There's a wide world out there for those who hold a physics bachelor's degree, and the Statistical Research Center (SRC) at the American Institute of Physics is shouting that from the rooftops.
While the allure of academia and research is compelling, students who make physics the focus of their undergraduate years have a wide range of opportunities open to them—as Sigma Pi Sigma members undoubtedly know.
Most undergraduates who immediately enter the workforce are employed in fields other than physics and report high levels of job satisfaction.
Physics undergraduates who enter the military have the highest job satisfaction.
Bachelor's degree recipients who attend a research-heavy school are more likely to continue to graduate school.
Why might these be true? Radiations spoke to Mulvey to find out.
1. Most undergraduates who immediately enter the workforce are employed in fields other than physics and report levels of high job satisfaction.
Of the 41 percent working, most were working in the private sector (65%), mostly in some sort of STEM field, but not necessarily physics. In fact, only 5 percent of those employed in the private sector said they were working in the field of physics.
But that's not necessarily a bad thing, Mulvey says. That's just the reality of the working world. "The larger companies in the private sector who would hire a physicist—let's say 3M. They're going to hire the physics bachelor's for their skills in problem solving, for being a quick learner, for being a bright individual, having good programming skills, and put them to work there. The people doing the higher level physics, that level of work … is going to be done by a PhD physicist….A physics bachelor would not be hired to lead a research project." But their problem-solving skills and general knowledge background qualify them perfectly for engineering and computer science jobs, which together make up 59 percent of the jobs physics bachelor's accept in the private sector.
These bachelor's degree holders are, by and large, happy with their jobs. Overall, more than 80 percent reported being satisfied with their work.
Of the bachelor's degree holders in the private sector, a quarter of them said they were working in non-STEM fields. They were less satisfied with their jobs, but still, just over half reported being satisfied overall, and about three-fourths were satisfied with their job security. Even in non-STEM fields, physics bachelor's find their skills are appreciated. "[Physics] is thought to be a difficult subject and someone who succeeds in it—and it's probably true—can probably succeed in many things," Mulvey says.
And then there are the teachers. Many high school teachers don't think of themselves as working in STEM, even if they're teaching a STEM subject, but almost all physics bachelor's teaching in high schools were teaching STEM, according to the SRC's report. High-school teachers reported high levels of satisfaction with job security and level of responsibility. Overall, 75 percent of high school teachers were satisfied with their positions. Teachers often reported that working with children and helping them understand physics was among the most rewarding aspects of their jobs.
2. Physics undergraduates who enter the military have the highest job satisfaction.
3. Bachelor's who attend a research-heavy school are more likely to continue to graduate school in physics.
In short, the SRC's mission is not to influence or affect policies and programs, but simply to provide good data. The SRC has twelve permanent staff members who together can provide a "beginning-to-end" service—from questionnaire design to statistical number-crunching to writing reports.
What does it mean that, even after 30 years of compiling similar reports, some are still surprised that so many career options exist outside of the ivory tower?
"That the dissemination of these findings is not as good as I would like," he says.


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Honouring a larger than life figure whose modest generosity was pronounced, the Victor Ghirra Toy Drive is back for the 15th consecutive year.
Victor Ghirra Toy Drive a labour of love
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In so many ways, Victor Ghirra was larger than life. But nothing illustrated that more than his devotion to others—particularly kids.
"There were so many heartwarming stories shared about his life, the great person he was, but the one that touched me the most was finding out that Victor had quietly been purchasing thousands of dollars in toys for B.C. Children's Hospital and donating them to needy children who weren't as lucky as his own," says Harvey Kooner.
This year—for the 15th consecutive—Kooner is organizing the annual Victor Ghirra Toy Drive to pay further homage to his late friend, who passed away suddenly in 2007 leaving behind his wife and four young sons.
When asked at the children's hospital, "Who are you, and where are these toys from, which organization," the modest Ghirra, determined not to have the focus on him, would reply: "It doesn't matter. These toys are for the kids and that's all you need to know."
It turned out that Ghirra had been making trips to the hospital for well over a decade. He was purely being himself, never telling anyone what he was up to.
"When I heard (about Ghirra's efforts) it touched me, and I wanted to find a way to honour the man with a golden heart," Kooner explains."For the past 14 years, with help from people like you, 42,650-plus toys have been collected and distributed to dozens of organizations."
So again this year, Kooner is asking for the public to join in by purchasing a new toy and donating it to the cause. Donations can be dropped off at the Richmond Grand Toy Count event from noon to 2 p.m. Dec. 11 at the Riverside Grand Ballroom parking lot (1231 Burdette St.). You're also invited to get your picture taken in the Winter Wonderland photo booth at the drive-thru event.

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For a long time, I have been trying to satisfy my curiosity about China. I read as much as I could—in English and Spanish. I attended a scientific conference in Beijing, and although my Chinese colleagues were happy enough to talk about science, they were disinclined to talk about politics. I read Chinese literature in translation and worked in a small town in central China for a few months. I learned, for instance, that some ordinary Chinese are capable of remarkable acts of disinterested kindness. My lungs suffered the consequences of Chinese pollution. However, I never got close enough to a proper understanding of China—let alone to be able to write about that country or its future contributions to the world.
Jeff Brown's book, China Rising: Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, helped me close that gap.
For one thing, Brown is fluent in Mandarin and was thus able to rely on both external and internal perspectives to construct his narrative. Brown has also lived and worked, in "the belly of the beast" for 13 years. As well, Brown travelled extensively in China, an experience recounted in his 2013 book, 44 Days Backpacking in China. He is at home in China, America, France, and North Africa, and is thus poised to give a multicultural inside look into Chinese society, politics, and culture.
Brown writes passionately, from the heart, and does not hesitate to unmask powerful scoundrels. He obviously finds many things to admire about China, and feels that it, along with Russia, provides our best hope for a better world and for escaping the hypocritical tyranny of the Western Princes of Power (his name for the Controllers of the Invisible Government). And yet his reporting is objective, often balancing the pluses and minuses of Baba Beijing (Father Beijing—Brown's nickname for the benevolently-authoritarian Chinese government).
China Rising consists of three interwoven parts, each complementing and reinforcing the other: The USA and the West, Chinese politics and culture, and the joys and frustrations of living in China.
Brown rightly insists that to understand China, we must understand the West and, in particular, Brown's home country, the USA. He forcefully reminds us of America's rigged elections, corrupt political culture, and sunshine bribery. The real controllers of the USA, he rightly observes, are not its titular leaders but the Princes of Power. These Princes do not shy away from assassinations, from viciously and needlessly impoverishing and enslaving their own people, from scandalously contaminating our information sources, and from risking all of our lives with their reckless nuclear brinkmanship.
Smedley Darlington Butler was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. After decades of service, Butler realized what he had done—"served as muscle for the Wall Street boys", and became outspoken in his denunciations of imperialism. His integrity remains a moral example for others to follow.
The part that captivated me most about China Rising was—China itself.
On my first arrival in China, I remember my dismay seeing photos of Mao Zedong everywhere. China Rising offers an explanation.
The Western media shed crocodile tears about the horrors of Chinese dictatorship; China Rising reminds us of inconsistencies in that self-serving version of reality. Did you know that "Unbiased, Western polling companies, like Gallup and Pew, prove that around 80% of China's people are happy with their lives and leaders. This, versus the capitals of the West, where politicians are routinely polling in the teens and sometimes even in single digits"?
The Tiananmen confrontation "follows the script of CIA regime change operation to the letter. After a month, the CIA decided to bring it to a head: Well organized, well-armed protesters, with materiel that could have only been provided by outside agents, upped the ante of violence with automatic weapons and Molotov cocktails, and Baba Beijing responded by sending in armed soldiers to suppress these violent groups." Until then, it should be noted, the government troops were unarmed. It was only after some soldiers were lynched by the CIA stooges that the government reacted.
Most westerners are likewise misinformed about the contemporary Chinese miracle.
China Rising provides hard-hitting criticisms of China as well.
One of the most readable part of the book is Jeff's experiences, in the 1990s, with "the pathological corruption that eats at the very marrow of" China. A few harrowing experiences capture the flavor of living in a country where contracts, promises, and honor mean nothing to China's 'successful' scoundrels—and they can get away with it. Reading this, you finally understand what an unresponsive political system can do to people, and why there are still, every day, some 400 demonstrations across China.
China Rising is especially entertaining and informative when giving the reader an insider view of day-to-day life in China, and how the authoritarian government of that country accomplishes its goals. For example, to deal with fire hazards in Beijing apartments, the local government first tries the soft approach: public signs and persuasion, asking people to remove combustible litter from the stairways. When that fails, they change tactics—and largely succeed.
I read China Rising with great pleasure, agreeing entirely with the portrayal of both China and the USA and with Brown's ambivalence towards both. Throughout this entire book, I found myself questioning only two points.
The first is a repeated reference to "dark-skinned people" and to racism as the underlying Western motive. On occasion, we encounter the claim that the Princes of Power (the member of the [West's] Invisible Government) do not murder their own people. But the historical record suggests that the Princes are equal-opportunity exploiters. They happily killed white Serbians, Irish, Afrikaners, Argentines, and Southern Brazilians. For a long time their archenemy has been Russia. They targeted, and probably still target, Moscow alone with more than 150 nuclear bombs, and yet, overall, Russians are whiter than Americans. Nor has the conflict ever been anchored in ideology. It would appear that those Princes play the racist and ideological cards to confuse their subjects. Their real underlying motive is lust for power, and any race, any gender, any religion, will serve as cannon fodder or a candidate for genocide.
The second point of divergence concerns Brown's view that "Baba Beijing and the Chinese think in terms of decades and centuries. Americans can't think past the 24-hour propaganda spin and quarterly stock reports." The historical record suggests otherwise. This issue has important strategic implications: it was actually the renowned Sun Tzu who cautioned his countrymen to never underestimate their enemies.
1. Who controls the Bank of China?
2. Is Michael Hudson right, and the Chinese are paying for their own military encirclement? If so, why? Have they been threatened with nuclear annihilation once again if they stop funding the Empire?
3. Why does Baba Beijing collude in Western manipulation of the prices of precious metals? Why is Baba protecting the U.S. dollar? Why did it encourage its people to buy gold—and then stood by while Western bankers once more drove the price down?
4. Why doesn't China, a nominally communist country, pass a law that limits the ratio of wealth of the richest to the poorest person to a modest 100 to 1?
5. Since China is going to lose its trillions of dollar reserves soon enough, why doesn't it use some of that money to save potential allies like Venezuela? Why doesn't it accelerate its shop-for-everything campaign? Why does it nickel-dime Russia, by far its most important ally in its confrontation with America?
6. Why does China massively develop nuclear power, even though this power poses an existential risk to China and the world, and even though, in the long term, it consumes more electricity than it generates?
7. Can China overcome its corruption and authoritarianism? If so, how?
8. Does China have a nuclear second-strike capability? If not, is it working full-steam to achieve it?
9. Wouldn't China be better off if it let go of its authoritarian Confucianism and embraced more elements of its Buddhist tradition?
I agree with Brown that we need to defeat the Princes of Power's totalitarian dream. I hope, with all my heart, that China and Russia survive America's provocative regime-change gambits and nuclear brinkmanship, and that they can outmaneuver the Princes and attain even greater sovereignty than they enjoy now.
I do however love freedom, equality, spirituality, and sustainability. For me, China falls short on all these scores. My own ideal society is far closer to the kind of real democracy that existed in most tribal societies, or, in literate societies, in the Iroquois Federation and, at times, in ancient Athens and her sister democracies. In fiction, one such model is provided by Le Guin's The Dispossessed.
So while real democrats wish the Chinese people all the best, and while they ardently hope for the restoration of a multipolar world, they also recognize that the Chinese colossus is not the answer [at this moment] to humanity's prayers for a better world. Such a world could only be created when enough ordinary people everywhere rise up and fight the Princes of Power.
I highly recommend Jeff Brown's book to anyone interested in a frank, brilliant, no-holds-barred, insightful review of China—where it came from, where it is, and where it might be going.
Dr Moti Nissani is a polymath. His restless mind ranges over many disciplines. He holds degrees in genetics, philosophy, and psychology. He left genetics in 1980, not wishing to carry out recombinant DNA research. Since then, his research and teaching defy specialization, involving such diverse fields as history, politics, media, science education, history of science, the greenhouse effect, and medicine. During the 1995-96 academic year, he served as a Fulbright Scholar at Tribhuvan University, Nepal and in 2000 served as an advisor to that university's honors program. He also authored Lives in the Balance: The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1991 (Hollowbrook Publishing, 1992). In 1932, the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gassett wrote: "Previously, men could be divided simply into the learned and the ignorant, those more or less the one, and those more or less the other. But your specialist cannot be brought in under either of these two categories. He is not learned, for he is formally ignorant of all that does not enter into his specialty; but neither is he ignorant, because he is 'a scientist,' and 'knows' very well his own tiny portion of the universe. We shall have to say that he is a learned ignoramus, which is a very serious matter, as it implies that he is a person who is ignorant, not in the fashion of the ignorant man, but with all the petulance of one who is learned in his own special line." Looking back, I realize now that I've been trying to avoid this modern curse of specialization all my life.
Getting to understand China (and Russia, too) is no idle matter. Buried under constant malicious propaganda, most Westerners, especially Americans, have no idea what is really going on in the world. China, the rising colossus, remains the most enigmatic and subject to distortion. Such mass ignorance can doom our planet, and block any possibility of political renewal, peace, and liberation, at home and abroad. With this much at stake, only truth can prevent a global catastrophe. Arm yourself with the facts by reading CHINA RISING, and do your part to keep greed and insanity from winning the day.
Buy China Rising today, and help spread the truth by filing your own review on Amazon, too! It's a battle of communications we can't afford to lose.
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Ending the "Drug War;" Solving the Drug Problem, The Public Health Approach, a new book by Steven Jonas, enters wide distribution. Outlines different, historically tested approach that does not rely on heavy policing, militarization and erosion of Constitutional rights.
The book is first being published as an e-book, by Punto Press Publishing of Brewster, NY, in April, 2016. A print edition is in development. This is a brief introduction to the book.
The deservedly praised tv series Breaking Bad drew its plotlines from the clash between the pervasive drug culture and the Feds, indiscriminately intent on stopping all offenders. It touched a deep chord in American society.
"Ending the Drug War." That has been a rallying cry for drug policy reformers almost since the "Drug War," aimed at the marijuana, heroin, and cocaine, was first declared by Richard M. Nixon in 1971. In fact there was a National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse whose first report published in 1972 that recommended that marijuana be legalized. But the Nixon Administration would hear none of it. As a former top Nixon aide, John Haldeman, later told us, they wanted to "wage the war" for political, not health-improvement, purposes. And so the "Drug War" has proceeded unchecked for 45 years.
A basic premise of the "Drug War" is that there is a dichotomy among what I call the "Recreational Mood Alerting Drugs," the RMADs. There are the "illicits," primarily marijuana, heroin and cocaine, joined in more recent years by the "white heroin," methamphetamine. And then there are the "licits," primarily alcoholic beverages and tobacco products. While the latter are orders of magnitude more widely used and more harmful to the health of the nation than the illicits, the "Drug War" has managed to maintain that artificial dichotomy since its inception.
I fully agreed with all of the criticisms of the "Drug War" developed by the DPRM. It: a) has been totally ineffective in achieving its publicly stated objectives, b) has a racist basis that has become ever more apparent over the years, c) is enormously costly, d) has led directly to the problem of massive incarceration of minority young men, e) like Prohibition has created a large, very profitable, criminal enterprise which would otherwise not exist, and so on and so forth. BUT, I strongly disagreed with the increasingly narrow focus of the DPRM in how to go about dealing with the "Drug War," which remains in place to this very day.
Even more strongly, as a public health physician I felt that if it were to be possible to effectively deal with the negative health outcomes of the use of the illicits, and there are such, one first had to deal with the much more widespread negative health effects of the use of the licits. Further, one had to recognize that it is the use of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products by children that directly leads, through the "Gateway Drug Effect," not only to the use of those two RMADs by adults, but also to the use by teen-agers and adults of the illicits.
And so, I developed the principal focus of this book: the Public Health Approach to the Drug Problem (PHADP). It is spelled out in detail in chapter 5. The PHADP is based on five important principles: 1) the drug problem is a unity not a duality; 2) the United States has a broad-based Drug Culture (which includes not only the use of the RMADs themselves, but also how both pharmaceutical and over-the-counter drugs are promoted and sold as well as the promotion by state governments of a non-drug but highly addictive behavior, gambling) that will have to be dealt if the drug problem is to be brought under control; 3) RMAD-use, part of human culture apparently since there has been human culture, will never be eliminated, not should any attempt be made to do that; rather the focus should be on reducing the negative health effects of the use to the extent possible, using tried-and-true public health methods which have been shown to work (see below); 4) that at its base dealing with both the "Drug War" and the negative effects of RMAD-use are political/economic problems; 5) that there is a series of major Stakeholders in the maintenance of the "Drug War," which, among others, range from certain political interests, through the currently licit RMAD industries, to the drug cartels themselves, which would have to be dealt with were the PHADP to be introduced and successfully implemented; and thus 6) along with its many negatives the "Drug War" actually interferes with solving the drug problem.
Finally, we have right in front of us in the United States an outstanding example of how the PHADP can be very successful, over time. That is of course, the United States' Public Health Service's National Anti-Smoking Campaign which has been in existence since the publication of the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health in 1964. This, the most successful non-infectious disease control program ever implemented in the United States, has reduced the rate of adult smoking from 45% in 1964 to about 18% presently. And guess what? It did so without locking up even one cigarette smoker.
And so, this is what this book is about. Indeed, "Ending the Drug War; Solving the Drug Problem: The Public Health Approach".
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No more than you can choose the age in which you live, can you live without the age in which you are born; we are all children of our times … and to some degree consonant. The laws of the age of science and technology demand agreement if not homogeneity as a condition of existence: to work and exist means to collaborate within a system in which the actions of each are prescribed. Action is homogeneous when it conforms to the requirements of the system.
Time of Exile (TOE), the long awaited third and closing volume in Gaither Stewart's Europa Trilogy was recently published by our Trepper & Katz imprint. Distribution is being carried out by Ingram/LSI, with Amazon as the chief domestic and international retailer. Robert Prudice is in charge of top tier market coordination.


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Putting Your Way To The Next Claim File?
Last post I wrote about 7 Steps To Effective Problem Solving For Every Claims Professional as taken from Business Insider War Room author Martin Zwilling. In reviewing more of Zwilling's work, I came across Six Ways to Overcome the Urge to Procrastinate that is so applicable to anyone in business, let alone claims professionals, that I decided to include it here.
Jan Yager, in her book, "Work Less, Do More" talks about procrastination as a primary obstacle to efficient time management. She describes how you can grow so busy doing everything but what you should be doing, that you're unaware that you're failing to address what's really fundamental to your success.
Plan your daily activities in advance. Make whatever it is you're avoiding the very first task you do on a given day. Don't start the day by checking e-mail, surfing the Internet, or reading the newspaper. Get a priority task done first every day, then take a break or do some low priority work that you enjoy more.
Set up a personal reward system. Pick a reward that will be a real motivator, something you truly want but have been denying for yourself. For example, as soon as you complete your financial projections, you can call your business partner to skip out for that round of golf he keeps mentioning.
Try creative procrastination. If you are finding your top priority to be too daunting, try tackling the second or third most important items on your to-do list. You will accomplish all your day's priorities, but in a different order. That's better than substituting a trip to the doughnut cart.
Arrange for gaps in your schedule. Build space into your schedule so you actually have some free time that will still permit you to get the priority project done without the tendency to put yourself down or engage in the self-criticism that too often accompanies procrastination.
Face the truth head-on. Take a few minutes to contemplate why you are delaying something. What does the postponement provide? What will it take to get you to act now? Write down the real deadline. Maybe it's time to hire an expert, or assign the task to someone else on the team. Move the ball.
Define a period without distractions. Make a resolution to turn off the phones for the first hour of a day, or close the door to your office to discourage interruptions. Do not let anyone distract you from your priority tasks during these periods.
As someone who fights procrastination on a regular basis, I was particularly happy to get these suggestions. Claims can be a job with new and exciting information at every turn. On the other hand, it can also get repetitive at times requiring another new way to think about old problems.
What are some of the ways you fight procrastination?
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Q: Expand Matlab figures "from up to down" I'm working on a resizable GUI in MATLAB, and, since the coordinates are "upside down", if I want to resize a figure keeping the top border in place and making the bottom border move down, I'm having to recalculate the OuterPosition property and apply, which causes an annoying blinking effect.
Is there some way to use the underlying java objects to accomplish this effect without the blinking?

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WASHINGTON D.C. — As President Obama and Congressional leaders meet at the White House to discuss the impending fiscal cliff, the Peterson Foundation convened some of the country's most influential voices on fiscal and economic issues at a forum in Washington D.C.: Post-Election: The Fiscal Cliff and Beyond.
Featuring conversation and insight from Congressional leaders, two former Federal Reserve Chairmen and other leading policymakers, the forum focused on how to address the fiscal cliff in the context of America's long-term fiscal and economic challenges. It also explored potential solutions developed by five ideologically diverse organizations as part of the Foundation's Solutions Initiative.
"This is a critical moment for our nation," said Foundation Chairman, Pete Peterson. "The fiscal cliff is an opportunity for President Obama and Congressional leaders to bring the nation together with a bipartisan plan that can be implemented gradually, as the economy recovers. Passing such a plan would not only build confidence and boost the current recovery, but also put the nation on a sustainable fiscal path for the long term."
The Peterson Foundation provided grants to six leading think tanks in 2011 to develop comprehensive proposals to address the nation's long-term fiscal challenges. Their plans were presented at the Peterson Foundation's 2011 Fiscal Summit. At today's event, five organizations will present and discuss updated long-term budget plans as part of the second phase of the Solutions Initiative, including specific strategies for dealing with the fiscal cliff.
Plans by the American Action Forum, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Center for American Progress, the Economic Policy Institute and The Heritage Foundation, while varying significantly in specific recommendations, were unanimous in their assessment that we must improve the nation's long-term fiscal path, and all of the plans made changes to avoid the policies implemented under the fiscal cliff.
To read a summary of the different plans, and access the full plans from each organization, click here.
Click here for full biographies of all participants in Post-Election: The Fiscal Cliff and Beyond.
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In the first systematic study of prosopagnosia (PA), researchers led by Ingo Kennerknecht, M.D. of the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Muenster in Germany, recruited 689 subjects from local secondary schools and a medical school and administered a questionnaire to identify those with suspected PA. They found 17 cases of the disorder, and of the 14 subjects who consented to further interfamilial testing, all of them had at least one first degree relative who also had it.
All of the PA subjects revealed that they used up to three different strategies for overcoming the disorder. In the compensation strategy, subjects attempt to recognise people by other characteristics such as voice, gait, clothing or hair colour. In the explanation strategy, subjects have a ready set of excuses as to why they can't recognise someone, such as being deep in thought or needing new glasses. In the avoidance strategy, subjects try to avoid situations where they might be unable to recognise faces, such as large functions or crowded places.
Because of the compensation strategies that those with PA learn to utilise at an early age, many of them do not realise that it is an actual disorder or even realise that other members of their family have it. "This could explain why this kind of cognitive impairment is largely unknown to lay persons or even to physicians other than neurologists and psychiatrists," the authors state, adding that there are no established diagnostic tools for PA. Furthermore, PA is one of the few cognitive functions or dysfunctions that has only one symptom and is inherited, the authors note.
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You have our blessing, Bless Online exits Early Access and goes free-to-play on Steam this month
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Today, Neowiz Bless Studio has announced that its MMORPG Bless Online will leave Early Access on Steam and have a full free-to-play release on October 23. The game will also have Founder bonuses for those who played the Early Access build.
Every owner of the Early Access of Bless Online, even those who purchase the game now before its official launch on Oct. 23rd, will receive unique rewards for their patronage. Those who own the Collector's Edition will receive a lifetime premium membership subscription, and all editions receive at least three months of premium membership, along with exclusive skins that can only be obtained as an owner of the Early Access. For more information on what players can expect from Founder's Rewards, visit Neowiz Bless Studio's launch announcement.
"It's been a long road, but we're excited to finally launch Bless Online on Steam this month," said Kiwon Lee, CEO of Neowiz. "We believe that the Free to Play version of Bless Online, with all of the improvements we've made since Early Access began, will mark an auspicious beginning to the game's life here in the west. We have loads of new content coming in, and cannot wait for our loyal players to see what's next for the world of Bless."
Alongside the release date and F2P announcement, Bless Online has received another significant patch ahead of launch. The Patala Raid, targeted at high-level players, makes its way into the game accompanied by all new bosses and loot.
What's more, players of all levels will be able to join in celebrating the spooktacular holiday season in the world of Bless with events held Oct. 4th through Nov. 7th. Boasting Jack-o-Lanterns, Halloween-themed costumes, a special login event, and even more tricks and treats, be sure to read the details on the full Patala Raid and Halloween Update.
Check out the trailer, read up on Austin's preview of Bless Online, and stay tuned for more news here on Gaming Trend.
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Corning has begun a pre-emptive strike against a competitor to Gorilla Glass, its product widely used in the displays of many smartphones.
The company has posted an article to the Web previewing the next generation of its product, as well as a stress-test video.
In its article, Corning maintained that Gorilla Glass has a number of benefits over sapphire as the cover glass for mobile devices, such as smartphones. It asserts that Gorilla Glass is lighter than sapphire; consumes less energy and costs less to produce; is brighter; is thinner so it can be curved and more responsive to touch; and is stronger.
In a stress test, Corning shows a smartphone-sized, 1mm thick sheet of sapphire breaking after 161 pounds of pressure is applied to it, while the Gorilla Glass remains unbroken after 436 pound of pressure is applied to it.
"Discussion seems to center around sapphire as an obvious solution for a cover material," Corning Senior Vice President Jeffrey W. Evenson explained in the company's article.
"What would people say if someone invented a cover that was about half the weight, used 99 percent less energy to make, provided brighter displays, and cost less than a tenth of sapphire?" he asked. "I think they'd say that sapphire was in real trouble."
"It so happens that we at Corning already invented that cover--and it's called Gorilla Glass," he said.
While Corning's test suggests that Gorilla Glass may be more resistant to sheer pressure, the claims don't address a major draw for sapphire screens. One of the applications for sapphire has been in high-end watches because it's immune to scratching. Only diamond or other sapphire can scratch sapphire.
Corning does have something to say about those watches, however.
"Those covers are much smaller than a mobile phone and are two to three times thicker than Gorilla Glass," James R. Steiner, senior vice president and general manager of Corning's Specialty Materials segment, said in the Corning article.
Sapphire's immunity to scratching is also the reason Apple uses it to protect the iPhone 5's camera lens, and may use it to protect the rumored fingerprint reader in the next version of its smartphone.
While Gorilla Glass has a broad appeal--it's in 1.5 billion consumer electronic devices, according to Corning--sapphire has largely been used in specialty applications: a component in LEDs, sensor windows in aircraft, and military uses.
The barrier to sapphire being used as a smartphone cover isn't strength, but cost, noted Jeff Nestel-Patt, director of marketing for GT Advanced Technology, a maker of sapphire.
"What's kept sapphire from becoming a more mainstream product that you'd find in consumer devices has been related to the cost," he told PCWorld. "But it's coming down in its price and it's now reaching levels where it's viable to start looking at broader, higher volume markets."
A typical smartphone display made from Gorilla Glass costs less than $3, while a comparable sapphire screen would cost $30, although that might come down to $20 in a couple of years because of competition and improved technology.
Because of those costs, sapphire will probably start entering the consumer market at its edges in products that need sapphire's durability and scratch immunity but are not sold in high volumes.
"Things like ruggedized devices," Nestel-Patt said, "products made to operate in harsh envrionments that are produced in lower volumes and are not price sensitive."
He said that his company has enlisted independent testers to take the measure of sapphire. "The results that we're seeing are very positive," he said. "We believe that in terms of durability and scratch resistance it outperforms Gorilla Glass."
Since no head-to-head independent durability test results have been released to date, claims about the merits of the two materials is largely a case of he said, she said.
As smartphone screen sizes get bigger, durability is a big issue, observed David Anderson, director of product marketing for ProtectYourBubble.com, whose insurance lines includes smartphone breakage insurance.
But durability may be a function of design as well as materials.
"We're seeing twice as many damage claims from Samsung S devices than iPhones," he told PCWorld. "We think that has a lot to do with design."
"If you drop an iPhone, that stainless steel rim around it protects the phone if it hits the ground on its side," he explained. "The Galaxy S3 is much more fragile around the edges and is a slick device that can slip out of your hand. It doesn't take much for that glass edge to hit the concrete and break."


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MONDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- While the primary reason for vaccinating children against pneumococcal disease is to guard them against serious diseases such as meningitis and pneumonia, an added benefit of the vaccine is that it cuts down on chronic ear infections and the need for ear-tube surgery.
Recent research suggests that when infants and young children receive the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and the recommended booster shots, the incidence of frequent ear infections may decline by as much as 28 percent. The need for the surgical insertion of pressure-equalizing tubes in the ears went down by as much as 23 percent.
"The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been very successful in combating serious infections in children and is also giving benefits in terms of reducing ear infections and the need for tube surgery," said Dr. Katherine Poehling, a pediatrician at Brenner Children's Hospital at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Results of the study are published in the April issue of Pediatrics. The research was conducted while Poehling was working at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
Different strains of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae are responsible for causing numerous serious illnesses, such as meningitis, some types of pneumonia and the blood infection, bacteremia. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pneumococcal diseases are responsible for the deaths of about 200 children under the age of 5 in the United States each year.
S. pneumoniae is also a major cause of ear infections.
In 2000, a pneumococcal vaccine became commercially available for children under 2. Sold under the brand name, Prevnar, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine was soon incorporated into the routine immunization schedule. It's recommended that infants receive four doses of the vaccine: at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months and the final shot at 12 to 15 months of age, according to the CDC.
For the current study, Poehling and her colleagues compared the risk of developing frequent ear infections or having ear-tube surgery for four different birth groups -- born in 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. Each group included about 37,000 babies from Tennessee and about 7,000 infants from upstate New York.
Less than 1 percent of the 1998-1999 group had received at least three doses of Prevnar. For the 2000-2001 group, that number was up to 75 percent.
When the researchers compared those same groups when the children were 2 years old, they found that the incidence of frequent ear infections declined by 17 percent in Tennessee children and by 28 percent in New York youngsters born in 2000-2001. The need for ear-tube surgery went down by 16 percent for Tennessee children and by 23 percent in New York kids.
In 2001-2002, the incidence of infections and the need for surgery remained the same in New York, but increased slightly in Tennessee. While the researchers aren't sure why that occurred, they suggested that further study was needed to ensure that new strains of the bacterium aren't developing.
The researchers also weren't sure why the New York group seemed to fare better than the Tennessee group. They theorize it may be due to differences in the populations. More of the New York children may have received the full vaccination schedule, according to the study. Other theories are that the Tennessee children may have spent more time in day care or had more exposure to passive smoke -- both known risk factors for developing ear infections.
The bottom line, however, is that "the proportion of children developing frequent ear infections and needing tubes decreased. Children prone to frequent infections are benefiting," said Poehling.
"This is a common organism that can cause really serious disease," said Dr. Nancy Young, head of the section of otology/neurotology in the division of pediatric otolaryngology at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Young said pneumococcal meningitis used to be one of the most common reasons a child would lose hearing. "Since Prevnar, the number of children losing hearing from meningitis has declined dramatically. It's a very powerful vaccination."
"For parents, the reason to get this vaccine is to avoid the more invasive disease, but the reduced ear infections are a wonderful side benefit," said Young.
SOURCES: Katherine Poehling, M.D., pediatrician and associate professor, pediatrics, Brenner Children's Hospital, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Nancy Young, M.D., head, section Otology/Neurotology, division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children's Memorial Hospital, and associate professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago; April 2007, Pediatrics
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Riley Baugus and Laurelyn Dossett.
In the hills and hollows of the Blue Ridge, good and evil are in constant struggle. Demons lurk in the dark forests and the early pioneers are under constant threat. So begins the liner notes for Brother Wolf, the play by Triad Stage Artistic Director Preston Lane. It's filled with epic storytelling, and outstanding original music composed by acclaimed singer/songwriter Laurelyn Dossett. Laurelyn says that when Preston first approached her in search of that authentic sounding score for Brother Wolf she said she knew right away it had to sound like Riley Baugus.
Riley is a musician's musician, and he's highly sought after for bringing out the best of old time American banjo and song. In fact Billboard Magazine said Riley's vocals, "…sound like they've been echoing through the Appalachian Mountains for about 150 years."
He and Laurelyn will perform live for the duration of the run of Brother Wolf which opens Friday night May 9th at 8:00 PM in Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem.
Laurelyn's song from Brother Wolf, "Anna Lee," is featured on the 2011 Grammy-winning Levon Helm CD "Ramble at the Ryman." Riley was a contributor to the Grammy award winning Album Of The Year, "Raising Sand" by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, and his banjo playing was featured on Willie Nelson's Grammy nominated recording "Country Music". On Friday, May 9th this dynamic musical duo will combine their considerable musical forces during opening night for Preston Lane's Brother Wolf at Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem. The show starts at 8:00PM. Robert Kirk recorded the original soundtrack for Brother Wolf recorded live from the theatre at Triad Stage.


Flash, a-ah, savior of the universe. Flash, a-ah, he'll save every one of us!
First thing's first: in case you don't already know, Flash Gordon is not a Horror film, though the deliciously fun blend of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action, and Adventure is still much-beloved across genres and by many movie fans. Debuting to American theaters this week, back on Friday, December 5, 1980, Flash Gordon was hardly an immediate commercial success, though it would ultimately garner a kind of cult following.
Based off the Flash Gordon comics created by Alex Raymond, the film details the story of New York Jets football great, "Flash" Gordon, who must travel to the planet Mongo to stop the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless from destroying Earth. It starred Sam J. Jones (Jane and the Lost City 1987, Ted 2012) in the titular role, along with an impressive cast that featured the likes of Melody Anderson (Battlestar Galactica 1979, Firewalker 1986); Max von Sydow (The Seventh Seal 1957, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 2011); Chaim Topol (Fiddler on the Roof 1971, For Your Eyes Only 1981); Ornella Muti (The Most Beautiful Wife 1970, Oscar 1991); Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights 1987, Hot Fuzz 2007); Brian Blessed (Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace 1999, Alexander 2004); and many more.
Directed by Mike Hodges (The Terminal Man 1974, Black Rainbow 1989), Flash Gordon utilized a campy style similar to 1960s TV serials, attempting to appeal to comic book and serial film fans. Oddly enough, George Lucas – the genius behind Star Wars, of course – had attempted to make a Flash Gordon flick in the 1970s, but unable to acquire the rights from Producer Dino De Laurentiis (La Strada 1954, Breakdown 1997), he moved on to Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. Thank God!
While Flash Gordon would not necessarily be considered a smash hit, especially at the time of its debut, it ultimately grossed double its $20-million budget in North America alone, and would go on to find more commercial success in Europe, where it had especially strong showings in the UK and Italy, in particular. Critics' reviews were mixed on the Space Opera, with some (including Roger Ebert) offering generally positive views while others lambasted the film or dismissed it outright. In fact, poor Jones (Flash Gordon himself) was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.
Despite its lack of universal acclaim, Flash Gordon was noteworthy for many things, not the least of which was its phenomenally infectious soundtrack, which was composed, performed and produced by Rock-n-Roll icons Queen. Seriously, who does not remember that theme song? With orchestral arrangements by Howard Blake, the soundtrack was Queen's ninth studio offering and their first (and sadly last) soundtrack. It arrived to record on December 8, 1980, in the UK, but would not make it to American soil until February 1981. Chock-full of every ounce of the magic that made Queen and Freddie Mercury so universally-beloved, this was a soundtrack that, at times, eclipsed its accompanying film.
So, Flash Gordon was a bit of a mixed bag in 1980. However, nearly forty years later, there are quite a few testaments to the film's ability to influence a new generation. Director Edgar Wright, who created Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, has stated that the film was a visual influence, while in 2012's Seth MacFarlane Comedy Ted, there are blatant references to Flash. Furthermore, Wednesday 13's 2013 track "Hail Ming" is a nod to the film's villain, while Comic Book Artist Alex Ross has referred to Flash Gordon as his favorite film of all-time. In fact, just this year, a feature-length Documentary, entitled Life After Flash, made its world premiere at the Chattanooga Film Festival. Featuring interviews with cast and crew, along with fans, Life After Flash celebrates the classic film while exploring its aftermath.


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These Are the Best & Worst Cities for Singles in the U.S.
Finding love sounds super tiring, but if you feel like you have to do it, we don't want you exhausting yourself in vain. Whether you're looking to experience the profound fulfillment of human companionship, are scared of dogs, or are just looking to save on rent, you'll do yourself a big favor by looking in the right place.
In short, check out one of these cities -- the top cities for singles in America. This ranking comes via WalletHub and compares over 180 US cities across 34 dating-friendliness factors -- taking into account things like the share of the population that's single, the number of online dating opportunities, and the nightlife options per capita. Check out the full ranking here, but we've got the top 10 and bottom 10 listed out below, plus a handy map from WalletHub so you can get the big picture on the country's big love-ready heart.
To use this map, just hover over a location to see its ranking. The darker the dot, the better that city is for singles.
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Here are the top 10
10. Portland, Maine
9. Minneapolis
8. San Diego
7. Chicago
5. Los Angeles
2. Denver
1. Atlanta
Here are the bottom 10
10. Laredo, Texas
9. Yonkers, New York
8. Lewiston, Maine
7. Glendale, California
6. Warwick, Rhode Island
5. South Burlington, Vermont
4. Pearl City, Hawaii
3. Hialeah, Florida
2. Pembroke Pines, Florida
1. Brownsville, Texas
To put this study together, WalletHub compared the top 150 most populated cities in the US, plus at least two of the most populated in each state, across three dimensions: 1) Economics, 2) Fun & Recreation, and 3) Dating Opportunities. Those were broken down into 34 weighted metrics and graded out of 100, then added up with the resulting overall scores ranked to make the list you see above. Note that the surrounding metro areas were excluded; these stats only apply to the cities proper.
Atlanta took the top spot overall, with second in Dating Opportunities and ninth in Fun & Recreation. Denver and San Francisco both came in not far behind, but none of those three ranked particularly high in economics, which means dating might be an expensive as well as an exhausting pursuit. To find a reasonable balance between money and a romantic life, you have to jump all the way down to 14 with Tucson, which came in at 29 in Economics, 28 in Fun & Recreation, and 13 in Dating Opportunities. Plus you're less likely to have to date tech bros than if you live in a place like San Francisco.
In dead last is Brownsville, Texas (if you lived in Brownsville and were waiting for love, maybe consider this a sign), which had the fewest online dating option and came in last for dating opportunities. That being said, it sounds like it's pretty affordable. Which is nice.
If you're more interested in money than love, we recommend heading straight to the top cities with jobs paying over $100,000 a year right now.


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Learn more from the Center for Media and Democracy's research on climate change.
Stephen McIntyre is the primary author of the blog Climate Audit, noted for its many articles skeptical of climate change. He is a prominent critic of scientific studies of temperature records of the past 1000 years that show increasing global temperatures. Stephen McIntyre has worked in mineral exploration for 30 years, much of that time as an officer or director of several public mineral exploration companies. "I've spent most of my life in business, mostly on the stock market side of mining exploration deals," he said in 2009.[1] He is a "strategic advisor" to CGX Energy, which describes its "principal business activity" as "petroleum and natural gas exploration"
He has also been a policy analyst for both the governments of Ontario and of Canada.[2] McIntyre was also a headliner at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), a gathering of climate change skeptics in New York from March 8th-10th, 2009.
McIntyre is known to sometimes use the pseudonym Nigel Persaud [3] [4]
2 The Hockey Stick Study Controversy
4 Articles and resources
4.3 External resources
4.4.1 By McIntyre
McIntyre is, according to the Wall Street Journal, a "semiretired Toronto minerals consultant" who has spent "two years and about $5,000 of his own money trying to double-check the influential graphic" known as the "hockey stick" that illustrates a reconstruction of average surface temperatures in the Northern hemisphere, created by University of Virginia climatologist Michael Mann. He initially published two articles in the journal Energy and Environment, but has since published in Journal Of Climate [5], Geophysical Research Letters [6], Atmospheric Science Letters [7] and elsewhere.
McIntyre was also exposed for having unreported ties to CGX Energy, Inc., an oil and gas exploration company, which listed McIntyre as a "strategic advisor." [8] He is the former President of Dumont Nickel Inc., and was President of Northwest Exploration Company Limited, the predecessor company to CGX Energy Inc. As of 2003, he was the strategic advisor of CGX Energy Inc. He has also been a policy analyst at both the governments of Ontario and of Canada. [9]
At the 2007 Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, McIntyre gave a joint presentation on hurricanes and climate change with Roger Pielke Jr.[10]
The Hockey Stick Study Controversy
Stephen McIntyre is especially known for his critique of Michael E. Mann's hockey stick study, a "reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years based on records captured in tree rings, corals and other markers," which shows temperatures swinging sharply upward in the 20th century.[11] Articles written by McIntyre, along with colleague Ross McKitrick, critical of Mann's hockey stick study led to congressional inquiry into the scientific methods of the studies. Independent research has found that McIntyre's critique may have "limited significance." Researchers at the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht, Germany, confirmed "a glitch" in Dr. Mann's work but "found this glitch to be of very minor significance."[12] The (USA) National Research Council responded to a request from Congress and concluded after a thorough study that the scientific evidence then available generally supported Mann's analysis, noting in particular that the global warming of the last few decades exceeded that of any comparable period in the past 400 years, although less confidence could be placed on earlier periods [13]. The issue was addressed in the Fourth IPPC Report which also concluded that Mann's analysis was essentially valid and substantiated by more recent work. [14]
In recent years, McIntyre has extended his criticisms to also address the "spaghetti chart"; McIntyre argues that all the new reconstructions which confirmed Mann's earlier results shared some common proxies and that minor changes/updates with regard to proxy selection completely changed the results, again casting doubt on the conclusion that modern-era temperatures are unusual.[1]. McIntyre criticised a more recent paper by Mann et al. to which Mann responded, finally concluding that the " criticisms have no merit" [15]
ClimateAudit.org - weblog associated with McIntyre and McKitrick that seems primarily focused on debunking the "hockey stick" graph. Steve McIntyre is the primary contributor to the site.
Global warming skeptics
Climate change skeptics
↑ 1.0 1.1 Stephen McIntyre, "How do we know that 1998 was the warmest year of the millennium?", Presentation to Ohio State University, May 2008
↑ "CGX Energy Inc. Investors", 2003 Annual CGX Report, accessed February 2009.
↑ "http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/317130345"
↑ "http://wottsupwiththat.com/2013/04/10/congrats-to-all-the-2013-bloggie-finalists-and-winners/#comment-5574"
↑ http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2010JCLI3656.1
↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL021750/full
↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asl.290/full
↑ Paul D. Thacker, "How the Wall Street Journal and Rep. Barton Celebrated a Global Warming Skeptic", Environmental Science & Technology, August 31, 2005.
↑ Roger Pielke Jr. "AGU Powerpoint with Steve McIntyre", Prometheus (blog), December 10, 2007.
↑ Anthony Regalado, "In Climate Debate, "The 'Hockey Stick' Leads to a Face-Off", The Wall Street Journal, February 2005.
↑ Antonio Regalado, "Global Warming Skeptics Under Fire", The Wall Street Journal Online, October 2005.
↑ National Research Council "Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years", The National Academies Press 2006.
↑ Jansen, et al. Palaeoclimate, Chapter 6 of Fourth Assessment Report of IPPC, 2007.
↑ Mann et al. "Proxy-based reconstructions...."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009
Tim Lambert's posts about McIntyre at Deltoid
RealClimate.org on McIntyre. RealClimate is a climate science weblog by working climate scientists, among them Michael Mann.
Memorandum submitted to UK Parliament by Stephen McIntyre http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/memo/climatedata/uc3202.htm
Memorandum submitted to Muir Russell Enquiry dated 01/03/10 http://www.cce-review.org/evidence/StephenMcIntyre.pdf
Memorandum submitted to Muir Russell Enquiry dated 09/06/10 http://www.cce-review.org/evidence/mcintyre_supplemental.pdf
Deep Climate's Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, Part I and Part 2; February 2010. ("McIntyre and McKitrick have published exactly one – that's right, uno – peer-reviewed article in a scientific journal.")
By McIntyre
Steve McIntyre, " Do We Know that the 1990s Were the Warmest Decade of the Millennium?", Presentation to the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), March 9, 2009. (PowerPoint)
Retrieved from "https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_McIntyre&oldid=685988"


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Ed Kasputis interviews Rodney Johnson, one of the two official scorers for the National League West Champion, Arizona Diamondbacks about being an official Major League scorer.
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September 27, 2012 by Edward Kasputis
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Ed and Farley are in Phoenix enjoying the Valley of the Sun. Ed interviews Rodney Johnson, the official scorer of the Diamondbacks about what happened this year with the DBacks while Farley just wants to sit in the hot tub at Chase Field. Our podcast concludes as we head to our last city of the regular season – Anaheim.
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Minicast – Rodney Johnson
December 26, 2011 by Edward Kasputis
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July 7, 2011 by Edward Kasputis
Our PhD Committee is in Phoenix looking at those surprising Arizona Diamondbacks and the 2011 MLB All-Star game. Ed Kasputis interviews Rodney Johnson, official scorer of the Dbacks about their success. We then talk about the All-Star game and Ed interviews Chris Siriano about the House of David Museum. The podcast concludes as we leave the desert and head for the concrete jungle – New York City for the next two weeks. Next week, we'll meet the Mets!
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This is Dbacks week with our podcast featuring the Arizona Diamondbacks being released on Friday, July 8th. Our PhD Committee will be talking about both the Diamondbacks and the upcoming MLB All-Star game that will be played on Tuesday, July 12th at Chase Field. Ed Kasputis will be interviewing Rodney Johnson, official scorer for the Dbacks and Chris Siriano, founder of the House of David Museum.
Working Hard to get the MLB All-Star Game
Arizona Diamondbacks Team Pulse
Listen to our 2010 Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast
Past Posts about the Arizona Diamondbacks
2001 D-backs World Series Victory Parade
D-backs Music Video
Marvelous Marv & The Cactus League
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Who's in First? May 1, 2011
May 1, 2011 by Edward Kasputis
The Professor takes the lead (as usual)
May 1st marks the first measurement of our Baseball PhD MLB Predictions Contest. The concept is simple. Pick the eight teams that will make the Major League Baseball playoffs and get a point for each team that you pick correct. The only score that counts is when the season concludes on Wednesday, September 29th.
This contest has nine participants. Each participant has predicted that the Red Sox and Phillies will make the 2011 playoffs. Consequently, everyone's other six picks will determine the outcome of the contest. If the season were to end on April 30th, the 8 playoff teams would be:
New York Yankees Philadelphia Phillies
Cleveland Indians St. Louis Cardinals
Texas Rangers Colorado Rockies
LA Angels/Tampa Bay Rays Florida Marlins
No Participant has picked the Indians, Rays or Marlins to make the playoffs
Last year's defending champion, Professor Bruce Bukiet currently has four points (Yankees, Rangers, Phillies & Cardinals). In second with 3.5 points (Yankees, Angels, Phillies & Rockies) is Rodney Johnson form playballexperience.com.
4 Participants are tied in third with three points
Andre Lower (Yankees, Phillies & Rockies) from baseballbypositions.com is tied with each member of our PhD Committee with three points each. We'll see in another 30 days if Professor Bukiet's' power of math wins the day again.
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Who's in First – August 1, 2010
August 1, 2010 by Edward Kasputis
Professor Bukiet and Baseball Bob are tied with 4.5 points each
We are four months into the season with Professor Bruce Bukiet from the New Jersey Institute of Technology holding steady. This month Baseball Bob (the smartest man we know) has surged to tie the professor. Both brainiacs have 4.5 points. Both men predicted that the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals would make the playoffs. Currently the Cardinals are tied for first in the NL Central with the Cincinnati Reds. This is how each man got one half point.
Bukiet also predicted that the Tampa Bay Rays and Atlanta Braves would make the playoffs. Baseball Bob has predicted that the Chicago White Sox and San Francisco Giants would make the playoffs. If the season were to end today, all of these teams would make the playoffs.
Tied for third are Baseball PhD's Who and playballexperience.com's Rodney Johnson (Johnson is also the official scorer for the Arizona Diamondbacks). Both man and boy predicted that the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals would also make the playoffs. Who also predicted that the Texas Rangers would make the post season while Johnson predicted that the San Francisco Giants will also still be playing in October.
Can anyone catch Professor Bukiet? The key teams to watch are Tampa Bay and Texas. If both of these teams continue to play well, the Professor's legacy will continue to grow.
Tags: Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Baseball Bob, Baseball PhD, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York Yankees, Professor Bruce Bukiet, Rodney Johnson, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Texas Rangers, Who, Who's in First
Who's in First – July 1, 2010
Professor Bukiet and Ed Kasputis are tied with 4 points each
What a difference three months make! On April 2nd, our PhD committee along with Professor Bruce Bukiet and Rodney Johnson made their 2010 Major League predictions. Thirty days ago, Professor Bruce Bukiet from the New Jersey Institute of Technology had the most accurate predictions.
After three months of baseball, Professor Bukiet and Ed Kasputis are tied for the lead with 4 points out of a possible 8. Both men predicted that the New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves would make the playoffs. Bukiet also predicted that the Texas Rangers would make the playoffs while Kasputis predicted that the Boston Red Sox would make the post season.
Baseball Bob and I Don't Know are tied for third place with three points each. Our 2010 Major League predictions will be measured again on August 1, 2010.
Tags: 2010 MLB Predictions, Atlanta Braves, Baseball Bob, Boston Red Sox, Bruce Bukiet, Ed Kasputis, Minnesota Twins, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York Yankees, Professor Bruce Bukiet, Rodney Johnson, Teas Rangers
June 10, 2010 by Edward Kasputis
We are in the Valley of the Sun, admiring one of the greatest ballparks ever built, Chase Field. Ed, Farley and Mark explore the Phoenix area while applying lots of sun screen. Ed then interviews Rodney Johnson, official scorer for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ed then gets us pointed toward Omaha as he interviews super fan, Larry Roth about the upcoming College World Series. Our PhD committee closes out the podcast by heading east and traveling back to the future. Next stop, St. Louis – the Gateway to the West.
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Tags: Arizona Diamondbacks, Baseball PhD, Chase Field, College World Series, Ed Kasputis, Farley Dillinger, Gateway to the West, Larry Roth, Mark Rantala, official scorer, Omaha, Phoenix, Rodney Johnson, St. Louis
Who's in First – June 1, 2010
June 1, 2010 by Edward Kasputis
Professor Bukiet takes the lead!
What a difference a month makes! On April 2nd, our PhD committee along with Professor Bruce Bukiet and Rodney Johnson made their 2010 Major League predictions. Thirty days ago, Rodney Johnson from playballexperience.com had the most accurate predictions.
After two months of baseball, Professor Bukiet is in the lead with 4.5 points. Ed Kasputis and Mark Rantala are tied for second with with 3.5 points. Bukiet predicted that the Twins, Yankees, Rays, Cardinals and Braves would make the playoffs. Bukiet earned .5 points since the Cardinals are tied for first with the Reds. Ed predicted that the Twins, Yankees, Cardinals and Braves would make the playoffs. Mark predicted the Rays, Twins, Yankees and Cardinals would make the playoffs.
Our 2010 Major League predictions will be measured again on July 1, 2010.
Tags: Atlanta Braves, Baseball PhD, baseball predictions, Ed Kasputis, Farley Dillinger, I Don't Know, Mark Rantala, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankess, playballexperience.com, Professor Bruce Bukiet, Rodney Johnson, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays
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Article written by Paul D - Feb 1, 2008
Brakes are all too often referred to as the indie 'supergroup' borne out of British Sea Power, Electric Soft Parade and The Tenderfoot. More realistically we should acknowledge them as 4 superb and talented musicians who happened to be in the right place at the right time to bring us a brand new take on punk and guitar based music.
On a chilly night in Oxford I found 2 members of Brakes warming up for the night's entertainment. Eamon Hamilton (singer) was providing acoustic support to open British Sea Power's gig at Carling Academy Oxford and Tom White (guitar) was providing British Sea Power substitute drumming. They were both relaxed and ready to talk Brakes.
We started off with Eamon, as Tom was still soundchecking with British Sea Power. Tom caught up later, having showered, his long black hair still soaking as he risked pneumonia in the freezing outside yard to do the interview.
Soundsxp: As an avid fan, what can you tell us about progress towards the new album?
Eamon: We were holed up in a tiny room in Abingdon, quite near here, for 5 nights. It was bloody freezing! We ended up with 4 new songs and I may be playing one tonight!
Rough Trade have been sweet about it, giving us great support for the albums. We're going to take things really slowly as we feel the 2nd album was too rushed – we weren't pushed, we just rushed it ourselves. We're having a longer gestation period for the next lot of songs, we don't want to go through that kind of panic again!
Soundsxp: Your first album (Give Blood) is considered to be definitive Brakes and the 2nd (The Beatific Visions) more rounded, will the new songs be classic Brakes?
Eamon: 'Classic Brakes' I like the sound of that (laughs). As we went to Nashville for the 2nd album, we're hoping to get to Memphis this time round (laughs again).
I wash dishes to make extra money when the band isn't playing, and I find this is a really good time to create new songs and tunes.
Soundsxp: I can't avoid pointing out the irony in Eamon giving up BSP to concentrate on Brakes only to see that Tom is now playing drums on their current tour as well as fitting in with ESP's commitments…Is it possible to combine so much work and produce really good new music?
Eamon: We're all in it together as British Sea Powers' song goes
Well Tom is a really strong musician, and I hear he's been doing really well. Woody (BSP drummer) hurt his back, and I know how painful that can be as I suffer from sciatica.
Tom: It's been great, but you can only do it for a short while. They (BSP) were asking if I could do the US tour – 59 dates over 3 months – if Woody didn't recover, but I can't afford to lose 3 months of my year I'm afraid. I missed out on the start of the Scottish skiing season with my girlfriend. Woody's back tomorrow so I've got some catching up to do. Electric Soft Parade go to Germany at the end of March to play in the Jägermeister Rock Liga. Touring Brakes, ESP and now this has been pretty punishing over the past couple of years so I'm looking forward to spending some time with my girlfriend and recharging my batteries
I've written a few songs for an ep I hope to release, under my own name, on Drift records in June or July.
Soundsxp: Eamon, your acoustic tour effectively kicks off tonight – What can we expect from it, new and old Brakes songs? or something different altogether?
Well, you can expect new and Brakes songs….played acoustically (laughs uncontrollably). We write songs that are meant to sound like they should be played and sung round the campfire, so it should work acoustically. I have no lyrics yet, I'll be making them up as I'm actually singing the songs. I'll play one new one tonight, two tomorrow and so on.
Soundsxp: Will Eamon be putting in an appearance during BSP's show?
Eamon: (hesitates) I dunno, (hesitates again and smiles sheepishly) hell yeah!
Tom: I'll be joining Eamon to assist with his acoustic set too.
Soundsxp: What have Marc (Beattie – Bass) and Alex (White – Drums) been up to since the end of the last tour?
Eamon: They're both gainfully employed, Alex with ESP and now Marc has started doing sound for Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, so he's really busy with that!
Soundsxp: Can Brakes fans expect to see you at any festivals this summer?
Eamon: We're planning to give the festivals a miss this year, we've done Truck for the past 5 years, I guess it could be renamed the Brakes-Tuck Festival or something.
We don't expect to be playing until the end of the summer at least, as I said we're gonna really take our time over the new stuff
Soundsxp: As a Brummie I'm always asked about the Birmingham record shop you refer to in your song 'No Return' off the 2nd album, does it exist, and if so which one is it?
Eamon: It does exist! and I found it when we played Birmingham Academy a couple of years back. Actually it's a charity shop and it's here from the Academy (draws route in the air). I was looking thro the vinyl albums and there was this compilation album. So you can now tell your Brum friends it's true.
Soundsxp: During the 90's there was a BBC programme called 'Rock Family Trees', based on the music scene in certain UK cities. I reckon you guys could be the focal point for a show based on the Brighton scene, ehat do you reckon?
Tom: Oh wow, yeah…that would be brilliant (starts reeling off loads of interrelated Brighton bands). Send me the format and we can work on it together.
Soundsxp: Have a great show tonight, guys and we look forward to hearing the new songs pretty soon.
Tom/Eamon: Will do, you enjoy it too, we're off to find food and a cocktail bar!
Brakes news can be found on www.brakesbrakesbrakes.com and Electric Soft Parade news on www.electricsoftparade.com
Eamon Hamilton's acoustic tour can be enjoyed at the following venues:
4: Slaughtered Lamb, London
6: Moles, Bath
7: Social, Nottingham
8: Brel Bar, Glasgow
10: Faversham, Leeds
11: Slaughtered Lamb, London
12: Ruby Lounge, Manchester
13: Fibbers, York
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Die Poste Italiane S.p.A. mit Sitz in Rom ist ein italienisches Logistik- und Postunternehmen. Derzeit gehören rund 64 Prozent der Unternehmensanteile dem italienischen Staat.

Geschichte

Die Ursprünge des Unternehmens liegen bei der "Königlichen Post" (Regie Poste) Königreichs Sardinien-Piemont, aus dem 1861 das Königreich Italien entstand. 1862 wurden die Postdienste der anderen italienischen Staaten in die Regie Poste integriert. 1889 entstand das "Post- und Telegraphenministerium" (Ministero delle Poste e Telegrafi), das sich später "Post- und Telekommunikationsministerium" und dann bis zu seiner Auflösung im Jahr 2001 "Kommunikationsministerium" nannte.

Im Jahr 1967 wurden in Italien Postleitzahlen eingeführt.

1997 wurde die Post- und Telegraphenverwaltung aus dem Ministerium ausgegliedert und im folgenden Jahr in eine Aktiengesellschaft umgewandelt. Der Telekommunikationsbereich wurde in Italien schon früher von Unternehmen wie SIP oder Italcable abgewickelt, die in den 1990er Jahren in der Telecom Italia aufgingen.

Corrado Passera unterzog die ehemalige, stark defizitäre und ineffiziente Postverwaltung drastischen Rationalisierungsmaßnahmen. Nachdem die Aktiengesellschaft 2001 erstmals schwarze Zahlen geschrieben hatte, führte sie der Vorstandsvorsitzende Massimo Sarmi in die internationale Spitzengruppe der Branche. 2011 wurden die Postdienstleistungen weitgehend liberalisiert und im Oktober 2014 eine Teilprivatisierung des Unternehmens eingeleitet.

Dienstleistungen

An den rund 13.000 Zweigstellen der Poste Italiane werden nicht nur Versanddienstleistungen angeboten, sondern auch Versicherungs-, Bank- und Telekommunikationsdienstleistungen. Bei der italienischen Post sind heute etwa 180.000 Menschen beschäftigt. Trotz der Liberalisierung der Postdienstleistungen hat die italienische Post heute noch eine monopolartige Stellung in Italien.

Tochtergesellschaften und Beteiligungen

(Stand: März 2021):

Folgende Auflistung zeigt eine Auswahl an Tochtergesellschaften und Unternehmen an denen die Poste Italiane S.p.A. eine Mehrheitsbeteiligung hält:
 BancoPosta Fondi S.p.A. SGR
 Consorzio Logistica Pacchi S.c.p.A.
 Consorzio PosteMotori
 Consorzio Servizi Telefonia Mobile S.c.p.A.
 EGI - Europa Gestioni Immobiliari S.p.A.
 Kipoint S.p.A.
 MLK Deliveries S.p.A.
 Nexive Network S.r.l.
 PatentiViaPoste S.c.p.A.
 Poste Air Cargo S.r.l.
 Poste Assicura S.p.A.
 Poste Vita S.p.A.
 Poste WelfareServizi S.r.l.
 Postel S.p.A.
 PostePay S.p.A.
 SDA Express Courier S.p.A.
 Sennder italia S.r.l.

Aktionärsstruktur
(Stand: April 2021)

Siehe auch
 Liste der größten Unternehmen in Italien

Weblinks

 Website der Poste Italiane S.p.A. (italienisch, englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Italien
Postwesen (Italien)
Mobilfunkanbieter
Telekommunikationsunternehmen (Italien)
Unternehmen (Rom)
Unternehmen im FTSE MIB
Gegründet 1862

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The recent story of the resignation of Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd has plenty to attract the media: big money, a blond actress, allegations of sexual harassment, and admissions of a lapse of ethics. The short version is that Hurd often dined in the company of Jodie Fisher, an HP marketing consultant who later accused him of sexual harassment. Those allegations were investigated and debunked by HP's Board of Directors. But as in many scandals, it was the cover-up that brought down HP's CEO. Inaccurate expense reports submitted by Mr. Hurd were the catalyst for his resignation. I presume that "inaccurate" means at least misleading, and that "resignation" means jump-or-we'll-push-you.
That's too bad for Mr. Hurd, who by all accounts had an otherwise stellar career at HP and elsewhere, and it's too bad for HP, which has prospered under his tenure. But we will now get to see if HP will do as well with a new leader, and this is a good opportunity to question whether tens of millions in compensation is absolutely necessary. One thing that is necessary is the highest standard of corporate ethics. If you have the job as captain of the ship and expect millions in return, you owe your shareholders nothing less.


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I don't know what it is about airplane reservations that cause my customer's phone systems to break but every time I'm about to leave for the airport on a business trip one of my client's old phone systems die.
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Q: Rails Dynamic Reloading Class.subclasses after removing class definitions with remove_const I have a following snippet that metaprogramming create a subclass of class Vehicle:
class Vehicle; end

klazz = Class.new(Vehicle)
Object.const_set('Car', klazz)

Nothing fancy here. As I expected, Vehicle.subclasses would returns me [Car] array.
Next, I removed the class Car definition with:
Object.send(:remove_const, :Car)

and to my surprise, the subclasses are not dynamically reloaded, as:
Vehicle.subclassess.count == 1

I'd love to know how I could reload the subclasses or if the way I use remove_const is wrong. TIA

A: subclasses is not a part of pure Ruby, while remove_const is. What is probably going on here is that the subclasses method is implemented via a counter that gets incremented on the inherited hook. However, since removing constants is not something normally done inside of a code base, there is probably not a related decrement (I do not believe there is a hook for class_removed, so they couldn't have a related decrement easily).
Technically, you could rewrite remove_const to make it figure out what to decrement, but I don't think it would be worth it, nor would it be a smart move (monkey patching core methods is always questionable IMO).


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An innocent child born with tainted blood,
soon to be deprived of godly love.
Smited with words so cold,
destined to be nothing, he was told.
This was the price he must pay,
for coming into this world on that Spring day.
"You're just like your father!", he often heard;
embedded in his soul, lived those callous words.
Within the man-child, anguish became his friend;
entrapped by bitterness, unforgiveness became his sin.
Finding solace in his prison, he was bitten by disgrace;
he stands only now by God's Amazing Grace.
"There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise promotes health." (Proverbs 12:18)
"Wounds scar the flesh, but words scar the soul."
"Words scar more than you think; so think before you speak."
"Anger can make us speak our mind when we should be minding our speech."
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Turkey: opposition television forced to close, 26 days after its launch
A private Turkish television which had relayed the point of view of the pro-Kurdish opposition announced that it had to close less than a month after its launch in Turkey, a country regularly singled out for its attacks on press freedom.
Olay TV, majority owned by businessman and former minister Cavit Caglar, began broadcasting on November 30 and had to cease programming on Friday, December 25. This closure was announced live on the channel.
Cavit Caglar said he made the decision to withdraw his investment because the channel's editorial line was too close to the pro-Kurdish opposition, but the channel's editor accused him of simply giving in to pressure from the government. The channel's executive director, Suleyman Sarilar, explained that it had sought to maintain a balance between all components of Turkish society, very polarized.
"But we saw that we cannot continue this kind of broadcasting (…) Cavit (Caglar) said that he was under intense pressure from the government, and that he could not continue", did he declare. The channel stopped broadcasting after its announcement.
Cavit Caglar, meanwhile, accused Olay TV in a statement of having abandoned his impartiality and being "too close to the HDP (pro-Kurdish party) line", which the government accuses of being a "political showcase" Kurdish separatists from the PKK.
"I am active in center-right politics and I have served my country, and I was unsettled by the Olay TV editorial papers. I told my partner about it, and I offered to restore the balance by bringing other journalists into the chain ", he explained. "When he refused, I informed him that I could not continue and had to withdraw", he concluded.
Turkey is frequently criticized for its restrictions on press freedom and is one of the worst countries in the world for imprisoning journalists, ranked by Reporters Without Borders 154 out of 180 countries. The vast majority of the mainstream media is owned by relatives or allies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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