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The Los Angeles Boat Show is underway through the weekend, and now in two locations for you to select your new or brokerage yacht.
Once again, the show is back to its usual spot at the Los Angeles Convention Center. However, you can now view boats at the in-water location at Burton W. Chace Park in Marina del Rey. This new venue will provide the opportunity for brokerage boats and yachts that are too big or expensive to trailer to the convention center.
The boat show will have hundreds of boats for your family to set aboard, ranging from family day cruisers to lavish million-dollar yachts. Additionally, vendors will be displaying the newest marine accessories and gear. This family fun event has scheduled educational seminars, so preview the list of opportunities.
The show was formerly produced by the Southern California Marine Assn. that was merged into the National Marine Manufacturers Assn.. The association produces boat shows across the nation and is a leading advocacy group for recreational boaters and marine manufacturers. You can find out show information, times, and ticket prices at http://www.losangelesboatshow.com.
Tip of the week is from Erik Lind and Gordon White, co-owners of Left Coast Diesel in the San Francisco Bay Area, whom I interviewed on my radio show last weekend. They are tow vehicle experts and diesel specialists who mentioned that now is the time to have your tow vehicle serviced to get your truck ready for this summer. Additionally, Lind mentioned some very specific items that need to be inspected and serviced before you tow your boat again.
You should start where the rubber meets the road, so be certain that your tires are properly inflated and there is sufficient tread. Tow vehicles must have the correct load rating for the tires. Most pickups should have a "D" load rating, and 3/4-ton and bigger pickups usually come with "E" load ratings to handle bigger tow loads.
Another important system for towing is the cooling system or you will overheat your vehicle's engine. It is recommended that you change the coolant every two to five years, but you need to consult the owner's manual. If you suspect any issues with the cooling system, then you should have a professional inspect the thermostat, water pump and fan clutch.
You need to be sure that your vehicle will be able to stop safely with the extra weight of a boat being towed. Your brake pads and rotors need to be inspected. Replace the brake fluid every two years to prevent moisture build-up. While on the topic of brakes, this is the time to check the brake lights and that the brake controller is working with the trailer.
Now, let's focus on the on the engine and transmission to make sure that they are running properly. A poorly maintained or tuned engine will run hotter and may not get you to the launch ramp. Additionally with the price of fuel, a tuned engine will save you dollars at the pump.
Do not forget to keep your transmission serviced every 25,000 to 35,000 miles, and more frequently if you tow a heavy boat or tow in mountain areas. With both the engine and transmission, check the oil levels before each time you plan on hitching the trailer to the vehicle. A little preventive maintenance and pre-check will save you the headache of having your vehicle towed to a mechanic.
Lastly, if you are a do-it-yourself person, then the maintenance is a one-day kind of job. If you are not mechanically inclined, then you should find a shop that specializes in towing and passenger trucks. It is important that the mechanics are familiar with towing and understand any potential issues that will spoil your day of boating. You can email any questions about towing or servicing your truck by visiting http://www.leftcoastdiesel.com.
And don't forget: Tune in to the No. 1 boating radio talk show in the nation, Capt. Mike Whitehead's "Boathouse Radio Show," broadcasting live coast-to-coast on the CRN Digital Talk Radio syndicated network at noon Saturdays and replays throughout the weekend.
Safe voyages!
MIKE WHITEHEAD is a boating columnist for the Daily Pilot. Send marine-related thoughts and story suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com or go to http://www.boathousetv.com.


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The ETSU women's basketball team will be honored with a special halftime ceremony during the men's game versus Wingate Thursday night, as the Lady Buccaneers receive their 2008 Atlantic Sun Championship rings.
ETSU made history last season - becoming the first team in program history to earn a berth into the NCAA Tournament - and along the way the Lady Buccaneers smashed four school records. The Lady Bucs broke the single-season record for points (2,478) and rebounds (1,360), and set the single-game steals record with 24 thefts versus
Throughout the 2007-08 season the Lady Bucs made some noise by knocking off SEC contender Alabama, snapping Jacksonville's program-record 17-game home winning streak, and blasted in-state conference rival Belmont by 43, 102-59. In total, ETSU cruised through the league with a 14-2 mark, earning the number one seed in the Atlantic Sun Tournament. In
At the end of the season, eight members of the 2007-08 Lady Buccaneer team were recognized for their hard work both on and off the court. Siarre Evans (
After receiving their hardware, the 2008-09 Lady Buccaneer squad will gear up for a tough challenge when 12th-ranked Vanderbilt visits
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The 2013 Holy Bowly Recap
Words and Photos: Aaron Blatt
Hopping a flight to Tokyo in the days leading up to the 2013 Holy Bowly you'd be hard pressed not to see some of the top riders, photographers, and filmers in the isles of your plane on their way to the event. After landing in the city, the bullet train whisked the international attendees up to Tenjin – a tiny resort town at the base of one of Japan's well kept secrets… A serious mountain with some insane access to big mountain lines during the winter, and home to one of the raddest events in snowboarding this past week.
"The Holy Bowly isn't a contest, it's a gathering" according to Krush Kulesza, master of ceremonies and the man behind Holy Bowly. "This was a good excuse for everybody to make a point in their schedule to come out here. We started it first for editorial and it made sense to just do it for the story… All of a sudden all the people started showing up too – we don't need a contest, we don't need anything here, it's just a sharing of style."
The setup was beyond perfect, laid out with banks, walls, and transitions to keep the crew busy finding lines, airs, and gaps throughout the five-day event. Not only was the bowl itself perfect, but riders could keep their speed all the way to the chair and stay strapped in during the short ride back to the top for seemingly endless laps. Everyone on the double chair had their back torqued to turn around and watch the action going down in the bowl, so indeed all eyes were on the course at all times.
Heavy aerial maneuvers were consistently going down on the two hips exiting the bowl, and by heavy we're talking about some of the most stylish snowboarding to date. Though an occasional spin could be witnessed, the straight airs were all time with Chris Brewster, Forest Bailey, and Austin Hironaka leading the charge as top tweakers at Tenjin. At any given time the trains rolling through the bowl could consist of up-comers to legends and everywhere in between. Blake Paul, Zak Hale, and birthday boy Sam Taxwood would continuously drop dangerously close to each other, bobbing and weaving, and finally flipping on their way up and over the volcano. The legendary posse of Wes Makepeace and Jamie Lynn could be seen popping precise backside airs, and nearly missing each other as Wes would carve and Jamie would air over him. Along with the North American crew, an insane cast of local Japanese rippers were taking transfers to the moon, and carving like crazy all week long.
On Saturday the bowl was opened to the public, the sun broke, and the crew tore the course up for one more day before Krush shut it down with a final lap. Upon wrapping up the event, everyone made their way to the center of the deep end, and Jamie launched off a few fireworks to cap the day and salute the people who came together to make this event possible.
The Holy Bowly captured the heart and soul of snowboarding. With more and more of the larger televised events moving out of less populated zones and consolidating, we can all hope to see more of these stand alone contests and gatherings popping up – making it possible for crews to enjoy snowboarding together in far away places for years to come.


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Ken Norton, the former heavyweight boxing champion who broke Muhammad Ali's jaw in a 1973 bout, died on Wednesday at an Arizona hospital at age 70, his manager said.
Norton, who died in Bullhead City, near the Arizona-Nevada border, had been suffering from congestive heart failure, said Patrick Tenore, the boxer's corporate manager and friend.
"He's been in rehab (for ill health) for almost a year … and early this afternoon, he passed away," Tenore told Reuters. "He was not only a tremendous boxer, but also the most righteous, polite, generous human being."
Norton took up boxing as a heavyweight when he was serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, and turned professional after his discharge in 1967, according to ESPN.
A power puncher, he burst on the scene in 1973 when he broke Ali's jaw during their first fight, claiming the North American Boxing Federation heavyweight title in a split decision over 12 rounds.
Ali's camp said his jaw broke early in the fight, but Norton told a Reuters correspondent at a boxing convention in Cancun, Mexico, more than three decades later, that a punch thrown in the 11th round caused the fracture.
Ali narrowly won a split decision in a rematch nearly six months later, and held on to his heavyweight title in a bruising third encounter in 1976.
Norton won a heavyweight title elimination tournament the following year, and was subsequently declared champion by the World Boxing Council. He lost the title in 1978 in an epic 15-round fight with Larry Holmes.
Norton retired from the ring in 1981. He ended his career with a record of 42 wins, seven losses and a draw. He had 33 knockouts.
He took on a second career as an actor, making more than a dozen television and film appearances, including the 1975 movie "Mandingo."
His son Ken Norton, Jr., played in the National Football League with the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers.
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All that romance!
It inevitably has a scent of flowers and that soft pink nuance which contains no enmity, nothing but pure love intentions. Romance is everywhere: in the sea, in a dance, in flowers, butterflies, a ballerina sleeping on the floor.
Romance in Pavel Mitkov's paintings is a feeling of the world without animosity. It is also the expression of the deepest, most cherished emotions a person can share with the world.
"If most of us dared to be romantic, we would be living much better. Being romantic is not a sign of weakness, unlike what most men tend to think. On the contrary, it means overcoming behavioral stereotypes and manifesting that part of our personalities that makes us strong and free.
If, at one point, all people become romantic, the world will instantly shine in pink and mirror the paintings I create."
The most fascinating period is from 2012 on. Mitkov highlights two particular dates in it: 21.12.2012, supposedly the end of the world, and 10.02.2013, the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the Chinese New Year. According to the artist, that was the time when the mankind chose its future 2000-year cycle and the good prevailed. Always positive, always filled with a lot of energy, Mitkov turned his latest period into a life mission. It is not about just composing paintings but rather about creating and putting enormous love into canvases. The painter believes a painting can make a real difference in a man's life.


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This column has moved but will not require a new name.
"City Lights" — I originally thought of that title as a play on the city editor position. Now, as I move into the features editor spot, I'm reminded of from where else the inspiration came.
City Lights, for those who have been to San Francisco, is one of America's legendary bookstores, the epicenter of the Beat movement in the 1950s and, for any performance poet, the equivalent of playing Carnegie Hall. "City Lights" is also the title of Charlie Chaplin's greatest film, made defiantly in 1931 after talking pictures had arrived, and is home to one of the most moving final shots in history.
Years ago, I ran a blog for Times Community News and called it "Modern Times" — the title of another Chaplin classic. Those silent nuggets hold up, for sure.
Not many things created half a century ago hold up today. Cars? They've long since been junked, a few survivors at classic auto shows notwithstanding. Businesses? A handful still exist; most don't. Political speeches? We can find them online but rarely call them up. When we think of 1956, Elvis Presley and Dwight Eisenhower may both spring to mind. Which one's voice do we hear more often?
The other week, I talked with Dan Cameron, the chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, about that very issue. We had just taken a tour of the Newport Beach museum's new exhibit, "OC Collects," which features works, many of them decades old, from private collections around Orange County. Afterward, in the lobby, we put our amateur philosophers' heads together and talked about art itself. Why do people make it? What are their hopes for it? Is it just entertainment, or does it have a deeper value?
Cameron, who has curated shows in the United States and abroad for decades, had a simple theory: Art represents what a society values. That a work is a hit in its time makes it relevant to that time. That it survives its time makes it a gift to the world, and something of a miracle. Even while so many other things, art and otherwise, have faded from memory, we still have Chaplin's films on DVD and Allen Ginsberg's collected works on the shelf, ready in pristine condition whenever we need them.
Why? Because they tell us something about ourselves, something that goes beyond the Hollywood backlots or the dives of Cold War San Francisco. Think about it: Right now in Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa or Laguna Beach, someone may be creating a piece that will be studied and performed in hundreds of years.
Is it unlikely? Yes. More unlikely than anywhere else? Hardly.
The greatest success for any artist is to have his or her work endure. Think of Mozart, Shakespeare, Dickens, Michelangelo. The greatest difficulty for an artist, sometimes, can be to get a project off the ground in the first place. As Times Community News' features editor, I hope to touch on both of those sides of the process.
Years ago, when I took over the business beat for the Daily Pilot, my editor told me to treat the subject matter as "man and his work." Art, likewise, is very much about man and his work (or woman and her work, as the case may be). On that path to posterity, so many hurdles sit in the way: budgets, reviews, collaborators, the right connections. Film critic Gene Siskel once told of a Hollywood producer who applauded at the end of every movie he saw, simply because he knew how hard it was to get a film made.
In these pages, we hope to spotlight people at different stops along that creative journey. You'll encounter Sophocles and Beethoven and Twain, and also the woman who lives in the apartment next to yours and sews costumes for the campus theater. You'll meet authors who have won Pulitzer Prizes and others who are sweating to win first prize at the local open mic.
You'll find something else too, and here I'll quote Siskel again: He once referred to his job as covering "the national dream beat." The movies, he said, represented people's dreams — what they thought about, what they feared, what they aspired to be.
The same is true of any other medium. This section of our paper spotlights some of central Orange County's dreams. With a little time, with a little luck, they may be the rest of the world's dreams as well.
Features Editor MICHAEL MILLER can be reached at (714) 966-4617 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The One Tree Hill lookout at Mt Cootha provides wonderful views of Brisbane. The tall buildings of the Brisbane Central Business District is about 7kms away. On a clear day the Moreton Bay islands and the Great Dividing Range mountains can be seen. The lookout is a popular place for locals and visitors.
The lookout at One Tree Hill has great views of Brisbane. Situated on top of Mt Cootha, the tall buildings of the Brisbane Central Business District is about 7 kms away. On a clear day the Moreton Bay islands to the east and the Great Dividing Range mountains to the west can be seen. Mt Cootha is named after the aboriginal word 'ku-ta' meaning honey; they collected wild honey from the area, which was produced by the native stingless bees.
There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.


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Last autumn, my friend Sarah Buell and I worked together to produce "King for a Night." The 8-minute doc reveals a glimpse into the lives of two Vancouver drag kings - women-identified people who like to stuff their pants and perform on stage as men. By following Paige Frewer (Ponyboy) and Kelli Gold (Billi Gold), we bring to light the often misunderstood character of female drag through a rare perspective from the city's queer scene.
Frewer and Gold perform in Man Up, a bi-monthly drag king variety show in Vancouver. The next show takes place on March 26 at 9 p.m. at the Astoria.


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It's been another long time since I've blogged at all. Here's something that I simply cannot ignore. It's a post I shared on Facebook, so anyone following me there will remember reading it. Right now I'm a bit too bogged down to do more than share an experience I wrote about elsewhere. It deals with seminars that are presented by people who do not know their topic–in this case, special education in general and dyslexia in particular. Sadly, out of perhaps 50 or 60 attendees, 2 were "just parents" (who were the intended audience to start with) and the rest were equally diviided between practicing teachers (some of whom I recognized and know they are talented teachers struggling with special needs children in their own classes) and pre-service teachers who are anxious to learn more about dyslexia. Well, you can figure out the rest of the problem. I'm also going to post this on my other blog site to widen the audience. This is really a sad situation that is becoming sadder. If you want to read about any chatter from my Facebook friends related to this, I believe I publically shared my observations; hopefully you can see the responses as well. I'm Dr.EllieM on Facebook, and have a page called EMiller Education Consulting. Feel free to comment here or on the other venues. Right now, I'm not in the States; I'm in the new country of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean. Sint Maarten is the Dutch half of the island; St. Martin is the French half (If you ask a St. Martiner their nationality, you will always get "French.").
Again, this is the start of a whole new phase for me. I will be using the educational system in Sint Maarten as an example of what politics can do to education in a country with a total population of roughly 50,000. And yes, that's tens of thousands.
So… Have to share this: As you know, I have been trying to understand the educational system here on Sint Maarten, specifically special education. I've been volunteering services in what in California would be called a non-public school–a privately run school supported by public education funds. Because of the public funding, the school I am "helping" has to follow all curricular work as set out by the government for fully public schools. Wow, am I learning a lot, but that's not what I want to share. What I want to share sheds some light on why education here is so screwed up.
Last night, my neighbor and I attended (or maybe "visited" is the better word) a seminar on dyslexia in the Caribbean. The event, intended for parents, was populated with teachers and teachers-in-training here on the island. Only 2 parents were in the audience that filled the room so thoroughly that we ended up sitting on a table at the back of the room with several other attendees. (I was execting the tables to collapse at any moment, since there were about 8 of us sitting "Indian style" in two rows, as there was no floor space to stand.) The speaker claims to have taught special education for 20 years, and spent the summer island hopping to become an "expert" in dyslexia. Since schools are shut down during the six-week summer break, and since there were many islands visited, I can only surmise that the expertise was gained primarily from seminars. Deon, my neighbor, has a daughter who was diagnosed with dyslexia, ADHD, and other problems that contributed to her learning difficulties, and–since the special education services on the island are minimal (if you can call some of them services at all)–his children and their mother moved back to South Africa so that the daughter could reap the benefits of a real special education program. So Deon knows quite a bit about dyslexia, learning disabilities and difficulties, ADD/ADHD, etc. OK. That's background info on him, and most of you already know mine. So here's the story–a really sad one, if you ask me.
Within 5 minutes of listening to this dynamic speaker give her schpiel, Deon became very restless and stood up as well as he could next to the table. By then, I was already reviewing my notes on a child I've been observing. But he didn't say anything about leaving, so I just kept organizing notes. Then I thought I misheard an explanation about dyslexic children being unable to translate a photograph into anything more than a two-dimentianal depiction. Since raising my hand to ask a question was impossible, I just blurted out, "Excuse me, I was writing and may have missed something. Are you still talking about dyslexia?" She responded, "Yes, that's how dyslexic children see the world." That was it. I thanked her for her response, apologized again for the interruption, closed my notebook and stuffed it in my purse, told Deon I needed to go out and have a smoke, if I could wade through the sea of seated educators/future educators. Deon said he had no further reason to stay, and would I mind going home? All I could do was feel grateful that I he, too, had had enough.
From almost the first sentence that came out of the speaker's mouth, it was clear that she had no idea what she was talking about–not in her capacity of general special education teacher, and least of all in her "expertise" in dyslexia. In that first 5 minutes, more misinformation was delivered than even Fox News could spew. (Apologies to those who enjoy Fox News; I've spent a lot of time listening to Stewart, Colbert, and Maher critiquing their news items.) Yet, the teachers and pre-service teachers ate up every word, because 1) she was an outstanding and engaging presenter; and 2) the need by island educators for information on any special education is so great that they will lap up anything.
This is how Sint Maarten operates. That a total charlatan can misinform the very people who are responsible for helping children with special needs is an affront to education anywhere in the free world. The school system here–despite many wonderful and caring teachers who are limited in what they can do by a frigging script (!) that must be followed to the letter if the teachers want to continue teaching–scrapped the plan instituted by The Netherlands long before the Sint Maarten gained its independence on 10/10/10, and has yet to publish anything online that addresses policies, by-laws, objectives and goals, or even a solid vision statement. I personally went to an agency the other day to learn what its role is in special education placement, and was told that there is nothing in writing. When I asked for copies of the forms that are used for referral, I was told that each school had been sent 10 copies a year ago, and that I should procure one from them. When I asked how long a referral takes, I was told that REFERRALS ARE ONLY ACCEPTED IN NOVEMBER!!!!! A bit more discussion yielded the information that the department doesn't have any real idea of what services it can actually provide and how decisions are made!!!
The Parliament last week finally passed a balanced budget. Any guesses where the money eventually came from? Had I mentioned previously that the Ministry of Education and Other Stuff could not provide an audit trail for where Dutch funds specifically earmarked for education had gone?
Is there any doubt about why I, even as an outsider, am so frustrated?
Feel free to make up your own mind about education–and specifically special education–in Sint Maarten. As for me, last night I decided that I will very shortly becvome a thorn in the side of this educational system. Time to brush off the old college political activist loafers. For better or worse, Everyone who has anything to do with schools on this island will know my name before I'm either kicked off the island or leave on my own. I am all about education. More, I am all about the education of children, especially those who have special needs–even if the need is merely for a little boost of self confidence.
Sint Maarten Ministry of Education (and other things), you stand warned.


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U.S. prosecutors are seeking testimony from three senior executives of the $15 billion hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York issued subpoenas to SAC's president, chief compliance officer and head of trading, according to the Journal's report.
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The three who received the subpoenas are Thomas Conheeney, SAC's president, Steven Kessler, the chief compliance officer and Phillipp Villhauer, the head of trading, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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I think it would be a good idea to add to another part of the AO forums to have a nNetworking forum that doesn't have to do with security.
Like when people are playing around with network protocols or learning or asking about them they would have a place to go instead of GCC.
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Though no longer in production, the HUMMER H3 is proof positive that good things can come in small packages. Even if you are a HUMMER. Of course, to belong to the HUMMER SUV family, you not only have to look the part, you also have to live up to the off-road 4x4 reputation that the family made famous. And with its fully welded steel frame, 9.7 inches of ground clearance and full undercarriage protection, the H3 does — in spades.
With thousands of possible configurations, accessories for any outdoor activity, plus engineering benchmarks like available front and rear locking differentials, the HUMMER H3T lets you leave it all behind and still take everything you need with you. If you were fortunate enough to get one, then you know — it's simply one of the most capable off-road pickups on the planet.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
As visiting US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped up their evening meeting and met the press in Jerusalem, it was fairly clear where both leader's focus was.
While it is difficult to read too much into these situations, it was unavoidably noticeable that Netanyahu began his address to the press with by passionately stressing Israel's right to defend itself against the Iranian threat.
Netanyahu noted that up until just two generations ago, the Jewish people were disenfranchised and powerless. Now that the Jewish people have rebuilt their ancient state, they will not allow themselves to be subject to such a threat again, the prime minister insisted, even if that means going against the wishes of close friends.
When his turn came, Obama began by once again praising the people of Israel. Both Israeli and American commentators have noted that Obama is conducted a full-on charm offensive so aggressive in nature that it has taken many Israelis by surprise. The thinking is that if Obama can get Israelis to finally like him, then the White House will have much more leverage over Netanyahu when it comes to the peace process.
Obama did also address Iran, and agreed that it must not attain nuclear weapons. However, Obama again asserted that time remains to keep trying diplomatic solutions, and he also let slip his belief that an Iranian nuke is only "potentially" an existential threat to the Jewish state.
During the question and answer time following, Obama did concede that the US would never defer decisions on national security to another nation, and neither does he expect Israel to do so when it comes to Iran.
Both leaders touched on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and both agreed that the solution is two states for two peoples, with both stressing that one of those states is a JEWISH state and homeland.
Obama reiterated that he had not come to apply pressure on either side, nor to announce a new peace initiative, but rather to listen and learn. "I will consider my visit a success if after returning home I can say that I have a better understanding of what is happening on the ground and the positions of the two sides," said Obama.
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To your left is the international symbol for customer service: Smiling, good-looking person with telephone headset.
Now, slap yourself or slam your hand in the car door or whatever it takes, and come back to reality.
When customers say, "I just really like talking to a real person," they're not saying, "Wow, I really like those nice people at XYZ, Inc."
What they're really saying (and some will come right out and say it) is that they like talking to a real person who knows what the heck they're talking about and works with them diligently through resolution of their problem.
It's also helpful when the person treats the customer as if their beef, issue or difficulty is credible and important. Now that you've heard the Spoon's experience, here are some facts:
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As marketers, we must continue to extend the marketing conduit from the top of the value chain-procurement-to the front of the chain-sales and customer service. Marketing is as much customer service's business as customer service is ours. We must demand, even more loudly than our customers, that complaints are handled expeditiously and problems are anticipated. At the same time, marketing must hear the customers voice when sales and customer service raise concerns of their own.
Is it any coincidence that great brands like L.L. Bean, Lexus, Trader Joe's, Starbuck's, Publix, Southwest Airlines, Apple and Chick-Fil-A are perennially found on the lists of customer service champions like this year's BusinessWeek list?
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The European Commission has set dire economic forecasts for Spain until 2014, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, shooting down the targets set out by Madrid and potentially pushing it closer to seeking euro zone aid.
Neither the Commission nor Spain's economy ministry would confirm the report in El Pais but Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a radio interview that 2012 would be his country's worst year, to be followed by improvement.
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He said Spain would return to growth in 2014, the same year forecast by the Commission according to El Pais, which cited a draft document.
The newspaper reported that the Commission forecasts showed 2013 would be at least as bad as 2012. It saw a 1.5 percent decline in Spanish gross domestic product in 2013 in line with consensus but significantly worse than the 0.5 percent contraction expected by the Spanish government.
The Commission is due to officially announce its autumn economic forecasts on Wednesday, covering growth, inflation, debt and deficit projections.
"In 2014, there'll be growth in Spain. The worst year will have been 2012 and next year will be better," Rajoy said during his radio interview.
The Commission also expects the Spanish economy to grow 2014 but its 0.5 percent growth forecast for that year is far below the 1.2 percent growth forecast by the government, El Pais said.
In 2012, the Commission forecasts the Spanish economy to fall by 1.6 percent this year, slightly worse than the 1.5 percent fall in GDP forecast by Spain.
Economy Minister Luis de Guindos has said he believes the Spanish economy will shrink less this year than the government has forecast after better-than-expected contraction in the third quarter.
Rajoy has so far hinted that he can hold off on applying for a financial rescue that would kick-start an ECB bond-buying program and ease financing costs. But the worsening economy may force his hand.
Rajoy reiterated on Tuesday the government was still studying the conditions which would be applied to Spain if it were to request aid, but said the biggest question was whether a bond-buying program would reduce financing costs.
Any request for economic aid would clear the European Central to activate a plan to buy Spanish debt in the secondary market in an effort to lower the premium the Treasury has to pay to issue debt.
"The problem is not just the conditions, but how much would it reduce the premium? If we end up staying around 400 and doesn't drop to 200 ... well the operation doesn't really make any sense," Rajoy said.
The premium investors demand to hold Spanish over German debt stood at around 435 basis points on Tuesday, a long way below highs of over 650 bps before the ECB announced the plan.
After a year of recession, Spain's unemployment rate hit a record high of 25 percent in the third quarter and its manufacturing sector shrank last month for the 18th consecutive month and at its fastest pace since July.
The Commission also has more negative forecasts for the Spanish budget deficit, predicting a deficit of 8 percent of GDP in 2012, 6 percent in 2013 and 5.8 percent in 2014, including bank recapitalization costs.
Spain is forecasting a deficit of 7.3 percent in 2012, 4.5 percent in 2013 and 2.8 percent in 2014.
The Commission's draft does not include the impact of Spain's latest round of tax hikes, El Pais said.
Spain's key service sector shrank for the 16th straight month in October, a survey showed on Tuesday, showing the economy remains in the doldrums going into the fourth quarter after entering recession in late 2011.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The soybean market made another big move up in February and March, providing pricing opportunities for producers at well over $6. While dryness in parts of Brazil provided some momentum for the run-up, it's largely been the result of short coverings by the funds, according to a market analyst.
On the other hand, fundamentally, the market has some problems to work through this year, not the least of which are more than ample supplies coming into the new year.
The world increased soybean production by almost 21 percent in 2004, with most of the increase coming from South America and the United States. World crush grew by only 7 percent during the same time period, according to Alan Brugler, a grain and oilseed analyst, who spoke at the Market Outlook Conference in Memphis. "We can't increase crush fast enough to keep up with growth in production.
"The world has 61.3 tons of soybeans left from last year that nobody wants. That's the largest number we've ever had. We're having to store more beans than we've ever stored before. Somebody has to store it until we use it up. Is it going to be U.S. growers or somebody in Brazil."
U.S. stocks are estimated at 440 million bushels, quite a turnaround from the year before when the United States had the lowest stocks (112 million bushels) since the 1970s. In 2004, low stocks and fear that the United States would run out of soybeans prior to harvest created the highest soybean prices since 1996-97 and triggered an expansion in Brazilian soybean plantings for 2004-05.
"This year, we're back to a very comfortable stocks-to-use ratio, over 16 percent."
A struggling meal market does not bode well for sustaining high soybean prices, according to Brugler. New ethanol plants produce distillers dry grains (DDG), a feed. "I have different estimates of how much DDG you get out of a bushel of corn, but one is that out of 56 pounds in a bushel, we kick 18 pounds of DDG out the back end to a feed lot or a dairy farm. It's not being exported.
"It amounts to 12 million tons of DDG a year. A couple of years ago, we were at 4 million tons of DDG. This has replaced approximately 25 percent of U.S. soybean meal use. USDA says by the year 2006, it will replace a third. This is one reason meal has had trouble rallying, and it's affected the price of beans."
Since 1983-84, the average annual trading range for soybeans has been $2.18 cents a bushel, Brugler noted. Last year was the highest ever, $5.42 — the difference between $10.64 and $5.23. The smallest range was 96 cents in 1985-86.
"If we can establish that $4.98 is the low of the year, we have a very good chance of seeing a dollar rally off that. Part of that may be the shorts buying back the rest of their positions. Part of that may be nervousness about dryness in Brazil. Part of it could be rust. But the rally we've seen the last few weeks is primarily short covering."
Brugler's analysis appeared to be right on the money, although the trading range continues to stretch. By the first of March, futures had rallied to $6.24.
Brugler anticipates that as much as 2 million U.S. acres could shift out of soybeans because of Asian soybean rust concerns.
Human foibles could play an important role in how the disease impacts the United States, noted Brugler. For example, "a part-time farmer in the Midwest may not spend enough time scouting his fields for rust because he has a part-time job in town. Spray effectiveness is another issue. I know an applicator who has eight new rigs, but if he has to spray all his acreage, it could take 11 days. The fungus could really start to hurt you in three or four days."
Even if we did lose yield to Asian soybean rust, Brugler said, the first 250 million bushels lost "don't count. We have 440 million bushels in ending stocks and we only need 200,000 million to 220,000 million. Plus we have a big pile of soybeans in the world. We really need to make about 700 million bushels go away in the world to get the price up.
If U.S. losses exceed 250 million bushels, "we could see a rally that could more than cover spray costs."
Brugler's best guess for soybeans this year is 72.5 million acres planted, an average yield (considering rust damage) of 37.5 bushels and a 2.6 billion bushel crop. "Crush would drop slightly in that environment. Exports, because of the large world supply, are going to be down from where they are this year.
"Carryout under these assumptions would come in at 377 million bushels. With that level of stocks, I have a $4.93 cash average.
"A small trading range of 93 cents could easily get you up into the $5.60 to $5.70 area. If we go with the normal trading range of $2.18, we could have $6.25 beans sometime during the year. The downside risk is $4.50 or less."
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Jermaine Beckford and Paul Konchesky are expected to be fit for Leicester when npower Championship leaders Brighton visit the King Power Stadium.
Striker Beckford, who made his full debut against Barnsley last weekend, and defender Konchesky both limped off late in the 1-1 draw at Oakwell but their problems were not serious.
However, the same cannot be said of Paul Gallacher, who faces up to five weeks on the sidelines after the club confirmed he damaged ankle ligaments in south Yorkshire. He was replaced at half-time by Andy King who, after making an immediate impact by scoring City's equalising goal against the Tykes, could come into the starting line-up.
Fellow midfielder Michael Johnson stepped up his recovery from a sore knee by completing 90 minutes in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Derby on Wednesday afternoon.
Manager Sven-Goran Eriksson also took the opportunity to give some of his first-team squad a run-out in the game, with Matt Oakley, Lloyd Dyer, Lee Peltier, Sean St Ledger and Yuki Abe all featuring in the 3-2 win.
Defender Michael Ball sustained a calf injury in training last week but could return to contention. However, striker David Nugent remains absent with the hamstring injury he suffered against Southampton at the end of last month.
Striker Will Hoskins is available for Brighton as they look to continue their impressive start to the season.
The summer signing from Bristol Rovers has managed just 15 minutes of action so far this season due to a hip injury but is now fit again.
However, with the Seagulls sitting at the top of the table following a flying start to the campaign, boss Gus Poyet admits he might not be able to find room for Hoskins in his squad.
Wednesday night's Carling Cup date with Liverpool, when Poyet can name two extra substitutes, looks a more likely chance for Hoskins to make his comeback.
Poyet has no new injury concerns with just central defenders Adam El-Abd (foot) and Tommy Elphick (Achilles) in the treatment room.
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Hate speech clause in human rights act may be history
February 28, 2012 - 4:30am By PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT
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Marc Lemire leaves a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing into a complaint against him in Oakville, Ont., in 2008. The Toronto resident argued that rights legislation aimed at preventing the spread of hate on the Internet gags free speech and is unconstitutional. (COLIN PERKEL / CP / File)
To protect freedom of expression in Canada, sometimes you need a majority government in Ottawa.
That's the moral of the story of a Conservative backbencher's private member's bill — which has now cleared second reading in the House of Commons and gone to committee — seeking to repeal Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Let's recall the exact wording of that infamous clause. Hate messages, according to Section 13 (1), are communications "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination."
In other words, if I were to write something critical about Islam, for example, and someone reading my column felt it "likely" that my words could provoke "contempt" towards Muslims, they could lodge a complaint against me with one of Canada's government-created human rights commissions.
Truth would not be a defence. Neither would my intent. And the person complaining wouldn't even have to be a Muslim.
That's because, on top of the appallingly loose wording of this section of federal human rights law — a clause echoed in its provincial counterparts — any complaints are adjudicated by government-appointed tribunals, where the standard protections afforded any accused in a court of law don't necessarily apply.
When complainants' cases go forward, taxpayers pick up the tab. Meanwhile, those accused must pay to defend themselves out of their own pockets.
It's a system ripe for abuse. And that's exactly what has happened. We've seen comics fined for insulting hecklers (B.C. human rights tribunal), former publishers spend $100,000 in legal fees over three years to defend themselves for printing "offensive" cartoons (Alberta human rights commission), and Maclean's magazine investigated by three human rights bodies (federal, Ontario and B.C.) for running an article on Muslim demographics in Europe.
The Conservatives have long opposed Section 13, but didn't feel they had the support they needed from the other parties, as a minority government, to push the issue legislatively.
They also were concerned, with good reason, that some opponents might twist the issue for political advantage, slamming the Tories for being soft on hate.
Yes, Bill C-304, which aims to repeal Sections 13 and 54 (dealing with penalties under S.13), was put forward by Alberta MP Brian Storseth (Westlock-St. Paul) and is a private member's bill, but the legislation has the justice minister's endorsement. So there's a good chance the bill will be back in the Commons this spring for final reading, then on to the Senate and, hopefully, passage and royal assent.
The bill, if made law, would take effect a year after receiving royal assent.
It's worth noting that in 2008, Richard Moon, a constitutional expert hired by the Canadian Human Rights Commission to review Section 13, recommended that the clause be repealed, a suggestion the federal body not surprisingly ignored.
Some critics say abolishing hate speech provisions in the human rights act would mean prosecutions could in future only come under the Criminal Code, placing a greater burden of proof on complainants.
But what they term a bug, as the saying goes, I'd call a feature. One of the biggest problems has been the abuse of the current system by complainants who bear none of the financial costs and human rights bodies all too eager to spend years processing accusations that — using common sense — clearly lack merit.
Other critics say not everyone has the funds to go to court. But in a criminal hate speech case, it's the Crown's case — and the Crown's dime. All too often, under the current system, it's the accused who don't have the money to defend themselves or fight tribunal rulings.
Freedom of expression is too precious — and too fundamental in upholding all other rights — to allow what is a democratic cornerstone to be undermined by an intrinsically flawed system based on political correctness and hurt feelings.
Abolish Section 13.
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Fresh air, peace and tranquillity. That's what is on offer in the small hamlet of Witta. Witta, once known as Teutoburgh in the 1880s, was first settled by German immigrants. The name Teutoburgh came from a nearby German mission. Witta offers the chance to stroll the few streets that make up the little village and take in some fresh air or perhaps drop into the general store. By the way, the general store is also the only store in town. Nonetheless it is a fine place to start to explore a town that has more on offer than it might first seem.
Although the general store is a modern building, the owner, George Soady, says there was once an older store on that site. Further down the road from the store is the original Witta School. The Witta School is now a community facility with toilets, shady areas and picnic tables. Across the way from the school, the Witta Recreational Club has a children's playground and a large playing field.
But Witta's best-kept secrets are twofold. Just across the road from the store is what the locals boast is the best view of the head of the Mary Valley that gives rise to the Mary River. The second secret is historical - the old Witta Cemetery.
A walk around Witta Cemetery proffers a snapshot of the early settlers. Scattered across the cemetery are the names of the first German families who settled at Witta. Curiously, pictures or symbols accompany many of the inscriptions on the gravestones. The symbols indicate the interests of the deceased like musical notes, piano, horserider, fisherman and sailing ships. Then there are epitaphs like 'It's not the first game that counts, it's the last one.'
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Asthma is a chronic inflammation of the bronchi characterized by recurrent breathing problems. During the normal breath, the air goes in and out freely from the lungs. But during an asthma attack, the lining of the airways thickens, the muscles around the airways tighten and mucus clogs the tiny airways in the lungs, making breathing difficult. The airways become hypersensitive to environmental changes, causing wheezing and coughing. Asthma symptoms vary from hour to hour, day by day, week by week and month. Often worse at night and early morning hours. The severity of asthma varies from individual to individual. Some patients have occasional symptoms (for example, after strenuous exercise), others have symptoms that interfere with their daily lives, others have asthma so severe that virtually prevents them from normal school activities or work.
People with asthma have airways that are contracted much more easily than non-asthmatics and are generally allergic to inhaled allergens. The causes of the abnormality of the airway and the relationship between this abnormality and the development of allergies are not known. A variety of factors can cause an asthma attack, including viral infections, exposure to allergens (eg. dust mites, protein particles secreted by cats and dogs, pollen), exercise, smoking; air pollution, strong emotions, chemical irritants, medications (aspirin and beta-blockers). Each person with asthma reacts to a different set of factors. The identification of these factors in an individual is first and foremost step towards the understanding and control of an asthma attack. Many researchers are investigating the role of genetic factors in the onset of asthma.
The World Health Organization has estimated that worldwide there are between 100 and 150 million people with asthma, and this number is growing. Worldwide, deaths due to asthma have reached 180,000 cases per year. Asthma is a public health problem both in developed countries than in developing countries. It occurs in all age groups and in all ethnic groups. However, often begins in childhood. Asthma is certainly the most common cause of school absences.
The rapid rise in asthma cases worldwide is one of the greatest mysteries of modern medicine. The most striking increase has been in Australia, where about a quarter of children are diagnosed as asthmatic. In the U.S., the number of people with asthma has more than doubled to 17.3 million estimate of asthma in 1998 compared with 6.7 million in 1980. The research into the causes has focused on factors such as allergens in environment and viral infections in infants and children. Ten years ago, scientists thought that diesel exhaust and other pollutants might be causing the asthma epidemic. However, they now believe that the picture is more complex. In addition to investigating the role of genetic factors in the development of asthma, researchers now are focusing on the immune system in early life.
The information needed for a diagnosis of asthma are provided by a careful medical history, physical examination and the patient's pulmonary function tests. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and cough particularly at night and worse in the early hours of the morning. Symptoms occur or are exacerbated in the presence of exercise, allergens, irritants and viral infections. Young children, whose symptoms are mainly the presence of a cough or shortness of breath in the course of a respiratory infection, are often incorrectly diagnosed, and classified as bronchitis or pneumonia patients (including ARI, acute respiratory infection ), then, are treated inadequately with antibiotics or cough suppressants. Smokers and the elderly frequently suffer from COPD, Bronchial Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, whose symptoms are similar to asthma. Sometimes asthma can be effectively and therefore benefit from drug treatment.
The pulmonary function tests are useful both for diagnosis and monitoring of asthma over time. These tests include spirometry, which provides a framework on the restriction of breathing capacity, and peak flow, to measure the maximum speed at which air escapes from the lungs. Spirometry is generally carried out in specialist clinics. On the other hand, the flow meters (peak flow meters) are portable, plastic and ideal for use both at home and at work, therefore, provide the majority of patients and physicians an effective method to evaluate response to therapy and detect the early stages of deterioration of asthma.
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If you've followed his nine-year pro career beyond DeLaSalle High School and Michigan State and if you've paid attention to the Brooklyn Nets' 3-9 start this season, you'd know Alan Anderson has been on many paying teams like this before.
And yet he has never been on a team like this before.
The Minneapolis native is 31 and has toted his bags from Charlotte to Italy, Russia, Croatia, Israel, Albuquerque, Spain and then back again to the NBA with Toronto and now the Nets. But even given a lousy November he never expected, Anderson sometimes still has to look around his team's Barclays Center locker room and tell himself it's all real.
To his left are the lockers for future Hall of Famers Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce as well as All-Star point guard Deron Williams. To his right are those for Joe Johnson, Jason Terry and Brook Lopez. His coach is Jason Kidd, a 10-time All-Star himself but a first-timer now on the sidelines.
Despite his team's current lousy start, he said last week he still believes the Nets' championship aspirations are legitimate.
"At first it was like, 'Wow, am I really on this team?' " he said before a home game against Portland last week. "You know I mean? I won't realize it more until after everything settles in. We're all together. We all get along so well. We all have a good time. This is easy right now."
Except November has been anything but easy for a team that carried so many preseason expectations and owns a $190 million tab for player payroll and luxury tax penalties.
The Nets have been injured. Starters Williams and Lopez as well as Terry and Andrei Kirilenko all missed Friday's game against the Timberwolves at Target Center, and time is ticking on them: Seven players are in their 30s, including Garnett at 37 and Pierce at 36.
Anderson said he has been waiting his entire career for a chance like this.
"You just look around," Anderson said. "It's really what I always imagined. This is what I worked so hard to get to, a team that has the pieces to contend. Things aren't going our way right now, but it's a long season. We know what we can be."
The Timberwolves called last summer when he was a free agent, but Anderson said the Nets showed "big interest" from the moment his Raptors contract expired until they signed him up after making all their other important summertime moves.
"We had conversations," Anderson said about talks with the Wolves. "I guess it wasn't too serious, huh?"
By signing with the Nets, Anderson renewed his long-standing friendship with Garnett, the former Wolves star whose summer camps Anderson attended as a teenager long ago.
Anderson always followed his hometown team — "Definitely, Pooh Richardson, Doug West, those guys," he said — since the Wolves entered the NBA when he was 7 years old. But after Garnett came to town when Anderson was 13, everything changed.
"I've known him for a long time, watched him when I was growing up, since he got there," Anderson said. "When he had camps, I attended them. We just became close. We formed a relationship, exchanged numbers and everything. He was a big mentor of mine then. He showed me the kind of person I could be. I never really dreamed I'd be on the same team with him someday."
Opposites attract
Timberwolves star Kevin Love and the Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin play the same position, average 20-something points and double-digit rebounds each and are nearly as equally important for their respective teams. But that's where the comparisons end for the two power forwards, at least if you're looking through Clippers coach Doc Rivers' eyes.
"I'm glad I'm not guarding either one," Rivers said. "That's the way I look at it. It's amazing how often they're compared and how different they are. And you couldn't have two more different players. When you look at just numbers, they look the same. But they're completely different players, both terrific in their own right."
One man's take
With a season away as perspective, Brooklyn forward Andrei Kirilenko on former Wolves teammate Ricky Rubio: "I've been lucky over my career to play with great point guards, starting with John Stockton, then Deron [former Utah and now current Nets teammate Deron Williams] and Ricky, those guys who really see the floor. He's not necessarily a great shooter or great scorer, but he's probably one of the best, let's say, engine for the team. He's very energetic, very active. He's always there to intercept the ball, getting the ball, jumping to the fast break and just igniting the team."
Parting words
TNT analyst Charles Barkley has long said Griffin needs to get tougher and expand his game if the Clippers intend to go anywhere in the playoffs.
During Thursday's loss at Oklahoma City, Griffin looked over and glared at Barkley — who was sitting courtside doing game commentary that night — whenever he made a jumper.
Barkley's crusade continues, however: "Blake is a very good player," he said during Thursday's telecast. "But before he can become a great player, he has to develop a low-post game."
The Wolves' week ahead
Monday: at Indiana, 6 p.m. (FSN)
Wednesday: vs. Denver, 7 p.m. (FSN+)
Saturday: at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. (FSN)
Player to watch:
Paul George, Indiana
Just forget the Wolves drafted Wes Johnson six slots ahead of him in 2010 and enjoy a superstar blossoming before your eyes at both ends of the court for the league's best team so far this season.
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Wolves coach Rick Adelman, explaining why former No. 2 overall pick Derrick Williams mostly sits on the bench because Adelman is "just playing the people I think can win games."


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Metacognition, Math, and the Brain
If our students are up to the challenge, it's important we give them a chance to work on very hard problems. If they aren't getting anything wrong, then they're probably not getting any workouts to their metacognitive network. It's not just students, of course. If you're not making and analyzing you're mistakes, then maybe you're coasting too much on cognitive auto-pilot.
The metacognitive regions included sites like the superior prefrontal gyrus, angular gyrus, and frontopolar regions.
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Just wondering: in a previous post you discussed how some learners learn best from exceptions. You also mentioned that the medial temporal lobes are activated when learning from exceptions occurs.ReplyDelete
These seem to be different than the parts of the brain activated in this study. Could it be that math is a specific instance that differs? What are your thoughts on that?
If you're not making and analyzing you're mistakes, then maybe you're coasting too much on cognitive auto-pilot. IRONY: You're not noticing or analyzing your mistakes.ReplyDelete


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Gardening in the 'Hood is like gardening elsewhere…except for one additional chore.
If you live in the 'Hood, you need to perform a daily check of your gardens for trash left by what I will call the "party people."
They arrive during the afternoon or late evening…engines & mufflers announcing their arrival…
They park, have a quick meal, and throw their trash on the sidewalk or in your garden…
Afterwards, they may quench their thirst with a libation or two…or three…
Some may engage in additional activities…
Each morning you should carefully check on the detritus left by your visitors! The debris field can be quite extensive at times. It is recommended that you use a trash pickup stick for this purpose. Latex gloves are also a good idea!
Fortunately, most of the trash is disposed of in quick order:
- The empty beer and liquor bottles obviously go in the Recycle Can
- Paper and food wrappers likewise go into the Recycle Can
However, the disposal of used condoms and syringes is another matter altogether. Technically they are bio waste and should be disposed of accordingly. Blue Can or Gray Can?? I can't decide. Perhaps, the garbage company will provide Sharps containers and biowaste cans that we can strap to our trees…with signs>>"Used Condoms" and "Used Needles"
- To reduce the risk of fire from the many discarded cigarettes keep dead vegetation and leaves under control.
- To reduce your risk of getting a needle stick from the discarded syringes, use a pickup stick.
In addition, it is advisable to wear heavy gloves while pruning in case you encounter a discarded syringe in a hedge or bush. You don't want to get a needle stick forcing you to get tested for all kinds of nasty diseases.
Happy Petaluma Gardening!!
P.S. Perhaps the Petaluma Garden Club has additional suggestions!!
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Construction Careers Center (CCC) recognize the value of establishing a collaborative relationship to foster safer and more healthful workplaces. OSHA and the CCC hereby form an Alliance to provide CCC students, faculty and others in the construction industry with information, guidance and access to training resources that will help them to increase employees awareness of safety and health issues particularly in reducing and preventing exposure to electrical, fall, struck-by, and crushed-by hazards.
OSHA and the CCC will work together to achieve the following training and education goal:
An implementation team made up of representatives of both organizations will meet to develop a plan of action, determine working procedures, and identify the roles and responsibilities of the participants. In addition, the implementation team will meet at least quarterly to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance. Team members will include representatives of OSHAs St. Louis Area Office, and the Executive Directors and President of the Construction Careers Center. OSHA-SLAO will afford the opportunity for representatives of the State of Missouri 21(d) consultation program to participate as well.
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Galerie m is kicking off this year's exhibition program with an unusual installation: in the so-called "Feature Room" with its less than 5 square meters of space, twenty-four photographs by Dirk Reinartz (b. 1947 Aachen, d. 2004 Berlin) are on view. Under the common theme "Deutschlandbilder" ("Images of Germany"), works from seven different series have been brought together here, ranging from early shots of Hamburg's trendy St. Georg neighborhood (1981) to color photographs from the series "Innere Angelegenheiten" (Internal Affairs), which spans the years 1989 to 2002.
Dirk Reinartz, who studied with Otto Steinert at the Folkwang School in Essen, made a name for himself with photo reports for Stern and ZEIT magazines in the 1970s and 80s. In these, and also in freelance works produced during his travels through Germany, he engaged intensively and tirelessly with his home country, always on a quest to uncover the true nature and self-image of its inhabitants. His photographs reflect the issues of the day and their impact on specific areas, such as Germany's division into West and East or the closure of the steelworks in Rheinhausen.
But Reinartz also frequently photographed places and details that can be seen in their singularity as "typically German" – sometimes exposing their contradictions in humorous fashion. Starting in 1985, several books of Reinartz's photographs were published, including "Kein schöner Land," "Deutschland durch die Bank / Benchmarking in Germany" and "Innere Angelegenheiten."
The current exhibition at Galerie m juxtaposes photos from various series to trace common themes and motifs that Reinartz continually revisited throughout his career. The installation of pictures densely arranged on the wall thus becomes a kaleidoscope, continually suggesting new connections and angles while coaxing the viewer to delve ever deeper into the photographer's work.
Hamburg: St. Georg, 1981
Kein schöner Land, 1989
Besonderes Kennzeichen: Deutsch, 1990
Deutschland durch die Bank, 1998
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April 18, 2012
For the third year in a row, PwC ranked as the most prestigious accounting firm in Vault's annual Accounting Survey. This year, more than 4,100 accountants took our survey, and what respondents at PwC's competitors told us is that PwC's employees "have superb credentials, receive outstanding training and experience," and the firm's "client list includes the major players."
Although PwC just barely beat out second-place finisher Ernst & Young (which has "quality people," puts out "quality work," and has a "super client base") and Deloitte (which is "high-powered" and "technologically-advanced" and has a "great reputation worldwide"), PwC's third time in as many years on top of the ranking solidifies it as the place to work in the accounting industry when it comes to prestige.
As for what PwC insiders think of their very prestigious firm, many staff members agree that "the sheer amount of hours worked and associated stress are the worst aspects of working at PwC." But most also agree that they very much appreciate working alongside "extremely bright," "intelligent," "fun," and "capable" people. And they appreciate the "excellent advancement and training opportunities" and "networking opportunities you get at many large, reputable companies" (that is, at PwC's big-name clients).
Indeed, PwC is a "well known name that provides the necessary building blocks to a good career," and "you'll learn quite a bit your first year, and gain exposure and get to interact with high-level executives." As one PwC staff member explains, "Electing public accounting as a career path means that you're electing a career of client service, and with that comes tremendous responsibility and periods of long hours. However, at PwC, you'll receive the best entry-level education to accounting and finance, and you'll be a head and shoulders above your peers in professional development just a couple years down the road."
And, of course, when asked what's the best part about working for PwC, many insiders also cite "prestige" and "brand-name recognition." As one insider says, "The best part of my job is putting PwC on my resume."
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