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Ants' behavior leads to research method for optimizing product development time, costsPublic release date: 29-Jan-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Julie O'Connor julie.oconnor@wayne.edu 313-577-8845 Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
DETROIT Trying to find just the right balance of time spent in meetings and time performing tasks is a tough problem for managers, but a Wayne State University researcher believes the behavior of ants may provide a useful lesson on how to do it.
Using computer simulations derived from the characteristics of ants seeking food, Kai Yang, Ph.D., professor of industrial and systems engineering in the College of Engineering, has developed a mathematical model-based methodology to estimate the optimal amount of time spent to develop a product, as well as the cost, in overlapped product development. It is the latest in a series of projects he has worked on for Siemens North America.
"Non-discrete Ant Colony Optimisation (NdACO) to Optimise the Development Cycle Time and Cost in Overlapped Product Development," published recently in the International Journal of Production Research, utilizes the concept of concurrent engineering (CE), a systematic approach to product development based on parallel execution of tasks. The approach integrates several functions to reduce the development time and cost of a product while maintaining its quality. Co-authors include Satish Tyagi, Wayne State research assistant, and Anoop Verma, Ph.D., of the University of Iowa.
In CE, cross-functional teams communicate through several meetings, some before the beginning of project, categorized as precommunication, and some during execution of the project, called communication policy.
Because significant cost is incurred through those meetings, Yang said, it is necessary to investigate the cost-time trade-offs involved in the concurrent product development process to enhance work performance. Otherwise, applying the process can result in a larger number of iterations, or rework, adding to both time and cost.
"Currently, there is a lack of communication flow within organizations due to their large size, time differences, etc.," Yang said. "Therefore, the amount of precommunication and communication policy and the extent of overlapping stages should be meticulously determined to achieve the desired goals."
As product development moves forward, lack of communication from upstream decision-makers to downstream workers can leave the latter to operate without the latest available information to complete their task efficiently, he said.
Researchers studying ants' food-foraging behavior have noticed that changes in the pheromone trails left behind by the insects communicate the best ways for those that come after them to proceed. That led to the development of ant colony optimization (ACO) models, which Yang and his team are using.
Researchers believe their simulation model could reduce product definition time by as much as 50 percent, and lead to best practices that improve critical thinking and remove communication barriers. Such practices can be applied to large-sector manufacturing, health care and service companies, Yang said.
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Ants' behavior leads to research method for optimizing product development time, costsPublic release date: 29-Jan-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Julie O'Connor julie.oconnor@wayne.edu 313-577-8845 Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
DETROIT Trying to find just the right balance of time spent in meetings and time performing tasks is a tough problem for managers, but a Wayne State University researcher believes the behavior of ants may provide a useful lesson on how to do it.
Using computer simulations derived from the characteristics of ants seeking food, Kai Yang, Ph.D., professor of industrial and systems engineering in the College of Engineering, has developed a mathematical model-based methodology to estimate the optimal amount of time spent to develop a product, as well as the cost, in overlapped product development. It is the latest in a series of projects he has worked on for Siemens North America.
"Non-discrete Ant Colony Optimisation (NdACO) to Optimise the Development Cycle Time and Cost in Overlapped Product Development," published recently in the International Journal of Production Research, utilizes the concept of concurrent engineering (CE), a systematic approach to product development based on parallel execution of tasks. The approach integrates several functions to reduce the development time and cost of a product while maintaining its quality. Co-authors include Satish Tyagi, Wayne State research assistant, and Anoop Verma, Ph.D., of the University of Iowa.
In CE, cross-functional teams communicate through several meetings, some before the beginning of project, categorized as precommunication, and some during execution of the project, called communication policy.
Because significant cost is incurred through those meetings, Yang said, it is necessary to investigate the cost-time trade-offs involved in the concurrent product development process to enhance work performance. Otherwise, applying the process can result in a larger number of iterations, or rework, adding to both time and cost.
"Currently, there is a lack of communication flow within organizations due to their large size, time differences, etc.," Yang said. "Therefore, the amount of precommunication and communication policy and the extent of overlapping stages should be meticulously determined to achieve the desired goals."
As product development moves forward, lack of communication from upstream decision-makers to downstream workers can leave the latter to operate without the latest available information to complete their task efficiently, he said.
Researchers studying ants' food-foraging behavior have noticed that changes in the pheromone trails left behind by the insects communicate the best ways for those that come after them to proceed. That led to the development of ant colony optimization (ACO) models, which Yang and his team are using.
Researchers believe their simulation model could reduce product definition time by as much as 50 percent, and lead to best practices that improve critical thinking and remove communication barriers. Such practices can be applied to large-sector manufacturing, health care and service companies, Yang said.
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Wayne State University is one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world. For more information about research at Wayne State University, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu.
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When IKEA plugged in its 4,368-panel, 1,057 kW solar energy system this week at its store in Sunrise, Fla., it became the owner of the largest solar installation in the southern part of the state and also the state's largest non-utility solar owner. Here are the details.
* IKEA reported that the 101,774-square foot PV array at its Sunrise store will produce 1,554,600 kWh of clean electricity each year -- the equivalent of eliminating the emissions of 210 cars or powering 134 homes.
* The Sunrise installation marks the 35th completed solar project for IKEA in the U.S. With four more locations under way, the company stated, there will soon be solar presence at 90 percent of IKEA's U.S. locations.
* "IKEA owns and operates each of its solar PV energy systems atop its buildings -- as opposed to a solar lease or PPA (power purchase agreement) -- and globally has allocated $1.8 billion to invest in renewable energy through 2015," the company stated.
* The company stated that it has a goal of being energy-independent by 2020, and has installed 250,000 solar panels on its buildings across the world. Additionally, it owns and operates approximately 110 wind turbines in Europe.
* According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, as of August, IKEA was fourth on the list of top 20 companies by solar capacity, with a total installed capacity of 21,495 kW.
* Leading the top 20 list is Walmart Stores, Inc., with 65,000 kW of installed solar capacity as of Aug. Walmart is followed by Costco Wholesale and Kohl's Department Stores.
* As of the Solar Energy Industries Association's August rankings, IKEA was seventh on the list of the top companies by number of solar electricity systems, with 30, meaning it has added five systems since them. Walmart topped that list as well, with 144 systems.
* "The companies ranked here and many more continue to expand their investments in solar energy at a rapid pace," stated the Solar Energy Industries Association. "Companies such as Apple, which has a 20 MW system under construction at a data center in North Carolina, have announced plans for major solar deployment. General Motors has ambitious plans to install 125 MW of renewables by 2020 as well."
* According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, businesses, non-profits, schools and public agencies are expected to add 7,000 MW of additional PV systems over the next five years, enough to replace seven retiring coal power plants.
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ? Tunisia is reinforcing the security around its oil and gas facilities in this North African country's southern deserts following an attack in Algeria, the state news agency reported.
Special units will protect the installations in the southern Sahara region, which is 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of Algeria's Ain Amenas gas plant, attacked two weeks ago by al-Qaida affiliated militants, the agency quoted security officials as saying.
At least 37 hostages and 29 militants died in the four-day confrontation between the militants and the Algerian military.
Tunisia has had a number of clashes with armed men in the south, near the borders of Algeria and Libya. On Jan. 17, two caches of assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades were found in the southern city of Medenine.
Sandwiched between Algeria, and its history of militants, and Libya, where the collapse of the central government has sent weapons all over the region, Tunisia has been working on beefing up its southern security.
Tunisia has been in talks with the U.S. to cooperate on improving security on its southern border.
Four days before the attack on the gas complex, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya had signed accords on Jan. 12 to increase security cooperation along their porous desert borders that have long been crossed by smugglers and militants alike.
While the leadership of the militant group which attacked the gas plant came from Algeria and its arms were most likely from Libya, much of the manpower came from Tunisia.
Eleven of the 32 militants were Tunisian, highlighting a longstanding phenomenon of young Tunisians joining militant groups abroad to fight in places like Iraq, Libya and most recently, Syria.
Top Ten Ways to Attract Clients with Books and Speaking
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You are invited to apply for a no-cost seat at his private, invitation-only ?Marketing With A Book and Speech Summit? coming to Atlanta on Saturday, March 9 from 9 am to 4:30 pm.During the summit you?ll discover how to leverage your expertise into more high-paying clients by writing books with built-in marketing and speaking more for high fees. Leading the ?Marketing With a Book? session is Henry DeVries. As a ghostwriter and editor for consultants, he has worked on 43 book projects in the last six years. His proposals have earned five-figure advances for clients. His latest best-selling book, How to Close A Deal Like Warren Buffett, co-authored with Vistage speaker Tom Searcy, was published by McGraw-Hill in November of 2012 and was the #1 sales and marketing book on Amazon.com. To apply send an email to henry@newclientmarketing.com
By Henry DeVries
?With a book, you?re able to demonstrate that you understand like no one else the specific nature of the problems that your prospects face,? best-selling author Michael Levin recently told the New York Times.
?I always recommend targeting a niche with a book instead of writing for the general public,? added the noted ghostwriter. ?Write exactly for the people you?re trying to sell to. Show them that you understand their problems and that you offer solutions. In a book, you can lay out everything that you do to solve these problems. The goal is that if your book is generous enough with information, they?ll say, ?I could do this on my own, but I would be much better off hiring the author to solve this problem for me.? That?s the result we?re looking for. That?s why you want a book.?
What groundwork should you lay before you write a book?
There is a proven process for marketing with integrity and getting an up to 400% to 2000% return on your marketing investment. At the Marketing With a Book and Speech Summit we call it the Educating Expert Model, and the most successful professional service and consulting firms use it to get more clients than they can handle. The findings of our 8-year, $2 million research study about how the most successful professional and consulting firms use this model were published in our book, Client Seduction.
Here is the Reader?s Digest version. Before you can begin attracting clients, you need to create a marketing genetic code that is attractive to clients. All of your marketing messages, from networking discussions to speeches, will contain the elements of this marketing DNA that positions you as the Educating Expert. Here are 10 steps that will help you create these all-important marketing genes.
1. Create a business name or a website name that gives potential clients a hint at the results you can produce for them. The worst possible business name or website name is your name. I know, I know, McKinsey and Price Waterhouse are named after the founders. But you are not them. Sorry to say, clients don?t want us, they want results. 2. Write a headline for your website and marketing materials that describes your audience and the results you produce for them. Do this in no more than 10 words. Mine is ?We help professionals and consultants attract all the clients they want.? 3. Name your client?s pain. What are your client?s worries, frustrations and concerns that you help solve? This is also called the FUD factor: fear, uncertainty and doubt. 4. Describe your solution or methodology for solving these pains. What process do you follow to produce results? Offering a proprietary problem-solving process that you name and trademark is best. This answers the all-important question in their minds: ?Why should I do business with you instead of one of your competitors?? 5. State the common misperception that holds many back from getting results. Why doesn?t everybody do what you named in step 4? 6. Tell your clients what they need to do in general to solve their problem. Pretend they weren?t hiring you and you had to describe the steps they should take for success. 7. List any other benefits they get from following your methods. What other good things do people get when they do what you advise? 8. Elaborate on your track record of providing measurable results for clients. Be specific as much as possible. Use numbers, percentages and time factors. 9. Create a website with free tips articles on how to solve these pains. Each article should be about 300 to 600 words. What?s a good format? Consider the numbered tips approach you are reading right now (easy to write, easy to read). 10. Make prospects an offer of a free special report on your website. You are offering to trade them a valuable piece of information for their email address. Tell them they will also receive a tips enewsletter from you. Assure them you will maintain their privacy and they can easily opt off your list any time they want.
Henry DeVries, marketing scientist and ghostwriter, is an expert on typing and talking: how to maximize revenues by writing books and making speeches. He speaks to thousands of consultants and service professionals each year, teaching them proven tactics that bring them new clients. Along with his best-selling books ? How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett, Self-Marketing Secrets, Client Seduction, and Pain Killer Marketing ? the buzz building tools of Henry DeVries have been used to dramatically increase revenues and leverage marketing budgets for two decades. In addition to authoring his own books, he ghostwrites at least four books a year. His goal is to win the Nobel Prize in Marketing. As a ghostwriter and editor for professionals and consultants, he has worked on 43 book projects in the last six years. His proposals have earned five-figure advances for clients. His latest best-selling book, How to Close A Deal Like Warren Buffett, co-authored with Vistage speaker Tom Searcy, was published by McGraw-Hill in November of 2012 and was the #1 sales and marketing book on Amazon.com. He has published with the top five publishers, privately published, independently published and association published, and personally knows the dos and don?ts of all current publishing options. He also has relationships with some of the most respected agents in the business and has launched and supported columns in Forbes.com, Inc.com, metro daily newspapers and CBS MoneyWatch helping clients to gain credibility, free publicity and larger reach.
Jan. 29, 2013 ? How much chocolate would you need to eat to be satisfied? Less than half as much as you think, according to this recently published Cornell University snacking study. Using chocolate chips, apple pie, and potato chips, researchers Ellen van Kleef, Mitsuru Shimizu, and Brian Wansink designed a study to determine if people who were given smaller portions of snack foods would feel hungrier or satisfied fifteen minutes after eating.
Two groups with different portion sizes were tested. The larger portion size group was given 100g of chocolate, 200g of apple pie, and 80g of potato chips, all slightly larger than the recommended portion sizes. This equaled 1370 calories in snack foods. The other group was given 10g, 40g, and 10g of these same foods respectively, for a total of 195 calories. The two groups were given as much time to eat as needed, and were asked to fill out surveys to rate the liking, familiarity, and boredom with the food. They were also asked to rate their hunger and craving before the food was presented and fifteen minutes after the taste tests ended.
The results remarkably showed that smaller portion sizes are capable of providing similar feelings of satisfaction as larger ones. Those given larger portions consumed 77% more food, amounting to 103 calories more, but they did not feel any appetite enhancing or stronger feelings of satiety than the group with the smaller portions. Overall these findings reflect the importance of portion size. While larger portions result in increased food intake, smaller portions may make you feel equally satisfied. The smaller portions can lead to a decline in hunger and desire that would help people limit their food intake. So, next time you are craving a snack food, remember that you can feel similarly satisfied with one handful as you would with two!
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Global powers and Iran should "stop behaving like little children" and agree a date and place for new talks on Tehran's nuclear program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
European officials have accused Tehran of stalling on arranging a meeting with the six nations, including Russia, that are trying to prevent Iran developing atomic weapons. Tehran says its nuclear program is entirely for peaceful purposes.
"Some of our partners in the six powers and the Iranian side cannot come to an agreement about where to meet," Lavrov told a news conference after talks with Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders.
"We are ready to meet at any location as soon as possible," Lavrov said. "We believe the essence of our talks is far more important (than the site), and we hope that common sense will prevail and we will stop behaving like little children."
Three rounds of talks in the first half of last year between Iran and the six powers - Russia, the United States, China, Britain, France and Germany - produced no breakthrough, increasing speculation Israel could attack Iranian nuclear installations.
Talks had been expected to resume after the U.S. presidential election, possibly as early as this month. An Iranian news agency reported this month that talks might resume on January 28 and 29, but the EU said there was no agreement.
(Reporting by Alissa de Carbonnel,; Writing by Steve Gutterman, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a vegetative state since a 2006 stroke, might be able to hear and understand, a brain imaging test revealed.
The two-hour test by a team of Israeli and American scientists used functional MRI to gauge Sharon's response to tactile stimulation, photos of his family and the voice of his son.
Functional MRI - or fMRI - measures blood flow as a surrogate for brain activity. And according to a statement from Sharon's medical team, the 84-year-old had "significant brain activity" during the test.
"Information from the external world is being transferred to the appropriate parts of Mr. Sharon's brain," team member Martin Monti, assistant professor of cognitive psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles said in a statement. "However, the evidence does not as clearly indicate whether Mr. Sharon is consciously perceiving this information."
Sharon was put in deep sedation, also known as a medically-induced coma, after suffering a massive stroke Jan. 4, 2006. Although he appears to be awake at times, Sharon never seemed to regain consciousness. A ventilator breathes air into his lungs and a tube delivers essential nutrients to his stomach.
The new brain imaging test used a new "state-of-the-art" MRI machine jointly owned by the Soroka Medical Center in Israel's Beersheba and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
"It is important that these new techniques be available in Israel for the large number of patients considered to be in a vegetative state," said Alon Friedman, head of the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. "Knowing what sensory channels are intact in these patients is crucial for the family and the treating team to stimulate and interact with them."
The ability to detect consciousness among patients in a vegetative state is controversial. A January 2013 study published in The Lancet challenged earlier findings on the use of electroencephalography to assess awareness, concluding that brain activity seen in vegetative patients could be the result of random chance.
But Sharon's youngest son, Gilad Sharon, has long insisted his father could hear, telling the New York Times in 2011, "When he is awake, he looks at me and moves fingers when I ask him to? I am sure he hears me."
Gilad Sharon said he or a member of his family has visited the former prime minister every day since the stroke, describing in his 2011 book, "Sharon: The Life of a Leader" a dream he had before the devastating stroke.
"In that dream I was with my father in the hospital. He was lying in bed, surrounded by medical staff, and they had all either given up or lost hope and were about to leave, and my father didn't say a thing, but he stared at me with this look, with those green-gray eyes of his, and I knew I would never give up, and that I simply would not leave him," he wrote. "This was a dream I had when my father was healthy and strong and the scenario was completely divorced from reality. I did not tell a soul about the dream at the time, but now I shared it with them and my fear that it was happening now and that I would never be able to forgive myself if we did not fight to the end."
When Misty Rawls started making skincare products in the kitchen of her log cabin home, she certainly had no idea that just a few short years later, she?d be seeing her products in retail stores and working with customers all across the country.
She started making her products because she had a personal need for all-natural skin care. As a nurse, she found she was allergic to some of the ingredients in products she was using, and wanted to find a solution.
After perfecting her products (and at the urging of friends and family who?d had a chance to try them), Misty started selling her lotion bars, shower scrub bars and lip balms at a local farmers market on the campus of the University of South Carolina.? As luck would have it, Misty?s business became the target of a business class project. ?It was definitely a case of being at the right place at the right time,? she says.
A group of students ?adopted? Just Wanna Melt, developing marketing and business plans, and even creating a new design for her product labels. And with that, business took off. Her products are now sold online and at a variety of local farmers markets, retail shops and even local Whole Foods locations.
A one-woman operation, Misty relies on Tim and Jane Ivey, owners of her local The UPS Store in Lexington, South Carolina, for a variety of business needs ? from printing her labels and marketing flyers, to creating display signs for her retail locations and banners for her booths.? She also works with them to ship her bulk orders. ?They really go above and beyond for whatever I need,? she said. ?I have a great relationship with them. They?re very supportive of my business, and I really like the camaraderie I feel working so closely with them.?
Misty?s making us blush?but we really do like having a close relationship with all of our customers. If you have a great partnership with your local The UPS Store, let us know in the comments, and we might feature your business next!? And see what The UPS Store can do for your small business.
The family of a 33-year-old Staten Island woman says she has disappeared while traveling alone in Turkey. ? Sarai Sierra, a mother of two who enjoys photography, was looking forward to her trip and arrived in Istanbul on Jan. 7. She was supposed to return to New York on Jan. 21. ? Her husband, Steven, says she was not on her flight home and has not been heard from since.
Sierra's passport and medical cards were still in her room in Turkey. Her worried family is launching a search with authorities to find her.
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U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm said Saturday his office is working with officials in the U.S. and Istanbul to locate Sierra and bring her home safely.
The Philharmonic Society of Orange County announced its 2013-2014 concert schedule today, the 60th season for the presenter and the last for president and artistic director Dean Corey, who will retire in June 2014. A number of events will offer tribute to Corey, who has led the Society since 1993, including a Dean Corey Legacy Concerts series that features a return visit by the Vienna Philharmonic and the publication of a book by Corey, "Beethoven: The Late Great, 33 Personal Essays." The season also includes the performance of a complete opera in concert.
The Vienna Philharmonic, one of the world's most celebrated, returns to Segerstrom Concert Hall on March 3 (2014), with Italian conductor Daniele Gatti leading a program of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 (with soprano Juliane Banse as soloist).
Pianist Yuja Wang will perform a recital in October for the Philharmonic Society.
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Other orchestras on the schedule include the Irish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by JoAnn Falletta and featuring flutist James Galway; the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring violinist Pinchas Zukerman as both conductor and soloist; the period-instrument English Concert led by Harry Bicket in a performance of Handel's "Theodora," with countertenor David Daniels; the Haifa Symphony Orchestra of Israel; and the annual visit from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, this time conducted by St?phane Den?ve and featuring violinist Gil Shaham.
Three student orchestras also appear on the subscription series. Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon will lead the Colburn Orchestra and the USC Thorton Symphony in a performance of Britten's "War Requiem" (honoring the composer's centenary), with choirs from USC, Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Long Beach as well as the Los Angeles Children's Chorus.
The season ends with a performance by the Orange County Youth Orchestra under Daniel Alfred Wachs, who will lead a program that includes a new commission (entitled "Frieze") from progressive British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with choirs from UCI, Cal State Fullerton and Chapman University.
Recitals by pianists Olga Kern and Yuja Wang are scheduled as well as chamber concerts by Camera Lucida, the Madelring Quartet, the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin and the Myriad Trio.
Subscriptions ranging from four to 12 concerts go on sale Monday. For more information call 949-553-2422 or visit www.philharmonicsociety.org.
Contact the writer: 714-796-6811 or tmangan@ocregister.com
Divorce is not a single event, but a series of losses, changes and transitions. There are many watershed moments in the process of dissolving a marriage. One that seems overlooked for its emotional impact is the division of the martial property.
It is easy to say ?It?s just stuff, it can be replaced?, but the accumulation of furniture, objects and even chintzy doodads of no ?real value? are keepers of the couple?s stories. As the years go on, we amass possessions that hold memories and are the tangible evidence of the milestones and celebrations of the relationship. Our stuff holds our history.
There is that collection of shot glasses representing the states you visited on that cross country trip as newlyweds. There is the writing desk his grandfather made, given to both of you as you celebrated a marital milestone. There is that crazy abstract painting you bought years ago which cost you more than you could afford, but simply could not live without. There is that first piece of ?good? furniture you splurged on. There are collections of books, music and of course photographs. All of these things you accumulated together.
Now as you consider how to divide the ?stuff?, it helps to think of your possessions in categories. Some will be split with an eye on the practical, some will require appraisals for their value and others will simply pull at your heart strings. Discussing these items by categories can facilitate you and your partner having conversations about the division that will not lead to huge explosions. Just knowing that some items will elicit more emotion than others can help you prepare yourself for the division.
Items you each owned before the marriage- These stay with their original owner.
Practical stuff including furniture, tools, kitchen items, bedding- Extras/duplicates can go with the person who is leaving the home. The majority of stuff should stay at the family home.
Valuable stuff- Antiques, collections, art work, vintage cars, boats, etc. These should be appraised professionally and split.
Sentimental stuff- These are items that are precious to the family. Despite the fact that they may have no real monetary value, they often spark the biggest controversy. Make duplicates when possible (photos, music, etc). With those items that can?t be duplicated (i.e. your children?s art work or a collection of seashells) take turns choosing.
Items that express personal interests- Books, CD?s, hobby materials, etc. Each party should be able to take those things. Shared hobby? Then a shared split.
Children?s stuff- Their furniture and everything they use in their daily lives should remain in the family residence. A child?s bedroom represents their emotional haven especially when their parents are breaking up. Make sure to leave their space intact. Later the child should be free to move toys, clothes, games, etc., back and forth with ease. Right now-minimize changes to their environment as much as possible.
Items of Legacy- Those things you want your children to inherit. These should be discussed, listed and then decided who will hold them for the future generations.
Gifts-They are yours to keep. The only exception may be family heirlooms, which you may choose to return to the family.
Wedding Photos- Usually no one wants those! Many people impulsively destroy them only to regret it later. The truth is these belong to your children. They go under ?Items of Legacy?.
And course, you know this, but it is a good reminder- you won?t get everything you want; but neither will your partner.
Finally, the parent who is moving out should be mindful not to leave the home looking ransacked. ?You don?t want your child to look around his primary home and see it as cleaned out, only to see those items show up in the new residence. It makes you look like a marauder. ?I have heard stories of men taking the lawn mower and snow blower only to move into a condo. That is simply spiteful and your kids will notice; especially when they are outside on a frigid day shoveling snow.
Remember, your kids will be watching. How you behave, interact and what items you take is not just about your ?comfort?. It speaks to your kids of your character and how you much you care for them. You may feel entitled to ?what?s yours?, but when you strip the family home, you also disrupt and upset the children?s home. Keep in mind what is really of the most value; it is far more difficult to regain children?s respect than to replace even the most precious of items.
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? 2013 Donna F. Ferber, LPC, LADC is a psychotherapist in private practice in Farmington, CT since 1986.She is the author of the award winning From Ex-Wife to Exceptional Life: A Woman?s Journey through Divorce now available in Kindle format for $9.99 as well as in paperback.
The job market is tough for poorly educated, untrained injured workers. However, unless you want to continue carrying such workers on your workers? compensation policy rolls, it might be smart to do all you can to find light-duty jobs for them.
Recent case: Kelvin was injured while working as a laborer with Caro??lina Cabinet. He has no specialized training and no education beyond high school. He was cleared for light-duty work, but the company had no positions available. Kelvin was terminated. The company contested workers? comp benefits, arguing he could still find some gainful employment.
The court disagreed. It concluded all Kelvin could reasonably do was light-duty unskilled work. Because his employer couldn?t provide it, he was eligible for continued benefits based on the injury. (Thompson v. Carolina Cabinet, No. COA12-202, Court of Appeals of North Carolina, 2012)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Metta World Peace hit five 3-pointers on his way to scoring 17 points and the Los Angeles Lakers pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Utah Jazz 102-84 on Friday night, snapping a four-game skid.
Dwight Howard had 17 points and 13 rebounds, Steve Nash scored 15 and Pau Gasol added 15 points off the bench. Kobe Bryant had 14 points, a season-high 14 assists and nine rebounds to help the Lakers beat the Jazz for the first time in three meetings this season. Utah's four-game winning streak came to an end.
Howard aggravated his right shoulder in the second quarter of the Lakers' loss at Memphis on Wednesday, the same injury that caused him to miss three games two weeks ago. But he showed no ill effects from the start, scoring six points in a 15-4 spurt that opened the game and gave the Lakers the lead for good.
Derrick Favors led the Jazz with 14 points off the bench. Fellow reserve Gordon Hayward scored 13 and Al Jefferson had 12. Paul Millsap and Randy Foye added 10 points each. Utah had won six of its previous seven.
Utah cut its deficit to 78-69 early in the fourth before the Lakers began dominating the final 10 minutes. World Peace hit his fifth 3-pointer and Bryant scored four points during a 14-5 spurt that pushed Los Angeles' lead to 92-74. The Lakers were 9 of 21 from long range.
The Lakers had lost 10 of their last 12 and remain seven games below .500.
The Lakers led by 12 points early in the third before Utah closed to 61-58, capped by Favors' alley-oop dunk off a pass from Earl Watson. The Lakers fought back from 3-point range. Chris Duhon and World Peace combined for three 3-pointers and Jodie Meeks dunked to keep them ahead 72-63 going into the fourth. Gasol and Millsap got into it verbally and received double technicals as the quarter was ending.
Utah closed to 47-37 at halftime.
The Lakers' 15-4 run to start the game was helped by World Peace and Nash combining for three 3-pointers. The Jazz quickly closed within two before the Lakers stretched their lead to 26-19.
NOTES: World Peace was one 3-pointer shy of equaling his career high of six set on Feb. 28, 2009, against Chicago. ... Bryant's assists were three off his career high of 15 set on Feb. 12, 2002, against Washington. ... Utah fell to 9-16 on the road.
Shannon Howrey is assistant professor of literacy education at Georgia Gwinnett College and parent of three school-aged children.? In her second op-ed for the Get Schooled blog, she writes about the spread of MOOCs, massive open online courses delivered over the Internet to anyone who enrolls without charge.
MOOCs award students certificates rather than college credits.
The nation?s elite colleges are rushing to create MOOCs to enhance their brand and to be part of the most talked about innovation in higher education. At some point, colleges are expected to use the evolving and dynamic MOOC market to make money. Among the possible revenue sources: Data mining, selling the course material, selling sponsorships, charging tuition.
In her interesting piece, Howrey considers the future and benefits of MOOCs.
By Shannon Howrey
The AJC reported Monday that Georgia State University is entering the growing market of massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, and plans to offer them free of charge in the near future. This is great news for students who are geographically or financially hindered from attending a brick-and-mortar school, and colleges everywhere are rushing in to get in on the action.
But philanthropy alone is not driving this initiative, and students with other no other educational options make up only a small slice of the marketing demographic.
Think of a MOOC like a printer. Printers are sold cheaply, sometimes at an initial loss to the printer company. However, to get any use out of the printer you have to keep purchasing the company?s expensive print cartridges, allowing them to recap the initial loss several times over.
Like a printer, the MOOC is offered ?free? to the student, and the school invests a small amount of money for the course development, delivery platform, and maybe a real instructor. But, if a student actually wants to get any use out of the course, perhaps to gain a credential for employment, he or she will need to purchase some proof that the material has been mastered.
The ?cartridge? in this case might take the form of a certificate of completion, computer-graded exam fee, or, if absolutely necessary, a professional evaluation of the student?s work. So, if the school attracts 10,000 students with a course that cost them $100,000 initially, and all 10,000 students pay the college $100 for the credential the school has netted $900,000. If the same class is offered more than once the revenue multiplies ad infinitum.
On paper this seems an ingenious idea. In what looks like a win-win situation, the college takes in millions. The students pay just $100 for credentials that would have cost several times more if offered in traditional format. And since they won?t need their summer jobs anymore to pay for tuition, they can earn an entire degree while sunbathing at the beach or sitting on the couch between video games.
This scenario will most likely draw in large numbers of newly minted high school graduates, and the MOOCs will be a big hit. But one consideration remains: Is a computer-delivered education equivalent to one with a flesh-and-blood teacher, reasonable class size, and concrete learning materials?
Every semester I ask my teacher education students to describe the teacher who had the most impact their education. Their responses are similar and usually fall into three categories: First, the teacher took an interest in them, as illustrated in responses such as, ?inspired me to do my best,? ?had confidence in me,? or ?encouraged me to further my education.? Secondly, the teacher motivated them. These responses look something like, ?She made class interesting,? or ?He had us do creative projects instead of lecturing all the time.? Other comments referred to the teacher?s personal involvement in their success. These teachers ?helped me when I didn?t understand something,? or ?spent extra time tutoring me.?
Not surprisingly, the students? comments echo research on how people learn. This research has shown again and again that students learn best by applying knowledge in a concrete way to a real situation. Further, their classroom environment includes opportunities for interacting with other students and a teacher who takes the time to work with them until they understand.
Learning in this way creates synaptic connections in multiple areas of the brain within and between the new concept and those learned earlier. These conditions stimulate the brain, thereby creating motivation to learn more, which creates even more connections. Those connections are the foundation of creativity and underlie every invention and original idea.
To illustrate this concept, think about an apple. To understand the concept of ?apple? you could hear all about one from an apple specialist, you could see a picture of it, maybe read a chapter about it and even discuss it with people from all over the world. However, until you hold an apple in your hand, dissect it and take a bite you won?t know how to use the apple in any meaningful way. If you have trouble you could always observe your peers dissecting the apple, or the apple specialist could take the time to help you personally. Without this concrete experience and personal interaction you might retain a fuzzy idea of an apple, but you would probably not think to draw upon the apple to improve an old recipe or invent a new one.
In all the years I?ve asked the question not one student has ever said that the teachers who impacted their education most, ?stuffed the most knowledge into my brain as quickly and cheaply as possible.? MOOCs are not an education. They are a means of increasing much needed revenue for colleges by leveraging their meager resources ? revenue that is needed because Georgia taxpayers would rather not fund a real education.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks with reporters following a Democratic strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks with reporters following a Democratic strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The tradition-laden Senate voted Thursday to modestly curb filibusters, using a bipartisan consensus rare in today's hyper-partisan climate to make it a bit harder but not impossible for outnumbered senators to sink bills and nominations.
The rules changes would reduce yet not eliminate the number of times opponents ? usually minority-party Republicans these days ? can use filibusters, procedural tactics which can derail legislation and which can be stopped only by the votes of 60 of the 100 senators.
In return, the majority party ? Democrats today ? would have to allow two minority amendments on bills, a response to Republican complaints that Democrats often prevent them from offering any amendments at all. The new procedures also would limit the time spent debating some bills and nominations, allowing some to be completed in hours that could otherwise take a day or more.
The changes were broken into two pieces and approved by votes of 78-16 and 86-9. In both roll calls, Republican opponents were joined by Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who usually sides with Democrats. Many of the GOP "no" votes came from tea party-backed senators like Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah; Rand Paul, R-Ky.; and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
The two votes and a brief debate took less than an hour, impressively quick for the Senate. They came after a more typical day that featured a sprinkling of senators' speeches and long periods when the Senate chamber idled with no one talking, while private negotiations off the floor nailed down final details.
President Barack Obama said the Senate action would help his agenda in Congress.
"At a time when we face critical decisions on a whole range of issues ? from preventing further gun violence, to reforming our broken immigration system, to getting our fiscal house in order and creating good paying jobs ? we cannot afford unnecessary obstruction. And I am hopeful that today's bipartisan agreement will pave the way for the Senate to take meaningful action in the days and weeks ahead," Obama said in a written statement.
The pact leaves the Senate's minority party with far more power than it has in the House, where rules let a united majority party easily muscle through its priorities. It also falls short of changes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had been threatening to ram through using the 55 votes Democrats have, a technique nicknamed the "nuclear option" because it is considered likely to produce harsh GOP retaliation that could grind work to a virtual halt.
"I'm glad cooler heads have prevailed here once again, and those who were clamoring for the nuclear option, most of whom have never served a day of their lives in the minority, didn't prevail," said McConnell, who worked out the agreement with Reid. He added that Republicans felt rules changes were not needed, merely a willingness by both parties to allow "vigorous debate and a robust amendment process."
Reid said the changes would increase Senate efficiency while protecting lawmakers in the minority party, warning that he would consider future changes if Thursday's package didn't do enough.
"We were elected to get things done for the middle class ? not waste time with endless stalling tactics that cause even bills with broad bipartisan support to languish for weeks," Reid said.
Democrats say Republican use of filibusters has become almost routine and far too frequent. Republicans say they use it because Reid often blocks them from offering amendments.
The rules also don't go nearly as far as restrictions championed by a group of newer Democratic senators, such as requiring filibustering senators to physically debate on the Senate floor, as portrayed by the actor Jimmy Stewart in the classic 1939 film, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Such filibusters have been rare for decades.
Democrats said this week that they lacked the votes to force that proposal through the Senate.
Even so, the agreement was remarkable in a period of bitter partisan clashes over Obama's budgetary, tax and social initiatives and GOP efforts to block them. It will streamline some of the Senate's work and avoid what could have been prolonged, nasty battling between the two parties if Democrats ? frustrated by the GOP's growing reliance on the delays ? tried forcing more decisive changes.
The deal gave each side something it wanted: Quicker action for Democrats, guaranteed amendments for Republicans. And it avoided clamping tight limits on filibusters that would alienate veteran lawmakers wary that their party could fall into the minority after any election.
Months ago, Reid said he favored completely banning filibusters when the Senate tries to begin debating a measure, a tactic Republicans have been using more in recent years. He threatened to use Democrats' strength in the Senate to enact that change and perhaps others by a simple majority vote, instead of the two-thirds majority most rules changes require.
Tight restraints on filibusters were championed by less-senior Democrats like Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Tom Udall, D-N.M. They are frustrated with the chamber's often glacial debates and the ability of the minority ? these days Republicans ? to kill bills with less than majority support.
"Are they everything I want? Of course not," Udall said in an interview. But he said the Senate is "moving in the right direction. With these changes, it will make this a more efficient institution."
The liberal group Common Cause, which has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the filibuster, criticized Reid for the agreement, saying the senator "has gone missing in the fight for filibuster reform."
As part of the agreement, filibusters could be avoided when the Senate tries beginning debate on legislation. In return, the majority leader would have to allow each party to offer at least two amendments ? addressing a major complaint of Republicans that their amendments are often shut out.
In addition, once the Senate votes to limit debate on certain nominations ? district court judges and administration posts below Cabinet level ? the debate would be limited to two hours, far below the 30 hours now allowed. The proposal was aimed at speeding the time spent on such nominations.
In addition, instead of three separate opportunities for opponents of a bill to wage filibusters to block a Senate vote allowing the chamber to try writing compromise legislation with the House, there would only be one such filibuster allowed.
According to the Senate Historian's Office, there were 73 "cloture" votes to end filibusters in the two-year Congress that ended earlier this month. There were 91 such votes in the Congress that served in the two previous years, and 112 in the two-year Congress before that. Republicans were the Senate minority party in each of those Congresses.
Those are the three highest number of cloture votes in any Congress since the Senate started allowing such votes to end filibusters nearly 100 years ago.
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Associated Press writers Jim Abrams, Stephen Ohlemacher, Andrew Taylor and David Espo contributed to this report.
Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily Senior Writer, TechNewsDaily
A??hypersonic "SpaceLiner" would whisk up to 50 passengers from Europe to Australia in 90 minutes. The futuristic vehicle would do so by riding a rocket into Earth's upper atmosphere, reaching 24 times the speed of sound before gliding in for a landing.
Many challenges still remain, including finding the right shape for the vehicle, said Martin Sippel, project coordinator for SpaceLiner at the German Aerospace Center. But he suggested the project could make enough progress to begin attracting private funding in another 10 years and aim for full operations by 2050.
The current concept includes a rocket booster stage for launch and a separate orbiter stage to carry passengers halfway around the world without ever making it to space. Flight times between the U.S. and Europe could fall to just over an hour if the SpaceLiner takes off ? that is, if passengers don't mind paying the equivalent of space tourism prices around several hundred thousand dollars.
"Maybe we can best characterize the SpaceLiner by saying it's a kind of second-generation space shuttle, but with a completely different task," Sippel said.
SpaceLiner passengers would have eight minutes to experience the rocket launch before they reached an altitude of about 47 to 50 miles. That falls short of the 62-mile boundary considered the edge of space, but even a suborbital flight would allow SpaceLiner to glide back to Earth at hypersonic speeds of more than 15,000 mph.
Relying on rocket power
The rocket-powered design stands out compared with other proposed hypersonic jets, which feature new air-breathing engine concepts. European aerospace giant EADS previously unveiled a hypersonic jet concept that would rely mainly upon air-breathing ramjets to reach cruising speeds of Mach 4 ? faster than the supersonic Concorde's Mach 2 performances but far slower than the SpaceLiner's Mach 24 goal.
SpaceLiner's European project planners say their reliance upon proven rocket technology could allow their vehicle to fly sooner rather than later. They plan to use liquid oxygen and hydrogen rocket propellants so that the rocket engines leave only water vapor and hydrogen in the atmosphere. [Video: How DARPA's HTV-2 Hypersonic Bomber Test Works]
"We will not try to improve the performance of the engine but would like to have it more reusable," Sippel told TechNewsDaily.
The empty rocket stage from SpaceLiner would return to Earth immediately after launch in preparation for reuse. An aircraft could grab the rocket stage in midair, tow it toward an airfield and release it for an autonomous gliding landing.
Chances of survival
But big challenges remain before SpaceLiner can take off. Researchers first must finalize a design shape capable of surviving the intense heat created by gliding at hypersonic speeds through the upper atmosphere. New cooling technologies and improved heat shielding for SpaceLiner's wing "leading edge" could help in that case.
Launching like a rocket rather than taking off like an aircraft means SpaceLiner would remain restricted to suitable launch sites with uninhabited areas down range. The SpaceLiner also would need a careful flight path during its final landing approach ? the "sonic boom" shock that accompanies aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound can damage buildings on the ground at low altitudes.
"The profile of the vehicle is very similar to a rocket-propelled vehicle," Sippel explained. "We only have a small corridor in which we can fly safely and economically."
SpaceLiner's design will make use of study results from a FAST20XX (Future High-Altitude High-Speed Transport 20XX) project funded by the European Union and backed by researchers from Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Sweden. It can also draw lessons from upcoming efforts such as Project ALPHA by Aerospace Innovation GmbH ? a space plane that aims to launch in midair from an Airbus A330 aircraft.
But future success ultimately depends upon the success of space tourism efforts by companies such as Virgin Galactic. If enough people prove willing to pay top dollar for suborbital flights as part of their travels around the world, Sippel envisions a fleet of SpaceLiners eventually making 10 to 15 flights per day.
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Google's learned quite a lot about internet provision through its wired Fiber service, and now it appears to be preparing a localized wireless network. El Goog has solicited the FCC for a license to built an "experimental radio service" at its Mountain View lair, which uses bands that current consumer devices don't. As the WSJ notes, Google's old buddy Clearwire holds the keys to the 2524-2625MHz range it'll occupy, and wireless networks using these frequencies are currently under construction in China, Brazil and Japan. The initial hub for the service is planned to be within the building that houses the Google Fiber team -- perfect fuel for speculation that big G wants to create its own network (possibly in cahoots with Dish), and one that's not confined to its HQ. Right now, it's just a document, so we'll have to wait and see how this develops. Even if it ends up going nowhere, it's not like the search behemoth doesn't have the money to flirt with whatever it wants.
1st Workshop on Social Linked Data for Science and Education
This workshop aims at providing a discussion forum for approaches and challenges that are making use of web data resources and technologies,
especially Social Networks, Semantic Web and Linked Data, for science, teaching, learning and education. The SOLISE 2013 workshop angles
for papers about how Social Networks,Lnked Data and Semantic Web can contribute to analyse and adopt data generated by learning enviroments
and education and science communities, to improve personalization, usability and analytics of such content for educational and research purposes
in every day work. We are looking for preliminary results, position, and research papers. Researchers, experts, enthusiasts, and especially
PhD students are welcome and encouraged to submit their contributions.
DESCRIPTION
This is a one day event where instead of classical paper presentations an interactive discussion session with workshop character will be organised. During the session all of the participant will have the chance to share, discuss and exchange the opnions and experiences regarding their own and the work of other workshop participants.
TOPICS
-Linked Data sets for science and education
-Using the Web of Data for personalisation and context-awareness in E-Learning and Research 2.0
-Usability advanced user interfaces in learning environments and science based upon Linked Data
-Exposing learning objects to the Web of Data
-Semantic & syntactic mappings between educational and scientific metadata schemas
-Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and terminologies for E-Learning and Research 2.0
-Personal & mobile learning environments designs with Semantic Web technologies
-Social Networks, Semantic Web and Linked data in learning analytics and educational data mining
-Profiling users using Linked Data and Social Networks for E-Learning and Research 2.0
-Search and Querying educational and scientific data using Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data
-Recommender for education systems and scientific comuninities
-Clustering of users using Social Media, Linked Data and Semantic Web for education and science
-Linked data services for education and science
Chair:
Prof. Martin Ebner, Institute for Informations systems and Computer Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Selver Softic, Department for Social Learning, Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Behnam Taraghi, Department for Social Learning, Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Laurens De Vocht, iMinds, University of Gent, (Belgium)
Important Dates
Paper Submission: February 20, 2013
Authors Notification: March 1, 2013
Final Paper Submission and Registration: March 6, 2013
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
http://www.csedu.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx
Please also check the Guidelines and Templates.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
PUBLISHING
All accepted papers (full (10 pages),short (8 pages), posters (6 pages)) will be published on the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
The proceedings are submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPECC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).
Programm Comitee:
Michael Hausenblas, DERI Galway (Ireland)
Milan Stankovic, Hypios (France)
Peter Kraker, Know Center (Austria)
Wolfgang Halb, Joanneum Research (Austria)
Denis Helic, Graz University of Technology, Knowledge Man. Institute (Austria)
Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research (Austria)
Sandra Sch?n, Salzburg Research (Austria)
Erik Mannens,iMinds, University of Gent, (Belgium)
Rik Van de Walle,iMinds, University of Gent, (Belgium)
Martin Sch?n, Life Long Learning, Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Alexander Stocker, Virtual Vehicle Research Center (Austria)
Herwig Rehatschek, Medical University Graz,(Austria)
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz (Austria)
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A one-woman operation, Misty relies on Tim and Jane Ivey, owners of her local The UPS Store in Lexington, South Carolina, for a variety of business needs ? from printing her labels and marketing flyers, to creating display signs for her retail locations and banners for her booths.? She also works with them to ship her bulk orders. ?They really go above and beyond for whatever I need,? she said. ?I have a great relationship with them. They?re very supportive of my business, and I really like the camaraderie I feel working so closely with them.?
Shannon Howrey is assistant professor of literacy education at Georgia Gwinnett College and parent of three school-aged children.? In her second op-ed for the Get Schooled blog, she writes about the spread of MOOCs, massive open online courses delivered over the Internet to anyone who enrolls without charge.
