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Bush Return to Work on New Studio Album
After the success of reviving the Bush name with 2011's 'The Sea of Memories' album, frontman Gavin Rossdale and his band are now back at work on the follow-up.
In a new posting, the band revealed that they are currently in the studio with Grammy-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz. The knob-turner has manned the boards for such top acts as Deftones, Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains and has also recently been working on the next Adelitas Way album.
The band set up shop at Dave Grohl's Studio 606 in Northridge, Calif., where they are laying down the music for their next album. In addition to the photo seen below, there are several other photos from the studio that can be found at the band's Facebook page.
Bush reformed in 2010, with Rossdale and drummer Robin Goodridge remaining as holdovers from the original band that hit it big in the '90s. Guitarist Chris Traynor, who joined the band in 2002, also returned, while bassist Corey Britz made his Bush debut on the 2011 'The Sea of Memories' disc.


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The Dancing WhatnotPublished on Monday, January 28, 2013
(/images/postimages/spool-whatnot.jpg) The whatnot at rest after a dance Its an antique, its a shelving unit, it moves with perfect rhythm, and that makes it a star of our museum collection. Valuable antiques by well-known makers are nice, but I don't think they can compete with a quirky, one-of-a-kind item made by some creative individual in the past. We have woodworking tools redesigned by a craftsman to do a special job, and homemade rag dolls who love to attend parties with the fancy French playthings blessed with porcelain heads. The dancing whatnot is an enticing example of some unknown person's determination and creativity. So what's a whatnot? Let us start with what its not. It is not an object of any practical use. It was vital for the Vict ..


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I find beauty a challenge, I love beauty products and seem to stock up on the latest trend and ones with pretty packaging, but I am not very good at doing my own make-up other than the basics, so when Yves Saint Laurent invited me to have a one-to-one make-up masterclass with the amazing Fred Letailleur, the man behind Cara Delevigne's latest YSL beauty ads, I jumped at the chance.
The makeover was all about the eyes to celebrate the launch of YSL's new Couture Palettes, a collection of eight different eyeshadow palettes, each inspired by a timeless fashion collection from the house of YSL – ranging from browns, classic black and grey, as well as vibrant greens and purples. What I love about this product, other than the luxurious gold packaging, is that it is really geared to allow anyone, even me, to put together a great eye make-up look with its five complementary hues including a base and highlighter colour to sculpt and illuminate the eye, which Fred said was very important.
Fred used four key products in the eye make-up lesson – the iconic Touche Éclat highlighter pen, which he used to hide my dark circles under my eyes as well as highlight the brow bone, the Baby Doll mascara, which I love as it made my lashes super thick, as well as a black eye pencil to create dramatic couture-style eyes. He was really speedy, which gives me hope that when I do it myself it won't take me hours, and I love that each palette comes with a full tutorial on how to recreate the look of the ads.
I always love having my eyes done, when you wear glasses it is nice to show off what's underneath instead of hiding the eyes away and I really loved how vibrant the colours looked and how easily they blended together. The look is definitely something I will be attempting to recreate and I will be utilising the new YSL Eye Style platform that features lots of videos and how-to-guides created by Fred, I can't wait to try the how to achieve the perfect cat-flick.
As well as being a hub of beauty secrets, the YSL Eye Style platform is also asking readers to upload a shot of their eye make up for the chance to win prizes each month from June to August, then one overall winner will win a personal masterclass with Fred, a trip to London, and a hamper containing £500 of YSL make-up. So don't forget to upload your Eye Style and share on social media with the hashtag #YSLEyeStyle.


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President Barack Obama's second inauguration takes place today, and there's a lot going on. Some highlights from around the web:
- In 2009, an estimated 1.8 million people came out to watch Barack Obama's first inauguration, this time around the crowd is expected to be a measly 700,000. Still, more than 2,000 cops from around the country will be on hand to give the DC PD a hand.
- Though enthusiasm is more subdued that at Obama's first inaugurationl, there is one guy who wanted so badly to witness history that he's been selling his blood to pay for his trip to D.C., CNN reports
- The first piece of cake eaten by Obama during his second term will no doubt have been baked by former "Ace of Cakes" star Duff Goldman, and served at the Commander in Chief's Ball. Dessert will be about four feet high, weigh 50 pounds and "glitter is going to be all over the place," Fox News says.
- You've no doubt seen Michelle Obama's new bangs, and now it can be revealed what she, Sasha and Malia will be wearing for today's festivities.
- And this is your last chance to learn how to spell
inaugration inaguration"inauguration," a word that has vexed hundreds of Twitterers and reporters over the past month, ABC says.


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Other UK Sites
In addition to its centre in London, the School has branches throughout England and Scotland. In many cases the branches operate under the name of a School of Philosophy. This is largely because they were established by people who wished to present courses in philosophy but who did not feel able or competent to offer courses in economics as well, although some have since developed the capacity do so.
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Grammy-winning rock star Ben Harper won't be stealing kisses from Laura Dern anymore.
The soulful singer is splitting with his actress wife of five years, reports Us Magazine.
According to court filings first posted by TMZ.com, Harper began the proceedings October 8 and cited "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the divorce. Harper is also filing for custody of the couple's two children, Ellery, 9, and Jaya, 5.
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The court papers also stated that the couple spilt in January.
Dern, best known for her role as Dr. Ellie Sattler in the blockbuster "Jurassic Park," was reportedly "blindsided" by the news of the filing.
Selected Reading: Us Magazine, People, E! Online


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WWE taped the June 20th episode of SmackDown from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Here are the results:
Dark Match:
Los Matadores defeated Heath Slater and Damien Sandow
WWE SmackDown (Airing Friday):
Smackdown started with a John Cena promo. He was eventually joined by all the Money in the Bank match participants except Bray Wyatt. Dissension was teased between Roman Reigns and Cena. Reigns and Orton fought to the back. Cesaro and Alberto Del Rio attacked Sheamus and Cena, but the heels were cleared from the ring. Then there was tension teased between Sheamus and Cena as well.
Seth Rollins defeated Kofi Kingston. Rollins cut a post-match promo.
Dolph Ziggler beat Bad News Barrett in a non-title match. Barrett cut a pre-match promo and referenced the World Cup and the U.S. Men's National Team. Ziggler won with a roll-up. After the match, Ziggler was celebrating in the corner. When he jumped off the ropes, Barrett hit him with the Bull Hammer elbow.
Adam Rose defeated Titus O'Neil. Rose won with a roll-up in under a minute.
Adam Rose defeated Titus O'Neil with a roll-up in 0:05. No, this is not a typo (and probably not a re-shoot either). Titus challenged Rose to an immediate rematch. Rose accepted and slapped Titus hard across the face, then rolled him up for the pin.
Kane defeated Dean Ambrose via a choke slam. Seth Rollins was featured on commentary for this match. Towards the end of the match, after performing a suicide dive on Kane, Ambrose jumped over the announce table and brawled with Rollins. Rollins hit Ambrose with a Curb Stomp following the match. There were loud "You Sold Out!" chants from the crowd to close the segment.
Big E defeated Jack Swagger (w/Zeb Colter) via the Big Ending in under 1:30. Zeb cut a pre-match promo asking Big E how long he's been working with Lana.
In a backstage segment, Summer Rae approached Fandango and after some idle chatter they shared a long kiss. Layla emerged from the dressing room behind Fandango to catch the end of the kiss. She started to cry.
Bo Dallas defeated Fandango via a Bo-Dog in under 2:00. The "match" wasn't even that long. Layla was conspicuous by her absence during Fandango's entrance. Once Fandango was in the ring, Summer Rae ran down into the ring and tried to dance with Fandango. She blew him a kiss as Fandango ushered her away. Layla then attacked Summer from behind and a cat fight broke out. Fandango tried to break it up, but he got slapped in the process. Bo helped him to his feet and then hit a Bo-Dog for the win.
Post-match, Bo did his usual over-the-top celebration. He then knelt over Fandango in the corner and said, "Don't worry. There are plenty of fish in the sea. One day, you'll catch the right one!" Bo then hugged Fandango in the corner. There was a large BO-HIO sign in the front row. Funny. Also, there were multiple (Obama HOPE-style) posters in the front row featuring Bo Dallas with a BOLIEVE caption. It's possible they were planted like the "Cesaro Section" signs.
The Wyatt Family were backstage for a promo. Bray Wyatt spoke about his involvement in the MITB match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. "The time for childish charades is over," Wyatt said. "I will take…take…take what is mine. Run."
A graphic aired teasing an announcement for this Monday's Raw regarding the participants in the second MITB match.
John Cena, Sheamus, and Roman Reigns defeated Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt, Alberto Del Rio, and Cesaro (w/Paul Heyman) in a handicap match. There were MULTIPLE, LOUD "We Want Roman!" chants during the match. The crowd booed big-time when Sheamus made the hot tag to Cena instead. Hilarious.
Mid-match, there was a stare-down between the two teams on the floor closest to the hard camera and a brawl broke out along the barricades. The heel team then took their turn working over Cena for the majority of the match. The crowd erupted for this. Cena finally made a hot tag to Reigns, and the place erupted again. Reigns pinned Del Rio following a spear. A really fun main event match. The victorious team shook hands to close the show.
Credit: DJ Peckens of Prowrestling.net


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Data Driven Design Decisions
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McLaren may know how to build the occasional ugly race car, but it takes a Scuderia Ferrari in the doldrums to turn the WTF-meter to 11. This is Mauro Forghieri's Ferrari 312 B3 from late 1972, better known as the Spazzaneve (snowplow). It was so ugly it never raced.
Forghieri's ugly duckling of a Grand Prix was actually a very advanced concept. Built after yet another disappointing season, when Ferrari finished a distant fourth in the championship, the Spazzaneve picked up some ideas from Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe's radical, wedge-shaped Lotus 72.
The big idea with the Lotus was to remove the radiator from the car's nose and mount two smaller radiators by the cockpit, along with their air intakes: this is how Formula One cars are layed out to this day. The wedge layout's main advantage is in the reduced frontal area, which translates to less aerodynamic drag. Forghieri's design used side-mounted radiators paired with front-mounted air intakes, hence the pair of giant NACA ducts on the front wing.
The final package was radical and remarkably ugly. Unfortunately, no one will know how it would have fared in actual Grands Prix, because Mauro Forghieri was promoted out of the team before the 1973 season. His successor built another version of the 312 B3, a car which never finished on the podium, leaving Ferrari an embarrassing sixth in the championship. At the end of the year, Forghieri returned, and Scuderia Ferrari won four of the next six constructors' championships, coming second the remaining two times.


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I am not one of those lucky few who gets to live in a home designed by a world renowned architect, however this past week I have been fortunate enough to be staying in a house designed by a renown architect. I am currently house sitting in a Case Study house designed by Richard Neutra, the architect originally from Vienna who came to Los Angeles via Chicago after working for Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout Southern California, Neutra was known for his work of mid century modern homes (and buildings) he designed. As long as I can recall, I have been a fan of both Neutra & RM Schindler (another Viennese architect who along with Neutra left Austria for work with Lloyd Wright before settling in Los Angeles).
My earliest influence of mid century modernism wasn't in school, but at my pediatrician's office! How can that be, you ask? Because the medical plaza where my doctor's office was in a Neutra designed building located on Westcliff Drive in Newport Beach. Going to the doc: not so fun. Having my mom let my brother and I dip our hands into the shallow reflecting pools lined through out the walkways: fun. It must have been subliminal influence. Even later, when in design school, I designed a 1,000 sq foot home that I likened to the influence of Neutra/Schindler. That aside, spending the last few days at this residential home designed by Neutra has once again sparked influence. An influence of how to embrace the indoor/outdoor living of these modern masterpieces, the way the home is positioned on the site, that through each and every window there are dynamic views, that the natural lighting is balanced and in harmony thorough out the house, the way shadows are cast from certain details. All in all, these homes have a left a mark in the world of architecture and design that has influenced a great many.
The Neutra home that I am currently staying at is a "compound" comprised of three structures: the main house, a guest house/office space, and the garage, with breezeways and a main entry that leads into a central courtyard.
The medical plaza in Newport Beach designed by Neutra, where my peditrician's office was located.
A notable house by Neutra, is the Kaufmann House located in Palm Springs, CA. (Photographed by Julius Shulman)
The Chuey House in Los Angeles by Neutra (photographed by Julius Shulman).
Interestingly enough, over the weekend the Los Angeles Times published in article about the availability of these homes on the market today. Two articles worth reading: Architectural gems for Sale and The best houses of all time in LA.
[Have any of you ever stayed in a home designed by a prominent architect? If so, please share your experience.]


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Sorry for my absence! I spent the last two weeks in glamorous Detroit, MI at the auto show. Detroit sucks, guys. Avoid it at all costs.
As I'm sure you've gathered I travel a ridiculous amount for work. Some times of year are much busier than others; right now is the busy time and I'm barely home at all between now and May. I wish it was the other half of the year so I could enjoy the mild Arizona winter and beautiful East coast summers, since I end up being sent there so often.
Living out of a suitcase and in hotel rooms necessitates a nice collection of goods to keep one sane and comfy. Here are some things I never leave home without so I don't lose my mind on the road:
* My fluffy pink slippers. Never walk on a hotel carpet in bare feet - they are never cleaned!
* Burt's Bees pomegranate lip balm (a must on dry planes)
* Boots Restore & Renew Serum
* My DKNY cozy. A convertible sweater that can be configured in a multitude of ways; also makes a perfect blanket on the plane.
* Uggs. Usually my tall black ones, best for getting back and forth to the convention center in my black auto show outfits. Not fashionable y any means, but they feel like I'm walking on a cloud after spending hours and hours in 5" heels.
* Oil blotting sheets
* A real nightgown and a real pair of soft PJs
* Antibacterial wipes. I wipe down every single surface my hands will touch in the hotel room - all door knobs, shower and drawer handles, the remote, wall switches, lamp switches, curtain openers, etc.
* Isagenix shake mix. It's so hard to eat right on the road, and these give me the peace of mind of knowing I'm having at least one nutritious meal. I pack a travel-sized mini-blender, too.
*A solid piece of classic literature. This will last the length of my time away, unlike a lot of modern work which I can devour in a day or two. (I don't own a Kindle because I like having real books at home and want to have a dedicated library room one day.)
*L'Occitane travel-sized hand creams. My personal faves are cherry blossom & lavender.
*My black patent leather Coach Poppy tote. It's shocking how much I can fit in this bag, including my laptop, shoes, a book, wallet, and sundry girl stuff.
*A favorite hat. Sometimes it's my burgundy flannel, sometimes the black and white houndstooth. Perfect for hiding travel hair.
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Relocation Resource Centers
In response to the Governmentwide Relocation Advisory Board's Findings and Recommendations, GSA has aggregated information from Federal agencies that offer relocation services to other Federal agencies on a fee for service basis. Referred to as Relocation Resource Centers, these agencies offer permanent change of station (PCS) services in the areas of: home sale, household goods, storage, employee counseling, and taxes.
To view an overview of each agency's PCS product line please select their name:
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Department of Interior (DOI)
- Bureau of the Fiscal Service
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- General Services Administration, Federal Acquisition Service (GSA)
Go to survey background to learn more about GSA's Relocation Resource Center's initiative and an explanation of the findings and recommendations by the Governmentwide Relocation Advisory Board.
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Note: The Federal agencies and programs listed have voluntarily nominated themselves as Relocation Resource Centers (Centers). This list does not represent an endorsement of any single Center or group of Centers by the General Services Administration (GSA), or by its Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP). Additionally, OGP's Office of Asset and Transportation Management has not and will not substantiate any of the claims or statements made by the agencies concerning their Center's Permanent Change of Station (PCS) service offerings.
This list is provided "as is" and for the purpose of offering information to assist Federal agencies in seeking solutions to their employee's PCS needs. A point of contact is provided for each Center and it's recommended that they are contacted relating to any information or questions you may have concerning their services.


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Everyone knows that vegans are mellow, peaceable, anaemic, skinny and limp whispering incense waving meditators. Right? Anyone else remember the Comedy Company's Vegan Cooking skit? (Please post it if you can find it.)
In real life, we're a violently opinionated lot. More like Monty Python's "I'd like to have an argument please..."
And when we can't get enough arguments and abuse from animal exploiters, we energetically seek them from each other.
Ten Steps to VMAD (Vegan Mutually Assured Destruction)
Step right up and choose your side.
10. Vegan cats
It's unethical to support the meat industry, even when feeding cats.
Cats are obligate carnivores; it is animal abuse to feed them vegan food; don't impose your own vegan values on your cat.
9. Non-vegan partners
How can any vegan live with a partner who refuses to accept their fundamental values? If your partner won't go vegan, you're enabling their meat-eating by staying together.
How do you expect everyone to find a vegan partner when most vegans are women? If you have a supportive partner, you may be able to make a big impact even if the partner does not go vegan.
8. Abortion
Vegans believe in quality of life for animals and humans. It would be better for an animal never to be born than to live and die as a farm product, and sometimes it is better for a human not to be born either.
Any compassionate vegan will be pro-life - vegans value the lives of animals, so it's hypocritical to allow a helpless human baby to be murdered.
7. Having children
How can a vegan decide to breed more children into this high-consuming culture in an overpopulated world?
Having children is an important part of being a human animal, and children can be taught by the good example of vegan parents and carry this lesson into the future.
6. Activism
Vegans teach and reach best by being a great example while delivering positive messages.
Unless we're in their face all the time, we won't make any progress. People want to ignore the facts about animal products - don't let them!
5. Vegan diet vs vegan lifestyle
You can't just have a vegan diet - vegan means against animal exploitation so you have to avoid using animal products, not just avoid eating them.
People are almost starting to understand what a vegan meal means, why make things harder?
4. Health vegans
Giving up eating almost all meat and dairy products for whatever reason is a very strong and admirable commitment.
Being vegan for your own health is selfish when the real issue is how badly humans treat animals. It's not really vegan anyway - they only worry about their diet (see #5) and some of them still eat honey and animal byproducts.
3. Vegan meats
Fake meats are a great stepping stone in a transition from meat-eating to veganism and an enjoyable ethical treat.
Fake meats glorify meat and are not very healthy or environmentally friendly.
2. Vegetarians
Vegetarians are still on a journey and doing a lot of good already.
Vegetarians are just as guilty as meat-eaters of animal cruelty because they eat eggs and dairy. We need to remind them of that every chance we get.
1. What Vegan Really Means
I give up. Google returns more than 4 million hits for "vegan definition". One for each vegan?
And everything in between
Go on, admit it. I bet you are burning to give me the Right Answers. I'm sure I haven't managed to hide entirely which "side" of each argument I favour.
Making a real difference
All of these are compelling ethical dilemmas. But as you spiral into a quagmire with an equally argumentative vegan, ask yourself:
Even if I won, what difference would it make?
If you have strength, a power, some wisdom and logic, a biting wit, charm and persuasion - should you concentrate it on those who already agree with you on 99% of this stuff?
If we agree to disagree on the 1% amongst ourselves, then all of us might have the energy to turn on the light for our own vegan vision to the meat-eating majority.


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More independent women taking out insurance
Every three years the Japan Institute for Life Insurance (Seimei Hoken Bunka Sentaa) conducts a survey to measure trends in the insurance market. Last year the institute quizzed more than 4,000 people and for the first time since the survey started in 1987 the percentage of women who say they have taken out insurance policies exceeded the percentage of men who said they have. The margin may seem negligible — 81. 4 percent to 79.9 percent — but in 1987 the rate for men was 84.9 percent and that for women was 71.2 percent, so at the very least there's been a sizable increase in the female insurance market.
Insurance in this case is the personal kind, meaning life insurance, annunities and supplemental health insurance, all of which are related to long-term individual financial planning. The drop in insurance policy rates for men is attributable to several factors, concludes the institute, the main one being that men are marrying later (if at all) and thus putting off insurance purchases, in particular life insurance with death benefits. Certainly the main reason for the rise of insurance purchases among women is due to the increasing participation of women in the permanent workforce. Insurance companies have not neglected this trend and have duly developed products that target women, including supplemental health insurance covering illnesses that specifically affect women, such as breast cancer. Despite the fact that Japan's national insurance program pays for cancer treatment and necessary hospital stays, women seem particularly interested in supplemental cancer insurance, not so much because they can upgrade to a better hospital care (which is the more traditional reason for buying it) but because such extra money, usually from ¥5,000 to ¥10,000 a day, helps alleviate the loss of income that often accompanies such treatment.
The institute doesn't analyze their results to this extent, but it seems obvious that the women taking out these policies are single and thus financially dependent on no one but themselves. For instance, few seem to be actually taking out life insurance with death benefits. But as with suppliemental health insurance, one kind of policy that is quickly gaining popularity among this demographic is wage insurance (kyuryo hoken). Such insurance gives policy holders guaranteed income for limited periods of time when they cannot work due to illness or accident or reasons of an unforeseeable nature.
Hitachi Capital offers a policy that provides ¥100,000 a month for up to five years (and whose promos feature a salarywoman not a salaryman), while American Home Direct pays ¥120,000 a month for up to a year. The insurance provider AXA has a policy that combines cancer insurance with income insurance (shunyu hoken) and aims it squarely at women, as illustrated by the company's TV commercial, which shows the famous model An (daughter of actor Ken Watanabe) playing an office worker facing her supervisor and forcefully telling him that she's taking time off to fight her cancer. On its website AXA claims that two-thirds of working women who have cancer report that their income dropped after they were diagnosed, and elsewhere in the media a commonly cited, though somewhat misleading, statistic says that half of all Japanese will be diagnosed with cancer sometime in their lives.
Because Japanese people don't trust the government and aren't assured by public welfare policies, they comprise one of the most lucrative life insurance markets in the world. And since women have traditionally been marginalized in terms of employment, they may feel more of a need to assure for themselves a future that isn't assured at all.
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There is a wide gap between realized and potential yields for many crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Experts identify poor soil quality as a primary constraint to increased agricultural productivity. Therefore, increasing agricultural productivity by improving soil quality is seen as a viable strategy to enhance food security. Yet adoption rates of programs focused on improving soil quality have generally been lower than expected. We explore a seldom considered factor that may limit farmers' demand for improved soil quality, namely, whether farmers' self-assessments of their soil quality match soil scientists' assessments. In this paper, using Tanzania National Panel Survey (TZNPS) data, part of the Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), we compare farmers' own assessments of soil quality with scientific measurements of soil quality from the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD). We find a considerable "mismatch" and most notably, that 11.5 percent of survey households that reported having "good" soil quality are measured by scientific standards to have severely constrained nutrient availability. Mismatches between scientific measurements and farmer assessments of soil quality may highlight a potential barrier for programs seeking to encourage farmers to adopt soil quality improvement activities.
Common estimates of agricultural productivity rely upon crude measures of crop yield, typically defined as the weight harvested of a crop divided by the area harvested. But this common yield measure poorly reflects performance among farm systems combining multiple crops in one area (e.g., intercropping), and also ignores the possibility that farmers might lose crop area between planting and harvest (e.g., partial crop failure). Drawing on detailed plot-level data from Tanzania's National Panel Survey, our research contrasts measures of smallholder productivity using production per hectare harvested and production per hectare planted.
An initial analysis (Research Brief - Rice Productivity Measurement) looking at rice production finds that yield by area planted differs significantly from yield by area harvested, particularly for smaller farms and female-headed households. OLS regression further reveals different demographic and management-related drivers of variability in yield gains – and thus different implications for policy and development interventions – depending on the yield measurement used. Findings suggest a need to better specify "yield" to more effectively guide agricultural development efforts.
A farmer's decision of how much land to dedicate to each crop reflects their farming options at the extensive and intensive margins. The extensive margin represents the total amount of agricultural land area that a farmer has available in a given year (referred to interchangeably as 'farm size' or 'agricultural land'). A farmer increases land use on the extensive margin by planting on new agricultural land. The intensive margin represents area planted of crops as a proportion of total farm size. A farmer increases the intensive margin by increasing output within a fixed area. This analysis examines cropping patterns for households in Tanzania between 2008 and 2010 using data from the Tanzania National Panel Survey (TZNPS). This brief describes changes in farm size, total area planted, and area planted of select annual crops to highlight the dynamic nature of farmer's cropping choices for a sample population of 2,246 agricultural households that reported having any agricultural land in 2008 or 2010. Throughout the brief, we present summary statistics at the national level and compare them with household-level data to show how results vary depending on how the sub-population is defined and how average measures can mask household level changes. We analyze these questions in the context of smallholders (defined as households with total agricultural land area as less than two hectares) and farming systems.


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Eighteen months ago, in September 2011, the Economic Cycle Research Institute made a startling call:
"The U.S. economy is... tipping into a recession. And there's nothing that policy makers can do to head it off."
This call garnered a great deal of attention, in part because ECRI had made another startling call the year before. The earlier call came in the midst of a consensus that the U.S. was indeed headed into a recession. And ECRI's call, which proved to be correct, was that the U.S. was NOT headed for recession and that the consensus was wrong.
The accuracy of the bold 2010 "no recession" call, combined with ECRI's insistence that its economic forecasts have never been wrong, focused a lot of attention on the 2011 recession call.
And when the recession that the U.S. was supposedly "tipping into" did not materialize, many market observers wanted ECRI to acknowledge its mistake and eat some crow.
But ECRI did not do that.
The firm simply adjusted the time horizon for its recession call, saying that it would occur in the middle of 2012.
By the end of that year, when a recession still had not occurred--at least not a recession that was visible in the statistics that most people generally use to define recessions (most notably, a sustained downturn in GDP), the calls increased for ECRI to admit its mistake.
But ECRI has not admitted a mistake!
Instead, ECRI is simply insisting that the U.S. economy is mired in the middle of a mild recession that began in the middle of 2012... but we just don't know it yet.
In support of this position, ECRI Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer Lakshman Achuthan points out correctly that the timing of recessions is often determined only with the benefit of hindsight--often through revisions of prior numbers that initially did not show a recession. Achuthan thinks that, when the final revisions are in, they will show a recession that began in mid-2012.
Achuthan also points to several other measures that he says are consistent with recessions. This data, in his opinion, illustrates that the economy is in fact in a recession. (See charts here).
Ultimately, the distinction between a "recession" and a "crappy economy" is only important in economic forecasting circles, and our economy is certainly crappy. So the key question that most Americans want answered is "When is it going to get better?"
Unfortunately, ECRI's Achuthan does not have an answer for that. All he can say is that he doesn't expect it to get better anytime soon.
The action of the stock market, for what it's worth, suggests that the worst is long over and that the economy is rapidly improving. But the fiscal squeeze of increased taxes and reduced government spending will almost certainly act as a drag on this year's growth.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – A legal fight between the legendary rock band The Velvet Underground and the Andy Warhol Foundation is over.
Court papers made public on Wednesday said that a lawsuit brought by the band had been settled. The terms weren't disclosed.
The Velvet Underground sued last year after the foundation sold rights to the iconic banana design created by Warhol for its 1967 debut album for use on iPhone and iPad products.
The suit argued that the banana design had become a symbol of the band, and that the foundation had no right to license it.
Velvet Underground founders John Cale and Lou Reed were named as plaintiffs in the case.


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10 January 2018
Across the world, journalism is under fire. While more individuals have access to content than ever before, the combiantion of political polarization and technological change have facilitated the rapid spread of hate speech, mysogyny and unverified 'fake news', often leading to disproportionate restrictions on freedom of expression. In an ever-growing number of countries, journalists face physical and verbal attacks that threaten their ability to report news and information to the public.In the face of such challenges, this new volume in the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development series offers a critical analysis of new trends in media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists. With a special focus on gender equality in the media, the report provides a global perspective that serves as an essential resource for UNESCO Member States, international organizations, civil society groups, academia and individuals seeking to understand the changing global media landscape.
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Asian at Uber
Ubers asiatiska community
Our Mission
Our mission is to celebrate and promote the wealth of Asian ideas and culture throughout Uber.
What we stand for
Make business impact
Embed ourselves into the business to help drive business outcomes
Help facilitate employee growth
Drive professional development for the Asian community at Uber
Build in our communities
Expand our external engagement with the community
Build social connections
Come together as a group for celebrations and events
Featured members
Celine Hu
Senior People Operations Analyst
Having grown up in China, Canada, and the United States between the East and West coasts, I know intimately how my identity as an Asian can take on new meanings in each new environment. Shortly after joining the company, I was ecstatic to see that there was a thriving ERG for Asian employees and allies, and that Uber cared about celebrating the Asian community. As a global Co-Lead, I continue fostering the sense of inclusion that I first felt when I Uber.
Anurag Agarwalla
Engineering Manager, Innovation
One day in 2017, I half-jokingly told the ERG Co-Chair at the time that we should take over lunch one day and have my mom come in and make lunch for all of Uber. (Which we obviously did, of course!) As an Indian, food is symbolically very important in our culture because we believe it is at the root of all human thought. My goal now as ERG Co-Lead is to help pass on the baton and inspire others at Uber to celebrate being their complete and authentic selves.
Manik Gupta
Executive sponsor, VP VP and Chief Product Officer
"I'm very proud of Asian at Uber. I was born and raised in India and lived in Singapore, so I know first-hand how diversity can drive innovation and how critical it is for organizations to include perspectives from all cultures. Given our massive opportunity in Asia, this group also has the potential to play a critical role in informing how we do business in the region."
Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year is an important holiday celebrated throughout Asia and marks the beginning of the new lunar calendar year. Each year, Asian at Uber makes sure to ring in the new year in style, whether it's hosting a dim sum lunch for our driver-partners or celebrating internally. For 2019, we invited the LionDanceME troupe to Uber headquarters, where they delivered a colorful and interactive performance with the audience. Employees also celebrated with cultural activities and cuisine—a fitting start to the Year of the Pig!
Whober feature
Often as Asian Americans, we adopt "American" names to assimilate better into the culture. We believe we can improve employee sentiment, culture, and collaboration if people simply had a way to educate others on how to pronounce their genuine names. In partnership with an internal engineering team, we developed a feature in our internal employee directory tool that allows folks to write and record how someone should say their name. We think it creates better connections and hope one day to extend the feature into our app.
Spicy Food Eating Challenge
Food is a major part of any culture, and in 2018 we hosted Uber's very first Spicy Food Challenge with our friends from Los Ubers. We featured restaurant partners from our Eats platform and hosted 14 teams in a competition to see who could handle the heat. Employees tackled hot chicken wings, burritos topped with fiery salsas, chile pakoras, duk bok ki, and even raw Habanero peppers. Many people came to support and cheer on the brave souls who took on the Scoville challenge.


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profit margin(redirected from Net Operating Margins)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus.
Related to Net Operating Margins: Operating profit margin
Profit margin
Indicator of profitability. The ratio of earnings available to stockholders to net sales. Determined by dividing net income by revenue for the same 12-month period. Result is shown as a percentage. Also known as net profit margin.
Profit Margin
A measure of how well a company controls its costs. It is calculated by dividing a company's profit by its revenues and expressing the result as a percentage. The higher the profit margin is, the better the company is thought to control costs. Investors use the profit margin to compare companies in the same industry and well as between industries to determine which are the most profitable.
profit margin
1. The relationship of gross profits to net sales in a business. Net sales are determined by subtracting returns and allowances from gross sales, whereupon the cost of goods sold is then subtracted from net sales to obtain gross profit. Gross profit is divided by net sales to obtain the profit margin—an excellent indicator of a firm's operating efficiency, its pricing policies, and its ability to remain competitive. See also gross profit margin.
2. Net profit margin of a business, which is calculated by deducting operating expenses and cost of goods sold and dividing the result by net sales. This term is less often used to indicate net profit margin.
Profit margin.
A company's profit margin is derived by dividing its net earnings, after taxes, by its gross earnings minus certain expenses. Profit margin is a way of measuring how well a company is doing, regardless of size.
For example, a $50 million company with net earnings of $10 million and a $5 billion company with net earnings of $1 billion both have profit margins of 20%.
Profit margins can vary greatly from one industry to another, so it can be difficult to make valid comparisons among companies unless they are in the same sector of the economy.
profit marginthe difference between the SELLING PRICE of a product and its PRODUCTION COST and SELLING COST. The size of the profit margin will depend upon the percentage profit mark-up which a firm adds to costs in determining its selling price. The size of the profit margin is measured by the PROFIT-MARGINS RATIO.
profit marginthe difference between the SELLING PRICE of a product and its PRODUCTION COST and SELLING COST. The size of the profit margin will depend upon the percentage profit mark-up that a firm adds to costs in determining its selling price, which in turn may be varied in response to changes in demand conditions and competition. See FULL-COST PRICING.
profit margin
The difference between the cost of a unit (house,subdivision parcel,condominium) including a pro rata share of all overhead and other such expenses, as compared to the sales price for that unit.


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- Hsing Tian Kong Temple: calm your senses at this beautiful temple.
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The Chinese, Japanese, South Asian and American cultural influences, plus its tumultuous past make Taiwan's capital one of the most interesting destinations in the Asian continent. Discover everything it has to offer in our travel guide.
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เนื้อเพลง S.I.M.O.N. Says - Tech N9ne
เนื้อเพลง S.I.M.O.N. Says
[Verse 1:]
Simon says I can make a grip if I unload this clip
And empty off in another, if I want to get payed
Aint no games to be played
Scarface I watch on a daily basis
Smokin laces
Goin different places
Stickin millie in they faces
No cases
Lucky me
Cuzz Simon said im gonna live through the shoot of sellin
Big budda
Blunts big enough for a pharmacital distrubtor
Pimp you tha
Go down on how many words demanded me
And Bakari, Evil Ward, PKW
I ran this
My sh*t was landed
Playa vision was my decison
F*ckin school cuzz my teachers a fool for followin rules
When I make that run, when I make that sound when I pop that gun
Leaving demons numb
Releasing feecies, piss and cum
Now my futures looking manic, satanic, forces ran it
Dammnit, im ?, straight up panic
And it dont matter none to me cuzz Simon got my head
Im mentaly dead
And i'll pump you full of lead
Just because Simon said
Simon says
Sex, Indiga, Money, Obsession, Neglect
Oh yea
Simon says
[Verse 2:]
B*tches, Biancas, and Biatchresses is all the same
Simon says he already equipped me with hella game
What did he want from me?
Small deeds
And get nothing, but i'll run up in it, all creeds, planting the seeds
He said I can stick it with no protection
I know flection, with a hoe with no J on my erection
Its not a god call, hittin this fraud wall, im just an oddball
Running back and forth through Todd Hall
All, these b*tches, swingin on my inches
Thinkin that they gettin white picket fences, on my expenses
Simon said no worries
Akuna Matata, but my d*ck is heated like an anchalota
Its gettin hotta
Nobody move, nobody get burned
Bullsh*t if I more flex, I guess im on it when I get dressed in the latex
I bone it
But I dont cum
N*ggas like me end up dead f*cked up naked head
Just becasue Simon said
[Chorus: x2]
[Verse 3:]
Sex, Indiga, Money, Obsession, Neglect
Thats waht S.I.M.O.N meens
But I heard this voice say "Hey Tech what about your dreams?"
F*ck that dreamin and do this dirt, said thats how im gonan win
You gotta act liek you want to be livin fat like a samoin
Could it be endless listening to Simon
This time I chose to kick rhymes
Get mines, the big times waitin for me
Was tryin to get signed
Heard my moms got a record deal with Jimmy Jam and Terry Louis
Prospective, now im the straight bomb
BOOM, in the face, im on the paper chase
Simon said he couldnt beleive I resorted to rhymin
Throw your sh*t togather
No time for relaxin
Time to go back to popin your 9 milli jackin
So what, im stuck, but, im hearing voices saying f*ck that n*gga named Simon
Get with a n*gga named Diamond
And now, a n*gga from the MidWest
Is bout to have these biancas hearing me wide spread
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Rendezvous With Rama author Arthur C. Clarke predicts telemedicine, telecommuting and mobile phones, in a 1964 BBC interview. Too bad we don't have space colonies or mentally enhanced chimpanzee servants yet.
I love where he says, "If what I say seems to you completely reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I am about to tell you appears absolutely unbelievable, have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen."
The Clarke interview (which starts at 3:50 in the video above) comes via Singularity Hub, which notes:
Considered one of the 'big three' science fiction writers of the 20th century, Clarke also helped originate the idea of using geostationary orbits for communication satellites. As such, it may not be surprising that while many of his predictions seem outlandish his thoughts on telecommunication were remarkably prescient. By the year 2000 a good deal of the world could talk to their friends (via mobile phones) without knowing their exact locations. We've also seen how business travel may be slowly being replaced with telepresence, and telemedicine is a rapidly developing technology. All of these predictions can be heard in the first half of the Horizon program
Here's the second part of the 1964 interview:


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Acer palmatum Bloodgood – Japanese Maple tree 12lt
Acer palmatum Bloodgood. A beautiful Acer with very deep reddish-purple leaves, with 5 to 7 slender pointed lobes. Small purple flowers are followed by red fruits. One of the best purple leaved Japanese Maples
If the availability below is not listed as 'In Stock' please contact us for more information regarding the item.
We are always updating the stock for sale at our tree nursery but some varieties may only be available through the winter season.
Local delivery / collection - items too heavy or large to ship by carrier.
Pre - Order - not in stock but usually only a short order time.
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- Pot Size : 12 Litre
- £65.00
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Acer palmatum Bloodgood– Japanese Maple tree
Plant Information
- Size: 12 litre pot.
- Botanical name/s: Acer palmatum Bloodgood
- Common name/s: Japanese Maple tree, Bloodgood
- Flower / Foliage: Deep red/purple in spring, turning red in autumn. Small purple flowers are followed by red fruits
- Plant type: Deciduous
- Flowering period: Spring
- Mature height: 4 metres
- Mature spread: Up to 4 metres
- Growth Rate: Slow
- Recommended usage: Acer palmatum Bloodgood is ideal for planters, city garden, architectural features, rock gardens and for foliage only.
- Nursery grown: Yes
After Care / Plant Maintenance
- Once planted Acer palmatum will need watering throughout the first growing season, but make sure not to over / under water.
- Check tree tie / stake isn't rubbing and / or too tight or too loose on the trunk.
- Check for and remove any dead, decaying, diseased or crossing branch.
- Remove any weeds from around the base of the Japanese Maple tree (including grass).
- Position/Aspect: Likes full sun to partial shade. Dry conditions or excessive exposure can cause leaf scorch.
- Soil: Any most well-drained soil.
- Hardiness: Hardy in most places throughout the UK. Provide shelter from cold winds.
- Plant maintenance: Low maintenance
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Your order may be placed via our Online Shop, which is fast simple and secure.
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We will take your credit or debit card payment over the phone. Simply call us on 01376 340469 and one of our experienced team are always available to discuss your order 7 days a week.
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Overnight to your door
We can delivery to you anywhere in England and Wales via an overnight courier service (two days for Scotland & Ireland).
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Every tree and plant is packed to ensure your order arrives safely.
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We will deliver to you in our local area and we will be pleased to arrange this with you whilst you are visiting our Nursery or via the phone. We also provide a planting service.
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Johnny Cash didn't live lightly.
From picking cotton to help his impoverished, Depression-wracked family; to his exhausting tour schedule; to struggling with a serious drug addiction; to his songs about guns, murder, revenge, punishment and repentance—Johnny Cash was a troubled man who sought redemption through his music.
To commemorate what would be the county-music master's 80th birthday on Feb. 26, several celebrations, projects and events are scheduled throughout the year. Cash's boyhood home in Dyess, Ark. is being restored. Columbia/Legacy will release a series of archived recordings, starting with a collection of his gospel and spiritual songs from 1970s and '80s called Bootleg IV: The Soul of Truth, which will be available in April. A Johnny Cash Museum is scheduled to open this summer in Nashville.
And here on LightBox we have rare and unpublished photos of the Man in Black from the Sony Music Archive. Many of these images were taken by Don Hunstein, a prolific music photographer at Columbia records for 30 years, and date from the late '50s to the early '70s; they include pictures of Cash and his wife June right after she gave birth to their only son, John Carter Cash, in 1970, as well as the musician at home in California or fishing on his farm in San Antonio.
Johnny Cash was born to farmers in Kingsland, Ark. on Feb. 26, 1932. As the fourth of five children, he recalled in a 1969 TIME article that although his family was dirt poor, "I was never hungry a day in my life….at breakfast it was just fatback and biscuits—but that was plenty." After high school, Cash worked at an auto plant in Pontiac, Mich. (where, as far as we know, he did not actually construct a car from stolen parts, as he later pretended to in his 1976 song "One Piece at a Time"). He joined the Air Force for a few years, and then in 1954 he married Vivian Liberto and the couple moved to Memphis.
Cash had always been musical—as a child he sang at the Dyess Central Baptist Church and he reportedly learned to play the guitar while in the Air Force —so when he moved to Memphis, he hooked up with two musicians, Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant, and auditioned for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. He recorded "Hey, Porter" and "Cry Cry Cry" for Phillips, the latter of which became his first hit, peaking at No. 14 on the Billboard's Top 20 in 1955. He followed it up with "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line," which shot up to No. 1 and stayed there for 43 weeks. It would sell over two million copies. (Cash's stint at Sun Records was relatively shortlived; he switched to Columbia in 1958 because the Phillips wouldn't let him record gospel music).
Cash then embarked the grueling journey that all newly-successful musicians must endure: days and weeks and months of endless touring. By 1957, he was giving more than 200 shows a year (by some accounts, he may have played closer to 300). His marriage was faltering. He drank too much. He became addicted to amphetamines. He accidentally started a forest fire in California. He was arrested for smuggling pills into the U.S. from Mexico. In 1966, his wife filed for divorce. And yet still he released hit song after hit song: "Ring of Fire," "Don't Take Your Guns to Town," "I Got Stripes." Johnny Cash was a troubled man, but not so troubled that he couldn't turn his haunted words into song.
Cash toured with the Carter Family in the 1960s—and of course he would ultimately marry June Carter in 1968, after she helped him overcome his addiction and find his faith. The couple's live recordings at Folsom Prison and San Quentin, in 1968 and 1969 respectively, are still two of the best concert albums ever released. They were married for 35 years, until her death in May 2003 from complications from heart surgery. Cash made it only four more months before joining her in September of the same year.
But this glossed over retelling of dates and events isn't what's important about Johnny Cash. The reason we remember him so fondly—and why we're celebrating his birthday nine years after he passed—is the gift he had for music and the way he made us feel. Cash's world-weary bass-baritone voice expressed a forlorn pain that, until we heard his songs, we didn't even know we had. He gave a voice to the working man, the luckless, the outlaw, the convict—and to those of us who weren't any of those things but who sometimes identified with them anyway.
"Well, we're doing mighty fine, I do suppose / In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes," Cash once sang, "But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back / Up front there ought 'a be a man in black."
Thank you for being that man, Johnny Cash. Happy birthday.
Claire Suddath is a staff writer at TIME Magazine. You can follow her on Twitter at @clairesuddath or on Facebook.
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MELBOURNE recruit Shannon Byrnes can't wait to visit Kakadu with his new teammates, even though he knows it won't be a walk in the park.
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Self-deprecation is a basic character flaw or personality defect, one of seven possible "chief features" adopted in adolescence to protect the self at the level of false personality.
Self-deprecation means belittling yourself, or running yourself down, in the eyes of others. It is a drive to make yourself small or even invisible.
Self-deprecation is defined as:
The disparagement of one's own abilities; [1]
communication that expresses something negative about its originator; making negative statements regarding one's own appearance or abilities, such as saying "I'm so fat" or "I'm such an idiot"; [2]
expressing disapproval or being critical of oneself. [3]
As with the opposite chief feature of arrogance, self-deprecation is a way of manipulating others' perceptions of yourself in order to avoid taking a "hit" to your self-esteem.
In this case, however, the basic strategy is to "get in first"—to launch a preemptive attack on your own failings before anyone else can do so. While the arrogant person tries to deny their imperfections by feigning perfection, the self-deprecating person believes their own imperfection is absolute: I am simply not as good as other people.
Like all chief features, self-deprecation involves the following components:
- Early negative experiences
- Misconceptions about the nature of self, life or others
- A constant fear and sense of insecurity
- A maladaptive strategy to protect the self
- A persona to hide all of the above in adulthood
Early Negative Experiences
In the case of self-deprecation, the early negative experiences typically revolve around failing to live up to parents' high expectations.
Perhaps the parents are perfectionists and expect the child to measure up to an impossible standard. Perhaps the parents are over-achievers and cannot accept having a child who isn't similarly talented or driven. Either way, the child can never be up to scratch.
From such experiences of being constantly below standard, the child comes to perceive himself as something fundamentally flawed, basically inadequate.
Again and again, the child in this position learns that "who I am is not good enough." The love, care and attention that he craves is unavailable, and the reason for this is—apparently—his own deficiency as a person. His constant sense of failure, and of being a constant disappointment to others, give rise to a fundamental sense of shame.
Who I am is not good enough. Nothing I can do will ever be good enough.
I should feel ashamed of myself just for being me.
Even before I try, I know I'm going to fail—so there's no point in even trying.
At least I will always be right about one thing: my inadequacy.
I have nothing of value to offer anyone.
Based on the above misconceptions and early negative experiences, the child becomes gripped by a specific kind of fear. In this case, the fear is of inadequacy—never being good enough to please or satisfy others, never being good enough to deserve success or love or happiness.
The child feels like a gatecrasher in life, an uninvited guest, an interloper, and constantly fears being caught and exposed.
His attempts at living a normal life cause great internal conflict because he feels a normal life is not something he deserves, being below standard as a human being.
The growing individual becomes hyper-sensitive to the possibility of being exposed as inadequate, and sees the threat of this exposure everywhere.
His basic strategy for coping with this threat is to manipulate others' perceptions in advance. Typically this involves:
- avoiding others' attention if possible: he will try to divert attention away from himself, keep the focus on other people or things;
- managing others' expectations: to lower others' expectations, he will tend to apologise in advance for every forthcoming "failure" and deliberately act as inadequately as possible so that no-one expects anything else.
Remember, the individual with self-deprecation truly believes in their own inadequcy. They see little point in denying it. Their ploy, then, is one of damage limitation:
I cannot succeed in life, I cannot feel good about myself, I cannot get on with others. The best I can hope for is to limit the damage by hiding myself from view.
If I am belittled, I probably deserve it. But at least if I belittle myself first, I leave others with nothing to belittle me about.
As they enter adulthood, they come to rely on this strategy more and more.
Emerging into adulthood, the individual probably does not want go around being overtly afraid and insecure about their fundamental inadequacy. Hence the defensive strategy of self-deprecation puts on amask of invisibility. He will tend to make himself small, silent and invisible; he will tend to talk very quietly, cover his face, look downward. This mask or persona continually says to the world, "I am not here. Look the other way. Pay me no attention. And if you do happen to notice me, don't expect anything special."
Outwardly, he also pretends to be the most inadequate person in the world—so that anything he then manages to do just adequately or even better comes as a nice surprise to everyone and might even elicit praise.
He might even become so adept at deliberate self-deprecation that it develops into a personal style of humour, much enjoyed by other people. His obvious lack of arrogance will also be attractive to some. If he completely identifies with the sense of inadequacy, however, this could have a debilitating effect. Whenever he receives praise or appreciation, he will simply not believe it.
All people are capable of this kind of behaviour. When it dominates the personality, however, one is said to have a chief feature of self-deprecation.
Positive and Negative Poles
In the case of self-deprecation, the positive pole is termed HUMILITYand the negative pole is termed SELF-ABASEMENT.
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Humility, or modesty, is a state of having little ego or pride, and therefore not trying to elevate yourself in the eyes of others. Ideally, this is a state in which you can appropriately recognise and accept your "ordinariness". You feel free from ego concerns. We could all do with some humility.
Self-abasement, on the other hand, is a state of excessive, unwarranted humility. In other words, a state of self-inflicted humiliation and degredation. It is a state in which you are trapped in a vicious circle of self-criticism. Even if you come to understand that you have adopted self-deprecation as a false defensive measure, this is just further "proof" of your ultimate inadequacy.
Handling Self-Deprecation
People with self-deprecation may feel constantly ashamed of themselves for no good reason and are often apologising for themselves. Depression is a possible outcome.
As with every chief feature, the key is becoming conscious of how self-deprecation operates in yourself. If you have self-deprecation, you can begin by observing your outward social behaviour and persona in action:
- Do I criticise or belittle myself to others?
- Do I try to manipulate how others judge me by lowering their expectations? (e.g., "Knowing me, I'll probably get it all wrong.")
- Do I sometimes exaggerate how incompetent I am in the hope that others will be pleasantly surprised by my results?
Try to catch yourself in the act of putting on your "I'm useless" mask.
Then dig deeper:
- Why do I try to manipulate others' perceptions and expectations?
- Why do their judgements matter to me? What am I afraid of?
- What do I fear would happen if others saw the reality of me?
Approaching the deepest level you may need outside help in the form of a counsellor, therapist or at least a close friend:
- Where does this fear of being inadequate come from?
- How was I hurt?
- Can I let it go?
Insight in itself will not remove the self-deprecation. By the time you reached adulthood, the neural pathways underlying this defensive pattern were pretty well established in the brain. Nevertheless, the brain is plastic, malleable, reconfigurable. Just as you can become more aware of self-deprecation through self-observation and self-enquiry, so too you can gain more control over it through using that awareness and by exercising choice in the moment.
- Whenever I am tempted to run myself down before I've even done anything, I will now be more willing to let my results speak for themselves.
- Realistically, I now know that even if I am judged as less than adequate, that will not kill me. It need not even hurt me. I shall pay far less attention to others' expectations and judgements.
Another way to handle a chief feature is to "slide" to the positive pole of its opposite. In the case of self-deprecation, if you are getting caught in the negative pole of self-abasement (self-inflicted humiliation and degradation), you can re-balance yourself using the positive pole of arrogance, namely pride. In other words, pay attention to things that make you feel truly proud of yourself. Better still, do things that make you feel truly proud.
[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/self-deprecation
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deprecation


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Although graduate medical education (GME) funded by Medicare typically is paid to hospitals, which then provide funds to residency programs for an array of specialties, that model has not always benefited family medicine.
Ted Epperly, M.D., speaks to a resident at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, Boise. Epperly was one of five residency directors who recently talked to AAFP News Now about teaching health centers and the future of family medicine training.
In response to a push from primary care organizations, including the AAFP, HHS, as directed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, recently implemented a new type of GME funding: the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program, a five-year, $230 million plan that provides funds directly to community-based teaching sites with a goal of producing more primary care physicians and dentists.
In July, HHS awarded $12 million to 32 THCs(www.hhs.gov) for the 2013-14 academic year. The funding will support more than 300 residents in a program that has expanded to 21 states.
AAFP News Now recently sat down with several directors of family medicine programs that have benefited from the THCGME funding. Participants in the roundtable were
- Richard English, M.D., program director of the Family Medicine Regional Network of the Wright Center for Primary Care, Kingston, Pa.;
- Ted Epperly, M.D., program director and CEO of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in Boise and a past-President of the AAFP;
- Joseph Gravel, M.D., chief medical officer and residency program director at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center in Lawrence, Mass.;
- Geoffrey Jones, M.D., program director at the Hendersonville Family Medicine Residency in Hendersonville, N.C.; and
- Francesco Leanza, M.D., residency director of the Harlem Residency in Family Medicine at the Institute for Family Health in New York.
Q: Some of our readers might not know exactly what a teaching health center is. How would you define it, and how is it different from a traditional residency program?
Joseph Gravel, M.D.
A: Joseph Gravel -- The major difference is the sponsoring institution is not necessarily a community hospital or tertiary medical center, but rather a community health center. The teaching health center program also has consortiums in the legislation, so it can be a combination of a community health center and another entity, which can be a hospital. But it's not the traditional model whereby the residency is a wholly owned subsidiary of the hospital.
The primary reason for the program is the need to get primary care physicians into traditionally underserved areas, whether urban or rural. There's a lot of literature that show the chances of a family physician ending up in an underserved community increases by three to four times if they train in a community health center versus a traditional hospital-based program.
Q: Because of accreditation requirements, family medicine residents are going to learn a lot of the same things, regardless of where they learn. But is the scope of practice going to be any different for a resident trained in a THC compared to a resident in a program in which a hospital receives federal payments for GME?
Geoffrey Jones, M.D.
A: Geoffrey Jones -- I think it depends on what the community health center is doing. Our community health center docs were not doing any inpatient or OB deliveries until we merged with them. Now they've hired faculty to do all those things, partly because they are going to have residents who depend on them. You could argue that having a residency is going to increase the scope of practice of the community health center as opposed to the other way around. Of course, we have a lot to gain from them in terms of caring for the underserved and maximizing resources.
Joseph Gravel -- We strive to train a comprehensive family physician because many of our graduates do end up in low-resource environments without ready access to subspecialists. Many of them end up in Indian Health Service sites and rural areas, even though we're in an urban community. We're always thinking in terms of making them as self-sufficient as we can and not make them dependent on subspecialists.
Ted Epperly, M.D.
Ted Epperly -- We've maintained full, broad scope -- a lot of OB, inpatient, pediatrics, ICU, etc. -- because we also train for rural. I think we are different from the typical family medicine residency program because we are really heavy with mental health training, a lot of drug and substance abuse training, and a lot of chronic pain training. We have a lot of integration of primary care and behavioral health and mental health.
Q: You mentioned integration. Is there more focus on team-based care in this model than in a typical residency program?
A: Joseph Gravel -- It's hard to make that comparison. I do think the community health center model greatly facilitates interdisciplinary care because we have mental health services, and we also have a vigorous community service department and other services in our health center. Non-community health center-based programs might not have access under one roof like that. We have a major focus on community health and population management.
Ted Epperly -- We're an NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) Level 3 patient-centered medical home (PCMH). I think a lot of the THCs are on the cutting edge of pushing forward with patient-centered medical home activities. When you talk about focus on team-based care, that is the model of the patient-centered medical home. We offer interdisciplinary training with multiple types of individuals, including other types of physicians. There could be psychiatry residents, social workers, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, dental hygienist, etc., in all of our training facilities.
Richard English, M.D.
Richard English -- We're just getting our feet wet here. Just in the last six to eight months, we have moved from our for-profit sponsor, a big health care system, to back under the Wright Center. We have yet to see a lot of the benefits. But in terms of looking at what has been done so far at other parts of the Wright Center, they've invested. The internal medicine residency is a (NCQA) Level 3 PCMH. We're just Level 1. All their clinics are Level 3 homes, and the team-based care is a major part of what's going on. They've also been able to invest in care coordinators, which I think for Level 3 you really need. That was something that was not going to happen in the model we had been under.
Q: Many of the teaching health centers are in underserved areas. Are residents from these programs better positioned to practice culturally effective health care?
Francesco Leanza, M.D.
A: Francesco Leanza -- Cultural competence is an essential part of the fabric of family medicine and of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). In our population, we have a lot of patients with Medicare or Medicaid and a high percentage of people who are medically underserved, underrepresented minorities, as well as those with limited English proficiency, mental health issues and/or chemical dependency. We've been able to focus teaching on the needs of population.
Ted Epperly -- I would say, absolutely, we're all over culturally competent and effective care because of the nature of our population. Boise, Idaho, is a refugee relocation center for the U.S. State Department, so we have 43 languages spoken in our clinic. We had a project recently where each one of our second-year residents took one of the major populations and did an in-depth report for the rest of the program on culturally relevant issues to that population -- their languages and customs. It was a marvelous experience for all of us to learn more about the people we're serving.
Academy, Others Offer HRSA Insights on Teaching Health Centers
The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program was created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with the intent of increasing the nation's supply of primary care doctors who are prepared to practice in community settings, especially those with underserved populations. Now two years into the program, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is evaluating how well teaching health centers (THCs) are meeting those goals.
The AAFP, along with the organizations that make up the Council of Academic Family Medicine -- the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Association of Departments of Family Medicine, Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and North American Primary Care Research Group -- recently provided comments to two related items HRSA posted in the Federal Register.
On Aug. 8, the family medicine organizations submitted a letter voicing support for THCs in general and specifically applauding HRSA's plan to work with researchers at George Washington University to evaluate the "training, administrative and organizational structures; clinical service; challenges; innovations; costs associated with training; and outcomes of teaching health centers." The letter urged HRSA to evaluate the program, which is funded through 2015, on an annual basis.
"The evaluation of this program is critical to understanding the significance of the teaching health center model," the letter said. "This feedback will be useful for a wide range of stakeholders and funders. We believe HRSA will need several years of data to completely understand the benefits of the program."
In a letter dated Aug. 29, the same five organizations voiced support for HRSA's intention to evaluate a chart the agency uses to determine the number of residents in each THC, the programs' growth and plans for expansion. The letter, however, urged HRSA to modify the chart to accommodate five-year residency programs and to track information on residents leaving programs to determine if they actually go on to practice primary care.
Geoffrey Jones -- We partner with our FQHC, which is called Blue Ridge. It's the oldest migrant health center in the country. We have 50 percent Latino population there. Their outreach, compared to what we were able to do in the residency, is phenomenal. Now our residents are going out into the migrant camps and doing health screenings. That was one of our resident projects. The mandate that migrant health centers and other community types of health centers have to provide opens a new opportunity for us that my hospital-owned practice -- until we became a FQHC -- didn't prioritize. Now it's an inherent part of who we are. I think the residents live that and breathe that, see the community activity going on and buy into that.
Q: Since teaching health centers are funded directly -- rather than having money funneled through a hospital system -- how does this affect your relationship with the hospitals with which you still work?
A: Ted Epperly -- In my community it isn't a problem at all. They're happy for us, and the reason they are is that THCGME funding means they pay us less. We were getting Medicare pass-through money, and they were keeping an amount of that. They were happy that they didn't have to continue to escalate their payments to us. I told them we would pass the savings on to them, meaning they wouldn't have to continue to pay us.
But when this money runs dry -- if it does in 2015 -- they are going to have to make us whole again. To their credit, they agreed to do that. What this has done in my community is made us more of an independent partner and less of a dependent stepchild. In many residency programs, finances are so limited, you can't really grow into your own being. It's been a really good thing to help us get to the next level of our evolution.
Richard English -- We changed our sponsorship from a for-profit health care system, which is in the business of running hospitals and had divested itself from all the education that it had when it took over the system. I think they're happy that's been done. Being the good educator, I thought I could just go there, give them a PowerPoint, they would see my point and say, 'Hey, that's great, Rick,' and give me some money. But that didn't happen.
What's also interesting here in our community is the graduate medical education is a separate corporation. We have the new medical school -- the Commonwealth Medical School -- but rather than being under the medical school, the GME arm, which is the Wright Center, is independent and is financially independent. That raises eyebrows when we start talking to the for-profit folks because we're not walking around with our hands out. It's changing the relationship. From our side of it, I don't have to explain why something like going to Society of Teachers of Family Medicine conferences is a good idea. It's much better that way. It's changed the dynamic between hospital systems and GME. Graduate medical education grew up a little bit.
Geoffrey Jones -- It depends on whether you are starting a new program or expanding an existing one. We are an expanded program, so our teaching health center money covers additional spots, but we're still heavily related to the hospital, which owned my practice until they ceded control to the FQHC. We're still very engaged.
Q: As was mentioned, federal funding for teaching health centers is scheduled to stop in 2015. What happens then?
A: Francesco Leanza -- One has to believe that a program that has demonstrated the success that the THCGME program has shown through its very competitive recruitment of some of the best students in the country -- and the focus on producing the physicians our country needs the most -- that a program like that will be sustained through bipartisan support in Congress. Should it not be continued, our Harlem residency program will close because this is its only source of funding. And our affiliated rural training program in upstate New York would lose 12 of its 30 residents.
Although we all would like to see reform in Medicare's mainstream funding of GME to focus on primary care, that has proven to be politically impossible to date. The THCGME program solves three problems at once: training more physicians, getting more physicians into primary care, and focusing on the training of physicians for rural and urban underserved areas.
Richard English -- We would shrink back to the CMS money. Right now, I have 17 in my first-year class -- up from seven -- spread out at different centers. We're really looking this year at how many we're going to recruit. We'd love to keep it at this size, but if that funding doesn't happen, we would drop back down to seven per class.
Geoffrey Jones -- Before the expansion, I had three per year, and now I have four. We have a ramp-down clause, so we would phase that additional spot out and go back to nine total residents instead of 12, which would make life difficult.
Ted Epperly -- We're at 16 residents per class, so 48 total. We have a core program in Boise and two rural training tracks. We have two per class in the three-program system -- six residents -- funded by the THCGME program. We've tried to work out an issue with the hospital, as I mentioned. My hope is the hospital would continue the funding so we won't have to cut back. If they default on that commitment, then we would have to cut our program size. That would be sad because Idaho ranks last in the United States in the number of primary care physicians per capita, and we're trying to help the state with a workforce issue.
Q: What have you learned so far about training physicians in this kind of system, and would you do it all over again? Has it been worth it?
A: Ted Epperly -- We're not going to change anything in medical education if we don't change the model. This is exactly what we've needed. I'd do it again in a heartbeat, and I hope we can continue it.
Geoffrey Jones -- It's too soon after starting ours to know for sure how this will turn out. I think the residents are having a great experience. I think they really like the patient population and the culture of a community health center, but we're three months into our transition. It's changed so much of what we do and how we do it. Change is hard, but I'm hopeful it will work out.
Q: We've talked a lot about why this model is good for the residency. But if I'm a medical student looking at different options in the National Resident Matching Program, why would I want to come to your program instead of a traditional program? What is the difference to the resident?
A: Geoffrey Jones -- What we've found this year in interviewing, as we were starting our association with our community health center, is that community health centers are a big draw for any residency that has an affiliation, whether you are a teaching health center or not. We can offer them opportunities to care for the underserved and to really practice the kind of medicine that led them to choose family medicine in the first place.
Ted Epperly -- We have resident applicants from all over the country looking at our program for a multitude of reasons, one of which is because of the capability to treat the underserved. They want to be part of the solution to the U.S. health care miasma, and they see community health centers and teaching health centers as a model for that.
Q: Any final thoughts?
A: Joseph Gravel -- We had to move a residency eight years ago because money was being syphoned off for things like cafeterias. There is virtually no accountability for tax money that is sent to hospitals. (The THCGME program) is a clear way to make the system more accountable for what it is supposed to be producing.
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