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Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
A.I. - Where do we go from here?
Like it or not, Artificial Intelligence -- in many different areas -- will have an enormous impact on the future. This week we take a look at where AI is right now, some of its current applications, and some of the ramifications coming in the future. But the most important thing, McDONALD'S IN AUSTRALIA IS NO LONGER CARRYING DIET COKE THIS IS NOT A DRILL
A Courageous Heart: Life after multiple transplants while still on the waiting list for more.
This week we bring you the story of Mark's neighbor Rose, a woman in her late 20's who has already had two heart transplants, and is now on the waiting list for both a heart and liver transplant. She honored us by telling her story about navigating the emotional burdens, as well as the medical and insurance nightmares that come with long-term care. Please check to see if you are listed as an organ donor, and please make ethical and moral choices when it comes to who gets medical care in this country.
We also talk about an 88-year-old man who gets a WW1 missile stuck up his rectum, but don't let that take away from the organ donation thing.
Oops! All Dad Jokes
It's that time of year again where we take a look back and compile all the Dad Jokes from the beginning of each episode. Enjoy, and thanks for another great year!
Recreating Lost Media w/ Brock Dittus and Aaron Flores
This week we're joined by Brock Dittus and Aaron Flores (you may recognize them from the Sprocket Podcast), who talk about the process of recreating a long-lost song found on a demonstration cassette tape. All that, and plenty Rick Emerson talk, ending with Emerson's epic 8/8/08 radio speech. Enjoy!
Find out more about Brock and his music here: https://sites.google.com/view/brock-dittus?pli=1&fbclid=IwAR26hRXccyCOvTGpec1bYU5hmkHf9YS6S2iyyz0L2tUn4FavxyEjHIFEPo8
Pepsi's Billions w/ Ryan Zeinert
If you've seen "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?," you know Pepsi doesn't have a great track record with promotions. This week we're joined by guest Ryan Zeinert, who talks about yet another Pepsi marketing fiasco from 2003 when they tried to give away a billion dollars.
Fly Me to the Moon, Again
There's not a lot of places where conversations can pivot from boiling water to aging Twinks to (thought-to-be) extinct clams to a man robbing a bank with his own birth certificate to NASA's new Artemis moon mission program, but that's just what makes the Mark & Toddcast so special.
Mark & Todd's Cozy Cast™
Fall is here, and it's time to get comfortable under a warm blanket and just have a cozy, comfortable, meandering chat about the Portland Timbers, the Portland Elk Statue, van abductions, mosquito magnets, grenades washing ashore, and, of course, Cheetle™.
Two Words: "Made in America"
This week we present a "cozy cast" as we kick back and wonder about why lemons make your face pucker when you eat them, how Auto Tune is the new electric guitar, Lloyd Center turning into a roller skating rink, more about Havana Syndrome, Biden puff-puff-passes marijuana reform, Nixon exposed to radiation, and that time a nursing home in Taiwan ordered a stripper for its wheelchair-bound elderly resident patients.
Live, From CouveCon, It's the Mark and Toddcast!
This week we recorded live from behind the Unipiper merch booth at the Vancouver Mall during the first annual CouveCon! Enjoy the retro sounds of a bustling mall in this "nature is healing" episode of the Mark and Toddcast.
De-Extinction
A wise man once said, "We were so occupied with the fact that we could, that we didn't stop to ask if we should." So 30 years later, here we are formulating plans to bring back extinct species like the Woolly Mammoth and carrier pigeon. Find out all about the real-life science behind bringing species back to life. In the news segment: the Willamette Falls area gets a new name, COVID antibodies, thermostat lockouts, Portland's Museum of Cartoon Arts, no In-N-Out for Beaverton, and South Dakota's new Corn-bassador. Enjoy!


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"Yes! Indeed. Thanks, as always Jim, for your insights."
"Our meeting in Midlothian, Virginia went through the exact same situation that you d…"
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Howard Brod replied 3rd month 31, 2017 to What is Quaker Worship: Spirit Possession, Meditation, Cognition or Imagination?


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The 2019 San Diego Comedy Festival runs May 10th-19th. Click here for tix info!
Here are the FB events for my shows during The Westside Stand-Up Showdown. This is a great festival with a solid line-up of comics both nights I perform, so come out if you can!
I'm in The Charm City Comedy Festival on on May 11th at 10pm! Hit me up if you live near Baltimore!
"Big update for the Death Heads out there. After auditioning with over 7,000 people a few weeks ago, I advanced! Today I performed in front of Simon Cowell, Terry Crews, Julianne Hough, Gabrielle Union and Howie Mandel for America's Got Talent. I'm gonna be on TV! I'm sworn to secrecy, but tune into AGT on NBC later this summer to see what happened.
Just got accepted to the Westside Comedy Club's comedy festival! You can CLICK HERE for more festival and ticket info. I'm up Wednesday, April 10th @ 10pm & Thursday, April 11th at 8pm. See you there!
"Hey everyone! I auditioned for America's Got Talent yesterday. It was fun being surrounded by thousands of people with hopes of fame and fortune. Lots of men in fully lit up robot suits moonwalking. Lots of little girls singing "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" with trembling voices. An interesting day to say the least.
I'm performing in the North Carolina Comedy Festival in Greensboro, NC this year!
I'll post my performance dates once they get finalized!
Definitely drop by if you're in the area!
I had a fun time at Gotham while I was in New York! Check out the video by clicking here!
HAPPY NEW YEARS & NYC SHOWS!!!
First off, happy new years to everyone! Second off, I have a ton of shows in NYC starting tomorrow night. Check out the Upcoming Performances tab on the right and come out to a show! Third off, I have no third thing!


AKA and DJ ZInhle have sent the rumour mill into overdrive again.
AKA and DJ Zinhle have added more fuel to the rumour mill when they were spotted hanging out in Cape Town earlier this week.
AKA jetted off to the Mother City for performances in his hometown of Mitchells Plain.
The rapper said it was good to be home and hung out at a local sports bar and took pics with kids in the street.
But what got people talking was when Zinhle was seen hanging out at the V&A Waterfront together.
Speculation has been rife that AKA and Zinhle were back together, but they've both denied the claims.
They said they were just happily co-parenting.
Hmm, even when Kairo's not around?
Oprah Winfrey has paid glowing tribute to Madiba during a women's event in Soweto.


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Alex is a partner at Farris practising labour and employment law.
Alex advises employers in all areas of law that relate to the employment relationship, in both union and non-union settings. He works with clients proactively and strategically to address often sensitive workplace issues in a timely way, with a focus on organizational objectives.
Alex has an active litigation practice which covers the increasing range of potential legal claims that employers now face. He acts for employers in a number of industries and sectors before administrative tribunals such as the BC Labour Relations Board, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the BC Human Rights Tribunal, the Employment Standards Tribunal, the Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal, the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner, and Collective Agreement Grievance Arbitrations. He also regularly defends employers in wrongful dismissal lawsuits.
Alex devotes a significant part of his practice to advising employers and executives on executive compensation and employment matters. He regularly drafts and advises on employment agreements, incentive and bonus plans, retention agreements, severance agreements, independent contractor agreements and workplace policies. He works with employers when they are confronted with departing key employees and advises on fiduciary duties and non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality obligations. He also advises clients on sickness, disability and accommodation matters.
Alex frequently works with Farris teams on complex corporate transactions providing advice on a variety of labour and employment issues.
Alex regularly acts as a speaker and contributor at seminars and conferences on topical human resources legal issues. He is also a member of the firm's Private Enterprise Advisory Services team, a multi-disciplinary team providing legal services to mid-market privately owned businesses.
Farris Represents Subserveo Inc. in Recent Acquisition by U.S. Company DST Systems, Inc.


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Air Force intensifies testing of high powered electromagnetic weapons
Maria Heibel — 3 Ottobre 2017
BY MORGAN COLE
The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., is turning to radio frequency and microwave experts at companies such as Raytheon and Booz Allen Hamilton to conduct experiments with high power electromagnetic (HPEM) technology for such applications as disrupting computers, aircraft, or electric grids.
HPEM EW has attracted the attention of the U.S. Air Force's Directed Energy Directorate's High Powered Electromagnetic Division because it offers the potential to enhance missile defense and electronic warfare capabilities.
An HPEM integrated weapons system is a type of directed energy weapon that travels at the speed of light, is used covertly, and targets electronic systems instead of people. The system uses an antenna to emit electromagnetic energy from the power source to the target.
Outputs of HPEM technology can either be in wave or pulse form. Waves provide narrow band signal and pulses provide wide band signal. Pulses are the preferred form when there is a large amount of energy being transferred.
Electromagnetic pulses can enter the enemy system through various paths. Some signals will induce currents on external conductors—such as wires and antennas—which then go through to the systems interior. Other signals may couple to exterior metals which reradiate to the internal conductors. Signals can also enter through any holes in the exterior of the system, said the report.
Once the signals have entered the system they can disrupt it either temporarily or cause permanently damage.
If the system is temporarily disrupted, it can either continue to operate or be shut down. However, in either case it is not damaged.
Antenna size determines the amount of energy that can be transmitted to the target from a certain range. The need for these HPEM weapons to be easily portable limits the maximum intensity that can be delivered to a target system.
Raytheon was awarded a $10,000,000 contract for identifying and developing HPEM technologies in May of this year. This technology could complement and enhance mission effectiveness of the cyber and EW communities, said the Department of Defense press release.
These experiments explore parameters including carrier frequency, pulse repetition frequency, and incident power density in order to determine the ideal ratio for electronic warfare operations. This allows them to determine the optimal antennae size that also fits portability requirements and has a strong, long-range, power density.
The goal of these experiments is to maximize the amount of electromagnetic energy that makes it to the enemy target, according to Raytheon.
According to DOD, this will be done through study, analysis, and information scenarios in which HPEM can be used for cyber or EW applications, conduct, experiments, and demonstrate concepts.
Researchers at the Air Force are anticipating this HPEM technology will enhance field experiments such as Black Dart and Vigilant Hammer when integrated with existing cyber and electronic warfare systems.
This project is in support of High Power Electromagnetics Cyber Electronic Warfare Applications program.
Work on this project will be conducted at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., and is expected to be completed by August 2020.
About the Author Morgan Cole is a freelance writer for Defense Systems
SOURCE https://defensesystems.com/articles/2017/09/29/electromagnetic-weapons-air-force.aspx
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Dr. Brooke Miller is researching how students receive their information about current events.
Full Name: Dr. Brooke M. Miller.
Title: Associate Professor of Political Science.
Degrees: Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Mississippi, Master of Arts in Political Science from Baylor University, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from North Georgia College and State University (now University of North Georgia).
"While at Middle Georgia State, I have had the opportunity to teach so many great students! It is an honor and a privilege to be able to teach them every day. This is the best part of job - getting to go into the classroom every day and engage with students. My students are the basis for my latest research with Dr. Rebecca Nees focusing on how students receive their information on current events.
"Furthermore, I have been afforded the platform to further my community service. MGA students in my classes have been generous enough to participate in food drives to benefit local charities, as well as the Georgia Canine Rescue and Rehabilitation. Most of the organizations look forward to the donations from my classes to help them carry out their missions.
"Lastly, being a professor at MGA, I have been lucky enough to be asked to appear as an expert on Fox 24 in Macon - a special thanks to Shannon Lily for all of her reports. More recently, I was interviewed by the Macon Telegraph regarding redistricting. Additionally, I have been given the opportunity to work with various publishers to contribute to different book projects. I have presented papers and been able to participate yearly at the GPSA. And this year, I am looking forward to attending the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference."
"The family feel among the faculty and staff. I like that about our University - the sense of community."
"Being able to do what I love. If you love what you do, you really don't work."
In your opinion, what does it take for students majoring in your discipline to be successful these days? "Students need to know that it takes tenacity to succeed - never quit trying and never give up. You will fail sometimes and that is okay as long as you keep trying."
"Maybe that my role models include Queen Elizabeth and Teddy Roosevelt."


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Hoppy's Cafés strive to provide each and every one of our Gold Coast and Brisbane customers with a quality, friendly service. All of our cafés are designed to suit our customers busy lifestyles, and offer the perfect environment to get your car hand washed while you wait. We make cleaning your car simple and easy to-do, letting you enjoy a delicious coffee while your car gets an excellent hands-on clean.
Perfect for those busy mornings, now you can drive in for your morning breakfast and caffeine fix and drive away clean. Don't let those hot summer days or cold winter afternoons get you down, our temperature controlled cafés are comfortable, delicious and conveniently located. Stop in for breakfast or lunch and get a full-service hand car wash while you enjoy your meal.
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It's a good question? Your appliance has decided to stop working correctly and you're not sure what to do. Repair or Replace? You don't want to waste money on an appliance repair north olmsted service call charge if you don't need to but you also don't want to buy a brand new washer or dryer or refrigerator or dishwasher or any major household appliance if yours can be fixed for a reasonable price. It's a question asked by thousands of people every day.
It is a better built appliance than most (if not all) of the new appliances for sale.
The cost to repair it is less than the cost of a new one.
Reasons 1 & 2 are only valid if you call an honest appliance repair service.
So I guess you can tell how I feel about the new appliances. . Appliances were made to last and they were made simple. It has gradually got worse & worse as time has moved on. I'm shocked at what they are putting out there now. One company that I have believed in and recommended for 30 years, I can no longer recommend when I'm asked what refrigerator should I buy? (Technicians reading this that have been in the business over 10 years know exactly what company I'm talking about).
Have your appliance checked out by an honest appliance repair north olmsted service company before deciding to buy a new one. If after you've discussed it with the technician, you decide to buy new, ask him what brand he would buy if he had to buy that appliance for his family today.
Here's an example of what I would tell my customer if they needed to buy a new refrigerator.
Customer: I need to buy a new refrigerator, what brand should I buy?
Me:Lets First See If yours still can work great!


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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2018 Edition
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Brieanna Nicker bnicker@brookings.edu 202.540.7721
The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) is an academic journal published twice a year by the Economic Studies program at Brookings. Each edition of the journal includes five or six new papers on macroeconomic topics currently impacting public policy.
Below you'll find five new papers submitted to the Fall 2018 journal and presented at Brookings on September 13-14. The papers include a look at the real effects of the financial crisis 10 years after its worst moments, how the Federal Reserve got from the gold standard to its 2 percent inflation target and what should trigger a new framework for monetary policy, and much more.
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The real effects of the financial crisis
Ben S. Bernanke Distinguished Senior Fellow - Economic Studies - The Brookings Institution
In his new BPEA paper, former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke examines why many forecasters failed to anticipate the severity of the Great Recession and what really drove the economy into such a tailspin. Bernanke's research, which is rooted in quantitative analysis of how the 2007-2009 financial crisis affected the economy, argues that the housing bust, while significantly damaging, can't on its own explain why the Great Recession was so bad.
Ben Bernanke
Financial panic and credit disruptions in the 2007-09 crisis
Monetary policy at the effective lower bound
Kristin J. Forbes Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management, Professor of Global Economics and Management - MIT-Sloan School of Management
James D. Hamilton University of California, San Diego
Eric T. Swanson Professor - University of California, Irvine
Janet L. Yellen United States Secretary of the Treasury - United States Department of the Treasury Former Distinguished Fellow in Residence - Economic Studies
Economists refer to episodes of interest rates approaching zero as the effective lower bound or zero lower bound. Previous research in the Brookings Papers on Economic Research showed that rates could near the zero lower bound as much as 40 percent of the time—twice as often as predicted by others. In a symposium for the Fall 2018 edition of BPEA, Kristin Forbes, with the MIT-Sloan School, James Hamilton, University of California, San Diego, Eric Swanson, University of California Irvine, and Brookings Distinguished Fellow-in-Residence Janet Yellen discuss how policymakers should act during episodes where interest rates near the effective lower bound and what it could mean for central bankers' ability to set monetary policy.
Symposium: Monetary policy at the effective lower bound
Kristin J. Forbes, James Hamilton, Eric T. Swanson, and Janet L. Yellen
Comments on monetary policy at the effective lower bound
Janet L. Yellen
Should the Fed regularly evaluate its monetary policy framework?
Jeffrey Fuhrer Executive Vice President & Senior Policy Advisor - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Giovanni Olivei Vice President and Economist Research - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Geoffrey Tootell Executive Vice President & Director of Research - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Eric Rosengren President - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Boston Federal Reserve Bank economists Jeff Fuhrer, Giovanni Olivei, Geoffrey Tootell, and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren ask when and how the Fed should re-evaluate its monetary policy framework. "The question," the authors write, "is not whether the framework can or should change, but what are the appropriate triggers for such changes and what process might best aid the central bank in considering how to change it."
Jeffrey Fuhrer, Giovanni Olivei, Eric Rosengren, and Geoffrey Tootell
The cyclical sensitivity in estimates of potential output
Olivier Coibion The University of Texas at Austin
Yuriy Gorodnichenko Quantedge Presidential Professor at the Department of Economics - University of California - Berkeley
Mauricio Ulate UC Berkeley
Every year, the Federal Reserve and other government agencies, as well as various international organizations, produce regular projections of potential output—that is, a "normal" or long-run level of economic activity. Since the Great Recession, these projections have become less and less optimistic, with many now interpreting the data to suggest the U.S. is seeing a permanent decline in economic output. A new paper from Olivier Coibion of the University of Texas at Austin and Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Mauricio Ulate of the University of California at Berkeley suggests these projections—and resulting assumptions about the future path of the economy—are subject to mismeasurement.
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Mauricio Ulate
Accounting for macro-economic trends: Market power, intangibles, and risk premia
Emmanuel Farhi Professor of Economics - Harvard University
François Gourio Senior Economist and Research Advisor - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Over the past thirty years, rates of return on super-safe public U.S. Treasury debt have been falling. Meanwhile, the rate of return on private sector investment, has either increased or at least remained stable, as can be seen in the high level of corporate profits and stock market returns. Harvard's Emmanuel Farhi and François Gourio of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago look at what's causing the rising wedge between these public and private rates of return.
Accounting for macro-finance trends: Market power, intangibles, and risk premia
Emmanuel Farhi and François Gourio
The first 20 years of the European Central Bank: Monetary policy
Philipp Hartmann Deputy Director General Research - European Central Bank
Frank Smets Director General Economics - European Central Bank
In a new BPEA article, the European Central Bank's Philipp Hartmann and Frank Smets provide a comprehensive view of the ECB's monetary policy over these two decades. The authors provide a chronological account of the macroeconomic and monetary policy developments in the euro area since the adoption of the euro in 1999, and describe the monetary policy decisions from the ECB's perspective and against the background of its evolving monetary policy strategy.
Philipp Hartmann and Frank Smets
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New Durham, New Hampshire facts for kids
New Durham, New Hampshire
Free Will Baptist Church
Location in Strafford County, New Hampshire
44.1 sq mi (114.3 km2)
2.6 sq mi (6.8 km2) 5.98%
59.78/sq mi (23.080/km2)
UTC-5 (Eastern)
New Durham is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,638 at the 2010 census. It is drained by the Merrymeeting , Cocheco and Ela rivers, and is known for Merrymeeting Lake. New Durham is home to the Powder Mill Fish Hatchery. Also located here is the Lions Club's Camp Pride, a camp for children and adults with special needs.
Granted by the Masonian Proprietors in 1749 as Cochecho Township, New Durham was settled in 1750 almost entirely by colonists from Durham. It would be incorporated as New Durham on December 7, 1762. With a somewhat uneven and rocky surface, the town was better suited to grazing than cultivation. Lumber became the chief article of trade, and by 1859 New Durham had five sawmills and four shingle mills. It also had two gristmills, and a gunpowder factory called the Eureka Powder Works. On September 19, 1849, the Cocheco Railroad opened through the town, connecting Dover with Alton Bay.
An early town minister, Reverend Benjamin Randall, founded a new religious denomination in 1780 called the Free Will Baptists, later known as Free Baptists. The church has two buildings in the community, the older built in 1819 on New Durham Ridge.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 44.1 square miles (114 km2), of which 41.5 sq mi (107 km2) is land and 2.6 sq mi (6.7 km2) is water, comprising 5.98% of the town. It is drained by the Ela River , Merrymeeting River and the Cocheco River. New Durham's highest point is 1,700 feet (520 m) above sea level, on the western slope of Copple Crown Mountain, along the town's eastern border. The mountain's 1,868-foot (569 m) summit is in the neighboring town of Brookfield.
New Durham is served by New Hampshire Route 11.
Est. 2015 2,658 0.8%
U.S. Decennial Census
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,220 people, 819 households, and 630 families residing in the town. The population density was 53.2 people per square mile (20.6/km²). There were 1,309 housing units at an average density of 31.4 per square mile (12.1/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.15% White, 0.23% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.54% Asian, 0.27% from other races, and 0.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.41% of the population.
There were 819 households out of which 36.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.2% were married couples living together, 4.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.0% were non-families. 17.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the town, the population was spread out with 27.3% under the age of 18, 4.3% from 18 to 24, 32.8% from 25 to 44, 24.9% from 45 to 64, and 10.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 107.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.5 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $52,270, and the median income for a family was $52,941. Males had a median income of $35,574 versus $28,092 for females. The per capita income for the town was $22,139. About 3.7% of families and 5.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.9% of those under age 18 and 6.6% of those age 65 or over.
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Q: InfoPath People Picker search not working I have a Sharepoint Online (365) form library with a InfoPath form. The form has a People Picker control on it. Previously you could click its Browse button, the search window would pop-up, and you could put in a partial name and search. For example if you put in "James" it would return all the James's in the organization.
But this feature seems to be broken now. Instead it returns "No results were found to match your search item. Please enter a new term or less specific term.". If you type in a complete name of someone it will find it. But I'm sure that the partial search worked before.
Is anyone else seeing this? Perhaps a recent service update has broken this feature?

A: It is still working. i think the problem is with the data connection, if you are trying to publish the form on sharepoint form library please check your connection with your site collection on which you are trying to publish your form.
I tried your same scenario without the connection and it was not showing me any results. but when i setup the proper connection i can see the search window pops out showing all the names related to partial name that i entered.

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Charcoals in winter: China comes calling in Europe – Asia Sentinel/Jakarta Globe
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DUBLIN – Europe is becoming a new horizon for China's business-based diplomacy, less than a year after the European Union overtook the US to become China's second-largest trading partner. Chinese investment expansion is increasingly turning to Europe, and it is finding a grateful audience.
Last September, before the arrival of the International Monetary Fund and an €85 billion bailout offer-you-can't-refuse for the economy once known as the Celtic Tiger, Ireland Prime Minister Brian Cowen tried to sell Chinese investors on the proposition that the country could be a low-tax Anglophone gateway to Europe.
After meeting with a Politburo delegation in Dublin, Cowen said that China's representatives had vowed to be "as helpful as they can to a friend like Ireland in the difficult times that we have." That friendship appears to include a consortium of Chinese investors who are starting work on "an investment gateway to Europe" – an industrial park in central Ireland.
Nor is Ireland alone. Other struggling European economies need the money and the external vote of confidence. Right now Vice-Premier Li Keqiang is touring Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany, and already the visit has yielded some spectacular headlines – if apparent global economic landmarks are your thing.
China will purchase some of Spain's debt and ease pressure on the country's struggling economy, where 40 percent of the country's youth are unemployed, by promising to buy more Spanish wine and agricultural goods as part of US$7.5 billion worth of trade deals signed on Jan. 5 and 6.
The platitudes delivered by Vice-Premier Li in Ireland came amid talks about the proposed multi-million dollar investment park, which is lined up for the midlands Irish town of Athlone. If it comes to fruition, the project could provide around 10,000 jobs – including 2,000 in the initial stages for Chinese construction workers at a time when Ireland's suicidal property bubble has left thousands of builders on the breadline and tens of thousands of newly-built houses unoccupied.
"Right now, we are not sure, however, just exactly what is being planned," conceded Athlone Mayor Sheila Buckley-Byrne. "What the project involves, how much money, how many jobs – these details are yet to be ironed out."
If and when the work gets underway, the end-game will apparently be a showcase-entrepot for Chinese investment in the EU. Ireland's 12.5 percent corporation tax is apparently as much of a draw in China as it is in the US, as seen in Dell, Google, Intel lining up among the multinationals that have made Ireland their European headquarters.
Ahead of Li's visit to the UK, where he is to be accompanied by a retinue of more than 100 business executives, China's ambassador in London wrote in The Daily Telegraph that his country's policy in Europe is to do "what the Chinese proverb says about sending charcoal in snowy weather."
The charcoals in question are the world's largest foreign reserves, around US$2.6 trillion, which China is keen to diversify into currencies other than the US dollar.
China is keen to prevent collapse of the euro, which is being threatened by the debt crisis in Europe, according to Premier Wen Jiabao. Buying European debt would help China move away from the dollar and no doubt buy Beijing support in its struggle with the US over the value of the renminbi, also known as the yuan, which Washington sees as too low and a cause for America's huge trade deficit with China.
Three months ago Wen posed for photos in front of Greece's landmark antiquarian monuments during a European tour in which he reminded Brussels that China is "a friend" to Greece, Spain, Italy and other troubled European countries, proven by Beijing's willingness to help out by buying bonds as other investors fled.
Wen demanded that other European leaders not "pressure China on the yuan's appreciation," perhaps seeing an opportunity to drive a wedge between the US and some European countries on the issue. China's assistance to Europe, though not the Marshall Plan that some pundits have labeled it, is a similar mix of apparent economic altruism masking strategic interest.
China's intervention could enable the rest of the EU dodge a bullet. A Greek or Irish-style crisis in Spain could be doomsday for the euro. The cost of a Spanish bailout, if needed, could be beyond what the rest of Europe is willing to pay, given that the Spanish economy is twice the size of Greece's, Ireland's and Portugal's combined.
Germany has come through the global downturn – really a western problem – in good stead, partly due to rising exports to China. The public mood might not tolerate more German money being spent on another of the so-called PIIGS — Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain.
Ireland's take-up of the IMF/EU bailout depends on the passage of various finance bills over the coming months, and possibly could be derailed by a looming election. The near 7 percent interest sought for repayments of some parts of the Irish bailout has been described as excessive by some in Ireland, so perhaps there is still scope for China to offer a loan, or pitch in on the EU/IMF offer at a lower rate.
The first €5billion of the money will be given to the Irish Government early next week, though full acceptance of the bailout is pending the passage of several finance bills in the Irish parliament over the coming weeks.
Whether or not that happens, China's willingness to buy up European debt should at least lower borrowing costs for the PIIGS quintet, all of which have seen credit ratings agencies drive up the cost of their borrowing on international markets.
While China has yet to confirm details of whatever bond purchases it has made in Europe, there has been ample publicity surrounding more tangible investments. Wen's Greek visit saw China's shipping giant Cosco take over cargo management at Piraeus, the biggest port in the eastern Mediterranean. Other deals included proposed technology exchanges between Huawei Technologies and the Greek telecoms entity OTE and, as with Spain, agreements signed by local food firms to export olive oil to China, where a growing number wealthy consumers offer an expanding market for Western food.
However, the growing ties may not mean European countries will hand over the family silver in exchange for easy Chinese money, even if this is just talking the talk so far. EU industry commissioner Antonio Tajani believes that Europe should establish a new oversight body with powers to block foreign takeovers of strategic European businesses, akin to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, and prevent Chinese businesses, many of which are closely aligned to the country's Communist Party and military, from acquiring strategically-important European enterprises. Li's visits to the UK and Germany should reveal more about how this all could play out in the coming years.
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Peace shattered as marchers and police clash in Hong Kong once again - The Times
Stitched together - Southeast Asia Globe
Low tax, low spend - Southeast Asia Globe
China called out for "extreme hostility" to religion - UCA News
Southeast Asia defies global foreign investment downturn - Asia Times
US defense chief assails China's "toolkit of coercion" - Asia Times
Beijing's big bucks snuff out religious solidarity - UCA News
"Xiplomacy" wins in Europe despite US warnings - Asia Times
Asia-Europe leaders meeting comes after inconclusive Brexit talks - Nikkei Asian Review
Disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist overshadows global financial meeting - Los Angeles Times
Jack Ma slams Western economic models, says Europe over-regulated - Nikkei Asian Review
U.S.-China trade war has yet to hurt rest of Asia - Nikkei Asian Review
EU proposes Asia infrastructure links as challenge to China's "Belt and Road" - Nikkei Asian Review
Shifting US policy leaves Asian allies at sea - Nikkei Asian Review
US and China trade barbs, again, over the South China Sea - Nikkei Asian Review
Space: The next frontier for US-China rivalry - Nikkei Asian Review
Australia seeks new ASEAN ties as US-China rivalry grows - Nikkei Asian Review
Students in east China and Vietnam top rich-world peers - Nikkei Asian Review
Australia to bolster Southeast Asian ties with East Timor boundary treaty - Nikkei Asian Review
Ireland battles with EU rivals for Asia Brexit bonus - Nikkei Asian Review
Asian palm oil producers slam European moves to restrict market access - Nikkei Asian Review
As US votes, Europe and Asia ponder fate of trade deals - Nikkei Asian Review
Apparel brands see opportunity in China's two-child policy - Nikkei Asian Review
China's Xi reinforces warm ties with Hun Sen's Cambodia - Nikkei Asian Review
Sri Lanka-China rapprochement rolls on - Nikkei Asian Review
South China Sea arbitration ruling brings no closure to regional disputes - Nikkei Asian Review
Tribunal's blunt ruling against China fuels South China Sea tensions - Nikkei Asian Review
A century after rebellion, Ireland's leaders face another angry electorate - Los Angeles Times
Taking stock of China's slowdown - Nikkei Asian Review
China slowdown a worry for Southeast Asia - Nikkei Asian Review
US, Russia get terror on the agenda, but maritime rows dominate talks - Nikkei Asian Review
South China Sea issue trumps terrorism - Nikkei Asian Review
Despite terror threat, South China Sea dispute dominates - Nikkei Asian Review
In southeast Asia, Britain hedges against Eurozone troubles - Nikkei Asian Review
Britain seeks far-flung business opportunities - Nikkei Asian Review
Courting China - The Edge Review
Shadows on the ceiling - The Edge Review
Agreeing to disagree - The Edge Review
What happened while Obama was in Asia? - Christian Science Monitor
Quiet continental drift at Asia-Europe summit - Asia Times
Ambassadors say Ireland needs to improve Asia engagement - RTÉ This Week
Could Asia Catch Europe's Cold? - The Diplomat
Blind Dissident Evades Chinese Police, Seeks Asylum at U.S. Embassy - National Catholic Register
China Remains Key Despite Burma's Western Focus - The Irrawaddy
China's new European trade hub: An Irish town of 18,000 - Christian Science Monitor
Leaked cables pre-empt EU-ASEAN meeting - The Irrawaddy
Ireland to Burma, voodoo politics - The Irrawaddy
Irish business leaders meet in Bangkok to try boost commerce with Asia - Irish Examiner
Ireland can learn from Asia - Sunday Business Post
Ireland and Singapore: tigers down - The Washington Times
Following Kosovo independence, Albania tries to come in from the cold - The Sunday Business Post
Violence may damage Serbia's chances of joining EU – The Sunday Business Post
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Robert Perry Lillis (born June 2, 1930) is an American former infielder, manager, coach and scout in Major League Baseball (MLB). Lillis was an original member of the  expansion Houston Colt .45s who remained with the club (renamed the Astros in ) for more than two decades and later became its manager. He threw and batted right-handed and was listed as  tall and .

Early life
Lillis was born in Altadena, California, and he attended Pasadena High School, where he was an All-Southern California shortstop for the baseball team. Lillis played baseball at Pasadena City College and then transferred to the University of Southern California (USC).

Playing career
Lillis signed his first contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in . A shortstop by trade, he spent eight years in the Dodger farm system, buried (along with many others) behind Hall of Famer Pee Wee Reese. In , the Dodgers' first season in Lillis's home city of Los Angeles, he made the Major League team. Lillis never claimed the regular shortstop job — that would go to Maury Wills — and in the middle of the  campaign, he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals. After a half season with the Redbirds, he was selected by Houston in the 1961 MLB expansion draft.

Lillis then spent almost six full seasons as a shortstop and utility infielder for the Astros, serving as a coach for the first two weeks of  before being activated as an infielder. Houston then released him at season's end. Over his ten-year MLB career, Lillis appeared in 817 games and batted .236 with three home runs; his 549 hits included 68 doubles and nine triples.

Coaching and managing career
After scouting and player development posts with Houston from 1968 to 1972, Lillis returned to the Astro coaching staff in 1973 and served under managers Leo Durocher, Preston Gómez and Bill Virdon. On August 10, , he succeeded Virdon as manager with the club in fifth place in the National League West Division with a record of 49–62. Lillis led the team to 28 wins in 51 games and was rehired for full seasons from 1983 to 1985.

Houston never climbed above second place, however, and even though Lillis compiled a winning 276–261 (.514) record during that period, he was replaced by Hal Lanier at the close of the 1985 campaign. The following year, Lanier would lead the Astros to a NL West title. Lillis then joined the coaching staff of a former Dodger teammate, Roger Craig, with the San Francisco Giants, and remained with the team for eleven years (through ).

Lillis is a member of the Pasadena Sports Hall of Fame.

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Another reason behind this change is to scale them across many different screen resolutions without losing quality. For that reason they switched all their buttons to use SVG to render the iconography and Roboto font for text according to Paul Lindner of Google+ team.
There's even some SMIL(Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) animations hiding in there too. All of this is perfect for your new high dpi laptop, tablet or phone.
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If it is only a couple months old then contact Neato for warranty service.
After several months of using the robot with the new capacitor, it still works great. If it gets stuck for a few hours, no problem. It wakes right up when I hit the start button.
Thank you again to the person who discovered this fix.
It´s great that it could be solved to change capasitor.
I have tried many times with the USB trick , with varying results.
2. Hold in the start button on the NEato for a few seconds to do a soft reset.
For me it has wake up in the first try everytime i done this procedure.
I had the same dim green coma problem, I was about to replace the unit completely and only then found this thread... Replacing the c10 worked like a charm. I took it to the local electronics dealer in Amstelveen (Netherlands)who replaced it for me for 3 euros total (also about 3 dollars). Took it apart and assembled it myself. Worked instantly!
Higher voltage rating is higher quality. The voltage refers to what level will damage the part. The failures may be due to under-rated parts or poor quality control. The charger supplies 24v, the battery only 16-17v max (lower as discharged).
I have the same problem, but with the old motherboard (Rev 113). Here I don't have the same capacitor. I have only five of them and not on C10. Do anyboday know, if I replace the five it will also help?
With which capacitor should I replace`?
The rev64 board capacitor C10 was part of the power supply for the cpu and memory IC's, coming from a voltage regulator component. Something similar must exist on the older rev113 board with a different label. The cpu is different so there might be some variation, but voltage regulators are often supplemented with capacitors to smooth the output or whatever. Replacing all the caps should not cause a problem. More the merrier. The other caps are probably for motor power regulation or 5v power to sensors.
As you remove each capacitor on the Rev 113 board, read the value printed on the part and then once all caps that you want to replace have been removed and recorded, you can install the replacements all at one time.
unfortunately replacement capacitors can not be brought back to life Cruz fee, the board is often missing 5V and 3.3V. the photograph is 3 reactor at the top left of the board.
all capacitors in these chains ceramic, the controller power does not come on command. If you force the controller to activate the robot does not turn on the power, it is easier to change the board.
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I have one of the old boards too, my son took it out last night. Question, will a newer board work as a replacement to the older board?
Or better yet what kind of board can I put in to replace this board since it does not look like I can get a board just like it.
There are only two type boards. Rev 64 (newer models) and rev 113, (earlier models) When replacing, you must obtain the board with the same type of User interface ribbon cable. Early models used a friction / compression connector, later models use an actual pinned connector.
vic7767 wrote: There are only two type boards. Rev 64 (newer models) and rev 113, (earlier models) When replacing, you must obtain the board with the same type of User interface ribbon cable. Early models used a friction / compression connector, later models use an actual pinned connector.
Interesting mine looks like the one pictured above but has the pinned connector. It says rev 1 on the back.
I went ahead and bought a used rev 113 from EBay. When it gets in and I do the transplant, I will post the results.
Donkey wrote: FYI, I had the same issue. I replaced my standard 25v 100uF capacitor with a 25v 320uF capacitor for no other reason than it was the only one I had in the garage.
Seems to have fixed the problem...Neato is back to life.
Hi guys, according to this video, the Russian guy shows that you don't actually have to remove the existing capacitor. He just soldered the new one onto C3. Am I able to do that? I bought a 1000uF 35V capacitor, will it work if I just solder it onto C3?
As long as the existing cap is not shorted you should be fine.
mfortuna wrote: As long as the existing cap is not shorted you should be fine.
No capacitors are shorted from what I have noticed. I just thought that this method looked easier and no need to remove the motherboard, just solder the 1000uf 35v capacitor I have onto C3. Hope its that straightforward!
Going to replace C10 with a 220uf/35V capacitor.
Can I get away with not bothering about it?
You should have that part somewhere. This is the grate which fits in a slot behind the dust bin against which the filter will be pressed by suction. It just slides in. You can make a replacement any number of ways I imagine.
Since the filter is also clipped into the bin perhaps it is superfluous, don't know. Perhaps the frame on an old filter could be used, have to check.


Yes, household borrowing has topped the old record reached right before the financial crisis. But that doesn't mean a meltdown is coming.
For the first time since the financial crisis, household debt levels in the U.S. have surged past old records. As the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported, total household debt stood at $12.73 trillion as of March 31, a $149 billion increase, or 1.2 percent, from the fourth quarter of 2016. That put overall household debt $50 billion higher than its previous peak in the third quarter of 2008.
A quick review of related headlines suggests calamity is nigh: "Household debt is dangerously close to 2008 levels," according to CNN. The New York Times ominously reported that borrowing had reached levels not seen since "2008, just as the global financial system began to collapse." The record debt risks "exposing some categories of borrowers to financial strain as they try to keep up with their obligations," the Financial Times intoned.
If you weren't inclined to take a deep breath, the only conclusion to reach is that another financial crisis is imminent, that markets will get eviscerated and that we shall soon all be wandering a post-apocalyptic war zone, trading our first-born children for bottled water.
Anytime a splashy headline contains a frightening veiled warning, we should step back to consider the fuller details. In this case, much of the coverage revealed the usual denominator blindness — looking at one aspect of a complex issue without considering the bigger picture.
GDP: Similarly, you should consider household debt relative to the total economy. In the third quarter of 2008, gross domestic product was $14.84 trillion; as of the first quarter of 2017, annualized GDP was $19 trillion. In other words, the U.S. economy is 28 percent larger today than it was in 2008.
Population: Debt also should be evaluated on a per-capita basis: in 2008, the U.S. population was 304.1 million, according to Census.gov; recent estimates for March 2017 are 325 million, or about 21 million more people.
Debt components: Student loans continued to rise in a straight line from 2008; auto loans, after contracting for roughly 20 quarters, have risen. Credit cards have yet to regain their 2008 peaks, and home-equity loans have drifted lower during the entire recovery.
Debt service costs: Finally, consider what might be the most telling data series of all: household debt service costs as a percent of disposable personal income. As the below chart shows, it reached its all-time highs in fourth-quarter 2007, then collapsed. It has remained at or near 35-year lows ever since.
Headlines designed to inspire anxiety or other emotional responses should be thought of as click bait. When considering new peaks in household debt, it is critical to view the data with proper context.
1. The Liberty Street blog of the New York Fed got this spot on, as did the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
2. The FRED Blog does a nice job explaining the importance of deflating data, putting this into context for both student debt and federal debt.
3. Alternatively, you could use this (nonseasonally adjusted) chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, measuring the ratio peak to trough, showing 99.2 percent in the first quarter of 2008, versus 79.9 percent in the third quarter of 2015.
In addition, while comparable in nominal aggregate size, the composition of current household debt is very different from that in 2008. We pointed out in a recent press briefing that debt balances are evolving; mortgages now have a much smaller share than in 2008, auto and student loans have increased in their share, and balances are increasingly shifting towards more creditworthy and older borrowers. These shifts in borrowing patterns and characteristics of borrowers, paired with the long economic recovery and a strong labor market, have resulted in very low delinquency rates for most types of debts except for student loans.


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A lawyer who represents John Lydon yesterday said that he'd been working for the musician for four years before even being aware of any 1988 band agreement between members of the Sex Pistols that allows for licensing deals to be done if a majority of said members agree. His client, he added, has never been able to find a copy of the agreement in his files.
Lydon's former bandmates Steve Jones and Paul Cook are now seeking to enforce that agreement, of course, in order to issue a sync licence that would allow the band's music to be used in a new TV series based on Jones' memoir 'Lonely Boy: Tales Of A Sex Pistol'. They say that only Lydon is currently blocking that sync deal, but that under the terms of the 1988 agreement he doesn't actually have a veto.
According to Law360, Lydon's lawyer Alexis Grower – a consultant with SSB – told the court yesterday that there was no mention of the band agreement when he first started working for the musician in 2010. He first became aware of it in 2014 when there was a dispute over a deal to allow T-Mobile to use footage of the band as part of a marketing campaign.
It was Clintons lawyer Peter Button – in his role as a trustee of the Sid Vicious estate – who made him aware of the agreement. Grower says that he responded by stressing that the Sex Pistols had always made licensing decisions on a consensus basis, citing examples of previous situations in which one or another member of the band had blocked a licensing request.
He then informed Button that Lydon would likely take the matter to court if the Sid Vicious estate sought to enforce the 1988 agreement in relation to the T-Mobile deal. During his testimony, Grower added that Lydon had tried to find a copy of the agreement in his files but without success.
The fact that the agreement has not been enforced in the past has already come up during the court hearing on the big Sex Pistols sync deal bust up. Cook told the court that the other members of the band had never forced the matter before because they suspected it would result in conflict with Lydon. He added: "Maybe Steve and I have been too nice to John over the years in trying to maintain good relations and … we should have been tougher".
Jones and Cook's representative in court, Edmund Cullen, yesterday stressed that, while his clients had never enforced the agreement, Lydon's team had never formally challenged it either, even once Grower had made them aware of it in 2014.
For his part, Lydon told the court earlier this week that he has no memory of signing the 1988 agreement, that legal documents terrify him, and that he clearly didn't know what he was doing when he did sign the document.
Counter to that claim, in their original lawsuit Jones and Cook said that the agreement was actually instigated by Lydon. Basically, he wanted to sell his North American publishing interests and the majority rule commitment was a quid pro quo for the rest of the band agreeing to that.
The case continues.
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Details about the clinical trials evaluating Imprime PGG combination therapies, including patient enrollment criteria and trial site locations, is available on ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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About 12% of breast cancers are triple negative, meaning they lack hormone receptors (estrogen and progesterone) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). TNBCs have a worse prognosis compared with other breast cancer subtypes.
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Edith Elizabeth Farkas (Gyula, 13 de octubre de 1921-Wellington, 3 de febrero de 1993) fue una investigadora hungaroneozelandeza, especializada en la  región antártica, más conocida por ser la primera mujer húngara y también la primera mujer miembro del personal de MetService de Nueva Zelanda en poner un pie en la Antártida. Además, realizó una investigación de monitoreo de ozono, líder en el mundo durante más de treinta años.

Primeros años y educación
Edit Farkas nació el 13 de octubre de 1921 en Gyula, Hungría. Asistió a la escuela primaria y secundaria en Szentgotthárd y Győr, Budapest. En 1939, Farkas ingresó en la universidad y se graduó en 1944 con una licenciatura de profesorado de Matemáticas y Física por la Universidad Católica Pázmány Péter en Budapest. Emigró a Nueva Zelanda como refugiada en 1949, después de la guerra, donde completó una maestría en Física en 1952 en la Universidad Victoria de Wellington.

Carrera e impacto
Farkas fue meteoróloga e investigadora del ozono. Comenzó a trabajar como meteoróloga en la Sección de Investigación del Servicio Meteorológico de Nueva Zelanda en 1951, donde continuó haciéndolo durante unos 35 años.

Farkas monitorizó el ozono desde los años 50 hasta su jubilación en 1986; ejerció el liderazgo en la investigación de la monitorización del ozono por más de tres décadas. Durante la década de los sesenta se centró cada vez más en el estudio del ozono atmosférico, incluida la medición del ozono total con el espectrofotómetro de ozono Dobson. Formó parte de un pequeño grupo internacional de científicos dedicados al estudio de la capa de ozono atmosférico, dentro del cual,en aquel tiempo fue utilizado mayormente como un traceador de ayuda a los estudios de circulación atomosférica. Su trabajo contribuyó sustancialmente al descubrimiento del agujero de la capa de ozono que cambió el comportamiento mundial hacia la contaminación atmosférica. Su interés en medir el ozono atmosférico llevó naturalmente a la aplicación de su conocimiento a la monitorización de la superficie de ozono como parte de los estudios de la contaminación del aire así como la medición de la turbidez atmosférica.

Fue la primera mujer húngara y también la primera mujer miembro del personal de MetService de Nueva Zelanda en poner un pie en la Antártida en 1975.  Sus diarios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial forman la base de un libro titulado The Farkas Files.

Muerte y legado
Farkas fue la primera mujer en recibir el premio MetService Henry Hill de Nueva Zelanda en 1986, tras su jubilación. Recibió un reconocimiento especial en el Simposio Cuadrienal del Ozono en Alemania en 1988 por su contribución de 30 años a la investigación del ozono. Edith donó al Museo una serie de pertenencias personales y otros objetos relacionados con su carrera, incluidas algunas muestras de rocas de la Antártida, fotografías, publicaciones y la copia original de su novela sobre su estancia en el continente más austral. Luchó una larga batalla contra el cáncer de huesos, y murió en Wellington el 3 de febrero de 1993

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The Art of Leadership
Day after day, the Banking Royal Commission seems to be chipping away at the edifice of trust on which some of Australia's largest institutions are built. In our May newsletter we addressed the subject of how leaders can start to rebuild organisational trust. In response to that blog, the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) asked us to expand on the subject for their August edition of Company Director, which is focused entirely on the topic of trust.
In this newsletter, we're delighted to share the article with you.
We are also excited to share that our Queensland Associate Team is expanding. We welcome Elizabeth Hughes to the team and encourage you to view her profile below.
Virginia Mansell
There are practical steps boards and management can take to restore trust, but they must be ready for the journey.
In our heads, the alarm bells were ringing. As we sat around the table with the behavioural assessment results of the top 40 people at a big financial institution, we could see telltale danger signs which, if left unaddressed, could be explosive for the company.A change of strategy from a new CEO had tilted the culture away from a previously healthy balance of results and customer service. The weight had now shifted dramatically to hitting financial targets — at the expense of doing the right thing. It was a disaster waiting to happen.
We needed to feed these results back to the leadership and board, and work with the executives to highlight the implications of their results. The head of human resources said there wasn't a budget. The CFO said "people stuff" was HR's business. The chair changed the subject. The board director told us they would get on to culture when everything else had been sorted.
Turn the clock forward two years and the same institution has been giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry — and just as damagingly, in the court of public opinion.
Boards have not been immune to the pain. Many in the banking and financial services industry have found themselves in the firing line for the poor governance and for accepting cultures that have seen the public lose their faith and trust in them. So what next? What concrete steps should boards be taking to learn from the sins of the past?
Psychology of change
Critical to the success of any change process is an understanding of the psychology of change.
The Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross describes the process of change as the stages of a "curve". It starts with denial, resistance and exploration, ending with commitment. Some people will journey through these stages rapidly, while others — such as the key stakeholders at the financial institution we were describing earlier — find it difficult to move through the initial stages of denial and resistance.
The upshot is that any attempt to change a culture and rebuild organisational trust must follow the arc of the change curve. Historical precedent shows how it can be done.
1. Address denial by engendering transparency
Denial is hard to address if you can't see it. Boards therefore need to engender transparency at all levels. Entertainment company Netflix, for example, encourages transparency between the CEO, executives and the board in two ways. First, board members periodically sit in on monthly and quarterly senior management meetings, in a listening capacity only.
Secondly, it dictates board communications should be structured as 30-page online memos that include links to supporting analysis and also allow access to all data and information that sit on the company's internal shared systems. They can also ask questions of the authors.
Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings says these practices help the board provide "an extreme duty of care" to the corporation. "The board isn't going to have the confidence to make hard decisions unless they really understand the market and the company," he says. Australian software company Atlassian enshrines transparency in its unambiguous corporate value of "Open company, no bullshit". In fact, the company credits its transparency for much of its achievement. Atlassian is an Australian success story in terms of revenue and growth, and is consistently in the top five of the best places to work in Australia — all of which Atlassian says are a downstream effect of a high-performance culture.
2. Move through resistance and exploration by promoting candour
It can be difficult to get people to tell you what you don't want to hear. For teams to feel the psychological safety required, a standard for honest and open conversations needs to be set at the top, by the board.
Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford, used the common traffic light system in management meetings — a green light meant all was well, orange meant something needed attention and red meant something was critical.
At his first four meetings, he was "awash" with green. He confronted his team, "We are going to lose $18 billion this year, so is there anything that's not going well?" The following meeting, when one of his executives flagged a problem, Mulally congratulated him and asked what the group could do to help out.
Boards can also welcome the bearers of bad news and encourage speaking out, providing protection for whistleblowing and making sure the organisation sees that action is taken as a result of candour. They can also build a trusting and open relationship with the executive team, encouraging discussion, rather than reporting.
An example of how a change in tone from the board can elicit a shift in culture comes from an Australian logistics company we worked with several years ago. When it saw the number of lost-time injuries increase, the board instructed the CEO to reverse the trend. Through cascading the instruction, he accomplished the desired decline in reported injuries. However, it soon became clear that it was only the reporting of lost-time injuries that declined.
By creating a draconian environment where management was hauled over the coals for reported lost-time injuries, the CEO had unwittingly introduced measures encouraging management to game the system. Lost-time injuries were concealed, but crucially, so were near misses and accidents not resulting in lost time, both vital safety metrics.
Things only changed when the board shifted from an inquisitorial tone to an exploratory one, asking questions such as, "What can we learn from near misses?"
When people (including the CEO) felt safe to report accidents and near misses without the fear of retribution, reports initially spiked, but over a period of time, incidents sharply declined.
Businessman and board member David Gonski AC FAICDLife calls this disarming ability to explore, connect and build trust "becoming human". He advocates running board meetings with the CEO reporting extempore on the issues of the day. He also recommends bringing in the next layer of management to test assumptions and perceptions.
3. Develop commitment with leaders who look in the mirror. Set metrics that motivate
Just because an organisation has buy-in to new values-led behaviours, doesn't necessarily mean these behaviours are going to stick. Kübler-Ross highlights the fact that, unchecked, individuals can regress along the behavioural change curve.
A board can take the lead with this by raising its visibility within an organisation and promote "a clear tone at the top in both messaging and action," as recently recommended by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Nonetheless, boards must still rely on the executive to authentically close the gap between the "talk" and the "walk".
APRA's recommendations in this regard include that senior leaders reinforce key behaviours such as, "self-reflection, giving and receiving constructive feedback… and cascading the desired tone at the top in a personal and authentic manner."
The tone at the top needs to echo back from the whole organisation and that means that leaders need to consistently and unfailingly demonstrate the behaviours that define the culture norms. Without that congruence, it becomes impossible to build and sustain trust in the entirety of the organisation.
To make this work, boards need to elevate the importance of competencies such as emotional intelligence by recruiting for them and measuring, tracking and developing them. Of course, that's not all that needs to be measured. To sustain authentic, self-reflective behaviours, boards also need to take a critical look at incentive structures, watching for unintended consequences that encourage undesirable or unethical behaviours.
The first step in this process is defining ethical leadership — a concept that seems to be under assault by a global counterculture. It's hard to be selfless, defy groupthink and be ferociously customer-focused if you're under the blowtorch of short-term profits.
In fact, APRA chair Wayne Byres has gone so far as to recommended rebalancing CEO bonuses away from the generation of short-term profits to rewarding them for good risk management and customer outcomes.
There are no silver bullets here. No magic injections. As with any relationship built on trust, organisational trust is built incrementally, through a relentless and sustained approach and, crucially, with executive sponsorship and direct involvement from the very top.
Virginia Mansell & Mehul Joshi
Mehul Joshi is a Partner with the Stephenson Mansell Group, a former award-winning broadcast journalist for the BBC, and an experienced executive. As a leadership consultant and executive coach, he has implemented successful interventions for some of the world's biggest companies in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Virginia Mansell is Founding Partner of Stephenson Mansell Group, arguably Australia's longest-established executive development firm. Virginia is an author, expert and thought leader in executive coaching, mentoring and leadership.
In addition to her own experience as a business leader, Virginia brings to her role more than 30 years in human resource management, counselling psychology, psychotherapy and organisational consulting and executive coaching.
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This month at SMG
Our Queensland Team is expanding.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Elizabeth Hughes to our team in Queensland as an Executive Coach and Facilitator
Elizabeth joins SMG with 25 years of business experience and extensive knowledge in organisational development, leadership and mindfulness. Elizabeth has worked with Boards, CEOs and their executive teams across resources, construction, retail, professional and financial services, health, education and the public sector.
Elizabeth has a great passion for supporting all leaders – especially women in leadership roles – to develop their leadership style, navigate their career, and operate successfully with confidence and impact.
We are excited to have Elizabeth join us in Queensland adding to our expert team of professional executive coaches and facilitators.
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This month in 'Meet our Team' … Meet Andrew Wynne
How did you first became involved in the coaching space?
I've always been deeply curious about what it is to be human. I initially studied Mechanical Engineering, and worked in that field for several years. Later, it was the excitement of IT that lured me, and for a time, I was fortunate enough to be able to blend both passions together. But whilst the science and precision of engineering, and the structure and process of IT held appeal, nothing was quite as alluring as the subtle complexity that any of these disciplines took on when you added a handful of human beings.
I studied Psychology via correspondence for two years in the late 1990s, but on its own it was pretty dry. But in late 2008, as my management consulting practice really started to take shape, I started to read more and more about the maturing field of coaching. After a long and sometimes frustrating search through many less than credible organisations, I eventually committed to study Integral Coaching. The method seemed to beautifully attend to the individuality of the person in focus, as well as the social context in which he or she was embedded. It included their thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and intentions, as well as everything that was happening to them physiologically. This method effortlessly closed the gap between people and process, and my journey to coaching had begun.
What has surprised you most about working as a coach?
This is a great question… I could almost write a book on this topic. The trust my clients invest in me is always something that humbles me. But perhaps the greatest surprise I have had has been how sometimes it's the smallest change in a coach's behaviour, belief or way of being, can have the biggest impact. I can't talk for anyone but myself, but I remember in my early days, I was pretty fixated on completely blowing my coachees away! Some good supervision set me straight. But it's something I have heard a number of other coaches discussing, and so I guess I am not alone here.
Is there any advice you would give to someone who is progressing their career towards a key leadership role?
1. Seek constructive, grounded feedback. Understanding what you do really well, or what you aren't doing at all, gives you enormous perspective. Then create a solid plan for how you are going to grow, and who you can enrol to support you.
2. Develop your self-awareness. Be still, and listen to your heart. Shining a light on your underlying thought patterns brings understanding of what might drive current behaviour, which in turn brings access to new choices and possibilities.
3. Learn to empower others. "For the great achiever, it's all about me. For the great leader, it's all about them".
As you know we are always growing and learning. Is there any one thing you would like to take the time to learn more about?
I am really excited about working with teams, and in particular, systemic team coaching. Systemic team coaching is a process by which a team coach works in partnership with a team, in order to help them improve how they work together, along with their collective performance.
Working with both the individuals of the group, and the group of individuals, brings a complexity to the coaching that can be amazingly rewarding, challenging and exciting.
What are some of your passions outside of the office?
There are a number of things I love to do that help me to "get out of my head" which is where I find working as a coach tends to take me. Exercise does this for me, so I often take off on long runs, or long swims.
I still really love to work with my hands. It's possibly a link back to a younger, more creative version of myself, and is probably linked to the phase of my engineering working life when I was involved in research and design. This means I am often found in my shed, covered in saw dust as I create something out of wood, or with welding goggles on, as I attempt to create a new piece. Photography is another creative outlet. As is cooking, and pairing wines I have discovered, with whatever it is I am cooking. And then finally, there is mindfulness. I practise this daily, either sitting quietly in the traditional fashion, or more recently, by combining mindfulness whilst doing one of the things I mentioned above, such as woodwork, or cooking.
Where will we find you on your days off?
What's a day off? When I am not working, you might find me on the side of a sports field, screaming for Alex my 14 year-old son. Or back in the shed building something with Matthew, my 16 year-old son (at the moment we are building a new aquaponics system he has been researching online). And no weekend is ever complete unless it involves some time sitting with some of the many friends we are so blessed to have, enjoying good food, wine and conversation.