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Monday, December 12, 2011
Feeding My WanderLust
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Greek islands are amazing. a great destination for the summer!ReplyDelete
- Diana TeodoroDecember 12, 2011 at 4:07 PM
Oh Greece! It's one of my dream destinations! When I was about 12 I had to write an essay about how I imagined my life to be in 20 years. I wrote I'd be living in Santorini, Greece, with my pet pig! lol I don't think that will happen. I don't think I want it to happen anymore but I sure wanna see the place I once dreamed of living in!ReplyDelete
- Gwen EdwardsDecember 12, 2011 at 4:37 PM
well now, you are only a skip and a jump away from Greece, go for it girl! I was lucky enough to spend time on the island of Crete for a couple of summers and I can't rave about it enough.ReplyDelete
I've always found them so fascinating. I was in love with the mythology growing up and I still am fascinated by their culture.ReplyDelete
I had a VERY similar incident! I don't remember the exact age but I remember falling in love with all the different types of harsh landscapes Greece has and being fascinated with the lifestyle of the rural sections. How appealing it was to have such a natural and simple way of living. I don't know if I could hang long term, but it does sound somewhat appealing even now.ReplyDelete
This is definitely on my bucket list. You're so lucky to have gotten to Crete! I think I remember seeing you post about visiting once with your sister. I've always wanted to travel the world. I think it really puts into perspective how we're all the same when it really comes down to the nitty gritty. Nationality, skin color, all of those things that we squabble over as countries seem so silly once you leave the place you're born. We all bleed, we're all dependent on the same things to survive. We live on a rock, floating through space and we're really fortunate to have such bounty and beauty to appreciate while we're here.ReplyDelete
Oh man, I'm with Gwen. You live super close, just GO! I wish I lived in Europe so I can have a different country to mini vacation to every month!ReplyDelete
I'm planning on it. Even if I have to take mini-trips to afford it. I've had to file some paperwork with the gov't and they have my passport but as soon as that's back in my grubby little hands - watch out ppl! muwhahahahahaReplyDelete
You got me feeling travel envy!! These are amazing photos, my dream destination is Greece, plus we can all help their economy a bit :)ReplyDelete
- Design Elements BlogDecember 13, 2011 at 7:25 AM
wonderful! hope to see the Aegean Sea nex year :) MariaReplyDelete
Oh, Greece! I have been obsessed with Greece since I was in elementary school, and I started getting into mythology. And today, I love it for the beautiful scenery, delicious food, and the MEN. Ahaha! I would love to actually go there someday! I certainly hope you're able to visit soon!ReplyDelete
beautiful, wonderlust indeed.ReplyDelete
Oh my word, I just returned from GREECE! I was in Crete, Athens and Santorini!!! Maybe we are soul sisters...from the title and description of your blog, we might be :) I have pictures on my blog from all three places in greece if you are interested. When I saw Santorini on the cover of this post, I had to find out what it was all about! I think I took that exact picture, when we walked by it...ReplyDelete
Nice blog, happy to find you!
Ooooh you're so lucky! Nice. I'm going to jump by your blog and take a look!ReplyDelete


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Is the great rotation actually happening?
From the latest Morningstar report on fund flows, it would appear so.
The Chicago-based research firm reported estimated U.S. mutual fund asset flows for October. U.S. equity funds collected $10.5 billion, their highest monthly inflow since January.
International equity funds also had a solid month, leading all category groups with inflows of $12.2 billion.
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Morningstar estimates net flow by computing the change in assets not explained by the performance of the fund.
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- Active U.S.-equity funds had strong monthly inflows for only the third time in 2013, a year many heralded as the great rotation into active strategies after years of passive-fund flow dominance. While the trend has not materialized, outflows from active equity funds have amounted to $15.3 billion for the year to date compared with outflows of $131.5 billion in 2012.
- Equity categories took the top three spots in terms of inflows by category, led by foreign large blend. October was the first month since March that bank loan, nontraditional bond, or world bond did not lead all categories in flows, and the first time in more than a year that the bank-loan category was not in the top five.
- Inflation-protected bond funds saw their largest outflow on record, with $4.8 billion fleeing the category in October. The average fund in the category has lost 5.9% year to date.
- Vanguard dominated inflows at the provider level in October, collecting new assets of $6 billion overall and led by inflows of $2.1 billion for Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. Vanguard's market share of mutual fund assets stands at 17.5%, up from 15.6% three years ago. American Funds' market share has fallen to 10% from 12% over the same period, and PIMCO's has dropped to 5.1% after peaking at 6.1% in late 2012.
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In which I agree with Vox DayDecember 31, 2010 — Deacon Duncan
I've been reading the comments over at Vox's blog, and it's pretty hilarious, not to mention providing double your recommended minimum daily dose of irony. For example, here's Vox attacking the person who brought up my TIA series:
You're absolutely wrong. Terrible example and you have apparently not read TIA nor understood that Duncan doesn't even begin to rebut its arguments. He does not show that religion was involved as a pretext in more than 7 percent of the wars in recorded human history. Nor does he explain why no military tactician or strategist has EVER incorporated religion into their military tactics or strategy. His critique is totally invalid.
Now stop making groundless assertions and be specific. Precisely what about that his argument that religion causes war do you find persuasive?
Notice, the primary crime he accuses his critic of is a failure to read and understand the opposing point of view. He then insists that I failed to rebut his argument, and he demands to know what is so persuasive about my argument that religion causes war. Does he have a point? Does my argument—meaning the argument I actually made, not the one Vox attributes to me—fall apart when examined in the light of the evidence Vox cites?


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So it's clear that none of us have heard from Torn in a while. I'm 99% sure I know why now.
Torn passed in March. His first and last name are connected to his Twitter account, I know he lived in Kansas, his birthday here is identical to that Jordan, the description of being passionate about music and about researching nutrition both fit, and he had a brother named Jordan and a cousin named Brandon (both of which he has mentioned by name here).
I have no idea what happened. I worry that it was related to his depression (and his spiraling depression was why I hunted to see if I could see where he was and ended up finding this), but there's no use speculating. But...that's what happened.
Rest in peace Torn.


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It was a quiet day for the Cubs prospects in this one, not just based on production but playing time as only Baez and Silva made appearances. The Solar Sox fell behind early, by the 5th inning it was 8-0 and all but over, luckily no Cubs pitchers worked in this one. Javier Baez was back in the lineup at SS today and had a very rough afternoon. Baez was 0-for-4 at the plate, he did score a run, but he also made two errors which brings his 2012 AFL total to four. Rubi Silva got the start in RF in this one and went hitless in three at bats, all in all not a good day as the Solar Sox continue their losing ways and the Cubs prospects in action struggled, mightily.
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Eric Munch was a watchwizard at the Ministry of Magic.[1] He was poorly-shaven and wore peacock blue robes when on duty.[2]
During the day, Munch sat at the security desk on the left side of the Atrium, checking visitors with a Probity Probe and registering their wands before giving them clearance to enter. Munch seemed to find this portion of his job very tedious. When Harry Potter stopped by the security desk on the way to a hearing in 1995, Munch went through the check-in protocols mechanically, only noticing the famous lightning-bolt scar when he had finished. Realising who Harry was, Munch asked him to wait, but Arthur Weasley dragged Harry away from the security desk.[2]
Munch apparently also worked the night shift on occasion. He caught Sturgis Podmore trying to break into Department of Mysteries at one o'clock in the morning on 31 August, 1995 and arrested him on charges of trespass and attempted robbery.[1] It is not known if Eric was still a watchwizard when Voldemort took over the Ministry.
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- Munch was featured on a conceptual art for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He was not, however, featured in the actual film.
The name "Eric" comes from the Old Norse name Eiríkr, derived from the elements ei "ever" and ríkr "ruler". A notable bearer was Eiríkr inn Rauda (Eric the Red in English), a 10th-century navigator and explorer who discovered Greenland. This was also the name of several early kings of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
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Imagine a phone that will be more private than your current smartphone, including modifying Android to rid the handset of security bugs -- would you buy it?
The Blackphone, called a more private smartphone, is being touted as an alternative to handsets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, according to TechCrunch. The phones is created by Geeksphone, a Spanish startup in conjunction with a U.S. security company called Silent Circle. The phone uses a more secure Android incarnation called PrivatOS.
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The $629 Blackphone will be shipping to retailers in June, but Geeksphone is already taking pre-orders through its site.
So far there's no secured email product, but the company intends to offer it at a later date, Aguera said.
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Went out last night in Hereford for a friends 21st celebratory drinks, which was pretty good as far as Hereford nights out go. My friend Jess was wearing a lovely pink dress from Dixi (use "llydixi" to get 15% off there!). Lots of shots were had and dancing to cheesy music! There was a ~ foam party ~ in one of the rooms which I swiftly avoided. I really dont get the point of foam parties in clubs unless your like on holiday. Who really wants to look like a damp rat on a night out?
Got this jumper from H&M after some of the worst customer service I've ever had in any shop. The woman didnt say hi or bye to me or tell me how much the total items were. She even left the security tag on the jumper which I had to get off with pliers and luckily didnt damage the jumper. Im not one to complain about bad service, because to be honest it doesnt matter that much in the long run. But I think the fact she didnt even tell me how much everything came to annoyed me the most.
Anyway, outfit related! Just simple, I know people always comment my outfits saying "so simple" but I really don't think you need to over complicate or over style something to look good. I've been at home most of the day and yeah it is simple but its still pretty ~stylish~ in its own right. I love the browny, taupey grey colour of the knit sweater, really different and I love the little bit shorter than normal sleeves. Cant wait for winter, "summer" sucks!


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Oh yes, Finally Aaaaaaaaaaarrrh, too much joy for wording right now
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This is great, the thumbnails were my only issue with this website. Keep up the good work.
i have to agree with drake, i like having organized thumbnails. don't get me wrong, i like the dynamic thumbnails, but for certain tasks it's best to have square ones. regretfully i probably will leave weasyl if there's no option to have grid thumbnails.
It would be stupidly amazing if there was an option to keep this feature enabled or disabled at will, or even set it differently for different parts of the website! For example, I myself would find this an amazing mechanic for browsing, but I also think the classic thumbnails work just perfect for gallery previews (as in, when in the user's homepage).
While I can agree that getting as clean a look as possible is crucial, since full thumbnails are not going to be of a uniform dimension anymore (judging by the previews at least), there's only so much of a perfect grid you can get. Although with custom thumbnails I can see that happening, providing their size is the same.
I for one am overjoyed to hear this! A good thumbnail reworking at last. I know multiple artists that said literally the only thing that kept them from using Weasyl more was the limiting thumbnail dimensions so I'm hoping this helps usability for some.
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The best high school basketball teams in the state competed at the Tacoma Dome on Saturday for the 4A state championship. Curtis beat Jackson for the boys' title while Mead beat Arlington for the girls' title.
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A Human-Voiced Employee Handbook?
I was a corporate HR leader for twenty years. I wrote memos and announcements and newsletters and flyers all the time, and I tried to sound friendly and welcoming and human in everything I wrote. I knew that the most important part of my job as VP of Human Resources was to be the company's Minister of Culture. I knew that I had to make sure everyone on the team felt included and valued.
Why, then, did I preside for twenty years over an internal system of rules and policies governed by the typical robot-speak Employee Handbook? The idea that the Employee Handbook should be impenetrable and governmental in tone was so long-standing and unquestioned that I didn't question it, myself, not until I was nearly at the end of my corporate lifespan. I figured that every other company had the same awful Employee Handbook style my company had. Any officious robot (C3PO from the "Star Wars" movies comes to mind) could have written it. The thing was 100 pages long, and every page was full of rules and restrictions.
I finally came to my senses one day where the handbook was concerned. I put a note in the newsletter that said "You may run into a policy or guideline in our policy handbook that is silly or stands in the way of getting important things done. If you find anything like that, please tell me right away so we can fix it." It wasn't a week before an engineer came to see me to let me know about a policy that bothered him.
"We go to Las Vegas, to trade shows," he said, "and a bunch of us are working in the booth all day. We have a great time talking to customers and prospective customers and other vendors and one another. Then at the end of the day, we're invited out to dinner with the VP of Sales. The whole Sales team goes out to dinner and some kind of Las Vegas fun event – they love that social stuff, and who can blame them?"
"Some of us, engineers like me, prefer to go back to our hotel rooms and chill and be alone for awhile. And here's where the inhuman policy comes in. The handbook says that when we travel, the company won't pay for us to rent a movie in the hotel room. The company is paying at least fifty bucks a head for the Sales team's dinner and entertainment, but if we opt out of the group dinner and do our own thing, ten bucks for a movie isn't reimbursable. It doesn't really seem fair."
I listened and thought about it. He had a point. But policies are based on uniformity and tick marks. I said, "If we were to change that policy, how would it read? We can't very well say that on any night when other people are going out to expensive dinners, then employees can rent a movie in their rooms. We can't say that every employee can rent a movie every time he or she is out of town overnight. That would add up fast."
He looked at me. "You don't have to think like a policy-brained person," he said. "You hire adults here. You can say that when a person opts out of company-funded evening events, that person can rent a movie in the room, instead."
His logic hit me immediately. The administrative cost of any bureaucratic system comes in the oversight of the system, which is to say, the administration of it. Didn't I see the movie "Brazil?" Of course I had – I loved that movie! If we company managers didn't worry so much about overseeing everything, the system would work much better. "So we don't set up the policy to be overseen by someone else, like a reimbursement person in HR or Accounting," I said. "You trust people to do the right thing, and most of them will," he said. "The company will save money and win goodwill points."
We killed the no-movie policy and a dozen other policies in our handbook in that revision effort, and the bug to put a human voice in every workplace document bit me. Why couldn't an Employee Handbook be just as human and inviting as a conversation between regular people who aren't at work? Why couldn't we stop talking down to employees, and just talk with them?
Here are six tips for writing your own Human-Voiced Employee Handbook(TM):
1) First, lose the Royal We that characterizes virtually every Employee Handbook on the planet. You can put the handbook in your CEO's voice, or let individual employees write sections of it in their own voices. There's no benefit to telling employees that the policies that govern them float down from the sky, with no human ownership behind them. That's a cop-out, and it can only fray the cohesion and commitment that you're trying to instill on your team.
2) Second, for every policy and guideline in your Employee Handbook, give a rationale. "It is the Policy of the Company to Yada Yada Yada" fails that test spectacularly. "For the smoother operation of our business" also gets a failing grade on the "But why?" test. People deserve to know the reasoning behind important decisions that affect their lives at work.
3) Third, consider switching some (or most, or all) of your policies out of SCOLD mode, a la "Here are a bunch of things you have to do, and a bunch of things you'd better not do if you want to keep your job." If you think about it, a Sexual Harassment Policy or a Non-Discrimination Policy is not so much a warning to prospective harassers and discriminators as it is a promise to the whole team to try and keep harassment and bias out of the workplace. So why not couch the policies that way? It is much more human to say "We don't want sexual harassment or any kind of discrimination here, and if you run into that sort of thing, here's what to do" than to bluster and threaten-in-advance. We can replace most of our employment policies with simple, human promises to make our workplace as human-friendly as it can be.
4) When we send out a new edition of the Employee Handbook and we require employees to sign a piece of paper saying they're read it, we're engaging in the most infantile and insulting form of corporate or institutional CYA. (Google that term if you're not familiar with it.) We don't need to treat our employees like shady characters who are apt to weasel out of any commitment unless their own signature is on file. That is a ridiculous way to lead people. If the Employee Handbook were recast as a helpful, informative document that is also a cultural piece, something that strengthens the warm and energy on the team, it can only help you in everything you're trying to accomplish business-wise.
5) Lose the governmental lettering and numbering systems that plague Employee Handbooks everywhere, and rewrite your handbook in human speech with headings that make clear what you're talking about. A handbook should inform people and make things clearer, not more complicated. Once, I was asked to rewrite a 15-page Dress Code Policy that managed to drone on for 15 pages without ever specifying what sorts of things people should wear to work, and which things to leave at home. That is the very worst kind of policy. Your employees deserve better!
6) Lastly, rewrite your Employee Handbook with half as many rules and policies as the old edition had. Take out the old, crusty policies that no one cares about anymore, and remember that your employees come to work to get stuff done, not to waste time memorizing or looking up obscure rules. You hire adults, so treat them like adults. Next week, I'll showcase a sample Human-Voiced Dress Code Policy(TM) to demo what I'm talking about. In the meantime, 100 Ways to Humanize Your Workplace, and get some inspiration!
When you click on the link above, you'll go to the page for the Ebook. Click on the link that ways 100 Ways to Humanize Your Workplace and the E-Book will download to your computer.
When you're inspired and ready to go, take a red pen to your Employee Handbook and see how much policy gunk you can clean out of the system!


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Norman Reedus doesn't watch TV, so "The Walking Dead" star wasn't familiar with any of the characters his TV persona, Daryl Dixon, defeated in RedEye's Best TV Character Tournament over the past two weeks.
On Wednesday, the zombie-killing Daryl defeated Abed Nadir of NBC's "Community" to win the fourth tournament, and Reedus was pretty stoked to be the new champ.
"I just want to thank all the people who are voting and the people who are watching the show and helping it become such a big success. It's all because of them, the fans," he told me Wednesday from New York, adding humbly. "I would like to thank the cast and the writers and the producers of the show for giving me such interesting stuff to play with and interesting people to play with."
But Reedus' nuanced portrayal of Daryl is the reason the character, who does not appear in the graphic novels upon which the AMC hit is based, has become a fan favorite. And he appreciates all the love he gets from fans.
"The fans have been so key to keeping Daryl alive on the show," he said. "I'm eternally grateful."
Reedus, who was heading off to Mexico with his 11-year-old son Thursday, talked more about his approach to playing Daryl, his newfound love for "Portlandia" and what fans can expect when "The Walking Dead" returns Feb. 12 on AMC.
Thanks for calling.
Yeah, of course. Oh, happy holidays man.
So you know about the tournament. I saw you tweeted it a while ago.
Yeah, I won. Woo!
Well, almost. (We talked about an hour before the tournament ended.)
Oh, I still haven't won. [Laughs.] Vote redneck!
You've got about 50 minutes left and you're only ahead by one percentage point.
Oh. What the heck? All right, cool. Well hey, I'm happy to be in the final. [Laughs.]
What did you think of the tournament?
It's funny because it's gone back and forth; people are like kind of going to war.
I've never seen the show "Community," but I like Joel McHale. I did "The Soup," but I'm sure ["Community" is] hysterical. But yeah, I'm happy to just be a part of it. And you know, people are giving Daryl a lotta love, so. I'm just happy to be part of a cool show. I'm happy to have a job. [Laughs.] You know what I mean?
I do. Let run down all of the people that Daryl has stopped. First Lydia Adams from "Southland."
I'm sorry.
Then you beat Tyrion Lannister from "Game of Thrones." And then Walter Bishop from "Fringe," and now you're in the final.
Are you familiar with those other characters at all?
No. [Laughs.] In all honesty, I never watch television. I just got cable like a week ago. I'm so far behind. I just started watching "Portlandia," which I'm addicted to right now.
Yeah, that comes back in just a few weeks.
Yeah, around the 6th, which is my birthday.
Nice. Happy birthday.
Thanks. Yeah, a birthday miracle. But it used to be actors, like, you get a TV show and you'd be like, "Ah, keep trying, you'll get a movie." Now television is it. It's so rare that you see a movie that you go, "That's a great movie." But TV is just getting so much better all the time. It's great.
Some of the time, but I know what you mean. What do you think of all the fan support?
I'm very thankful of it. The fans have been so key to keeping Daryl alive on the show. He was kind of an experiment at first, I think. Frank Darabont created him specifically for the show. He isn't in comic books. I get a lot of love from the fans so I'm eternally grateful.
I've seen support for you on a lot of fan sites and Facebook and Twitter.
That's awesome. Yeah, people are talking about some bots. What's a bot? I just saw that on there.
Sometimes people program voting bots that will vote automatically over and over again. But we've been watching and haven't seen that.
Oh, that's cool.
We have done the tourney four times now, and people always bring them up. But it's just for fun.
"Community," that show and our show, they're all good shows, so lots of voting makes sense.
Let's talk a little about what we can expect on "The Walking Dead" in February.
A lot of action. I think we're kind of done talking for the second half of Season 2. [Laughs.] I mean, you have to do some talking to set up storylines and stuff, but I know people want to see things get splattered. [Laughs.] But in the second half, things, the violence steps up.
It gets pretty crazy. And I think a new character is introduced.
A new character?
Yeah, which I can't tell you who, but it's definitely a comic book favorite.
Oh, is it The Governor?
Oh, OK don't tell me.
All right. We talked about at the beginning of the season how Daryl is sort of becoming closer to his group, and maybe curbing that anti-social behavior he's used in the past.
Yeah, you know, he's definitely like; he's an abused person. Abused people kind of stick together. … He's got a really big bark, but he's got a soft side too because he grew up abused. So it's sort of his defense mechanism he's had his whole life. So, I think once you peel away some of the exterior sort of influences I think his softer interior side starts to come out every once in a while. But he'd never want to tell you that. And if you call him on it he'd probably, you know, stick you with a knife. [Laughs.] I'm trying to make him as complicated as possible.
Right, will he intergrate even more with the group?
Yeah, and you see him sort of take some more leadership roles and branch out on his own, not take a lot of flak from anyone. Yeah, he's not really part of the group in a way that he's looking for guidance so much or like looking for orders. He's not really one of those guys who takes orders, but he knows that there is safety in numbers, so, he's doing that. But as far as, like, [asking] "What should we do now?" he's not really that guy. Hopefully he can find himself in the group as part of a new family and sort of discover things for himself too, like just as a man.
It's funny when you do television because like, in movies, you're going from here to here, and you have this sort of information to play with to get to this point.
With television if you can sort of skirt around and drop little seeds here and there and those little trees start to grow it's kind of a bonus for your storyline in the future. So if when you see those things sort of take fruition, it's kind of like, "Ah, I have a good idea." It's kind of a little Christmas present every time those seeds get watered.
I love how you show his pain from his past experiences, keep him sort of a bit gruff and also show how he really does want to be included in the group.
Yeah. Thanks. When Melissa's character bends over and kisses him and tells him he's just as good as everybody else, like, she came in for the kiss and I was kind of like, [makes scare sound], "Hey are you gonna slap me?" "And please don't kiss me. I'd rather you slap me." You know what I mean? It's nice having all these different layers.
All right, well I'm going to let you go. Thanks for calling. Happy New Year.
Thanks. I'm going to Mexico tomorrow.
Have a vacation?
Yeah, I'm going to take my son and go catch some turtles or something. [Laughs.]
Have a good time.
All right, cool. Happy holidays. Yeah, happy holidays man.


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Abstract: Organizational identity has traditionally been understood as a fixed product that can be identified and communicated to employees. Organizational identity formation should, however, be understood as a reflexive process. There is not just one organizational identity but several, and the construction of these identities takes place in a continuing process among several participants. Yet, in many organizations management aims at a conventional identity formation in the official internal identity communication, when communicating identity to employees with the ambition of creating a monolithic organization of devoted employees. This kind of conventional identity formation has several implications. Firstly, it creates a gap between the official and the unofficial identity formation. Secondly, it runs the risk of making the organization appear untrustworthy. Thirdly, it may lead to a homogenous work force, which seems contradictory to the strive for innovation and creativeness that also characterizes contemporary organizations. Finally, its inherent aim of social control seems morally questionable. Thus, organizations could beneficially strive for a higher degree of reflexiveness by letting more voices be part of the official identity formation. The empirically-based research on how to facilitate such reflexivity is, however, sparse. In order to address this gap in the literature, this PhD dissertation explores how to affect rhetorical agency at work by implementing internal employee blogs in organizations.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8173
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Shares of Tesla — the electric car maker — are down 7% 12% after a warning on production and sales.It's all in this SEC filing.
One other thing before the filing is that Toyota has also dropped plans for a mass-produced all-electric vehicle.
Back to the Tesla filing…
Here's the part about production:
We commenced production of our Model S in June 2012. We continue to ramp production of Model S at the Tesla Factory with the goal of producing the world's finest automobile. The Model S is an all new vehicle which we are producing with new employees using new equipment. As our main focus is on quality, we have methodically increased our Model S production at a rate slower than we had earlier anticipated. To produce a vehicle that meets our quality standards requires us to carefully analyse each step of our production ramp, improve the efficiency of our manufacturing processes and continue to train our employees. Our suppliers also must produce new products in sufficient quantities and quality levels to meet our increasing demand. Certain suppliers have experienced delays in meeting our demand and we continue to focus on supplier capabilities and constraints. As of September 23, 2012, we have produced a total of 255 Model S vehicles, including 77 Model S vehicles produced during the week ended September 23, 2012. We anticipate producing over 300 vehicles in the third quarter. We plan to continue our ramp in order to reach our objective of weekly production of 400 Model S vehicles before the end of 2012 which should enable us to produce more than 20,000 Model S vehicles in 2013.
We now anticipate that we will deliver between 200 and 225 Model S vehicles to customers in the third quarter and between 2,500 and 3,000 Model S vehicles in the fourth quarter. As such, we believe we will be approximately four to five weeks behind our previously announced Model S delivery goals as of the end of 2012. As of September 23, 2012, we have delivered 132 Model S vehicles to customers which includes 42 vehicles delivered during the week ended September 23, 2012. The difference between Model S vehicles "delivered" and Model S vehicles "produced" is due in part to the production of 34 vehicles for marketing and engineering purposes, the time it takes us to do final preparation of the vehicles for customer delivery, ship Model S vehicles to various final destinations around the United States and arrange for delivery of such vehicles to customers. We only recognise revenue on delivery of vehicles to customers. As our delivery processes continue to mature, we anticipate that the difference between vehicles produced and vehicles delivered will continue to shrink. This gap will widen again, however, during holiday periods and when we begin to ship vehicles to both Europe and Asia in 2013 due to longer transit times for such vehicles.
To increase the rate of production of Model S, we have taken a number of actions, including working with suppliers to help improve quality and timely delivery of parts, adding automation and second shifts in certain manufacturing areas, increasing training of our manufacturing staff to improve manufacturing processes, and making changes to personnel in our quality control department. We anticipate, however, that manufacturing and supplier issues will continue to arise and need to be addressed in a timely manner.
And here's the sales warning:
Consistent with our anticipated slower ramp in production and customer deliveries, we now anticipate revenue for 2012 of $400 to $440 million, primarily reflecting a decrease in the number of
Model S vehicles we plan to deliver in 2012. We also believe that third quarter revenue will be in the range of $44 to $46 million, reflecting lower deliveries of Model S as well as the deferral of revenue associated with development services.
In the third quarter of 2012, we anticipate that our gross margin will be negatively affected primarily by the limited number of Model S vehicles we intend to deliver, the consequent allocation of all manufacturing and labour overhead costs across a smaller number of vehicles, manufacturing inefficiencies, higher costs for initial parts, and the delay of development services revenue from Daimler, resulting in a negative gross margin in the range of 15% to 18%. Revenue from Daimler will be recognised when we reach final agreement upon the development milestones and related payments which we anticipate finalising in the fourth quarter of 2012. In the fourth quarter we expect gross margin to improve substantially and turn positive mainly due to higher Model S volume, as well as cost efficiencies and planned cost reductions.
We expect R&D spending for the third quarter to be approximately 20% lower than the second quarter, as this will be the first quarter in which a material amount of our Model S manufacturing expenses will be reflected in cost of goods sold rather than in research and development and as one-time Model S development expenses decline. We also expect selling, general and administrative expenses for the third quarter to increase modestly over the prior quarter as we continue to increase our vehicle selling and servicing capabilities. We believe capital expenditures will be between $220 and $240 million for 2012.
For 2013, we plan to exceed our objective of 20,000 Model S deliveries in 2013 and expect to achieve a gross margin of 25% in 2013 once we achieve manufacturing efficiencies and planned cost reductions associated with higher volume production and improvements in the margins of our powertrain sales.
We have now fully drawn down our $465 million DOE Loan Facility. As of September 30, 2012, and inclusive of the net proceeds of this offering, we expect to have approximately $228 million in principal sources of liquidity from our cash and cash equivalents and current restricted cash. This will include our cash and cash equivalents in the amount of approximately $203 million which will include our investments in money market funds, as well as restricted cash of approximately $25 million which will include cash of $15 million deposited in dedicated DOE accounts in accordance with the requirements of our DOE Loan Facility and which will be used for repayment of all principal and interest that will come due on December 15, 2012. We currently expect to be close to free cash flow breakeven (defined as cash flows from operations less capital expenditures) at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012.
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I'm seriously considering leaving central Illinois. There are a few atheists here, and while I feel obligated to find or convert more here in Springfield, like some kind of atheist missionary, most of these people are not only unreachable, they dominate the public and private sectors of the economy and have no tolerance for atheists.
What is the most predominantly atheist or predominantly progressive place to live in the U.S. where I can move and finally earn a decent living?
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I've heard Oregon and Washington State are 2 of the least religious states. I think Seattle is considered one of the least religious cities in the country. It's uber progressive there from what I can tell. I have a friend that lives there, and it sounds great if you can handle the boring dreary weather.
Also consider that most northeast states even if they are high in religious affiliation are not nearly as closed minded as people from the south. Stay away from anywhere with high percentages of baptist. In the north, church is what you do on sunday morning. In the south, wednesday services are very common in addition to sundays, as well as lots of social church functions.
Maybe you're asking your self the wrong question. Cities in general are much more progressive and you'll find a lot more people you can relate too. You might just want to move to Chicago.
I grew up in western Illinois (Quincy), spent 5 years in Urbana, moved around the country - a little in Louisiana, a little in San Antonio, Turkey (Army), a little in Rochester NY, then wound up in Lafayette Indiana foir 5 years. I hated Indiana so much (or Indiana hated me) that when I had an opportunity in Corvallis Oregon, I packed up and moved without ever setting foot in the Northwest before. I had only read books. Except for 4 years in Chicago, I've lived in the Northwest for the remainder of the past 20 years, mostly in or near Portland. I currently live in a suburb of Portland, Vancouver WA.
There was a culture shock for me - it's definitely not the Midwest, and people are different. It's hard to say how, but they are. However, I love it here. I don't think I could handle any where else now. With many, many, many trips back to Illinois until my parents died, each time felt like going back to the scene of the crime. The closer I got, the worse I felt. PTSD I guess, but I found it hard to even converse with most people from my home town.
Portland Oregon is very nonreligious. The suburbs are not as much so. I think Seattle is also nonreligious. They are both big cities of course.
It's best if you can visit whereever you might want to live. Even then you don't know until you live there.
As for boring dreary weather, the ocean shores are incredibly beautiful, there are forests full of huge trees to hike in, the volcanoes are awsome, the wineries and breweries are great, and where I live it only snows about a week a year, if that much. Summer is usually dry without a rain from about late May to September, but then it starts to drizzle and the days get short and gloomy, it's true.
I've lived in Kansas, Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Arizona and West Virginia. Of those states, I would say Arizona was the least religious, but I believe that has changed. Of those remaining states, I think Kansas is the least religious. It is less religious now than it was when I lived here before in the 80s. Years of conservative government have made an impact and seem to have created a strong liberal undertone which I hope will prevail someday. I don't know anyone whose happy with Sam Brownback right now. His attempts to end abortion or make them seriously hard to get have failed and been met with opposition.
Austin, TX is a very progressive city with a large IT/tech industry and many colleges and universities. Home of Atheist Community of Austin (ACA). Here are some links about Austin, TX.
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Davina McCall has said the thought of being reunited with her children is spurring her on in her gruelling 500-mile (805km) Sport Relief challenge which saw her dragged out of a bitterly cold lake.
The presenter admitted she was frightened during her 1.5 mile (2.4km) crossing of Windermere yesterday and is finding it a huge struggle to keep going as she settles back into the saddle once again, admitting she is "spent".
The 46-year-old told BBC Breakfast this morning: "I 've got to get to my children by Friday or I'm going to expire, so that's my focus. It's not even like they're trying to make me do it - I've just got to get to the kids."
Davina is travelling under her own steam from Edinburgh to London by cycling, swimming and running.
Yesterday's tough ordeal saw her struggling across the lake in tears and clearly distressed while barely able to breathe as a result of the cold and the exertion.
She had to cling to a kayak for the final stages and, when she eventually reached her target, her limp body was plucked from the water and she had to be carried to a nearby hotel to warm up.
Speaking after a short stint on the bike through Lancashire this morning, she said: "I nterestingly today feels really hard. I think I spent a lot of energy yesterday. I h aven't even cycled that far this morning and I'm actually spent already. Today is going to be much much tougher than I thought."
Recalling the agony of her swim in the 5C (41F) lake, accompanied by her trainer, Professor Greg Whyte, she said: " I was pretty scared. I was just very, very tired and I had nothing.
"We just got so cold and it was just like somebody was sitting on my chest and I couldn't breathe. I had perfected this amazing front crawl across three months - I was really good at it and then I got in the cold water and it felt like someone was sitting on my chest and I just couldn't breathe, so I couldn't put my head in the water to turn it up to breathe.
"And I literally ended up doggy-paddling across Windermere which took a lot longer than we all thought. Greg swam it with me and we were both getting quite cold and I was really suffering at the end."
The Million Pound Drop host is aiming to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds with her BT Sport Relief Challenge: Davina - Beyond Breaking Point.
"I keep saying to myself it wouldn't raise any money if it wasn't a challenge but by God it's a challenge."
Even prior to getting in the water TV viewers saw her sobbing at the prospect of getting into the water as she had difficulties coming to terms with the tough open-water swim.
After completing it she told how thoughts of her half-sister Caroline Baday - who died from cancer in 2012 - had pulled her through.
Davina said: "I imagined my sister holding me and pulling me through it."
She had also hoped for divine intervention to get her through, admitting: "I got so desperate I looked up to God - if there was anyone up there I needed their help."
The presenter's body was limp and her head was lolling as she was pulled from the water after clinging on to her support team's kayak to complete the Windermere crossing.
Organisers of the seven-day challenge assured fans that Davina was in no danger as she made her way across the lake.
She admitted she had also hoped for divine intervention to get her through, saying: "I got so desperate I looked up to God - if there was anyone up there I needed their help."
After warming up from her swim, she had to get on her bike and spend hours in the saddle as she completed a long, slow 65-mile (105km) leg of the journey to finish yesterday's stint.
Today she is cycling from Accrington to Glossop, and then joining the Pennine Way to run a section of the route until she reaches Edale in Derbyshire.


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Some talk about social software as if it is unique in the ability to tap into the wisdom of the crowds. Sharing is explicit in social software systems -- people have to explicitly state relationships and explicitly share recommendations -- so perhaps it is not obvious that there are more subtle ways to share this knowledge.
Systems like Amazon's recommendations and Google's PageRank implicitly share the wisdom of the crowds. Collaborative filtering-based systems like Amazon's recommendations use algorithms to find people with similar interests and share their wisdom. Google's PageRank algorithm mines the link graph -- links people made between web pages -- to surface authoritative and useful sources of information.
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Great, now that I have your attention, what you are about to witness is pure automotive hottness at its very best. There's beautiful fabrication, a beautiful car, a beautiful engine, and an overall beautiful build thread. The whole event took place over on MotorGeek, and if you have a spare hour or so, you will definitely want to read through the entire build thread. It's dang near incredible. Here is the short story.
A user known as "timmmy" got a great deal on a 2003 Audi RS6 that had a missing twin turbo engine. He decided that rather than replacing it with a very expensive factory replacement, a 2004 Pontiac GTO LS1 v8 would be the best candidate to go in its place. The best part? He also swapped in manual transmission and kept the all wheel drive. For-The-Win. Absolutely ideal daily driver in New England? Yessiree Bob… err… should I say "Judas"? I forgot to mention that, this project is named Project "Judas".
Now it's one thing to plop this GTO engine into a 70 Chevelle, but a totally different game to surgically slide it under the hood of an awd Audi RS6. Mechanically, this engine swap had a unique set of challenges that you might expect, like relocating the transmission further rearward, modifying axles, and just basically making space for 4 more inches of engine under the hood. There was plenty of awesomely fabricated parts to make this happen. Transmission cross-members, engine mounts, accessory brackets, the whole shebang. The majority of the parts were made of aluminum, and if you have been reading the 1A Blog for a while, you know that I'm a sucker for TIG welded aluminum.
Fuel Injection. For those of you that have done fuel injected engine swaps before, you know that it has its own variety of challenges that carbureted engines don't have, like ohhh, about 4 million wires. Not only that, but this builder then had to connect the LS1 engine harness to the Audi harness and have them play merrily. That way he would have a dashboard, OBDII port, and engine accessories that actually worked like they were intended. That takes some serious noggin power, and is almost always the most frightening part of a car build.
Within the build thread, there are probably hundreds of pictures, many videos, and great automotive banter throughout. I grabbed a few to share with you today, but really you need to check out the complete thread. It's everything you want and more.
Here is a link to the truly spectacular LS1 Audi RS6 build thread: http://www.motorgeek.com/
You know I grabbed my favorite video as well right? Here, he tests the Audi RS6's new launching capabilities and LS1 rev limiter. They work!
Special Note To MotorGeek Guys: I fixed the "slight" error on transmission swap 😉 My bad.


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Michelle Teti, assistant professor of health sciences in the University of Missouri School of Health Professions, said the study explored resilience -- how individuals demonstrate positive mental health regardless of stress and adversity -- among poor black men living in urban areas.
The researchers interviewed the men to learn about societal stressors in their lives, including racism, incarceration, unemployment and surviving rough neighborhoods.
The study, published in Qualitative Health Research, found many of the men found ways to overcome adversity via five primary forms of resilience: perseverance, commitment to learn from hardships, reflecting and refocusing to address difficulties, creating supportive environments and obtaining support from religion and spirituality.
"Resilience is not a psychological trait that you either are born with or not; resilience can be taught and nurtured," co-author Lisa Bowleg, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said in a statement. "Accordingly, our findings suggest we can use resilience strategies to teach others how to better protect themselves and their sexual partners from risk despite some harsh social-structural realities."


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Five teams from around the Big Island will duel it out in all day roller derby showdown this Saturday, October 19, at the Hilo Civic Auditorium. Bring the family and come join the fun as the Hilo Bay Bruisers, Volcano Vixens, Mauna Killahz, Waimea Wranglers, and Echo City Knockouts battle it out for the top spot in the ten-bout, five-round tournament.
Tickets are $5 for the whole day and can be purchased at Mt. View Village Video, CD Wizard, Hilo Town Tavern, Jungle Love Pahoa, or Jeff Hunt Surfboards Pahoa. Kids age five and under are free, plus a portion of ticket sales will be donated to the Hawaii Wildlife Fund, so bring all the keiki and let them know it's for a good cause. Tickets can also be purchased at the door the day of the event or online at paradiserollergirls.com.
Doors open at 11:30 am and the first bout between the Vixens and Wranglers starts at noon. The next matchup between the Bruisers and Killahz is slated for 12:45 pm, with eight more bouts scheduled for the rest of the day. The last bout of round five is set to begin at 8:15 pm.
For a full schedule of all the day's bouts visit the Paradise Roller Girls website, or pick one up the day of the tournament.
Paradise Roller Girls is a women's flat-track roller derby league based on the Big Island of Hawaii. PRG's mission is to promote a healthy, athletic lifestyle in their community through the alternative sport of roller derby.
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Reporters in the People's Republic covered Beijing's recent pollution crisis with unusual openness. Will it last?
With Beijing's air quality index returning to acceptable levels -- if you can call a measurement between "very unhealthy" and "hazardous" acceptable -- the capital's beleaguered residents can resume life as normal. Yet an exceptional stretch of atrocious air produced an unexpected silver lining: the Chinese media covered the event with unusual transparency.
Typically, the Chinese press tries to put the best possible spin on Beijing's notorious pollution problem, questioning the accuracy of air-quality measurements and dismissing the concerns as "fog". Yet as many pundits -- including our own James Fallows -- have noticed, the national media has reacted to "airpocalypse" with a startling frankness. What has caused this shift?
One explanation may be China's history of dealing with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, an epidemic which struck the country in late 2002. After several months of obfuscation, Beijing succumbed to international pressure and allowed its media to report the story openly. This free-flow of information startled the outside world and led the normally staid editors at The Economist to wonder if SARS was "China's Chernobyl". The current pollution crisis, which has caused no known fatalities, is nowhere near as grave as SARS. Nevertheless, the candor with which the bad air is being reported may reflect a blueprint established during the earlier crisis.
A second explanation may lie with the man at the top of China's government hierarchy: incoming president Xi Jinping. Xi is thought to be a relative liberal in the context of Chinese politics, and speculation is rife that the incoming leader will press for significant reforms during his years at the helm. Though not yet officially the nation's president -- his stodgy predecessor Hu Jintao will hang on until March -- Xi may have already flexed his muscles by ordering China's propaganda czars to go easy on the media.
Both explanations, though, have significant flaws. China's relative openness with the SARS crisis came to an abrupt end during the country's next major health crisis, the tainted milk scandal of 2008. When hundreds of thousands of children fell ill after drinking milk laced with melamine, the Communist Party ordered the media to downplay the issue. The difference between the SARS and melamine crises was clear: while the former became an international issue for the very fact that diseases don't respect borders, the latter was contained inside China and thus not subject to the same degree of media scrutiny. As Jeremy Goldkorn, a prominent business consultant and media critic based in Beijing said via e-mail, "The government's default mode is still to cover up rather than reveal".
Likewise, there's little evidence that Xi Jinping will preside over a true liberalization of China's media. Chinese journalists still work under threat of intimidation and violence from government officials, even when covering stories that lack an explicitly political angle. And even if Xi harbored reformist ambitions, he may lack the political capital to navigate China's treacherous political landscape. Preserving the status quo, as always, remains the most palatable option for any Chinese leader- particularly one so new to the job.
Why, then, would the Chinese government allow such candor on the pollution question? Social media plays a role. Prominent Beijing real estate developer Pan Shiyi regularly tweets information about pollution to his several million followers on Sina's Weibo, and the flurry of similar comments by more ordinary users has brought the pollution issue into the open. At a basic level, the government understands that once an issue hits critical mass, there's little point in perpetuating the myth any further.
Also, unlike other issues which threaten the Chinese government's hold on power, environmental concerns do not discriminate by class or income level. While many of Beijing's citizens may not pay attention to esoteric political issues, the Communist Party surely believes that pollution has the potential to unite a large number of people against its governance. That, more than anything else, may explain why the government has approached this issue with unusual openness.
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Sinusitis is infection or inflammation of the lining of the sinus cavities. These are hollow spaces in your cheeks and around your eyes. Sinus infections often follow a cold and cause pain and pressure in your head and face.
Sinusitis is a common condition with more than 24 million cases occurring in North America annually.
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Candidates for Colorado governor debate: How it got played
They weren't there, but Republicans Tom Tancredo and Scott Gessler got mentioned in the Denver Post's debate featuring four other Colorado gubernatorial candidates. Here's how the debate was covered:
Denver Post: Republican candidates for governor this year agreed on two points clearly Tuesday: Colorado needs a new kind of leader, they said, but no new taxes. Candidates staked out their positions on a variety of issues, including toll roads, TABOR, guns, immigration, wildfires and marijuana. (The article features a video of the debate.)
Grand Junction Sentinel: Before telling Republican voters why they should be their party's nominee to run against Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, four GOP governor candidates started out by trashing the two who declined to show.
The Associated Press: Republican gubernatorial hopefuls agreed on taxes, civil unions and marijuana, but they disagreed on the woes of the state GOP in their first debate Tuesday
Colorado Springs Gazette: As Republican candidates for Colorado governor introduced themselves to the electorate Tuesday night at a debate held by The Denver Post, the two top fundraisers were conspicuously absent and drew fire from opponents.