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(NewsUSA) – Most of us know that oral hygiene is critical to healthy teeth, white smiles and first impressions. But not nearly as many are familiar with the extreme consequences of what can happen if you don't take care of your mouth.
Most individuals have some inflammation of the gums — i.e. gingivitis — that goes unchecked. A study published in the National Library of Medicine reports that 10 to 15 percent of adults will develop severe periodontitis, which is an advanced form of gum disease that begins to deteriorate bone, too.
"Gingivitis has always been a major concern for the public," explains Dr. Harold Katz, a bona fide dentist to the stars, who founded the California Breath Clinic in Beverly Hills. Katz, also a bacteriologist, has a legacy of oral care research, including creating the high-quality line of TheraBreath products (www.therabreath.com).
"But more studies are emerging that support the idea that dental health can reflect your overall health, too. Gum disease can contribute to an increased risk for heart disease, and it can worsen diabetes. Bad oral hygiene may even be a risk factor for dementia," Katz added.
According to Katz — as well as mounting medical research — poor oral hygiene can lead to many physical problems. The Journal of the American Geriatric Society just released a study showing that elderly people who brushed their teeth less than once a day were up to 65 percent more likely to develop dementia, compared to seniors who brushed daily.
Dental check-ups can also point out other areas of concern among pregnant women. A professor at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology's annual meeting suggested that gum disease can affect healthy conception much like obesity. Plus, pregnant women have a 65 to 70 percent chance of experiencing pregnancy gingivitis, where gums develop exaggerated inflammation and plaque buildup due to fluctuating hormones.
Expectant mothers with gum disease even suffer a higher risk of a premature birth. But oral hygiene can work toward prevention, too. Reuters Health just released findings that indicate pregnant women with gingivitis who use mouthwash have more of a chance of carrying their baby to full term.
Another study recently presented to the American Heart Association revealed that patients who received routine teeth cleanings had a 24 percent lower risk of heart attack than those who didn't maintain regular dental care.
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- Take initiative to analyze and solve problems
- Treat others with courtesy and respect
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- College degree preferred but not required
- Preferred experience with the grade level you will be teaching
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- Experience working with kids or in a camp setting a plus
- Read and learn curriculum for your subject prior to the start of camp. Prepare for and deliver three rotations of Galileo curriculum per day in art, science or outdoors to groups of up to 30 campers, typically repeating the lesson with three different groups of campers in the same age group
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- Provide excellent customer service to families by communicating with them on a daily basis about their camper's experience
- Assist with daily set up and cleanup of camp
- Contribute to and participate in daily opening ceremonies, all-camp activities, and snack & lunch supervision and programming
The camp environment is demanding, requiring consistent dedication and work ethic from each staff member. Depending on the time of summer or the specific week or day, the needs of camp and resulting staff hours may vary. We seek and make offers to staff who we believe are capable of thriving in this environment, both professionally and personally.
General Camp Staff Hours Information:
- Staff may work anytime between 7:30am and 6pm, Monday through Friday. Number of hours and start/finish time will vary by site, position and day
- Staff meetings: During regular work hours before or after the start of programming
- Before setup days begin, complete between 2-12 hours of online training
- Training and setup days: Participate in two mandatory training and setup days in the days before camp starts
- Camp cleanup: Participate in cleaning and packing up camp for an additional 1-5 hours in your last week of camp, typically some additional hours at the end of the day. On the last day of camp all staff stay on site until cleanup is complete, which could be up to 6pm at the earliest
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The camp day runs, on average, 8 hours for Lead Instructors. Lead Instructors' typical schedule is from 7:45am-4:15pm.
We are committed to competitively compensating staff. Regarding compensation:
- Lead Instructors are compensated at a regular hourly rate of $11.25-14.00 per hour, highly dependent on work location, education level, and courses taught
- Staff will be compensated at a different hourly rate (training rate) for 2-12 hours of online training to be completed before camp, and for 2 days on-site setup/training
- Summer staff positions are temporary, seasonal positions and do not include health benefits or paid vacation time
- Overtime will be paid at 1.5x the regular hourly rate in accordance with state and federal requirements
- Payroll is processed weekly; payments will be issued and paystubs made available the Friday after each camp week
- Free and/or significant camp discounts (exact details contingent on location)
General supervision, ongoing observation and evaluation is provided by your Camp Director.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Some lifting and carrying up to 60 lbs.
- Typing, writing, reading
- Seeing, hearing and speaking, both nearby and at a distance
- Use hand and fingers to help with classroom supplies and operate equipment
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Contrast this with your typical New England meteorologist: A pasty, overweight guy with bags under his eyes from having stayed up all night tracking the constantly changing weather.
She uses the word "like" nineteen times in her report. He slurs his words from the last glass of Johnny Walker he downed in the green room to calm his nerves. She wears nine inch heels. He predicts nine inches of snow (which turns out to be only freezing rain). She discusses Justin Timberlake. He explains the mathematical algorithm that allows sound waves from the Doppler 5,000 to distinguish rain from snow.
Amazingly, one would think that with virtually the same forecast everyday, she couldn't possibly get it wrong. Well, she does. All last week she predicted rain on Saturday, sun on Sunday. So being a conscientious food blogger, I planned to take my photographs on Sunday.
Saturday was bright and sunny. Sunday it rained. The pictures you see are from Monday.
A rainy Sunday seemed a perfect time to bake some cookies. One of my favorites is the Italian pignoli (pine nut) cookie. Made with almond paste, they are mildly sweet and have a nutty flavor that lingers pleasantly on your palate. The crispy exterior reveals a chewy interior that gently pulls away as you bite it.
I could explain the chemical properties of the cookie that create this sensation, but maybe you could just picture me with a dog on my lap instead. They are ridiculously easy to make; it took me longer to type the recipe (and photograph the cookies) than it did to bake them. Like typical New Englanders, Jeff and I had them with a nice cup of coffee.
And here are a few other treats I'd love to have with my coffee:
Brilynn's Fudge with Cherries and Pistachios at Jumbo Empanadas.
Lis's Easy Sticky Toffee Dessert at La Mia Cucina.
Patricia's Choc Banana Bread at Technicolor Kitchen.
Sher's Apple-Blackberry Kuchen at What Did You Eat?
Valentina's Peanut Butter Cookies at Sweet Temptations.
Italian Pignoli (Pine Nut) Cookies
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2 ½ cups pine nuts
1 (7-ounce) tube of almond paste
¾ cup sugar
2 egg whites
½ tsp pure vanilla extract
¼ cup all-purpose flour
¼ tsp salt
Powered sugar for garnish, optional
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Take ¼ cup of the pine nuts and pulse in a food processor until coarsely ground. Break the almond paste with your hands; add to the processor; process until just mixed. Add the sugar; process until mixture is crumbly. Add the egg whites and vanilla; process until the dough begins to come together. Add the flour and salt; process until fully blended and smooth.
Pour the remaining pinenuts into a small bowl. Using a teaspoon and slightly moistened hands, take about 1 tsp worth of batter and roll it into a ball. Gently drop the ball in the pine nuts and turn until completely coated. Place the cookies 2 inches apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake for 20 minutes, until lightly browned.
Cool on racks. Dust with powdered sugar before serving, if desired. Cookies should be stored in an airtight container. Makes approximately 30 cookies.
After having tasted a Mexican coffee made with black pepper, Jeff concocted this version one afternoon. The interplay between the spices and the pepper creates an intensely flavorful and aromatic cup of coffee.
Spiced Coffee
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4 cups water
2-2 ½ scoops of good coffee (such as Illy)
1 whole clove
A few dashes of ground cinnamon
3-4 cranks of freshly ground black pepper (from a peppermill)
Add the clove, cinnamon, and ground pepper to the coffee grounds, then brew. Serve as desired.
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What a lovely read. I like your region comparison ;-) and the cookies, my! I know that I would love them, and that I will try them soon. Pine nuts are a fantastic addition in them!
- February 15, 2007 at 4:46 AM
- Pille said...
I'm off to Italy this Saturday for a week, but when I get back (with a fresh supply of Italian pinenuts), then I'm so going to make your pignoli-cookies! They look delicious!
- February 15, 2007 at 5:23 AM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Pine nut cookies -- I love the ones at Scialo on Federal Hill in Providence, and yours look just as wonderful as those!
- February 15, 2007 at 6:10 AM
- wheresmymind said...
On days like today where I had to go in the passengers side door to open the iced over drivers side door, I do contemplate how long I could sleep on your couch before I got kicked out ;)
- February 15, 2007 at 7:10 AM
- s'kat said...
Those would go so nicely with the cup of chai I'm having right now! Oh, and I LOVE that photo with the rain!
- February 15, 2007 at 7:10 AM
- Brilynn said...
I had never heard of pignoli cookies until this week when I've seen them on two different blogs. It's wierd how you don't notice something and then when you do, it's everywhere!
- February 15, 2007 at 7:26 AM
- Mishmash ! said...
That was a funny write-up on meterologists:) Your spiced coffee and pine nut cookie seem to be perfect for our snowy days :)
- February 15, 2007 at 7:48 AM
I laughed at your evaluation of meteorologists... it's such a contrast from over here in the east (as you once were) where things the weather changes so quickly, it's almost pointless to try and pinpoint it down.
Your pignoli and spiced coffee sound like the perfect afternoon indulgence!
- February 15, 2007 at 9:13 AM
- Alpineberry Mary said...
I used to buy pignoli cookies at the Italian pastry shop until I realized how easy they are to make. And like omigod it's like sunny for the next like 5 days. :)
- February 15, 2007 at 9:54 AM
I love, love, love these! Brings back fabulous memories of growing up. And, I enjoy anything with almond paste.
Thanks so much!
- February 15, 2007 at 10:18 AM
- Patricia Scarpin said...
These pine nut cookies are to die for! They look amazing!
I feel like trying these soon.
Your witty text made me laugh and I had to be careful not to be overheard by my boss. ;)
And how sweet of you to mention my recipe here, thank you, dear!
- February 15, 2007 at 11:26 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed the story. Hope you like the cookies.
Thank you! I've had real Italian pignolis; they are much better. Happy travels!
As I am very familiar with Scialo's, I am flattered by your comparison!
It's pretty comfortable, not too lumpy.;)
I love it too, thanks!
I know. Things can get kind of cyclical.
Thank you! I'm glad it made you smile.
I know what you mean. I often say that we don't have real weather here. :)
Like I so get what you're saying. And like thanks for stopping by. It's like way cool. :)
Oh, I'm so pleased it brought back happy memories for you!
- February 15, 2007 at 11:32 AM
- Rachael said...
Mmmm, these just look so wonderful! I've never made pignoli's before but I am absolutely obsessed with the flavor of almond. I haven't been able to find almond paste - must hunt harder.
This looks like a perfect recipe, and I love all of the photos (particularly the last one. I think I'm drooling)
- February 15, 2007 at 12:39 PM
- Anh said...
Susan, the pine nut cookies look just so good. Gotta try them out! And the cofee, too... I am addicted to coffee, and would love a cuppa of your spiced version!
- February 15, 2007 at 1:33 PM
- Toni said...
I think I just might break down and bake these. I adore pine nuts (used to pick them when I lived in New Mexico), and these look too good for words!
And just about the BEST description of the difference between the east and west coasts meteorologists I've ever read! I've never seen "her" clutching a white poodle, but I can sure picture it! This post is a keeper!
- February 15, 2007 at 2:05 PM
- Mikaela said...
I LOVE that second cookie photo, the one w/ the sugar falling onto the cookies. Great shot!
Ugh. Freezing rain. What I wouldn't do for some sled-able snow :)
- February 15, 2007 at 6:16 PM
- Stella said...
Hi Susan!
thank you so much, I'm so honoured!
Your cookies look even more delicious with the delicate touch of the pine nuts inside.:)
And I love the photos, especially the 'rainy' one:)
- February 15, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Susan--The cookies sound delicious and easy. Can't ask for a better combo. Great meteorlogist stories too! For the ultimate LA meteorologist character, see Steve Martin's wonderful LA Story, a funny but loving send-up of Los Angeles. So much fun--I guarantee it.
- February 15, 2007 at 9:57 PM
- Freya said...
I read about Pignoli cookies some while ago in Carole Walters Cookie Book (a great read!) but I could never get around to making them. Yours have convinced me!
- February 15, 2007 at 11:06 PM
- Gattina Cheung said...
What a great post Susan! Been living in two totally different world, it makes you more special =).
I really love these pine nut cookies (actually I love any type of Italian cookies!!!). What a nice coincidence, today I also just photographed a shot of sprinkling powder sugar (on Italian cookies) Yours are very beautiful!!!
- February 16, 2007 at 3:23 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
You're so welcome! I just love your cooking/baking.
Oh, thank you so much! Try Whole Foods or any local Italian market. Since you're on the East Coast maybe even Stop 'n Shop?
It really is the perfect afternoon cup 'o joe.
Thanks so much! It was fun writing it.
That second shot is as close to real snow as we'll get around here.
You're so welcome! I'm glad you like them.
Terry B-
I've never seen it, but I'll definitely check it out.
You won't be disappointed!
Coming from you, that's such a compliment as I adore your recipes and photography.
- February 16, 2007 at 4:59 AM
Ugh. I could really go for a cookie and coffee right now. LOVE this post.
- February 16, 2007 at 9:59 AM
- Wandering Chopsticks said...
Wow Susan,
Those cookies look perfectly delectable. Must try.
Oh, and about the coffee, have you tried adding chili powder to cocoa like the Aztecs did? Mmm.
- February 16, 2007 at 11:15 AM
- Scribbit said...
Oh how lovely and perfectly round and toasted.
When we lived in North Dakota it cracked us up how the weather report made up half of the evening news. It was big stuff there and they took their weather man, Tom Szymanski, very seriously. He was goofy but somehow rather hypnotic. And I didn't even care about the weather.
- February 16, 2007 at 3:09 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Thanks. I could send you the cookies. But the cup of coffee might be a problem.
Wandering Chopsticks-
Yes, my recipe is actually called New Mexican hot chocolate. You're right, it is mmmmm good.
I have this tremendous urge to invite you over my house just to enjoy warm weather in February. First North Dakota, then Alaska? Wow.
- February 16, 2007 at 7:44 PM
- Helene said...
I have not had those in ages, and now I am craving them...see what you started?!!
I had a good laugh reading your post, thanks for brightening up my day!
- February 17, 2007 at 12:27 PM
- Melting Wok said...
ooh, like a brittle cookie all in one, love it, thanks for sharing, Susan, cheers !:)
- February 17, 2007 at 1:29 PM
These cookies sound delicious. I am sure Uncle Peter would love them. He has a sweet tooth. I will have to get the ingredients soon.
- February 17, 2007 at 2:22 PM
Totally lol, you are so funny. And make great cookies!
- February 17, 2007 at 3:03 PM
- Lis said...
Susan these cookies look great and I really love how you had them with spiced coffee - yum! I laughed out loud at the meteorologist description - how true!! One of our favorite mottos here in NE Ohio is "I'll believe it when I see it" which is said every night after watching the weather forecast. lol
- February 18, 2007 at 4:16 AM
- Paul Russo said...
Sue; thecookies look absolutely delicious. The pitures are great - kudos to the photographer. Will have to try the spiced coffee soon yet better still we will be over Sun for coffee and cookies. Love Dad
- February 18, 2007 at 7:40 AM
- Lucy said...
We had an old school friend of mine staying with this weekend and on Saturday afternoon, tired from a morning of window shopping and despite that fact that it was unbelievably hot, Kylie and I drank your spiced coffee. Wonderful! I'm making the cookies next. I found some French pine nut oil a few weeks ago and made a beautiful salad dressing with it. I would love to get my hands on some proper Italian pignoli...Lovely stuff!
- February 18, 2007 at 4:03 PM
- Lucy said...
By the way - I love the dusting action shot!
- February 18, 2007 at 4:04 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Oh, I'm so glad you had a good laugh. Now, you have to have some cookies.:)
Melting Wok-
Thanks so much!
Betty (and Uncle Peter)-
Hi! Let me know if you like them. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks! Glad it made you chuckle!
God help the poor meteorologists in Ohio.
Awww, we'd love for you to be able to have coffee and cookies with us today. Miss you. Love, Sue
Yeh! I'm so glad you made the coffee and enjoyed it! Mmmm, I'm sure I'd like French pine nut oil, so I'll have to look for it. Thanks about the picture!
- February 18, 2007 at 4:27 PM
- Linda said...
how wonderful! and that photo with the powdered sugar falling?! fantastic work! these look so delicious. I will HAVE to try them soon! Happy new year & three day weekend!
- February 18, 2007 at 7:26 PM
- Veron said...
what a novelty! Pine nut cookies. I better hide this screen from the hubby...he loves pine nuts and I will not hear the end of it until I make these delicious looking number.
- February 19, 2007 at 10:01 AM
- J said...
Hi Susan! Your write up was amusing!:) Loved the nice recipe for cookies. Spiced coffee is a relevation! I make spiced tea, but coffee was always with sugar and milk only. i must try the clove, pepper, cinnamon touch...
- February 20, 2007 at 5:10 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Thanks a lot! Hope you like them.
Well, at least they're super easy to make. Thanks so much!
I'm so happy you enjoyed it! Hope you like the coffee. And as I drink a lot of tea, I'd love to hear about some of your spiced versions.
- February 20, 2007 at 9:36 AM
- Susan G said...
The cookie photo inspires me to head for Federal Hill on our next RI visit; easy for you with all the ingredients in the pantry, no doubt. The coffee is a revelation. And to add to the SA horizon, a local chocolatier makes chocolates with cayenne and cinnamon. Thanks for the inspiration!
- February 22, 2007 at 4:34 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Thanks for stopping by. One of my favorite places in the whole world is Keene, NH for the annual pumpkin festival. Chocolate with cayenne and cinnamon sounds like perfection.
- February 23, 2007 at 7:09 AM
- sher said...
Oh my!! From the bottom of heart: Thank you for that wonderful recipe!
- February 23, 2007 at 8:21 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Sher-You are wholeheartedly welcome! :)
- February 24, 2007 at 10:08 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Those cookies look ever so gorgeous! I bet that they taste wonderful. Your pictures are very good too!
- February 27, 2007 at 6:52 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Rosa-Oh, thank you for the compliments and the visit! They're one of my favorites!
- February 27, 2007 at 4:01 PM
- Olive Oil said...
Great blog. The photos make my mouth water. Thanks for the pignoli cookie recipe. I have always loved these cookies and I will certainly be giving this recipe a try.
If you get a chance, check out my olive oil blog: http://ameliaoil.blogspot.com
- March 8, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Your writing and photographs are delightful! I must remember to pick up a bag of pine nuts next time I'm at Trader Joes and try this recipe. I'll have to hunt for almond paste too.
- March 17, 2007 at 2:42 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Thanks for stopping by! I'm glad you like my blog and the cookies.
- March 20, 2007 at 10:51 AM
- Kristen said...
True enough about California meteorologists... although I've never seen any of the Bay Area ones with a poodle! Can you imagine John Gheyorse (sp?) doing that? (I grew up in southeastern MA, and John's still one of my favorite meteorologists)
The cookies look fabulous, might I add! :)
- April 20, 2007 at 4:39 PM
I love the "raining" sugar in your photo.
I used to travel to San Diego quite often and would get such a kick out of the weather reports. It rained one day and you would have thought the world was coming to an end. They were breaking into programs and everything to report on this little sprinkle shower.
- May 1, 2007 at 1:53 PM
Those cookies look perfect with a warm glass of milk!
- August 31, 2007 at 12:28 AM
Nice cookies blog, would you mind if i ask you for a link exchange?
- September 23, 2007 at 8:10 PM
- wosnes said...
I'm a little late coming to this party...!!!
I intended to make these for Christmas 2007. I never purchased the ingredients.
I purchased the ingredients for Christmas 2008, but never got them made.
I finally made them yesterday. They are so good!
- January 4, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
wosnes-Yay! They're worth the wait. :) Thanks for letting me know.
- January 4, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- Unknown said...
This looks so delicious! :)
All the ingredients in it look great-- and good idea to make this with pine nuts!
You don't by any chance know a good place to find almond paste or pine nuts, do you?
I've been looking around online for these so I can make
Italian Pignoli also. :)
Really like your blog
- April 1, 2010 at 6:58 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
tina-I buy almond paste in the baking section of the supermarket. It's also usually available at Italian specialty markets, as are pine nuts. They shouldn't be hard to find. Good luck! And thank you!
- April 1, 2010 at 11:55 AM
I just came across your blog and enjoyed it very much. I'm a banquet manager and write a blog about the daily aggravations that go with my job...from cranky chefs to nasty customers and everything in between. I hope you enjoy it. Please visit and leave a comment. Have a great day!
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- April 7, 2010 at 2:06 PM
- Unknown said...
I will *definitely* be trying this.
@Tina- I normally get my Pine Nuts from NutsOnline-- I've looked a fair bit and they seem to consistently have the best prices.
Lovely blog and post-- all looks really tasty!
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The Coptic patriarchal hymn, E-Aghapi--one of the few hymns that is chanted entirely in Greek:http://www.esnips.com/doc/e8020803-7181-4b53-9318-3d6607e69155/E-Agapi
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There are very few Armenian hymns on there and the quality of most of them is not that great.
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To understand what the clients or consumers like, you would normally ask them to compare products, to have a clear understanding, binary comparisons with everything else constant, would be the best; this means; for example given two products with the same price, we could understand why a consumer chooses a particular product, we could ask consumers to choose based on colors, forms and many other details too, to understand their aesthetic preferences, if we repeat the process thousands of times, making them compare colors, materials, textures, i.e. at each binary comparison, meanwhile making sure that not only price but all other elements are constant and repeat the process tens of thousands of times, for each specific country or sub-region and we would perhaps analyze the users' preferences in a statistically significant way. However, in this case, we would be spending quite a lot of resources, therefore, we can conclude that this is not a good idea; i.e. millions of binary combinations is too much to be feasible.Alternatively, we could organize a design competition to gather data on end-user preferences, with a cost of a fraction of the research and comparison cost that you would be paying for the approach above. The system is much intelligent, instead of trying to discover what the clients or end-users want to achieve through reverse engineering of preferences through binary comparisons, we can, through design competitions, directly identify the preferences, in a way that it also makes sense. We can know for instance, the colors preferred by end-users, and the percentage distribution of these colors. We can see for instance, the materials preferred by end-users, and their percentage distribution, but more importantly, we can make the end-users tell us, which colors or materials they would be paying more; if a material is more expensive, we can understand if they would be willing to pay or not, this applies for other parametric components as well.These type of design competitions that allow you to configure (within restrictions), could help organizers to optimize their supply and operation chain: By knowing how many yellow mugs we will sell in a year, we can stock the right amount of them; not less, not more. Good forecasts and statistically significant insights can be derived through the analysis of the results of the design competitions which utilize the configurator tool that other design competitions does not utilize normally. This means profit maximization. This means optimization. The tool is called a configurator, a configurator is an interactive user-interface software with the aim of gathering user preferences through configuration with restrictions, unlike design competitions that are open to all sorts of submissions, the configurator allows you to be very specific; it allows you to configure a product or service, through existing options and choices and restrictions. The restriction part is important, as this is the core factor to come up with statistics, the user-interface and an easy-to use tool is important, as this is what it helps us to include the end-users in the process.A very simple example; lets imagine that we are a company that produce ceramics, and we want to analyze user-preferences for a new mug that we want to launch. We have 6 options for the handle for, 6 options for handle color, 6 options for exterior color, 6 options for interior color, 6 options for exterior decoration, with a total of 6*6*6*6*6 = 7766 possible combinations, how could we know which options would lead to the most successful product (i.e. a product that sells more)? It is easy.We have 5 questions, with their respective choices. We ask several thousand users to join our competition, (it is common to have 2-3 thousand participants for such competitions as it is really easy to configure products using such tools, no design skills required).These thousands of people first decide the handle form, giving you a distribution table for handle form. Second they choose handle color, giving you a distribution table for handle color. Third they choose the exterior color, which gives you a distribution table of values for the exterior color. Etc.. These options determine the form and color. Then we can see statistically which color and forms are most commonly used; this gives us the median preference; i.e. what the general public would want to have. Furthermore for colors, we have a statistically significant (correct) pie-chart that is exactly telling us what the people will want to have; the percentage value of color choices, the top 3 colors are perhaps what would sell most as many people prefer them to others. This configuration tool help us to know especially understand preferences for simpler unrelated parameters easily. A good configurator tool will have all elements independent. For instance, let's say that we want to measure preferences again for the mug, but in this case, we will have the volume fixed (height and width predetermined), and we want the user to choose a handle, and color. Then we can actually see what users prefer for handles, and colors. This is of course the simplest example possible, but gives us insights on what could be built upon.The Power of the configurator tool is the ability to come up with statistics that are relevant to optimize supply chain. Each participant, before utilizing the configurator, registers to the competition, while doing so, supplies demographic information such as birthdate, nationality, income etc. These supplied information can be matched with the results of the competition, thus we can for instance see, country level statistics, or demographic level statistics; while for instance country-level statistics could be helpful to choose number of green mugs to send to France, the demographic statistics can help us choose the right color mug for our advertisement to university graduates. (Now, when advertising online, you can see the demographics of websites in which you advertise, so this information is highly relevant to increase clickthrough rates).By making a reverse data analysis, we can for instance see what Italian nationals like, an arch model could be displayed by the software that shows the most common options picked for our initial test where we were for instance configuring a coffee mug, choosing 5 options for interior and exterior color, decoration, handle form and color. We can see the most common models, but also second common options or preferences. These information are all relevant, to optimize supply chain; we can know how many red mugs, green mugs, yellow mugs and purple mugs we would sell. Of course, if you are in the business for the last 40 years, you already know this, but if you just started this new segment of business, the competitions statistics provides good insights.The configurator tool can help us identify the differences between preferences through diverse nationalities; we can understand what a coffee mug means for a "British", and what a coffee mug (not cup!) means for "Italians". Knowing these preferences we can create diversified products that appeal more to the distinct cultures of the world.By being able to design specific products for diverse cultures, we would also be increasing the overall utility of these cultures, making them effectively happier by providing a choice that appeals to them. To remind you once more, we discover the needs or preferences of a cultural dominion by reverse analysis of the results for the configuration competition; we check from the database by filtering countries, to see for instance what Italians like when it comes to mug design.Of course, knowing the preferences of all different types of cultures, we could come-up with products that are appealing to all, thus this is another way of coming up with world-infusion designs through aggregated analysis and collection of preferences of designers through many diverse cultures.Global access to world markets opens up new opportunities for commerce and expanded access to talent and business resources creating new opportunities [Lockwood 36]. One of such opportunities is crowdsourcing innovation through design competitions or contests, to come up with world-infusion products and services. World-infusion services or products intelligently combines the best aspects of other local products and services in different cultures to create a new level of service or a new type of product that is better than the existing products and services. World-infusion means, gathering together all bits of information for product and service development in the world to come up with a much better product or service. This is possible by working with multi-national design consulting companies that have offices worldwide or via an international design competition to utilize the diversity of participants. Innovators are not always the idea generators. Innovation is all about integration: integrating data, information, knowledge and experience from many different sources. [Gaynor 54], and design competitions allows us to integrate; innovate at a whole new level. The international design competition method is a thousand times cost effective way to do so, but an intervention is necessary because it is an algorithm. The algorithm generates savings by turning judgments – a general way of getting toward the desired solution – into a formula or a set of rules that, if followed, will produce the desired solution. Algorithms can be run by less experienced and less expensive personnel, thus are more efficient then heuristic way of solving issues. [Roger 75] . As also suggested by the famous wired magazine article in 2006, the cost is literally 1/500th of what it would regularly cost. [Howe 5]. In addition platforms that help crowdsourcing such as the Mechanical Turk largely eliminates recruiting effort, makes it easy to extend or modify a study, and automates administration, furthermore very large scales can be reached. [Heer 206]. In design competitions and contests hundreds of users can, be recruited for highly interactive tasks for marginal costs within a timeframe of days or even minutes. However, special care must be taken in the design of the task. [Aniket 456], thus we design a system of two-step competition. To be able to create new world-infusion products and services, a special type of two-level international design competition must be held. The design of the first step of the competition starts with a brief that aims to fulfill our initial mission of gathering the "local aspects", thus participants are asked to create specific new products or services, that are nurtured through the culture of origin of the participants; i.e. the brief says create neo-traditional products or services, and furthermore in the brief it is asked from the designers to write a paragraph about the tradition, and how it was transformed into something new. This first competition is aimed at sense-making process, utilizing the distinctive characteristic of the designer through her ability of giving new meaning and new symbolic qualities to object; thus making sense of things. [Baldwin 722]. The sense-making is required in order to be used as filters and references to build upon. Furthermore, the transformation description part is also required to increase the statistical significance of a design rooting from traditions; otherwise designers would just design whatever and say that it is traditions, many crowdsourcing papers confirms this idea of a control-parameter to be embedded in order to increase the quality of responses. The results of the first competition, aside from the designs, is an extensive study that no consulting agency would be able to generate; given thousands of participants from hundreds of countries, this is a study that identifies the "local aspects" that could be converted and utilized in new product development to come up with better product or service design. While, for designers, the aim of the first competition would be to come up with neo-traditional designs, the real aim of the first competition, from the perspective of the organizer, is to create the "brief" of the second design competition. The second competition is about utilizing the previously found "local aspects" and combining them together. The "local aspects" could be considered as hidden information; "opportunities", "potentials", "discoveries" etc. The second competition is about utilizing the previously uncovered information from different cultural diversities to come up with a product that "infuses". The second competition is not necessary an international design competition; it can be held within a design unit of a company, or a design research unit, and does not require the initial participants to re-join, but it could also be possible. The results of the second competition is synthesis of different local aspects into singular products and services, that are reinforced through collective knowledge and experiences of different cultures, if an example is required, we could point out the Starbucks Coffee's Frappucino, a combination of cultural heritage and knowledge of many cultures. Frappucino was not developed as a result of a competition, but rather through an eureka moment of its creators using their experience and luck combined, while our two-step competition is a methodological way to come up with new products without the eureka moments; to create an algorithmic way to come up with world-infusion products and services through utilization of diversity of participants especially in the first level. The design of the competition does matter a lot, the initial competition must be international and should have a control mechanism to ensure the quality of submissions and the second competition must provide access to the information supplied by participants in the first step, however the idea is very simple and clear; to utilize the diverse participant base to collect insights, and to utilize a new or the same participants base to combine the collected ideas to come up with world-infusion products that would include more. Imagine, you are a company that is producing gift items, worldwide, as it is now a new trend, you would like to come up with hundreds of different phone covers, mugs or bags, representing a country each. Design competitions can help save both time, and resources. Coming up with localized products is easy through organization of regional or national design competitions with a brief aimed at re-innovation and re-consideration. We can organize two distinct type of design competition for this purpose; first by limiting the participants to a specific area, and furthermore by requiring the participants to not come up with new products but rather improve existing products in the local market, the design competition could be used to arrive localized products that are going to be better from others in the market with design that is both local, and of course slightly global. Here, the organizer of the competition must provide what kind of "local" products do exists, and could provide guidelines for the participants to come up with products; i.e. the organizer could provide a list of local products that has space for re-thinking for the new century, as given in the earlier example, this could be also a challenge, however, an earlier contest could also be organized to create the brief for defining products to be improved. Second, we can require the participants to come up with products that are continuation or complementation of existing ones; in this case, we would ask the participants to design products that are fed from the local heritage. The result of such competition is very similar to what you would find in "museum shops"; updated, high-tech versions of old items; usually new materials or production techniques are used to produce traditional products, making them once again economically feasible. Both type of competitions find great press attendance and interest, in addition to be able to respond to the initial request of coming up with localized products. The concept of "local" is quite large, and could also be interpreted as nation-wide, continent-wide as well, however the original idea is the same; the competition participants are limited by the brief and eligibility conditions; only "local" designers are admitted, and they are asked to come up with new versions of "local" products, of course alternatively, they can come up with products that were inspired by the local products, or products that compliment them; thus the design of the brief is important in arriving the exact type of "localized" products one would seek. Thus, for this section we could conclude that through an optimized brief around heritage and culture and through eligibility conditions that limit foreigners participation, it will be possible to organize a competition that pushes designers to come-up with "localized" products.Design competitions are great tools to come up with statistics (through configurator tool based competitions), to identify cultural differences, to come up with localized designs or to come up designs that are appealing to the all diverse cultures at once, as much as it could be, by outputting world-infusion products. However, in each case, the initial design of the competition itself is very important; the brief, the preparation of the configurator tool or other tools if any, the clarification of the eligibility conditions etc. are all relevant and drastically change what we would get from a competition. In future, especially an in-depth experiment would be conducted to test the validity or strength of the statistics provided by the configurator tools.Exerpt:How design competitions could be used to gather statistical data regarding the preferences of end-users within a specific country, territory or geographical region? Designers, when they partake in a design competition, reflect in action; they reflect their preferences through their selection of forms, colors and materials when creating or coming up with new products. End-users also reflect their preferences in action, they do reflect their preferences when they compare products, especially when ..
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It says something about the fortunes of Hewlett-Packard when the "best" financial news for the company this year is a vague rumor of a takeover effort by famed corporate raider Carl Icahn. After over a decade of acquisitions that never seemed to play out the way HP's management hoped, the stock market is betting that the company is worth more broken up into pieces than continuing in its current ponderous form.
On Monday, rumors of an Icahn takeover drove the company's stock up more than four percent; its value is up six percent as of noon today. More than anything, the response by the market to the Icahn rumors are a vote of no confidence in the direction CEO Meg Whitman and the company's board are steering HP.
When Whitman took over as CEO last October, I suggested that the best path for the future of HP's PC division was to spin it off and give someone else a chance to manage it. But now, it's questionable whether breaking apart the company would get any more value out of it, other than freeing up HP's Personal Systems Group to swim clear of the wreckage. As they stand now, few of the other units could survive independently after being dependent on the teat of HP's printer ink for so long.
A decade of fail
Whitman has tried to put HP's bad news behind her, but it keeps coming back. At an analysts' briefing in October, she tried to clear the air by publicly airing all of the company's previous problems and the challenges it faced, and she pitched a four-year path to return the company to profitability. But then in November, as the company reported its annual results, HP announced it was writing off $8.8 billion after discovering the company had paid $5 billion too much for Autonomy (something Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told HP last year when he revealed he had declined to buy Autonomy for a lower price tag). HP claimed the deal was based on fraudulent inflation of Autonomy's book value by former executives.
But HP's problems run deeper than just a few bookkeeping errors. The company has made a long string of acquisitions that have ended poorly or have fallen well short of their potential. From the acquisition of Bluestone Software in 2001 for $470 million (which Carly Fiorina shut down just a year later—and paid BEA $5 million to take Bluestone's customers off her hands) to the painful squandering of Palm, HP's management has consistently done one thing well: screw up.
"You're seeing a disconnect between the companies they purchase versus the arms of the business that have been there," Gap Intelligence President Gary Peterson told me in a phone conversation today. The company's strategy, Peterson said, has been to use money from the printer business to acquire new lines of business and support them until they were profitable on their own. "It was working quite well when [former CEO Mark] Hurd was in charge," he said. "But the story has gone in a completely different direction since then."
"Part of the problem HP faces is that many of the acquisitions it made over the past decade using the ink-and-toner stained lucre from the company's printer business have failed to integrate with the business lines they already had (like, for example, the printer business)," Stephen Beck, the managing director of research firm CG42, wrote in an e-mail exchange. Beck said that HP has failed to do anything to make those services a compelling reason for customers to do business with the company.
When Meg Whitman was brought in as CEO," Beck said, "we were on record as saying we didn't believe she was the right choice... that her initial pronouncements that the turnaround of HP was primarily about execution were misguided. We felt strongly that HP needed to have a compelling answer for why a consumer or customer should select HP—in essence a clear value proposition. After over a year on the job, Ms. Whitman is still unable to articulate 'why HP?'"
That failure to articulate what HP is—"the failure of the HP leadership to craft a compelling reason for consumer, customers, and investors of why HP should be viewed as greater than the sum of its parts," as Beck said—is why some argue the company should be broken up.
The best case scenario: "An Apple-like organization"
For some parts of the company—the Personal Systems Group in particular—a breakup could be a positive thing, because they wouldn't be dragged down by the company's losing investments.
"It's sort of Business 101 that [if] an organization has a singular focus on a market, it would do better," Peterson said. "If the Personal Systems Group spun off, I think they would be a huge powerhouse in the industry, even more than they are today."
The reason, Peterson explained, is that PSG could direct the revenue from its printer business into doing more research and development than the group currently can afford. "Up until now, it's mostly funded very bad purchase ideas—there's about $20 billion in acquisition investments that were paid for by printer ink. If they broke off, that would be buying R&D instead. What that would mean is 5 to 10 years from now, when they've chipped the rust off and are able to focus exclusively on PSG's market, and the products start coming out of the labs, HP would be in a position to be an Apple-like organization."
That would mean bad news for HP's PC competitors such as Dell and Lenovo, because HP already has an edge in that market due to its retail and reseller channels, Peterson believes. The same is true of HP's enterprise IT hardware business.
Cutting the head off the snake
Even if some of the units of HP would be successful, simply breaking the company up would probably not pay off—if only for the reason that some of HP's units wouldn't be able to compete without the support of HP's PC and printer units. "Right now HP is more dependent on its printer component than it has been in a decade," Peterson said.
And even for the most healthy business units, a breakup under the guidance of HP's current leadership wouldn't necessarily be a good thing. "Would [a breakup] benefit shareholders?" asked Beck. "Maybe. Does it benefit customers? Not necessarily. Without HP management altering their focus away from what they have and how big they are, toward why they should be chosen and where they will lead, my fear would be a break-up would lead to little more than a shift from one, big misdirected company to a range of smaller, misdirected companies."
Peterson puts the blame for the company's worsening position squarely on HP's board of directors—of which Meg Whitman was a member during former CEO Leo Apotheker's brief tenure. And he thinks it's time for them all to go. "I can't think of a more dysfunctional board in the history of corporations," Peterson said. "I don't know if Meg [Whitman] is the one to get HP out of this mess, and I don't see it getting better with the leadership that they have on the board. They need to chop the head off the snake and start fresh." The least expensive way to fix the company, he said, is to remove the board, and pick a new CEO who can take all of HP's pieces and make something more appetizing than the pile of poultry feces it currently resembles.
Blood in the water
If there were ever a time for someone to acquire, it would be now. With HP's stock at its lowest point since July of 2002, the value of all HP's outstanding shares is $21.2 billion—a tenth of the size of IBM's market capitalization. Even after spending a large chunk of its cash on hand on stock repurchases and dividends, Apple could just write a check for all HP's shares at their current value (not that Apple would ever make such an ill-advised acquisition).
For a few hundred million, someone like Icahn could obtain one or two percent of HP's stock. And that someone could convince the mutual funds and institutional investors that own 77 percent of HP (such as State Farm Insurance) that he or she can do a better job with their investment than Whitman and the rest of the board—obtaining proxies for their votes at the next stockholder meeting in March.
In 2011, HP faced just that situation when activist investor Ralph Whitworth's Relational Investors LLC took a one percent stake in the company. To prevent him from moving to break the company up, HP gave him a seat on the company's board. The company also hired Goldman Sachs in 2011 to help create a "poison pill" defense against hostile corporate takeovers.
But those moves won't help HP's management if the company's major stockholders turn on them. Given how things have been going under the current board—of which Meg Whitman was a member before being elevated to CEO—that's a distinct possibility.


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Look carefully at the numbers. What do you notice? Can you make another square using the numbers 1 to 16, that displays the same properties?
You have two egg timers. One takes 4 minutes exactly to empty and the other takes 7 minutes. What times in whole minutes can you measure and how?
There are 78 prisoners in a square cell block of twelve cells. The clever prison warder arranged them so there were 25 along each wall of the prison block. How did he do it?
You have 5 darts and your target score is 44. How many different ways could you score 44?
Winifred Wytsh bought a box each of jelly babies, milk jelly bears, yellow jelly bees and jelly belly beans. In how many different ways could she make a jolly jelly feast with 32 legs?
How could you put eight beanbags in the hoops so that there are four in the blue hoop, five in the red and six in the yellow? Can you find all the ways of doing this?
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, invites you to explore the different combinations of scores that you might get on these dart boards.
Can you see why 2 by 2 could be 5? Can you predict what 2 by 10 will be?
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square?
Arrange eight of the numbers between 1 and 9 in the Polo Square below so that each side adds to the same total.
Zumf makes spectacles for the residents of the planet Zargon, who have either 3 eyes or 4 eyes. How many lenses will Zumf need to make all the different orders for 9 families?
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
Exactly 195 digits have been used to number the pages in a book. How many pages does the book have?
Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
There are 44 people coming to a dinner party. There are 15 square tables that seat 4 people. Find a way to seat the 44 people using all 15 tables, with no empty places.
Put the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 into the squares so that the numbers on each circle add up to the same amount. Can you find the rule for giving another set of six numbers?
When I fold a 0-20 number line, I end up with 'stacks' of numbers on top of each other. These challenges involve varying the length of the number line and investigating the 'stack totals'.
Fill in the missing numbers so that adding each pair of corner numbers gives you the number between them (in the box).
There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?
Try adding together the dates of all the days in one week. Now multiply the first date by 7 and add 21. Can you explain what happens?
Here you see the front and back views of a dodecahedron. Each vertex has been numbered so that the numbers around each pentagonal face add up to 65. Can you find all the missing numbers?
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, involves open-topped boxes made with interlocking cubes. Explore the number of units of paint that are needed to cover the boxes. . . .
This magic square has operations written in it, to make it into a maze. Start wherever you like, go through every cell and go out a total of 15!
Can you put plus signs in so this is true? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 99 How many ways can you do it?
Add the sum of the squares of four numbers between 10 and 20 to the sum of the squares of three numbers less than 6 to make the square of another, larger, number.
Write the numbers up to 64 in an interesting way so that the shape they make at the end is interesting, different, more exciting ... than just a square.
The clockmaker's wife cut up his birthday cake to look like a clock face. Can you work out who received each piece?
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, focuses on 'open squares'. What would the next five open squares look like?
Place the digits 1 to 9 into the circles so that each side of the triangle adds to the same total.
Using the statements, can you work out how many of each type of rabbit there are in these pens?
There are 4 jugs which hold 9 litres, 7 litres, 4 litres and 2 litres. Find a way to pour 9 litres of drink from one jug to another until you are left with exactly 3 litres in three of the jugs.
Tom and Ben visited Numberland. Use the maps to work out the number of points each of their routes scores.
This number has 903 digits. What is the sum of all 903 digits?
This dice train has been made using specific rules. How many different trains can you make?
Find the sum and difference between a pair of two-digit numbers. Now find the sum and difference between the sum and difference! What happens?
Choose a symbol to put into the number sentence.
What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?
Can you arrange 5 different digits (from 0 - 9) in the cross in the way described?
This challenge focuses on finding the sum and difference of pairs of two-digit numbers.
We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?
In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals add to the 'Magic Constant'. How would you change the magic constant of this square?
If you had any number of ordinary dice, what are the possible ways of making their totals 6? What would the product of the dice be each time?
Throughout these challenges, the touching faces of any adjacent dice must have the same number. Can you find a way of making the total on the top come to each number from 11 to 18 inclusive?
This challenge asks you to investigate the total number of cards that would be sent if four children send one to all three others. How many would be sent if there were five children? Six?
Cherri, Saxon, Mel and Paul are friends. They are all different ages. Can you find out the age of each friend using the information?
Can you design a new shape for the twenty-eight squares and arrange the numbers in a logical way? What patterns do you notice?
This task follows on from Build it Up and takes the ideas into three dimensions!
Watch this animation. What do you notice? What happens when you try more or fewer cubes in a bundle?


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What's hot online right now: New York wins Miss America; meet Nina Davuluri; Creative Arts Emmys awarded.
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The Creative Arts Emmy award winners were announced Sunday night, a week before the Primetime Emmy Awards airs. The Creative Arts honors are mostly dedicated to technical and behind-the-scenes crafts, with HBO's "Behind the Candelabra" taking home the most awards this year.
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