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Women Erased From Ikea's Saudi Catalog; Company Apologizes
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Click through Swedish furniture giant IKEA's U.S. (online here) and Saudi (online here) catalogs.
You'll find all the same stuff.
But you won't find women in the Saudi catalog.
The company is apologizing for what somebody (the person or persons haven't been identified) must have thought was a way to make sure IKEA didn't offend any shoppers in a male-dominated country where women are supposed to cover themselves in public, still aren't allowed to drive and lack other rights that are basic in many other countries. All images of women (more than a dozen) have been digitally erased in the Saudi version.
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"We should have reacted and realized that excluding women from the Saudi Arabian version of the catalog is in conflict with the IKEA Group values," Ikea says in a statement.
The Wall Street Journal adds that:
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"The company, looking to avoid a potential political fallout, on Sept. 21 deleted a photo from its Russian corporate Web page showing four young people in balaclavas that could have been viewed as a gesture of support for three jailed members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot. The deleted photo was part of a Russian marketing campaign that included a photo competition in Russian MEGA shopping malls, which receive about 200 million visitors per year."


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Managerial compensation: Luck, skill or labor markets?
Luck, skill and labor markets all have empirical support as determinants of managerial compensation. We examine the relative importance of pay for luck, managerial skill and labor market opportunities in determining compensation. We measure luck as the predictable component of firm performance, measure skill using managerial fixed effects and measure labor market opportunities as the compensation of executives at matched firms. Our results imply that managerial skill is the most important determinant of managers' compensation, followed by firm size and labor market opportunities, and that luck is not an important determinant of managerial compensation.Download Info
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Old Chimney Stack at Cangai Goes as Copper Mining Plans Proceed
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An 80 feet tall chimney stack, the last of three which had marked the copper mines at Cangai, dropped into a mound of bricks yesterday, when it was blasted down preparatory to new mining activities to take place at Cangai 30 miles from Grafton.
Built about 1901, and a monument to the skill of its bricklayers, the chimney stack dominated the beautiful valley which surrounds the scarred earth, mute testimony to previous workings.
A "Daily Examiner" reporter and photographer followed a four-wheel land rover along the Gwydir Highway to the Mann River Bridge, turning right into the Cangai Road where, fortunately, a Nymboida Shire grader was working. The road was in good shape apart from two swiftly running causeways.
High banks of debris pushed from the roadway near creek junctions were a reminder of the recent flood.
Coming through the hills and into the Cangai Valley, the stack, soon to disappear amid a cloud of dust and a resounding thunderclap of explosive noise which echoed around the hills stood out sharply against the landscape.
With the apparent casualness born of eight years' experience in handling explosives, Glen Shipman, field foreman for the consultative firm of Alex Rogers of Mining House, Coffs Harbour went about his hour long preparation to prepare and lay the charges to bring the chimney down. The job was done for North Coast Copper Mines.
With his assistant, Ian Bines, a miner and diamond driller formerly of Broken Hill, he stacked the four "bombs" within the oven cavity of the chimney, while the moments were recorded on film.
Mr. Shipman estimated the chimney would contain about 80 tons of bricks. The structure was built of three thicknesses.
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He is interested in the history of Cangai, and is anxious to obtain photographs of the old mines and village.
The Cangai copper lode was discovered accidentally by J. Sellars while wallaby shooting in August 1901. His attention was caught by blue and green carbonates showing in a large block on the highest point of the outcrop.
From the first shaft sunk near the point of discovery, about 80 tons of oxidized ore were raised, yielding from 22 to 34 per cent.
Maclean and party discovered the western continuation of lode, taken up by P. Kritsch and party.
Corry and party took up the eastern extension. It was sold to Melbourne investors under the title of Cangai Copper-mining Company who extracted about 300 tons of ore, despatched to …
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New 'No Turn on Red' Signs Installed on Hempstead Turnpike
New signs are part of initiative to enhance safety on the street.
The signs were added recently and aim to improve pedestrian visibility and safety, according to Eileen Peters, NYSDOT Public Information Officer.
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No Turn on Red signs are currently being installed at an additional 142 locations between the Nassau/Queens border and NY Route 110 to bring the total to 232 locations.
"These NTOR signs also work in conjunction with the leading pedestrian intervals that are being installed on NY Route 24 at traffic signals to encourage motorists to yield the right of way to pedestrians, and also give pedestrians a head start in crossing a street before vehicles are given a green light to proceed," Peters said.
In 2012, a report by the Tri-State Transportation Corporation (TSTC) rated Hempstead Tpke. as the most dangerous road in the region.
A number of pedestrians have been struck crossing the street. 19-year-old Island Trees High School student Peter Thearle was killed crossing Hempstead Turnpike at Gardiners Avenue on June 6, 2011, and 16-year-old Anthony D'Alessandro was struck and killed crossing Hempstead Turnpike near Division Avenue in April of 2012.
Do you think the new No Turn on Red signs will help improve safety on the streets? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
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January 03, 2013 at 09:06 AM
I have lived here in Levittown for the past 23 years. I shop numerous times a week at Stop & Shop & Target. Since the No Turn on Red Sign has been installed at that traffic light it has made leaving the shopping center a disaster. Not allowing cars to turn right on red at the exit to Target causes huge traffic snarls in the parking lot. Either another exit should be created to allow those heading East on Hempstead Turnpike to depart or I believe residents will begin shopping elsewhere.
Concerned American
January 03, 2013 at 09:19 AM
These signs will not make the Turnpike safer - it will add to congestion and possibly make it more dangerous. People who have been hit by cars typically run across the street between intersections. The lighting on the Turnpike I believe is a big factor at night. The state should remove these NTOR signs and work on the lighting as well as the design of the road itself.
Tom LaSusa
January 03, 2013 at 10:37 AM
I agree somewhat with the other comments. While the deaths have been tragic, and our sympathies still go out to the families and friends affected, the fact is that many of the incidents could have been avoided if the pedestrian hadn't disobeyed the rules. As I understand it, in several instances the individual ran across the Tpke against traffic, and far from a pedestrian walkway.
The deaths haven't served as a warning either. This past holiday season, I had to hit the brakes hard twice while driving on Hempstead Tpke when someone dodged across the road against lights and nowhere near a safe corner.
I'm not saying that the "no Turn on Red" signs are a bad idea -- used properly and in the right locations. But better lighting, and perhaps harsher jaywalking fines should be included in this mix?
January 03, 2013 at 11:11 AM
surprised they dont mention that those kids were under the influence at the time they tried to run across the tpke
Michael Tannacore
January 03, 2013 at 11:55 AM
Bad parenting leads to these deaths and who gets punished? Responsible drivers. I bet if the NYS DOT officer actually had to wait at that Target stop light, they'd take that sign right down. It's so infuriating that it's going to start road rage in a parking lot!
One comment does bring up the fact about that parking lot and it's exits. There's two exits where you can only go north, and the other exit goes east and west. For a parking lot that big, they REALLY need another exit - perhaps near the east end where the KFC is. But hopefully now that holiday shopping is over, things will calm down.
And turning right off of Hempstead Tpke into a one-lane residential area should not have a No Turn on Red.
Ann M. Braun
January 03, 2013 at 03:32 PM
Remember when there were NO turns whatsoever allowed on a red light? No one questioned it. No one argued with it. Drivers just stopped and waited for the green. Allowing right turns on a red light increases the odds of an accident. And if just one person gets injured or killed, that's too much.
January 03, 2013 at 03:59 PM
What a total waste of money!! And what a total waste of expensive gas, sitting in a runnung, non-moving car, while looking at a red light waiting to make a right turn when there are NO cars or pedestrians in sight!! How about a NO TURN ON RED WHEN PEDESTRIANS ARE PRESENT?? Now THAT would make more sense!! I am so sick of money being wasted because some beauracrat got some bright idea to show the county... LOOK... WE DID SOMETHING WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS! Even though it makes no sense and was poorly thought out. And the issue oft the Target/Stop and Shop exit is something that REALLY needs to be addressed!! That is so poorly planned. And it is a major accident waiting to happen. I need to turn West leaving that parking lot, but many times I will turn East and make a UTurn at the next light, or go out the exit on Wantagh Ave. ny Dtop and Shop to go North across the Turnpike, and then through back streets till I can get back onto Hempstead Turnpike. AWFUL!! How many accidents/deaths will it take to make NYSDOT move their butts to correct THAT!! And, BTW, you are correct, the comments about the 2 deaths, one on Hempstead Tpk and one on Gardeners Ave. BOTH of those accidents happened when these young men chose to run across the streets, not at an intersection, but mid block!! There is NO WAY a NO TURN ON RED sign would have had any impact on those 2 tragedies. Come on people, lets make some noise about these useless signs that make traffic worse and the Turnpike MORE dangerous!! We can start with Kate Murray and Gary Hudes.
January 03, 2013 at 04:13 PM
These signs were placed at areas such as the egress in front of St. Bernard's and the Levittown Car wash.....really? Those really are not a right on red, as you have to go through the light to attempt that move in the first place. Those infractions would be passing a Steady Red Light. None of the pedestrians killed were killed by a vehicle making a right on red....more like a bad decision of drinking and crossing ILLEGALLY.
Tom LaSusa
January 03, 2013 at 05:25 PM
Ironically enough, after I posted my earlier comment I had to run out with my wife to a Doctor Appt. Heading up towards East Meadow, just past one of the new "No Turn On Red" signs, a teenager dodged across the middle of Hempstead Tpke, nowhere near the legal pedestrian path, while the lights were green and with oncoming cars. One drive had to hit his brakes pretty hard to avoid the teen. Two friends who didn't take the chance, still could be seen laughing and cheering him.
I'm a former Queens native, so I lived most of my life not being able to turn on a red. So to that extent, I agree with Ann's opinion above. That being said, it does feel as if the town legislators came up with a solution without actually addressing the real problem.
January 04, 2013 at 01:03 AM
Once again, in what is a typical bureaucratic response to a non-existent problem, some pencil pusher with a civil service job has deemed the following; That since a number of people took it upon themselves to cross a busy street such as Hempstead Turnpike, 1- In the middle of the street, away from a crosswalk, 2- During evening hours, 3- While the motorists had a green light, 4-While possibly under the influence of alcohol, the much needed response was to install numerous "No Turn on Red" signs. And we wonder why our government is in such disarray? Is this madness ever going to end? Was this really the logical conclusion some moron on the public dole came up with?
This government flunky must have gone to the same school as the idiots who put stop signs at every intersection in Levittown's side streets to slow traffic down but the end result is that over 50% of people who drive those streets do not even stop at the stop signs anymore.
Or the same town official who received a complaint about dogs at the Acorn Lane Park and had at least 8 No Dogs Allowed signs posted throughout the area. I feel much safer now that there are no dogs at the park, just the usual drug-dealing, partying, alcohol drinking and sex that now occurs there at night.
Concerned American
January 04, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Last night driving past Dalton's around 8:30PM a man was walking across the Turnpike mid block-no where near a crossing-I said to my passenger "look at that guy crossing" and he could not even see the man. There is a need for better lighting, and a need for a targeted campaign to stop people from crossing mid block - these signs are a "see what we did to address the issue" baloney rather than a real fix.
Barbara Batagely
January 04, 2013 at 03:29 PM
Why don't they just enact a law stating that there is NTOR unless signs are posted stating otherwise? That would save us, the taxpayers, the cost of putting up the signs in what the county deems dangerous roads. Nowadays, ALL roads should be considered dangerous.
Brent M.
January 04, 2013 at 04:37 PM
While I applaud some of the locations the new signs are in.. some of the other locations are absolutely retarded!!!! For example, the new sign coming out of the Hurricane Grill / Ulta/ Mandee shopping center in Levittown?? There is no pedestrian traffic there because there is hardly any stores there!!!!
January 04, 2013 at 06:46 PM
This will not help at all. How many times did a person get hit by a car that turned on red?? I didnt hear anything on that study.. Again enforcement is key, how about some radar and just general enforcement of the rules of the road. ??? Never in my 20 years living here have I seen this on Hemp Tpk in Levittown. Just doing something to say "we did something" is not the answer. You need people who know what to do, how to do it and than get results which we will never get. Be safe- hope some day they will wake up and do something that they think out first.
January 04, 2013 at 10:38 PM
Perhaps the time has come to have "NO TURNS ON RED" as a law unless
otherwise posted for all of Long Island...
It is that way in the 5 boroughs of the greatest city in the world....
January 05, 2013 at 12:20 AM
The best pedestrian safety improvement would be a MUCH heighten attention from the drivers to everyone and everything around while they drive. Drivers that see an animal in the street would slow down or stop. Yet ,the drivers I encounter while I am walking would speed up and try to cut me off while I am walking. And the language and hand gestures made by the drivers shouldn't be used nor said by anyone. Drivers, please remember you are driving a 3000 to 5000 pound weapon that can really hurt and kill anything you hit .Pedestrian vs car is a losser bet. Please treat us with respect. We would like to live for another day.
January 05, 2013 at 12:26 AM
No right on red off of Hempstead Turnpike is to protect the pedestrians that have been struck, especially by Hamlet Road I am glad that help the drivers in Levittown respect us walkers that are around
June Denny
January 05, 2013 at 02:35 PM
Actually the signs won't make a difference until people stop crossing Hempstead Tpke. against the lights, which I keep seeing time and time again. Nassau County has to realize that it is the pedestrians that are causing the majority of the accidents, not the drivers. Also, what East Meadow really needs is an arrow on the eastbound lane of Front Street at East Meadow Ave. Making a left onto East Meadow Ave. from the eastbound side (the westbound side has one) is an absolute nightmare!
D. Lat
January 06, 2013 at 01:02 AM
Agree with Paul. Uniformity of the law improves compliance, reduces motorist's confusion and costs us less than the numerous new signs.
Tom LaSusa
January 06, 2013 at 12:09 PM
It's true there are people behind the wheels of vehicles that should never have been granted driver's licenses. The streets belong to everyone, both driver and pedestrian.
Obviously you are conscious of the cars and are a safety-minded pedestrian. The fact is that the signs appear to be put in place primarily in response to accidents precipitated by pedestrians ignoring the rules, running out in the middle of the Tpke, weaving through oncoming traffic, etc. In other words -- the signs won't do a single thing to change that.
The placement of some of the signs is also questionable, as (like it was mentioned above) its resulting in more congestion (such as by Target or the car wash). It seems like the signs were planted more to appease and were done without truly thinking of traffic patterns, etc.
Maybe the solution is to put barriers up along the road dividers like they did on Queens Blvd in Forest Hills. They force the *reasonable* pedestrians to only cross in the legal locations. And of course stiffer fines for jaywalking. If it's a teenager that gets caught crossing illegally, the kid gets thrown into the patrol car, driven home, and the parents are handed the citation.
Bottom line the responsibility must be shared. A couple of signs will not change a thing. Changing the mindsets of the drivers and pedestrians is the only real solution.
Bill Alderman
January 06, 2013 at 06:51 PM
While I do agree that curbing "Right Turns on Red" will decrease accidents as a whole over the long term. I just find it interesting that neither Peter Thearle nor 16-year-old Anthony D'Alessandro or the other 19 people injured or killed on Hempstead Tpke/ Fulton Ave within the last calendar year , have been hit by vehicles turning right on red . According to reports , they had been traveling on the main road before coming into contact with various victims.
January 11, 2013 at 02:07 PM
I see some locations where the sign reads NO TURN ON RED WHEN PEDESTRIANS ARE PRESENT. Why couldn't that work? See the traffic bog down at the right turn from the Colony Diner. You just may have to wait for a signal light change. And there has NEVER been a pedestrian issue at this turn.
Guess the 'saving gasoline' reasoning no longer counts.
January 13, 2013 at 11:15 PM
No turn on red out of the target parking lot! Are you serious! The traffic in that parking lot was bad enough, now it's a nightmare. Nobody walks on long island everyone drives. Dumb ass move by the multiagencies involved. I bet not one of them lives in the area.
January 25, 2013 at 07:39 AM
OK TOWN government here is something that is smart. North Jerusalem Rd Westbound at Gardners ave. N/E corner where cars make right to go North On Gardners Ave---HERE is where you need a no turn on red. During school hours it is very difficult for the crossing guard and students to cross this intersection. There are only two lanes going west and the right lane has an arrow at the light for cars turning right. This is not a right turn only lane. If you are in that lane and arrow comes on and you want to proceed west the cars behind you start beeping. Also cars go fast making that turn with the arrow and i have seen accidents into cars waiting south on Gardners Ave light. Plus the safety issue --YES REAL SAFETY ISSUES HERE TOWN ARE YOU LISTENING - KIDS CROSSING FROM GARDNERS AVE SCHOOL TO HIGH SCHOOL. Don't you think this intersection needs it?? Your engineers live in a bubble and should come out and look at this when school lets out not at 10 am when traffic is light. Safety for kids is number 1 remember.
wakeup kate
February 13, 2013 at 01:16 PM
The real problem here is the local stores selling beer and alcohol to minors The teens then play a game of chicken and run across the turnpike. I guess Kate put these signs up so that people can stop and see the NICE BRICKS that she put all over the place in front of empty stores.
On Division ave use some common sense INSTALL A WALKWAY OVER THE TOP OF THE TURNPIKE. This can also be installed on Gardners ave as well as the area by Target. 3 overpass walkways
would save a lot of pedestrian accidents on the turnpike
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Why local TV news turns off viewers
News10 viewers, Facebook and Twitter users were quick to share their opinions about why nearly a third of all consumers have abandoned news outlets, according to a Pew Institute Center journalism study.
Here are some of the comments:
Donna Noeller wrote, in part: A few thoughts have to do with the easy access to pertinent news quickly without having to sit through news items that may not interest me .... Mostly, I suppose, it's the immediate source of information the Internet allows. You cover the DWTS odd makers predictions of who is likely to win? Really? How is that news? I do appreciate the involvement within communities that I observe during the holidays ... here's what I do turn on the TV for news-wise: A person I respect speaking on a subject about which he/she is considered knowledgable. It's not that I don't respect local news talent, it is that I consider them readers, and I can read for myself without the banter and fluff.
Donna Waterman: You wonder why you're losing viewers on your show??? HELLO- ROSEVILLE is never mentioned - only TRACY - STOCKTON - LODI - GALT - SACRAMENTO - STOCKTON -TAHOE. ROSEVILLE has a population exceeding 100,000 - channel 40 is the only channel that gives Roseville information, weather, etc. If you want more viewers, give information about ROSEVILLE - ROCKLIN.
Susanne Knott: Always watch new10, BUT talk about going overboard!!! Where's your class???!!! Christina's gone wild and crazy! Less help? Join the rest of us! Overboard is soo true on broadcasting.
Brandi: ... there is also plenty of news that is not news but "gossip." For example, just minutes after the story about viewership was aired, another story about Tiger Woods' and Lindsey Vonn's relationship status. While this isn't a "negative" story (thus it seems to fulfill what we viewers want: positive news), it's worthy of "Access Hollywood", "TMZ", and "Extra". As a viewer of the news, I'm looking for news that matters to me, my city, my region, my state, and my nation - not "who's dating who" or who's pregnant now or who's behaving badly in public.
J: Too much sweet news. Too much competition. Too many Newcasts (don't need noon news). Tooooooooooo much weather. Too many commercials. 15 minutes would be enough news. IPad taking over as access to the minute news.
Mike Hazlip: ...Don't give me headlines about Lindsay Lohan's court appearance when there are far more important issues at hand that can affect the future of our nation ...
Janice Gull-Watts: KXTV has always been my news of choice but lately it has gotten tabloid oriented in my opinion. The stupid scroll across the bottom is a major distraction for me. My favorite pet peeve is the overly dramatic reporting of the weather by all of the news stations, come on people this is really in the neighborhood of overkill.
Sibyl Fiske Clark: If only the reporters wouldn't get in the way of their reports. Personal opinion clothed as a factoid is irritating. For what happens in our area it should/could be covered in 15 minutes tops. If we want further we will go online.
Keith Breazeal: Failure to buck the political mess. No hard investigative reporting that tackles the stupid things that politicians do when not trying to get a budget passed.
Matt Smalley: Pretending that upcoming TV shows or films produced by your network and affiliates is news. The entertainment and news divisions should be separate and you should employ actual journalists instead of eye candy. Remember when that was how it used to be?
Ken Umbach: The whole business of teasing stories and delaying until after countless ads. Stupid hype. Drooling idiot newscasters. Etc. Loathsome.
ShelleyKirst Wright: They are way tooooo liberal.. and they repeat the same thing over and over and over and over again.. Also who really cares which station was the first on the scene..
Jonathan Lund: the liberal bias of the media ...
Moises Ramos Saavedra: Get rid of sensationalism. Celebrity gossip and sports are NOT NEWS. More exposés!!!
Linda Charlene González: I don't think sports should be in the spotlight so much these days, the money they make and fighting about where they are playing and cities just seems redundant to me. More stories about GOOD THINGS people are doing would help people have better attitudes and HOPE that the world still has something to offer besides worrying about all the bad.
Jon Deese: Reporting is not longer neutral or are there any attempts anymore to show an unbiased story about major issues. Cable news has become as bad if not worse than the daytime talk shows. The local networks are not giving accurate reports any longer - it is all about ratings.
Margy McGowan Moon: I'd like more news and less promo and teasing. I don't want celeb news, I can watch other shows for that. Maybe more local news other than Sac city schools and what is happening with the KINGS. We live outside Sac and there are other things happening. If you reduced the teasing you could get in several more stories!
Sue Funkey: I'm always disappoiinted that you dont cover the foothills very well, I send you news info, and no one follows up. I see Channel 3 here, about every 3 or so weeks, but not you.
Amanda Young: I'm sick of hearing abut the Kings. It's all I hear anyome so I don't watch.
Kelly Hearts: I am tired of hearing about people killing people in Stockton ...
Dawn Geewhiz: Are we going to see this on the news? Are you going to tell the rest of the community how we feel? Are you going to share?
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The subject is Deen, no need to bring the prejudice of southern politicians past and present into the discussion. She might not have had such a backlash on this if she had not already been under such criticism recently for all the fat and sugar in her food.
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The subject is your kind's pretense of virtue. However, you did explain the excessive "backlash" effort, which had NOT occurred to me. Deen does not endorse the left's food ethos, a culinary transgression for sure! Paula Deen violated he left's doctrinal food standards and she's overweight and diabetic, but still has the temerity to cook greasy stuff packed with carbohydrates, fats and sugar. So her Krispy Kreme pudding, is the true cause of the downfall.......
Would the fact that Deen, a poor woman who came from nothing and who built an empire now worth millions, have anything to do with it?
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Resident ESPN jokester Kenny Mayne recently decided to take viewers on a "hard-hitting" tour of the town where Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy grew up: Greenfield, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Penn., smack in the middle of Steelers territory.
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I don't understand the comedy of Dance Center. Poking fun at the celebrities is one thing, but trying to be a bastard to Len Goodman just doesn't seem like it was in good taste. The only positive thing I got off the whole bit was that Mark = Dramatic Chipmunk.
We started off the night with Melissa's perfect 30 samba. I have a feeling there was more double sided tape today, but also Melissa's cleavage is not as squished tonight. Yeah, I looked.
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(S07E15) After a night off so we could all take in the results of the big election, it was time to head back to the ballroom and knock six teams down to five. Tom opened the show by calling Monday the wildest night yet, noting that the gap between top and bottom has never been so great. That disparity is, of course, the result of the ridiculous team judging. Would it lead to another shocking elimination? The results, as well as a look at musical guest Lionel Richie, two pro performances, the return of Dance Center, and stars of dance with Dave Scott (pictured), is after the jump.
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Lithium titanate batteries would be cool if they were cool, but they aren't, so they're not.
Not yet. Maybe soon.
Sure, we've heard that before. Three years is a long time to wait. But, if patience pays it just might happen. Our Link Transit buses will run loops powered by the highest of high-tech lithium batteries, quickly charged, light and long-lasting, and it will be very good. We the public owners of Link Transit will be breakthrough pioneers, reduce our contribution of greenhouse gases, save a great deal of money, be the envy of the public transit world and the object of global admiration.
Or maybe not.
Dig back into your public affairs memory. Somewhere back there is the beginning of the story. In 2010 Link Transit received a $2.9 million federal stimulus grant to purchase five battery-powered trolleys with high-tech rapid chargers. The buses would carry cutting-edge liquid-cooled lithium titanate batteries designed by a company named Ebus, of Downey, Calif. The buses were supposed to be delivered in July of 2010, said Link General Manager Richard DeRock.
If the system worked, it would be the first in the world. Link would lead a technological breakthrough. The project genuinely held great promise, and not just from the techno whiz-bang standpoint. These lithium titanate batteries can be charged quickly, which has distinct advantages. If the system works, a Link electric trolley can be fully charged in 10 minutes. So, in less than coffee break a trolley could take on enough energy to power its way through Wenatchee's 3.6 mile circular downtown route, fully loaded, with the air conditioner going full blast, and make it back to the quick charger at Columbia Station with power to spare.
Perfect, but the engineers couldn't quite make it work, then delay, delay, and more delay. The last time we checked the new buses were to be delivered by April. They weren't. Ebus then told Link to expect the first buses this month. "Honestly, I don't expect them here," said DeRock. They promised to have all five buses working by Dec. 1. That may be optimistic.
The chargers work. They are up and running. The trouble apparently is with the cooling system for the batteries, which has proven difficult to perfect. It's crucial, because this cooling system allows the bus to use fewer batteries, which makes the buses lighter, faster to charge, and far less expensive.
Relax, if you think this delay is a drain on our local taxes. Link is running the downtown route with two diesel trolleys, and two electric trolleys powered by less-powerful nickel cadmium batteries. From the beginning, Ebus has agreed to cover Link's added costs. It is paying for the fuel for the diesel trolleys. It is paying the salary of the Link project manager. Recently, it agreed to pay for replacements for the diesel trolleys that now have reached the end of their smoky lives.
The Link board recently considered the situation. "They are so far behind we could clearly declare the project a failure," said DeRock. But, "Ebus, they've taken all the risks for us. The board said let's continue to give them a chance."
"We want it to work, and it shows a lot of promise," DeRock said.
Link has lost nothing, not even its patience. The federal grant administrators say that even with delays, this project is still ahead of everyone else, so "They aren't worried," DeRock said. Ebus appears to be working not for subsidies, but with the old-fashioned profit motive. If Wenatchee succeeds, the potential is enormous. Two delegations from Shanghai, China have been here to look it over, said DeRock.
We can still dream. An electric trolley with these batteries costs $375,000; a diesel trolley, about $500,000. A diesel uses $1,200 in fossil fuel every month; an electric, about $100 in carbon-free renewable kilowatt hours.
Link is right. We should be patient. If it works, great.
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Originally posted by Jzyehoshua:How about changing the Recommended Games section? It is very annoying that a lot of games I don't want to play are there and I can't refresh the list. What about one of the following?
(1) Option to refresh the list.
(2) Ability to remove games from the list without having to rate them.I don't want to rate a game down without having played it just to get it off the Recommended Games page but would like to be able to see games I know I'll be interested in. The Recommended Games section really needs a serious change to become more useful, as evidenced by "Badge Master".
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A very terrible set of events, my heart goes out to the family of Ella.
If the U.S. Supreme Court ruled years ago that juveniles shall be afforded the same rights as adults why was there not a psychological evaluation and diagnosis completed on this kid? The article indicates the defendant was not evaluated but there is a statement about him being either Narcissistic or having Aspergers Syndrome depending who you choose to believe; the prosecutor or the defense.
Was there an appeal by the defense? Did this kid get short changed by the system? Did he receive every right afforded an adult? Was he ruled sane to stand trial? The article says he "Pled" What are we missing here?
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Note: Sadly like with some other tablet app roundups, the pickings are beyond slim in the Android category at the moment. I was unable to find a single app in any of these categories that was formatted for Android tablets. All Android inclusions in this roundup are formatted for the phones.
Pet owners, do you have any tablet apps that you find particularly helpful in caring for your pet?
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WASHINGTON — Rick Snyder, who is hardly a human cactus, warned Michigan's labor leaders. The state's mild-mannered Republican governor, currently in his first term in his first public office, has rarely been accused of being, or praised for being, a fire-breathing conservative. When unions put on Michigan's November ballot two measures that would have entrenched collective bargaining rights in the state Constitution, Snyder told them they were picking a fight they might regret.
Both measures lost resoundingly in the state with the fifth-highest rate of unionization (17.5 percent, down from 28.4 percent in 1985) and, not coincidentally, the sixth-highest unemployment rate (9.1 percent). And Republicans decided to build upon that outcome by striking a blow for individual liberty and against coerced funding of the Democratic Party. Hence the right-to-work laws passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature to prohibit the requirement of paying union dues as a condition of employment.
The unions' frenzy against this freedom is as understandable as their desire to abolish the right of secret ballots in unionization elections: Freedom is not the unions' friend. After Colorado in 2001 required public employees unions to have annual votes reauthorizing collection of dues, membership in the Colorado Association of Public Employees declined 70 percent. After Indiana's government in 2005 stopped collecting dues from unionized public employees, the number of dues-paying members plummeted 90 percent. In Utah, the automatic dues deductions for political activities was ended in 2001; made voluntary, payments from teachers declined 90 percent. After a similar measure in Washington state in 1992, the percentage of teachers making contributions fell from 82 to 11. The Democratic Party's desperate opposition to the liberation of workers from compulsory membership in unions is because unions are conveyor belts moving coerced dues money into the party.
Nationwide, resentment of union power has been accumulating like steam in a boiler. The Wall Street Journal reports that in the last four years "nearly every state ... has enacted some form of pension changes" clawing back unsustainable benefits promised to unionized government employees. The most conspicuous battle was in Wisconsin, where Republican Gov. Scott Walker survived organized labor's attempt to recall him as punishment for restricting collective bargaining by unionized government workers. After Walker's reforms, Indiana under Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels became the 23rd right-to-work state, and the first in the industrial Midwest.
By becoming the 24th right-to-work state, Michigan is belatedly becoming serious about what Daniel Boorstin, the late historian and Librarian of Congress, called entrepreneurial federalism. This is the wholesome competition among states to emulate others' best practices, and to avoid and exploit others' follies.
Indiana and Wisconsin are, fortunately for them, contiguous to Illinois, where Democratic power is completely unrestrained and spectacularly unsuccessful. Indiana noticed Wisconsin's competitive advantage in attracting businesses from Illinois and elsewhere. Michigan has also noticed. Yet unions call what Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin have done a "race to the bottom." This flapdoodle and folderol come from unions that have contributed mightily to Michigan's painful acquaintance with the bottom.
If you seek a monument to Michigan's unions, look (if you can without wincing) at Detroit, where the amount of vacant land is approaching the size of Paris. And where the United Auto Workers, which once had more than 1 million members and now has about 380,000, won contracts that crippled the local industry — and prompted the growth of the non-unionized auto industry that is thriving elsewhere. Detroit's rapacious and oblivious government employees unions are parasitic off a near-corpse of a city that has lost 25 percent of its population just since 2000. The Wall Street Journal reports that because some government workers with defined-benefit pensions can retire in their 40s, "many retirees living into their 80s are drawing benefits for nearly twice as long as they work."
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Google Plus Accuses Me of Impersonating Myself?
Here's a timely reminder of on some core web principles, such as "algorithms can be stupid" and "don't rely too heavily on free services"….
Earlier today, I wanted to share a video link to one of my Big Data videos, so went to my channel at youtube.com/user/timoelliott – only to find the following ominous message:
Uh-oh! All my videos gone, unobtainable — what did I do wrong?!
Well, it turns out that your YouTube account is linked to your Google+ account, and something, somewhere went haywire at Google+.
The site suddenly suspected me of "impersonating myself" and suspended my account until I proved my existence, by providing links showing a "significant community that knows you by this name", an uploaded passport photo, or links or scans of articles.
While I'm waiting for the review, I'm persona non grata on both Google+ and YouTube, waiting for a process that can apparently take days:
I'm guessing that the culprit is simply an algorithm that checks the application of the Google+ "real name" policy, and decided that my name didn't sound "real" enough (Yes, Timo is my real first name – it's Finnish. I'm half Nordic).
In this case, the only "suffering" should be the a few less YouTube videos watched. But as Google and other services become ever-more essential in many people's lives, it's a chilling reminder of how much power these companies have – power that will only skyrocket in the future with technologies like Google Glass and face recognition.
The real problem with these procedures is their "delete first, appeal after" nature (doing it the right way around would require much more expensive human intervention – which would disrupt the existing business models, and so isn't going to happen any time soon).
I'd ask for your help to vouch for me, but there's no obvious person or link to send such information to. There's a certain irony in a company that is at the bleeding edge of "customer analytics" being quite so casual with its own customer service (although, of course, I'm more the "product" than the "customer", since I only "pay" with my eyeballs on ads promoted by the real customers).
Another delicious irony is that even a cursory Google search of my name returns thousands of results (photos, articles, presentations…) that constitute a "proof of my existence" that would be MUCH harder to fake than an uploaded scan of my passport photo:
The moral of the story is "be wary" – especially of "free" services.
Now, I just hope to be able to do a Google Hangout in time for my next SAP Big Data Chat about Data Science…
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The Future Of Business And Social Networks
Michael Brenner of the SAP Business Innovation Blog interviewed me as part of a series of interviews with thought leaders on the topic of the Future of Customer Experience, Work and Resource Optimization.
This kickoff interview was about the future of business and social networks and how they are transforming the future of business, and was first published on the SAP Innovation Blog.
As the economy becomes more global, supply chains become more complex. How can companies manage this growing network of suppliers and partners?
Supply "chain" makes modern commerce sound more linear than it really is – especially with deep customization and consumer co-creation. It has to be as easy to work with a partner or supplier as you could with a department of your own company. Crucially, what has changed is that information flow between companies is now vastly more sophisticated.
Will the increasing inter-connectedness of people around the world push companies and governments to become more open and transparent?
Consumer sharing of information has certainly forced a lot more transparency in terms of the quality of goods and services – if you have a bad product, you can no longer hide it. Consumers now expect lots of deep information to be available online for any product. But this doesn't (yet?) necessarily extend to the companies themselves – for example, Apple has thrived on a culture of almost total secrecy.
The "sharing economy" has emerged from the monetization of our social connections. How do you see that evolving?
I'm not sure about the wording — I certainly don't think people sat around looking at their social connections and wondered how they could monetize it. Rather, a culture of sharing information naturally extended to physical goods, and reduced the perceived dangers of sharing with "strangers". In the future, more and more products will turn into services – but companies will fight back for their part of the market. For example, there are now companies that let you rent out your car when you're not using it — but there are also car companies that will efficiently let you use a car whenever you need it. The net result might look very similar.
What are the implications of having a truly networked supply chain where everyone is connected in real time?
History shows that as soon as you make the supply chain more efficient, people find new ways to make it even more complex. The ability to do things in real time will above all result in much more customized products and services.
Many companies are struggling to find their voices in social networks. How do they change that?
It's just part of modern business, like struggling with your supply chain or financial systems. How do you change that? You decide it's a priority.
As companies outsource more and more to their supplier networks how will this affect their ability to innovate?
The ability to use the wisdom of many suppliers to do things in brand new ways is now increasingly cited as a reason to have a supplier network in the first place – e.g. Airbus reaching out to suppliers for the next generation of their planes, co-innovating with those who have the most expertise.
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The What, Why, and How of SAP HANA Academy: Interview with Philip Mugglestone
At SAP TechEd in Amsterdam, I caught up with Philip Mugglestone to chat about his work teaching SAP HANA at the SAP HANA Academy.
Philip, what's your role and background?
I'm a senior director of the SAP HANA Academy. I mainly have an analytics background: more than 10 years with SAS and many years with Business Objects. I'm passionate about predictive and data mining, UI development, and analytics in general.
What is the HANA Academy?
The HANA Academy provides you with "how to" tutorial videos, which allow you as a developer to actually see how you do things with HANA. It's not to sell you HANA, it's to show you how to actually how to use it, answering questions like "what's the syntax", "where do I click", etc.
The Academy is now a year old, with 350+ video tutorials, 100,000 visitors, and over 1000,000 page views. The tutorials cover all aspects of HANA: how to restart HANA servers, how to create a user, and so on. For example, there's a video on how to use each of the predictive algorithms available in SAP HANA. The site was inspired by the Khan academy, with five to eight minute videos on specific topics — and it's free, with no registration required.
The videos are made by a team of six people spread across the world: Joe King, Julie Blaufuss, Denis Van Kempen, Jamie Wiseman, Tahir Babar Hussain (known to all as "Bob") and me. The videos are hosted on YouTube, but you can access them through the academy web site: http://academy.saphana.com.
We also provide all the code next to the video, and you can request a developer sandbox so that you can follow along with the training. The videos are all in English, but we have a team in China working on creating voiceovers.
We also provide end-to-end scenarios, to help you through the process of building a whole enterprise solution. For example, we have one called "HANA recommends" – it's a retail-focused, business-to-consumer customer loyalty application that makes real-time recommendations.
The tutorials don't only include HANA, but also cover the SAP UI5, web services, the mobile application, etc. A version is available on the Apple appstore: HANA Recommends example application.
Screen shots from the "HANA Recommends" application that you can build by following the videos on the HANA Academy web site.
What are things have you been working on?
Not only do we have all this content online, but we also go and teach it in free, three-day boot camps around the world. So far we've done this in Palo Alto, Sydney, Shanghai, and Bangkok, mainly with partners, and the feedback has been very positive. We ask attendees to bring along some real-life customer data, and by the end of the three days, they leave with a working application, giving real-life recommendations. We now have customers that are getting close to going production with applications that were built in the workshops.
The workshops have been so successful that we are now expanding it to focus on a broader set of industry solutions, starting with a three-day session in Paris before the end of this year. It's open to development partners, consulting organizations, and developers among our customers. If you're interested, there are still places left… to sign up, send an email to email@example.com.
How do you handle updates to the materials?
That's a great question, because everything changes fast as HANA adds new features. We try to make sure everything's up to date, but we also want to provide content for people who aren't on the latest versions. In general, we don't re-record if there's a just a small change to the user interface, but if the change means the tutorial no longer works, we'll redo it. For HANA service pack 6 we had twenty new videos available on day 1, and we're looking to do something similar for Service Pack 7 later this year.
How does this relate to other HANA learning and development outreach programs such as the OpenSAP courses?
Everything's complementary. You can do the HANA course on the openSAP site, but still want to be reminded about how to use a specific feature. Or vice-versa, you can look at some videos, then decide to do a full certification course, with exams, tests, etc. – which we don't offer on the Academy site. And of course there's lots of other material for developers available on the SAP Community site and other channels.
What are the plans for the future?
We're continuing to broaden the scope of the Academy next year, with more bootcamps around the world on a bi-monthly basis, and more videos. There's a huge list of new things to cover, such as text analysis, the new features coming up in SP7, the changes in predictive that are coming because of the KXEN acquisition and the partnership with SAS.
The biggest challenge we face is knowing what to do first – and so we'd also like to expand the community aspect to the site, so that we can get more feedback on prioritization, and maybe even some help on producing materials – we're not a large team, and HANA is evolving constantly. We can provide video production, if anybody inside or outside of SAP is interested in helping.
We're also going to add learning maps. Right now, we have sections by topic, but we don't have something that says "if you're new to HANA, we recommend you take courses A, B, and C".
Finally, we're also looking at other streaming/video delivery options, because YouTube is not available in China, for example.
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A BI Self-Service Debate: Can Users Be Trusted?
At SAP TechEd in Amsterdam this week, I had a conversation with SAP mentor Steve Rumsby about BI self-service and user trust.
You can get an idea of our discussion below, which echoes some other conversations I've had with IT organizations that are worried about potential bad analysis that could result from unfettered access to data. I'm very interested in your feedback: chime in with your thoughts and comments!
Steve, before we start, what's your background and role?
I'm the SAP technical manager at the University of Warwick in the UK. I'm formally responsible for our technical architecture, servers, storage, network, plus the development work. We run SAP ERP 6, GRC, solution manager, plus other peripheral systems. I joined the IT department directly after finishing my computer science degree at the university.
So what do you think about BI self service?
I wrote about this on the SAP community network. I can see why people get excited about it, but it makes me feel nervous. I think it's a double-edged sword. There are lots of good things that you get from it – people able to get information themselves, without having to wait weeks, and so on. But what makes me nervous is people doing that without understanding the nature of the data they are trying to manipulate.
Any examples?
There have been some famous ones – for example, one respected UK newspaper reported that there were only a handful of adult cod left in the North Sea.
The BBC did an investigation, and the result was that they were wrong by a factor of 1000000. The misunderstanding was based on comparing life-time information from cod in a different part of the world, and making unwarranted assumptions… if you don't understand fish, you won't realize you've made a mistake until you publish. If that was the organization's cash flow, people might not be so happy!
But surely the problem was this was a newspaper, with no expertise — if it was the cash flow, wouldn't the analysis be done by finance people, who do know what they're talking about?
Yes, but what gets people really excited is the ability to take data from all different places, and mash it up. So you start with data you do understand, but you mash it with data you don't necessarily understand, and you get an answer that you believe, but maybe you shouldn't. How do you know if it's false?
So is the answer to force business people to always go through IT experts? That has resulted in huge frustration, and business people creating shadow IT organizations…
The answer is that people need to understand what data they can trust and what they can't. It's about education and training: as soon as you go and use outside data, you must think harder about the trust-worthiness of the data and the analysis.
But when I look at organizations that are keen on "self-service", it's typically not about external data. It's more about fast-changing or manually sourced local or departmental data doesn't make financial sense to put in the data warehouse (e.g. for a one-off analysis) — yet some organization's BI strategy is still focused on the DW, so the users are stuck… what happens then?
In those cases, yes, users should be able to go ahead and do it, but they need to speak to somebody who can help them understand and sense-check the data.
I believe this is one of the critical roles of a BI competency center: it's not just about owning an infrastructure, but owning the general business problem of helping business people with their analysis, no matter what the tools used…
I agree…
Further reading:
- Steve's original blog post on "Is BI Self-Service Really A Good Thing?"
- A reply from Gareth Ryan, "Self-Service BI, or Seeing Cod On The Moon"


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I bought a camcorder today so I could video record my trip to BC. I want to turn it into a little travel documentary. I have this program on my computer for making movies. I've used it in the past to do videos of me playing songs. But now I'm gonna actually make something EPIC. Or as close to EPIC as I can get. Plus I'm going to compose a soundtrack for it. That's the real interest in it for me. I was telling my dad about it and he was like, "you could send it out to the Outdoor Life Network and get a show." And I was like, "maybe."
But anywayz, I'm going to BC to visit my super friend Katt. It was sort of serendipitous how the whole thing came about. I just so happened to have a week off from werk and she just so happened to text me and ask me to come visit her. I was like, "I don't know, I don't really have the money." And then I got paid a whole bunch of money. So you see, I pretty much have to go.
I mean it would be safe and comfortable to stay at home and get drunk and high all day for a week. But, it's 2011 and I've made it my goal to break my personal rules. I've been doing a pretty good job of it thus far. I won't go into detail as to which personal rules I've been breaking, but yeah…
And so I go, to be spontaneous, to put myself out there and to LIVE. All we have is now. I'm trying to remember that.
July 2011
Big Mistake
Never eat cereal with juice substituting yer milk alternative. In my case it's Almond Breeze. I ran out the other day. This juice ruined my breakfast… :( Fuck it. I won't be here soon. :)
Fuckin' Holiday?
I really need one. Bad! I've been werking so much lately, like all fuckin' day. I get up at like 5:30AM and werk til around 6:00PM. I get home and I'm so god damn tired I can't do anything at all. I just go to bed really early. Also, today I pinched the inside of my thumb in this spinner and now I have a blood blister. It hurt. I'm all dirty and greasy and covered in shit, my skin is sticky all over from sweating outside/inside. Everywhere is fucking hot. I can't get away from it until I get home where it's viciously air conditioned. I have to wear my sweater. I go from one extreme to another. And still I werk and werk and werk. I need a vacation. It's a good thing I'm going on one on Monday. Fuckerz.


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