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This is very simple to make. First fry the mince for a good 15 minutes. Then mix in spices, my home-made tomato sauce, water and – my secret ingredient – two Knorr Rich Beef Stock Pots. Simmer gently for an hour. Mix in kidney beans, gently heat through and there you have my Chilli Con Carne.
- Recipe serves:10
- Preparation Time20 min
- Cooking Time90 min
- 2tbsps olive oil
- 1kg lean, finely minced beef
- A pinch of paprika
- A pinch of cayenne pepper
- A pinch of ground cumin
- 1l Marco's foolproof tomato sauce
- 500ml water
- 2 Knorr Rich Beef Stock Pots
- 2 x 400g tins of kidney beans in water, drained and rinsed
- 1 handful of roughly chopped fresh coriander
- 2–3 mild red chillies, chopped
- 25g dark chocolate (70% cocoa content), chopped
- Fresh coriander sprigs
- Heat olive oil in a large frying pan. Add in the olive oil and heat through.
- Add in the minced beef and fry, stirring to break down any lumps – there's nothing worse than finding big lumps of mince – until well browned, around 15 minutes. Season the browned mince with paprika, cayenne and cumin, mixing in and frying for 2–3 minutes.
- Transfer the browned mince from the frying pan to a casserole dish over a medium heat. Add in the tomato sauce and water and stir to mix together.
- Add in the Knorr Rich Beef Stock Pots and simmer, stirring, until dissolved.
- Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 50 minutes to 1 hour, stirring now and then. Add in the drained, rinsed kidney beans, mix in and cook for 5 minutes to heat.
- Stir in the chopped red chilli, coriander and dark chocolate. Garnish with fresh coriander sprigs and serve. It's fantastic with baked potatoes and soured cream, or with rice.


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Real Meetings and Trinkets and Trash Unify a Virtual Company
Whether a company is virtual or not, personal meeting time is essential.
espite his company's demographics, Jim Bodenbender decided not to rely on outsourcers to meet his company's primary employee-management needs. He is president of Chicago-based Madison Information Technologies, a private provider of customer data integration that helps hospitals and physicians eliminate duplication of patient medical records.
The virtual company has 82 employees located in 16 states. About half of them work at home. Even the CEO works out of a home office in Atlanta.
Keeping everyone connected and working together as a team is a tall order. Even though the company is small, Bodenbender didn't want to outsource, he says, because providers offered rigid restrictions and limited options that didn't fit Madison's corporate culture. As long as their work is completed on budget and on time, the company gives employees plenty of freedom. Bodenbender also wanted greater control over HR functions than is possible with outsourcing. "I wasn't willing to have somebody transplant onto me his or her way of managing HR."
For Bodenbender, keeping most everything in-house means long workdays, because employees cross several time zones. For the company, it means an expensive commitment to higher-than-average phone bills, the cost of laptops and Internet access for everyone, and the expense of company-wide meetings.
Whether a company is virtual or not, personal meeting time is essential, Bodenbender says. Any company with dispersed employees has to be willing and able to take on the overhead and the downtime that result from face-to-face meetings. "For us to have a company meeting, as small as we are, costs about $75,000 just in expenses."
Bodenbender says his biggest challenge is maintaining a sense of teamwork with employees coast to coast. He deals with it by talking with employees every chance he gets about the difficulties of establishing those connections. The company also has two physical facilities, and a third is expected to open this year. The offices provide an anchor for the company. The Chicago corporate office handles the legal and finance departments and human resources, which includes recruiting, benefit administration, policy, and procedure manuals. Bodenbender outsources payroll because he says it's less expensive than doing it in-house.
Ongoing personal and business communication with far-flung employees also is important. That may mean sending kudos or corporate updates by e-mail, making a phone call of encouragement to an employee working late, or keeping people informed with a quarterly newsletter. The publication is delivered in hard copy to differentiate it from electronic mail, which is the usual mode of business communication.
Bodenbender says he's also a big fan of giving employees what he calls "trinkets and trash." These are the constant reminders that an employee is part of the company. It might be a T-shirt, a portfolio with the company's name on it, a rubber ducky, or a birthday card.
Madison overcomes geographic barriers to employee training by hiring only experienced people, and by using a mentoring system. A new employee is teamed with another more experienced person in the same general location for two to four weeks to learn the ropes.
Beyond the training aspect, ongoing mentoring programs also can be a good way to help distant employees feel connected, Parker notes. The in-the-field or long-distance employee is linked with someone at company headquarters.
Managing a workforce that is spread out is all about communication, Parker says, and it's not something most companies are good at. He knows firsthand what it's like to be on the other side of the world from corporate headquarters, because he spent several years abroad working for various other corporations. "On all my assignments, I felt like I was a little forgotten body in the wilderness."
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18 Percent of Users on Grindr are Still in the Closet
In honor of Pride events happening all over the globe, Grindr, the premier all-male meet-up app, surveyed its huge user base to find out how Grindr guys came out, why they decided to come out and how they're helping out the LGBT community. It turns out that 82 percent of Grindr users surveyed have already come out and 18 percent have yet to come out of the closet. In fact, 6 percent of users say they do not ever plan to come out.
When asked the age Grindr users decided to come out of the closet, users in their thirties and forties came out in their twenties (44 percent and 32 percent, respectively). However, 50 percent of users in their twenties came out when they were still teenagers, showing the growing progression and acceptance of LGBT youth. With more than 5 million active monthly users worldwide, Grindr has become a resource for men even before they come out. The survey revealed that nearly a third of respondents were using Grindr before they came out.
"It's a great time to be gay – not just because it's pride season, but because the tide is shifting for our community," said Joel Simkhai, founder and CEO of Grindr. "Our voices are being heard as laws are changing, people are getting married and we have more allies than ever before. Every day, more people are getting involved with our community and our latest survey showed an overwhelming 89 percent of Grindr users support the LGBT community by donating, volunteering or participating in equality initiatives. We are doing our part by helping to increase awareness through our Grindr for Equality campaign and have done some amazing work for equality and to advance the cause of our community worldwide."
Grindr's survey also put to test the saying that blood is thicker than water. Apparently not in regards to coming out – 72 percent of respondents said the first person they told was a friend, while only 22 percent told a family member first.
When it comes to how out Grindr users are, a large majority (96 percent) came out to friends and 81 percent have come out to family, but only 68 percent have come out at work. This means workplace discrimination fears are still top of mind for many Grindr users. This may be surprising considering the main reason respondents hesitated about coming out of the closet was the fear of rejection from family and friends. That 81 percent beat out other fears such as gay slurs, threats, excluded by religion and unfair treatment in the workplace.
So, why did Grindr users decide to come out of the closet? Sixty-one percent said it was time for them to be true to themselves. This is refreshing, considering 12 percent of respondents were out-ed by someone. Grindr conducted the survey on June 16, 2014 and more than 3,000 users responded; other interesting findings from the survey include:
More than half of respondents – 53 percent – have had a sexual encounter with a woman.
Seventy-five percent had their first gay sexual experience when they were teenagers.
Over a third – 36 percent – have had less than 10 sexual partners.
More than 1.4 million Grindr users log on to the app every day, and exchange 38 million-plus chat messages and three million-plus photos to one another. Grindr users spend about two hours using the app daily, and they log in an average of nine times per day. Up to 300,000 users are logged onto Grindr at any given moment. The Grindr and Grindr Xtra Apps are available for free and $.99, respectively, from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or at AppStore.com/Grindr. The apps are also available at the Google Play Store for Android devices GrindrAndroid.com.


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Re: May 24, ECF Game 4 Chicago Bulls @ Miami Heat
: man were VERREY LUCKY to win there jumpball tip in game 3 man becuse rose did the turnovers to it the jumpballtip and we win it to get many confidense + momentum win game 3 but spolstra need make thinking to his fk*** brain to make ilgauskas start center he one the best to the game in jumpballtip nba history% and maimi cant win all tehre game with joel anthony start center make not one jumpballtip% win man
i faceslap to my head if joel anthony start again to lost there jumpballtip IS SPOLSTRA USE HIS BRAIN THINKING??? you cannot not think it always that lucky rose turnover. joel anthony jumpballtip =
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. noah a very good the the jumpballtip but joel anthony not that good and he not to tall to the jupballtip he cannot not win it but ilgauskas have many tall and he one the best jumpballtip in nba history% SPOLSTRA NEED MAKE IT TO ILGAUSKAS START CENTER!! cannot always win the game with no jumpballtip% with the losing all of them but well see to the game 4 to who win the jumpballtip i think chicago win jumpball tip because spoolstra not use his fk** brain to thinking.
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I would like to see Montoya take this on because I think he could actually win it.
Trouble is any decent Nascar driver wouldn't be allowed to race here in case they were injured and couldn't finish the Nascar season.
I dont want to see old-timers racing - they would be lapped easily and may just get in the way!
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How to Dress Up and Decorate Your Average Jeans
Are your jeans on the boring side? Blue jeans have become so ubiquitous that they no longer add much flair to an outfit. You can make yours stand out by jazzing them up. Decorating your jeans with paint, signatures or even holes will jazz up your jeans and turn heads instead of boring them to tears.
1Decide upon one pair of jeans or a few pairs. You may wish to decorate the entire fabric or just add a small adornment.
2Visit the craft and dollar stores. Check out the various embellishments.
3Use fabric paints or markers.
- Paint sayings, hearts or flowers on your jeans.
- Splatter paint on your jeans. Use an old toothbrush or a child's paintbrush.
- Have everyone sign your jeans.
- Have a paint party with your friends. Add their hand prints to your jeans.
4Use various staining liquids.
- Spray on sunscreen just below the front pockets.
- Use dye or slightly diluted Kool-Aid with stencils.
- Spray on bleach. Make a mixture that's half bleach and half water.
5Embroider the pockets.
6Rip holes in the fabric. Mend the hole with a safety pin.
7Add random pockets and patches. Use the pockets rather than a purse.
8Apply beads, buttons or sequins.
9Fray the bottom of each pant leg.
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I accidentally stained black jeans, what can I do?
- If you love original designs or are a punk rocker, then apply paint, studs, sequins and ribbons at the cuffs.
- Rinse your jeans, within three minutes of applying bleach, to stop the bleaching process.
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The festival's most-feared attraction, the Haunted Hayride – Virginia Beach's original hayride – will take voyeurs on a bumpy ride through the deep, dark woods of Haunted Hunt Club Farm. Climb aboard for a chilling look at the "Seven Deadly Sins" as dozens of diabolical degenerates put their vices of wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony on display and beg for your repentance. Don't think your friends on the hay wagon can protect you from the murderous mayhem. The path through these woods is narrow, especially the one through the decrepit old barn, located just past the farm's ominous graveyard. And our tractors have been known to break down at the most inopportune times. All we can say is: Be ready and beware. These grounds are crawling with sinners searching for someone to save their sick souls. Will you be among the chosen?
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Maybe that was too specific. I know I read cases that speak to disqualification when a judge "becomes a participant" in the case or adds tips to an attorney/party in questioning.
I think a situation I have where the judge led a party to add to their own request/words, that it would fit the above mentioned. Can you find case law that speaks about the judge "participating," adding things or giving tips, or "soliciting" people to say things or take certain actions? Also, can a judge "lead" a witness or party?
I see a little bit there. I will read those cases. How about "leading" a witness or party? Can a judge do that in Florida law?
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Beans with Parsley Sauce Recipe
You'll likely find the main ingredient for this dish right in your garden. For a bit of extra color, try mixing wax beans with green beans. The flavor is worth definitely worth the preparation time.—Veronica Teipel, Manchester, Missouri
- 2 pounds fresh green beans, trimmed
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1-1/2 cups chicken broth
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup 2% milk
- 1 cup minced fresh parsley
- 1. Place beans in a large saucepan and cover with water; bring to a boil. Cook, uncovered, for 8-10 minutes or until crisp-tender. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in the flour, salt and pepper until smooth. Gradually whisk in broth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat.
- 2. In a small bowl, combine egg yolks and milk. Stir a small amount of hot broth mixture into egg mixture. Return all to the pan, stirring constantly. Bring to a gentle boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and coats the back of a metal spoon. Stir in parsley. Drain beans; serve with sauce. Yield: 8 servings.
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L'Elisir D'Amore is an opera composed by Gaetano Donizetti, with a libretto by Felice Romani. Premiering on May 12, 1832, at Milan's Teatro della Canobbiana, it was based on Daniel Francois Esprit Auber's 1831 opera, Le Philtre. Of the many differences between the two, perhaps the most famous is the tenor aria "Una Furtiva Lagrima ("A Hidden Tear")," one of the most performed arias in the entire operatic canon. Certainly, Donizetti's opera has withstood the test of time more than the work it is based on; it is number 12 on Operabase's list of the world's most-performed operas.
L'Elisir D'Amore has elements of comedy, but Donizetti did not categorize it as simply as that. Rather, because it is really a melodrama with comic elements and a happy ending, he considered it a "drama giocoso," much like The Marriage of Figaro." And because of its relatively harmless subject matter, it is appropriate for a wider audience than most of today's more popular selections, so it serves as a good introduction to the art form for young people. Order L'Elisir D'Amore tickets today for yourself, the class, or the whole family; this popular work won't disappoint.
Act I: An Italian village, at the turn of the 19th century. Nemorino, a poor peasant, dotes over Adina, a beautiful landowner, who plays with his emotions. When Adina explains to the peasants the story of how Tristan won Isolde by drinking a magic love potion, he resolves to do the very same to win her heart. When Sergeant Belcore appears with his regiment proposing marriage to Adina, Nemorino runs off to the travelling salesman Dulcamara, who offers him a (fake) love potion for the contents of his pockets. Dulcamara tells Nemorino that the potion (actually just wine) will take effect the next day (by which time he plans to have left town).
Suddenly bursting with confidence, Nemorino begins treating Adina with the same indifference she has shown him, sure that by the next day she will be in love with him. She is upset by this reversal, but hides her affection for him. Sergeant Belcore arrives saying that he is set to ship off the next morning, so she agrees to marry him that day. Secretly panicking, Nemorino rushes back to Dulcamara for help.
Act II: The lavish wedding party has commenced, but when the notary arrives to officiate the marriage, Adina wonders where Nemorino is. Outside, Nemorino finds Dulcamara, asking him for a more powerful potion, but he refuses when he sees that the boy has no money. Dulcamara exits as Belcore encounters Nemorino and asks about his sorrow. When he replies that he has no money, Belcore suggests that he enlist in the army. He will be paid immediately (and Belcore will have Adina all to himself). Nemorino desperately signs the contract and Belcore hands over the cash.
Later, Nemorino is drunk off of the "potions" that he has bought from Dulcamara, and he is totally oblivious to the news that his uncle has died and left him a fortune. When the opportunistic women of the town crowd around him, he is convinced the magic has worked. Adina notices Nemorino's new mood and asks Dulcamara what has gotten into him. When he replies that the boy has spent all of his money and even enlisted in the army to win the love of a defiant woman, she is enchanted by his devotion and falls completely in love with him.
Adina finally finds Nemorino and asks him why he enlisted, to which he replies that he seeks a better life. She replies that he is loved and that she has bought back his military contract, which she offers him as she turns away. He blurts out his feelings for Adina and she responds with her own, begging him to forgive her for her previous teasing and cruelty. When Belcore returns to see the two embracing, he accepts it and blesses their union, saying that there are other women who will love him. Dulcamara packs his bags for his next journey as the townspeople agree that the magical elixir has done its job.
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Harsh Mariwala of Marico is on the hunt for entrepreneurs who have the potential to scale up, and are ready to mingle. Through his Ascent Foundation, Mariwala has created a platform for growth-stage entrepreneurs to meet and share their experiences. Ascent will foot the bill for such meetings and connect the participants to the right sources for guidance and support.
Ascent is a Personal Social Responsibility initiative of Mariwala. Its my way of giving back to the society, Mariwala told FE in an exclusive interaction.
Started two years back, Ascentshort for Accelerating the SCaling up of ENTerpriseshas enrolled 280 members in Mumbai and its neighbouring cities. Delhi is Ascents next destination, followed by Bengaluru and other big cities. Mariwala is keen to have at least 1,000 members in the network in the next two years, though the goal is to have eventually 10,000-plus members to make a visible impact on India's business landscape.
But getting the right members is not an easy task. To qualify, a shortlisted candidate has to make a presentation to the judging panel about his/her business and its potential, which will be rated through group interactions and peer review. Selected members are then organised into trust-groups of 8-12 non-competing entrepreneurs. A group usually has members from diverse industries who are similar in size (revenue) and growth stage.
There is a lot of buzz and word-of- mouth happening about Ascent. But the biggest challenge is in getting the right quality entrepreneurs. The rest we can manage...A candidate should be willing to spare 9-10 hours a month and wanting to give back to others. That's why 80-90% attendance is mandatory to remain in the group, says Mariwala.
Each trust-group is initiated for the first four months by an Initiatora facilitation expert or a trained Ascent facilitator. From each group, two members are identified by the Initiator as potential facilitators and trained in the art of facilitation. The group will later be introduced to Enablerswho are usually investors, bankers, service providers, and consultantsto help enterprises scale up.
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This week, the Rock Hall's Library and Archives unveiled a new collection of rare and candid photographs donated by Grammy Award-winning harmonica player Sugar Blue.
Perhaps best known for his signature riff and solo on the Rolling Stones' hit "Miss You," harmonica virtuoso Sugar Blue (born James Whiting) made his first recordings in 1975 with legendary bluesmen Brownie McGhee and Roosevelt Sykes. Blue can be heard on the Rolling Stones' Some Girls, Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You. He received a 1985 Grammy Award for his work on the compilation album, Blues Explosion, recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Blue has performed and recorded with musicians ranging from Willie Dixon to Stan Getz to Frank Zappa to Bob Dylan. Blue was among the featured performers at the 18th Annual Music Masters concert, honoring the music of the Rolling Stones.
Visit the Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Satisfaction feature exhibit before it closes on March 2, 2014.
(l-r) Eric Clapton, Sugar Blue and Buddy Guy.
The Sugar Blue Photographs collection at the Rock Hall's Library and Archives includes seven digital images of the award-winning harmonica player performing with various collaborators and contemporaries, including Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, John Lee ...
What happens when two musical giants collide, when two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees defying genres and generations share the stage? On October 28, 1970 just that happened on Johnny Cash's TV variety show, when he welcomed "the great Louis Armstrong." Cash opened the introduction, remarking: "This country has given the world three original art forms – country music, jazz and Louis Armstrong."
Promoting his 1970 collection of country and western standards (fittingly titled Country & Western) and sporting an oversized cowboy hat, Armstrong sang "Crystal Chandeliers," the country classic originally sung by Charley Pride; and "Ramblin' Rose," a song made popular by Nat King Cole.
With the performance wrapped, Armstrong took a seat beside Cash, both musicians holding their instruments of choice: a trumpet and a guitar, respectively. "You've been at it a long time," Cash said to Armstrong. "I know that. We did a little research on some of your recordings; we find that on July 16, 1930, you played trumpet on a session with the late Jimmie Rodgers, the Father of Country Music. That was in Hollywood, right?"
Armstrong explained the ostensibly unlikely pairing: "We had a meeting one morning and Jimmie said, 'Man, I ...
Big Brother and the Holding Company's performance at the Monterey Pop Festival was so powerful, the festival organizers hastily provided a second performing slot for the band to ensure it was captured by D.A. Pennebaker's film crew. Janis Joplin's performance of "Ball and Chain" was a small part of the energy and power of that performance but it was a major part of helping them to get signed to Columbia Records later that year. Crowd shots in the film show established artists such as staring in jaw-dropping wonder as Joplin delivered a blues-soaked performance.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will open its latest featured exhibit, Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience on Friday, April 25, 2014. The exhibition will be an engaging look at the music festival as more than just an outdoor concert, but as a community experience. Whether it's forging human bonds, building a sense of community, providing broad exposure for musical artists or as one of the most important economic engines of the music industry, the story of the music festival is inextricably linked with music's powerful cultural impact around the globe. Visit Common Ground: The Music ...
With rare exception, blues and blues musicians entertained exclusively black audiences in the 50s. George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals, gave Muddy Waters a platform to reveal the majesty and power of the blues to an entirely new audience. The record album of this show became essential listening to a new generation. Music was never the same again.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will open its latest featured exhibit, Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience on Friday, April 25, 2014. The exhibition will be an engaging look at the music festival as more than just an outdoor concert, but as a community experience. Whether it's forging human bonds, building a sense of community, providing broad exposure for musical artists or as one of the most important economic engines of the music industry, the story of the music festival is inextricably linked with music's powerful cultural impact around the globe. Visit Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience to immerse yourself in this story.
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Although it originated in Ireland, the tune and melody of "Londonderry Air" is known worldwide, its flowing cadence inextricably linked to Irish heritage. When English lawyer and songwriter Frederic Weatherly was introduced to the tune in 1913, he recast lyrics he'd previously penned to match the "Londonderry" melody, giving rise to "Danny Boy,"arguably the most celebrated version of the song.
For more than a century, the stirring folk ballad has been adapted by a diverse cast of performers, including various Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees. Here, we look at versions of "Danny Boy" by Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash, Jackie Wilson, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Eric Clapton.
Sam Cooke
Cooke cut a beautifully soul-infused version of "Danny Boy" for his 1958 self-titled debut album, adding a charismatic lilt to the arrangement.
Johnny Cash
Cash recorded a hauntingly solemn version of "Danny Boy" for his 1965 Columbia Records release Orange Blossom Special, an album that included various folk and country standards as interpreted by the incomparable Man in Black.
Jackie Wilson
Wilson, who could effortlessly transition from rock to blues to soul, transformed "Danny Boy" – reportedly one of his mother's favorite songs – in ...
The song was there amid the highs and lows of the top 40, tucked among "Kung Fu Fighting," "Me and Mrs. Jones," "Maggie May," and countless other 70s one-offs, novelties and classics. The Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There" was in the air, like oxygen. Years after I first heard it in my parents' kitchen on a transistor radio, it always seemed to be part of my life – I would find myself humming the bass line while waiting for an elevator or muttering "Ain't no smiling faces" as I walked down a downtown Chicago street at rush hour. A few decades later, after hearing the song dozens if not hundreds of times, it dawned on me: There are only about five lines of verse in the entire song, spanning more than 4 minutes. The rest is just a magic act between the band (the Muscle Shoals rhythm section) and Mavis Staples, backed by her family.
In interviewing the people in the studio when "I'll Take You There" was recorded, they all still sound in awe of what happened that day.
"The 'I'll Take You There' session rates as high as any we ever did," guitarist Jimmie ...
When it was announced that Hall of Fame Inductees Led Zeppelin would be reissuing their first three albums with a series of box sets featuring previously unheard mixes, live versions and one unreleased track, the group shared a radio edit of a rough mix of the classic cut "Whole Lotta Love" that sounded quite different than the famous radio-staple studio version, most notably Jimmy Page's guitar parts and Robert Plant's vocals. It's a mix as intriguing to listeners as the song's controversial – sometimes litigious – history.
When was the last time you experienced rock and roll history?
Plant remembers the first time he noted similarities between a Zep-credited composition and an obscure but not that obscure blues. JPage's response was "shut up and keep walking." Led Zeppelin almost got away with "Whole Lotta Love." The crunching riff and relentless thud that opens Led Zeppelin II could be attributed to few other bands in 1969.
But as the lyrics unfolded, certain listeners got a dose of deja vu. "Whole Lotta Love" distinctly recalled the Small Faces' number "You Need Loving." Had the music police paid heed, Led Zeppelin would probably have been charged simply with trafficking in ...
The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, revered Little Willie John, having opened shows for John early on and later recorded an entire album of his tunes, the 1968 tribute Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things. Brown was just but one of many artists of the day who were influenced by John's gospel-charged R&B sound. The likes of Hall of Fame Inductees Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and Al Green all noted a musical debt to the man behind "Fever," and hits including "Sleep," "Talk To Me, Talk To Me" and "Leave My Kitten Alone" – the latter an early Beatles fave.
Spending his formative years raised in Detroit, Michigan, Little Willie John's stature belied his powerful voice. Signed to Syd Nathan's Cincinnati-based King Records in 1955, John cut the haunting, sultry "Fever" in 1956 at the tender age of 18. His smooth style presaged soul music. His delivery was passionate and dramatic, which paired with his melding of styles proved the perfect foil to such evocative lyricism.
Sadly, this polished, passionate artist suffered a sad fate: convicted of manslaughter in a post-gig fracas and sentenced to prison in 1966, he died under disputed circumstances ...


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Earlier this month, the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting (HLM) was hosted by the World Bank in Washington, D.C. The partnership's third convening -- watched closely by those involved in the WASH sector -- brought together ministers of finance, health, and WASH from developing countries, as well as donors and other development partners to discuss specific commitments to achieve universal access to clean water and adequate sanitation.
An important outcome of the HLM was the endorsement of 265 new commitments addressing a range of issues in WASH -- from increasing the availability and efficiency of financial resources, to improving access to services and strengthening the institutions responsible for the delivery of water and sanitation.
In a short video report posted to SWA's website, Barbara Frost, Chief Executive of WaterAid, discusses her impressions of the meeting and lauds the group's open dialogue about sector-wide challenges -- such as addressing donor fragmentation and balancing the involvement of the private sector with the human right to water.
A webcast from the 2014 meeting has also been made available on the World Bank's website.
Editor's Note: This post was authored by Barbara Frost, chief executive of WaterAid, a U.K.-based organization working to provide safe drinking water, and improve hygiene and sanitation in 27 countries. Prior to WaterAid, Barbara was chief executive of Action on Disability and Development. She previously worked for various international NGOs such as ActionAid, Save the Children, and Oxfam Australia. This story was first published by Devex, and a version of it originally appeared on devex.com as part of Rio+Solutions, a joint campaign with the UN Foundation.
It is difficult to change people's perceptions of international development, especially when TV reports from the Horn of Africa and Niger seem to hark back to the famines and droughts of the 1980s. Despite three decades of increased funding and global campaigns, such as Make Poverty History, people are asking: What has changed?
Since 1990, 2 billion people have gained access to an improved water source for drinking and other basic needs, while 1.8 billion more people now have adequate sanitation. But while these achievements have had a dramatic and transformative impact on those living in extreme poverty, there is a strong need to recognize how far the world has traveled and what needs to be done.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on May 10 that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will co-chair a high-level panel that will shape post-2015 development goals. This panel faces a sizable challenge but it also has the opportunity to spearhead the drive to accelerate global development — including making universal access to water and sanitation a discernible reality.
A key issue that has been gathering momentum is how to measure human progress beyond the gross domestic product. Stepping back from the economic rhetoric of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, it's clear we need to include water in our measure of a country's progress. Water is fundamental to human progress. As UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said at the recent Sanitation and Water for All meeting in Washington, DC, "safe drinking water and dignified sanitation and hygiene are at the heart of achieving the Millennium Development Goals." Right across the board from nutrition, maternal health, child mortality and gender equality, water plays a critical factor in progress toward these development goals and human well-being.
So where does Rio+20 fit into this agenda? For starters, Rio+20 provides a platform for world leaders to reiterate the importance of water and sanitation in creating sustainable communities and to ending poverty. It allows them the space to reiterate the fundamental right to safe drinking water and decent sanitation as basic services that should be available to all. And it allows them to commit to a timetable and road map that will mean tangible progress for those who desperately need our leaders to take a stand and keep their promises. If world leaders can prioritize, commit resources, and sign up to a vision and timescale, then we will have something to celebrate.
But amid the macro debates about universal access to water and sanitation, we mustn't lose sight of the reality that water plays a critically important role in food security, economic growth, resource scarcity and, of course, climate change. But where is the joined-up approach?
Ultimately, we need to shift our focus to solutions that will have a genuine impact on people's lives. Targets are important symbols that give hope and demonstrate commitment, but it is the mechanisms to achieving those targets that are crucial. Heads of state and finance ministers need to recognize water and sanitation as fundamental to human development and sustainability, and place a much greater priority on these "orphan services." This political will needs to be backed up by addressing the major capacity and funding gaps to have impact at scale. Lasting progress for everyone is the prize and key to accelerating economic and social development.
The Sanitation and Water for All partnership is making inroads toward this aim. At the April meeting, more than 40 governments agreed to commitments that, if delivered, will increase access to water and sanitation to more than 85 million people in Africa alone by 2014.
Ghana and Liberia are the first two countries to enter into the more intensive National Planning for Results Initiative — aimed at driving practical progress through governments working in partnership with international donors and civil society — to render credible plans to deliver water and sanitation. Both countries have now established compacts that directly address the gaps and also outline ways to tackle the capacity shortfalls in bringing about improved access. This will take time, but the foundations are in place.
Water is both the problem and the route to success. It's often not the sexiest of solutions, but global frameworks such as SWA that focus on nationally owned action offer a model that can make a real impact on people's lives. Johnson Sirleaf, Yudhoyono and Cameron have a key role to play to set a post-2015 agenda that really matters to people's daily lives. Rio+20 is a good place to start building on such initiatives.
Read the original article here.
Editor's Note: This blog post was written by John Oldfield, CEO of WASH Advocates. WASH Advocates is a nonprofit advocacy effort in Washington, DC entirely dedicated to helping solve the global safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) challenge. Its mission is to increase awareness of the global WASH challenge and solutions, and to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources devoted to solving the problem around the developing world. For more information, visit www.WASHadvocates.org.
"Forty years ago today, Apollo 16 landed on the moon… By anyone's standards it was a triumph of science, technology, and political will. I remember so many of us thinking that if humankind can do this, what could humankind NOT accomplish?" UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake continued on April 20 at the Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting in Washington, DC: "… and yet today, over 1.1 billion people still practice open defecation because they don't have access to the most basic sanitation facilities… If two generations ago we could land men on the moon, we can and must also afford people here on earth two of their most basic human rights — safe water and basic sanitation — because until we do, development progress will falter."
On April 19-20, 2012 in Washington, DC dozens of finance ministers and water ministers from throughout the developing world gathered to make stronger commitments to solving the WASH challenge in their respective countries. They were joined at the meeting by development cooperation ministers from donor countries, including the USAID Administrator Raj Shah. During the event, Administrator Shah made history by announcing that the U.S. government has joined this global partnership aimed at universal coverage of safe drinking water and sanitation.
Why does this fundamental global safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) challenge continue to exist today? The most intriguing answer is when people respond: "The problem is not solved because of a lack of political will." Once that statement is made, no matter how accurate it is, the conversation typically dies, because most people look at politicians as part of the problem, not part of the solution, and strong political will often proves elusive.
This is why I consider the Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting arguably the most important meeting of 2012: political will is what we saw in Washington, DC on April 19-20. And it is political will that leads to sustainable WASH programs implemented at scale community by community, country by country.
The WASH grantmaking community, both foundations and corporate leaders, can take away a few lessons from the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Partnership and its April meeting:
- Strengthening the evidence base of success is important. The Sanitation and Water for All process isn't simply for finance ministers and other high-level political leaders to dialogue. The SWA Partnership focuses on strengthening the evidence base of success in the global WASH sector, and using that evidence base to strengthen political will. Political leaders country by country need to hear about WASH from their people. Those political leaders also need to understand how they can help solve the challenges. The SWA process facilitates both, and donors looking for "exit strategies" need to think more consciously about what it takes to inspire a government at any level to scale up your work. The exit strategy for the most successful WASH programming is "Get the job done," and universal coverage of WASH requires the highest levels of political support.
- Better alignment is key. Too often, donor efforts are not aligned with governments, NGOs, or other donors; this can lead to unsustainable, inappropriate, and/or duplicative programming. Members of the SWA include bilaterals (e.g. U.S., U.K., Netherlands, Japan, Australia), dozens of developing countries, multilaterals like the African Development Bank, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Many have joined the SWA in part to make sure their assistance is better aligned both with the need and with the actual plans and progress that developing countries are making. SWA partners also aim to make sure their assistance is better coordinated with each other's plans as donors as well. An example of this approach is the support that the Gates Foundation provides to the Water and Sanitation Program, a private partnership administered by the World Bank.
- Linkages between economic growth and WASH need to be better quantified and communicated. What gets the attention of finance ministers? Arguably, it is not the morbidity and mortality associated with unsafe water and inadequate sanitation, but rather the increased productivity that safe, affordable, and sustainable water and sanitation offer an economy. The World Health Organization estimates that each dollar invested in WASH returns on average eight dollars in increased economic productivity and decreased health care costs. But how many of us know that inadequate sanitation cost India the equivalent of 6.4% of its GDP in 2008? Or that it cost Bangladesh 6.3% of its GDP in 2007? How many of us incorporate this and other cross-sectoral linkages into both our programs and our communications efforts as effectively as we could?
Beyond the SWA Partnership, many other ongoing efforts illustrate these same points and deserve a closer look: strengthening community water board associations in Latin America; building the capacity of national and sub-national civil society WASH networks in Africa; donors and nonprofits partnering early and directly with mayors in developing countries instead of just inviting them to ribbon-cutting ceremonies; and bringing creative and leveraged business and financial approaches into the water and sanitation sector.
Clearly donors (in Europe, the United States, and beyond) need to continue direct funding of safe drinking water and sanitation programs around the world. However, government and private donors also need to increase their financial and technical support for initiatives that strengthen the capacity of developing countries to solve the water and sanitation challenges themselves.
If, as Tony Lake says, we can send a man to the moon forty years ago, we as a planet can certainly solve our water challenges today. The Sanitation and Water for All Partnership illustrates some of the lessons and approaches that will make the private and corporate philanthropic communities an even more important part of the solution.


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The longer I live, the truer the Bible gets-and other things I've learned
Your friend's casual joke about her husband is a deep well. Probe and you will find pain. | Whole lifetimes are wasted worrying about the opinions of people who aren't even on the right wavelength. | A lot of what I thought was my personality was just sin. | People laugh at your unwholesome talk at the moment but think less of you afterwards. | I started out wanting to be my children's savior, and ended up pleading for forgiveness.
Marry a man who loves God more than he loves you. | Grand witnessing is spoiled by not returning the Tupperware. | Make a phone call, keep a friend. Neglect a phone call, lose a friend. | Even awful family outings become fond memories over time. | Living in regret of the past, or fear of the future, are two ways of not living at all. | Better to let your child make an imperfect bed than to have a perfect bed that you make yourself.
An inferiority complex is a desire to be better than other people. | The more you see how wretched and needy you are, the less the question "How much should I pray?" is an issue for serious debate. | I complained, "God hasn't answered my prayer." That's because I was not looking for help in my weakness but for the removal of my weakness to the praise of my own glory. | Sit on a sensitive letter for three days before sending it. | A phone call to say, "I'm thinking of you," yields benefits all out of proportion to the time investment. | The best teaching moments are never at convenient times. | When I have no intention of obeying a Bible command, I say it's not meant to be taken literally.
Be known as faithful. If you say, "Let's do lunch," do lunch. | While inside an idolatry you love your idolatry. When you are set free you see what bondage it was. | There is no need to boast about good deeds. They have a way of getting found out even if you hide them. | Now and then skip the dishes and run out to the park. In 20 years your kid will remember the park and you will not remember the dishes. | Thinking a lot is not the same as praying a lot. | An idol forfeits your life. You look back and say you never lived. | The hard part is when you're still holding back something from God. Give it over and be surprised at how much easier it is.
God is the better chess player. Just obey. | You're one prayerless day away from being capable of any sin. | Talent is good, but faithfulness is better. | My kids have a foggy recollection of things I tried to teach them, and total recall of my phone conversations they overheard from the next room. | My kids have a rough recollection of my Christian propaganda but reproduce my attitudes with a cloned precision. | Tell your child what delights you about him. He doesn't know unless you tell him. | Your child is never angry for no reason.
Break a fear-of-man problem by aggressively loving people. | Practice one command of God earnestly rather than a hundred sloppily. | The fool thinks that tomorrow or next Tuesday his problems will be over. | Be open-handed with money for building others up. Life is short and the Lord always supplies more. | If you wait for better times to "Rejoice in the Lord" you will never do it. | Praising and thanking God all day long are the only cure I've found for depression. | There are a finite number of days. Serve the Lord while it is Today. | Drop the dust rag and look at your child when he's telling you a story.
God will not be trifled with; He is Lord. | Let your words be few. | Pray on the spot for the person who comes to mind. It's either pray or sin. | I don't regret not cleaning more. I regret walking past the bedroom door of a girl who fell silent after sixth grade, and not seeking out a boy who sat alone and cried at a family vacation in the Poconos. Forgive me, Hae Linn. Forgive me, Jae. | If you're not dead yet there is still time to repent. | The longer I live the truer the Bible gets.


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Combine first 4 ingredients; stir well, and set aside. Coat a nonstick skillet with cooking spray; place over medium-high heat until hot. Add onion; saute 2 minutes. Add spinach; saute 1-1/2 minutes or until spinach begins to wilt. Stir in rice, feta cheese, 1-1/2 teaspoons dillweed, and 1-1/2 teaspoons chives, and set aside. Beat egg yolks in a bowl until thick and pale (about 5 minutes). Add milk; beat until well blended, and set aside. Beat egg whites (at room temperature) and salt until soft peaks form. Add the remaining dillweed, remaining chives, flour, and pepper, beating until stiff peaks form. Gently fold into egg yolk mixture. Coat a medium-size nonstick skillet with cooking spray, and place over medium heat until hot. Spread egg mixture evenly in skillet; top with spinach mixture. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook 10 minutes or until center is set. Carefully loosen omelet with a spatula, and fold in half; gently slide omelet onto a warm serving plate. Spoon tomato mixture over top. Yield: 2 servings. Per serving: 260 Calories; 8g Fat (28% calories from fat); 14g Protein; 32g Carbohydrate; 222mg Cholesterol; 521mg Sodium Serving Ideas : Cut omelet in half; garnish with dillweed, if desired. Recipe by: Cooking Light, May/Jun 1993, page 90 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #393 by firstname.lastname@example.com on Jan 28, 1997.
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This is my 100th photo to make it to Explore. I have a set with all my Explore photos here.
Explore is an odd thing. There is a wide variety of photos there, some that I really like and some that I really do not like. But that's the mystery of Explore I suppose.


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Vol. 1 | No. 4
Fall 1998
Not Beyond Repair
How Organizational Practices Can Compensate for Individual Shortcomings
Research by Richard Larrick and Joshua Klayman
More than 30 years of research in cognitive psychology has resulted in rather mixed reviews for human judgment and reasoning. Some researchers have marveled at what the human brain can accomplish. Others have concluded that human reasoning is seriously riddled with flaws, self-serving biases and shortcomings. How can we explain the apparent discrepancy between the pessimistic literature on human shortcomings and the optimistic evidence of human accomplishment? As one skeptic put it, "If we are so stupid, how did we get to the moon?"
Richard Larrick and Joshua Klayman, professors in Chicago's managerial and organizational behavior program, and former Chicago faculty member Chip Heath, now at Duke University, propose a resolution to this paradox. They would answer the skeptic by observing that individuals did not make it to the moon, NASA did.
In other words, the authors believe that although individual thinkers are flawed, an organization can provide its employees with "cognitive repairs" -- institutionalized practices that repair the flawed ways in which people think -- that help combat potentially serious biases in individual judgment.
"As a result, the organization shields others inside and outside of the company from suffering the consequences of one individual's flawed thinking," says Klayman.
While most organizational practices today focus on motivational repairs -- incentives that make people work harder -- most organizations overlook cognitive repairs, or they may use cognitive repairs inefficiently.
"Organizations are used to thinking about complex, "top-down" repairs, such as using outside consultants to work with upper management to design and implement an improvement plan from the top down," says Larrick. "What we are saying is that there are many repairs that might be just as effective in correcting the flawed thinking of employees. These repairs may be quite simple and designed by employees within the company. Corporations may be overlooking a rich source of innovations."
Short-circuits in Human Software
Psychological research indicates that individuals are not ideal learners; they think and act in ways that reduce their ability to learn effectively. Many studies have documented that people draw conclusions too quickly, using unreliable evidence or unexamined assumptions.
For example, individuals often gather a biased collection of evidence to explain success or failure because their search favors evidence that makes them feel good about themselves. Research shows that individuals typically conclude that their successes resulted from stable, internal factors (such their abilities) but that failures resulted from unstable, environmental factors (often called "bad luck").
How might organizations repair self-serving biases? Some cognitive repairs can be quite simple. Traders on Wall Street are warned, "Don't Confuse Brains and a Bull Market." This compact phrase prompts individual traders to consider the base rate of success in the market, and it makes it more difficult for them to indulge in self-serving explanations for their successes.
The authors explain that organizational cognitive repairs are not limited to company slogans, although slogans are catchy and easy for employees to remember. Organizations also develop techniques and practices that help individuals think more clearly. For example, researchers note that individuals tend to stop searching for the cause of a problem as soon as they locate a plausible explanation. One organizational repair for this general tendency is a technique known as the "Five Whys." Workers at Toyota learned to ask "Why?" five times before they stopped generating hypotheses to solve a problem. When they did so, they were more likely to find a root cause rather than a superficial one. For example: (1) Why did the machine stop? Because the fuse blew due to an overload. (2) Why was there an overload? Because the bearing lubrication was inadequate. (3) Why was the bearing lubrication inadequate? Because the lubrication pump was not functioning right...and so on.
In general, when individuals ask "why" the first time, they are likely to develop answers that invoke some recent event. Subsequent "whys" are likely to cause individuals to think more deeply about underlying problems that may recur.
Habitual ways of thinking about events can lead to a narrow understanding of problems, as well. Too much familiarity with an event can thus blind people to new insights.
One way to repair narrow thinking in an organization involves the gathering together of individuals with a wide variety of perspectives. A good example of this is provided by Bridgestone Tire, which conducts "kokai watches" to generate alternative hypotheses for improving work practices. During a kokai watch, a group of up to a dozen people from different areas of the factory gather for a few hours to watch others work. In one four-hour watch, a dozen people identified 63 potential dangers with a new machine.
In a similar example, when Motorola forms cross-functional teams to evaluate new products, they do not allow employees who have participated in one product team to participate in another team with a similar product. This prohibition limits the pool of potential team members in a costly way, but by consciously disregarding previous experience, Motorola allows new teams to develop recommendations independently from previous teams. At the same time, Motorola avoids losing the knowledge of the previous "veterans" by using them to review the new team's work.
Other repairs involve company practices that encourage the development of new ideas. Disney instituted a "Gong Show" in which employees presented new ideas in a group setting where they could hear immediate feedback from colleagues at every level in the corporation.
"This encourages people to bring their ideas into the open, instead of feeling that their input is of no use to management," says Klayman. "Managers may not realize the range of ideas that exist in their own companies -- ideas from the line workers to the high-technology engineers."
Finding the Best Repair
"Cognitive repairs differ in a couple of key ways," says Larrick. "Some are more general than others and can be applied across various industries, whereas some are very specific and generated from within the company. And although some derive from formal academic disciplines like economics or statistics, many involve very informal procedures."
In order to be successful, a cognitive repair must not only be effective, but it must be accepted into the organization and actively used. To identify the best repairs, the authors describe dimensions that may affect the costs and benefits of each kind of cognitive repair, enhancing or diminishing its success. Important dimensions include the following.
Simple Versus Complex
Simple repairs, such as company slogans or short corrective procedures, have profound advantages over complex repairs such as formal financial or statistical analysis. Simple repairs are easier to remember and implement than complex repairs and can be passed on from person to person with less distortion. However, the tradeoff between simple and complex repairs is a tradeoff between ease of use and accuracy. For example, a simple aphorism such as "Don't Confuse Brains and a Bull Market" suggests the correct direction to adjust one's judgment, but provides no guidance about exactly how much one should discredit individual success. To precisely estimate the amount of credit due to brains versus the market, an individual would have to perform a more complex repair procedure.
Domain-specific Versus Domain-general
Domain-specific repairs are tailored narrowly for a specific context or industry, such as the slogan "Don't Confuse Brains and a Bull Market." Domain-general repairs, such as the "Five Whys," are more abstract, and can be applied across most industries. While both types of repairs have benefits, domain-specific rules have the advantage. Individuals find it easier to recognize that a domain-specific rule is relevant because the situation itself reminds them of the rule (traders/bull market). In addition, individuals find it easier to apply domain-specific rules to their jobs. The slogan about brains and the bull market is easier to use for traders on Wall Street than shop managers on Main Street, although the underlying concept of the repair is relevant for both groups.
Top-down Versus Bottom-up
Cognitive repairs may originate from either top-down or bottom-up within an organization. Typically, top-down repairs are designed and implemented by managers or outside experts. Bottom-up repairs appear through informal observation and are often discovered by the people who are doing the work. The source of the repair is important because it is likely to affect its form and effectiveness. Top-down repairs may be perceived with suspicion or hostility because they originate outside of the organization or because they are imposed from above. Front-line workers may doubt that outsiders understand their situation well enough to make wise recommendations. Often, when managers suggest a repair, they seem to imply that employees have been performing poorly.
Bottom-up repairs, such as employee-derived slogans or procedures, will often benefit from their local, homegrown origin. Local repairs have a meaningful history that makes them memorable and appealing, and they may be more acceptable if organizational members see them as their own inventions. Just as lawyers feel entitled to tell lawyer jokes, organizational members feel entitled to develop self-critical repairs and to convey their insider status by using them. And homegrown repairs evoke a stronger sense of ownership; at the same time that they call attention to a potential shortcoming, they also give the user credit for fixing it.
Based on their research on the advantages and disadvantages of various cognitive repairs, the authors believe that many of the most successful repairs will be simple, domain-specific, socially administered (the repair works because individuals interact with others) and evolve from bottom up rather than top down. This conclusion is intriguing because it describes repairs that differ sharply from those that are recommended in academic literature on decision analysis, statistics and economics.
"We do not think that cognitive repairs will overcome every individual problem," says Klayman. "Like the mental processes they repair, cognitive repairs are pragmatic and often efficient, but also approximate and inexact. In addition, there are often instances when organizational intervention can make problems much worse. But managers who think explicitly about cognitive repairs will be in a better position to foster improvements in their organizations."
Successful cognitive repairs may already be in use in an organization, but their effectiveness may remain unappreciated or underutilized. In order to recognize these repairs and encourage their use, a manager must begin with an appreciation for the flaws in individual learning documented by psychologists. Managers who understand these limitations can then look for practices to address them.
"Managers already think about factors such as incentive systems and information technology as tools to foster learning and innovation," says Klayman. "We believe that cognitive repairs will be a useful addition to the toolbox."
Joshua Klayman is a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Richard Larrick is an associate professor of behavioral science at the school.


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WGN America has become the latest channel to get into the original programming game with "Salem," a scripted drama set in 17th century Massachusetts and starring Janet Montgomery ("Dancing on the Edge") as Mary Sibley, the wife of an elderly, wealthy selectman in the town of Salem. Seth Gabel ("Fringe"), Shane West ("Nikita"), Ashley Madekwe ("Revenge"), Xander Berkeley ("The Mentalist"), Tamzin Merchant ("The Tudors") and Elise Eberle ("The Astronaut Farmer") also star in the story of what fueled the Salem witch trials. The series was created by Brannon Braga ("Terra Nova," "24") and produced by Fox 21.
Based out of Chicago, WGN America is the only remaining superstation in the country to be carried nationally on cable and satellite. "Salem," its first scripted venture, will premiere in 2014.


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Peter M. Shane wrote an opinion piece for the American Constitution Society's blog on U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen and the legality of deferred action.
Peter M. Shane, the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law and an internationally recognized scholar in administrative law, wrote an article for Bloomberg BNA about congressional attacks on FCC-White House links and net neutrality.
On March 6 the Ohio State Law Journal will host "State Constitutions in the United States Federal System: An Exploration of the Construction, Execution, and Interpretation of State Founding Documents." The symposium will explore the various structural aspects of state constitutional law.
Members of The Ohio State University community will have the chance to hear the story of Anita Hill, a woman who unwittingly became synonymous with one of the biggest political scandals of the last century, during a two-day symposium titled "From Anita Hill to the White House Task Force on Sexual Assault," in November.
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law's chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS) was named student chapter of the year at the organization's national convention in Washington, DC last month. It was just one of several awards the chapter won at the event.
Professor Peter M. Shane, one of the country's foremost experts in presidential powers, wrote a commentary on the Bergdahl-Guantanamo prisoner swap. Ironically, a Bush-era memo would give the President legal cover, but Shane argues he doesn't need it.
Professors and alumni from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and several Central Ohio leaders and residents read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" as part of a moving film that will be broadcast on WOSU TV at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25.
Professor Peter M. Shane, a nationally recognized expert in separation of powers law, wrote a column in The Atlantic on the Supreme Court case Noel Canning v. NLRB. Shane wrote: "There is nothing liberty-protecting in the capacity of the Senate to undermine public administration by stonewalling the nominations of perfectly qualified government officers."
Four professors at Moritz will have a role in the upcoming play Arguendo, which is based on a 1991 Supreme Court case involving nudity and the First Amendment, at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The professors will participate in a talk-back session with the audience and director after the show to provide commentary.
Professor Christopher Walker previews Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the challenge to an amendment to the Michigan constitution that bans the use of affirmative action by public universities. The case was argued before the United States Supreme Court […]
A student group at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law has been recognized for its outstanding programming by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
Dean Alan C. Michaels will moderate a May 23 panel discussion hosted by the Supreme Court of Ohio about the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that guaranteed the availability of counsel for indigent defendants.


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Don't bother. Irish also believes that Pac beat a prime Morales in the rematch.
Ah,another fantasist who believes because one of his favorite boxers lost in his late 20s,that he must have been past prime.
Seriously guys, does it really make you feel better to make believe that your favorite fighters always had an excuse for losing?
For Tyson fans
Douglas:Mike didnt prepare right.
Holyfield 1 and 2: Despite being 29/30 and in less wars than Holyfield, and coming off a dominating victroy over WBC champ Frank Bruno and massive bookies favorite, he was "past prime". (Mike apparently had a prime that lasted about 6 months sometime in the mid to late 80s)
And well if he was padt prime at 29/30,theres no point even going into Lewis etc.
Tyson fans sleep well knowing that their hero was "unbeatable" in his prime,which apparently lasted about a year... tops,in his early 20s.
Morales fans
July 2004(aged 27) dominates a top class Carlosd Hernandez and takes his IBF belt
Nov 2004 (aged 2
goes toe to toe with ATG Marco Antonio Barrera, and loses controversially
Mar 2005 (aged 2
beats rising superstar Manny Pacquiao in 10 rounds.
Sept 2005 (aged 29) moves up to lightweight, gets beaten by Zahir Raheen by UD, suddenly gets declared shot.
Jan 2006 (aged 29) fights Pacquaio in rematch,gets stopped in 3. Match is apparently irrelevant since some point in the last 9 months Morales has suddenly become "shot"
Therefore Morales never really got beaten by Pacquiao since he was past prime and meant nothing.
Morales fans sleep well in their beds knowing their hero never got beat like a red headed stepchild.
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Operation Stolen Dreams: Northern Georgia Among Leaders in U.S. in Mortgage Fraud Prosecutions
|U.S. Attorney's Office June 17, 2010
ATLANTA—The Northern District of Georgia is one of the key participants in the nationwide fraud initiative named "Operation Stolen Dreams," announced earlier today in Washington, D.C. by the United States Department of Justice.
Sally Quillian Yates, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, said of Operation Stolen Dreams, "This nationwide effort reflects what we've been seeing in our district: mortgage fraud moving as fast as the housing market here in Georgia. The frauds have now taken many different forms, steered by crooked closing attorneys, brokers and appraisers, as well as the straw buyers, straw sellers and everyone in between. With the compression of the housing market, we are also finding and prosecuting "reverse" mortgage fraud and "short sales" fraud using real time enforcement techniques such as sting operations right at the closing tables. We hope to have the kind of impact on the crooks as they have had on our citizens and our neighborhoods."
United States Attorney Yates identified several significant mortgage fraud cases which demonstrate law enforcement's commitment to investigate and prosecute this type of fraud:
- On May 6, 2010, a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Atlanta unsealed a 51-count indictment (returned by a federal grand jury on April 14, 2010), relating to the collapse of "Integrity Bank," a $1 billion institution that was taken over and liquidated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in August 2008. In that case, DOUGLAS BALLARD, the former executive vice president and risk management officer, and JOSEPH FOSTER, the chief lending officer, were indicted on several counts of bank fraud, receipt of bribes, securities fraud, and structuring of cash deposits. The indictment also charged the bank's former largest customer, a hotel developer named GUY MITCHELL, with bank fraud and paying bribes. In total, MITCHELL allegedly obtained over $80 million from Integrity Bank over three years, much of which was unde! r false pretenses and the result of bribes, and nearly all of which remains unpaid. These loans were secured or purportedly secured by various commercial real estate properties and projects, including shopping centers and major hotels around the country. The events underlying this case resulted in the FDIC's foreclosure sale of a major luxury hotel outside of San Francisco, California, the Casa Madrona Hotel and Spa in Sausalito, California. This case remains under investigation.
Ms. Yates noted that other cases prosecuted in this District relate to the failure of Omni National Bank, formerly headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with branches in Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Those cases, in court as recently as this week, include the following:
- CHRISTOPHER BERNARD LOVING, 32, of McDonough, Georgia, consented on June 15, 2010 to the filing of a criminal information charging him with making false statements to special agents of the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) in a mortgage fraud investigation into payment of kickbacks to a former officer of the now-failed Omni National Bank. LOVING's guilty plea hearing is now scheduled for June 24, 2010, before District Judge Jack T. Camp in Newnan, Georgia. LOVING faces a maximum possible sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
- JEFFERY L. LEVINE, 68, of Atlanta, Georgia, the former head of the Omni Community Redevelopment Lending Department, on January 14, 2010, pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging that he caused materially false entries to be made in Omni National Bank's books, records and statements that overvalued properties securing Omni inner city mortgage loans. As agreed in his plea agreement, on March 24, 2010, LEVINE signed an Office of Comptroller of Currency ("OCC") Consent Order for Probation against further participation in banking. He is also cooperating in finding assets for the multi-million dollar expected restitution. LEVINE faces a maximum possible sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000,000, and is scheduled to be sentenced on August 3, 2010.
- BRENT MERRIELL, 37, of Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty on March 23, 2010, to making false statements to the FDIC and aggravated identity theft in connection with "short sales" to stolen identities. In these transactions, MERRIELL requested the FDIC to forgive $2.2 million in 14 delinquent Omni-funded mortgage loans where he and his straw borrowers were facing foreclosure. MERRIELL was caught in a "sting" operation by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program ("SIGTARP") and was detained without bond. MERRIELL faces a maximum possible sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine for the false statement violation, followed by a mandatory consecutive two years in prison and a potential additional $250,000 fine for aggravated identity theft. MERRIELL is scheduled to be sentenced on August 3, 2010.
- MARK ANTHONY MCBRIDE, a/k/a "Charles Conley" and "Manuel Evans," 44, of East Point, Georgia, was sentenced on April 24, 2010, to 16 years and two months in prison followed by five years' supervised release and ordered to pay $2,187,929 in restitution. MCBRIDE pleaded guilty to mortgage and bankruptcy fraud charges. He fraudulently obtained mortgage loans in stolen identities and unqualified straw borrower names from Omni National Bank and other banks, and filed eight bankruptcy petitions to avoid foreclosure for over five years. He even attended mortgage closings while in the halfway house completing his prison sentence for a prior mortgage fraud conviction, and while on supervised release.
- DELROY DAVY, 37, of Lithonia, Georgia, pleaded guilty on May 11, 2010, to a criminalinformation charging him with bank fraud and conspiracy in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in mortgage loans for unqualified borrowers from Omni National Bank and other banks, and to pay kickbacks to a Omni National Bank loan officer. He faces a maximum possible sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000,000 on each count. DAVY is scheduled to be sentenced on August 3, 2010.
The United States Attorney's Office also prosecuted one of the first purchase money "reverse mortgage" fraud prosecutions in the country; and one of the first prosecutions involving alteration of Multiple Listing Service (MLS) records. Those cases include the following:
- KELSEY TORREY HULL, 38, and JONATHAN ALFRED KIMPSON, 27, both of Lithonia, Georgia, pleaded guilty on April 8, 2010, in separate cases, to conspiracy to defraud reverse mortgage lenders and the HUD/FHA insurer of loans. HULL pleaded guilty to an additional count of bank fraud and KIMPSON pleaded guilty to an additional count of aggravated identity theft. Both profited from the corruption of an FHA-insured program designed to assist seniors 62 years or older with either cash for equity in their homes ("refi reverses"), or with funds toward the purchase of a home ("purchase money reverses"). HULL and KIMPSON faked down payments, arranged inflated appraisals to create bogus equity of up to $100,000 in the properties securing these reverse mortgage loans, and diverted the loan proceeds to themselves. KIMPSON used the stolen identities an! d passwords of realtors to increase Georgia Multiple Listing Service listings and sale prices to support the inflated appraisals, and in order to create the substantial equity required to remain in the properties. Since reverse loans do not have to be repaid by the senior as long as they live in the property, HUD has to recover the loan amount, plus interest, servicing cost and other expenses upon sale of the property when the senior moves out. HULL faces a maximum possible sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000,000 on each of his two counts. KIMPSON faces a maximum possible sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000,000 on the conspiracy, followed by a mandatory consecutive two years in prison and a possible $250,000 additional fine for aggravated identity theft. Both are scheduled for sentencing on July 16, 2010.
These cases were investigated by HUD-OIG and the FBI, assisted by the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and the DeKalb County Police Department.
Finally, Ms. Yates noted other recent prosecutions cases involving a former mortgage broker, an appraiser, and a closing attorney:
- EDWARD WILLIAM FARLEY, 47, of Hoschton, Georgia, a former mortgage broker, was sentenced on May 4, 2010, to 25 years in prison followed by five years' supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $24,131,857. FARLEY pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging bank fraud and conspiracy involving mortgage fraud, a $1.2 million check fraud and bankruptcy fraud. Over one hundred banks, corporate and individual mortgage lenders, and title insurers were defrauded through fraudulently inflated property "flips" to unqualified borrowers, and by multiple mortgages being "fully secured" by the same property. FARLEY also diverted a company asset to himself after a bankruptcy petition was filed, and concealed that diversion from the United States Bankruptcy Court.
- WALTER JULIUS HERMANN, 41, of Dunwoody, Georgia, a former appraiser, was sentenced on May 4, 2010, to two years and nine months in prison followed by five years' supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $2,023,077. HERMANN pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging bank fraud in connection with a scheme to overvalue by $50,000 to $100,000 some of the properties "flipped" to unqualified borrowers by FARLEY.
- TRENT EDWARD WRIGHT, 38, of Cumming, Georgia, a former closing attorney, was sentenced on March 12, 2010, to one year and nine months in prison followed by three years' supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $2,409,760. WRIGHT pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with mail fraud in connection with a scheme to assist FARLEY by issuing title insurance policies when closing new mortgage loans without paying off prior security holders.
To report possible fraud related to reverse mortgages, also known as Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), please call the HUD hotline at 1-800-347-3735.
These cases are being investigated by the FBI with the assistance of the HUD-Office of Inspector General (OIG), Postal Inspection Service, FDIC-OIG, and Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Trustee's Office, the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, the Gwinnett County Police Department, the Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office, the United States Trustee's Office, the Georgia Appraisal Board, the Georgia Secretary of State, and Georgia Department of Banking and Finance.
Assistant United States Attorneys Gale McKenzie and Christopher Bly are prosecuting the cases.
For further information please contact Sally Quillian Yates, United States Attorney, or Charysse L. Alexander, Executive Assistant United States Attorney, through Patrick Crosby, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Attorney's Office, at (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the HomePage for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia is www.usdoj.gov/usao/Georgian.


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Web-based advertising and electronic commerce, combined with the key role of search engines in driving visitors to ad-monetized and e-commerce web sites, has given rise to the phenomenon of web spam: web pages that are of little value to visitors, but that are created mainly to mislead search engines into driving traffic to target web sites. A large fraction of spam web pages is automatically generated, and some portion of these pages is generated by stitching together parts (sentences or paragraphs) of other web pages. This paper presents a scalable algorithm for detecting such "quilted" web pages. Previous work by the author and his collaborators introduced a sampling-based algorithm that was capable of detecting some, but by far not all quilted web pages in a collection. By contrast, the algorithm presented in this work identifies all quilted web pages, and it is scalable to very large corpora. We tested the algorithm on the half-billion page English-language subset of the ClueWeb09 collection, and evaluated its effectiveness in detecting web spam by manually inspecting small samples of the detected quilted pages. This manual inspection guided us in iteratively refining the algorithm to be more efficient in detecting real-world spam.
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Recent warm weather means the mountain snowpack is melting. Officials say there are a few spots in western Montana where there's a healthy snowpack.
That includes Lincoln County, Sanders County, and Mineral County, in the northwest corner of Montana and west of Missoula. Rain could push rivers and streams there over the banks. Officials want people to be prepared after last year.
Hydrologist Ray Nickless says it's a good idea to be prepared for the rising waters.
"I would be prepared this year also that goes without saying, just about every year, you know you need to be prepared when you're living that close to the river," said Nickless.
The Missoula National Weather Service projects some northwest Montana rivers could crest as high as or higher than last year's floods.
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Limited edition prints by Shepard Fairey usually sell like hotcakes but this one is going to sell faster than a butterfly can beat its wings. At a random time in the morning (PST) on Thursday January 12th, Shepard Fairey's "Occupy Protester" print will be released for sale. This print will be especially sought after because it is the now familiar cover image for TIME Magazine's Person of the Year. If you recall, Fairey also created the most iconic portrait of Obama which was used on the cover of TIME Magazine's 2008 Person of the Year.
The 18″ x 24″ Occupy Protester screenprint will come in an edition of 450, and cost $60 with all proceeds going to Occupy Wall Street. It will be signed by both Fairey and Sarah Mason, whose picture was shot by Ted Soqui, the LA Weekly photographer. You can order the print here.


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AMES, Iowa – After three straight weeks on the road, the Iowa State track and field teams will return to Iowa for competition at the Jim Duncan Invitational inside Drake Stadium in Des Moines. Action begins on Friday with the men's high jump at 3:30 p.m. CDT. Collegiate action resumes on Saturday at 9 a.m. CDT (men's discus).
Each of the event groups will be in action this weekend for the Cyclones as they prepare to compete in middle distance and sprints races while the throwers and jumpers compete in the field events.
Live results will be available throughout the duration of the meet. Results will also be posted on cyclones.com at the conclusion of each day's events.