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Skip to comments.Scientists Claim To Tap The Free Energy Of Space
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Scientists Claim To Tap The Free Energy Of Space by Richard Walters ("For the People" magazine)
Physicist Bruce DePalma has a 100 kilowatt generator, which he invented, sitting in his garage. It could power his whole house, but if he turns it on, the government may confiscate it.
Harvard educated DePalma, who taught physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 15 years, claims that his electrical generator can provide cheap, inexhaustible, self sustaining and non polluting source of energy, using principles that flout conventional physics and are still not fully understood. His N machine, as it is called, is said to release the "free energy" latent in the space all around us. DePalma views his device as an innovation that could help to end the worlds's dangerous dependence on finite supplies of oil, gas, and other polluting fossil based fuels.
Deceptive Simplicity
The DePalma generator is essentially a simple magnetized flywheel, ie a magnetized cylindrical conductor rotating at high speed with the help of a motor. His astonishing claim is that the present versions of the N machine can generate up to five times more power than it consumes. This, of course, defies the basic law of the conservation of energy, which says that the output of energy cannot be more than the input. Most physicists simply refuse to look at DePalma's findings and dismiss his theories out of hand.
Yet "proof of principle" for his invention was apparently provided when a large N machine, dubbed the Sunburst, was built in 1978 in Santa Barbara California. The Sunburst machine was independently tested by Dr. Robert Kincheloe, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University. in his 1986 report (presented to the Society for Scientific Exploration, San Francisco, 6/21/86), Kincheloe noted that the drag of the rotating magnetized gyroscope is only 13 to 20 percent of a conventional generator operating at an ideal 100 percent efficiency, the DePalma N machine could produce electricity at around 500 percent efficiency.
In Kincheloe's cautious summary: "DePalma may have been right in that there is indeed a situation here whereby energy is being obtained from a previously unknown and unexplained source. This is a conclusion that most scientists and engineers would reject out of hand as being a violation of accepted laws of physics and if true has incredible implications".
"The jury is still out on the DePalma N machine," says physicist Harold Puthoff, a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, Texas. "It isn't clear where the reported excess energy is coming from--whether out of the electromagnetic field or as the result of some anomaly associated with rotating bodies in terms of inertia. The DePalma machine needs to be replicated on a broad scale to see if it actually works. Though I'm rather skeptical, I certainly would encourage independent laboratory experimentation. While such a phenomenon would have seemed to absolutely go against the law of energy conservation a number of years ago, we now recognize that the potential for extracting energy out of so called empty space is in fact a reality". Not So Empty Space
Puthoff, a PhD. from Stanford University, believes that a new, non polluting energy source may be achieved by tapping the force random fluctuations jostling atomic particles within a vacuum. Scientists now know that "empty" space seethes with waft are called vacuum fluctuations: huge amounts of energy that suddenly burst forth, jiggling particles to and fro. Puthoff has developed his own theory, zero point energy, in an attempt to tap the abundant power found in the vacuum of space. He and associates in a new company, Jupiter Technologies, may soon try to manufacture zero-point energy machines.
DePalma described his N machine and outlined a theory to explain its workings in a paper, "On the Possibility of Extraction of Electrical Energy Directly From Space", published in the British science journal, Speculations in Science and Technology (Sept 1990, Vol 13 No 4). So far, the scientific establishment either has ignored DePalma's controversial claims or remains unaware of them.
Patent *Not* Pending
No one has ever obtained a patent for an N machine in the U.S., although in the San Francisco area alone, there are some 200 patent applications relating to such devices. The U.S. Patent office automatically denies a patent to any gizmo which purports to produce more energy than it consumes, on the grounds that its personnel are not equipped to evaluate such claims. DePalma is quick to point out that the N machine is not a perpetual motion machine, that mythical contraption long sought by frustrated inventors. "The perpetual motion machine is only supposed to run itself. It could never put out five times more power than is put into it. Perpetual motion schemes used conventional energy sources, whereas the N machine is a new way of extracting energy from space".
Other scientists-inventors who attempted to build and operate free energy machines have been intimidated and harassed by the U.S. government. At least one inventor had his device confiscated by the Defense Department on the grounds that its free energy technology endangered national security interests. This inventor was put under a gag order, so that he could not even tell the press that his N machine had been confiscated. This is ironic when one considers that the idea for the N machine came directly from a famous experiment performed by Michael Faraday in 1831. U.S. Not Interested
The U.S. energy monopoly, which pushes for the development of oil, gas, coal, and nuclear power--while defunding solar energy and other non polluting alternatives--apparently does not want to see free energy emerge as a viable option.
Meanwhile, other countries, notably India and Japan, are vigorously pursuing what might prove to be a technological breakthrough. (is this yet one more example of the Invented in USA/Made in Japan" syndrome, the outcome of American shortsightedness and vested interests?) In India, eminent engineer Paramahamsa Tewari is currently testing his invention, called the Space Power Generator (SPG), which essentially replicates DePalma's N machine. With 5 kilowatt total input, the SPG is reportedly yielding 30 kilowatt electrical output (correspondence to B. DePalma 8/13/90).
Tewari, a senior engineer with India's Department of Atomic Energy-Nuclear Power Corporation, also directs the Kaiga Project, India's largest atomic power facility, in Karnataka. He freely acknowledges his dept to DePalma, who has shared his experimental results with Tewari for many years. According to Tewari, "The electrical power generated by the Space Power Generator is indeed commercially viable and should be brought to the notice of the general public." He has urged India's Atomic Energy Commission to create an independent research group to advance free energy technology. Tewari also credits John Wheeler, the prominent American physicist and discoverer of the black hole, for his steady encouragement. Wheeler, who had been searching for a mathematical theory that would predict free energy, applauded Tewari for his effort to develop such a theory, and the two scientists corresponded for several years.
Japanese Interest
The Japan Science Foundation, under Japanese government auspices, awarded grants to two universities and one company to produce models of the N machine and to investigate how it works. Kazama Giken Corporation is commercially supplying small N machines for research and educational purposes. Another Japanese company, Panasonic/National, is also pursuing this technology. Shiuji Inomata, Ph D president of the Japan Psychotronics Institute and senior scientist at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Ibaraki, has been instrumental in sparking the interest of Japan's scientific community in the N machine.
"One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe... and the very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery" predicted Nikola Tesla, the Croatian born American electrical genius whose discoveries and inventions rival those of Edison. Proponents of the N machine believe that it taps directly into a primordial energy source, meshing with the wheel work of the cosmos.
A Wrong Turn
"Electrical engineering took a wrong turn 160 years ago," according to Tewari, referring to English scientist Michael Faraday's pioneering work of the world's first dynamo. In 1831, Faraday performed a series of experiments which led to the modern electric induction generator, having two moving parts--a rotor and a stator. Faraday moved a wire near the pole of a magnet, producing an electrical potential across the ends of the wire. This induction principle is used in all the electrical generators we use today. And that's precisely what Tewari means by a "wrong turn."
In that same year, 1831, Faraday also performed a simple yet ingenious experiment with a rotating magnetized conductor. The resulting phenomenon (free energy?) has yet to be explained in terms of conventional scientific theory.
By cementing a copper disc on top of a cylinder magnet, and rotating the magnet and disc together, Faraday created an electrical potential. After pondering this phenomenon for many years, he concluded that when a magnet is rotated, its magnetic field remains stationary. Thus, he reasoned, the metal of the magnet moves through its own field, and the relative motion is translated into electrical potential.
Faraday's experiments led him to the revolutionary conclusion that a magnetic field is a property of space itself, not something attached to the magnet, which merely serves to induce or evoke the field.
A Prototype
Known for over 150 years, the Faraday homopolor generator, as his contraption is called, has been viewed by a handful of visionary inventors as a basis for evoking the free energy latent in space. They see is as the prototype for a generator capable of providing its own motive power with additional energy to spare. When the world embraced Faraday's two piece induction generator, whose drawbacks include mechanical friction and electrical losses, the enormous potential of the Faraday homo polar generator was abandoned, in the opinion of free-energy proponents.
Following in Faraday's footsteps, DePalma in 1978 speculated that free energy could be tapped from the matrix of space simply by magnetizing a gyroscope. "I reasoned that the metal of the magnetized gyroscope moving through its own magnetic field, when rotated would produce an electrical potential between the axle and the outer edge of the rotating magnetized flywheel," he explains.
This insight led to his N machine, essentially a one piece rotating magnetized flywheel, "Instead of having a rotor and a stator, as do conventional generators, the n machine only has a rotor.. Half of the flywheel is the north pole, the other half is the south pole. One electrical contact is put on the axle, another contact is placed on the outer edge of the gyroscope, and presto, electricity is taken directly out of the magnet itself."
Idea Put to the Test
For 150 years after Faraday's controversial experiment, no one bothered to see whether or not a rotating magnet generator would have to to the same amount of work as a conventional induction generator in order to produce and identical power output. Then, in 1978, the aforementioned Sunburst homopolar generator was built. Tests determined that is output power greatly exceeded the input needed to run the machine, that it was much more efficient that an induction generator. Opinions differ as to the exact mechanisms by which the N machine generates energy. In 1977 Tewari created a minor sensation when he put forth the theory that space is filled with a dynamic medium whose swirling motion is the source of all matter and energy. In his Space Vortex Theory, more fully developed in his 1984 book, Beyond Matter, the Indian engineer inventor postulated that a void lies at the heart of the electron-- a void whose high speed rotation within a vacuum could produce energy from space. Tewari's theory is based on the assumption that the electron has a definite structure, and is not just a homogeneous "droplet" of charge.
According to Tewari, the movement of "voids" in the spinning magnetized cylinder of his Space Power Generator liberates free energy out of the space between the machine's axis and the magnet. He readily admits that this sounds incredible, by the yardstick of known laws of physics. Tewari says he never would have developed his theory had he been trained as a physicist rather than as an engineer, since his ideas differ so radically from conventional physics.
"Tewari's explanation is perfectly possible," comments DePalma. "He is attempting to conceptualize what's happening between the atoms and where the energy is liberated."
Concept of Magnetism
"My own approach," continues DePalma, "is that space is all around us like the sea of water the fish swim in. The only way you know it's there is to distort it in some way, and the simplest way to distort space is with a magnet." DePalma maintains that his own conception of magnetism as a distortion of a pre-existent homogeneous field is "the first new thought on the fundamental nature of magnetism since Oersted."
Having taught at MIT as a lecturer in physics for 15 years, DePalma grew increasingly dissatisfied with mainstream physics' explanation of the way things work. His current view of the universe would strike many conventional scientists as heresy.
For example, modern science says that energy is a constant substance in the universe, and that the conversion of energy from one form to another will lead to the heat-death of the universe eon from now. In contrast, says DePalma, "My cosmos is an open-ended universe, one in which energy can be evoked from space itself. All energy come from space," he maintains, "and there are various processes which can release this energy, the simplest of which is lighting a match or rubbing two sticks together."
Suppose you light a candle. The heat in the flame derives from the release of latent heat stored in the wax, according to the textbooks. Nonsense says DePalma. "The law of energy conservation is pure assumption," he insists. In his theory, the heat of a lit candle comes from space, and this substrate is slowly consumed by the energy of space flowing through it.
When you drive a car, the heat latent in the gasoline is extracted through burning, which propels the pistons. Right? Wrong says DePalma. His understanding of the process is that the gasoline-air mixture, catalyzed by an electric spark, acts as a "molecular antenna" to release energy from space. Heat energy thus released cooks or burns the substance which is evoking it in the first place, producing exhaust.
Likewise, when a magnet is rotated in the N-machine, DePalma theorizes, the electrical current comes from the space through which the magnet is drawing its energy, not from the magnets mechanical rotation.
DePalma's approaches to other basic phenomena are equally unorthodox. In the mid-1970's he performed the "Spinning Ball Experiment," which purportedly demonstrated that a rotating object will fall faster or go higher than an identical non rotating object with the same initial velocity. If true, these results fly in the face of all knows physics. The experimental procedure is simple: Take a steel ball bearing (the kind used in a pinball machine), set it rotating, drop it, and measure how fast it falls. Compare its time with that of an identical but non-rotating control ball.
DePalma explained his anomalous results in terms of free energy added to the motion of the rotating object. Those and other experiments led him to formulate radical new concepts of rotation, gravity, inertia and motion in general building on the work of pioneers in the field. He published his findings on the Spinning Ball Experiment in the British Scientific Research Association Journal in 1976. He also outlined the Spinning Ball Experiment to Dr. Edward Purcell, a Harvard physics professor, one of the most eminent experimental physicists at that time. According to DePalma, Purcell, after contemplating the experiment for several minutes, blurted, "This will change everything."
Applying New Technology
"Applied physics is not engraved in stone," says Don Kelly, president of the Space Energy Association (SEA/US), a group of engineers, scientists, and inventors dedicated to developing free-energy technology. Today's free-energy scene encompasses a bewildering array of devices, including N machine, Russian plasma generators, a Swill hybrid converter (combining free-energy components and solid state methods), permanent magnet motors (PMMs), the multiple-coil Hubbard Generator, and various hydrogen power systems.
A standout among the latter group is the "Enerex" H20 unit invented by Yoshiro Nakmatsu, known as the "Edison of Japan." This prolific inventor--father of the floppy disk--claims that his pollution free Enerex unit runs on tap water alone and can generate three times as much power as a standard gasoline engine. An H20 splitter, the Enerex produces hydrogen as the working fuel.
Kelly notes that Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Korea and the Netherlands all have active free-energy research associations, with which SEA/US exchanges information. Nevertheless, he feels that the nascent free energy technology faces opposition in the United States from government agencies, academics, and vested industrial interests. Kely envisions free energy eventually gaining acceptance and application through a grassroots movement of do-it-yourselfers around the country.
SEA/US publishes an interesting quarterly newsletter, available to members. (Contact : Jim Kettner, Space Energy Association, PO Box 1136, Clearwater, FL 33757-1136, USA. Tel : 954-749-6553 Membership dues are $35 per year).
Economics of the N machine
DePalma Energy Corporation has not sold a single machine yet. To build an N machine by hand, the company charges around $500,000. Bruce DePalma claims that, if mass produced, the cost of his machine would drop to a mere $400 to $500. He points out that a typical 100 kilowatt AC generator costs a little over $100,000, and add that an N machine putting out the same amount of power could be manufactured for one third to one half the cost in regular production. His goal is to set up technology sharing agreements with clients who would manufacture his machine.
Surveying the variety of electro-magnetic free energy units available or on the drawing boards, Don Kelly concluded that most of them are plagued by fuzzy applied physics, lack of technical and financial support, and "a distinct cost effectiveness problem." However, Kelly singled out the DePalma N machine as "the mainstay for this F/E category" and "the best of the F/E units for its potential today." He gave the N machine a high "KISS rating" (KISS=Keep it simple and stupid) due to the machines simple, one-piece rotor performs better than today's conventional two piece generators.
Other Applications
The gyroscope with its anomalous properties, so crucial to the N machine, is also finding applications in antigravity and space propulsion. Eric Laithwaite, electrical engineering professor at Royal Imperial Technical College, London England, employed the gyroscope in an antigravity machine which he invented. Laithwaite is best know as the discoverer of the linear electrical motor use to propel high speed trains in Japan. After making contact with a couple of English inventors who, in dreams, had seen how a gyroscope could be used to generate a force against space, he devised his antigravity device and, in 1974, demonstrated it in front of an audience at the Royal Imperial Technical College.
The machine, which weighed approximately 20 pounds when not running, reportedly DECREASED in weight to 15 pounds when running. This effect was said to be due to antigravity. Laithwaite's experiment created a sensation and was written up in papers around the world.
A more sophisticated version of the Laithwaite antigravity machine, invented by Scottish engineer Sandy Kidd, is being tested at Edinburgh University. British Aerospace and the European Commission (the body which runs the Economic Community) are helping to fund the test, which may prove whether it is possible to defy gravity and Newtonian principles.
The test will investigate several other similar antigravity devices as well. Testing is under the supervision of Stephen Salter, a professor of engineering design, well known for his work in deriving energy from ocean wave power using large floating objects crammed full of gyroscopes.
The Kidd antigravity machine consists of a system of gyroscopes said to produce inertial thrust without reciprocal reaction, thus turn on its head Newton's Third Law of Motion. (The third law states that when a force acts on a body--every action produces an equal and opposite reaction).
Kidd claims that a spacecraft powered by his propulsion design could travel millions of miles into space, carrying a minimal payload of fuel to power the gyroscopes.
So far, the amount of thrust claimed to have been produced under laboratory conditions has been measured in ounces. But his is a claim which can not be ignored, according to Dr. Ron Evans, Principal Engineer for Future Concepts in British Aerospace's military aircraft division. While Evans expressed skepticism about the underlying cause of Kidd antigravity machines's anomalous effects, he said, "If the laws we have been brought up to believe in are wrong, then we would be silly to ignore this. It would be nice if it (the Kidd machine) worked and would open whole new fields."
this is a long article I'll read it later (when I get my tin foil hat ready)
sounds like another "cold fusion" story to me. i.e. baloney.
bump for read later
"It could power his whole house, but if he turns it on, the government may confiscate it."
Looks like it's time for him to disconnect from the utility, turn it on and get some concrete output figures, before the government rushes to "confiscate" it.
Henry Ford didn't have a license for his first car, but he drove it in public anyway!
Then how did the author of the article find out about it?
The complete lack of evidence is the surest proof the conspiracy is working.
{yawn}, I've been keeping up with and reading about this stuff for 15 years on http://www.keelynet.com . Even before the web, they had an old school modem powered BBS I used to read on. Interesting articles, especially for those who know a little (but not enough to refute). Nothing has ever come of this stuff..
This is the stuff that will change the world when it becomes true. Government has suppressed this work for years.
Let those nasty thieving arabs eat their oil.
Probably written by this man:
Faraday, and Tesla would disagree.
bump for later
Imagine that.
In 5 seconds with Google I determined that "Bruce DePalma" died in 1997. This article is older than that. (Yes, it's the same Bruce De Palma, follow the links.)
Sounds like a snake-oil scam. If he cared one whit for the world at large, he'd just publish his findings publically so anyone could build one. The FedGov can't intimidate everyone with an internet connection, can they? The first company that builds one and turns it on (if it works) would likely hire him as a consultant anyhow. If it worked, the commercialization would be elementary. Easy conclusion? It doesn't work.
any time somebody come up and says that they have a magic bullet bu the governmetn will crack down on them if they brought it out, I get suspicious. This story has "crack pot" written all over it.
but don't feel down, a lot of people were taken in by Pins and Fleischmann's cold fusion malarkey too.
Interesting read!
The N-Machine is more of a modern version of Faraday's Rotating-Magnet Electrical Generator (homopolar).
Hey, I got an idea for a FREE power device too. But you gotta be careful and wear rubber gloves and don't stand in a puddle of water when you're installing it on your electric meter. I'm keeping the details secret until I get a patent. Should be here any day now...
Tom Beardon and associates received a US patent in 2002... US Patent 6,362,718: Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG)
This is right up there with the 'inventor' in the 1930s who developed a carburator that would give every car 200 mpg of gas. It was 'of course' bought up by Big Oil and he was silenced.
Is there vacuum energy in space?
You betcha.
Is this story true?
No way.
If anyone had built a working generator and the Govt had confiscated it, they would be powering every military and space vehicle we have, even if they were kept from the public, which they wouldn't be.
This would be the greatest stimulus to progress since the invention of fire.
No one could succesfully sit on it.
Bogus science ping
Teaching at MIT is no guarantee of sanity. Noam Chomsky teaches at MIT.
Tough to get past this bit. Kind of convenient that this unnamed "inventor" is under a "gag order".
well? let's see it work. prove it with demonstrable facts and not supposition and inferences.
if you want my money you'd better have something concrets that works beyond suspicion.
(Twilight Zone theme plays in background.)
I don't dismiss anything in this realm out of hand. There's too many phemonema and not enough solid explanations. Tesla, especially, likely invented stuff we've never even thought of reproducing to this day.
Hey, wasn't this a movie with Keanu Reeves?
This N-machine is covered in
The Homopolar Handbook: A Definitive Guide to Faraday Disk & N-Machine Technologies
by Thomas Valone.
Essentially, it performs exactly as the convential physics would suggest and there is no over-unity gain.
The part about the government confiscating a design may be true since the main use (in recent times) for these homopolar generators was to power rail guns during Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars).
Think outside the box for a moment. A heat pump seemingly generates more heating/cooling than the energy required. But the heat pump moves heat rather than creating it from the input energy.
And all he has to do is turn it on and the government won't let him.
Not this sh!t again.
Time for the crackpot index.
Anyone ready to calculate the index for this "invention"?
"outside the box thinking" is precisely what con artists want you to engage in whenever they come up with some scheme like this.
nobody was ever too SMART to be scammed, but there were/are a lot of people too DUMB to be taken in. One of the first thing a scammer will do is compliment your intelligence.
the more I think about this the less convinced I am as to it's authenticity. does this guy use a tinfoil hat to keep the government off his case?
The guy should definately turn it on ... right after posting the plans to the internet if he is that worried about black helicopter stuff.
I'm not wearing tinfoil and I can think of reasons to keep anything of this nature under wraps from a national security standpoint. The best is that you want your opponent to know enough about what you got to deter them from aggression. If deterence fails, you want to have enough in your back pocket to obliterate them. If such a fallback measure depended on something wild like this, you wouldn't want you oppenents to know it is possible beforehand - such knowledge would allow them to duplicate or negate your advantage.
One of best I've read and a good summary/overview, to me.
Appreciated the info on Japan and India which I had not been aware of, before.
Outside the box gave us radio, television, the wheel, car, airplane, ....... Take a look at the following:
It uses the heat pump as a comparison.
Then how did the author of the article find out about it?
You Know I actually work in a machine shop in Goleta, Ca. in 1975-81 and there was this machinist turning this giant rare earth magnet and making a giant wood housing for it. We were pretty pissed off at the guy as he magnetized the lathe thoroughly. It must be the invention.
self ping for later bump!
If any of these schemes were real, no inventor would keep it from the world for any reason. And no government could stop them from sharing it with the world. Any excuses to the contrary are lies.
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Seattle artist Isaac Layman's "photo constructions" at the Frye Art Museum invest ordinary objects with unusual powers while often placing them in an unrecognizable guise.
Here's one version of "paradise," the way Seattle artist Isaac Layman sees it:
He and his wife were resting in bed with a lively bundle between them, shortly after the home birth of one of their children.
"It was fantastic to see this person you've been expecting," he said in an interview in August. "And they look about right … about what you thought."
A minute or so later, it occurred to them that they didn't yet know if their newborn was a boy or a girl: "We hadn't figured it out. So we had this real brief moment in time to know something and enjoy that thing without a label, without a category."
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Still, once the question raised itself, there was nothing to do but check: "That was a magical moment of not knowing, which I would never trade for anything, probably. But you give me a chance to know and you tell me I'm going to be less happy, I would still go check. And I think that's the getting-cast-out-of-Eden moment. You start to label and define and be able to see differences. … That's a wonderful gift, but that's kind of also the curse."
In "Paradise," his new show at the Frye Art Museum, Layman tries to lead his viewers into similar moments of experiencing without knowing, seeing without defining.
Unlike Layman's earlier works which were instantly recognizable for what they were (a fireplace, a kitchen sink, an oven's interior), these new "photo-constructions" — digital assemblages of up to 500 photographs fused into a single image — mostly read as abstract at first glance.
Even with repeated glances, some remain as impenetrable as they are inexplicably compelling. They present sights that you know are familiar. Yet without any context to help you situate what you're seeing, Layman's visions have the frustrating allure or magnetic pull of a tune you can't place or a name that escapes you. (Only one, "Land Grab," is titled — and even that doesn't help you pinpoint what you're looking at).
One image in particular blends maximum frustration with maximum "aha" payoff, once you're told what it is. It's of dark-gray rippled material: some sort of artificial fabric or mesh that's a little industrial-looking. You know that you know this. You've seen it. It's part of your life.
But it takes Layman's explanation to help you place it and savor it for what it is: a stair-tread he tripped on and kicked loose on his way up to his attic studio. Rather than nail it back into place, Layman decided to photograph it.
Two depictions of a discarded, dust-coated, fingerprint-smudged iMac screen have the same effect. They could be anything: a space telescope image of a distant crowded galaxy, or the Earth's own night sky seen from an unfamiliar vantage point. But when you learn what they are — two takes on a digital-age discard you might find in any home — the paired images become oddly humble and moving.
For viewers who prefer their experiences to go unlabeled, nothing in the pieces' titles or captions will spoil their enjoyment of "Paradise." But for those who, after a minute or two, just have to know what they're looking at, fully briefed docents will be on hand to explain how each piece was made.
Layman's imaginative world is contained entirely within the parameters of his house, and there's an almost animistic energy to his domestic observations. One image getting big play in the show (it's on all the Frye posters and brochures) resembles a painterly evocation of cloud-bestrewn heavens. In fact, it's a collection of used tissues that Layman gathered from wastebaskets around his house when everyone in his family was sick. He put them in a glass dish, added a little water — and voilà! He had a beautiful, germ-ridden, strangely symphonic ode to family togetherness.
The intense clarity of this "vision" is due to Layman digitally scanning the Kleenex layers at different depths of focus and then collating them in Photoshop so every veil of moist tissue has its own sharp yet ethereal outline.
Layman's large pieces are arrayed sparingly around the Frye's exhibition space, sometimes with striking effect. In the vestibule opposite the Frye cafe, two depictions of the same blue plastic ice-cube tray face each other, hinting at the numerous lighting and focus decisions Layman makes as he works on a piece. ("These aren't photographs of stuff," he said while leading a press tour through the gallery. "They're photographs of thinking.") One ice-cube tray image has chiaroscuro contours and depths. The other reads so flatly it's more like a two-dimensional decal than a three-dimensional object.
The most brilliant touch is in a long room containing a mere two pieces. At one end: an extreme close-up of a single empty receptacle in a red ice-cube tray. At the other: an image of a heating vent so sharply rendered that you feel you could fall through it. The red cube is the product of a single digital scan with a single-point perspective. The heating vent is the product of 40 sharply focused scans (one for each hole in the vent grid), plus one soft-focus scan of the interior of the vent, leading beyond the grid into what promises to be a gauzy and slightly mysterious heating-duct maze. The tension between the two works practically crackles.
In one installation in the exhibit, the artist drops out of the equation altogether. It contains not photo-constructions but actual dirty windows removed from Layman's living room. Here, Layman's concept — his focus on something we normally look through rather than at — has more appeal than the work per se.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The University of Alabama men's basketball team controlled the paint and shot well from three-point range to methodically pull away from Jackson State, 86-69 at Coleman Coliseum Tuesday night, giving head coach Anthony Grant his first victory with the Crimson Tide.
Alabama was too strong for the Tigers inside, outscoring Jackson State 42-to-18 in the paint. Freshman Tony Mitchell and sophomore JaMychal Green accounted for the bulk of the Tide's points in the paint as Mitchell finished with a team-high 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting, and Green added 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting.
"I have to give credit to my team for finding me when I was open," Mitchell said. "I was running the floor and they were finding me when I was able to get open. They were able to give me the opportunity to have a good chance to finish. I just want to give all the credit to my team."
While Mitchell and Green handled the inside for the Tide, junior Charvez Davis took care of business beyond the three-point arc, knocking down 5-of-7 treys off the bench and finishing with 17 points. As a team, Alabama went 7-of-17 (41.2 percent) from deep.
The deciding run in the game came early in the second half when Alabama went on a 10-0 spurt, with all 10 points coming from senior Mikhail Torrance and Mitchell, to push its lead to 61-43. The Tigers would never get closer than 12 points the rest of the contest.
"I thought we came out with good energy in the second half, and that is what we talked about at the half," Grant said. "Last game we didn't come out with the focus and intensity on the defensive end that we needed to start the second half. Today we challenged our team at halftime to come out and get stops, and they did a great job starting the half to limit their opportunities and extend our lead."
Torrance joined Mitchell, Green and Davis in double figures with 13 points, and the senior guard also dished out a game-high eight assists. Mitchell and Davis' efforts helped the Tide get huge production off the bench, as the team finished with 47 points from non-starters. Alabama shot 53.6 percent (30-of-56) from the field and held Jackson State to 41.3 percent shooting (26-of-63).
The first half remained tight throughout, but Mitchell threw down a fast-break dunk as the buzzer sounded to give the Tide a 40-35 lead at the break. Alabama went on a 9-2 run midway through the first capped by a basket plus the foul by junior Justin Knox, that gave the Tide its largest of the half, at 26-18.
Garrison Johnson kept Jackson State close though, pouring in 17 points before intermission. Mitchell and Davis sparked the Tide offense off the bench, shooting a combined 8-for-10 from the field and scoring 10 and nine points respectively prior to the half. Johnson finished with a game-high 29 points on 10-of-22 shooting. Rod Melvin was the only other Tiger to reach double figures, finishing with 10 points and four assists.
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One of the dirty words that is often associated with employee benefits is "entitlement."It's frequently used when you're talking about a benefit that's beenaround for a long time, to the extent that employees begin to expect it. You canalways spot such a benefit when you try to change it.
One benefit that is often referred to as an entitlement is sick days andother paid-time-off plans. Many corporate benefit plans have separate vacationand sick day "banks," and then a separate long-term disability plan to takecare of lengthy illnesses. For example, a common program would give an employeeanywhere from one to three weeks of vacation pay, six to eight paid holidays,and six sick days each year. Depending on the company, the vacation and sickdays can either be rolled over each year or be subject to a "use it or lose it"rule.
Each provides a quandary. If employees can roll over sick time, they may endup accumulating a large bank of it, perhaps on the order of several months. Forsome people, this is a great protection against serious illness. For others, it'san excuse to "get sick" when they aren't actually very sick.
On the other hand, if you have a "use it or lose it" rule, it creates thetemptation for the employee to use the sick days as a matter of entitlement,regardless of an actual illness (what could be called a "sniffle day"). Asit gets later in the year, and employees have several sick days left, they'lloften find a reason to use them even if they don't need to. In either case,the company is paying far more for time-off benefits than necessary.
Integrated plans go further
You may have heard of the terms "integrated disability programs" and "24-hourcoverage." These terms get at the concept of providing continuity andefficiency in designing time-off programs that include the full spectrum ofbenefits affecting employees when they are away from work -- vacation, short-termand long-term sicknesses, and even workers' compensation.
A more accurate term would be "integrated time-off plans," since not alltime off is the result of disability. A larger number of employers have moved topaid-time-off (PTO) programs, which bring together vacation and sick days in anattempt to lure employees with more vacation time in exchange for those "sniffledays." But integrated time-off plans go further.
For the employee, the main benefit of integrated time-off plans is continuityof income. As you look at your time-off programs, you may be able to identifyinstances in which employees have gaps in their income because of illness. Onesuch example is pregnancy. If you have a program in which an employee gets twoweeks of vacation and has six sick days each year, under a standardmaternity-leave policy, you will have at least three weeks when the employee hasno paycheck coming in, and that assumes she didn't use a couple of sick daysduring the pregnancy.
For the employer, the main objective is keeping an employee healthy and atwork. Again, if employees know that their sick days will be lost at year-end,they may be tempted to find ways to use them. As you will see in the nextsection, the design of a good integrated time-off plan will create incentivesfor an employee to either get or stay healthy and at work.
Moving to an integrated design
The design of an integrated time-off plan can have many facets, depending onyour particular corporate culture and structure. This article presents anexample of one of many ways to set up such a plan, which is based in general ona plan that was set up for a large health system in Ohio. You most likely willhave to tweak it a little or a lot, depending on your circumstances. That said,the bread and butter of this program is made up of the following:
PTO (Paid Time Off): One bank that consists of vacation, sick, and evenholiday time (if you are in an industry in which not all employees have aholiday off, such as hospitals).
Short-Term Disability (STD) Plan: A plan that pays a certain percentage ofpay after an initial waiting period (e.g., seven days). The length of time thatthe plan pays is generally based on the waiting period for the long-termdisability plan. This benefit can be either insured or self-insured.
Long-Term Disability (LTD) Plan: Much the same as the STD plan, except thewaiting period is usually around 90 days and the payout can extend up to age 65.Generally, this is bought as an insured product because of the potential lengthof benefit payouts.
Return-to-Work (or Light Duty) Program: Designed to transition an employeeeither in or out of work on the basis of physician-prescribed limitations. Theemployer designs specific jobs for light-duty work.
To illustrate how an integrated time-off plan program might work, let'sassume the following:
- Days 1-3 of any illness come from the PTO bank (100 percent of pay)
- Days 4-90 of any illness come from the STD plan (75 percent of pay)
- Days 90 or more of any illness come from the LTD plan, if employee isenrolled (66 percent of pay)
Susan is 35 weeks pregnant and has been ordered by her doctor to reduce herstress. She doesn't have to stop working, but will need to find less strenuouswork. Her employer decides to put her on a light-duty job for three weeks, atwhich time Susan delivers her baby. She did not use any PTO or STD time while onlight duty. She plans to take six weeks of maternity leave. The first three daysof leave are paid at 100 percent, days 4 through 45 are paid at 75 percent, andat the end of her maternity leave, she works one week of light duty because ofsome lingering effects of the delivery.
As you can see from this example, the employee doesn't have a day when sheis without some sort of pay, and the employer is able to retain at least someproductivity from her during her medically restricted time before and after thedelivery.
Analyzing your time off
The first step in moving to an integrated time-off plan is to do a detailedanalysis of how your time off is currently being used. In the example of thehealth system above, average sick-day usage was close to five days per year.However, because the plan was to help control the use of sick days (and savemoney), only an average of three days were added to the existingvacation/holiday bank to create the PTO bank. If you really feel as if your sicktime is being overutilized, you can even cut that number by a day.
If you use the blueprint in the example design above, this will alsodetermine the waiting period for the STD component. Self-insuring the STD willgive you the most flexibility in designing exactly when the benefits will kickin, since most insured products have specific requirements.
Another important part of the design process is determining any transitionissues from the old plan to the new, especially if you have accumulated sickbanks for current employees. For the health system in our example, they frozeany additions to the sick bank and then allowed employees limited access to thebanks to receive 100 percent of pay. Another option would be to convert sickdays to PTO time. The advantage is that this creates a clean break from the oldto the new plan and the need to track sick-time banks into the future; thedownside is that the PTO time will have to be paid out upon termination,whereas, in most cases, sick time is not. Regardless of the option, a transitionplan is a must.
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Unless you are specifically qualified to perform case-management functionswithin your company, it probably makes sense to outsource some or all of theclaims processing for your integrated time-off plan.
If you already have an in-house employee health department that manages suchareas as health, safety, pre-employment physicals, and drug testing (our examplecompany did), you may have a good foundation with the addition of a case manageror two to self-manage your integrated time-off plan. It is helpful in thedo-it-yourself shop to cover, at a minimum, the following functions:
Claims intake: A person who evaluates each illness/injury that may extendinto STD territory and beyond and coordinates payroll and/or insurer payments.
Case Manager: A person who follows each person that gets into the STD partof the program and coordinates the appropriate care for the individual (e.g.,sets up light duty, authorizes STD payments, initiates LTD applications).
Program Assistant: An administrative assistant who handles all of thepaperwork and letters that are required by insurers, payroll, workers'compensation, etc. Also serves as receptionist if you provide walk-in servicesor have a toll-free number to collect employee or manager reports of extendedillness.
In the end, you will have to evaluate the cost of staffing and equipment topull off the in-house administration versus the cost of using externaladministrators. Often, the decision will come down to what your corporateculture will accept: talking with a fellow employee or with an unknown name atanother company.
Sell the program
As mentioned earlier, you find out how much employees value a benefit whenyou start tinkering with it. Changing paid time off is no different. Here is alist of things you are most likely to hear and how to address them:
"The program is a 'take-away' -- I don't have as many sick days as Idid before." This gets at the heart of why you are offering the program. Whilein total you may not be giving as many vacation and sick days, the importantpoint to drive home is that if employees strive to remain healthy, then theywill have more elective vacation days to use throughout the year. This willspeak most loudly to the occasional "sniffle day" users.
"This program encourages me to come to work when I'm sick." This isa tough question because the downside of PTO banks is that employees give up apotential vacation day to use a sick day. The best answer to this question is toencourage employees to stay home if they feel they could give coworkers theillness. Even though it costs the employee a PTO day, it may save many more PTOdays (and company productivity) in the long run.
"I know best how I feel and when I should come back to work." You willhear this when trying to encourage someone to return to work through either thelight-duty program or an evaluation as a part of case management. The simplemessage is: We're paying you to work here, even for time that you aren'tworking; we have a right to determine your physical readiness to work. Rememberthat you are trying to change people's thinking from "entitlement to sickbenefits" to "utilizing sick benefits to be a more productive employee."
Moving to an integrated time-off plan philosophy has as much to do withaffecting culture as affecting the bottom line, and the latter is not successfulwithout the former. As with any other change in corporate culture, it'simportant to get managers involved and sold on the program before going public.These HR "champions" can go a long way toward making the program successful.
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This week on Punk'd, Hayden Panettiere hops into the hosting chair to prank her celeb friends Dianna Agron, Zac Efron and Snooki (who knew?!) in an episode full of boners, coppers, and choppers. And yes, in that order. What'd you miss? Find all the highlights after the jump.
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What would you do if you were left in a room with your friend's grandfather, who just wouldn't stop complimenting your "rack," and offering you his salami?
If you're Glee's Dianna Agron, you'd probably play along; respectfully turning down the um– salami, and thanking him for his kind (read: creepy) words. After all, you're supposed to respect your elders, right?
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Yes, Dianna Agron was definitely Punk'd; dutifully pumping away at an old man's penis as he moaned and groaned for more. What a trooper.
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Somehow, "hitting" an elderly lady's dog with a car turns into a full on police stand-off for Zac Efron and a couple of his friends, one of whom supposedly is on probation (an accomplice), and doing everything possible to make the situation worse; like admitting to a hit & run, and blaming everything on Zac.
Never has anyone been so happy to be Punk'd! Wait…there was Justin Timberlake. (Classic!)
Snooki showed some major maturity tonight, as she and JWoww witnessed a woman cheating on her husband. When the "husband" walks in on the affair, his "wife" tries to convince him that they were getting robbed, but the Snookster lets him know the real deal, and even shows him the footage she caught on her cell phone to prove it.
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McPint is the man when it comes to the litre bikes, but some of the performances we've seen from other riders will make next year pretty unpredictable.
Anstey and Mickey D. on the Stockers, the Dunlops and Gaz on the Supersports and any one of half a dozen guys on the Superbike/Senior. Not sure who voted for Rutter, but his only chances are on the Twin and Tron bikes, surely?
Oh yeah, don't forget James Hillier too. He's on the verge of a podium, I'm certain of it...


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The World's Ugliest Dog Contest celebrates its 25th anniversary today at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. Twenty-five plus "beauty challenged dogs are foregoing their usual beauty regimens in preparation," according to producer Vicki DeArmon.
"They are so ugly they are cute," DeArmon told Discovery News.
This year's contenders include pedigree and mutt mixes of Chihuahua, Chinese Crested, Boxer, Terrier, Pug, Poodle and Peruvian.
Chupee and other competitors are vying for a $1500 cash prize, a trophy "and an instant launch into worldwide acclaim," DeArmon said.
"The dogs are judged on their initial horror effect on the audience," shared DeArmon, who is the author of the recently published "World's Ugliest Dogs: The Official World's Ugliest Dog Contest Book."
"They are also judged on their personality, such as how the dog struts across the stage or how its tail wags during the competition."
Human breeding efforts have, in many cases, resulted in some of the "ugly" breed characteristics and health problems of certain dogs. Many of the competing dogs, however, were adopted from shelters.
At least one former World's Ugliest Dog has an actor's guild card and has starred in horror movies, DeArmon shared. "Media interest in this contest has been phenomenal," she said. "Dogs become famous overnight."
All dogs must enter a prequalifying round to ensure that "they are truly ugly before they take the stage." DeArmon said that sometimes she and others cannot even tell if candidates in the "mutt" category are really dogs or not, so that's yet another matter that must be confirmed in advance.
Owners must provide veterinarian documentation that their dogs are healthy when registering. The fair additionally conducts on-site vet checks on the day of the contest.
Rascal is "ugly dog royalty," according to DeArmon. Both his mother and grandmother formerly held the World's Ugliest Dog title.
More than 50 percent of the contestants have never competed before. In past contests, the winner is usually a wild card from the new entries. Last year, a dog from the U.K. -- bedecked in a Union Jack -- won over the audience.
"The contest keeps getting bigger and better every year," said DeArmon. "The dogs seem to be getting uglier too."


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Folic acid, sometimes called folate, is a B vitamin (B9) found mostly in leafy green vegetables like kale and spinach, orange juice, and enriched grains. Repeated studies have shown that women who get 400 micrograms (0.4 milligrams) daily prior to conception and during early pregnancy reduce the risk that their baby will be born with a serious neural tube defect (a birth defect involving incomplete development of the brain and spinal cord) by up to 70%.
The most common neural tube defects are spina bifida (an incomplete closure of the spinal cord and spinal column), anencephaly (severe underdevelopment of the brain), and encephalocele (when brain tissue protrudes out to the skin from an abnormal opening in the skull). All of these defects occur during the first 28 days of pregnancy — usually before a woman even knows she's pregnant.
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Thanks for your quick response.
I "own" and operate a mental health forum/website. Technically, it is owned by a single member (me) LLC taxed as an S-Corp.
She is a former volunteer moderator on our forum. No contract or anything that officially/legally tied her to our ToS and Privacy Policy.
She has registered hundreds of accounts on our forum that we've had to ban. She's used hundreds of IP addresses from various proxies all over the world.
She has spread lies about our website through posts and private messages on our forums.
She promoted a competing online forum (she hasn't formed a business) that they started on our forum despite their intimate knowledge that's not OK after being a moderator on our forum.
She continually contacts me directly, contacts me through other members of my forum, or contacts other volunteer moderators. I've told her *not* to contact me anymore.
She is incredibly manipulative, conniving, etc. and is quite good at turning people to her side or convincing one of her opinion.
Taking into account previous, she does not do well being told "No" or
I could go on...
Why does this matter? I am in the middle of selling this forum, it's something that we need to keep quiet now and I want to be completely honest with the very large company I am selling to (they've dealt with stuff like this before, but we both agree that it's on me to get my community under control before the sale is finalized and the Escrow released.
I know you aren't my lawyer and I will be talking to them shortly, but I need a *general* "this is usually something you can/can't do" (so you can ignore as much of the specifics that you need to), but it should give you a general idea of why I'm asking this question.
So if she is *not* aware of the sale, then it would be 1) violating our ToS 2) general harassment...potentially even just me personally.
I think our ToS pretty well covers this...
You may not...
"Harass or Cyberstalk any user."
"Conduct any activity that is harmful or detrimental to our site, or business, our users, or our advertisers, as solely determined by us."
"Falsely represent yourself as another person or as a representative of a business or entity that you do not actually represent."
Thank you!
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Taylor Swift Intruder Just One Of Many Crazed Fans!December 16, 2012 09:00:15 by Megan Wilson
It seems that there's something in the water when it comes to celebrities. Maybe it's due to the blurred lines that occur due to the interaction between stars and fans via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. All we know is that more and more celebrities are falling victim to crazed fans and intruders! Check out the details of a few of our favorite celebs and their intruder dilemmas!
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Ew! An Intruder Did WHAT at P. Diddy's House in The Hamptons?!July 8, 2012 11:00:12 by Shayla Perry
Sure, we all want to wake up in the morning feelin' like P. Diddy, but no one has gone to such lengths to actually do it as one Quamine Taylor. The 30-year-old Queens native broke into the Making the Band (MTV) star's Hamptons home back in April of 2012, and during his recent sentencing, Taylor admitted to doing some pretty ballsy things in the mogul's mansion.
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Making The Band 4 Season Finale Airs TonightOctober 7, 2008 07:00:02 by Joe Reality
MTV is teasing that the season finale of Making The Band 4 will leave viewers speechless. In the finale, a fan favorite of the groups will go head to head with Diddy. The outcome of the confrontation will be shocking.
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Making The Band 4 Returns For A Second SeasonAugust 19, 2008 10:00:53 by Joe Reality
Making The Band 4 is returning for a second season. In this latest edition, Diddy will return with Danity Kane, Donnie Klang and Day26.
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Diddy Selects Making The Band WinnersAugust 26, 2007 10:34:05 by Joe Blackmon
On the live Making The Band 4 finale, the ten finalists appeared on
stage to await the results of the competition. Sean "Diddy" Combs
explained that he didn't select a winner on the previous finale episode
because he wanted to make great TV and leave it with a cliffhanger.
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Making The Band 4 Winner Is…August 25, 2007 12:01:00 by Joe Blackmon
Diddy and the cast of MTV's "Making The Band 4″ take over Times Square
for a live event Sunday night, August 26th beginning at 10PM ET where
the band will finally be unveiled. Fresh on the heels of creating the
successful all girl group 'Danity Kane,' whose Platinum album debuted
at number one selling more than 230,000 + copies in its first week.
The group toured with Christina Aguilera and The Pussycat Dolls and
will be releasing a new album on Bad Boy Records in 2008.
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AOL Announces Danity Kane Music SessionNovember 17, 2006 12:01:00 by Joe Reality
On Friday, November 17, AOL Music (www.AOLMusic.com), a leading online music destination, will premiere two new exclusive AOL® Music Sessions performances – one by multi-platinum rapper Snoop Dogg, the other by chart-topping group Danity Kane, the all girl group handpicked by Diddy himself on the third installment of MTV's smash hit Making the Band.
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This is the fifth year in a row that What Got You Here Won't Get You There was in the top ten.
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I always find it interesting when non-Christian material focuses on Christian values like love, humility and discipline. Goldsmith tells leaders in this book that, when they receive feedback on how to improve or concerning some weakness, they should "shut up and say thank you." Meanwhile, most Christian leadership material would tell those trying to give such feedback to "shut up and touch not God's anointed." That's why I read a lot more secular leadership books than so-called Christian.
If you are looking for a book that gives practical advice on how to change your work or ministry behavior for the better, I would recommend this book. Marshall certainly has the credential as an executive coach and delivers some practical wisdom that will make you more effective.
Unlike some of the other books I've reviewed, I think these two will
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There "
A frequent interviewee in major business magazines like Fortune, Goldsmith - with the sage help and advice of his collaborator Reiter - pens a self-help career book, filled with disguised anecdotes and candid dialogue, all soon slated for best-sellerdom. His steps in coaching for success are simple, honest, without
artifice: Gather feedback from appropriate colleagues and cohorts, determine which behavior(s) to change (and remember, the author specifically focuses on behavior, not skills or knowledge), apologize, advertise, listen, thank, follow-up, and practice feed-forward.
Admittedly, this shrewd organizational psychologist only works with those leaders whom he knows will listen, follow advice, and change - especially considering that he doesn't receive fees until improvements are secure and visible. On the other hand, these are words and processes anyone will benefit from - whether wannabe manager or senior executive.
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In the heart of downtown Claxton, Georgia, the Midtown Inn is 20 miles from Georgia Southern University and Statesboro. Shopping at Statesboro Mall, sports at the J.I. Clements Stadium, golfing, museums and a water park are all less than 30 minutes from the Midtown Inn.
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It sounds like the respective credit bureau(s) that are reporting the loan "charged off" have not updated your credit report since reinstating the loan.
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My question clearly stated that the repo was two years ago. The credit reports have been updated since then. This was a phoned in answer and didn't help at all.
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Can someone tell me how to report links on the retail PSN page.
I just downloaded the EU star wars the force unleashed 2 demo link, to find out someone stuffed up and it is actually dead space ignition demo instead.
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anybody have a recommendation for a small dog carrier?
I'm leaning towards a front basket, preferably canvas over wicker.
Thanks a lot.
Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anybody have a recommendation for a small dog carrier?
I'm leaning towards a front basket, preferably canvas over wicker.
Thanks a lot.
Excellent. I have the same question. I have to set up my wife's bike with a carrier for little Molly Mouse, our Chihuahua/micro-Terrier. Carrier must have a classic style because Molly doesn't go for the carbon fiber space pod look.
Looks like you need to choose between covered, safety enclosure, and "total enclosure":
I'm liking these:
Also see the Peterboro Front Pet Carrier Bike Basket
Both are kind of prison-like. Isn't there some in-between for safety but escapability in the event of a crash?
my local bikeshop had the nantucket wicker basket for pets.
looked cool, but i think i want a more canvas style carrier.
I don't think my bike is equipped for a front rack.
There are also several strap on carriers available. The one I use with my Pomeranian is the 'Legs Out' chest carrier by Outward Hound. Think of one of those baby carrier type chest packs, modified for a small dog. Not for everyone, or every dog.
I have two different handlebar bags I like the 4 in 1 carrier , I also have the Buddy Basket, but I really like the 4 in 1 because I can detach it easily and take my dog in the carrier over the shoulder.
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so I bought that Pet Gear carrier, it seems to droop a bit and hit the front wheel. Do I need to get a front rack? I have a quick release front wheel, how does a front rack fit on a quick release front wheel?
Most racks attach to an eyelet on the dropout. If that doesn't work, you can use a rubberized strap of steel that wraps around the fork, to which you can bolt the rack. If you have canti/V brake posts, some racks attach to those. BTW, if your rack was designed to attach to the axle and you were intent on using it, you could have your front wheel re-built with a slightly longer axle so that QR still works.
I found a great dog carrier here http://adogshop.com/Dog-Carrier it has been a great buy and my dog love riding along almost as much as I like riding. A dog carrier is a great investment good luck
It depends on the weight of your dog. I carry my 14 lb terrier in a front basket, but the basket has to be very solid or the "load" moves around a lot and affects handling in a bad way. A 6 lb dog wouldn't be much of an issue. Also, I built a "liner" for the basket out of thin plastic, and put a towel on top of that. Dog seems pretty happy.
You also don't mention if your carrying system has to be removable, or can be permanent. If permanent, a Wald front basket can be found to attach to almost any bike and the versions with front struts are very solid. They don't even take that long to install/remove, but i wouldn't want to be doing it multiple times a day or anything.
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Shane Salerno's "Salinger" documentary hits theaters September 6, via the Weinstein Company, while the new book upon which its based, also titled "Salinger" (co-authored by director Salerno and David Shields), becomes available September 3. Clearly this is a case of savvy cross-promotion.
The book "Salinger" received a less-than-glowing review on August 25 by the NY Times' lit critic Michiko Kakutani, faulting it for "sloppy scholarship," and writing that while the high number of interviewees the book-documentary project has boasted from the beginning (more than 200 people over nine years) shows energy on Salerno's part, a number of entries in the volume are actually taken from previous books and articles.
Kakutani also observes:
"Salinger," self-promotingly described on its cover as "The Official Book of the Acclaimed Documentary Film," is not a conventional biography but a kind of companion volume to Mr. Salerno's documentary of the same name (to be released on Sept. 6). The book takes a montagelike form...
Meanwhile, others have wondered whether the film, site unseen, acts as a sales pitch for the book. NY Post film critic Lou Lumenick tweeted:
"Starting to wonder if this so-far-unscreened SALINGER "documentary" is basically a glorified infomercial for the director's new book."
Based on the trailer, the doc looks to a be a thriller-esque portrait of the enigmatic, reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye." Salinger died in January 2010, and hadn't published a work since 1965. Included among the interviewees are Salinger's closest friends and colleagues who have never spoken about him before, and archival footage of the writer. Other notable personalities seen in the film include Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, Tom Wolfe and Gore Vidal, among others, who discuss his cultural impact.
Director Salerno also co-wrote Oliver Stone's "Savages" in 2012.


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Con or Bust helps fans of color get to SF/F cons, and opens up our community. They hold a charity auction every year. I have a copy of The Apocalypse Ocean up for bid right here.
And there's a whole lot of other cool stuff up there too. Look around.