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When the CEO Burns Out
Job Fatigue Catches Up to Some Executives Amid Mounting Expectations; No More Forced Smiles
A few years ago, James Green began to dread work. He dragged himself out of bed every morning and trudged through New York's Penn Station, trying to muster a "game face" for his office at Giant Realm, an online advertising network.
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But Mr. Green wasn't just any manager at the company; he was the CEO. And he was burned out on the job.
Companies and managers are equipped to handle job fatigue among employees, but what happens when burnout—described as persistent fatigue, detachment or resentment triggered by excessive work and stress—strikes the top boss?
More companies might soon find out. An uncertain economy, shareholder discontent and mounting expectations to deliver results have made the lives of chief executives more stressful, management experts say. And while few executives publicly acknowledge burnout, researchers studying the issue say it is more common than previously thought. In one study conducted by Harvard Medical School faculty, 96% of senior leaders reported feeling burned out to some degree, with one-third describing their burnout as extreme.
"A CEO's role is probably the loneliest in the business," says Jim Hertlein, a managing director at executive-search firm Boyden. "They're expected to be always on their game. They're not allowed to have a bad day."
The same traits that propel executives to the top—such as near-superhuman stamina and resilience—help them mask signs that anything is amiss. Burnout's early manifestations include forced smiles or skipped workouts and progress to feelings of dread and resentment, says Srini Pillay, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who is conducting the study of burnout among senior leaders.
"High-functioning people actually are able to power through," Dr. Pillay says, "but they do eventually crash."
When they do, their jobs can be in jeopardy. Boyden's Mr. Hertlein says corporate boards sometimes hire his company to find candidates to replace a burned-out CEO. While board members might not use the term, they often describe the symptoms. One telling sign a CEO is feeling overwhelmed, he says, is when the CEO begins to "micromanage" and fixate on small details.
In late 2011, Lloyds Banking Group PLC chief António Horta-Osório took a two-month leave of absence after less than a year on the job. People familiar with the matter at the time said it was due to "extreme fatigue," and added that Mr. Horta-Osório, normally a high-energy presence, had grown so exhausted from the round-the-clock nature of the job that his doctors instructed him to take a break.
The announcement caused the bank's shares to slump, a trend that continued over the next few weeks amid uncertainty over Lloyds' management team. The bank appointed an interim chief, Tim Tookey—and even announced a second backup plan in case Mr. Horta-Osório's leave of absence extended into the following year.
Mr. Horta-Osório returned to work in January 2012 and remains CEO; at the time, the bank said it was enlisting other senior managers to help shoulder his workload. The bank declined to comment.
Burned-out bosses complain of lost focus and mental clarity, and feelings that they're always behind. Company performance can suffer as they struggle to make decisions or treat staff fairly, according to management and medical experts.
HR departments usually assume, wrongly, that CEOs and other senior executives "have it together," says Kathleen Mahieu, head of the behavioral-health consulting practice at Aon Hewitt, a human-resources consultancy.
For Mr. Green, a turnaround specialist who spent a decade reviving struggling firms and preparing them for sale, firing hundreds of workers and answering investor demands left him feeling hollow. But he kept that to himself. "If you want to be a real leader, you can't go around being emotionally erratic," he says.
Eventually, the 51-year-old executive said he felt he "just had to check out."
So in 2010, after selling Giant Realm, Mr. Green did just that—taking a year off to sail across the Atlantic Ocean with his wife and two young children. Now CEO of Magnetic Media Online Inc., an Internet advertising company in New York, he says the voyage restored him. "When I came back, I was genuinely excited."
Dustin Snell, founder and CEO of Network Automation Inc., which develops business-process automation software for companies, felt he was "running in place," after a tough year in 2010—though he hesitated to call his condition "burnout." In January 2011, he left the company, taking a year and half off to spend more time with his newborn daughter. Mr. Snell, 37, eventually returned, reclaiming his CEO role, and says stepping away refreshed his perspective.
Taking time off to travel or sail is a common fantasy among executives, but sabbaticals aren't a sure fix for burnout, says Gabriela Corá, a psychiatrist and author of "Leading Under Pressure." Dr. Corá, who has treated some executive patients, generally recommends sleep, exercise and sometimes prescription medication, such as antidepressants.
Preventing burnout is one focus of a recently launched Harvard Business School workshop for executives at a career crossroads. John Davis, an HBS management professor and faculty chair of the Crossroads Program, says many bosses lack "good thermostats" for gauging their levels of fatigue. What's more, the executives say they simply can't afford to step off the "treadmill" to solve the problem, he adds.
"These people tend to be highly responsible individuals who fundamentally believe that they're not only important to others but also indispensable," Mr. Davis says.
Frits van Paasschen, CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., says he is acutely aware that his job, which requires him to be on the road for about half the year, puts him at risk for burnout. To manage fatigue and maintain his outlook, he avoids early morning meetings during business trips, keeps a vegan diet, rarely misses workouts (he is in training for triathlons and other competitions part of the year) and works from home the day after he returns from trips.
"The energy comes from somewhere—you draw down from a bank," says Mr. van Paasschen, 52. "At some point you have to put it back in."
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Sol 210 Update On Curiosity From USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Clay Minerals14 March 2013
I'm SOWG Chair again today, but because anomaly recovery continues we are not planning science activities. So I was able to watch the MSL press conference at NASA Headquarters this morning, during which the discovery of clay minerals and possible organic material in the first drill sample was announced. The mineralogy and chemistry of the sample indicates that the environment was more habitable than in other locations on Mars. The water was less acidic than the fluids that formed the sulfate-rich rocks analyzed by the MER rovers, and therefore more conducive to any organisms that may have been there. As pointed out during the press briefing, MSL was never intended to detect life, but has achieved one of the main goals of the mission, to determine whether the ancient environment could have supported life. Because the organic material found by SAM could have been brought from Earth, another drill sample should be acquired and processed to confirm that it is Martian. The first drilling and sample handling should have removed most of whatever terrestrial contamination remains on the drill and other hardware, so future samples should not be contaminated. Of course, the MSL team is very excited about these new results!

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Another day, another mass shooting. Shots rang out. Schools went on lockdown. A "shelter in place" order was issued — this time for parts of Southeast Washington, D.C.
It was only a matter of time, really, before the headlines reached the nation's capital. Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, Tucson, Aurora, Newtown, Washington. The list keeps growing and at an alarming rate.
In the aftermath of the Sept. 16 shooting which saw 12 people killed on a Monday morning while at work, America grappled with another act of a lone gunman and more senseless loss.
Yet there was almost something perfunctory in the sadness. The special reports, the press conferences, the headlines — so terrible, so tragic. Yet we'd seen them all before. And history assures us we will see them all again.
Even as the news of shots fired in the military base was breaking, the satirical news source The Onion was already commentating.
"Location of Newest Mass Shooting Revealed," a headline read. "It's A Navy Yard, Authorities Confirm."
A co-worker called the story "tasteless," and that it most certainly was. But The Onion also simply was expressing the mind-set of many Americans confronted with yet another shooter on a "rampage." Not this, we thought. Not again.
President Obama, in brief comments a few hours after the shooting, too, said: "Yet another mass shooting."
Repetition naturally leads to complacency. The next generation is growing up in a world where school lockdown drills and emergency evacuation plans are protocol. They'll never know any differently. These are, after all, the kids of 9/11.
Call it what you will — a gun control issue, a mental health issue, an issue of the secularization of the country — but this is where we are. And we're used to it.
Maybe that's why I so appreciated Dr. Janis Orlowski's press conference the afternoon of the shooting. Dr. Orlowski, the chief medical officer at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, after a day of briefing the press on the medical status of victims, was asked what had stood out to her. In that moment, she couldn't hide her emotion. No complacency existed.
"You know what, we see a lot of trauma," she said. "But there's something wrong here when we have these multiple shootings, these multiple injuries...
"I would like you to put my trauma center out of business," she said. "I would like to not be an expert on gunshots."
Dr. Orlowski is fed up, and so should we all be. The shootings at the Navy Yard cannot be just one more in a long list. We cannot be complacent.
So we must continue Pope Francis' call for prayers for a peaceful world. Not just in Syria and the Middle East, but here at home. In our schools. In our workplaces. In our families. Peace begins here. And it needs to begin now.
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We all wanted to see more of Natasha Leggero after her ruthless performance during the Comedy Central Roast of James Franco, and now we'll get to thanks to the Rockford native's new weekly YouTube show for the Jash Network.
"Tubbin' with Tash" -- which takes place inside a hot tub and features co-host "Pig Bottom," aka comedian Moshe Kasher -- premiered Wednesday with guest Chelsea Handler. In the three and a half minute video, Leggero and Handler discuss sex, booze and having children. Future guests include Fred Armisen, Weird Al, Jeff Ross and Reggie Watts.
"It's like 'Real Time with Bill Maher' meets 'Baywatch,'" Leggero said by email Monday.
If you're not into off-color humor, this show probably isn't for you. Keep in mind Leggero is the same comedian who during the James Franco roast joked "Bill Hader, you are this generation's Phil Hartman – hopefully."
So what made Leggero want to host her own YouTube show?
"I wanted to star in a show where I wouldn't have to deal with the pressures of leaving my house," Leggero joked. "After a bidding war from all the major networks I decided to go with YouTube -- mostly because of the negative comments I'm anticipating from all the horny 11 year olds."
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Paul Stanley Bowser, infant, of 152 East Ave., Johnsonburg, died Friday evening, Oct. 12, 2012 at Elk Regional Health Center in St. Marys. He was born on Oct. 12, 2012 in St. Marys, son of Robert Willis and Amber Michael Bowser Jr., who survive. He was a member of the Johnsonburg First Baptist Church.In addition to his parents, he is survived by his siblings, Robert Willis III and Rose Antoinette Bowser, both at home; paternal grandparents, Robert Willis Bowser Sr. and his wife Clara of St. Marys and Antoinette Jordan and her husband Willis of Johnsonburg; maternal grandparents, Wendy Mecca of Johnsonburg and Wayne A. Michael of Elizabethtown, Colo.; great-grandparents, Marie Grossman Bowser of Ridgway and Jean Erickson Knight of Johnsonburg, and Paul and Andrea Fitch Michael of Rasselas; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. He was predeceased by great-grandparents Gerald and Ivanell Mecca, Stanley Hasselman, and Arnold Bowser. A funeral service for Paul Stanley Bowser will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20 at Johnsonburg First Baptist Church. Officiating will be the Rev. Robert Johnson, Lay Minister. Interment will be private. Friends will be received at the Anthony F. Ferragine Funeral Home, 401 Chestnut St., Johnsonburg, on Friday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Online condolences may be shared at www.ferraginefuneralhome.com.


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Fear_the_Sheeple wrote:When people are completely set on a purebred dog w/ papers for a pet, you refer them to a responsible breeder, correct? There are always those people who are convinced a purebred w/papers puppy is going to be better than a rescue so you say fine, I'll refer you to a responsible breeder so you don't go support a byb. So what if all responsible breeders culled pet-quality pups? Where would those people go? BYBs or pet stores, right? There would be no other choice. Obviously not all responsible breeders cull pet-quality pups, but I'm hearing that people think this is a good practice.
I think there is a market for purebred pet dogs, and that if there weren't any, all it would do is send more people to bybs and pet stores.
babyreba wrote:I'm saying is, is it right for me to actively go to a shelter, take animals into my foster program and after figuring out which I liked best, put the rest to sleep? I personally don't think it is. But I equate that to the rescue version of what breeder culling is about. Like POP said, if you can't provide for a life you bring into the world, you shouldn't bring it into the world. Likewise, I do think if this were a different circumstance and a rescue org. posted a litter of pups they picked up and told everyone that they were only going to adopt out the cute ones and PTS the rest, the entire board would be in uproard. Not that this topic didn't create uproar where it was posted, but still . . . I'm not naive, but I am a bit surprised how accepting people are of this practice.
babyreba wrote:So basically, I'm judging all breeders who, in this modern day and age, cull based on looks and conformation.
babyreba wrote:When people thought Diane Jessup may have euthed Guppy based on the fact that she may have been too soft, temperament wies, for the work Diane wanted her to do, people seemed to be upset about that. And the implication was that, if she did so for that reason, it was inappropriate.
babyreba wrote:Why would that be inappropriate if it's OK for a breeder to cull?
babyreba wrote:Again, I'm not trying to argue, I genuinely want to know.
I guess I just don't see the rationale in purchasing a pedigreed dog from a breeder (especially in these times of overpopulation crisis) if you are not going to work the dog, or show the dog as breeding prospect. I won't spend my money for a pedigreed pet. JMO
Fear_the_Sheeple wrote:There are people, however, who insist on a pedigree.
So I wouldn't say that everyone out for a pet quality dog from a responsible breeder is just in it for the peds.
Fear_the_Sheeple wrote:So I wouldn't say that everyone out for a pet quality dog from a responsible breeder is just in it for the peds.
I agree. I was basically talking about John Q. Public who wants a purebred dog, and referring them to go to a responsible breeder rather than a byb. They initially didn't know the difference, but just wanted a purebred dog.
Your example is another good reason why I think responsible breeders should keep their pet-quality pups.
SisMorphine wrote:But then I remember that I, myself, want a pet quality and not a show quality. My two halfs collide.
mnp13 wrote:SisMorphine wrote:But then I remember that I, myself, want a pet quality and not a show quality. My two halfs collide.
Do you 'want' a pet quality, or would you 'accept' a pet quality?
I don't mean that in an arguementative way. If there were two pups left from a litter and everything else being equal, would you definately go for the dog that was less 'flashy'?
(Personally, I think underbites are cute)
mnp13 wrote:Connor was walking on three legs while he peed.
Red wrote:Well, some people (like myself) choose to put those emotions aside to make the decision from a different perspective.
You? Okkkey.
No point discussing this farther, at least for me.
What if these breeders have a child and god forbid there is something wrong and the child is less then perfect will that child be culled?
aren't modern pharmacuticals amazing?
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Event: On the sets of upcoming film KRANTIVEER-THE REVOLUTION at Cinevista Studio, Kanjurmarg, Mumbai.
Guest List: Jahan Bloch, Samir Aftab, Harsh Rajput, Aditya Singh Rajput, Mehul Kumar
Venue: Cinevista Studio, Kanjurmarg, Mumbai.
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The Motorola Droid 3 was officially (finally!) announced last July 7th and became available online the same day. Many prefer playing around with a device before making a decision, though, and that is now possible. As Verizon promised, the new addition to the Motorola Droid family is available in stores as of today, July ... Read More »


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Japanese, Edo period, about 1802 (Kyôwa 2)
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Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 225, horizontal koban #5.17; the series: Lane, Hokusai Life and Work (1989), #64
Horizontal yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 11.6 x 17.4 cm (4 9/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
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Do you allow your sourdough to double during bulk fermentation?
Was wondering what everyone else does: do you allow your sourdough to double during bulk fermentation? I always have, but had really good results with a much shorter ferment this past weekend and now am questioning my past techniques.
I have always puzzled over recipes that talk about a DDT of 76F and then a bulk ferment of only 2 and a half hours. It always amazed me how on earth they managed to double in that time. (I have always taken it for granted that recipes implied the dough should double during bulk ferment. Now I am thinking I have been mistaken). And this coming from recipes where people say their starter matures in 8 to 12 hours. I have a much more vigorous starter: it will double in 3, triple in 4 -5 and force its way out of a wire clamp jar in 6 hours. I usually only use a small amount of starter in my recipes (not more than 15% of the total flour comes from the starter). However, I live in a very warm climate and our kitchen is always somewhere between 27 and 31 degrees C. Even under those warm conditions with my vigorous starter I can't match the optimistic proofing times of most recipes.
This got me thinking that perhaps not every recipe meant for the dough to double during bulk fermentation. So this past weekend I gave a new light rye loaf I have been working on a 2 and a half hour bulk ferment. My dough temp after mixing was 26C which is about 76F. I let it ferment at room temp for 2 and a half hours. Shaped it, let it rise until 3/4 risen and then retarded it for 10 hours. The result was delicious. Mild but full of flavour. The crust, especially, was intensely flavoured. I can't wait to try again this weekend.
The advantages of not letting it double during the bulk ferment seem to be:
It produces a milder sourdough, which is what I like. No overt tang but full of flavour.
It is easier to shape. No huge fermentation bubbles to shape around and the gluten hasn't started to degrade as it often can with very long bulk fermentations.
I can't seem to find any disadvantages. It certainly didn't compromise flavour but perhaps I did make up for it with the longish retard. The only thing I wasn't satisfied with was the height of the loaf. Even though the crumb was tender and full of the right sized holes, it slumped a little and didn't stand up as high and proud as my white sourdough boules usually do. I can only attribute this to the 20 percent rye flour in the recipe. (I have only very recently begun to work with rye and shaping it is a whole different ball game). Perhaps I should have baked straight from the fridge as I always do. I find baking from the fridge allows the dough to keep its shape better. Perhaps I should have included some ascorbic acid or added an extra fold during bulk ferment.
Anyway, that is my story and I was just wondering what everybody elses opinions on the bulk ferment were. Is it at all necessary for the dough to double? I always do with my yeasted loaves but I think that is necessary for flavour development and it doesn't seem to interfere with shaping. Sourdough can be much more delicate, though (especially rye breads). The length of the fermentation will also depend on the dough temp and the room temp where the bulk fermentation takes place. But is there a guide as to how much the dough should increase in volume? Would love to hear your thoughts/experiences.


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Michael Schumacher's management has warned that someone is trying to sell documents that may be the medical files of the seven-time Formula One world champion.
Nearly six months after sustaining serious head injuries in a skiing accident, the 45-year-old Schumacher left a French hospital last week and was transferred to neighboring Switzerland to continue his recovery. He is no longer in a drug-induced coma.
Schumacher's manager, Sabine Kehm, said in a statement on Monday that notes made about the German's case have been stolen, and threatened to sue any publication willing to use them.
Kehm said: ''We cannot judge if these documents are authentic. However, the documents are clearly stolen. The theft has been reported.''
Schumacher's office will ''press for criminal charges and damages'' if the documents and data are made public, Kehm said.


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Matters of Principal is an Arizona Public Media special radio series exploring the highs and lows of school leadership through a year in the life of a new principal and a retiring principal.
The series is airing on NPR 89.1 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,on Morning Edition and Friday on Arizona Spotlight at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., and Saturday at 5 p.m.
Featured in the series are Jim Heinzelmann from the Sahuarita Unified School District and Lisa McCorkle from the Tucson Unified School District. Heinzelman's school is Sopori Elementary School in Amado, and McCorkle's school is Dietz Elementary School in Tucson. Both principals are leading schools in a time of change for education in the state of Arizona and across the country.
Tuesday: Part One: Fresh Start
Jim Heinzelmann's first day as the principal at Sopori Elementary School was eventful and "a little stressful." His day began at 3 a.m., and he drove more than 50 miles to get to school.
On his first day, he chased stray dogs off the playground, greeted students in the parking lot and visited classrooms. He talked about how he got into education and what he expected from his first year in leadership.
This was Lisa McCorkle's last year as principal at Dietz Elementary School.
Despite her more than 12 years experience leading the school, she said she still got anxious before the first day of school.
The night before school started, McCorkle walked through the school, something she has done every year for more than a decade, "because I just want everything to be wonderful," she said.
As public education has evolved, her role as principal has changed, she said. It has become more demanding, with more pressure on standardized testing, and that has led her to spend more time in the classroom.
Wednesday: Part Two: Politics and Challenges
By late October both principals were worried about election results.
Teachers at both schools were particularly concerned with the future of the one-cent sales tax that had been funding public education in Arizona. A proposal to extend the tax was defeated in the November general election.
The Tucson Unified School District was considering budget cuts to erase a projected $17 million deficit. One options for TUSD was to shut down about a dozen schools.
Lisa McCorkle's Dietz Elementary, was on the list of possible closures in previous years and was at risk of making the list again, she said.
The uncertainty at this point prompted McCorkle to postpone the school's 50th year anniversary celebration.
In the small town of Amado, Jim Heinzelmann, the new principal at Sopori Elementary School, was struggling to find his place both in school and in the community.
He is not a resident of Amado and had not taught at Sopori before becoming the principal, so "adjusting was not easy." But he was making progress and started to build relationships with his staff.
At this point he had been principal for about 10 weeks and said there are many complex issues in education that teachers and administrators are not taught how to handle in college.
Thursday: Part Three: Adjusting to Change
The role of a school principal extends beyond school grounds.
Both principals featured in this series said they dealt with issues students face inside and outside of the classroom including hunger, unsafe home environments, and behavioral problems.
By springtime Lisa McCorkle was struggling to find new approaches with a student whose behavioral problems were so extreme, an outside specialist was called to Dietz Elementary School to help.
"Even after all these years, the behavioral issues and disciplinary issues are hard for me," McCorkle said.
Jim Heinzelmann was finding out how tough it was to call Child Protective Services on his first year as principal of Sopori Elementary School.
"In a way you're changing that child's life by making that call and it's difficult, but we do it because we truly care about that child," he said.
Throughout March and April, both principals also said they were under pressure to prepare for the state standardized test known as AIMS.
Friday: Part Four: School's Out
Lisa McCorkle danced her way out of school on the last day of class after 35 years in education.
Just before the last bell rang, McCorkle got on the intercom and made her final school wide announcement before retirement.
"I hope you have a beautiful day and have a beautiful life and I love you all," she said in the announcement.
Jim Heinzelmann finished his first year as principal of Sopori Elementary School with "good memories, a to-do list, and a lot more confidence," than on his first day.
Heinzelmann started out the school year chasing stray dogs off the playground and ended it with removing a baby chicken from a school bus. On the last day of school, a bus driver contacted Heinzelmann saying a first-grader had a chick in his backpack and it could not be on the bus. Heinzelmann went out to meet the bus driver and took the chick out of the bus, capping off his first year as a school principal.
About Lisa McCorkle
McCorkle has been the principal at Dietz for more than 12 years. She was a teacher in TUSD for 21 years at Lineweaver Elementary School. She will retire at the end of the school year.
About Jim Heinzelmann
Heinzelmann became principal at Sopori in August. He was a teacher and an assistant principal in the Sahuarita district for almost a decade. He previously had left the business world to go back to school and become an educator.


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Hey guys, this is my first post and first design challenge on Core77. I chose to design a piece of equipment that is also a weapon. It is a shield with steel blades attached to the end that are good for counter attacks. The blades are placed in such a way that one can catch an enemy's weapon and potentially disarm them. The shield itself is big enough to deflect attacks by wrapping around the forearm yet small enough that it is not unwieldy.
I had a great time designing this and I'd love to come back to these sketches and render them in more detail. Please critique me! I'm a sophomore in Industrial Design and would really appreciate the feedback.
I'd say it took me about an hour to complete and around ten minutes to put into photoshop, adjust the levels, and submit. About 35 minutes ideation, 10 minutes to find a coolish pose, and fifteen for the final sketches. I didn't have time to marker or anything unfortunately. I have to run to class so I apologize if the file sizes are messed up or anything. They might be too big.
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Penthouse founder Bob Guccione dies at 79
Bob Guccione, a seminary school dropout who revolutionized the adult entertainment industry in the late 1960s as the publisher of Penthouse magazine, filling its glossy pages with photographs of nude co-eds in explicitly erotic positions, and selling millions of copies in the process, has died of cancer age 79.
Mr. Guccione, who often wore pelvic hugging leather pants and collared shirts unbuttoned to his navel, exposing his wealth of chest hair and gold chains, estimated Penthouse earned $4 billion during his tenure as publisher.
He attributed his magazine's success to the way he had the nude models pose.
"We followed the philosophy of voyeurism," Mr. Guccione said in 2004. "To see her as if she doesn't know she's being seen."
Along the way, Mr. Guccione became one of the 400 wealthiest Americans, accruing a personal fortune of about $400 million in the early 1980s.
He became a respected art collector and had works by Van Gogh, Matisse, Renoir, Chagall, Degas and Picasso hanging in his 22,000-square-foot mansion in New York City.
While the graphic pictures alone made the magazine popularly controversial, Penthouse made news headlines in 1984 after it published nude photographs of Vanessa Williams, the first black woman to become Miss America.
After publication, Williams lost her title and sued Penthouse for damages, which made $14 million alone off that issue and sold six million copies. The lawsuit was later dropped.
Despite his magazines success, Penthouse suffered financially in the 1990s after circulation numbers began to dip with the rise of internet pornography. In the first months of 2010 circulation has dropped to 178,000.
Mr. Guccione also made a series of ill-advised investments, including a failed $18 million movie production of an X-rated adaptation of "Caligula," and $45 million in delinquent taxes, which contributed to his empire's downfall. His business filed for bankruptcy in the early 2000s.
He was forced to sell many pieces from his art collection at auction and sold his Manhattan mansion for $49 million.
A full obituary on Mr. Guccione is on the way.
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A minor refresh is in store for the 70th Anniversary 2011 Jeep Wrangler. The exterior and powertrain of Jeep's flagship 4×4 will go unchanged till the 2012 model year. However, the 2011 Jeep Wrangler is sporting a all new interior.
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Can you show me a living Buddhist tradition where the view of an ultimate ground, a creator source is taught? It is neither Yogacara nor Zhentong.Son of Buddha wrote:Yes ultimate/true/real/ existance is taught in the third turning Buddha Nature sutras,so this view is upheld by the Sutras.this view is upheld by Zhentong practitioners
And Buddhists all across Taiwan and China.look on the Yogacara vs Dzoghen thread on this forum,you will see a Yogacara practioner from Taiwan upholding this view.
Any tradition that upholds the Third Turning as definite upholds this teaching in their traditions.
Here it is from the Cheng weishi lun by Xuanzang, the primary work of East Asian Yogacara, refuting such erroneous views:
According to one doctrine, there is a great, self - existent deity whose substance is real and who is all- pervading, eternal, and the producer of all dharmas. This doctrine is unreasonable. If something produces something, it is not eternal, the noneternal is not all - pervading, and what is not all- pervading is not real. If the deity's substance is all- pervading and eternal, it must contain all powers and be able to produce all dharmas everywhere, at all times, and simultaneously. If he produces dharmas when a desire arises, or according to conditions, this contradicts the doctrine of a single cause. Or else, desires and conditions would arise spontaneously, since the cause [i.e., the deity] is eternal.
Other doctrines claim that there is a great Brahma, a Time, a Space, a Starting Point, a Nature, an Ether, a Self, etc., that is eternal and really exists, is endowed with all powers, and is able to produce all dharmas. We refute all these in the same way we did the concept of a Great Lord.
(Three Texts on Consciousness Only, p. 20-21)
And from the Mahayanasutralamkara (ch. 6, v. 2, 4) by Maitreya, a cardinal work in Yogacara and Zhentong:
The self-notion itself does not have the identity of a self, nor
does the (selfish being's) deforming habit; their natures are different.
Apart from these two there is no other (self), so it arises only
as an error; liberation is therefore the termination of a mere error.
How is it that beings, directly aware of the relativistic origin of
things, still resort to some other creator? What kind of darkness is
this through which the existent goes unseen and the nonexistent is
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Talk:Object-capability languages
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Why do you think Erlang is "almost an object-capability language"? I think, it is an example of programming languages that is "not and far from being an object-capability language". Systems written in Erlang have all or nothing security. The whole system written in Erlang is as secure as its most malicious component. It is not possible to fix this straightforwardly. The language nature would have to change. Designations of processes are not capabilities (but guessable integers). Designations of functions are not capabilities (but atoms and you can freely convert between arbitrary strings and atoms. You can freely forge any atom). The permission to call a function are set by a poor module system. Erlang supports "hot code swapping" (or some similar term) which gives attacker (from untrusted subsystem) an authority to replace any code anywhere in the system. There are many holes in Erlang. I am skeptical. Kosik 03:50, 2 April 2009 (CDT)
I did not dig deeper, but Scala might be also an object-capability programming language. Kosik 11:20, 14 April 2011 (CDT)
It might be also worthwhile analyze Lua and describe why it is or it is not an object-capability programming language. Kosik 04:14, 15 April 2011 (CDT)


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Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake revived their funky fresh new jack swing duo on tonight's season finale of Saturday Night Live, which JT hosted for the fourth time. Musical guest Lady Gaga joins the pair in this digital short, a raunchy '90s R&B-inspired throwback a la Emmy-winning holiday carol "Dick In A Box" and "Motherlover" (the latter appears on Lonely Island's latest album Turtleneck & Chain.) Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson cameo again. As do tiny beards.
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Filppula has 2 goals and an assist, Lightning beat Ducks 5-1 in matchup of conference leaders
TAMPA, Fla. – Valtteri Filppula and the Tampa Bay Lightning have kept up a strong start even without their leading scorer.
Filppula had two goals and an assist, goalie Ben Bishop won his 13th game this season and the Lightning beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-1 in a matchup of conference leaders Thursday night.
Martin St. Louis added a goal and two assists for the Lightning, who played their first home game and second overall — both victories — without star Steven Stamkos. The center, out indefinitely after breaking his right leg Monday, had surgery Tuesday in Boston and returned to Florida on Thursday.
"Nice to be back home in Tampa," Stamkos tweeted. "Can't thank all the staff at Mass General enough for all their hard work and dedication the past four days."
Alex Killorn and Victor Hedman had the other Tampa Bay goals. Bishop made 24 saves as the Lightning improved to 7-0-0 against Western Conference teams.
"We talked about this at length," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "Nobody's filling 91's shoes. Not one person can do it. Nobody in the league can do it. But, 20 guys can fill his shoes."
Emerson Etem scored for the Ducks, who were coming off a 3-2 loss Tuesday night to lowly Florida.
"Even with our record, I thought we were pretty fragile," Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau said. "And once you got behind, it was like the shoulders dipped, and again, we didn't have enough pushback. It's not us. We haven't done that in 20 games. When they started to get physical, we didn't meet the bell."
Anaheim captain Ryan Getzlaf missed his third game with an upper-body injury, but Boudreau said the center could return Friday at Carolina or Monday against Pittsburgh.
Ducks right wing Corey Perry didn't take part in the morning skate due to the flu, but was in the lineup. A number of Anaheim players, including starting goalie Jonas Hiller, have had the flu recently.
"If you want to give excuses, yeah. They are," Boudreau said. "We just didn't compete hard enough in a game that was an important game. And when you don't compete against a team that competes, it doesn't matter who's in the lineup or who's out of the lineup, you're not going to have success."
Filppula and St. Louis, on the power play, put the Lightning up 2-0 on first-period goals. St. Louis ended a seven-game goal drought.
"I think the whole year we've been playing well as a team," Filppula said. "Stamkos is a big part of the team. But now, we're forced to play well without him, and I think playing the whole year pretty well, we have the confidence that we can do it."
The Ducks went 13½ minutes before getting a shot in the first. Bishop made an in-close save late in the period on Teemu Selanne. The right wing, 11th on the career goals list with 678, has not scored a goal in his last nine games.
Tampa Bay went up 3-0 on Filppula's power-play goal 3:16 into the second. Killorn made it 4-0 at 10:51 of the second.
Etem pulled Anaheim to 4-1 with 3:53 left in the second. Hedman scored early in the third.
"They just outworked us," said Hiller, who stopped 15 shots. "They put pressure on us. We were just giving the puck away, and that definitely boosted their confidence."
The Ducks are 8-4-1 against the East, including 4-4-1 versus Atlantic Division teams.
NOTES: Selanne got a 2-minute roughing penalty, his first infraction of the season, during a second-period scrum that involved Tampa Bay D Radko Gudas, who made a hard check on him. Gudas was given roughing and holding minors. ... Lightning D Sami Salo, who missed his second game with a lower-body injury, could return during a four-game road trip that starts Saturday at Phoenix. ... Anaheim G Viktor Fasth was the backup after missing 14 game with a lower-body injury. G Frederik Andersen was reassigned to Norfolk of the AHL. ... Ducks LW Matt Beleskey (upper-body injury) is playing with Norfolk. ... Selanne, who plans to retire after this season, scored the second-ever hat trick against the expansion Lightning on March 9, 1993.


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Revision as of 15:08, 28 May 2014
- 1 Welcome
- 2 Getting Started
- 3 Creating a STEM Development Environment
- 4 Advanced Topics
This is a tutorial on how to get the STEM source code downloaded, compiled, and running in your Eclipse Development Environment. This tutorial is mainly for committers and advanced users that want to work with the STEM source directly.
Getting Started
STEM is a Java application built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). To build and run STEM, a developer must install a supported Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Eclipse SDK. While it may be possible to compile STEM in another IDE, we strongly recommend you use the Eclipse SDK.
To download and compile the STEM source, developers should first install the following components:
- A workstation running an Eclipse-supported operating system:
- Windows (XP, Vista, 7)
- Linux (GTK)
- Mac OS X (10.5 or later)
- A supported Java Standard Edition (J2SE) 6.0 JDK from either Oracle or IBM (32-bit or 64-bit)
- Note: Mac OS X users can use the version included with the operating system
- Note: The GNU for Java (GCJ) compiler and libraries are not supported. If you're running on Linux, we strongly recommend you use an Oracle or IBM JRE.
- Eclipse Classic SDK 3.8.2 (Juno)
- Note: If you're using a 64-bit JVM, be sure to download the 64-bit version of Eclipse
Creating a STEM Development Environment
The process for building STEM consists of several steps. The steps should be followed in this order:
Set up your Eclipse SDK
Before you attempt to checkout and compile the STEM source code, some additional features must be installed into your Eclipse SDK.
Install Required Eclipse Features
This installation guide requires that Eclipse EGit be installed. In addition to EGit, much of STEM is built using modeled code generated by the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). To extend these models, or edit existing models, EMF must be installed into your environment.
- Launch your Eclipse SDK
- Open the Eclipse Software Installer by opening the Help menu and choosing Install New Software
- When the Install dialog opens, select the Juno repository from the drop-down menu. Wait while the list of additional features loads.
- Install EGit
- Expand the Collaboration category by clicking the arrow next to it
- Select Eclipse EGit
- Install the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
- Expand the Modeling category by clicking the arrow next to it
- Select EMF - Eclipse Modeling Framework SDK
- Install EGit
- Click Next
- Verify that EGit and EMF are in the list of features to install. Click Next
- Read the license agreement and, if you accept, choose I accept the terms of the license agreement . Click Finish
- Wait while the features install into your Eclipse SDK
- This step may take up to 10 minutes to complete
- When the installer finishes, it'll prompt you to restart. Click Restart Now
Checkout and Build the STEM Source Code
Once your Eclipse environment is set up, you're ready to checkout the STEM source code. The STEM Project provides an Eclipse Team Project Set (PSF) that'll help you quickly get the STEM Source code checked out.
Checkout the STEM Source Code from a Project Set File
Important Note: Before beginning these steps, committers should read these important details about checking out from Git.
- Launch your Eclipse SDK
- When prompted to Select a workspace, choose a new path that does not contain an existing workspace. This creates a new workspace.
- Important Note: Eclipse and STEM work best when the workspace path contains no whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, etc). Example: C:\workspace\
- Switch to the GIT Repository Exploring perspective (this seems to be necessary to workaround EGit bugs)
- Open the File menu and choose Import
- When the Import dialog opens, expand the Team category by clicking the arrow next to it
- Choose Team Project Set and click Next
- On the Import a Team Project Set page, choose URL and enter the URL for the correct Project Set file
- For new users (non-committers):
- For Eclipse committers (SSH):
- Note: Replace YOUR_COMMITTER_USERNAME with your committer username, not e-mail address, in the above link
- For Eclipse committers (HTTPS):
- NOTE: for HTTPS the password is different than for the rest of eclipse. You can generate a password here: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/settings/http-password
- For new users (non-committers):
- Click Finish
- Wait while Eclipse checks out and imports the STEM source code into your environment
- Depending on your connection speed, this step may take over an hour to complete. Have some coffee and come back.
- Trouble shooting for SSH. If you're getting authentication exceptions checking out the STEM source code, make sure you've configured SSH in the Eclipse preference settings correctly. Instructions for doing this can be found here [SSH Configuration]. Do not upload your public key to GitHub, instead you need to upload it to Gerrit here: [Gerrit SSH Upload].
Apply the Target Platform
Once the checkout completes, there will likely be hundreds (or thousands) of build errors. STEM uses what's called an Eclipse Target Platform to manage the rest of the dependencies that must be installed to completely build and run STEM. The following steps will help you in applying the target platform.
- Important Note About Target Platforms: The target platform represents which version of the Eclipse Platform to compile and run STEM in.
- In the Eclipse SDK, open the Preferences dialog. Select the Window menu and choose Preferences
- On Mac OS X, it's under the Eclipse menu
- In the Preferences dialog, expand the Plug-in Development category
- Select the Target Platform option under Plug-in Development category
- Select the STEM2 Target Platform by clicking checkbox
- Wait while Eclipse loads the Target Platform.
- Depending on your connection speed, this step may take up to 30 minutes to complete.
- Make sure STEM is built completely. Under the Problems tab, there should be no Errors (Warnings are OK)
- If you are still seeing errors, try cleaning the workspace
- Select the Project menu and choose Clean...
- In the Clean dialog, choose Clean All Projects
- Click OK
- Wait for Eclipse to clean and re-build STEM
Build the STEM Denominator Data
Once STEM is built, it's time to build the STEM data sets. This process transforms the data from a raw, human-readable format to STEM modeled data files that are readable by scenarios, models, decorators, etc.
- In the Eclipse SDK, in the Package Explorer , scrolls down to the org.eclipse.stem.internal.data project
- Expand the org.eclipse.stem.internal.data project by clicking the arrow next to it
- RIGHT click on the update.xml file
- In the context menu, highlight Run As and click on Ant Build
- Wait while the data builder runs.
- This will take up to 10 minutes
- When the builder finishes, the console should say BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Launch STEM
Once the STEM source is compiled and data sets built, it's time to launch the STEM application.
- In the Eclipse SDK, in the Package Explorer , scroll down to the org.eclipse.stem.ui project
- Expand the org.eclipse.stem.ui project by clicking the arrow next to it
- RIGHT click on the stem2.product file
- In the context menu, highlight Run As and click on Eclipse Application
- The STEM Application will now load
Advanced Topics
The following are advanced topics that existing developers may be interested in. If you're new to STEM development, you can skip this section.
Getting the Earth Science Data
The STEM project contains several gigabytes of "earth science" data derived from NASA and NOAA satellite imagery. These data include global elevations, air temperatures, rainfall, vegetation coverage, etc. By default, this data is not included when you checkout STEM. These steps will help you checkout and build the earth science data for use in your STEM development environment.
WARNING The STEM Earth Science Data is several gigabytes in size. The checkout may take several hours to finish and will use a lot of disk space
- Complete all the steps above and make sure STEM is built in your Eclipse SDK and can be launched
- In your Eclipse SDK, go to the File menu and select Import
- In the Import wizard, expand Team , select Team Project Set , and click Next
- On the Import a Team Project Set page, choose URL and enter the URL for the correct Project Set
- For new users (non-committers): http://www.eclipse.org/stem/psf.php?ws=STEM-Data-EarthScience
- For Eclipse committers: http://www.eclipse.org/stem/psf.php?ws=STEM-Data-EarthScience&r=ssh
- Click Finish
- Wait while Eclipse checks out the Earth Science Data
- This check out may take several hours.
- In the Eclipse SDK, in Package Explorer , scrolls down to the org.eclipse.stem.internal.data.geography.earthscience project
- Expand the org.eclipse.stem.internal.data.geography.earthscience project
- RIGHT click on the update.xml file
- Highlight Run As then click Ant build
- Wait while Eclipse builds the Earth Science data sets
- This step may take up to 30 minutes


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Volume 19 Issue 7 | July 7-13, 2006
Art of the deal; group buys building for $1
By Lincoln Anderson
While the Lower East Side is, day by day, undergoing rapid transformation, an agreement reached last week between the city and a nonprofit arts organization will insure that a center of the neighborhoods alternative arts and radical political activist scene remains.
On June 29, the city officially sold the four-story tenement building at 156 Rivington St. between Clinton and Suffolk Sts. to its tenant, ABC No Rio, for $1. News of the impending sale had trickled out into the community at least two weeks earlier, but some forms still needed to be properly filled out; as a result, Steve Englander, the centers director, said they withheld making the announcement until last Thursday.
Carmen Boon, a Department of Housing Preservation and Development spokesperson, confirmed that the building had been sold to ABC No Rio for $1 under the departments Community Works Program. Under this program, city-owned buildings are sold to nonprofit organizations, which, so far, have tended to be arts-related organizations.
They have to continue to maintain the building in good shape, Boon said.
ABC No Rio has existed for 26 years. The city gave the artists group the tenement in 1980 after a show they had staged in an abandoned Delancey St. building to highlight rising rents and gentrification was broken up by police, generating bad publicity for City Hall. But the situation was tenuous, and in the mid-1990s ABC No Rio fought off an eviction a
Although the small Rivington St. building about 4,500 square feet at one point had seven or eight squatters living on its two upper floors, in 1999 these squatters voluntarily vacated after ABC No Rio reached a use and occupancy agreement with the city.
In addition to its one paid staff member, Englander who himself was a squatter at ABC No Rio in the mid-1990s a group of about 50 volunteers runs the building and its programs and facilities. The organizations annual operating budget is $75,000.
There is a darkroom, silkscreen print shop and computer center. A zine library of alternative publications features the likes of Punk Planet, Maximum Rock & Roll, Temp Slave and World War III. On the ground floor is an exhibition and performance space.
Everything is either no cost or low cost, at rates of just a few dollars an hour. Punk bands and protesters use the print shop to burn screens to make T-shirts. The group Food Not Bombs cooks at ABC No Rio twice a week for its Tompkins Square Park feeding program. Books Through Bars receives their mail there from prisoners to whom they send reading matter. Activists and the community at large use the building to hold workshops, meet and organize.
In an interview on Monday, Englander said the blueprint for the deal was reached under the Giuliani administration, which sought to privatize city-owned properties to get them back on the tax rolls.
Nonprofit is privatization too, he noted. However, he said, ABC No Rio was put in a Catch-22 because the Giuliani administration conditioned the $1 sale on the organization first raising the needed money to renovate the dilapidated building. Getting foundations or government sources to commit cash was virtually impossible when ABC No Rio couldnt say it owned the building, Englander noted.
If you were a foundation, would you give $100,000 or $200,000 to a project that might not happen? he said.
Things were at an impasse until, under Mayor Bloomberg, ABC No Rio was offered the option of raising the renovation funds in phases.
That broke us out and allowed us to do it, Englander said. Bloomberg, as a businessman, was able to work something out, since hes more sophisticated, Englander noted. Hes also got a bigger commitment to the arts, he added. Giulianis a bit of a philistine.
The city uniform land use review procedure, or ULURP, was then completed to allow the transfer of the property from the city.
The plan is to do a complete gut renovation in two phases, with the first phase including the performance and exhibition space. Through benefits and fundraising, ABC No Rio has cobbled together $270,000 for the first phase. The upper floors will be done in phase two. What Englander calls a barebones renovation of the entire building would cost $725,000.
A new roof and new stairs will be added. Floor joists will be replaced and the building will be made wheelchair accessible. They hope to expand horizontally on the first floor into part of the backyard garden. An interior steel structure will be installed allowing the option of adding another floor at a future date, though Englander said they wont be expanding vertically anytime soon.
We dont plan to do it, he said. We just want to make it possible to do without tearing up the whole building.
Another option, a more ambitious plan making it a green building by using nontoxic paints and building materials and installing a green roof would cost $960,000.
Englander said theyd like to start the first-phase work in nine months and hopefully finish phase one nine months after that, allowing the reopening of the performance space.
In January, in a similar transaction, the city sold six buildings on E. Fourth St. for $1 each to the Fourth Arts Block organization, an association of 13 nonprofit cultural and community service organizations, including La MaMa Theater. The city has invested $3 million to help with those buildings renovations and has pledged to kick in another $1 million.
Englander said ABC No Rio would like city participation too.
Its a bit splashier, like a dozen [arts groups and organizations], he said of Fourth Arts Block. I think from the politicians view, its a bit sexier. Were like a little buildin
While ABC No Rio will be staying, the neighborhood has been changing. Today, the area now has a lively young bar scene at night.
It used to be quiet here, Englander said. They didnt want attention; they were selling drugs until seven years ago. Whereas the dealers used to sell dope heroin Englander said, they now seem to be selling cocaine, at least judging by two dealers who recently propositioned him. He assumes the pushers are catering to the new bar crowd.
On Monday afternoon, the day before the Fourth of July, on the downswing of a long holiday weekend, things were expectedly quiet at ABC No Rio. Yet, in the space of an hour, one man popped in to inquire about silkscreening, while a group of three young women came just to look around the place. Another woman dressed semi-Goth style dropped by to see if her friend was working at the zine library.
Seth Tobocman, a Lower East Side comic strip artist who chronicled the squatter movement, came walking down the stairs. He had just met with an Israeli, one of the three curators, along with Tobocman, of the Three Cities Against the Wall show, about the Israeli security wall, at ABC No Rio last November. Theyd met to discuss doing a traveling show. Tobocman passed a recent mural hed done on the stairwell wall depicting a hybrid scene part post-Katrina New Orleans, part Iraq war. Once a year, the buildings stairwell is festooned with an array of new paintings and sculptures by different artists.
It was a very controversial show, Tobocman said later of Three Cities Against the Wall. ABC No Rio is a very free-speech kind of place.
Im glad weve still got ABC No Rio, he said. Weve lost too many things. Im glad something remains of what the neighborhood was for a long time. Im glad theres a place where someone can go and work and do things without being a big shot. Thats where creativity comes from. Art comes from a chance of trying to do things differently and ABC No Rio gives people that chance.
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Brooklyn, N. Y. -- The George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism for the year 2000 were announced today in 12 categories by Long Island University. The awards, established by the university in 1949 to honor the memory of a CBS reporter killed while covering the civil war in Greece, will be presented at a luncheon April 18.
The most honored journalists in the 52-year history of the Polks, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, received the Polk Award for Magazine Reporting - their sixth award for investigative reporting as a team. In "Big Money and Politics: Who Gets Hurt," Barlett and Steele gave readers of Time magazine a virtual balance sheet of what political contributions can and do buy in America. Their reporting detailed how potent interests provide millions for "favored treatment to those who pay up-at the expense of those who don't." Barlett and Steele were previously honored for work at the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1971, 1973, 1988 and 1991, and at Time in 1998. No other journalist has won more than four George Polk Awards.
Laurie Garrett received the George Polk Book Award for Betrayal of Trust, a meticulously researched account of health catastrophes occurring in different places simultaneously and amounting to a disaster of global proportions. The book, published by Hyperion, was the culmination of five years of on-site research on five continents. Garrett was previously honored in 1997 for coverage in Newsday of a health crisis in the former Soviet Union.
The Polk Career Award was bestowed on John Oakes, retired editor at The New York Times, for his singular contributions to the field of journalism. As a Times editorial writer from 1951 to 1961, and as editor of The Times's editorial page from 1961 to 1976, he championed the United Nations, NATO, civil and constitutional rights, gun control, and funding for the arts and humanities. Oakes, who won a George Polk Award in 1965, created the first column devoted to environmental conservation, founded the nation's first "Op Ed" page, and took an early and consistent stand against the Vietnam War.
Michael Grunwald of the The Washington Post won the George Polk Award for National Reporting for a series of 40 articles on the activities of the Army Corps of Engineers, one of the largest and most influential yet least-examined federal agencies. After Grunwald's series examining multi-billion-dollar water projects of questionable value and, often, serious environmental risk, Congress began to examine the feasibility of conducting independent reviews of all major Corps projects.
The George Polk Award for Transportation Reporting went to Scott McCartney of The Wall Street Journal for exposing gross negligence by the Federal Aviation Administration. His stories revealed an agency plagued by lack of oversight of cockpits, toleration of dangerously inadequate pilot training, botched attempts to centralize air-traffic control and installation of a system that provided controllers with incomplete weather reports.
A three-person team at KHOU-TV in Houston - reporters Anna Werner
and David Raziq and photojournalist Chris Henao - won the George Polk Award for Local Television Reporting for "Treading on Danger?" an investigative series credited by the federal government, safety experts, the media and even the Ford Motor Company with causing the recall of more than six million Firestone Tires. The KHOU team tracked down a product defect that had existed for years - tires that lost their tread at highway speeds, often resulting in deadly and tragic accidents.
The George Polk Award for Network Television Reporting went to John Larson, Allan Maraynes, Lynn Dale, Neal Shapiro and Andy Lehren of NBC Dateline for "The Paper Chase," which reported on insurance-industry efforts to deny medical benefits to accident victims. Focusing on the nation's largest carrier, State Farm, the program showed how the company bankrupted many of its own customers by paying supposedly independent reviewers to deflate legitimate claims for medical care.
Virginia Ellis of the Los Angeles Times won the George Polk Award for Political Reporting for exposing official misconduct by the California insurance commissioner, Chuck Quackenbush, who resigned following revelations that he used monies from insurance companies - funds that were supposed to reimburse the claims of earthquake victims - to cover debts from his wife's failed 1998 U. S. Senate campaign and to amass a slush fund to finance his own plans for elective office.
Reporters Kevin Corcoran and Joe Fahy of The Indianapolis Star were honored for Statewide Reporting for an investigative account of Indiana's lack of oversight of the proprietary system it uses to care for the severely mentally retarded. The Star team found that nine of 108 patients died within nine months of their transfer from institutions to community homes. As a result of their work, one top state official was fired, another was demoted and safeguards were installed to monitor the proprietor, ResCare, Inc.
The George Polk Award for Healthcare Reporting went to Sam Hodges and William Rabb of the Mobile (Ala.) Register, for their two-day series, "Dental Divide," which chronicled the sorry state of dental care for children in Alabama. Their three-month investigation turned up waiting lists of six months or more, a paltry number of clinics, unfluoridated water systems in rural areas, and dentists who turned away Medicaid patients.
Alma Guillermoprieto won the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting for a three-part analysis of the war in Colombia and its relationship to
the drug trade published by The New York Review of Books. After stalking the Colombian jungle to hear from campesinos (rural people) as well as government officials and guerilla leaders, Guillermoprieto traced the strands of a grim struggle destined to defy easy solutions.
The New York Times received a Special Award for its revelatory series, "Race in America." Three dozen reporters, photographers and editors spent a year producing 14 front-page stories that examined the gap between what Americans say out loud about race and what they feel in their hearts. Focusing on relationships among two or three characters in each article, their stories zeroed in on the role race plays in personal interactions of all kinds.
Long Island University will hold the 2000 George Polk Awards luncheon at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on April 18. A seminar, also sponsored by the university, entitled "Exposing Systemic Injustice" - a symposium on investigative journalism honoring the work of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele and featuring several of the new Polk laureates - will take place the previous evening at the First Amendment Center in Manhattan.
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The Red Planet, the Barred Spiral, and the Supernova
Speaking of Mars… I got a note from amateur astronomer Bill Longo recently. On March 19, he went out in the early evening to try to get a picture of a satellite that happened to be passing near Mars in the sky. He took the image below. The satellite isn't in this shot, but he did get more than he bargained for: he saw Mars, the galaxy M95, and the new supernova!
[Click to supernovenate.]
That's a happy coincidence. He didn't even know the supernova had gone off until the next morning. He checked the images from the night before, et voila. The picture itself is amazing; Mars was about 400,000 × brighter than the supernova when he took this shot! The two "wings" coming from it are due to internal reflections in Bill's optics. But you can clearly see both the galaxy and the supernova in the image.
I've already posted some gorgeous shots of the supernova and the galaxy (see Related Posts below) but I think this may be my favorite. It's not often you see a planet, a galaxy, and a supernova all in one shot… and without the photographer even knowing it at the time!
Related Posts:
– Breaking: possible supernova in nearby spiral M95
– Supernova 2012aw: the pictures!
– More M95 supernova news: progenitor found!
– Go look at Mars!
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n/m i figured it out. 😐
This is a wonderful shot. Aside from the sheer greatness of capturing the supernova, the optical flare around Mars is really rather beautiful.
(How long before this starts turning up on nutters' websites as "Astronomer photographs Angel!!!"?)
A planet, a galaxy, and a supernova all walk into a cantina…
Magnificent image and wionderful co-incidence of astronomical placementand timing.
Oddly enough the objects are actually appearing in reverse absolute brightness order aren't they?
Mars seems brightest but is far outshone by a n entire galaxy which in turn, is, I believe, outshone albeit very temporarily by a single supernova going star!
@ alfaniner #3: And the bartender says, "What's up?"
@HP #5: The planet says, "My albedo." The galaxy says, "I'm nebulous, thanks for asking!" The supernova says "My magnitude is improving!"
@alfaniner #6: You know, I've reached the age where my albedo sometimes flags. It's good to know I'm not alone. But when it's on, it's on, and I want everyone to know.
The BA said:
It's not often you see a planet, a galaxy, and a supernova all in one shot… and without the photographer even knowing it at the time!
To be fair, he knew about the planet and the galaxy.
I thought it was a picture of the Night Flight of The Golden Snitch.
Is it just me, or does the Supernova seem REALLY far away from the object tagged as M95?
I am unsure of the perspective and scale.
Could someone illuminate me here?
my son is infatuated with the planets. It looks like I'm going to be in the market for a decent telescope. i'm thinking amazon or something? any thoughts?
BA: are you sure when you say: "The satellite isn't in this shot"? i can see a really faint line crossing the image just under where it says "path of satellite".
@ 10 electro: this image is probably a very short exposure (a few seconds) so we can't see very much of the galaxy, just the brightest part of the core. if the exposure was longer we'd probably be able to see that the supernova is in one of the more diffuse spiral arms.
edit: if you google "supernova m95" you can find images clearly showing the supernova resides in one of the spiral arms.
It's a beautiful picture.
Is M96 also visible in this shot? I don't see it, but maybe that's just me? Or would it be just off the bottom of the frame?
Michael Bay would be proud 😛
Thanks for input, but what my brain was questioning was, is M95's disc really that big?
I almost thought that the "M95" tag was misplaced.
I have seen the the close-ups, so to speak, and it seems to appear that, in the posted image ( not the Supernovenated source image ), the M95 disc would be the size of a dime.
To my untrained eye, the scale seemed counterintuitive.
Ooh, very cool!
@12 ceramicfundamentalist I agree – I wasn't sure if I was just imagining it, but there's definitely a very faint streak there.
Go to You-tube and type in "messier objects" in the search bar. They have up to date videos on both the M95 galaxy and the supernova. Great stuff.
Hmm. As pretty a shot as this is, I'm not convinced that's SN 2012aw. In a small scope the supernova is one of 3 or 4 13th magnitude "stars" that form a nice diagonal line that should show up close below M95 heading from lower left to upper right at something like a 45 degree angle in this image. (Take a look at some of the longer-exposure shots available at http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/sn2012/sn2012aw.html to see what I mean). These are pretty faint, and most importantly all roughly the same brightness as the supernova. Directly to the west (the right in the pic) of M95 is a brighter 10th magnitude star that's much easier to see in a small scope (and comparable in brightness to the core of M95 itself)(very easy to see with Stellarium). Since we're really only seeing the one lonely object to the right of M95 here, I'm thinking it may be the brighter (because vastly closer) star, not the dimmer nova.
@Mike I rotated and resized the images so they were more comparable, and the two stars are in the same position. Were you just looking at the thumbnail, or were you looking at the whole image located here? http://www.cortinastelle.it/M95_20120316_202322_20_Luminance_2_Maioni.jpg
Mea culpa. I was not just looking at the thumbnail, but may have misjudged the scale of the photo.


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One million hours. That's how much time new Harvard research suggests psychiatrists spend each year obtaining insurance approval to hospitalize suicidal or mentally ill patients. That translates into time taken away from patient care but also, more importantly, means patients in crisis are stuck in emergency rooms for a median of 8.5 hours, more than twice the length for most other admissions. This bureaucratic roadblock needs to be streamlined.
The study, published April 23, looked at data from more than 1,000 patients, including a small sample at Cambridge Health Alliance. Unlike if they were suffering from a gunshot wound or appendicitis, privately insured patients with psychiatric illnesses generally need prior authorization for reimbursement to be admitted. Approval almost always comes, the study found, but doctors spent between less than 20 minutes and five hours on the telephone getting it. With 1.6 million psychiatric admissions per year, that adds up. One result is that emergency rooms are now being designed to ensure that waiting psychiatric patients can't harm themselves or others in the meantime.
The study's authors call for this extra approval step to be eliminated, suggesting the only benefit is cost-savings due to deterrence — or what they call "rationing by hassle factor." But, given that doctors may also receive important medical history during the call, particularly for regular ER visitors, insurers should instead expedite the approval process. Right now patients' — and doctors' — best interest is being lost amid paperwork.


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The GAA Games Development and Research Department has recently developed the 5 Star Centre initiative for primary schools.
The GAA 5 Star Centre initiative aims to acknowledge the outstanding work of teachers in promoting Gaelic games.
The 5 Star Centre initiative is, effectively, an exercise in empowering teachers to engage children in a manner where they experience the optimum level of fun, friendship, fairness, freedom and, ultimately, fitness functionality.
The initiative is based on the principle that that every child should get 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity per week throughout the 26 weeks of the school year.
To become a GAA 5 Star Centre, primary school teachers would organise a range of activities for all children to participate in, with GAA personnel acting in a support capacity. The diverse range activities include Have a Ball, Fun & Run, Camán & Play, Catch & Kick, Skill Challenges and Go Games.
Have a Ball is a series of fun-based exercises that contribute to the development of children's rudimentary and fundamental movement skills. The GAA piloted it in Killinure N.S. and Lisnagry N.S., Limerick earlier this year.
Research conducted by a team from Dublin City University reported that, after a six-week intervention, there was a remarkable increase of 7.3% in children's fundamental movement skill ability.
Another exciting new game called Fun & Run, involving a team of batters/kickers and fielders, is suitable for all age and ability levels. It is particularly suited to meet the needs of people with disabilities, people from socially deprived and ethnic minority groups who often perceive themselves to be excluded from mainstream GAA activities.
GAA President, Aogán Ó Fearghaíl, wholeheartedly welcomes this new initiative: "The GAA 5 Star Centre initiative has the potential to make an enormous contribution to the health and wellbeing of Ireland's children.
"This comes at a time when Irish children are engaging in less and less physical activity and levels of obesity and diabetes are on the rise. We want every single boy and girl in Ireland to have had positive introduction to our games by the time they leave primary school.
"The GAA 5 Star Centre initiative is a means of achieving this. Without the contribution of Primary School Teachers, the GAA would not be the wonderful organisation it is today. We want to recognise this significant voluntary effort through our new 5 Star flag, which we hope will be a symbol of how proud we are to promote our games and our culture."
GAA Director of Games Development and Research, Pat Daly, noted that "by 2022, we aim to have generated 39 million hours of moderate to vigorous physical activity across 90% of Ireland's primary schools and 17 million of these hours per school year thereafter.
"The GAA, given its community framework and proven track record in the promotion and development of Child Sport, - as reflected in the enduring success of the Kelloggs Cúl Camps - is happy to Lead the Way with its Massive Volunteer Army (MVA)."
Primary School Teachers/Principals who wish to express interest in becoming a GAA 5 Star Centre can do so at learning.gaa.ie/5star.


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The Holmdel-based Vonage Holdings Corp. announced Monday that its CEO, Marc Lefar, will be retiring from his post once a new CEO is selected.
"During the past six years, I have been privileged to work with an exceptional team and a highly engaged, supportive board. Together, we completed a comprehensive financial, operational and strategic turnaround," Lefar said.
The board, along with Lefar, will initiate a formal search for a new successor in internal and external candidates.
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