Saturday, September 25, 2010

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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “fiscal responsibility?” It’s probably some old guy droning on like Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Oddly enough, Ben Stein actually has been writing on such a topic lately. But rarely do you hear young people getting worked up about deficits and national debt. Though if you think about it, Ben Stein probably won’t be around anymore when the time comes to pay the bill. You will. I’m extremely worried about how the economic policies of today are going to affect our generation’s career choices over the next 20 to 30 years. That’s why some recent television advertisements for a website called BankruptingAmerica.org have caught my attention. The site is run by a Virginia based non-profit organization called Public Notice, which identifies itself as “dedicated to providing facts and insight on the economy and how government policy affects Americans’ financial well-being.”

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Public Notice is quite obviously a politically motivated organization, and it’s unclear where they get their backing from. I wasn’t able to find much background information on the organization, but here are the executive director’s Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. You’ll probably want to do some more research on your own, and it will likely you lead you to some excellent viral content that they’ve developed. There’s the television ad that caught my attention:

And there’s also a video called “REAL or FAKE: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?”:

The organization certainly seems to be using social media in an effective way, which is good because they are an awareness focused organization. If you care about our nation’s debt as much as I do, and you are all about new media, then you should check out Public Notice’s Jobs page. Right now they’re looking for a Managing Editor of Online Media which doesn’t sound like an entry level position, but I think a new or recent grad could do very well in it.

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What are your thoughts on fiscal responsibility?

Cynicism could easily rule the roost, especially were One to feel somehow obliged to remain comfortably inside this familiar aviary of ours, its wonderful intricacies and resplendent manicure deftly concealing its humble origins as a humble safe deposit box.

We need to re-institute a fiscal separation between consumer-based revenues (operating incomes) and investor-based revenues (capital liquidity). The former should not be made available for commercial banks to lend, since it has a much greater power when used to smooth out the booms and busts of the business cycle.

It seems a distasteful privilege of the investor-serving executive management to convert operating incomes into capital liquidity (share dividends), discounting the hard work of humans as not on par with the dance of debt-swollen dollars. And with the barest of nods to one another, a sleight of hand across the firm's P&L deviously demonstrates blatant disregard for and irresponsible disservice to the over-arching value, that is 80% dependent upon the daily production revenues a result of the daily group effort by supervisors, administrators and employees.

Companies need to enable democratic decision-making and to enforce fiscal responsibility, simply accomplished by managing two separate and distinct revenue streams (double bookkeeping), investor-related and consumer-related, with two divisions responsibly directing each half. Boards, C-levels and Executives can be expected to responsibly direct for the former with expectations of bonuses and continued employment, whereas Supervisors, Administrators and Technicians can be expected to responsibly direct the latter with expectations of naturally profitable, long-term and secure employment that strives to ensure worker and product is as efficient, safe and cost-effective possible.

It would seem, that if a machine can earn a steady 10% or more investing in the stock market, then perhaps IBM is right: Set the ERP on autopilot, and let's get that long-deserved Golden Age's progress moving forward already! One tires of T-9 mysteries.

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Friday, September 17, 2010

‘Your prostate is worth what Ted Turner would call serious cash money.’ - Well | NYTimes

August 30, 2010, 5:00 pm

A Rush to Operating Rooms That Alters Men’s Lives

By DANA JENNINGS

Jeanette Ortiz-Burnett/The New York Times

As I scuffed through the stations of the prostate-cancer cross these past two years, I sometimes wondered whether I wasn’t a dupe caught up in a Robin Cook medical thriller.

Sure, the biopsy (so I was told) showed that my prostate was cancerous. And after it was removed, the pathology report revealed that the cancer was unexpectedly aggressive, thrusting me from the relative comforts of Stage 1 to the deep woods of Stage 3.

But at least on the surface, the cancer itself never did any damage. It was the treatments that razed me — the surgery, radiation and hormones producing a catalog of miseries that included impotence, incontinence and hot flashes. And a small voice kept whispering: What if this is all a lie? A dark conspiracy of the global medical-industrial complex?

And now comes “Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers,” by Ralph H. Blum and Dr. Mark Scholz, effectively confirming my whimsical paranoia.

Mr. Blum, a cultural anthropologist and writer, has lived with prostate cancer for 20 years without radical treatment, and Dr. Scholz is an oncologist who has treated the disease exclusively since 1995.

Their book, written tag-team style, is a provocative and frank look at the bewildering world of prostate cancer, from the current state of the multibillion-dollar industry to the range of available treatments.

About 200,000 cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States, and the authors say nearly all of them are overtreated. Most men, they persuasively argue, would be better served having their cancer managed as a chronic condition.

Why? Because most prostate cancers are lackadaisical — the fourth-class mail of their kind. The authors say “active surveillance” is an effective initial treatment for most men.

They add that only about 1 in 7 men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer are at risk for a serious form of the disease. “Out of 50,000 radical prostatectomies performed every year in the United States alone,” Dr. Scholz writes, “more than 40,000 are unnecessary. In other words, the vast majority of men with prostate cancer would have lived just as long without any operation at all. Most did not need to have their sexuality cut out.”

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The listener knows not why well-crafted, convincing and life-like phantoms sound better | Moulton Laboratories

Principles of Multitrack Mixing: The Phantom Image

By Dave Moulton, with Alex Case and Peter Alhadeff

December 1992

1. The Stereo Phantom

2. Building an Effective Mix

3. The Haas Effect

4. What does it all mean?

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The quirky natures of phantom images.

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The view from 2005: This was an early article (1992) I wrote for Recording Magazine (Home and Studio Recording then). Thinking about the quirky natures of phantom images and applying what I’ve found has led to many things in my professional career, including the principles behind Sausalito Audio Works’ Acoustic Lens Technology, a great deal about room design, and an immense amount about human hearing. Just so you know, I expanded this article into a section in my book, Total Recording.

The Phantom Image

Stereo sound has proven to be a fabulously successful and effective way to present recorded music to listeners. The sense of spaciousness, realism and you-are-there ambience that come with a good stereo recording (as opposed to a monaural recording, consisting of a single signal) are powerful and exciting supports for good musical materials and performances.

The foundation for the stereo effect is the “phantom image,” a life-like apparent source of sound hovering in the space between the two loudspeakers of a stereophonic system. Creatively and effectively controlling the quality and placement of that image really improves the quality of a recording. One of the real benefits of this particular element of recording craft is that the listener doesn’t know why the recording with well-crafted and convincing phantom images sound better, he or she simply likes it more, finding the music more realistic and more enjoyable. It is one of the “magical” aspects of the craft.

The product of some rather elaborate mental operations by the auditory mechanism and brain, it comes in two versions: monaural and stereo. The monaural (mono) version is the result of an identical signal sent to both loudspeakers. It is interesting that we don’t sense the two loudspeakers as separate sources of energy that they are, but instead as only one imaginary source somewhere in between the two real sources. Visualize two light bulbs in a dark room, situated in front of you, but off to the left and right. Imagine that when they are switched on, instead of seeing each of them, instead you only see one light bulb coming from a point between the two actual bulbs. That, friends, is the mono phantom image. Amazing!

The stereo phantom is quite similar to the monaural one, but is based on two signals that are not quite identical. Usually from

two microphones, the two signals are slightly displaced left and right of the same source and in the same room. This creates a more three-dimensional and realistic image than the mono one, and far more stable in localization. To use it, you usually need to make a true stereo pair of the recordings you want in stereo, although it is possible to simulate it, as we will discuss later on.

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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Today, it's time to commit to vote

Friend --

Eighteen years ago, shortly after graduating from law school, I helped lead a voter registration campaign in Chicago that generated record turnout on Election Day.

That experience taught me one of the most important lessons I ever learned as a community organizer: When people promise that they'll do something -- like voting -- they are far more likely to do it.

That's why one key part of our Vote 2010 plan this year is to get folks like you from across the country to commit to vote, to make sure we get as many people as we can to cast their ballots this fall.

But getting the commitments we need starts with your own promise to make it to the polls and cast your ballot.

Will you please commit to vote in the 2010 elections?

Over the next 53 days, volunteers across the country will spend countless hours calling voters and knocking on their doors, asking them the same question.

And you can bet that I am counting on you to join them in talking to voters in your community.

This election offers a stark choice. We Democrats are hard at work trying to move America forward, repairing a decade of damage and growing an economy based on the Main Street values of hard work and responsibility.

We've fought for and won historic reforms to our health care system, a victory 100 years in the making, and to Wall Street, the most sweeping overhaul of the financial system since the Great Depression.

But after years of policies that landed us in the worst recession since the 1930s, the Republicans who got us there have not come up with anything different from the policies of George W. Bush.

We simply cannot afford to go backwards or let them repeal our reforms. And making sure we can continue moving forward starts with your own promise to cast your ballot in these elections.

Please commit to vote this fall:

http://my.barackobama.com/Commitment

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Today, it's time to commit to vote

Friend --

Eighteen years ago, shortly after graduating from law school, I helped lead a voter registration campaign in Chicago that generated record turnout on Election Day.

That experience taught me one of the most important lessons I ever learned as a community organizer: When people promise that they'll do something -- like voting -- they are far more likely to do it.

But getting the commitments we need starts with your own promise to make it to the polls and cast your ballot.

Will you please commit to vote in the 2010 elections?

Over the next 53 days, volunteers across the country will spend countless hours calling voters and knocking on their doors, asking them the same question.

And you can bet that I am counting on you to join them in talking to voters in your community.

But after years of policies that landed us in the worst recession since the 1930s, the Republicans who got us there have not come up with anything different from the policies of George W. Bush.

We simply cannot afford to go backwards or let them repeal our reforms. And making sure we can continue moving forward starts with your own promise to cast your ballot in these elections.

Please commit to vote this fall:

http://my.barackobama.com/Commitment

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

Volunteered by Christopher Land

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Today, it's time to commit to vote

Friend --

Eighteen years ago, shortly after graduating from law school, I helped lead a voter registration campaign in Chicago that generated record turnout on Election Day.

That experience taught me one of the most important lessons I ever learned as a community organizer: When people promise that they'll do something -- like voting -- they are far more likely to do it.

But getting the commitments we need starts with your own promise to make it to the polls and cast your ballot.

Will you please commit to vote in the 2010 elections?

Over the next 53 days, volunteers across the country will spend countless hours calling voters and knocking on their doors, asking them the same question.

And you can bet that I am counting on you to join them in talking to voters in your community.

But after years of policies that landed us in the worst recession since the 1930s, the Republicans who got us there have not come up with anything different from the policies of George W. Bush.

We simply cannot afford to go backwards or let them repeal our reforms. And making sure we can continue moving forward starts with your own promise to cast your ballot in these elections.

Please commit to vote this fall:

http://my.barackobama.com/Commitment

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Today, it's time to commit to vote

Friend --

Eighteen years ago, shortly after graduating from law school, I helped lead a voter registration campaign in Chicago that generated record turnout on Election Day.

That experience taught me one of the most important lessons I ever learned as a community organizer: When people promise that they'll do something -- like voting -- they are far more likely to do it.

But getting the commitments we need starts with your own promise to make it to the polls and cast your ballot.

Will you please commit to vote in the 2010 elections?

Over the next 53 days, volunteers across the country will spend countless hours calling voters and knocking on their doors, asking them the same question.

And you can bet that I am counting on you to join them in talking to voters in your community.

But after years of policies that landed us in the worst recession since the 1930s, the Republicans who got us there have not come up with anything different from the policies of George W. Bush.

We simply cannot afford to go backwards or let them repeal our reforms. And making sure we can continue moving forward starts with your own promise to cast your ballot in these elections.

Please commit to vote this fall:

http://my.barackobama.com/Commitment

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Today, it's time to commit to vote

Friend --

Eighteen years ago, shortly after graduating from law school, I helped lead a voter registration campaign in Chicago that generated record turnout on Election Day.

That experience taught me one of the most important lessons I ever learned as a community organizer: When people promise that they'll do something -- like voting -- they are far more likely to do it.

But getting the commitments we need starts with your own promise to make it to the polls and cast your ballot.

Will you please commit to vote in the 2010 elections?

Over the next 53 days, volunteers across the country will spend countless hours calling voters and knocking on their doors, asking them the same question.

And you can bet that I am counting on you to join them in talking to voters in your community.

But after years of policies that landed us in the worst recession since the 1930s, the Republicans who got us there have not come up with anything different from the policies of George W. Bush.

We simply cannot afford to go backwards or let them repeal our reforms. And making sure we can continue moving forward starts with your own promise to cast your ballot in these elections.

Please commit to vote this fall:

http://my.barackobama.com/Commitment

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Today, it's time to commit to vote

Friend --

Eighteen years ago, shortly after graduating from law school, I helped lead a voter registration campaign in Chicago that generated record turnout on Election Day.

That experience taught me one of the most important lessons I ever learned as a community organizer: When people promise that they'll do something -- like voting -- they are far more likely to do it.

But getting the commitments we need starts with your own promise to make it to the polls and cast your ballot.

Will you please commit to vote in the 2010 elections?

Over the next 53 days, volunteers across the country will spend countless hours calling voters and knocking on their doors, asking them the same question.

And you can bet that I am counting on you to join them in talking to voters in your community.

But after years of policies that landed us in the worst recession since the 1930s, the Republicans who got us there have not come up with anything different from the policies of George W. Bush.

We simply cannot afford to go backwards or let them repeal our reforms. And making sure we can continue moving forward starts with your own promise to cast your ballot in these elections.

Please commit to vote this fall:

http://my.barackobama.com/Commitment

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

MeatSections: Proof SF is for Carnivores | Thrillist

On October 8, bring your skills and vision to Cut&Paste’s 2010 Digital Design Tournament, a live-action battle royale in 2D, 3D, and Motion design pitting top young designers against each other while involving the audience in the creative process; finalists from the SF competition’ll face off in the Global Championship, not to be confused with the Globex Championship, in which Hank Scorpio always wins, with the help of a flamethrower. Got designs on winning? Then enter before September 10th at cutandpaste.com.

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GI Joe's "knowing is half the battle" really doesn't always apply to scrumptious food, as evidenced by the McAnything. Humorously illuminating what's in your meat, Drywell Art.

From a flesh-obsessed San Franciscan who quit her job as a hot-shot government lawyer in favor of full-time artistry, DA offers up hand-drawn butchery-style diagrams of meats both real (pig/cow) and optimistically awesome (Twitter's Fail Whale), all of which're available as 13X19 posters or miniature prints -- also the hardest thing for a seasoned detective to match (Babies or midgets?!?). Popular swine designs include Super Pig (a caped-crusading cut-job that includes "super butt", "super loin", and "super belly"), Really F-ing Good Pig (with five "good" cross-sections and one "really f-ing good" piece of belly meat), and San Francisco is for Carnivores: a pig that's actually a proportional SF neighborhood map including the appropriately sectioned Tenderloin, though hopefully the meat's considerably less junky. Stranger diagrams range from the Hot Dog Mystery ("I don't know, and I don't care"), to Ghost Meat (which the poster states "is a figment of your imagination"), to The Vuvuzela, which's separated into five sections including "Buzz", and "Zzzzzzzz", the latter of which can also be heard from the stands at most Clipper's games.

You can also

custom-order new designs from her daily-updated blog (MeatSections.com), with posted-but-not-printed doodles ranging from beer to Mario's evil mushrooms -- yet another ingestible that you only care to know is 100% awesome.

See all her awesome sectioned edible and non-edible creations here, or stop by the next Indie Mart at Thee Parkside on Sept. 19 where she'll be dropping her first line of tees

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Greenwashing: How to Avoid the Typical Marketing Traps | Environmental Leader

July 14, 2010

“Greenwashing” typically refers to marketing and advertising claims that are based on environmental puffery rather than performance. Experience indicates that many claims, even those from sophisticated multinationals, fall under the “greenwashing” banner. While such claims may seem to make sense over the short-term, they create long-term potential for consumer dissatisfaction, regulatory challenges, and even monetary damages.

While standards differ globally, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations are a good model to follow virtually anywhere in the world. Listed below are the four factors of most concern to the FTC regarding advertising claims of all types, but specifically environmental claims.

1. Specificity

The single most important point to remember when making claims is to be as specific as possible. Doing so will require that claims be substantiated by communicating all of the following:

What is being claimed (e.g., Reduced energy consumption during production…)
By how much – (e.g., …by 12%)
Compared to what – (e.g., …versus the previous product formulation.)

Claims that are general or vague are not only considered to be meaningless, the FTC considers them to be deceptive. Technically, this means claims that appear to be simple and harmless, such as “eco-friendly” and “green,” are actually open to scrutiny and legal action.

2. Clarity, Prominence, Comprehension

To further prevent deception, any qualifications or disclosures relating to claims should be clear, prominent and easily understood. According to the FTC, “clarity of language, relative type size and proximity to the claim being qualified, and an absence of contrary claims that could undercut effectiveness will maximize the likelihood that the qualifications and disclosures are appropriately clear and prominent.” Footnotes and other qualifying statements should thus be easy to find and understand.

3. Lack of Overstatement

Environmental claims, attributes and benefits should not be overstated. Both the absolute and relative merits of a claim must be considered.

Example 1: Claiming that a package has been reduced in weight by 50% would be considered deceptive if the package in question now weighed 1 gram, versus 2 grams in the past. However, a 50% move from 16 oz. to 8 oz. would probably be considered acceptable, based upon the absolute change in question.

Example 2: A resin is described simply as being “recyclable.” However, the current recycling infrastructure cannot handle this resin, or it can only be handled in a very few places. Even if the resin is technically capable of being recycled, the claim is deceptive since it asserts an environmental benefit where no significant or meaningful benefit exists.

4. Comparative Clarity and Substantiation

Comparative claims must be stated in a way that makes the basis for comparison as clear as possible. The comparison should also be substantiated.

Please not that in Europe, product comparison claims are either outlawed outright or considered to be a form of unfair competition. Always talk to your legal advisors before making any specific comparative claim versus another company or its products.

To sum up, the best way to avoid the perception of “greenwashing” is to relate advertising claims to clear and specific benefits (i.e., solid waste, water use, energy consumption), while providing meaningful information and data to support the claims. Doing so will help build trust in your company and its products among key stakeholders such as employees, customers, regulators and the media.

Robert Lilienfeld is editor of the ULS (Use Less Stuff) report. Published monthly, The ULS Report is a leading international source of information relating to waste prevention, source reduction, packaging, and sustainable practices. A full analysis of FTC environmental marketing claims by ULS Editor Bob Lilienfeld can be found at http://www.use-less-stuff.com/resources.htm

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT - Early Voice of the Civil Rights Movement | Helium

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT-Early Voice of the Civil Rights Movement

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11th, 1884 in New York City. In 1902 she met her father's fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1903 they began a courtship. In November of that same year they became engaged, however, Franklin's mother Sara was against the impending marriage. She soon adjusted to the inevitable.

Early in her life Eleanor saw the poverty around her and decided that someone had to do something so she became active in public service. She especially saw the plight of African-American citizens and resolved to make things better. She knew that the American people would have to work together so the country would have a more honorable standing on the world stage.

In 1903 The Women's Trade Union was formed to fight sweatshop conditions in the factories and organizing labor unions. Ms. Roosevelt was in the forefront of all this political change that the country needed.

Ms. Eleanor became active in the civil rights of African-American citizens. The military branches were still segregated. She made tremendous efforts to make the country understand that it took all of the American citizenry to meet the approaching threat of Nazi Germany. When the United States finally entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor she knew that it was time to break down some barriers.

Ms. Roosevelt was particularly supportive of the Tuskegee Institute for Negro Flyers. In 1941 as our country entered the war it was her wish to fly with one of Tuskegee's pilots. She flew with student pilot Charles Anderson. This brought great recognition to the advanced flying school which produced the first African-American pilots who played a large part in the war as did the ground soldiers. The war could not have been won without the intervention of Eleanor Roosevelt and the support of the president.

In 1941 she was active on the home front by co-chairing the National Committee on Civil Defense with Fiorello LaGuardia, the mayor of New York. She used to opportunity to lift the morale of civilians and military personnel. In 1943 she made the journey to the South Pacific where she first met Admiral Brett Halsey. He had first opposed the visit but after the meeting he praised her efforts.

In the years after the war she was sought out by the Democratic Party to run for office. Some even jokingly suggested that she run for first woman president. She was that good at her job. She won many awards but she is also the first First-Lady an honorary membership in the Alpha Kappa AlphaSorority Inc. for African-American Women. She shares this with another First-Lady, Michelle Obama.

In April, 1960 she was involved in a car accident in New York City. She was finally diagnosed with aplastic anemia and developed bone cancertuberculosis. On November 7, 1962 Ms. Roosevelt died in her Manhattan apartment at the age of 78.

Many advances in the national culture would not have taken place had it not been for her influence and powers of persuasion on the American public as well as many politicians. For all her successes there is a statue of Ms. Roosevelt at the F.D.R. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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