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We work with you to build sustainable communities and to deliver solutions in a creative and commercial way.
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Things are looking dicey in the bond market these days. Recently, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, issued a warning to investors that a rise in interest rates will be bad news for bonds.
Of course, this warning is not the first of its kind. With nowhere to go but up, the eventual increase in interest rates will push the value of bonds with longer maturities down.
That makes some of the higher-yielding bonds available these days even more risky -- long maturities will be the most affected by a rise in interest rates.
With a yield-starved investor base clamoring for income, some investors may be tempted to take on more risk than might be wise.
Rates are down, risk is up
The safest option is always cash, but safety comes with a price. Though you're guaranteed not to lose principal, there's also no chance of interest income or growth. For very conservative investors for whom principal preservation is most important, the high opportunity cost may be worth it.
"The way I look at it, if you're a conservative investor and have bonds that are maturing, you probably want to keep that in cash and be patient," says William Larkin, fixed-income portfolio manager at Cabot Money Management in Salem, Mass.
At a recent conference Larkin attended, bonds were classified as "high risk/no-return investments."
"I'm afraid a lot of retail investors got into bonds and have enjoyed some price appreciation, but you don't want to be putting more money into the marketplace right now. It's a little bit overpriced," he says.
Not all fixed-income managers take such a conservative stance. High-quality corporate bonds with intermediate maturities may be worth the gamble -- depending on your view on interest rates.
"I think a person needs to sit down and quantify what they think rates will do -- are they going to go up 0.5 percent, 1 percent or 5 percent over the next couple of years?" says Donald Cummings, founder and portfolio manager at Blue Haven Capital, an asset management firm in Geneva, Ill.
"Right now for premium coupons in eight-, nine- and 10-year, up to about the 12-year area of the curve, you can get anywhere from 3.5 (percent) to 4.75 percent, depending on what kind of credit you want to buy and structure. That bond will be a pretty darn good performer in a portfolio versus sitting in a money market," Cummings says.
Getting down to brass tacks
Where investors look for value in the bond market will be contingent on their goals. That's the deeply unsatisfying answer to nearly every investing question. In short, where you invest depends on goals, time frame and risk tolerance.
"Our approach has always been preservation and income. There are other advisers that look at (a bond portfolio) as a total return vehicle," says Herbert Hopwood, Certified Financial Planner professional, CFA and president of Hopwood Financial Services in Great Falls, Va.
"That is a very different-looking portfolio than what we're talking about," Hopwood says. "And some people do a combination of the two: have some where you're getting a return of principal and some income, like a ladder -- then they try to be strategic or tactical with the other part, for instance, using high-yield and international bonds."
Stability-seeking investors will typically give up a little bit of capital appreciation and income in exchange for safety. Similarly, investors who push for higher returns in their bond portfolio have to accept the potential downside.
What should you do?
Avoid long-term bonds, period. That can be anywhere north of 10 to 15 years.
As a foundation, Treasury securities are still stable and make a good bet for safety, though yields are currently under the rate of inflation.
Depending on your risk tolerance and philosophical bent regarding the role of a bond portfolio, venturing into emerging markets and even other developed countries can add diversity and relatively higher yields.
"Look at the bonds of countries that have budget surpluses and not deficits like we do, and I would mention Brazil there. Their bonds yield about 9 percent; Mexico, 5 percent. In the developed world slightly better yields can be found in Australia," says Andrei Voicu, managing director and chief investment officer at Fragasso Financial Advisors in Pittsburgh.
And even some eurozone bonds could be a good deal now. They're still looked at askance but the yields may tempt investors. Take, for instance, Italian sovereign bonds.
"They pay about 4 (percent) or 4.5 percent on the 10-year right now, and I believe that is a very attractive proposition -- even on the shorter side, maybe three years for instance," says Voicu.
Investing in the bonds of governments other than the U.S. brings in a few different risks, such as currency and politics.
But there are safe options in the bond market that offer decent values to investors. For instance, people may want to have some money in a Ginnie Mae bond fund, according to Hopwood.
"Those don't tend to move very much and the default rate is nil in Ginnie Mae, so the credit risk is not there," he says.
Ginnie Mae, the Government National Mortgage Association, is a government-owned agency. Securities issued by Ginnie Mae are secured by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, like Treasury securities.
They have a high minimum initial purchase requirement of $25,000 and can be complicated for individuals to buy. So investors may find Ginnie Mae bond funds an easy alternative. Just be sure to keep expenses low as interest rates are way too low to make up for high fees.
Importance of diversification
It's difficult to choose a path without the benefit of psychic powers. The Federal Reserve's rate-setting group, the Federal Open Market Committee, has stated that based on current economic conditions, interest rates could rise by 2015. That's their best guess -- for now. The truth is that no one knows. That's why investing strategies that spread risk among many assets remain popular.
"Two years ago, I didn't think we would still be at these interest rates. There is a cost for keeping everything in (Treasury) bills," Hopwood says.
"In our opinion a broadly diversified portfolio of different strategies that will act differently at any given time would make the most sense rather than trying to guess what will happen," Voicu says.
Another option for times when you don't know what's going on: laddering. Laddering bonds or certificates of deposit can moderate the risk of rising interest rates and inflation by spreading investment dollars over a range of maturities.
For instance, an investor with $10,000 to put into bonds could invest $2,000 in bonds with a range of maturities at one-year intervals, up to five years. As each bond matures, the principal could be funneled back into the ladder at the furthest rung, or five years out. After the first cycle, the ladder will be made up of five-year bonds with a bond maturing every year.
"I still believe in laddering because you just don't know," Hopwood says.
More than ever, there's no magic bullet in the bond market.
This story was originally published by Bankrate.

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Brad Goreski Is His Own Boss on "It's a Brad, Brad World"
(NEW YORK) -- Brad Goreski is no longer just the style director for celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe. He's stepping into his own in the second season of Bravo's It's a Brad, Brad World, which premieres on Wednesday.
"This year what people really get to see is the nitty-gritty and behind-the-scenes of me with a successful business," the Canadian celebrity stylist tells ABC News Radio. "My company has grown exponentially....and my clients were so gracious to be on the show and you really get to see me getting them prepped for events."
Goreski's client list has grown to include Jessica Alba, Minka Kelly and Rashida Jones, and he even dressed Stacy Keibler and Jenna Dewan-Tatum for this year's Oscars.
When dealing with tricky clients, such as Dewan-Tatum, who is currently pregnant, Goreski says the styling issue wasn't challenging. That's perhaps thanks to his new team of styling cohorts.
"This year people really get to see me in the role of a boss," he says. "I have two new assistants this year plus [assistant] Lindsay Myers from last year. We're very busy. There are a lot of balls in the air so to speak and there's a lot for me to juggle."
It also helps that Goreski doesn't have any hard feelings about his headline-making split from former boss-turned-designer Zoe. He's even dressed one of his clients, Alba, in a Zoe design.
"We pull clothes that work for each event and then if they work, they work. It really doesn't matter which designer it is. I don't play that way," he says.
The second season of It's a Brad, Brad World premieres on Bravo Wednesday at 10 p.m. Eastern time.
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At the end of the nineteenth century, two Presbyterian pastors—Dr. Robert Lewis Dabney and the Rev. Richmond Kelley Smoot—looked to the dusty expanses of the American frontier and dreamed a dream. Their Austin School of Theology operated for eleven years until it closed 1895. Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, founded in 1902, was the result of their vision and labor. Established under the auspices of the Synod of Texas in the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Austin Seminary began its mission of educating and equipping ministers for the Southwestern United States. It wasn't long, however, before the institution blossomed and grew beyond the wildest visions of its forebears. Soon, Austin Seminary was training women and men for a variety of ministries throughout the nation and world.
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DNA Results Confirm Father of Anna Nicole Smith's Baby
By: Associated Press
NASSAU, Bahamas -- NASSAU, Bahamas - DNA tests prove it: Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's million-dollar baby.
"I told you so!" the late Playboy Playmate's former boyfriend said Tuesday upon emerging from a closed court hearing. He added: "My baby's going to be coming home pretty soon."
Birkhead, a 34-year-old California photographer, then hugged his rival, Howard K. Stern, who has been caring for baby Dannielynn since Smith's sudden death in February.
The hearing was a pivotal moment in the battle over who gets custody of the girl, who could inherit a fortune from the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. Although Birkhead is the father, Stern's name is on the birth certificate. Another custody hearing was scheduled for Friday.
Stern, who was Smith's lawyer and later became her companion, said he wouldn't fight for custody, but a lawyer for Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, indicated she might. The judge scheduled another hearing for Friday in the pink colonial courthouse to discuss who will raise the girl, who could inherit hundreds of millions of dollars.
Stern said he loved the baby despite the DNA results and would support Birkhead.
"I'm obviously very disappointed, but my feelings for Dannielynn have not changed," he said, adding of Birkhead: "I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure he gets sole custody."
Birkhead had been fighting for custody of Dannielynn even before Smith's death.
"Nothing's been determined except parentage and I'm the father," Birkhead said. "It's been a long road and I'm just happy to have this behind me."
A crowd of about 250 people, many of them tourists, cheered from behind police barricades when Birkhead, clutching a piece of paper, announced the DNA test results. The court's DNA expert, Dr. Michael Baird, confirmed it.
"Essentially, he's the biological father," Baird said.
This tropical capital has been transfixed by the Anna Nicole saga since she moved here last year. Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in September, only to see her 20-year-old son Daniel die days later at her bedside from a lethal combination of drugs. Smith died in February at age 39 in Florida.
Many in the crowd took pictures of the impromptu news conference with cameras and cell phones. One man in the crowd wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the handwritten message: "I'm the baby's daddy."
Arthur, who had been estranged from Smith for years, said she wanted to be present in her granddaughter's life, but seemed appeased by the DNA results.
"I'm happy that Dannielynn will know who her real father is," she said.
The baby, whose full name is Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, could inherit millions from Marshall's estate. Smith, a former model, had been fighting the Texas oil tycoon's family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
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The bathroom is one of the smallest rooms in any house, but the right fixtures can make a big difference. Trick the eye into seeing more space than is actually present with these bathroom design solutions.
Optimize Corners with a Corner Shower Stall
Compact corner shower stalls make a great design solution where space is limited. Unlike built-in showers, a corner shower takes up a minimal amount of floor space, making it an ideal addition to a small bathroom.
Another space-saving solution is a shower enclosure that fits in a corner and features a sliding door, giving you maximum entry area while using less floor space.


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Simulation and Analysis of Two Fans Air Speed Match Design in Off-Road Mine Tract Generator Using COMSOLY. Shen[1], D. Wu[1]
[1]Beijing University of Science & Technology, Beijing, China
This paper describes a model of self-ventilated generator cooling on a 170 tons off-road mine dump truck. Considering the space restrictions of mine dump truck, the cooling systems for the generator and the in-wheel motors of the rear axle share one air inlet duct. With the action of generator fan and rear duct fan, cooling air from the inlet duct will be divided into two parts to cool the generator and the in-wheel motors of the rear axle, respectively. To design the cooling system of generator is a typical multiphysics problem, involving flow field, thermal field and so on. Here we built a model to simulate the interaction of fans' parameters on the cooling performance by using COMSOL.


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Brides and Broads: Karloff's Leading Ladies
Throughout his career, Karloff shared the spotlight with many a silver-screened siren – usually with them recoiling in terror from him. Karloff never really got to play the 'romantic lead' but there is no denying the chemistry he shared with some of the actresses he worked with – be they shrieking in terror at his approach, or strangely drawn to his undoubted yet dark charisma. Whilst most actresses in horror films during the 30s and 40s were reduced to screaming and fainting - some equiped themselves well and managed to rise above questionable material to create feisty heroines who could more than hold their own against the villain/monster. And of course, some just screamed and fainted a lot - but they did it so well they get a mention too.
Here are some of the actresses who shared more memorable moments with Karloff 'The Uncanny.' Don't forget to check out Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog for more Karloff related wonderment...
Elsa Lanchester. An English character actress with a lengthy career in theatre and TV, Lanchester really made a name for herself as the bride in Bride of Frankenstein
– the role for which she will no doubt be best remembered. Which I'm
sure you'll agree, is no bad thing at all. Surviving events in the first
film, Henry Frankenstein returns and teams up with raging queen Dr
Septimus Pretorius to create a mate for his Monster. The
unforgettable sight of Lanchester as the shock-haired Bride has become
one of the most iconic images in horror cinema. Despite the fact that
she was created to be a mate for the Monster, Bride has no such
intentions and rejects him outright, hissing and screaming at him. The
Monster, more than a little upset over this hostility, sheds a tear and
pulls a lever that ultimately destroys the laboratory, himself and his
aloof Bride... Well, at least until the sequel, Son of Frankenstein.
Which is markedly Brideless.
Zita Johann. A Broadway actress, Romanian born Zita Johann made her first film appearance in D.W. Griffith's 1931 film The Struggle. Zita was much more comfortable on stage than on screen, and after a paltry seven films, she quit cinema. Johann effortlessly commanded attention in her duel role as Helen Grosvenor / Princess Anck-es-en-Amon in Karl Freund's The Mummy. Her exotic and alluring beauty was the perfect foil for Karloff's morose and heavy-hearted Imhotep / Ardath Bey. When an archaeologist inadvertently resurrects Ancient Egyptian priest Imhotep, the bandaged one shuffles off in search of his ancient lover Princess Anck-es-en-Amon – who has been reincarnated as the delectable Helen Grosvenor. Karloff and Johann portray the doomed lovers earnestly, ensuring The Mummy is one of the most tragic, if insidiously creepy love stories to grace the silver screen.
Anna Lee. Squaring up to Karloff in no less than two films, English actress Anna Lee appeared with the Uncanny One in Bedlam and The Man Who Changed his Mind, as well as a host of other films including The Sound of Music, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and John Ford's Fort Apache. It was as Nell Bowen in Mark Robson directed/Val Lewton produced Bedlam
that Lee really shone though. A radiant, fiercely intelligent and witty
character, Nell Bowen was one of Lewton's typically strong,
self-assured female characters. No one else in the film stands up to
Karloff's sadistic apothecary general Master George Sims – head of
Bedlam asylum – as much as Bowen. And what does she get for her trouble?
A stint in Bedlam as one of Sims's guests. Winning over the other
inmates with her compassion and self-sacrificing nature, Bowen soon has
it in her power to stand up to Sims one last time…
Gloria Stuart. One of the very few still-living actresses from Hollywood's 'Golden Era', Gloria Stuart still works, albeit much more leisurely, in film today – and even garnered an Oscar nomination at the age of 87 for her part in James Cameron's Titanic. Stuart appeared alongside Karloff in James Whale's morbidly humorous thriller The Old Dark House. A horrid storm forces several travellers in deepest, darkest Wales to seek shelter at a too-gloomy mansion belonging to the rather 'strange' Femm family. A series of bizarre incidents throughout the night place the lives of all staying in the house at risk. As Morgan, an alcoholic mute butler, Karloff is sufficiently leery and menacing – running amok and threatening poor Gloria Stuart. And with her being a typical early 1930's horror 'heroine', all she does is scream and faint. But she does it so well!
Mae Clarke. Beginning her career as a dancer, Mae Clarke would eventually go on to star in films such as Waterloo Bridge – a pre-code film in which she played a woman forced by circumstances into a life of prostitution – and The Public Enemy with James Cagney. This film boasts the famous and often parodied scene, in which Cagney takes a slice of grapefruit and smooches it into poor Clarke's face before going out and picking up Jean Harlow. The lug! It was as Elizabeth facing off the Monster in James Whale's Frankenstein that Clarke landed her most famous role. The sight of Karloff bearing down on her on her wedding night is still quite chilling to this day. And as a Scream Queen in 1930s horror cinema, what does Clarke do? Scream and faint! Like Gloria Stuart though, she does it so well.
Marian Marsh. After signing with Warner Bros and changing her name to Marian Marsh, Violet Ethelred Krauth landed her most revered role in Archie Mayo's Svengali – opposite John Barrymore. After this film's success Marsh was reteamed with Barrymore for The Mad Genius, before travelling to Europe to continue her acting work. Returning to the States and signing with Columbia, Marsh starred opposite Karloff in the 1935 mystery-horror film The Black Room. Karloff delivers one of his most subtle yet complex performances in a duel role as doomed twins Anton and Gregor Bergmann – victims of a dark prophecy spelling out their self-inflicted demises. Marsh is the love interest of the 'good twin' Anton, and her scenes with Karloff become interesting as she suspects Anton has been murdered and is being impersonated by his evil twin Gregor.
Frances Drake. No, not the famous English Sea Captain and second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada, but the demure and pretty actress famous for portraying Eponine in Les Misérables (1935). Drake appeared in the classic Mad Love – with Peter Lorre – before taking a role in The Invisible Ray – with Karloff and Bela Lugosi – in which she portrays the wife of kerr-azy scientist Karloff. As Dr Judh, Karloff finds a meteor but is poisoned by the radiation and begins to lose his mind whilst glowing prettily in the dark. The Uncanny One gives an uncharacteristically over-the-top performance as the ill-fated scientist, which somehow manages to enhance his character's increasingly off-balanced state of mind. Drake equips herself well as Judh's blousy wife – who unlike most other 1930's 'Scream Queens' doesn't take to screaming and fainting every five minutes.
Ellen Drew. Former Beauty Queen, Ellen Drew began acting for Paramount in 1938. In 1944 she moved to RKO, and amongst other titles, starred in the Val Lewton produced/Mark Robson directed Isle of the Dead. Set on an isolated island during the Balkan War of 1912-1913, the film focuses on the plight of a group of people – including Karloff as the tortured army General Nikolas Pherides - who are quarantined on the island when a plague breaks out. As they die one by one, a young woman is accused of being a vorvolaka - a sort of vampire - who the other characters become increasingly wary of. As the accused, Thea must put up with superstitious accusations from local peasant women and death threats from the increasingly deranged Pherides. Karloff gives another subtle and assured performance to rival that of (in this writer's humble opinion) his best performance in The Body Snatcher. Drew is another of Lewton's positive female characters who eventually proves her innocence – but not until she and Karloff have confronted each other several times, in a film seeped with quiet menace and doomful foreboding.
Marjorie Reynolds. Reynold's was a child actress in silent films. Her first 'talkie' was Murder in Greenwich Village (1937). She appeared onscreen several times with Karloff in the William Nigh directed 'Mr Wong' films in which Karloff played the titular Wong, a San Francisco based detective. Reynold's portrayed perky and determined reporter Roberta 'Bobbie' Logan – who hires Karloff to track down a ruthless killer and help her get the scoop. Luckily Karloff's finely tuned performance and subtle nuances ensure he doesn't come across as offensive – what with him being a white actor playing an Asian character and all. Reynold's starred in three of the six Wong films, and her hardboiled, screwball-esque sparring with Grant Withers, who plays Captain Street, provided much appreciated relief from all the trench-coated, sleeve-gunned, poison-gassed shenanigans.
Irene Ware. As Jean Thatcher in the 1935 The Raven, Irene Ware starred alongside not just Boris Karloff, but also Bela Lugosi. In the same film! Lugosi plays Dr Vollin, a Poe obsessed surgeon who professes his love to Ware, only to be turned down, even after he performs an operation that saves her life after a horrid car crash. Vollin encounters Bateman (Karloff) who is on the run from the police and wants a new face. Vollin deliberately botches the operation, leaving Bateman with a hideously disfigured face. He agrees to re-do the surgery if Bateman will help him get revenge on the Thatcher's for preventing him from being with Jean. Whilst Karloff and Lugosi were often portrayed as 'bitter rivals', during the filming of The Raven they actively united to recruit for the newly founded Screen Actors Guild in which Karloff played a significant role. The film itself didn't do very well, as 1935 audiences had problems with the films themes of torture, disfigurement and sadism. Oh my! However, Lugosi's performance has been praised and often regarded as one of his best. Ware does her best with the material, however in the presence of Karloff and Lugosi, no one really has a chance in this flick… She flirts, screams and faints. And then participates in some interpretive dancing later on in skimpy clothes – very risqué for the time you know.
Here are some of the actresses who shared more memorable moments with Karloff 'The Uncanny.' Don't forget to check out Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog for more Karloff related wonderment...
|"She's alive! Alive!"
|Karloff and Johann in The Mummy
|Anna Lee stars with Karloff in Bedlam
|Gloria Stuart fends off a ghoulish Karloff in The Old Dark House...
|Karloff's Monster advances upon Mae Clarke in Frankenstein...
|Marian Marsh marries into deadly secrets in The Black Room
|Frances Drake
|Ellen Drew in the shadowy confines of Isle of the Dead
|Marjorie Reynolds
|Irene Ware recoils in horror in The Raven


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South Korea managed to edge out fellow Asian side Japan on Saturday night in Port of Spain to be crowned champions at a global footballing competition for the first time in their history. The thriller finished 3-3 after extra time and needed a penalty shootout to decide the victor. The end-to-end encounter had fans at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on the edge of their seats from start to finish and was a fitting conclusion to the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago.
If any of the 22 young ladies down on the pitch were at all intimidated by the huge crowd or the presence of heartthrob David Beckham up in the VIP tribune, they didn't show it in the first 12 minutes. The Koreans marched up and scored the opener with their first shot of the match. Lee Jungeun squared up to the ball in the sixth minute some 25 yards from goal and arrowed it to the top corner.
Not to be outdone, the Nadeshiko repeated the trick, only from farther out, five minutes later. Hikaru Naomoto collected from a poor clearance, controlled and slipped past one marker before hammering toward goal from 30 yards out. The Korean goalkeeper got her gloves to the ball, but could only palm it against the underside of the crossbar and in. The keeper was cursing her bad luck and positioning again shortly after as Japan took the lead through a harmless-looking effort from Yoko Tanaka. It somehow slid under Kim Minah and into the net to make the score 2-1.
The Koreans were having trouble getting the ball to tournament top scorer Yeo Min Ji, but the rest of the Taeguk Ladies were more than willing to pick up the slack in attack. Captain Kim Areum's free-kick from distance flew up into the humid night sky on the half hour and came crashing down against Hirao's crossbar, with the keeper well and truly beaten. She got it right on the stroke of half-time, however, when her vicious set-piece from a full 40 yards levelled the scores.
The fans were able to catch their breath a bit as the second half began at a less-frenetic tempo, but the lull in the action lasted only 11 minutes and was broken by the outstanding Japanese winger Yokoyama. She bolted past a phalanx of defenders, as she has done on so many occasions at these finals, and crossed low. Chika Kato was on hand to poke home into the open net, flinging herself at the deflected ball. Japan continued to press forward, prodding for a fourth goal. It nearly came in the 64th minute, but the Korean keeper was somehow able to push Yoko Tanaka's curling shot against the post.
Yeo min Ji almost drew level again for the Koreans, but the ball came off the crossbar and then off the head of Hirao, failing to find the back of the net with 15 minutes to go. They were rewarded for their long-range instincts in the 79th minute, however, when substitute Lee So Dam thundered home from well outside the box to force extra time. Japan were the dominant side in the added periods, but they couldn't convert their chances and the game was decided on penalties. Defender Jang Selgi was the hero on the night, scoring the decisive spot-kick to see Korea Republic win their first world title in any age category or gender.


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"Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards" by PJ O'Rourke — Who better to provide a little reality check than pundit par excellence O'Rourke? You know his attitude before even cracking open the book thanks to a most succinct, expressive title. He goes soft on no one.
New books by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, P.J. O'Rourke, Dana Milbank and Meghan McCain.
— "Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto" by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe; William Morrow (266 pages, $19.99)
"History," explain Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, "teaches us that nothing could be more American than protest." In this book, they connect that spirit of protest with the "tea party" movement, which Kibbe (chief executive of the smaller government advocacy group FreedomWorks) defines as being "built on a coherent, unifying set of values ... that go back to the revolutionary traditions of our founding as a nation." He and Armey, former House Republican majority leader, include a "toolkit" of guidelines for organizing activists in one's own community. "Remember," they write, "we are following the tradition of the original American community organizers, the Sons of Liberty.... As they understood so well, it does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires of freedom in the minds of men."
—"Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards" by P.J. O'Rourke; Atlantic Monthly Press (288 pages, $25)
Who better to provide a little reality check than pundit par excellence P.J. O'Rourke? You know his attitude before even cracking open the book thanks to a most succinct, expressive title. He goes soft on no one. Are you sure you want healthcare reform that requires government involvement? Then consider this: "Someday we'll be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation and the surgeon will be the same person who's now behind the counter when we renew our registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles." Do you want international efforts to fight global warming? If you do, then be prepared: "I want you to go tell 1.3 billion Chinese they can never have a Buick."
—"Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America" by Dana Milbank (Doubleday: 256 pp., $24.95)
Anyone who thought Fox News host Glenn Beck's popularity would subside, that his novelty would wear out, is still waiting for that to happen, explains Dana Milbank, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post. "(F)orecasts of a swoon may be too hopeful," he says. "Beck has transcended the role of entertainer and talk-show host and now finds himself at the front of an antigovernment movement. The de facto leader of the Tea Party activists...." Milbank's book offers a portrait of Beck as a demagogue whose antic-filled performances have him "crying all the way to the bank." And yet, Bill O'Reilly asks Beck in an interview, doesn't he run a risk that his serious message will be dismissed "because of the burlesque"? Beck agrees, adding "but have you seen the ratings at 5 p.m.? ... (You) don't get those ratings at 5 p.m. by being Charlie Rose."
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Pitchers Dominate
Most people felt this NLCS would be all about pitching. Well, after the Giants have a 2-1 game lead, that prediction seems pretty well in order. The Phillies are actually out-hitting the Giants, .194 to .189, but trail in the Series.
Over the last three seasons, the Phillies as a team batted .199 at AT&T Park. Well, that trend continued yesterday as the Giants blanked the Phillies. Last time the Phillies were shut out in the postseason was Game 5 of the 1983 World Series, 5-0, by the Orioles.
The Giants got three, two-out singles in two innings for their three runs. The Phillies finished with three singles for nine innings and went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position. It was their lowest hit total since they were eliminated by the Rockies on three hits in Game 3 of the NLDS three years ago.
SF starters have now worked 22.2 consecutive scoreless postseason innings at home.
So, the Phillies are facing a must-win game tonight. Joe B, who hasn't started since September 29, will be on the mound against a rookie lefty whom the Phillies haven't seen.
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The Phillies are 0-1 in their postseason history on October 20. It was a defeat that stung as the Phillies saw the Blue Jays score six times in the eighth for a 15-14 win at the Vet in the 1993 World Series.


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Evelyn Herring, a registered nurse with the Lenoir County Health Department, has been named the most recent Lenoir County Smiles recipient. Herring oversees the Breast and Cervical Cancer Control program at the Health Department and is a breast cancer survivor herself.
The weekly winners are chosen by recommendations from the community, receive a small gift and are pictured in the Sunday edition of The Free Press, from Memorial Day through Labor Day. This is the eighth year of the program, which began in 2006 to foster �good, friendly service with a smile.� The program is sponsored by Lenoir County Tourism and The Free Press.
To nominate someone, contact Marston at 252-522-0004 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kinston student named to dean�s list
Thomas C. Tsao of Kinston has been named to the dean�s list for the fall and spring semesters of the 2012-13 academic year at NYU in New York City.
He has completed his freshman year in the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He sustained a grade-point average of 3.73 in the fall semester and 3.80 in the spring.
Tsao is a 2012 graduate of Kinston High School and is the son of Bill and Jade Tsao of Kinston.
National Night Out set for Tuesday
The Kinston Department of Public Safety is sponsoring a National Night Out from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Southeast Park, off Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between East Bright and East King streets.
Join the fun and food as KDPS shares information on keeping you and your family safe. Free tickets will be given to children younger than 18 years old for a visit to the Woodmen Community Center�s Lions Water Adventure.
For more information, KDPS at 252-939-3139.
Students recognized for academics
Wingate University has announced its honors lists for the 2013 spring semester.
Brooklyn Boston and Jordan Smith were named to the dean�s list, requiring a term grade-point average of 3.30 on at least 12 quality point academic hours with no grade below a C. Daniel Taylor was named to the president�s list, requiring a term GPA of 3.80 on at least 12 quality point academic hours with no grade below a C. All three are from Lenoir County.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq voted Wednesday in its first nationwide election since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki confident of victory and even offering an olive branch to his critics by inviting them to join him in a governing coalition.
But his optimism will do little to conceal the turmoil and violence that still stalk Iraq in the eight years he has held office, with the looming threat of the country sliding deeper into sectarian bloodshed and risking a breakup.
"Our victory is certain, but we are talking about how big is that certain success," he said after voting in Baghdad. "Here we are today, successfully holding the … election while no foreign troops exist on Iraqi soil. I call upon all the other groups to leave the past behind and start a new phase of good brotherly relations," said al-Maliki, who faces growing criticism over government corruption and persistent bloodshed as sectarian tensions threaten to push Iraq back toward the brink of civil war.
The election was held amid a massive security operation, with hundreds of thousands of troops and police deployed across the country to protect polling centers and voters. The streets of Baghdad, a city of 7 million, looked deserted. Police and soldiers manned checkpoints roughly 500 meters (yards) apart and pickup trucks mounted with machine guns roamed the streets that were otherwise devoid of the usual traffic jams.
Scattered attacks took place north and west of Baghdad, killing at least five people and wounding 16. Roadside bombs killed two women and two election workers in the northern town of Dibis. Al-Maliki's upbeat comments sharply contrasted with voters' sentiments, which ranged from despair to a gritty resolve to participate despite the threat of violence.
"I see this election as the last chance, my last bet on Iraq. If things continue to be the same, I will leave, and this time for good," said Saad Sadiq Mustafa, a 55-year-old retired army officer who fled with his family to neighboring Syria to escape the worst Sunni-Shiite violence of 2006 and 2007 and came home in 2008. A Sunni Arab and a father of four from Baghdad, Mustafa voted for Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite who became Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein prime minister in 2004.
"We are living in a diverse country in which only seculars can maintain a balance between all ethnic and religious groups," he said. Al-Maliki's State of Law bloc was widely expected to win the most seats in the 328-member parliament but fall short of a majority, according to analysts. That would allow al-Maliki to keep his post only if he can cobble together a coalition — a task that took nine months after the last election in 2010.
Even some of his onetime Shiite backers accuse him of trying to amass power for himself, but many in the majority sect see no alternative to the 63-year-old al-Maliki or are looking for a successor who would follow in his footsteps and jealously guard Shiite political domination.
However, al-Maliki enjoys the crucial support of neighboring powerhouse Iran, which aides have said will use the vast influence it enjoys in Iraq to push discontented Shiite factions into backing him for another term.
Salam Ibrahim, a 25-year-old engineer and father of one, is a Shiite who places the sect's interests above all else. "I believe the main mission of the leader I am looking for is to continue fighting for the survival of the Shiite community and force those who oppose it to acknowledge its right to govern as the majority," he said as he headed to vote in central Baghdad.
Al-Maliki said he would have no objection to an alliance with any other bloc, provided it denounced sectarianism and worked for Iraq's unity. But the Kurds had already suggested they will not be part of a coalition he leads, while some of his onetime Shiite allies may want to join with the Sunnis and Kurds to push al-Maliki out of contention.
"We have decided that joining an alliance with the prime minister is a red line for us," parliament's Sunni speaker Osama al-Nujaifi said as he voted. Last year, he called on al-Maliki to step down, accusing him of consolidating power in his hands.
Another thorny issue likely to dominate the post-election political scene is who gets to be the next president. The incumbent, ailing elderly statesman Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, has served the maximum two terms. His departure will revive calls by Iraqi Arabs, Shiite and Sunnis alike, for an Arab president. That, in turn, will strain relations between Baghdad and the self-ruled Kurdish region in the north, which are already tense over Baghdad's perceived meddling in Kurdish affairs.
In a statement, the U.N. Security Council welcomed the election and urged "Iraq's leaders to engage, as quickly as possible, to form a Government that represents the will and sovereignty of the Iraqi people."
For the election, stores were closed and many had long walks to the polls after authorities banned civilian vehicles to prevent car bombs. Voters were searched multiple times before being allowed inside polling centers, and surrounding streets were blocked by police trucks and barbed wire.
Hamid al-Hemiri and his wife, Haifaa Ahmed, walked five kilometers (three miles) to vote in Baghdad's Mansour district. "We were determined to take part in the election to save our country and so that future generations don't curse us," he said. His wife added: "I am voting to stop the bloodshed in my country. Enough sorrow and pain."
Turnout of Iraq's 22 million eligible voters was estimated at about 60 percent, according to Muqdad al-Shuraifi, a senior election commission member. The figure, he explained, excluded "restive areas."
They chose from more than 9,000 candidates. Authorities did not offer a timetable for releasing results, but they were expected to start trickling in to election officials in the coming days. In 2010, results weren't announced for about two weeks.
"I decided to go and vote early while it's safe. Crowds attract attacks," said Azhar Mohammed, a mother of four who voted with her husband shortly after 7 a.m. in Baghdad's mainly Shiite Karradah district. The 37-year-old woman said her brother — a soldier — was killed last week in the northern city of Mosul.
"There has been a big failure in the way the country has been run and I think it is time to elect new people," she said, shrouded in black. Not far away, 72-year-old Essam Shukr wept as he remembered a son killed in a suicide bombing in Karradah last month. "I hope this election takes us to the shores of safety," he said. "We want a better life for our sons and grandchildren who cannot even go to playgrounds or amusement parks because of the bad security situation."
In Baghdad's mostly Shiite Sadr City district, for years a frequent target of bombings blamed on Sunni insurgents, elite counterterrorism forces were deployed and helicopters hovered. Double-decker buses took voters to the polls.
"We want to see real change in this country and real security. We are not happy with the performance of the current government and parliament," said 18-year-old Zulfikar Majid, a first-time voter in Baghdad's mainly Shiite Habibiya neighborhood.
Another first-time voter, Umm Jaafar of the southern city of Basra, said she had boycotted past elections because of the U.S. troops in Iraq. "We hope that today's election would lead to change the current government, which has let us down despite all the money it has," she said as she and two of her children, also first-time voters, came out of a polling center in the mainly Shiite city.
Al-Maliki rose from relative obscurity to office in 2006, when sectarian violence began to spiral out of control, with Sunni militants and Shiite militias butchering each other. The bloodshed ebbed by 2008 after U.S.-backed Sunni tribesmen rose up to fight al-Qaida-linked militants and Shiite militias declared a cease-fire.
But attacks have surged in the past year, fueled in part by al-Maliki's moves last year to crush protests by Sunnis complaining of discrimination. Militants took over the city of Fallujah in Sunni-dominated Anbar province and parts of the provincial capital of Ramadi.
Army and police forces battling them for months have been unable to take most areas back, and voting was not held in parts of the vast province bordering Jordan and Syria. The insurgents also have been emboldened by the civil war in Syria, where rebels are fighting to oust the regime of President Bashar Assad, a follower of a Shiite offshoot sect. The rebels are dominated by Islamists and members of al-Qaida-linked or inspired groups, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Shiite militiamen from Iraq fight on the side of Assad's forces.
Last year, the death toll in Iraq climbed to its highest levels since the worst of the sectarian strife in 2006 and 2007. The U.N. says 8,868 people were killed in 2013, and about 2,000 people were killed in the first three months of this year.
Retired army officer Abu Abdullah, a native of Amiriyat Fallujah in Anbar who would not give his full name, boycotted the vote over what he said was the failure of Sunni Arab politicians to protect their community.
"I am not ready to take a risk or even be killed for the sake of corrupt people who might be in the next parliament or government because I am sure they will make a deal with al-Maliki and forget about us."
Associated Press writers Sameer N. Yacoub and Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.


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For those that don't know anything about FreeBSD it is an operating system that traces it's heritage back to the original unix development at AT&T starting in 1970. FreeBSD uses what is called ports to build a whole range of software that you can use. If you know linux and say well we just use yum to install binary programs, that's fine, ports is the structure holding up the FreeBSD equivalent, which is called packages. So you get two options, 1. use a port to compile the software yourself or 2. have a pre-built binary package installed. The port needs to be setup and working before you can get a binary package to install.
Being in the process of helping fix issues related to getting programs to compile within the FreeBSD ports system I have gone and setup tinderbox on my machine. Basically tinderbox allows you to setup virtual systems to test the build process of the port you are working on. This means you can test that the port builds on any number of FreeBSD versions, which is a good starting point to allowing others to use it. Yeah, I said a good starting point, someone will find that it won't work on their machine while program x is installed. But hey that's one of the joys of programming. ;-)
Anyway to the point of this post - setting up tinderbox. While there is some decent documentation it doesn't fully cover all features, maybe these are the newer features. Anyway this is the first of a series of posts that cover my exploration into setting up tinderbox my way.
Tinderbox uses some terms a little different than you may expect so lets start with the first building block - a tinderbox jail. Within tinderbox a jail is a copy of a FreeBSD install of a particular version, that is what you get when you run make buildworld installworld from /usr/src. The idea is you have a few of these jails setup, I will use 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE as examples here. One area here that isn't covered in the docs is using subversion to get your source files, so that is what I will use. The main FreeBSD development changed to using svn several years ago now but with them keeping the cvs repo mirrored to the svn updates there doesn't appear to be much info on using svn yet. This wiki page seems to be the best info available.
So to get started install tinderbox - from ports of course.
Before install you can run make config to change a few options - personally I swapped mysql with PostgreSQL and csup with cvsup, which I didn't end up using. Installing will put all the scripts in /usr/local/tinderbox/scripts and I will assume that is where your setup is. Beside the scripts dir you will also find several other empty dirs at this point, I'll mention them as we get to the relevant parts.
I won't go into the setup step here as what you need to know is in the docs (tinderbox/scripts/README) basically create the database to be used and save a few options into config files.
Then you stat by creating some jails, you obviously need to give it some info for that.
Jailname sounds obvious - the catch is it must start with the main system version number so 10-CURRENT not FREEBSD-10, -u will be SVN and can be left out if you setup SVN as your default, protocol will be svn (this may also be http or svn+ssh but you'll need a login account for ssh access to the official repo), update host will be svn.freebsd.org unless you get fancy and run your own mirror, updatehostdirectory is the svn path to get to what you want. So for a jail based on the current head development we get
And for 9-STABLE we get
So you may notice that the FreeBSD svn setup is a little different than you might expect - they don't use tags or branches the way you expect. Instead the path defines the release tag as such. So you can see that you get 9-stable from base/stable/9 you can also get 9.0-release from base/releng/9.0 or 5.2.1 from base/release/5.2.1 (yes 5.2.1 was the last minor release update) If you want to know the difference between RELEASE and RELENG then read this page. I would say current along with 8 and 9 stable would be sufficient but some may want to add other main releases to their testing list and may need them to find a regression between updates.
At this stage you will find that within /usr/local/tinderbox/jails a folder is created that contains the source and build files for each jail you create. When it is finished there will be a nice tarball of the jails world setup. If you mess around and want to start again then run ./tc rmJail -j my-messed-up-jail (from within tinderbox/scripts) and then remove it's folder within jails. rmJail removes the info from your database but leaves the jail files in place for you - I think there should probably be an option to delete all the files along with the jail definition, note for a suggestion or patch.
Some other options for -D that may interest you are -
Well building the jails will take a few hours, so stay tuned for the next exciting episode.
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Changing the Hamiltonian
Trained to understand particles rather than people, physicists who become managers often struggle with human-resources challenges such as motivating and developing employees.
Properly applied, however, a knowledge of physics can be a management boon, not a burden, as Graham Boyd demonstrates in this analogy.
It's Friday night, and Ed Executive and Fiona Physicist are in their local pub after yet another stressful week at their hi-tech company. Ed looks glum as he sips his pint.
I wish our staff could learn faster, Fiona, he sighs. Right now the two of us are spending far too much time working on projects, and not nearly enough leading the company. We're surviving today at the expense of thriving tomorrow.
I know, but I was looking through my old mechanics textbook earlier today, and I think I've figured out what we need to do. Fiona looks pleased with herself.
Ed raises his eyebrows. Oh? And what's that?
Change the Hamiltonian! She grins impishly at Ed as his blank look changes to curiosity. They have worked together ever since they started their PhDs, so they have long since become accustomed to each other's quirks. Reluctantly, he laughs. Okay, what crazy meta-application of physics have you dreamed up this time?
Like the fictional Ed and Fiona, I began my career in research. The years I spent working on lattice-quantum-chromodynamics theory – at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, and also at the universities of Cape Town, Bielefeld, Pisa and Tsukuba between 1987 and 1998 – shaped the way I view the world of business. Later, as a manager at the world's largest consumer-goods firm, Procter & Gamble, I saw the business as a complex system with many nonlinear and non-perturbative terms. Most managers neglect these terms (or do not even see them) because they look insignificant; in fact, they are often the levers you need to pull to effect higher performance. More recently, as a performance transfer consultant, I have become particularly interested in how these couplings affect the way people take the step from learning new skills to applying them on the job. In many businesses, the need for rapid change in performance is well beyond the propagation speed for traditional people-development techniques. Hence, the key to getting ordinary people to do extraordinary things (which is the primary role of an organization) is to modify the couplings – as Fiona has already suspected.
Quickly, Fiona sketches a diagram on a paper napkin (see above). We can think of our company as a phase space containing a people-capability sub-space. Ed nods. Within this space, a particle – or, in our case, a person – with an initial state A will end up in a final state B when acted on by a Hamiltonian. Let's take Danielle Designer as an example.
Ed groans. Yes, let's. I can think of several people whose final states aren't good enough right now, but she's definitely business-critical.
Agreed – we have to figure out how to step-change her performance. Rather than ending up in final state B, she needs to be at a higher-energy state B'. But to get there – do we focus on Danielle or on the Hamiltonian?
Models of behaviour
Early in their training, physicists learn about particle mechanics, where the relevant quantities include v, the particle's velocity, m, its inertia, and external forces. In the parallel field of people mechanics, I like to think that the analogue of v is a person's learning speed, while m is their inertia around learning or change. The external forces are things such as peer attitudes and line-manager support, all of which affect the extent to which employees apply new learning to their work. These forces, and their couplings to each individual, are vital in assessing how much the performance of someone with a given m and v will improve after a certain Òenergy input.
Such forces are usually built into a company's work environment and employees' perceptions of it, as well as their understanding of the business and themselves; unfortunately, they are not normally part of the performance-changing intervention itself. This means that quick fix interventions designed to improve performance, such as providing stand-alone training sessions – or, in more extreme cases, firing the problem employee and hiring someone else – fall short 70–90% of the time.
Fire and hire is difficult because many jobs are changing so rapidly (and have so many aspects unique to a specific employer's business and culture) that the set of potential recruits who are ready to start immediately is the null set. As for training sessions, without the right pre- and post-training efforts from the employer, the only employees whose performance will improve will be those who have negative or low inertia in the face of change. These people are your innovators (perhaps 2.5% of the population) and early adopters (around 13.5%), and they are usually already doing what you wish the rest would do.
The final option is to use highly skilled employees to fill the performance gaps of everyone else. In physics terms, such a course of action is like Maxwell's demon, where an intervention by an external actor boosts a worker into a higher state by breaking the system's thermodynamic laws.
But that simply isn't sustainable, explains Ed, draining the last of his pint. I've spent most of today doing with Danielle what she should be doing alone. And up to a point, it works: my intervention temporarily places her at a point in the capability space otherwise inaccessible to her but being a demon is wasting your time – you'd be better off spending that time and effort leading the company, Fiona finishes.
We can't grow our business if we spend our time compensating for our employees' shortcomings. And I'm sure that hiring new people is seldom the answer. After all, Danielle's the third person in a row who's failed to perform in this role. And they all looked good in the interview.
Which leaves us with Danielle's speed and inclination to apply new learning – which, according to her line manager, is only ever going to get her to B, Ed concludes. I think I need another pint.
But Ed, you're assuming our current company Hamiltonian is a given. We can change the environment around our people, the forces acting on them. We'll need to do it quasi-statically.
Meaning? Fiona gestures impatiently. Slowly enough to avoid damaging shock waves, yet still fast enough to create change. But I'll tell you about corporate thermodynamics later. Right now let's focus on the Hamiltonian.
Shaping the work environment
The factors that make up a company's Hamiltonian fall into three categories: the ability of individual employees, their motivation and the work environment. Clearly, the last of these is the one most amenable to being shaped by a business's leaders. Line managers are an especially important part of the work environment, since a good manager will effectively support employees using the new ways of working that they learn during training, while a bad one will feel threatened and act to maintain the status quo. An employee's peers will also be a support or a hindrance. Finally, rewards for applying new methods – or disincentives for failing to do so – are essential.
The first step in reshaping the work environment so that it maximizes employees' ability to acquire and use new skills is to understand what your Hamiltonian is right now. Ed Holton, a human-resources expert who specializes in adult learning, has defined a tool called the Learning Transfer System Inventory (LTSI) that measures the 16 largest terms in the learning-transfer part of the Hamiltonian. The book he co-authored on the subject, The Adult Learner (2007 Taylor & Francis), is now in its seventh edition, and I would recommend it to anyone trying to improve how their employees learn. The LTSI asks each participant undergoing training a series of questions to evaluate how each of the 16 terms affects their ability to apply what they learn to their jobs. Their answers allow managers to understand whether a particular change is likely to improve learning transfer. For example, the LTSI for one of my firm's clients (a major financial institution) predicted that holding a coaching session for managers was unlikely to effect any change in employee behaviour unless changes were also made to several factors related to the work environment. However, the company could not change these other factors immediately, and a year later it confirmed that the coaching had yielded no useful improvement.
Once you know your LTSI, and the job-specific critical behaviours that will deliver outstanding business results, you can put the right people on the right training courses at the right time – and also change the rest of the Hamiltonian so that any terms in it that are currently making application of the training more difficult are altered, too.
Classical mechanics applied to organizations, Ed nods. Fascinating. Except that, unlike classical mechanics, there really are demons deciding which people are where, how big the coupling coefficient is, and which sign it has.
Yes, and I've already spoken to Danielle's usual demon – her line manager – about sending her on a week-long training course. But we've also drawn up a contract to ensure that what she learns on the course is transferred to her daily performance, and I've asked her manager to make sure it's adhered to. This will have a big impact, since we know that clarity of role, plus the actions and attitude of line managers, are the biggest terms in the Hamiltonian.
Fiona, you're onto something. Let's meet for breakfast tomorrow – my place – and spend the day getting crystal clear on what we need to do in the next three months. It's my round, so how about a good malt to celebrate another of your game-changing ideas?
Beyond learning transfer
I like to think that Ed and Fiona's story had a happy ending – that after a couple of years, they had released the latent capabilities of their employees, building a company twice the size with 10 times the revenue. However, there is a lot more that goes into managing a successful physics-based company than just getting the learning-transfer part of the Hamiltonian right. Other important factors include developing leaders and frontline staff, and creating a high-performance culture. Organizations are like quantum systems, where the better you know one variable, the less precisely defined another becomes. In particular, variables such as an individual's values and the overall company culture are often insufficiently quantified. However, these variables define what actually happens in a firm, regardless of what management says, and it is possible to shape them to create a bias towards the desired behaviour.
But the story of how Ed and Fiona did that will need to wait for another pub, and another time.
Graham Boyd is a former high-energy physicist and managing director of the performance and learning transfer consultancy tetraLD (www.tetrald.com), which aids companies in improving business results by helping employees to use new learning on the job, email firstname.lastname@example.com
This article appears in the June 2012 issue of Physics World


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