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In a short, Q&A-style update on the DayZ forums, creator Dean "Rocket" Hall explains that the current lack of devblog updates on the project are due to how hard the team has been working. However, a brand new devblog should be on the way next week with details of how July's "internal milestone" review has gone. This, Hall hopes, will keep people informed about "where the project is at and where it is going."
To put any speculation to rest, the question of whether a public alpha is about to begin is answered twice with a definitive "no."
"There is no set release date," Hall writes. "When an alpha candidate passes it's milestone review, it will be released."
So, that's the current state of play with DayZ. Next week's devblog should provide a few more details about what the team has planned, whether they're happy with the current build and whether it has passed whatever internal tests the developers are applying to it.
M8 u betta releas this game and it betta be great u twat
Let's just keep it as a MOD and update as we go along instead, this official game is unlikely to be released this year as it would interfere with ARMA3 during the holidays. The release will most likely be in spring 2014, so I'm not waiting that long.
Let's just play the DayZ mod on ARMA3 "Beta".
I have simply lost interest in this game as well as 50% of the rest of the community. The delays and excuses just killed it. The Zombie fad is fading and more and more gamers are simply moving on. Lost revenue for a title that could have been huge. I will go play Arma3 and COH2 because I Can.
The new DayZ model is going to be molded into a pay-2-win anyways.
Not interested.
CoH2 is shit, just saying.. I've played all the previous ones for years so i can compare. Cash grab started with Tales of Valor being like $60 when it came out..
well I think people should have patience and wait till it comes out if it does and I think it will because it was at e3 so and this waiting means that they are making it better
Agreeing on the fading zombie enthusiasm.
But I don't think people are moving on.
Sounds like they leave this whole thing behind them and start their lives anew.
People may have stopped playing the mod, which is understandable.
In fact, most people have, when the hackers took over.
However that doesn't mean this game won't be a huge success.
The players lay dormant, eagerly awaiting the impending release..
As above, just losing interest now, and can't see myself being as interested when it's released, as I was say, 2 months ago.
It's in Alpha, just release it already! It doesn't have to be perfect when it's Alpha, we won't care. It will just mean you will have millions of people testing the game for you, to be able to find bugs and fix them quickly and efficiently.
You're ruining it.
The thing is, the game is not in alpha. It's still in pre-alpha. Rocket has said it himself. If the game was in aplha it would have been released by know.
What people most understand is as fast as the game reaches alfa, it will be released and the problem is not that it misses stuff or isnt "perfect", the problem is that now that it has been reshaped to use a MMO server structure it needs alot of work to even actually function. So what Rocket and his team is doing is working their asses of to get the system working for hundreds of thousands of people instead of just releasing it completely broken.
So stop whining and be happy that they actually do all they can for the best result.
Rocket, if you see this, I encourage you to make a push to get this thing out the door as is. Don't get me wrong, you're doing a fantastic job and I couldn't even come close to doing anything in the same league in regards to coding as what you are working on. So I have the utmost respect and admiration for you and your team. That being said, your user base is growing impatient. I totally get why you want things to be as near-perfect as possible before you let the game out into the wild. But you're defeating the purpose of an alpha, which is to allow "in the wild" testing. With as much refining as you're doing, you may as well just call it a final release and do patches to fix issues after the fact. At this point, it doesn't matter how much more you work on it. There will still be a laundry list of things that will need fixing or improving as you move along, whether you release the game today or two months from now (or longer). That's just the nature of software code. I've been breathlessly waiting the release of SA for many months along with everyone else. So have my clan mates. In the meantime, we have been playing and working with the Epoch mod for DayZ. I have to say, it's as near perfect of a zombie gaming experience as I can recall ever having. The modding community, including myself, has made numerous changes to the Epoch system and have gotten it working very smoothly and added a ton of functions. If you haven't checked it out yet (I'm sure you have), then you should. Anyway, I'm rambling. The point of what I was getting at is, people are getting to the point where they are getting tired of waiting. There is also now a mod with DayZ running on Arma 3. I've played it myself and it's not bad. Certainly needs some work, but it sure looks beautiful. The Arma 3 DayZ mod is going to continue development, and in about 3 months, Battlefield 4 is coming out and a month after that is the new CoD. You will be looking at competing with not one, but two triple-A titles. From a business perspective, and in my humble and respectful opinion, if standalone isn't released within the next couple weeks, it has the chance of becoming a huge disappointment for you and your team in terms of sales.
guys check out my steam profile aka name for some dayz standalone screen shots if you want more ask me i can run around the map remember this is early
Its good knowing im not the only one feeling like this, it has been in production for far to long and now I really could not care less if it comes out tomorrow. Their actual window for release has past and gone 2 months ago. And the new updates to it hardly reflect all their time working on it at all to be honest. They need to lift their gain so much but again that time is over. Never really been so disappointing about something being delayed like this. Well done Rocket, well done.
u guys crack me up. useless. rocket will get paid by bohemia either way, if hes not already paid. so he dont give a rats ass if he compets with bf 4 or w/e is out there. hes a sellout. my wild guess is that bohemia keeps him from releasing it because they want to milk shitty arma 3 befor they start milking dayzSA. so please give up. either give a shit and dont wait for it. or wait for it. either way, its coming out when bohemia lets him release it
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This year I'm trying something new. We haven't told my mom, yet, but in an effort to get her healthy, my brother, sister-in-law, father and I have decided to start a one-year journey as a family to get fit. My mother doesn't know it yet, but she'll be responsible for maintaining our blog and updating it weekly with weight loss and such. My mom is 71 and pretty healthy. But for some reason, it's like she just doesn't want to make the effort to get healthier and we're all worried that at the rate she's going, she'll be in a wheelchair in 5 years...and she doesn't need to be. She's overweight and lazy, to be honest. She's been retired for a few years now and literally does NOTHING with her time. My father still works and he will retire soon. He wants to travel with her in Europe, but she's so heavy and out of shake, she can barely walk. It's horrible, because she's otherwise quite healthy. I'm actually quite like her in that I'm really very healthy in terms of lab work and such...but I'm lazy. I could spend my time hiking, running, gardening...but I don't. I sit around and read or watch tv, just like she does. So part if this is that I want to break that cycle.
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4 Capex Fallacies As Seen On CNBC
Submitted by F.F. Wiley of Cyniconomics blog,
We get experts on everything that sound like they're scientific experts … They'll sit at a typewriter and make up all this stuff as if it's science and then become an expert … Now, I might be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things. But I don't think I'm wrong. You see I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something … how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something. And therefore, I see how they get their information and I can't believe that they know it. They haven't done the work necessary. They haven't done the checks necessary. They haven't done the care necessary … and they're intimidating people.
-Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
The excerpt is from a 1981 BBC documentary about Richard Feynman that was linked in a Zero Hedge post several years ago. Unfortunately, Feynman passed away in 1988 and never had the chance to watch the "experts" on financial television. We would have particularly liked to hear the great physicist's thoughts on economics punditry.
To understand economics experts in Feynman's absence, the best analogy that we can think of is to the methods of a magician. Magicians operate by showing their audience a small window on reality, and then tricking people into mentally filling in the rest incorrectly. Because the economy has so many moving parts, a similar approach also works in economics. Pundits can draw our attention to a couple of indicators, ignore everything else, and make claims that sound realistic even though they make little sense in the bigger picture. One difference between economists and magicians, though, is that economists are often unaware of their trickery because they fool themselves before fooling others.
To be clear, we don't claim to be immune to such deceptions, but we do try to root them out as best we can and will do that here.
We'll look at capital expenditures (capex), in particular. You can't take in much media commentary today before finding someone arguing that capex is lower than it should be. Crystal ball gazers predict a capex resurgence that lifts the economy into a robust recovery, while pundits with an activist bent implore businesses (and public officials) to ramp up their investments.
There's usually some combination of four pieces to what we'll call the "CNBC" story:
- Corporate cash is high
- Net investment is low
- Bond yields are low
- Corporate profits are high
These four observations are said to demonstrate that businesses are behaving irrationally or improperly by not pushing capex higher. And the story may sound reasonable on the surface, but is it really that simple?
To dig deeper, we'll critique the proposition linked to each observation, while testing them with over 60 years of data. Our results show that the CNBC story is yet another careless economic illusion.
Proposition 1: Corporate cash is high, and therefore, businesses should put that cash to work through capex.
Comments: This is the most obviously deceptive of the four propositions, hence Mark Spitznagel's incredulous response when asked to address cash balances by Maria Bartiromo last week. As Spitznagel explained, it makes little sense to isolate the cash that sits on corporate balance sheets without netting the credit portions of both assets and liabilities. We last updated corporations' net credit position here, showing that gradual increases in cash balances are dwarfed by rising debt.
A longer history further disproves the proposition; it shows that there's no correlation between capex and corporate cash:
Proposition 2: Net investment (capex less depreciation) is unusually low and should be much higher at this point in the business cycle.
Comments: This argument implies that businesses should invest more when depreciation is higher, as that's the only way to drive the net amount of investment towards "normal" levels. Our criticism is that it combines current capex with an accounting measure of depreciation on past capex. This is extremely misleading after periods of malinvestment, in particular, when the capital stock is too high for the level of demand. Unusually high depreciation after such periods is a sign that capex should be managed carefully to keep the capital stock from further outpacing fundamentals, not increased blindly to maintain an assumed margin over depreciation. Therefore, net investment fails to tell us anything about the "right" amount of capex.
Turning again to the last six decades, data confirms that the second proposition is just as faulty as the first:
Proposition 3: Low interest rates should encourage more capex.
Comments: This is a trickier proposition than the first two, since low rates should certainly spur higher spending when other factors are held constant. The problem is that other factors are never constant. On the contrary, low rates are typically associated with a challenging economy, and this is especially true in today's highly manipulated markets. The Fed seems to be discouraging long-term investment in some respects by holding rates well below where they would otherwise be. As perceived by us and many others (including Spitznagel per the interview linked above), the Fed's approach raises long-term risks while drawing capital into short-term financial strategies.
Needless to say, this isn't the ideal environment for capex. It's not that companies aren't taking advantage of low rates; they've increased borrowing substantially as noted above. It's just that the proceeds of that borrowing aren't flowing into capex as much as they would in less manipulated markets.
Moreover, history once again refutes the proposition. Adjusting corporate bond yields for inflation, the chart below shows that capex has tended to be slightly lower than average when real yields are low:
Proposition 4: Record corporate profits should encourage more capex.
Comments: Here's a proposition with empirical support, finally. Although the relationship isn't especially strong, the chart below shows that high profits have tended to coincide with high capex, and visa-versa. We highlighted the latest figures to show that they sit below the regression line:
There are two reasons not to get too carried away, though. First, the surge in profits is explained mostly by extremely high margins and tight controls on expenses. When businesses boost profits though expense reductions instead of revenue growth, there's more than a little circular logic in the idea that their success calls for higher spending.
Second, there are other, offsetting considerations suggesting that businesses are wise to limit capex growth to a modest pace. In "What Needs To Happen Before We See a Big Recovery," we listed four reasons to doubt the capex boom that many pundits predict: ample unused capacity, tepid overseas growth, growing financial risks and President Obama's bumbling incursions into private markets. Unfortunately, the financial risk and policy factors aren't as testable as the propositions above. We tested capacity utilization, though, and here are our results:
Lo and behold, 2013 capex fell almost directly on top of the regression line. This shows that businesses may not be so irrational after all, in view of the excess capacity that still remains after the last decade's overinvestment. And together with the first three charts above, it tells us that capex fundamentals aren't as simple as "CNBC" would have you believe.
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that is a chart of Space Invaders?
I thought those were bitcoin price points. :D
CNBC IS a fallacy. Or better put, a failed-lunacy.
Yes Fonerats, it's Space Invaders. Now go play in the street with all your little Bitchcoin friends.
And one might add that there's "all this cash on the sidelines". Sure, Maria, sure.
Ms. Buttaroma has moved, and changed her tune somewhat.
If she's still employed by Faux news I'm sure her "tune" hasn't changed much... ugly whore
Great article Tylers (and F. F. Wiley), busts some myths.
Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman
Feynman hated pyscologists especially.
What does Gay Bob have to say - he's a genius on Capex ROI, ROE, utilization etc. - what? he's just a talking head with a $150 haircut?
Speaking of Richard Feynman, 4 relatively non-technical lectures by him in New Zealand many years ago, that some of you may enjoy:
"Chosen by the New Scientist - best on-line videos 2007. A set of four priceless archival science video recordings from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) of the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman - arguably the greatest science lecturer ever. Although the recording is of modest technical quality the exceptional personal style and unique delivery shine through."
I actually had to listen to Bloomberg today to get the facts. CNBS never mentioned ZH article on China's death warning. If John Kerry continues with Russia masquerade.
It will be the hitting the BRIC for our universal currency. Yellon will have to deal with USD coming home to roost.
And, my personal favorite quote by Richard Feynman [who is probably the most famous teacher of quantum physics, of all time] is as follows: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics!"
I often think of that quote while pondering the actions, motivations, and statements of the Fed.
Feynman purportedly had a slightly above average IQ. He got where he did by loving what he did, being curious and ...hard work. I love this quote. It demolishes several branches of 'science'...economcs being an example.
A nation's economic engine is circular and goes: employment income > consumption > production > employment income. Americans can no longer service their high debt levels aof350% of GDP. Therefore, there is leakage in demand from employment income to consumption, because of high consumer debt payments. In addition, since production is now moved offshore, this reduces payments from production to U.S. employment income, leaving less monetary demand to rotate through the next economic cycle.
High debt servicing levels and production outsourcing act as a break on U.S. economic growth. The ever increasing debt economic model is now exhausted. Deleveraging will have to occur. The longer the deleveraging is put off, the worse the eventual economic collapse could be.
Because U.S. consumers have reduced disposable income to spend, businesses will not make capital investments if they observe declining demand for their goods and services. Even technology led products are risky and prone to economic failure. Rather than investing, large corporations are simply increasing stock dividend payments and buying back their shares. The major economic problem is the U.S. is lacking final consumer demand, because of ZIRP and an over-indebted society. Increased government demand is not real demand, decided on by consumers. Businesses, rightly so, do not trust this fabricated government demand, since it can change on a politician's whim.
Because U.S. consumers have reduced disposable income to spend, businesses will not make capital investments if they observe declining demand for their goods and services. Even technology led products are risky and prone to economic failure. Rather than investing, large corporations are simply increasing stock dividend payments and buying back their shares.
The major economic problem is the U.S. is lacking final consumer demand, because of ZIRP and an over-indebted society. Increased government demand is not real demand, decided on by consumers. Businesses, rightly so, do not trust this fabricated government demand, since it can change on a politician's whim.
Excerpt from "Competitive Market Economies: Self-Regulating Markets vs. Economic Stability, and the Paradox of Change," (2013). Journal of Business, Economics & Finance, Vol. 2, No. 2, 95-109.
Excerpt from "Competitive Market Economies: Self-Regulating Markets vs. Economic Stability, and the Paradox of Change," (2013). Journal of Business, Economics & Finance, Vol. 2, No. 2, 95-109.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - UCLA has earned the top seed into the MPSF Tournament, which will be played from November 26-28. The Bruins will first face off against eighth-seeded No. 9 UC Santa Barbara at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, November 26. The winner of that contest will then go on to play the winner of Long Beach State ad UC Irvine. Sunday's championship game, which will give the winner an automatic berth in the next weekend's NCAA Final Four, will be played at 4:30 p.m. on that Sunday. The tournament will be hosted by Stanford at the Avery Aquatics Center. For ticket information please contact the Stanford Athletic Ticket Office at (800)-Stanford. All session passes are on sale for $25 (adults) and $15 (students, youth, seniors) and daily passes are available for $12 (adults) and $8 (students, youth, seniors).
Streaking On Campus... With its current 16-match winning streak the Bruins have matched the school's longest winning streak since 1990. The 16 consecutive victories ties the fifth longest streak in school history, which was set in 1988, but is still three short of the 1989-90 teams which ran off 19 in a row.
NCAA Final Four... The 2004 Men's Water Polo Final Four will be hosted by Stanford in Palo Alto, California, on December 4-5. The Bruins have not been to the Final Four since 2001 and have not won an NCAA Championship since their back to back titles in 1999 and 2000.
Bruins Against the MPSF... Below is a list of all-time and season records against possible upcoming MPSF Tournament opponents: <
Team 2004 All-Time Most Recent Meeting (Date) Stanford 2-1 55-68 UCLA Won 7-4 (10/30/04) Cal 1-1 65-59-1 UCLA Won 10-6 (10/16/04) USC 2-0 68-56-1 UCLA Won 6-4 (11/13/04) UCSB 1-0 81-16-1 UCLA Won 16-5 (11/6/04) UC Irvine 3-0 55-57-1 UCLA Won 7-6 (11/14/04) LBSU 1-0 82-20- UCLA Won 11-6 (10/31/04) Pepperdine 2-0 55-29-1 UCLA Won 7-6 (10/24/04)
Honor Roll... Several different Bruins have been honored during the 2004 campaign:
Player Award Brett Ormsby MPSF Player of the Week (9/12) Ted Peck UCLA/MetRx Student-Athlete of the Week (9/27) Brett Ormsby MPSF/Mikasa Player of the Week (10/3) Joe Axelrad MPSF/Mikasa Player of the Week (10/31) Joe Axelrad UCLA/MetRx Student-Athlete of the Week (11/1) Brett Ormsby MPSF/Mikasa Player of the Week (11/14)
For complete updated player bios, career stats, season highs and Bruin all-time record holders, view the PDF version of this release by clicking on the link at the top of the page.


text: Anyone got opinions on the best way to transport a bike by car, or more importantly transporting 2 bikes without damaging them. I have a cheap scissors type that mounts on the towbar but the two bikes rub together and get scraped. Is a roof mounted bike the best option ??


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Vitamin B12 deficiency (Hypocobalaminemia) Treatments
About Vitamin B12 deficiency (Hypocobalaminemia)
Vitamin B12 deficiency or hypocobalaminemia is a low blood level of vitamin B12. It can cause permanent damage to nervous tissue if left untreated long enough. Vitamin B12 itself was discovered through investigation of pernicious anemia, which is an autoimmune disease that destroys parietal cells in the stomach that secrete intrinsic factor. Pernicious anemia, untreated, is usually fatal within three years. Once identified, however, it can be treated successfully and with relative ease, although it cannot be cured and continued treatment is required. Intrinsic factor is critical for the normal absorption of B12 in amounts that occur in foods, and thus a lack of intrinsic factor, as occurs in pernicious anemia, causes a vitamin B12 deficiency. Many other subtler kinds of vitamin B12 deficiency and their biochemical effects have since been elucidated.
The results of the Framingham Offspring Study indicate that B12 deficiency may be more common than was previously believed. Deficiency is most significantly linked to improper absorption rather than low consumption, as many who consume high amounts of B12 may still experience deficiency.
The total amount of vitamin B12 stored in the body is between 2–5 mg in adults. Around 50% is stored in the liver, but approximately 0.1% is lost each day by secretions into the gut, as not all the vitamin in the gut is reabsorbed. While bile is the main vehicle for B12 excretion, most of the B12 secreted in bile is recycled via the enterohepatic circulation. Due to the extreme efficiency of this mechanism, the liver can store several years worth of vitamin B12 under normal conditions and functioning.[citation needed] How quickly B12 levels may change when dietary intake is low, however, depends on the balance between how much B12 is obtained from the diet, how much is secreted, and how much is absorbed. B12 deficiency may arise in the span of a year if initial stores are low and genetic factors are unfavorable. In contrast, deficiency may not appear for decades. In infants and children, B12 deficiency appears much more quickly when a vitamin poor diet is consumed.Read more on Wikipedia
Meat or Aleo Vera?
B12 deficiency is a serious problem that can cause bad results so that we should eat meat (liver) , fish , egg, cheese and drink milk to get enough b12 vitamin our bodies need. some sources say aleo vera is the only plant contains b12 vitamin. If it's true great news for vegans and vegetarians.
In some dangerious conditions b12 shots and pills are necassary. Doctors inform you on this.
Healthy days for everyone!
Treatment suggested by wikipedia
B12 can be supplemented in healthy subjects by oral pill; sublingual pill, liquid, or strip; intranasal spray; transdermal patch or by injection. B12 is available singly or in combination with other supplements. B12 supplements are available in forms including cyanocobalamin, hydroxocobalamin, methylcobalamin, and adenosylcobalamin (sometimes called "cobamamide" or "dibencozide"). Oral treatments involve giving 250 µg to 1 mg of B12 daily.
Vitamin B12 can be given as intramuscular or subcutaneous injections of hydroxycobalamin, methylcobalamin, or cyanocobalamin. Body stores (in the liver) are partly repleted with half a dozen injections in the first couple of weeks (full repletion of liver stores requires about 20 injections) and then maintenance with monthly injections throughout the life of the patient. Vitamin B12 can also be easily self-administered by injection by the patient, using the same fine-gauge needles and syringes used for self-administration of insulin.
B12 has traditionally been given parenterally (by injection) to ensure absorption. However, oral replacement is now an accepted route, as it has become increasingly appreciated that sufficient quantities of B12 are absorbed when large doses are given. This absorption does not rely on the presence of intrinsic factor or an intact ileum. Generally 1 to 2 mg daily is required as a large dose. By contrast, the typical Western diet contains 5–7 µg of B12 (Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Daily Value ). It has been appreciated since the 1960s that B12 deficiency in adults resulting from malabsorption (including loss of intrinsic factor) can be treated with oral B12 supplements when given in sufficient doses. When given in oral doses ranging from 0.1–2 mg daily, B12 can be absorbed in a pathway that does not require an intact ileum or intrinsic factor. In two studies, oral treatment with 2 mg per day was as effective as monthly 1 mg injections.
Hypokalemia, an excessively low potassium level in the blood, is anecdotally reported as a complication of vitamin B12 repletion after deficiency. Excessive quantities of potassium are used by newly growing and dividing hematopoeitic cells, depleting circulating stores of the mineral.
Research has established the effectiveness of other routes of B12 administration, primarily intranasal and sublingual dosing, but neither has been proven to be superior to oral dosing; recommendations are based on a consumers individual circumstances. The sublingual route, in which B12 is absorbed under the tongue, is manufactured in a variety of forms, such as lozenges, pills, and lollipops. A 2003 study found no significant difference in absorption for serum levels from oral vs. sublingual delivery of 500 µg (micrograms) of cobalamin, although the study measured only serum levels as opposed to tissue levels, which is more reflective of B12 levels. Sublingual methods of replacement may be effective only because of the typically high doses (500 micrograms), which are swallowed, not because of placement of the tablet. As noted below, such very high doses of oral B12 may be effective as treatments, even if gastro-intestinal tract absorption is impaired by gastric atrophy (pernicious anemia).
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"If you go into labeling and blaming, they just feel
like you're making a mountain out of a molehill," says
Brigid Moynahan, president and CEO of Montclair,
N.J.–based The Next Level. "Problem is, we assume
bias before we find out if it is bias."
Do not go to other executives and ask if they've
experienced similar problems. That comes across as
rumor-mongering and implants the behavior you're
asking about in their heads.
"When you don't have any tangible evidence, you
shouldn't engage anyone else," says Young.
Once executives check with others, they'll likely
find that the negative behavior is not directed at them
personally but is a pattern of behavior. Learning that
allows an executive to further depersonalize the slight
and deal with it objectively.
"Look for an objective assessment of what people
are doing that does not depend on the possibility
of interpersonal forgetfulness," says Rowe. "I've
known a nontraditional person who thought that
recognition of nontraditional people was overlooked.
Instead of complaining, they arranged for the meeting to be videotaped. Suppose I'm the only brown-skinned person in meetings and over time I begin to
think I get passed over in meetings. Suppose I could
keep a video record of meetings where job responsibilities are handed out or reports made. Often, that
objective evidence tells the story."
Sometimes these slights are based on stereotypes. For example, the executive who has a disability
is overlooked for promotions because the supervisor
remembers the person's disability before remembering the person's accomplishments.
"So it is extremely important for the employee
who feels they've been underrated to make sure that
they can present a whole slew of facts, a detailed
write-up or a detailed memo to show what they've
accomplished throughout the year," says Marc
Bendick Jr., principal of Bendick and Egan Economic
"When I've asked supervisors of minority employees the [executive of color's] level of education,
they always remembered too little education," says
Bendick. "When decision-making time comes, the outgroup employee had better actively fight the effect by
presenting accomplishments in writing."
Rowe agrees, saying that a personal log of accomplishments can serve as an objective assessment.
"Keeping a log will show it," says Rowe. "Lists are
objective data."
Make sure you're the best performer, especially
if you're a person from a traditionally underrepresented group.
"If I'm the best performer, then over time I'm likely
to be treated with more and more respect," says Rowe.
"In most modern organizations, if you're the best
performer, you're well protected. I've known women of
color, white women, LGBTs and others who have decided that the sturdiest way … is to be the best performer
in the unit," says Rowe. "If you know someone who was
in a difficult place and became the best performer, then
one finds he or she has understood exactly what the
job is, what good performance is and how to get there.
It's harder for that person to get derailed because they
understand the system around them."
The time has come to approach the boss, but
don't ambush her. After you have increased your performance or kept a log for a while and observed others
experiencing similar slights, ask for an appointment
with your supervisor, says Bendick.
"Point out to the boss why there is concern. If an
employee starts to complain … it's more likely [that]
the boss won't realize this is part of a bigger concern.
The boss probably perceives himself as being neutral
and unbiased, even though he isn't."
Make sure your critique is not personal but
covers the behavior. Start talking about the supervisor's strengths.
"When giving feedback, first find something you
value in the relationship and the person," says
Moynahan. "So say what is important, such as, 'The
work we do together is very important and I value
your input.' Then you critique the behavior and reveal
how you respond to the behavior. And be specific
about the goal to connect and do better work."
If in your discussions with other employees you
learn that others experience the same slights, you can
suggest that a training program is instituted or further
developed to include what respect means, says Rowe.
"If everyone went through active-listening classes
once a quarter … people would treat each other respectfully," says Rowe.


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For the Eldjezzar dam in Algeria's Batna province, Dar's consultancy covered detailed design and the preparation of specifications and tender documents. The completed dam - an earthfill type - stands 38 meters high and has an earthfill volume of 270,000 m³, a storage capacity of 6.9 million m³ and a catchment basin area of 193 km².
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Zack Snyder
Home Movies: Sean Bean Falls Victim to 'Black Death,' Liam Neeson is 'Unknown'
About as sunny as it sounds, Christopher Smith's grim fairy tale Black Death finds a 14th-century knight (Sean Bean, of HBO's Game of Thrones) and his band of mirthless mercenaries traveling the European countryside in search of a rumored necromancer. Reluctantly joining them for the journey is Osmund, a young monk played by The Other Boleyn Girl's Eddie Redmayne, who finds their violent brand of piety less than Christian. Surrounded by the devastation wrought by the onset of the bubonic plague, in a world seemingly forsaken by God, will Osmund allow himself to be seduced by pagans – led by Carice von Houten's alluring high priestess – whose village remains curiously unaffected by pestilence?
Nubile Inmates Take Back the Asylum in Zack Snyder's Stylish 'Sucker Punch'
Having joined the ranks of today's most promising young directors after first crafting music videos for Morrissey and Dionne Farris, Zack Snyder has skillfully married his passion for song with his inclination to grandiose cinema.
Whether thrusting us into a world on the brink of apocalypse against the haunting strains of Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around" in Dawn of the Dead (2004), or opening his adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen (2009) with a condensed century of superhero history backed by Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'," Snyder has a Midas touch in the soundtrack department.
Mutual Passion for Morrissey Creates Instant Chemistry on 'Sucker Punch' Set
When Emily Browning, the Australian-born fashion model and star of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), auditioned for Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder's hard-hitting tribute to girl power, the director made her an offer she could have refused. But she didn't.
"Zack asked me to put myself on tape, singing, which I'd never done before," says Browning, 22. "I was terrified, of course. But he liked it. I have no idea why, but he thought me capable of carrying a tune on screen."
Roman Holiday: The Empire's Ninth Legion Meets a Bloody End in 'Centurion'
Inspired by the demise of the Roman Empire's Ninth Legion, a legendary unit founded by Julius Caesar and thought to have met a bitter end nearly two centuries later in what is now Scotland, Centurion is less grandiose than Zack Snyder's 300 but every bit as brutal. If the sight of severed limbs leaves you squeamish, you've been warned.
Those seeking a history lesson would be foolish to consult the latest, bloodiest offering from director Neil Marshall, whose past credits include the crudely effective Dog Soldiers (2002) and The Descent (2005), his claustrophobic venture into a subterranean abyss populated by flesh-hungry humanoids.
George Romero Returns to His Zombie Roots with 'Survival of the Dead'
Let's get one thing straight: George Romero, the legendary director of Night of the Living Dead whose nightmarish vision of zombies rising from the grave to prey upon the living has spawned countless imitations and remakes, never wanted to take a break from the franchise that has become his most celebrated legacy.
"After I made Monkey Shines in 1988, I started developing a bunch of big movies for Hollywood studios, projects like Goosebumps and The Mummy, and I made more money then than I ever have before or since," says Romero, 70. "We were rewriting movies for big stars – you know, let's make this for Sharon Stone or Alec Baldwin. Then the next week, we'd be rewriting the same movie again for Eddie Murphy.
Looking Back: The Best (and Worst) Films of 2009
This has been heralded as the year of the animated movie, and with good reason: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline and Up, among others, proved as engaging for adults as for children, validating a genre unfairly dismissed as kiddie fare by some critics and too many Oscar voters.
To me, 2009 was most memorable for its documentaries. Tyson, Capitalism: A Love Story, The Beaches of Agnes and The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers entertained as well as informed, and all remain worthy candidates for end-of-the-year accolades. Consider them (as well as Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are) runners-up to my list of the year's best films.
The Best
Home Movies: 'Coraline,' 'Watchmen' Arrive
Adapted from a dark children's novella by British author Neil Gaiman and directed by Henry Selick, who played a pivotal role in crafting the look of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline is a visual achievement of the highest order, an endlessly inventive spectacle that represents the first stop-motion animation feature ever filmed in 3-D. Judging by the results, it will not be the last.
Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head festival is entering its second week. Frameline 33, San Francisco's International LGBT Film Festival, kicks off Thursday with Richard Laxton's An Englishman in New York. Put simply, it's a great time to be a Bay Area movie buff. As always, here's a list of some of the films currently in rotation at an indie theater near you.
'Watchmen' a Work of Glorious Imperfection
The year is 1985. Nixon is entering his fifth term as president after leading the U.S. to victory in Vietnam, the Cold War has led us to the brink of nuclear destruction, and the masked superheroes of the world have been forced into early retirement by order of the government. So goes the premise of Watchmen, director Zack Snyder's messy but often fascinating take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' celebrated graphic novel.
Watchmen Wins a Ringing Endorsement from Illustrator Dave Gibbons
Even as rabid fans and Warner Bros. executives are at long last celebrating the arrival of the Watchmen movie, one of the men most responsible for the Hugo Award-winning tale of fallen superheroes living in an age of impending nuclear war – author Alan Moore – couldn't care less.
Just ask his partner in creation, artist Dave Gibbons.


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ISSUE # 46 .... The nANTucket Effect
1) Vote in the August 10 primary! In addition to state and national races, Pitkin County has at-large races for county commissioner and sheriff on the ballot. All registered voters in the county no matter where you live and regardless of party affiliation can vote in these races. Now is the time for The Red Ant readers in the county -- Mountain Valley, Meadowood, Snowmass, the North 40 and on Red Mountain -- to take an active role and contribute to making a difference in our local elections! Early voting is in the county clerk's office, Monday - Friday, August 2 - 6, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. For more info, go to www.PitkinVotes.org. Please make this important stop a priority!
(And yes, as recently reported by the Aspen Daily News, The Red Ant backs restaurateur Rob Ittner for county commissioner. Click here to learn more, volunteer and DONATE! Plus, if you're at all curious how I feel about former city councilman Jack Johnson's candidacy, please click here to read the letter I sent to the Aspen Daily News in February.)
2) Learn about the Aspen Art Museum's proposed new building on the Wienerstube property (633 S. Spring Street) by clicking here or by visiting the museum at its current location to view the model and renderings. The official public hearing on the proposal is scheduled before city council on Monday, August 2. Please show up and voice your support! The Red Ant thinks this will be a fabulous and exciting addition to downtown Aspen! And -- something new and different -- 100% of the funding for this spectacular facility will be borne by the AAM itself. It will be a tremendous gift to our community.
Even The Red Ant needs a vacation! And where better than the fabulous island community of Nantucket, just 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. It sure didn't take long to notice the obvious similarities between Aspen and Nantucket: isolated vacation destinations where weather regularly impacts arrivals and departures, seasonal service-based tourism economies with workforce needs that wax and wane accordingly, full-time residents who tough it out in the off-seasons and take great pride in maintaining what makes the communities great, historic districts with unique architecture and strict preservation rules, real estate at the top end of the spectrum (that has not been immune to the recent economic downturn), robust arts and cultural programs. You get the picture.
And just as obvious are the familiar challenges: traffic, parking, housing, high costs of living. Ever-conducting unscientific surveys (I can't help myself), The Red Ant has seen many different approaches to familiar problems. In fact, in several cases, they do it far better "on island," and we could learn a thing or two!
Where Aspen has its unofficial "ZG" nickname, derived from early Pitkin County license plates, Nantucket has "ACK," its airport code. When you're in the know, these monikers speak for themselves. Where Aspen has its 925 and 920 local phone number prefixes that enable us to write 0-4600 (for The Little Nell, for example), Nantucket has its 228. (As such, they just write the four following digits.) We both have uniquely notable histories. Nantucket's started a lot earlier -- the island was settled in the mid-1600s and was the center of the world's whaling industry for over 150 years. About the time that The Grey Lady's "quiet years" began, The Silver Queen was striking it rich and leading the world in silver mining. Both communities' 20th century resurgences breathed new life into relative ghost towns, and came as a result of tourism and real estate development. Aspen is fortunate to have robust winter and summer tourism seasons. In Nantucket, it's all made or lost in 12 weeks each summer.
In Aspen, real estate buyers pay a 1.5% RETT, with funds going to maintain the city-owned Wheeler Opera House and to build subsidized employee housing projects. On Nantucket, housing is seen as a community responsibility, not one for which real estate buyers alone should bear the financial burden. Instead, Nantucket's 2% RETT generates revenue specifically earmarked for open space purchases. In other words, they use growth to save land.
As a result of this effort and others like it, of the island's 50 square miles, 60% is publicly-owned open space, conservation land or wetlands. And of the remaining 40%, 32% has already been developed, effectively leaving just 8% for future development OR conservation. Remember, it's an island. No annexing property to make a bigger pie for subsidized housing!!
As with any service-based economy, it takes a workforce to keep the boat afloat. And Nantucket has long attracted cheerful, hard-working young people to work in the shops, bus the tables, serve the drinks and plant the flowers. College students from the eastern seaboard have been coming here in droves for generations, while burgeoning capitalists from Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and other emerging democracies primarily in Eastern Europe have joined them and cannot be missed.
Eastern Europe, you surely ask? The Red Ant did too, until I learned that there is a well-established program called Work & Travel USA, run by the US State Department, that matches US employers in need of short-term seasonal staff with skilled, English-speaking international students (from over 65 countries!) who want to live, work and travel in the US. It is all run through a non-profit sponsoring organization (www.interexchange.org) that handles the screening, interviewing, travel arrangements, work visas, US tax paperwork, emergency services, etc. The students work for a maximum of 4 months and then travel for up to one month before returning to school.
Nantucket has established itself as a popular summer destination within the program. The kids' work ethic is incredible; they are cheerful and, most notably, thrilled at the experience of meeting Americans and making some cash. In conversations I've had with aspiring bankers, journalists and social workers, many want to visit New York, Washington DC and ... Niagara Falls before heading home. (Somehow a program like this just kinda makes sense. Wouldn't it be nice to have young people come to Aspen for the season again??)
There is indeed a need for low and moderate income housing on Nantucket. This is currently being addressed through various entities that are funded through grants for property rehabilitation and purchases, Habitat for Humanity, and a newly established Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Collectively, their goal is to build 20 housing units per year on city-owned parcels. Recalling that Nantucket's RETT goes to the purchase of open space, the trust fund receives its funding through Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), a federally-funded competitive grant program. Furthermore, Nantucket voters recently voted not to approve an increase in the RETT to fund affordable housing.
The summer season is the only notable "crunch time" for housing. There are 2,000 dwellings occupied by year-round residents (less than 20% of the total), so after the summer swell (the population grows to over 50,000 people), affordable rental options are everywhere for those who wish to stick around. Especially in town, Nantucket is comprised of high-density historic home sites, most with cottages and carriage houses that are rented out in high season. There's also the "Nantucket Shuffle" -- where homeowners move into their own cottages and rent out their main house to make some serious cash.
But unlike in Aspen, there are no programs or people on Nantucket trying to sell bus boys and cocktail waitresses taxpayer-subsidized, deed-restricted pieces of the dream. Paying rent is absolutely normal. And as a result, summer-to-summer, it's a revolving door of hard-working, happy folks who come to the island for the season to work and have a great time. Like it used to be in Aspen.
Even the Work and Travel USA kids find their own housing. It takes a little work, but they aren't afraid of that!
The entire island of Nantucket was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. It has the highest concentration of pre-Civil War structures in the US. There exists an incredibly strict set of building regulations that -- while cumbersome and bureaucratic -- actually mean something. These are accepted, abided by, respected and effective, primarily because they are consistently applied and equally enforced. There's no subjectivity, no mitigation. For example, there is a set of 11 "approvable colors," ranging from Main Street Yellow to Essex Green, Quaker Grey to Cobblestone, and, of course, Nantucket Red.
And when someone wants to tear down an old structure on their property, it's often offered to the first taker -- for free -- as long as they can move it off the site. This is how many properties have come to have multiple historic "out buildings" on their lots. This practice is encouraged and embraced. (And it serves to contribute to the housing market by creating rental inventory during the summer season.)
Then there's the Nantucket Historical Association. This local non-profit raises money throughout the year to preserve and interpret the history of the island. Since its founding in 1894, the NHA has been purchasing buildings with historic significance. Today it boasts 22 historical building and sites. (Somehow, the ridiculous idea that Aspen should float a bond to buy The Given Institute in order to prevent it from being torn down comes to mind....)
Cars were not allowed on Nantucket until 1918. They're still discouraged. Even so, parking in town is tricky. But instead of taking measures to accept and address the traffic and parking issues, the local government embraces an intentional avoidance of traditional means of mitigation: no road widening, no added lands, no traffic lights. If it's inconvenient and pricey, fewer people will do it. As further deterrents, it costs $430 round-trip to ferry a car to and from the island, and daily car rentals on the island start at $200 a day.
The Nantucket Regional Transportation Authority (NRTA) is a popular, convenient and accepted means of transportation throughout the island. Fares are $1 or $2 each way, depending on the route. Nobody -- tourists, residents and workers alike -- complains about paying for a comfortable shuttle ride into town, to the airport or to the most popular beaches. I've yet to hear anyone express that "this place" owes them a free ride.
As one might imagine, business at the bike rental shops is booming.
Nantucket is the only location in North America that has the same name for the island, the town and the county. Yep, the town and county are coterminous, consolidated, combined. One and the same. The 5 elected board of selectmen (BOS) are the 5 county commissioners. They're also the board of health, regional transportation authority, fire and police commissioners, board of public works and sewer commissioners. They have very defined and vast responsibilities, and as such, cannot and do not micro-manage the minute details and responsibilities of every other board and commission.
Most key commissions are filled by elected members. These include: harbor and shellfish advisory board, historic district commission, housing authority, land bank commission, moderator, planning board, school committee, town clerk and water commission. These commissions have real power and their decisions cannot be wantonly disregarded by the BOS. Appointed officials are seated with a BOS-recommended mix of skills and diversity, and chosen for their cooperative spirit. (Those too set in their ways are not to be appointed as they are less likely to compromise.)
Incidentally, Nantucket's 2010 budget is $73.5 million. (The City of Aspen alone has $91 million budgeted for 2010 -- and that doesn't include a nickel for the county!! Makes you think about redundancy just a little, huh?)
Major governmental business decisions for Nantucket are made at the annual Town Meeting, held every spring after the town elections. Many issues are determined by voice vote, while others take a written ballot. This gives the entire electorate the annual opportunity to participate in the democratic process -- ranging from the approval of the annual budget to considerations of all new business. In other words, the BOS do not unilaterally hold all the power, all the time. In fact, the town meeting itself is conducted by an elected moderator, and the town's governance adheres strictly to Robert's Rules of Order, the recognized guide to running meetings effectively and fairly.
This Nantucket commission was created to make recommendations to the BOS on issues of concern to non-resident taxpayers who pay approximately 70% of the residential real estate taxes collected. Comprised of 15 appointed members who serve 3-year staggered terms, the ACNVT meets with the BOS and finance director to discuss issues facing the town. Additionally, the ACNVT addresses problems related to code enforcement, the extension of sewer districts, restructuring town departments, providing amendments to the zoning code and addressing the issues surrounding the taxation of summer rentals.
Can you just imagine Mayor Mick and our guys enacting policies created by the villainous second-homeowners!?! Heck, The Red Ant would love to see such a group get merely an audience with our esteemed leadership!
LATE-BREAKING NEWS: A step toward the end of "taxation without representation" in Colorado? There is a measure on the November ballot (Amendment 60) that will allow property owners who do not live here to vote on local tax issues! The Red Ant kids you not! Never mind that the county commissioners warn that future tax votes could be put in the hands of people who own vacations homes versus the locals. "You would see a situation where people who do not live in the community would be the majority," stated Rachel Richards of the BOCC. But I digress...
Perhaps an Aspen version of the ACNVT is an idea whose time is arriving soon!
Since 1974, Nantucket has appointed this council of 9 board members to act on behalf of its elderly residents. Acknowledging the increasing number of aging baby-boomers, the COA exists to study, address and continue to plan for the needs of this growing segment of the population. Currently, seniors can tap into the COA for programs on nutrition, education and recreation, as well as for information and lectures on health care, legal services, technology, banking and money management, social services and housing. The COA presents a robust collection of programs that served 1300 individuals in 2009, with an average of 100 people visiting the senior center each day. It's popular, it's successful and it's growing.
What is Aspen doing? Planning to float a bond in addition to the hospital expansion bond to fund the construction of a retirement center, likely on the Moore property.
A destination resort like Aspen, Nantucket also has to manage its "party town" reputation. But local tolerance for illegal drugs on Nantucket is ZERO, and island law enforcement actively pursues and prosecutes "possession with intent to distribute" and other drug-related cases.
Here's where it gets weird. The Red Ant was recently shown a "campaign gizmo" from a recent Nantucket Sheriff's election. Yep, a weekly "pill dispenser" promoting the eventual winning candidate. Given the major differences in drug policy and law enforcement between Nantucket and Aspen, this little gem seems to be far better suited for the sheriff's race at home! Again, even The Red Ant can't make this up!
While Aspen's local government is loathe to contemplate -- yet alone embrace -- any idea that is not home-spun, The Red Ant thinks that it's always constructive to see what the other guys are doing. Especially when it works.
But it's the attitude of the community at large on Nantucket that's the most notable difference. Tourism is embraced. Visitors are wanted, welcome, and warmly embraced. And second-homeowners? Cherished. For some reason, on this little off-shore sliver of Massachusetts, the folks on Nantucket have realized that "trickle-down economics" is good for everyone. As a result, the anger and class warfare so prevalent in Aspen is non-existent. There's a real "we're in this together" attitude. And the fierce independence of the (10,500) year-round residents is a source of local pride. As such, entitlements for some at the expense of others are culturally repugnant. With the downturn of the economy in recent years, all on the island have felt the pain and recognize that improved tourism numbers and construction jobs are the keys to local economic recovery.
So much for a couple of hours at the coffee shop on a drizzly and foggy day.... Just thought I'd check in from the island and remind you that The Red Ant is always on the case!!


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The Annual List
I really didn't know what else to call it. That will do.
The U.S. budget is going to get beaten down. The following is only one opinion of what can stay and what has to go for the U.S. military to even consider surviving in a grave budget climate.
The U.S. Navy
Park two carriers and stop production on current carriers.
Keep building Burkes at a low rate.
End the LCS. Existing LCS contracts will go until completed. All existing LCS will be transfered to the U.S. Coast Guard where they will patrol in the Carribean and out of San Diego.
R&D for a nuclear destroyer. The goal is to have a all nuclear powered carrier battle group.
Scrap the DDX.
The submarine program will continue as-is.
The carrier air wing plan will continue minus the F-35 as this program will be cancelled.
The USMC. It will be retired with whatever manpower slots are needed, transfered over into the U.S. Army.
The U.S. Air Force. It will cease to exist in its present form. All flying units will be transfered into the Air National Guard. The U.S. Air Force such as it is, will be nothing more than a management function at the DOD level to see that the Air National Guard functions. It will go by the name; Air National Guard Headquarters. The current U.S. Federal budget used on today's Air Force (significantly reduced) will feed into their own seperate color of money at the Guard units.
A sample of some of the airframes allowed to exist will be the F-22, the F-15E, the A-10, the C-130, the C-17, the C-5 and the B-2. The B-2 nuclear mission will end. The B-1, B-52 and F-16 will be retired. As the KC-X comes online, half of them will be managed by the U.S. Navy.
ICBMs will be managed as a separate DOD command yet to be named.
Military space systems will be managed under their own command reporting to the DOD.
The U.S. Army. Any kind of manpower asset that exists in the current wars today that is doing ground missions will have those slots moved into the U.S. Army. We do not need 4 land Armies. Large portions of infantry, engineer and aviation skills will be put into the National Guard with Regiments being the prime organic unit.
Keep a watchful eye on Army Aviation to make sure it gets funded and properly sustained.
There will be two types of basic training centers. One for the Army and Air National Guard and the other for the Navy. The USAF Academy will be closed.
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Fenway Park set to host soccer match Wednesday
It's been a busy year for Fenway Park. The historic home of the Boston Red Sox rang in 2010 as a hockey rink. It'll host at least 81 Sox games this year. (The Fenway faithful hope for more.)
And on Wednesday night, the 98-year-old stadium becomes a soccer field as Celtic FC and Sporting Lisbon take to the pitch.
"I'd say the biggest test to proving Fenway as a versatile venue was the NHL Winter Classic," said Sam Kennedy, Fenway Sports Group president and Red Sox chief operating officer. "To follow that up with soccer seemed to make sense in a World Cup year."
Setup for the Winter Classic rink began Dec. 11 for the Jan. 1 game. The breakdown went quicker, but still took several days. Compared to that, turning Fenway into a soccer pitch almost seems like, well, a walk in the park.
But with the last soccer game at Fenway played in 1968, the transformation wasn't without challenges. The Red Sox grounds crew looked at archived pictures from past games and talked to its counterparts at other parks. Chief among them were the Washington Nationals, who shared RFK Stadium with D.C. United from 2005 to 2007.
"Multipurpose stadiums go through this a lot," Kennedy said, "but it's a relatively new concept for us."
The conversion process began immediately following Sunday's Red Sox game against the Rangers, with Kennedy estimating 48 hours to get the soccer field up and four or five days to return Fenway to baseball form.
With all the changes it takes to get the field ready, the folks at Fenway hope to see one thing stay the same: a sellout. The Red Sox saw their MLB-record sellout streak hit 600 games Sunday. The Winter Classic sold out in minutes. And the team is optimistic that they can sell out "Football at Fenway" by game time Wednesday.


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Building a budget, part one
Initial work session explores administrative and capital expenses
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A fast-paced Board of Education budget work
session, held last week in the Baldwin High School auditorium, explored the first third of a proposed 2013-14 spending plan for Baldwin schools. Narrated by Ed Cullen, assistant superintendent for business, the presentation encompassed 23 percent of the total proposed budget, and covered administrative and capital expenses, which account for 10 and 13 percent of expenditures, respectively.
Cullen attempted to shed some light on the state comptroller's opaque budget code system, which includes four-digit function codes, three-digit object codes, two-digit location codes and four-digit
program codes. He explained, for example, that code 1910 referred to the district's insurance expenses. He also clarified that administrative costs encompass district staff and other internal expenses like auditing, the treasurer's office, human resources and the district's school association dues.
Cullen said that the capital portion of the budget was largely physical in nature,
consisting of buildings and grounds maintenance, custodial upkeep and security, among other things.
He did not dwell on the district's financial woes. (It will seek to exceed its 3.14 percent tax levy cap in order to bridge a budget gap of around $6 million.) He briefly explained the sources of the district's expected income in 2013-14, and how much it expects to receive from each (see chart, right). Then he plunged into the details of each budget category, and why spending was increasing or decreasing.
Administrative gains and losses
Cullen said that the total administrative budget for 2013-14 would be just under $11.8 million, an increase of almost $235,000 over the current spending plan. The biggest spending hikes in this portion of the budget would include an additional $100,000 for "unallocated insurance" — which Cullen attributed to a predicted uptick in rates
following Hurricane Sandy — and more than $250,000 to cover swelling retirement benefits for district staff. He identified retirement and health care as two of the most significant expenses the district must cover.
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Baldwin school budget is bloated with administrators. We don't need to first sacrifice programs, we need fewer administrators. No school needs multiple principals and several assistant principals as our high school has (and others). We have a whole school building dedicated to administration- our small district can afford that? Why don't school boards look to fixing the system rather than perpetuating the ever increasing waste.
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What a sidewalk sight Michelle Williams and little Matilda are. I would totally coordinate my outfit with my little lassie, too. But what's equally stunning here is Michelle's classic wool asymmetrical pea coat by Jeffrey Monteiro. It's official, folks: it's time whip out your tried and true outerwear, including good ol' pea coats. I have a charcoal gray one by Banana Republic that hits the spot for me. Navy and black are fine color choices as well. And the best part? These keep you nice and toasty.


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Welcome to spring! With the temperatures rising, it's but natural to let the colour of the season show–and that colour is skin! Our guest stylist Anamika has these invaluable pointers for you as you step out in your bare and beautiful avatar:
Find the cut that flatters your body type. If you're slim and trim bodied, you can carry off the smallest shorts and the skinniest tops, curvier women need to be a bit more careful. Choose deep, wide necklines and sleeve designs that enhance your curves, and shorts and skirts that fall at a mid-thigh or knee level. Full skirts and shirts in a soft and sheer fabric look feminine while affording cover, consider chiffon or thin cambric prints, but with emphasis on shape at the waist to define and accentuate your body.
Wear precious and semi precious stones directly on your skin for maximum impact, consider turquoise for that Aztec charm or lapiz lazuli for that touch of the east. Whites teamed with shell or coral neckpieces make a lovely statement while being totally soothing to the eye and skin. Keep jewelry light and minimal, specially during the day.
Make sure that your skin's well nourished and toned for maximum impact, nothing looks as beautiful as a glow from within. Use a pack of fuller's earth and chandan powder once a week over all exposed areas, and those five minutes of pampering will see you shine!
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Images: 'Better late than never,' Michigan Marine helps RCT
Photo by Sgt. Ned Johnson
Corporal Sasha Savage, a supply noncommissioned officer with Regimental Combat Team 7, has helped fill an important role by maintaining complete, accurate records of supply purchases made by subordinate units. Savage, a 23-year-old native of Beaverton, Mich., originally deployed with Marine Air Ground Task Force Support Company, Reset and Reconstitution Operational Group, but was moved to RCT-7 when a shortfall was identified by the RCT. "When she came in, she was rather quiet about things," said 1st Lt. Douglas Turner, the supply officer with RCT-7 and a 26-year-old native of Columbus, Ohio. "Her path of leadership now is leading her peers, leading by example. She's actually trying to be the best NCO in the shop, and Marines are following her because of it."
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Let's face it: bad tattoos happen. Unfortunately, its not always the owner of the tattoo that looks bad, check out this terrible Taylor Swift…ummm…tribute?
Click HERE to see the pic and commence the LOLZ
(By the way, how great does she look in the big picture at the top of the page? Go out with me Taylor, I'm single!!!)


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Smoking mittens
I figured those fingerless gloves with a mitten flap were the smartest way for smokers to keep their hands warm.
I was wrong…
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Jen says:
I would have loved to have overheard the conversation between the people that thought of this idea.
Great website, very user friendly!
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Jake says:
But you still have to have your hands uncovered to to position and light the cigarette. The "fingerless gloves with a mitten flap" were definitely the way to go when I was a smoker living in Wisconsin. Now as an ex-smoker in Florida, it's kind of a moot point!
Cheryl says:
When I was a smoker in -87 below in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, these would have been bliss.
Jeff says:
Too bad you still have to take them off to get the cigarette box out, pull a cigarette out, light the cigarette, and then somehow manage to get the cigarette in the holder and stay there…
By that time you could've just smoked the damn cigarette and be back inside where it's warm.
Now what you really need is gloves with a cigarette dispenser, automatic loading claws, one handed operation lighter, and while we're at it let's make them ambidextrous.
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Is it just me, or is there an overwhelmingly beautiful quality about the girl in this picture….I mean, mittens aside…..she is very striking.
Josh says:
The bad news here is that you're still smoking.
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That, kids, is what smoking does to you.


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Chair: Blinda E. McClelland Chair Elect: Michael J. Churgin Minutes (PDF): To be posted following first meeting, if appropriate.
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FUNCTION: To be responsible for approving all publications to bear the imprint of the Press; to advise and assist the director in forming policy for the Press; to advise the president in the event it becomes necessary to appoint a new director.
COMPOSITION: Eight voting members of the General Faculty for three-year staggered terms. In addition, every year the Chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two voting faculty members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms. Each year, the committee shall elect its own Chair and Vice Chair who shall be voting faculty members of the committee. The Director of the University of Texas Press shall serve as administrative advisor without vote.
Members, 2013-14: Canning, Charlotte 2012-2014 professor, theatre and dance Churgin, Michael J. 2013-2015 professor, law Ebbeler, Jennifer V. 2012-2014 associate professor, classics Hughes, Joan 2013-2016 associate professor, curriculum and instruction Kerwin, Sean M. 2013-2016 associate professor, pharmacy Lindstrom, Naomi 2012-2015 professor, spanish and portuguese McClelland, Blinda E. 2012-2014 lecturer, biological sciences Vangelisti, Anita L. 2013-2016 professor, communication studies
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In this complex, globalized, post 9/11 world, our operational partnerships have never been more important to our efforts to protect your communities.
Today, we work with colleagues at every level of government—local, state, federal, even international—across the law enforcement, intelligence, and first responder communities. We lead and take part in multi-agency task forces, intelligence groups and fusion centers, and public and private sector alliances. A number of our partners literally sit shoulder-to-shoulder with us in FBI space, just as we share our agents and analysts with other agencies. We work closely on joint investigations—sometimes taking the lead, sometimes taking a back seat to others, sometimes contributing equally among many agencies. Our work with our colleagues, in fact, is so intertwined today that it's often nearly impossible to separate the contributions of one agency—and one nation—from the next.
In Springfield, our major partnerships include:
- The Springfield Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) brings together representatives from local, state, and federal agencies to run down any and all terrorism leads, develop and investigate cases, provide support for special events, and proactively identify threats that may impact the area and the nation. Our JTTF began in 2002 and has approximately 30 partner agencies.
- The Springfield Field Intelligence Group (FIG), a team of FBI agents and analysts who provide a full range of intelligence support on terrorism and criminal threats, combines with the multi-agency Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center to form the Statewide Terrorism Information Center (STIC), which supports law enforcement and intelligence partners in 84 counties across the state.
- The Springfield Division participates in the FBI Counterintelligence Domain Program, a national partnership between private industry, academia, government agencies, the FBI, and its counterintelligence community partners to identify and protect projects of great importance to the U.S. government.
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- Our Cyber Crime Task Forces bring together local, state, and federal experts to combat computer intrusions, viruses, and other cyber threats. We focus on Internet crimes against children and Internet fraud. See a full list of the task forces.
- The Springfield InfraGard Chapter is the local arm of a national information-sharing alliance between private industry, academia, and government focused on protecting critical national infrastructures in both the online and offline worlds.
- We also participate in several task forces focused on public corruption and violent street gangs.


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Mood swings and feeling unhappy certainly aren't uncommon in the teen years, but if your teen feels excessively sad for more than two weeks, it could be a sign that something more is going on than just raging hormones, especially when coupled with feelings of guilt or apathy (see previous slide). When talking to your teen, avoid trying to convince her that she isn't depressed or peppering her with questions. Teens tend to shut down when confronted with lectures and unsolicited advice, so try to just listen to what your teen has to say.


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Ohio State gets past Minnesota
Tayler Hill scored 25 points to help Ohio State beat Minnesota 58-47 on Thursday in the opening round of the Big Ten Conference tournament. Ashley Adams added 14 points and eight rebounds for the ninth-seeded Buckeyes (18-12), who advanced to face top-seeded and eighth-ranked Penn State in the quarterfinals Friday. Look at the game details in GameTracker.