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A year and a half ago, David Collins was trying to move from contracting work to a full-time position in IT. With rampant downsizing and a flood of new graduates, the job market was looking bleak in central Ohio, where he lives. "I knew of candidates with 20 years of experience and master's degrees who were taking entry-level positions just to get back into the industry," he says.
Today, Collins is an IT infrastructure manager at Residential Finance, a national mortgage lender in Columbus, and IT looks to him like a more solid profession.
Read the full report: Computerworld IT Salary Survey 2013
"We've certainly seen a market shift," he says. "There are more offers, and candidates can be more selective." Collins notes that he has "great" benefits, and since he was hired 18 months ago, his salary has increased and his company's IT staff has tripled in size (from seven to 21 employees) to keep up with business growth.
Optimism is growing among IT workers, according to the results of the 2013 Computerworld Salary Survey. The 4,251 technology professionals who participated in this year's survey seem to be feeling better -- not just about IT as a profession but also about the improving economy and the resulting improvement in job prospects.
As was the case last year, only a minority of survey respondents said a career path in IT and the potential for salary advancement are as promising now as they were five years ago. But optimism is on the rise: 38% of this year's respondents said they felt that way, up from 29% last year.
And while IT workers have wondered whether they would ever recover from the years of salary cuts, the percentage of 2013 respondents who said they gained ground financially in the past two years was slightly higher than it was in 2012 (33%, up from 29% last year), and the percentage of those who said they lost ground dropped (28%, down from 32%).
Another indicator of increased confidence: The percentage of respondents mentioning the economy as a challenge for IT workers continued to tail off, falling to 17% this year from 19% last year and 28% in 2011. "I don't know whether we'll ever see the [salaries] we saw during the dot-com boom, but depending on your skill set, I certainly think salaries are pretty comparable to before the big downturn," Collins says.
Money's up, jobs are back
The optimism may be partly due to a three-year streak of modest pay increases. Respondents to the 2013 survey reported that their salaries rose an average of 2.3%, which is slightly better than last year's average increase of 2.1% and 2011's more modest 1.5% uptick. Meanwhile, average bonuses across all job titles rose only 0.9% this year, but that too is an improvement over 2012, when bonuses decreased by an average of 1.1%.
Some job titles showed better-than-average gains. To cite just two examples, total compensation (salary plus bonus) rose 3.9% for business intelligence analysts and 3.6% for software engineers.
Overall, more than half (57%) of this year's respondents reported receiving a raise, compared with 47% last year.
All that reflects what recruiters are seeing in the marketplace. Matthew Ripaldi, senior vice president at IT staffing firm Modis, reports salary hikes of about 5% for both permanent and contract positions, and even higher bumps -- into the double digits -- for developers and software engineers. "We're seeing validation of this every single day, in all of our branches and across industries," he says.
The positive vibe could also be the result of ongoing reductions in negatives: This year's survey showed that budget cuts, hiring freezes, layoffs, training cuts and cancelled projects continued to tail off, after a more dramatic decline in 2012.
Perhaps the biggest driver of the new optimism is an increased demand for IT professionals in what recruiters are calling an employee's job market. The Association for Computing Machinery, for example, projects that the number of new computing jobs will increase by 150,000 per year for the next eight years. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate among U.S. IT workers was significantly lower than the overall unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2012 -- 3.3% versus 7.8% -- according to technology job board Dice.com.
That robust demand likely explains the precipitous decline -- from 36% in 2012 to 27% this year -- in the percentage of survey respondents who cited a poor job market as their reason for not seeking new employment.
"If you look at time-to-fill ratios, we're seeing an increased sense of urgency among hiring managers," Ripaldi says. "If we have a candidate interview at 10 a.m. and the manager doesn't call back by 4 p.m., there's a good chance [the candidate] will have already left for another opportunity." Ripaldi is also seeing employers work harder to secure talent, offering perks such as flexible hours and the opportunity to work from home.
Greener pastures
Samuel Satyanathan has benefited from the increasingly generous offers. He recently accepted a new position as senior solutions architect at a large telecommunications company. He was generally happy with his former employer, a financial services company, but was open to the right opportunity, he says.
The offer Satyanathan accepted was "appealing in every way, in terms of career growth and compensation package," he says. "But the important part was really getting to be part of something where I get to do more and possibly grow more." It also helped, he says, that the new company was very flexible about the timing of the transition, allowing him to collect a promised bonus from his former employer before starting in his new job.
During his time in the job market, Satyanathan says he observed a higher demand for and lower supply of IT professionals, and salary offers that were roughly 10% higher than job hunters' current salaries. Demand seems particularly high for people with expertise in iOS and Android development, Java, J2EE, application/enterprise architecture and agile development, he says.
Maurice Jenkins, director of information systems and telecommunications at the Miami Dade County Aviation Department, says salaries have suffered in his organization because of government spending cuts. With IT compensation improving in the private sector over the last year or so, he has seen 5% attrition among his staff as higher salaries are offered to people with in-demand qualifications such as Cisco networking certifications, Oracle development experience and expertise in forensics, firewalls and other enterprise security specialties, Jenkins says.
In addition to offering higher salaries, companies are wooing employees with quality-of-life perks like telecommuting, Ripaldi says. And in some instances they're offering better health insurance and other benefits, which had taken a hit in recent years.
Last year, Satyanathan declined to accept a position that delayed health insurance benefits for three months after the new hire's start date. "The hiring manager mentioned that the delay in the start of benefits was a sticking point for a lot of candidates," he relates, adding that a recent ad for a similar job at the same company stated that benefits would start on day one.
Workload pressures continue
If salaries and demand are up, so too is the pressure to perform. As they have for several years, survey respondents reported a disconnect between compensation and workload. Among those who said they felt more pressure over the past year to increase productivity (68%) or take on new tasks (75%), only 12% reported that their salaries had been adjusted to reflect the added workload.
In some cases, technological developments that were supposed to make IT's life easier are at least partly to blame. "Virtualization was supposed to make everything easier, right? Wrong," says George Theochares, IT director at Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy, a law firm in Boston. "They just expect more out of you. Where I used to maintain a dozen machines, I'm now managing 50 or 60 [virtual servers]." And as reliance on technology increases, business users' expectations are higher than ever. "In the past, if we were down a few hours or even a day, people didn't panic, but that's not the case anymore," Theochares says.
The consumerization of IT is also increasing pressure on tech professionals -- without an accompanying increase in pay. "In the last three years, it's become harder to keep up," says Eric Shaver, senior vice president of IT at The Plateau Group, an insurance holding company in Crossville, Tenn., that specializes in credit insurance and other loan-related products for financial institutions.
More pay, more pressure
Workload woes persist
Despite a growing optimism that the IT profession is a promising place to be, tech workers still see room for improvement, particularly in the correlation between salaries and workloads. In the 2013 Computerworld Salary Survey, only 23% of the respondents said that their salaries are keeping pace with business growth and demands.
Asked whether they think they are paid fairly, slightly more than half (51%) said they are underpaid based on their role and responsibility, and 85% reported pressure to increase productivity or take on new tasks.
George Theochares, IT director at Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy, says "compensation has not kept up, and working conditions have remained the same, with long hours and unrealistic expectations." Theochares has not had a raise in three years, and his bonuses have decreased. But he still believes that an IT career can be promising -- if techies continually hone their skills and keep an eye out for new opportunities.
Samuel Satyanathan -- who recently accepted a new position at a telecommunications company -- observes, "the best way for me to get a raise was to accept a new job." At his previous employer, he felt slightly underpaid for his experience level compared with his peers at other organizations, and he found it difficult to move up over time. Annual raises were averaging 3% or less, he says, whereas job offers posted on the open market listed salaries that were 10% higher than what he was making.
Eric Shaver, senior vice president of IT at The Plateau Group, says salaries seem to be stable but working conditions continue to worsen as companies to try to do more with less. "I think companies want to compensate better, but sometimes they can't," he says. "As I've moved up the ladder, the pressure to deliver while the business grows is very heavy." Shaver hopes things will change, but so far, he says, "I don't see the compensation matching the increased pressures at this point."
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Shaver's company is growing quickly. Its accounts have tripled and its revenue has grown from $43 million in revenue to $88 million in two years, as it has expanded into 48 states from just eight. Although Shaver has been able to expand his IT staff, and hopes to add more employees this year, "it's been tight because of the additional areas we have to cover," he says.
Salaries at Shaver's organization have increased 3% in the past year, and benefits have improved, thanks to changes in healthcare options. However, "overall compensation is lower than we'd like to see," he says. "It's not as competitive as we'd like it to be, and it's something we're working on."
High output highly valued
The pressure to operate at highly productive levels isn't likely to let up anytime soon, according to Ripaldi, as employers continue to seek IT professionals with multiple skill sets to squeeze as much as they can out of their investments in labor. "Sometimes that's a challenge for workers because it's really two positions in one," he says. "The hiring manager might only have one position available but is trying to fill two voids, so he's looking for a senior-level person who can wear multiple hats."
Shaver agrees that the opportunities today are geared toward "anyone who isn't trying to be a one-trick pony." IT professionals, he says, "need to expand their portfolio of skills to survive. There's more and more coming at us."
The uptick in hiring won't result in IT professionals working fewer hours, says Ripaldi. Instead, it will lead to more people generating higher levels of output than a year ago. "There is a lot of productivity out there, and that isn't going to change," he says.
Those higher levels of output may be one reason why IT professionals like Satyanathan see growing appreciation for the value of IT. After years of outsourcing and depleting its internal technical talent, his former employer has begun hiring back more on-site IT staffers, he says. "There is also an emphasis on streamlining the hiring process for people in technical roles and giving more options for these types of tracks to grow up the ladder within the organization," he says.
The Plateau Group's Shaver also sees change on the horizon. "Our company has had to spend to grow, and unfortunately, little of that has been in salary increases," he says. "But I'm hopeful that as things settle down with the growth phase that salaries will begin to match the growth of the business."
Even without a salary increase, Jenkins, of Miami Dade Aviation, has his own reasons for staying where he is, not the least of which is his belief in the future of IT, both in general and in aviation in particular. "There's a new mission every day, whether it's security, financials or new airlines coming on board needing new technology," he says. "Airports are an economic engine that needs to be fed, fine-tuned and maintained."
Beyond that, Jenkins sees the IT profession as central to the infusion of technology that's touching every aspect of life, in the home and in the workplace. IT, he says, "is a great place to be right now."
This story, "IT gets its groove back" was originally published by Computerworld.


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If there were Londoners who wanted to escape the tensions of their city in recent weeks they might have been well advised to go northwards to the now peaceful lands of their ancient enemies, once the terrorists of their day.
When the Vikings marauded the British Isles – and as far East as Constantinople - during their three hundred years of pillaging, they left little record of their thoughts or motivation. Not much remains of their writing apart from occasional runes inscribe on standing stones and formulaic phrases, about as articulate as the televised interviews with the London child-looters. But eventually the Vikings settled down and became Sicilians or Normans who let England and France domesticate them.
Scandinavia might have seemed to have spent the ferocious energy of its past until the deranged rampage of Anders Breivik in Oslo reminded us that still waters run deep. Calm surfaces can hide a volcanic pain of repression. When the inner tension snaps, the fallout is destructive, indiscriminate. In Oslo I saw life 'returning to normal' but after a crisis we never really go back to the same normality. It was, anyway, just heart-wrenching to see the photos accompanying the names of the mostly young victims read out during the national memorial service a month after the atrocities. Waste is always shameful; but the deliberate wasting of young life cries to heaven like a Greek tragedy, even as the cry returns to earth with an untranslatable silence.
These beautiful, unpolluted northern lands greet their visitors with an intriguing quietness. Even their airports and shopping areas are serene compared with the neurotic chaos of Heathrow. But there are different kinds of silence: the silence of those who cannot find words to express their thoughts and feelings, perhaps because nobody ever took time to show them how; or the silence of nature wearing its different coats of weather, showers speaking to sunny spells; the silence of a group of meditators on retreat outside the grieving city. We went to a tiny village dominated by two unnecessarily large 12th century churches, (the Granavollen Sosterkirkene) that stand beside each other, uncommunicatively, in a common graveyard.
The story offering the more interesting explanation is that they were built by two sisters who had fallen out and refused ever to pray together again in the same church. Their curiosity today attracts wedding parties and tourists. How soberly long stretches of time make our once extreme emotion seem exaggerated and silly. On the Saturday night we celebrated mass in one of the churches, hoping that the shade of the sister who built the other would not be jealous. Afterwards, still wearing my habit, I walked some way down the road in the softly luminous dusk. As I took photos of the red-streaked sky a car with a group of drunken revelers skidded into the driveway of a nearby house. By the way they got out of the car to continue their party I sensed I had attracted their attention and felt a little anxious when I heard footsteps approach me from behind.
A young Viking in a t-shirt and jeans, holding a bottle of booze and trying to stand up straight began to tell me, or to try to, the load of guilt he was carrying. The alcohol that was inducing him to unburden himself was also, however, preventing his fluency. But some communication took place, perhaps, and I hoped he felt he had made his confession as he stumbled away with a drunk's solemn, sentimental gratitude for any close companionship, however brief. There was a little light pink left in the sky.
From what unshareable loneliness had his cry emerged, both so desperately and so comically? And who was there to blame for it? Surely there must always be someone to blame for the guilt that the guilt-ridden have to carry, the parents for a mass murderer, the economic climate for looters, migration patterns for piracy. If there is no one or nothing to blame how can the loneliness of history's unanswered questions be bearable? A stubborn silence relentlessly responds to all these groping questions; but they survive as the questions people have always asked and begged for answers to and that they have built churches to house.
Only an even more than Nordic silence points forward. Not a silence that is an absence of words but the silence that is beyond words. Beneath all the history and the tattered records of our ill deeds an unspoilable innocence somewhere and somehow resides, as hard to reach but as full of promise as the fresh oil fields that they say have newly been discovered under the cold Norwegian waters.
Laurence Freeman OSB
The World Community for Christian Meditation, of which Laurence Freeman OSB is director, has recently opened a new outreach program – "Meditatio" (www.wccmmeditatio.org)


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How much does the class cost?
The Basic Clicker Course is $175 if cash or check, $185 if debit, PayPal or credit. You may bring a cash or a check with you to the first class. If it is you wish to pay with debit, credit or paypal, please let us know and we will invoice you so you can pay by the start of class.
Why does the ticket price above indicate that it's free?
We're leveraging many of the cool features of Eventbrite. But, not their fee collection one. Why? 'Cause they charge for that. And, we're trying to keep your costs down by keeping our costs down.
How often & when will we meet?
We will meet Sundays from February 23rd, 2020 through April 5th, 2020 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm at the Pet Supplies Plus in the Kroger Complex off Alps Road & Baxter Street. NOTE: No dogs week 1.
Things to Bring:
- Your dog's shot records.
- The signed liability form (we will provide them at class).
- The registration form (unless you filled it out online)
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Build your dog's confidence and self-control in this class.
This class will explore the basics of training a family dog positively and effectively. Sit, Stand, Down, Coming When Called, Polite Leash Walking, Stay, Canine Communication & Body Language and much, much more is covered.


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It's just the first game, and a win's a win, but I'm not going to do any victory dances when we give up 100 points to Puerto Rico, either. Team USA did win by a score of 111-100, but they never really pulled away, they never dominated for a stretch longer than a couple of minutes, and they never really showed that they can put the clamps down defensively.
Team USA looked a little bit like a one-trick pony last night. When they're forcing steals and getting into transition, they look great. But their halfcourt offense and their halfcourt defense both look pretty shaky. High screen-and-rolls kills them, dribble penetration kills them, and there's almost no flow to the offense when they're forced to slow things down. When they play a team with experienced guards that won't turn the ball over, they're going to have to be a lot better than they were tonight.
Of course, the upside is that the 10-point margin of victory leaves Chris Sheridan plenty of room to continue with the Gloomy Gus routine. To be fair, he's absolutely right about much of what he's written, but he's been about as bright and cheerful about Team USA's chances as a Sylvia Plath novel. At this point, he almost has to be rooting for them to lose, because if they do happen to get on a roll and romp through the tournament, he's going to look like a doofus. But check out #9 from his list of ten reasons that Team USA won't win the gold, from ESPN Insider:
9. The smell factor. This is a little disgusting, but it's true: Some of these teams stink, literally. Players on international teams travel to and from the arenas in their uniforms, and many players forsake showers as a result. I got a really close look at Argentina during the Worlds in Indianapolis, and I do not believe Fabricio Oberto, Luis Scola or Andres Nocioni bathed during the entire tournament. BO may be repulsive, but it also keeps defenders a few extra inches away.
We'll have to get Chris Bosh to confirm it for us, but yeah, Peter John Ramos looks pretty stank.
U.S. shows up late to World party, survives Puerto Rico [ESPN.com]


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Shop owner hit by sock thief says theft is a daily issue
A HERVEY Bay business owner suffered numerous blows to the head after she called out a teenage girl for allegedly stealing socks.
An incident of a theft at Sportfirst in Hervey Bay isn't out of the ordinary and the owner said the shop was targeted by thieves on a daily basis.
"Shoplifting has been a big problem over the five years that I have been here, and ha gotten worse in the past 12 months," the owner said.
In Monday's incident, a 16-year-old female was exiting the store at about 11am with a baby in a pram when a shop alarm went off.
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The shop's employees went over to question her.
The teenager then allegedly punched the 36-year-old shop owner in the face, and kneed her in the forehead.
The teenager was held down by the owner, another shop employee and a customer before police arrived.
The teenager is charged with stealing, assault occasioning bodily harm and public nuisance.
The branded socks that were subject of police charges are valued at $30.
The Sportfirst owner said the socks were in line with the usual objects that are stolen from the shop's shelves.
"Branded and easily re-sellagle items are most popular," the owner said.
"A lot of the thieves are juveniles, so there isn't too much the police can do."
The store's staff have been put on alert from the influx in crimes.
Hervey Bay Chamber of Commerce president Sandra Holebrook said an influx of theft cases had a domino effect on the local economy.
"The profit that stealing is taking away, can lead to prices increasing," she said.
"Tighter security measures cost money and reduce good customers walking in, as they may feel nervous from being watched.
"And it lowers employee morale and keep them from offering the best customer service because they are busy keeping watch."


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Courtney Gameday - Purple/White with Silver
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The Courtney Gameday bracelet is a mix of silicone and stainless steel beads in a variety of color combinations. The Courtney Gameday is available in gold or silver and each bracelet has a color coordinated enamel and stainless steel signature Rustic Cuff logo. Made with an elasticized band to fit most sized wrists.


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A Phoenix woman who defrauded Cigna Health and Life Insurance of nearly $700,000 in phony chiropractic treatments has been sentenced to prison time and probation, Attorney General Tom Horne announced today.
Esther Obrzut, 42, of Phoenix, was sentenced by Judge Dawn Bergin to 2.5 years in prison for Forgery, a class 4 felony; followed by 5 years probation for Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices, a class 2 felony; and ordered to pay $653,108.01 in restitution to Cigna.
Between May 1, 2003 and February 2011, Obrzut billed Cigna for $1,152,779.00 for 4,490 chiropractic treatments for herself, her spouse and her two minor children. Investigation by the Arizona Department of Insurance determined that of the $1 million billed to Cigna, $684,545.01 was paid out for treatments never received by Defendant or her family.
Between May 1, 2003 and April 1, 2011, Obrzut was the medical insurance biller for chiropractor Dr. Ramsey Gordon and Power Up Family Chiropractic. She fraudulently submitted insurance claims to Cigna Health and Life Insurance for chiropractic treatments that were never performed on her, her husband or her two minor sons. She submitted billings for 2,944 treatment dates between May 3, 2002 and April 2008 listing Dr. Gordon as the treating physician. Dr. Gordon had no knowledge of these billings and the checks totaling $484,386.00 were sent to the Obrzut's home address. At the time these false billings were submitted, Obrzut was an employee for Dr. Gordon.
After leaving Dr. Gordon's employ in April 2008, Obrzut partnered with chiropractor Lora Contreras to open Power Up Chiropractic. Obrzut was the office manager and Dr. Contreras treated the patients. Between April 2008 and February 2011, Obrzut submitted claims to Cigna for 1,546 treatment dates listing Dr. Contreras as the treating physician. Cigna paid a total of $668,393.00 for these billings. Dr. Contreras was not aware that Obrzut was submitting these false bills.
Obrzut's family received some chiropractic treatments from Dr. Gordon and Dr. Contreras. However, of the $1,152,779.00 billed Cigna determined that $684,545.01 was paid out for treatments never received by Obrzut or her family.
This matter was investigated by the Arizona Department of Insurance Fraud Unit, with the assistance of the Attorney General's Financial Remedies Section, the National Insurance Crime Bureau, and the Phoenix Police Department.


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A thousand cyclists and pedestrians 'die-in' in London
A thousand cyclists and pedestrians 'die-in' in London
We were lying amongst prone bikes on the tarmac of a London road, in the dark, on a cold evening in November, gathered round a 'Stop Killing Cyclists' banner. A thousand other people were doing the same and 'protesting' certainly described what we were doing - but not quite.
When we looked up at the offices of Transport for London, their lights were still on, and we could see the figures of people watching us from the upper floors inside. I couldn't tell what they (whoever they were) were thinking and I wondered what sort of event they had concluded they were witnessing, whether all they saw was a mass protest on their doorstep.
Most of the people watching us wouldn't have been able to hear much, I imagine; not RoadPeace's long, long list of pedestrians and cyclists who have died on London's roads, some named, some not; or Nazan Fennell telling us that her 13-year-old daughter Hope was still always with her and would have been with us in London too, had she not been killed when a lorry ran her down as she pushed her bike over a crossing on her way home from school two years ago. They probably wouldn't have heard Nazan calling on the authorities to share her outrage that such huge, heavy vehicles are allowed free access to urban streets like Kings Heath High Street in Birmingham where her daughter died. Hundreds of schoolchildren, she said, have to cross that road every day.
Even if TfL couldn't hear what was going on, though, the sight in the street outside their brightly lit offices was there to explain everything. A thousand people were, as I say, lying in the middle of the road, intermingled with prone bikes.
In his final speech, one of the organisers Donnachadh McCarthy emphasised the positive contribution that cycling makes to London. He also said that TfL had told him that they would receive the 'Stop Killing Cyclists' manifesto, but only if the protest proved to be peaceful. How, Donnachadh said, could it be otherwise? Cyclists are peaceful people. Maybe our determination and the silence of our vigil was why the word 'protest' doesn't entirely capture the essence of what we were doing.
Yes, the die-in was a peaceful protest; but it was equally a very articulate explanation. It explained just how much cycling and walking in London means to so many people, and how much we want to keep on cycling and walking, but with the threats taken away and the killing stopped. We explained this from the tarmac, remembering the pedestrians and cyclists who've died or been injured in London and elsewhere, and we did it simply by lying in the road amongst hundreds and hundreds of bicycles. More than anything else, I think, it was a quiet, potent and very human-to-human explanation of our vulnerability - and of our strength.


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Ever since the he swept into view last year, I have known the bully in Trump. Only gradually have I realized how central it is to his persona and to his success. I didn't want to know that bullying could be so effective.
I've always hated bullying but haven't fully credited its potential for power. I'm an Alpha male myself, and always figured I could show up any bully who came my way. I haven't suffered the pain and indignities that women and my gentler friends have at the hands of such internally weak and injured buffoons. For the most part, I haven't suffered the tyranny that comes when bullies achieve institutional power.
That's not entirely true. I was a boy during the McCarthy period. The FBI would occasionally come to the door of our apartment in the Bronx, asking after my father, who was always at work. It was day time, after all. In retrospect, I can see the visits as harassment, indirect bullying. At the time, I was only mildly afraid. Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover liked that, no doubt. They wanted to create an air of anxiety in our culture, and they succeeded.
Now I see that there is no Trump without bullying. It is at the core of his "leadership." His method is clear: He enters the scene, any scene, with an air of implied threat, and feigned welcome. He begins conversation with a criticism or an insult. When he doesn't get his way, he pushes. When pushing fails, he manipulates. When manipulation fails, he insults. If the insults aren't strong enough, he ups the ante through hyperbole and scandalous lies. He is relentless. He won't stop until he has won…until he has backed people down, frightened them, worn them out, hurt them.
Trump fits well within our understanding of bullies. Here are a couple of definitions that do him credit: First: "Bullying is a distinctive pattern of harming and humiliating others, specifically those who are in some way smaller, weaker, younger or in any way more vulnerable than the bully." Second: "…bullying is a subcategory of aggressive behavior characterized by the following three minimum criteria: (1) hostile intent, (2) imbalance of power, and (3) repetition over a period of time.[11] Bullying may thus be defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another individual, physically, mentally or emotionally."
Trump is not the first bully to gain political advantage. His is a company of thousands, including McCarthy, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gadaffi, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators. Dictators are bullies by definition. They almost always gain power by bullying, though the centrality of bullying is not always obvious to followers at first.
Here's the tyrant's profile, written long before the current president-elect came to power. You decide who it calls to mind. First:
- Continual claims for attention and admiration
- Cold and uncaring behavior toward others
- Other people are seen only as an extension of the self to be manipulated and/or eliminated as needed; an inability to relate to people as people or separate from oneself
- Inflated/exaggerated sense of self-importance.
You may object to my grouping Trump with tyrants. So far he only has the potential to join the club, but he does have that potential. The likelihood of potential turning into reality most likely depends on the conditions in the larger culture. Following World War II, social scientists labored endlessly to identify the conditions that readied German for Hitler. They focused on the anguish and anger of the nation following the humiliating peace treaty for World War I, the country's social dislocation and economic depression, the availability of ready made scapegoats, and the tendency towards "authoritarian personalities" among the populous. These are people ready to surrender their own power in favor of a strongman, who could tell them what to do. Many Trump supporters fit that same profile. They did not vote for his policies—what policies? They voted mostly for the promise of a fix, the highlighting of a bogeyman (immigrants) and the promise that he alone could make things right.
You might ask: why am I writing this essay when we already disapprove of Trump's approach to leadership? The reason is simple: I want to put words to what we all know. I want to say it out loud. I want to be clear about the direction the Trump bullying might take. Bullying women is one thing. Slanderous reactions to John Lewis and his terrible Congressional district (he means the Black areas of Atlanta) is another. Bullying the press takes it a step further. . Imposing private security teams with the potential to be small armies take the trend too far. And trying to bully other countries, those who cannot and those who might retaliate, may speak mainly to the grandiosity that often goes with the bully.
You might say that people like Trump are "just" bullies, not tyrants, and it's not fair to place Trump in their ranks. But don't forget that these tyrants didn't begin that way. Hitler, for example, portrayed himself as a "little man," much aggrieved and neglected. Mao, Fidel, even Hugo Chavez were said to be men of the people. Dictatorships that don't begin in coups, begin as populist rebellions that draw on the people's yearning for change. These populist leaders, once they have gained institutional position, turn rapidly into dictators.
Their initial campaigns seek out enemies—often an oppressed ethnic group, like the Jewish people, or a callous elite, like the money-lenders (read financiers or read Shylock). Often enough, they are elected to office. Then the transformation from democratic to dictatorial leadership happens quickly and decisively. Here is how "leaders" move from bullying to tyranny:
|Control of public information and opinion
|Use of the law for competition suppression
|Vote fraud used to prevent the election of reformers
|Creation of a class of officials who are above the law
|Undue official influence on trials and juries
|Subversion of internal checks and balances
|Usurpation of undelegated powers
|Conversion of rights into privileges
|Seeking a government monopoly on the capability and use of armed force
|Increasing public ignorance of their civic duties and reluctance to perform them
|Militarization of law enforcement
|Political correctness
|Infiltration and subversion of citizen groups that could be forces for reform
|Increasing dependency of the people on government
|Suppression of investigators and whistle blowers
|Use of staged events to produce popular support
I could go into much greater detail about the transition from bullying populists to outright dictatorship, but I hope you've got the general idea.
The next and probably more important subject is: what to do. That will take some deep thinking and concerted action. Remember, bullies and tyrants do not yield to reason, to compassion, to ethical standards. In other words, they do not respond to the most cherished tools that are used by a non-violent opposition. For them, it is not just power itself, the ability to achieve what you want. It is the power over others. The pleasure, the thrill is in humbling enemies and doubters; it is the thrill of domination. What's more, wielding power distracts bullies from personal insecurities, minimizing what can otherwise be incapacitating anxiety for bullies.
We know that it's important to stand up to bullies. We have a thousand small, often personal, examples of standing strong. Edward R. Murrow and Joseph Walsh, who helped to dislodge Joe McCarthy from his perch, are shining examples of this approach. They are heroes. But it will take more than the courageous acts of individuals to keep Trump from tyranny. It will take organized opposition. Thank goodness, the opposition has begun.


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There are five common mistakes people think actually help them lose weight and stay healthy…they couldn't have made a worse "mistake"; this completely effects "us teens" and our life style, we have to let our parents know what they are mistakenly doing:
1. Truthfully, we can't tell the good fats from the bad fats.
Alice Lichtenstein, DSc, an American Heart Association spokesperson says, "Most people still don't get that some fats are actually good for you, You want to avoid saturated and trans fats, but you need more monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Good sources are fish, nuts, avocados, and soybean and canola oils."I know, half of that seems to be just a bunch of "yadyada" but still it's a great source of info all the same.
2. To save money…most adults stoop down to take out.
Now I know it's just necessary to have take out from a fast restaurant, it's so convenient. But truthfully, calorie-wise, this fattening-pricey mistake can cost you more then you realize. Karen Weber Cullen, DPH, RD, research nutritionist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston *pant* says, "People think that supersizing a restaurant meal is a money saver, but it's not a health bargain if it has way too many calories." My suggesting…rethink fast-food restaurant strategies =D.
3. Lol some people "imagine" that anything liquid doesn't have any calories whatsoever…ooo that's one BIG mistake.
You have to realize (or rather adults realize) that most liquid products DO have some kind of sugar within them…
Judith Stern, ScD, RD, professor of nutrition and internal medicine at the University of California, Davis *GASP* says, "What freaks me out is the amount of sugared soda and juice we drink. I'd like to see all the sugared drinks sent out into space, where they could orbit the Earth forever." …yeah I know, she is "enthusiastic" about her work LOL. BUT I have to agree with her, 'cause it's true…sugary soda and juice is not the right choice for any of us =)
4. K THIS is scary…we can't really tell if were hungry…or not.
Elisabetta Politi, RD, nutrition manager of the Duke University Diet & Fitness Center in Durham, NC says, "If you don't know when you're hungry, you don't know when you're full, so you won't know when to stop eating." Too true, most of us really don't know what "truly hungry" is…but as teens of course I'm sure we can decipher whether were hungry or just eating for pleasure…=P. Consult your doctor if you have though, a problem, deciphering whether your hungry or not.
5. Most American's have what is called "Microwave Addiction"…
It means we rely heavily on processed microwavable goods…Jo Ann Hattner, RD, clinical dietitian at Stanford University Medical Center says, "Eating too many heavily processed foods can leave you short on fiber and antioxidants such as vitamin C." You don't want to be "missing something" like vitamin C in your diet, especially since we are still just teens and need all the help we can get <.<.
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Helping your parents correct these "mistakes" will not only help you now, but obviously, later on in your life =D.
Well guys that's it for now, stay tuned for the next update =D.


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From October 7th through October 16th the projects of MAS-Luxe graduates of l'ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne are exhibited in the Lausanne Palace.The successful concept of MAS-Luxe class was first launched in October 2008 and gives the opportunity to students from all over the world to apply for a master class programm which collaborates with renowned companies like Audemars Piguet, Hublot, Nespresso, Bernardaud, TAG Aviation, Reuge or Christofle.
The 2011 MAS-Luxe was directed by the London Design Duo Ed Barber and Jay Osgerby to give some new interpretations to the famous "Harcourt" glass, an iconographic product of Baccarat, which celebrates its 170th anniversary in 2011. Although the design remained the same since its original design 170 years ago, it became a classic and was found on the tables of Napoleon III as well as Jean-Paul II – and maybe on Sarkozy's, too
At the same occasion, a new collection by Jaime Hayon for Baccarat and two lustres designed by Phillipe Starck are shown.
Exhibition from 7th through 16th of october 2011
Mon-Fri 10 am – 6.30 pm
Sat 9 am – 5 pm
Lausanne Palace & SPA, Grand-Chêne 7-9, 1002 Lausanne


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At Gemvara, we believe that the jewelry you wear should be one of a kind, like you. That's why we make each piece to order, one at a time, just the way you want it. Choose Larimar and Bronze or Golden Swarovski and Rose Gold: it's your choice. Mix and match gems and precious metals for a look that's exactly you. Gemvara uses only the highest quality materials to craft your Yellow Gold Multistone Round Jewelry design with meticulous attention to detail. Our precious metals are recycled or responsibly mined. Warm buttery 14 karat yellow gold provides the classic golden glow. Gemvara also offers every gold piece in luxurious 18k yellow gold which has a richer color and higher gold content for even more lasting value.Our wide selection of Yellow Gold Multistone Round Jewelry by talented designers means you can find jewelry that's exactly your style. You can also shop by style, choosing our Celtic, Unique, or Convertible Collections. Skilled American craftspeople set every gem in our multistone styles by hand.Gemvara's fine quality Yellow Gold Multistone Round Jewelry is designed to be passed down for generations to come, crafted by hand in the United States.
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Types of indicators lights and indicator componentsIndicator lights also referred to as panel indicators, are usually mounted onto signal condition panels or used as malfunction lights on equipment. There are different lamp types available in a wide range of voltage ratings, colour output and mounting types and sizes:
- LED indicator lights - emit light through an LED lamp using DC current. They're small in size, have a long life cycle and are highly energy efficient.
- Incandescent indicators - can be used with both AC and DC circuits. They use a filament to emit light that electricity flows through, but this can lead to unnecessary heat being generated and lower efficiency.
- Halogen indicator lights - use a combination of inert gas, halogen and a filament to produce light, this results in a brighter light than using given the same energy, ideal for warning lights.
- Fluorescent indicator lights - use fluorescent lamps and usually last longer and are more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs, so are not as commonly used as indicators.
- Application and environmental factors
- IP rating
- Mounting style
- Terminal type
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Selecting an indicator light
When considering which indicator light to choose it is important to review a number of factors to select the best product for your needs, including:
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Plunge with Ghany into a dreamlike journey through polar icebergs, where nature's frozen walls and breath-taking vistas glitter in the sunlight. The brand's baffle quilting is displayed with the colours of the landscape of a Norse legend, inspired by the adult wardrobe, but created for the free time of young children. It is also perfect for the first few days of open air playtime during the mid-season.
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Wash max 30°C - Mild process; Do not bleach; Do not tumble dry; Ironing maximum temperature 110°C - without steam; Do not dry clean; Professional wet cleaning - mild process; Dry flat; Wash separately; It is advisable to wash and iron the garment on reverse.


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Any guessing on the new lineup and results.
Alexander Albon ( Toro Rosso ) new I guess, never heard of him
Ricciardo now Renault - Best or Worst move. I'm thinking hope he gets more cash !
Antonio Giovinazzi .. new.. and I can barely spell it
New Gloves to send medical data to the Ambulance. Seems like a bit of bad luck if you ask me .
Predictions people ?


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Zero-turn ideal for mowing larger yards with flat to hilly terrain. Mow up to 4 acres
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PG's Rebecca Dirks is On Location in Anaheim, CA, for NAMM 2010 where she visits the Fender booth. In this segment, we get our first look and listen of the Fender Acoustasonic Telecaster.
The Acoustasonic Tele features a ash body with a spruce wedge center block, maple neck with a modern "C" profile, rosewood fingerboard, 21 jumbo frets. The electronics include a neck position Custom Shop Twisted Tele pickup and a Fishman Piezo Pickup in the bridge (which features 4 different acoustic images).


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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is putting out a last call for nominations for a nonfiction booklist for elementary, middle, and high-school aged children.
The proposed booklist, first announced in January, is aimed at young readers who want to delve more deeply into humanities subjects, including history, biography, archaeology, or philosophy. This new list will supplement NEH's popular summer reading list, which, since its inception in 1988, has been heavily weighted towards works of fiction. NEH's new nonfiction list will reflect the new Common Core State Standards, which place a greater emphasis on nonfiction material, and will serve as a resource for teachers and parents of children who want to read about the rediscovery of the famous Civil War submarine Hunley or Amelia Earhart in addition to—or instead of—Harry Potter and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
NEH has sought public assistance in building its first nonfiction Summertime Reading List, and we will be closing the nomination form at close of business Friday, May 17. This is your last chance to nominateoutstanding nonfiction books for any or all of the following three age groups: 5-8 years old; 9-13 years old; and 14-17 years old, and tell NEH why your selections should be recommended for a new generation of readers.
Nominations may be made online at: http://www.neh.gov/non-fiction-book-form. Recommended titles should have a strong humanities content, be of lasting value to readers, and readily available in print. Final selection of the books will be made by an advisory board composed of educators, library and information science specialists, historians, scholars of literature, and experts in childhood literacy, and will be announced in 2013.


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Have you ever tried to add a footnote to a table inside the
tabular environment? Even though the index is printed, the search for the actual footnote will be in vain.
One way to overcome this issue is by using longtable. The package handles footnotes really well. But it may be an overkill if your table is small.
Also, I read the
tabularx package also handles footnotes correctly, I haven't tested it though.
Another, more appropriate solution would be using the minipage environment. Here is an example:
\begin{minipage}{6cm} \begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|} \hline A & 1 & 2 \footnote{This is a footnote.} \\ \hline B & 2 & 1 \\ \hline C & 3 & 3 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{minipage}
Obviously, the footnote is placed right below the table, which may or may not be what you want. In addition, since
minipage is not a floating environment, adding a caption inside the
minipage environment gives the following error message: "LaTeX Error: \caption outside float". If you want to send the footnote to the bottom of the page and replace the index with a number rather than a alphabetic character, you may use the
minipage*-environment of the footnote package:
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{footnote} \begin{document} \begin{minipage*}{6cm} \begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|} \hline A & 1 & 2 \footnote{This is a footnote.} \\ \hline B & 2 & 1 \\ \hline C & 3 & 3 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{minipage*}
The code above places the footnote where and how we want it, but the issue with the caption remains.
What finally saved my day was having a look at the documentation of the footnote package. It provides the
savenotes environment, which collects all footnotes inside the
tabular where they get stuck and "releases" them at the end. Here is an example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{footnote} \begin{document} \begin{savenotes} \begin{table}[ht] \centering \begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|} \hline A & 1 & 2 \footnote{This is the first footnote.} \\ \hline B & 2 & 1 \\ \hline C & 3\footnote{This is the second footnote.} & 3 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \caption{A table caption.} \end{table}% \end{savenotes} \end{document}
Update: conflict with xcolor package
There is a conflict between the
xcolor and the
footnote packages. You can fix it by first loading the
xcolor package.
The error you will see is either:
Missing } inserted.
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Marines may face death penalty in couple's killing
In a courtroom Monday, prosecutors said they're considering whether to seek the death penalty against four Camp Pendleton servicemen accused of executing a Marine sergeant and his wife in October.
On the base, commanders are working to get the defendants out of the Marine Corps.
Pvt. Kevin D. Cox and Lance Cpls. Emrys J. John, Tyrone L. Miller and Kesaun K. Sykes are charged with shooting Sgt. Jan Pietrzak and his wife, Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, during the early morning of Oct. 15 in the southwestern Riverside County city of Winchester. They also are accused of torturing the couple, sexually assaulting Jenkins-Pietrzak and setting a fire to destroy evidence.
Yesterday, the four Marines sat shackled in Riverside Superior Court as attorneys discussed upcoming proceedings.
Daniel DeLimon, a Riverside County deputy district attorney, said the prosecution and defense will meet Jan. 22 to debate the death-penalty charge. DeLimon said he plans to introduce statements made by the defendants that show their motive for the double murder.
In court documents, investigators said Miller confessed to entering the Pietrzaks' home by making threats with a shotgun. He and John accused eachother of the sexual assault, while Sykes admitted to cutting off Jenkins-Pietrzak's clothes, investigators said.
The suspects allegedly rummaged through the house for valuables. A pair of shoes that matched impressions left at the crime scene and on Pietrzak's bodywas found in John's barracks room.
The victims' parents said they believe the killers were racially prejudiced. Pietrzak was white and his wife was black. Authorities have said only that the defendants, all of them black, staged a robbery.
Rod Pacheco, the district attorney, is expected to make the death-penalty decision by Feb. 2.
"I think there are some strong reasons why Mr. Miller should not receive the death penalty," said his attorney, Jeff Zimel. "It does not appear that (the defendants) went to the house to kill these people. . . . It may be a money thing."
Meanwhile, the Marine Corps is moving to oust the defendants through an administrative process called separation. It can take the action before a Marine is pronounced guilty or not guilty in court.


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Adopted girl allegedly abandoned by couple denies she wanted to kill them
A little person who was allegedly abandoned by her adopted parents denied she's an adult who is out to kill them.
In a sit-down interview with Dr. Phil, Natalia Grace Barnett discussed the accusations made by her adoptive parents, Michael and Kristine Barnett, who claimed she was not an 11-year-old girl when they gained custody of her and that she once tried to poison them and stood in their bedroom clutching a knife while they slept.
In September, the now-former couple was charged with felony neglect, accused of abandoning Natalia, who has dwarfism, in an apartment in Lafayette, Ind., in order to move to Canada.
Michael and Kristine had previously called the girl a "diagnosed psychopath and sociopath" who scammed them and duped them into thinking she's a child when she was a full-grown adult woman.
Off the bat, Natalia told Dr. Phil, "I'm 16."
"I was six years old when I came to the United States," she said.
In her native Ukraine, Natalia said she lived with about 30 different families before moving to the United States, where she was adopted by the Barnetts in 2010.
Kristine Barnett claimed Natalia was living a lie after supposedly discovering she had pubic hair and periods.
Natalia's current adoptive parents, Antwon and Cynthia Mans, denied seeing any menstrual fluids.
"She's been with us for almost seven years. To this day she does not have a menstrual," Cynthia told Dr. Phil.
"Not one," Antwon said in agreement.
Natalia said she was eight when she was left behind by the Barnetts. Kristine and Michael supposedly told her they were going to get the girl an apartment in Canada.
"I didn't know what to say. I didn't really know what was going on at first, until after it happened," said Natalia.
The Barnetts have denied the charges levied against them, stating they weren't responsible for Natalia since she was not a child.


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The Hampden Experience Tickets
The Scottish Football Museum exists to promote the unique football heritage of Scotland, to build and maintain a national football collection, and to educate and inspire future generations.
As one of Glasgow's Leading Attractions, The Hampden Experience is an ideal day out for families, avid football fans and novices eager to gain knowledge of Scottish football. The museum is home to the world's most impressive national collection of football related objects, memorabilia and ephemera.
The Scottish Football Museum has something for all ages and, more importantly, the ability to educate and inspire future generations.
On the stadium tour you will experience Hampden Park as players do on a match day – visit the underground roadway, team changing rooms, and get the chance to strike a ball in the Hampden Hotshots gallery and have the speed of your shot electronically measured! Walk down the tunnel, hear the famous "Hampden Roar" and then follow the footsteps of legends by climbing the stairs to the cup presentation area.
Public tours of the stadium are available each day at 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm and 3pm, subject to events within the stadium.
For more information please visit: www.scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk
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EPA Has Granted More Than 3,000 Pollution Monitoring Exemptions to Oil and Gas Industry
Environmental regulators across the country granted more than 3,000 requests from polluting oil and gas operations, government facilities, chemical plants, and other facilities to stop pollution monitoring and other procedures intended to protect human health and the environment, an expansive two-month AP investigation revealed.
The Trump administration, under pressure from the oil and gas industry, allowed for the exemptions in late March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"It's like saying, 'We're going to remove the radar guns and remove speedometers, but you still have to comply with the speed limit,'" said Eric Schaeffer, now head of the Environmental Integrity Project advocacy group. "That doesn't make sense."
While EPA claims the monitoring waivers do not constitute a license to pollute at will, without effective monitoring there is no way to know.
As a whole, the skipped leak inspections could be endangering oil and gas workers and allowing thousands of tons of greenhouse pollution to be emitted into the atmosphere, a former oil and gas engineer told the AP.
The investigation's findings run counter to statements made by the EPA in June that the coronavirus was not impacting compliance and monitoring, and that the industry was not seeking relief.
In fact, the industry actors aggressively sought and were granted exemptions, as early as March, to skip inspections of smokestacks, tank seals, flare stacks, and emissions monitoring systems, which could raise the risk of explosions.
"As surely as night follows day there are going to be an increased number of deaths from those causes," Philip J. Landrigan, director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College, told the AP.
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This Norwegian Start-Up Wants To Build Houses Out of 100% Recycled Plastic
By Victoria Masterson
Using one of the world's problems to solve another is the philosophy behind a Norwegian start-up's mission to develop affordable housing from 100% recycled plastic.
Sustainable Homes
UN-Habitat says an estimated 60% of people living in urban areas of Africa are in informal settlements. At the same time, between 1990 and 2017, African countries imported around 230 metric tonnes of plastic, "which mostly ended up in dump sites creating a massive environmental challenge," the agency adds.

UN-Habitat deputy executive director, Victor Kisob, said the aim of the partnership with Othalo was to "promote adequate, sustainable and affordable housing for all."

Artist's impression of an Othalo community, imagined by architect Julien De Smedt. Othalo
Othalo's process involves shredding plastic waste and mixing it with other elements, including non-flammable materials. Components are used to build up to four floors, with a home of 60 square metres using eight tons of recycled plastic. A factory with one production line can produce 2,800 housing units annually.

Following successful laboratory tests, Othalo's factory in Estonia has started producing components to build three demonstration homes for Kenya's capital, Nairobi; Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon and Dakar, the capital of Senegal.

Othalo founder Frank Cato Lahti has been developing and testing the technology since 2016 in partnership with SINTEF, a 70-year-old independent research organization in Trondheim, Norway, and experts at Norway's University of Tromsø.

Othalo founder Frank Cato Lahti. Othalo
Almost seven out of every 10 people in the world are expected to live in urban areas by 2050. More than 90% of this growth will take place in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

"In the absence of effective urban planning, the consequences of this rapid urbanization will be dramatic," UN-Habitat warns.

Lack of proper housing and growth of slums, inadequate and outdated infrastructure, escalating poverty and unemployment, and pollution and health issues, are just some of the effects.

Mindsets, policies, and approaches towards urbanization need to change for the growth of cities and urban areas to be turned into opportunities that will leave nobody behind, UN-Habitat says.

Pioneers of Change
Reimagining cities and communities for greater resilience and sustainability was a key topic at the World Economic Forum's Pioneers of Change Summit 2020.

The digital event brought together innovators and stakeholders from around the world to explore solutions to the challenges facing enterprises, governments and society.

Opening the summit, Stephan Mergenthaler, the Forum's Head of Strategic Intelligence and a member of the Executive Committee, said: "We need to change the way we produce, the way we live and interact in our cities to make this transition to net-zero emissions a reality…

"And as this year has illustrated so dramatically, we need to make every effort that we keep populations healthy, if we want to avoid jeopardizing all this progress."

Reposted with permission from World Economic Forum.

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How Biden and Kerry Can Rebuild America's Global Climate Leadership
By Dolf Gielen and Morgan Bazilian
John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America's reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect Joe Biden is asking Kerry to rebuild it again – this time as U.S. climate envoy.
Energy Is at the Center of the Climate Challenge
The effects of climate change are already evident across the globe, from extreme heat waves to sea level rise. But while the challenge is daunting, there is hope. Solar and wind power have become the cheapest forms of power generation globally, and technology progress and innovation continue apace to support a transition to clean energy.

In the U.S. under a Biden administration, long-term national climate legislation will depend on who controls the Senate, and that won't be clear until after two run-off elections in Georgia in January.

But there is no shortage of ideas for ways Biden could still take action even if his proposals are blocked in Congress. For example, he could use executive orders and direct government agencies to tighten regulations on greenhouse gas emissions; increase research and development in clean energy technologies; and empower states to exceed national standards, as California did in the past with auto emission standards. A focus on a just and equitable transition for communities and people affected by the decline of fossil fuels will also be key to creating a sustainable transition.

The U.S. position as the world's largest oil and gas producer and consumer creates political challenges for any administration. U.S. forays into European energy security are often treated with suspicion. Recently, France blocked a multi-billion dollar contract to buy U.S. liquefied natural gas because of concerns about limited emissions regulations in Texas.

Strengthening cooperation and partnerships with like-minded countries will be critical to bring about a transition to cleaner energy as well as sustainability in agriculture, forestry, water and other sectors of the global economy.

Creating a Global Sustainable Transition
How the world recovers from COVID-19's economic damage could help drive a lasting shift in the global energy mix.

Nearly one-third of Europe's US$2 trillion economic relief package involves investments that are also good for the climate. The European Union is also strengthening its 2030 climate targets, though each country's energy and climate plans will be critical for successfully implementing them. The Biden plan – including a $2 trillion commitment to developing sustainable energy and infrastructure – is aligned with a global energy transition, but its implementation is also uncertain.

Once Biden takes office, Kerry will be joining ongoing high-level discussions on the energy transition at the U.N. General Assembly and other gatherings of international leaders. With the U.S. no longer obstructing work on climate issues, the G-7 and G-20 have more potential for progress on energy and climate.

Lots of technical details still need to be worked out, including international trade frameworks and standards that can help countries lower greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep global warming in check. Carbon pricing and carbon border adjustment taxes, which create incentive for companies to reduce emissions, may be part of it. A consistent and comprehensive set of national energy transition plans will also be needed.

The global shift to clean energy will also have geopolitical implications for countries and regions, and this will have a profound impact on wider international relations. Kerry, with his experience as secretary of state in the Obama administration, and Biden's plan to make the climate envoy position part of the National Security Council, may help mend these relations. In doing so, the U.S. may again join the wider community of countries willing to lead.

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By Maria Caffrey
As we approach the holidays I, like most people, have been reflecting on everything 2020 has given us (or taken away) while starting to look ahead to 2021.


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TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust.
Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association, the robot -- dubbed Kansei, or "sensibility" -- responds to the word "war" by quivering in what looks like disgust and fear. It hears "love" and its pink lips smile.
Imagine a robot that hands you a beer and then cleans your kitchen and living room. That's what a start-up called Willow Garage in California is busy developing. But the company isn't going it alone: Willow Garage is an open source project that wants as much outside participation as possible.
"Robot, call 911." Humanoid robot, still in development, designed to be human caregiver
American Honda Motor Co. is showing off a humanoid robot that can climb stairs, run 4 miles per hour and may someday help care for the elderly and disabled.
Asimo, a robot that has been more than 20 years in the making, is being demonstrated at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Part of the Japan Culture and Hyperculture festival, the live 15-minute demonstrations start today and run through Sunday, Feb. 17.
"A lot of people think of Honda as just a car company or motorcycles, but Honda likes to think of itself as a mobility company," said Alicia Jones, a spokeswoman for the company. "We like to enhance people's mobility. The idea behind Asimo is that it would someday be a helper to people inside their homes, maybe the disabled or the elderly."
Rice engineers, TIRR doctors kick off 2-year study of robotic rehab systemRobotics engineers at Rice University are teaming with doctors from Memorial Hermann|TIRR to develop a PC-based system for physical rehabilitation.
"It can take months of physical therapy for stroke patients to regain the use of their limbs," said system architect Marcia O'Malley, director of Rice's Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces Laboratory (MAHI). "We hope to refine our system to allow patients to recover faster and to allow therapists to more precisely monitor patients' recovery."
O'Malley and Memorial Hermann|TIRR doctors this fall began a two-year study of a prototype rehabilitation system developed at MAHI that uses a joystick to help patients with eye-to-hand coordination. The study involved 16 patients. In one exercise, the patients use the joystick to move an object from one part of the computer screen to another. Like all the systems in O'Malley's lab, the rehab program uses force-feedback technology called "haptics" that allow people to "feel" their environment while they are in virtual reality.
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Ajaxian » MooTools and Sizzleby François Hodierne
Valerio Proietti has written a thoughtful post on why MooTools won't use Sizzle (and tries to argue why other libraries shouldn't).
I don't expect every library will drop its own engine and plugin Sizzle right away. However, if done correctly, Sizzle can be an area of collaboration. If it becomes "John's Library" that is one thing, but you will note that there have already been patches from the Prototype folks and maybe others. Sizzle could be a playground for innovation itself.


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Life Economy in Digital Era
Life Economy in Digital Era
Introduction to Global Markets
This course is an introductory course that examines country's business markets, especially in FTA relations with Korea. The course introduces the basic country profile in perspective of international trade and business. After taking the course, students will have the ability to develop global business while improving communication skills in foreign markets
Microelectronic Devices and Circuits, Fall 2005
Modeling of microelectronic devices, and basic microelectronic circuit analysis and design. Physical electronics of semiconductor junction and MOS devices. Relation of electrical behavior to internal physical processes; development of circuit models; and understanding the uses and limitations of various models. Use of incremental and large-signal techniques to analyze and design bipolar and field effect transistor circuits, with examples chosen from digital circuits, single-ended and differentia
Architectural Culture in Life
Architectural Culture in Life
Meridian and Acupoint 2
Acupuncture is a complex therapeutic practice of inserting medical needles to stimulate specific anatomic points in a body (called acupoints). Based on the body of principles drawn from Yin-Yang theory, the five phase theory, and the meridian theory, manual acupuncture aims to improve symptoms through the regulation of the flow of Qi. Manual acupuncture has been frequently and successfully employed for clinical treatment in East Asian countries for numerous centuries. We will learn, memory, and
Methodology of practical education
Students will learn the etymology of education, and interpret the meaning of education based on its etymology
"Teaching English to Young Learners" Dersi Eklendi:
Yabancý Diller Eðitimi Bölümü öðretim üyelerinden Dr. Deniz Þallý Çopur'un "Teaching English to Young Learners" dersi ODTÜ Açýk Ders Malzemeleri Portalýna eklenmiþtir.
"Cognitive Psychology" Dersi Eklendi:
Psikoloji Bölümü öðretim üyelerinden Yrd. Doç. Dr. Mine Mýsýrlýsoy'un "Cognitive Psychology" dersi ODTÜ Açýk Ders Malzemeleri Portalýnda açýlmýþtýr.
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"Realizing Human Rights: Access to HIV/AIDS Medication and the Role of Civil Society in South Afri
A talk by Zackie Achmat, a South African activist most widely known as founder and chairman of Treatment Action Campaign. Presented in collaboration with Students for Global Public Health and the Human Rights Program. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series and Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series.
Concerns of Biometrics Presentation on high security and the concerns with biometric technology.
Presentation on high security and the concerns with biometric technology.
Introduction to Cranfield School of Management by Professor Frank Horwitz Introduction to Cranfield School of Management - by Director of Cranfield School of Management, Professor Frank Horwitz
Introduction to Cranfield School of Management - by Director of Cranfield School of Management, Professor Frank Horwitz
Joint Bachelor Degree in Information Technology
This paper will present the BIT2010 project, a project that will be developed and implemented during the period 2006-2009, under the Socrates-Erasmus Curriculum Development scheme, financed by the European Commission. Based on the influence of the ICT domain on the most important worlds economies, the emergency of new higher education programs in ICT is presented. The needs for a new ICT graduates profile and a new ICT Curriculum were taken into consideration. Clear achievements in the areas
Academic research for schools
Academic subjects are usually extremely far from actual problems and questions of academic research. Material at school is often presented as a sum of fixed, immovable facts one has to learn, although in the world of research these facts may be regarded as questionable or even disproved. On the other hand, pupils rarely have an understanding of how facts are developed and understood. As it is impossible to bring a researcher to every school, we are working on the project that would help research
Vers une modélisation d'une géométrie en actes dans les activités de lecture tracé du bâtiment
La recherche présentée ici s'inscrit dans un projet national qui répond à un objectif social de transformations des formations professionnelles. L'activité professionnelle considérée requière des prises de décision dépendant d'une lecture adéquate de plans pour effectuer des tracés dans l'espace du chantier. La modélisation d'une telle activité par une géométrie en acte articule des connaissances théoriques de la géométrie euclidienne, des connaissances rendant compte des aspe
Lutilisation dun arbre des tâches pour concevoir et analyser des situations dapprentissage :
Afin de prendre en compte les difficultés que les élèves ont pour donner du sens aux activités expérimentales, ce qui leur fait perdre de vue lobjectif initial du T.P. et les connaissances visées, nous proposons de leur faire concevoir le protocole des expériences. À travers trois exemples de situations de T.P. mises au point et expérimentées dans des classes de Terminale S, nous montrons comment la structuration du protocole expérimental dans un arbre de tâche, permet d'analyser e
Autoregolazione dell'apprendimento e tecnologie didattiche
This paper introduces the concept of Self-Regulated Learning and analyses the possible support granted by Educational Technology for its practice and development.
It's About Interactive Learning
This paper draws on results of a research project InterActive Education: Teaching and Learning in the Information Age. The overall aim of the project is to examine the ways in which new technologies can be used in educational settings to enhance learning. To this end the project centres around the design and evaluation of teaching and learning initiatives for pupils from the age of eight to eighteen. Within this paper we report on our work with teachers and pupils, who have developed learning i
Changes in grouping practices over primary and secondary school
The research detailed in this paper provides a systematic description and analysis of classroomgrouping practices in primary and secondary schools in England. Practices are compared to main findings in developmental and educational literature with regard to effective contexts for learning and recent ideas about pedagogy. The research is based on an analysis of 4924 pupil groupings from672 Reception, Year 2 and Year 5 classes in 331 primary schools and 248 Year 7 and Year 10 classes in 47 seconda
Technical Paper 2 - The Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) Project: Characteristics
In this paper the relationships between young children's entry assessments and various child (e.g. age, gender, ethnicity) and parent characteristics (e.g. educational and occupational background) are explored, to examine the extent to which variation between children in their cognitive and social-behavioural attainments can be accounted for by different factors. Marked differences between individual pre-school centres were identified in terms of the characteristics of children entering the EPPE