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Monday, July 2, 2012
Welcome to Guest Blogger Professor Wilson R. Huhn
It gives me great pleasure to introduce guest blogger Professor Wilson R. Huhn:
Wilson R. Huhn is a C. Blake McDowell, Jr., Professor and Associate Director of the Constitutional Law Center at The University of Akron School of Law. He currently teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, and Commercial Paper. He received his B.A. at Yale University and J.D., cum laude, at Cornell University, where he was a member of the Cornell Law Review. Prior to joining the Akron Law faculty in 1984, Professor Huhn served as law clerk for the late Judge Leo A. Jackson in the 8th District Court of Appeals and as an associate at Squire, Sanders and Dempsey.
Professor Huhn's book "ObamaCare: Is It Necessary, What Will It Accomplish, Is It Constitutional" (Carolina Academic Press 2012) is available in electronic format for Kindle. His book "The Five Types of Legal Argument" (Carolina Academic Press, 2002, 2008) is required reading at a number of law schools nationally.The graduating class selected Professor Huhn Outstanding Professor of the Year in 1987, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2008, the Akron law alumni awarded him the Outstanding Publication prize in 2004 and 2006, and the law faculty named him the "Most Valuable Player" for his contributions to legal scholarship, 2001-03. Professor Huhn volunteers his time on community boards and is active organizing and coaching adaptive recreation programs for youths with special needs.


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PBI envisions a world in which people address conflicts non violently, where human rights are universally upheld and social justice and intercultural respect have become a reality.
PBI works to open a space for peace in which conflicts can be dealt with non-violently. We use a strategy of international presence and concern that supports local initiatives and contributes to developing a culture of peace and justice. We act on request of local non-violent groups working for human rights and social change in regions where there is oppression and conflict.
The aim of PBI's international presence is to accompany both political and social processes through a joint strategy of deterring violence and promoting active non-violence. Our international teams of volunteers use methods such as protective accompaniment, peace education, independent observation and analysis of the conflict situation. In addition, PBI learns about, develops, and models forms of nonviolent intervention. Where possible, we initiate contacts with all the parties to a conflict in order to inform of our presence.
PBI supports this work through a broad international network of organizations and individuals. Our identity is built upon nonhierarchical structures and consensual processes.
How PBI works
PBI's work is based on non-violent philosophy and international human rights norms, with a strict respect for local laws and independent of political and religious institutions. PBI receives a variety of funding from public and private institutions from several countries.
PBI has had projects in El Salvador, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Canada, Haiti, Croatia and Serbia. Currently, PBI operates in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Nepal and Kenya.
The international structure of PBI is made up of an International Secretariat, which is composed of the International Council (IC), the International Operative Council (IOC), and the international office in London (United Kingdom). The General Assembly (GA) is the highest decision-making body in the organization and meets every three years with representation from PBI's Projects and the Country Groups.

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Fire threat rises as north Qld sizzles
Authorities say the north Queensland region is facing a serious bushfire threat in the coming days, with temperatures forecast to rise into the high-30 degrees Celsius by Sunday.
The Mackay and Townsville regions will see above average temperatures at least for the next week.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS) spokesman Gavin Fryar says a dry northerly wind will heighten the fire danger.
Mr Fryar says rural crews will be watching conditions closely in the coming days.
"With that we'll get lower relative humidity, so the fires will get going easier and they will be very much harder to stop," he said.
"With the heavy fuel loads we have in all areas and the continuous fuel beds, it will mean firefighters will really have their work cut out to stop any blaze that gets going."
He says some regions will see temperatures up to seven degrees above the average.
"The fire danger - it's moving into the severe end of things so we're really asking people to take care with camp fires, just anything they do to make sure they don't start fires," he said.
Prolonged heatwave
Weather bureau forecaster Mario Torrisi says it is not the first time temperatures have risen recently but people can expect the warm conditions to stay around for some time.
"We've already seen similar temperatures during the last four weeks or so over inland areas, so it's not the first time they're getting to temperatures of this degree," he said.
"It probably will be for a more prolonged period this time round, not too unusual to get a run of hotter temperatures at this time of year.
"It doesn't occur every year but it does occur on occasion.
"Out in the coalfields and the Central Highlands, we'll be looking at temperatures getting to around five degrees above the September average tomorrow and then on the weekend and into the early part of next week five to seven degrees above average.
"Hughenden, Richmond, Julia Creek area, they can look forward to maximum temperatures in the high 30s around 38-39 degrees [Celsius]."
Topics: bushfire, emergency-planning, phenomena, rural, townsville-4810, mackay-4740


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In my line of work as a Financial Advisor for Morgan Stanley, risk management is just as important as establishing return objectives. Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha explain how we tend to associate risk "with things like losing money in the stock market or riding a motorcycle without a helmet" (do you know it's legal to ride a motorcycle without a helmet in Hawaii?). But risk encompasses every aspect of our lives. Risk has played a major role in my career as well as my personal life and even my son's life.
As my son, Daniel, prepares to embark on his last year in high school, his college decision is fraught with risk. Daniel has a strong interest in graphic design, but he's struggling with the choice between attending a traditional four-year university or an art school. Obviously, attending a traditional four-year college will give him more options in case he decides not to major in graphic design, but the graphic design program at an art school will most likely offer more of the type of classes he's interested in taking.
Daniel tends to be a good test taker and scored over 2100 on the SAT, including a perfect score of 800 on the Critical Reading section of the test. Unfortunately, his high school GPA is 3.40, which means he probably won't gain admission to any of the University of California schools. After many hours of exhaustive research, I created a list of five schools that might be a good fit for him:
Daniel tends to be a good test taker and scored over 2100 on the SAT, including a perfect score of 800 on the Critical Reading section of the test. Unfortunately, his high school GPA is 3.40, which means he probably won't gain admission to any of the University of California schools. After many hours of exhaustive research, I created a list of five schools that might be a good fit for him:
- Chapman University
- University of the Pacific
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
- Chico State University
Daniel also wants to add Whitman College and Willamette University to my list.
Daniel prefers to attend a small school. That is why Chapman University, University of the Pacific, Whitman College and Willamette University appeal to him. Unfortunately, these schools are very expensive with tuition in the $36,000 to $40,000 range. The other schools on his list are public schools so the tuition is reasonably affordable (in the $6,000 to $8,000 range), but they are fairly large schools with a student population ranging from 15,000 to 25,000 students. Choosing the right college will involve taking intelligent risks for Daniel. If he decides to attend a small private school, he will be burdened with a hefty student loan (unless he receives a generous scholarship). Will attending a pricy, private college pay off in terms of helping him land a job as a graphic designer when he graduates? If he attends a public university in California, will he feel "lost" in a large student environment? These are not easy questions to answer.
I'm glad Daniel is not graduating from college this year. I hope the job market for college graduates improves by 2018. My heart goes out to the 2013 class of college graduates. According to a study conducted by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, "about 48 percent of employed U.S. college graduates are in jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggests requires less than a four-year college education. Eleven percent of employed college graduates are in occupations requiring more than a high-school diploma but less than a bachelor's, and 37 percent are in occupations requiring no more than a high-school diploma." The competition for jobs is particularly fierce because there are so many highly-qualified applicants, but only a few good job opportunities. If you have talents in math or science, you can choose a more established route to success such as pursuing a career opportunity in one of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and medicine) professions. But if you didn't major in one of the STEM disciplines and are willing to intelligently take on risk, you may discover opportunities others miss.
In the visual summary of the book, The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha wrote, "Every possible career move contains risk. If you don't have to seriously think about the risk involved in a career opportunity, it's probably not the breakout opportunity you're looking for." Here are some of my favorite tips from Hoffman and Casnocha on how to think about the risks associated with opportunities:
- If you can tolerate the WORST-CASE OUTCOME, be open to it.
- If the worst-case outcome means death, homelessness, or being permanently unemployed, AVOID IT.
- DON'T CONFLATE UNCERTAINTY WITH RISK. There will always be unknowns. This doesn't mean it's risky.
- You can never fully predict how or when ILL FORTUNE will strike. Instead of placing faith in your ability to anticipate all that could go wrong, BUILD UP RESILIENCE to unimaginable blowup.
- Achieve stability by introducing low levels of volatility -- introduce SMALL RISKS ON A REGULAR BASIS.
- Those who REGULARLY DEAL WITH SMALL RISKS will never starve. They will never be ENGULFED BY THE BIG RISKS.
My very first sales job was with Metropolitan Life in Aiea, Hawaii. Working in sales was a huge risk for me, but I knew that if I failed, I could always try something else. Fortunately, I did very well during my first year in the business. I was one of the top ten life insurance agents in the San Francisco Bay region, which included Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii.
When I decided to move from insurance to investments by working for Merrill Lynch, the worst-case outcome was not passing the six-hour Series 7 examination. Individuals who want to sell any type of securities must take the Series 7 examination (formally known as the General Securities Representative Examination). At most brokerage firms, individuals who wish to sell securities are given only one chance to pass the Series 7 exam. Failure to pass the exam results in immediate job termination. But since I had studied for two months prior to taking the exam, I was confident I would pass. If I didn't pass, I knew I could always go back to selling insurance or try to take the exam again at a different brokerage firm.
Hoffman and Casnocha's advice, "Achieve stability by introducing low levels of volatility -- introduce small risks on a regular basis" really resonated with me. Many of our clients at Morgan Stanley invest a portion of their assets in the iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility Exchange Traded Fund (USMV). "Exchange traded funds (ETFs) that hold low-volatility stocks have a record of posting smaller swings than the broader market. These stocks also tend to have solid earning profiles and pay out substantial dividends. These types of funds aren't designed to beat indexes like the Standard and Poor's 500-stock index or the Dow, but instead limit price swings. But recently, both the PowerShares Standard and Poor's 500 Low Volatility ETF and the iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility ETF rose more than 9% versus a 7.1% increase in the blue chips." Source: Low-Volatility ETFs Draw Strong Flows Between DJIA Milestones
The concept of low or minimum volatility can also be applied to one's career as well as personal life. For example, if you're thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, before you quit your day job, try out your new career on a part-time basis at night and on the weekends. After you earn enough money from your part-time work to support yourself and your family, then you can quit your day-time job.
The concept of low or minimum volatility can also be applied to one's career as well as personal life. For example, if you're thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, before you quit your day job, try out your new career on a part-time basis at night and on the weekends. After you earn enough money from your part-time work to support yourself and your family, then you can quit your day-time job.
Before you decide to marry someone, make sure you go away with him or her on an extended trip for at least a week or better yet, two weeks. The cohabitation question is tricky. Some of my friends lived with each other before they got married and they're still happily married, but I also have friends who lived with a significant other for a year or two and their relationship did not result in marriage. I think if you view cohabitation as an intentional step toward marriage, rather than as a test for marital compatibility, cohabitation could work.
Another way to introduce small risks into your life is by taking classes outside of your field of study. Imagine how boring computer typography would be if Steve Jobs had not studied calligraphy class while he was at Reed College!
As a Financial Advisor for Morgan Stanley, I spend most of my day engaged in prospecting and sales activities, but I'm also interested in learning more about social media marketing. In order to augment my self-taught skills in this area, I plan to take the following social media classes through the Outreach College program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa this summer:
- Introduction to Social Media
- Search Engine Optimization: Introduction to Search Marketing
- Introduction to Communication Skills via Social Media I
- Introduction to WordPress
- Advanced Search Engine Optimization
- Networking Your Business on Twitter
- Social Media Marketing: Developing an Effective Strategy
- Intermediate WordPress
- Practical WordPress: Beyond the Basics
- Writing for the Web
During my free time, I read articles online and books about social media.
As you go about your day, try to find ways to introduce small risks into your life. If you fail, it won't be the end of the world and who knows? The small risk you choose to embrace today could lead to a major breakout opportunity tomorrow.


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Five years since the death of former England and Newcastle United manager Sir Bobby Robson it has been revealed the charity set up in his name has raised more than £7m.
The former County Durham pitman enjoyed an incredible career as a footballer and manager with his influence on the game being seen around the world, helping to build up careers.
During his last 18 months, as he was receiving treatment for cancer for the fifth time, Sir Bobby was focused on a new goal away from a football pitch.
In March 2008, after a request for help from his oncologist, Professor Ruth Plummer, he launched a cancer charity that he said he hoped would become his legacy – the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
His wife, Lady Elsie, and three sons Paul, Andrew and Mark, are committed to continuing the work he began and it has now raised £7.3m to find more effective ways to detect and treat cancer.
Lady Elsie has been reflecting on the last five years and the importance of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation to other people facing the pain caused by cancer.
She said: "It was difficult, very difficult for us all, for the family especially, and I suppose you just get through it.
"You don't sort of understand until much, much later what it all meant.
"The public responded in such a compassionate way and I think it was something they needed as well at that time.
"It was wonderful to go and see the spread of flowers and tributes and memorabilia left at St James' Park and, I think I've said this before, for 11 days at that time it didn't rain, which is unusual in Newcastle, even in August.
"We learned a long time ago to share him in life and we sort of shared him in death as well. That was something which was part of it all and you deal with it.
Sir Bobby had a great passion for his charity, which he called his "last and greatest team."
Lady Elsie: "That was a great thing for Bob, that he had the charity. It gave him a function and a goal to lead his life in that way.
"He was very, very committed to the charity.
"In fact, I think he was more committed to it than he had ever been, or he felt he was achieving more in a helpful way than he had been as a famous person in his own profession.
"The charity has helped enormously. It's given us a combined thing as a family to aim for. It's proved over and over again the respect he was given, for the work he did.
"I think that has come over to us all in a very strong way. Quite unbelievable what we've raised in that short time."
She added: "We've achieved more than we ever expected.
"He was hesitant in the beginning about whether we'd raise the initial half a million we needed to help Professor Plummer and some of his friends said 'yes, yes, yes, of course we will' but he had his own doubts.
"Now, he would be astonished to know what we've achieved and what we've done with the money.
"He was always a fighter, right throughout his life. He always wanted to achieve. That never left him and with the charity that was very much the case.
"He wanted to fight on. He had an aim in life and that carried him through really. I suppose it gave him less time to focus on his own illness."
The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation is going from strength to strength and last year was its biggest fundraising year to date.
To make a donation, view messages of support, or for more information visit www.sirbobbyrobsonfoundation.org.uk


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OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE, vol. 45, n° 3, 1995, pages 131-136, 25 réf., ISSN 0962-7480, GBR
Univ Aberdeen. Dep environmental & occupational. Aberdeen. GBR
The objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which occupational status and age influence absence rates in male and female employees.
This involved collection of data for absences of one or more calendar days, including the length of absence and the location, age, occupational status and gender of the worker.
This information was supplied by personnel departments on standardized forms.
The study took place in three occupational groups in two organizations with equal work status for men and women, located in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In total, we studied 2561 workers (77.8% male, 22.2% female) in employment during the three months between April and July 1992.
More women than men took time off work in the study period.
Female absence exceeded male absence for spells of absence in ratios between 1.3 : 1 and 1.5 : 1, and for days in ratios between 1.2 : 1 and 1.9 : 1 ; age standardization removed the differences in spell rates (in all but one group) and total absence (days).
Both men and women took fewer but longer spells of absence with increasing age.
Men were more likely to take spells lasting more than one day, but women took more multiple single-day spells.
Relative job status affected absence rates, with professional staff taking less absence than support staff.
In this workforce controlled for occupation, significant differences in crude absence rates were observed between males and females.
Mots-clés BDSP : Absentéisme, Epidémiologie, Sexe, Age, Poste travail, Royaume Uni, Médecine travail, Homme, Europe
Mots-clés Pascal : Absentéisme, Epidémiologie, Sexe, Age, Catégorie socioprofessionnelle, Poste travail, Royaume Uni, Médecine travail, Homme, Europe
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Absenteeism, Epidemiology, Sex, Age, Socioeconomic category, Workplace layout, United Kingdom, Occupational medicine, Human, Europe
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Inist-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
Cote : 95-0366331
Code Inist : 002B30A01A2. Création : 01/03/1996.


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Mar 20, 2017
CASTLETON, Vt. – Castleton University announced Monday that DJ Fimiani has submitted his resignation as the head coach of the Spartan women's ice hockey program.
The Castleton women's ice hockey team posted an 8-14-4 record during the 2016-17 season, including a 7-8-2 record within the New England Hockey Conference, qualifying for the NEHC Tournament. In 2015-16, under a previous head coach, the team set a program record with 17 victories, was nationally ranked for the first time in school history, and advanced to the semifinals of the NEHC Tournament.
The search for a new head coach will commence immediately.


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PRESEASON EXPECTATIONS: Perhaps no Met endured as much preseason scrutiny as shortstop Ruben Tejada. Although he played well in 2011, hitting .284 in place of the injured Jose Reyes, this year the job was his and he would be judged as a starter. Tejada played a combined 105 games at second base in 2010 and 2011, but would be the fulltime shortstop last summer as the Mets began a new era. The Mets were satisfied with Tejada's defense, with some in the organization favoring him over Reyes. However, Reyes is an offensive presence and the Mets were pleasantly surprised at Tejada's average and .360 on-base percentage in 2011, but didn't know if his numbers were a fluke or a real indicator of what could be expected. A player with no power, Tejada should help himself by being patient, but strikes out too much and draws too few walks.
2012 SEASON REVIEW: With so much going on with the 2012 Mets, they were fortunate not be saddled with a shortstop hole. It would be foolish to say Tejada completely replaced Reyes, but considering the void left the Mets got more than they could have expected. Tejada committed only 12 errors with a .974 fielding percentage. Tejada has good range, which is especially important considering he needed to shade towards second to compensate for second baseman Daniel Murphy. Tejada hit .289 after hitting over .300 for much of the season. However, his on-base percentage fell 27 points to .333 and his OPS dropped 11 points to .685. Tejada provided little run production (one homer and 25 RBI) and struck out 73 times compared to 27 walks. Tejada hit mostly first or second in the batting order, and was equally effective, hitting .293 and .292, respectively. Like most Mets, Tejada had a dramatic drop-off in the second half. Tejada hit .325 with 30 strikeouts in the first half, but fell to .269 with 43 strikeouts after the break.
LOOKING AT 2013: Tejada gave the Mets enough this summer to where they don't need to concern themselves with shortstop in 2013. The Mets realize Tejada's offensive limitations as far as run production. Andres Torres did not show anything as a leadoff hitter and likely won't be brought back, so expect Tejada to get a shot at that responsibility. Hitting .289 again would be welcomed, but Tejada must increase his on-base percentage by cutting his strikeouts and walking more. Tejada should also attempt to be more aggressive on the bases. Considering the type of player Tejada is, he must also cut down on his frequency of fly balls, which is almost equal to that of balls hit on the ground.
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How to Find a Great PR Hire
This is a guest post by Holly Regan, managing editor of Software Advice.
Many companies are building in-house teams of professionals who are well-steeped in traditional PR, but also are savvy about content and web marketing.
As our PR role has evolved here at Software Advice, so has our hiring process. We've learned a lot about what qualities and capabilities make someone great for this position, how to identify these characteristics in candidates and how to get them on board. So I spoke with our Director of Marketing, Houston Neal, to discover some of the tactics that work for us–and could help your company hire for PR more effectively, too.
What to Look For
Obviously, there are a few qualities that any successful PR person must possess: communication skills; attention to detail; extroverted personality; and the ability to effectively sell, to name a few. Thus, many of the characteristics that make for an effective PR specialist are simply twists on the old classics.
Every company is different, and the necessary core competencies for your PR specialists will vary depending on your business, your market and the role you're trying to fill. But to give you an idea, here's what we look for when hiring PR people:
- Competitive nature and drive to succeed. Our PR people are financially-driven and aspire to be the best. They're eager to succeed, and are highly motivated by the opportunity to grow our business and their career. They compete with themselves by setting goals, and have the intrinsic motivation to crush them–and they help their teammates do the same.
- Thick skin and persistence. They aren't afraid to make cold calls or jump on email, and are willing to be persistent when the first answer they hear is "no." No job is left unfinished, no matter how difficult. Rather than being crushed by criticism, they accept it as an opportunity to improve; they aren't easily discouraged.
- Focus on execution. Our PR people genuinely care about getting stuff done, and do not tolerate missed deadlines or procrastination. They are proactive and self-motivated: you won't have to tell them twice to complete a task or assignment. They're always moving things forward.
- An outgoing, charismatic personality. These professionals know how to win friends and influence people. They are outgoing, personable and charismatic: they can establish trust and rapport and build strong relationships with industry experts. We find that prior sales or fundraising experience helps with this.
- Tech- and Web-savviness. Obviously, PR people must know how to use a computer efficiently. They can quickly differentiate between low-quality (or "spammy") and high-quality Web design, Web content and Web marketing tactics. They can answer their own technical questions, and are comfortable in Web page source code.
- Maintain high standards. They are willing to sacrifice individual achievements for the greater good of the company, when necessary. They expect only the highest-quality work from themselves and their team, and are genuinely frustrated when that is not achieved. They also uphold a high ethical standard, and are honest and forthright.
- Organization and efficiency. Our PR professionals have a zest for using and maintaining rigorous, repeatable organizational systems. They are attentive to detail, with an eagle eye for spelling, punctuation and grammar. And they are efficient workers, capable of producing significant output with minimal wasted effort.
Again, the specific core competencies you're looking for will depend upon the role you're hiring for–and an effective PR team requires a balance of roles and responsibilities.
How to Identify Them
Once you know which qualities you're looking for, how do you identify them in candidates? We follow The A Method in all our recruiting efforts: it works well for us, but there are plenty of effective hiring methods out there. The important thing is to adopt a rigorous and structured approach that allows your company to consistently evaluate candidates, identify the "A Players" and get them to join your team.
Through the A Method, candidates must complete a series of three interviews in succession in order to receive an offer. The first is a brief phone interview, meant to eliminate all obviously unqualified candidates. Next is a comprehensive in-person interview, exclusively focused on work and academic history and performance. The final in-person interview allows several members of your team a chance to discover whether the candidate has the required core competencies. Finally, a reference check and discussion with the candidate's former employers is conducted.
Of course, it's one thing to speak with candidates and their former employers about past performance–and another to see it in action. In order to identify essential skills that can't be proven through conversation alone, you must test your candidates.
How to Test Them
When hiring for PR, we put candidates' tech and Web skills to the test. This includes, for example, the ability to quickly build an online media list and craft well-written pitches to that list. Of course, there are many ways to test people, and the test you use will depend upon the position you're hiring for, what your company does and what market you're in. As an example, here's our general testing process:
- Give them a typical project or campaign. This could be promoting a piece of content, a new product or the thought leaders at our company: the point is to let candidates do what they would be doing every day, if hired.
- Run through the campaign step-by-step. We accompany candidates through each step of the campaign. This could include everything from finding media targets, identifying the appropriate people to contact, writing drafts of email pitches and more.
- Observe how they work. When testing candidates, we watch how they work. PR people must know their way around a computer and be able to find information online quickly. We also look for the ability to quickly decide if a site is high-quality or relevant, and how quickly candidates can find the right person to contact. It's surprising how much you can learn during this process to help inform your hiring decisions.
The Final Step
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The PR field is constantly changing, and you may find that, over time, what you're looking for in candidates may evolve, as well. You may also find you want to specialize within your team and within the role to keep up with the shifting demands of PR. But if you identify the core competencies your team members need, follow a rigorous and consistent approach to hiring and test candidates on their key abilities, you're on your way to building a dynamic and capable team that can help you grow your business.
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Biogeochemist Pamela Matson demonstrates ways the natural world can be protected without harming its people.
Glenn Matsumura
By Kara Platoni
Pamela Matson and Eve Hinckley are reclining amongst the pinot noir grapevines of the Napa Valley's famed Carneros wine-making region, two connoisseurs searching for le mot juste. Young, they agree. Organic, suggests Matson. Alluvial, adds Hinckley. "Clay-ey," pronounces Matson.
Clay-ey? Yep. They're not talking wine. They're talking dirt. Matson, a biogeochemist and the dean of Stanford's School of Earth Sciences, rises from her crouch, leans on a shovel, and gazes appreciatively at the crumbly pit they have just excavated. "Nice soil, Eve," she congratulates her graduate student.
The two have spent the entire morning on this hillside beneath a hazy blue-gray sky, digging up equipment Hinckley buried below the vines last year, checking it before the spring rains come. Each device, called a lysimeter, is rooted into the ground with clear plastic tubing. During the rainy season, these "roots" will draw water from the ground and store it so Hinckley can analyze its chemical content.
What she'll find, most likely, is the source of another flavor the two women have been debating, this one most evident in the air. Hinckley says it reminds her of burning hay; Matson thinks it has a metallic edge. It's sulfur, an anti-mildewing agent that farmers since Egyptian times have applied to vines. But sulfur can leech into waterways, or become sulfur dioxide, a greenhouse gas; and Hinckley, guided by her adviser, is trying to figure out what happens to the chemical after it's sprayed on the vines.
This project echoes one Matson pioneered more than a decade ago in the wheat fields of Mexico's Yaqui Valley. The 556,000-acre basin was a home of the Green Revolution, the mid-century movement that with new seeds and chemical fertilizers transformed the lives of subsistence farmers throughout the world. But, by the 1990s, this agriculture had become a source of pollution and a contributor of greenhouse gases. The irrigated farmland drains into the storied Sea of Cortez, a hotspot of biological diversity. Matson's research team discovered that runoff from heavily applied nitrogen-based fertilizers was creating a dead zone in a sea that normally teemed with life. She found herself in a showdown between agriculture and environmentalism—and sympathetic to both.
Matson has spent her career investigating how our pursuit of basics like food, shelter and work are changing the planet's health. "The way we do agriculture does put strains on the environment and on resources, but we also need it," she says. "Figuring out how to do it in a way that doesn't have the harmful effects on the environment is the challenge."
An ecologist who has worn nearly every laurel the subject area has to offer, Matson has been a key figure in developing a new brand of environmentalism: sustainability science. In a field that has often seemed to demand that we choose between meeting the needs of the natural world and those of its inhabitants, Matson has been a key figure in convincing decision makers—from individual farmers to political leaders—that we can do both. Her philosophy is simple but revolutionary: save the planet, save ourselves.
"I really was born for the tropics and grew up in Wisconsin," deadpans Matson. The second oldest of five kids, she describes her childhood as "bland, blonde and blah"—she was the good girl who had to scrounge up marginal misdeeds to admit at confession. Her grandmother nurtured her love of the outdoors, teaching her to ride horses and taking her on nature walks. Where other people see the trees, Matson learned to see the forest: a complex system of species dependent upon each other for survival.
She studied biology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, but realizing that her ideal job—"old-time naturalist"—didn't exist any more, she spent her postgraduate years managing a music shop and growing orchids. But the mid-'70s were too exciting a time for an environmentalist to sit on the sidelines: Thanks to the brand-new Environmental Protection Agency, clean air and water were becoming policy issues, and scientists were finding jobs preventing pollution. "I realized, I gotta get back to science," Matson recalls. "I really wanted to use what I knew to help work on environmental issues."
Her first stop was Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs, where Matson found the three stars that would guide the rest of her career. The first was a deep love of research—that combination of muddy fieldwork, long lab hours, and the painstaking writing of reports to explain how her results could solve real-life problems. She also developed a profound respect for multidisciplinary cooperation. Indiana University had the nation's first interdisciplinary environmental science program, in which students took classes in economics and politics alongside their science coursework. Finally, her master's project on how logging changes a forest's soil "basically set the groundwork for everything I've done since," Matson recalls. "I found out what I loved early on—that combination of understanding how a whole system works, how humans are affecting that system and what are the consequences of that."
Next, she whipped through a PhD in forest ecology at Oregon State in three years, a feat made more impressive by the fact that the equipment crucial to her work, a highly controlled greenhouse called a phytotron, was 3,000 miles away at Duke University. In North Carolina, Matson discovered something else crucial to her work: ecosystem ecologist Peter Vitousek, who in short order was about to become Pam Matson's husband, a Stanford professor and the reason for a potentially nightmarish commute.
Matson had completed a postdoc at the University of North Carolina when the cross-country relationship posed by Vitousek's new Stanford job arose. Luckily, the NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View was looking for someone to do everything Matson loved most: perform original research, collaborate with scientists from diverse backgrounds, and spend months in the forest. She was hired in a heartbeat.
Matson and her NASA colleagues studied the atmosphere above the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. They concentrated initially on the effects of urban pollution, but the project soon became one of the first close looks at how deforestation and other land-use decisions were changing Earth's climate.
At first, it was exciting: scientists love to get results, and Matson certainly was measuring high levels of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. But a bad feeling was creeping up on her: the research was thrilling, but what it signified was scary. "I can't recall the exact moment that I had the realization—maybe it surfaced slowly," she muses. "I really loved the scientific chase—trying to learn new things and understand phenomena that no one understands is really fun and engrossing. But it was kind of like emerging for a moment out of that intellectual focus to realize my wonderful scientific challenge was also something that could have serious consequences for the planet."
Indeed, many people reacted to the alarming news of climate change by casting blame, often at the farmers who clear-cut the Amazon for cropland. Matson, however, understood why they did it—to provide for their families. "People think about the tropical forest as though it was this pristine, pure thing, but people are living there and changing it all the time," she says. "I began shifting from having sort of an environmentalist point of view—that is, we need to protect our environment—to recognizing that people are doing these things like clearing forests for a reason, to grow food or for economic benefit. It's not inherently bad—it's just that it does have some negative effects."
What to do? Stop farming and restore the rainforest to its natural state? Matson dismissed that as unrealistic. "My system now was one that had people in it," she says. With that came a new goal: sustainable development, or providing for human needs while protecting environmental resources for future generations. It was, she felt, too big a challenge to be tackled by the scientific community alone. "I was becoming frustrated with the idea that all we were doing is understanding problems," she says. "We weren't trying to help solve any."
Just as Matson was attracted to ecosystems by the complexity of the forest, she was now drawn to human systems by the complex needs of their inhabitants. In 1992, Matson left NASA for UC-Berkeley's environmental science policy management program. There she hoped to collaborate with social scientists and build a sustainability science community—"a community that was not just interested in how the biophysical world is being affected by people, but that is worried about those people and looking for ways to meet their needs."
Matson wasn't the first or only scientist to push for sustainability, but she helped this new community coalesce and form common goals. Bringing together academics with such disparate outlooks wasn't easy. Matson recalls her first time co-teaching with a sociologist. "We scared the students, because we debated," she says with a laugh. Grant funders didn't know what to make of her cross-disciplinary approach either, Peter Vitousek recalls. "Our system for evaluating and funding work makes it difficult for the sort of work she does to break through. When you start working across as many fields as she is and asking as many big questions as she is, it's hard to get out of the economist reading it and saying, 'This isn't the absolute cutting edge in economics,' and the microbiologist saying, 'There is a better genetic technique than the ones you are using.' You have all the different communities saying you're not right on the forefront of the narrowest new work in their field, and in fact, if you are trying to synthesize across many fields, you can't be."
Yet Matson's reputation as a scientist was growing. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994 and was named a MacArthur Fellow—receiving that much-coveted "genius" grant—in 1995. In 1996, she embarked upon the Yaqui Valley project in Mexico, which would become the cornerstone of her professional work and a model of interdisciplinary cooperation. Working with Stanford associate economics professor Rosamond Naylor and Mexican agronomist Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, she sought to develop farmer-friendly ways to mitigate the toll that intensive agriculture was taking on the Sonoran desert.
"It was really quite new," Roz Naylor says of their collaborative approach. "We didn't go down there and have Pam do her side while I did mine and at some point we hook up to tell each other what we'd learned. I spent time in the field with her learning the techniques, and from that I drew conclusions about what I should be asking in the farm surveys. She talked to farmers with me and said, 'Okay, based on what the farmers are saying, I'd better set up my plots in the following way.' "
They realized that the farmers were using far more nitrogen-based fertilizer than necessary. The excess was escaping into the air, sometimes in the form of greenhouse gases, or washing into the Sea of Cortez. There, it caused enormous blooms of algae that would die, then decompose with the help of other aquatic organisms that sucked oxygen from the water. The result was an anaerobic "dead zone" that, as Matson says, "kills anything that can't move and drives away anything that can." This was an environmental disaster in the making—the Sea of Cortez is home to an unusually diverse rainbow of marine plants, mammals and fish. It's not a place that can afford a dead zone.
Why so much fertilizer? Farmers believed plenty of fertilizer would guarantee a good harvest. Overuse was encouraged through subsidies and by local credit unions that acted as lending organizations/trade associations. The farmers also applied fertilizer long before planting seeds, not realizing that much of it was escaping into the air and water. Matson's group proposed an alternative: applying less fertilizer later in the season would reduce nitrogen loss tenfold. The practice also would save money—farmers were wasting a chunk of their potential profits on nutrients that never got to the crops. Slam dunk, right?
Wrong, says Matson. "You think you have the win-win that makes sense economically and environmentally, but it's not necessarily going to work because you still need to understand who makes decisions," she says. The researchers had underestimated the credit unions' clout. Wary of untested methods, and wanting to ensure bumper crops (and therefore repayment of their loans), they urged farmers to pile it on.
Round two: the researchers invited the credit unions to participate in the project, and introduced them to devices called hand-held radiometers, which measure the nitrogen in a plant's leaves, indicating if they need fertilizer. Reassured that farmers could use less, yet still administer fertilizer when necessary, the unions backed the researchers' plan. For Matson, it was a pivotal lesson: working with the community's power brokers turned research into reality.
When she wasn't in Mexico, Matson was in Berkeley, and the constant bridge-crossing was becoming a problem for the two-academic family. By this time, Matson and Vitousek were the parents of newborn daughter Liana and son Matt. Matt had been born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that takes its biggest toll on the lungs. Doctors warned that he might not live past his teens. Although Matt, now a college freshman at Willamette University, has been remarkably healthy (she calls him her "miracle kid"), Matson was finding it difficult to juggle motherhood, research and her burgeoning role as an environmental policy adviser. After winning the no-strings-attached $260,000 MacArthur grant, Matson took some flack for telling The Scientist magazine that she planned to spend some of it on child care and taking the kids along on fieldwork. She says hiring a "third parent" allowed her and her husband "to work with focus and then be with the kids with focus." It's a decision—along with marrying the right guy—that she often cites when advising female students about how to balance family with academic ambition. In retrospect, she says, "A lot of women appreciated the comment, because it exposed a reality that women deal with all the time and that is such a difficult aspect of dual-career couples' lives."
Another change brought the family together. In 1997, Matson joined her husband at Stanford as the senior fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy in the Institute for International Studies, then quickly became the center's co-director. Some might think putting two top academics in related fields in close quarters would make them competitive, but they swear they're not. "We are each other's sounding boards and read each other's papers and proposals," says Matson. "For me, the best part is coming home and wanting to get my best friend's thoughts and advice on what I'm dealing with."
Still, because they have different last names, mild havoc sometimes ensues, as when they have to beg off writing letters of recommendation for each other or get asked to headline the same panel discussions. En route to a recent dinner at which they were both going to speak, says Vitousek slyly, "We were thinking this could be fun—we could act like we didn't know each other and get progressively interested in each other and leave together and start some rumors."
At Stanford, Matson became known for giving her students freedom but knowing when to rein them in, for urging them to collaborate with community decision makers and to choose research questions that could illuminate broader concepts of how ecosystems work. "I think she was one of the first people to start thinking across landscapes," says Karen Carney, '04. "She realized that in order to make a difference you have to talk to all the people involved, and understand the system as a whole, from the mountain range all the way down to the ocean, that they all interact."
Just as Matson has been at the center of every major recent pivot in environmentalism—the growing awareness of climate change, the move toward sustainability—she also has been a force in what might be called its Al Goreification: making environmentalism practical and mainstream by getting high-level decision makers involved. During the past decade she has become a power broker herself. She chaired the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, was president of the Ecological Society of America, and served on many boards of directors, including those of the World Wildlife Fund and the National Parks Conservation Association.
This gave her a national bully pulpit. Katherine McCarter, executive director of the Ecological Society of America, recalls that one of Matson's brainstorms was to form "rapid response teams" of scientists who would be available in a nanosecond to testify at hearings, speak to the media or analyze proposed legislation, the better to shape public opinion on environmental issues. Another was to launch a journal, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, designed to get non-ecologists talking about eco-issues. Matson's warm, energetic nature, McCarter says, enhances her relationships with the kinds of movers and shakers who can solve environmental problems. "She is just such an extraordinary ambassador for ecology and has achieved so much in her life and does it with so much grace," McCarter says. "How could she help but be a wonderful symbol for any science?"
Matson's appointment as dean of Stanford's School of Earth Sciences in 2002 was telling. The selection of a sustainability advocate to head a school that had essentially evolved from the department of geology and mining was a sign of changing times. (When the school's petroleum engineering department reinvented itself last year as the department of energy resources engineering, that was another.) Yet with her experience leading interdisciplinary collaboration, Matson is confident as she brings everyone to the table. "We can talk about energy and environment in the same breath," Matson says. "All of us recognize that we need to be pragmatic."
"The School of Earth Sciences is undergoing a transformation as the nature of the challenges that we face changes," says Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, '73, MBA '75, JD '76, a law professor who co-directs Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. "Some people might be scared of periods of transition and transformation, but I think Pam thrives on that, because it's exactly during those periods that you have a real opportunity to rethink what you're doing and to create new programs and collaborations that can better address the challenges we now face."
The move from professor to administrator has been a big change for Matson—there's less time for her own projects, which, she'll admit a bit wistfully, she misses. But she believes her new role serves a bigger purpose. "I've gone from government scientist to faculty member and researcher to dean. These transitions have all been exciting and challenging, and I've done them because I saw that I could be helpful in doing them." Above all, she says, "There is probably nothing more fun and fulfilling to me than being part of interdisciplinary teams who carry out research that contributes to fundamental knowledge and at the same time helps develop more sustainable solutions to challenges faced by land owners and other decision makers."
Nowadays, that means leading the Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability, part of the $4.3 billion Stanford Challenge. Matson hopes to use the initiative to harness the interdisciplinary power of the University, turning fundamental research into policy recommendations and real-world solutions. Take, for example, the initiative-funded research headed by Gretchen Daily, director of Stanford's tropical research program at the Center for Conservation Biology. Daily's research is designed to make conservation not simply a moral imperative, but actually profitable.
Daily is working with cattle ranchers in Hawaii on a project that encourages them to reforest grazing land with koa, a native tree. Restoring this ground cover not only will bolster biodiversity and improve water quality and flood control, but also will eventually allow ranchers to profit from harvesting timber. Daily's collaborators include the Hawaii Cattleman's Council, the state legislature, a school system and the Nature Conservancy—just the sort of mix Matson has always envisioned. (Other investigators on the project include Matson, Vitousek, Naylor and doctoral candidate Joshua Goldstein, '07, author of an article about the work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.)
Daily, who has co-taught with Matson, says that she's an inspiration for partnerships like this. "From the beginning she has involved people from all sorts of areas of expertise both within academia and out in the real world, trying to get everybody on the same side of a problem," Daily says. "If you want people to change—and you need people to change—you have to first of all open up opportunities and alternatives to what people are doing today, and second, you've got to create incentives to make the switch."
Other initiative-based projects will try to bring auto and energy industry execs together with academics and activists to discuss the future of biofuels, or to partner nonprofit agencies and aquaculture industry leaders to find sustainable ways to cultivate the ocean for food. And if these kinds of unlikely alliances sound familiar, they should: Matson has found the ultimate platform from which to share her lifelong love of crossover collaboration, as well as a message of hope. "As we go into this century, we are faced with enormous challenges in terms of how we're going to meet the needs of people. We are moving in the right direction for sure, but we need to move a lot faster."
KARA PLATONI is a staff writer for the East Bay Express.
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Scottish Charity Number SC009255
The Incorporation of Barbers is one of the fourteen crafts
forming The Trades House of Glasgow. It welcomes into its
membership individuals from all walks of life who are interested in
the civic life of the City and charitable work.
The Trades House of Glasgow was originally created at the
time of reform ofGlasgow's local government in 1605. At that
time the electorate was basically divided into two groups, the
Merchants and the Craftsmen. The Craft Incorporations or
Guilds comprised the Trades Rank of Burgesses under the leadership
of the Deacon Convener who was given a council. This included
the Craft leaders and is the body we now recognise as the Trades
Today the Trades House still meets in the Trades Hall
inGlassford Streetwhich, apart from the mediaeval cathedral, is the
only building inGlasgowstill used for its original purpose.
Guilds and Craft Incorporations are the Scottish
equivalent of the craft guilds or livery companies, which developed
in most of the great cities of Europein the Middle Ages. Over
the years many of the House's political and legal duties have been
transferred to other bodies, but the charitable functions and
concern for the future of Glasgow very much remain. The
assistance of the needy, the encouragement of youth and support for
education, particularly the Schools and the Further Education
Colleges in developing craft standards, are now its chief
On the 6th of February 2005 the Trades House and the
14 Incorporated Trades celebrated their 400th year of
service inGlasgow, which was shared with the Merchants House and
the City Council who have the same anniversary.
The honourable craft of the Barber can be traced to the earliest
times and the motto of the Glasgow craft "Munda haec vigebat diebus
Josephi patriarchae jacobi filii, Aegypti praefecti", translates
into English as "This elegant art flourished in the days of Joseph,
son of Jacob the patriarch, Governor of Egypt".
The skill of the Barber's hands enabled another
contribution to be made to the wellbeing of the community.
The belief in blood-letting as a cure for many ailments created a
demand for this service and for centuries the hand which wielded
the razor also wielded the lancet. This relationship is still
symbolised by the traditional "barber's pole", originally painted
white, with red ribbon bound round and hanging from it a brass
"blood-letting" plate or basin - the ribbon for taping off the arm,
the pole given to the patient to hold and the basin into which the
blood was drained. The relationship between the Barbers and
Surgeons was initiated on the basis of a common skill.
The renamed Incorporation of the Chirurgeons and Barbers is
unique among the Crafts represented in the Trades House in owing
its foundation to a Royal Charter from King James VI in 1599.
For some time the two classes of member remained distinct, although
the surgeons were more strictly limited than the barbers, who with
their chirurgery skills were allowed to perform simple work,
healing of wounds, bleeding, extraction of teeth etc.
The Barbers' Charter was ratified by
the Scottish Parliament in 1672. However, the profession of
surgery eventually fell out with the trade of the barber and a
jurisdictional dispute arose. This was referred to the
magistrates who ruled in favour of the Barbers, who were granted
permission to elect the Deacon. The quarrel is now well in
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text: Life Is Too Short – Make It Right Posted on October 18, 2014 by Marci Every year on this day, I share a reminder with you. Love those who are around you. Make things right with those who have a problem with you. Call someone you love and tell them that you love them and why. Hug those around you. Take time out of your busy schedule to make it happen. You never know if you will get another chance. I heard a preacher yesterday say that if we are too busy to reach out to others, then we are too busy and we need to let go of some things in our lives. Nine years ago today, my Mom who we thought was perfectly healthy, did not wake up. That is a phone call you never want to receive. It changed my life. It changed in the obvious ways, that I no longer had a Mom I could call and talk to, or go see or hug. Another way it changed is that I was shown the importance of people and relationships. I am very aware of how I leave things with people. It is easier to not let things that people do bug me. If my husband does something that used to irritate me, I think about how glad I would be for that irritation if he was gone. I can then let it go. I also lost a friend last year on this day. She died after fighting a battle with cancer. I pray for her family on this first anniversary of her death. Who is on your mind right now? Go call them before the urge goes away.


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Here are a few of our favorites from the marketing, advertising and media worlds over the past six years. While some of these were virtually earth-shattering at the time, overall they make the future look even brighter.
The Web, Circa 1994: HotWired was unlike anything else on the Web. It had a hippy-esque vision of the Internet as a force that could change publishing, communications and the world in general. The site featured bright colors, hip iconography and section headings that didn't mean a whole lot -- much like sister magazine, Wired. Oddly, with all its breakthrough content, it will be remembered most for being the first major site to sell out and post what would become known as banner ads.
First banner: Speaking of Hot-Wired's banners, in 1994 HotWired featured this graphic on its site, and banner ads hit the mainstream. This ad by interactive shop Modem Media (see related story on Page 106) didn't animate, didn't let on that it was an ad and probably just confused people at first. But they'd learn, and the 468x60 would become a standard in a young industry.
msnbc '97 wreck: Under a photo of the mangled wreckage of Princess Diana's Mercedes came a banner ad for Toyota that read: "Feeling trapped inside your old car? Escape here." The juxtaposition of ad and copy have often been a source of humor in our industry, but when you add automatic banner rotation into the media mix, you can come up with some real gems.
pathfinder: Pathfinder. Oh, the irony. Never has a site made it so easy to get lost as this one. A big jumble of magazine logos. Like at your local newsstand. You might eventually learn where your favorite title was in the melee, but in the meantime, forget about it. Time Inc. brought all its content together under one roof in 1994, but without any rational reason (i.e., content tie-ins) as to why it was doing so.
pong banner: The Pong banner was to rich media what Peter Gabriel and Michael Jackson were to the music video. It was ahead of its time (1996) and a throwback all at once. It gave credibility to a new medium as a creative space, and set a standard that few even try to match. Most of all, it was fun. Everyone talked about it. And people downloaded Shockwave just to play the ad. Arguably, this was the first "cool" banner. You can still check it out on the Hewlett-Packard site at: hp.com/Ebusiness/march/tools.html.
interactive `homicide': It wasn't quite interactive TV, but NBC's "Homicide" Web site in 1997 took the innovative approach of developing a mirror cast of actors and similar story lines on the Web. Taking a series with a cultish following, NBC tried to port that audience over to NBC.com in a trial balloon of Web-based, series-linked content -- just in time for the February 1997 sweeps..
the spot: Slightly ahead of its time (1995), thespot.com aimed to create a Web soap opera. Soap fans could log on and track the capers of five young hipsters in daily episodes. Nowadays, voyeurism is a big sell, with Web cam sites popping up everywhere. But this anchor of the ill-fated American Cybercast Network crashed and burned in early 1997, ending its two-year run and denting the market for online soaps.
adage.com: As long as we're digging up the past, here's a look at our first site. Granted, in 1995 it didn't seem so bad, and it quickly established itself as the destination on the Web for anyone interested in the business of marketing. Yeah. Yada yada yada. We can say what we want, but it still featured a big bull's-eye, which took about eight years (in Internet time) to load.


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As Jaguar rebuilds its brand under Indian ownership it's in the rare position of being a major automaker only making three cars. All of them wonderful in some way.
As Jaguar rebuilds its brand under Indian ownership it's in the rare position of being a major automaker only making three cars. All of them wonderful in some way.
A Jaguar XFR recently suffered electrical failure while in my care, and its electronic shift lever became locked in Park. When the time came to tow it, the car had to be in neutral. Here's the trick to shifting it.
Only six days now before our own Wes Siler takes on Bob Lutz at Monticello Raceway, pitting a Jaguar XFR against the Cadillac CTS-V. Lutz's been training at Milford Proving Grounds for the race; Still won't stop the pending caning.
It's official. Jalopnik's Wes Siler will race GM's former vice-chairman Bob "Maximum Marketing" Lutz on October 29th at New York's Monticello Motor Club. Better news? You may be able to race Bob and Wes. May the best car win, bitches.
Among many incredible Jaguars at Goodwood was their fastest production car ever, the 2010 Jaguar XFR. With stock tires and a wing on the back, it did 225 MPH before being paraded in the South of England on Sunday.
The chaps at Car And Driver join Autocar in posting video of doing something wild with a 2010 Jaguar XFR. In this case, it's hitting the old dirt track. Seriously, never buy an ex-press car. [CarANDDriver.com]
It's all well and good unveiling hybrid after hybrid, but cars we want to drive are the fun ones. Here's the top ten cars from the Detroit Auto Show we most want to drive.
We've already seen the 2010 Jaguar XFR press shots, but here it is amid dry ice fog and lasers. The new 5.0-liter supercharged engine brings with it 510 HP and a 4.7 second 0-to-60 time.
The 2010 Jaguar XFR will officially debut at the Detroit Auto Show, but the loose lips at 4WheelsNews have leaked the photos and details of the 510 HP supercharged pussycat.
With a suspected 5.0-liter supercharged V8 making around 500 HP, the 2009 Jaguar XF-R has no trouble smoking its tires. The black cat crossed the path of spectators at this weekend's Goodwood Festival Of Speed, where Jaguar head of vehicle development Mike Cross power-slid the car up the hill. Nothing better than a…
When we last checked in with the 2010 Jaguar XF-R it looked as though there might be a powerful 5.0-liter V8 lurking under the hood. We've seen a lot of the XF-R, as seen below, but the actual motivation has been a point of contention. It is our good fortune then that a Fast Lane Daily source happened to spot a fleet…
KGP, the quickest-snapping spy photographers this side of Jim Dunne (he doesn't wait to focus) just caught the best shots yet of the up-powered 2010 Jaguar XF-R as it rolled through the city streets somewhere in the UK. Check out those hood vents, that big and aggressive front air dam and the grille's new…
If these prototypes running around jolly old England are what we and spy photographers think they are — it would appear those test mules we saw in September were right — there's a Jaguar XFR on the way as a high-po follow-up to the new XF sedan. There doesn't appear to be a lot of visual differences between the…


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Photograghed by Millie Clinton. Read More
Awesome neon photographs by Hayley Eichenbaum. Read More
Awesome mashup of Kendrick Lamar's Swiming Pools and Rick and Morty clips. Read More
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August 1938. "Itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
The photographer has added a wrapped cloth around the probably deteriorating, light- leaking bellows.
I wondered where this was taken so I looked up the Economy Furniture Co. in the 1938 Columbus City Directory.
One of the better portraits that Shahn completed while working for the FSA, imho: rich in detail, rich in human expression. His photos from this period often were "stretches" to make a socialist statement; here he seems to be showing us a straight ahead, working man street scene. Not quite on the level of August Sander's work, but still quite impressive.
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Fort Worth, Texas— ECi Software Solutions (www.ECiSolutions.com) today announced a new integration between its e-automate® software and Exactor® sales tax software. Exactor automates and simplifies sales tax compliance by providing a complete solution for secure, reliable and accurate tax calculation, record keeping, tax processing and filing of tax returns. Through the integration, e-automate users will have access to Exactor's cloud-based solution.
"Exactor's suite of products takes a complicated tax regulation process and makes it very efficient," said Laryssa Alexander, President of ECi's Service Technology Group. "This type of alliance helps our customers build stronger businesses and, at the end of the day, that is ECi's focus."
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The Exactor integration will allow e-automate dealerships of all sizes to fully automate the computation, reporting, and remittance of sales taxes. A modular product suite structure will let dealers select only the modules that fit their business needs and budgets.
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FLINT -- The Crim Fitness Foundation's "In Your Face" Steeplechase Thursday at Flint's Pierce Park Golf Course is the debut for a one-of-a-kind European-style cross country race the group's Festival of Races Director Andrew Younger declared the first for the area.
But how different is it from the Crim's assortment of other races? Here's a look:
- Its three-mile length, essentially running the same course three times over at Pierce Park, is a far cry from the 10-mile marathon main event Crim will put on Aug. 23 and a tad shorter than a traditional 5K. Crim sponsored its first "Run Your Ice Off" run/walk on Feb. 22.
- The idea of obstacles are back after Crim debuted them in the HealthPlus Tour de Crim bike race, but this time they are much, much different. Scattered throughout the course Thursday will be hay bales and mud spots, and don't forget the short but fairly steep hills. Of course, the obstacles are all optional but help make the event more fun.
- Audience participation like never before. Not only can you watch your friend or loved one participate, but so can you. Crim is encouraging onlookers to shout and bring items that might help those partaking reach the finish line. But keep it clean -- remember, negativity helps no one!
4. Preparation. While Crim's other events require the closure of major streets in and around the downtown Flint area, the Steeplechase required event coordinators only to do a little mowing. Younger said Crim officials recently mowed the grass part of the course to their liking -- assuring the best experience and steepest climbs for participants.
Are you going to run Thursday's Steeplechase? Like the idea of a course filled with hay barrels and mud and steep climbs? Let us know in the comments below.
Aaron McMann covers sports at The Flint Journal. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com; follow him on Twitter @AaronMcMann.


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