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(From PRWEB) -- During October, Recruiters in the U.S. placed 220,000 new job ads for tech related openings, according to WANTED Analytics, the leading source of real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace. Although this occupation may be seeing a seasonal slowing in hiring demand, it remains the most demanded field in the United States, up 5.7% versus October 2010. This occupation reached a 4-year high in May 2011, when 250,000 jobs were advertised at a 40% year-over-year growth.
Some of the most commonly advertised Computer Programming job titles include Project Manager, Software Engineer, Java Developer, Business Analyst, Systems Administrator, Database Administrator, and Programmer. Of these highly demanded jobs, Programmers saw the greatest increase, with a 15% year-over-year growth. Database Administrators were the only occupation of the above mentioned that saw a decline, down 1% compared to last year.
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IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A trade report this month sponsored by MedSynergies Inc. found 70% of responding national hospitals and health systems plan to employ more physicians in the next 12 to 36 months. The HealthLeaders Media Hospital-Physician Alignment survey also saw full employment trump the long-dominant "volunteer medical staff" as the top medical staff model, evidencing momentum in the move towards hospital-physician alignment.Additionally, the report highlighted the need for physician alignment/engagement beyond employment to achieve the quality outcomes expected from employing more doctors. In fact, respondents reported a meager 11% of employed physicians are completely engaged, said JR Thomas, president and chief executive officer of MedSynergies."Some markets are in an all-out race to recruit physicians based on the thinking that primary-care doctors will be the linchpin in the healthcare system of the future," said Thomas. "But increased employment does not translate into increased engagement. Hospitals and health systems need to work with doctors side-by-side in meeting the healthcare needs of the marketplace both in the hospital and in the field – it's a symbiotic relationship."
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(Business Wire)--Beyond.com, the premier Career Network focused on helping people grow and succeed, today released its first Employment Data Report, which provides a timely assessment of recent economic and political events that have had an impact on the employment world. Released in conjunction with Beyond.com's recently released Second Quarter 2011 Career Trend Analysis Report, this first Employment Data Report examines job posting volume from January 2011 to August 2011, compared with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) unemployment rates.
The Employment Data Report explores the possibility that the U.S. could face a double dip recession and considers the role of political events and economic instability on the job market. After an encouraging start to the year, unemployment numbers have continued to rise as the economy failed to add as many jobs as expected in June and July. During that same period, the nation's economy has been threatened by a debt crisis and the subsequent Standard & Poor's (S&P) credit downgrade.
In spite of the obvious challenges, the Employment Data Report notes some industries that increased hiring activity in the second quarter, including Healthcare, Sales & Sales Management, Merchandising, Purchasing & Management and Information Technology. The report also highlights some new job titles that have emerged, particularly in the IT and Environmental fields, as a result of new technologies and demands.
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(From International Business Times) -- In new research released today, it was revealed that 44% of new recruits are falling short of employer expectations.
The opinions of more than 2,000 employers and employees were gathered by recruitment specialist Hudson for its annual 20:20 research series which aims to shed light on current recruitment trends, and shortcomings.
The data gathered during the research identified deficiencies in current recruitment practices, which appear to be out-dated and misfiring at unsuitable talent, according to survey respondents.
Despite human resource shortages, the research showed that recruiters remain focused on 'traditional' recruitment practices when making hiring decisions, resulting in substantial financial and productivity losses.
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(From Gallup.com) -- Employees who are in engaged in their work and workplace are twice as likely to report their organization is hiring new workers as those who are actively disengaged. Workers who are emotionally disconnected from their work and workplace are far more likely to report their organization is letting people go than those who are engaged. Americans report these substantial differences in their organization's hiring practices even though, collectively, Gallup finds overall U.S. job creation holding steady in recent months.
These findings are from a special Gallup Daily tracking series conducted January through June 2011 to thoroughly explore American workers' engagement levels. Gallup's employee engagement index is based on worker responses to 12 actionable workplace elements with proven linkages to performance outcomes, including productivity, customer service, quality, retention, safety, and profit. More recent research has found significant linkages between engagement at work and health and wellbeing outcomes.
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(From marketwire) -- Peoplefluent, offering a unique combination of best-of-breed suite solutions for Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, today announced it is working with LinkedIn to connect its customers with over 100 million potential applicants worldwide, further generating quality of hire and streamlining recruiting processes. Today's news, in conjunction with the "Fluency on the Move" mobile product line introduced by Peoplefluent earlier this month, underscores the Company's intuitive talent management strategy designed to drive engagement by creating innovative, immediate and interactive experiences through the communities, devices and methods naturally preferred and undertaken by the user.
"The individual is today's new system of record. In an emerging landscape, where shifting cultural and professional dynamics and rapidly evolving technology enablement have changed the relationship between employees and employers, LinkedIn has become the preeminent resource for individual Talent Profiles," said Charles S. Jones, Chairman and CEO of Peoplefluent. "Consistent with our overarching intuitive talent management strategy and recent product innovations, we are helping our customers find the talent they need by giving them the easy, engaging and immediate ability to meet potential candidates where they already are -- in their own powerful interactive communities."
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(From MarketWatch) -- The surprisingly weak labor market in the past two months is evidence that companies are quickly able to hit the hiring "pause" button if they don't like conditions on the ground, a leading expert on the job market said.
Before when companies wanted to slow hiring, there was "a glide path" that took time to implement. "Now they have a bat-phone," said ManpowerGroup Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Joerres in an interview.
Manpower separately on Thursday reported its second-quarter earnings more than doubled, helped by international growth. In the U.S., the firm's operating profit jumped 85% on 9% revenue growth.
"In the face of spikes in uncertainty and weaker demand, companies have the ability to dial down their workforces, halting hiring at a moment's notice and operating in a 'just-in-time talent' mode," Joerres said.
After averaging 215,000 per month in February to April, job growth has slowed to a crawl of only 21,000 in the past two months. The unemployment rate has risen to 9.2% from 8.8% in March.
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(From PRNewswire) -- With their renewed optimism about the economy and intention to focus on strategic growth over the next 12 months, US private-company CEOs are making talent management a top priority. The majority (51%) of Trendsetter chief executives say that they need to fill certain skill gaps to meet their business objectives over the next one to two years, while 49% believe they have the right skills in place.
Notably, more international marketers reported that they have skill gaps than their domestic-only peers (57% and 46%, respectively. Among private companies overall, the largest skill gaps identified were in middle management (53%) and skilled labor (48%). Those companies with skill gaps will focus on several areas over the next one to two years, including marketing and sales (65%), information technology (36%) and engineering/design (35%).
Tags: skills gap, talent management, hiring, employee development, PwC
(From freshbusinessthinking.com) -- Taleo Corporation, provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today released new research findings which show that organisations are prioritising employee development over hiring for the year ahead, as they look to improve staff retention and develop talent within the business.The vast majority (82%) of HR professionals surveyed said they considered employee development to be a bigger priority for their organisation in 2011, compared to just 18% who felt recruitment was going to be more important. In addition, 56% of respondents reported that employee development and training was perceived as an essential business enabler within their organisation, while 15% reported that it was still seen as a 'nice to have' rather than essential. When asked to identify what would help their organisation to develop its talent better, more than a quarter (27%) of respondents felt that better visibility of skill gaps would greatly assist them in developing employee talent, while almost as many (25%) would like better visibility of their employees' existing skills.
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The expansion Allen Americans are displaying a tremendous amount of energy and jump while carrying a territorial advantage against the Odessa Jackalopes in their best-of-seven Central Hockey League semifinal series.
This is surprising in that Odessa is the more experienced team and had outperformed second place Allen by 12 points (101-89) to win the Southern Division regular season crown. But it also makes perfect sense because No. 2 seeded Allen utilizes an energetic, wide-open skating scheme that capitalizes on its speed and youth.
The Americans have, for the most part during this series, outplayed the Jackalopes (The team mascot represents an imaginary fearsome critter known as a "warrior rabbit" that is a product of North American folklore and has been described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns or deer antlers). They have outworked, outskated and outhit their adversaries from West Texas after having lost two regulation and one overtime verdict in four meetings during the regular season.
That was readily apparent during the first five minutes of Game Three in the Allen Event Center, when forward Nino Musitelli one-timed a deft pass from linemate Bruce Graham on a scintillating two-on-one break to give Allen a quick 2-0 lead.
En route to a 5-2 victory and a two-games-to-one advantage in the semifinal showdown, the Amerks were quickly reestablishing their dominant style of play that helped them win the series opener on Friday, April 9 in Odessa, and outplay the Jacks the following evening despite dropping an overtime verdict that knotted the series at a game apiece.
"Part of our plan was to get an early jump and take the game right to them," said Graham after the Game 3 victory had thrilled more than 2,700 fans in Allen, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. "Once we were able to establish that, everything else just kind of fell into place. Everything clicked right away, and it's fun to play when things go your way like they did tonight."
Graham, who opened the scoring with his fourth playoff goal when he corralled the puck behind the Odessa net and circled in front to beat Jackalopes goalie Joel Martin 3:39 into the game, helped expand the lead less than a minute later when he drew the lone defender before feeding Musitelli for a picturesque marker. Musitelli also picked up three assists on the night to go with his team-leading sixth goal of the post season.
"Our line played very well (accounting for 11 points in the game), and we had three lines going great for us tonight," Graham told reporters as he participated in the team's mandatory post-game stationary bike conditioning exercise. "And when we have all three lines going, it's hard for (Odessa) to keep up with us."
Odessa, which led the entire 15-team CHL with 269 goals (Allen was eighth with 210 markers) during the regular season, capitalized on an odd man rush nine minutes into the game as Jeff Pierce scored his team-high sixth goal of the post-season. Pierce cut the lead to 2-1 after one-timing a pass from Collin Circelli past Americans goalie Chris Whitley (who made 35 saves in the game) to make it 2-1. The play was set up by Sebastien Thinel, who drew an Allen defender toward him before feeding Circelli.
"The game goes in spurts, and Odessa is very explosive offensively," said Americans Head Coach Dwight Mullins. "Once you give them odd man rushes, their talent level enables them to capitalize, and they'll find a way to put the puck in the net. That's exactly what happened there, and it put them right back in the game."
The Americans enjoyed a territorial advantage for most of the night despite being outshot 37-35. They controlled the second period flow but were unable to solve Martin until forward Christian Gaudet tallied his first marker of the post-season when he deposited a rebound of a Mike Salekin point drive to make it 3-1 with three minutes left in the session. Forward Justin Bowers upped the advantage to 4-1 less than two minutes later when he used a defenseman as a screen and connected on a 15-foot wrister that sailed inside the near post from the right wing.
"We're skating very well, and we seem to be controlling the tempo of play," said Bowers after netting his fifth goal of the playoffs and adding three assists. "Laredo (Allen's first round opponent) did a better job of containing us, and our youth helps us tremendously (against Odessa). We are younger than they are, so we try to get a good jump on them every chance we can.
"We also have been very successful on our home ice all year (23-5-4, fourth best in the league during the regular season) because we feed off the energy in this building," added Bowers. "Once the fans get going, you can feel the energy surging throughout the building."
The Jackalopes, who are coached by former NHL forward Paul Gillis, made another run at the Americans midway through the third period.
After the Jacks controlled the puck during a two-minute power play, Pierce snuck a rebound underneath Whitley's pad for an even strength goal that cut the lead to 4-2. But Americans defenseman Jordie Benn, the older brother of Dallas Star rookie forward Jamie Benn, scored his second of the playoffs on a slap shot through traffic that eluded Odessa's Juha Toivonen less than a minute later to restore the three-goal lead at 5-2 and squash any hopes for a Jackalopes' rally.
"It's really in our favor to think positively no matter what happens, so when they scored their second goal and were on the verge of building some momentum, we didn't flinch and we didn't let our guard down," said Graham, who finished with a goal and two assists. "So even when they score a tough goal like that, we maintain our composure and our positive mindset. But that whole experience reminded us that we have to stay out of the box, because they use those power plays to regain the tempo of the game. We have to watch ourselves in Game 4."
In the series opener on Friday night, Musitelli and Captain Jarret Lukin scored second period goals and Salekin added a shorthanded tally in the third period as the Americans rallied from a 2-1 deficit to a 4-2 lead. Lukin finished with two goals, while Thinel and Mike Ramsay lit the lamp for Odessa in the 4-3 verdict. Allen netminder Chris Whitley made 35 saves while martin stopped 26 stops.
In Game Two in Odessa on Saturday night, Bowers and forward Liam Huculak scored 1st and third period goals, respectively to tie the score before Pierce's overtime game-winning goal gave the Jacks a 3-2 win. Jean Bourbeau and Kenny Bernard also scored for Odessa as Whitley made 42 saves, while Martin turned aside 29.
Games Four and Five are scheduled for the Allen Event Center on Friday and Saturday night, respectively. Games 6-7 will be played in Odessa on April 19 and 21, respectively.
In the CHL's other semifinal series, Northern Division regular season champion Rapid City (South Dakota) has a two-games-to-one lead over Bossier-Shreveport (Louisiana).

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Atkinson County- Daniel Lavender retraces the steps he made last Tuesday morning. He remembers being excited to see a snake cross his truck's path as he drove through an Atkinson County field.
"I thought it was a scarlet king snake and decided that I wanted to catch it and I was going to carry it home to get rid of some rattlesnakes," he admits.
Lavender jumped out of truck, stepped on it's tail and bent down to catch it. "Apparently the snake felt a little differently about the whole ordeal and took a bite at me, and I pulled back and that's when the tooth actually went into my finger."
Fortunately co-workers convinced him to go to the hospital and get checked out, because what he thought was a harmless Scarlet King, was really a deadly Coral Snake. Both look similar, but as Lavender now knows there's an easy rhyme to help tell the two apart.
"Red and black a friend of Jack's. Red and yellow a deadly fellow."
Antivenin flown in from Atlanta and Tallahassee was injected into his body before Lavender even experienced any symptoms. And after two days in intensive care he says he's learned his lesson.
"What I did was very stupid and I would not recommend it for anybody to even try to touch a snake."
Lavender says he won't. And he's proven it. When a snake slithered our way during the interview. Lavender made sure to stay out of its path.
"I don't know what kind he is, but I have a book at the office and I'll be glad to identify him for you. I'm not touching him. No. I don't care if he isn't venomous," Lavender laughs.
Aside from frightening memories, he has few side effects from the medicine.
"My joints hurt a little bit and I have a few muscle spasms, but other than that I'm doing pretty good. I was just a stupid mistake on my part."
And one he says he'll never forget and never repeat.
A forestry ranger caught and killed the coral snake that bit Lavender. He now has it at home and plans to send it to the Poison Control Center so they can use it to warn others to stay away from them.
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Despite being a Dreamcast collector about five or six years back, I never got the chance to play the original Sonic Adventure so when this port was released I now had a legitimate work-related reason to play it. It was one of the Dreamcast's launch titles about eleven years ago, offering 3D platforming with a variety of characters; it's a formula many 3D Sonic games have since followed. So how does it hold up today? The good news is that the game's content is quite fun and worth getting into... but the bad news is that this game has several technical problems that drag it down from being a timeless classic and instead make it just decent.
$10 USD/800 Microsoft Points nets you the main Sonic Adventure game (which this review is covering), and another $5/400 MSP gets the 'DX' or Director's Cut content (which this review won't be discussing). The game itself has six characters, each with their own gimmick as they explore a 3D world: Sonic runs quickly and has homing jump attacks, while Tails can fly short distances. Knuckles can glide through the air and crawl along walls while searching for hidden emeralds, Amy is trying to elude a pursuit robot while swinging her big hammer around, E-101 is a robot with a hover-capable jet pack and homing missiles, and Big the Cat... fishes. If you're thinking only five of those six sound much fun, you are absolutely right, but everyone except Big has a genuinely fun set of stages to play through.
The variety of stages in Sonic Adventure is probably its strongest point. While each character obviously plays very differently, some of them get special levels where you can do things like play a pinball minigame, snowboard, fly a plane through heavy anti-aircraft fire, and more. These are joined by conventional platforming stages where you run, jump, and collect stuff until you reach the end of the stage, but the special levels are sprinkled out well enough that they're a refreshing and short break from the regular game. The only real problem with this premise is that you have to explore a 3D 'overworld' to get to each stage, and while most of your destinations are easy to find there are a few that will have you saying "What? How was I supposed to find that without a walkthrough?" Fortunately as an eleven year old game, said walkthroughs are easily found to help you past the few rough spots.
While the main content of Sonic Adventure, its 3D platforming and wide cast of characters, are a lot of fun... they are bogged down in some serious problems. The most obvious of these is the camera, which loves to get stuck in objects, stage geometry, and so on; you can wind up having to 'play blind' for a few seconds. It happens a lot, but mercifully it's usually in areas where you're in no serious danger and across several evenings of play-time I can only recall one camera-related death. The game's physics are also pretty loose, and this is more of a problem; it's entirely possible to walk up to an object that's meant to launch you across the level and you instead fall through it, going out the bottom of the stage and dying. This would sink Sonic Adventure, but you get plenty of extra lives, such incidents are fairly rare (only twice in my play-through), and easily worked around once you know them; a tiny hop onto the spring may suffice if walking into it doesn't.
That probably sounds like a lot of very serious complaints, and they are. If they were to happen more often and in more important places during play, they would definitely kill the game. As it is, they drag down what would have been a genuine classic into being merely decent yet mostly enjoyable instead. If you take anything away from this review, let it be that Sonic Adventure has significant technical problems and they are very annoying, but they usually don't stop you from completing the game with reasonable effort. In other words, it's a fun game that asks the player to tolerate some real flaws. I was willing to do so, but in all honesty you shouldn't have to and the fact these problems exist a decade later shows this is a pretty straight-forward port.
Sonic Adventure's presentation also deserves a mention. Visually, its in-stage graphics and CGI cutscenes looked amazing back in 1999 but they look pretty awful now. It's easy to spot obvious blocky polygons in many characters and objects and the CGI is nothing amazing by today's standards. The voice acting and sound effects match this; the best of them are tolerable, but the overwhelming majority of them delve into either 'so bad it is hilarious' or 'so bad it hurts'. In contrast, the music is top-notch and covers a huge range of tones, though most of it focuses on 'energetic adventure' similar to the Mario series.
Is it worth your time and money? The heart of Sonic Adventure, its varied cast and competent 3D platforming, is great. I got several hours of enjoyment out of it, but it was definitely punctuated by a lot of sighs as I struggled with the occasional physics bug, regularly had to wrestle with the camera, and even look up a walkthrough for a few spots where I genuinely had no idea what the game wanted me to do. If it cost much more than $10, I would definitely come down hard on it... but as it is, that $10/800 MSP buys you a good few evenings of fun and offers an interesting look back at the Dreamcast era. If you're willing to live with the problems then you'll have fun, but some people are rightly going to wonder why Sega did such a lazy port on this and why the 'DX' content is launch-day DLC. One can only hope Sega will show any future Dreamcast ports to current systems more love and care, but this isn't bad.
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The L'Enfant plan included the unique feature of making the main central axis of the city, westward from the Capitol to the Potomac River, a great Mall parkway about 1,500 feet wide containing 256 acres. The White House is located at the north end of a similar park forming a cross axis which continues south to the Tidal Basin and the river, intersecting the Mall at the Washington Monument Grounds. The Mall was extended west of the latter late in the last century and reclaimed from the river's tidal flats to become West Potomac Park and the site of the Lincoln Memorial.
Today the Mall is one of the world's famous parkways and its development, in accordance with the plans of L'Enfant and of the McMillan Commission of 1901, has only just been begun. In an impressive plaza in the Mall, at the foot of the Capitol, Union Square is now being developed. Continuing to the west, between Seventh and Twelfth Streets, are the United States Army Medical Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Freer Art Galleries and the National Museum buildings. Along Constitution Avenue, bordering the Mall on the north, the new buildings of the "Government Triangle", housing the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and Labor, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and other Federal establishments, face the formal Parkway. The United States Department of Agriculture group is located on the south side of the Mall between Twelfth and Fourteenth Streets. West of Fourteenth Street is the Washington Monument.
The Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is to a high degree the symbol of the Capital City which George Washington founded and planned. The design originally selected included a Greek circular colonnade around the base of the obelisk, surmounted by a chariot with a colossal figure of Washington. Fortunately these extra adornments were omitted, and the proportions and form of the obelisk itself were changed to accord more nearly with the practice of the ancients.
Begun in 1848 by a committee which had been formed in 1833 under the chairmanship of Chief Justice John Marshall to collect voluntary subscriptions for the work, the monument was located on a natural mound close to the location planned by L'Enfant, at the intersection of the Mall axis with the park area running south from the White House. The work was stopped in 1854, because of lack of funds, when the shaft had reached a height of 152 feet.
In 1876 the Government undertook to complete the monument. The foundations, found to be entirely inadequate, were widened to 126 feet square and deepened to 37 feet below the surface before adding any weight. The shaft was carried to a total height of 555 feet 5-1/8 inches and completed in 1884 by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, officer in charge of Public Buildings and Grounds.
The President's Park is divided into the inner and outer portions, the inner portion including the 18 acres within the iron fence enclosing the Executive Mansion and grounds proper. The outer portion, also known as "Grounds South of the Executive Mansion" and the "White Lot", contains 52 acres and includes the Ellipse. It is bordered by Treasury Place, South Executive Avenue, State Place, 15th Street, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue.
This is one of the two parks included in the original L'Enfant Plan for the Federal City and is closely associated with the history of the National Capital and with the lives of the Presidents.
The Ellipse, bordered by stately American elms, provides playing fields for various sports and is one of the most intensively utilized recreation grounds of the park system.
The "Grounds South" provide a park setting for the south facades of the Treasury and State-War-Navy Buildings, the Commerce Building on the east; and the Corcoran Art Gallery, the American Red Cross Building, the National Headquarters of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Hall of the Americas, home of the Pan-American Union, on the west. It contains an equestrian statue of General Wm. T. Sherman, the Butt-Millet Memorial, the First Division American Expeditionary Forces Memorial, and the Zero Milestone.
The Lincoln Memorial
West of the Washington Monument, in the Mall, is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the National Memorial to the Great Emancipator. This is admittedly one of the finest memorials of modern times. The exterior of the memorial building symbolizes the Union of the States. Thirty-six columns of Indiana limestone form a colonnade representing the 36 States which existed at the time of Lincoln's death, the frieze above it bearing the names of the States. On the marble walls above the colonnade are the names of the 48 States of the Union as they exist today.
Inside these walls is a sanctuary containing three memorials to Abraham Lincoln. In the center is a colossal marble statue of the Emancipator, facing the Washington Monument and the Capitol. On the north wall is inscribed Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and on the south wall, the Gettysburg speech. Above the inscriptions are two paintings on canvas, the painting on the north wall representing Reunion and Progress, and the painting on the south wall representing the Emancipation of a Race. Subordinate groups represent Civilization and Progress.
The Memorial was designed by Henry Bacon, Architect; the statue by Daniel Chester French, Sculptor; and the paintings are by Jules Guerin, The building is 201 feet 10 inches long, and 132 feet wide at the base; it is 79 feet 10 inches high from the top of the foundation to the attic. It is constructed of Colorado yule marble, pink Milford granite, Indiana limestone, and reinforced concrete. Construction was authorized by Congress on February 9, 1911 the cornerstone was laid on February 12, 1915, and the Memorial was dedicated on May 30, 1922. The cost was approximately $3,000,000.
To the east of the Memorial, extending toward the Washington Monument, lies a great reflecting pool in the still waters of which is reflected the Lincoln Memorial, at one end, and the Washington Monument, at the other. This pool is 1,992 feet long and 160 feet wide. It is bordered by two rows of stately English elms. At the eastern end of the main pool is an oval basin and fountain. This basin is 300 beet long by 160 feet wide. The fountain consists of 138 small jets about the side and in the center of the basin which throw the water in a spectacular rainbow effect.
West Potomac Park
Entering West Potomac Park at its western extremity is the memorial to John Ericsson, inventor of the screw propeller. Further to the east is the Tidal Basin, surrounded by the famous Japanese cherry treesa focal point of interest during the season when these trees bloom and form a lacy fringe of rare beauty, usually in early April. The Japanese Cherry Trees, which were presented by the City of Tokyo during the Taft administration, have become a feature of especial beauty and interest. They were planted in 1912 by Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, and Mrs. William Howard Taft. The pansy beds of West Potomac Park, containing more than 1,000,000 blooms, are also a major attraction during the spring months.
East Potomac Park
Entering East Potomac Park, 327 acres of land reclaimed through the dredging of the Washington Channel, one finds the Washington Rose Gardens, containing many interesting varieties and presenting a fragrant and colorful display many months of the year. Near by is the Washington tourist camp, screened from public view by careful planting. The "Speedway", a boulevard three and one-half miles long, borders East Potomac Park culminating in Hains Point at the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers.
From Hains Point the visitor is afforded a sweeping view of the lower Potomac with the spires of historic Alexandria, Virginia, and the George Washington Masonic Memorial silhouetted against the southern horizon. To the east is Bolling Field, U. S. Army Aviation Post, and also the Anacostia Naval Air Station. Across the Washington Channel, on the north, is the U. S. Army War College. Returning westward, this drive affords glimpses of activities along the water front.
East Potomac Park is bordered by the double-blossom variety of Japanese cherry trees which bloom approximately two weeks after the single-blossom trees. These double blossoms possess a rare beauty and, though not so widely heralded as the Tidal Basin trees, are none-the-less one of Nature's loveliest exhibits in the Washington Parks.
The park is bordered by giant willows whose boughs bend over the seawalls, their foliage swaying gently in the soft breezes from the water.
Groups picnicking beneath the flowering cherry trees or in the cool shade of the willows, and golfers at play on the four public courses of the park are entertained by an endless parade of water craft and the maneuvers of airmen overhead.
Arlington Memorial Bridge
The Potomac Park highways skirt the Tidal Basin on the north, passing the John Paul Jones statue at the boot of Seventeenth Street and continuing to the Arlington Memorial Bridge, crossing the Potomac west of the Lincoln Memorial. The bridge, with the exception of the Bascule Draw Span, is of reinforced concrete construction, with all visible surfaces, except the soffits of the arches, faced with bush-hammered granite. The granite below the springing line of the arches is from the Stone Mountain Quarry in Georgia. All other granite is from the Mount Airy Quarry in North Carolina. It has an overall length of 2,163 feet and a clear width between balustrades of 90 feet; the width of the roadway between curbs is 60 feet, and the width of each of the two sidewalks 15 feet. It was dedicated in 1932, as a part of the great national bicentennial celebration of the birth of George Washington.
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
The northwest residential section of the City of Washington is divided from the District line to the Potomac River by the rough and picturesque valley of Rock Creek, splendidly forested and with all the charm of a mountain stream. The part of this valley south of National Zoological Park and connecting with West Potomac Park at the Lincoln Memorial, is known as the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway.
Rock Creek Park
North of the National Zoological Park, administered by the Smithsonian Institution, is Rock Creek Park the largest recreational area of the capital park system. The Pierce Mill Waterfall, Milk House Ford, Bowlder Bridge, Joaquin Miller Cabin, and Ridge Road are principal features of interest. This park contains two nine-hole public golf courses, a group of 18 tennis courts, 19 picnic groves, and more than 30 miles of bridle paths.
The park treatment of the Rock Creek Valley has given the city of Washington one of the largest (nearly 1800 acres) and most unusual parks of any American city. The park has tremendous appeal to both residents of and visitors to the National Capital. Its slopes are covered with a great variety of wild flowers, and in the spring the tumbling stream and the park highways are fringed with the glistening pink and white blossoms of flowering dogwood. In the more secluded retreats a surprising wild life abounds.
The natural elements in Rook Creek Park serve as a cooling system that invariably keeps the temperature in the park 15 to 20 degrees below that of the city streets during the summer months. Hundreds of thousands of persons find relief from the exhaustive heat of midsummer by an evening visit to the cooling and refreshing reaches of the park.
The Act of September 27, 1890, authorizing the acquisition of the Rock Creek Valley for park purposes designated the area as "A pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States". This is the identical phraseology used by Congress in establishing Yellowstone National Park, the first national park ever created.
Fort Stevens Park
This sleeping fortress, located at 13th Street between Piney Branch Road and Rittenhouse Street, now a park of 2-1/2 acres, is dedicated to the gallantry of those who fought there in defense of the National Capital and to the memory of President Abraham Lincoln who risked the fire of enemy guns to stand upon its parapets and observe the progress of the attack.
This park now presents a scene of tranquility and repose in contrast to its urban surroundings, but about it was written one of the most important and exciting chapters of the Civil War.
Here a mixed assemblage of seasoned troops, "100-day men", convalescents, sailors, marines and civilians, under the command of General Horatio G. Wright, successfully halted the advance of General Jubal Early's Confederate Army of 20,000 battle-tried veterans and saved the Capital, and perhaps the Union, from a sudden and daring attack. The Federal and Confederate losses during the attack, on July 11 and 12, 1864, totalled nearly 900, killed and wounded.
During the firing at Fort Stevens on July 11, President Abraham Lincoln stood upon a parapet at the side of General Wright, observing the progress of the battle. A surgeon at his side was wounded. Lincoln took refuge behind the parapet, only at the repeated insistence of General Wright who felt the responsibility for his safety. This is the only occasion on which a President of the United States has been under fire of enemy guns while in office and a monument and tablet commemorating the event has been erected in Fort Stevens Park by the Sixth Army Corps Association.
A short distance north of Fort Stevens Park, on the east side of Georgia Avenue, between Van Buren and Whittier Streets, is Battleground National Cemetery, a single acre of land in which are buried 40 men who died during Early's attack.
Meridian Hill Park
On Sixteenth Street south of Rock Creek Park between Euclid and W streets is Meridian Hill Park, a development of especial interest affording splendid panoramic views of the city. It was designed by Horace W. Peaslee, architect, and Ferruccio Vitale, landscape architect. It is in the style of an Italian garden with a high terrace overlooking the city and a great water cascade. It contains replicas of the Joan of Arc statue by Paul Dubois, and the Ximenes statue of Dante; also a monument to President Buchanan by Hans Schuler and La Serenity, a memorial to Lt. Commander William Henry Schuetz, U. S. Navy, by Jose Clara. The cascades which flow down the South Terrace of Meridian Hill Park are perhaps the most unusual architectural feature of the National Capital Parks.
Famous Circles
Dupont Circle, which is at the intersection of Connecticut and Massachusetts Avenues, contains a fountain by Daniel Chester French, dedicated to the memory of Admiral Samuel Francis Dupont. Some of the finest homes of the city face it on the east and north sides. Dupont Circle is a summertime rendezvous for small children who come with their mothers or nursemaids to play in the cool shade of its splendid trees.
East of Dupont Circle on Massachusetts Avenue, at the intersection with Sixteenth Street, is Scott Circle where statues memorialize General Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster, and Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
Thomas Circle, two blocks east on Massachusetts Avenue at the intersection of Vermont Avenue, Fourteenth and M Streets, is dedicated to the memory of Major-General George H. Thomas.
Washington Circle, on Pennsylvania Avenue at 23rd Street, towards Georgetown, contains an excellent equestria statue of George Washington.
Lafayette Park
Lafayette Park, north of the White House, contains the Clark Mills' statue of Andrew Jackson (1853, probably the oldest equestrian statue cast in America), the statues of Lafayette by Alexander Falquier and Antonin Mercie; Rochambeau by F. Hamar; Von Steuben by Albert Jaegers; and Kosciuszko by Antoni Popiel. In this park are many interesting and unusual trees gathered from the far corners of the earth. The group includes a Japanese Pagoda tree and an English Purple Beech resplendent in its copper-hued foliage. Domestic trees also are well represented. The magnificent American elm, forming a border about the park, and the lovely southern magnolias attract much admiration.
Franklin Park
Franklin Park occupies a square block between I and K Streets and 13th and 14th Streets, northwest. A monument to Commodore Barry of the revolutionary Navy, by John F. Doyle, is at the west end. Opposite, at the east end on 13th Street, is the old Franklin School Building, which was awarded a prize at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and is now used as the administration building of the Board of Education. Surrounded by modern hotels, office buildings, and shops, this interesting park with its winding gravel walks, is reminiscent of the landscape architecture of the past generation. It contains more than 400 trees and shrubs, representing 76 distinct species, and contributes as interesting touch of nature to downtown Washington.
Judiciary Park
Judiciary Park provides a dignified setting for the District of Columbia Court House and the Old Pension Office. The central section of the Court House, originally built as a city hall, was designed by George Hadfield, and architecturally is still one of the most beautiful public buildings in the city. The park contains a statue of President Lincoln by the sculptor, Lot Flannery. It was unveiled on April 15, 1868, the first national memorial to be erected to the martyred President. There is also in this park a memorial fountain dedicated to the memory of Joseph J. Darlington, jurist and civic leader, and an equestrian statue of General San Martin, the Liberator. Judiciary Park is between E and F and Fourth and Fifth Streets.
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park at 11th and East Capitol Streets, northeast, is noted for many of the oldest trees in Washington, and for Thomas Ball's statue of President Lincoln freeing the slaves, presented by Emancipated Citizens of the United States in 1876. In keeping with the spirit of this park dedicated to the memory of Lincoln, native species of trees and shrubs predominate over exotic varieties, two-thirds of the plants being of American origin. Among the native trees in this park is a group of large willow oaks, probably the finest to be found in any park in the world. The artistic approach to the Lincoln Statue is an excellent example of architectural design.
Anacostia Park
Anacostia Park, bordering the Anacostia River in southeast Washington and containing 277 acres, was developed through reclamation of the Anacostia flats. The area is devoted to recreational uses and there are an 18-hole golf course, 10 tennis courts, 4 baseball diamonds, 4 football fields, and also croquet and quoit courts. A feature of the park is the planting of flowering crab apple trees which border the driveway along the seawall between the Eleventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue bridges. The young trees attract many visitors when they bloom in May and June. The trees remain in bloom from three to six weeks and give promise of becoming one of the major features of the National Capital Park system when they reach maturity. Another interesting feature is the National Memorial Grove, a group of trees from traditionally historical places. The main approach to this park is by way of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge across the Anacostia River.
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Effectiveness of Stochastic Neural Network for Prediction of Fall or Rise of TOPIX
AbstractStochastic neural network is a hierarchical network of stochastic neurons which emit 0 or 1 with the probability determined by the values of inputs. We have developed an efficient training algorithm so as to maximize the likelihood of such a neural network. This algorithm enables us to apply the stochastic neural network to a practical problem like prediction of fall or rise of Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX). We trained it with the data from 1994 to 1996 and predicted the fall or rise of 1 day ahead of TOPIX for the period from 1997 to 2000. The result is quite promising. The accuracy of the prediction of the stochastic network is the 60.28%, although those of non-stochastic neural network, autoregressive model and GARCH model are 50.02, 51.38 and 57.21%, respectively. However, the stochastic neural network is not so advantageous over other networks or models for prediction of the TOPIX used for training. This means that the stochastic neural network is less over fitting to the training data than others, and results in the best prediction. We will demonstrate how the stochastic neural network learns well non-linear structure behind of the data in comparison to other models or networks, including Generalized Linear model (GLM). Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2003
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Do I have to read all your books from the beginning?
No, not at all. The first book of each series is carefully written to make sure a newcomer to this world can enjoy it and understand it without having read any of what's gone before. Though all my books do follow each other in the overall Einarinn timeline, so there is that added-value for fans who've read them, particularly when characters from one series are the obvious people to play a role in the next.
What are you working on at the moment?
The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution are now complete. As always, the resolution of one series has raised questions I simply must answer in the next. So I'm currently working on Dangerous Waters, the first book of a new trilogy for Solaris The Hadrumal Crisis. That'll be published in 2011.
The speculative, contemporary novel that I've been talking about for so long now has a finished draft so I'll be kicking that around with my agent some time soon. Then there's that entirely new fantasy scenario looking for a home…
Are there going to be more books about Livak and the characters from the Tales of Einarinn?
At the moment I don't have a novel-length story demanding to be told about Livak or Ryshad. I could cobble a plot together but I don't want to do that. As a reader, I've been disappointed when writers continue with a series just for the sake of continuing. You can read some couple of adventures from earlier times in PS Publishing's magazine PostScripts, Volumes 4 and 5. And a few of the characters are getting mixed up in the Lescari Revolution, as it turns out.
Why fantasy fiction?
I like it, it's as much fun to write as it is to read. Also, it was something I felt confident about tackling with the resources I had to hand in terms of imagination and books of my own. I might have written crime or historical fiction but these needed the kind of research that was a total non-starter with two small boys in tow. I may yet turn to crime, in a strictly literary sense
How do you set about writing a book?
Speaking purely for myself here, I start with a blank sheet of paper and sketch out the overall plot structure. I usually have the beginning, the end and a few bits of the middle when I begin. When I can see the gaps, I can fnd ways to fill them in and then I expand this diagram with character and sub-plot notes. Working from that, I draw up a detailed plan for each chapter, write it up, get opinions on it and then plan the next chapter, working in the new things that arise as the book develops.
Where do you get your names from?
I try to use real names, usually slightly modified, because they look plausible and are relatively easy to pronounce whereas the Scrabble-bag approach always ends up sounding artificial to me. I find them in the papers; foreign news and obituaries are especially useful as are international sporting events. I get others from things like National Geographic magazine and programmes like From Our Own Correspondent on Radio 4. Archive material and historical reference books throw up a fair few and I have an ever expanding network of family, friends, family of friends and friends of family who pass back suggestions, along with curious facts that they've discovered that they think might interest me. I keep long lists and refer to them whenever I need a new name.
Who gets to read what you've written first?
I have Steve, who can spot holes in a plot at fifty paces and knows more about the world of Einarinn than anyone else. Mike reads more fantasy than anything else and so can generally tell me when my wonderful new and original idea has in fact cropped up in three other recent novels. Sue doesn't read fantasy as a rule and did English at university, so looks at the actual writing more closely. These three read each chapter as it is written. Different people read each completed story and they give an invaluable perspective on the big picture, picking up continuity flaws among other things. What any writer needs is friends like these, who will send back scripts with things in the margins like 'attack of the killer plot device' and 'you weren't awake when you wrote this, were you?'.
Are any of your characters drawn from real life?
They all are, in that I use everyday life as a constant reality check to make sure reactions and attitudes are believable. No single character is drawn from any one individual; I merge facets of different people I know and invent other aspects to create rounded characters.
Don't you suffer from writer's block?
No, I don't have time. Seriously, with two teenage sons and a home to run as well as a husband who works full time, my writing time is tightly timetabled, so I can't waste any of it. I plan everything in advance and make lots of notes for what I am about to write, thinking through plot and character questions while I'm doing things like the ironing, the cooking and the housework. The fridge usually has at least one bit of paper stuck to it, with some crucial note for the next time I'm at the keyboard.
Would you like to see a film of your books?
Naturally! Whether or not it'll ever happen is a different question. Peter Jackson and The Lord of the Rings teams have proved beyond all doubt that fabulous fantasy films can be made with modern technology – but to get the best out of CGI and all the rest, you do need to invest money equivalent to the annual budget of a small country. Studios are only going to do that for books that have a substantial readership beyond the usual fantasy market. So, indulging in a little real-world fantasy here, when all the enthusiastic readers of the Tales have spread the word sufficiently to get the Hollywood suits sitting up and taking notice, I'd like to see the kind of casting that worked so well for Star Wars – unknowns taking the leads and the big stars for the cameos and supporting roles. My ideas on these vary, depending on what films and TV I've seen recently.
What do you read?
These days, for relaxation, mostly crime. I'm a great fan of Lindsey Davis, Val McDermid and Laurie R King, Ian Rankin, Janet Evanovitch, Michael Connolly, Reginald Hill, Robert Crais and Joyce Holms to name but a few. I still love fantasy but my reading time is limited so I rarely start anything that might turn into an endless saga. I always keep my eyes open for new books by Tom Holt, Kate Elliott, Robin Hobb, Mary Gentle and Kelley Armstrong. In between times, I read a lot of history, often social and cultural in focus, as well as biography and travel writing, by way of research. Light relief is reading the things I'm given to review, often not at all the kind of book I'd ordinarily pick up but one of the pluses of doing this is being constantly reminded to keep an open mind!
What TV do you watch?
A real mixture. I like good-hearted comedy like How I Met Your Mother. I'm a great fan of crime shows like The Closer, NCIS and Criminal Minds, as well as the various incarnations of CSI and Law & Order. Intelligent serial dramas like Sons of Anarchy, and previously, Deadwood, The Wire and the new Battlestar Galactica will always grab my attention, along with more family-friendly viewing like Doctor Who, Primeval and Merlin. I watch a a lot of historical and factual programmes but I detest 'reality TV'. I don't ever get into soap operas; I just don't have the time or the inclination.


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The final week of the season is upon us but there's no resting on our laurels as we prepare to open our Mixed Programme at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in our Leeds city-centre home.
Last week I returned to Southampton to join the Company on the last stop of our spring tour at the Mayflower Theatre where we would be performing A Midsummer Night's Dream and Three Little Pigs.
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By Rosalind Bentley
After 30 years as one of metro Atlanta's respected mid-sized theaters, Theatre in the Square in downtown Marietta closed for good on Monday.
In a sign of just how bad things had gotten for the theater, it was unable to finish the run of its current critically lauded show, Pearl Cleage's "Flyin' West."
"After three days of board deliberations and financial analysis, we have decided that it is not feasible for us to finish our current season or launch a 31st season," said theater board chair Mike Russell in a statement. "We simply do not have the money."
Just last week the Marietta City Council granted the theater $30,000 during an emergency meeting. But even that wasn't enough to keep the stage lit, Russell said, so the board declined the offer.
Last year the board launched a do-or-die campaign to raise $350,000 it said the theater needed to remain open. Artistic director Palmer Wells, who co-founded the theater with the late Michael Horne, said earlier this year they had exceeded that goal by about $25,000. But during a February board meeting Russell said the theater would need an additional $60,000 by March 16 to move forward. On top of that, the theater was trying to raise an additional $400,000 by the end of June to pay down its debt. Meanwhile, it trimmed staff, cut salaries and negotiated a reduction in rent from about $11,000 a month to just over $7,000 with landlord Philip Goldstein, a Marietta City Council member.
The theater mounted "Flyin' West" March 7, hopeful enough cash could be raised to pay vendors and actors, Wells said in an interview last week. And the board succeeded in raising $83,000 by the March 16 deadline, but Russell said in the statement it wasn't enough.
For people holding tickets to canceled shows, the theater is trying to come up with a ticket swap option with other local theater companies.
It will take a couple of weeks to shut down the operation entirely, Russell said, calling it a "heart-wrenching task." But for now there is no other choice but for the house to go dark for good.


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