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Because face time is so much more important that actual work.
Because face time is so much more important that actual work.
I work in a small team where one member of the team works remotely one day a week. There's definitely less feeling of teamwork when he's out of the office despite him being available via IM, email, video conference (though we almost never do that) and phone. There's a big difference between "Hey John, this is weird, can you come take a look at this", and while we're talking it over, Bob in the next cube pops his head over and says "Oh yeah, I saw that yesterday, here's how I fixed it".
Using screensharing and IM/phone just isn't the same.
But some jobs lend themselves well to remote working, like customer service agents. I worked at a company that had almost their entire workforce working from home, we were low on office space so using remote workers saved us a lot of money since we didn't have to rent new office space to accommodate them and we didn't have to have enough desks to handle the holiday rush that would sit empty for the rest of the year. Accountability was easy since the phone system kept the same call statistics for remote workers as for local workers (including time spent answering customer service emails) and the manager monitored random calls to make sure the home worker was professional without any background noises like kids/pets.
A lot of the level of teamwork is dependent on what the team is comfortable with. I have worked in groups where we would communicate via IM even if we are just over the wall from each other. For me, switching to another window to IM is much less intrusive to my workflow than getting up.
When I'm in an idea generation phase, it is definitely helpful to have people together for that. There is a certain level of creativity that seems to get lost when I can't read all of the physical cues and overall vibes of the conversation.
That's the case with me as well. The most tight-knit collaboration happens among the subset of people, both local and remote, who idle in an IRC channel we have. Whether someone uses IRC and is reasonably responsive on it is a much better predictor of connectedness to my own projects than when they're local or remote. That said, if they aren't going to use IRC, it's better to be local than remote.
Some studies have shown that an interruption where you totally lose focus for another discussion causes you to take 15-20 minutes to get "back into the groove" of complex work.
I understand this from my own work when it is complex. It doesn't have to be difficult, but just involve many things the mind juggles when attempting to come up with the best solution or design.
This is why working from home can be challenging for those people whose family members think, "Oh, you're here anyway, so it's not a big deal if I ask you a quick question or ask you to do some quick task."
I work for a close-knit high-level support group. Our problems are complex and varied enough that I cannot imagine working from home routinely. Nothing beats overhearing somebody in an adjacent cube mumble something about an issue that you dealt with vaguely six months ago, and then you hop up, scrawl something on a whiteboard, and then call over another couple people to check it out with you.
Yes, all this is theoretically possible via IM, (even the sketching, with special equipment), but things like overhearing others, and the instant, high-speed collaboration just isn't possible remotely. (I can talk much faster than I type, and there isn't any concept of "overhearing" a colleague discuss something if you are on other sides of the country.)
Well, you can only overhear stuff which is close enough to you and you are listening at the time, depending on the size of your office that may not be practical. With a shared communication medium like an IRC channel being properly used it is much easier, any number of people can be talking at once and you can scroll back up to read earlier talk.
Well I don't work remotely, but if Bob kept popping his head over my cube I'd get annoyed with him fast, this is a reason I frequently work from home or starbucks or just any damn place other than my cube. There's a time of day to discuss problems, and there's a time of day to get work done. You schedule meetings for that discussion thing, you make them as short as possible, and you agree on a time of day when everyone needs to be available (usually "normal work hours", or the subset including all US time zones).
You can do that via some live meeting method, or you can do it in a conference room. There is no difference, only some real dinosaurs who mostly haven't survived the industry think otherwise. The only possible objective here is that she has to lay off some people, she can't necessarily afford a layoff (i.e. severance, litigation risks, etc.), so she's changing a policy to cause people to voluntarily resign. The risk of course is that if people do not quit, and take her up on the relo, she may end up spending more.
If Yahoo! is in SF, then I'd quit, it's too expensive and would require too much of a cost of living reduction. I imagine she's banking on that.
You're right... Remote working doesn't work when it's a small part of the team. The rest communicates via their usual face to face measures, and the remote worker is isolated.
When the whole team works remotely, though, the methods of communication change to accommodate.
Most people are not comfortable with different. I prefer not to work with those people, in part because they are unlikely to do anything innovative. The most creative, innovative, and diligent people I know are remote workers. They sometimes have one or two bad experiences before they find a team that can collaborate effectively in multiple modes and media. When they do, the results are magic.
silicon valley person, here.
my current place has so many non-english languages spoken (in cubes, in the hallway, etc) that even hearing people talk about work means NOTHING to me.
should I say something to management? probably not. it would not be interpreted in the well-meaning fashion that I would have intended.
but I definitely do NOT benefit from being on-site when almost no one speaks english as a first language and people fall back to their native tongues, even in the formal office environment.
what do folks think about that? a US company where the office has very little english spoken in the hallways, cubes, etc.
official meetings in conference rooms are in english, of course, but that's not what you were talking about in your post.
maybe there's something I could comment on or help with - IF I only knew what they were talking about.
personally, I find it rude, but again, I won't say anything about it at work. if they don't 'get it', my saying anything about it won't help any.
but I might as well be at home since being there is not the benefit you listed.
Actual Real Life Event:
My large blue employer terminated work from home several years ago. I now sit in a several hundred office cube farm with a shoulder level barrier between cubes that are 6 feet at most apart. For a long time no one sat across from me and only one, generally quiet, person to the side. Then a cube reshuffle happened.
I come in early for some quiet time and to plan out the day. Cubes were reassigned so I now have 2 loud people across from me, one of them comes in early too. To further disable any concentration, this person regularly leads a conference call when he comes in. Now, how likely is it that a person could focus with that going on 4 feet away? Not exactly.
A successful, smart business would realize theres a middle ground here, that some work from home is good and desirable. Yahoo is doing two things -
1. A layoff without calling it a layoff.
2. Undermining employees and will bring in a boat load of contract, mostly H1B / L1, employees to weaken any bargaining power employees have for raises, flexibility, compensation. I know this because I have lived it at my large blue employer.
lastly: Actively resist in any manner the current "reform" of H1B etc. Tech companies are using its loop holes to bring in more supply of compliant foreign workers. They arent bring in the best and brightest as the program is designed to do, they are just increasing supply to weaken US workers bargaining power. Guess what, its working great for them!
Remote workers are not as useful for close knit development teams as ones in the office. Sometimes you need to speak face to face. All else being equal, of course.
A lot of people are not suitable for remote employment, and a lot of people just aren't capable of involving off-site people. But if you've done it a while, hopefully you've weeded out those who couldn't and shouldn't and are left with good people you wouldn't otherwise have on staff. Doing anything like this without a grandfather clause sounds like chasing away a lot of good people that you've worked hard to find for almost no reason at all. But then I've never had any major issue with corporate suicides, unlike people they don't have any inherent reason to exist.
Managers are like dogs, all the way up to the executive level. When they enter a new area, they mark their territory by pissing all over everything.
It's far easier to concentrate and maintain that concentration when you don't have people constantly coming up to your desk and interrupting you. Since it's easier to concentrate, it's also easier to get into "the zone" and stay in "the zone" for a longer period of time. Further, since you don't commute, people who work from home also tend to work longer hours. So, you do more productive work at home for longer periods of time. I'd say people working from home are more useful for close-knit development teams than ones in the office.
All true, and more; I opted to start working from home to avoid morons in adjacent cubicles who thought it was appropriate to do things like: 1. Hold impromptu meetings in the adjacent aisle with everyone talking as loudly as possible, 2. Make personal phone calls with the phone on *speaker*. And then they would get PO'd at *me* for objecting.
And in addition, at home I have use of my own double-width rack of networking gear where I can replicate issues, and test proposed changes. Every instance I've see
I hear this fallacy a lot.
When I work from home, I'm still pairing up with another developer over skype/tmux, and I am super productive doing it.
It's 2012, there's no reason remote working should incur a penalty in collaboration.
When I worked at Google, there were a lot of remote workers, since teams were put together for specific purposes, and the geographic locations varied widely between the best people for the task at hand. This worked as well, in 99% of the cases, as having the person locally in the office. But Google has a pretty big, pretty sophisticated teleconferencing infrastructure which perhaps Yahoo does not have/can not currently afford to buy.
It's also frequently very difficult to communicate corporate culture remotely; for this reason, when someone was hired permanently into a position in the team, even from another team already within Google, they were expected to spend several months with their coworkers in Mountainview. If the office containing most of the on-site team had been in Germany, they would have been expected there instead.
I imagine that it would be amazingly difficult to make a cultural shift in a company with remote workers, even if you imposed the same restrictions in terms of having them work locally, and if, as Marissa seems to be trying to do, you do it by throwing a big switch, that's a rather large up front cost, unless you own Marriott Suites or a similar housing complex.
That said, Marissa is apparently trying to turn Yahoo into a mini-Google. I don't know how this will work out for them, but it probably can't be worse than if they'd taken the purchase offer from Microsoft and become a mini-Microsoft.
My gut feeling is that this isn't going to be terrifically successful; I knew a lot of the people who were initially involved in Yahoo. I also know that a lot of managers dislike managing remotely on general principles; for those managers, the people "allowed" to work remotely were the "rock stars": people who were allowed to be remote not because the managers were OK with it, but because they would otherwise lose the talent. They've already had something of a brain-drain: I know several of the Yahoo top technical people already jumped to Facebook, Google, and other companies, some of them years ago, when it looked like Yahoo was starting to go down hill.
It really remains to be seen what, other than a mini-Google, Marissa is trying to build at Yahoo, but it should be interesting to watch.
In this day and age there is simply no reason. I work on a small team right now and the guy I do the most work with is remote all the time. Between IM, email, phone calls and video chat there is no drop off between him and anyone else I work with. Office time != face time. I agree that face time can be very important, but there are just too many tools available these days for physical location to matter.
You have to give these managers more credit: They are really trying to do the best they can: Having no skills themselves, the only reasonable metric is time spent at work! And Mayer reputedly excels at this. If a remote employee stares out the window, they are definitely not at work in that moment, while a non-remote employee doing the same thing is! So, from their perspective they are clearly boosting productivity.
Just to make sure nobody misunderstands me:
- Time is an unsuitable productivity metric for knowledge workers.
- Working long hours is well known to massively decrease productivity due to significant increases in mistakes and wrong decisions.
- The Dunning-Kruger effect is a lot more pronounced in "leadership" positions as these people often manage to effectively discourage honest feedback.
As a manager, the only way to really know if you are really utilizing your people is when they start failing. Otherwise, they might have more capacity.
If you have a set amount of work to do, then you can measure who is finishing the work with quality and efficiency but even those measures are ineffective because not all work is the same. So if it is repetitive work you can rotate it around and maybe catch the total gold brickers.
If you work with them on a daily basis and gather status from them - you can get some indication for who is doing a lot of work and who is not doing a lot of work. When we interviewed people said they had worked on 2-3 projects. At our company, on our team we were working 10-15 projects per person upper (management cut corners and missed a lot of SAP blueprinting) and we were graded on "all done or fail" basis.
Now... two things did happen.
1) After two years upper management laid almost everyone off (~80%) and brought in Infosys. The nasty bit... after two years of 70 hour weeks- we found out this had been in Legal for two years. I.e. they planned to use us up like batteries from the start and then toss us.
2) Of the 20% of the people retained. Over half are gone. The SAP project is stalled until Infosys comes up to speed. And the surprise was this: Infosys didn't have enough trained resources. I hear a lot of $200 an hour contractors have been brought in... sort of negating the savings of laying everyone off. I expect it will resume moving again in the summer.
So this is off topic from the remote worker (oh btw, they DID lay off every single remote employee while staffing up a bunch of people in india so watch out for being a remote employee because of the extra risk).
This is the third major company that has done this that I'm aware of so my advice is if your company is going to SAP and they bring in Infosys- there is a very high risk that the plan is to lay you off right after all the hard work unless you are on enterprise architecture.
The good news is- most of the people who god laid off found work in under 90 days working 45 hours a week. Moral: They should have left when management first called for them to work 70 hours unless they had been offered huge (and I'm talking a years salary) bonuses.
Working long hours is well known to massively decrease productivity due to significant increases in mistakes and wrong decisions.
This generally get compounded by the fact that "Working hours is ill defined." From the company point of view and the legally, the number of hours worked is from the time you get to work, to the time you leave work. The companies point of view nor the law change the fact that from the employees point of view and from a biological point of view, work begins when you start getting ready for work at home until you get back home in the evening. That and a lunch hour is not enough time to convert the time into non-work time. Thus, the standard work day for an employee with an hour commute is ~12 hours to start.
Typical feminine perspective: maximizing social drama (or what most call 'communication' nowadays) matters more than results. I'm sure she'll also make sure everyone's dressed like fashion models too, because dresscode is more important than results.
+5 Insightful for this? Really? OK, I get it, Slashdotters are too cool for face to face conversations. If it gets you out of the "programmer zone" it's bad. Got it.
Here's my anecdote:
The best thing my current company did for the (software) product was to get people back in the office, working together. Before, it was a mix of people offsite, in other states, in other countries. Even inside the company, people who were supposed to be working together had cubicles all over the office, on different floors and different buildings. The result? Nobody talked to each other, requirements were mis-interpreted, and every little thing had to be documented because nobody was in the room when changes were made. Decisions (code and business) that could have been made over a 15 minute conversation instead took days of E-mail chains. Engineers, marketing people, managers, etc. locked themselves in their private little worlds and sent status reports at each other, and lo and behold, nothing was getting done.
After a great deal of convincing, we ended that shit. Every significant contributor to the project (including developers, QA, project management, architecture, art, marketing, etc.) not only needs to be in the office, but they work in the same "war room". No cube walls to hide behind, no doors to lock, no screaming kids on conference calls. If there's a question about something, the person who knows is less than 20 meters away. If you need a quick over-the-shoulder code review, it's done. What is Marketing planning on calling this feature? Answered. Status reports became unnecessary, endless meetings and conference calls started going away. No more of this, "Jim is only going to be in town for three days, so we need to cram all the meetings in while he's here!" The little petty morale-killing stuff like "Why does he get to live in Utah on a California salary, while I have to pay rent in Mountain View?" went away. I can't begin to emphasize the difference this made in terms of productivity and collaboration, and morale.
Don't underestimate the power of simply getting everyone in the same room talking. Companies that do it will have an edge over companies that don't.
It's not that folks are "too cool". It's incredibly inefficient to break concentration on complex tasks for tedium that could be more appropriately handled in a scheduled meeting or even a simple email. The interrupter may get what they need, but it's at the cost of the company generally. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to be 4 threads deep debugging an issue only to have a project manager drop in to get simple information they could easily have requested by email.
What's worse, I think many people understand how badly interruptions sets back our work. However, they only care about their own priorities/deadlines and believe that whatever they are working on is more important. Which, in some cases it might be, but many times it's not in my experience.
I agree vehemently on the value of and face time and communication, but I cannot fathom how anyone attempting to focus on a challenging task could function in your described environment. I would expect slower development and more errors due to interruption. I'm guessing, since it sounds like it was your idea at your company, you're a little more attuned to the positive aspects of the decision.
After years of twitching on the gurney, Mayer is finally putting a bullet in Yahoo's head.
The meetings will continue until something gets done around here.
I was once dragged on to a "tiger team" to solve an emergency problem that had sprung up.
They called us in for a kick-off meeting at 8am, and during the meeting they decided that we would have a 9am meeting every day to determine our progress.
The kickoff meeting ran until 9am, at which point the boss transitioned the kick-off meeting into the daily status meeting, and when we reported that we had not made any progress (because we were still in the kick-off meeting), berated us for our lack of progress.
You know, I want to say it's for the best, due to the twitching on the gurney factor, like you say. But, really, it's not. We consumers need good competition to get the best out of these companies and a big player like Yahoo finally biting the dust we not be good for us
I suppose an alternative view is that Yahoo has been wallowing around for so long that the competition has not been there anyway. That might be true...
There are some web pages - like the hords of image blogs at Tumblr - that might do fine with this "never ending page scroll" shit, but Yahoo's home page is not one of them, it's just extremely annoying.
Yahoo was at one time a great hotbed of interesting web development technology, but now it's just another shithole like HP than needs to merg with someone who actually has a product and vision, and go the fuck away.
The whole "portal" concept is dead.
I'm not sure that the "portal" concept is dead.
I have an iGoogle portal page that I have open all of the time and I use it many times a day to check news, weather, RSS feeds, webcams to my local ski areas, stock prices, etc. It really is very useful to me.
Now, as you probably know, Google has declared iGoogle to be dead meat and will discontinue the service later this year. I will then probably have to create something similar on my own or find another service. I have looked at the new Yahoo home page and
The security angle is BS, at least for competent employees and system administration. Just use VPN and dedicated work-laptops. Of course what I have seen from Yahoo, is abysmally bad in that area. They may really have security problems in an area where these have been solved a long time ago.
First and probably primarily is security holes from supporting remote employees.
This is definitely not the case, for one safe-to-assume reason and one from Mayer's memo itself.
The safe-to-assume reason is that Yahoo will certainly continue providing remote access to employees for working from home during off-hours, while travelling on company business, and for employees who are on-call. If you have to provide remote access for even one employee some of the time you have the same set of security considerations as if you provide remote access for all employees all of the time.
And Mayer's memo makes reference to employees exercising good judgement about waiting at home for the cable guy situations. This implies that it is recognized there will always be one-off situations where an employee needs to work from home for a particular day, even if they are not allowed to do so as their standard day-to-day situation. So once again, if you provide remote access for even one, you have all the same security considerations as if you allowed every employee to work from home all the time.
I personally think this is just as some other posters have said -- it's a stealth layoff to avoid paying severance by getting people to quit on their own, and the decision will gradually be reversed (or the policy just not enforced) once the desired reductions have been accomplished.
ObSnark: When did Carly change her name to Marissa?
Second, I have done lots of team work as well as remote work.. the physical interface of people is important for synergy. The problems I have solved by simply walking around the workplace and networking people who sit within 10m of each other are beyond counting.
Ok, people were ALREADY in the office and they weren't communicating? So, what's the problem with letting them telecommute again?
So, regardless of the success or failure of their business model, (hint: it's a failure), senior management has decided that swimming against the tide will mysteriously lead to better customer service and/or lower costs?
I assume that this move has more to do with reducing variable cost, (payroll), by encouraging people to resign, than actually implementing a well thought-out strategic or tactical innovation. This because if everyone concerned actually turns up to the office, instead of quitting, then costs must inevitably rise. Of course, productivity gains will outpace costs, right? Wrong.
If management cannot manage remote workers today, with clear objectives supported by good processes and infrastructure, what makes you think they will be able to do it with everyone in-house?
That new Yahoo homepage will look good as "The Boss is Coming" tab when management patrols cubicle-space.
The hallmark of truly bad management is making wrong decision in the face of well known facts that make it obvious the decisions are wrong. This is what many incompetents in high positions mistake for "leadership". It comes with vast overestimation of their own skills (which are often pitiful), meaningless productivity metrics (time being the most popular, as it is easy for these "high performers" to clock more of it, which does make them "long stayers", but does routinely _decrease_ their performance, such as it is), an ignorance of the well established basics of good management. The problem is of course that managers are hired by managers and the atrociously bad practices are just perpetuated.
This is a move I expect out of a non-tech C-level. Like, I don't know, healthcare. "Yes, all employees must be chained to their desks by 0830 because otherwise we can't trust that work is being done."
Stupid, 1950's typewriter-and-adding-machine mentality. "Because that's how it's always been done."
The two most productive and profitable places I've been to not only allow telecommute -- they encourage it, and not for money. Their numbers tell them people do more work of better quality when free to work wherever.
They only right way to deal with this is on an individual basis. If you cannot handle that, it is better to not implement this. There will be quite a few able and willing people that are only at Yahoo because of the remote work policy. All of those can easily leave and many will now, also because of the implied insult to their professional ethics.
Guess why the costs and overruns are out of control. Because the boomer and genx management has committed more and more to paying h1-bs 35k a year while charging $200/hour for their work.
You dont attract the top people to your company by acting like a micromanaging jerk... This lady is proof that it's not your skills but who you know to become CEO.
This will just mean those bright and able will look for other employment, while those not so good will stay. And this will not only affect remote workers, as such a step is an insult to their employees and will lower morale significantly. Truly incompetent "leadership" at work, this is a beginner's mistake.
Yahoo was useful way back BECAUSE it's directory was human organized and validated. If I wanted a list of sites about computer hardware I could navigate their index to find a bunch of sites they've found. It was a meta bookmark system managed by humans.
If that was still around I'd still use it.
The bad did not do as much work as the local workers and would disappear for 15 minutes at a time. What were they doing? Going for a walk? Who knows.
The good had higher productivity than the local workers.
Never saw much success with teams with too many remote workers.
I'm sure it works great for brilliant people but for normal people, it was difficult to have adhoc meetings or expedite things.
Of course this was for working conditions with too much work. It was hard to do it locally (70 hour weeks). Almost impossible to do it remotely.
She wants them to quit so she doesn't have to pay unemployment despite the fact that the company is the one changing the rules.
If you resign- no unemployment benefits.
Careful what you wish for, Slashdotters, if your job can be done from home it can be done from India.
I used to be a huge advocate of telecommuting and did it myself for the better part of a decade.
For years now I've been seeing a growing wave of Agile methodology, particularly Scrum, being adopted. Very much for the better. And while it's technically possible to use these methods with remote team members, it's far from ideal.
No matter how much technology you throw at the problem (IM, video, holograms), the reality is you throw away practically all the possible gains when team members are remote. Hell, just having the team spread out farther then a couple cubes away is incredibly detrimental. And it isn't about the ease of distracting your co-worker all the time (which anyone would agree is bad). No, it's about the ease of collaborating with your team member.
I'm seeing a significant re-thinking of the use of out-sourcing/off-shoring, specifically because a good Scrum team of half a dozen people in house can drastically outperform any number of off-shore contractors. The economics make more sense to keep the work in house. But they have to be a team, and they have to be co-located, period. Anything else and you just don't get remotely close to the same performance...which means there's no real benifit of an in house group, which means the most sensible choice is to out-source it to India.
If you're a Rambo-style rock star who is loath to work with anyone else, most especially face to face, your days are numbered. Simply because anyone with just half your skill can easily out perform you in every way if they are part of a solid Agile team and you're still a lone wolf. I'm not comparing you against an entire team, I'm comparing just you against just one member of a good team.
In other words, 6 lone wolf rock stars will get destroyed by 6 average, typical workers who work together as a team. And the team members will do it without working 15 hour days.
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My question is what are they going to do when they run out of things to put after "Pokemon"? Will they use bits from english like "Pokemon Adjective and Noun"?Will there be a Pokemon E and A? Will they use bits of Hindu or Zodiac symbols? What will they do?
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Hi to All! Today was done a major progress in several fields. Here are the bullet points, for more info please write to me or post to the mailing list on the wiki
- advice from a professionals in disaster response: the area of the disaster should not been entered by non trained people as long as the profesional disaster teams are in at work (3-6 weeks or longer)
- considerable increase in the budget funding, donations received on 16/3/2011 = $655
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Too Funny Not to Post: No Snow Day for You
So a 17 year old high school student left a message at home for a school administrator last week asking why they didn't have a snow day. He got a call back...from the guy's wife. And, well...
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- Bigasshammm said...
Sniff, sniff, I smell lawsuit. If any school official ever left that message on my phone for my kid you best be sure that school official would be fired soon. What can we expect from someone who's name is Candy though honestly? Doesn't she realize that she just ruined her husband's reputation all with a stupid phone call? Or that said stupid phone call made her sound like the 17 year old "kid" and not a mature women of the age of what 75? She sounded quite old and crotchety on the message. Definitely one of those "get off my lawn" type of snooty bitches.
- January 24, 2008 7:35 AM
- TitleIX said...
Interesting clash of a Boomer and a Nexter....
said Nexter feels that it is perfectly fine to contact the Superintendent directly..you know, being proactive, taking control of one's life, engaging in debate (the kid is afterall on the debate team). Go right to the top. Behavior modeled by his 'helicopter parents' no doubt.
The Missus? A boomer who believes in hierarchy, privacy, and protocol. Ya don't just call my house at 4 in the morning to raise a complaint....
AND, there is probably some underlying marital-issues trigger that got slammed as well.
Not to mention all the boundary busting that went on.
Kid calls an administrator's house at 4AM
Administrator is not the one to respond, it's the wife who fires back.
A veritable treasure trove for the sociology/psychology majors in the crowd!
- January 24, 2008 8:13 AM
- Bigasshammm said...
I don't think the kid called at 4am. She says at one point that he was in the office at 6:30 so I imply from that that the kid probably called around 7-7:30 or something. But I may be wrong. Definite boundary issues for sure but what did the kid have the number for to begin with. Maybe the super gave it out for whatever reason and if so then they should expect to get phone calls like this. There was a moment last year where during that huge storm that we got about a foot of snow in one day they didn't call school that day. How they came up with that idea no one knows and we received an automatic callback from the Super of our school system basically apologizing for his stupidity. I no doubt believe that there was several angry disturbing phone calls left on his vm that morning, my wife being one of them, that lead to him calling and saying yes we fucked up. But there wasn't a phone call from his wife bitching about everyone calling or putting us down. For that he should be punished and his wife should never be allowed on the phone again. Whether what the kid did was right or wrong isn't an issue.
As I write this I think man I miss football.
This is what we've come to talk about in the wake of a mediocre season. :(
- January 24, 2008 8:49 AM
- Andy said...
Welcome back T9 !!!!
- January 24, 2008 8:50 AM
- I'm blue, da ba dee said...
Fucking good for her! I'd LOVE to see this kid's parents try to sue the school and get their asses handed to them in court... he essentially prank called his district's superintendent at 4AM in the morning and his WIFE called back. If the superintendent had made the return call, then there'd be a problem. But there's nothing unlawful about an adult women calling to complain about a 17 year old who prank called her house at 4AM. She didn't threaten him, she didn't curse, she just gave him a piece of her fucking mind... if anything, she could probably sue HIM for posting the message on the internet. That being said, how popular do you think this kid is now?
- January 24, 2008 8:58 AM
- phillip said...
I get the feeling that the superintendent will be forced to resign after this... just my gut feel since it was picked up nationally.
The call to the home was certainly inappropriate (why was their number publicly available? you've got to know better if you're dealing with stupid high schoolers - prank calls will happen if kids get that #) and I wish I heard what the kid said, but the response from the wife... I don't know if you can do that and not end up in a bad place.
Maybe the kid should have been called into the office or had his parents contacted? Just think there would have been a better way to deal with it.
- January 24, 2008 9:46 AM
- WingRG said...
As Mr Tony (K) mentioned on his wed. radio show, the super had a publicly listed phone number (i wouldn't want someone who's that stupid running a school system).
Also, how is this a prank call? The kid was advocating for a snow day, he left his name and number ... Would he do that if he was prank calling someone? He was just being proactive. The wife definitely over-reacted: if she thought she was getting harassed, she should've called the cops
- January 24, 2008 9:58 AM
- goat7ed said...
It doesn't seem this was the only call (or email), and apparently there were also threats. So by the time the kid pig-piled, she probably had enough.
From WTOP's website http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1329558
Fairfax County Public Schools officials are responding to several phone calls to a school administrator's home and e-mails, some threatening, after a decision yesterday to keep schools open despite snow in the forecast.
A school system spokesman tells says schools will be notified of the names of the e-mail senders and will go to the police with the names of those who made threats.
It appears the home of one administrator, Dean Tisdadt, took the brunt of the angry calls, and his wife became so upset she called back one student with a fiery response of her own.
That response was recorded and put online where a large number of students heard it.
A school system spokesman say that the administrator's wife's reaction was understandable.
- January 24, 2008 10:39 AM
- Bigasshammm said...
Understandable but not condonable. I don't care who you are or what you do but if I went to work all day and came home to find out that the wife of the Super where I send my kids to school called and left a message for my child like that I'd be pretty irate. And nothing can stop an irate parent when dealing with a school issue. Hence why we no longer have God in the pledge of allegiance or any of that garbage.
- January 24, 2008 10:54 AM
- TitleIX said...
did you just equate G-d with garbage???
- January 24, 2008 11:59 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
Used to be the parents would have handed what was left of the kid's ass back to the Super's wife with an apology.
Nowdays parents scream lawsuit against the school because no one insinuates my precious little johnny might be wrong. His self-esteem has been injured. Only money will cure this.
What a screwed up culture.
- January 24, 2008 12:57 PM
- WingRG said...
the wife had no business getting involved in this. The kid should've been disciplined by the super (or in school), *IF HE DID SOMETHING WRONG*.
Now, if he just called and said: "I think the school should be cancelled", i'm not sure that's worth a punishment.
- January 24, 2008 1:51 PM
- Crock said...
whet - you're absolutely correct.
I'd like to hear what kind of message the kid left. So many kids and teenagers have such a sense of entitlement, very little respect for authority, and they think they can't get away with anything.
I'm pretty sure the kid left some condescending message for the administrator.
I saw him on CNN and all I could think was, "hmm, is that the 2008 version of Eddie Haskell?"
- January 24, 2008 2:11 PM
- Bigasshammm said...
Doubting the kid left a very nasty message when in fact he left his "name and phone number." Kids are stupid but I just don't see them being that stupid.
Once again I don't see where it says the kid called at 4am. The wife just mentions 4am as the time her husband was up making the decision about school. More likely the kid called at 7am or probably within a half hour of school starting whenever that is. What high school student wakes up more than a half hour before school starts?
T9... what I was classifying as garbage is any of the stupid new laws/regulations imparted by dumb housewives/husbands that have no basis on anything except potentially "offending" them. God in the pledge of allegiance, the ten commandments in courtroom, etc. etc. Half the time I believe these stupid people just want to get their names in the paper or start an argument over something so trivial it's best left alone.
I don't see where the kid did anything wrong here and like I stated before a very similar instance happened last year here. In that case though the Super was not dumb enough to publicly list his telephone and therefore it led to his mailbox at his office completely full with irate phone calls from concerned parents. Thus leading him personally to apologize to the entire school district for their mistake. In that he showed class where this guy's wife showed absolutely no class and defaced herself, her husband, and the entire school district by telling off a 17 year old kid.
- January 24, 2008 4:19 PM
- Andrew said...
The super's wife went overboard. However, if I were the parent of one of those kids (including the one who posted the message on the internet), I'd smack him/her upside the head for being an idiot and force an apology for being disrespectful.
- January 24, 2008 5:08 PM
- Feelin' Blue said...
Article on the whole thing. Great point, T9. On one hand, the student shouldn't have called. On the other, the superintendent's wife is the crazy lady who threatens to call the cops on kids playing stickball in the street.
And the guy didn't call at 4 AM; he called during his lunch break. I hate kids today. It was a big deal to get a cell phone in high school. I had an emergency cell that I shared with my sisters. Now 3rd graders have their own.
- January 24, 2008 7:05 PM
- tommertoffo said...
Good for the woman. She's right on target. She should set that bratty kid straight.
- January 24, 2008 9:51 PM
- Mikoyan said...
Why do you assuem that the kid was being bratty? If the kid was 17 years old, the kid was probably driving to school and given that it's Virginia is probably not used to driving in the snow. It sounds like the kid left a name and number and because of that probably got to be the one singled out.
- January 25, 2008 12:57 AM
- Michael said...
Awesome. That was sweet. The kid probably shouldn't have called the administrator's house, but she could have handled that better too. We're only getting one side of the story here and I would like to know what the kid said to make this woman so mad. As a student, I empathize with the kid for not wanting to go to school, and living in San Diego I've never had a snow day, but if the kid is calling to complain about it, he probably should be forced to go to school. (wow. longest run on ever, but I'm too lazy to fix it)
- January 25, 2008 4:34 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
He got Saturday detention.
- January 26, 2008 1:42 AM


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During last week I received two phone calls from two of my close friends.
One dates back to 43 years and another 4o years.
First call was around 1.30 am.
" I am totally depressed and out.
My eldest son ha d set up his own Home.
My second son, had left for US on assignment for one year.
The Home I have been living for the past 60 years is about to be demolished.
Though I had received adequate compensation, I do not like to live in a totally new place.
I want to go to my area where I have a commercial property which I have rented out.
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"My daughter got married about five years back , has gone to US with her husband and has not come Home since as she could not get visa.
My son is planning to leave for Higher studies in the US.
My wife is sick and I am depressed"
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Those who are close to us are sick.
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We took the responsibility of raising a family.
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May be 15 0r 20 years?
Is it fair on our part to demand of them to suit our convenience when they have a full life ahead of them?
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How much of the mamba monster combo is waterproof? I am thinking of upgrading from titan 550s to a faster motor.
non of it maybe the motor can get wet a little but the esc is not waterproof at all. if you want a waterproof system then you will need to plasti-dip the esc but voids the warranty with castle and traxxs if you get the traxxas combo. there is the Hobbywing sc8 combo that is waterproof already that is safe to use around water.
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How powerful is the hobbywing sc8 combo?
Read post 16...that is the method I used to plasti dip...NOTE* you will void your warranty with this method.
Good luck...
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what craig posted is true about the sc8 its got power you can see some of my vids of mine found in my thread here and i dont use full throttle in those vids most of the time. i have to agree if you want to run 6s get the castle and plasti dip it or you could even get the hobbywing 150a esc xerun 2000kv motor but not sure if you can plasti dip that esc though since its not waterproof only splash proof and havent heard of anybody doing that to that esc though. so far that i know the sc8 is that cheapest that is waterproofed
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Any recommendations on a set of lipo's that can I use with the SC8 combo? Also what is the highest KV you would recommend not going over with the Emaxx? Also what else would recommend putting on my emaxx for the upgrade to such a powerful motor? I have RPM front a-arms, RPM rear true-track a-arm/axle carriers, RPM front and rear body mounts, and steel cv shafts and driveshafts. Is there anything you would recommend further? Thanks for any and all help.
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You have alot already upgraded which are good things to have upgraded already. if something breaks then upgrade at the time but if its still good then no need to upgrade. I havent broken anything yet running 4s all the time. Take a look at spc lipos in particular the 2s 5000 25C lipos or they have a 50C 2s lipo that would be better to supply the amps but costs more though. look at smc-racing.com they have a few specials on lipos for 2s priced good at 45 i think which i will be getting for better lipos than what i have. take a look in my thread here to see what lipos i have on mine right now not the best but are holding up good so far i get 35+min runtimes not sure how but i do.
Highest KV would be this motor-http://www.hobbypartz.com/07e-ezrun-4065-2700kv-black-motor.html
i hear it works good with the sc8 esc and has tons of power just gets a slight bit hotter than the 2000kv motor i have. there is a combo you can get with both sc8+2k motor. link:
I ordered mine from this place just use express shipping for $8 motor ok worth every penny or you will wait 2+ weeks. wish2012 i used helped when i bought mine.
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One thing though. I'm new to the whole lipo thing. I understand a little bit here and there. But the one thing I'm still kinda confused on is this 2s,3s,4s, and 6s stuff. I've been reading that the ESC and motor requires 4S, so does two 2S lipo's make 4s? Other things like not letting the lipo get too low on voltage and overcharging can be very bad. Also what does 25C mean when it comes to lipo's? Like I said I'm new to the lipo/brushless side of the fence. Thanks again for any info.
Cause for one of the reasons I want to go brushless is because I want to be able to standing backflips and do standing wheelies going across a lawn.
And the reason I was asking how high the KV can be is because I was looking on eBay at some SC8 combos and saw some that have 4000kv and higher.
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Each lipo battery pack have a certain number of cells inside. Each cell has 3.7 volts, what you see as 2S, 3S, is the number of cells connected in series inside the pack, that's what the "S" stands for.
A truck of this size should run a motor between 1900-2700 kv.
My 2 cents.
read up on lipos here: https://sites.google.com/site/tjingu...po-terminology
All of these articals will explain everythign you need to know about lipos, what the C ratings mean, picking a charger, picking a power supply if your charger needs one, how to charge, soldering, and lastly disposing of lipos safely most important to enviroment.
The esc can run 4s max so 2-2s lipos in series is max what you can use. I used the traxxas series connector they sell for about $7 and soldered on a traxxas male connector to the end of the esc leads and then soldered on the motor connectors and used the heatshrink supplied in the box just make sure you cover the connectors on the motor-esc good with the heatshrink ok.
the reason you see the sc8 with higher KV motors is because this can be used with SCT trucks short course trucks like the slash and slash 4x4 but it can also be used for MT's like the e revo, emaxx, revo, tmaxx trucks as well when converting them to electric which is another subject.
Hey hope those links help you out to understand lipos and such.
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It's going to be a pain getting a hold of a 2700kv hobbywing motor. Everywhere I look they are sold out
check this out, on that site you can find a leopard motor in size of 4274
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The sc8 hobbywing esc is very good but be aware that they only recommend 4s for low Kv motors. You will need to check it out to see what they recommend with your motor. Its a great esc though, I had one in my rustler with a hobbywing 4 pole 4000Kv motor and it was brilliant on 3s..
The question is, is the leopard 2700kv motor suitable for the emaxx?
depends what size it is there are some that are big enough for it and some that are not. post a link to it please.
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Here is the link for info and such. I found one on eBay. http://www.helipal.com/leopard-lbp40...ess-motor.html
that would work its just like the hobbywing 2700kv. Good motor for use with the SC8 esc though it may run just a little hotter but you are planning on only running 4s right? that motor has a limit of 5s and you know esc is 4s max.
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Oh yes most definitely no more than 4s
then you'll be ok with that motor.
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Also what is a good waterproof low voltage beeper? And when it comes to replacing my front carriers when it comes time to, replace with RPM carriers or go aluminum?
Nevermind the ESC has low voltage cutoff protection
Another question. Has any body ever tried out Gens Ace lipo's?
before traxxas made lipos there is a number of people running gens ace packs.
If there was a poll on what people used they would maybe be in the top 3. But now traxxas has lipos and i think they come with some of there models now, the list will change. I'd still think gens ace would be somewhere up high in that list.
with traxxas you get quality and underrated what they are, with other brand packs, you get inexpensive, but is a mine field getting a quality pack.
my advice if your new to lipo, don't be tight buying a cheap charger, yes they work but could make a good lipo bad.
you want a charger that can charge a lipo in 60minutes, Theres no such thing as a fast charger, the lipos define if it can be charged faster. and you don't want one thats going to take 120minutes to charge a battery as that makes you walk away elsewhere or get distracted while it's charging because it's taking too long.
Google search trumps Wiki. Refer to user guide.
There is just so many lipo's to choose from. It's hard to decide.
I love my gens ace lipos I run 3s in my emaxx and in my spartan and I have had no problems with them and I can charge them at 10 amps so it takes 30 min each
E-Maxx. Spartan. 4x4 slash. 2x4 slash x 3. Mini revo and summit
E-Maxx kershaw 700`s 4x2 slash 4x4 slash vxl
i've heard good things on gens ace lipos you can consider as well spc they are on sale as well great prices but wont be there long though they go fast or will change the price soon so pick some up. 5000mah 2s 25c lipo for 23.
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I've seen a guy running his Emaxx in the snow, He said he thought all traxxas RC's were waterproofed. he said he dryed it after every run. I just ordered some lexan to make a water tight box to put my esc in.
yeah thats what most think since everything is just about waterproof but the MMM esc fools people i believe its in the manual about it not being waterproof. maybe traxxas will start to put a waterproof esc in these after castle makes theirs.
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Question. How much paint does it take to paint a 1/10 lexan body?


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I used to use a 5D/40D pairing but replaced them last year with a 5D3/7D pairing. The 40D was used almost exclusively with my 100-400 and 300 f/2.8, which is how I use the 7D now. I have two 20X30 landscape photos made with the 5D, with lots of tree leaves but a minimum viewing distance of about 30 inches. They look fine.Biggest complaint with the 5D is that the focusing is not very fast and the highest ISO is 3200. It is definitely not a sports camera.
A used 5D mk1 sells for about half the price of a used mk2. Rather ironically the biggest difference between them isn't resolution though you would think that to the case from the specs. On screen the files from the Mk2 are much better but this all but disappears in print. The mk2 also has much better performance in the ISO 400 to 1600 range, but below 400 the mk1 is pretty much the same. As has been said, the digi-2 is pretty slow and there is no video or live view. However having said all that the mki is probably the bargain out there now in Dslrs. IQ wise it is certainly current up to 400 ISO. At Building Panoranics we thought it was better than a recently aquired (and now sold) 650D. If you get one go for one thats serial number begins with 2 or 3. They have the improved screen and modified mirror. Avoid ones that begin with 0 or 1.
Haven't used it, but everything I've heard about the 5Dc is it's still a great camera. Plus FF will give you a nice perspective and quality than the 40D IMHO. If you can find a 5d2 cheap and in good condition I'd say go with that, even if it's a few $ more, but I don't know what your budget is. If you're not doing anything that needs better low light image quality, I'd say go for it. Most of what makes a good image is the photographer, not the equipment.
I did the same upgrade two years ago and have barely touched the 40D since (which is a shame, because it's a fine camer). The IQ on the 5D is significantly better, and ultimately that is what matters most to me.Things you will notice in the switch - these may or may not matter to you:the 5D is much slower (both fps and overall responsiveness)no liveview on 5Dno self-cleaning sensor on 5D5D has older, clunkier menu systemLCD much nicer on 40D than 5D, even though resolution is similarOf course, you will lose the APS-C "reach" - this is the only reason I pick up the 40D now Enjoy the upgrade. I think the 5D is still a perfectly viable camera, assuming it is in good condition. Of course 5D2 would be better, but a significant price gap persists ($500-ish vs. $1200-ish used).


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/23/siemens_police_investigate/
Siemens investigation nets six
€200m in dodgy dealing
Posted in The Channel, 23rd November 2006 10:30 GMT
German police investigating Siemens' telecoms unit have made two further arrests and reckon suspicious transactions could total as much as €200m.
Six people have now been arrested after police raided 30 homes and offices. Police are now searching through 36,000 documents they have seized from Siemens. Police suspect an international plot to embezzle funds through secret bank accounts, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Siemens said earlier in the week that the office of its chief executive had been searched but that he was a witness not a suspect in the case. The company stressed it was cooperating fully with police.
Investigators in France, Italy, and Switzerland are also interviewing suspects although no arrests have been made so far.
German prosecutors say they are concentrating on 12 suspects - 10 of them current or ex-Siemens staff. They suspect fraud stretches back to 2002, but Italian prosecutors believe the fraud may have started earlier and reach beyond the telecoms unit. ®


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A stunning first-half performance saw Swansea bring high-flying West Brom's excellent run to a crashing halt with a 3-1 win at the Liberty Stadium.
The Baggies were simply overrun in the opening 45 minutes, a ninth goal of the season for Michu and a Wayne Routledge double giving their hosts a 3-0 lead.
Romelu Lukaku pulled one back just before half-time but, despite an improved second-half display, that was as good as it got for Steve Clarke' side.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- An exhibition of mixed-media works by Leslie Sotomayor, bachelor of fine arts candidate in painting and drawing and a Penn State McNair Scholar, will be on display in the Borland Gallery from Aug. 26 to Sept. 6. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
The exhibition, titled "Restos de una vida anterior: Anhelo de (re)escribir sobre el agua (Remnants of a former life: longing to (re)write on water)," represents Sotomayor's desire to understand and connect with her family's history. "The person I am today has much to do with the people who have come before me, and I am akin to." She works on large-as-life canvasses, using paints, stains and common objects to create a depth to the canvas that reflects her nostalgia and interest in investigating the migratory journey of her family, from New York to Cuba and Puerto Rico to Lebanon and Syria. Relating the journey to the movement of water, Sotomayor described her current work as "… longing, el arrastre (pull) for sources of inspiration, life and transportation to other places; the migration of identity."
"You Cannot Write on Water" represents a time in Sotomayor's life that she describes as both bruising and healing. Incorporating pieces of her history, including yarn and parts of a bedspread, on the canvas, she describes the work as an open emotional wound, vulnerable and exposed, that allows her to vent and heal.
A non-traditional student, Sotomayor is a multi-ethnic mother of three in her early 30s, majoring in women's studies, African studies and fine art, and minoring in Latino/a studies and Latin American studies. Her area of research is the era of migration into Cuba, tracing her maternal family's heritage from the Middle East, through Cuba, to New York.
As an undergraduate, Sotomayor has served as a panelist at numerous conferences, including the Women's Studies Graduate Organization (2011, 2013), Communication Graduate Research and Discourse (2013) and National Women's Studies Association (2012); teaching assistant in African History 191, and Latin American and Caribbean Cultures 497; president and treasurer of TRIOTA Honor Society in Women's Studies; and a member of Penn State Commission for Women. She has received several awards, including the Bunton Waller Award, Mimi Barash Coopersmith Endowed Scholarship and the Laura Richardson Whitaker Award. Funding for her research includes an Africana Research Center Grant, Africa and Latin American Grant-In-Aid Program and Commonwealth Scholarship Study Abroad Global Program.
Upon graduation in 2014, Sotomayor will continue her academic career at Penn State. "As a McNair Scholar, I hope to continue my research interests through a combination of interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs in women's studies, fine art and Latin American studies," Sotomayor said. "Women's studies offers the basis of feminist methodology; Latin American studies contextualizes Caribbean cultures; and art is a vehicle in which to cohesively reflect these historical and contemporary themes."


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And it's nowhere near George Bush's low point. If Obama feels bad about his current predicament, let him take some advice from George Bush:
LAUER: When you left office, President Bush, your popularity numbers were around 30 percent, give or take, depending on the poll. You say it... It didn't bother you?
BUSH: No, it didn't.
LAUER: You know, I try to personalize that. I-- I've been doin' this job for 14 years. And if after 14 years, only 30 percent of people who've watched this show think I did a good job--
BUSH: They'll fire ya.
LAUER: Well, it's gonna hurt like hell.If you chase popularity... you're chasing a poof of air.
BUSH: I don't think it does. No. Because I-- I also was, as you just mentioned, at one time over 90 percent. I didn't take it seriously then. I don't take it-- didn't take it seriously when I left office. Somebody walked up to me the other day and said, "Congratulations. Your popularity is way up since you left office." And my answer was, "So what?" Seriously. I mean if you chase popularity, you're chasing a moment. You're chasing a poof of air.
On the other hand, this is a democracy. And, like the man said, They'll fire ya.


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I have already shown two photos of this flat here, but yesterday I found more pictures on this blog and I just had to post them too! This incredible home belongs to the owners of Dusty Deco, a vintage shop that is on my list of places to visit next time I'm in Stockholm (meanwhile I'm drooling over their site!).
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text: Researchers said antioxidants may alleviate artery damage from oxygen free-radicals. In one study, researchers gave 70 people an antioxidant supplement containing 500 mg of vitamin C, 200 IU of vitamin E, 100 mcg of selenium, and 60 mg of CoQ10 per day, or a placebo. Participants had at least two factors that raised chances for heart disease, including high blood pressure or blood fats, diabetes, or they were smokers. After six months, while the placebo group had not improved, the antioxidant group had more flexible blood vessels, lower blood pressure, better blood sugar control, and an 18 percent increase in HDL, the good cholesterol.


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The proposed new standards by the Office of Government Ethics, published in the Federal Register on Sept. 13, expand on the executive order that a newly sworn-in President Obama issued in 2009 requiring political appointees to foreswear gifts from registered lobbyists. The draft rule would apply that obligation to career employees as well.
"After considering the myriad issues that have arisen under the lobbyist gift ban for full-time political appointees," the proposed rule stated, "the Office of Government Ethics has decided that the best approach for extending the lobbyist gift ban beyond the core political personnel is to add a lobbyist limitation to the existing limitations . . . on the use of the gift exceptions in the OGE regulations. In this way, the lobbyist limitation would build on concepts, prohibitions and exceptions with which employees and agency ethics officials already are familiar, rather than adding a new stand-alone prohibition."
Existing OGE guidelines allow exceptions to the ban for gifts valued at $20 or less, provided the total value of gifts from the same person is not more than $50 in a calendar year. They also permit exceptions for gifts motivated solely by a family relationship or personal friendship, and for those based on a government worker's or spouse's outside business or employment.
The existing rules allow federal employees to participate in a widely attended nongovernmental conference or event if they properly consider whether attendance is in the interest of the agency, whether an involved donor has interests that may be substantially affected by the employee's official duties, and whether the sponsor of the event or some other party is paying the cost of the employee's attendance.
Existing guidance contains exceptions for events sponsored by 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, the news media and higher education organizations. The new rule would add an exclusion for "nonprofit professional associations, scientific organizations and learned societies engaging in educational or professional development."
American League of Lobbyists President Howard Marlowe, who represents many local governments, told Government Executive that the proposal "is not fair to federal employees, who are prohibited basically from casual contact with registered lobbyists because it might lead to establishing a relationship that gives the lobbyist access when he or she needs it. That means the federal employee can't have information from the registered lobbyist, and the lobbyist can't provide that information," he said. "So two people lose, and nobody wins."
Hopes for enforcing such a ban "are not at all realistic," Marlowe added. "How do you clarify casual contact? If a federal employee is at a conference where there's also a dinner event, and happens to be sitting at a table with a registered lobbyist, what are they supposed to do, say, 'Raise your hand if you're a registered lobbyist'?"
Sarah Dufendach, vice president for legislative affairs at the nonprofit advocacy group Common Cause, applauded the Obama administration for "even thinking of this, for trying to get as close to the mark as they can on the balance between experts who are experts and lobbyists who are paid to be experts."
But in the larger picture, the rule "missed the mark," she said, because debates about $50 gifts pale in comparison to the campaign money often delivered by lobbyists, many of whom are "bundlers" of corporate and individual donations to members of Congress and presidential campaigns.
"We're driving ourselves nuts deciding at what point do you buy the member or an executive branch employee, with toothpick food or fork food? A $35 hamburger is buying you, but a $5,000 donation is not?" she asked. "It's a ludicrous conversation, but one we have to have" until the country changes its campaign financing system.
The ethics office said the new standards were prompted by a perception that exceptions to the ban on conference attendance were "used to permit attendance at events, particularly social events, where the nexus to the government's interest was attenuated." Specifically, concerns arise when "the 'gift' involved is something that the employee will enjoy in the very company of the lobbyist. If one views the problem of lobbyist gifts as the mere potential for some quid pro quo, then probably an invitation to a gala ball will not directly influence an official to take action benefiting the giver," the office said. "But it is increasingly recognized that the more realistic problem is not the brazen quid pro quo, but rather the cultivation of familiarity and access that a lobbyist may use in the future to obtain a more sympathetic hearing for clients."
The obstacles to enforcing the rules were acknowledged in the proposal, which asks, "in determining whether an invitation to an event has actually been 'extended' by an individual who is the organization's lobbyist, should one focus on who officially signed the invitation letter, who emailed a PDF copy of the signed letter, or who called the employee to say that a written invitation is coming?" The existing limits have not been meaningful, it continued, "because the same invitation can be resent through a different messenger who is not listed as a lobbyist for the organization."
The lobbyist league plans to organize allied groups to offer comments in opposition to the rule. The comment period ends Nov.14.


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Rays trade Badenhop for Mondesi Jr.
By Bill Chastain /12/01/12 12:50 PM ET
ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays traded right-hander Burke Badenhop to the Brewers in exchange for Minor League outfielder Raul Mondesi Jr. on Saturday.
Mondesi Jr., 20, spent the 2012 campaign with Rookie-level Helena of the Pioneer League and played right field and center field. In 68 games, he hit .231 with five home runs and 32 RBIs. The right-handed hitter signed with the Brewers on June 23, 2010, out of the Dominican Republic.
Mondesi's father, Raul Mondesi, hit 271 home runs over 13 Major League seasons from 1993-2005. He was the '94 National League Rookie of the Year, a '95 NL All-Star and a two-time NL Rawlings Gold Glove Award-winning outfielder.
Badenhop, 29, went 3-2 with a 3.03 ERA while making a career-high 56 appearances this past season. From May 1 through the end of the season, he posted a 2.24 ERA.
The Rays acquired Badenhop from the Marlins on Dec. 12, 2011, in exchange for Minor League catcher Jake Jefferies.
The Rays tendered the arbitration-eligible Badenhop a contract for 2012 prior to Friday night's 11:59 ET deadline. The right-hander made $1.075 million in 2012.


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Bobcats to host their training camp in Asheville
CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Bobcats have announced they'll hold their training camp at UNC Asheville's Kimmel Arena from Oct. 1-6.
Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins said Wednesday the arena is "an ideal place for our players and coaches to prepare for the coming season."
The 3,200-seat Kimmel Arena opened in November 2011 and is home to the UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's and women's basketball teams. This will mark the sixth time in the last eight years the Bobcats have conducted training camp away from Charlotte. The team previously held camp at UNC Wilmington from 2005-08 and in 2010.
UNC Asheville director of athletics Janet Cone says the school is "honored" to host the Bobcats.
The Bobcats open the preseason on Oct. 7 at home against the Washington Wizards.


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Progress on $18.3M Project in Sioux Falls
Crews are making progress on a construction project in southeast Sioux Falls.
The State Department of Transportation says traffic on 57th Street between Sycamore Avenue and State Highway 11 is being switched on Thursday.
The DOT says eastbound traffic on 57th will be moved to a single eastbound lane south of the median, while westbound traffic on 57th will be placed in a single lane on the north side of the median.
Local residents will have access, while Harmodon Park will be accessible from 41st Street east of Sycamore Avenue and also from 57th Street.
The DOT says the work on Highway 11 between 26th and 57th Streets and on 57th between Sycamore and Highway 11 is expected to be completed by October 25.