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Congratulations on landing your new position. Now the real challenge begins. You' re about to be measured not only by what you accomplish in the next three months, but by how you make your mark.
Like many new executives, you probably want to articulate your mission and hit the ground running. But a gung ho approach usually fails, so don't do it. Consider the example of one executive, who was completely energized by his new job as a senior vice president of a failing division at a major New York bank. Formerly an attorney at a stodgy law firm, the 40-something executive was eager to abandon his firm' s bureaucracy to create an ideal work environment at the bank: a high-performing team of independent and committed members who would operate autonomously, but with a shared vision.
He began his first day by setting an agenda and informing his staff that major changes lay ahead. In the weeks that followed, he reorganizedt he staff, eliminated three positions, and brought in two of his own people. He also redesigned several systems and engaged a consultant to analyze the team' s performance. Finally, he instituted staff meetings at which each senior member was expected to share ideas about future activities.
The vice president was astounded when, at the first meeting, no one spoke up. Each of his staff members sat at the table as if in a stupor. He couldn' figure out why. The reason soon became clear. Rather than create an ideal workplace and collaborative team, he'd operated as an individual contributor, expecting his team to buy in without clear direction.
Soon after, the bank retained an executive coach to improve the department's performance. In team interviews, the vice president discovered that he had misjudged his staff's reaction to a newcomer and to massive, unexplained changes. While they were just as anxious to turn the department around, they saw his leadership as a direct assault on their prior efforts. They believed he was insensitive to their potential contributions, unaware of their experience, and unwilling to communicate or share his vision for the group. They described him as a train rushing full-steam ahead without getting the passengers on board.
A Fresh Perspective
The newly hired chief information officer at a major New York investment firm had a different experience. As a newcomer to a recently merged organization, the CIO was recruited to bring a fresh perspective to a sleepy department. Looking around on her first day of work, she observed outdated systems, a poorly organized help desk, and several frightened veteran staff members -- two of whom had applied for her position. She announced immediatelyt hat she wouldn't make any immediate changes in staff or operations. While her statement brought immediate sighs of relief, she realized that she still needed to create trust and commitment before forging ahead.
A series of one-on-one meetings with each staff member led to several team meetings led by selected staffers. The team elicited ideas about where the department needed to go and how it might get there, including thoughts on necessary resources, time frames, and assignments. Then, realizing that she'd need corporate support to launch appropriate solutions, she began a campaign to meet partners and peers throughout the firm. She scheduled a packed weekly agenda of breakfasts, lunches, visits, focus groups, and data-gathering.
At the end of those 90 days, the CIO had a clear sense of her staff's abilities and personalities and how the company functioned, so she could create several proposals for needed change. Patience bought her loyalty, which paved the way for achieving her initiatives. By her six-month review, she was credited with turning the department around and rewarded with an increased budget.


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Welcome to our July series about Friendship! We are so excited to take friendship and talk about it in a Biblical context, give you personal examples of friendships that mean a lot to us and provide some hope in the friendship we have in the Lord as well.
Today, I want to encourage the weary heart that feels alone. Maybe you just moved to a new place. Maybe you feel alone, even in a crowded room. Maybe you just went through a breakup or a divorce and you're feeling like there's any empty void that can't seem to be filled by any person or activity you have in your life right now.
When I began to pray and think about what this series had to hold, a hymn came to my mind. This song reminds me of my childhood, sitting in a paisley pew of a small church where we still sung out of an old hymn book –
What a Friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer!
Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged,
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful
Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness,
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
He carries our burdens (Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. -Psalm 55:22), knows our every need (Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. -Matthew 6:8), loves us unconditionally (But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. –Romans 5:8), and is always faithful (The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23).
Child of God, rest today in the friend and Father that you have in Jesus. He is enough, and so are you. Remember that today. Rest in Him for, ultimately, He is all we need.
If you are new to the A Relentless Millennial community, welcome! If you have never trusted Jesus as your personal Savior, we would love to chat with you about this decision – it's the best one you'll ever make! Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com!
Join us this month as we dive into all that friendship is – and as we tell you about some of our friends! Happy July 4th!
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Drug and alcohol addiction are a huge problem in America and around the world.
The World Health Organization estimates that 5.4% of the world population suffers from drug or alcohol addiction. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that drug and alcohol abuse costs the U.S. economy approximately $600 billion in healthcare, criminal justice, legal and lost workplace productivity every year. There has been a recent upsurge in the prevalence of opioid addiction that has reached epidemic levels, and is of grave concern. Even so, the problems of addiction are not new.
In addition to the huge loss in productivity and quality of life associated with drug and alcohol addiction, as a society we spend an enormous amount of money on rehabilitation programs. A typical 30- to 60-day inpatient rehabilitation program can cost anywhere from $12,000 - $60,000. Unfortunately, although addicts are often successful at avoiding destructive behaviors while in rehabilitation, and despite the best efforts of those in the health care system, the relapse rates following drug rehabilitation remain high.
From a psychological science perspective, it is as if rehabilitation causes the abusing behavior to disappear but only temporarily. Once out of rehabilitation and back in society, the abusing behaviors return. The rehabilitation process temporarily suspends the bad behavior but does not induce true unlearning of the abusing behavior.
Brain Science of Learning and Addiction
The brain science of learning and addiction provide some answers. Although the brain mechanisms and neurotransmitter systems involved in opioid addiction differ substantially from those involved in alcohol and other forms of addiction, the recidivism rates are high regardless of the abusive substance. This suggests that the relapse problem is not specific to any substance of abuse, but rather is a more general phenomenon.
An extensive body of research on the neuroscience of learning and addiction suggests that the real culprit is context. The reappearance of addictive behavior that a rehabilitation program was designed to eliminate (and did successfully eliminate within the rehabilitation context) suggests that the intervention did not induce true unlearning, but rather induced context-specific unlearning.
Learning and unlearning are exquisitely sensitive to context. The idea is that the rehabilitation center serves as a new environmental context that causes new learning, rather than unlearning of the previously acquired addictive behavior. As a result, the addictive behavior reappears when the "rehabilitated" addict re-enters their original addictive environment.
For those readers familiar with the instrumental conditioning literature, this failure of true unlearning is thought to underlie such phenomena as fast re-acquisition following extinction, spontaneous recovery, and renewal. The interested reader is referred to a classic textbook by B.F. Skinner (1938), and a number of seminal studies conducted by Bouton and colleagues (1992, 2002, 2004). Full references are provided at the end of this article.
From a neuroscience perspective, the initial addictive behavior is learned through the pairing of addictive behaviors and the associated context with reward. For example, a heroin addict pairs the heroin using context with the euphoria (reward) associated with heroin injection. Critically, this context is rich. It includes the needle, spoon and heroin, but also a common group of individuals, typical locations, common sights, sounds, and smells. This rich and consistent context is all part of the addiction process. The rehabilitation center provides a completely different context. Although part of the rehabilitation process might involve working to unlearn the pairing of the needle and spoon with euphoria it is nearly impossible to simulate the rest of the using context. Thus, the learning that takes place in the rehabilitation is not unlearning that transfers to the user's typical context, but rather new learning that is specific to the rehabilitation center. It is as if the brain "tags" the learning with a context label, and the rehabilitation center is sufficiently different from the using environment that it gets its own tag.
How might we leverage technology to overcome this problem of context-specific unlearning?
Virtual Reality (VR) as an Addiction Rehabilitation Tool
VR enthusiasts often point to the fact that high quality VR experiences can "transport" you from one reality into another reality. When done correctly, you get an instant sense of immersion and "presence". It is as if you are really in that virtual environment. Users find this experience highly motivating and engaging.
Let's apply this information to the recidivism problem outlined above, and the issue of context-dependent learning. Imagine incorporating VR into the rehabilitation process. Suppose an addict is transported into a virtual environment that shares many of the contextual cues associated with their typical "using" environment. Now imagine incorporating some of the behavioral extinction or unlearning procedures, commonly utilized during rehabilitation, into this virtual environment.
What might occur?
Since the addict is in a virtual environment that is similar in context to their "using" environment, true unlearning of the addictive behaviors within this virtual "using" context could take place. Recall that the problem with rehabilitation is that rehabilitative learning is new learning that is specific to that context, and not to the "using" context. The destructive behaviors associated with the using context remain intact. By incorporating VR environments that share many contextual cues with the using environment into the rehabilitation setting, true unlearning is more likely to occur.
A Tool for Medical and Addiction Experts, Not a Replacement
To be clear, we view VR as a potential tool to be used by medical and addiction experts in the fight to eradicate addiction. This tool will be ineffective, in and of itself, unless it is in the hands of trained medical and addiction professionals. VR in no way can or will replace these professional's expertise. VR can provide a tool, and we believe a very powerful tool, for helping medical and addiction experts to fight the problem of context-dependent learning in rehabilitation settings.
VR can transport the user back into a using context, where, simultaneously rehabilitation and behavioral extinction techniques can be incorporated. This should significantly increase the likelihood of true unlearning of these destructive within the virtual using context that will transfer to their everyday life in society.
Clearly more research is needed, but the neuroscience suggests that VR may provide a promising rehabilitation tool -- one experience at a time.
Bouton, M.E. and Peck, C.A. (1992) Spontaneous recovery in cross-motivational transfer (counterconditioning). Animal Learning & Behavior, 20, 313-321.
Bouton, M.E. (2004). Context and behavioral processes in extinction. Learning & Memory, 11(5), 485-494.
Bouton, M.E. (2002). Context, ambiguity, and unlearning: sources of relapse after behavioral extinction. Biological Psychiatry, 52(10), 976-986.
Skinner, B.F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms. Appleton & Company, U.S.


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The Uneven State of the Truck Equipment Market
The automotive industry looms large in Michigan, but it is not the only vehicular game in town. How has the truck market been faring while so much attention has been on the auto bailout and its results? We recently attended the National Truck Equipment Association's (NTEA's) Work Truck Show in Indianapolis and had an opportunity to see how things look in the world of commercial vehicles. There is plenty of truck equipment that has no counterpart in consumer vehicles, ranging from OEM chassis (e.g., Ford, GM) to truck and van bodies to roll-up doors, snow plows and more.
The last great years in this industry were the 2006-2007 time frame, when NTEA pegged the peak at close to $130-billion in shipments of truck chassis, bodies, and related equipment. Three years later, in 2009, the comparable figure was $62-billion. Industry observers say that this industry experiences more volatility on both sides of the cycle than the macroeconomy does.
The truck equipment market has been strengthening gradually since 2009. The NTEA reported work truck industry shipments of $93.5-billion in 2011 and is forecasting in excess of $110-billion for 2012. Visitors to the trade show were decidedly more upbeat this year, but the applications of work trucks are so diverse, there are many different tales to tell within this one sector of the economy.
Some companies are at the mercy of trailing market segments. Companies serving the construction market, for example, fell hard and are recovering slowly. Representatives at one booth told us that in 2008, it was like someone turned off the faucet. 2007 was a big year as truck operators rushed to buy vehicles ahead of new emissions regulations; both the U.S. economic downturn and after effects of the pre-buying had a big impact. This company follows the classic business advice to "stick to the knitting" in focusing its resources on tarp systems for dump trucks, but that strategy means that it is difficult to outperform the market conditions. And speaking of conditions, the makers of equipment for snow removal had plenty of complaints about the weather this past winter. They hope the standard replacement cycles of municipalities will drive sales even if lack of snow dampens growth.
The automotive market, for all its challenges, offers some very attractive characteristics in comparison to the commercial vehicle industry. The high unit volumes for light vehicles allow for highly efficient operations and profitability even when parts are priced in cents and not dollars. In the truck equipment market, by contrast, market segments might consist of 15,000 units a year, or 45,000, or potentially up to 250,000, but no one is producing millions of parts. A $1,500-component might be beyond the reach of many auto suppliers, but in the truck equipment field even that does not necessarily yield a substantial market. Automotive suppliers that have ventured into some of these segments also find that the seasonality of sales can be difficult to schedule for, having to organize production around a market that requires all its units in the spring, like certain off-road or agriculture-related segments.
Truck equipment association personnel advised the Work Truck Show conference attendees that the economic indicators suggest the next cyclical downturn for the truck equipment industry will occur in 2016 or beyond. That gives participants in the work truck market four years or so to maximize sales and profitability, and build in flexibility to their cost structures. Based on our observation, many of these companies could benefit from the best practices of their automotive cousins. As IRN's annual surveys of the automotive supplier population have shown, companies were driven into making dramatic changes in their cost structure during the 2009-2010 downturn. In the survey report published December 2011, 46% of the respondents said they had been able to retain at least half of those cost improvements. Responding to pain and coming out healthier is a hallmark of the successful automotive supplier, and participation in the auto industry is worth the effort. For members of the truck equipment community, using lessons learned from the automotive industry will help with the uneven recovery and ongoing cyclicality that they face, as well.
The Special Costco Silverado
When you think of Costco, you probably think about buying lots of stuff for your home and your family, but there are probably some things that don't necessarily come to mind when you think of the membership-based store chain.
Honda Through June
Often when there are vehicles that have ceased production and are in the process of being completely moved out of the system there are sales numbers that look like this: Honda Insight: June 2016, 9; June 2015, 126; % change: 93.1% Sometimes there is a vehicle that has just gone into production and it catches the sales at just the right time so that there are numbers that look like this: Honda Ridgeline: June 2016, 2,472; June 2015, 7; % change: 33,856% OK.
Ducati Performance
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A native Atlantan, Libby Muldawer's interest in baking was sparked by her mother's own passion for baking, and fostered by family friends who wanted her talents to be realized.
After obtaining a Hospitality Degree at Georgia State, her mother's friend saw the culinary acumen in Libby and suggested that she get a job with her friend Pano Karratassos, owner of the esteemed Buckhead Life Restaurant Group. As fate would have it, Libby was hired to work as an Assistant Pantry Chef at Pricci alongside esteemed Chef Jamie Adams. Although she enjoyed cooking, she knew her real passion was baking and left Pricci to attend the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, where she graduated from their extensive Baking/Pastry Program.
While in school Libby worked for nationally recognized chef Larry Forgione at his NY establishment, Beckman Tavern. Then, following graduation, she returned to Atlanta and worked at the Cherokee Town Club for 3 years under Master Pastry Chef Chris Northmore. At the time, Northmore was one of only three Master Pastry Chef in the country, and Chef Libby credits him for teaching her the finer points of creating spectacular breads and pastries.
Libby returned to her old stomping grounds with Buckhead Life, this time at Veni Vidi Vici, where she again worked alongside Chef Jamie Adams. Years later, when Chef Jamie and Leonardo Moura decided to leave Buckhead Life and open their own restaurant, il Giallo Osteria & Bar, it was only natural that Libby would be made Pastry Chef at this new venture.
Today, they continue this dynamic culinary relationship, as Libby credits Chef Jamie for coming up with many of the ideas for desserts and then she creates the chemistry and flavors behind them, producing some of the most beautiful, delicious dessert menus in Atlanta.
The sweet ending to a fabulous meal at Lagarde with desserts like light-as air-Beignets, decadent Pecan Pie, and the crispy, chewy cookies that comprise the Soft Serve Sandwiches are a testament to Chef Libby's infinite pastry talents.
We are all about community and friends and family gathering to experience good times and great food. We are excited for you to enjoy our casual yet elevated atmosphere.Contact Lagarde


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Disclosure: I received Peeps products in order to facilitate this post. There were a few other Peeps products included, but unfortunately, Peeps are my weakness and they didn't live long enough to see this photo. All Peeps products, information, and additional gift pack have been provided by PEEPS® and PEEPS & COMPANY®. As always, my thoughts and opinions are my own.
When Peeps asked if they could send my products for the holiday, I jumped at the chance. Quite honestly, Peeps are one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Every year around Christmas, I buy wrapping paper and a bunch of Peeps and then I put on one of my favorite Christmas movies and I wrap presents and eat Peeps. And while that has happened year after year at our house, I figured you probably didn't want to read a blog post all about me wrapping presents and eating Peeps. {I really sound pathetic.}
Anyhoo…when I got this wonderful package in the mail, it got me thinking about how I could incorporate Peeps into our holidays. And so I decided to plan some themed family movie nights.
This is the time of year where we're crazy busy and one of the most important things we can do is to connect as a family. My mind immediately started thinking of all the movies that I could come up with that would go with the Peeps.
I immediately picked up the new Minions movie. I still haven't watched it and am so excited to watch it with the family.
Next I picked up Oh Christmas Tree. It looks like the type of cheesy Christmas movie I love! 🙂
I was limited on what I could find at Walmart, so I headed over to Amazon to see what they had to go with my Peeps!
Here are the other pairings I'm planning:
I decided to pair the gingerbread men with the movie Shrek…and if this happens on a Saturday, we may just have a Shrek marathon. I still haven't watched Shrek the Third in English. I watched it multiple times while were in Ukraine adopting our oldest 2 daughters, but the movie was in Russian. Since I'm not fluent in Russian, I only have a vague idea of what happened during that movie. I keep telling myself that I'll watch it someday soon, but it's been over 8 years and I still haven't gotten around to it.
I'll be pairing the snowman lollipop with the Frosty the Snowman. In the spirit of full disclosure, I should probably tell you that there was a fabulous large Peeps Snowman in the package that Peeps sent me, but I ate it…and it was absolutely delicious. I figured I could replace it and no one would ever know, but our Walmart was sold out! 🙁
I'll be pairing the Candy Cane Peeps with The Legend of the Candy Cane: The Inspirational Story of Our Favorite Christmas Candy. This is such a great story and tells the true meaning of Christmas.
I'm planning on watching Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer while eating the chocolate mousse flavored reindeer Peeps. I've shown a lot of restraint in not eating them already!
There are so many other great movies I could have chosen, but since there's not a whole lot of time before Christmas and our schedule is crazy, getting 6 family movies in is going to be a challenge.


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Biographical entry Lendon, Alfred Austin
- Born
- England
- Occupation
- Physician and Medical historian
Alfred Lendon arrived in South Australia in 1883 and was a Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, University of Adelaide 1887-1901 and then a Lecturer in Obstetrics and Diseases of Infancy. He wrote on the history of medicine in South Australia.
Archival resources
State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
- Alfred Austin Lendon - Records, 1868 - 1935, PRG 128; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
Published resources
- Lendon, A. A., Jubilee of the Medical School (University of Adelaide) (Adelaide Hassall: 1935). Details
- 'Lendon, Alfred Austin (1857-1935)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-630242. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Rival by Sara Wealer
Kathryn and Brooke seem to be opposites. Kathryn is petite, quiet, has only one good friend, and dresses in homemade clothing. Brooke is the most popular girl at school, a fashion plate and has brothers who describe her as an Amazon. But despite their differences the two girls share the same passion for singing and a desire to win a local contest that provides a stepping stone to a professional career. For a short while they were best of friends but for the last year they have been sworn enemies but no one except Kathryn and Brooke know what has happened to break up their friendship.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller
Haven has dreamt about Ethan all of her life. Her nasty, controlling grandmother has convinced Haven that something is wrong with her so she has tried to suppress her dreams for several years. But her dreams have returned and are beginning to cause her to black out. When Haven sees billionaire Iain Morrow on TV she is certain that he is the reincarnation of Ethan. She also learns that her father believed that Haven was having visions of a past life and had begun to correspond with the Ouroboros Society, a group that supports those who believe they are remembering previous lives. With the support of her best friend Beau, Haven decides to travel to New York to try to meet Iain. When he recognizes Haven as well it seems that the soulmates will finally be able to spend a lifetime together but others have different plans for them.
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The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
Kid and her friends live in a world where schools have failed and have been replaced by social networking and games at the malls. Students work their way up the levels hoping to become "branded" by corporate sponsors. Hanging out with her friends one day Kid witnesses a dummy being thrown over a high railing in a fake suicide scene staged by a group protesting the constant surveillance of all the teens. Only Kid is disturbed and interested enough to investigate who might be responsible for the protest. Her interest attracts the attention of both the Unidentified and some of the sponsors who think Kid might just lead them to the next big thing.
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Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Ethan has been experiencing haunting dreams featuring a beautiful girl he's never met - until she moves into his small town to live with her reclusive uncle. Ethan and Lena are drawn together by their shared dreams as well as by their odd relatives who are trying to keep them as far apart as possible. The more time Ethan spends with Lena the more he becomes aware of her special powers and abilities until she finally reveals that she comes from a family of Casters. What's more, she is living under the shadow of a centuries old curse that will determine her ultimate fate on her 16 birthday, just 152 days away and counting...
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Huddle is a collaboration tool that looks a little like BaseCamp. It features discussion boards, project management, document sharing, wikis, and conferencing. Huddle have recently announced a free BlackBerry app that gives you access to this collaboration suite with read-only permissions. The only caveat with this application is that Huddle are pretty aggressive with their email notifications and will constantly ask you to invite friends to their service.
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Latency, IOPS & NVDIMMs
Sometimes it's enlightening to compare several viewpoints on similar data. At yesterday's SNIA Persistent Memory Summit a number of presentations provided interesting overlapping views on certain subjects.
One of particular interest to The SSD Guy was latency vs. IOPS. Tom Coughlin of Coughlin Associates and I presented the findings from our recently-published IOPS survey report and in Slide 19 displayed the basic chart behind this post's graphic (click to enlarge, or, better yet, right-click to open in a new tab). This chart compares how many IOPS our respondents said they need for the storage in their most important application, and compared that to the latency they required from this storage. For comparison's sake we added a reference column on the left to roughly illustrate the latency of various standard forms of storage and memory.
You can see that we received a great variety of inputs spanning a very wide range of IOPS and latency needs, and that these didn't all line up neatly as we would have anticipated. One failing of this chart format is that it doesn't account for multiple replies for the same IOPS/latency combination: If we had been able to include that the chart would have shown a clearer trendline running from the top left to the lower right. Instead we have a band that broadly follows that trend of upper-left to lower-right.
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3D XPoint Memory at the Storage Developer's Conference
This Sunday (Sept. 20, 2015) I will be presenting my company's findings on the 3D XPoint memory that was introduced by Intel and Micron in July. I will be speaking at the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Storage Developer Conference (SDC) Pre-Conference Primer. You can click the name to be taken to the agenda.
This won't be the only talk about persistent memory technology at the conference. Prior to my presentation storage consultants Tom Coughlin and Ed Grochowski will give an overview of advances in nonvolatile memories, and following my presentation will be two Intel talks.
Intel will be covering this new technology a lot during the conference. Of a total of 120 presentations at the conference and pre-conference primer, Intel will be presenting nine, seven of which directly name persistent memory or nonvolatile memory in the title. Other firms will also be talking about NVM: AgigA, Calypso, HP, Pure Storage, and SMART Modular. Even Microsoft alludes to it in a couple of its presentation titles. Persistent memory is a hot issue.
So, the question for readers of The SSD Guy blog is: "Will this do away with SSDs?"
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Violin & Microsoft Take a New Approach to Scaling
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An HDD Cache for an SSD?
A colleague – Isilon's Rob Peglar – pointed out an interesting paper written by researchers at the University of Toronto in collaboration with Microsoft. The paper makes a case for using an HDD to cache writes to an SSD to improve storage system performance.
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The course is scheduled to be completed and ready to play by June 2015. Visit our onsite display center open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 – 5pm to view a full model of the golf course and the residential development. The onsite agents can answer questions regarding the purchase of a lot or a home. In addition to our display centre open house, there are numerous other open houses in Phase 1 on weekends where you can view houses and townhomes. For a private viewing, contact any one of our agents click here for the listing agent contact info.


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Al Gore called this the "unofficial anthem of the environmental movement" when Loggins performed it on Earth Day in 1995 at The National Mall in Washington, D.C. The song has become one of Kenny Loggins' signature tunes.
We saw Kenny Loggins in concert last night, accompanied by the Pacific Symphony. The first 30 minutes was the symphony itself, which was beautiful. They played some jazz and some pop music ("The Lion Sings Tonight!") and encouraged the audience to sing along. Many of the concert-goers seemed to be there just for Kenny, so they didn't get in the symphonic spirit; I thought it was terrific!
Kenny then came out with some band members, backed up by the symphony. As Kenny explained, his music takes on a whole new sound and meaning when it's backed by an orchestra and I was thrilled with the combination.
He started the night with a story about "Danny's Song" and the new verse he wrote now that he's a grandfather. (You could truly hear the audience gasp! Just yesterday, I asked Alexa how old Kenny was and I was surprised to learn he is 69. When we followed him around 30 years ago, we were all in our late 20s/early 30s, and he was 40.) Now Kenny's son has a son and he wrote a new verse, which is so new that I couldn't yet find it on Google!
He sang other classics, including his famous movie soundtracks, and "Conviction of the Heart," a B side song from his 1991 Leap of Faith album. The song is still extremely relevant:
One with the earth, with the sky
One with everything in life
I believe we'll survive
If we only try…
How long must we wait to change
This world bound in chains that we live in
To know what it is to forgive,
And be forgiven?
It's been too many years of taking now.
Isn't it time to stop somehow?
Air that's too angry to breathe, water our children can't drink
You've heard it hundreds of times
You say you're aware, believe, and you care, but…
Do you care enough
To talk with Conviction of the Heart?
He ended the night with "Forever" and we were afraid he wasn't going to hit the last high note. He modified the key a bit from the early days (30 years ago) and he still sounded terrific! Kenny Loggins, still going strong at the young age of 69.


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The grand Chicago Loop, at our doorstep
Our central Chicago Loop location on Randolph Street makes the Kimpton Hotel Allegro the perfect home base for a day of fun and frivolity in downtown Chicago. Millennium Park, State Street, Grant Park, and the Chicago River. Did we mention one of the best Theatre Districts in the country is just a stone's throw away?
Chicago Theatre District
The loop is home to Chicago's famous Theater District with landmark favorites like the Chicago Theater and our neighbor Cadillac Palace Theatre – all within walking distance from our front doors!
West Loop + Randolph Street
If you head west from our hotel on Randolph Street, you'll find a fantastic dining scene with some of the best restaurants in Chicago known as "Restaurant Row," as well as great entertainment and local shopping.
Chicago Sports
From Wrigley Field to Soldiers Field, enjoy a game at one of Chicago's various sporting events.
Convention Center
A short drive away from our lobby doors is McCormick Place, Chicago's prominent convention center. Kick back with us during your conference or convention and don't stress the commute.


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US: Teamsters on strike at Coca-Cola Consolidated
July 15. Teamsters in Southwest Alabama and Southeast Missouri went on strike at Coca-Cola Bottlers Consolidated facilities in Tillman's Corner, Robertsdale, Leroy and Vancleave after talks with the employer about a new contract broke down. At stake are first of all benefits for retirees - while workers, represented by Teamsters local 991, demand increased payments into their pension plans, the company wants to replace the current system with a what is know in the US as a 401(k) plan, which would considerably worsen the conditions, especially for veteran workers (A 401k retirement plan is a special type of account funded through pre-tax payroll deductions).
On the second day of the strike, no sign of readiness for compromise was received from the employer, who was using "managers, part-time workers and temporary workers to run the bottling line and make deliveries" However the union is confident this will not save the day for the company as the strike continues.
Coca Cola Bottlers Consolidated must value veteran workers and improve, not worsen pension plans!
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Verdi's Requiem
April 27, 2018 @ 8:00 pm
The Hershey Symphony's 2017-2018 season finale, brings you one of the most powerful expressions of the 19th Century, "Verdi's Requiem Mass." Collaborating with the Symphony will be nearly 200 voices from the Hershey Symphony Festival Chorus, the Dickinson College Chorus, The Elizabethtown College Chorus and guest soloists including Gwendolyn Bowers, Tessika McClendon, James Longacre and James Martin. Verdi combines operatic intensity with the searching questions of man's place in the scheme of eternity, in one of the most soul-rattling pieces for orchestra and voices ever written. No one who experiences the Requiem ever looks at the world, or the afterlife, the same way again. From the building-shaking intensity of the Dies Irae to the wispiness of disembodied souls in the Libera me Domine, this is music from another plane entirely.


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In 1953, Gillett G. Griffin received the invitation of a lifetime: Saturday dinner at the home of Albert Einstein.
Griffin accepted, of course, and when the big night came he nervously approached the legendary physicist's small house in Princeton.
"I had a lump in my throat. There would be no equivalent -- to be invited to the White House might be something like it, but this was so intimate, so inner circle," Griffin said in a recent interview at his Princeton home.
Griffin didn't know it then, but the 1953 visit would mark the beginning of an unlikely friendship between the two men. Today, Griffin stands as one of Princeton's last true living links to the town's most famous resident.
At the time of the pair's first meeting, Gillett Griffin was a 25-year-old budding art historian who cared little for mathematics and had recently taken a $2,400-a-year job in the Princeton University Library's Graphic Arts Collection.
Albert Einstein, then 74, was Albert Einstein: a Nobel-Prize-winning physicist at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and America's pre-eminent public intellectual.
"I came to Princeton in'52, and if I had decided I wanted to meet Albert Einstein, there would be no way -- absolutely no way," said Griffin, now 80.
But Griffin's job had him working with fellow librarian Johanna Fantova, who happened to be a close companion of Einstein's at the time. Griffin said he and Fantova became friends, and eventually she invited him over to the house she shared with Einstein, his stepdaughter Margot, and his secretary, Helene Dukas.
That Saturday night Griffin entered the house and met Einstein, who Griffin said reminded him of the character Gepetto from Disney's movie "Pinocchio" -- kind, inquisitive, mustachioed and very European.
Einstein greeted Griffin with a small ball-and-maze puzzle he asked Griffin to solve. Though taken aback, Griffin said he complied as Einstein observed.
"Apparently with everybody, when he met them, he would give them a little puzzle. That was his way of not being pushed into people. If you give a person a puzzle, you could sort of size them up, and relax," Griffin said. "Einstein was basically a rather shy individual, and he probably felt somewhat uncomfortable with people."
Griffin solved the puzzle and continued onto the dinner table. He did not talk much as he ate.
"What do you say to the greatest man in the world?" he said.
Einstein left dinner early to work in his upstairs study. But as Griffin prepared to leave for the night, Helene Dukas called up to her boss. "You didn't show Griffin your bird!" she said.
The young guest heard Einstein's typewriter stop. Soon after, Griffin said, Einstein came downstairs "with a twinkle in his eye," went to a cabinet, and pulled out a yellow plastic bird with suction cup feet. He wound up the toy and placed it on a mirror.
Einstein watched Griffin intently as the bird climbed up the mirror and then fell.
"Did you like it?" Einstein asked in his thick German accent.
"I loved it," Griffin replied.
"The next day I got three calls from the three ladies saying, 'Consider yourself part of the family,'" Griffin said. More dinner invitations followed.
As Griffin's initial shyness around Einstein gave way, the two men discovered a shared love of classical music. Einstein, Griffin said, favored composers such as Mozart and Bach. He did not think much of Haydn.
Politics was not a frequent topic of discussion -- although one dinner was interrupted by a call from presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, who hoped to meet with Einstein, said Griffin. Nor did Einstein speak extensively about religion, though he often expressed his awe at the order of the cosmos.
"He was in his own world," Griffin said.
The Einstein household was a loving, if occasionally stifling, environment for the physicist, Griffin said. The three women living there fussed over him, although they could never agree on what to do about Einstein's wild mane of white hair.
Einstein responded to this treatment by gently ribbing his housemates. He joked to Griffin that Fantova, who was Czech, "is the only person I've ever met who can't speak any language correctly."
Griffin's last interaction with the aging genius came in March 1955, a month before Einstein died of a cerebral aneurysm. Griffin had gone to pick up an ancient Indian sculpture he had lent Margot Einstein. She told Griffin that her stepfather was very ill.
Einstein called from upstairs. "Gillett, please come up and talk with me," he said. Griffin, not wanting to sap Einstein's strength, said that he could not.
More than 50 years after Einstein's death, Griffin still could not fully explain why he and Einstein, so different in age and academic interest, ended up as friends. But he said he thinks that maybe these very differences put Einstein at ease.
"He knew that I was not using him, that everything that was said was being held," Griffin said. Out of a desire to respect Einstein's closely guarded privacy, Griffin said he took no pictures of Einstein and chose not to write down the contents of any conversations.
The only piece of memorabilia Griffin said he now possesses is the physicist's old mattress, which Margot Einstein gave to him after Einstein bought a new bed. The mattress is now in Griffin's country home.
Griffin left Princeton 11 years after Einstein's death to study the temple ruins of Mexico and Central America. He returned to the university as a professor and curator, and built a reputation as an expert in the pre-Columbian art of the Americas.
Now retired, he lives in a restored 19th century farmhouse in Princeton. His friend Fantova passed away decades ago, as did Dukas, Margot Einstein and almost everyone else who knew the physicist well.
Einstein's legacy remains an integral part of Princeton's history.
All these years later, Griffin said he still considers it his good fortune to have known the scientist. That friendship, along with his own distinguished career, has helped make Griffin a thankful man.
"Now you see why I think I'm the luckiest person I've ever known," he said.


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A Strigoi Vampire from Warhammer. Bought and painted him for my Vampire Counts army which never seems to get finished. Been painting it for over 5 years now and still a lot to do.
I like how he turned out, the undead flesh contrasts with his filthy reddish robes and details.


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The ideal accommodation for parties of any size, with indoor bike storage and dehumidified drying room. Enjoy a meal and pint in our CAMRA award winning bar, followed by a fantastic nights sleep
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Ideally located in the Brecon Beacons on National Cycle Route 8 (Lon Las Cymru), and only 4 miles from the start of Route 42 (Glasbury to Gloucester), the Tower Hotel has everything you could want for a relaxing end to a hard days cycling! Whether taking in the majestic views of the Black Mountains or relaxing with a pint of Real Ale brewed in our on site microbrewery, it makes sense to choose the Tower as your base for the night!
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Celebrating Great Learning in Maths!
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In Phase Two we have been getting ready for exhibition week! We have been using our art and design skills to show off what we have learnt this term in maths. Here are a few photos looking back over the term so far.READ MORE


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Heinrich: About Animals, About Us
I really liked this op-ed piece from Bernd Heinrich, in which he praises the documentary March of the Penguins, while addressing the broader issue of what it means to anthropomorphize animals in movies, and where one might usefully draw the line between things like Bambi and things like Winged Migration: Talk to the animals.
Paradoxically, the cartoonish anthropomorphism of "Bambi," although it entertained the youngsters, blocked rather than promoted an understanding of animals. In "Bambi" we do not see other creatures. Instead, we are presented humans with antlers, and with our thought and speech. This is what the traditional idea of anthropomorphizing is – expecting animals to feel and behave like humans, which they never will. One look at that penguin with the egg on its toes shows the inadequacy, the outright folly, of wishing they "were more like us."
Nature is the greatest show on earth, and reverence for life requires acknowledging the differences between ourselves and the animals as well as seeing our relatedness.


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Our team at Hack Reactor is building a web framework in Rust and for the first day, we took a step back and had a one day hackathon to get sped up. Naturally I wanted to benchmark calculators and that afternoon I tested Rust against Python and Javascript. Results below.
Black Scholes Merton
Introduced in 1973, in a paper entitled, "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities," the professors put forth a derivatives pricing model that led to the Nobel Prize in Economics. This pricing formula gives a theoretical estimate of the price of European call and put options and makes many assumptions to achieve this. I am using this as a fair way to compare the three languages.
Why Rust?
Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents almost all crashes and eliminates data races. It features pattern matching, closures and type inference while providing guaranteed memory safety and optional garbage collection. But most importantly… its blazingly fast.
Python has been increasingly gaining in popularity in Finance for the benefit of developers. Its got amazing statistics libraries and its nice to read. After testing 1M iterations of Rust, it handedly beat Python by 26.87% with each operation taking 3.57 seconds to calculate Black Scholes. If speed is your concern but you still want high level functionality, check out Rust!
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*Rust and Python are run with no optimizations. and Javascript was run in console. Node was much faster and the optimized versions are much faster
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Property Location
With a stay at Kimchee Gangnam Guesthouse in Seoul, you'll be convenient to Seonjeongneung Royal Tombs and COEX Convention and Exhibition Center. This hostel is within close proximity of Hyundai Department Store and Garosu-gil.
Make yourself at home in one of the 68 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Prepare your meals in the shared/communal kitchen. 23-inch LCD televisions with digital programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Bathrooms with showers are provided.
Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, a television in a common area, and tour/ticket assistance.
Satisfy your appetite at a coffee shop/café serving guests of Kimchee Gangnam Guesthouse. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily from 8 AM to 11 AM.
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Featured amenities include a computer station, express check-out, and multilingual staff.


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How to Mail a Resume and Cover Letter
If you've never mailed a resume and its accompanying cover letter, you may be wondering how to do so correctly. With this guide for newcomers to the workforce, get the tips you need to make sure your materials arrive in the mail on time and looking professional.
Even though most people apply for jobs online or via email, sometimes an employer will ask applicants to snail mail resumes and cover letters. Other times, job applicants who want to stand out from the crowd mail in their application materials to prospective employers to make sure their resumes and cover letters don't sit unread in a general email inbox. Even though the process of applying for jobs is becoming more digital by the day, it's smart to cover your bases and send a snail mail application in addition to an emailed one, especially for local jobs with traditional storefronts.
Should a Resume and Cover Letter be Stapled or Paper Clipped?
Most employers will scan your resume into a database or copy and distribute it to any individuals who will be screening candidates. So, it's not a good idea to staple your documents. It's an extra step for the employer to remove the staple prior to scanning or copying.
You don't need to use a paper clip either, but you can. You can simply stack your documents in order with the cover letter on top, followed by the resume and then any other materials the employer has requested. If you want to be sure they remain in order, you can use a paper clip.
Use Professional Stationery
Resumes should be printed on a good-quality bond paper that's either white or cream. Since you need to present yourself professionally, don't use colored paper, fancy fonts, logos, or images on your cover letter, resume, or envelopes. Doublecheck to make sure that the documents print correctly – if the print is blurred; you'll need to clean your printer heads or otherwise service it so that it produces clean text.
If using manila envelopes, print address labels. If you choose to use a business size envelope, print the address on it cleanly. Do not handwrite the address, since this is business correspondence.
Remember to Sign Your Cover Letter
Don't forget to sign your cover letter prior to mailing it. Your signature is a small way you can leave an impression on a potential employer. Also, signing the cover letter shows that you're a professional who understands the intricacies of the employment process.
Mailing Resumes and Cover Letters
When mailing your application materials, you can either use a manila envelope (9 X 12) or fold and place them in a business size envelope. A manila envelope is preferred because it will be easier to scan or copy your resume and letters if they haven't been folded.
Rather than just sticking your application into a manila envelope, you can purchase a folder from an office supply store or even the school supply aisle of the grocery store. For just a few dollars, you can buy several folders in different colors. If you want to be an even more competitive job candidate, buy a folder that holds business cards and include yours in the designated spot. You'll likely have to go to an office supply store for such a folder or else order a bundle online.
If you don't have business cards, order some. They're relatively inexpensive. You may be wondering what to put on your business card if you're out of work, but even if you're not on staff at a particular company, the business card can include your name, email address, cell phone number, and your preferred title, such as consultant, writer, artist, attorney, educator or accountant.
If you're looking for work, you may not be thrilled about the prospect of spending money on a job application, but sometimes you have to spend money to make money.
Wrapping Up
When you've presented your application materials in the most suitable way possible, put them in your envelope and be sure to add enough postage. You may want to go directly to the post office and have your envelope weighed to guarantee that there's enough. And if there's an application deadline for the job you're seeking, mail your materials early to give your application plenty of time to arrive.


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How To Make Your Sink More Quiet
The plumbing in your home is often the number one source of strange noises that plague your family, especially kitchen sink noise. Whether it's eerie creaks or unexpected thuds that keeps you and your family up at night, the reason these irritating disturbances occur is typically a result of poor insulation or lazy installation. A noisy kitchen sink is one of the worst household plumbing offenders, but also the easiest to fix. Paying special attention this vital household feature is key to preventing kitchen sink plumbing problems.
The kitchen sink noise can turn a everyday task like cleaning dishes or washing your hands into a unwanted, disharmonious symphony. Dropping a fork in the sink shouldn't make a jarring noise or leave you with a headache. Read on for an easy way to make your sink more quiet.
What causes kitchen sink noise?
Do you hear that deafening clamor when water pours out of the faucet? This is most common in sinks that feature two basins and are part of one singular unit. If these two basins are each made out of metal, such as stainless steel, you are more likely to notice the "gong-effect," resulting in kitchen sink noise. Metal sinks amplify sound waves, whereas stone and porcelain sinks are more dense and will absorb noise.
If you have a two-basin sink, there is usually a hollow expanse on the underside of the sink that separates the two. This empty space acts as an echo chamber and causes your sink to sound like a steel drum when you turn the faucet on.
Making Your Sink More Quiet
The most effective way to make yourdual-basin kitchen sink more quietis to fill the hollow space between the basins with expanding foam. The foam lessens the gong effect by deadening sound vibrations. It's possible to do this with your sink in place, but the job will be easier and more precise if you remove the sink to apply the expanding foam. Don't worry! We'll walk you through the steps of how to fix a noisy sink.
How To Fix A Noisy Sink
1. Remove the sink basin.
- Although you can approach applying insulation from beneath the sink, it's best to remove the basins before starting the project.
- Empty out all items from underneath your sink.
- Put on protective eyewear, mask and gloves.
- Unplug your garbage disposal and turn off the circuit breaker that runs to that area. One of the most important electrical safety tips is to always keep electronics away from water.
- Turn off the water supply to the sink. Make sure you know how to locate your home's main water shutoff valve, as a precaution.
- Disconnect the water supply lines from the underside of the faucet.
- Disconnect the drain pipe from the sink and garbage disposal.
- Remove your garbage disposal.
- Cut through the caulk along the edge of your sink, detach the sink from your counters and carefully pull the sink out.
2. Fill hollow space with basic expanding foam.
- Purchase basic expanding foam from a hardware store.
- Fill in the empty gap between the two sink basins with the solution.
- By putting insulation into this dead space, you remove the echo chamber and will make the kitchen a much more peaceful place.
- Be sure not to apply too much of the foam, as it will expand and potentially make it difficult to refit your basins.
- Let the foam set for at least one hour before moving the sink.
- Optional: An alternative method to soundproofing your sink involves attaching pieces of mass-loaded vinyl insulation using adhesive to the underside of the sink basin.
3. Place the sink basin back and caulk the edges of your sink.
- Once you have put the sink back into the countertop, be sure to properly caulk all of the edges.
- Wipe away any excess caulk.
4. Reinstall your sink.
- Refit any plumbing or electric units you had to disconnect before utilizing your quieter kitchen.
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Not everyone has time to take apart their sink — we get it! If you don't have time to make your sink more quietbut are tired of not being able to hear anything while doing the dishes, call the Virginia plumbing experts at John C. Flood (202) 794-6179 or schedule service online.
Your kitchen should be a relaxing environment and a noisy kitchen sinkdoesn't help achieve that objective. Whether you do it yourself or hire a professional, it's time to put kitchen sink noise in your garbage disposal — metaphorically speaking.


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This course examines American democracy and political institutions. As developed in the Course Outline, we will explore a wide range of questions, including the following: what is "democracy"? What are the competing images of the practice of American democracy among scholars? Are American political institutions democratic, "captured," or paralyzed? How does the American experiment in democracy compare to its counterparts abroad? And, finally, what about democracy in California? Is it broken? If so, can it be fixed?
This course examines the role of law and courts in society; the institutions of the American justice system; and the relationship between law, politics, and public policy in the United States. As developed more fully in this course outline, we will explore a wide range of questions, including the following: What is the promise of law in society? What are its limits? How is the American legal system organized? How does our system compare with those in other industrialized democracies? What are relative advantages and disadvantages of our system? To what extent (and under what conditions) does our system fulfill its promise of providing orderly dispute resolution, correcting political and market "failures," and promoting social justice? Does the American legal system promote or thwart democratic values?
This course examines the role of interest groups in American democracy. As developed in the Course Outline, we will explore a wide range of questions, including the following: What are interest groups? What do they do? Are they "good" or "bad" for American politics?
This seminar is designed to introduce some of the major debates of the literature in political science on law, courts, and judicial politics. The goal is to help you develop a point of view about the nature of law and judicial decision-making; the role of law in society; the basic functions and origins of courts; and the role of courts in American politics and the policy-making process. Throughout the semester, particular care will be given to the relationship between competing conceptual definitions of the law and methods for studying the courts. Students will be encouraged to write a research design proposal to help sharpen their research interests.
Of course, no seminar could adequately survey all the developments in the field of public law; the field is far too diverse and far ranging. This course does not investigate legal pluralism, international law or the vast regulatory literature, and only briefly focuses on comparative perspectives. Obviously, if these – or other topics – are of interest to you, you can use the term paper to explore them.
This course explores how political scientists conceptualize and study institutions and how the various approaches to institutional analysis within political science differ from other disciplines. The central theme of the course lies in understanding the connections between one's underlying conception of institutions and how one studies them.
It is important to stress that this course is NOT a substantive overview of different American political institutions. It is a conceptual exploration of how to think about institutional analysis. We will read various substantive analyzes of American political institutions, including the courts, Congress, and the executive branch, but with an eye towards illustrating and understanding different modes of institutional analysis.
A final caveat: no seminar could adequately survey all the developments in the field of institutional analysis; the field is far too diverse and far ranging. Obviously, if there are topics within the field that interest you but are not explicitly covered in the course, you can use the term paper to explore them.
The Art of Political Bargaining
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including law, political science, economics and sociology, students will gain a greater appreciation of the federal policy-making process, the challenges facing lawmakers in building support for their policy preferences, and the prospects of our system of checks and balances for dealing with today's major policy problems.
Is U.S. Democracy Broken?: Perspectives and Debates – Udemy
American democracy seems in crisis, as we face legislative gridlock, soaring deficits, negative campaigns awash in donations from anonymous sources, growing public distrust of government, and protest movements on the right and left on the political spectrum. This class provides an overview of competing views on contemporary American democracy and a fresh look at some key issues facing our polity, including campaign finance, the War powers, the politics of deficit spending, and the proper policy-making role of the courts.
Teaching Philosophy
Since joining the faculty, I have won a Department Outstanding Teaching Award (2005-06), a University General Education Teaching Award (2005-06), special recognition for teaching and mentoring from the USC Parents Association (2006), and Gamma Sigma Alpha's Professor of the Year (2008). Most recently, I have been named as a Dornsife Faculty Fellow.
My teaching rests on a simple principle—every student can succeed, but everyone learns differently. Some students are visual learners; others prefer to listen; and some must apply what they learn to concrete problems. In the words of Woody Hayes, a former football coach, "You got to walk it, talk it, chalk it."
To accommodate diverse learning styles, I seek to reach out to students in a variety of ways. I lecture. I use interactive power point slides and multi-media presentations. I set up debates and role playing exercises in class. I assign individual and group projects that ask students to engage in original fieldwork. I teach large classes, small seminars, and welcome the opportunity to work one-on-one with students.
I also encourage students to integrate their practical experience and community service into their course of study. For instance, I recently supervised a student in an independent study that analyzed his experiences as a campaign worker in New York City. At the end of the semester, he confirmed the benefits of challenging students to be both producers and consumers of knowledge. He wrote, "I want you to know that you are far and away the best professor I have had in my 2.5 years of college. … Your focus on students learning the material, rather than memorization … is something more professors should take note of."
In a similar vein, I have developed a flexible curriculum for graduate students, who often struggle in the transition from coursework to fieldwork. This curriculum involves an independent study that examines common research designs and methods and how the literature uses these tools. At the end of the semester, students write a research design or critical literature review that helps focus their research agenda.
The common thread lies in my desire to place students at the center of their learning and give them opportunities to connect their experience with classroom materials.


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Obaidullah and Rohollah (guards) at Turquoise Mountain Headquarters
They are both from the Panjshir. Obaidullah is 28 and has been working for security companies for four years. Rohollah is 43 and spent his earlier years as a Mojahid fighting the Russians.
The residents of Murad Khane are enjoying improved conditions thanks to charity Turquoise Mountain. Turquoise Mountain is a charity set up by Rory Stewart. He was asked personally by Prince Charles to take on the task of rebuilding the ancient heart of Kabul. His charity using local labour and the goodwill of the community is substantially into the task and has also set up a school training Afghans in traditional crafts. The area had literally been turned into a rubbish dump, now though using ancient skills the buildings are being restored to their former glory, Stewart is hopeful that he can contribute significantly to the local economy.


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If you thought there was a lot of truthiness flying around at the first debate of the election, you are not alone.
Here are seven of the biggest factual errors made by Stephen Harper at Thursday's debate:
1. "The reality" is Harper doesn't have a balanced budget
On two separate occasions during the leaders debate, Stephen Harper claimed Canada has a balanced budget.
"We have a budget that is balanced now and other countries don't," Harper said, later explaining "the reality is the figures out of the Department of Finance show that so far this year we are substantially in surplus."
Unfortunately for Harper, the Finance Canada report he referenced only looks at April and May. Another report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer looks ahead and takes into account dire new projections for the Canadian economy released by the Bank of Canada.
The PBO's projection says Canada will not balance its budget and will run a deficit of $1 billion this year, meaning Harper will run his eighth deficit in a row.
2. "The rest of the economy" is not growing
Did you miss this one?
Seconds after Harper let slip that Canada may be in a recession after all, he began to explain that the "contraction" of the economy is "exclusively" or "almost exclusively in the energy sector" and "the rest of the economy is growing."
This is false. According to the latest data released by Statistics Canada just last week, the biggest contraction in the economy is not happening in the energy sector -- it's happening in the manufacturing sector.
Sharp declines in manufacturing, energy, utilities and wholesale trade (along with finance and the public sector) caused the economy to contract by 0.2% in May, while only construction, retail and "others" saw any growth.
Meanwhile, new job numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada show Canada lost 8,300 jobs in construction last month, 4,600 jobs in manufacturing and 2,000 jobs in the energy sector, although these have been off-set by new jobs in the service industry.
3. Cutting corporate taxes magically increases revenues?
What goes down must go up? How's that for magical thinking!
During the debate, Harper said "the reality is" thanks to his government's corporate tax cuts, Canada's "tax revenues actually went up from the business sector."
Yet as the chart below shows, corporate tax revenue (blue bars) is nowhere near what it was before Harper began slashing taxes for corporations.
4. Harper's backbenchers are operating "more freely" than ever?
Although Harper's former backbenchers claim he's so controlling they're treated like "trained seals," Harper insists he allows them to operate "more freely" than MP's have been allowed in decades.
How free are they? Judging by this video, it seems Conservative MPs even have the freedom to monotonously read the exact same words into a video camera:
5. "Greenhouse gas emissions have actually gone down." Until they went up again.
Harper also responded to criticism of his environmental record (the worst in the industrialized world, by the way) by claiming "greenhouse gas emissions have actually gone down."
Is that true?
Depends how selective you are. GHG emissions did go down following the 2008 recession, but then they started going back up when the economy started picking back up.
All things considered, as the Harper Government's own data shows, Canada is still well below the Copenhagen Accord target Harper himself agreed to back in 2009:
6. Harper's own chart shows Canada does not have the "strongest employment growth in the G7"
Harper also claimed Canada has "the strongest employment growth in the G7." Is that true?
According to a chart in Harper's own budget document, the U.S. has had stronger "growth in employment" than Canada:
On the other hand, Canada placed first in terms of growth of the labour market, but with a -0.1% growth in the employment rate, Canada places fourth in the G7 on this more important metric.
Harper could also brag about having the fifth lowest (or third highest) unemployment rate in the G7, but that would complicate his story.
And how does Harper's performance stack up against past Prime Ministers? It turns out Harper has the weakest job creation record of any Prime Minister since 1946:
7. Northern Gateway's environmental assessment was so thorough, 300 scientists complained it was only "five short paragraphs"
How rigorous was the Northern Gateway pipeline project's environmental assessment?
Well, 300 scientists signed a letter that accused Northern Gateway's Joint Review Panel of only weighing the "economic benefits" while taking a "narrow view of the environmental risks and costs."
That and the Panel's review of the "environmental burdens" were only "five short paragraphs" long.
And all this after misleading PR campaigns, Harper's ministers labeling critics as 'radicals', and the Conservative government tabling reports that claimed fossil fuels improve air and water quality.


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Fri. 1/4//13, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Seth Farber says we need shamanic healers and messiahs – so stop poisoning "crazy" people! First hour: Seth Farber, Ph.D. is a dissident psychologist and social critic. His book The Spiritual Gift of Madness blasts the psychiatric-industrial complex for pumping disturbed people full of toxic, useless pharmaceuticals, instead of helping them figure out why they're disturbed and how to deal with it. Dr. Farber points out that there are lots of good reasons for being disturbed, given what is happening in the world today. He argues that one of the healthiest…FULL ARTICLE
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Global Monitoring Division - ESRL-GMD
This story entered on 1st Feb, 2013 01:45:06 PM PST
The first science flights of the NASA Global Hawk UAS in the winter portion of the Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX) are set to begin the week of 28 January 2013. Six science flights from Edwards Air Force Base, California are scheduled.
The UAS experimental payload includes two NOAA/ESRL instruments measuring water vapor, two measuring ozone and one measuring methane, nitrous oxide, hydrogen, and sulfur hexafluoride. Five NOAA/ESRL and six CIRES scientists are at the NASA Dryden facility supporting the missions.
The single jet engine Global Hawk is capable of almost 30-hr flight duration, a maximum distance of about 11000 nautical miles (20,000 km), and altitudes as high as 19.8 km.
Background: Increasing greenhouse gas oncentrations are leading to the production of additional high clouds. This in turn is allowing for increased stratospheric ozone destruction mediated by the clouds. As such, understanding how water vapor circulates between the lower, moister portion of the atmosphere (troposphere) and the higher, drier portion (stratosphere) is important for understanding climate change.
It is difficult for traditional aircraft to study the tropical tropopause region because of its high altitude (13-18 km), long distance from the US, and extremely cold temperatures of 190 K (-115o F). The unmanned Global Hawk though is an ideal platform for such studies.
The ultimate goal of ATTREX is to provide unique data to evaluate atmospheric models to improve predictions of climate change.
Significance: The study of ozone, water vapor, and greenhouse gases falls under one of NOAA's four goals: climate. The US Clean Air Act of 1990 directs both NOAA and NASA to report to Congress on the status of stratospheric ozone depletion every three years.
NOAA is making a sizeable commitment of resources to the NASA Global Hawk built and supported by Northrop Grumman Inc. In addition to instrumentation and researcher's time, NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center, Tampa, Florida, is contributing two pilots and two ground crew members for the operation of Global Hawk during ATTREX, and will do so in future hurricane studies using the Global Hawk.
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Written by Tim Morral
Published: 4/11/2013
BizBuySell.com reports that Chicago businesses are selling for the highest median sales price since 2009.
Over the past several years, many business sellers held back from listing their companies rather than selling a business in a down economy. A recent report in the Chicago Business Journal shows that the Chicago business-for-sale marketplace is gaining strength, with Chicago sellers recording the highest median sale prices since 2009.
According to the online business-for-sale marketplace, BizBuySell.com, small businesses sold for a median price of $269,000 during Q1 2013, a dramatic increase from the median sale price of $150,000 during Q1 2012. This also represents the highest sale prices since the first quarter of 2009 when the median price peaked at $325,000.
During the first three months of 2013, BizBuySell.com reported 608 active business listings and 43 closed transactions in the Chicago area, most of which occurred in the retail sector. Six transactions closed for more than $1 million--up from just two transactions higher than $1 million during Q1 2012. The highest business sale price realized this year was a hotel in DuPage county at a sale price of $3.6 million.
Average business revenues offer additional evidence for the increasing strength of Chicago's small business economy. Median revenues for small companies in the business-for-sale marketplace currently stand at $500,000 compared to $440,275 a year ago. Sellers are now basing sale prices on 78 percent of company revenues, a modest increase from last year's valuation of 76 percent of revenue.
But the current vitality of Chicago's business-for-sale marketplace doesn't mean that sellers can afford to rest on their laurels. The process of selling your business is involved and time-consuming, even when the market is experiencing an upswing. To ensure the highest possible sale price and a smooth business exit, plan ahead, invest adequate time in preparing for the sale and consider tapping into the expertise of business brokers or other professionals, when necessary.
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