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In the fall of 2002, the British inventor James Dyson entered the United States market with an upright vacuum cleaner, the Dyson DC07. Dyson was the product's designer, engineer, manufacturer, and pitchman—its auteur. The price was three hundred and ninety-nine dollars. At the time, a bad one economically, most of the major vacuum-cleaner manufacturers were in a price war to produce a machine that could sell for less than a hundred dollars at the retail chains, where low-priced, high-volume sales are the standard business model. The idea that a mass of big-box-store shoppers would spend four hundred dollars for a vacuum cleaner was far-fetched indeed.
"Dyson? Who's he?" one vacuum-cleaner dealer said at the time, in a Forbes article. "If I were Hoover, I wouldn't be quaking in my boots." Not only did the Dyson cost much more than most machines sold at retail but it was made almost entirely of plastic, a material commonly associated with cheap products. And whereas other vacuum cleaners were frosted with sleek exteriors that hid the machine's innards, the DC07 looked as if it had been turned inside out: it wore its guts on its skin. In the most perverse design decision of all, Dyson let you see the dirt as you collected it, in a clear plastic bin on prominent display in the machine's midsection.
"Of course, there were comparably priced vacuums on the market," Bill McLoughlin, the executive editor of HomeWorld Business, a trade publication, said recently. But they were niche products sold by door-to-door salesmen who were employed by high-end brands. Dyson had only one salesman, essentially: James Dyson himself, a handsome silver-haired inventor, then in his mid-fifties, who appeared in his own ads. Dyson didn't hawk his vacuum; rather, he explained why it was superior in the calm manner of an engineer (though he didn't look like an engineer, either—he looked like a British actor playing a Roman senator in an "I, Claudius"-style production). In its packaging, the company did not rely on a striking logo or a "brand image," such as, say, the red squiggly tail of the Dirt Devil. Instead, Dyson offered a brand story.
One day in 1978, James Dyson was cleaning his house when he became frustrated with the way his vacuum cleaner quickly lost suction. Tearing several bags apart, he saw the problem—the bags' pores, which separate the dirt from the air passing through the bag, quickly became blocked with dust, constricting the airflow and reducing the suction. It was an obvious design flaw, and yet vacuum cleaners had been made that way for a hundred years. As the brand story goes, Dyson thought about the problem, built thousands of prototypes, and finally came up with a vacuum cleaner that used centrifugal force, rather than a bag, to separate the dirt from the air. By creating a powerful cyclone inside the two-chambered circular bin—the air inside moves at nine hundred and twenty-four miles per hour, according to Dyson—his "Dual Cyclone" vacuum cleaner could spin even the tiniest motes of dust to the sides of the bin. Because it was bagless, Dyson explained in the ads, the machine "never loses suction."
Best Buy was the first national retail chain to carry the DC07. The chain's merchandise manager, David Kielly, had taken the vacuum cleaner home with him, and he had undergone the transformative experience that would soon become familiar to many of Dyson's customers: the thrilling sight of the bin filling with the dirt and hair that your existing vacuum cleaner had failed to suck up. Dyson had grasped what the companies trying to make hundred-dollar vacuum cleaners had forgotten: that a lot of people get their kicks from buying appliances, and are willing to pay a premium for a machine that will deliver an emotional experience.
By October, 2002, Best Buy had sold ten times more DC07s than it had expected to sell, and soon Target began carrying the machines, as did Home Depot, Sears, and Bed Bath & Beyond. Small children related to its vaguely anthropomorphic shape; it looked like a big toy. But it also looked serious—the solid yellow used for the body of the machine was a shade familiar in power tools but not in household appliances, and it gave the Dyson a gravitas that the lime greens and mulberries of the other brands did not possess. And it was beautiful: the durable polycarbonate plastic was flecked with aluminum to lend the finish the pleasing, glossy sheen that Jeff Koons brings to the surfaces of his balloon-dog sculptures. Within two years, Dyson was the market leader in dollars spent, and today has a twenty-three-per-cent share of the market. And Sir James Dyson is known to millions as the man who made vacuum cleaners sexy.
Dyson came to New York for a day in June to launch his newest product, a desktop fan—the Dyson Air Multiplier. With the Air Multiplier, Dyson is attempting to do a Dyson to portable electric fans: to introduce a three-hundred-dollar product into a market in which a top-of-the-line desktop fan sells for about eighty dollars, and a serviceable box fan can be had for less than twenty dollars (and for not much more than a hundred dollars you can buy an air-conditioner).
By 11 A.M., it was already hot on the sidewalk of West Twenty-third Street, along which Dyson was rapidly making his way to the Best Buy at the corner of Sixth Avenue. He looked comfortable in white sneakers without laces and the Y-3 sportswear that Yohji Yamamoto designed for Adidas—navy slacks and a white warmup jacket, with a T-shirt underneath—and he walked with the gliding gait of the cross-country runner he was in the early nineteen-sixties, when, as a schoolboy in the East of England, he first discovered how much he liked to win. He had not managed to get the ten hours of sleep he enjoys when he is at Dodington Park, the sprawling country estate he owns in Gloucestershire, but he did not appear tired. He wore the air of stoic forbearance that he often brings to public appearances for his products, smiling a wan, I'd-rather-be-in-the-lab smile. As the face of a company that is all about design and engineering, Dyson is in the paradoxical position of being the chief marketer of an anti-marketing philosophy, and the name behind a brand that pretends to have nothing to do with branding.
On entering the store, Dyson took the escalator down to the windowless lower floor, where consumer products are sold. Pulsating colored lights emanating from screens in the nearby electronics section flickered in the faces of the customers and staff. He stopped by the aisle where the vacuum cleaners were displayed. At the end was the latest Dyson upright, the DC25 Animal, retailing for five hundred and fifty dollars, sitting next to a Dyson cannister vacuum, for three hundred and ninety-nine. The Dyson Animal handheld (two hundred and seventy dollars) sat next to that. Picking up the handheld, he said, "I think the main thing is that our products look like what they do—the engineering leads the design." He explained that at Dyson there is no division between the engineers and the designers, such as exists in the automobile industry, for example. "We don't have industrial designers. All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers. When you separate the two, you get the designers doing things for marketing purposes rather than functional reasons."
There were two Air Multipliers on display at the end of an aisle that featured conventional fans; both were switched on, and air was flowing out of them, although at first glance it wasn't clear how this was possible, because all you can see is a large plastic ring—like an upright basketball hoop—sitting on a pedestal, with no visible blade. Whereas Dyson's vacuum cleaners proudly display what other vacuum cleaners conceal, the Air Multipliers make a mystery of what in other fans is obvious: where the air is coming from. "First we took the bag out of the vacuum cleaner," read the ad copy that went along with the in-store display. "Now we've taken the blade out of the fan."
An older woman with her hair piled up on her head and covered by a scarf was examining the other desktop fans in the aisle. She had walked right past the Dyson display without looking at it.
"Excuse me, Madam, have you tried these?" Dyson beckoned her toward the display.
"No, I haven't."
"Well, you see, it's a different kind of fan."
Dyson put his hand through the empty portal, with the air of a magician about to pull something out of his hat.
"Oh! Neat! How much is it? Three hundred dollars! No way!"
"Well, it is expensive, but feel the air that comes out. Much smoother. You don't get that annoying buffeting that fan blades produce, do you?"
"Well, yes—" said the woman, dubiously.
"And it's easier to clean."
"Well, for the extra two hundred and fifty dollars I can clean the other ones. Do you have anything for less than fifty dollars?"
"Oh, I don't work here, Madam. I invented the fan. It's mine."
"Oh, you did? You figured all that out by yourself? You must be a genius."
"I'm an engineer."
"What did you study in school?"
"Oh, classics! Well!" With that, the woman stopped a passing salesman and asked him to show her the cheapest fan. Dyson headed for the escalator. Although he hadn't made a sale, he appeared satisfied. He knew what he was up against, and that's the place he likes to be.
In Britain, a few weeks earlier, the first hot days of the English summer had spiked demand for the Air Multiplier by three hundred per cent, and such is Dyson's stature in his own country that the news was noted in several national papers. Dyson is not only the most celebrated British engineer of his time but also the unofficial technology czar of the new Conservative government. David Cameron invited Dyson to speak to the Conservative Party conference in 2009 (it was only the second time that Dyson's staff had seen him in a suit, the other occasion being when he was knighted, for "services to business," in 2006) and asked him to come up with a strategy for reviving the great tradition of British engineering and invention, which flowered during the industrial revolution and has been in steep decline since the end of the Second World War. When Dyson's report on the subject, "Ingenious Britain: Making the U.K. the Leading High Tech Exporter in Europe," was published, in March, Cameron visited the Dyson headquarters, in Malmesbury, which is near Dyson's home, to promote it.
Only a few years ago, it was common to hear London described as the financial capital of the world. But, since the crash, Britain's debts and the tardiness of its recovery had led to talk of "rebalancing" the British economy—relying less on the financial sector and real estate, and more on manufacturing and exports. The way forward, Dyson argues in his report, is for Britain to go back to designing, engineering, and manufacturing things. He envisions an economy made up of lots of high-tech engineer-entrepreneurs like him, who will create a second industrial revolution. "The top nineteen companies in the world make things," he told me when I saw him in London. "And the old economy is growing faster than the new economy, and it's more profitable, it has greater revenues from exports, and employs more people. To be a wealthy country you need exports." Britain's exports tend to be cultural products, like art, theatre, music, architecture, advertising, and TV, made by the so-called "creative industries," rather than industrial goods. Dyson objects to the phrase "creative industries" for two reasons. "One, it implies traditional industry is not creative," he said. "And, two, it suggests that art and TV and the like are an industry. They're not necessarily industries, because they don't make things."
Why did Britain decline as an industrial power? In "English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980," a classic analysis of this question, Martin J. Wiener argues that, because the industrial revolution failed to produce a fundamental social revolution, the values and prejudices of the old landed aristocracy were left in place. These included a snobbery toward anything related to trade or industry. Therefore, the children of the newly wealthy industrialists valued the arts, leisure, and investing over work and manufacturing, and the decline of the industrial spirit (and the rise of the creative industries) was inevitable. I talked about Wiener's analysis with Dyson, and he agreed with it. "Our culture has always been top-down," he said. "The ideal was not to work with your hands, not to get down in the muck and the grime—an education was seen as a way out of that world, and still is, to a large extent. Those dark, satanic mills—that's what people wanted to escape from. My teachers used to say to me, 'If you fail at school, you'll end up in a factory.' Well, I didn't fail in school and I ended up in a factory anyway. Fortunately for me."
In the U.S., as in Britain, the percentage of citizens who become engineers has been falling for years, as the percentage of college graduates who go into marketing and financial services has grown. China produces five times as many engineers as the U.S. Of those Americans who do graduate with engineering degrees, almost half are no longer practicing by the time they're thirty. DARPA, the Defense Department's research agency, has called the decline in U.S. college graduates with degrees in the so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) an issue of "national importance" and one that "affects our capacity to maintain a technological lead in critical skills and disciplines" in the world. Is this decline occurring for reasons similar to the decline of engineering in Britain—an inevitable result of a post-industrial culture? Allen Soyster, a director of engineering education at the National Science Foundation, told me he did not think that class played the same role here that it does in Britain—he thought the earning potential of jobs such as those in the financial sector was one of the main reasons behind engineering's shrinking appeal—but status was a factor. "Medicine and finance are seen as higher-status jobs than engineering," he said. "I tried to get my own children to be engineers. One is a nurse practitioner and the other works on Wall Street." He added, "It's all a bit sobering."
"Ingenious Britain" calls for a radical culture change in Britain, led by the government, to make the STEM subjects desirable to young people. The Conservative government is backing one of Dyson's proposals, which is to offer tax credits to technology startups, but, with the government in the midst of enacting the steepest budget cuts in a generation to shrink the national deficit, there's not much money for new programs at the moment. The James Dyson Foundation, Dyson's philanthropic organization, is doing what it can in the meantime "to inspire and nurture the design engineers of the future," through educational programs, grants, and scholarships. The foundation helped to establish the Dyson School of Design Innovation, in Bath. It also runs the James Dyson Award—a fifteen-thousand-dollar prize given annually to student designers from one of eighteen countries, including the U.S., whose design "solves a problem."
"Think of what happened during the Second World War," Dyson told me, "when government focussed on invention and engineering as part of the war effort." During the war years, British engineers and scientists invented the jet engine, developed radar technology, and made significant contributions to the atomic bomb. "Because the government wanted to do these things—had to do them to survive," Dyson said. "But after the war we turned away from industry. France didn't. France focussed on building nuclear power plants, and now exports power to Europe. France also focussed on building high-speed rail. Britain stopped making trains, stopped making airplanes, did not encourage its nuclear scientists, and has all but stopped making cars. And as a result we are in deep trouble."
Dyson was born and reared in Norfolk, about a hundred miles northeast of London. His father was a classics teacher at a boys' boarding school called Gresham's; he died when James was nine. It was expected that James, too, would become a classicist, like his older brother, or some kind of academic, but James—obstinate and quick to challenge authority—rebelled against the dead learning and false divisions between art and science that he encountered there. He studied Latin and Greek, and was interested in making things, so his schoolmasters told him to do art. Art turned out to be the academic study of art, not the making of paintings and sculptures. Woodwork, or "shop," as it's known in the U.S., was where students made things. "In those days you had to choose between art and woodwork, just to ensure that no one with half an interest in aesthetics would get their hands on the tools to reproduce that enthusiasm in three dimensions," Dyson writes in his 2003 memoir, "Against the Odds," written with Giles Coren. He was keenly aware of the snobbery with which manual labor was viewed by the art teachers and classicists—woodwork "was something done by thickos in a shed"—and this further alienated him from the school authorities.
At nineteen, Dyson decided that he wanted to study in London. He was admitted to the Byam Shaw School of Art, where he met his future wife, Deirdre, and discovered interior design. After a year, he passed an exam to pursue a graduate program in furniture design at the Royal College of Art. It was 1967, the spirit of optimism was in the air, and David Hockney, Gerald Scarfe, and Ossie Clark were among a group of young British artists who were affiliated with the R.C.A. Dyson attended structural-engineering classes given by Anthony Hunt, the designer of Waterloo Station, who many years later served as the engineer on Dyson's Malmesbury factory. He also discovered the work of Buckminster Fuller. He became more interested in designing consumer products than in industrial design, partly because of the chance to work with plastic, a material that fascinated him. But here, too, Dyson encountered "irritating traditionalism: desperate to work in plastic and stainless steel, I had been taken aside and lectured on the importance of wood."
While he was still a student at the R.C.A., Dyson began to work for a British entrepreneur named Jeremy Fry, and it was with Fry that he learned most of what he knows about engineering. He helped Fry build a small high-speed landing craft with a smooth fibreglass hull that they called the Sea Truck. Dyson used the design as his thesis project, and, in 1970, upon receiving his degree in interior design, he was hired to head a department that made and sold Sea Trucks. Among his clients were Scottish lairds who used the crafts to transport sheep and other goods from one island to another. Because the Sea Trucks sat so low in the water, they had a military appeal; Egypt deployed five of them in its 1973 war with Israel. Later, Dyson and Fry set up their own company. They developed wheelchairs with four-wheel drive and started looking at vacuum cleaners.
In 1971, Dyson and his wife bought a three-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Cotswolds, and in the course of doing repairs he found himself spending a lot of time with a wheelbarrow. "I discovered what a crummy piece of equipment it really was," he writes. It was unstable, and the rubber wheel sank into wet earth and left ruts on the lawn. The wide shallow metal trough slopped its contents and smashed into doorframes, and cement stuck to its sides. Dyson's solution was to design a deep molded-plastic trough and to replace the wheel with a plastic sphere. The Ballbarrow, as he called it, was a hit in Britain. Dyson writes that within a year he had a fifty-per-cent share of the wheelbarrow market and was selling about forty-five thousand Ballbarrows a year. But, according to his memoir, before he could enter the much larger U.S. market, his idea was stolen by an employee and taken to a Chicago-based plastics manufacturer, which rushed a knockoff Ballbarrow onto the market. It was briefly available at Sears, but was soon discontinued.
Other inventors might have been crushed by this misfortune, or become full-time litigants. Dyson moved on to his next idea: the bagless vacuum cleaner.
In engineering his vacuum cleaner, Dyson followed the trial-and-error method developed by Thomas Edison, in his Menlo Park invention factory. He would build a prototype, test it, analyze why it failed, make one change, and build another prototype. Dyson built 5,271 such prototypes over four years, until he had a machine that satisfied him. It used not one but two cyclones to separate the grime from the air. He demonstrated the Dual Cyclone, as he called his invention, to dozens of European and U.S. vacuum-cleaner manufacturers, in the hope of licensing his technology to one of them. But almost no one was interested, and the few companies that were offered absurdly onerous terms. In the autobiography, he says that Hoover U.K., the longtime market leader in Britain (which is not related to the U.S. company), wouldn't even speak to him unless he first signed an agreement implying that anything that emerged from their dialogue would belong to Hoover. In his book, Dyson likens this arrangement to "a burglar writing to you to inform you that he would be burgling your home and assuming that, by warning you, he rendered the theft morally acceptable." He says that Electrolux told him that he would never succeed in selling a vacuum cleaner without a bag. (Bags are a big business in their own right and, as one dealer pointed out to me, a crucial link between vacuum-cleaner sellers and buyers: when you run out of bags, you have to return to the vacuum-cleaner store, where the salesmen get another crack at you.) As Dyson recalls, Amway, the Michigan-based consumer-products company, agreed to a license, then backed away from the agreement, claiming that the machine was not ready for sale. A little later, Amway released its own dual-cyclone vacuum cleaner. Dyson sued Amway on various counts, including patent infringement. Amway denied any wrongdoing and countersued for damages. Eventually, the two companies dismissed the lawsuits.
In the meantime, in 1985, Dyson sold a license to a Japanese company called Apex, which brought out a pink upright cyclonic vacuum cleaner called the G-Force, which sold in Japan for an astonishing seventeen hundred dollars. A Canadian company called Iona brought a version of the machine to Canada, where it was called the Drytech. Ultimately, Dyson was able to set up a manufacturing operation of his own in order to sell his machine in Britain, and the first vacuum cleaner entirely of his own design, the Dual Cyclone DC01, went on sale in the summer of 1993. Within two years, the Dyson was outselling the Hoover upright in the U.K. In 1999, Hoover U.K. came out with its own bagless cyclonic vacuum cleaner, called the Triple Vortex. Dyson sued for patent infringement, and forced Hoover to stop its sale of the machine. Since then, however, most of the major brands have marketed their own bagless vacuum cleaners, including the Hoover Platinum Collection Cyclonic with "WindTunnel" technology, which is available in the U.S.
When Dyson visited the Sixth Avenue Best Buy with me, he saw other bagless machines, some with a clear plastic cylinder just like the Dyson's. He glanced at one with a pained expression, then quickly looked away, as though he couldn't stand the sight. "I could sue," he said, softly, with a distant look in his eyes. "But what's the point? It will just distract us from what we're doing now."
The desktop fan was the first mechanical household appliance to use electricity. The original electric fans were the Edco fan, which came out in 1883, followed by the Iceberg, two years later. (Before that, windup mechanical fans, sometimes called "shoofly fans," were used on dining tables to keep insects away from the food.) The New York Stock Exchange and various banking houses were early customers of the new electric fans, but they didn't catch on immediately in the home—"old and tried ways of being uncomfortable proved more acceptable than new and strange comforts," stated The Edison Monthly, in 1916. In the early years of the twentieth century, electric fans were expensive status items in the homes of the wealthy, costing about seven hundred dollars in today's money. (The less well-off could rent one for the summer.) In early models, six brass blades shaped like pizza slices were attached to the shaft of a motor, either directly or by means of a fan belt, and this assembly was hidden inside the base. A light cage of brass covered the blades, to protect them; it wasn't designed to protect people, and fan-related injuries were common. Most of the major improvements in fan technology—oscillating, adjustable heads, three speed settings, and overlapping, propeller-shaped blades, which were much quieter and pushed a greater volume of air—had been introduced by 1930.
In 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, Emerson came out with an Art Deco fan called the Silver Swan, with four overlapping blades and a polished steel grille, and it became a design icon that many later models emulated but never redefined. Vornado, a division of the Kansas-based company O. A. Sutton, was among the leading fan companies in the U.S. in the forties and early fifties. The year 1956 was the company's biggest, with more than fifty million dollars in sales. But the advent of air-conditioning, combined with the cool summers of 1957 and 1958, helped persuade O. A. Sutton to close the business. The heyday of the electric fan passed, and subsequent decades saw the arrival of inexpensive plastic commodities marketed to those unfortunates who could not afford air-conditioning. (The Vornado brand was revived in 1989, and its line of new but vintage-looking "air circulators" has enjoyed commercial success as a niche product.)
The Air Multiplier has no visible blades, though it isn't, technically speaking, bladeless: a small impeller, about four inches in diameter, is situated in the base of the machine, just below the motor. The impeller sucks air into the base and propels it up into the ring-shaped, or toroid, head of the fan. As the air passes over the aerodynamic curve in the ring, the air pressure decreases, in accordance with the Bernoulli effect, a well-known principle in hydrofluid dynamics. The wings of an airplane are shaped so that air flows faster over the top of them—the rushing air pulls more air along with it—causing lift. The wing on the back of a race car is designed to create the opposite effect—the faster-moving air below pushes the car's rear end down onto the track. In Dyson's fan, the negative pressure multiplies the airflow, and the cone shape of the ring multiplies the airflow again, and the narrow aperture that the air exits through multiplies it still more—altogether, Dyson claims, the volume of air leaving the fan is fifteen times greater than the amount of air the impeller sucks in.
The Airblade, Dyson's hand dryer, introduced in 2006, was the company's first attempt to apply some of these principles to a product. It uses air to scrape water away from your hands, rather than heat to dry them; it works much faster, leaves your hands feeling cleaner than hot-air hand dryers, and is said to use less energy. But although Airblades are common in Britain, there aren't many of them in the U.S. (New Yorkers can dry their hands with one in the rest rooms at MOMA and in the Fifth Avenue Apple Store.) The Air Multiplier is intended for the mass market.
Visually, the Multiplier is a triumph: by eliminating not just the fan blade but also the protective grille, Dyson has restored a sense of novelty to the fan and returned it to its early years as a status symbol, for better or worse. Murray Moss, the co-owner of Moss, the high-design emporium on Greene Street in SoHo, told me, "It makes me think of one of my earliest memories, which is my parents telling me not to put my fingers in the fan. So to be able to do this"—he put his arm through the portal, which is what everyone does on first seeing the Multiplier—"changes my whole idea about this object. It's quite amazing."
But does the Air Multiplier work better than the average fan? As I write, on a steamy August day in Manhattan, I have two fans trained on my head: the desktop Air Multiplier is cooling the left side of my face, and a Vornado vintage desktop, the style of which derives from the Silver Swan, is on the right. Both are turned up high. The volume of airflow is more or less the same from both, but the air feels different: the Multiplier's air is cylindrical in shape, and hollow at the core, and it feels airier. The Vornado's air cone, on the other hand, feels heaviest in the middle; the sweet spot gradually diminishes as you get toward the edges. The Vornado is made of steel and aluminum; the Multiplier is made of the same glossy hydrocarbonate plastic as the vacuum cleaners. It's much lighter than the Vornado and easier to clean. But the Multiplier is louder. You don't hear the hum of the motor, as you do from the Vornado, but you do hear the rush of air passing through the thin slot, and it's not as soothing as a hum.
I am trying to sense the "annoying buffeting" that Dyson spoke of to the woman in Best Buy. Maybe my face isn't as sensitive as Sir James's, but I don't feel it. What I do feel is hot. Sadly, neither fan is capable of doing much about another sweltering summer day in New York City.
Dyson's factory and research center at Malmesbury is neither dark nor satanic. Designed by the architect Chris Wilkinson, with structural engineering by Anthony Hunt, it is a long, low, modernist-looking building with a glass façade supported by curved steel ribs. Set in the rolling Cotswolds, amid the English green, the factory seems calculated to explode the binary of the industrial and the pastoral—the machine and the garden. Dyson and his family (he and Deirdre have three grown children and five grandchildren) are the sole owners of the business; in 2008, Forbes estimated Dyson's net worth to be $1.6 billion. In 2002, Dyson moved the physical assembly of his machines to Malaysia, resulting in the loss of some five hundred local jobs, and garnering Dyson the only bad press he has ever received in Britain. With the expansion of his business (brought about in part by the reduction in assembly costs), however, Dyson has replaced those lost manufacturing jobs with better-paid engineering jobs.
When I visited, in late May, Dyson was in the process of hiring three hundred and fifty more engineers, but he was worried about finding British citizens to fill the positions. He observed that India produces a hundred and seventy thousand engineers each year, while Britain graduates about twenty thousand. "If I were in India, I would have no trouble finding people. But here it's difficult." Even if Britain can stimulate its high-tech and industrial sector, there won't be enough British engineers to fill the jobs, based on the current numbers of engineering graduates. (The U.S. is facing a similar problem: according to Edward Gordon, the author of "Winning the Global Talent Showdown," by the year 2020 there will be a hundred and twenty-three million highly skilled, high-paying jobs but only fifty million Americans qualified to do them.) "We produce graduates in media studies, and town planners, and psychiatrists who are not getting jobs," Dyson said, "and we are not producing what society wants and needs now." In "Ingenious Britain" he recommends giving scholarships to students who choose to enter engineering, and tax cuts to graduates who launch businesses based on their ideas, as well as to venture capitalists who invest in the new ideas.
The Dyson administrative headquarters are on the upper floor of the research center, in a large open space divided by low partitions. Executive offices and meeting rooms are placed around the sides and have glass walls. The youthful staff members dress informally. Dyson forbids the wearing of suits and ties, as well as the writing of memos; workers must talk to each other about their ideas. (He also requires all new employees to take apart and reassemble a Dyson vacuum cleaner their first day on the job.)
Dyson's office is in a corner, and it is filled with vacuum cleaners and pieces of motors and machines, neatly arranged on all available surfaces. There's also a drafting board with some drawings on it; he still likes to design by hand.
The testing facilities and R. & D. labs are on the lower floor of the building. Dyson's engineers continue to tinker with vacuum cleaners. They are tested on different types of carpet—plush, shag, Wilton—as well as on various kinds of wood floor, using German-made testing dust (ground from natural material) to conform to European testing standards, and American-made dust (ground from man-made silica sand and mixed with talc) to test the machines bound for the American market. (According to a Dyson representative, American machines are louder than the European and Asian models, because Americans associate noise with power and don't trust a quiet machine.) Research-review meetings occur twice a week, and design meetings are held every day, all day; Dyson sits in on many of them. Earlier this year, he stepped down as chairman, and severed many of his management responsibilities, in order to spend as much time as possible in the lab. He is also devoting more time to the activities of the James Dyson Foundation, including the James Dyson Award; this year's winner, chosen by Dyson himself, will be announced on October 5th. One of the U.S. finalists is the cunning Copenhagen Wheel, designed and engineered by a small team of students at M.I.T., which transforms an ordinary bike into a hybrid electric bike—storing the energy generated by braking and using it on uphill climbs. The students are rapidly turning their project into a product, which will go on sale next year, for six hundred dollars.
On the day I visited headquarters, Dyson reviewed the conductive carbon-fibre bristles that were being added to the rollers in the cannister vacuum cleaner, replacing the existing nylon bristles. The carbon-fibre bristles do not produce the static electricity that causes a thin layer of dust to cling to hard floors.
"The carbon-fibre bristles got a hundred per cent of the dust," a young engineer reported, and showed off some slides that proved this.
"God. Impressive," Dyson said.
The engineer added that they had tested a model made by another leading brand that had a patent on its anti-static system, but nonetheless left some dust behind. This drew a quiet, slightly smug smile from Dyson.
In the company's early years, Dyson told me, "we were very focussed on products, but as time has passed we have begun to look further out at more blue-sky stuff." He has added chemists and microbiologists to his staff of engineers. Robotics is one area in which they are doing research, and motor technology is another. The Dyson digital motor, which spins three times faster than a conventional motor and is twice as energy-efficient and half as heavy, powers the latest Dyson handheld vacuum cleaner and the hand dryer. Most motors use carbon brushes to transfer current from the power source to the electromagnet; the brushes wear down over time, emitting carbon dust as they do, until eventually the motor stops working. The Dyson motor uses microchips to transmit current, and, according to the company's claims, these are clean and never wear down. The digital motor will power new Dyson products—he won't say what they are—but it could also be licensed to other manufacturers of consumer products, or used in electric vehicles or in other industrial applications.
Today's research meeting was concerned with the design of new tooling to bond together two components in the motor assembly, the shaft and the shroud. The space between the parts was very thin—between five and ten microns—and, because the motor spins with a hundred kilos of lateral force, the bond had to be strong.
An engineer explained that they had come up with a roller that could spread a dab of adhesive around the bearing. He showed a prototype.
"Sort of like roll-on deodorant," Dyson said.
"How much time does it take?"
"We've got it down to point-three seconds."
Dyson wondered how much the process would cost.
"Less than seventy cents U.S."
"Let's see if we can reduce that."
As the meeting broke up, Dyson spotted a feather duster leaning against the corner of someone's cubicle.
"What's this doing here?" he asked sternly. ♦


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HAVELOCK � With the passing of a sword, duty was transferred from one sergeant major to the next Thursday aboard Cherry Point air station.
HAVELOCK � With the passing of a sword, duty was transferred from one sergeant major to the next Thursday aboard Cherry Point air station.
Sgt. Maj. Angela M. Maness left the post after serving only 13 months in the position. Maness is moving up to become sergeant major at the Marine Corps� oldest active post, Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. 8th and I.
Replacing Maness is Sgt. Maj. Benjamin L. Pangborn, who is returning to Cherry Point. He served as first sergeant for Marine Wing Communications Squadron 28 at Cherry Point from 2004 to 2008.
�Angela has had kind of a short tour here, but she is going to do great things in the Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., and we�re very proud of that accomplishment,� said Col. P.J. Zimmerman, commanding officer of Cherry Point. �Our loss is a gain for the Marine Corps and we�re sad to see you go.�
Maness is in her 26th year in the Marine Corps. She is the first woman to serve as Cherry Point sergeant major.
Of her 13 months, Maness was gone for three months in late 2012 to serve as a voting member on the promotions board.
�For the 10 months that I was here. I want to tell you it�s been an enjoyable time,� she said during a ceremony Thursday on the base. �I have learned a lot, but I feel I have been robbed, robbed of the time with Cherry Point Marines and sailors. I say that because I�m going to miss Cherry Point.�
As part of her new post, she�ll serve, among other places, at the White House.
�Yes it�s a fantastic post. I don�t know how they picked me, but I�m glad they did,� she said. �Cherry Point Marines and sailors, thank you for your support.�
Maness thanked the Marines participating in her ceremony.
�You should be proud of yourselves, today and every day,� she said. �Thank you for being here today and for showing us your best. Semper Fidelis.�
Maness reports for duty in the nation�s capital in June.
Pangborn, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., joined the Marine Corps in 1986. He is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He is married and has two children.
Pangborn thanked his brother for bringing his mother to Thursday�s event. He joined the Marine Corps in 1979, marking 34 years that his mother has had a son in the Corps.
�Anytime that we can get her down to one of these ceremonies I greatly appreciate it,� Pangborn said. �I love you and want to say an early happy Mother�s Day to you and all the other mothers.�
Pangborn was happy to return to Cherry Point.
�It�s an honor and a privilege to be back here to Cherry Point,� he said.
In lieu of the traditional presentation of flowers to his wife, Pangborn and his wife Shannon made a donation to the Warrior Athletic Rehabilitation Program at Wounded Warrior Battalion East.


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Lowell came in this morning with this little baby mockingbird he found hopping across the road with no parents in sight, no nest in sight, and on his way to getting run over. Pretty obvious he had fallen out of his nest. He is quite a skilled hopper, even for a little guy.
For now, we are spoon feeding him and hopefully we'll be able to set him free once his flight feathers grow in. As anyone who has found little wild chicks like this can tell you, it can be a challenge to keep baby wild birds alive once you take them in. I hope this little guy, who my daughter has already nicknamed "Tweet", makes it.
To feed him I am using a tiny baby spoon which is actually just a little narrower than the inside diameter of his beak. A teaspoon can also work well if you bend the edges of the spoon in and kind of over to fit inside the bird's beak enough to get the food down its throat.


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1. Sacred names of Jesus Christ,
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2. Messiah, Light, the Savior,
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Jehovah, Lord, the Son.
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Besides picking the absolute best song possible for this video — "Superhero" by Tim McMorris — this video that captures the cosplayers of The London Film & Comic Con is heartwarming.
Spend too much time rifling through Internet forums and comments, and you might wonder who the hell all these seemingly hateful people are who share your hobbies and tastes. But a video like this reminds me why I can connect with a room full of nerds forgetting, momentarily, about all the sometimes-true stereotypes of smell and general air of negativity. It's because we're passionate, creative, and excited to share all that. And this video shows just that.


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Topic: RPG: Assassins & Bodyguards
Hello, this is my 4th or 5th attemt at an RPG. Hope this one turns out better that the rest! All of you know the rules, but I'm going to emphises the ones I want you to pay attention too the most: No Godmoding, Very very short posts are not welcomed here, but will be allowed if there is no other option. Be as creative and original as can please.
Have fun!
In this RPG you'll play as an Assassins or a Bodyguard. Each side is a devoted Order of a sheer opposite art, one devoted to Assassination, the other devoted to the preservation of those targeted by such. The time will be in the middle ages, of Earth. The only differance will be the presence of magic. There are different classes, and ranks for differently skilled and more advanced than other Assassins/ Bodygaurds. Here are the classes for the assassins:
DarkArts Assassin: These Assassins specialize in utilizing magic to there advantage on missions. They frequently carry small magical items to help with there on missions. They also have a good grasp of spells type attacks, depending on rank. Medium level of skill in stealth and blade.
Shadow Assassin: These Assassins use stealth as there main weapon. More often then not, there targets are quite dead before the guards even know theres been an intrusion. High skill in stealth, low in blade, medium level of skill in magic.
ColdSteel Assassin: These Assassins use specialized steel weapons, (swords, maces, knives, ect.) for taking out gaurds and there targets. They use them with frightening efficiency. Limited or no skill with spells. Medium skill levle in stealth tactics. High ability level with steel weapons.
Order Assassin: An evenly balanced out Assassin, medium grasp of spells, stealth, and the blade. Most common type of assassin
Now the ranks:
Bloodbringer (Master Assassin): These Assassins are the most skilled in all there ablilites. (I would like to limit the the number of these to no more than three)
Deathnote (Average Assassin): These Assassins have a medium level of skill in all there abilites.
DeathHoper (Novice): These Assassins have a lower than average skill in there abilites.
Apprentices (Apprentice): These Assassin could hardly be called such, and are not to be trusted with solo missions. They have a very low skill level in all there abilites.
If your an Assassin, you are the aggressor, and will be on the attack. You must kill in anyway, the man or woman you have been assigned. But be wary, being discovered by more than eight Bodyguards/Guards will almost always spell certain death for you. If you are captured they will torture you intill you betray the Assassin's Order. Subtality, timing, creativity, stealth and quick thinking are your best weapons. Use them. Also, you will almost always be working alone. However you can use additional
assassin, at the cost of losing some of you reward.
Now here are the classes for the Bodyguards:
Steel Pretectors: These BodyGuards use heavy armor, and weapons to pretect the client. They are skilled with blades and armor of all types, and weild them with out mercy. High skill with blades, low skill with magic, able to lead 20 guards.
Magic Shields These Bodyguards are knowledgeable in spells of most types, but specialize in pretection type spells. They often carry small magical items on there missions. High skill in magic, low skill in blade, able to lead 15 guards.
Hope Bringer These Bodyguards rely largly on the skills of the men under them. They lead these men with amazing charisma. Low skill in blade and magic, but high in leadership: able to lead 40 guards.
Defender: These bodyguards have the most evenly balanced out skills. Most common bodyguard. Medium skill level in blade, leadership and magic. Able to lead 10 guards.
Now ranks:
The Impenetrable: (Master) These bodyguards are masters of all there skills.
The Defending: (Average Bodyguard) These bodyguards have a medium level of skill in there abilites.
The Defense Tryers: (Novice) These Bodyguards have a lower than average understanding of there skills.
Apprentices: (Apprentice) These bodyguards can hardly be called such, and are never trusted to work alone. They have a poor understanding of there skills.
If your a Bodyguard, your job is to protect the man or woman you have been assigned at all costs...even if it causes you your own life. You will be working together (enless you chose not to, though it is advised) with at least ten regular guards as support. Be careful, the assassins will be tricky, and stealthy. You must be on your watch. Overpreparation, careful planning, numbers and good leadership are your weapons. Use them. You will almost never work alone. However you will be paid more.
I will be Rping as the Grand Masters of both Orders, giving missions out to players on both sides. I will also be Rp as agents for the Grandmasters. Please post your characters, as soon as you do I will give out assignments.


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The Amercian Psychiatric Association's fourth (text-revised) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV TR), lists criteria for the diagnosis of such a disorder. The criteria are the presence of physical distress (e.g. headache, siezure, gastrointestinal pain, etc.) and that after intensive and sufficient medical investigation, no organic cause is found. The physical presentations must not be due to any external substance such as illicit drugs and abuse of prescription medication. The symptoms must be severe enough to caused marked distress or impairment in normal functioning. The duration of the disorder must bee or have been at least six months and without being intentionally produced. And of course, the symptoms must not be accounted for by any other psychiatric disorder (DSM-IV TR, p. 492).
List of psychosomatic disorder subtypesEdit
- Somatization Disorder
- Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder
- Conversion Disorder
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- Anthony Feinstein (2011) authored a review on the latest research on conversion disorder and the role of neurobiology. In the review, Dr. Feinstein points out that, in brain imaging studies, those with conversion disorder vibratory stimulus to a subject's "paralyzed" limb, normally active brain areas in stimulation to the arm were not active on the side of the brain controlling that arm. Instead, the frontmost areas of the brain were active (the areas controlling anxiety and mood). This type of paralysis is a physical manifestation of psychological distress and not permanent.
- It is possible that neurodevelopmental or neuroembryological processes have influence here.
- In those who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, perhaps the physical symptoms may be inevitably learned.
See alsoEdit
- Feinstein, A. (2011). Conversion disorder: Advances in our understanding. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 183(8), 915-919. doi:10.1503/cmaj.110490
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Oscar Pistorius testified today that he didn't "purposefully" fire his gun four times killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, that the gunfire was an accident.
Pistorius' statement came during the first day of a withering cross examination by prosecutor Gerrie Nel who tore into the Blade Runner's often emotional account of how he claims to have mistaken his lover during the night for a burglar. The legless athlete could be facing at least 25 years in prison if convicted.
"What did you do?" Nel asked early in his cross examination. "You killed Reeva Steenkamp, that's what you did."
"I made a mistake," Pistorius repeated several times in a soft voice.
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"You made a mistake?" Nel fired back. "You killed a person. You shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp. Why don't you take responsibility for that?"
The prosecutor asked Pistorius about the term "zombie stopper," referring to video aired by Sky News earlier this year in which Pistorius is seen firing at a watermelon. As the fruit explodes, whoops of joy can be heard followed by Pistorius' voice saying, "It's not as soft as brains, but f..k, it's a zombie stopper."
Nel then showed a close-up photo of Steenkamp's head wound, instructing Pistorius to look at it.
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"You know the same happened to Reeva's head. It exploded... It had the exact same effect, the bullet that went into her head," Nel said.
Pistorius, now sobbing, replied, "I remember ... my fingers touched her head. I do not have to look at a picture."
A recess was taken so Pistorius could compose himself, and when testimony resumed Pistorius insisted that he accidentally fired the four shots through his locked bathroom door. He had previously testified that he feared an intruder was in his bathroom during the night and that he was "overcome" with fear.
"I did not purposefully fire the shots through the door," he said today, saying the shooting was an accident.
"The accident was that I discharged my firearm because I believed an intruder was coming to attack me... The discharge was accidental," Pistorius said.
"Before thinking, out of fear, I had fired four shots," he said, sniffing back tears.
Nel snapped that Pistorius was only getting emotional because the questions were difficult.
"My life is on the line. Of course I'm thinking about the consequences of my answers," Pistorius said.
"And Reeva doesn't have life anymore," Nel fired back.
Will Oscar Pistorius' Emotional Testimony Effect the Verdict?
Before the cross examination began, Pistorius concluded his tearful, often sobbing testimony, of what happened the night he shot Steenkamp.
He described using a cricket bat to bash his way into the bathroom and holding Steenkamp in his arms and trying to carry her out of the bathroom and downstairs.
"I was sitting on the floor with my back against the wall … I couldn't pick her up," he said.
Oscar Pistorius Wails as He Describes Finding Girlfriend's Body
"I did not intend to kill Reeva, My Lady, or anybody else," he told Judge Thokozile Masipa, who will decide the case.
Pistorius said he cradled Steenkamp's body as she bled from her wounds. He phoned Johan Stander, a friend who lived nearby, asking him to come and help, he said. He next called 911 crews.
"I could see she was breathing. She was struggling to breathe," he said.
He eventually picked up Steenkamp, but later put her down, holding his hand on her hip to try and stop the bleeding.
"I just sat there with her and waited for the ambulance to arrive," he said. "I felt helpless, I wanted to take her to the hospital."
By the time paramedics arrived, Steenkamp was dead, Pistorius said.
"I stood a couple of meters away from them. The paramedic lady came to me and said she'd like to inform me Reeva had passed," he said, taking long pauses between his sentences, his shoulders hunched.
Pistorius said that after the police arrived, they asked him to stay in the kitchen so he sat on the floor there, crying. He asked the police for permission to wash his hands because the smell of his girlfriend's blood was making him vomit. Later he asked the police to take whatever photos they needed so he could also take off his blood-soaked clothes.


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Saturday September 21, 2019
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Avoiding Tax Scams Before October 15
In IR-2018-193, the IRS warned taxpayers who had extended their tax return date to October 15 to be cautious about scammers. There is frequently an increase in the number of attempts by scammers to find taxpayer victims just before filing deadlines.
If you have extended your filing date from April 15 to October 15 this year, you should be aware of the three main methods used by tax scammers: telephone calls, email phishing and pretending to be a fake charity.
If you have extended your filing date from April 15 to October 15 this year, you should be aware of the three main methods used by tax scammers: telephone calls, email phishing and pretending to be a fake charity.
- Telephone Scams - Scammers often claim to represent the IRS. They will call and demand an immediate payment for tax debt through a debit
card or a money wire. Many scammers ask that you stay on the phone until you have completed the transaction.
The scammer may threaten to call the police or other law enforcement agencies and have you arrested if you do not comply. Scammers often "spoof" their call and attempt to appear to come from a law enforcement agency.
If you suspect a scammer, the first thing to do is to hang up the phone. The IRS does not call to demand immediate tax payments. You always have an opportunity to appeal any tax amount due. There are several administrative ways the IRS can resolve a tax liability question with you.
You can also go to www.IRS.gov and select "View Your Account." You will see the next webpage and can click the "Create or View Your Account" button. If you create an online account, you can review 24 months of your payment history and balance due. You can also report a phone scam on www.tigta.gov.
Phishing Emails - Scammers may try to trick you by sending an email that claims to be from the IRS.
The email may include the IRS logo and usually has an embedded link. The email may direct you to click on the link to find out why the IRS is contacting you. The
email may also come from a person who identifies as a financial or tax advisor. If you click on the link, the scammer may install "malware" on
your computer and use it to capture your passwords and access your personal financial information.
If you see a suspicious email, do not click on links or open any attachments. The IRS does not initiate contact by email, but rather by paper letters through the U.S. Postal Service. The letters or notices will be mailed to your most recent address. If you receive a suspicious email, forward it with all of the headers to firstname.lastname@example.com. Then delete the suspicious email.
Fake Charities - Following a natural disaster, such as Hurricane Florence, scammers will often request donations to fake charities. They may
make this request by phone or email. Some scammers with particularly bad reputations ask for a gift from disaster victims. In these situations, the scammer
may attempt to obtain the victim's financial information. They then use that financial information to steal funds from those who are already devastated.
If you are contacted and do not recognize the charity or the person, do not give out personal information or your Social Security Number. Watch out for charities with names similar to well-known organizations. The IRS website has a Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS) tool. This enables you to be sure that you are sending your relief gifts to a qualified and legitimate charity.
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Lance Bacon at Military Times writes about how a bi-partisan group of Congressmen have enlisted Lt. Col. Daniel Davis "to bring a swift end to the war in Afghanistan."
We we talked to Col. Davis about a few months ago when he wrote a paper about our failures in Afghanistan. A commenter or two warned us that Davis was planning a coup like this back then and weaseling himself a reputation in Congress.
Our ultimate failure in Afghanistan became a self-fulfilling prophecy the moment that this administration decided that our only strategy was withdrawal.
From the Military Times:
[Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller, deputy commander of the NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan] slammed Karzai in a Politico interview after the Afghan president said his nation would side with Pakistan in a war against the U.S.
"You've got to be kidding me." Politico quoted Fuller as saying. "I'm sorry, we just gave you $11.6 billion and now you're telling me, 'I don't really care'? … They don't understand the sacrifices that America is making to provide for their security."
What exactly would anyone expect Karzai to say? Our rush for the exits only proves that we aren't reliable, and no one can depend on the US to stick it out for the duration. That's not to say that the troops won't do their level best, but this is a failure of the civilian "leadership" if that word can be applied in any reasonable form to the relationship between the politicians and the trigger pullers. Because leadership, as the term is normally used in our language is noticeably absent.
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said he trusts the president's commitment to the 2014 withdrawal. Still, he said the failure to bring the bipartisan resolution to the floor was "an historic act of political cowardice."
"Ten years later and $533 billion spent on the war in Afghanistan, it remains clear there is no military solution," Lee said. "The American people have made it clear that the war is no longer worth fighting… It is past time for our policy to catch up with the American people."
There wasn't a military solution when the anti-war Left decided that to be true and thrust that strategy on the troops.
The American people have reached the same conclusion as the Afghans - if we're leaving Afghanistan and that's our only goal, sooner is better than later. Who wants to be the last to die so this president can look like a fierce war president?


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The importance of a well-ordered and predictable environment.
2. By Leaps and Bounds
Physical development and appropriate developmental activities, good health practices, and
environmental safety.
3. Babies Are Children, Too
The special concerns when caring for infants in groups and the importance of nurturing care.
4. Dealing With Feelings
Activities that promote emotional health in family relations, self-expression, and dealing with
frustration and stress.
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Recognizing children's accomplishments and offering opportunities for individual choice.
6. Listening to Families
Ways to help families deal with everyday problems and life crises.
7. Everybody's Special
Working with children who have special educational needs.
8. Getting Along Together
Childhood social development and ways to enhance a child's social competence.
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Paper hires armed guards after mapping gun permits
A newspaper just north of New York City that published maps on its website showing the names and addresses of pistol-permit holders in its coverage area has reportedly hired armed guards at one of its offices.
The Journal News, a Gannett Co. Inc. publication based in White Plains, N.Y., hired the armed security guards days after posting the maps in the wake of last month's deadly rampage at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the Rockland County Times reported.
According to police reports obtained by the Times, The Journal News' Rockland editor, Caryn McBride, filed at least two police reports after receiving numerous "negative" phone calls and emails about the maps.
One email writer questioned "what McBride would get in her mail now," according to the Times. The police found that email "did not constitute an offense."
The Journal News published the maps for two of the three counties it covers, Rockland and Westchester, and has faced difficulties getting the same information for the third county, Putnam.
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PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) ? Lake Erie's mayfly population is surviving and showing no signs of trouble despite water quality problems over the last few years that have caused alarm.
PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) ? Lake Erie's mayfly population is surviving and showing no signs of trouble despite water quality problems over the last few years that have caused alarm.
The pesky but harmless winged insects are starting again to rise out of the lake along Ohio's northern shore.
One researcher said the annual invasion is a good sign because mayflies are an indication of a healthier Lake Erie.
"Back in the '60s and '70s, the mayflies basically were gone from Lake Erie," said Tory Gabriel, fisheries outreach coordinator for Ohio State University's Sea Grant program.
"The fact that we have (mayflies) still tells us it's not as bad as it was when they disappeared," he told the Port Clinton News-Herald.
Each year around the middle of June, millions of mayflies hatch and sprout wings and then blanket street lamps, store windows, screen doors and just about anything they can cling to in places that include Sandusky, Port Clinton and parts of the Toledo area.
They're an annoyance because they stick to clothes and sometimes land in hair.
Many residents along the lake dim their house lights so that they don't attract the bugs. In many years, the swarms are so thick in the city of Port Clinton that business owners use leaf blowers to remove them from buildings and sidewalks.
Lately, toxic algae blooms have been more frequent on Lake Erie and are believed to be causing the return of a "dead zone" in the lake's central basin with so little oxygen that fish can't survive.
Eventually, dead zones could affect mayfly populations, but they do not appear to have done so at this point, Gabriel said.
Mayflies typically live for a day or two before dying. But the life cycle actually lasts two years.
They begin as eggs on the water's surface, Gabriel said, before the eggs sink to the bottom of the lake. The larvae hatch and burrow in the mud and later wiggle out of their burrows, hatch and take off from the water.
They are an important part of the lake's food chain because both fish and birds feed on them, Gabriel said.
"Really anything that can fit them in their mouth depends on that explosion of protein," he said.


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As my colleague Melissa Healy noted Thursday, a British medical journal recently invited doctors who specialize in end-of-life care to debate whether patients should be told that they're terminally ill. Two London-based palliative care doctors argued in favor of disclosure, writing that it was "essential to decision-making" in addition to being the most ethical approach. The head of the palliative care section of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, meanwhile, asserted that telling patients they were terminal was "a failed model for medical decision making that creates more suffering than it relieves."
The latter piece, by Dr. Leslie J. Blackhall, is squirm-inducing stuff. Yet it highlights the struggle within the medical profession over how to deal with patients rapidly approaching their demise.
One factor in the struggle is the disproportionate amount of money spent on these patients. An enormous amount of resources are spent on people in their final few months on Earth, much of it on extraordinary efforts to forestall death that don't restore the patient's quality of life.
Yet Blackhall doesn't argue that patients should be kept in the dark about their prognosis in order to save money. Rather, she contends that telling people they are terminally ill invites them to make choices that may actually shorten their lives.
"Most adults die of chronic life-limiting illnesses such as cancer, end-stage heart and lung disease and complications of dementia," she writes. "In these illnesses, the choice between comfort and prolongation of life is usually a false one. Patients with dementia do not die faster without feeding tubes. Patients with advanced cancer do not die faster if they choose hospice or palliative care, and may in fact live longer, even though they are less likely to receive artificial life support."
She goes on to state: "Patients with advanced cancer and poor functional status do not need to know that they are terminally ill so that they can 'refuse' chemotherapy or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In most cases they should not be given these treatments exactly because they are terminally ill."
This doctor-knows-best approach may be very appealing to people who look to their physician for wisdom, not just data. Those of us who grew up with "Marcus Welby, M.D." or "ER" think of doctors as relentless advocates for the sick, people who put their patients' interests first. That image is sustained by reports such as the one Thursday in the New York Times about leukemia specialists publicly appealing to drug companies to slash the cost of certain lifesaving drugs, even at the risk of losing those companies' support for their research.
Nevertheless, Blackhall's position runs counter to what seems to be a full-court press within the industry to get patients to fill out "advance directives" on end-of-life care. The whole point of those directives is to have individuals, not doctors, make decisions about how far to go to try to forestall death.
Considering how much outrage opponents of the 2010 healthcare law have drummed up over mythical government "death panels," my guess is that most consumers would be apoplectic about doctors who withheld a bad prognosis from their patients. But how do you feel? Take our non-peer-reviewed and wholly unscientific poll, leave a comment, or do both.
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The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting more than 24,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other leaders. For 46 years, energized and passionate Earth and space scientists from around the world gather at the AGU Fall Meeting to connect with colleagues, broaden their knowledge base, and embrace the joy of science. The 2015 meeting will take place meeting takes place Monday 14 – Friday 18 December 2015.
Each year, the Fall Meeting takes place in the Moscone Center, at the intersection of Fourth and Howard Streets, San Francisco, CA 94103. The Moscone Center is accessible by BART and MUNI public transit lines, and also in walking distance of many hotels.
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Completed in 1895, George Vanderbilt's 250-room chateau is as impressive today as it was more than a century ago. Biltmore House is truly a wonder of architecture and hospitality. As our guest, you're invited to enjoy a self-guided tour of the house, as well as the beautiful gardens and grounds surrounding it, designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.


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The Restaurant Issue: 96 Favorites
In our tiny state, 96 restaurants may seem like a lot, so let's put this in perspective: The Delaware Restaurant Association counts 1,900 members, everything from pizza joints to Zagat-listed classics. How do we choose 96? Editors considered the atmosphere, novelty, quality of cuisine, reputation, longevity, wine program, service and value at 200 top-tier restaurants (plus a few just over the state line), including past Best of Delaware winners. We didn't include every neighborhood tavern—we'll get to them in another issue—nor every neighborhood Italian place. (Find them at www.delawaretoday.com/Delaware-Today/February-2008/Dining-Guide-World-Class/.) Left standing: a diverse roster of places you simply must visit—if you haven't already.
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1776 Steakhouse
Owners Bob Mitchell and Tom Holmes scour the markets for aged beef so fine, it should be insured. Your new favorite slab of beef: 10 ounces of certified Angus bliss seared in a 1,600-degree oven. Filet mignon, Delmonico, New York strip—they're all here. One-of-a-kind seared beef capriccio is served with deep-fried prosciutto, artichokes drizzled with roasted garlic and horseradish-infused olive oil, then garnished with shaved Parmesan. 18585 Coastal Hwy., Suite 6, Rehoboth Beach, 645-9355
Abstractions Sushi Bar
Traditional Japanese decor is hip again, which makes Abstractions even hipper by default. You'll find sushi and sashimi of salmon, tuna, yellowtail and more, as well as creative maki. If that's not your thing, try the lobster crab cakes, teriyaki or pad thai. There's a variety of sakes, as well as sake-based cocktails, a wine list heavy on Californians and more martini combos than you can shake a cocktail mixer at. 203 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach, 226-0877
Agave Mexican Grill
At Agave, more than 70 varieties of tequila find their way into glasses for sipping, tasting flights and margaritas. Before opening the place, owner Chris McKeown toured Mexico to learn what gives añejo tequila its oaky finish while he also discovered the secrets of stellar Mexican cuisine. Think chiles en nogada and crispy fish tacos. Diminutive though it is, Agave has become a hotspot. The good: It's hoppin'. The bad: You might have to wait for a seat. 137 Second St., Lewes, 645-1232
Aqua Sol
You'll love the view of the marina from the sunroom, with its towering windows. You'll also love a festive offering of starters such as skewered jerk chicken, ceviche and conch fritters. Feeling the island vibe yet? Try the dark rum-guava barbecue sauce on the ribs or a good Cuban sandwich. If you like yuca, you'll find plenty of it here, as chips, as a mash and as gnocchi. 3006 Summit Harbour Place, Bear, 365-6490
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Robert Pattinson flashes a smile while making his way through Melbourne Airport after flying in from Los Angeles on Thursday (January 17) in Melbourne, Australia.
The 26-year-old actor carried his guitar and caught another flight to Adalaide that day.
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Over the weekend, Rob attended the 2013 Golden Globes and hit the stage during the night to present the award for Best Screenplay to Quentin Tarantino.
Later that evening, it was reported that Rob met up with his girlfriend Kristen Stewart at an after party!


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Everything I Know About Producing, Pt.2/
Yesterday, we ran part one. All of this is courtesy of Andrew Einspruch and Screen Hub. And of course Screen Australia who brought me to Sydney for a two day lecture last month. Today: part two. (P.S. There are 98 more parts to this lecture but it requires a few more trips to Sydney before I can spit it out!)
by Andrew Einspruch
"For Hope, who is a producer is pretty simple. It is the person there from the beginning of the project to its end." Daunting but true, and Andrew Einspruch tracked his definition for being there down to his feeling for percentages.
As Ted Hope made abundantly clear on the second day of Hope for Film, effective feature film producers have to know a lot of stuff, and have to keep at it to learn more. Here's a brief list of things he rattled off:
- Dramaturgy and script development
- Breadth of available actors and crew
- How to maintain the line during production
- How to elevate a project during its creation
- A solid business and financial background in the media space so you can determine the value of what you are creating, and then do that evaluation.
- Who the foreign sales companies are and their reputations (Hope's own list has 72 on it).
- The meanings of the various film festivals, and what it means to launch at one vs. another.
- How to manage the 90+ territories that are out there (generally sold as about 60).
- The different digital platforms that are out there, and how they can help you sell your film.
- Having big opinions on marketing and distribution, and the wisdom to know you are not always right.
- What brings people together to create an audience.
It is an overwhelming list of knowledge and understanding. "The nice thing is that there is probably no one out there that can answer all those questions," said Hope. "But it doesn't stop you from striving to hit it and to try to have the best practices available to you."
As a producer, you also have to think through contingencies. "Dark paranoia is the producer's best friend," said Hope. That is, your ability to fantasise about how things can go horribly wrong helps you create strategies to prevent those problems.
Hope spoke of trying to determine whether a script was ready to go or not. "No one ever says, 'I love that script. I wish there was more of it.'" When his collaborators think the project is ready to go out, he often exerts one more step, and that is to try to cut another 10% of the script and of the budget - more than anyone thought possible. "The shorter a project is, the more inevitable it is that it will happen, and the more people believe that script is ready to be made. But good luck. It's hard."
Some of his guidelines for working out if the script is ready include:
- You've cut that extra 10%.
- In hindsight, you see the intent of every action and every word is understandable and explainable.
- You now what the characters are truly feeling throughout, and expecially at the end.
- All action is influenced by action that has occurred before it or by their psychological makeup.
- There is specificity on the page throughout the process. You are world-building when you make a movie, so have you as the scriptwriter determined what makes up the world, and done so with brevity and poetry, making it a good read?
Hope emphasised the need for the producer to totally be across the script, because that is part of what he described as building a sense of inevitability around the film (mentioned in the previous article). "Before go out and raise money for your film, before you start to submit it, really try to drill down and understand your personal emotional connection to the characters, to the themes,the way it's being told, what the directors wants to accomplish - know it better than you think anyone else can know it. That is how you communicate the inevitability of that movie being made," said Hope.
Hope pointed to one of his blog posts, The 99 Recommended Steps For Making Good Movies. It is a good template for doing what you can to make sure the movie is a decent one. Here are the first twelve steps:
1. Maintain wonder & love for the world & most/some of the people.
2. Recognize the barriers & be empowered by my desire for change.
3. Find an inspiring idea & the correct collaborator for it.
4. Maintain love & respect for the film industry.
5. Develop script.
6. Fall in love with project.
7. Get non-financier, non-buyer industry types to give feedback on script.
8. Maintain wonder & love for the process.
9. Further develop script.
10. Maintain respect for collaborator(s).
11. Identify audience & market for project.
12. Enhance my enthusiasm for potential of the results of audience engagement with ambitious cinema.
It goes on from there, all the way to 99, which is, "Do it all over again, but do it a little bit differently." It is not all hard work. Step 80 is "Celebrate."
A fair bit of time was given to the topic of the producer-director relationship. Hope likes to work with a range of directors, because that feeds him as a producer. But it has to be a good fit. Some directors want a collaborator - someone to tell them the truth and work toward what is best for the film. Other directors want a producer is a general, executing what the director wants and reinforcing the righteousness of their decisions. Hope said he uses the book The Art of War, which some people have adopted as a kind of filmmaking manual, as a kind of litmus test. He'll mention the book, and if the director says, "That's it!", he knows that is not someone he wants to work with.
He spends time determining if the director is compatible. Can you get a sense of their values? How will they perform under pressure. Do they have a significant other that has lasted a while? Can you have an enjoyable dinner with them? What are they like if you invite them to your home for dinner and to meet your family? How does the person present themselves on social media platforms? Or, as his friend, producer Christine Vachon, half-jokingly asks, "Do they have a long-term, meaningful relationship with a living thing?"
All of these clues help him work out if he can work with a particular director.
Hope also talked at length about the integrity of the producer credit. Too often, people get producing credits, but don't really act as producers and you see the result when there are eight (or fifteen) people credited for producing a film.
For Hope, who is a producer is pretty simple. It is the person there from the beginning of the project to its end. That's it. His rule for himself is that if he dips below 50% of being there for the film, he does not deserve the credit "producer", and would more likely opt for executive producer. "If everyone tried to live up to that line of 50% or more engagement being required to get that credit, we would have a credit that actually means something."
This is the second part of a two part article by Andrew Einspruch for ScreenHub. If you are a member of that organization you can read the whole thing here.
Screen Hub is "The daily online newspaper for Australian film and television professionals." Their web site for the link is http://www.screenhub.com.au.
Andrew Einspruch's indie Australian film company Wild Pure Heart Productions has created the feature film Finding Joy and the documentaries 2012: This Sacred Earth and 7 Days with 7 Dogs, and is currently working on the low budget feature The Farmer. Andrew can be found on Twitter as@einspruch and at andreweinspruch.com.