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Girlhood is far from idyllic in Laura Lippman's fictional world. Two years ago, the award-winning crime novelist broke away from her Tess Monaghan, P.I. series with Every Secret Thing, in which two 18-year-old girls, convicted of killing a baby when they were 11, must confront their past when more children go missing.
In Lippman's new stand-alone, To the Power of Three (William Morrow), young female friendship once again takes center stage when the lives of three former best friends are destroyed on the eve of graduation by a shooting in their high school bathroom. One girl is killed, another left on life support and the third survives to narrate the saga, which isn't likely to win feel-good-story-of-the-year honors. But it's a compelling psychological study about the pain and intensity of female friendship.
"I've been interested in trying to come up with crime stories that put female characters at the center," says the former Baltimore Sun reporter, who was in New York recently for the mystery industry's Edgar Awards. "And I don't want them to be stories about thwarted romances or what women do to get men, so one of the places you can go is female friendship. The first person who breaks a girl's heart is usually another girl."
The novel, Lippman's tenth, also explores how frighteningly random the world can be, and how tragedy can strike any family. "As much as I've enjoyed reading about sociopaths and larger-than-life villains," Lippman says, "I'm really interested in stories of well-intentioned people and how small things can accrue that can add up to unthinkable tragedies that can happen to anyone."
And ones that everyone seems to think they have the answer to, from the school guidance counselor to the dead girl's ex-boyfriend. "There are a lot of people wandering around who think they can figure stuff out, and all these well-meaning amateurs actually screw up the works a bit. I didn't set out to write that, but I saw it emerging."
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The string is very high up in the vagina just beyond the cervix. It does not extend outside the vagina. Some partners have said they can feel the string on occasion with deep penetration but it is usually not enough to be uncomfortable or interfere with sexual pleasure. Odds are very, very slim that sexual activity will dislodge the device.
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Gulfstream Park had all-sources handle six times greater than Calder Casino and Race Course during the Dec. 6-8 weekend.
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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have recently received considerable attention as a potentially innovative and effective approach to the prevention of HIV/AIDS. We evaluate a conditional cash transfer program in rural Malawi which offered financial incentives to men and women to maintain their HIV status for approximately one year. The amounts of the reward ranged from zero to approximately 3-4 months wage. We find no effect of the offered incentives on HIV status or on reported sexual behavior. However, shortly after receiving the reward, men who received the cash transfer were 9 percentage points more likely and women were 6.7 percentage points less likely to engage in risky sex. Our analyses therefore question the "unconditional effectiveness" of CCT program for HIV prevention: CCT Programs that aim to motivate safe sexual behavior in Africa should take into account that money given in the present may have much stronger effects than rewards offered in the future, and any effect of these programs may be fairly sensitive to the specific design of the program, the local and/or cultural context, and the degree of agency an individual has with respect to sexual behaviors.
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105-year-old 'British Schindler' receives Czech honor
Jewish group calls for safeguards against child abuse at ritual baths
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Egypt begins Gaza border evacuation to create security buffer
Hamas-hired civil servants receive long-awaited wage from Palestinian unity government
Restoring relationship with US is vital interest to Israel
Bibi needs to mend Israel-US ties
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Pumpkin with Mediterranean panache
The taste of the desert
Confronting cancer Part 1
Project manager by day, world champion weightlifter by night
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A song for Cheshvan: 'The Eucalyptus Grove'
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מָה הַסִיפּוּר?
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Growing pains: the children of trauma
Grapevine: Synagogue spirit
Indian vs Pakistani cuisine
Simply smashing
A potent musical force
Keeping it fresh
In the mood for oud
Pampered into peace of mind
Sheba : rééducation high-tech pour les soldats de Tsahal
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Huster dans la peau du père d'Anne Frank
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Netanyahou sort les griffes pour Jérusalem
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I am a really easy going landlord.
I generally fix things when they break.
I understand that wear and tear happens and I am generally fine about that.
I understand that when you are moving out doing a huge clean can be exhuasting and at the end you start to cut corners. That is why between every tenancy I go in and spend a day cleaning the again to make sure it is sparkly clean for the new tenant.
I try to upgrade something with every new tenant whether it be new carpet, fresh paint or a new appliance, I like to keep the place in good shape for my renters.
I always leave a little gift to welcome you to your new home.
At Christmas I send you a present, sometimes I give you a weeks free rent.
When construction started next door, I arranged for you to be compensated so you got two years rent at half price.
I am pretty good landlord. In fact in over ten years of owning two rental properties I have never had a bad tenant ever. My tenants have always paid rent and looked after the place. I have never called tenants back to clean the property or claimed anything from their bond, I understand that properties have wear and tear.
But you give tenants a bad name.
|This is why we had to take it off the market.
In most houses toilets gets cleaned every week or so, most people clean their shower at least once a month and in fact throw some of these babies which help clean a toilet for you. I love flushable toilets wipes which takes five seconds to wipe down the toilet. Do these basic things and I won't need to spend hours scrubbing and near vomitting to clean the grotty mess you left behind. Whilst I am talking about mirrors, you can usually see yourself better in a mirror that has been cleaned in the last two years.
Kitchens require regular cleaning, when you don't clean the stove top for months and months, food and grease builds up, it doesn't just wipe off. When you use scourers and scrub you ruin the enamel and it looks gross and costs a bomb to replace. PS dishwashers only work when they are plugged into power and oven tend to smoke when you don't clean them, these are not electrical faults just your lack of cleanliness. Your regular calls to the electrician got pretty annoying.
And dear tenant I know that you believe that you have been ripped off when we took your bond but so far we have spend over 60 hours fixing your mess and we are not even finished yet, repainting an entire home isn't easy you know. We have spend over $3,000 on carpet and paint products alone, this does not include labour which will peak at about 100hours. So when you do the calculations you got off very lightly, I even have to pay the rent whilst we repair the mess you left.
PS your boss has coffee in my office everyday, you are lucky I am not vindictive because we live in a small town.
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Dog shot, and law says it's OK
Police have concluded that a Hampstead man had the legal right under state law to shoot and kill 6-year-old Sadie, seen here in this undated family photo. (COURTESY)
Fred and Judy Galietta's 6-year-old dog, Sadie, a Brittany spaniel, was killed Saturday morning after she went into a neighbor's yard. Christopher Gibbons told police that he used his rifle to shoot the dog because it was barking and running around the cage of his two rabbits.
"It was absolutely not justified. This was a one-time incident with his rabbits. He could have thrown a rock at her or anything else to get rid of her and she would have run away. If the dog had the rabbit in her mouth, I would say he had every right to shoot the dog," Fred Galietta said.
Hampstead police Lt. John Frazier said Gibbons told police that he awoke to the sound of a dog barking outside his window. When he looked into his yard, he saw the dog "chasing" around the rabbit cage in his yard at 305 West Road.
Gibbons, a former Manchester police officer, stated that his rabbits were frantic and that they are fragile and prone to heart attacks, Frazier said.
Frazier said Gibbons then stated he grabbed a rifle as the dog continued to run around the rabbit cage and shot the spaniel, killing it instantly.
Police said the weapon was a .223-caliber AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
Galietta said he feels the dog was shot in retaliation because he's complained about Gibbons' target shooting at all hours of the night.
Gibbons would not talk about the incident when reached at his home Wednesday afternoon.
"At this point I think it's best to leave things be," he said from an upstairs window at his residence.
Police investigated the shooting, but after reviewing a state law known as RSA 466:28, concluded that the shooting was legal.
The law states: "Any person may kill a dog that suddenly assaults the person while such person is peaceably walking or riding without the enclosure of its owner or keeper; and any person may kill a dog that is found out of the enclosure or immediate care of its owner or keeper worrying, wounding, or killing sheep, lambs, fowl, or other domestic animals."
"The Hampstead Police Department review of the case, as unfortunate as it is, cannot find Gibbons criminally liable due to the parameters set forth in NH RSA 466:28, which legally allow the shooting," Frazier said.
Hampstead police also had the case reviewed by the Rockingham County Attorney's Office, which reached the same conclusion.
Galietta said he plans to push for changes in the law to remove the term "worrying."
"Don't get me wrong, I believe that if you have farm animals or any other kind of animal around your house that are being harassed, bitten, eaten or killed by a dog or anything else, you should have a right to protect your animals from being physically harmed. There's no physical harm by worrying. That's an absurd word that never should have been put in there," he said.
On the day of the shooting, Galietta said his wife let Sadie outside to go to the bathroom. A short time later, the dog made a "yipping" noise. He claims Sadie wasn't barking at the rabbits, nor was she running around the cage. Galietta said there were no paw prints around the cage and that the only prints found went from his property at 295 West Road to the back of the cage.
Judy Galietta told police that after she heard Sadie yipping, she started to go out into the yard to call for her when she heard two shots.
She continued into her neighbor's yard, where she found Sadie lying next to the rabbit cage.
Fred Galietta said Sadie never caused a problem for the neighbors and that this was the first time that she ever went over to the rabbit cage.
"There has never been a complaint, either to me or to my wife or to local authorities," he said. "We would let her out, she would do her business and come in."
The Galiettas, who have owned Sadie since she was two months old, described her as a friendly and affectionate dog.
Judy Galietta is still in shock over the shooting.
"I don't feel safe in my own house anymore and I won't go out in my yard," she said.
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Going back to the well
This year I've been working steadily on my new book and sharing ideas with people who want to know about the technology revolution. And while it is true we are always learning while on the job, I feel like people in the information business need an off-season as much as professional sportspeople and musicians do. Problem is we don't tend to plan for it on an annual basis as much as other 'seasonal industries' do. Which could lead us into a dangerous pattern of already knowing what we know, or at worst obsolescence through ignorance. The ironic thing is that this exact behaviour pattern is what is causing large corporations to be disrupted. They are so busy doing what they do, making what they make and utilising the assets they already own that they rarely go back to the well.
If you're an entrepreneur or freelancer (like I am) then we need to ensure we don't get so deep into our work wormhole that we ignore the world around us. Screens and offices are very dangerous places to watch the world from. It's probably better to make, break and explore a few things outside of our work to ensure we keep our edge.
New book – The Great Fragmentation – out now!
Five for Friday v4
Here's 5 pieces of information that got me thinking this week. Reading, viewing and listening pleasure for the impending weekend. Enjoy!
1. Are you suffering from Stuffocation? Author James Wallman takes about it here at Google.
2. Another reminder that the future is phygital – Both physical and digital have a place. One is not superior to the other. In fact, they are better together.
3. Crowdfunding the more important things in humanity – scientific research. Seems more important to me than a tricked up cooler. There's hope for the internet yet.
4. This is BIG – Estonia has just become first country to allow for e-citizens. Just like corporations basing themselves in low-cost markets, humans can now do it too. Welcome to the Sans Nation State economy.
5. Isaac Asimov essay reveals the true secret of creativity – it's about the cross connection. And guess what, creative industries and people don't have a monopoly on it.
Yours in learning, Sammatron3000.
The people we want to meet
The people we want to meet, would probably be happy to meet us too, before everyone wanted to meet them. The problem with the people we want to meet, is really in the timing of when we want to meet them. Because we usually only want to meet them after they have done something notable. It's not uncommon to read about a lunch with Warren Buffett being auctioned for more than a million dollars. Or for people having a list of people they want to meet who inspire them. But what's interesting is that no one wanted to meet those people before their fame and success was evident. Yet they are the same person. Add to this that sometimes a persons success is not due to specific, unusual or dramatic insight, but probably more effort and circumstance.
Right now, there is a lot of pre-famous people out there whose advice no one seeks, yet. Right now, we all have friends and colleagues who give great council and thoughts, despite the fact they've never fronted the cover of a magazine or featured in a human listacle. Often the people we should want to meet, are the people we already know.
Five for Friday v3
Here's another 5 things that are worth investing some weekend time postulating life, culture and commerce over.
1. Take the marshmallow test for grown ups. An intriguing look at an old study that was done on kids attitudes in the 1960's.
2. Hey, just print your next car. More proof 3D printing laughs at the internet as childs play in terms of future global impact. This is the 2nd 3D printed car I've seen after the Urbee… Sh*t is gettin' real.
3. Some timeless advice from 1956. Let Earl Nightingale open your mind to the secrets to happiness and success. The best advice in life does not have an expiration date. This is seminal.
4. Wanna get learned? Get your ears around the Econ talk podcast. My fav' podcast that I'm not in…. actually I never listen to anything I ever record because that would just be weird and sycophantic.
5. The future of technology – don't ask me, this pinterest page of a search for 'technology' has way more ideas. Read at your leisure…
Have a super weekend people.
Mindset & Tools
There's a whole lot of tools we have at our disposal which didn't even exist a few years ago. From a business perspective many of them present a counter intuitive option to the 'Harvard Industrial Complex'. Yes, those established principals of what we thought we already knew about what worked in the market.
Trust the crowd to co-design our product? Are you crazy?
Get funding from future customers with out giving equity? How we going to do that?
Share revenue with content creating customers? Don't be silly let's keep it all for ourselves.
Co-opt with our competitors to grow the entire ecosystem? No way, let's grow our market share instead.
Launch products with lower margin than those they'll cannibalise? It's uneconomic and stupid.
When the world changes, what once seemed ridiculous quickly becomes rational. Startups are now redefining what can work in a world driven by cheap and even disposable technology. It turns out having access to the new tools is not enough, we also need access to a new mindset.
New book – The Great Fragmentation – out now!
Self editing & the thought police
I remember reading the Cluetrain Manifesto over 10 years ago, and it is fair to say it changed my life. It made me see that technology was creating access. I believed for the first time that the proletariat (like me) could buck the system and the power brokers. The over-riding theme of the book was this:
Hyperlinks circumvent hierarchy
While I still believe this to be true, I think it is at risk. The reason I think it is at risk is that I find myself moderating my opinion now, when I never did just a few short years ago. Just thinking twice before firing off a tweet or a text just in case it could be taken out of context, or if 'key words' and meta data inside it could create unwanted focus on my opinion. And while I don't think I'm particularly important, or anyone would care what I think or have to say, it says something about the world we are in. We now know that every word we type or publish in digital forums is being watched. While some might say it doesn't matter if you are not doing anything wrong, it does matter if it changes what we believe and say because of it. It matters if it changes the shape of our thoughts and actions. We ought to be concerned.
Yesterday a piece was written in the Sydney Morning Herald about impending changes to security laws. It is worth reading …. and just yesterday we had a certain portion of Australia's populace protest via twitter with the #heyASIO hashtag. Although it all seems somewhat futile now. Our new environment is very Stasi like – welcome to East Germany circa 1950.
It isn't without a sense of irony that at a time when we have the most powerful communication tools in history – the web, the power is being thwarted by eavesdroppers. When strangers listen in, the conversation changes, and sometimes even stops. The thing that worries me most is what comes next? What gets encroached upon after that? If there is anything we need from entrepreneurs right now, it is startups which protect consumers from their digital footprints. It's startups which reinvent the web in a way that ensures it can't be controlled by authorities and it remains in the hands of humanity as a digital punk hood.
New book – The Great Fragmentation – out now!
Five for Friday v2
Ok – here are 5 things I've seen (not all new) which have kept me awake at night wondering about life:
1. Forget entering the Matrix, it is being built around us, right now. In fact, you're already in it. The ever clever Cory Doctorow tells an incredible story about the world the computational cage being built around us. Watch here, it's a must. And you'll rethink privacy forever after.
2. Ideas actually look like something, they have a shape, seriously. This mind blowing Ted talk reveals the physics of ideas and what makes them possible.
3. If you think pace of change is speeding up – you're right. Read this inspiring post by the guys at Future Crunch. They summarise our new world superbly and demystify why technology matters so much now.
4. Liquid metal man from terminator 2 just became a reality – Read & see here how the technology that makes it possible just arrived. I'm sure it will be back.
5. Payments via phones & social media is a big deal. Read here why traditional banks and credit card companies might worry just a little. A classic case of today's collaborator potentially becoming tomorrow's competitor.
These stories that make it clearer than ever for me that we are all in the technology startup business now.
Value transfer or value creation?
There are lots of ways entrepreneurs can make money. Some even have a valid legal status, but with questionable ethics. But all businesses which survive have some kind of value transfer. The real question worth asking is this:
Was there more value in total after we got involved?
If the answer to that is 'yes', then we've done much more than just make money.
New book – The Great Fragmentation – out now!
The evolution of labour & where the rewards are heading
There is a clear evolutionary path for the type of labour that humans have done in our time on this planet. The over riding theme is that work is hard. Survival takes effort and the easier we can make survival, the better our lives will be. All of the tools we have invented from spears, to wheels, to spanners to computational devices have made more possible with less. Famed inventor R Buckminster Fuller called this phenomenon ephemeralization. He said that with enough knowledge, we'd be able to consistently do more with less, until we could eventually be able to do everything with nothing. The exponential growth we have seen with technology has to this point proven his idea to be true.
If we look at our labour, every curve jump in technology has changed what we do. It has also changed where the greatest economic value has come from our work. A basic function of scarcity. The history of labour in short from can be summarised as follows:
Physical Labour: Lifting heavy things. Using our arms, legs and backs.
Intellectual labour: Using our minds and mouths. Organising the factors of production.
Emotional Labour: Art, love, performance, creativity, and the beauty of human irrationality.
While there has always been overlap, it is clear to see where the greatest revenue streams have been. Each step change in technology has removed additional forms of labour scarcity. I believe that emotional labour will have the greatest economic value as we rapidly approach the technology singularity.
While this is an over simplification, if we want to earn more, and or run successful businesses we need to do one of two things:
1. Remove human labour. (The industrial revolution removed large amounts of physical labour. The data industrial complex we are now living in removes intellectual, left brain labour as we outsource this to the microchip. If our startup removes the labour we take the financial upside of the structural shift we create.)
2. Move ourselves up the hierarchy, closer to the emotional level. (That is, the bits of human endeavour which are yet to be replicated, or we don't want to be replicated by machine.)
While we are on the topic, the real value in emotional labour is the irrational bit. The creative stuff, and all other manner of thoughts and behaviour which we can't quite understand or justify. This is where the value of tomorrow lies. The over riding thought we should have is this: If what we do for a living can be replaced via automation or technology, then it will be, eventually. The further we are from what technology can replace the lower our income risk. And those are the very things which make us human.


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The first new single, Doom and Gloom was released online last month, and is available to stream from the band's official website, www.rollingstones.com, while the second, One More Shot, was put online on Thursday.
"Dirty, swaggering and perfectly Stonesy," is how the Daily Telegraph's reviewer described the latest track. The songs are the Stones's first new recordings together in seven years.
"Grrr!" will be released in several formats, including 50- and 80-track box sets, featuring such classics as I Can't Get No Satisfaction, Jumpin' Jack Flash or Honky Tonk Women.
Celebrating a half-century in rock and roll this year, the Stones played their first concerts in five years at two small venues in Paris late last month.
They have announced four major concerts in Britain and the United States to mark the anniversary.
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Birds Eye Iglo chief executive Martin Glenn set to depart
Birds Eye chief executive and former PepsiCo marketer Martin Glenn is poised to leave the company after six years at the helm.
Martin Glenn: poised to leave Birds Eye Iglo
Glenn's departure comes as the brand's owner, private-equity firm Permira, struggles to find a buyer for Birds Eye's parent company, Iglo Group. It is not known whether Glenn has a job to go to.
Attempts to sell Iglo to another private-equity house broke down in July last year, after BC Partners and Blackstone refused to match Permira's asking price.
Glenn, a former Cadbury Schweppes marketer, took up the position as Birds Eye chief executive in November 2006, following Permira's acquisition of Iglo Group from Unilever for £1.2bn.
Last April, prior to the breakdown of discussions with BC Partners and Blackstone, Glenn told The Independent that 'a good business will always find a buyer, and we are a good businessÕ.
Glenn moved to Birds Eye from PepsiCo, where he had held the role of UK & Ireland chief executive, having joined the company 15 years previously as a marketer.
He was responsible for hiring former England football star Gary Lineker to promote Walkers crisps; during Glenn's time at PepsiCo, Walkers increased its share of the crisps market from 29% to 67%.
Birds Eye has evolved its marketing over the past few years away from its Captain Birdseye character. Its recent UK advertising has featured a polar bear puppet called Clarence, voiced by US actor Willem Dafoe.
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Dubai Breaking free from gender stereotypes is an Emirati woman employed as an ambulance driver with Dubai Police.
Nujood Mohammad Ahmad Al Tamimi is extremely proud of her job. Taking on a job traditionally held by men was not much of a concern for her, she said, shortly after winning the award.
She followed her way into the force in the footsteps of her sister, who works as a paramedic with Dubai Police. "The award is a great honour, especially to receive it from [His Highness] Shaikh Mohammad himself," Nujood said.
"I dedicate this award to Shaikh Mohammad as well as to my children."
She has just been at the job for five months now, she said.
The ambulance she drives is a special vehicle which caters to women only. It is an Ambulance for Maternity and Childhood, a service which was established in 2009, to cater to pregnancy related emergencies.
"It is important for women to drive this ambulance in order to protect the privacy of the women," she explained.
Her colleague, another Emirati, Marzooq Eid Al Matroushi, also was the recipient of the award. He has been working as an ambulance driver for 10 years, he said.
"I gain tremendous joy in helping others, especially those in pain. And that is the reason I love my job," he said.
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The head of the Dubai Ambulance Services Centre Khalifa Hassan Bin Darai said that he is proud of both the winners.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014Tectonic Audio Labs Key To Sonic Upgrade At Seattle City Council ChambersPSW Staff 10/29/14 05:53 PM,A/V design firm Sparling and installer Jaymarc AV of Seattle were tasked with solving coverage, intelligibility, microphone performance and gain before feedback issues that have been perennial challenges for the Seattle City Council Chambers. This architecturally attractive chamber is also acoustically sound, but the existing loudspeaker solution wasn't sufficient to cover the large space, and it also presented significant audio management issues. Sparling selected a single Tectonic Audio Labs PL-12 Plate as the lynchpin in solving the challenging upgrade. "After… View this post
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The Dalai Lama Presents 2014 Kalachakra Prayer With DPA MicrophonesPSW Staff 10/29/14 05:41 PM,Earlier this year, His Holiness the Dalai Lama hosted Kalachakra, a religious event that takes place at various locations around the world every few years. With a now 79-year-old religious figure at the helm for the nearly two-week long Kalachakra 2014 prayer meeting, importance was placed on finding a microphone that would project his voice to the nearly 200,000 followers who attended. Reynolds Sound & Lighting Services, the sound company of choice for the Dalai Lama, supported this year's prayer… View this post
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Sennheiser Encourages Users To Petition FCC In Light Of Impending UHF Spectrum AuctionPSW Staff 10/29/14 02:36 PM,Sennheiser, which continues to file comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in light of the pending spectrum auction now scheduled to take place in early 2016, recently filed a Petition For Reconsideration with the FCC on its Incentive Auction Ruling. The company encourages microphone owners and customers to write to the FCC in support of the Petition for Reconsideration before the initial reply deadline of November 12, 2014, and is offering to assist with any filing or procedural requirements.… View this post
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Far-Field Criteria For Loudspeaker MeasurementPat Brown 10/29/14 02:10 PM,The most common reference distance for loudspeaker SPL specifications is 1 meter (3.28 feet). The choice is one of convenience – any distance will do. The 1 m reference simplifies distance attenuation calculations by eliminating the division required in the first step: Loudspeakers must be measured at a distance beyond which the shape of the radiation balloon remains unchanged. The changes are caused by path length differences to different points on the surface of the device. These differences… View this post
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Stage Tec Aurus Console Central To Operations At New Rose Lane StudioPSW Staff 10/29/14 01:48 PM,New to California's scenic central coast is Rose Lane Studio (Carpinteria, CA), a multifaceted business encompassing a full service recording studio, a record company, editing suites, a sound stage with a two-corner cyclorama for TV, film, and video projects, as well as a location company. Central to the new facility's operations is an Aurus digital console and a Nexus router from Germany-based Salzbrenner Stage Tec Mediagroup. Sjoerd "Sjoko" Koppert serves as Rose Lane Studio's producer and engineer (he's also president… View this post
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From Michael Frakes and Anupam Jena: Despite the fundamental role of deterrence in justifying a system of medical malpractice law, surprisingly little evidence has been put forth to date bearing on the relationship between medical liability forces on the one … Continue reading
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Bargaining in the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare's Influence on Private Payment Systems
From Jeff Clemens and Joshua Gottlieb: We analyze Medicare's influence on private payments for physicians' services. Using a large administrative change in payments for surgical procedures relative to other medical services, we find that private payments follow Medicare's lead. On average, a … Continue reading
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Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending
From David Cutler, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern, and David Wennberg: There is considerable controversy about the causes of regional variations in healthcare expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys, linked to Medicare expenditures at the level of … Continue reading
Incomes & the Cost of a Colonoscopy across US Cities
I'm a bit late to posting this since I had my qualifying exams on Monday, but I saw this map for the front page story of this Sunday's NYTimes and thought it was interesting. It shows how much the cost … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Baumol's cost, Biased Productivity, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, NYTimes, Productivity, Regional Variation Leave a comment


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Favre on Rodgers: What Took You So Long?
Brett Favre says Aaron Rodgers "fell into a good situation" when he took over the Packers. "So I'm…
Northern Exposure
By Scout.com
Date: Oct 4, 2011
We turn to our NFC North experts to give you the scoop on what's happening around the Black and Blue Division. The Packers and Lions sit at 4-0, with the Bears 2-2 and the Vikings 0-4. We look back to last week, look ahead to this week and provide some fun stats.
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