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- 171163 Alphabetical Index To Papers Presented At 32nd Annual AAES Conference
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- 171162 Australian Agricultural Economics Society, 1988 Annual Conference: Programme
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- 171161 AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY 32nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE La Trobe University, 1988 List Of Registrants
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- 144379 Development of Township Enterprise in China
by Zhou, Z.Y. & Dillon, John L. & Wan, G.H.
- 144378 Environmental Degradation in the Murray-Darling Basin: An Evaluation of Some Options
by Young, Ralph
- 144377 Policy Formulation in the Australian Dairy Industry
by Wilcox, Christopher J.
- 144376 Price Expectation Formulation in the Queensland Tomato Growing Industry
by Whybrow, E. (Ted) & Longworth, John W.
- 144374 A Generic Crop Simulation Model for Agricultural Planning
by Wegener, Malcolm K.
- 144373 Changing Perspectives in Fisheries Management
by Waugh, Geoffrey & Brown, J.
- 144372 Computer Modelling of Rangeland Regeneration in the Arid Zone of Western Australia
by Wang, K.M. & Hacker, Ronald B. & Lindner, Robert K. & Richmond, G.S.
- 144370 Factors Affecting the Variability of Chinese Foodgrain Production
by Wan, G.H.
- 144369 World Agricultural Trade Distortions - Measurement and Recent Trends
by Walker, Agnes
- 144366 The Efficiency of Price Discovery at Wool Auctions
by Vlastuin, Chris
- 144365 Strategic Interaction in International Commodity Markets
by Vanzetti, David & Kennedy, John O.S.
- 144363 Diversification and Stability Implications of New Crop Varieties: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence
by Tisdell, Clement A. & Alauddin, Mohammad
- 144362 Financial Deregulation and Rural Credit in the 1980s
by Tan, Hock & Minnis, Peter
- 144361 Prospects for Managing Production Risk in New Zealand Agriculture
by Sriramaratnam, S.
- 144360 Land Condition, Crop Productivity, And The Adoption Of Soil Conservation Measures
by Sinden, Jack A. & King, David A.
- 144359 The Future of Chinese Wool Production
by Simmons, Phil & Trendle, B. & Brewer, K.R.W.
- 144358 The Importance of Hidden Gains and Losses a Case Study of Australian Wool
by Simmons, Phil & Arthur, Jan
- 144357 Human Nutrition and Income in Rural Semi-Arid Tropical Andhra Pradesh, India
by Sharma, K.C. & Dillon, John L.
- 144356 Export Pricing Strategies and World Grain Markets
by Schmitz, Andrew
- 144355 Privatisation in Agricultural Marketing: The Recent New Zealand Experience
by Sandrey, Ronald A.
- 144354 Pooling
by Quiggin, John C.
- 144352 Benefit Cost Analysis of Forest Creek Project
by Penman, P.F.
- 144351 An Economic Evaluation of Waterponding
by Penman, P.F.
- 144350 An Economic Evaluation of Soil Conservation Programmes
by Penman, P.F.
- 144173 A Stochastic Model for Tactical Herbicide Decision Making
by Pannell, David J.
- 144165 Systems Modelling and Technology Evaluation: An Application
by Pandey, Sushil & Anderson, Jock R.
- 144157 Risk-Efficient Irrigation Strategies for Wheat
by Pandey, Sushil
- 144048 Assessing the Impact of Lamb Price Stabilisation on Producer Welfare
by O'Donnell, Christopher J.
- 144047 Policy Co-Ordination and World Economic Growth
by Nguyen, D.T. & Hogan, Lindsay I.
- 144046 The Impact of Land Tenure on Farming and Soil Conservation in the Upper Brantas River Basin, East Java, Indonesia
by Mustadjab, Moch. Muslich
- 144045 The Effects of US Farm Policy on Australian Cotton Revenues
by Mues, Colin & Simmons, Phil
- 144044 Bilateral Trading Relationships: A Trade Flow Model of Australia-Japan and U.S.A. - Japan Trade in Three Primary Commodities - Coal, Beef, and Wheat
by Morison, Julian B.
- 144043 Selection Strategies in Commercial Merino Flocks
by Mattinson, Bruce
- 144042 Developments in Australian Agricultural Capital
by Martin, Will & Savage, C.R.
- 144041 Integrated Pest Management in Rice: Integrating Economics, Extension and Policy
by Martin, John
- 144040 SlMULTANEITY IN THE DETERMINATION OF ASSISTANCE TO AGRICULTURE
by MacAulay, T. Gordon & Thomas, W.C. & Musgrave, Warren F.
- 144039 Determinants of Employment in Australian Agriculture
by Luskin, D. & Poulter, David & Nayar, Mark
- 144038 Prices and Employment in the US Farm Sector
by Lewis, Philip E.T. & Males, Warren P.
- 144037 Taxation, Cost of Capital and Investment in Australian Agriculture
by Lewis, Philip E.T. & Hall, Nigel H. & Savage, C.R. & Kingston, A.G.
- 144036 Prices of Characteristics for Knitted Products at Retail in Melbourne
by Havrila, Inka & Quilkey, John J.
- 144035 Impact of Agronomic and Economic Factors on Farm Profitability - Model Specification and Application (Tarlee Trials)
by Hansen, B.R. & Krause, Mark A.
- 144033 Supply Response in Broadacre Agriculture
by Hall, Nigel H. & Fraser, L. & Purtill, A.
- 144032 Industrial Processing of Cereals in Australia
by Godden, David P.
- 144031 Modelling the Australian Wool Corporation's Costs and Revenues Under the Reserve Price Scheme for Wool
by Foster, Max
- 144030 The resurgence of the Tea Industry in China
by Etherington, Dan M. & Forster, Keith
- 144029 An Economic Analysis of a Plant Density Experiment for Tea in China
by Etherington, Dan M.
- 144028 A Policy Perspective on Coconut Processing in the South Pacific Islands
by Etherington, Dan M.
- 144027 Inorganic Fertiliser Inputs to Himalayan Agriculture: Some Issues in Pricing
by Dixon, J.M.
- 144026 Alternative Strategies for Development in Tonga
by Delforce, Julie C. & Hardaker, J. Brian & Fleming, Euan M.
- 144025 Effects fo the Congressional Sales Tax Arrangements for Fruit Juice Beverages
by Davenport, Scott V. & Dalziell, Ian
- 143910 Potential Improvements in the Provision of Long Range Weather Forecasts: Are There Benefits for the Rural Sector?
by Crellin, Ian R.
- 143794 Community-Based Land Tenure and Government Land Policy in Sarawak: A Study in Institutional Dissonance
by Cramb, Rob A. & Wills, Ian R.
- 143793 The Use and Productivity of Labour in Shifting Cultivation: An East Malaysian Case Study
by Cramb, Rob A.
- 143791 Demand For Water in the Murray Valley, New South Wales: An Application of Linear Programming
by Chewings, R.A. & Pascoe, Sean
- 143790 The Long Term Peak Load Problem in Grain Storage
by Brennan, Donna C. & Lindner, Robert K.
- 143789 Quality/Quantity Trade-offs in the Demand for Beef and Lamb: A Cross-Sectional Time-Series Study
by Ball, Katrina & Sloane, Robert
- 143788 Fisheries Economics from the Economic Bureaucrat's Perspective
by Bain, Robert A. & Haynes, Jos & Pascoe, Sean & Trewin, Ray
- 143787 Priorities for Papua New Guinea Agricultural Research - An ACIAR Project
by Antony, George & Kauzi, Gae & Prior, Bob
- 143786 The Impact of Subsidized Credit on Bangladesh Farming Households
by Ahmed, A. & Kennedy, John O.S.


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Valentine's Day is a controversial occasion, and I completely understand why. To some, it's an arbitrary reminder of their singledom, a reinforcement of something they actively try to forget. I've certainly been there, and I didn't appreciate this "holiday" one bit.
Today, I'm currently grateful to be on the other end of the spectrum, where V-Day is an excuse to have a cozy date with my wonderful husband Well, technically we'll celebrate the day after. Max be working on the 14th to ensure that his restaurant guests have the best experience possible, cause that's my guy! But the following night, we'll take full advantage of this excuse to coo over our love story and reminisce on all we've been through.
Yes, Valentine's day is certainly a polarizing topic, but what if it didn't have to be? What if V-day didn't need to be about the former or latter situations above described? What if, instead, Valentine's Day was simply about expressing love to someone, anyone meaningful in our lives? If we approach February 14th as a time for reflective gratitude, perhaps we can begin to look forward to it, no matter our specific circumstances.
Regardless of your feelings about the sentimental squidginess of Valentine's day, it does have one uncontroversial benefit: the abundance of CHOCOLATE (unless you hate chocolate in which case...I got nothing). This time of year, chocolate in every size, shape and cocoa content abound in groceries, pharmacies, advertisements and on social media. However, like the Chocolate Turtles I discussed in my last post, most of these packaged candied are full of junky ingredients. As a dark chocolate zealot myself, I actually relish a reason to focus on creating whole-foods based, nutrient-dense and junk free goodies.
Take, ya know, for a random example, THIS Double Chocolate Loaf Cake! Oh em gee y'all. This cake is everything dense, chocolatey and indulgent that you want for a Valentine's treat (or any-tine treat). The secret ingredient?! Steamed and pureed beets! Not only are beets an apropos addition because of their gorgeous red hue, they provide unbeatable moisture and richness. And trust me; you won't take anything "beety"! If you don't feel like going to the trouble to cook beets, feel free to use canned pumpkin puree, but you might need another tablespoon or two extra maple, which will require a few minutes longer baking time.
The best compliment I can give this cake is that it reminds me of my mom's chocolate bundt cake from my childhood. I'll never forget my brothers' and my excitement when the smell of this cake wafted up to our rooms post-homework. We'd race to the kitchen, cut a thick powdered-sugary hunk and dive into the warm, melty cake with a glass of chilled milk. When I took a bite of this paleo loaf cake, I was instantly transported back to those lovely childhood memories. Plus, my mom gave it her seal of approval!
However you view Valentine's day, I hope you'll use it as an excuse to pamper yourself or someone you care for with a little extra TLC...and chocolate :).

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By Craig W. Anderson
Rural crime is an important issue faced by San Joaquin Farm Bureau, the county sheriff's department, local law enforcement, farmers, ranchers and the general public. What's happening in the county was outlined by Ezequiel "Zeke" Pena, the sheriff department's public information officer.
He pointed out that, "Gangs are huge currently," and he provided a list of crimes the department is working on.
County crimes
No. 1 on the county's crime list is burglaries with items stolen from ag shops, barns, work trucks and utility boxes.
"They [burglaries] happen everywhere," Pena said. "Dopers and gang members steal what they can and buy dope and guns with the money. Bad guys are lazy and they tend to commit crimes of opportunity."
Ken Vogel, SJFB second vice president, former county supervisor and Linden area walnut and cherry farmer, agreed. "Many crimes are crimes of opportunity which can be reduced and information is available from Farm Bureau and the sheriff's department describing how to do that."
No. 2: Equipment thefts – ATV's RTV's and tractors – "132 pieces of equipment were taken in the 2017-2018 period, the majority from the Ripon, Manteca, Thornton and Linden areas," Pena said.
"Anything with wheels is moved out of the area right away and sold in other counties," Vogel said.
No. 3: Copper wire thefts – "From ag pumps and PG&E, and other, yards. The going price for copper wire is currently $1.40 a pound. As it increases more thefts will occur."
"Thefts seem to go in waves, driven by what they can get for what they've stolen, weather and availability of things to take," said David Strecker, SJFB first vice president. "Which creates a year-round crime environment."
No. 4: Batteries – all kinds including car, tractor, heavy equipment and specialty batteries. Pena urged owners to "keep vehicles locked up. Thousands of dollars' worth of batteries have been stolen over the last year and those stolen from pump wells often damage the mother board, making it a very expensive crime."
No. 5: Fuel thefts-from trap wagons and red dye diesel from tractors and equipment on farms and job sites. "Thousands of dollars in losses here. They hit trap wagons when the weather's better and farmers are in the fields," noted Pena.
"Stolen trap wagons are usually damaged and are made unusable," Strecker said. "And the fuel, if recovered, is probably unusable too. So it becomes a total loss."
No. 6: Commodities – walnut theft. "$280,000 worth of walnuts was taken from one site this past season. It was one big theft, the only big case we saw last season. And now that walnut prices are in a slump, walnut theft has declined," Pena explained
Metal theft
"Metal theft is down because it's difficult for thieves to get into wet, muddy areas to steal it," Pena said, "and illegal dumping is covered by everybody. As for solar panel theft: it's not an issue at this time."
Crime prevention
"Prevention is triggered by communication, the key ability being to make people aware through various means including social media. New technology's important too with cameras that send information to our cell phones and drones that can be used to survey property," Strecker said, adding, "We need to be in touch with our neighbors so everyone can communicate quickly and effectively with each other when something's happening."
New County Sheriff Withrow
More officers on patrol is also a major crime deterrent, according to San Joaquin County's new Sheriff Patrick Withrow, a 28-year veteran of the department who brings street, S.W.A.T. and K-9 experience to the job.
"My first priority was to change our patrol schedule so we're able to be more proactive in preventing crime by getting more people [into] rural areas," he said, explaining that this will result in a more effective means of intercepting criminals before their crimes can be committed. "More car and bike stops on suspicious persons can be done. We're more proactive about going after dumpers, meth labs and chemicals."
A major anti-crime weapon the department uses is AGNET – Agriculture Gang Narcotics Enforcement Team – which is instrumental in creating a more proactive force, compared to being reactive about rural crime.
"The concept behind it is 20 officers, two sergeants and a lieutenant at the street level," Withrow said. "The gang members are the ones going out to victimize farmers and the rural areas, taking copper wire [and] stealing equipment. AGNET will work very closely with our crime analysis people and our patrol beat cars, our community cars, [and] we'll work to suppress crime before it happens."
Withrow's entire law enforcement career has taken place in San Joaquin County where he was born and raised and he said about being elected sheriff, "It's an absolute honor to be able to be leading this department."
Community involvement
In addition to Sheriff Department personnel being more available and visible in rural areas, Vogel said a pleasant development has been "task force members regularly attending Farm Bureau board meetings. We're very happy about that interest."
Withrow said, "We're dedicated to protecting farmers who are the life's-blood of San Joaquin County and we will continue to work closely with Farm Bureau and farmers.
Powerful crime fighting forces
In addition to AGNET, other anti-crime weapons the department plans to use includes the San Joaquin Agricultural Crimes Task Force, the California Rural Crime Prevention Task Force, Farm Watch, Ag Zone Security and the Owner Applied Number program; drones are also being utilized for foot and car pursuits, surveillance and locked-on, automatic tracking of cars involved in crimes.
Detailed information about the above along with metal and solar panel theft, meth labs, fraud and chemicals is available on the sheriff's office website.
To learn more, attend SJFB's Rural Crime Seminar on March 7. Call SJFB at (209) 931-4931 for details.


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New Mind, Body and Appetite dinner series begins January at Harvest Kelly Liken
EDWARDS — Colorado chef and restaurateur Kelly Liken, a three-time James Beard Award nominee and "Top Chef" alum, announced a new culinary wellness series focused on Mind, Body and Appetite at her new restaurant, Harvest By Kelly Liken, located at The Sonnenalp Club in Edwards.
Beginning in January and taking place monthly thereafter, the Mind, Body and Appetite series uses the essential elements of earth, water and fire for inspiration, incorporating each into the series to complement movement, nutrition and cuisine. Each experience is geared toward inspiring the mind, nourishing the body and feeding one's appetite while demonstrating how the various aspects affect everyday life.
Each event begins in The Sonnenalp Club's new Movement Studio with 45 minutes of yoga and meditation taught by renowned yogi Suzanne Oliver, concentrating on one of the three elements. After the yoga class, participants move into The Lounge at Harvest by Kelly Liken to hear a talk from Ashley Eaves, certified nutritionist, dietitian and intuitive coach about how the element affects the body, followed by cuisine created by Liken, composed of ingredients chosen by Eaves, from a customized menu that stimulates the appetite while interpreting the components of each element through a culinary lens.
Series schedule
• Jan. 25 — Earth Element (Prithvi) represents all that is stable and unwavering.
Mind: Yoga class includes standing postures and gentle hip openers, ending with a guided meditation and grounding breath work.
Body: Eaves showcases the effect of grounding the body through nutrition and its application on mind-body balance.
Appetite: Liken's menu focuses on her love of earthy, hearty winter vegetables while incorporating a healthy balance of macronutrients.
• Feb. 22 — Water Element (Apah Jala) represents the force of attraction and enables flow, circulation, rhythm and fluid movement.
Mind: Oliver's session focuses on using the breath as the guide, as well as meditation to bring intention to thoughts and desires.
Body: Eaves discusses the effects of water, hydration, nutrients in fresh juices from fruits and veggies, omega-3, detoxing and healthy digestion.
Appetite: The menu spotlights fresh seafood, healthy fats and umami vegetables, as well as juice bar offerings from The Pantry at Harvest.
• March 22 — Fire Element (Agni) delivers a spark of heat, stimulation and movement, digestion and attitude.
Mind: The yoga session focuses on drawing energy up from the earth into the core of the pelvis, firing up power for arm-balancing postures.
Body: The nutrition session focuses on metabolism and the effects of caffeine, proteins, carbohydrates and spicy foods on the body.
Appetite: Liken's menu incorporates spicy foods that are known to boost metabolism.
The Mind, Body and Appetite series starts at $65 for Sonnenalp Club members and $80 for nonmembers for each session. For those looking to purchase all three classes, prices start at $175 for members and $215 for nonmembers. Each event takes place from 4 to 6 p.m. Specialty elemental cocktails are also available for an additional charge during the culinary portion of the experience.
Reservations and advance bookings are required. Sonnenalp Club Members may reserve through the calendar page of the member website, http://www.sonnenalpclub.com. Nonmembers may reserve by calling the fitness center front desk at 970-477-5377.
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Manx cat Senior Male Was Lost in Arlington, Texas United States
Fufu Manx Cat Lost in Arlington, Texas United States
Cats > Manx
Was lost near the address: 2007 Irongate Drive, Arlington, Texas 76012, United States
Owner's name:troy
Owner's phone:903-292-6031
Spayed / neutered:yes
Length of Hair:fuzzy,scraggly, mixed
Special markings:has busted tooth, slightly lopsided face, skin ras
The animal wearing collars/tags: no
The animal microchipped: no
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i really miss him - he's scruffy and has skin issues I treat- he is up0-to-date on all shots/meds, he is a good friend and buddy to me & my family - LMK if you have seen him
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"Thrift the Look" is one of my favorite challenges that I do as a blogger. If you're new to my blog, then "Thrift the Look" is when I take a gorgeous photo of a home decor style and recreate it with items from the thrift store and upcycling when necessary. Today, the theme is Cabin decor; but more specifically for me, I'm working on decor for a winter cabin with a touch of rustic chic.Read more ›
Winter Cabin and Rustic Chic Decor
Christmas Tree Baskets Upcycled Two Different Ways
Earlier this year, long before I was even THINKING about holiday projects, I found this set of nesting Christmas tree baskets. As I mulled over different makeover ideas, I realized they could be used as Christmas table decor in December, but continue on into the New Year as winter wonderland decorations.Read more ›
Blue Christmas Decor or Winter Decor with a Wooden Sled
When I spotted this wooden sled at Goodwill, the calendar read May and our southern summer was beginning to rear its ugly, sweaty head. I tossed it in my cart and filed it away as a Christmas project for later that year. Well, wouldn't you know it, but Christmas came and went…and the sled was still collecting dust in my garage. That's when I decided to ditch the red and green for icy blue and silver, to transform the sled into blue Christmas decor that would also work as winter decor.Read more ›
Winter Decor Ideas and Non Christmas Winter Decorations for Hyggelig
Decorating your home after Christmas can be a struggle. At first glance, winter seems barren and uninviting, which can seep into your home decor. But…I'm here to tell you that there are plenty of winter decor ideas and non-Christmas winter decorations that are gorgeous and give you that cozy feeling of "hyggelig".


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We decorated some eggs for Easter again this year using one of our favorite methods. I figure most of the kids probably get to do the usual "dip & dye" method at home, so I like to do it a little differently here. The kids first "paint" their cooked egg with water, and then press on little squares of tissue paper and "paint" over them again with water until they are all sealed down. They then let the paper dry and can choose to leave it just like that, which is very bright and colorful, or they can peel the paper off and see the beautiful pastel patchwork that the wet tissue leaves behind. Happy Easter!
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Splashtop's Answer to Dell: 15 Million and More Deals with HP, ASUS
Just last week we heard of Dell's upcoming Latitude On feature, which allows you to immediately access certain applications on your computer upon opening your notebook, effectively bypassing the Windows boot up process. Powered by Intel, this Latitude On feature was designed and implemented by Dell. At the time, I noted the probability that some larger companies will create such features in-house and provide some competition for software makers like DeviceVM, the maker of Splashtop.
That's not to say that the smaller software makers are down and out - in the world of capitalism, competition makes the world go round. And now Splashtop, the company that provides the instant-on application for computers that would like immediate access to things like the Internet, has an additional $15 million to keep the competition going. This Series C round of funding was led by New Enterprise Associates, Inc., with existing investors Storm Ventures, DFJ Dragon, Tim Draper and Larry Augustin also participating in this round.
To make Splashtop's position even greater, the company has partnered with HP on select notebooks and has more PC manufacturer partnerships in the works. In conjunction with Splashtop's funding announcement, we also learn that ASUS has chosen to extend its partnership with Splashtop for the use of its instant-on environment capabilities. ASUS will be using Splashtop for its Eee Box B202 Nettop computer, which is a desktop version of its low-cost notebook that was introduced last year. As an alternative to some of the larger brands, ASUS is pushing to differentiate its position with the inclusion of Splashtop's instant-on ability to bypass the boot-up process.
And while Dell has a large focus on the business side of the personal computer industry, HP is targeted towards college students, who could easily latch onto the features that Splashtop provides. I also mentioned that the inclusion of more accessible features on a computer was also a step towards competing with the mobile phone industry on some level, though I feel its ultimately part of a larger merging process between the two types of devices when it's all said and done.


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Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX's "Fancy" won them the Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Song at last night's show. Iggy also debuted her collaboration with Britney Spears, "Pretty Girls," live last night, but not before debuting a new look.
At first, we thought Iggy's "new look" was her pink-tipped hair (which is, of course, new), but something else looks different about her, and we think it's got to do with her facial structure. Let's kick it back three months to the 2015 Grammy Awards.
Here's Iggy then:
And here's Iggy now:
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Did she chisel her chin? Get a nose job? Lose weight? Are we losing it? Let us know in the comments section.


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The Value Of Hotel Guest Reviews By Lodging Interactive
It's no secret to anyone by now that user generated content ("UGC") in the form of guest reviews continues to be on the rise. It seems as if there are new websites popping up everywhere to empower the consumer to provide their perspective as it relates to their experience with your business. This sharing process is a natural evolution in social media and it is especially important for hoteliers to take it seriously and not "blow it off" as we have seen many do.
According to the recently published PhoCusWright Social Media In Travel 2011: Traffic, Activity & Sentiment report, the volume of posted hotel reviews in the U.S. alone has grown from 880,000 in 2008 to nearly 1.1 million in 2010. The average number of posted hotel reviews per month, per 100 rooms, was also up significantly from 2.5 reviews in 2009 to 3.1 in 2010. Interestingly the report also stated that properties in the one, two and three star categories all saw a significant increase in guest review posts while four and five star properties both saw declines.
Unfortunately some General Managers still believe most negative hotel reviews are "planted" by their competition or posted by disgruntled guests looking for freebies or refunds. While we have seen much evidence of this on review sites, and some hotels are reportedly banding together to form a class action defamation lawsuit against TripAdvisor, we believe all posted reviews should be dealt with as if 100% sincere; posted guest reviews do effect revenue opportunities for the property.
Studies have shown that 75% of online travel buyers will check at least three reviews sites before booking online. Now imagine a hotel that doesn't respond to a negative guest review post which is read by thousands of potential guests. The revenue impact to the property is real and when you consider the cost involved to initially acquire the interest of that potential guest it is fiscally irresponsible to no respond to negative guest review posts; yet so many hoteliers do not reply. The PhoCusWright Social Media In Travel 2011: Traffic, Activity & Sentiment report also describes that visitors to Online Travel Agency ("OTA") hotel review pages are significantly more likely to book on hotel websites, and convert at a rate of 13-14% versus the average hotel conversion of 8-9%. In support of the report, we have always recommended our clients respond to all guest review posts regardless the comment sentiment being negative or positive.
While there are many tools and services on the market, including our own Chatter Guard Online Reputation Management Services, to help hotels identify and manage their guest review posts, responding to posts is time consuming especially when posting responses on multiple review sites. Moreover, beyond the overall sentiment scoring, careful focus should be placed on scoring guest review posts based on service attributes to ensure operational improvements are made in the problem areas. We recommend our clients meet regularly to discuss guest review post areas of concern based on departmental attributes such as housekeeping, food & beverage, staff, etc. Hoteliers should make the most of guest review posts to improve their overall service levels.


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Shanks and St. John (1994) claimed that the proposal of dissociable human learning systems - explicit and implicit learning systems is based on the following - explicit learning takes place with concurrent awareness and involves encoding of instances or fragments; implicit learning takes place without concurrent awareness and involves unconscious rule learning. In their review article, they concluded that generally implicit learning was unsupported with consideration to instrumental learning tasks, Pavlovian and evaluative conditioning models, sequential reaction time tasks and so on. This review would concentrate on the domains of Serial Reaction Time tasks, Pavlovian and evaluative conditioning models, with close reference to whether relevant empirical evidence would support the view of implicit learning or not. A domain which Shanks and St. John (1994) had ignored - people with dyslexia, would also be discussed.
As implicit learning is classified as unaware, Shanks and St. John (1994) proposed two criteria tests of awareness for implicit learning should meet.
The first one was the 'information criterion' - before concluding that subjects are unaware of the learned information that influences their behavior, the experimenter must be able to establish that the information he or she is looking for in the awareness test is indeed the information responsible for changes in performance. They also devised a second criterion - the sensitivity criterion, which stated that unaware learning must achieve an adequate level of sensitivity. In detail, in order to show that two dependent variables say tests of conscious knowledge and task performance relate to dissociable underlying systems, we must be able to show that our test of awareness is sensitive to all of the relevant conscious knowledge. Unless this criterion is met, the fact that subjects are able to transmit more information in their task performance than in a test of awareness may simply because performance test is more sensitive to whatever conscious information the subject has encoded (Shanks & St. John, 1994). It was based on the two criteria that Shanks and St. John (1994) concluded that there was no reliable evidence available to support implicit learning. In the research field, it was also based on their two criteria where researchers had become more cautious in making conclusions about supporting implicit learning, and they had also become more motivated to address the definitional operations of awareness.
Regarding Pavlovian conditioning paradigm, a well-established paradigm in learning, Shanks and St. John (1994) argued that the dissociation between learning of reinforcement contingence and presence of awareness was yet to be formally established. They outlined an experiment by Lovibond (1992) to illustrate the approach of eliciting measures of concurrent awareness with conditioned responses. Firstly, during the learning phase subjects adjusted a pointer continuously to indicate their moment-by-moment expectation of shock. Secondly, when the experiment ended, a structured interview was administered to assess the awareness of participants.
In each of the experiments in Lovibond (1992), some subjects could not indicate on both awareness tests that they associated A with shock to a greater extent than B. Critically, these subjects could not demonstrate stronger conditioned responding to A than to B. On the contrary, galvanic skin responses (GSR) were stronger to A than to B for subjects who were aware of the conditioning contingencies (Lovibond, 1992). Thus on these results Shanks and St. John (1994) concluded that learning about a conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with shock relationship did not occur when awareness of that relationship was absent. Shanks & St. John (1994) also quoted similar studies that disregarded implicit learning in the Pavlovian conditioning paradigm (Boakes, 1989; Dawson & Schell, 1985).
However, there are three studies that produced neurological evidence on Pavlovian conditioning paradigm that suggested the possibility of learning without conscious awareness, disputing the claim by Shanks & St. John (1994) that concurrent awareness was a prerequisite for Pavlovian Conditioning (Esteves et al, 1994; Wong et al., 1997; OE hman and Soares, 1998). They all had revealed that both skin conductance response (SCR) and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) could be conditioned without being consciously aware of the contingent relationship between the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US). Esteves et al. (1994) paired subliminal presentations of angry (experiment 1) and happy (experiment 2) human faces with aversive shock. During a subsequent supraliminal extinction phase, angry faces elicited greater SCR responses than stimuli that was not conditioned, suggesting that autonomic responses can be learned in an unaware fashion in response to fear-relevant stimuli, in this case an angry face. This effect did not occur, however, when the happy faces served as the CS. Secondly, OE hman and Soares (1998) replicated these results using snakes and spiders as fear-relevant stimuli and flowers and mushrooms as fear-irrelevant stimuli. In addition, Wong et al. (1997) utilized an aversive shock conditioning paradigm to demonstrate that brian waves can be conditioned to stimuli that could be accessed through perception. Wong et al. (1997) paired an unpleasant face with an aversive shock during a subliminal conditioning series. Results of their study found that N1, P2 and P3 ERP components reliably differentiated the CS+ (unpleasant face) from the CS (pleasant face) during a supraliminal postconditioning phase. In combination, these studies suggested that both ERP components and SCR can reliably differentiate between control stimuli and conditioned stimuli that were acquired without subjects being consciously aware of the contingent relationship CS+US and CS-US contingenies. In a later study, Bunce et al. (1999) confirmed that the unpleasant face elicited greater electroencemagnetograph (EMG) amplitude in the postconditioning phase than in the preconditioning phase, whereas EMG amplitude decreased from pre- to postconditioning for the pleasant face. Poststudy questionnaires administered revealed no differential reactions to the stimuli in the postconditioning phase in comparison to the preconditioning phase. Only one of the eight subjects in their study thought that the shock might have been paired with the unpleasant face. These self-report data lent even more support to arguing that the stimuli were subliminal, and that the subjects were not aware of a contingency between the CS+ and the US. Neither were they perceptually able to distinguish between the stimuli during the forced-choice recognition task, nor they were capable of guessing correctly the contingency between the CS+ and the US.
In fact, accurately measuring unconscious learning processes had been difficult. It could be explained by the process-purity problem (Curran, 2001). When we learn, an inter-play of explicit and implicit knowledge would usually be involved, making process-pure assessment tasks for implicit learning difficult to conduct. The 'method of opposition' suggested by Jacoby and colleagues (1991, 1998) reasoned that conscious and unconscious processes might be separated if they were placed in opposition such that they would influence performance in opposite ways. This method was supported by Shanks and St. John (1994) as an empirical methodology to test for implicit learning. The method of opposition assumed that there are variations in intentional control between conscious and unconscious processes. People can manage the way to use information when it can be accessed consciously, for instance responding 'non-famous' to names that are recollected from a study list. However, as people lack control over using unconscious information, a person's behaviour may conflict with his or her true intentions, say responding 'famous' to a name that is merely familiar because it was on the study list.
Turning to Serial Reaction Time tasks, there was recent compelling evidence by Destrebecqz and Cleeremans (2001) that supported implicit sequence learning without awareness by using the method of opposition. They applied the method of opposition in a Serial Reaction Time (SRT) experiment. There were two conditions in their SRT task which placed implicit and explicit knowledge in opposition. In the 'inclusion' condition, participants were asked to press response keys in an order following the sequence in the SRT task. On the contrary, participants were asked to press response keys in an order that mismatched the sequence in the 'exclusion' condition. It was expected that participants having good explicit knowledge of the material would regularly follow the sequence in the inclusion condition but not under the exclusion condition. However, people having no explicit knowledge about the material tend to generate the sequence equally often on inclusion and exclusion trials.
In their experiment, two groups - the 'RSI' and 'non-RSI' groups of participants were tested in conditions that led to different levels of explicit knowledge. The 'RSI' group, was given a brief pause between each response and the appearance of the next stimulus while the non-RSI group was not given any pauses. The RSI group showed a large difference between sequence and random SRT trials as well as generating the sequence significantly more often for inclusion than exclusion trials. Thus, the RSI group learned the sequence, but that learning was at least partially attributable toexplicit knowledge. The non-RSI group also performed more quickly in sequence compared with random SRT trials, but their generation performance suggested an implicit learning system was operating. The non-RSI group generated the sequences in the inclusion as often as in the exclusion condition. Moreover, participants' ability to discriminate between parts of the sequence in a final recognition test was consistent with their generation performance. Therefore, Destrebecqz and Cleeremans (2001) had indeed produced a compelling procedure that could satisfy both the Sensitivity criterion compared with commonly used tests for awareness in experiments in this domain - the 'exclusion' condition could apparently tap more deeply into the conscious knowledge pool of participants compared with just administering the 'inclusion' condition, which was what most previous common tests had done. Concerning the Information criterion, it is also with little doubt that knowledge learnt by participants concords highly with that used in the awareness tests.
One domain that Shanks and St. John (1994) did not really consider is dyslexics. In a study carried out by Roodenrys and Dunn (2007) which aimed to investigate the implicit learning ability of dyslexics, they used a different task that does meet the information and sensitivity criteria. Their task involved presenting a continuous sequence of stimuli that included a target stimulus to which the participant must respond by pressing a button as quickly as possible. Participants were not informed that another stimulus reliably appears before the target and so can act as a cue to the presentation of the target and facilitate response time. Results revealed that dyslexic children responded more slowly than the control group in overall, but showed the same degree of implicit learning as normal readers, thus, providing evidence for an unimpaired implicit learning mechanism in dyslexic individuals (Roodenrys & Dunn, 2007). Their results held profound implications for the underlying mechanisms of learning.
To sum up, the claim by Shanks and St. John (1994) that there is no reliable evidence of implicit learning is questionable when we consider the evidence supportive of implicit learning in this review. It might due to the fact that there were inadequate experimental methods that could readily meet the Sensitivity and Information criteria at their time. To shed light on the issue, more sensitive tests should be designed and thus be conducted. There were also some domains of human learning where Shanks and St. John (1994) did not consider in depth - human motor learning, contextual cuing (Olson & Chun, 2001) and learning in children with developmental dyslexia (Roodenrys & Dunn, 2007). By considering human learning in a broader view and more advanced methodologies being adopted in learning and memory experiments, more comprehensive view of the nature of learning would definitely be unraveled.
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Bruce, S. C., Bernat, E., Wong, P. S. & Shevrin, H. (1999). Further evidence for unconscious learning: preliminary support for the conditioning of facial EMG to subliminal stimuli. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 33, 341-347.
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Destrebecqz, A. & Cleeremans, A. (2001). Can sequence learning be implicit? New evidence with the process dissociation procedure. Psychonomic Bull. Rev. 8, 343-350.
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A Gift of Love/YMMV
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- Alternative Character Interpretation: While Ren is kept in character, he once in a blue moon says things that imply that really, inside, he's afraid of being alone.
- Complete Monster: Fan Suo. This is a woman who lost her first daughter because of anti-shaman aggression by the townspeople, but she never specifically uses that as a reason for doing what she does. What exactly does she do? Well, she curses and kills half the town for her daughter's death. After having another daughter, she pairs her with an older man who uses said daughter for sex - at twelve years old, and seems to be alright with it. Then, after Hua decides to marry Zhang instead, she forces her at 13 years old to have a child, which ends up killing her. One would think this would drive her to cherish the child as a memento, but she does just the opposite. She entices Zhang to practically become a sex addict for thirteen years with numerous women, causing him to ignore his own daughter's existence. As the girl, Pin-Mei, grows up, Suo beats her emotionally and physically, then begins to mold her into her mother so she can be used as a sacrifice fourteen years later to bring Hua back.
- That's not all! She crashes Ren and Pin-Mei's engagement party after threatening a servant with killing her family if she didn't tell her what was going on, then berates Pin-Mei for not continuing to play dress-up when she's not there. Then she tries to convince Pin-Mei that Ren doesn't love her, and only wants to control her, causing her to actually doubt him. It gets better! She has Ren cursed so that he tries to rape Pin-Mei, then uses that as a reason to have their engagement annulled so she won't have to worry about him interfering. Then she curses Pin-Mei, making her believe that Ren did rape her, even making her "relive it" through a nightmare, brainwashing her into fighting Ren and almost killing him. Then when Pin-Mei kills herself, she takes the time to tell Ren how bland and unspecial she was and was only a copy of her mother. Then we find out she tricked Ma Ying into helping her with her plan, and how does she reward her? Why, by extinguishing her spirit and using it in her ritual!
- Not to mention she kills Zhang, and then it's revealed that Zhang begged her to teach him to be a shaman just so he could see the spirit of Hua after her death, and she flat out refuses for no good reason other than to hurt him.
- She also uses Ren and Pin-Mei's love against them in the second half when she tricks Ren into thinking Pin-Mei followed him to the battle and heard him say that he didn't need her. She also has no problem taking her revenge out on Seta when it's really Rong that she wants to kill. The fact that she made Tadashi think she was his long-lost mother, then discard him when he started to realize otherwise doesn't help, either.


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A report released on Tuesday by London-based NGO Global Witness has prompted major US retailers to discontinue sales of exotic wood flooring linked to illegal logging in the tropical forests of Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Global Witness reports that an investigation into the 9,000-mile-long chain of custody that timber travels on its way from PNG to Chinese factories and ultimately store shelves in the United States determined that as much as one-third of the wood exports coming from the South Pacific nation in recent years was produced by clear-cutting rainforest concessions that local communities say were granted to logging companies in violation of their rights under PNG law.
"Papua New Guinea's government has illegally handed over vast tracts of indigenous land to logging companies, who are gutting virgin rainforests at breakneck speed," Global Witness campaign leader Rick Jacobsen said in a statement. "Responsible companies should not be dealing in this wood."
The majority of timber produced in PNG is shipped to China and turned into flooring, furniture, and plywood, among other products, though smaller amounts of PNG timber are sent to countries like India, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam. Much of the hardwood flooring produced in China is sold domestically, but the US buys $15 billion-worth of wood products from China every year, more than any other country.
Papua New Guinea's government has illegally handed over vast tracts of indigenous land to logging companies, who are gutting virgin rainforests at breakneck speed.
Rick Jacobsen, campaign leader, Global Witness
The report authors write: "Our investigation found that certain American and Chinese companies were selling this flooring without taking the necessary steps to ensure it was legal, despite a US ban on the trade in illegal timber under the Lacey Act," a law originally passed in the year 1900 to halt the illegal wildlife trade and amended in 2008 to ban the trade in illegally produced wood and plant products.
When confronted with the findings of the Global Witness report in April 2017, Home Legend, a company that supplies US retailer The Home Depot, decided to stop selling taun flooring products effective immediately and said it would review its sourcing policies, according to the Global Witness report. Taun is one of the most common hardwood species exported from PNG.
Home Legend told Global Witness that it had all the documentation required under the Lacey Act to prove the provenance of the wood it was buying from Chinese suppliers, but that the "information and detailed research" provided by the group had "brought the logging practices of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands into question."
Home Legend also told Global Witness that it had "received agreement from Home Depot to discontinue this sku [stock keeping unit] and pull all the samples from the stores." Home Depot's taun-based hardwood flooring product is currently marked as "discontinued" on the company's website.
Global Witness says it sent letters in March of this year to ten US companies in total who were found to be selling taun flooring. Nature Flooring Industries, Inc., a US subsidiary of Nature Home, one of China's largest flooring retailers, said it would halt all procurement of flooring made with wood from PNG and review its sourcing policies and procedures. Two companies said their taun flooring was sourced from Indonesia, and the rest did not respond.
Two years ago, Lumber Liquidators became the first major US corporation to be found guilty of violating the Lacey Actsince it was amended in 2008. A 2015 analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that illegal wood imports into the US have declined significantly — between 32 and 44 per cent — since the Lacey Act amendments went into effect, but that companies were still importing as much as $3 billion-worth of illegal wood into the US every year.
No evidence of free, prior, informed consent from locals
Under PNG's constitution, the country's citizens are guaranteed legal ownership over land they have traditionally lived on and used. But as of 2011, more than 12 percent of this land had been granted to companies as agricultural concessions, known as Special Agriculture and Business Leases (SABLs), according to Global Witness.
"Roughly one out of every ten tropical logs entering the Chinese market in recent years came from an SABL," according to the report. "Unlike the US and Europe, China does not have a law banning the import of illegal timber, making it a conduit for wood from high risk countries like PNG."
PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's administration has promised to cancel the illegal leases, Global Witness notes, but has yet to follow through on that commitment. The PNG government did not respond to requests for comment.
Paul Pavol is a landowner in PNG who was awarded the Alexander Soros Foundation's Award for Environmental and Human Rights Activism last year for his efforts to protect his forests from logging. He told Global Witness that the lease the PNG government used to grant his land to logging and oil palm companies were the product of fraud and forgery, and he is challenging the lease in court.
"These people say they own the land now, and they do whatever they want," Pavol said in a statement. "Police came to our community at night. People were scared that they might burn down our houses. That's the reason we raise our voices. Something's got to be done to save our forest."
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This paper from 1937 has observations of "Nova Lacertæ 1936":
I only find one nova in Lacerta for 1936: CP Lac. If I plot the light curve of this one, it looks like it was discovered June 1936.
But the observations from Lagrula start in february and end in september.
Where dit it (or he?) go wrong?


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Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 offers more math features and a lower price than the 2006 version. The new, step-by-step math resources are a great way to learn and understand math problems. Other features such as foreign language verb conjugations, writing style guides, and access to Encarta Premium 2007 are solid tools for busy students, and the clean interface is inviting. Student's lower price doesn't mean it's a bargain, though: you'll need to buy Microsoft Office XP or 2003 separately to use Student's presentation, chart, and graph templates, and tech-support calls and e-mails cost extra. If you already have Office and don't need technical support, Student 2007 can be terrifically useful. If not, think twice about how much Student may ultimately cost.
We set up Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 from the enclosed DVD in about 20 minutes in our tests on a Windows XP system. During the application's installation, you're invited to join Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program, which monitors your use of the product.
You pay a price for convenience with Student. The time-saving presentation, chart, and graph templates in Student rely upon Excel and PowerPoint, not included with Student. If you don't already have Microsoft Office, then the $149 for Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003, or a more recent version, will substantially increase Student's $69.95 price tag (not counting the $20 mail-in rebate).


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Smoked by Windows Phone by Nokia France (Speed Test) & Nokia South Africa (Lost to Lumia)May 12, 2012 1 Comment
Smoked by Windows Phone is so popular that it now goes by various names. Nokia launched it and called it blown away by lumia and not its subdivisions all over the world all have names for them as well. Nokia France: Speed Test Nokia South Africa:Lost to Lumia via: MyNokiaBlog


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How to Replace the Push-to-Start Button on a Kenmore 70 Series Dryer
Once you choose the dry cycle on your Kenmore 70 series dryer, pushing the start button starts the dryer cycle. If your dryer fails to start once you push the button, the thermal fuse may have failed. The thermal fuse acts as a safety feature to keep the dryer from operating if the dryer overheats. If you discover the thermal fuse has not failed, chances are the components inside the push-to-start button have failed, and you must replace the button on your Kenmore dryer for it to operate.
Unplug your Kenmore 70 series dryer from the wall outlet. Slide the appliance from the wall to access the back of the control panel.
Grab the push-to-start knob with your fingers. Pull the knob from the front of the control panel. Alternatively, wrap a piece of heavy-duty string or wire around the knob if you cannot grip the knob with your fingers. Pull on the string to pull the knob off the control panel.
Remove the 1/4-inch hex-head screws from the back of the control panel, using a 1/4-inch nut driver. Lower the top of the rear panel to access the control panel's wiring.
Press on the tab at the top of the push-to-start button. Use a small flathead screwdriver to push on the top of the button if you cannot release the tab with your fingers. Rotate the top of the button downward and lift up on the bottom of the button to pull it from the panel.
Note the location of the two wires on the back of the push button. Pull the wire connectors off the push button terminals, using needle-nose pliers. Discard the old push-to-start button.
Insert the bottom of the replacement push-to-start button into the opening in the control panel. Rotate the button against the panel and snap it into place. Push the wires onto the replacement button's terminal.
Lift the rear panel to close the control panel. Secure it with the hex-head screws. Push the push-to-start knob onto the replacement button.
Push your Kenmore 70 series dryer into its original position. Plug the dryer's power cord into the wall.
Things Needed
- Heavy-duty string or wire
- Nut driver, 1/4-inch
- Small flathead screwdriver
- Needle-nose pliers


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Help a knight to avoid dangers while learning about conservation of matter in chemical reactions.
In this project our team created the entire game since the concept based on a given learning objective. We worked close to teachers to deliver the best experience for the targeted audiance with accurate content.


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The landscape of the Scottish Borders is characterised by green, rolling hills divided by beautiful river valleys; the most famous of which is the Tweed.
Border Forest Walks - The landscape of the Borders is characterised by extensive forests. Many of these forests were planted 40 years ago or more, and are coming to their first maturity.
The Coastal Walk - A superb coastline of approximately 32 miles with many small coves and natural harbours. The birdlife is magnificent, and St Abb's Head, managed jointly by the National Trust for Scotland and the Scottish Wildlife Trust, is a National Nature Reserve.
Town and Village Walks - There is no better way to find out about a place than by walking round it. There are local walks leaflets for many towns and villages, others are in preparation.
Ranger Led Walks - The Scottish Borders Council's Ranger Service operates a Guided Walks programme all year round, including winter walks.
Long Distance Walks - St Cuthbert's Way leads from Melrose, where St Cuthbert is said to have started his ministry, to Holy Island (Lindisfarne), where he ended his days.
The Southern Upland Way - For the experienced backpacker the Southern Upland Way, offers a challenging coast-to-coast crossing of Southern Scotland from Portpatrick on the west coast to Cockburnspath in Berwickshire passing through Melrose. It is possible to walk sections of the route in a day.
Border Abbeys Way - This circular route covering many of the main Borders Towns, as well as linking the four great abbeys on foot, is steadily being developed, and is being opened in sections as work progresses.
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Milwaukee students find similarities through public art project
My Milwaukee/Our Milwaukee is a collaborative project between fifty-two students from MC2, a charter school in the city of Milwaukee, and University School of Milwaukee, a private school in River Hills. During the 2013-2014 school year, students developed relationships with each other around the essential question of how to create community—"Our Milwaukee"— in a way that values all members. Through discussions in both Spanish and English students explored racism, segregation, and other issues that plague our city. After creating individual expressions of identity in relation to Milwaukee, students formed small groups to create art pieces that could positively impact the community.
The project resulted in seven different public art pieces displayed in Walker's Point, the Third Ward and at the Lakefront.
Check out the story above to hear from one set of students about how this project has formed bonds they hope will last a lifetime.


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Cultural Diversity of Interpersonal Communication Competence: A Study of Puerto Rican Managers
Vaught, Bobby C.
Pettit Jr., John D.
Goris, José R.
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Most research and theories of interpersonal communication reflect mainstream U.S. culture. In an attempt to better understand the communication practices of Spanish-speaking cultures, an exploratory study of interpersonal communication was conducted involving Puerto Rican managers. The Index of Interpersonal Communication Competence (IICC) was translated into Spanish and administered in two large international pharmaceutical companies in Puerto Rico. The results of the study are discussed in terms of implications for communication theory and applied communication research.


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It has often been assumed that a lack of family-friendly policies has kept many women from promotion to the highest ranks of the business world, and companies are starting to address this concern.
It may be that the lack of family-friendly policies may not be the most pressing issue. Rather the surge in hours worked by both men and women should be of primary concern as 24/7 work cultures 'lock gender inequality in place'.
Issues of work-family conflict remain understood as primarily a woman's problem; family-friendly policies designed to deal with work-family conflict target women and have unintended negative consequences for their careers. Yet, providing family-friend policy allows companies to focus on a narrow set of fixes and ignore more difficult questions about cultures of overwork.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555947.post112127039709127111..comments2020-10-20T22:39:09.892-06:00Comments on The Geomblog: It's travel time !Suresh Venkatasubramanianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555947.post-1126693643668915322005-09-14T04:27:00.000-06:002005-09-14T04:27:00.000-06:00anna, too much comments about dna testing secrets....anna, too much comments about dna testing secrets...firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555947.post-1126616327117734552005-09-13T06:58:00.000-06:002005-09-13T06:58:00.000-06:00I really like your conversation on dna testing. I...I really like your conversation on dna testing. I have a dna testing secrets blog if you wanna come on over and check my stuff out.annahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555947.post-1126593836549393472005-09-13T00:43:00.000-06:002005-09-13T00:43:00.000-06:00I enjoyed your information on dna testing. I have...I enjoyed your information on dna testing. I have a dna testing blog if you want to check it out.annahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555947.post-1126125275272566752005-09-07T14:34:00.000-06:002005-09-07T14:34:00.000-06:00I really enjoy your content on dna testing and wil...I really enjoy your content on dna testing and will be back very frequently! I actually have my own dna testing secrets blog with all kinds of secret stuff in it. You're welcome to com by!paigehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555947.post-1121634484965650092005-07-17T15:08:00.000-06:002005-07-17T15:08:00.000-06:00I will try to review the day's events. the worksho...I will try to review the day's events. the workshop is really about individual interactions, and I don't want to "play reporter" for fear of people not discussing their private work. But I will try to summarize the talks and any interesting new results that are worth talking about.

Posted by email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555947.post-1121613249226195682005-07-17T09:14:00.000-06:002005-07-17T09:14:00.000-06:00Will there be a post reviewing the workshop? ...Will there be a post reviewing the workshop?

Posted by firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555947.post-1121487510423353812005-07-15T22:18:00.000-06:002005-07-15T22:18:00.000-06:00Suresh,A while back, you asked for open problems t...Suresh,

A while back, you asked for open problems to attack. Since that thread is dead, I thought I'd mention a new "open field" here.

I recently came across this tantilizing abstract for a talk to be given at CalTech next week:

DNA Origami

Paul Rothemund
Caltech

A key goal for bottom-up nanofabrication has been to generate structures whose complexity matches that achieved by top-down methods. Towards this goal, DNA nanotechnology provides an attractive route. Here I describe a method for folding long single strands of DNA into arbitrary two dimensional target shapes using a raster fill technique. Self-assembled in a one-pot reaction from the 7 kilobase genome of phage M13mp18 and more than 200 synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides, the shapes are roughly 100 nm in diameter and nearly 5 megadaltons in mass. (For comparison the eukaroytic ribosome, one of nature's most complex molecular machines, is 4.2 megadaltons in mass.) Experimental shapes approximate target shapes, such as a 5-pointed star, with a resolution of 3.5 to 6 nm and may be decorated by arbitrary patterns at 6 nm resolution to form words or images.

Enabled by a program for laying out complicated designs and, utilizing inexpensive unpurified oligodeoxynucleotides, this method helps move DNA nanotechnology from the realm of research towards that of engineering. The ability to create arbitrary shapes provides a new route to the bottom-up nanofabrication of complex nano-scale devices and instruments. Physicists and materials scientists should be able to use DNA origami to arrange optical, electronic, and mechanical components into novel materials or even an integrated "nano-laboratory" of their choosing. Biologists may be able to use these structures to position proteins and other biomolecules in precise arrangements to study their coupling. Indeed these structures may be thought of as a versatile "nanobreadboard," a simple platform for creating arbitrary nanostructures

I don't know Paul, and I don't understand any of the abstract, but based on the title, DNA Origami:

There HAS to be some cool computational geometry questions here, no?

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fightinmad replied to Lessersolo's topic in Welcome New Members!Welcome! Make yourself at home!
Thanks Remkin and OBXer! Looking forward to jumping in a bit! Not really able to watch games for the most part, so highlights and stats/fancy stats are about the limits of my following. So when I read the event summary and see JWill is hitting people I know we got problems, lol.
I have more or less bounced back, lol. Happy to be home. ?
Returned from Lurkerland
fightinmad posted a topic in Welcome New Members!Yeah, so, I'm back. I know I pretty much disappeared in 2009, I had a horseback riding accident that left me recovering from an MTBI that year and between that and work, forums were sadly not high on my list of priorities. I have been lurking around since probably early 2010, just not signed in, and pretty much living vicariously through our recently returned prodigal 'Cane, JWill. But hopefully things will kick up here, the team will find their cruising gear, and we'll all be one big happy family again. I missed you guys. Let's do this. Whatever It Takes. ?
Been lurking for about 7 of the 8. Work and life have not been kind. That said, I have high hopes for the team and hope we start seeing the kind of activity on the board we had in '05.
Hey, I survived both lockouts. I have high hopes! ?
I think we have a team that is more than the sum of its parts, once they actually hit their stride. I'm just a little on the impatient side about them getting there. =)
Pretty sure doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity, but then again...
Dave Droshak: Carolina's Deals of the Decade
fightinmad replied to TSA's topic in Hurricanes Talk[quote name='indaboardz wrote: goeb'] Trading Williams away to get Cole eventually, well that a whole other issue. I've watched Justin many times on tv this year and he is completely back to full form . and now saying that......Williams breaks his leg in Phoenix on Saturday. Ahhh, come now. He didn't break his leg, he broke his ankle and a couple ligaments. And in all fairness, if Kopitar and Jovanovski fall on you while you're stuck behind Kopitar, don't you think you may break something too? Kind of like when a certain defenseman who can't hit the broad side of a barn manages to break your hand with a slapshot. Luck is luck, and Williams has absolutely no good luck. But yes, prior to that he was in great form. And we could have used him.
Mod availability
fightinmad replied to hctimo787's topic in Welcome to the Official Message Board of the Carolina HurricanesYeah thanks guys. The real story is way less glamorous. My friend had spinal fusion surgery and I've been taking care of her animals. I'm up at 4am every morning. I don't stay up late any more because I just can't. Between that and a full-time job, I'm pretty much never here. Which sucks. (As to the L.A. thing, I managed to watch 4 'Canes games post-trade and only 2 Kings games, and I have C.I. I still love the 'Canes but life gets in the way.)
It's human nature to try to gauge intention and emotion from subtle clues in demeanor or expression or tone of voice. There's very little in the way of psychiatry involved. In fact, the same powers of observation are more at work in a game of poker. And if you don't like it, you don't have to. They have as much right to say "he looks sad" or "he looks annoyed" or "he looks surprised" as you do to say he doesn't. So don't get upset about it. Personally, I think he looks tired and somewhat shellshocked, but that's just my 2 cents.
I can tell you on one of the Kings boards, they think they've won the trade just listening to his interview. I guess he's slicker than I thought, lol.
I'll still follow him probably as closely as I do the 'Canes. I hope this gets us into the playoffs, else it was rather pointless. And if you think he looked annoyed in the media scrum, you should see him in the interview with that Heidi girl, lol.
Trades, Rumors and Suggestions from the fans
fightinmad replied to Caniac5's topic in Hurricanes TalkYeah Williams is currently worth something between a case of pucks and a skate sharpening machine. Do we need a new skate sharpening machine?
Trades, Rumors and Suggestions from the fans
fightinmad replied to Caniac5's topic in Hurricanes TalkThat actually looks somewhat reasonable, JJ. But Brind'Amour is more likely to retire than to be traded.
Trippism from the Leaf's game
fightinmad replied to super_dave_1's topic in Hurricanes TalkI like Tripp to some extent, but I really don't know how Forslund refrains from doing him grievous bodily harm some nights. Sorry Tripp, sometimes less is more, especially with the running the mouth thing. He must have been one amusing goalie.
Trades, Rumors and Suggestions from the fans
fightinmad replied to Caniac5's topic in Hurricanes TalkWilliams really wants to stay here, because *gasp* he likes it better than Philly! He effed up his knee last season. Ok. He's done that before and it's a possible recurring thing, only your doctors are in fact better than the ones he saw in Philly the first time. So that's a lot less likely. He tore his achilles right before camp. Freak accident that could happen to anyone. He worked his butt off and came back early because he wants to play here. It is not always easy to find players who genuinely want to stay in one place, let alone a "non-traditional market", for a long time. When you find 'em, usually you keep 'em. And Ruu? There's no way we can afford to let him go. He's really the only physical presence we have up front, and Gleason has pointed out we're too soft on that as well. He works hard and he's got game. If we had someone else who could hit and play good hockey like Ruu, we'd be in much better shape. Staal... I think we've LeCavalier'd him. We kept telling him he was all that and a bag of chips, he got the big paycheck, and he's been less than stellar since. Is he talented enough to do what we want him to do? Definitely! Is he motivated enough? Umm, no. Why not? Is he under the impression he's too good for that? He's huge. He can go into the corner and get the puck for himself. His wingers shouldn't have to do it for him. He's a big boy. And would it kill him to have someone teach him to win a draw? As far as our D goes, Corvo, Seidenberg, and Gleason have been just about the only ones to impress me at all. Corvo is not terribly talented but he sure outworks everyone. I'd love to have six of him. Seidenberg actually tries. He has his flashes of brilliance. Gleason is the only reason we don't get beat to a bloody pulp some nights. I'd keep all three if I could. I'd even keep Pitkanen if he'd just hit somebody once in a while.
Patrick Eaves
fightinmad replied to 6-19-06's topic in Hurricanes TalkThe fundamental difference between LaRose and Armstrong is Armstrong has deliberately injured people. LaRose has not. A pest is not a headhunter. A headhunter is not a pest. Headhunters are a menace, and they do not get properly dealt with as they were in years past. Pests are the guys you finish EVERY check on that you possibly can because they're annoying as hades. And it's very rare to see a pest actually hurt someone. He's usually too buy flapping his jaws. So Armstrong =/= LaRose.
Your opinion on the teams lines
fightinmad replied to GOCANES1311's topic in Hurricanes TalkIf we want Williams to be back where he was faster, we need to worry less about putting him on the power play and think more heavily about putting back on the PK where he has done so well in the past. I think with that added responsibility, he would step up quicker. It would give him opportunity to get more ice time and it might just help out our lackluster shorthanded play. And Williams playing with Brind'Amour makes sense because they really are a good tandem, they know where the pass is going to be and they anticipate each other extremely well. Does that mean Williams moves up or Brind'Amour moves down? Williams needs more ice time than he's currently getting, he really does do better when he's not idle on the bench for most of the game, but they don't seem to be willing to give him more ice time. So I guess Brind'Amour moves down, although he is still up there as far as faceoffs go in this league, and Staal, not so much.
I'm not blaming Tanabe, and I'm not blaming JR. I think that a phone call is a realistic request.
I think if it says in his contract he has to be here for camp or at least return phone calls, then he has to do that. If you work somewhere and you get hurt, you still have to update your employer on your progress. If you don't, they can terminate you. That's how it works. I think he could at least respond to phone calls, even if he can't be at camp. He can still speak. (Unless we've been misinformed)
Player Sightings
fightinmad replied to its-staal-good-num-12's topic in Hurricanes TalkSomehow, I always pictured Nicky to be the Home Depot type. =D
Your Top 15 current NHL forwards
fightinmad replied to TSA's topic in Around the NHL & Other Hockey TalkHe's tops in drawing penalties too. He falls down and bleeds if you sneeze on him.
Yeah, I take it there's no mention of hockey being ten times more awesome than any of those other sports, huh? =D
Worst pet peeve?
fightinmad replied to TSA's topic in Off TopicFrom this, I can only assume that you thought I was talking about you in my above post. That's kind of funny, because I wasn't, nor do I take the internet seriously. At all. In fact, I hadn't even read your comment until after you replied. The funny thing is, I wasn't even talking about injured players, I was talking about trades. And it's been my pet peeve going back to the J.J. deal. Maybe I'm not the one who needs to take the internet less seriously.


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The Vermont Cheesemakers Festival on July 22 has sold out! In fact, it sold out by the end of June. I imagine there are a good number of people disappointed they did not purchase their tickets early. Those who do have tickets for the 2012 festival will discover 40 plus cheesemakers, 20 wineries/breweries, 20 artisan food producers, 2 tasting seminars, 1 cooking show and 1 cheese making demo.
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Living in New York comes with the expectation that you're going to see some crazy stuff from time to time… but I was completely unprepared for this scene last weekend. A loud crash at one o'clock in the morning, and I discovered this waiting for me in front of my apartment:
Oh yes… that vehicle is on its side, on a one-way street, having clipped one car and then overcorrected and crashed full-on into another, flipping over in the process.
By the time I got down there, the driver had already crawled out and taken off, allegedly pretty drunk from the description of other observers. It was really a very jarring sight, because my mind just couldn't seem to process the idea of a car in the middle of the street, on its side, facing perpendicular to a narrow one-way street:
Cops and firefighters got there almost instantly, and after determining that the driver had gone and that no-one was in any immediate danger, they got a police truck out there to pull the vehicle upright:
Strangely, after they got it righted, they all left and the damn thing sat there for an hour. Finally a tow truck came and hauled it away.
Still, it wasn't until the next morning that I realized just how bad the collisions were.
And of course, let's not forget the innocent tree that came away injured:
The driver was coming home on the evening of Friday May 4th (also known as the morning of Saturday May 5th) so one can only assume that he was drunk out of his mind if he thought that running from the police was a good idea.
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This post is following on from my previous blog post where Malcolm X lamented that had Muslims actually carried out Da'wah in America, people would not have fallen for the lies by Elijah Muhammad.
When Malcolm X went on Hajj and saw the true Islam in its multicultural glory, he also saw that the Muslims were complacent. As someone that had in the past recruited thousands of people, the wheels in his mind were spinning:
Behind my nods and smiles, though, I was doing soem American-type thinking and reflection. I saw that Islam's conversions around the world could double and triple if the colourfulness and the true spiritualness of the Hajj pilgrimage were properly advertised and communicated to the outside world. I saw that the Arabs are poor at understanding the psychology of non-Arabs and the importance of public relations. The Arabs said 'Insha Allah' (God willing') - then they waited for converts. Even by this means Islam was on the march, but I knew that with improved public relations methods the number of new converts turning to Allah could be turned into millions.
Reading the whole Hajj journey from the authobiography is awe-inspiring, as someone from another world experienced it for the first time, with an open mind and heart.