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O2 Surprises with Ducks
British telecommunications group O2 is promoting its Top Up Surprises offer with a television, online, print and outdoor advertising campaign featuring yellow rubber ducks. Every time an 02 Pay & Go customer tops up their mobile they are given a code which allows them to play a game of hook a duck at www.02.co.uk/surprises and have the chance to win anything from free texts to LCD TVs and laptops. (For those who are having trouble entering their code, go to the Surprises site, click on "Play Now" and you'll find a screen where you can enter a mobile phone number and code. Tick on the image beside the text "I agree to the terms and conditions". Now click on "Log In". )
The tag line used across the campaign is "Surprises of all sizes, every time you top up".
March of the Ducks
The TV advert shows the journey of the campaign's rubber ducks from the Antarctic to the Amazon and finally to a pond in the UK where they are hooked by a fisherman.
Click on the image below to play the video in YouTube
Click on the image below to play the Return of the Ducks (February 2010) video in YouTube
Pedestrians will notice specially fitted bus stops with panels filled with water and ducks that quack as they walk past, thanks to their sonic sensors.
O2 have developed an exclusive tie-up with the social networking site, Bebo, in which members who become friends with 'O2 Top-up Surprises' will be able to win 'luv' by spotting hidden ducks around the Bebo site.
The O2 Ducks campaign was developed at VCCP, London, by creative director Darren Bailes, art directors/copywriters Ben Daly and Nathaniel White, agency producer Olly Calverley.
Filming for March of the Ducks was shot by Charlie Crane via Knucklehead with director of photography John Barr and producer Bruce Williamson.
Post production was done at Finish by Flame artists Jason Watts, Steve Murgatroyd, and Byron Woofindin, production manager Francis Mildmay-White, CG supervisor Mark Gregory and Harin Hirani, producer Fi Kilroe,
Editor was Richard Orrick at Work. Sound was designed by Anthony Moore at Factory Studios. Music is by film composer Christopher Slaski.
Still photography is by Roman Dietrich.
Filed under: Ambient, Commercials, Interactive, O2, Print
Tagged: Charlie Crane, Christopher Slaski, Finish, John Barr, Knucklehead, Rich Orrick, Roman Dietrich, VCCP, Work Post
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For 22 years, Kadijie El-Ahmad has sold ladies' wear from her store on Lakemba's main thoroughfare, Haldon Street.
The fashions have changed in that time and so has the community. More than half of Lakemba's residents are now Muslim, from less than 10 per cent when Kadijie first moved in.
Walking down Haldon Street, there are plenty of Arabic signs and Islamic clothing, but the reality of contemporary multiculturalism is equally as vivid.
White men dine at the halal Chinese restaurant, women in hijabs pick up their children from school in people movers, and the Lakemba Uniting Church stands proudly on a major intersection, not far from the RSL club.
Kadijie is preparing for the annual Haldon Street festival, a vibrant celebration of the local community – which includes thousands of Greeks, Chinese and Vietnamese – that should, weather permitting, draw 30,000 Sydneysiders on Saturday.
"The beautiful thing with Lakemba is we're like a little family," Kadijie said. "We all get along, we watch out for each other."
After a week in which the street has been pilloried in the tabloid press as a threatening "monoculture" where English is not spoken and extremists and women-hating hoons congregate, the festival will be a rebuttal to the ridicule.
The hostile media coverage this week – including false reports of terrorist flags flying in western Sydney shops and homes – was followed by the latest barbaric missive from terrorist group Islamic State, a video of the beheading of photojournalist James Foley.
For Prime Minister Tony Abbott, it made for a challenging backdrop as he spent this week meeting with Islamic leaders to garner support for his proposed counterterrorism laws and to build a unified front to fight extremists with "Team Australia".
Muslims were appalled by the execution, as they have been by the steady flow of shocking images of decapitations and reports of the mass murder of ethnic minorities by Islamic State, the terrorist group formerly known as ISIL.
The fact that the group that has rampaged across Syria and Iraq includes dozens of Australians among its fighters also alarms them.
"There's no second opinion on that. We do not condone such actions," said Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman, secretary of the Australian National Imams Council, who grew up around Lakemba and is a graduate of Punchbowl High.
"As a Muslim, it's not acceptable; as an Australian, it's not acceptable; as a human being, it's not acceptable – in all dimensions, it's not acceptable."
Sheikh Shady said Muslims are becoming frustrated by being associated with the behaviour of violent extremists abroad.
"We need to always justify ourselves over actions that we have nothing to do with, [that] we condemn and deplore before anyone else, and more than anyone else."
Groups like Islamic State are keenly aware of the way such images can promote hatred of Muslims in Western societies while simultaneously stoking resentment and alienation from those who follow the Islamic faith.
It is another dimension, and perhaps the most insidious, of the tactics employed by the terror group's propaganda machine.
It is in this febrile and lacerating emotional atmosphere that divisions can be sown and recruits harvested by an organisation that relies heavily on foreign fighters, including thousands from the West.
Abbott's objective to foster unity is laudable on the grounds of nation-building alone.
Inclusive leadership from the Prime Minister is also a key component of arguably the most important counterterrorism strategy – reducing the alienation and anger among a section of the Muslim community that can ferment extremism that, in a tiny but disturbing minority of cases, leads to terrorism.
"As the September 11th assaults on the United States showed, it doesn't take very many people to do enormous damage to countries using modern technology, with all of the abilities that the modern world gives them," Abbott said.
And there are well-founded fears that those Australians who return could launch terrorist attacks here. Two thirds of the 19 Australians who went to wage war alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan returned to plot mass casualty attacks here.
The analysis of the security threat is sound but Abbott's Team Australia project was framed at the outset as a call for the Muslim community to get with the program.
He told broadcaster Ray Hadley before heading into the first of the meetings: "You don't migrate to this country unless you want to join our team, and that's the point I will be stressing."
He added that "the only flag that should be flying is the Australian national flag".
The remarks, in part, prompted a boycott from some Islamic groups of a meeting held in Melbourne and a letter from a group of some Muslim groups that he was fomenting "racist caricatures of Muslims as backwards, prone to violence and inherently problematic".
Where was the acknowledgement of their abhorrence of Islamic State's crimes and the blowback they suffer from rising anti-Islamic sentiment?
One of the signatories of the letter, Yassir Morsi, a researcher at the University of South Australia, said: "It sounded Like George W. Bush, 'You are with us or against us.' "
Morsi, who wrote his PhD on Islamophobia, says the problem of prejudice is widespread.
"As an Arab man, a Muslim man, I have felt watched for 15 years," he says. "When you feel watched, you don't feel at home.
"When I feel most Australian is when [I] have a right to dissent without facing all the anti-Islam cliches."
Tony Burke, Labor member for Watson, which encompasses Lakemba and a large Muslim population, recalled last week putting up a Facebook posting to congratulate Muslims on the Eid festival, which marks the end of Ramadan.
The comments were filled with messages of hatred from non-Muslims, in contrast to the complementary messages from Muslims when he posted a Christmas message, he told a seminar run by the Lebanese Muslim Association.
"What was left there was the only window I get into the racism and hatred, the Islamophobia, that you have to live with," he told the seminar.
A festering source of resentment among Muslims is the language the media use when reporting on terrorism, the practice of adding "-ist" to two of the most sacred words in the religion – Islam and jihad – to describe extremists who do not follow the tenets of the faith.
"They shouldn't be called Islamic State. It should be Un Islamic State. Or Heretic State," said Keysar Trad, an executive of the group Muslims Australia.
The term jihad has been terribly misused and misrepresented, Sheikh Shady added.
"The word jihad in Islam means 'striving for a good cause', and there's no better cause than to uphold unity, tolerance, cohesion, co-existence, acceptance. This is the form of jihad that we believe in ...
"That's something that we openly say, and something that we openly preach. If it's jihad that you want to uphold, there's jihad in Australia to uphold – that's by being good Australian citizens and upholding the law, and integrating with one another, working together and being the best Muslims in this country by being respectful, by being dutiful."
Perhaps the most potent grievance among the Muslim community is the apparent double standard about cracking down on Australians going to join the fight in Syria and Iraq while letting Israel-Australia dual nationals join the Israeli army. The matter was raised at his meetings this week with community leaders.
Abbott responded that the laws allow dual nationals to serve in overseas militaries, but only those of a nation-state and certainly not those of a designated terrorist group like Islamic State.
Such explanations are unlikely to convince many. In a globalised world, Muslims in Australia access a depiction of the wretched and intractable Israel-Palestine conflict in a way that many Australians do not.
Many have seen far more graphic footage of the recent assault on Gaza, a conflict viewed as unjust and rooted in Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and the constant expansion of settlements on land recognised by the United Nations – and Australia – as theirs.
Perceptions of bias have been fuelled by the lingering astonishment of Abbott's remarks at Sydney's Central synagogue in 2012 that: "Australians are Israelis. We are all Israelis."
Even so, those who participated in the meetings with the Prime Minister described them as constructive, and praised Abbott's conduct.
"Islam is a religion that urges you always to be open to dialogue to those that come in peace. We will talk and leave it to God," Trad said.
"[Abbott] spoke but he also listened a lot … even if some of the things he heard made him uncomfortable," he said.
"That was a winning tactic."
And, perhaps responding to the feedback, Abbott's rhetoric became more inclusive later in the week.
"I don't want any suggestion that some of our citizens are against our country," he told ABC Radio. "The point I keep making in all of my discussions with migrant groups is that you chose us. You chose us. You voted confidence in Australia that makes you first-class citizens of your new home. You chose in our country in a way that the native born haven't ...
"You'll never find this government questioning the loyalty to Australia of our migrant communities."
Security agencies are determined to reach out to the Muslim community, with Australian Security Intelligence Organisation boss David Irvine taking to the airwaves to pronounce he was "utterly outraged" by a newspaper headline that trumpeted the West would be "fighting Islam for 100 years".
Certainly, there is common cause between Abbott, the security agencies and the Muslim community. Islamic State, with its unconscionable brutality and presumptuous claims that its leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is the caliph or ruler of all Muslims, has enraged Islamic communities in Australia and the world.
The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's two most sacred sites, described the group this week as the "number one threat to Islam".
"Extremist and militant ideas and terrorism which spread decay on Earth, destroying human civilisation, are not in any way part of Islam, but are enemy number one of Islam, and Muslims are their first victims," he said.
But, as Yassir Morsi notes: "On one hand [Islamic State] is a threat. The Australian government have to be worried about that threat.
"But on the other hand the way we talk and respond to [Islamic State] is also a potential threat."
Kadijie El-Ahmad prefers not to discuss politics but says it is upsetting when people attack Muslims for overseas events or see Islam as somehow against Australian values.
She is looking forward to the Haldon Street Festival and will help set up stalls and ensure the busy children's program of face-painting, rides and an animal farm runs smoothly. Her clothing store La-Bonita will hold a 20 per cent store-wide sale.
"I hope the weather holds out. I think that's our main concern. It's really exciting because of the vibe of the whole atmosphere, people coming together, just seeing people enjoying it," she said.
"To me, this is my country. I wouldn't think of it any other way. In body and soul, I have respect for anyone and everyone whether it's any religion, colour or race. We're all human in the end."

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) – Yes, this really is the hottest IPO market since 2000. And that's bad news. Very bad. Remember my last column back in 1999: I posted a list of winners, an unbelievable 19 funds had astronomical one-year returns between 179% to 323%! Yes, that hot!
Real bad news. On March 20, 2000 my headline read: "Next crash? Sorry, you'll never hear it coming." Never hear? Why? Investors hate bad news. Deny it. Tune out. No wonder Wall Street lost over $10 trillion of America's retirement money in the 30-month recession that followed. It was so predictable.
Now ask yourself, what'll trigger the next crash? Today's hot tech IPO mania? Bank risks? Politics? Oil? Euro default? War? Every crash has a unique profile, new trigger, different flashpoint. But the ancient cycle just keeps repeating like clockwork. Endless. A bubble. Then denial. Peak. Pop. Crash. Repeating for centuries. So inevitable. So obvious. Yet we never learn. Today, I'll explain why.
Another example: Remember the 2008 cycle? That bubble and meltdown were so predictable. For several years ahead of the 2008 meltdown I reported on more than 20 key warnings of a "mega-bubble" building, a new crash that would take down the world economy, as Wall Street's insatiable casino pushed the U.S. monetary system to the edge of bankruptcy.
Yes, obvious. Yet millions of Main Street investors were again in denial, ignoring the warnings. But in good company: Both Fed Chairmen Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan, plus Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, all publicly dismissed warnings of a coming crash, till too late. Remember Paulson's delusional claim in Fortune: "Best economy I've ever seen in my lifetime."
Today's hot IPO market smelling like 90's dot-com mania
So here we are again. Ignoring the risks. Four years into an aging bull past it's prime. In a weak economy. With macroeconomic danger signals flashing across the globe. And still Wall Street's back pushing the risk envelope to the limits, again. Yes, we're all trapped in an 800-year-old cycle.
Warning: The IPO market is smelling like the late '90s. First-day gains popping an average 19%. USA Today is warming up the crowd: "Best IPO news since 2000," exciting the gambling public. All reminding us of the good ol' days of the dot-coms, of Paulson's misleading hype. Last week the Wall Street Journal highlighted the 109% first-day-pop for the Splunk Inc. "big data" IPO.
Yes, you can bet Wall Street's big banks are salivating, accelerating plans to drive the next big IPO to market fast … before the crash. But watch out, all this may be great news for IPO investors, for tech insiders, private equity, hedge funds, big banks. But it's bad news for 95 million Main Street investors.
History just keeps repeating … for 800 years … but we learn nothing
Investors have a bizarre, incurable handicap. We're good-news junkies. Hate bad news. Herd chasing hot tips. Easily manipulated. Never learning history's lessons. In denial, blinders on.
Worse, can't see we're badly handicapped. We are the problem. Our brains are infected with this 800-year-old this-time-is-different disease. And unfortunately, there is no antidote, no cure, no shot to protect us from this deadly perpetual economic cycle.
What happened to dot-coms in 2000, to subprimes in 2008, is destined to repeat again and again, forever, ad infinitum. We're trapped.
So Wall Street banks keep taking advantage of customers, investors, shareholders and the public, adding new fees, higher commissions, siphoning off a third of our returns, buying politicians and lobbyists … and do it till the next crash.
That's the cycle. Has been for 800 years. Then they'll raid the Treasury again. More taxpayer bailouts as Congress rewards too-incompetent-to-fail banks with trillions again, thanks to their lobbyists. Crashes are inevitable, so are bank bailouts.


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Apr 11, 2012
Central Connecticut men's golfer junior Dan Fanion was named this week's Northeast Conference Golfer of the Week. This accolade marks the second time this spring season that Fanion has been recognized as NEC Golfer of the Week.
Fanion saw his first top-ten finish of the season after scoring 74 and 71 at the New England Championship to tie for second place individually. His scores helped lead the Blue Devils to a first-place team finish.
The Massachusetts native completed the two day competition at -2 to par (71/74/145) and finished just two strokes behind the tournament champion. With the win the Blue Devils claim back-to-back New England Champion honors after registering their first win of the 2011-12 season.


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I would like to prove that the additive quotient group $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$ is isomorphic to the multiplicative group of roots of unity.
Now every $X \in \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$ is of the form $\frac{p}{q} + \mathbb{Z}$ for $0 \leq \frac{p}{q} < 1$ for a unique $\frac{p}{q} \in \mathbb{Q}.$ This suggest taking the map $f:\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z} \mapsto C^{\times}$ defined with the rule $$f(\frac{p}{q} + \mathbb{Z}) = e^{\frac{2\pi i p}{q}}$$ where $\frac{p}{q}$ is the mentioned representative.
Somehow I have problems showing that this is a bijective function in a formal way. I suspect I do not know the properties of the complex roots of unity well enough.
Can someone point me out (perhaps with a hint) how to show that $f$ is injective and surjective?


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Bisons find defense in 75-61 win at Florida Gulf Coast
The Bisons held Florida Gulf Coast to only four points in the final seven minutes Wednesday night at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Fla. and came away with a 75-61 win.
The Eagles 61 points marked the fewest point total the Bisons have allowed all season.
Lipscomb head coach Scott Sanderson said he was happy to get the win and thought his team took some steps in the right direction.
"It's a start," Sanderson said. "We went seven straight possessions in the final four or five minutes where they did not score a basket. You have got to build on that because we gave up over twenty points in the first eight minutes of the second half.
"Our practices have been phenomenal and our shoot-arounds have been phenomenal. We just haven't translated it for 40 minutes, and we didn't translate it tonight for 40 minutes…but then we rose to the occasion and got seven straight stops at the end."
With the victory, the Bisons snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 8-5 on the year and 3-1 in the Atlantic Sun. The Eagles dropped to 3-10 overall and 0-4 in the A-Sun.
Lipscomb senior and reigning Atlantic Sun Player of the Year Adnan Hodzic paced the Bisons with 21 points and eight rebounds. Seniors Josh Slater, Michael Teller, and Brandon Brown also scored in double figures. Slater finished with 17 points including 10 free throws, Teller had 15 points including the first eight points of the first half, and Brown added 10 points.
Teller's 15 points were a season high. After the game, the senior forward said the team wanted to come out and prove a point from the start of the game.
"We were upset with the way we played the other night," Teller said. "We just had to come out and show that that's not who we are, and we have got to prove to the league that you cannot just come in here and get a piece of us. We are going to give you a tough battle every night and play as hard as we can."
The Bisons jumped out to a 10-0 run to start the game in the first three minutes. However, FGCU battled back with a 13-4 run to draw within one point after eight minutes had gone by.
Hodzic picked up two early fouls and only played nine minutes in the first half.
"I was glad to see us play the way we did with Adnan on the bench," Sanderson said. "He only played nine minutes in the first half and I thought we were pretty good. We played well offensively and I thought we were pretty good defensively."
Lipscomb took their largest lead of the first half at the 1:50 mark. However, the Eagles finished the half with seven unanswered points and went to the break trailing by seven.
The Eagles drew within three points in the second half but that was as close as the Bisons would allow them to get. The final seven minutes belonged to Lipscomb as they finished on a 14-4 run.
Lipscomb dominated the boards and out-rebounded the Eagles 42-29.
The Bisons shot 23-of-50 from the field and 5-of-19 from behind the arc. Lipscomb hit 24-of-32 free throws. The Eagles finished the game shooting 24-of-56 from the field and 6-for-20 from the three-point line. FGCU only hit 35 percent of their free throws, finishing the game 7-for-20.
Florida Gulf Coast entered the game led by Reed Baker and Anthony Banks in scoring. The Bisons held the dynamic guard/post combo to just nine points. Point guard Marlon Rivera led the Eagles in points and rebounds with 14 and seven respectively.
The Bisons next action comes on Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. central when they host the Jacksonville Dolphins. Jonathan and Benjamin Seamon will be on the call for the Lipscomb Sports Network. Coverage begins with the Countdown to Tipoff at 6:10 p.m.


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*Updated: A year after this article was posted, Diane Bryman has reopened and is currently doing business under the same name. — Update May 1, 2014
by Pete Mazzaccaro
What creates one often destroys one, and so it is for Diane Bryman Orientals. After serving the community for more than 50 years, the fine Persian and oriental rug store is holding a liquidation sale as owners and staff prepare to close their Chestnut Hill store on the heels of a slumping economy that over the past three years has shut down both Magarity Chevrolet and Borders.
"I'm speechless on that point," said Edmond Azizi, the Iranian-born store proprietor, owner and main purchaser who joined the company in 1977 and took over in 1992, about the close. "I've spent most of my life here. It's a beautiful community. I hate to leave."
Prices were already reduced, and now customers can save an additional 30 to 40 percent at the store. A decrease in sales over the past three years has strained Azizi's ability to pay the store's high-end creditors. He estimated that by May it may have liquidated enough product to satisfy creditors, who Azizi said, have been cooperative and are disappointed to lose a long-time customer.
Diane Bryman's current stock includes about 3,500 premium Persian and oriental rugs, roughly one-third of which are antiques, meaning 75-years-old or older. The future of the building at 8038 Germantown Ave. is undetermined.
It was a sluggish economy in 1960 that drove Diane Bryman, now remarried and using the name Diane Poletajev, raised in the Midwest, Oklahoma and Arkansas and moved east with her family at 10, and her first husband, Richard, now deceased, to start selling used furniture, rugs and carpet remnants, out of their home in West Mt. Airy.
This was a time before house sales, and the couple's small side business to help pay the mortgage grew to the point where they rented a shop across from the Charles W. Henry School, down the street from their home on Carpenter Lane.
Around that same time they landed a deal with Masland Carpets and Rugs to buy experimental rugs and remnants "as-is" by the pound. Unaware of the increasing scope of their project, the couple a year later had to rent a warehouse a block away at 542 Carpenter Lane to store their fast-growing stock.
"It just happened to be the right time in our history," said Poletajev, who now lives in Florida, with her current husband, Gury Poletajev, during a recent interview. A few years later, they bought another nearby Carpenter Lane property, continued to expand and started to focus on advertising. In 1972, they opened at their current location.
As they expanded, the Brymans learned by doing. Around the time they opened their Avenue location, Richard Bryman left his job as a teacher in South Philly to work at the store full-time. It was then their focus shifted towards oriental rugs.
"I was just fascinated with the old rugs and the uniqueness of so many old pieces," said Poletajev, 76, a Philadelphia Conservatory of Music classically trained pianist who left school early, was married and had children. "[Especially] the way they look after a hundred years."
And so Poletajev applied her taste for Bach and Brahms, as well her ability to perform the composers' music, to selecting ornate rugs embroidered with paisley designs, symbolic imagery like the Tree of Life, which symbolizes longevity and prosperity, and other patterns intertwined and woven at workshops in cities or villages across the Middle East and Asia.
Soon after, in 1977, during a purchasing venture in New York, the couple met Azizi, whose father worked as a rug purchaser in Iran. That same year Azizi, who had been working in the industry for a few years, came to Chestnut Hill.
"I said I'll give it a shot for three months, and I'll see what happens," said Azizi, who raised a family in Wyndmoor and now has two college-aged children. Today he lives in West Los Angeles for some of the year and Lafayette Hill for the rest.
Both Poletajev and Azizi said the key to building a long-standing successful business was building a reputation. Their reputation was made by the way they treated people who shopped in their store and by practicing fairness in business relations. People came back, and they told their friends.
"You just get involved," said Poletajev about running the business. "One day at a time, one customer at a time … it was never about the money. It was like a family … I walk back in that place, and it's like a museum."
In 1982 Poletajev, who remarried in 1992, began to experience back pains caused by the demanding work required to turn and unroll carpets to display them for customers. She stopped working full-time in 1992 and has served as the store's advisor and advertiser for almost the past two decades. She said she misses the people and the interaction but felt comfortable leaving the store to Azizi.
"He follows the same dictates of conscience," she said. "To be fair and honest as you deal with people. And it comes back to you. It's true with everything in life."
Rugs have been a passion of the Iranian people since ancient times. Azizi, who as a young man traveled with his father to workshops where the rugs were made in villages and cities in Iran, said up until the time he left the country in 1977 (he has not returned, citing political turmoil in the nation) to come to the states for college, Persian rugs were in almost every home.
According to Wikipedia, the oldest known rug dates back to 2500 B.C.E., and Chinese texts dating back to 224 A.C.E. contain the first documented evidence of the existence of Persian carpets.
The value of a rug varies but is often determined by the quality of wool, the main fabric used to weave a carpet, according to Azizi, 62, who served as president of the board of the Oriental Rug Retailers of America from 1995 to 1997. Wool raised in higher elevations is more resistant and thus more valuable. He said throw rugs tend to be made more in villages while larger rugs are constructed in workshops in cities.
Rugs are named after the city or village, of which there are hundreds in Iran – the region known for developing the rug-making trade – and even in the same village the quality of a rug varies from piece to piece. In the Baktiari region, according to Azizi, for ages villagers migrated from one village to the next and carried looms on their camels.
"I want to thank everybody and the community for supporting us all these years," said Azizi. "I cannot appreciate it enough."
"I feel really bad that it's time to go on," Poletajev said. "Chestnut Hill is such a beautiful place to have a store."
For more information, visit dianebrymanrugs.com.


text: There are so many great Kickstarters going on right now that I'm GRAVELY concerned some of these will get lost in the shuffle. So to that end, I'm going to post some notes about each of the projects I'm backing, and I encourage you to do the same! I'll order these by the time they have left to go: Salem, Star Citizen, Hero-U, Shadowgate, and Cthulhu World Combat.


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Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here gets emotional at Sundance Film Festival 2014
Kate Hudson wells up at Sundance about Zach Braff's new film Wish I was Here, saying: 'Just something about it just really resonated with me and made me quite emotional.'
After exploring the quarter-life crises of young adults in the critical and commercial hit Garden State a decade ago, actor-director Zach Braff turned his eye to examine the existential dilemmas faced by parents in his new film Wish I Was Here.
Braff plays 35-year-old Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor and married father of two, who decides to home school his children after the family can no longer afford the tuition for the private Jewish school the kids attend.
As Aidan battles with his own spiritual beliefs while he attempts to teach his "indoctrinated little matzo balls," he must find the motivation to move into a new chapter in his life and finally take responsibility for being a father who provides for his family.
Wish I Was Here marks Braff's return to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival exactly 10 years after he made his directorial debut with Garden State, a film that garnered the actor-director critical praise and became a cult hit.
Wish I Was Here too has gained buzz after Braff sought partial funding through crowdsourcing website Kickstarter in April 2013, raising $2 million within 48 hours and $3 million overall from more than 46,000 people.
"The Kickstarter thing was born out of... like, 'God, this system is exhausting and there's so many pitfalls it's ridiculous. There has to be another way,"' explained Braff of the red tape and politics that can hinder filmmaking in Hollywood.
Braff's good friends Kate Hudson, Mandy Patinkin, Joey King, Josh Gadd and Ashley Greene are also in the movie and were at the Saturday premiere.
"I'll never forget. We were sitting down having a couple drinks and he goes, 'You know what? I'm tired of people telling me I can or can't do things. I'm just gonna start doing what I want,"' recalled Hudson at the premiere of the movie.
"And I was like, 'You know, you do that.' It sort of became your mantra."
She also says the film's script, co-written by Braff and his brother Adam, struck a chord. It made her emotional to explain it on the red carpet.
"I loved it and actually it hit me on a very personal level because the themes of this film are about family, and you know, finding yourself and where you belong, and letting go of certain dreams and realising that your life is right in front of you and taking that in instead of being one step ahead of it," she said. Tears welled up in her eyes as she added: "Just something about it just really resonated with me and made me quite emotional."
As an actor, Braff, 38, rose to prominence as daydreaming doctor J.D. on television sitcom Scrubs, and "Wish I Was Here" sees him reunite with fellow Scrubs cast member Donald Faison, who plays a small role.
Braff, who co-wrote the film with his brother, Adam, told the audience at the movie's premiere this weekend that Wish I Was Here reflected the personal experiences that the two of them have had in their lives.
"Garden State was all the things me and my 25-year-old friends were obsessing about and talking about and worried about," Braff said. "With this, my brother and I are sharing the things we're talking about. He's got two young children, so what are the things he's wrestling with and teaching them? For me, it's my own spirituality." Braff does not have children.
He blends moments of levity and gravity in his film, from a rabbi on a Segway driving into a wall to his dying father, Gabe, wanting to make amends with his two sons. In one poignant moment, Gabe, played by actor Mandy Patinkin, says, "When life becomes tragic, it always circles back to comedy," something that Wish I Was Here plays with throughout.
The film's final touching scenes brought tears to most in the premiere's audience, generating a standing ovation for Braff.
"With films, the ones I love the most are the ones that are someone's unique story," the director said. "This is a unique story. No one else could tell this story that my brother and I wrote."
Braff said he was encouraged by his producer, Stacey Sher, to use Kickstarter after being discouraged by traditional methods of funding that would force him and his brother to make significant sacrifices in their script.
"(Sher) said it is kind of ballsy to put yourself out there ... but if it were to work, there would be no compromises, you and your brother could make the film you had in your brain, with all its weirdness," the filmmaker said.
The project also drew a strong cast of well-known names. Actress Kate Hudson plays Aidan's wife, Sarah, who supports her husband's acting dreams but also finds herself masking her own unhappiness and frustrations of being the sole provider for the family as she struggles through a mundane job.
Josh Gad plays Aidan's reclusive brother, Noah, who is stuck in a state of permanent adolescence, while Joey King plays Aidan's pre-teen daughter, Grace, who is upset at leaving her Jewish school where she found comfort in faith. In one scene, Grace shaves her head, which King did for real on camera.
"That was a really scary experience for me but it was a growing experience for my career," the young actress said.
The film also features a small appearance by actor James Avery, who passed away in December. Braff said the actor, best known for playing Uncle Phil in long-running 1990s situation comedy The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, improvised the jokes for his scene.
"I'm glad that the last thing he did on film gets a giant laugh; I think he'd be happy about that," Braff said.
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Hope College is included in the annual rankings of the best values among private institutions, according to the annual rankings by Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
Hope College is included in the annual rankings of the best values among private institutions, according to the annual rankings by Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
The publishers says the listing recognizes colleges and universities that deliver a high-quality education at an affordable cost. Hope is ranked 68th out of the 200 in the rankings. Every college and university in the country was evaluated.
"Hope College placed in the top 200 because of a high four-year graduation rate, low average student debt at graduation, good student-to-faculty ratio, excellent on-campus resources and overall great value," according to the publisher.
A year ago Hope was ranked 77th. There are only two other private Michigan institutions in the rankings, Hillsdale College and Kalamazoo College.
Kiplinger has recognized Hope College and Holland in other ways. In 2006 Holland was cioted as one of 50 "Smart Places to Live". Those rankings emphasized criteria including affordability of housing, low cost of living, quality health care, a low crime rate, weather, education, cultural amenities, transportation and economic vitality.
Each year, Kiplinger's assesses quality according to measurable standards, including the percentage of students who are admitted out of those who applied, the test scores of incoming freshmen, the ratio of students to faculty members, and the four- and five-year graduation rates. This year, Kiplinger adjusted its criteria to better reflect the issues affecting families. Now, the rankings give more weight to the four-year graduation rate - a measure of the college's ability to deliver academic support and of the overall cost to families--and to colleges that keep student debt down. While the criteria have shifted, the focus on value remains the same. Many of the schools on the top 200 list have appeared in Kiplinger's rankings in previous years, demonstrating that these schools consistently deliver good value.
"The institutions on Kiplinger's rankings for best value in private colleges represent schools that provide high-quality academics as well as affordable cost even in these tough times," said Jane Bennett Clark, Senior Associate Editor for Kiplinger's Personal Finance. "With money tight and the college choice so important, you have every reason to expect the best bang for your buck."
For nine decades, the Kiplinger organization has led the way in personal finance and business forecasting. Founded in 1920 by W.M. Kiplinger, the company developed one of the nation's first successful newsletters in modern times. The Kiplinger Letter, launched in 1923, remains the longest continuously published newsletter in the United States. In 1947, Kiplinger created the nation's first personal finance magazine. Kiplinger.com is the fastest growing Web site in the personal finance space.
The rankings are available at


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FRITZ!Box 6890 LTE Service - Knowledge Base
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Integrated fax reception fails occasionally or always fails
Although you configured the the integrated fax function according to our guide, fax reception fails occasionally or always fails. You either cannot receive faxes at all, or you only receive part of the faxes. One of the following error messages may be displayed in the event log of the FRITZ!Box:
- "Not Acceptable Here (488)"
- "Not Acceptable Here (606)"
- "Unsupported Media Type (415)"
- "Email delivery failed. [Message]"
- "Error while saving the message on USB storage."
- "An error occurred during fax reception. The document was not received or is incomplete."
Note:All instructions on configuration and settings given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box.
Simply proceed as described below. After each measure, check whether the problem persists.
1 Installing the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box
- Install the latest FRITZ!OS on the FRITZ!Box.
2 Checking the event log of the FRITZ!Box
Restarting the FRITZ!Box
Since some error messages are only displayed once in the event log, restart the FRITZ!Box:
- Click "System" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click "Backup" in the "System" menu.
- Click on the "Restart" tab.
- Click the "Restart" button.
Checking the event log for error messages
As soon as fax reception fails for the first time after the restart, check whether an error message is given for the failed fax attempt. Then, follow the instructions given for that particular error message:
- Click "System" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click "Event Log" in the "System" menu.
- Select "Telephony" from the drop-down list.
- Check whether one of the following error messages is displayed.
- If the message "An error occurred during fax reception. The document was not received or is incomplete" although you received the complete fax, then no error is present. Some data packets were lost during fax transmission. In this case you can ignore the message.
- If the message "Email delivery failed. [message]" is displayed, correct the email account information for the push service. The fax was not forwarded by email because the email address or the account information for your email account was not correctly entered for the push service.
- If the message "Error while saving the message to the USB storage medium " is displayed, connect a different USB storage device - preferably a USB memory stick - to the FRITZ!Box for testing purposes. The fax was not copied to the USB storage device because it cannot be written to it.
- If the message "Unsupported Media Type (415) is displayed, then your provider does not support the requested codec or generally does not allow fax transmission.
- If the message "Not Acceptable Here (488 or 606)" is displayed, then your provider does not support the T.38 standard. Without T.38 (Fax over IP), fax transmission over the internet is not reliable.
3 Checking whether T.38 was used for fax transmission
The following steps are only necessary if you want to receive faxes using an internet telephone number:
- Click "Telephony" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click "Telephone Numbers" in the "Telephony" menu.
- Click on the "Voice transmission" tab. If the tab is not displayed, enable the Advanced View first.
- Look for aborted faxes under "Display table on completed telephone calls" and check whether "T.38" is displayed in the "Coding" column for these faxes:
- If "T.38" is displayed, then T.38 was used for the fax transmission.
- If "T.38" is not displayed, then T.38 was not used. Without T.38 (Fax over IP), fax transmission over the internet is not reliable.
Note:If your internet telephony provider does not support T.38, for faxing you can use an internet number of an internet telephony provider that supports T.38. If your FRITZ!Box is connected with a landline (analog or ISDN), you can also use a landline number instead of the internet number for faxing.
- If "T.38" is not displayed, then T.38 was not used. Without T.38 (Fax over IP), fax transmission over the internet is not reliable.
If you still cannot receive a fax using a landline number, there are no further settings in your FRITZ!Box that influence faxing.
If you want, you can tell us which remote faxes do not work and tell us the exact type of fax machine being used (which model, manufacturer, and possibly a fax protocol from the remote fax issued after failed transmission). If possible, we shall take this into consideration when optimizing future versions of FRITZ!OS to improve communication with these fax machines.


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J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life is a documentary that was filmed by James Runcie. The film follows J. K. Rowling over the course of a long year as she completes her work on the last Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
This documentary also includes many extensive interviews with J.K Rowling, as well as several clips of her promoting Deathly Hallows and at the launch.
This documentary was screened in the United Kingdom on Sunday 30 December 2007, on channel ITV and on Seven Network in Australia on 13 July, 2008. It was also aired on the ABC Television Network in America on Thursday, 16 July, 2009 from 8-9pm (ET), the weekend of the release of the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.[1]
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life was later included on the "Special Features" DVD of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
New Canon introducedEdit
- J.K. Rowling provides a quick sketch of the Weasley family tree, including all the marriages and grandchildren not mentioned in the Epilogue of Deathly Hallows. She also includes Luna Lovegood's marriage to Rolf Scamander, and both James and Lily get middle names - Sirius and Luna respectively. It also introduces Percy Weasley's marriage to Audrey. She later placed this tree in the Room of Requirement section of her official website, where it was updated to include Draco Malfoy's marriage to Astoria Greengrass, and gives their son, Scorpius a middle name - Hyperion.
External linksEdit
- J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life at the Internet Movie Database
- In Depth Preview of ITV Documentary on J.K.Rowling at TheLeakyCauldron.org
- YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6


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This large 40x22mm Labradorite teardrop necklace is hand crocheted using Sterling Silver wire and chain. This Necklace is 18″ with a 1″ extension chain at the clasp.
Labradorite is a member of the Feldspar family and is treasured for its remarkable play of color, known as labradorescence. Intense iridescent flashes of peacock blue, gold, greens, yellows, pinks or coppery red become apparent when hit by different angles of light. Each stone is unique and colors will vary.
Labradorite is a power stone used to evoke imagination. It is excellent for awakening one's own awareness of inner spirit and intuition.


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Florida Gov. Rick Scott cuts off reporter asking about unemployment numbers
Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday cut off a reporter who tried to ask him about a report from a top state economist who said Florida's drop in unemployment is almost exclusively due to people dropping out of the workforce.
The question pointed out that the Florida Legislature's top economist has regularly said that unemployment is dropping in Florida due to a shrinking workforce, not job creation.
That message is in stark contrast with Scott's message—which is that Florida's unemployment rate drop (the nation's largest over the last 20 months)—is on the decline due to an improving economy.
When a Bloomberg reporter asked Scott what happened to the people no longer looking for work, Scott pivoted by pointing out that the state has created 130,000 private sector jobs under his new watch. Then he shut down the questioner.
Here's the transcript:
Reporter: Where are those people, Governor? You've seen the state numbers showing that most of the unemployment rate drop is due to people no longer looking for work. What are they doing? Governor Scott: That's not true. Mike, look at the chart (points to chart), look at the Department of Revenue numbers—130,000 jobs. That's 130,000 families that now have work that didn't have it before.
Reporter: But most of the unemployment rate drop—
Governor Scott: 130,000 jobs, Mike. (Turns to take another question from another reporter.) Go ahead.
[Later in the press conference]
Reporter: Are you saying those numbers from the state economist are wrong, Governor?
Governor Scott: I'm saying we generated 130,000 jobs.
Reporter: But that's not all of the—
Governor Scott: Mike, I've answered all your questions on that.
Reporter: But, no, my question is about the unemployment rate drop—
Governor Scott: (voice raised) Mike! I said I've answered all your questions.
As economists question Florida's record on job creation under Scott, media reports are increasingly taking into account the main factor behind the falling unemployment rate: a shrinking workforce.
In Florida, the average person has been unemployed for nearly a year, and long-term unemployment is worse in Florida than in any state, ever.
With more than 400,000 people unemployed for more than six months, economists say it makes sense that more than 100,000 discouraged workers have given up looking for work.
When reporters began to ask Scott questions about Florida's slow economic recovery, he became somewhat elusive, answering substantive questions with terse responses like "I think we're headed in the right direction."
When the reporter tried to pin him down about the unemployment rate, the governor who made his campaign and governorship almost exclusively about job creation, flatly refused to answer the follow-up questions about job creation.
Florida's August unemployment numbers come out on Friday.


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Dr. Pearl received her B.S. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998 and her M.D. from Duke University in 2002. Following training in general surgery and diagnostic radiology at the George Washington University, she earned her certification from the American Board of Radiology in 2008. After completing fellowships in both diagnostic neuroradiology and interventional neuroradiology at the Johns Hopkins University, she joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2010.
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Pearl M, Gregg L, Gailloud P. Endovascular treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2010 Apr; 21 (2): 271-280
Puttgen K, Pearl M, Tekes A, Mitchell S. Update on pediatric extracranial vascular anomalies of the head and neck. Childs Nerv Syst. 2010 Oct; 26 (10): 1417-33. Epub 2010 Aug 10
Pearl M, Gomez J, Gregg L, Gailloud P. Endovascular management of vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations. Influence of the normal venous drainage on the choice of a treatment strategy. Childs Nerv Syst. 2010 Oct; 26 (10):1367-79. Epub 2010 Aug 20
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11 comments:
- Dragonfly Willow said...
Your garden is so lovely. I miss living in Ontario, albeit, it was in Oshawa. Texas is too hot to have such pretty gardens.
- July 12, 2011 at 11:20 a.m.
- Jo said...
These are special and outstandingly considerate professionals. I hope you are planning something to reward them; sun tea on ice or an extra large tip for their troubles. At the very least, make sure they get your glowing review posted to a consumer website or two.
- July 12, 2011 at 11:31 a.m.
- Bonnie said...
I am really, really happy for you! Your story is miraculous.
- July 12, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.
- Lady Heather Shea said...
Cabana Boys R US Roofers...hee hee
- July 12, 2011 at 2:49 p.m.
- Beverly said...
Lovely garden. It's no wonder you wanted someone who would be careful and fortunate that you found them. It is nice to that there are people who are so respectful of the property they are working on.
- July 12, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.
- Kate/Massachusetts said...
Your garden is beautiful! Are those poppies? Do you have any tricks for getting them to grow? Mine always seem to die!
- July 12, 2011 at 7:05 p.m.
- karen alho said...
You are one lucky lady! In the process of building a house on a couple of up and down, side to side acres, we put in a few trees. Maybe five? some of them up the hill. Didn't the builders, with a zillion square yards of space manage to put a pile of debris right on top of a young lemon tree that was well away from the house? The only reason they didn't kill the other house level trees was that they were mature olive trees we'd transplanted and all they could do was pile debris around the trunks! I repeat. These roofers are gems! Worth whatever the extra time is costing you!
- July 13, 2011 at 5:44 p.m.
- Crazy Ideas said...
Your garden is beautiful. If mine looked like that, i'd be chasing the roofers around like a crazy person. You're a better person than I.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:51 p.m.
- jodi said...
Wow. Do these guys do brick and cement porches, by any chance? I need porch builders who are just like your roofers.
- July 15, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.
- lk moonwood said...
Dear Spillyjane - I was just introduced to you via a scarf you designed being on display by Spindle Cat Studio at Sock Summit. Your knitting AND your gardening are such an inspiration! Love this post about the roofers/botanists. : ) lulu
- July 31, 2011 at 12:39 p.m.
- Eugene said...
It seems they are very concerned for you; they keep your roof strong while keeping your precious garden colorful. Perhaps a worthy reward of biscuits and coffee coupled with a bouquet would make for a good token of appreciation.
Eugene Head
- December 29, 2011 at 7:37 a.m.


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9-18-10 PNC Park
Ballhawking wise, today was a tough day for me. It was a Saturday, which means that we have an extra half hour of BP, but it would yield very few opportunities.
The Pirates were missing Lastings Milledge, who isn't allowed to participate in BP until his strained oblique muscle heals. The rest of the Pirates were doing an awful job of driving balls into the seats.
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Game: 4 balls ( 1 hit, 2 thrown, 1 found )
Season: 525 balls (252 hit, 124 thrown, 72 device, 77 found)
Games: 82 games
Average: 6.40 balls per game
2010 Game Balls: 5
Career: 1,103 balls
Streak: 178 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 25,981
Jabs/Pelescak Combination in 2010: 926 balls
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Caroline Lodge and Eileen Carnell describe how good practice in the retirement process can benefit both retiring physicists and their employers
When Raymond Carter wanted to take early retirement from a position at a university in the north of England, he arranged to see his line manager to discuss his request. What happened next was, in his view, both shocking and disappointing. "The meeting lasted two minutes," he recalled in a letter sent to us after we published an article on retirement in the university lecturers' union magazine. "I was told to ensure that my office was completely cleared in a month. What happened next was, in his view, both shocking and disappointing. "The meeting lasted two minutes," he recalled in a letter sent to us after we published an article on retirement in the university lecturers' union magazine. "I was told to ensure that my office was completely cleared in a month. There were no expressions of sorrow or gratitude or even curiosity about my future plans, and no acknowledgment of what I had accomplished for the institution." As a result, he added, "I now have mixed feelings about my impending retirement. I am bitter about the lack of acknowledgment of what I have achieved for the university."
Ashley Kent's experience was much happier, largely because of steps taken both by him and his employer, the University of London's Institute of Education. He prepared by seeking financial information and advice, attended a retirement course provided by the university and negotiated his retirement date in advance. Because the university chose to involve him in succession planning, Kent was able to hand over responsibilities to younger members of staff whose talent he had nurtured. He was also able to cherry-pick the work-related activities he wanted to continue. His leaving party was planned around his wishes. He felt appreciated, and that his departure was timely and well managed.
The key factor that made the difference between Carter's experience and that of Kent was the behaviour of their respective employers. The interaction of employers' policies with personal choices has an impact on the success of an individual's retirement. This was the conclusion of a 2004 report by University of Kent researchers, "Happy Retirement?", and it is also borne out by research we conducted for our book Retiring Lives, which focused specifically on educationalists.
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In the next few years, the challenges that the retirement process poses for both physicists and their employers are likely to intensify. Already, governments have begun promoting later retirement, for example by progressively raising the state pension age and abolishing the default retirement age in the UK. The latter change means that workers – not employers – will decide their retirement date. Consequently, we argue that employers have an increased responsibility to support older members of the workforce in their decisions. A further complication is that more people will need this support: the number of people reaching retirement age is due to peak next year, as baby boomers reach their mid-60s.
Some employers will want to use this peak in retirements as a short-term solution to financial problems. However, there are a number of reasons why a good employer should be as careful about investing in the wellbeing of employees approaching the end of their careers as they are in the induction of new staff. The employer benefits from a happier workforce generally, and from employees' willingness to make a contribution after their retirement.
Leaving work can be "a tad scary", as one professor admitted in our book. In his words, academic retirees are entering "a world without structure, security and predictability, like a rescued animal being released into the wild". According to a survey carried out by MORI in 2008, retirees fear missing their work friends, the challenge of the work they do and a reason to get out of the house, as well as having financial anxieties.
There are a variety of things that employees can do to smooth this transition. One is to reduce their working hours before they retire, to make the changes less sudden. Another is to pursue other types of paid work after retiring. Alternatively, some physicists may want to continue working into their 70s or 80s, while others may never want to give physics up at all (see "The retirement problem" Physics World July 2006 p14).
Employers need to consider how to ac_commodate this range of possibilities, and how to help their employees make decisions that suit their needs as individuals. Having a well-publicized retirement policy is a good start, as it requires all staff members to adopt good practice and a positive approach to retirement. But there are also more direct ways for human-resources departments to support retiring employees. For example, few employees have a good understanding of pensions, so employer-run briefing sessions on pensions and pension choices can help people to plan their retirement more efficiently.
Other aspects of this major transition can be supported through seminars, workshops or information sessions that explore the challenges and possibilities of approaching retirement. Typically, such activities encourage participants to think about how they will occupy their time, what aspects of their current life (including relationships with friends and families) are likely to change, and to explore their fears and hopes. Individual coaching for employees approaching retirement, as well as mentoring by a retiree from the same organization, can also help with decisions about when and how to leave. If employees want additional help, support groups offer private and confidential places for participants to share and develop their thinking. Even if they are not directly involved in such groups, employers may be able to provide a facilitator, accommodation for meetings, refreshments and so on.
Above all, succession-planning processes need to be clear and include time for a handover. People have reported to us how difficult it is to be treated as though they have already left. Inviting retirees to contribute to plans for the future of their work indicates more appreciation for their contribution and career than all the praise and celebration of their achievements in a farewell speech.
Ongoing contributions
The pay-off for organizations that plan retirement and successions well is that they stand to gain from the wisdom, knowledge and experience of their older workers. Retirees may accrue up to 40 years' valuable working experience and it seems perverse to lose it – especially since many such workers still want to make a contribution. Physicist Richard Harris agrees. At 68, he returned to work as a consultant for a defence company's Trusted Experts scheme. "I want to work and my employers want me to work," he told Saga magazine in May 2010.
Jacqui MacDonald, head of staff development for the Institute of Education, is also an advocate of retirees staying involved. In 2005 her department launched an initiative to get retirees to share their knowledge and expertise to support the professional development of other staff. "These retirees contribute to retiring workshops, writing support, coaching and mentoring, assisting with drafting research proposals, work shadowing (especially on international travel), facilitating lunchtime or end-of-day workshops and supporting staff with promotion applications," she told us during our research, adding that she also sees the initiative as a way of stamping out ageism in the workplace.
Staff members who continue to work for an organization after retirement may also serve in other capacities, including providing direct service, administrative support, leadership or expertise in specialized areas. Retirees can also contribute to an organization through part-time paid work or voluntary activities, bringing their particular qualities to such diverse roles as fundraising and serving as trustees or members of advisory or ethics boards.
It is important to note, however, that retirees who participate in this way need to be afforded the same respect as other workers. No matter how short a time they spend working in an organization, they must have access to a space to work, a computer, e-mail and administrative support. It is crucial for organizations to negotiate roles and even construct job descriptions to clarify what retired people are contributing, and this information needs to be available to all staff. Retirees in the organization also need supervision, especially if they are involved in mentoring or coaching, or are working with young people.
The bottom line, though, is that many phy_sicists continue to feel passionate about physics after their retirement. They often have the time, opportunity and determin_ation to put their talents, beliefs and values into improving the working lives of physicists or promoting the understanding of physics. The retired astronomers Stephen and Irene Little, who run a local citizens' observatory in Colorado, are excellent examples (see "Astronomy for all" Physics World January 2010 p42).
Another way that retired physicists can contribute to the education of young people is by visiting schools and universities to share their interests and enthusiasm for their subject. While there, they may participate in activities such as setting up science projects and specialized courses in a particular field. Other vital roles include giving careers talks and advice in schools and colleges, or acting as a school governor, as well as working with community groups.
Retirees who contribute to a worthwhile endeavour after retirement gain satisfaction and an opportunity to use and develop their skills. They also become part of a social community, helping to overcome the isolation that some retirees experience after leaving work. A continued involvement in physics after retirement can bring respect, prestige and recognition, and give purpose to people's lives; Harris concluded that his contribution to the Trusted Experts scheme "puts me back in control of my retirement". There is, of course, no age limit to these activities and they help retirees stay active and healthy. Everybody benefits.
About the author
Caroline Lodge and Eileen Carnell have both retired from the Institute of Education, University of London, UK, where they now run workshops for retiring staff. Both currently work as freelance writers, and Lodge runs a consultancy called Inspiring Retiring, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
This article appears in the February 2011 issue of Physics World.
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