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Oh, crap, don't swat me." Those are the first words spoken by Elizabeth, a six-inch-tall, sarcastic "Little," upon meeting 14-year-old T.J., a soft-spoken goody-two-shoes. T.J. feels depressed because she has to give up her beloved horse when her family moves to the suburbs of De Lint's (The Blue Girl) mythical town of Newford. Elizabeth has family troubles of her own-she has run away, and shortly after she meets T.J., her parents and siblings disappear. Together, the girls set out to speak with Sheri Piper, a local children's book author who has written about Littles (and who previously appeared in De Lint's short story collection, Triskell Tales 2). But their plan is interrupted when a gang of bullies steals T.J.'s backpack with Elizabeth inside. The narrative alternates between the girls' perspectives, as Elizabeth uncovers information about her family history and T.J. attempts to connect with Sheri Piper. Although the two protagonists could not be more different in terms of temperament (not to mention size), by book's end they've both matured into winsome heroines. A sprinkling of pop culture references can feel jarring, as though the book were trying strenuously to be contemporary. However, on the whole, De Lint's latest-which he based on a short story that appeared in last year's Firebirds Rising anthology-adeptly braids the fantastic and the everyday. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
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When T.J. and her family are forced to move from their farm to the Newford suburbs, she makes an unexpected new friend?Elizabeth, a punked-out teen runaway with a big attitude?who also happens to be a ?Little,? standing just six inches tall. Her family lives inside the walls of T.J.?s house. T.J. and Elizabeth soon forge a prickly friendship that?s put to the test
When T.J. and her family are forced to move from their farm to the Newford suburbs, she makes an unexpected new friend?Elizabeth, a punked-out teen runaway with a big attitude?who also happens to be a ?Little,? standing just six inches tall. Her family lives inside the walls of T.J.?s house. T.J. and Elizabeth soon forge a prickly friendship that?s put to the test when each girl finds herself in dangerous territory, without any way to help the other. Both have to learn the hard way whom to trust, and how to rely on their instincts and find kindred spirits. Little (Grrl) Lost is Charles de Lint at his captivating best.
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Gr 6-9 Fourteen-year-old T.J., upset at her family's move from farm to city, finds an unlikely friend in 6-inch-high, 16-year-old Elizabeth, who emerges from T.J.'s wall late one night with an attitude too large for her frame. The two become friends, despite Elizabeth's self-confident punked-out style and T.J.'s timid conformism, and set off to meet an author who might be able to tell them more about Elizabeth's kind, the "Littles." When the two are separated, they embark on roughly parallel adventures. The narrative suddenly switches from a third-person telling to Elizabeth's first-person account, which is a bit jarring, but as the characters have very distinct personalities, the change in voice is a successful device for handling the suspense and pacing of their separate but interlinked adventures (T.J.'s part of the tale continues in third person). Because the book lacks a genuine sense of mystery and/or danger in the uncovering of a magical world hidden in the midst of our own, the emphasis falls more upon the differences in the girls and their personal growth. Side characters conveniently come into play to further the action. Although Steve Augarde's The Various (Random, 2004) is far more adept at handling a similar story, De Lint's book is ultimately a satisfying read. An additional purchase for fantasy fans.-Rhona Campbell, Washington, DC Public Library
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AUSTIN, Texas -- Trey Hardee reached the Olympic decathlon qualifying standard Thursday in the Texas Relays, the event where he set the NCAA record in 2006 before his career was derailed by injuries.
Hardee, now competing as a professional, finished with 8,371 points in his first decathlon in almost two years. He set personal records in the discus (172 feet, 10 inches) and pole vault (17-2¾).
"Angels were lifting me over the bar," Hardee said. "It was amazing."
Hardee was at the University of Texas when he set the NCAA decathlon record of 8,465, the third-best mark in the world in 2006 in a performance that established him as a potential international threat in the event. But injuries, including one to his wrist that required surgery, soon knocked him backward.
"That's life. It was just a matter of keeping faith," Hardee said.
Hardee said this week's performance should get him on track to potentially qualify for the Beijing Olympics at the U.S. trials.
"I put myself in good position going into the trials by getting that standard out of the way. All I'm doing now is training for the games and the trials," Hardee said.
Hardee only recently returned to training with the discus.
"I knew I was capable of throwing that far but you never know," he said. "That was above and beyond what I thought I could do."
Florida State freshman Gonzalo Barroilhet was the top collegiate finisher in the decathlon with 7,828 points.
Julie Pickler, a Washington State graduate now competing as a professional, won the women's heptathlon with 5,990 points. Pickler also won the event in 2006. Abbie Stechschulte of Indiana was the top college finisher with 5,661 points.
In the men's 3,200 relay, Texas won in 7 minutes, 17.63 seconds, topping last year's world-best mark of 7:18.43 run by Southern California on the same track.


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To reconstruct the anatomical glenoid shape in cases of osseous glenoid rim defects after recurrent posttraumatic anterior shoulder dislocation to restore stability without severely compromising the range of motion.
Osseous glenoid defects after recurrent posttraumatic anterior shoulder dislocation. Suitable for primary stabilization as well as for revision surgery in cases previously operated on.
Recurrent anterior shoulder dislocations without glenoid rim defects. Hyperlax shoulders with multidirectional instability. Patients over 60 years of age due to compromised bone quality. Teenage patients due to incomplete apophyseal fusion at the iliac crest. SURGICAL
The subscapularis tendon and capsule are split. The humeral head is retracted laterally, and the glenoid defect is prepared and abraded with a rasp. A bicortical iliac crest bone block including crest and outer cortex is harvested and molded in a J-shaped manner. To incorporate the graft, a crevice on the glenoid rim is produced using a chisel. The keel is fitted into the preformed crevice with a spiked impactor. The graft's surface is contoured using a high-speed burr.
A total of 47 shoulders were followed-up after an average of 90 months (range 25-152 months). The mean Rowe scores were 94.3 for the affected shoulder and 96.8 for the uninjured shoulder. The Constant scores reached 93.5 and 95 points, respectively. Loss of external rotation was 4.4°. In addition, 24 shoulders were followed-up by computed tomography (CT). There were no recurrences, with the exception of one traumatic graft fracture. Of 19 patients with arthropathy at follow-up, 11 already had arthropathy prior to the procedure.
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Varsity Letters Co-Player of the Game: Lake senior running back Gene Onabiyi and Lake junior running back Tyler Crowl.
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star aparthotel with free breakfast and indoor pool
Situated in Lancaster, this aparthotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Longs Park, Franklin and Marshall College, and Clipper Magazine Stadium. Campus of History and North Museum of Natural History are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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An indoor pool, a fitness center, and a 24-hour business center are available at this aparthotel. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free manager's reception. Other amenities include conference rooms, dry cleaning, and laundry facilities.
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Homewood Suites Lancaster features an indoor pool and a fitness center. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning as well as a complimentary manager's reception on select days. Event facilities measuring 729 square feet (68 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly aparthotel also offers barbecue grills, gift shops/newsstands, and laundry facilities. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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Thursday's $100,000-added Forerunner drew a competitive group of nine 3-year-old colts and geldings who are scheduled compete over Keeneland's nine-furlong Haggin turf course. Favored at 5-2 for the race is Prince Arch, who has made his last two starts at the Forerunner distance and finished second both times. He was second to Shakespeare by two lengths in his last out, the March 20 Caltech Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Ken McPeek trains the son of Arch for Raymond Cottrell Sr. A sensible pick is Mr. J. T. L., who has already run once this meet over Keeneland's turf. The son of Smart Strike finished second in the April 2 Transylvania Stakes (gr. IIIT) in his last start. He is trained by co-owner Roger Attfield, who sent out Perfect Soul to win last weekend's Maker's Mark Mile (gr. IIT) at the track. In his last start prior to the Transylvania, Mr. J. T. L. broke his maiden going 8 1/2-furlongs on the turf at Gulfstream Park in February. Graded stakes winner Bachelor Blues will be trying for his first win this year. The William Schettine homebred won the Summer Stakes (Can-IIT) at Woodbine last September, but is winless in three starts in 2004. Trainer Josie Carroll will send him postward. The Forerunner field from the rail out with jockey, trainer, and morning line. All horses will carry 116 pounds with the exception of Bachelor Blues, who will carry 123.
1--Prince Arch, Brice Blanc, Ken McPeek, 5-2
2--Bogangles, Cornelio Velasquez, Eddie Kenneally, 8-1
3--Brass Hat, Jason Lumpkins, William Bradley, 8-1
4--Mr. J. T. L., Rafael Bejarano, Roger Attfield, 4-1
5--Big Booster, Shane Sellers, John Kimmel, 8-1
6--Victory Light, Pat Day, Elliott Walden, 3-1
7--Lost In Transit, John McKee, Ronald Keith Kinmon, 20-1
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9--War Trace, Edgar Prado, James Toner, 12-1
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Decent stay - but negatively impacted by issues
My husband and I stayed at the Lainston House for 2 nights over the Bank Holiday. On the outside, the house looks very enchanting, rolling hills, beautiful flowers, old stately mansion.
We encountered several issues with our stay, and they all seem to revolve around the Lainston House's reception - this is a significant issue since they are the only folks we really interacted with on a consistent basis.
1) We had booked a junior suite (at 355GBP) - HUGE room with King Size bed, view of the grounds, and a very amazing bathroom complete with marble floors that heat up, jacuzzi, and rain bath. I was loving it until my husband called me into the bedroom and told me to listen. We then realized that we were located right next to the gym, and could easily hear the "thump thump" sounds of a runner - I can only compare it to the beating in Edgar Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart. So we spoke with reception and asked them when the gym was closed each evening and when it opened in the morning and were told that it was open 24 hrs a day and there was nothing to do about it. We were then offered an inferior room that overlooked the driveway. When we requsted a few minutes alone to choose between rooms, the receptionist said a bit testily "well we are very busy today so we need your answer very soon". Nice service-oriented tone of voice right?
So we went back to reception and asked to speak with the manager. Thank goodness because she was wonderful -- she assured us that they would shut down the gym at 10pm and not open til 8am. She also assured us that the gym was rarely used and that she doubted that we would be bothered again.
2) When we made our reservation, we were asked if we'd like to make a dinner reservation with their restaurant Avenue A. We said yes and had an email confirmation that the reservation was made. Well, that reservation didn't exist when we arrived, and we were told by reception that we'd have to just wait til 9pm - no apologies for the mistakes made. At that point, I was really getting upset - this is supposed to be a 4 start hotel and have some concept of service. Also I am 4 months pregnant and waiting another 2.5 hrs to eat just wasn't going to work. The maitre d' stepped in and told us that he would fit us in. Which he did.
3) We were charged a 1-night stay deposit at the time that we made our reservation. Reception was supposed to deduct this deposit when we checked out but instead charged us for both night's stay even thought I had already paid for one. So I am still owed 355GBP and 5 days after reporting this issue, it's still not taken care of.
4) When we were playing tennis, we were given 4 balls, 1 of which was completely torn. I went to reception and asked for a fresh ball. I was intending to wait for the balls, but they offered to come to the tennis court to deliver the fresh balls. Well they never arrived. When I went back to ask them what happened, they said "oh we ran out of balls". In a service-oriented hotel, I would expect that they would have come over to the tennis court to at least tell me that since I was told to expect them.
I think that it's the sum total of all these little experiences that make or break an impression of a hotel. I will say that the bed was very comfortable and we loved having our own jacuzzi. Breakfast was okay (fruit plate very very good but eggs cane overcooked once) and dinner really wasn't that great. The grounds are very nice, but you do get the feeling that they are a has-been -- We can only imagine how glorious they used to be during the glory days. In the sum total, we did rather enjoy our stay because we made the best of the situation but I do not think we would stay at Lainston House next time.
Note - The day we checked out was the day after the Bank Holiday and we noticed that the folks working in reception were so much more professional and easy to talk to. So I am willing to give allowance that the bank holiday staff was perhaps just not their best folks and that might have impacted our impression. However, it seems strange to staff your "B" crew on a very important weekend.
Great hotel - if you're not paying!
I stayd here for 3 days for a work function and was looking forward to it with trepidation after reading a few of the reviews.
First impressions are good, the house and grounds look superb and grand. The reception is a bit small but nothing too bad.
The room I had was massive, with 2 king size beds lots in the sheer space. The room was equipped with a TV, video and DVD and had a few DVD/videos next to it. Overall I thought the bedroom was pretty spectacular with a very comfortable bed.
The bathroom was huge, a jacuzzi-type bath was next to 2 sinks. The room had an excellent supply of fluffy towels and robes. The shower wet room was massive, the only drawback being the soap dish was at the opposite end to the shower, but this was a minor drawback. To add to the luxury the floor had underfloor heating, plus a toilet with an infrared sensor to save you touching it!
Food in the hotel was great for a business function, the bar was also ok if a bit small.
Overall it was a great place to stay, 10 minutes from Winchester. It was a bit expensive but as I didn't pay I can't complain!
Nice exterior to the building, lovely gorunds, not matched inside
After reading all the wonderful reviews on this site, I booked a hi deluxe room for myself and my girlfriend at the end of February 2005 so that we could go away, be pampered and enjoy some quality time togther. We drove up the long, winding, tree lined driveway and upto the main house which was absolutley picture postcard gorgeous! We thought we would be in for a treat.
Going into reception, we saw the open log fire in front of us, which was welcoming, but the reception desk on the right was small, uninviting and looked like it had been thrown together in an hour by some Polish builder! After checking in, we went up the creaking staircase to our room. The carpet outside the bedroom door was dirty. When we went in I walked staright to the bed to see how clean it was and I pulled back the bed spread. It had a large stain on the inside. I called housekeeping and they quickly came and removed the bedspread but did not replace it. The television only had 5 channels and no sattallite. Remember, we spent �155 for this room. The bathroom was not at all 5* in fact I wouldn't call it 2*, it was very simple and very old, like in a council house!
We left after 5 hours. I complained the next day and I got a full refund. Never again, except maybe if I pay �30 a night.
A hotel full of contradictions...
This is probably the lowest rating the Lainston has received on this website, so allow me to explain why. After staying in the Lainston for 3 weeks in 3 different rooms (for work), I've decided that this hotel is utterly full of contradictions that is at odds with its upmarket image it tries to portray. Certainly not a cheap hotel, it does have its cheapness - like a tea/coffee tray on request for �5 per day, something generally included even in bed and breakfasts in England. So it tries to redeem itself by including complementary bottled water in the room. The restaurant is not cheap either, considering they charge London prices in Winchester. (Starters are �10-15 and main courses are �20-30) Yet, their staff failed to charge the bill to my room and never bothered to rectify it even though I was honest enough to tell them they undercharged me. (In fact this has happened a few times during my stay so readers should definitely take note and charge things to their room - they might forget about them as well.) For a grand country house labelled "pure excellence" (quote from its website), the service is decidedly inconsistent - from the wonderful barman to the morning receptionist who can't cope with printing out a bill in the morning (and left me waiting at the counter for 10 minutes), from the fantastic maitre'd at breakfast who always remember my usual order to the check-in staff who lost my reservation despite sending a confirmation email to me. If you are planning to visit the Lainston for a romantic getaway, don't bother unless you can afford one of the suites. The photos on the website is decidedly misleading as on three separate occasions when I was in a traditional double room, my room looked nothing like it, not to mention the brown bathroom with lack of water pressure in the shower which forced me to resort to taking a bath.
Wonderful country hotel
Had a very nice saturday night here in February - a great old country mansion. We stayed in the new wing, but it was still luxurious. We had a deluxe double (�145), but the room was more like a suite: it was massive with a huge bathroom. Nice old-fashioned book-lined bar/reading room downstairs which had a good two-man jazz band on saturday night at least. Fabulous gardens and they have good walking maps at the desk. We hd a problem with the room being cold, and althuogh they couldn;t fix it they quickly gave us a large portable heater. FYI, the breakfast can be bargained down on the phone, and although full value of �17.50pp would be a crazy price, it is indeed very good (especially if you did not use the dining rooms for dinner)�7-8 from Winchester in a taxi.
We had wonderful dinner at the Wykeham Arms in Winchester a fantastic old gastro-pub, which was great for tourists, but full of locals (you need to book ahead though).
Lovely relaxation!
Outstanding house, beautiful location, excellent service.
We arrrived late due to traffic problems but the house and the open fire in reception was so inviting and cosy that you coudn't help but relax as soon as you came through the door...
We had a junior suite - and had been guaranteed a four poster bed. When we were shown our room, there was someone already in it (not a great start for sure)...but the staff were so apologetic and friendly and really made every effort to make it right. They not only upgraded us again, we got champagne, chocolates and fruit along with a teddy bear as an apology for messing up the reservation. We then got �80 off of our bill in addition to this and still managed to put us in a room that was really lovely!
The staff couldn't have been friendlier and more helpful. The bathrooms are AMAZING - really big with walk in showers with rain bars, heated floors and mirrors - just lovely! The grounds are great too for a lovely walk in the autumn sun!
We had breakfast there and thought it was a little limited and disappointing.
I really enjoyed our stay here and would definitely go back
Fantastic hotel
Stayed at Lainston House 12-14 November 2004. Great hotel, wonderful room (upgraded to a deluxe room), good food and service and, above all, smiling staff who were all willing to help whenever asked. Notwithstanding the fact that other functions were taking place at the weekend (a wedding, parties, etc.) we, as private guests, were made to feel completely special. The grounds of the hotel are absolutely beautiful - what a way to spend a weekend.
Stunning building and grounds
5 stars for room (Junior Suite room cost a fortune, but was worth it - the most incredible bathroom I've ever seen) and food (if you're really into gourmet food you won't be disappointed) and general look and atmosphere of the place.
The only downsides were:
- They showed us to the wrong room
- Some of the staff's mastery of English was, er, limited
- For these prices tea/coffee should not be 5UKP a day extra
- 2 weddings on at the same time - didn't really cause a problem, but we're very noise tolerant. They have weddings almost every weekend. If you see the place you'll understand why it's so popular
- Continental Breakfast wasn't to the same high standard as dinner
But despite all that, the stunning building and grounds, great food and fantastic rooms make for a great romantic get-away.
My favourite of all time! A******
We simply had the best most romantic time here. Even though a wedding was in full swing and it was a cold February day, the candles along the cloisters glowed beautifully and everything was heavenly.
Our suite was superb with everything thought of - and the adjoining bathroom a delight (although hubby banged his head on the TV bracket in the bathroom!)
The decorations were sumptuous, our meal was exceptional (with extra sorbets and dishes compliments of the Chef) - by the window in the beautiful restaurant. Staff were fantastic, everywhere was immaculate. Even tea and cakes on the Sunday in the drawing room was a real treat. I just did not want to leave. (Can't wait to go back - hint, hint!)
If we lived nearby, we would be there for Sunday lunch every weekend!
Great Night, Great Food
Stayed one nigth with my wife. Fantastic four poster bedroom, excellent bathroom. The dinner was excellent. Staff were friendly and helpful.
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Table of Contents - Volume 705, Special issue dedicated to Professor T. J. Pedley on his 70th birthday - 2012
a1 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Vic 3800, Australia
a2 Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, South Kensington SW7 2AZ, UK
We determine optimal inflow boundary perturbations to steady flow through a straight inflexible tube with a smooth axisymmetric stenosis at a bulk-flow Reynolds number , for which the flow is asymptotically stable. The perturbations computed produce an optimal gain, i.e. kinetic energy in the domain at a given time horizon normalized by a measure of time-integrated energy on the inflow boundary segment. We demonstrate that similarly to the optimal initial condition problem, the gain can be interpreted as the leading singular value of the forward linearized operator that evolves the boundary conditions to the final state at a fixed time. In this investigation we restrict our attention to problems where the temporal profile of the perturbations examined is a product of a Gaussian bell and a sinusoid, whose frequency is selected to excite axial wavelengths similar to those of the optimal initial perturbations in the same geometry. Comparison of the final state induced by the optimal boundary perturbation with that induced by the optimal initial condition demonstrates a close agreement for the selected problem. Previous works dealing with optimal boundary perturbation considered a prescribed spatial structure and computed an optimal temporal variation of a wall-normal velocity component, whereas in this paper we consider the problem of a prescribed temporal structure and compute the optimal spatial variation of velocity boundary conditions over a one-dimensional inflow boundary segment. The methodology is capable of optimizing boundary perturbations in general non-parallel two- and three-dimensional flows.
(Received May 25 2011)
(Reviewed November 15 2011)
(Accepted January 26 2012)
(Online publication March 01 2012)
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By Mr. Kenneth David Hall (IMCOM)June 17, 2009
HUMPHREYS GARRISON - 27 Republic of Korea Air Force troops successfully completed the first Conversational English course and were honored during a ceremony at the Republic of Korea Air Force Compound here on May 28.
The course is the first in what is planned to be an on-going series of courses supported by U.S. active duty and Civilian volunteer instructors from throughout Area III. The first course ran about six weeks and was staffed by 15 volunteer instructors.
"This is our first graduating class, and we're very proud of everyone," said Denise Chappell, Army Community Services Volunteer Coordinator. "We're very glad the students were able to learn a lot."
Chappell organized and set up the class with the assistance of the 7th ROKAF.
"Because of this English conversation class, we are making new friendships between Koreans and Americans," said Col. Lee, Chan-kyung, 7th ROKAF commander, USAG-Humphreys. "This is a great foundation to build on and I hope our friendships continue on forever."
The students were presented certificates of completion by Lee, Chappell, and Humphreys Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Jason K. Kim.
"I can't believe six weeks have gone by so quickly," said Kim. "Now, we not only recognize our graduates but our outstanding volunteers for their selfless and dedicated service to our community.
"Our volunteers gracefully give so much of their personal time and effort to teach conversational English to ROK Air Force personnel. I truly appreciate their time and effort to enhance quality of life for all our Soldiers, Civilians, and Families. This program has been successful, and USAG-Humphreys will continue to support volunteer efforts on and off the installation," he said.
Chappell said future courses will include both volunteer and ROKAF spouses and children during class time. This is good news for both volunteer teachers and students alike.
"It's very rewarding and it makes me feel like I'm here for more than my job," said Air Force Staff Sgt. Tomas Morales, a weather forecaster with 607th Weather Squadron, Det. 2, USAG-Humphreys. "It makes time go by fast, and it's great to build new bonds with our Korean hosts. I've really enjoyed it, and plan to come back and volunteer in the program in the future."
Reaping the benefits of the Humphreys Garrison volunteer efforts are ROKAF airmen.
"It was a very nice opportunity for me and for all of us," said Staff Sgt. Han, Min-kyu. "I really appreciate what all the instructors and Denise Chappell have done for me. At first, I felt fear when I considered taking this course but during this class, I achieved confidence in English conversation skills and have made new friends."
The next ROKAF Conversational English class starts June 11 and will meet every Thursday for six weeks. For more information about volunteering to teach Conversational English, call Denise Chappell, Army Community Services at 753-3266.


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Keep your employees happy, or they may 'retire' on the job
Published: Friday, May 11, 2012 at 9:59 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 11, 2012 at 9:59 a.m.
If you're lucky, you bound out of bed each morning looking forward to another day at work. Maybe it's because your work is fulfilling or you work with a great boss who has your back. Or maybe your co-workers are interesting and fun.
But maybe your job is boring, your boss is an egotist and your co-workers are morons. And because of that, maybe you've " retired" on the job.
That attitude shows up a lot in surveys of folks who want to change jobs.
Keeping employees engaged is a huge problem facing companies as the nation claws out of the economic doldrums, according to participants in several workshops at HR Houston's 21st annual Gulf Coast Symposium. As the economy improves, more employees who felt stuck during the recession are starting to look around for greener pastures.
But bosses can make their own side of the fence look better to employees by putting some time and effort into making sure they feel as if they're a critical part of the team.
It's a matter of recognizing their efforts with a simple " thank you" in person or email, celebrating special milestones with a cake for the office, and sitting down periodically to discuss where they're going next in their careers.
"We pile on the perks for the top 10 percent," said Debra Bogowitz of Accelerated HR Solutions in El Dorado Hills, Calif. The bottom 10 percent get lots of attention too, she said, with coaching and documentation of deficiencies.
But the massive middle gets overlooked, said Bogowitz, who gave a presentation Wednesday at the conference. "They're known as POPOs: Passed over and pissed off."
One great way to make sure newer employees are engaged is to check with them about six months into the job to find out if they're happy.
Bogowitz calls it a "stay" interview. It involves asking employees what they like about the job and what they don't like, what changes they'd like to see, and what could entice them to leave the company — and then using the answers to make adjustments.
"If you aren't re- recruiting your best people, you're the only one who isn't," she said.
When it's too late
And don't wait until someone hands in a resignation. By then it's too late. The emotional attachment is gone.
Doing a better job of driving employee engagement isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition.
Some employees may want more work-life balance, especially the opportunity to work from home occasionally, said Kevin Sheridan, CEO of HR Solutions International in Chicago, who estimates that 60 percent of workers are ambivalent about their jobs. They feel unappreciated and at times unimportant, and do just enough to get by.
Melissa Williams, a recruiting manager at the Achilles Group in Houston, reinforced the notion that being appreciated can keep people around, at least for a while. She recalled staying in a job longer than she should have because she was recognized regularly for her talent.
Williams, clearly an extrovert, worked in a windowless cubicle where she scrolled the big job boards for résumés. But she couldn't contact the candidates - that was someone else's job.
"That's like a caged tiger with me not talking," she said. "But they'd say: 'You are doing such a great job. Now be quiet.' So I'd stay another month."
Sheridan, author of "Building a Magnetic Culture: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce," said some of the younger employees in his office suggested putting up "personal fact sheets" in the break room. The fun facts spark conversation and promote a friendly workplace.
Higher productivity
Brittany Smith, a recruiter with Houston-based accessory retailer Charming Charlie, believes that strong engagement translates into higher productivity. Each year it surveys workers in its 193 stores to assess employee satisfaction.
One recent questionnaire uncovered a desire for break room goodies, and Charming Charlie now provides free Starbucks coffee and healthy snacks.
"It's a little something that shows we appreciate our employees and that we're listening," she said.
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With the advanced capabilities of today's computer technologies, researchers can now collect vast amounts of information with unprecedented speed. However, gathering information is only one half of a scientific discovery, as the data also need to be analyzed and interpreted. A new center on campus aims to hasten such data-driven discoveries by making expertise and advanced computational tools available to Caltech researchers in many disciplines within the sciences and the humanities.
The new Center for Data-Driven Discovery (CD3), which became operational this fall, is a hub for researchers to apply advanced data exploration and analysis tools to their work in fields such as biology, environmental science, physics, astronomy, chemistry, engineering, and the humanities.
The Caltech center will also complement the resources available at JPL's Center for Data Science and Technology, says director of CD3 and professor of astronomy George Djorgovski.
"Bringing together the research, technical expertise, and respective disciplines of the two centers to form this joint initiative creates a wonderful synergy that will allow us opportunities to explore and innovate new capabilities in data-driven science for many of our sponsors," adds Daniel Crichton, director of the Center for Data Science and Technology at JPL.
At the core of the Caltech center are staff members who specialize in both computational methodology and various domains of science, such as biology, chemistry, and physics. Faculty-led research groups from each of Caltech's six divisions and JPL will be able to collaborate with center staff to find new ways to get the most from their research data. Resources at CD3 will range from data storage and cataloguing that meet the highest "housekeeping" standards, to custom data-analysis methods that combine statistics with machine learning—the development of algorithms that can "learn" from data. The staff will also help develop new research projects that could benefit from large amounts of existing data.
"The volume, quality, and complexity of data are growing such that the tools that we used to use—on our desktops or even on serious computing machines—10 years ago are no longer adequate. These are not problems that can be solved by just buying a bigger computer or better software; we need to actually invent new methods that allow us to make discoveries from these data sets," says Djorgovski.
Rather than turning to off-the-shelf data-analysis methods, Caltech researchers can now collaborate with CD3 staff to develop new customized computational methods and tools that are specialized for their unique goals. For example, astronomers like Djorgovski can use data-driven computing in the development of new ways to quickly scan large digital sky surveys for rare or interesting targets, such as distant quasars or new kinds of supernova explosions—targets that can be examined more closely with telescopes, such as those at the W. M. Keck Observatory, he says.
Mary Kennedy, the Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Biology and a coleader of CD3, says that the center will serve as a bridge between the laboratory-science and computer-science communities at Caltech. In addition to matching up Caltech faculty members with the expertise they will need to analyze their data, the center will also minimize the gap between those communities by providing educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
"Scientific development has moved so quickly that the education of most experimental scientists has not included the techniques one needs to synthesize or mine large data sets efficiently," Kennedy says. "Another way to say this is that 'domain' sciences—biology, engineering, astronomy, geology, chemistry, sociology, etc.—have developed in isolation from theoretical computer science and mathematics aimed at analysis of high-dimensional data. The goal of the new center is to provide a link between the two."
Work in Kennedy's laboratory focuses on understanding what takes place at the molecular level in the brain when neuronal synapses are altered to store information during learning. She says that methods and tools developed at the new center will assist her group in creating computer simulations that can help them understand how synapses are regulated by enzymes during learning.
"The ability to simulate molecular mechanisms in detail and then test predictions of the simulations with experiments will revolutionize our understanding of highly interconnected control mechanisms in cells," she says. "To some, this seems like science fiction, but it won't stay fictional for long. Caltech needs to lead in these endeavors."
Assistant Professor of Biology Mitchell Guttman says that the center will also be an asset to groups like his that are trying to make sense out of big sets of genomic data. "Biology is becoming a big-data science—genome sequences are available at an unprecedented pace. Whereas it took more than $1 billion to sequence the first genome, it now costs less than $1,000," he says. "Making sense of all this data is a challenge, but it is the future of biomedical research."
In his own work, Guttman studies the genetic code of lncRNAs, a new class of gene that he discovered, largely through computational methods like those available at the new center. "I am excited about the new CD3 center because it represents an opportunity to leverage the best ideas and approaches across disciplines to solve a major challenge in our own research," he says.
But the most valuable findings from the center could be those that stem not from a single project, but from the multidisciplinary collaborations that CD3 will enable, Djorgovski says. "To me, the most interesting outcome is to have successful methodology transfers between different fields—for example, to see if a solution developed in astronomy can be used in biology," he says.
In fact, one such crossover method has already been identified, says Matthew Graham, a computational scientist at the center. "One of the challenges in data-rich science is dealing with very heterogeneous data—data of different types from different instruments," says Graham. "Using the experience and the methods we developed in astronomy for the Virtual Observatory, I worked with biologists to develop a smart data-management system for a collection of expression and gene-integration data for genetic lines in zebrafish. We are now starting a project along similar methodology transfer lines with Professor Barbara Wold's group on RNA genomics."
And, through the discovery of more tools and methods like these, "the center could really develop new projects that bridge the boundaries between different traditional fields through new collaborations," Djorgovski says.
On Saturday, October 18, hundreds of undergraduate students will share the results of their projects during SURF Seminar Day. The event, which is open to the public, is an opportunity for students to discuss and explain their research to individuals with a wide-range of expertise and interests.
This summer, several undergraduate students at Caltech had the opportunity to help optimize a promising technique that can make tissues and organs—even entire organisms—transparent for study. As part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, these students worked in the lab of Assistant Professor of Biology Viviana Gradinaru, where researchers are developing such so-called clearing techniques that make it possible to peer straight through normally opaque tissues rather than seeing them only as thinly sectioned slices that have been pieced back together.
Gradinaru's group recently published a paper in the journal Cell describing a new approach to tissue clearing. The method they have created builds on a technique called CLARITY that Gradinaru helped develop while she was a research associate at Stanford. CLARITY allowed researchers to, for the first time, create a transparent whole-brain specimen that could then be imaged with its structural and genetic information intact.
CLARITY was specifically developed for studying the brain. But the new approach developed in Gradinaru's lab, which the team has dubbed PARS (perfusion-assisted agent release in situ), can also clear other organs, such as the kidney, as well as tissue samples, such as tumor biopsies. It can even be applied to entire organisms.
Like CLARITY, PARS involves removing the light-scattering lipids in the tissue to make samples transparent without losing the structural integrity that lipids typically provide. First the sample is infused with acrylamide monomers that are then polymerized into a hydrogel that provides structural support. Next, this tissue–hydrogel hybrid is immersed in a detergent that removes the lipids. Then the sample can be stained, often with antibodies that specifically mark cells of interest, and then immersed in RIMS (refractive index matching solution) for imaging using various optical techniques such as confocal or lightsheet microscopy.
Over the summer, Sam Wie, a junior biology major at Caltech, spent 10 weeks in the Gradinaru lab working to find a polymer that would perform better than acrylamide, which has been used in the CLARITY hydrogel. "One of the limitations of CLARITY is that when you put the hydrogel tissue into the detergent, the higher solute concentration in the tissue causes liquid to rush into the cell. That causes the sample to swell, which could potentially damage the structure of the tissue," Wie explains. "So I tried different polymers to try to limit that swelling."
Wie was able to identify a polymer that produces, over a similar amount of time, about one-sixth of the swelling in the tissue.
"The SURF experience has been very rewarding," Wie says. "I've learned a lot of new techniques, and it's really exciting to be part of, and to try to improve, CLARITY, a method that will probably change the way that we image tissues from now on."
At another bench in Gradinaru's lab, sophomore bioengineering major Andy Kim spent the summer focusing on a different aspect of the PARS technique. While antibodies have been the most common markers used to tag cells of interest within cleared tissues, they are too large for some studies—for example, those that aim to image deeper parts of the brain, requiring them to cross the blood–brain barrier. Kim's project involved identifying smaller proteins, such as nanobodies, which target and bind to specific parts of proteins in tissues.
"While PARS is a huge improvement over CLARITY, using antibodies to stain is very expensive," Kim says. "However, some of these nanobodies can be produced easily, so if we can get them to work, it would not only help image the interior of the brain, it would also be a lot less costly."
During his SURF, Kim worked with others in the lab to identify about 30 of these smaller candidate binding proteins and tested them on PARS-cleared samples.
While Wie and Kim worked on improving the PARS technique itself, Donghun Ryu, a third SURFer in Gradinaru's lab, investigated different methods for imaging the cleared samples. Ryu is a senior electrical engineering and computer science major at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in the Republic of Korea.
Last summer Ryu completed a SURF as part of the Caltech–GIST Summer Undergraduate Research Exchange Program in the lab of Changhuei Yang, professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering, and medical engineering at Caltech. While completing that project, Ryu became interested in optogenetics, the use of light to control genes. Since optogenetics is one of Gradinaru's specialties, Yang suggested that he try a SURF in Gradinaru's lab.
This summer, Ryu was able to work with both Yang and Gradinaru, investigating a technique called Talbot microscopy to see whether it would be better for imaging thick, cleared tissues than more common techniques. Ryu was able to work on the optical system in Yang's lab while testing the samples cleared in Gradinaru's lab.
"It was a wonderful experience," Ryu says. "It was special to have the opportunity to work for two labs this summer. I remember one day when I had a meeting with both Professor Yang and Professor Gradinaru; it was really amazing to get to meet with two Caltech professors."
Gradinaru says that the SURF projects provided a learning opportunity not only for the participating students but also for her lab. "For example," she says, "Ryu strengthened the collaboration that we have with the Yang group for the BRAIN Initiative. And my lab members benefited from the chance to serve as mentors—to see what works and what can be improved when transferring scientific knowledge. These are very important skills in addition to the experimental know-how that they master."
On September 30, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its first round of funding in furtherance of President Obama's "Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnology"—or BRAIN—Initiative. Included among the 58 funded projects—all of which, according to the NIH, are geared toward the development of "new tools and technologies to understand neural circuit function and capture a dynamic view of the brain in action"—are six projects either led or co-led by Caltech researchers.
The Caltech projects are:
"Dissecting human brain circuits in vivo using ultrasonic neuromodulation"
Doris Tsao, assistant professor of biologyMikhail Shapiro, assistant professor of chemical engineering
Tsao and Shapiro are teaming up to develop a new technology that both uses ultrasound to map and determine the function of interconnected brain networks and, ultimately, to change neural activity deep within the brain. "This would open new horizons for understanding human brain function and connectivity, and create completely new options for the noninvasive treatment of brain diseases such as intractable epilepsy, depression, and Parkinson's disease," Tsao says. "The key," Shapiro adds, "is to gain a precise understanding of the various mechanisms by which sound waves interact with neurons in the brain so we can use ultrasound to produce very specific neurological effects. We will be able to do this across the full spectrum, from molecules up to large model organisms."
"Modular nanophotonic probes for dense neural recording at single-cell resolution"
Michael Roukes, Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and BioengineeringThanos Siapas, professor of computation and neural systems
Roukes, Siapas, and their colleagues at Columbia University and Baylor College of Medicine propose to build ultra-dense arrays of miniature light-emitting and light-sensing probes using advanced silicon "chip" technology that permits their production en masse. These probes open the new field of integrated neurophotonics, Roukes says, and will permit simultaneous recording of the electrical activity of hundreds of thousands to, ultimately, millions of neurons, with single-cell resolution, in any given region of the brain. "The instrumentation we'll develop will enable us to observe the trafficking of information, in vivo, in brain circuits on an unprecedented scale, and to correlate this activity with behavior," he says.
"Time-Reversal Optical Focusing for Noninvasive Optogenetics"
Changhuei Yang, professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering, and medical engineeringViviana Gradinaru, assistant professor of biology
Deep-brain stimulation has been used successfully for nearly two decades for the treatment of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, chronic pain, depression, and other disorders. Current systems rely on electrodes implanted deep within the brain to modify the firing pattern of specific clusters of neurons, bringing them back into a more normal pattern. Yang and Gradinaru are working together on a method that would use only light waves to noninvasively activate light-sensitive molecules and precisely guide the firing of nerves. Biological tissues are opaque due to the scattering of light waves, and that scattering makes it impossible to finely focus a laser beam deep into brain tissue. The researchers hope to use an optical "time-reversal" trick previously developed by Yang to counteract the scattering, allowing light beams to be targeted to specific locations within the brain. "The technology to be developed in this project has the potential for wide-ranging applications, including noninvasive deep brain stimulation and precise incisionless laser surgery," he says.
"Integrative Functional Mapping of Sensory-Motor Pathways"
Michael H. Dickinson, Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering
As in other animals, locomotion in the fruit fly is a complicated process involving the interplay of sensory systems and motor circuits in the brain. Dickinson and his colleagues hope to decipher just how the brain uses sensory information to guide movements by developing a system to record the activity of large numbers of individual neurons from across the brains of fruit flies, as the flies fly in flight simulator or walk on a treadmill and are simultaneously exposed to various sights and sounds. Understanding sensory–motor integration, he says, should lead to a better understanding of human disorders, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, and spinal cord injury, and aid in the design and optimization of robotic prosthetic limbs and prosthetic devices that restore sight and other senses.
"Establishing a Comprehensive and Standardized Cell Type Characterization Platform"
David J. Anderson, Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (co-PI)
In collaboration with Hongkui Zeng and colleagues at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Anderson will help to develop a detailed, publicly available database characterizing the genetic, physiological, and morphological features of the various cell types in the brain that are involved in circuits controlling sensations and emotions. Understanding the cellular building blocks of brain circuits, the researchers say, is crucial for figuring out how those circuits can malfunction in disease. In particular, Anderson's lab will focus on the cells of the brain's hypothalamus and amygdala—structures that are vital to emotions and behavior, and involved in human psychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression. "This project will serve as a model for hub-and-spoke collaborations between academic laboratories and the Allen Institute, permitting access to their valuable resources and technologies while advancing the field more broadly," Anderson says.
"Vertically integrated approach to visual neuroscience: microcircuits to behavior"
Markus Meister, Lawrence A. Hanson, Jr. Professor of Biology (co-PI)
This project, led by Hyunjune Sebastian Seung of Princeton University, will use genetic, electrophysiological, and imaging tools to identify and map the neural connections of the retina, the light-sensing tissue in the eye, and determine their roles in visual perception and behavior. "Here we are shooting for a vertically integrated understanding of a neural system," Meister says. "The retina offers such a fantastic degree of experimental access that one can hope to bridge all scales of organization, from molecules to cells to microcircuits to behavior. We hope that success here can eventually serve as a blueprint for understanding other parts of the brain." Knowing the neural mechanisms for vision can also influence technological applications, such as new algorithms for computer vision, or the development of retinal prostheses for the treatment of blindness.
Brine shrimp, which are sold as pets known as Sea-Monkeys, are tiny—only about half an inch long each. With about 10 small leaf-like fins that flap about, they look as if they could hardly make waves.
But get billions of similarly tiny organisms together and they can move oceans.
It turns out that the collective swimming motion of Sea-Monkeys and other zooplankton—swimming plankton—can generate enough swirling flow to potentially influence the circulation of water in oceans, according to a new study by Caltech researchers.
The effect could be as strong as those due to the wind and tides, the main factors that are known to drive the up-and-down mixing of oceans, says John Dabiri, professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at Caltech. According to the new analysis by Dabiri and mechanical engineering graduate student Monica Wilhelmus, organisms like brine shrimp, despite their diminutive size, may play a significant role in stirring up nutrients, heat, and salt in the sea—major components of the ocean system.
In 2009, Dabiri's research team studied jellyfish to show that small animals can generate flow in the surrounding water. "Now," Dabiri says, "these new lab experiments show that similar effects can occur in organisms that are much smaller but also more numerous—and therefore potentially more impactful in regions of the ocean important for climate."
The researchers describe their findings in the journal Physics of Fluids.
Brine shrimp (specifically Artemia salina) can be found in toy stores, as part of kits that allow you to raise a colony at home. But in nature, they live in bodies of salty water, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Their behavior is cued by light: at night, they swim toward the surface to munch on photosynthesizing algae while avoiding predators. During the day, they sink back into the dark depths of the water.
To study this behavior in the laboratory, Dabiri and Wilhelmus use a combination of blue and green lasers to induce the shrimp to migrate upward inside a big tank of water. The green laser at the top of the tank provides a bright target for the shrimp to swim toward while a blue laser rising along the side of the tank lights up a path to guide them upward.
The tank water is filled with tiny, silver-coated hollow glass spheres 13 microns wide (about one-half of one-thousandth of an inch). By tracking the motion of those spheres with a high-speed camera and a red laser that is invisible to the organisms, the researchers can measure how the shrimp's swimming causes the surrounding water to swirl.
Although researchers had proposed the idea that swimming zooplankton can influence ocean circulation, the effect had never been directly observed, Dabiri says. Past studies could only analyze how individual organisms disturb the water surrounding them.
But thanks to this new laser-guided setup, Dabiri and Wilhelmus have been able to determine that the collective motion of the shrimp creates powerful swirls—stronger than would be produced by simply adding up the effects produced by individual organisms.
Adding up the effect of all of the zooplankton in the ocean—assuming they have a similar influence—could inject as much as a trillion watts of power into the oceans to drive global circulation, Dabiri says. In comparison, the winds and tides contribute a combined two trillion watts.
Using this new experimental setup will enable future studies to better untangle the complex relationships between swimming organisms and ocean currents, Dabiri says. "Coaxing Sea-Monkeys to swim when and where you want them to is even more difficult than it sounds," he adds. "But Monica was undeterred over the course of this project and found a creative solution to a very challenging problem."
The title of the Physics of Fluids paper is "Observations of large-scale fluid transport by laser-guided plankton aggregations." The research was supported by the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the National Science Foundation.


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Keith Halderman - 7/2/2009
The article you link to states that "an argument against global warming, which wasn't requested by anyone at the agency." Of course none of the higher ups at Obama's EPA want anyone to dispute their politicized science because they do not care whether or not the temperture is actually rising or falling. All they care about is that Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and other elites make money off of poor people with cap and trade. If it is acknowledged that it is actually getting cooler how will they be able to do that?
Back in the 1980s we told by the global warming religious cult that Washington DC area would be under water by 2010. Seems pretty dry and relatively cool here to me.
I would have been more impressed with your article if it attempted to refute the memo point by point instead of just the usual name calling. Why won't Al Gore debate the English Lord who keeps challenging him? Why is it that no one who does not believe in man made global warming is allowed to testify before Congress? My area of expertise is drug policy and I know very well when debate is being completely avoided because one side has nothing but popular widespread ignornance.
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