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Sunday 30 September 2012
Slingbox 350 and 500 show up unannounced in Best Buy, flaunt 1080p and built-in WiFi
You might say Dave Zatz just had a happy accident. While he was hunting for the as yet unofficial Logitech Harmony Touch in Best Buy, he discovered the Slingbox 350 and 500 -- two more living room gadgets that have yet to receive an official introduction. The placeshifting hubs both look to be major improvements over the aging Slingbox Pro HD and Solo, making 1080p streaming available as long as the connection is up to snuff. Those who spring for the 500 should also get long overdue support for WiFi without having to use a wireless bridge, although they may miss the Pro HD's ATSC tuner. Outside of the networking, Sling Media is making expansion its upsell angle: the 500 supports USB media sharing and HDMI, while the 350 has to make do with whatever can pipe through its component and composite jacks. Zatz was unfortunately foiled in an attempt to buy one of the new Slingboxes and couldn't get final pricing, but Best Buy's suggestion to try again around mid-October hints that we won't have long to wait for a much-needed upgrade to our remote TV viewing.
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5 Ways to Make Customer Service a Priority
5 Ways to Make Customer Service a Priority
Posted by Meredith Estep on Fri, Sep 28, 2012 @ 12:45 PM
If you want your business to be successful, you must produce happy, satisfied customers. How do you do this? By making customer service a priority for your company, starting from the main persons in charge to every employee on staff. Check out these five ways to make customer service the priority of your business.
Keep Service at the Forefront
If you want your employees to focus on customer service, then you have to focus on it as well. Keep customer service at the forefront of training and staff meetings. Mount your service philosophy on the wall where all of your employees will see it daily. Present the example of customer service to your staff, by getting out of the executive office and onto the customer floor, where you can interact with your customers directly.
Identify Customer Expectations
Providing customer service means meeting customers? expectations. However, you cannot be successful at this task until you know what those expectations are. Determine what your customers want from your business ? by asking them. Use customer feedback cards or simply spend a week or two talking to your customers when they come in. Through this process, you can identify expectations and then develop a service philosophy that will meet them.
Empower Employees to Offer Best Possible Service
When employees are empowered to provide the best service, they understand how important service quality is to your business. Employees should rarely, if ever, tell a customer they cannot meet their needs. Even if the answer to a customer?s request must be ?no,? service reps should be prepared with a myriad of alternatives that meet needs and remain within the parameters of company policy. If an employee doesn?t know the answer to a customer?s question, he should know exactly where to go to get that question answered.
Recognize Efforts
If service is to be a priority for your business, excellent service efforts must be recognized. There are many ways to recognize outstanding service within your company, from presenting awards and recognition at staff meetings to holding friendly contests among your service team. Any type of award can work, from cash bonuses to recognition in front of the rest of the staff. When employees know their efforts won?t go unnoticed, they will be more likely to give their best effort every single day.
Link Customer Service to Your Bottom Line
Finally, make sure employees understand the importance of high quality service by linking customer service to your bottom line. In most cases, happy customers are the ones that will be more likely to return to your business, purchase more products and service, and tell their friends and family about your company. If you can, use a chart with actual numeric values, showing the direct association between customer satisfaction and your bottom line.
Customer service should be the priority of every business today, but some companies don?t know how to pass that priority down to the rest of the staff. Through these ideas, and many others your management team may develop, customer service can be the reason all of your employees come to work every day and put forth their best effort for your company.
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Cheers as NFL refs return: 'It's good to be back'
BALTIMORE (AP) ? The final pass of the game sailed out of the end zone, saving the regular refs from the same type of call that brought the replacements to the height of unpopularity just three days earlier.
Referee Gene Steratore and his crew didn't have to decide which player came down with the ball, and fans and players aren't going to spend Friday going ballistic that their team was robbed. From the pregame cheers to the final whistle, it was overall a good return for the NFL's veteran men in stripes, who ran a mostly smooth and efficient game Thursday night as the Baltimore Ravens beat the Cleveland Browns 23-16.
"It was great to have those guys back," Ravens running back Ray Rice said. "It looked like they knew what they were doing."
Yes, the real refs are back. Official harmony is restored to the NFL.
The league's experiment with replacement officials ended on "Monday Night Football" when a 24-yard desperation pass on the last play was ruled a touchdown ? even though replays appeared to show it should been an interception ? giving the Seattle Seahawks a disputed 14-12 win over the Green Bay Packers.
The stage was set for something similar Thursday. An fourth-down unnecessary roughness penalty on Baltimore's Paul Kruger ? a good call, given the way he shoved Cleveland's Joe Thomas after the whistle ? gave the Browns one final chance from the 18-yard line.
But Brandon Weeden's 18-yard pass sailed high as time expired. "Too much juice," he said. No controversial ending this time.
"I thought they handled (the game) great," Cleveland coach Pat Shurmur said. "I had all the confidence in the world that this was going to officiated in the right way."
The love for the officials was evident all evening. About an hour before kickoff, they walked on the field and heard cheers from the early arrivals. A few minutes later, Steratore was shaking hands with Shurmur near midfield and getting a hug from Ravens face-of-the-franchise Ray Lewis at the 30-yard line.
Later, when the crew returned, they received a standing ovation and doffed their caps to the crowd. One fan held up a sign that read: "Finally! We get to yell at real refs! Welcome back!"
"The other refs just made dumb calls," said Jessie Riley, a 15-year-old fan wearing an Ed Reed jersey. "I couldn't stand them. Now we won't get robbed; everything will be fair ? hopefully."
When Steratore then turned on his microphone to greet the captains for the pre-game coin toss, the crowd heard him say: "Good evening, men. It's good to be back."
The stadium erupted in a roar.
Steratore and his seven-man crew donned their familiar stripes for the first game of Week 4 after three weeks of replacement officials created moments of chaos throughout the league. They were inevitably serenaded with a hearty round of boos for one call that went against the home team, but there were no headline-making gaffes.
"You know we always pride ourselves in being a face without a name," Steratore, a 10-year league veteran, told The Associated Press about an hour before kickoff. "This will be a little different, but I don't expect it to last too long. And that's the goal ? is that we can let them get through that portion of this. It's happy to be back, it's happy to be appreciated. But then as soon as the game starts, it's happy to disappear again and let the entertainers entertain."
A lockout of the league's regular officials ended when an agreement was reached late Wednesday, two days after the Monday night finish brought debate over the use of the replacements to a fevered pitch nationwide. Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged the Seahawks-Packers game "may have pushed the parties further along" in the talks.
"Obviously when you go through something like this it is painful for everybody," Goodell said. "Most importantly, it is painful for our fans. We are sorry to have to put our fans through that, but it is something that in the short term you sometimes have to do to make sure you get the right kind of deal for the long term and make sure you continue to grow the game."
The deal is only tentative ? it must be ratified by 51 percent of the union's 121 members in a vote scheduled for Friday and Saturday in Dallas ? but both sides nevertheless went forward with the plan to have the regulars back for Thursday's game.
So Steratore hustled to Baltimore, making the 3?-hour drive Thursday morning from his home in the Pittsburgh area. He's usually in place the day before a game, but none of his regular pregame meetings had to be changed because the Browns-Ravens game was at night.
"Very elated to be back," he said. "It feels like being back home."
Steratore, who is a basketball official in the Big East Conference among others, also was fully aware he would be jeered the first time he makes a questionable call ? just like always.
"Without a question," he said. "I've been yelled at by my own children many times, so this won't be any different."
Sure enough, the same fans that cheered the coin toss let out a full chorus of boos when line judge Jeff Seeman toss his yellow flag some 20 yards to whistle Baltimore safety Bernard Pollard for a personal foul in the third quarter. Replays showed it was a good call: Pollard led with his helmet to make contact with a defenseless receiver, costing the Ravens 15 yards in a drive that led to a field goal for the Browns.
Less clear was Seeman's fourth-quarter holding call on Ravens left tackle Michael Oher, who was restrained by a teammate while vociferously protesting his innocence. Replays appeared to show Oher had a valid case for himself.
Steratore's crew nearly made a misstep in the first quarter, incorrectly spotting the ball by 2 yards after a misapplication of the rules following a holding call on the Browns. But two members of the crew caught the mistake and notified the referee before the next snap. A brief huddle ensued, and the ball was moved to its correct spot.
The crew made it clear it wouldn't tolerate the extra shoving and yelling after the whistle that had been frequently permitted by the replacements. Offsetting personal fouls were called on Cleveland's Johnson Bademosi and Baltimore's James Ihedigbo for extracurricular roughness on a punt return in the first quarter, and Shurmur was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after an intentional grounding call against Weeden in the fourth quarter.
Again, replays appeared to validate the grounding call, and Shurmur took responsibility for his loss of temper.
"I can't do that," the coach said. "It's an emotional game, and I got to make sure I keep my emotions in check."
Steratore had to make a trip to the replay monitor for the same play to review a turnover in the first half. The replays clearly showed that Cleveland's Joshua Cribbs had fumbled, so Steratore confirmed the ruling on the field. Cribbs had his helmet knocked off and was injured on the play, creating the game's only lengthy delay.
There were 18 penalties called in the game, mostly the familiar calls for holding and false start. There were two rare ? and indisputable ? whistles for fair catch interference on punt returns, and a hands-to-the-face call on Baltimore's Kelechi Osemele was so obvious that it drew three flags.
Steratore and his crew set up shop in the designated "Officials Locker Room" in the bowels of the stadium. He emerged about 2? hours before kickoff to talk briefly to a stadium official about the wireless on-field microphone the referee wears. He later held a regular pregame meeting with stadium crew, telling them to "make sure we run this thing as smoothly" as they had in his previous visits to Baltimore.
The lockout ended after marathon negotiations produced an eight-year agreement to end the lockout that began in June. However, for the Packers, Redskins, Lions and other teams who voiced their displeasure with calls that might have swayed games, the agreement doesn't change their records.
The commissioner said he watched Monday night's frenetic Packers-Seahawks finish at home.
"You never want to see a game end like that," he said.
The new agreement will improve officiating in the future, Goodell asserted, reducing mistakes like those made Monday and making the strains of the last three weeks worthwhile.
Goodell acknowledged "you're always worried" about the perception of the league.
"Obviously, this has gotten a lot of attention," he said. "It hasn't been positive, and it's something that you have to fight through and get to the long term. ... We always are going to have to work harder to make sure we get people's trust and confidence in us."
The dispute even made its way to the campaign trail, with President Barack Obama's spokesman, Jay Carney, calling Thursday "a great day for America."
"The president's very pleased that the two sides have come together," Carney said.
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AP Sports Writer Rachel Cohen and AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner in New York, AP Pro Football Writer Howard Fendrich in Washington, and AP Sports Writers David Ginsburg in Baltimore, Larry Lage in Allen Park, Mich., Joe Kay in Cincinnati and Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this report.
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Saturday 29 September 2012
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Near the end of the trailer for Wildcats, a 1986 sports comedy with a 13 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, a voice-over actor informs prospective moviegoers that during the film, ?Goldie Hawn tackles the impossible.? The movie is about a woman who coaches a men?s football team, and the implication is that such an endeavor equates to doing that which is undoable.
Sadly, that disembodied voice from the mid-?80s was on to something. Huge numbers of otherwise reasonable people, in 2012, simply take it as a given that women couldn?t possibly coach a men?s sports teams. And so, regardless of ability, talent, or potential outcomes, a woman who aspires to lead a high-level men?s team is actually reaching for the near impossible.
There are exactly zero women working as coaches for the 122 teams playing in the NBA, MLB, NHL, and NFL. Zero head coaches, zero assistant coaches, zero assistant to the assistant coaches. The average NFL team employs 18 coaches. Major League Baseball teams have six coaches and a manager. Most NHL teams carry at least four coaches, and a typical NBA squad has one head coach and four to six assistants. All together, that?s more than 1,000 jobs ... all held by men. To state it another way: 50.8 percent of the U.S. population has virtually no shot of becoming men?s football, baseball, basketball, or hockey coaches at any level that would involve payment for services due.
OK, fine, they have a tiny shot: At the college level, women coach fewer than 3 percent of men?s teams. And three people?Bernadette Maddox, Jennifer Johnston, and Stephanie Ready?represent the entire universe of women who have served as coaches for Division I men?s basketball teams. They were all assistants.
There are, to be sure, some women coaching men?s teams at the more than 36,000 high schools in the United States?in fact, more women than ever before. But if one of these individuals resides in your town, you are in the tiniest minority. Case in point: Natalie Randolph, a teacher at Washington, D.C.?s Calvin Coolidge Senior High School, appears to be one of only two women serving as head coach of a high school football team in the United States.
Women coach women?s teams at all levels. But so do men. In fact, the percentage of women?s college teams coached by women, for instance, has shrunk considerably since the passage and implementation of Title IX. (In 1972, 90 percent of women?s college teams were coached by women?that number is now down to 42.9 percent. And according to this ESPN story, men have been hired for 68.5 percent of the college women?s team coaching openings filled since 2000.) This is by no means meant to suggest that coaching men?s teams should be valued more highly than coaching women?s teams or represent the ultimate goal for a coach. The point here is simply that choosing a coach from an inherently flawed and unnecessarily narrow universe of candidates is probably not the best way to proceed. Not to mention that coaching women generally pays far less than coaching men.
There are all sorts of reasons why women almost never coach men?s teams, most of which fall under the category of Catch-22s: the lack of women actively seeking these jobs due to existing norms that are reinforced at every athletic level, the dearth of female candidates with the type of experience that is valued by those filling positions to coach men?s teams, the lack of female role models who have successfully coached men, the persistence of discrimination and stereotypes that die slowly, etc. Basically: Women never coach men?s teams because they?ve never coached men?s teams. Then there are these loopy justifications that you?ve surely heard, or maybe even uttered yourself: Women don?t play some men?s sports competitively, so they couldn?t possibly be good at coaching those sports; men won?t take orders from, or sufficiently respect, women; women have no place in men?s locker rooms; and, of course, women are way too [insert your stereotype of choice here regarding emotional fragility] to successfully coach men?s teams.
Here is the point in this article at which I would love to combat all of the above with numerous examples of women coaches killing it in men?s sports. Only there?s not much of a well from which to draw. So let?s look at the rationales when applied to men.
The claim that is perhaps trotted out most often is the one about how women couldn?t effectively coach sports such as football and baseball that they don?t play competitively, and how they wouldn?t be successful coaching men in the sports women do play, because they haven?t competed in them against men or at the highest of levels. (Remember: This is not about women playing against men, where, in some instances, strength and muscular advantages are unmistakable factors.)
Rick Majerus was never good enough at basketball to play at the college level, yet he has coached teams to 517 college basketball victories over a 25-year career and sports a .705 winning percentage. Charlie Weiss, though perhaps not a favorite in South Bend, served as offensive coordinator for the New England Patriots during their run of three Super Bowl titles between 2002 and 2005. He also couldn?t cut it as a college player. And there are plenty of others in the same boat. Ken Hitchcock won a Stanley Cup in the late ?90s as the coach of the Dallas Stars. He never played hockey at a high level. Doug Blevins, who served as kicking coach for the Miami Dolphins for six years in the late ?90s and early aughts, had cerebral palsy at a young age and was subsequently unable to walk. He?s never kicked a football. Yet Adam Vinatieri, a Super Bowl hero during the Patriots? Weis-era, swears by Blevins? coaching methods.
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EXCLUSIVE -- Arne Duncan Would Stay for 2nd Obama Term
If President Obama wins a second term, Education Secretary Arne Duncan will stay in his job, he told National Journal?on Thursday. Duncan is likely to spend much of his time in a second term focusing on ways to rein in spiraling college tuition costs?a significant barrier toward the president?s goal of doubling college graduations by 2020.
?I am staying, unless the president gets sick of me,? Duncan said after speaking at a K-12 Education Forum sponsored by the Hamilton Project. That?s unlikely to happen, considering that Obama and Duncan both cut their teeth on politics in Chicago and have a strong personal relationship.
Among Cabinet members, Duncan has an outsized influence on the domestic-policy development within the administration. White House officials view the Education Department?s Race to the Top competitive grant program as one of the most successful ways the administration can encourage change without ponying up tons of federal money. Well over 30 states have embarked on some sort of school-reform efforts in hopes of winning one of the grants. Nineteen states and several districts have won them. Duncan and Obama also are enormously proud that 46 states have signed on to the Common Core State Standards for K-12 schools; they believe Race to the Top deserves some of the credit for that achievement.
A second-term Obama White House is likely to stick to low-hanging fruit in education?tackling issues that don?t require assistance from Congress and don?t get in the middle of the complexities of the teaching profession. Congress was unable to come to agreement on a bill to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law, and is unlikely to do so in the next few years. Some observers say there is more disagreement now on where federal law should be than there was 10 years ago. Congress?s inaction has actually given the White House more power to act on its own. The Education Department administration came up with its own rubric, in the form of No Child Left Behind waivers, to help states get around the law?s outdated benchmarks.
It is telling that Duncan and Obama both kept their distance from the teachers' strike that recently took over their home town, even with one of Obama?s former advisers, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, leading the fight for a longer school day and teacher evaluations. The administration didn?t touch those issues, which are some of the thorniest questions in education. How teachers are treated, paid, and evaluated are issues that could dangerously divide Democrats. When the Chicago strike started, Duncan issued a brief statement saying only that he hoped the parties resolved their differences.
Duncan told the education forum on Thursday that he wants to continue the education projects he started in Obama?s first term, although the $100 billion for education programs that came from the economic stimulus bill in 2009 probably won?t be available the next time around. Duncan said he wants to focus particular attention on the bookends of education: early-childhood development and higher education.
It should come as no surprise that a second Obama administration would put a priority on taming sky-high college tuition. Obama's pledge to tackle college costs has been a big applause line on the campaign trail. He often holds rallies at college campuses, and earlier this year found a message that resonated with students when he pressed Congress to act to keep student-loan interest rate from rising.
When it comes to college tuitions, the Education Department is likely to function a bully of sorts, praising states and universities that make efforts to freeze (or even lower) tuitions and shaming those that keep raising the price. Duncan told the forum that the best tool the White House can use in pressing its policy agenda is ?shining a light? on the best practices. But the Education Department?s websites showing the costs of college also will continue to highlight some of the worst deals for college.
Duncan put it simply: ?We need to crack the nut on higher education.? Middle-class families think college is not for them.?
On early-childhood development, Duncan said, ?Our Department of Education has been part of the problem? in ignoring the issue in favor of K-12 efforts. Attempting to remedy that problem, the department this year devoted a significant portion of its Race to the Top grants to early-childhood education efforts. Although the department likely won?t have a lot of extra money for several years, it can still provide incentives for states to invest in those programs. The good news on that front is that a little money goes a long way. Even a few hundred thousand dollars can shore up a flailing Head Start program in a disadvantaged neighborhood.
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12 Tips To Building A Successful Startup Community Where You Live
Editor?s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at?GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at?Bothsidesofthetable In the first phase of the Internet - roughly from 1995-2005 it was difficult to build massive Internet-based companies outside of Silicon Valley. The big companies to be built and scaled were mostly infrastructure: databases, routers, browsers, spam filters, search engines and the like. Plus the obvious initial pioneers of the web like Yahoo!, eBay, Craigslist and so on. But the infrastructure is now in such a state the we're seeing the emergence of large tech businesses being built all across the United States including Gilt Groupe & Etsy in NYC, Living Social in DC, Groupon in Chicago, DemandMedia & Cornerstone OnDemand in LA. And many more. What does it take to build a successful entrepreneurial community? Can you build one locally? This post explores the 12 components of every successful startup city. Details after the jump.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ZbCFhNkVHuw/
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German Jewish leader deters racist attack with gun
BERLIN?? A leading member of Germany's Jewish community had to point to a gun he was carrying to ward off a young man shouting anti-Semitic abuse, the latest in a string of racist incidents in Berlin that has shocked Jews and city authorities.
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The Central Council of Jews in Germany said its general secretary, Michael Kramer, had endured a barrage of threatening insults from the man after leaving a Berlin synagogue with his two daughters on Wednesday.
"The man threatened us and made clear he would have lashed out if the children had not been there," the council quoted Kramer, 44, as saying on its website.
Kramer then pointed to a gun he is allowed to carry for his personal protection to deter the man from attacking him.
A retired teacher's courageous crusade: Tackling neo-Nazi hate
Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper carried a photograph of the young man that Kramer himself had taken at the time with his mobile phone. The man, with a partially shaven head, has an arm raised towards the phone as though about to push Kramer.
Bild quoted the man as having said to Kramer: "What are you doing here? Go back to where you came from."
Video: Retired teacher tackles neo-Nazi hate in Berlin (on this page)Both Kramer and his adversary are pressing charges against each other, German media said.
Last month, one of the first rabbis ordained in Germany since the Holocaust, Daniel Alter, was beaten up on a Berlin street in front of his young daughter by four attackers, prompting a seminary to advise its students to avoid wearing skullcaps in public.
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Germany's official Jewish population, now at around 120,000, has grown more than 10-fold in the last 20 years, thanks largely to an influx of Jews from the former Soviet Union, but anti-Semitic attacks are commonplace and policemen guard synagogues around the clock.
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Kaiser Permanente Expands its Commitment to Improving the ...
September 27, 2012
Announces Broader Partnership with Safe Routes to School National Partnership, a multiyear program for engaging students, staff, teachers and families in building healthier communities through more walking and physical activity
OAKLAND, Calif. ? With the childhood obesity epidemic a continued threat to the nation?s health, cuts to physical education programs in schools on the rise, and a growing body of evidence supporting walking and increased activity to improve overall health, Kaiser Permanente and Safe Routes to School National Partnership will expand their existing partnership to bring walking and greater physical activity to school communities across the country.
Kaiser Permanente, the nation?s largest integrated health care system, and the National Partnership share goals around the importance of children, staff and parents improving health with walking and activity. The National Partnership will develop a walking-based program, and make it available to the more than 10,000 elementary and middle schools in the Kaiser Permanente service areas and throughout the country. Key components of the program will include a partnership with the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA?), and focus on a biannual walking competition targeting staff, students and their families. This new program will complement Kaiser Permanente?s existing Every Body Walk! campaign.
?Kaiser Permanente has been a long-standing champion of health and wellness in schools and school communities, and we are thrilled to be partnering with them as we expand our programming to children, staff and parents through schools throughout the country,? says Deb Hubsmith, founder and director of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. ?With this commitment we aim to make a big impact on the crisis of physical inactivity by getting more kids walking and engaging in regular physical activity.?
For the past 25 years, Kaiser Permanente has supported health and wellness in schools through several efforts, including its Educational Theatre Program for students and communities, support for school-based health centers, workplace wellness offerings for school teachers and its Community Health Initiatives focusing on Healthy Eating, Active Living. Currently, more than 2 million Kaiser Permanente members spend the majority of their day on a school campus.
?Schools, school districts and the health of the students, teachers, staff and families are of critical importance to Kaiser Permanente,? says Raymond J. Baxter, PhD, senior vice president for Community Benefit, Research and Health Policy at Kaiser Permanente. ?Safe Routes to School National Partnership and Kaiser Permanente share a vision for creating safe, healthy and walkable communities in and around our nation?s schools. By joining forces, we hope that vision can become a reality.?
To raise awareness about the important role that parents, school districts, local governments, police and community partners play in ensuring the safety of children on the trip to and from school, Kaiser Permanente and Safe Routes to School National Partnership are supporting a series of events in conjunction with International Walk-to-School Day on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
About the Safe Routes to School National Partnership
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership is a fast growing network of more than 600 organizations, schools and professional groups working to set goals, share best practices, leverage infrastructure and program funding and advance policy change to help agencies that implement Safe Routes to School programs across the nation. The National Partnership?s mission is to advocate for safe walking and bicycling to and from schools and in daily life, to improve the health and well-being of America?s children and to foster the creation of livable, sustainable communities. For more information, go to: www.saferoutespartnership.org.
About Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America?s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve more than 9 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the-art care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. For more information, go to: www.kp.org/newscenter.
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Friday 28 September 2012
In Kremlin's crosshairs? Russian tycoon Lebedev charged with hooliganism
Russian billionaire banker and newspaper entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev may be about to receive the same treatment as other tycoons who have meddled in politics without the Kremlin's permission: a prison term.
Mr. Lebedev has been charged with "hooliganism... motivated by political hatred," which carries a potential jail sentence of 5 years, in connection with a televised dust-up between himself and billionaire real estate magnate Sergei Polonsky that occurred over a year ago.
Lebedev, a former KGB spy whose family owns a string of newspapers in Britain, admits striking Mr. Polonsky, but insists he was acting "preventively" after being threatened during a heated discussion on the popular talk show NTVshniki. Video of the altercation has been available on YouTube and other sources since last September.
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Polonsky, a former paratrooper, was knocked down in the scuffle, and later said he had suffered a cut on his arm and torn trousers as a result of Lebedev's attack.
The belated timing of the charges, as well as the addition of "political hatred" ? which greatly increases the sentence that can result from a simple "hooliganism" conviction ? has Lebedev's supporters claiming that it's really all about political payback from the Kremlin. Lebedev has always been careful not to oppose Putin directly, but he is part owner, along with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, of the combative opposition weekly Novaya Gazeta, and is major sponsor of the Anti-Corruption Fund set up by opposition leader Alexei Navalny last spring.
Lebedev was also an outspoken critic of the recent prison sentence meted out to three members of the band Pussy Riot who were also charged with "hooliganism" plus the sentence-multiplying addition of "religious hatred" for performing a profane anti-Putin "punk prayer" in Moscow's leading cathedral.
"We cannot accept the charge of 'political hatred.' Lebedev was meeting Polonsky for the first time in his life," and neither man is a politician, says Artyom Artyamov, a close Lebedev adviser.
"It's just ridiculous. It leaves us totally perplexed ... but Lebedev intends to face the charges. He refused to sign an undertaking not to leave the country, but he is in Russia. He considers this a completely illegal operation, but he will appear in court, or show up for interrogation, or whatever they demand," Mr. Artyamov says.
Lebedev's son, Yevgeny, who runs the family's British holdings ? which include the London Evening Standard and the Independent ? issued a statement Wednesday that said "my father has been targeted because of his determination to fight against corruption and to be a crusader for democracy in a country where this has not always been welcome.... I don't condone violence, but the punishment does not fit the crime here. We need more Russians to speak out against injustice, not fewer. I hope this isn't the start of a new crackdown."
The charges against Lebedev come amid a wave of other state actions that appear aimed at intimidating or silencing critics, including the expulsion of a leading opposition deputy from the Duma earlier this month, and a raft of new legislation that has the overall effect of sharply raising the penalties for dissent.
After the televised fist fight between the two tycoons briefly scandalized Moscow last year, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly commented, appearing to put the whole episode down to the ill manners of Russia's new rich. "They hit each other in the ear. That is hooliganism," Mr. Putin said at the time. "Imagine how they would fight over money.... They would tear each other's throats out."
Violence among participants of Russia's often raucous and confrontational TV talk shows is hardly unheard of. One of the worst offenders is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the ultra-nationalist, misnamed Liberal Democratic Party, who frequently punctuates his opinions with physical hostility, but has always seemed to get away with it.
"We believe these accusations against Lebedev are all invented, and ordered from the top," says Genry Reznik, Lebedev's defense attorney.
"The best explanation for this is that they want to scare Lebedev and force him to leave the country. It's a political reprisal against him, pure and simple," he adds.
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Further Renovations of Sports and Recreation ... - Management Blog
Dear Members,
I would like to take this blog entry to inform you of some important announcements for further renovations and maintenance around the Sports and Recreation facilities.
The 3/F Swimming Pool will be closed from October 8 to 24.? As well as the installation of the bubble, we will carry out essential maintenance. During this period the G/F Tropical Pool will be open from 7am to 10.30pm daily.
North Shore Tennis Court will be renovated from mid November to mid January and one court will be kept open for Members.
Prior to the closure of the 3/F Swimming Pool as mentioned above I would like to remind you that our Annual Swim Gala will take place on Sunday, October 7 from 1pm to 4pm.
The Bowling Alley renovation is scheduled to be ready towards the latter part of October and we are also looking forward to introducing a new Table Tennis room on the 7/F in the coming weeks.
Please also look out for our new group exercise classes that we will be introducing in the near future such as Fitball and ViPR (Vitality, Performance and Reconditioning).
Best regards,
Derek
Director of Sports and Recreation
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Moffitt Cancer Center researchers say smoking relapse ... - Health.am
? Pregnancy ? ? Tobacco & Marijuana ? Sep 26, 2012
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, concerned that women who quit smoking during their pregnancies often resume smoking after they deliver their baby, tested self-help interventions designed to prevent postpartum smoking relapse.
?We?d first like to see more women quit smoking when they become pregnant,? said Thomas H. Brandon, Ph.D., senior member at Moffitt and chair of the Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior.? ?However, even among those who do quit, the majority return to smoking shortly after they give birth.?
According to the researchers, nearly 50 percent of pregnant women who smoke quit during their pregnancies, but relapse rates are estimated at between 50 and 80 percent. Not only is this resumption of smoking harmful for the new mothers, but their babies could also be exposed to dangerous environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
?More and more women are aware that it is in the best interest of their child to give up alcohol and cigarettes while pregnant,? said Dr. Brandon, the study?s senior author. ?But, unfortunately, they don?t realize that exposing their infant to ETS can be equally as harmful.?
Infants exposed to ETS are more likely to suffer from respiratory, die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), get middle ear infections, have lower IQ?s and more behavioral problems, and to become smokers themselves later in life.? Also, a mother who returns to smoking loses the progress she?s made to improve her health and life expectancy.
In an effort to find better ways to prevent smoking relapse in new mothers, the researchers recruited 504 women from around the United States.? All were in their fourth to eighth month of pregnancy and had already quit smoking. Half of the women were mailed two existing ?usual care? self-help guides about quitting smoking and the dangers of ETS on newborns.? The other half were sent a series of ten booklets developed at Moffitt, titled ?Forever Free for Baby and Me.? These booklets provided more detailed information about how to stay off cigarettes during and after pregnancy.? Additional support information for the mom-to-be?s partner was also included the series.
By eight months after they gave birth, 70 percent of the women who received the ?Forever Free? series reported that they remained off cigarettes, compared to 59 percent of those who received the ?usual care? booklets.?
The researchers reported that the treatment effect depended upon the women?s household income and age. For example, among lower income women earning less than $30,000 per year who received the ?Forever Free? intervention, 72 percent were not smoking a year after giving birth, compared to 51 percent for women who received ?usual care.? In contrast, women with higher incomes received no additional benefit from the ?Forever Free? booklets.? The effect of age was similar to income, with younger women showing greater benefit from the ?Forever Free? booklets.
?Our booklets were designed to be accessible to a diverse population with respect to content, reading level and graphic design,? said co-author Vani Nath Simmons, Ph.D, an assistant member at Moffitt.? ?We think that they provided novel information and assistance to these women--information that may have already been available to older and higher-income women.?
The researchers concluded that ?Forever Free for Baby and Me,? ?a minimal, inexpensive, self-help intervention? has the potential to reach and help pregnant women and new mothers ? a particularly challenging subpopulation of smokers.
The study was published online in the American Journal of Public Health.
About Moffitt Cancer Center
Located in Tampa, Moffitt is one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, a distinction that recognizes Moffitt?s excellence in research, its contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. Since 1999, Moffitt has been listed in U.S. News & World Report as one of ?America?s Best Hospitals? for cancer. With more than 4,200 employees, Moffitt has an economic impact on the state of nearly $2 billion. For more information, visit MOFFITT.org, and follow the Moffitt momentum on Facebook, twitter and YouTube.
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Geithner pressures SEC on money-market funds
FILE-In this Thursday, June 25, 2009, file photo Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, right, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Mary Schapiro, left,take part in a meeting of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, at the Treasury Department in Washington. Geithner is putting pressure on the Securities and Exchange Commission to overhaul its rules for money-market mutual funds. Geithner sent a letter Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, to members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council seeking their help in pressuring the SEC to change its rules. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
FILE-In this Thursday, June 25, 2009, file photo Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, right, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Mary Schapiro, left,take part in a meeting of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, at the Treasury Department in Washington. Geithner is putting pressure on the Securities and Exchange Commission to overhaul its rules for money-market mutual funds. Geithner sent a letter Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, to members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council seeking their help in pressuring the SEC to change its rules. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is putting pressure on the Securities and Exchange Commission to overhaul its rules for money-market mutual funds.
Geithner sent a letter Thursday to members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council seeking their help in pressuring the SEC to change its rules. Geithner, who heads the panel, said the changes are necessary to protect the system.
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro has pushed for the changes. But she abandoned them last month because three of the agency's five commissioners oppose new rules.
The changes were sought after a big fund collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis. One proposed change would require funds have capital cushions, like banks.
The SEC would be required to adopt the council's recommended changes or explain why it failed to act.
Money-market funds are a linchpin of the economy, holding $2.7 trillion in assets. Individual investors, corporate treasurers and professional money managers rely on money funds to limit losses when stocks plunge.
The mutual fund industry has vigorously opposed an overhaul of money funds. The industry supported less comprehensive restrictions on the funds that the SEC adopted 2 ? years ago. But industry leaders warn that further changes would make money funds so unattractive that investors could pull out of them altogether
Geithner said in his letter that if the SEC fails to act "in a timely and effective manner," the council should take its own steps. Those could include designating some money funds as firms that pose a threat to the financial system if they were to fail, he said. That would put those firms under close oversight by the Federal Reserve.
Without an overhaul of money funds, "our financial system will remain vulnerable to runs and instability," Geithner wrote.
A report issued by the oversight council in July identified money funds as one of the risks to U.S. financial stability. The collapse of the Reserve Primary Fund in 2008 created a scare that led the government to temporarily guarantee money fund assets so investors could be assured they would be protected from losses.
Members of the council also include Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Schapiro and Martin Gruenberg, acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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World powers open to more nuke talks with Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) ? World powers decided Thursday to lay the groundwork for another round of negotiations with Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a senior U.S. official said, but they want a significantly improved offer from the Islamic republic.
Neither the U.S. nor any of its international partners was ready to abandon diplomacy in favor of military or other actions, as Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu has advocated.
The new hope for negotiated end to Iran's decade-long nuclear standoff came after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the foreign ministers of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia ? powers that have sought, over several rounds of talks, to persuade Iran to halt its production of material that could be used in nuclear weapons. All such efforts have failed so far.
The latest stab at a diplomatic compromise collapsed this summer after Iran proposed to stop producing higher-enriched uranium in exchange for a suspension in international sanctions, which Clinton has termed a "nonstarter." The U.S. official said Iran would have to bring a much better offer to the table this time, but stressed that nations were seeing some signs for optimism and that diplomacy remained "far and away the preferred way to deal with this issue."
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's top diplomat, who has been spearheading the international diplomacy with Iran, was instructed to reach out to Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili. Still, no date was set for the possible resumption of the so-called P5+1 talks with Iran, said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she wasn't authorized to comment publicly about the closed-doors meeting at the United Nations.
After looking for a diplomatic solution there, Clinton met later Thursday with Netanyahu one-on-one for 75 minutes at a New York hotel where she was expected to hear the alternative argument for possible military action. The U.S. official said they agreed that Iran must be prevented from becoming a nuclear power, without going into details.
Their meeting occurred just hours after the Israeli leader warned in an address to the U.N. General Assembly that Iran will have enough enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon by next summer.
Pulling out a red marker while holding a poster depicting a cartoon-like bomb that measured Iran's nuclear progress, Netanyahu drew a "red line" across the second-to-last stage of nuclear development, reminding everyone of his demand for President Barack Obama to declare when the U.S. might attack Iran. Obama has rejected the demand.
It is getting "late, very late" to stop the Iranian nuclear threat, Netanyahu said at the United Nations.
"Red lines don't lead to war; red lines prevent war," he said.
Iran insists its program is solely for peaceful energy and medical research purposes, while the U.S. and many Western and Sunni Arab states see that as a cover for developing nuclear arms. But there is disagreement on how to stop Iran, with Obama insisting there is more time for diplomacy and hard-hitting sanctions while Netanyahu presses for a military response.
That disagreement has spilled over into Obama's bid for re-election, with Republican challenger Mitt Romney accusing the president of being weak on Iran. Romney has promised a more credible threat of military action and closer alignment of U.S. policy with Netanyahu's positions ? an argument that resonates with some Jewish and pro-Israel evangelical Christian voters.
Neither presidential candidate, however, advocates clearly for military action.
An attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would surely prompt retaliation. Iran could seek to disrupt fuel supplies from the Persian Gulf, through which about one-fifth of the world's oil flows, or it could support proxies such as Hezbollah to attack Israel or U.S. allies in the Gulf. A worst-case scenario might see the U.S. dragged into another major war in the Muslim world at a time of staggering American debt and continued economic struggles.
Obama and Netanyahu probably will speak by telephone Friday, the White House said, after Clinton's meeting are over. She is doing the bulk of America's diplomatic work at this year's gathering of global leaders in New York, with Obama ruling out any bilateral meetings with presidents or prime ministers so he can spend more time campaigning for re-election.
America's partners also prefer diplomacy.
"We discussed at length the need for Iran to take action urgently," said Ashton, who briefed officials for more than an hour on her recent discussions with the Iranians.
"We were united," said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, refusing to comment on Netanyahu's call for red lines.
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Wigan manager Martinez charged over ref criticism
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updated 9:55 a.m. ET Sept. 26, 2012
LONDON (AP) -The English Football Association has charged Wigan manager Roberto Martinez for publicly criticizing a referee.
Martinez was unhappy about a penalty being awarded to Manchester United, and about Danny Welbeck avoiding a red card in Wigan's 4-0 loss on Sept. 15.
The FA says Martinez was charged over "media comments which implied that the match referee and/or match officials in general are motivated by bias and/or brought the game into disrepute."
Martinez described Welbeck's challenge on Wigan forward Franco di Santo as "completely reckless," claiming there were tackles "if they had been the other way round ... would have been a couple of red cards."
Martinez said that at Old Trafford, Wigan "don't seem to be measured in the same manner as the team at home."
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?Winter's Bone? author Daniel Woodrell to speak at Spooner Hall ...
Thirteen people are bunched up in the corner of Frank?s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust St., leaning in to hear each other over the background noises of music and clinking glasses. They gather around a table littered with empty beer cans, and almost everyone is thumbing through their copy of ?Winter?s Bone.?
The PBR Book Club met Tuesday night to discuss the book in preparation for Daniel Woodrell?s visit to Lawrence. Woodrell, a University alum and the author of ?Winter?s Bone,? will be at The Commons in Spooner Hall from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. today. Film & media studies professor John Tibbetts will interview Woodrell about his writing process, and afterward there will be a question-and-answer session. This event is free and open to the public.
?We decided to make that event specifically about writing, so that will be an opportunity for students who are taking writing classes to come in and learn about his process and adapting books to film,? said Rachel Smalter Hall, adult programs librarian for the Lawrence Public Library.
Woodrell will also be interviewed by Brad Allen, director of the Lawrence Public Library, at Liberty Hall from 7:30 to 9 p.m. today. Raven bookstore will be on site selling copies of ?Winter?s Bone,? which attendees can get signed before or after the event.
Daniel Woodrell has written nine books, most of which are set in the Missouri Ozarks, where he was born. Woodrell dropped out of high school at 17 to join the Marines. Later, he received a BA from the University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers? Workshop.
Two of Woodrell?s books were adapted to films; the movie adaptation of ?Winter?s Bone? was released June 2010, and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
?Winter?s Bone? centers on a teenage girl living in the Ozarks who is trying to take care of her family. When she is faced with the possibility of losing the family?s home, Ree Dolly goes on a search for her absent father, who manufactures methamphetamine and put their home up as collateral for bail.
Tanya Spacek, a junior from Rockford, Ill., is a member of the PBR Book Club. On Tuesday night, she joined in conversations about the book?s genre, attitude and key themes.
?Most people who think of white trash think of Jerry Springer, People of Walmart, that kind of thing,? Spacek said. ?But he was able to capture the mentality of these characters and portray them with strength. Their ability to care for themselves is all they have at this point, and they are getting things done and surviving.?
Rachel Smalter Hall said the themes in ?Winter?s Bone? are different from other books selected for Read Across Lawrence. Smalter Hall, director of Read Across Lawrence, said books are chosen based on their Kansas tie-ins and their ability to inspire conversation about important issues of our time. She said Woodrell?s novel has more provocative themes, and the selection has gotten more people involved with the program.
Smalter Hall also said that students are more inclined to read ?Winter?s Bone? than other books selected in the past, like ?The Wizard of Oz,? ?In Cold Blood? and ?To Kill a Mockingbird.?
?A lot of times those classic books are books people read as high school students,? she said. ?For someone who is decades beyond that in their lives, it?s an opportunity to go back and reflect, but for younger readers, they just read that for an English class a handful of years ago. Having an author that isn?t as widely read in the classroom does open that up for students at KU who might be interested but don?t want to feel like they?re doing homework.?
Read Across Lawrence is a collaboration of the Lawrence Public Library, the University libraries and Friends of the Lawrence Public Library. The libraries give away 1,000 free copies of the selected book each year and hold events to launch discussion.
There will be two more events after Woodrell?s visit: an all-ages trivia of ?Winter?s Bone? Saturday, Sept. 29, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lawrence Public Library, and a showing of the movie at Liberty Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
? Edited by Sarah McCabe
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