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Nearly half the women on our list run huge companies—a record. And all are working hard to transform their businesses.
By Caroline Fairchild, Beth Kowitt, Colleen Leahey, and Anne VanderMey, with additional reporting by Michal Lev-Ram and Patricia Sellers
More CEOs, more industries, more power, more challenges. That's the story of Fortune's 2014 ranking of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, which features an all-time record of 24 large-company CEOs in its pages. Our women are leading—and in many cases pushing through difficult transformations—in heavy industries such as tech, energy, defense, and autos. Ginni Rometty, No. 1 for the third time running, continues to retool IBM. No. 2, Mary Barra, must fix General Motors from the inside out. And Marillyn Hewson, the CEO of Lockheed Martin and our fourth-ranked woman, is looking beyond defense for growth. Today eight of our top 10 MPW lead large industrial, tech, and consumer products companies.
It's a long way from our original 1998 list, on which, we noted at the time, most members "came from industries with a premium on creativity," such as advertising, media, and publishing, with "no top women at blue-chip firms." Creativity is still a requirement for success, of course, but you no longer have to work in a "creative" industry to advance as a woman. Another common denominator is change: Seven of our top 50 were named to their jobs in the past year, and nine are newcomers to the list. That suggests more turnover at the upper echelons of business—which, it's fair to say, is a very good thing for a whole lot of powerful women. —Jennifer Reingold


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WCSU offers a graduate certificate approved by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board®, Inc. (BACB®), to prepare students for the national certification examinations sponsored by the BACB. All four courses are offered online and can be completed in one year to earn the certificate.
Two Online Behavior Analysis Certificates
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This 16-credit, four-course sequence is designed for people who have completed an accredited bachelor's degree. Completion of the four-course sequence and completion of 1,000 hours of supervised independent fieldwork in behavior analysis make the student eligible to take the BCaBA certification examination sponsored by the BACB®. Visit http://bacb.com for more information.
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This 19-credit, five-course sequence is designed for people who have completed an accredited graduate degree. Completion of the five-course sequence and completion of 1,500 hours of supervised independent fieldwork in behavior analysis make the student eligible to take the BCBA certification examination sponsored by the BACB®. Visit http://bacb.com for more information.
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Believe it or not, pay phones are here to stay
Last December, during its end-of-quarter news conference, NTT announced that it would shorten the length of time for a basic call on public telephones when the consumption tax is raised from 5 to 8 percent in April. Since pay phones don't give change and NTT discontinued its IC card service in 2006, it would have been difficult to pass the extra tax levy on to users, so the more logical scheme was to make a ¥10 call shorter. As it stands, ¥10 will get you 60 seconds of connection to a number within the same calling exchange during the day. After April it will be shortened to something like 58 seconds.
At the time it wasn't exactly breaking news, and for obvious reasons. Who uses pay phones any more? As long as you have a cell phone you likely won't even notice that pay phones still exist, but they do. According to a government white paper on telecommunications that came out last year and cited on the Sarayomi blog, as of March 2013 there were 210,000 pay phones in Japan. In 2002 there were 680,000. (The peak year was 1986, when there were 910,000.) That means two-thirds disappeared over an 11-year period.


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One of my favorite movies is Love Affair from 1939 starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. It was remade as An Affair To Remember in 1957 with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant and again as Love Affair in 1994 with Annette Bening and Warren Beatty. There is also the well known movie Sleepless In Seattle which borrowed heavily from this story's plot line. Just like a really good story, some things can be revisited over and over again even though the similarities are obvious the freshness comes from the changing characters and contemporary elements.
This year Moss and Stone Gardens was invited to create an exhibition at the NC State Fair. Erv Evans, affectionately known as The Plant Guy for his encyclopedic knowledge of plants and their botanical names, is in charge of the Flower and Garden Show at the fair and when he made his enthusiasm known for our unique gardening style we could not resist.
The affair began with a visit to the garden grounds and a tour with Erv to see what locations were available. After consideration, Ken and I chose a corner booth anchored by a large White Oak. Little did we realize that this year was one of those off-the-chart acorn events that you seem to forget about until they occur again. By the time we broke ground 2 weeks before the Fair began, acorns were falling from the great oak at an astonishing rate and speed. Thousands fell into our booth and gave little if any warning before striking, if unlucky you became the stricken, if lucky you got to laugh at your partner getting a right painful lump on his noggin'.
With some thought, it was decided to bring a little serenity to the energetic and colorful sea of blooms that enthralls the almost 1 million visitors that return each year. Hopefully, our exhibition would be seen as one of those contemporary elements that are welcomed in a recurring great storyline. We gave the installation the name The Serenity Garden and chose to use as many traditional Japanese style elements as we could tastefully squeeze into our 20′ x 15′ plot. The challenge was met by creating a 4 foot mound at the rear corner which allowed for some forced perspective. The temple on top of the hill and adjacent elements were kept to scale as though the distance from the viewer was greater than it actually was. The stream that originated from behind the temple gained some added mystique with a fogging machine and the washed pebbles in the stream graded from 1/4″ all the way to 5″ as it approached the Tsukubai fountain. At the base of the hill we nestled a dry water feature using screened gravel accented by bamboo and behind the fountain we added a Buddha statue to contemplate the peaceful setting.
As much fun as we had creating the Serenity Garden it paled in comparison to the joy we received by watching the flow of visitors stop and muse. For a moment, they stopped mouthing their cotton-candy or scanning ahead to see if the next attraction was more interesting, they pointed for others to not miss what caught their eye, took photographs, knelt down to caress the moss and most importantly came away with a new appreciation for one of the oldest stories ever told again and again, moss.
David Spain a.k.a. Moss Rock
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I rant about this panel quite a bit in this week's Four Color Freak-Out, so I thought I'd provide a little context. First a preface: I actually *enjoy* this title month-to-month. So I'm not bashing the title, the writer, or even the artist (who does a perfectly serviceable job for 99.9% of this comic). That said:
Below is a panel from this week's Generation Hope #15, as drawn by Tim Green II. Are we, the intrepid readers, to assume that Danger has in fact thrown Psylocke at Sebastian Shaw, and Ms. Braddock's contortions are a cat-like attempt to land on her feet? Or has everyone's favorite Anglo-Asian Ninja Mash-up come down with a crippling case of Boneitis in mid-jump?
I mean, there's broken spine and then there's this…uh, pose.
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Over the past 20 years, once imperiled alligator population in Texas have rebounded spectacularly. Increased suburban, exurban, an industrial development in an adjacent to coastal counties, particularly along the mid- and upper coast, has resulted in increasing number of nuisance alligator complaints, especially in areas biologically characterized by diminishing or little to no habitat.
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Hodgson bemoans 'stop-start game'
England played against 10 men for the last 25 minutes after Bryan Beckeles was sent off but they still failed to breach the Honduran goal in their final warm-up match before the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
An electrical storm that forced play to be temporarily suspended in the first half also hampered England's cause.
Just 22 minutes had been played when referee Ricardo Salazar brought the game to a halt as the storm passed over the Sun Life Stadium, with play finally resuming after 45 minutes.
Moments before players were sent down the tunnel, England started to generate some momentum and Daniel Sturridge was presented with the best opportunity of the half, though he fired his effort wide of the post.
England were unable to find their rhythm from that point as they struggled to create any real clear-cut chances following the resumption in play, despite the introductions of Ross Barkley and Jack Wilshere.
"They were quite physical," Hodgson told ITV post-game.
"It was a real stop-start game, one of the most frustrating I've been involved in for a long time. We had a long stoppage, I thought we dealt with it and in the second half it was attack v defence.
"They got their men behind the ball and we didn't take our chances. We attempted to make them but this is a game I will soon forget.
"I will take the draw and that we got away without injuries and that we have experience against Central American opposition."
Hodgson added: "I thought that Ross Barkley and Jack Wilshere added a great injection of attacking flair to our game."
The 66-year-old also lamented the absence of Raheem Sterling, who was suspended for the clash due to the red card he received against Ecuador on Wednesday.
"I'm disappointed Raheem Sterling couldn't play because in games like this, where you have the ball in and around the penalty area, players like him with that incredible dribbling skill can make the difference," he said.
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Musings from the Greenhabilitator...
"I have to do this." I thought as I unscrunched my face and tried to camouflage my disgust. Deep breath. Here we go.
"Welcome to Walmart" said the greater. I managed to grunt and force a half smile, making a bee line towards the kids department.
After weeks of looking at thrift shops, we were still without the serious snow gear that our 5 year old daughter needed to survive the cold, hard winter here in the mountains of Colorado. We got three feet of snow earlier this week (yeah, in October), which made for awesome sledding over our two days off from school. Unfortunately, the two older kids had to take turns using the snow suit and boots (lucky for us they're the same size).
Today when we dug out I made the decision to break the Compact and get Macy the gear she needed, rather than hoping it might come to me serendipitously.
Walmart is probably one of my least favorite places on earth for a variety of reasons, but it's the only store in our little mountain town. There was a time I could brag that I hadn't set foot in a Walmart in several years. Not that boycotting Walmart somehow made up for the love affair I had with Target. But that's neither here nor there.
Today I was disappointed in myself for not finding a second-hand option, I was grumpy that I had to shop at Walmart, and I was just feeling like a poor eco-hero in general. Somewhere in my distress a strange thing happened. I said "screw it". If I was going out, I'd go out in style. (I was totally getting the whole "an alcoholic can never have 'just one' drink" thing....er, except I'm a reformed shopoholic.)
At any rate, we picked out gloves and a snow suit, then headed to the shoe department to find some snow boots. Out of her size, darn. We took a spin through fabric. Nothing too fabulous. Any kitchen gadgets I "need"? No.
My 4 year old spotted the plastic pumpkins for trick-or-treating, "Can we buy those mom?" "Uh, no." I told him in that "Are you smoking crack?" tone. "But why not?" he asked. I think I answered something to the effect of "Because we don't buy cheap plastic crap that you use once and clogs the landfill for ever." Meanwhile I was admiring a glass pumpkin cookie jar / candy dish type thing, thinking how I'd put the kids' candy in it. Ooooh and it's only $5.00! But what am I going to do with it the other 364 days of the year? Why would I possibly need a glass pumpkin?
I laughed to myself.
Here I was actually trying to break the Compact in a blaze of glory and all I could get myself to buy was what I originally came for. What I really needed.
Imagine that.
I was reading a blog post the other day about "falling off the wagon" (only this was in regards to the diet wagon) where the author said~
"Here's the thing...we still live in the same world we inhabited before The Reformation, and an important part of making really lasting change is developing the capacity to be a little flexible sometimes, and then climb right back onto the wagon."I think I'm starting to get that.


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Surstömming: Swedish Delicacy or WMD?Erik Deckers
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I'll eat just about anything once. There is not much I don't like or won't try. Even the foods I don't like are things I only mildly dislike. There may be the odd dish here and there that I really don't like — ultra-sweet cole slaw, black pudding, pickled pigs feet — but I'd be hard-pressed to name something I absolutely hate (although "anything vegan" comes pretty close).
I'm actually pretty experimental when it comes to food. I'm the kind of guy who puts ketchup on scrambled eggs (but never on steak), enjoys smoked oysters, and loves peanut butter on a hamburger.
In fact, one of my favorite hamburgers in Indianapolis is the Shewman Burger from Scotty's Brewhouse — a quarter-pound burger with jalapeños, bacon, and a nice big glob of peanut butter. My other favorite is Boogie Burger's Rise & Shine. This tasty dish includes a fried egg, over easy, and bacon with cheddar cheese.
Of course, everything goes great with bacon, so you can't go wrong adding it to anything. In fact, the only thing better than bacon? More bacon.
But a lot of people make a nasty face and make that guttural, gagging "eelllwww" sound — from the back of the throat, like they're trying not to barf at the thought of my comfort food (first, quit being an overdramatic baby) when I mention that my favorite burgers have peanut butter or a fried egg on it.
"Have you tried it?" I always challenge the haters.
"No, but it just sounds gross?" they protest feebly.
"Do you like peanut butter (or fried eggs)?" I ask.
"Yes," they admit.
"Do you like hamburgers?"
"Of course."
"Do you like bacon?"
"Who doesn't?"
"Then why don't you like those three together?"
"Because they just sound wrong together."
Oh, but they taste so right. I have issued a personal challenge to many people: try the Shewman Special, or the Rise and Shine, and if you don't like it, I'll buy your lunch. If you do, you buy mine. No one has taken me up on it yet, but I'm confident I can finagle a free lunch this way.
But while I try to be somewhat open-minded about foods of the world, I think I may have found something I'm nearly prepared to say no to.
I recently read an article in The Local, Sweden's English newspaper, about surströmming (sir-stroe-ming), a Swedish "delicacy." I use the term sort of ironically, because the word surströmming is Swedish for "sour herring," although some linguists and surstömming survivors prefer the term "rotten herring."
It's not surprising that this exists though. The Scandinavians and northern Europeans love their herring. On trips with my dad to Holland (his home country), we would stop by herring stand after herring stand so he could get a pickled herring with onions. I tried one, and was glad to say I had tried it, but didn't care to repeat the experience. My dad, on the other hand, would get one whenever we passed a herring stand. We sometimes went out of our way to pass by three herring stands on the way to the train station.
But those crazy Swedes have taken the herring thing a step further, and fermented it in tin cans, to create one of the most nasty, potent, offensive weapons anyone could ever stick into their mouth.
According to the story, surstömming has actually been banned from many apartment complexes. Students use it to disrupt class so they can get out of school for a couple of days. And several airlines have banned the canned good because they're afraid it will explode on a flight.
Surstömming is basically herring that is caught in May and June, fermented for a couple months, and then placed in cans, where it continues to ferment. After a year, says The Local, the fish will release "a variety of gases" that can cause the cans to bulge and distend.
Know what else makes a can bulge and distend? Botulism.
I also know several people who release "a variety of gases," but that doesn't mean I consider them a delicacy, or even interesting to hang out with.
This is about the time of year the Swedes will eat surstömming, usually on thin bread with potatoes, red onions, sour cream, dill, and tomatoes, to be followed by hours of violent vomiting and explosive diarrhea.
I decided, after reading this article, that surstömming will most likely go on the "never to be eaten, even when you're starving" list, along with black pudding. But I'm willing to try it first before I make a definitive statement. If I like it, you pay for my trip to Sweden; if I don't, I pay for yours.
I wonder how it would taste with peanut butter and bacon.
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Trio of Nittany Lions selected to NFF's Hampshire Honor Society
A trio of former Penn State football student-athletes have been selected to the National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society for the 2012 season. Seniors Mike Farrell (Pittsburgh), Pete Massaro (Newtown Square) and Matt Stankiewitch (Orwigsburg) were selected for the honor. Penn State's three honorees were tied for second-highest among Big Ten Conference institutions.


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no way rupert and tyson are back again
Quote from: Coolio! on May 13, 2013, 09:55:55 PMno way rupert and tyson are back againRupert did an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit a few months ago when he was running for governor of Indiana (), and I think I recall him saying he didn't really want to play again. He doesn't even watch the show anymore.
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The reactions heard over the last week after a clear majority of state voters said they support slots machines in Maryland have ranged from the ridiculous to the naïve.
There comes a time when folks need to get a grasp of reality. Yes, slots are coming to Maryland, specifically and most likely the Ocean Downs racetrack, but all the hysterical people out there bemoaning last week's vote as the end to our existence as a lovely place to raise a family need to get a grip. On the opposite end of the spectrum, those proclaiming slots as a wonderful financial cure-all with little to no impact on the areas hosting them need to wake up.
Last week's vote was a big deal because it will change Maryland. However, there is no need for panic or celebration. Last week's vote means there will be an adjustment for us all. The good news is the earliest anyone will be playing here or at the five other sites spread throughout the state is 2011 and that's not even a certainty because there is much to be done before that happens.
We do not support slots, but we understand why so many Marylanders, including those living in Ocean City and the county, think their time has come. Unfortunately, the downward spiral of the economy made the referendum's outcome obvious. People assume, wrongly we think, that the forecasted revenues slots will bring to Maryland will become reality. They gobbled up the revenue allocation to education, buying into the unrealistic expectations that slots will ail state school systems trying to secure enough funds to make adequate yearly progress, as outlined in federal and state measures.
It's understandable folks are reacting in extremes but we need to get some perspective and see the big picture. We do not believe all the worst-case predictions slots opponents are suggesting. We do not think crime will soar to the point we feel unsafe in our neighborhoods nor do we think businesses will close their doors in the face of increased competition.
Ocean City businesses have a right to be concerned about locals and visitors disposable incomes, but the successful companies will adapt and make the best of the situation, one that will not be as dramatic as some fear.
The situation must now be monitored closely. It will take an act of the legislature, and perhaps even another constitutional amendment requiring a referendum, to allow any more slots parlors or even additional terminals at the existing sites or sports books or card games. There are safeguards available, but we all need to pay attention and make sure this process moves as slow as the legislation spells out. In the meantime, the area and its businesses have to be deliberate and ready to adapt as more is learned about what's ahead. The old adage. "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" rings true here.


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Here's a slightly different way of looking at a mini iPad: Will it be more like a Mac mini or an iPod nano?
That's another way of asking, will this just help Apple pick up a few extra customers, or will it redefine the tablet category?
Let's look at a little history.
Back in 2005, Apple introduced a new kind of computer to its lineup: a little white square it called a Mac mini. Unlike most of Apple's hardware, the Mac mini was built on compromises.


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The next time you hit the road, combine your fascination with space travel with your love of sunny beaches and spend some time on Florida's Space Coast. This bit of the coast, nearest to Orlando, stretches from the Canaveral National Seashore down to Sebastian Inlet State Park. Along this coast you can enjoy some of the best surfing spots, saltwater fishing, the wildlife of Florida, sunny beaches, and the history of space travel at Kennedy Space Center.
There are a few places along Florida's Space Coast that all visitors need to take some time to see and explore. The Canaveral National Seashore has over 24 miles of undeveloped beaches. Throughout the year you can fish, boat, swim, hike along the trails, and even surf. The National Seashore is just north of the NASA Shuttle Launching Facility, which may cause temporary closures of the Canaveral Seashore.
Another important piece of culture and history of the Space Coast is its part in America's history of space travel. During a visit to this part of Florida, be sure to make time to visit the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. At the Kennedy Space Center you can tour launch areas, see rockets, experience the space flight simulators, and speak to an astronaut. If you are really lucky and time your visit right you may even be able to view a shuttle launch. Space enthusiasts should also visit the US Astronaut Hall of Fame. At this museum you can see what space travel was like for the first astronauts. Try out the astronaut training simulators and look at the museums large collection of the astronauts personal items.
Surfing is another big part of Florida's Space Coast culture. Stop by Ron Jons Surf Shop, a 24-hour surf shop is considered to be one of the world's most famous surf shops. At Ron Jons you can explore 52,000 square feet of surfing gear.
For those who want to experience surfing, there are many places that offer surfing lessons. If you want to observe some world-class surfing, visit Sebastian Inlet State Park. This state park hosts surfing contests. Sebastian Inlet is also a great saltwater fishing destination. Visit the McLarty Museum and the Sebastian Inlet Fishing Museum to learn about the history of the area.
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LISLE – By the time the torrential rains left town Thursday, Mother Nature had dropped 7.34 inches of water on Lisle, leaving behind massive floods.
Lisle was among the hardest hit last Wednesday night and Thursday, and dramatic scenes unfolded throughout town, including an evacuation by boat of the Towers of Four Lakes Village apartment complex in unincorporated Lisle.
The storms called together local responders from the police and fire departments, the DuPage County Sheriff's Office and even the National Guard.
A release issued by the village late Friday called it "one of the worst flood disasters" in the town's 50-plus year history.
Mayor Joe Broda elaborated on that statement when reached Monday morning.
"I can only speak for the last 35 years in Lisle, but the level of flooding has made this the worst storm I have seen," Broda said. "The storms and flooding in '96 were bad but not to this magnitude."
Broda couldn't put a figure on it, but said property loss across town will be in the millions. He added that he was not aware of any serious injuries in Lisle as a result of the storms and flooding.
"All you have to is drive around town and see all the furniture in front of people's homes. A neighbor across the street from me has $20,000 in damage to her basement alone," he said.
Most roads had re-opened in Lisle as of Monday morning.
Some are still displaced from their homes, though, according to the mayor, who estimated that more than 100 residences had to be evacuated in the days following the storms.
"We've got homes that may not be able to be occupied again," he said, adding that village inspectors would surveying damage throughout town this week.
As of Monday, residents in the Towers of Four Lakes apartment complex were still not back in their homes. The complex was still without power as of Monday and roads have been blocked by standing water.
"Some people had to leave their pets there for two days, which is very shameful. They're trying to get power back over there – a power sub-station to the east of the towers is under water," the mayor said.
Lisle joined DuPage County and a host of other towns, including Westmont, Lombard, Elmhurst, Addison and Warrenville, in declaring states of emergency.
Declaring a state of emergency allows communities to eventually seek state or federal funding if and when it becomes available.
Broda is hopeful Lisle will receive funds to help cover the damage costs.
"We won't know anything for weeks (regarding funds from the state and federal government). We should qualify for some money to help these people. For their sake, I hope our residents get it," he said.


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SHEPHERDSVILLE - Two women currently in the Bullitt County Detention Center will have their separate cases waived to the next term of the Bullitt County grand jury.
Ashley Sneed, 20, of Mount Washington, has been charged with criminal abuse of her 2-year-old son.
Sneed was arrested on Dec. 20 and charged with the Class D felony.
According to Det. Scotty McGaha of the Bullitt County Sheriff's Department, the charge came after the boy's father took his son to Jewish Hospital Medical Center South with serious bruising. The boy was then transported to Kosair Children's Hospital and later released.
While McGaha said Sneed might not be the person responsible for the injuries, she failed to take steps when she saw the injuries.
McGaha said he is talking with another individual but no other charges have been filed. The excuse given to the boy's father when he picked him up for the weekend was that a fall on the ice caused the injuries.
Doctors said that the bruising could not have been caused by a fall on the ice or snow, said McGaha.
District judge Jennifer Porter refused to reduce the current $500,000 cash bond. The case will now be heard by the Bullitt County Grand Jury for possible indictment.
Also on Tuesday, the case against Jenny Lynn Counzler was sent to the grand jury.
Counzler, 30, has been charged with rape and sodomy.
According to McGaha, the woman has been charged with having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old boy.
McGaha said the investigation continues on the case. He said he learned that the woman had complained about not getting enough attention from her boyfriend.
She is still in the Bullitt County Detention Center on a $100,000 cash bond. Her case will now go to the grand jury.
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Jose Vilson's journey as an educator began during his senior year in college when, after leading a workshop on Cesar Chavez, he decided to forgo his intended career as a computer scientist and enter the field of teaching. According to a McKinsey study, 14 percent of teachers leave after one year, and nearly half leave the profession before their fifth year, citing difficult working conditions. Now, having taught in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan for eight years, Jose is proving to be an exception to the rule, and is tackling issues on education everywhere from CNN, to GOOD, the Huffington Post, and TEDx.
How does Jose make a job with such high turnover work for him? His drive is rooted in his commitment to education equality and long-term success for African-American and Latino youth. Staying focused on this greater goal has kept him in the field, and brought him recognition as a thought-leader, following his media presence and engaging blog.
"I come from the Lower East Side, the last frontier of the ghetto. In the 90s, it was a dark time: There was drug selling and murder. Growing up, we called it Beirut; you had people shooting from behind the walls through the projects. But the best part of being who I am and where I come from is that it affords me the opportunity to be patient and be more forward thinking.
"For example, people use the old leadership model where you have to be in front in order to take control, and students will sit back and take in what you teach. I don't believe that. People mistake the leadership I bring as not taking charge, but I am trying to get students to be leaders on their own. For example, you will hear noise in my class. You will hear more of [the students] than of me. I also ask students to leave me alone and ask their classmates about solutions before they ask me. I don't do it to be a jerk, but they need to be self-motivated and work on [their] own.
"[The students] make me want to be better. Walking the road I did, I beat the odds and want them to do the same.
"We need people who are passionate and driven to make education valuable to students. If you want to teach, do a lot of personal reflection. The person who you think you are may not be the person you are in the classroom. I would also advise you to really read. Find best practices. Find a group of friends who you really trust. Having that dialogue that makes the experience a whole lot better when you are learning how to teach."
This story is part of Heart at Work, a monthly series produced by Idealist.org and Echoing Green, in which we tilt the spotlight towards everyday people doing extraordinary work that makes the world a better place.
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the compounds continues to exist if a bonding is still possible between the decay product and the rest of the original compound.
the compound just ceases to exist.
the decay product forms a new compound with some fraction of the remainder of the original one but discards some other part.
Generally, it will do whatever results in the least energetic state, but is there some kind of regularity to it?


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MONTERREY, Mexico - Searchers pulled 10 bodies from a well in northern Mexico on Monday, near the site where 20 members of a Colombian-style music group and its crew disappeared late last week, a state forensic official said.
It was hard to determine how many more bodies were submersed in the water, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the case.
Nuevo Leon state Gov. Rodrigo Medina earlier told a local television station, "We have evidence that indicates that (the bodies) may very well be the members of this band," though he said experts were still working to identify them.
The bodies recovered showed signs of torture, the official said.
Sixteen members of the band Kombo Kolombia and four crew members were reported missing early Friday after playing at a private party held at a ranch called La Carreta, or The Wagon, in the town of Hidalgo north of Monterrey.
The forensic official said authorities had been searching for two days when they came upon the well Sunday along a dirt road in the town of Mina, about 140 miles from Laredo.
People living near the ranch in Hidalgo reported hearing gunshots at about 4 a.m. Friday, followed by the sound of vehicles speeding away, said a separate source with the Nuevo Leon State Investigative Agency. He also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted by the news media.
The officials added that gunfire is common in the area and said investigators found spent bullets nearby.
Relatives filed a missing persons report on Friday after losing cellular phone contact with the musicians. When they went to the ranch to investigate, they found the band members' vehicles still parked outside.
Kombo Kolombia has played a Colombian style of music known as vallenato, which is popular in working class neighborhood in the city of Monterrey and other parts of Nuevo Leon state. Most of the group's musicians were from the area, though state officials said one of those missing is a Colombian citizen with Mexican residency.
The band regularly played at bars in downtown Monterrey on the weekend. At least two of the bars where they had played had been attacked by gunmen.
It was Mexico's largest single kidnapping since 20 tourists from the western state of Michoacan were abducted in 2010. Most of their bodies were found a month later in a mass grave. Authorities said the tourists were mistaken for cartel members.
Members of other musical groups have been murdered in Mexico in recent years, usually groups that perform "narcocorridos" that celebrate the exploits of drug traffickers. But Kombo Kolombia did not play that type of music, and its lyrics were about love and heartbreak and did not deal with violence or drug trafficking.
But singers of drug exploits are not the only musicians targeted, said Elijah Wald, author of the book, "Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns and Guerrillas."
"There is really not correlation. Drug guys hire people to play for their parties and they hire whatever is happening," he said. "Sergio Gomez, the single-most famous singer killed from K-Paz de la Sierra, his big hit was a version of 'Jambalaya.' "
Gomez was kidnapped and found strangled and tortured in 2007 in the western state of Michoacan, a day after Zayda Pena of the group Zayda and the Guilty Ones was shot in a hospital while recovering from a separate bullet wound in the border town of Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville.
Valentin Elizalde, "El Gallo de Oro," was shot to death along with his manager and driver in 2006 following a performance in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen. Norteno singer Sergio Vega was shot dead in a northern state of Sinaloa in 2010.
"A lot of people are being killed because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time and musicians are some of the people on that list," Wald said.


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Dejan Damjanovic struck in first-half injury time to maintain Montenegro's unbeaten start to Group H with a magnificent 1-0 win over Ukraine.
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Dejan Damjanovic struck in first-half injury time to maintain Montenegro's unbeaten start to Group H with a magnificent 1-0 win over Ukraine in Kiev.
Damjanovic's winner was a further blow to the fancied Ukrainians, who had lost ground on their group rivals on Friday night after surprisingly being held to a goalless draw in Moldova.
The visitors were more aggressive from the start, threatening from a dangerous Ruslan Rotan free-kick in the first minute, then Nikola Drincic sending another set-piece into the arms of Ukraine keeper Andrei Pyatov.
Oleg Gusev had Ukraine's first chance when he shot wide in the 14th minute, and Gusev missed the target again from long range in the 36th minute.
Damjanovic forced a save out of Pyatov in the 42nd minute and three minutes later after a sustained spell of Montenegro pressure, the same player fired home from 12 yards after Stevan Jovetic's pass from the right wing.
The visitors continued to look sharp at the start of the second half, Pyatov tipping a header from Marko Basa round the post, and Stefan Savic heading just over the bar from the resulting corner.
Drincic shot just wide in the 56th minute before Ukraine finally responded with a shot from Yevgen Konoplianka which was well saved by Montenegro keeper Mladen Bozovic.
Pyatov denied Montenegro a second goal from the penalty spot in the 77th minute after Savic was fouled by Yevgen Selin, saving Jovetic's spot-kick in superb fashion.
But the Ukrainians seldom looked like fashioning an equaliser, with Jovetic missing the target again in the dying minutes as the visitors held on comfortably for a famous win.


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Establishing or expanding operations or back-office functions in other countries can usher in many benefits, but can also carry hidden costs and risks. Bob Chapman, managing partner, global, for Deloitte LLP, who leads efforts with respect to investments in markets such as Brazil, China, India, Japan and Southeast Asia, discusses important, and sometimes overlooked, considerations in building or relocating in other countries, as well as some of the inherent risks. He also talks about the importance of long-term thinking, the potential downside of labor arbitrage, the imperative of cultural sensitivity, and why training and development are critical to attract and retain talent in the new location.
Q: Companies have several options in locating operations or functions: onshoring, nearshoring, offshoring or a hybrid of those. What are some issues to consider when making location decisions?
Bob Chapman: It's important to understand the factors that are driving the decision to physically locate certain activities in different parts of the world and how long those factors will persist. For example, in India, the rupee recently devalued significantly, which can make locating operations there attractive if the business's home country's currency has a higher valuation. By contrast, a couple of years ago, India's currency appreciated, presenting a significant challenge to companies with extended delivery operations there.
When considering locations for business units, operations or other corporate activities, companies should look out over a 15-year time horizon and consider what events might occur. You can't gear up, hire a lot of people, put a significant infrastructure in place and expect to get to size and scale without long-term thinking about how you are going to manage it—and in the face of various scenarios.
Nearshoring tends to offer more flexibility in terms of coming and going, and near shore operations are usually smaller in size and scale. They're meant to take advantage of local conditions, such as the relatively unrestricted travel between countries in the eurozone.
With onshoring, some of the factors that come into play are specific to a particular industry. For example, an operation with high transportation costs is more likely to be brought back onshore at some point versus being left offshore. By contrast, in the professional services sector, where there is more of a focus on moving intellectual property, transportation costs are essentially the price of airline tickets.
Q: Are there issues to be taken into account when expanding in other countries today that perhaps were not as important in the past?
Bob Chapman: Certainly cybersecurity is one of the most critical topics for organizations to consider. That's really part of a broader group of activities, including privacy, security, and monitoring and planning for resiliency—not only business interruption. The privacy issue should not be underestimated, and it concerns issues such as protecting the names of clients or customers and their activities. Privacy also extends to employees and their communications, as well as loss of information, for example if someone were to gain unauthorized access to a computer or document. There are also strict rules around data privacy in the European Union, as well as in the U.S. and elsewhere. Businesses looking to expand should carefully consider in advance what kind of information would be sent offshore to an operation or extended delivery facility. Similarly, planning and preparation for physical security over offices, equipment, technology, intellectual property and infrastructure should be undertaken early in the process.
Q: From a risk management perspective, what are some issues to consider in determining where to locate outside one's own country?
Bob Chapman: First, most businesses want a stable business environment, so they might look at political risks: Is the government stable, are the laws respected, and is there some predictability in terms of how things might get decided? Second, there is the regulatory environment: What types of inspections or reporting are required to meet local requirements? The third consideration is the tax environment and understanding local and national tax regulations.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and similar regulations, such as the U.K. Bribery Act 2010, also must be well understood to keep in compliance with the requirements of those rules. Each country has its corruption type statutes and requirements, including legal requirements. That's one of the relatively new issues that I think is coming into focus, and businesses should be mindful of the reporting requirements and activities that might cause an issue.
Equally important is the potential downside risk of the investment to expand outside the host country: How will you protect yourself if it doesn't turn out the way you planned? How will you meet your employment obligations and protect the goodwill that you've established with customers or clients?
Q: When moving a highly skilled function, such as finance, to a near shore or offshore location, what critical elements should be considered?
Bob Chapman: It's critical to consider the size and the scale of the operations and their costs. If the move doesn't produce a meaningful change in the cost structure, it's likely to be difficult to realize the desired level of benefits. For a finance function, there are hidden costs to build into the decision model, such as labor and training.
It's also important to provide staff with development opportunities. If they don't have chances to expand their careers, it's going to be challenging to minimize turnover, which can be costly.
Another factor is the cost of the external resources that are brought to bear in an emerging market. For example, expats can be very expensive—two to three times the cost of a local resource to bring them overseas—and then they rotate back and you have to bring others in. Unless you have size and scale to absorb those costs, it can become a very large P&L item that could consume the advantage you're trying to gain by using labor arbitrage.
Q: A company's relationships with locals can be pivotal. What are some first steps to building those relationships?
Bob Chapman: The very first relationship cultivated should be a local representative who is loyal and trustworthy vis a vis the investment that you're about to make. An operation cannot be run from afar, so it usually requires someone on the ground. Next, you will need to assemble a group of advisors to assist in understanding key regulations. Then you'll need to hire employees who can help maintain your compliance obligations, and that's really where you start to build up a small-scale infrastructure.
For a small operation, these costs can be high with respect to the revenue that is expected to be generated. So a business might work to scale a near shore or offshore site so that it can absorb those costs and spread them over a larger revenue base.
Q: What are common issues around talent and retention when locating an activity offshore?
Bob Chapman: Attracting top talent is one of the biggest challenges any organization in these marketplaces faces. A talent model needs to be established in terms of attraction and retention, and then a course of action set to meet the project's objectives. For a finance organization, accounting firm or other skilled labor area, turnover is something you want to minimize because the cost of bringing aboard and training new employees is high compared to keeping existing staff.
If turnover is a challenge, it's necessary to find out why staff is leaving. One of the issues we faced at Deloitte in our overseas operations was the importance of mobility and workplace flexibility to employees. We took a number of measures to address their interest in flexibility and working remotely when needed.
Another issue to consider is what kind of training are you going to provide, and are you providing skills that people will consider valuable for the longer term? At Deloitte we provided English language courses to help people become more proficient. For a lot of people that training meant they could become more marketable and that provided incentive to stay longer, which benefitted our organization as well.
Q: Given your experience in establishing and managing operations in India, what did you learn about how to be effective and break down cultural barriers?
Bob Chapman: I've learned that you have to be surrounded by strong talent and resources to be successful. That means putting in place a management team that can operate well in that particular environment—and with you. If you don't have confidence in that management team, it's important to change people out readily and make sure that you regain confidence. I also think having the appropriate senior resources is critically important, and typically, many of those senior resources should come from the host country. Yet, it's also important to empower the local management and staff in order to be effective.
Another critical element is understanding the local culture—whether that's outside or inside the U.S. We implemented an acculturation program that required people from outside the U.S. to train in the States to prepare them for some of the differences in culture and protocols when they travel to the U.S. For example, it's important for people visiting from outside the U.S. to know that if they rent a car and hear a police siren, they need to pull over and stop or they might get arrested. We learned from experience that not everyone knows to do this.
We also have had thousands of U.S.-based employees spend time—some for as long as two to three years—in Deloitte's U.S India operations so that the educational process goes both ways. By doing so, we've been able to build not only a business but strong cultural ties that are essential to doing business.
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Apparently, anyone can learn to stay fit with pole dancing if domestic diva Martha Stewart can do it! On Tuesday's episode of "The Martha Stewart Show," Sheila Kelley from S Factor gave Martha the lowdown on shaking her hips and swirling around the pole. Don't say I didn't give you a pre-warn if the video above gives you bad dreams.
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Since I've seen several people on Twitter talk about playing GW2, but express mild concern about finding a good server/guild, I thought that now would be a good time to speak up.
Myself and several friends from Earthen Ring will be setting up shop on Tarnished Coast. I will be GMing an RPing guild there, and all RP-interested folk are more than welcome to join us. Even if you're not into RP, you're more than welcome to join us on the server–although guesting will, of course, allow visitors from other servers if all you want is a leveling buddy.
Echoing Howls will be a relatively casual "band of adventurers" guild, led by a charismatic Norn ranger and open to all races. I hope to push RP events on the server (player run taverns, etc etc), as well as just "do a bunch of stuff together". WoW ruined my ability to play a game by myself, I swear.
If you're interested, feel free to poke us over here and join us on the forums where we're posting character concepts and doing some pre-launch RP. You can just slap "Amber I'm following you here from your blog post" in the recruitment form if you want–don't worry about the IC stuff at this point.
ETA: Also, having us just be one guild of many is also fine! That is the wonder of the GW2 guild system, after all.


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Making the Most of the Information Age: Productivity and Structural Reform in the New Economy
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Beginning as a barely perceptible ripple 10 to 15 years ago, information and communication technology (ICT) are now driving a broad wave of productivity gains. Using new, internationally comparative evidence, this study examines the patterns of ICT diffusion across advanced industrial economies--patterns which help to explain the U.S. lead in productivity over the vast majority of OECD countries in the past half-decade.
Topics covered:
- How does ICT Affect Growth?
- ICT and International Labor Productivity
- Structural Reforms Unlock the New Economy
- To Improve Market Performance ICT Needs a New Institutional Framework
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- key findings
- executive summary
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As you might have guessed by the continuing news coverage, the London Olympic Games are almost upon us. And now the BBC is launching its official Olympic app for Android (and iOS), allowing you mobile to access the Beeb's Olympic coverage in all its forms. You'll find the same written and video content found on the BBC mobile sites, as well as live streams of the games once things kick off on July 27. There's also a guide to all the leading athletes, and an Olympic schedule to help users see what's next. Once the medals start being doled out, you'll find a dedicated guide page for keeping track of those, too.
The app is available now at the Google Play Store for devices running Android 2.2 and above. To view the BBC's Olympic live streams, you'll need the soon to be deprecated Adobe Flash Player. Unfortunately that means anyone on the latest version of the OS, 4.1 Jelly Bean, is out of luck. You'll also need to be in the UK to stream content from the BBC, though if you're in the US, you can always use NBC's streaming app instead.
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October 2000
Bolivian children enjoying books, thanks to the Sister Libraries Project of Appalachian State University, USA and Cochabamba, Bolivia. Photo: Appalachian State University.
Broad access to scientific information is key for people to understand, participate and respond to the challenges that development poses to civilization. Understanding of issues such as global warming, loss of biodiversity, evolution, implications of genetic research, and many other topics is essential, almost a requisite, for personal involvement in these issues. They affect all of us, and the better we understand them, the better we can respond with appropriate actions, whether these are activism in public causes or changes at the personal level.
In the United States, access to information is wide spread. A visit to a decent bookstore provides an enormous amount of possibilities. Libraries, particularly university libraries, are similarly endowed. The advent of electronic information, particularly the World Wide Web and other means of global information access, has multiplied the ways in which people can obtain information. You are actually using one very powerful (and inexpensive) source of information as you read this and other articles on this web site.
The bioscience literacy status of developing nations
Access to scientific literature in developing countries is marginal at best. While scientists and college students can use the resources of fairly good technical libraries, individuals are less fortunate. There are several reasons why this seems to be the case:
There are many more books and science articles published in English about issues of relevance to developing countries than in their native languages. For example, although there are many field guides to animals and plants of the Neotropics, most are available only in English. Several guides, such as The Birds of Costa Rica, Birds of Venezuela, and D. Janzen's Costa Rica Natural History, have been translated into Spanish, but most have not. While English is one of the universal languages, it is by no means spoken or understood in many non-English speaking countries.
The situation with respect to technical scientific information is more serious. While many scientists in developing countries read and understand English, many scientific journals are not within easy reach. University libraries in these countries are always strapped for funds and can barely afford to subscribe to even a few journals in each specialty field. The rest are generally unavailable to scientists and students. Without access to current literature, the preparation and publication of works directed to the more general public is delayed or impaired.
Simultaneously, and perhaps more damaging in the long run, is the difficulty that many scientists in developing countries have in trying to publish their research results in American, European or global-scope journals. The conventions and regulations with respect to language use, reference citations, and the necessity of supporting research results with up-to-date bibliographic information, makes the publication of their articles an ordeal.
The sum of these situations carries several consequences:
- Citizens have little access to reliable and current scientific information in their native language and at their level of understanding (i.e., without technical jargon).
- Scientists have a hard time keeping up with recent developments in their areas of expertise, making it more difficult for them to publish and be up-to-date in their studies.
- Educators, in general, have even less access to accurate, relevant and up-to-date information on most issues related to science.
The net result is a society that can't keep up with the effects that accelerated development has on their environment, which ultimately will affect their own sustainability. More "enlightened" societies in developing countries are aware of the problems but become frustrated in their attempts to solve these problems from the outside.
Improving access to bioscience information in developing countries
Some of the responsibility for the conservation of tropical natural resources lies on the shoulders of developed countries. However, this doesn't diminish the responsibilities of developing countries to work towards a more educated society, one that is more conscious of their effects on the natural balance and more effective in fulfilling the tenets of sustainable development, to which most of these countries adhere, at least in principle. To become sustainable they have to be able to put into practice these tenets. There is also truth in the statement that most of the new scientific information about many of these issues is being generated in the developed world. Sharing this information in effective ways is a joint task.
So, what can we do to improve scientific literacy in developing countries? We could:
Develop personal relationships with scientists and educators in developing countries. There are many scientists that have made these relationships part of their careers, but the pattern needs to expand to concerned citizens, philanthropists and educators. As access to the Internet becomes more widespread in developing countries, these relationships should be easier to develop.
Support the development of literary exchanges between institutions and organizations, whether these are universities, colleges, high schools or non-profit education or conservation organizations.
Share the wealth of information. It is easy to make books, journal subscriptions and magazines available to counterpart organizations or even individuals in developing countries.
Provide and promote subsidies for the publication of key works (books and articles) in the countries' native languages, making them widely available and their cost reasonable to the local citizens.
Participate in the preservation and utilization of knowledge that indigenous people have about the environment based on their centuries-old observations of native species. The indigenous way of life is an admirable example of the benefits of ecoculture.
Science literacy at the citizen's level in developing countries is essential for the development of sustainability and for the protection and conservation of irreplaceable global resources. An environmentally aware society can make the right decisions about the environment and support their leader's efforts towards sustainability. Developing countries, often mired in internal political, social and economical struggles, can't afford to add environmental deterioration to their problems, especially because of a lack of access to relevant information. Since developed countries often produce and publish much of this information, it behooves them to make the extra effort to make the information available to the decision-makers and citizens of developing countries.
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NFC Tools can read & write NFC tags.
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Police are investigating an incident that occurred last week in which someone fired plastic BBs at a school bus with kids who were headed home.
Las Vegas Police Chief Christian Montaño said the incident occurred Wednesday afternoon near Legion Park Elementary School.
No students were injured; the BBs struck the side of the bus.
Montaño said there are no suspects at this time, although authorities do have a vehicle description. Police believe that an air BB gun was used, and they suspect that male teenagers were the ones who did it.
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Bordetella pertussis, the bacteria that causes pertussis, is contacted by it breathing in after it has been coughed or sneezed out by an infected person, especially during the catarrhal and early paroxysmal stages. Individuals are not infectious after the third week of the paroxysmal coughing. The incubation period averages 7 to 14 days. B. pertussis invades the respiratory mucosa causing increased secretion of mucus, initially thin and later viscid and not easily moved. The disease lasts about 6 weeks and has 3 clear stages:
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