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Although recent immigrants are much more likely to have university degrees than earlier immigrants, lower proportions are obtaining high-skilled jobs.
TORONTO, ON – Highly educated immigrants to Canada are facing more difficulties in accessing professional and management occupations than in the mid-1990s, say University of Toronto researchers.
In a recent study published by the Journal of International Migration and Integration, sociologist Jeffrey G. Reitz and doctoral candidates Josh Curtis and Jennifer Elrick analyzed trends in the success of immigrants with university degrees in census data from 1996, 2001, and 2006.
They discovered that although recent immigrants are much more likely to have university degrees than earlier immigrants, lower proportions are obtaining high-skilled jobs.
In 1996, 50.4 per cent of recently immigrated men with higher education succeeded in obtaining a high-skilled occupation, as compared to 70.7 per cent of educated, native-born men. In 2006, only 43.5 per cent of educated immigrant men had these occupations, while the percentage for native-born men remained the same.
Educated immigrant women fared even worse, with their success rate in obtaining high-skilled jobs decreasing from 34.6 per cent in 1996 to 34.4 per cent in 2006. Meanwhile, the success rate for native-born women with similar education levels increased from 64.5 per cent in 1996 to 66.9 per cent in 2006.
Furthermore, the researchers found that the proportion of university-educated immigrants working in low-skill occupations, like sales and manual labour, has steadily increased since 1996.
Reitz, Curtis, and Elrick calculated the total value of work lost from the Canadian economy as a result of this skill underutilization has increased from $4.80 billion in 1996 to $11.37 billion in 2006.
A summary of the study can be found at: Population Change and Lifecourse Strategic Knowledge Policy Brief #14, The Underutilization of Immigrant Skills: Trends and Policy Issues.


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To help connect arts programming to holidays, heritage months, and special occasions often celebrated by schools and community venues, this calendar highlights touring performances that tie to themes of each month (specific dates apply to September 2017 through June 2018).
To book any touring performance, please fill out our online request form or contact Urban Gateways Performance Programs Associate Claire Meyers at firstname.lastname@example.com or 312-445-2743.
PLEASE NOTE: Touring performances can be booked year-round. This list does NOT indicate the show availability, but is a tool to integrate our performances with your calendar.
Here are some show recommendations for special events that are not tied to specific months but which we know many schools, libraries, & community venues celebrate:
Family Nights/Family Engagement
American Groove Evolution
Animal Farm: Musical Tales
Cha Cha Cha: Latin American Dances
From Rag to Rap
The Magic of the Spellbinder
The Make 'Em Ups
Reading-Themed Events
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Based on a True Story
Finding the Light Inside
Made-Up Musical
The Make 'Em Ups
The Puppet Place Shows
Voices of Chicago: Slam Poetry
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|Silk Thangka by Leslie Rinchen Wongmo
Saturday was a fine springlike day, the perfect time for drive north to the Transformative Arts Studio Open House in Oxnard. It was a celebration day for Leslie Rinchen Wongmo's new studio space. I was introduced to Leslie's amazing work through a mutual TAFA membership. Our connection has been online up till now, so it was especially delightful to meet in person and see her work. Photos cannot match the experience of actually seeing these pieces in real life. Stunning!
|Three Mongolians by Leslie Rinchen Wongmo
Leslie Rinchen Wongmo is one of the only westerners trained in India in the rare Tibetan Buddhist art of silk appliqué thangkas. These detailed textiles include silk wrapped horsehair for fine lines with an array of colorful silks and brocades. In addition to creating thangkas and other textile pieces, Leslie keeps the tradition alive by sharing the work through her teaching. Learn more on this introductory video.
The expansive light filled space will house Leslie's work, along with related future workshop offerings by other teachers. I wish her well with this new endeavor!
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Volume 18 Issue 23 | October 21 - 27, 2005
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
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Madeleine Maby and Ryan Canfield, above, star in the theatrical adaptation of Aimee Benders story
collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt.
Magical realism on page is a little unreal on stage
By Rachel Breitman
At the start of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, the black-walled stage appears as sparse as the beginning of the first story, with little furniture other than a mattress on the floor and lamps aligned in a loft above. By the end of the fifth and last story, the same space has become littered with discarded costume changes, and the walls are smeared with chalk drawings. The nine-person cast dances breathlessly, and the audience is left exhausted, inspired, and slightly perplexed by what they have seen.
The script, adapted by Bridgette Dunlap from Aimee Benders collection of short stories by the same name, stays very close to the original text. Benders terse, poetic writing style adjusts easily to spoken word, and some of the stories fantastical descriptions beg to be recreated visually onstage. Dunlaps enactment of these images are particularly memorable, including an imp on stilts, a mermaid who covers her tail by a single boot and walks with a crutch, and beautiful starlet who develops a humped back.
Some of the magic lends itself easily to modern-day metaphor. The woman who balefully tells the story of a lover evolving in reverse gets easy belly laughs from the female members of the audience. Hes shedding a million years a day, she says, as she chronicles his devolution from human to ape to sea turtle.
Others stories could have used a more extensive adaptation. Too-quick character conversions and confusing switches between reality and fantasy are given short shrift as the actors throw clothes and props around, scream, cry, laugh, and write on the walls. In the story of a pregnant teen who falls in love with her hunchbacked step-uncle, the rapid evolution from pregnancy to love to disillusionment, rejection, and a progeny who becomes an adult in a matter of seconds give the spectator a feeling of puzzlement and whiplash.
Benders stories of beautiful and sometimes tragic deformities work best when they remain in the world of childhood. The adolescent angst and insecurity fit perfectly in a world of strange bodily abnormalities. Elizabeth Neptune is delightful as a male teenage imp, who struts around stage on stilts and impresses his peers by telling bawdy jokes and smuggling beer into class in the story Drunken Mimi. His awkward flirtation with Mimi, the class mermaid, is so deliciously realistic that the fact that they are mythical creatures blends seamlessly into the background. In The Healer, Kathryn Ekblad fills a challenging role of a teen with a hand of fire who goes from being a cool oddity to a shamed pariah. The story includes real-world elements, such as a parentless teenage boy who cuts his own skin for comfort, and a communitys shifting fascination and discomfort with difference.
When the stories stray into world of more complicated adult familial relations, the rapid revolution into the bizarre becomes jarring and even detracts from the deeper messages. In the last piece in the collection, from which the play gets its title, the presence of talking mice and a boyfriend kept in a trunk are far-fetched distractions from the story of a painful love between an aging and disabled father and his daughter, who ends up bearing the weight (literally) of much of his illness.
The stories deal blithely with incest, self-mutilation, and family resentments, but the darker scenes, like the incarcerated fire girl amputating her hand, are probably the most powerful. Benders stories are lyrical, bizarre, and delightful, but sometimes the movement from humor to pain, real to surreal, and child to adult on the page should have been dealt with differently onstage.
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The annual Law Ball is the premier event on the Law School social calendar. Occurring in semester 2 of each year the ball is something to look forward to! Six-hundred students can look forward to a delicious three course meal, drinks package and amazing music and production.
The 2017 Law Ball will be held on Saturday 23 September. Watch this space for more information later in the year!


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Have you ever imagine how a Maple seed could become the inspiration for a new UAV? How nature sources ideas for scientists and engineers out there in order for them to get inspired, design and push the boundaries of current tech even furtherer? Well, the people of Lockheed Martin did exactly that by designing a flying robot having in mind a Maple seed. Its name is Samarai, derived from the Latin word "samara," which means a winged seed.
The Intelligent Robotics Lab of LM is behind this "invention" and despite that this is still a prototype (looking more like a broken model airplane and nothing more) the applications of a fully functional robot like that are endless. As Bill Borgia (head of this lab) said, "Think about dropping a thousand of these out of an aircraft" – "Think about the wide area over which one collect imagery. Instead of sending one or two expensive, highly valuable aircraft like we do today, you could send thousands of these inexpensive aircraft, and they are almost expendable"


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The procession began at the waterfront, winding its way through city streets. Candles cast shadows as light faded, footsteps trailing a horse-drawn hearse heard throughout the downtown core.
Five hundred people made the walk. Hundreds more gathered on the boardwalk and sidewalks, watching the team of Percherons — their driver dressed in period black — carry a single coffin.
One hundred years ago to the night since the mighty Titanic began its descent into the murky deeps of the North Atlantic, people from near and far gathered in Halifax, a city inextricably tied to the great ship's dead.
They gathered to hear the story of sorrow — a tragic tale of technology, twisted and torn.
They gathered to commemorate compassion.
And to remember.
In a city that never forgot.
"It's important for me to participate because I've been around water and the ocean all my life," said Calvin Misner, a Dartmouth man who brought his children, 12-year-old Layton and Carley, 9, to walk the route with fellow cubs, scouts and girl guides.
"I wanted to come over to pay my respects."
The walk ended at Halifax's Grand Parade, home of St. Paul's Church. Here, church bells rang out that first Sunday after Titanic's loss, the very day CS Mackay-Bennett's hardy crew of Halifax sailors began pulling in the first of the 328 bodies recovered from the icy ocean, some 1,300 kilometres away.
And before the night was over, the bells would once again toll, following a planned moment of silence and flares fired high to mark the stricken ship's final calls for help.
The ceremony was unlike anything Sabine Haeckel, vacationing here from South Germany, could imagine. Her family, staying in Sherbrooke, made a special trip to HRM on Saturday just for the event.
"I don't think they are doing anything like this in Europe," she said.
"What we have seen is done well."
The three-hour Night of The Bells event, to mark Halifax's connection to the Titanic with music and song, was hosted by Gordon Pinsent and featured an audio-visual presentation by The Chronicle Herald, showing newspaper headlines of the day and vintage video of Titanic survivor Eva Hart, who died in 1996.
"The most dreadful sound of all is the sound of people drowning — the screams," she said.
Twenty acts took to the stage to recreate the time, as the crowd was told, when "man and machine teamed up to conquer the land, sea and sky, making the once-thought impossible, possible."
And nothing symbolized that age more than the largest moving object ever built — the Titanic, "a massive ship of dreams."
The air was filled with the music of first-class passengers, ballads like Danny Boy, and the jigs and reels favoured by steerage passengers, as people on the Grand Parade bundled up and huddled closer in the chill.
Then came the accounts of the sinking — actors giving voice to awful remembrances of that night.
"I had just been lifted into the boat and was still standing when a foreigner rushed up to the side of the vessel. Holding out a bundle in his arms, he cried with tears running down his face, 'Oh please, kind lady, won't you save my little girl, my baby.' Of course, I took the child," said one.
And this from another: "The boat stood up like an enormous black finger against the sky. ..... I never heard such a continued chorus of utter despair and agony."
"By 2:20 a.m., less than three hours after the bump, the frigid Atlantic swallowed the greatest, safest ship man had ever seen, taking with her more than 1,500 men, women and chidren," Pinsent said, leading to the final act: the rescue of 705 survivors and the recovery of 328 dead, 119 of whom would be returned to the sea.
That Halifax should mark the centennial anniversary with such an event is exactly the right thing to do, said Glenn Stundon of Springfield.
Halifax, home of the recovery crews and ships, and the final resting place for 150 of the dead, should pay tribute to those who helped, he said, adding that both his father and grandfather were sailors in the Royal Canadian Navy.
"I think it hits home when anyone loses their life at sea," he said.
"I just find it's not about a movie. It's about all the suffering."
And that's why it's not right to think of the ceremony as a celebration, Stundon said.
"It's more of an acknowledgement that we are proud of our history."


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In the 2nd season premiere of What's New Scooby-Doo, Shaggy (Casey Kasem) is framed for the actions of a 30-foot tall robot duplicate, designed by Professor Pomfritt (special guest star William Schallert), who is jealous of a rival's success. As it happens, Pomfritt had just given Velma (Mindy Cohn) a prize for her latest invention........
Here's "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo":
Schallert had played a school teacher, also named Pomfritt, on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis nearly 50 years earlier.
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#Basicincome Day is 1st of May
Let us celebrate the past, acknowledge the present, and embrace the future of labor - with #basicincome! #MayDay
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What would you do with a monthly salary, separate and in addition to any other salary, but earned as a right of citizenship and sufficient for you to meet your most basic
needs for life? That's basic income, and that's what Basic Income Day is about in recognition of the 21st century.
Popularly known as May Day or Labour Day, May 1st has long been a day to internationally recognize the contributions of the global labor movement and its many struggles and achievements over the years. However, where unions once empowered labor and gave us the 40-hour week and the 8-hour day, globalization and advances in technology have severely eroded the ability of unions to effect change.
As automation of the workplace continues to the tune of potentially eliminating half of all current jobs by 2033, and in addition eroding any sense of financial security or consumer buying power through the growth of part-time jobs, low-paid work, temp labor, gig labor, freelancing, and zero-hour contracts, unconditional basic income represents the ability to empower all labor on an individual basis. A newly gained ability to say "No" to any and all employers would have an undeniable effect on individual bargaining power. That means greater sharing of profits and higher wages, better hours and workplace conditions, more benefits, etc.
The achievement of basic income would be the achievement of a new voluntary contract on more equal footing between employer and employee, including the empowerment of the employee to become their own employer by UBI's functioning as venture capital for the people. It would mean a new age of greater equality, innovation, productivity, and entrepreneurship, where all are finally free to pursue the goals they wish to pursue, and all work could be recognized for its societal value, instead of only paid work as it stands now. Isn't it time we started recognizing all the important labor going unpaid?
Even Andy Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in a forthcoming book explains how basic income is the future of the labor movement, and the policy we must all together now strive for in the 21st century. It's an idea whose time has come.
So what can you do?
There are many ways to support the idea and to help grow the movement for Basic Income. For one, take part in Basic Income Day by supporting this Thunderclap and by changing your profile photos and sharing basic income content across all social media networks on May 1st. Last year we reached 700,000 people. This year, let's reach over 1 million!
In Switzerland there will be over 100 robots protesting with the demand for humans to let them do their work. Other robots all over the world are encouraged to join in with their own local robot protests.
What else can you do any day of the year?
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Redditors For Basic Income (/r/Basicincome)
We are /r/Basicincome, the basic income community on Reddit 30,000+ strong, and we believe basic income is the most important policy we can and must achieve in the 21st century. Without it, we all face growing inequality, shrinking middle classes, increasing poverty, and more insecure lives. With it, the game changes entirely. What will you do with YOUR basic income?


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Your first step is to go to your GP
You should be ready to explain:
- What symptoms you are experiencing
- How long these have been going on (weeks, months, years)
- How the symptoms started (suddenly or came on slowly over time)
- What impact your symptoms are having on your daily life / what are they stopping you from doing (be sure to highlight any issues around sleeping and work)
If another member of your family has AS please make sure that you highlight this to your GP. If you have ever suffered with any of the following problems please also highlight this.
- Inflammation in your eyes (uveitis/iritis)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease)
- Psoriasis
If your GP suspects AS you should be referred to a rheumatologist at a hospital
A rheumatologist is a doctor specialising in conditions such as AS. They will confirm if your condition is AS, decide the initial treatment and oversee the long term management of your condition.
Tests which might be used to help diagnosis your AS might include:
A physical examination by a nurse, physiotherapist or rheumatologist to assess your flexibility and joint tenderness.
A blood test to look at inflammatory markers. If you have inflammation in a part of your body then extra protein can be released from the site of inflammation and circulates in the bloodstream. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP) and plasma viscosity (PV) blood tests are commonly used to detect this increase in protein, and so are markers of inflammation.
We know that in around 50% of cases of AS, inflammatory markers will be within the normal range. Therefore just because your inflammatory markers are normal it does not mean you do not have a form of inflammatory arthritis.
A blood test which can identify if you have the HLA-B27 gene. We know there is a strong association between AS and the HLA -B27 gene. In white western Europeans about 8% carry this gene.
Although HLA B27 is present in over 95% of people with AS, only about 1 in 15 people who are HLA B27 positive go on to develop AS. Just carrying the HLA-B27 gene does not necessarily mean you have AS but if you do test positive it is a clue that your symptoms might point towards AS.
Do remember that 5% of people with AS are HLA-B27 negative so if you have lots of the symptoms of inflammatory arthritis but are HLA-B27 negative it's important to have further investigations.
X-rays will show if there has been any changes to your bones and joints. Your rheumatologist will be looking for signs of extra bone growth or fusion. It can take many years for AS to cause changes to your bones so it is likely that nothing will show on x-ray in early AS.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which will show if there is any inflammation around your joints.
A particular MRI sequence needs to be used to diagnose AS. It is called a STIR sequence (Short TI Inversion Recovery).
If your rheumatologist arranges your MRI they will know what to request. If your GP requests your MRI, check that they have requested that you be investigated for inflammatory arthritis or AS rather than simply requesting you be checked for back pain.


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S.S. - Largest single incident of worker's compensation fraud in Los Angeles County history. Result: Dismissal.
M.W. - One of the largest welfare fraud cases in Los Angeles County history. Result: Probation with restitution.
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E.Z. - Possession of heroin in state prison Los Angeles County. Result: No jail, probation and house arrest.
M.L. - Transportation of cocaine and third DUI in Van Nuys. Result: No jail, residential treatment and house arrest.
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J.R. - Felony evading arrest Ventura, 140 MPH police pursuit on US 101. Result: Misdemeanor with work release.
M.B. - DUI on Federal Military reservation, .08 bac with open container in car. Result: 1 point infraction and $100 fine.
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M.A. - Possession of marijuana for sale, thousands in cash and multiple firearms in Lancaster. Result: Dismissed after suppression motion.
K.M. - Possession of Methamphetamine in Malibu. Result: Dismissed after suppression motion.
C.H. - Arrested for Assault with Deadly Weapon in Pasadena. Result: Dismissed after 12 anger management classes.
M.G. - $13,000 Felony check fraud Los Angeles. Result: Probation with 30 days community service.
L.T. - $265,000 Check fraud Van Nuys. Result: Probation with 300 hours community service.
B.S. - Downey five counts of annoying/molesting children. Result: 120 days house arrest.
S.M. - Case 1: Possession of cocaine and prostitution Van Nuys. Result: Dismissed after motion to suppress evidence. Case 2: Same charges in Torrance. Result: Misdemeanor trespassing.
A.A. - Fourth DUI with refusal in Fresno. Result: Speeding Ticket.
P.L - Assault with deadly weapon w/ GBI enhancement in Ventura. Result: Dismissed after preliminary hearing.
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It's that time of year again! For the people who are unaware of what "that time" is, it is when BookCon is close and many newcomers are prepping for their first time. BookCon can be best described as a beautiful chaos. The event is incredible and allows you to create many amazing memories, however, if you are ill prepared, you will not enjoy the event. Conventions, like BookCon, are not something that you can simply arrive at and hope for the best. The events require some knowledge and planning. Luckily, this being my third time attending, I am here to help you!
If you are familiar with my blog, you may have noticed that I had a similar post last year. Also, I had weekly posts leading up to the event to help you fully prepare. Because those posts were so popular and helpful, I decided to recreate them this year and include some new tips. Because BookCon is a primarily new convention, they are continuing to improve so my posts will be different from the originals. If you all enjoy this post, let me know and feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have about BookCon!
Though a rolling bad is not necessarily needed, it could be a massive help!
At BookCon, you will get plenty of books. As you all know, books are heavy. Carrying many books with only a few tote bags is complete hell. If you want to save your back and arms, put a rolling bag in coat check. NO ROLLING BAGS CAN BE ON THE SHOW FLOOR, YOU HAVE TO CHECK IT INTO COAT CHECK!!
Do not over plan!!
I did this, too. I thought that I could be at five places at one time. Unfortunately, I was completely wrong. I am going to state the sad truth, you will not make it to half of your events if you over plan (especially if they require a wristband). For autographing area signings, you have to be in line AT LEAST an hour before it starts. It does not matter whether you buy a book or not. Despite BookCon stating that you need a book purchase, a purchased book does not mean that you will be able to get it signed. So, if you are planning on buying a book and showing up ten minutes before the signing, you have a slim chance of that happening.
Also, unless you are a VIP, you need to be super early for popular panels in order to get good seats. Panels are first come first serve! VIPs, you get first to pick for seats as long as you stand in line twenty minutes prior.
To be honest, I ditched my schedule and spent most of my Bookcon at the booths.You receive way more free stuff at booths and you can still go to signings that you don't have to wait in line for hours. Spend a lot of time at booths!
Arrive at Bookcon really early!!
I do not know if BookCon is still having wristband events because they haven't announced the autographing schedule yet. However, the wristband signings were significantly better than the sessions the prior year where it was based off who arrived at the autograph line early. The prior years, people would buy the book but not be able to get it signed. However, the wristbands were given out before BookCon even started and GUARANTEED you an autograph. Only problem, the people in the front of the line to get into the convention get first choice of wristbands. If you are at the end of the line, you WILL NOT receive a wristband. It's annoying but it is, in a way, fair because if you show us at the convention at 4am you do deserve the wristbands you want. I arrived at 4:30 AM last year and I was one of the first thirty people in line. Because of that, I got all of the wristbands that I wanted. (In the picture above, that was all of my friends and me waiting in line at 4:30. It's tiring but it's so exciting that you do not care!)
If there is one thing that I despise, it is line cutters. And if you happen to have a habit of cutting lines, you better not do it around me. I will call you out in front of the whole convention center. And since BookCon has a strict rule against cutting lines, you will be asked to leave. I do not care to hear your reasoning for cutting lines. If I see you cut, I will not hesitate to call you out.
Stay at the Show Floor
So, you can either spend your whole day waiting in line for signings at the autographing area, or you can spend you day receiving many books and having to only waste thirty minutes in line at booth signings. The show area is incredible. Last year, I spent the whole day there and received many amazing books! However, DO NOT (UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE) TAKE MULTIPLE COPIES OF ARCS!! You are the biggest asshole if you take three ARCs when there are other people who paid to go to BookCon who would love to have one of those ARCs. You only need one ARC and if your friend wants one, share the ARC. Don't be annoying. You will be the reason publishers refuse to bring ARCs and we will all hate you. Also, SELLING ARCS IS ILLEGAL AND A SERIOUS MATTER. There was a lot of controversy over these two topics after BookCon last year, If you do these things, you lose respect in the book industry and will probably never receive ARCs again. ARCS ARE A PRIVILEGE, NOT A RIGHT!!
Socialize While Waiting
In all honesty, you will spend half of your day in lines. It could go both ways: it could either be terrible or you could make the most of it and talk to fellow bookworms. You are going to be surrounded by bookworms, make friends!!
Wear Comfy Clothes
You will be walking A LOT! You want to wear shows and clothes that won't make you in pain. Keep in mind, the floors are concrete and only some exhibitors have carpet floors. Concretes is hard on your feet if you walk on it all day. Also, flip flops, although they are comfy, aren't desired shoes.
Get the App!
The BookCon app is truly a blessing. Not only is it informational, the people you meet on the app are so amazing. I still am great friends with many of them. On the app, there are planners that you can use to organize your schedule for BookCon. Also, it allows you to see whats going on during the event. Another fun thing is every year, I make a group chat with newbies and experienced BookCon attendees where we plan meets ups and talk about books. Usually, we will all go out to dinner one night during BookCon. If you are interested in joining it, contact me!
There are events around BookCon, too!
The fun of BookCon will be available at other places around the city! Because, so many authors will be staying in New York, book stores will typically host events with them after BookCon. If you look at the event tabs on bookstore websites, they will list when they are hosting events around the time of BookCon. Many Attendees will be at the other events as well.
Do Not Bring Every Book From Every Author You Want To Meet!
You will regret it. You will have to carry those books with you for the whole day. Also, some authors may only sign one book so it would be a waste. Bring only the ones that you desperately want to get signed.
Bring Snacks!
My friend and I forgot to bring snacks because we were planning on buying lunch instead. However, me and my friend were too bus looking for books that we wanted so we never bought lunch. Starving, my friend and I ate left over food from Penguin that had been out all day. I would strongly advise you to being snacks so you don't have to eat stale food and have people look disgusted at you.
Follow and turn on post notifications for publishers and other people at the event.
Many publishers and authors will tweet about give aways at the event. When I was there last year, all the books that I wanted had received because of these giveaways. Once you see a notification, you have to sprint to those booths because their items will be gone in seconds. Last year, there was one final copy of Futhermore by Tahereh Mafi (she is my favorite author ever) and I waited by that booth until they finally tweeted it. I ended up getting that book sixteen seconds after they tweeted it.
Bookcon Checklist
- Book money!!!! Books are sold at Barnes and Noble price. If you want five hard cover novels, then bring around $110. A lot of booths give out free books so you really don't need to buy many books.
- Lunch money. Lunch is pretty pricey at convention centers. Snacks are a far better option since lunch is expensive and takes up too much time.
- Your ticket!!!!! It is the only way you will be allowed inside.
- A lanyard for your ticket!! You should wear your badge at ALL TIMES!
- One tote bag. You will get more but you want to bring one to hold your books until you find more totes.
- Rolling bag!!
- Snacks!
- Some books that you want to get signed.
- A list or schedule of who you want to meet.
- Business cards if you are a blogger, booktuber, author, publisher, etc.
Bookcon FAQs
- Will they post a map of the show floor? Yes, but the maps aren't that great.
- How early should I arrive at the convention center? Two hours before or earlier. The earlier you arrive, the better chance you have at getting wristbands for everything you want to see.
- How early should I arrive for panels and signings? In booth signings: a half and hour. Autographing area and panels: an hour and a half or earlier.
- Will there be food to buy there? Yes, but it will be pretty pricey.
- Will it be okay to bring a backpack with me? Yes, But I recommend bringing a rolling bag and putting it in coat check.
- Do you need to buy books for signings at Bookcon? Only if it says that you do on the details of the signing.


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I don't know about everyone else, but in my mind (for some reason) I envisaged a great conflict between the writer and the director – the former offended about how their perfectly crafted, well-thought out piece has been chopped and changed by the latter whose artistic vision is a polar opposite to theirs. Whilst this may sometimes be the case it certainly isn't all the time. To be quite truthful, I was a little disappointed – perhaps the journalist in me would have enjoyed such an angle!
Over the course of the day I was fortunate enough to watch two exceptional plays, both very different yet equally as thought provoking – whether for the didactic message presented by Hilary Bell in her play Victim Sidekick Boyfriend Me or for Anders Lustgarden's politically charged piece Socialism is Great, both were highly successful and it was clear that both were received well by the audience. Yet I was drawn to exploring the relationship between writer and director and seeing how a formed idea on the page can be brought to life and whether the end result is always what the writer had conceived.
As Anders Lustgarten said, "intent [of the play] is always there from the beginning. I always have something to say and have a way to make it come alive." So what does he suggest when the play in performance is vastly different to the play he had written? He simply had to "chalk it up to experience, but next time have [his] finger on the pulse from the beginning."
I was interested in whether all writers have had an experience in which their work just wasn't re-enacted in a way they had thought it would be. For Hilary Bell her play in performance was much different from how she had imagined it; "[the play] was parallel to my vision, the cast made some distinct choices, particularly the use of Greek chorus, which I didn't intend"
however, Bell still appreciated the effectiveness of the chorus. A runner for the NT Connections festival who also has written plays has certainly had such an experience as "I am quite precious about [my plays.] I did a writers and directors workshop and I had to give a director my piece, it was actually quite painful to watch as I am one of those writers who have a clear vision and what the director was doing was good, but was completely different to what I had in my mind."
I had imagined directors having complete control over the interpretation of these plays, but this idea was quickly deflated after talking to Deborah, one of directors who worked with all the directors of these plays in the directors' workshop, she discussed her deep sense of worry when directing a new piece as she believes it's her "job to serve the play and the writer." She also discussed that there is a sense of some conflict as "when you embark on a journey you want to see where the play goes, there may be an instinct to go down a slightly different route, but your ultimate job [as director] is to serve the play."
Despite me searching avidly for some inherent sense of conflict between these two parties what I found instead was a sense of mutual understanding, and a real desire to get to the heart of the piece and perform it in a way that is befitting of the brilliant cast members, director and writer. The end result of this 'conflict'? Two incredible, evocative plays that stay true to the writers' vision whilst still expressing the creativity of the director and cast members.


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Two home break-ins and one attempted burglary in south Richland in the past week have police once again issuing a reminder and warning to residents to keep their homes and valuables secured.
Police are continuing to see a number of car prowls and burglaries around the Meadow Hills neighborhood and the golf course with a common theme -- unlocked homes and cars door that provide easy access to thieves, said Capt. Mike Cobb.
"A lot of it is unlocked doors," he said. "And if they are breaking windows (on cars) it's usually weapons of opportunity, like rocks."
The incidents also are occurring once the sun goes down.
"We had three in the last couple of weeks, but we've had a problem with residential burglaries in south Richland since mid-June," Cobb told the Herald. "We've been focusing a significant amount of resources in that area, but the last one, when it occurred, there were a lot of police officers in the immediate area, and it still happened."
The latest break-in happened sometime between midnight and 8 a.m. Sunday in the 1700 block of Meadow Hills Drive. A suspect entered the home through an open garage door and stole a purse, police said.
There was also a burglary Nov. 25 in the 400 block of Oahu Street, where a suspect went into the house through an unlocked door sometime between midnight and 3 a.m., swiping small electronics and cash.
That same night, an attempted burglary was reported in the 300 block of Wolverine Court, police said. In that incident, the suspect went in through an unlocked sliding glass door but then was scared off after being spotted by a resident, police said.
The suspect likely didn't know the house was occupied, Cobb said.
Car prowls in the area also have resulted in thefts of electronics and a pistol, he said.
There are no suspect descriptions available in any of the incidents.
Cobb said he wouldn't be surprised to learn it's the same person or group of people committing the crimes, but right now, there's nothing to link them together beyond geography and that they're happening when it's dark outside.
Residents should "lock homes, lock cars," and "be vigilant, be observant," he said. Also if anything or anybody suspicious is seen in the neighborhood, Cobb said citizens should call 911, or the non-emergency dispatch number at 628-0333 if they don't feel it's an emergency.
Man arrested for allegedly robbing another man of $5
A 19-year-old Kennewick man was arrested Sunday after allegedly robbing another man of $5.
Kennewick police were called to the area of 1724 W. 45th Ave. around 9 p.m. after Cody Ayers, 18, of Kennewick, reported the robbery, said Sgt. Ken Lattin.
Ayers said he was walking in the area when he was approached by Blake Dalton, who threatened to assault him and demanded money, Lattin said.
Ayers gave Dalton $5.
Dalton reportedly tried to run off when police arrived, but he was quickly caught and arrested.
Dalton was booked into the Benton County jail on suspicion of second-degree robbery and resisting arrest.
Man dies in crash after suffering medical emergency while driving
A Mesa man was killed Sunday in a wreck north of Connell after suffering an unknown medical emergency, said the Washington State Patrol.
James A. Schlatter, 58, died at Lourdes Medical Center in Pasco, where he was taken after the 7:30 p.m. crash.
Schlatter was driving east on Lind Road approaching Highway 395 when some type of medical emergency caused his 1998 Toyota pickup to go off the road, troopers said.
His truck then crashed into a barbed wired fence.
Schlatter, a lifelong Mesa resident, worked for the state Department of Corrections as a cook at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell.
Police investigating gas station robbery where gun was fired
Hermiston police are investigating a Saturday night robbery at a gas station where a single gunshot may have been accidentally fired by the suspects.
The robbery occurred around 10:30 p.m. at the Westside 76 Station, said Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston.
Two employees were working and had just closed the station when two partially masked men approached them and demanded money from the store's deposit bag, he said. The suspects brandished a firearm.
After getting some cash, they ran toward the Ridgeway Village Apartments, Edmiston said. That's when a single round was fired in the area, but detectives believe it may have occurred as the suspects took off, he said.
Investigators have extremely limited information in the case, Edmiston said. Anyone with information about the robbery can call Lt. Travis Eynon at 541-667-5103.
Sunnyside police arrest gang member after finding gun
A traffic stop by Sunnyside police for defective equipment ended up landing a convicted gang member in jail after a gun was found in the glove box, police said.
Sunnyside officers stopped a car, driven by 21-year-old Jorge Galindo around 11:30 p.m. Saturday and found that three of the four occupants were documented gang members, said Sgt. Joey Glossen.
Galindo was arrested for driving with a suspended license and the car was impounded. When officers were taking inventory of items in the car before it was impounded, they found a loaded .38-caliber handgun in the glove box, he said.
After getting a warrant to search the car, they seized the gun. The front seat passenger, Daniel Maldonado, 19, reportedly told police the gun belonged to him and he put it in the glove box of his mother's car before meeting the other gang members in Sunnyside, Glossen said.
Maldonado, a four-time convicted felon, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and a warrant from Sunnyside Municipal Court.
Police again arrest 17-year-old robbery suspect in Hermiston
HERMISTON -- A 17-year-old Hermiston teen suspected of robbing a bank was arrested again Friday.
Austin J. Erickson previously had been arrested for allegedly being involved the February robbery of the Old West Federal Credit Union, according to Hermiston Police.
Detectives arrested Erickson at his home. They were looking for him based on an active contempt of court warrant related to the previous arrest, according to a news release.
He was arrested in connection with first-degree robbery, first-degree aggravated theft, menacing and attempting to elude in a vehicle, according to the Umatilla County's website.
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Outreach Co-Chair
Landscape and Urban Designer, ASLA
Education: Bachelors of Science in Landscape Architecture – University of California, Davis
Current Profession: Landscape and Urban Designer, Livable Cities Studio, Inc.
Bio: Originally from San Diego, I recently made my way to Denver via Houston, Vancouver and Toronto where I've spent the past 6+ years working on multi-disciplinary design teams, cultivating diverse interests in public space design, master planning, sustainable development and innovative community engagement strategies. My professional background and experience includes streetscapes, design guidelines, civic spaces, campus master plans, multi-family development, community parks and major transit projects. Dedicated to creating vibrant, functional and meaningful public spaces at every scale, I have a passion for place-based design and tackle design challenges with a collaborative and pragmatic approach, recognizing the capacity of place to influence people and the power of integrated design as a catalyst for social change, community building and an increased connection between the natural and urban environments.
Other Activities: ASLA
Commitment to WiD: As Co-Chair of the Outreach Committee, I'm excited to showcase the passion and commitment WiD members have in making a difference in their communities and explore opportunities for new events and activities which promote and engage women in the design professions.


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The Higgs boson
On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 126 GeV. This particle is consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model. The Higgs boson, as proposed within the Standard Model, is the simplest manifestation of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. Other types of Higgs bosons are predicted by other theories that go beyond the Standard Model.
On 8 October 2013 the Nobel prize in physics was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider."
Featured updates on this topic
ATLAS and CMS present new measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson
Do recent discoveries mean there's nothing left? Find out what the future holds for theoretical physics in our final In Theory series installment
It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world's media, as a crowning success of CERN's LHC
New results from CMS and ATLAS experiments reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark
The CMS collaboration closes in on exotic long-lived particles that could get trapped in its detector layers
Steven Weinberg's iconic paper, A Model of Leptons, was published in 1967 and determined the direction for high-energy particle physics research
With the LHC now back smashing protons together at an energy of 13 TeV, what exotic beasts do physicists hope to find?
Five years ago, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of the Higgs boson
To celebrate the fourth birthday of the Higgs boson announcement CERN invites you to make your own particle-based pizza
A new citizen science project gives sofa-scientists the chance to search for previously undiscovered particles
At the 2015 LHCP conference the collaborations presented for the first time combined measurements of many properties of the Higgs boson
Today the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented for the first time a combination of their results on the mass of the Higgs boson


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SOURCE: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.
August 05, 2009 07:15 ET
CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire - August 5, 2009) -
-- Novartis Vaccines ships doses of seasonal influenza vaccine to the
U.S. market aided by an expedited FDA review
-- Providing 30 million doses of Fluvirin vaccine in the U.S., to support
the annual seasonal influenza vaccination campaign
-- Early delivery of vaccine will allow public health officials to begin
the vaccination campaign weeks ahead of the normal schedule
Novartis Vaccines has started shipping seasonal influenza vaccine to U.S.
healthcare facilities for the 2009-2010 season. The company delivered
Fluvirin® influenza virus vaccine, which has been approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to the U.S. weeks ahead of schedule in
anticipation of the increased demand for seasonal influenza vaccine created
by the current global (A) H1N1 influenza pandemic.
"With the (A) H1N1 influenza pandemic underway, it is important that we
take every possible precaution to help protect U.S. citizens from all
circulating strains of influenza," said Andrin Oswald, CEO of Novartis
Vaccines and Diagnostics. "By receiving the seasonal influenza vaccine
early, physicians and public health officials can better prepare for the
upcoming flu season."
An estimated 36,000 people in the United States die each year from the flu
and another 200,000 are hospitalized. Early arrival of the seasonal
influenza vaccine will also allow public health officials to begin
administering vaccinations weeks ahead of their normal schedule, which is
in accordance with guidelines from the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices (ACIP) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). Federal health officials advise that the single best way to protect
against the flu is to get vaccinated each year, and that in general anyone
who wants to reduce their chances of getting the flu can get vaccinated.
Novartis Vaccines will provide the U.S. market with approximately 30
million doses of Fluvirin vaccine, indicated for patients 4 years and
older. Fluvirin vaccine contains antigens to the three influenza virus
strains for this year's vaccine recommended by the World Health
Organization (WHO):
-- A/Brisbane/59/2007, IVR-148 (H1N1)
-- A/Uruguay/716/2007, NYMC X-175C (H3N2) (an A/Brisbane/10/2007-like
-- B/Brisbane/60/2008
"Novartis Vaccines committed early on that we would not let production of a
pandemic vaccine get in the way of our ongoing commitment to provide
seasonal influenza vaccine for the U.S. market," Oswald said. "We have
been able to meet that promise with the early delivery of Fluvirin to the
U.S. Our next goal will be to bring an (A) H1N1 influenza vaccine for
public health use as soon as possible."
About seasonal influenza
Seasonal influenza is a highly communicable, acute viral infection that
predominantly attacks the respiratory tract and sometimes the lungs. It
can cause mild to severe illness and can lead to death.
The number of people in the U.S. who die every year from the flu is similar
to the more than 40,000 people in the U.S. estimated to die from breast
cancer every year and about half of the estimated 70,000 people who die
annually of diabetes and its complications. During the 2007-2008 seasonal
influenza season, 83 children were reported to have died of
influenza-related causes. Of the 63 whose vaccination status was known, 58
(92 percent) were not vaccinated according to recommendations. Final
numbers for the 2008-2009 flu season are not yet available.
Influenza vaccination is one of the most effective public health
interventions ever implemented, sparing millions of people from
complications of the infectious disease. Use of currently available
seasonal flu vaccines has been calculated to save more than 8 million lives
annually, translating to one person saved every five seconds.
ACIP recommends seasonal influenza vaccinations as the principal method of
preventing seasonal influenza. The vaccine is recommended for those at
greatest risk for serious complications, including:
-- Children between 6 months and 18 years of age
-- Pregnant women
-- People 50 years of age and older
-- People of any age with certain chronic health conditions, such as
asthma, diabetes or heart disease
-- People in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities,
-- Household contacts of person at high risk for complications from
-- Household contacts and out-of-home caregivers of children less than 6
months of age
-- Healthcare workers
Important safety information
As is the case with most drugs and vaccines, there is a chance that a
serious allergic reaction, serious illness or even death could occur as a
result of vaccination with Fluvirin vaccine. The most common side effect of
vaccination with Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine is soreness at the
injection site. Less common side effects include fever, malaise, myalgia
and allergic reactions. Fluvirin vaccine should not be administered to
anyone with a history of hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine,
including eggs, egg products or thimerosal. Generally, persons should not
be vaccinated during an acute febrile illness. Vaccination should be
delayed in persons with an active, unstable neurological disorder, but
should be considered when the disorder has been stabilized. The occurrence
of any neurological symptoms or signs following administration of any
vaccine is a contraindication to further use. Fluvirin vaccine is not
indicated for use in children under four years of age. Persons should
consult with their healthcare providers if they are pregnant and/or are
taking other medications. Fluvirin vaccine may not protect 100% of
individuals who are susceptible to influenza. Before administering Fluvirin
vaccine, please see full prescribing information.
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text: Since 9/11 white supremacists and anti-government organizations have been responsible for more incidents of domestic terrorism than Islamic extremists. This is according to a study published by New America. Since 2001 there have been 48 deaths attributable to domestic hate groups while only 26 have been attributed to Muslim extremists. These numbers only account for terrorist acts that have taken place on American soil. These numbers contradict the default image of terrorist attacks on America being generally led by jihadist organizations; a default largely set by the September 11th attacks. According to the study's authors, "The purpose of this database is to provide as much information as possible about American citizens and permanent residents engaged in violent extremist activity as well as individuals, regardless of their citizenship status, living within the United States who have engaged in violent extremist activity." While the raw numbers are substantial to repainting the face of terror, closer examination reveals that right-wing domestic groups have a stranglehold on intimidation and death. Of the 26 deaths attributable to jihadist terrorism, 13 are the result of the 2009 attack on Fort Hood. If you subtract the Fort Hood deaths, Jihadists are responsible for just over 20 percent of terrorist deaths in America. American terror groups also hold a huge lead in terms of the number of terrorist events. Since 2001, there have been 19 terror attacks plotted and carried out by domestic groups compared to seven total executed by Muslim extremists.The study includes the nine deaths that resulted in the Emanuel AME shooting in South Carolina at the hands of Dylann Storm Roof. While these numbers may surprise some, many have understood the growing threat of right-wing terrorism in the U.S. A New York Times article published earlier this month on the subject cites a 2014 study by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) that states that "of 382 law enforcement agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction; 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations." The study only counted attacks with specific political/religious idealogies. Mass Shootings like Sandy Hook were not counted in the study despite the fact that these incidents represent a greater number of fatalities.


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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Elton John goes deep with The Diving Board
The Diving Board is Elton John's first solo album in seven years — and the wait has been worth it.
The cover art for Elton John's brand-new album The Diving Board shows the back of a young guy in jeans and a black T-shirt standing at the edge of the board looking down at a vast expanse of water — as if he is deciding whether or not to jump.
And with that image, Elton John is about to dive back into the music scene with his first solo album in seven years.
5 reasons why we love Elton John >>
Since his last album, the 66-year-old superstar has become the father to two boys, 2-year-old Zachary and 9-month-old Elijah with his husband David Furnish.
And it seems that fatherhood has changed the once-flamboyant performer.
The Diving Board marks a deeply personal turn in John's solo releases. John has taken off the rose-colored, sparkly glasses (with peacock feathers on the sides) and, in collaboration with producer extraordinare T. Bone Burnett, moved his piano back to the forefront — where it should be.
As John states in the album's press release, "in many ways, I feel like I'm starting again, making records. I had to ask myself, 'What kind of music do I really want to make?', and I realized that I had to go back to go forward again. I needed to strip away the excesses and get back to the core of what I do as an artist. That's what The Diving Board represents."
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The first single off of the album, "Home Again," is a perfect example of John and long-time lyricist Bernie Taupin's nostalgic look at life. Over a simple melody, Elton sings, "If I never left, I'd never had known/We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end/Spending all our time trying to get back home again."
Even though this album is a bit subdued, do not worry. There are plenty of upbeat moments including the gospel-tinged "Take This Dirty Water" and the Elton-meets-the-wild-West "A Town Called Jubilee," proving that there is no pop performer out there better in front of a piano.
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Elton explains, "The Diving Board is the album I've been waiting to make for decades."
And in this time of pop music where it's more about how much you can shock than the actual music, The Diving Board is certainly an album we've been waiting to hear.
The Diving Board will be released Sept. 24 and can be pre-ordered now on iTunes.


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The feisty, feathered birds in our Amazon Rainforest are no bird brains; they're extremely smart. That's why we constantly build new toys (enrichment items) for them to keep their minds active and healthy. In fact, they get new toys every day. You can help the birds' caretakers make enrichment items for them during this feature program, as well as learn why they take so much more care than people might expect.
Meet the Amazon birds
Take a break from the temperate climate of British Columbia's West Coast and immerse yourself in the humidity and heat of a re-creation of South America's tropical rainforest. The Graham Amazon Gallery represents one of the biggest ecosystems in the world. This region has over 3,000 fish species and one-fifth of the world's bird species—and many more animals are still being discovered. The gallery highlights some of these amazing species, as well as some of the threats they face.
From scarlet ibises to chatty toucanets, there's a variety of birds that live in the Graham Amazon Gallery. One of them is Cosmo, the blue-fronted Amazon parrot. This species is among the chattiest birds in the animal kingdom. Considered wonderful singers, blue-fronted Amazons are also great at learning words and phrases. Toucanets, on the other hand, can't carry a tune; they grunt more than they sing. Two of these vibrant green birds live in the Graham Amazon Gallery.


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Take 5: With Johanna FoegeJohanna Foege grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and went to school at Northern Illinois University where she earned her degree in the Biological Sciences. From there she moved to Chicago, where she worked with several...Read more
Hagerty Offers Coverage for Time Trials Primers/Nationals EntrantsThe Sports Car Club of America® (SCCA®) is excited to announce that Hagerty will be extending its affordable Track Day Insurance program* to SCCA Time Trials Nationals entrants, as well as a those participating in a handful...Read more
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Where work and life meet, we have a lot of choices.
In the news recently, there has been a flurry of reports of people losing their jobs for conduct outside their work. A Michigan healthcare company decided to fire workers who wont quit smoking, a beer distributor fired a man for appearing in a photograph holding a competitors brand of beer, and a man was fired recently for blogging candid opinions about his workplace. His firing was just one of a recent series of firings related to blogging. The interesting paradox, in his case, was that the business model of the company involved building social networks that promote self-expression among peers.
Superficially, these events appear to be an ominous turn in our culture, but in fairness, they are nothing new. People have been let go for conduct outside for work for ages. Most work in the U.S. is termed "at will." Employers and employees are seen as equals in the employment relationship and either can terminate employment at any time. Beyond that, it is easy to forget that business thrives on reputation and perception. What we might feel encroached upon for not being able to say as employees, we might never consider saying if we owned a company or were responsible for one, just because of the way that communication can be misunderstood and misinterpreted.
My own hope is that employers learn from bad press, in the worst cases, and move on, and that we, as a society, become a little more tolerant so that employers dont feel the need to react. Its nice when work and off-time can be separate enough so that people dont have to, say, be on-guard about what brand of beer they are seen with. But, that said, I am in favor letting people select the terms of their employment. I know many people who would not like to travel as much as I do, but it works for me. Doubtless, there are people who don't mind restricting parts of their off-job conduct as part of their terms of employment.
Which brings us to the original thought behind this blog (yes, there was one).
A few years ago, I learned something interesting at a conference. There are some software companies out there that forbid their developers from looking at open source software. I was kind of shocked when I heard about it. I'd heard of clean room product development where you find people who've never seen a competitors product and lock them away to create something similar in the hopes that that will hold any IP claims at bay, but I hadn't heard about this sort of thing being a permanent condition of employment.
How would you feel if a potential employer told you that you couldnt look at open source in your own time? Would you take that job, or not? Could you do it permanently? Would you do it temporarily?
Note: The title 'All Your Eyes Are Belong To Us' is a bad pun on the phrase 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us'. If you haven't encountered that phrase before, its background is pretty funny; it's worth googling.
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The Financial Services Industry Is (Finally) Embracing Social Media
2013 was a pivotal year for social media in the financial services industry. After a long period of regulatory uncertainty, financial institutions in the USA were given clear guidance from the FFIEC about how they are expected to manage and mitigate social media risks. In addition, the SEC confirmed that social media was an acceptable channel for disclosing key company information. These decisions paved the way for greater social media activity in financial services, as the agenda at this week's SIFMA Tech 2014 conference illustrates.
The discussion around financial matters on social channels has never been more influential. A 2014 survey by Brunswick Group found that 29% of investors are proactively following up on leads initially found on micro-blogging services, such as Twitter. Modern investors are increasingly tapping into the collective expertise of online peer communities when making investment decisions, putting pressure on professional advisors and analysts to stand out from the crowd. Seeking Alpha, a crowd-sourced platform for investment research, now has 7,000 contributing authors and 20,000 commenters providing analysis for millions of registered users.
Investors are also making their own contributions to the social conversation, as evidenced by the growing popularity of the "cashtagging" convention. Cashtags enable social media users to associate their messages with a company's stock ticker by using a "$" symbol. The phenomenon was created by StockTwits, a social information service for investments, and was officially adopted by Twitter in 2012. According to one study, the use of cashtagging on Twitter has increased 550% over the last three years.
Clearly, the financial community has an insatiable appetite for information, but what they crave most is trustworthy advice and analysis. Therefore, financial services institutions have an enormous opportunity to showcase their expertise and build trust on social channels.
Leading institutions such as Tangerine are using social media to humanize themselves with transparent and direct communication. This strategy starts at the top with the social CEO, but it doesn't stop there. Social media enables knowledge workers throughout financial organizations to communicate far more productively, not only with each other but also with customers. As we move toward 2015, more financial services firms are encouraging analysts, broker-dealers, and other key figures to use social media to raise their profiles and deepen relationships with clients.
Of course, there are compliance complications to scaling up social media adoption. Banks, securities firms, and other highly regulated organizations must ensure that all communications are compliant and secure. They need technology that scales up with their expanding social footprint and is well integrated with their compliance workflows. Automated technology can also review all outgoing messages to ensure that they adhere to regulatory, legal, and brand policies.
To learn more about the role of technology in social media compliance and risk management, join Hootsuite's Global Director of Business Development, Kevin Zellmer, at SIFMA Tech 2014, June 17-18 at the Hilton Hotel, NY.


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G-Five G95 "Bravo"1st Impressions
G-Five G95 "Bravo" At A Glance:
Hello everyone we recently got our paws on a G-Five Bravo Android Smartphone and here is what we have to say about it……"
G95 what's In the Box?
G95 Bravo
Physical Comparison Between Bravo, G510 and Iphone 4s.
As you can see in the picture on the left that Bravo has a larger screen as compared to the white Huawei G510 and
the Iphone 4s, respectively.
Most people would think that the Bravo is a bulky and thick phone but on the contrary it is a relatively light and
|Later on we will be posting about the Bravo's video and camera performance, followed by a full video review of the phone…..so watch out for that.
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1、World's first 5.3" multi-touch screen cloud smart phone with Android 4.0 intelligent OS (Ice Cream Sandwich)
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Louisiana lawmakers hammered Gov. Bobby Jindal's budget staff Tuesday over plans to sweep money from dozens of funds dedicated to specific uses to plug $464.5 million into the state budget. Conservative lawmakers decried the move as a "shell game," and the pre-session skirmish appeared to set the stage for a contentious and hard-fought struggle between that group and Jindal even before the opening of the legislative session.
Lawmakers didn't mince words as they tore into the proposal, questioning whether the money would actually materialize and accusing the administration of using financial maneuvers to fix problems in the $24.7 billion budget with pots of non-recurring money and the anticipation of property sales and hospital privatizations that have not yet occurred.
"You want me to put it in English? Its money laundering," Rep. John Schroder, R-Covington, said outside the hearing.
The group, commonly known as the "fiscal hawks," took aim at both at the general use of one-time money to fund recurring expenses and at the depletion of the specific funds targeted by the administration. The fund sweeps include swapping $100 million out of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center's accounts, taking excess money paid by concealed-carry permit holders and plugging money from business incentive programs into the budget.
Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols said the use of money from the funds was necessary to prevent cuts to the state's public colleges and universities. Without the money, the administration has said those institutions would see a 19 percent cut in state funding this year. That would come on top of a $75 million cut in state funding, a reduction the administration has said could be completely offset by tuition increases if the colleges and universities meet the requirements of the LA GRAD act.
But legislators Tuesday characterized that claim as a talking point aimed at the media. They also shot down efforts by administration officials to characterize the use of the funds by referring to previous budgets.
"Don't go with, 'We've always done it this way.' That doesn't fly, " said Rep. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles.
Lawmakers focused particularly on the money the plan would take from the convention center in New Orleans. Administration officials have said the money, which was intended to go into construction projects, will be replaced by issuing bonds through the state's capital outlay process.
The administration took $20 million in a similar swap from the convention center's accounts last year.
Plans for the swap raised concerns that the administration could look to other local boards with their own taxing districts in the future.
Others, including Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexandria, suggested the administration was just kicking the can down the road by borrowing money, something that would cost the state significantly.
A typical 20-year bond for $100 million would require the state to pay about $70 million in interest, according to the State Bond Commission.
"Ultimately, all the taxpayers of Louisiana will end up paying for it," said Harris, who chairs the House Republican Delegation.
The use of other funds also came under scrutiny. Geymann questioned the constitutionality of taking $1.2 million from the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund, though the administration said there would be no constitutional issues since the money would be replaced from other sources.
Rep. Jim Morris, R-Oil City, also protested the administration's plan to take $1 million in excess revenue from the Concealed Handgun Permit Fund. Noting that he's received calls from residents complaining that it can take months to get a concealed carry permit, Morris said that money should be used to staff up the office that processes those applications.
When Nichols argued the money was needed elsewhere in the budget, Morris replied, "That doesn't help my constituents."
Tuesday's combative hearing is likely to be a sign of things to come during the upcoming session, which starts April 8. After briefly bringing last year's budget debate to a halt on the House floor, the fiscal hawks have become more aggressive in their opposition to the administration's budget tactics.
Members of the group have also independently filed a lawsuit against the state, alleging the current year's budget is unconstitutional in part because of its use of one-time money and dependence on revenue from property sales and other potential deals. The group, which was formally organized over the summer as the Louisiana Budget Reform Campaign, is also filing a package of bills aimed at altering the state's budget process.
In addition to the funds, the budget also spends about $47 million from proposed land sales and calls for the use of $93 million in lease payments from the private companies that are expected take over the state's public hospitals. That privatization is also expected to generate savings elsewhere in the budget. But neither the hospital deals nor the land sales have been finalized yet.
Rep. Johnny Berthelot, R-Gonzales, also worried the state might sell off properties it would later need, finding itself in a situation where it had to spend more on new buildings or land.
"Selling property doesn't sit well with me personally," Berthelot said. "The last time I checked, they're not making any more of it."
Still, the administration's arguments that deeper cuts would be needed if the administration did not tap into some state funds resonated with at least one lawmaker. Rep. James Armes, D-Leesville, said the source of the money was not as important as preventing further reductions in the budget.
"I don't really care where you get it," Armes said. "If you find it under your pillow because of the tooth fairy, take it."