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Phil Stott
November 07, 2013
Question: what recipe can you make with the following ingredients?
A confession: while I count myself as fairly handy in the kitchen, the only thing I can assemble from that particular mélange is a steaming pile of dysfunction.
As it turns out, I'm not the only one: companies are increasingly realizing that their futures are at stake if they can't locate the appropriate talent to cope with the loss of key employees over time, not to mention having the ability to take advantage of growth opportunities and scale up.
Is there really a talent shortage?
Despite the still unacceptably high unemployment rate, talent apparently isn't easy to find: a recent Accenture study found that 46 percent of US executive at large companies are concerned they won't have the skills they need in the next one to two years.
The skills that are most in demand: IT, engineering, R&D and sales. And the consequences faced by companies that fail to acquire them are real: according to the study, 66 percent of executives anticipate a loss of business to competitors, with a further 64 percent anticipating revenue loss if they don't address the skills gap. Additional consequences include anticipated delays in developing new products or services (53%), eroding customer satisfaction (59%) and additional pressure and stress—likely coupled with falling productivity—on existing employees (87%).
Are companies stepping up?
When I last touched on this topic in this blog, I cited the following quote from Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School of Management: "The United States is at the moment the only country in the world where the notion that employers are simply the consumers of skills is seriously considered."
There's evidence in the Accenture study that those attitudes may—at last—be changing: 72 percent of executives polled for the study identified training as "one of the top ways for employees to develop new skills". While that suggests that the value of training employees isn't lost on executives, it also highlights the reluctance of firms to pay for it in recent years. Happily, the study also found that those attitudes may be changing as executives face up to the looming skills gap: 51 percent of executives signaled an intention to increase investment in training in the next two years.
A question of perception
One final note from the study raises the question of what actually constitutes workplace training, and how it is perceived by different parties within a company. Illustrating that divide: employers indicated in the study that 52 percent of their employees "receive company-provided employee training. By comparison, a previous Accenture survey of US workers found that only 21 percent of employees say they receive company-provided employee training."
While that may be something of a footnote in terms of the skills debate (if there is a shortage, it exists regardless of which party is correct), it does underline the differing priorities of companies and their employees—and which may go some way to explaining the gap in perception. Typically, firms want employees to have the skills and training that will enable them to do their jobs effectively and within any relevant legal or environmental frameworks, while employees want to learn new skills and capabilities that will help their careers—whether at that employer or elsewhere. Thus, that dull EEOC presentation you had to sit through might have felt like a waste of time, and likely won't make it onto your resume, but it probably shows up as training in your personnel file.
Is the future brighter?
For as long as there have been firms, there have been executives complaining about not being able to find the talent they need—a gambit that can be employed for everything from protecting the executive's own job, to putting pressure on governments and educational institutions to provide skills training for people prior to entering the workforce, in order to reduce corporate overhead. However, while the Accenture study isn't conclusive evidence, it does point to a willingness by firms to step up and shift from passive consumption of the skills currently on the market to active development of their own employees—a very positive sign.
The people most likely to benefit from that shift: current college students and recent graduates, who will likely be entering a workforce where employers are more receptive to the fact that they might not have every single skill they desire, and more willing to help them acquire them. With a current national unemployment rate of 12.4 percent among 20-24 year olds, that's good news indeed.
What's your take on the training issue? Do companies have a responsibility to train employees, or should it be down to the individual to ensure that they have the necessary skills to compete? Let us know in the comments section.
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Computers in Libraries 2009Posted: March 29, 2009 Filed under: code/files, conferences/events | Tags: cil09, cil2009, web-services mobile gadgets widgets Leave a comment
Computers in Libraries starts tomorrow and it's always a great time. I arrived in DC earlier today from an uneventful flight which is always a good thing. Met up with Karen Coombs and Michael Sauers for some SuperHappyTerrific sushi and now I'm collecting my thoughts regarding my upcoming workshops and presentation.
Web Services for Libraries (with Karen)
Sunday, March 30 from 1:00PM – 4:00 PM
Widgets, Gadgets, and Mobie Apps for Libraries (with Karen and Michael)
Sunday, March 30 from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
As web content continues to grow and the noise-to-signal ratio increases, it has become important for libraries to find ways to get into users' common web paths: the social networking sites such as Facebook, the web portals such as iGoogle, learning management systems such as Blackboard, even mobile devices such as the iPhone. Our panel of experts looks at creating widgets or gadgets that allow users to have basic library search and browse functions in these new user environments free from the catalog or library website. They demo and teach how to build live applications that provide gateway searching for library journals, books, articles, and much more. Come learn how to play in these new environments and to give users options for searching and consuming library materials in their own learning spaces.
The Portable Library: Going "Atomic" with Library Web Services
Monday, March 30 from 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
There is an opportunity for libraries to braodcast into our users' common web paths (like Facebook and iGoogle) and to create mobile library apps that allow users to have basic library search functions in these new user environments. Live applications from MSU Libraries illustrate: a Google Gadget that allows gateway searching for library journals, books, and articles and a series of OpenSearch plugins that let patrons search library content from within the web browser. Come learn about the simple steps you can take to make these widgets and research tools happen at your library.
Presentation files and handouts for all sessions are available at http://www.lib.montana.edu/~jason/talks.php.
Demos and "Downloadables" for all sessions are available at http://www.lib.montana.edu/~jason/files.php.
I'm also trying to track the official tags and hashtags for the conference. It's looking like "#cil2009" for twitter and "cil2009" for all other tagging. See everyone around Crystal City or teh Internets…


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Group sales rose by 5 percent to 176 million euros in the first quarter, compared with 167 million in the same quarter the previous year. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) reached 39 million euros, the same as the first quarter of 2008. The EBIT margin amounted to 22.2 percent, down slightly from 23.2 percent. Net earnings went up to 24 million euros, compared with 19 million in the year-ago quarter.
SolarWorld manufactures and sells solar power solutions and in doing so contributes to a cleaner energy supply worldwide. As the largest solar producer in the United States and Europe, SolarWorld employs about 3,200 people and carries out production in Hillsboro, Ore., and Freiberg and Arnstadt, Germany. From the raw material silicon to solar wafers, cells and panels, SolarWorld manages all stages of production ‒ including its own research and development. The company maintains high social standards at all locations across the globe and is committed to resource- and energy-efficient production. Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, SolarWorld was founded in 1998 and has been publicly traded on the stock market since 1999. For more information, visit www.solarworld-usa.com.
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The head of northeastern Illinois' planning agency called Wednesday for an end to Gov. Pat Quinn's push for the Illiana Expressway, saying the proposed $1.3 billion tollway south of Chicago into Indiana is "a highway in nowhere land."
Gerald Bennett made the remarks before Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning board members voted 10-4 against the project, despite what Bennett said was unfair pressure by Quinn on the board. The agency's policy committee will have the final say in a vote next week. Its approval is needed to open the door to federal funding for the 47-mile tollway between Indiana and Illinois, which the Illinois Department of Transportation says will lead to economic development.
The governors of both states have touted the project as a way to speed goods by truck, reduce congestion and create thousands of jobs.
"I have never seen so much political pressure put on members of this board in the history of this agency," Bennett said at the board meeting, explaining that some members had expressed private concerns about the potential consequences of voting no.
"They don't want to upset IDOT; they don't want to upset the governor down the road. ... If IDOT refuses to give our towns or area money, so be it," said Bennett, who is also mayor of the southern Chicago suburb of Palos Hills.
Bennett accused the state's Transportation Department of being weeks late with payments to the agency totaling $2.2 million. He says it's no coincidence the delays — the first in years — began in July, after his agency released a negative assessment of the expressway project.
In response, the Transportation Department released a letter that its chief, Ann Schneider, sent to the planning agency Tuesday. It said the delays were the result of increased scrutiny after ineligible items were found in reimbursement claims, including one from the planning agency.
The tollway would cross a rural area south of Chicago, offering cars and trucks an east-west link between Interstate 65 in Indiana and Interstate 55 in Illinois. The two states say construction could start late next year or in the spring of 2015.
Businesses, labor unions and community groups all support the project.
A Baptist minister from Chicago's south suburbs, David Bigsby, was among residents who addressed Wednesday's board meeting, saying the area has been held in an "economic death row."
"I pastor to people who don't have jobs. I pastor to people that are losing homes. I pastor to people that are in despair. This highway gives us some hope," he said.
Illinois hopes to lure private investors to put up some of the cost of building, operating and maintaining the road in a 35-year deal. Tolls would help repay the debt.
But in an analysis released in September, the planning agency concluded the route's traffic and tolls would fall short, leaving taxpayers on the hook for anywhere from $440 million to $1.1 billion.
Agency staffers also concluded that because of the corridor's location 10 miles south of built-up areas on the edge of suburban Will County, it would have minimal impact on any economic development or long-term job creation beyond the workforce needed to build it.
"We're not sure how building a roadway that ... is going to be built for vehicles and trucks to go around them, how that creates jobs for those communities," the planning agency's executive director, Randall Blankenhorn, told reporters after the vote.
Environmental groups also oppose the project, saying it would threaten endangered wildlife, critical habitat and other sensitive areas.
Schneider gave interviews to news outlets Monday to counter opponents. She said the state's adviser on the project, Ernst & Young, found toll revenues would top the costs of operating and maintaining the road, providing the state with money to invest in other transportation work.
The transportation chief also said the road was important to staying competitive.
"A lot of people, what they don't realize is that right now we are in competition for being a freight hub with places like Memphis, Tenn.; Columbus, Ohio," she told The Associated Press.


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5 TV characters we'd love to party with on New Year's Eve!
Can you believe that 2016 is nearly done and dusted? Frankly, it can't come fast enough, and even if this has been the year where everything has gone to… read more
5 TV characters we'd love to party with on New Year's Eve!
Can you believe that 2016 is nearly done and dusted? Frankly, it can't come fast enough, and even if this has been the year where everything has gone to the dogs – we'll be damned if we don't celebrate the end in style!
Whether your plans involve copious amounts of champagne and dancing on tables, or a quiet night in with Netflix and beer – here are five TV characters we'd love to celebrate the end of the year alongside!
1. Barney Stinson
Is there any TV character we'd rather celebrate New Year's with than the King of New Year's himself, How I Me Your Mother's Barney Stinson? This is the guy who is so totally awesome he makes plans for himself and his friends to attend a whopping five parties on New Year's Eve – just to make sure they're at the best one when the fireworks go off. Of course, it didn't go exactly to plan, but one thing for sure is Barney knows how to have a good time.
2. Bender
Futurama's Bender literally needs alcohol to properly function, and so thus would be the perfect New Year's Eve companion! Yes, admittedly his gambling, womanising and stealing might not make for the best evening if you're not into those things, but hey, robot party partner!
3. Archer
Excitement and danger follow Archer around, so he'd make an entertaining New Year's Companion to say the least! Of course, there's the possibility he might kill you. If he doesn't, you've still got to deal with his extreme narcissism and enormous ego. It might be worth it though, for a night of booze and extreme danger.
4. The Inbetweeners
Not technically a single TV character, but we'll let it go. For an evening that would be totally and undeniably lame and disgusting, The Inbetweeners' Will, Simon, Jay and Neil are your go-to guys. However, partying with the Pussy Patrol might also be unbelievably hilarious, so the jury's out.
5. Penny
If you want a night out with the girls, The Big Bang Theory's Penny knows what she's doing! Best of all, she's both great at partying the old fashioned way and also (sort of) open to spending the evening dressed as Wonder Woman at a Comic Book store!


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The Global Force in Rectal Microbicide Advocacy
Since its creation in 2005, International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) has seen significant growth and success. Convened by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the Canadian AIDS Society, the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project and the Global Campaign for Microbicides, IRMA is currently a network numbering over 600 advocates, policymakers and leading scientists from 50 countries on six continents (indicated by the countries in color above) working to advance a robust rectal microbicide research and development agenda.
New Name, New Look, Same Goals
Originally founded as the International Rectal Microbicides Working Group (IRMWG), the group re-branded its name at the end of 2007, created a new logo, and launched this website in January 2008. Amidst all this change, IRMA remains committed to the same goals we developed from our inception:
What Is a Rectal Microbicide?
Currently in development, a microbicide is a cream or gel, or maybe a douche or an enema, that could be used to reduce a persons risk of HIV infection vaginally or rectally. Rectal microbicides could offer both primary protection in the absence of condoms and back-up protection if a condom breaks or slips off during anal intercourse. For those unable or unwilling to use condoms, rectal microbicides could be a safe and effective alternative means of reducing risk, especially if they were unobtrusive and/or enhanced sexual pleasure enough to motivate consistent use. Such alternatives are essential if we are to address the full spectrum of prevalent sexual practices and the basic human need for accessible, user-controlled HIV and STD prevention tools.
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|El Rancho Rincon De Los Carneros - Probably Stanly Ranch, Circa 1880 - Photography by M.Flanagan
Journaling my genealogy research online seems to be the right thing to do for the future of my research rather than hiding it away in some box or drawer in my home. This blog is more of a diary of my research which expands as I go. Know that a post from last year may have more updated research in a different post. I love the discovery process which has resulted in such wonderful success in finding my roots. If you comment and are looking for a response, please leave me an email address.
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Priscilla Presley will be playing the Evil Queen in the Snow White pantomime at the New Wimbledon Theatre beginning in December so f-ck off Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron. Here she is with her castmates, including Professor Flitwick, at the photocall in London today. Remember when Priscilla met Elvis when she was 14 and he was not close to being 14 at all? I feel like this might be a recurring theme today too. God I used to look at their wedding photos obsessively. I may have been around 14 then too.


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When I was a kid, I had this fascination with RC cars. Well, I should say it was the concept of RC cars that I found so fascinating. In practice, my experience with actually driving the things was mostly spent trying to figure out how to not keep running into things and getting stuck against walls. This is an experience that Evolution Studios hopes to re-create, for better or worse, with MotorStorm RC.
The idea here is to take several locations from the beloved MotorStorm series and let players race dozens of RC cars across them. The game's main event is Festival, where you will take on numerous challenges across these courses. For example, Hot Lap has you see how quickly you can take a single lap, Pursuit has you start in last place and attempt to overtake a set amount of opponents as fast as you can, and Drift has you prove to your friends that you have a bit of a rebellious side by using muscle cars to drift around corners. Scoring medals in these challenges will allow you to unlock new vehicles and advance further in the Festival. Of course, if you are too impatient to unlock all of this via gameplay, you can plop down a small chunk of change on PSN to unlock everything at once. Personally, this feels more like a cheap cash grab than anything else, as being able to insta-unlock the entire game takes away a lot of your motivation to keep working toward higher scores.
However, if you have friends that play the game, you will have motivation in another form: anyone on your PSN friends list who plays MotorStorm RC will have their best times listed on each track. This lets you know who is the best MotorStormer among your group of friends. Also, your friends' ghost data will also be present in the races, so you'll have a constant visual indication of how you are doing compared with them. It's a really cool feature that adds a ton of replay value, encouraging you to constantly try to dethrone your friends from the top spot.
Of course, if you get tired of Festival, there are a few other game modes to try in the Wreckreation menu. Time Attack has you select any course and vehicle you've managed to unlock and see how fast you can complete the course. Free Play allows you to set up your own race type, where you get to choose your game mode, course, vehicle, and even your opponents.
If all else fails, there's the Playground, which is an almost Tony Hawk-like skate park for you to freely drive your RC cars around. It's a nice diversion, but it definitely won't hold your interest long. I would have liked to see some sort of scoring element here that rewarded players for hitting ramps and doing things like attempting to sink a car in a dumpster or launch one through a basketball hoop.
Now, when I first started playing MotorStorm RC, I was a little disappointed that the game lacks the behind-the-wheel camera that would make controlling the cars much less difficult. Of course, that was a little silly of me, since this is an arcade RC racer rather than a racing simulator. In fact, the twin-stick controls mimic those on several actual RC controllers, and the various top-down camera angles are sort of what you would be seeing if you were controlling an actual RC car. While this makes the experience feel much more like a real-life RC experience, it takes a little getting used to.
In fact, in my own experience, I found that making some tweaks to the default control scheme made things feels a lot smoother. For example, if you play a lot of shooters, you might want to reverse the control sticks (left stick for acceleration, right stick for steering) to make things feel a bit more natural. Also, I would strongly recommend assigning a dedicated button to your breaks/reverse. (The left shoulder bumper worked for me.) Yes, it makes the controls less true-to-life (as real-life RC cars would generally have you use the same stick for acceleration and reverse), but, trust me, you'll take corners a lot tighter and will win more races this way. Unless you are already an RC enthusiast.
There are some touchscreen controls utilized in the Vita version as well. However, besides navigating the game's menus, you'll be best off completely forgetting they're even there.
The visuals are halfway decent. In fact, some of the landscapes and backgrounds are legitimately impressive, especially on a handheld. The cars themselves, though—which should be the main event—don't look as detailed as I feel like they should. This makes them stand out a bit against the highly detailed environments, which I suppose could be both a good and bad thing.


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Rise of the Black Panther provides a mythic foundation for the Marvel comic book franchise that has become a transformative cultural phenomenon, enlisting the talents of some of America's leading African American public intellectuals and writers, including Coates and Roxane Gay.
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Luis Alberto Urrea discusses "The House of Broken Angels" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Interweaving her own experience with those of young Black Americans in cities and towns from New York to Los Angeles and Bluefield, West Virginia to Chicago, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity. Instead of accepting downward mobility, Black millennials are flipping the script and rejecting White America's standards. Whether it means moving away from cities and heading South, hustling in the entertainment industry, challenging ideas about gender and sexuality, or building activist networks, they are determined to forge their own path. Compassionate and deeply reported, It Was All a Dream is a celebration of a generation's doggedness against all odds, as they fight for a country in which their dreams can become a reality.
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Andrew Sean Greer discusses "Less" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Andrew Sean Greer is the best-selling author of five works of fiction, including "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. His new novel is "Less" (Lee Boudreaux), winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.
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Fatima Farheen Mirza on A Place For Us A Novel at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Rich Fahle.
The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging
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A Place for Us takes us back to the beginning of this family's life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla's own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children—each in their own way—tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home.
A Place for Us is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.
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A series of interviews with artists, authors, architects, and others representing Chicago's diverse creative community, presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival, in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO, Navy Pier, and Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago's art and design legacy, with presenting partner, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
What do artist Theaster Gates, architect Jeanne Gang, and photographer Dawoud Bey have in common?
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Funding for Creative Chicago was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation with additional support from Elizabeth A. Liebman, Herman Miller, and the WFMT Studs Terkel Radio Archive.
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Sujatha Gidla: 2018 National Book Festival
Sujatha Gidla discusses "Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Kevin Young on "Brown" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
Kevin Young on Brown: Poems at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Ashley Ford.
James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prize-winning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection.
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PNC Financial (NYSE:PNC) disclosed more than $300 million worth of mortgage-related expenses on Wednesday but the regional bank said it still expects to beat Wall Street's fourth-quarter earnings expectations.
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Shares of Pittsburgh-based PNC dropped more than 1% in premarket trading on the news, which was revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
PNC, which is set to report full results next week, announced a slew of one-time items that taken together will cut fourth-quarter earnings by 47 cents per share.
These items are headlined by a pretax provision of $254 million related to residential mortgage repurchase obligations from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
This provision is tied to an $8.5 billion settlement unveiled on Monday between 10 banks and the U.S. government that sought to end the robo-signing controversy.
Also on the housing front, PNC said it had $91 million in expenses in the fourth quarter tied to residential mortgage foreclosure activities. This includes a charge of about $70 million from an agreement to amend the consent orders entered into in April 2011.
The lender expects foreclosure-related expenses to decrease "substantially" in 2013.
PNC also said it recorded a noncash goodwill impairment charge of $45 million last quarter related to its residential mortgage segment.
On the upside, PNC said it will record a pretax gain of $130 million in the fourth quarter due to the sale of four million Class B common shares in card giant Visa (NYSE:V).
PNC sought to reassure investors by saying "excluding the net impact of these actions," management anticipates fourth-quarter earnings per share to "exceed" consensus calls for EPS of $1.57.
Earlier on Wednesday analysts at Barclays (NYSE:BCS) trimmed their price target on PNC to $72 from $75 but maintained an "equal weight" rating on the stock.
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Adding more addpredicts, bug 432248
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(long Paschal liturgy plus food in church 2 hours away so only slept from 4-8.30am
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
Hallelujah, Christ Has Risen, Indeed!
Vaistinu vaskrse!This is the Day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in!
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Dear all, I have some difficulty in understanding the notion of automorphic forms on product of groups.
Let $G$, $H$ be two reductive groups defined over a number field $F$. Let $\mathcal{A}(G)$ be the space of automorphic forms on $G(F)\backslash G(\mathbb{A})$ and $L^{2}(G):=L^{2}(G(F)\backslash G(\mathbb{A})^{1})$ as in e.g. J. Arthur's papers . When are the following isomorphisms true (as representations)? $$ \mathcal{A}(G\times H)\cong\mathcal{A}(G)\otimes\mathcal{A}(H)$$ and $$ L^{2}(G\times H)\simeq L^{2}(G)\hat{\otimes}L^{2}(H)$$
How to obtain the spectral decomposition of $L^{2}(G\times H)$ (as direct integral of irreducibles) from the spectral decompositon of $L^{2}(G)$ and $L^{2}(H)$ ?
The examples I have in mind is $G=GL_{n}$ and $H=GL_{m}$ or $G=SO_{n}$ and $H=SO_{m}$. Are they true in these case?
Note that the isomorphisms here are both for representations! So the question may be not so trivial.
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2004: M.S.S. Sports Management
Bunky Harkleroad doesn't hesitate when asked about his goals for the Sacramento State women's basketball team that he recently took over as head coach.
"We want to win a Big Sky Championship and be the most exciting team in women's basketball," Harkleroad declared upon arrival.
Harkleroad, who earned his master's in Sports Management from the United States Sports Academy, is used to success.
He previously coached at Glenville State College, an NCAA Division II school in Glenville, W. Va., where he compiled a 91-30 record over four seasons and made two NCAA Division II Tournament appearances. He was also a finalist for NCAA Div. II Coach of the Year.
Harkleroad also served as head coach at his alma mater, Berea College in Berea, Ky., where he led the Mountaineers to five 20-win seasons in his nine years there. Berea College made three straight NAIA National Tournament appearances between 2005 and 2007. His overall record in 13 seasons—258-120. He takes over a Division I team at Sacramento State that matched a school record with 19 wins last season and reached the Big Sky Conference semifinals. The Hornets return both starting guards Fantasia Hilliard and Alle Moreno who have become accustomed to playing a fast-paced style of offense.
A run and gun style of offense is exactly what Harkleroad likes and it has proved to be extremely effective. Last year, his team averaged 95.3 points per game, made 433 3-pointers and outscored the opposition by an average of 18 points. His Glenville teams broke every offensive record at the college.
With Sacremento State's first game against UC Santa Cruz less than three weeks away, Harklewood took a timeout to discuss with the Alumni Network becoming a Division I head coach, running an up-tempo offense and his experience at the Academy as a student.
Alumni Network: Ok, we have to ask you about your unforgettable name?
Bunky Harkleroad: It's the only name I've known, so I like it!
AN: How do you feel about the team you inherited and coaching in Division I?
BH: I'm just very excited about the opportunity and am looking forward to continuing our work with the players. I think there's tremendous potential to have a great season here. (Coaching in Division I) is the opportunity of a lifetime. I'm excited and it's just a tremendous opportunity that we're going to take advantage of.
AN: How hard is it to take over right before the season is scheduled to start and what do you think is the key to a smooth transition?
BH: It's just a great opportunity. We're not looking at how hard it is but we're looking at it as doing our best to improve as much as we can in the shortest amount of time and get ready to compete.
AN: Explain your offensive coaching philosophy and why you like the up-tempo game.
BH: Our offensive philosophy is based on an up-tempo, fast-paced attack that relies on aggressiveness on both ends of the court. It's based heavily on the 3-point shot, frequent substitutions, and dictating how the game is played.
AN: How do you feel about moving to the West coast?
BH: It's exciting to get to go to a lot of places we've never been. It's really easy to get excited about the weather and the location and I think there are a lot of resources here. It's a great fit and it was a no-brainer to make the move.
AN: How did getting your master's degree from the Academy help you in your career?
BH: It opened doors for me and I learned a great deal in the process of getting my master's degree. It was pretty rigorous and I had some experiences that I won't forget. I learned some good habits and I still refer back to classes I had. It's helped me be a better coach and I'm very proud to have earned that degree at the Academy.


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libnm-glib-dev 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu4 (armel binary) in ubuntu-leb oneiric
NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices
and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when
available. It manages ethernet, WiFi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE
devices, and provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN
This package provides the interface that applications can use to query
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The Royal Route (Polish: Trakt Królewski) in Warsaw, Poland, is a former prestigious communication route that led southward from the city's Old Town to king's residence. It now comprises a series of connecting Warsaw streets that feature a number of historic landmarks. The Royal Route begins at Warsaw's Castle Square and runs south down Krakowskie Przedmieście (Kraków Suburb Street), ulica Nowy Świat (New World Street), Aleje Ujazdowskie (Ujazdów Avenue), ulica Belwederska (Belweder Street) and ulica Sobieskiego (Sobieski Street), finally to arrive at Wilanów (Jan III Sobieski's residence).


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My biggest thought right out of the bat is if they are trying to set up the death of Padawan Tano?
Tano survives up to the general ROTS timeframe and the last couple of episodes take place while the events in ROTS unfold, but offer us a different view of what was going on elsewhere besides Coruscant, Utapau, and Mustafar. After some brave and very intense fight scenes, she gets whacked by the clones during the Order 66 purge. Ideally, it would be Captain Rex that would shoot her, just to hit home the tragedy and make all those clone-loving pre-teen viewers cry
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Defendant in fatal crash released under strict supervision
An Old Lyme woman who has been held on drunken driving charges since her involvement in a fatal crash on July 8 on Interstate 95 has been released from prison under strict supervision so that she can get her affairs in order.
State police charged Christiana Morton-Lane, 23, of Browns Lane, with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs following the crash at the southbound ramp to Exit 72.
According to a police report, Morton-Lane, who was driving a Ford Escort, went off the ramp and into the guardrail, then back onto the ramp and into the southbound travel lane, colliding with a motorcycle which was then struck by a second motorcycle. Motorcyclist Robert Burr, 35, of Clinton was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger and two others on the second motorcycle were hospitalized.
At Morton-Lane's initial court appearance, a New London Superior Court judge set her bond at $100,000 in anticipation of an expected additional charge of manslaughter. She has been held in lieu of that bond at the Janet S. York Correctional Institution since the incident, but no new charges have been filed.
Morton-Lane's attorney, Jennifer Nowak, asked Judge John J. Nazzaro to reduce the bond so that Morton-Lane, a mother of two minor children who has significant health issues, could "wrap up her affairs until she is re-incarcerated." Nowak said Morton-Lane, who has no prior criminal record, has already served four months in prison on the DUI charge, which carries a maximum sentence of six months.
The judge agreed to release Morton-Lane on a written promise to appear in court and explained his decision in detail to the victims' relatives in the courtroom.
Nazzaro ordered Morton-Lane released to live with family members under intensive supervision. She is to be fitted with a GPS bracelet and be allowed to leave home only for medical, social service and legal appointments. She is not to consume alcohol or drive and is required to turn in her driver's license. The judge also recommended that she be tested frequently for the presence of alcohol and said she would be re-incarcerated if any is detected.
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We raised the question who would win the 6-pack-O-Rama: The Prez or Schock. Debate closed.
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Critic's Notebook
A quarter century ago, on March 29, 1976, a simple, pastel map of New York City appeared on the cover of The New Yorker. Drawn from the perspective of a low-flying bird looking west from Ninth Avenue, you could see the world receding from the city: the Hudson River, New Jersey, Kansas City, then the Pacific Ocean and Japan. It was Saul Steinberg's famous "View of the World from Ninth Avenue," a drawing reproduced and imitated countless times. Every city wanted a version of its own. Steinberg once said that if he had gotten the proper royalties, "I could have retired on this painting."
This week, another simple pastel map, a flat, bird's-eye view of New York City drawn in pen and wash, appeared on the cover of The New Yorker. It showed the names of the city's neighborhoods Afghanistanicized: Lubavistan, Kvetchnya, Irate, Irant, Mooshuhadeen, Schmattahadeen, Yhanks, Feh, Fattushis, Fuhgeddabouditstan, Hiphopabad, Bad, Veryverybad, E-Z Pashtuns (leading to New Jersey), Khakis and Kharkeez (in Connecticut) and, most touchingly, Lowrentistan, where the World Trade Center once stood.
The map was made by Maira Kalman, who grew up somewhere near Upper Kvetchnya (she did the pen work) and Rick Meyerowitz, who is originally from around Ptooey (he did the watercolor). Both now live in Artsifarsis.
When their cover came out, suddenly a dark cloud seemed to lift. New Yorkers were mad for the map. They laughed. They shared it. They recited their favorite joke names on the map, making sure you had the proper Yiddish: the name Gribinez (for the Hudson River) means cut-up chicken parts. They checked out your cultural knowledge: Blahniks (the Upper East Side) is where everyone can afford Manolo Blahnik shoes. What? You don't understand. Youdontunderstandistan? You should be banished to Outer Perturbia (somewhere on Long Island).
Perhaps not since Steinberg's drawing had New Yorkers pored over a magazine cover so long. Of course, the maps are totally different. Steinberg's is a delicate drawing done in perfect perspective, with fully realized cars and little witty dotted lines separating Canada from Chicago and Mexico from Washington. The drawing by Ms. Kalman and Mr. Meyerowitz is flat and na�ve. Aside from a funny perplexed camel standing in the middle of Stan (Staten Island), the humor is all verbal.
So what, if anything, ties these covers together? Maybe the clue lies in the one true bit of real estate on the new map: Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Boulevard (O.K., so the real one is an avenue), which runs from Khkhzks in Queens to Outer Perturbia. What is this piece of reality doing in this Afghanistanicized city? And why, of all New Yorkers, should Van Arsdale have been designated for post-jihad attention?
Van Arsdale (who died in 1986) was the president of the New York City Central Labor Council at its peak. His last big hurrah came in 1975, when he helped put together a plan to lift the city out of its fiscal crisis. That was the year of the famous Daily News headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." It was also the year Steinberg drew his famous map. (It was published a year later.) So maybe here's the tie: both maps are pictures of New York City at its darkest hour with its back to the wall, digging in its heels.
Actually, neither Ms. Kalman nor Mr. Meyerowitz knew precisely who Van Arsdale was. But Mr. Meyerowitz said, "The name never failed to make me laugh when I approached it."
The whole map began in fun. "We were on our way to a party in Westchester County," she said. Driving through the Bronx, she suddenly called out: "Bronxistan." And the names started flowing: Le Frakhis (a pun on LeFrak City). Some places on the map have the ring of truth. Lubavistan is roughly where the Lubavitchers live. And parts of Fashtoonks (which derives from the Yiddish for "stink") really did stink once; there were pig farms in New Jersey.
"The beauty part of New York," Ms. Kalman said, "is that it is a mishmash. Everybody is running around with a different costume and a different story." New York, like Afghanistan, is made up of tribes with a bunch of exotic names that mean nothing to outsiders.
New York City should take second place to no one, as Mr. Meyerowitz said, not even Afghanistan. We are as tribal as anyone.
Steinberg's map is tribal, too, but different. His New York is a self- absorbed city. It is us versus them. In the all-important city you can see that taxicabs, people, water towers and windows matter. And far, far away are all those places that don't really matter: the Midwest is yellow, and somewhere out there must be Afghanistan.
You can't say those places don't matter to New Yorkers now. Kandahar, Kabul and Kunduz do indeed matter. So do all the -stans and all the -bads. The new map clearly shows that change. It looks like a map of the Middle East has been laid over the whole city.
But if you look carefully at New Yorkistan, you'll see New York, resistant as ever. Seventh Avenue is still in Schmattahadeen (the rag district), and La Guardia Airport is still Taxistan. Staten Island will always be just plain vanilla, a place that deserves the name Stan, even if there is a camel standing in it.
So the new map is like the old. It is still us against them that wants us dead. If the world gives you Kandahar and Chechnya, send them back Khandibar and Kvetchnya.


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You installed the latest Canon Linux drivers for your MP600/610, run fine ...
And now, you try to print borderless photos from your favorite Desktop application … and you learn in Canon's documentation that borderless printing:
- Requires a dedicated Canon utility (cifmp600 / cifmp610)
- run from the command line,
- with limited image type support (no jpeg!!!)
- no network gui, just localhost
- and … only available to the root user!!!
IMHO, a good reason for … reworking a little bit original ppd files, and… turnaround some buggy code.
In fact, Canon's software already includes borderless printing with cups/ppd files, if the papersize name (in the printer ppd file) ends with ".bl"
Simply create such lines in the ppd file, and you add borderless paper types …
So simple?
Well, add also some driver bug for paper sizes with an X: 4X6, 5X7, … To avoid modifying/recompile any source code, add a small modification to Canon's driver config file, namely:
/usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp610.conf (or /usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp600.conf for MP600), to add lines with a small x like 4x6, 5x7 in the [papersize] section.
The new packages files to download include those new ppds, along with the modified cifmp610.conf / cifmp600.conf files.
Download here the latest package for the printer and language (English or French) you want.
The package contains:
- a new ppd file to install as explained in this previous post
- a cifmp6x0.conf file to replace Canon's existing one (keep a backup of Canon's original just in case):
- MP610 : copy over /usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp610.conf
- MP600 : copy over /usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp600.conf
A simple live test under Gnome's EOG and Ubuntu Gutsy
Under Gnome, simply double click an image, this trigs "Eye Of Gnome", Gnome's standard picture viewer. Note that many other picture viewers (KDE's, Gnome's …) will have the same ability, EOG is used here as sample.
EOG supports now Gnome's standard printing dialog.
Select first the menu "File/Page setup":
Now, in the printing dialog "File/print", look at the "image parameters" tab. In the preview pane, EOG will show your photo as printed on paper, the borders will be 0 if image matches paper format.
If you select an incompatible combination, nothing will be printed, and you won't get any error message ...
Choose also options in the "advanced" tab, and check the quality, halftoning options to match for the paper type selected.
Et voila!
Your image is printing on paper without borders ;-)
- PPD files have been updated for borderless A4, 4"x6", 5"x7", 4"x8", 8"x10" formats.
If you need to add other paper formats, simply create new .bl papersizes in the ppd file.
- Files proposed here are for MP600/MP610 printers, but the same method can be used for many other Canon printers that use the same drivers. Again, modify the same way the ppd and .conf files.
- You might notice that the printed image extends a little bit outside the paper. This is due to the cifmp6x0 utility, that uses a --extend parameter, which defaults to 2. This makes image extend a little bit outside the paper. See Canon's driver cifmp6x0 documentation (borderless and extend options) for more information.
- Borderless printing on A4 is not very accurate, as stated in Canon's documentation (the 'Doze documentation). Please take a look at this Canon documentation to get info on borderless printing.


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On-loan Bristol City defender Steven Caulker could be fit for the visit of Middlesbrough.
Caulker was initially very doubtful for the game after limping out of the FA Cup third-round defeat to Sheffield Wednesday last weekend.
He suffered a hip injury following a collision with team-mate David James and returned to parent club Tottenham for treatment.
"It didn't look too good to begin with. I didn't think he would be available for this Saturday, but now it looks as though he might be," said City boss Keith Millen. "I spoke to someone at Tottenham on Tuesday and he told me the scan was just a precautionary measure. I'm certainly not ruling Steven out of the Middlesbrough game."
More good news for Millen is the return to fitness of captain Louis Carey. The defender has been out for two months with a series of problems, but came through a reserve-team game this week and is available for selection.
Another defender, Christian Ribeiro, is a doubt after sustaining a hamstring injury against Sheffield Wednesday. Liam Fontaine is on standby to come into the side, while forward Danny Haynes could also be recalled.
Middlesbrough boss Tony Mowbray is hoping to have several key men back at his disposal.
Marvin Emnes (foot), Barry Robson (thigh) and Jason Steele (knee), who all missed the 2-1 FA Cup third round defeat at Burton, have returned to training this week.
The trio could all come back in, but midfielder Nicky Bailey is a major doubt after going down with a virus.
Mickael Tavares is out with a fractured toe which will sideline him for at least three weeks, while the club is awaiting the results of scans carried out on teenage striker Luke Williams after he damaged an ankle during the 4-2 FA Youth Cup victory over Doncaster in midweek.
Kevin Thomson continues his battle to return from the after-effects of his leg fracture, but Stephen McManus (ankle ligaments), Willo Flood (knee) and Rhys Williams (pelvis) are still out.
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