough to know we've never valued one individual piece more than the team as a whole. If you do that, you can start the spiral that will take you a decade to recover from.
"Now I said that to say this: He is valued on that field, on the bench, on the clubhouse, on the bus, in the hotel, and has just been selfless and one of the best guys you can have around here for a long time, so these are the type guys you would like to finish their careers here.
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WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday the federal government must pay Indian tribes for failing to fully fund services, but conceded it's now up to Congress.
A rare victory for the tribes, the decision did not break along ideological lines, with conservatives and liberals in both the majority and dissent.
The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act tells the U.S. interior secretary to enter contracts with willing tribes under which they will provide services -- such as education and law enforcement -- that the federal government otherwise would provide.
The act requires the secretary to contract to pay the full amount of contract support costs, subject to the availability of appropriations. But if there is a contractual breach, tribal contractors are entitled to seek money damages under the Contract Disputes Act.
From fiscal 1994 to 2001, a group of tribes led by the Ramah Navajo Chapter in New Mexico contracted to provide services. But during each of those fiscal years, Congress appropriated funds to pay an individual tribal contractor's contract support costs in full, but did not appropriate enough to pay all tribal contractors collectively. Unable to pay everyone in full, the secretary paid the tribes on a uniform, pro-rated basis.
The tribes sued for breach of contract, but a federal judge in New Mexico ruled summarily for the government. A federal appeals court reversed, saying pay up in full.
The U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, cited high court precedent and also said the government must pay up in full, but conceded it is now up to Congress to act and come through with the funding:
"This case is the product of two decisions in some tension: Congress required the secretary to accept every qualifying ISDA contract, promising 'full' funding for all contract support costs, but then appropriated insufficient funds to pay in full each tribal contractor. Responsibility for the resolution of that situation, however, is committed to Congress."
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the dissent, and was joined by three other court members.


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Tourists often assume the chaos on Vietnam's roads does not translate to a high crash rate. Nothing could be further from the truth, writes Anna Hollows.
Anyone who has visited Vietnam knows it is a country on the move. The streets are teeming with cars and motorcycles loaded with people, furniture, animals. Crossing the road is a scary experience.
Many tourists to the big cities such as Hanoi, where I recently spent a month working, express surprise that there are not more traffic accidents. As an outsider, it does appear that the haphazard and chaotic road system seems to work. But there are accidents. Lots of them.
Last year 11,395 people were killed in traffic accidents in Vietnam and 48,734 people were injured, according to the Vietnam National Committee for Traffic Safety. But the actual figures are likely to be higher due to the difficulty of data reporting in many areas.
I spent my time in Vietnam volunteering as a nurse in the emergency department and orthopedic ward of Viet Duc Hospital, one of the busiest medical centres in the country.
Two weeks in a Vietnamese hospital was an education in itself. I spent time in the busy triage area, the important first point of contact for the hundreds of patients who arrive at the hospital each day. About 80 percent of the cases I saw were caused by traffic accidents, with motorbike riders and pedestrians the most commonly and severely injured.
On the first day I was there a teenage couple was rushed in. They had been involved in a motorcycle accident. The girl had obvious severe facial injuries, so she received a lot of immediate attention. Once she was stabilised, we realised the boy was bleeding from his ears. A scan revealed a cerebral haemorrhage, so we did what we could to help prepare him for surgery. That is what it is like all the time in the hospital, as case after case comes through the door.
My advice to anyone travelling in Vietnam is: do not get on a motorbike. And if you do, make sure you bring a helmet from Australia. The ones worn by most of the locals are little more than upturned ice-cream buckets.
While many Vietnamese helmets might be below Australian standards, the skills and commitment of the amazing local medical staff are second to none. I was in awe of the way my colleagues were able to deal with such overwhelming workload.
It was this mix of talent and determination that attracted my father, Fred Hollows, to Vietnam 20 years ago. He met local doctors who were keen to learn modern cataract surgery. When dad died in 1993, the Fred Hollows Foundation kept his promise to deliver training. The doctors that were trained have now gone on to teach hundreds of others. Back in 1992, just 1000 modern cataract operations were being performed annually. Today, more than 160,000 are carried out each year.
The amazing improvement is due to many factors, but above all it's that local commitment and determination which is on display in hospitals right across the country. Doctors and nurses are working in conditions that you would never see in Australia. But still they manage to do the best they can, and to do it day after day.
So next time you are travelling somewhere like Vietnam, marvelling at how the traffic seems to just work, remember that this is not necessarily the case. Despite appearances, there are bad accidents every day and each day lives are saved by skilful Vietnamese medical staff. Please try not to add yourself to their workload.
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(May 30, 2014) The federal Great Lakes Interagency Task Force today released a draft Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan for public input.
"Protecting communities around the Great Lakes and restoring this important ecosystem is a national and binational imperative," said Task Force Chair and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy. "Today we're asking for input on our draft plan so it can be as effective as possible."
The federal agencies provided extensive public input opportunities throughout 2013 to inform the development of the draft that is being released today. The new Plan recognizes that states, tribes, municipalities, public interest organizations, businesses, academia and other interests have a strong role to play in protecting the Great Lakes. The new Plan covers FY 2015-2019. The document will guide actions to:
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· Reduce polluted runoff that impacts nearshore health.
· Restore habitat and native species.
· Address cross-cutting issues such as science-based adaptive management and climate change.
The Task Force will host two public webinars to discuss the draft: June 9 at 1 p.m. Central Time at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/789861232 and June 10 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/841679520.
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