In some neighborhoods a lush green lawn is as much a status symbol the house it's in front of. It demonstrates the homeowner's hard work and dedication to maintaining every last blade of grass. And that's what makes the Seedbot even more awesome: It's a simpler shortcut to all that praise and adoration from the neighborhood association.
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Smithfield Foods CEO Larry Pope will face pointed questions in front of a swarm of journalists this afternoon.
Pope is the key witness in a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, convened to ask whether the federal review process for foreign acquisitions of U.S. food companies is adequate.
Smithield announced in late May an offer from Shuanghui International to acquire all shares of the company's stock, but the deal must be approved by shareholders and clear federal regulatory hurdle before it's completed.
The hearing starts at 2:30 p.m. and will be webcast on the committee's website.
To watch go to http://www.ag.senate.gov/hearings/smithfield-and-beyond_examining-foreign-purchases-of-american-food-companies
For coverage of the hearing, check http://www.dailypress.com and read tomorrow's Daily Press.
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Lindsey Green, publicist to the NYC startup scene, has just been chosen as the Vice President of SKDKnickerbocker, a reputable political PR Firm that has just started an entire division focused on startups and technology. SKDKnickerbocker has been around for 20 years, providing guidance and resources to public policy groups and organizations in the New York area. But rather than start a tech/startup-focused division from the inside, the firm chose to look into the NYC startup community for someone to lead the new division. Green has been in the space for over ten years, with a breadth of experience in different genres including blogging, fashion PR, and worked as director of communications at Jill Stuart for three years. Then she migrated to Kinda Sorta Media to help focus on startup clients, before venturing to start her own firm, Ti14th. Ti14th has been around for the past three years, and even though she’s under 30 years old, she’s made quite a name for herself in the tech sphere. Some of the Ti14th clients include DailyWorth, Quotidian Ventures, Moveline, Work-Bench, and Green has also worked with Circa and HowAboutWe, among many more. Current Ti14th clients will move on over to SKDKnickerbocker with Green so that the newly formed division has a concrete base to start from. Green plans to bring the same non-traditional publicist style to the firm, but with far greater resources than before. “I try and bring a contemporary viewpoint to PR,” said Green. “With startups, I approach it in a way that fits for startups and technology, and that doesn’t mean traditional PR. I don’t do a ton of press releases, but instead focus on building relationships with journalists who are important to us. It’s all about efficient, non-traditional PR for startups.” NY companies looking for a PR firm should certainly hit up the new Green-led division of SKDKnickerbocker.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jYGgoTAkON0/
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Justin Jasper, 21, appears at a bail hearing on Friday in Seattle.
By Daniel Arkin and M. Alex Johnson, NBC News
Prosecutors say the Nevada man arrested near the University of Washington campus?with weapons and explosives also had anti-government propaganda and directions to three Seattle colleges.
Justin Miles Jasper, 21, is being held in King County, Wash., in lieu of $2 million bail, said the county's senior deputy prosecutor Andrew Hamilton.
King County Judge Arthur R. Chapman said at a Friday bail hearing that he considered Jasper a flight risk and a threat, according to The Associated Press.
Montana authorities said Jasper had stolen a pickup truck and several firearms from a truck driver who gave him a place to stay in Butte for the last month, the AP reported.
Authorities who searched the truck after Jasper's arrest found a stolen scoped rifle, a stolen shotgun, body armor, three knives, a machete and six Molotov cocktails, Hamilton said.
Prosecutors announced Friday that investigators had also uncovered propaganda materials -- including a recording of a podcast -- in which Jasper allegedly addressed the political upheaval in Syria and Brazil and expressed anti-government sentiments, Hamilton said.
"There was a sheet of paper that had block, printed letters. It said something to the effect of: Are you aware of the Syrian revolution?" Hamilton said. "It was definitely political in nature."
The suspect was also found with directions to three college campuses: the University of Washington, Seattle University and South Seattle Community College, Hamilton said.
After a police pursuit, Jasper was arrested near Seattle Children's Hospital late Wednesday, a short drive from the UW campus, said John Vinson, chief of the university's police department. He provided no additional details of the pursuit, but described the arrest as "high-risk."
Campus police first encountered Jasper on Tuesday when they discovered him sleeping in the stolen truck, Vinson said. A records check turned up empty, so the man was sent on his way.
But on Wednesday morning, the truck showed up as having been stolen in Montana, police said, and when it was spotted on campus around 10:30 p.m. (1:30 a.m. Thursday ET), officers gave pursuit.
Authorities said Thursday they believed there was no longer any threat to the university community, but they said the FBI had joined what they called a "very active criminal investigation."
Jasper is believed to have no ties to the Seattle area, investigators said.
Related story:?Guns, Molotov cocktails, stolen truck: Seattle arrest
This story was originally published on Fri Jul 5, 2013 8:35 PM EDT
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Hawke and Delpy remain as charming as ever, and their combined goofiness is more endearing than annoying.
Love is messy here, life cannot be controlled, satisfaction is far from guaranteed. Romance is rocky at best. But romance still is.
Though "Before Midnight" is often uncomfortable to watch, it's never less than mesmerizing - and ultimately, a joy to walk with this prickly but fascinating couple again.
"Before Midnight" is heartbreaking, but not because of Jesse and Celine. It's the filmmakers' passions that seem to have cooled.
Before Midnight is fascinating to watch, and so long as Celine and Jesse are communicating, there's still hope.
How (Jesse and Celine) try to rekindle that flame is what drives Midnight, a film that feels so authentic it's like overhearing a conversation you're not sure you should be hearing.
Takes its traditional romantic tale into more insightful territories.
Hawk and Delpy know just how to get under your skin. Their onscreen alter egos fit like a glove, and witnessing their ageing, nagging, toying love is a true privilege.
What lifts Linklater's trilogy above your average dialogue-heavy indie is not just the intelligence of the conversation but its frankness and humor.
There's not a hint of melodrama or falsity in the Before series.
The 'Before' trilogy is a vacation for me. I am taken away, and it is never for long enough. I genuinely feel lucky to have these movies.
I'm not sure this is the end of Richard Linklater's 'Before' trilogy. It's perfection just as it is, but then again, Linklater has nine more years to work on the sequel.
Loving words mix with personal attacks, the magic moments with the unintended slights, as we witness the occasional desperation of imperfect people doing the best they can when life moves beyond meet-cute and courtship. That's authentic.
Linklater and his players bring an end to the fantasy and welcome the thrilling ups and bitter downs of reality to this love story.
Like the first two films, it reflects the real world in a way that seems almost preternatural. It's just that, here, the real world is a harsher, more disappointing place.
The duo, clearly so comfortable in their characters' skin, indulge in intelligent banter, sharp humour and emotional truths.
So much better written than contemporary novels, this film is a literary as well as cinematic achievement to cherish. For grown-ups.
As before, it's often very funny, with Jesse and Celine swapping Woody Allen-esque one-liners - nicely snarky, appealingly abrasive.
The acting, the dialogue and direction are superb.
None of the films is faultless in itself, but, tinted with complementary tones, the complete cycle comes as close to perfection as any trilogy in cinema history.
Marvelous. It's impossible to shake the feeling that we are merely eavesdropping on reality. Witty, wise, and -- most important of all -- truly romantic in ways that movies usually aren't.
It's been 18 years since Hawke, Delpy and Linklater introduced us to Jesse and Celine, and their story just gets richer, funnier and more punchy each time we see them. In 1995's Before Sunrise, they were idealistic 23-year-olds.
Hawke and Delpy are as believably real as any screen couple can ever be.
This is one of the few sequels for which the cliche 'eagerly awaited' is truly applicable.
Predictably, it's just as great as the first two.
By the end, Before Midnight inches towards a dawn of charm. But it's a troubled trip.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_midnight_2013/
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PITTSBURGHLying awake in bed plagues everyone occasionally, but for those with seasonal affective disorder, sleeplessness is routine. University of Pittsburgh researchers report in the Journal of Affective Disorders that individuals with seasonal affective disorder (SAD)a winter depression that leads to loss of motivation and interest in daily activitieshave misconceptions about their sleep habits similar to those of insomniacs. These findings open the door for treating seasonal affective disorder similar to the way doctors treat insomnia.
Kathryn Roecklein, primary investigator and assistant professor in Pitt's Department of Psychology within the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, along with a team of researchers from Pitt's School of Medicine and Reyerson University, investigated why, according to a previously published sleep study by the University of California, Berkeley, individuals with seasonal affective disorder incorrectly reported that they slept four more hours a night in the winter.
"We wondered if this misreporting was a result of depression symptoms like fatigue and low motivation, prompting people to spend more time in bed," said Roecklein. "And people with seasonal affective disorder have depression approximately five months a year, most years. This puts a significant strain on a person's work life and home life."
Roecklein and her team interviewed 147 adults between the ages of 18 and 65 living in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area during the winters of 2011 and 2012. Data was collected through self-reported questionnaires and structured clinical interviews in which participants were asked such questions as: "In the past month, have you been sleeping more than usual?" and "How many hours, on average, have you been sleeping in the past month? How does that compare to your normal sleep duration during the summer?"
In order to understand participants' ideas about sleep, Roecklein's team asked them to respond to questions such as "I need at least 8 hours of sleep to function the next day" and "Insomnia is dangerous for health" on a scale from 0 to 7, where 7 means "strongly agree" and 0 means "disagree completely."
Roecklein and her team found that SAD participants' misconceptions about sleep were similar to the "unhelpful beliefs" or personal misconceptions about sleep that insomniacs often hold. Due to depression, individuals with SAD, like those with insomnia, may spend more time resting in bed, but not actually sleepingleading to misconceptions about how much they sleep. These misconceptions, said Roecklein, play a significant role in sleep cognition for those with seasonal affective disorder.
"We predict that about 750,000 people in the Pittsburgh metro area suffer from seasonal affective disorder, making this an important issue for our community and the economic strength and vitality of our city," said Roecklein. "If we can properly treat this disorder, we can significantly lower the number of sufferers in our city."
Roecklein's research data suggests that addressing, understanding, and managing these "unhelpful beliefs" about sleep by way of psychotherapy could lead to improved treatments for seasonal affective disorder. One of the most effective treatment options for insomnia, said Roecklein, is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (known as CBT-I), which aims to help people take control of their thinking to improve their sleep habits as well as mood, behavior, and emotions.
Roecklein's next research project aims to improve treatment for seasonal affective disorder by studying light perception and biological clock synchronization. Light from the environment synchronizes internal biological rhythms with the timing of dawn and dusk, which naturally changes with the seasons. This synchronization allows people to be awake and alert during the day and to sleep at night. Roecklein will examine whether people with seasonal affective disorder perceive this light from the environment differently because of changes in the function of neurological pathways from the eye to the brain. This could help uncover reasons why people suffer from seasonal affective disorder and could suggest new treatment options.
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Roecklein's research team included, Peter L. Franzen and Brant P. Hasler of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, Pitt psychology graduate student Patrica M. Wong, and Colleen E. Carney from Reyerson University's Department of Psychology.
Their paper, "The Role of Beliefs and Attitudes About Sleep in Seasonal and Nonseasonal Mood Disorder, and Nondepressed Controls" was originally published online May 23 in the Journal of Affective Disorders. This work was partially supported by a National Institutes of Health grant.
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PITTSBURGHLying awake in bed plagues everyone occasionally, but for those with seasonal affective disorder, sleeplessness is routine. University of Pittsburgh researchers report in the Journal of Affective Disorders that individuals with seasonal affective disorder (SAD)a winter depression that leads to loss of motivation and interest in daily activitieshave misconceptions about their sleep habits similar to those of insomniacs. These findings open the door for treating seasonal affective disorder similar to the way doctors treat insomnia.
Kathryn Roecklein, primary investigator and assistant professor in Pitt's Department of Psychology within the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, along with a team of researchers from Pitt's School of Medicine and Reyerson University, investigated why, according to a previously published sleep study by the University of California, Berkeley, individuals with seasonal affective disorder incorrectly reported that they slept four more hours a night in the winter.
"We wondered if this misreporting was a result of depression symptoms like fatigue and low motivation, prompting people to spend more time in bed," said Roecklein. "And people with seasonal affective disorder have depression approximately five months a year, most years. This puts a significant strain on a person's work life and home life."
Roecklein and her team interviewed 147 adults between the ages of 18 and 65 living in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area during the winters of 2011 and 2012. Data was collected through self-reported questionnaires and structured clinical interviews in which participants were asked such questions as: "In the past month, have you been sleeping more than usual?" and "How many hours, on average, have you been sleeping in the past month? How does that compare to your normal sleep duration during the summer?"
In order to understand participants' ideas about sleep, Roecklein's team asked them to respond to questions such as "I need at least 8 hours of sleep to function the next day" and "Insomnia is dangerous for health" on a scale from 0 to 7, where 7 means "strongly agree" and 0 means "disagree completely."
Roecklein and her team found that SAD participants' misconceptions about sleep were similar to the "unhelpful beliefs" or personal misconceptions about sleep that insomniacs often hold. Due to depression, individuals with SAD, like those with insomnia, may spend more time resting in bed, but not actually sleepingleading to misconceptions about how much they sleep. These misconceptions, said Roecklein, play a significant role in sleep cognition for those with seasonal affective disorder.
"We predict that about 750,000 people in the Pittsburgh metro area suffer from seasonal affective disorder, making this an important issue for our community and the economic strength and vitality of our city," said Roecklein. "If we can properly treat this disorder, we can significantly lower the number of sufferers in our city."
Roecklein's research data suggests that addressing, understanding, and managing these "unhelpful beliefs" about sleep by way of psychotherapy could lead to improved treatments for seasonal affective disorder. One of the most effective treatment options for insomnia, said Roecklein, is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (known as CBT-I), which aims to help people take control of their thinking to improve their sleep habits as well as mood, behavior, and emotions.
Roecklein's next research project aims to improve treatment for seasonal affective disorder by studying light perception and biological clock synchronization. Light from the environment synchronizes internal biological rhythms with the timing of dawn and dusk, which naturally changes with the seasons. This synchronization allows people to be awake and alert during the day and to sleep at night. Roecklein will examine whether people with seasonal affective disorder perceive this light from the environment differently because of changes in the function of neurological pathways from the eye to the brain. This could help uncover reasons why people suffer from seasonal affective disorder and could suggest new treatment options.
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Roecklein's research team included, Peter L. Franzen and Brant P. Hasler of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, Pitt psychology graduate student Patrica M. Wong, and Colleen E. Carney from Reyerson University's Department of Psychology.
Their paper, "The Role of Beliefs and Attitudes About Sleep in Seasonal and Nonseasonal Mood Disorder, and Nondepressed Controls" was originally published online May 23 in the Journal of Affective Disorders. This work was partially supported by a National Institutes of Health grant.
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ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) ? New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was taken from his home in handcuffs Wednesday morning, more than a week after a Boston semi-pro football player was found dead in an industrial park a mile from Hernandez's house.
Less than two hours later, the Patriots announced they had released Hernandez.
Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semi-pro football player for the Boston Bandits, was found slain June 17. Officials ruled the death a homicide but did not say how Lloyd died.
Lloyd's relatives said he was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, that the two men were friends and that the men were out together on the last night of Lloyd's life.
It's unclear why Hernandez was taken into custody Wednesday before 9 a.m. and put into the back of a police cruiser. He was wearing a white V-neck T-shirt, with his arms inside the shirt and behind his back as he was led from his North Attleborough home. He casually spit into some bushes on his way to the car.
Hernandez was arrested on a state police warrant at about 8:45 a.m. and was being booked at the North Attleborough police station, state police said on the agency's Twitter account. State police said they won't discuss the charge against Hernandez until it's presented in Attleboro District Court later Wednesday.
The Associated Press emailed a message to his attorney, Michael Fee, who hasn't discussed the investigation beyond acknowledging media reports about it. A message also was left with the Bristol County district attorney's office.
At about 10:20 a.m., the Patriots announced they had released Hernandez and expressed sympathy to Lloyd's family and friends.
"Words cannot express the disappointment we feel knowing that one of our players was arrested as a result of this investigation," the Patriots said in a statement. "We realize that law enforcement investigations into this matter are ongoing. We support their efforts and respect the process. At this time, we believe this transaction is simply the right thing to do."
Lloyd's mother, Ursula Ward, declined to comment at her Boston home Wednesday morning.
"Nothing to say, please. Thank you," she said, before shutting the door.
State police have searched in and around Hernandez's sprawling home in North Attleborough several times. At least three search warrants have been issued in connection with the investigation.
Reporters have been camped for days outside the home on the Rhode Island line, not far from the stadium where the Patriots play. They reported Tuesday that Hernandez got a visit from Boston defense attorney James Sultan.
The Patriots drafted Hernandez, who is originally from Bristol, Conn., out of the University of Florida in 2010. Last summer, the team gave him a five-year contract worth $40 million.
Patriots spokesman Stacey James has said the team did not anticipate commenting publicly during the police investigation.
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Associated Press writers Bridget Murphy in Boston and Howard Ulman contributed to this story.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pats-player-hernandez-taken-home-handcuffs-131332109.html
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? George Zimmerman's defense attorneys can use statements the neighborhood watch volunteer made to a police officer and neighbor immediately after he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Judge Debra Nelson made the ruling Monday that the remarks could be used shortly before opening statements in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial.
Zimmerman told the officer and neighbor that he was yelling for help but nobody responded during his confrontation with Martin.
Zimmerman is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder, claiming self-defense.
Arguments over whether the remarks could be used by the defense delayed opening statements by a few minutes.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/opening-statements-begin-zimmerman-trial-094426278.html
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks are opening little changed on Wall Street as investors get ready for earnings news from major U.S. companies.
Nearly one-third of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones industrial average report first-quarter results this week.
In early trading Monday the Dow was off 19 points at 14,526, a decline of 0.1 percent.
The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index was up less than a point at 1,554, or 0.1 percent.
The Nasdaq composite rose five points to 3,211, an increase of 0.2 percent.
Toy maker Hasbro and the energy company Halliburton turned in results that beat the forecasts of Wall Street analysts, and their stocks rose.
Caterpillar, a heavy equipment maker, slipped after reporting that a slowdown in the mining business hurt its results.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-mixed-major-companies-report-earnings-134711495--finance.html
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By Sonia Oxley MANCHESTER, England, April 19 (Reuters) - For striker Wayne Rooney to be taken off the pitch because Manchester United needed a vital goal was once inconceivable but is now the reality facing a player whose future at the club is as shaky as his form. "We had to get that goal that mattered," was manager Alex Ferguson's reasoning on Friday for the decision to substitute the England striker in Wednesday's 2-2 draw at West Ham United. "As far as taking him off the other night, it was simple: he wasn't playing as well as Shinji Kagawa was. ...
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Facebook has given its main "f" logo icon a makeover, flattening the design by removing the pale blue bar along the bottom, which gave the icon a reflective sheen/slight 3D effect, as well as moving the position of the f so it now bleeds right off the bottom. The overall effect is a simplified, unfussy and clean looking design with the f more clearly leaping out.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nH0zW7BgMD0/
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Public release date: 17-Apr-2013 Share ] Contact: Tracy Dumas
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Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, Ohio The workers who may have the most to gain from attending company social events may be the ones who actually get the least value from them, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that, in general, workers tended to report closer relationships with their colleagues the more that they attended company social events and shared their nonwork lives with their co-workers.
But that positive association between workplace sharing and closer relationships didn't occur for workers who were racially dissimilar from their colleagues for example, the only black person in an all-white office.
"There is something about being different from your co-workers that can make socializing less effective in building closer relationships," said Tracy Dumas, lead author of the study and assistant professor of management and human resources at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.
"We didn't see a negative relationship it doesn't make things worse to socialize with your co-workers. But when you're racially dissimilar, it doesn't have the same positive impact."
Dumas said it is unfortunate that company socializing is least effective for those who are different from their office mates. "Those are the employees who are arguably the most in need of help in forming closer relationships with their colleagues," she said.
The findings suggest that if employers promote social activities for workers, they should attend more closely to the quality of the workers' experiences at the events so that they benefit all attendees.
Dumas conducted the study with Katherine Phillips of the Columbia Business School at Columbia University, and Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Their results appear online in the journal Organization Science and will appear in a future print edition.
The researchers conducted two related studies. The first study involved a series of surveys of 165 first-year MBA students in their first term of classes at a U.S. university. The students were either currently working or had been working immediately prior to enrolling. Of those surveyed, 10 percent were underrepresented minorities, including African Americans and Latinos.
Across three surveys, participants were asked several questions about how much social interaction they had with their colleagues, as well as the demographic information of those colleagues. For example, they were asked how much they discussed their nonwork life with co-workers and how often they attended company-sponsored or informal work-related gatherings.
They were also asked to rate on a five-point scale how close they felt to each individual colleague (up to 10 colleagues in total) in their immediate workplace.
The findings showed that the more social interaction participants had with their colleagues, the closer they felt if they were racially similar. But those who were dissimilar from their colleagues did not see an increase in closeness with more social interaction.
"This does not have to do with being a member of a particular racial category it is really about whether you are similar to others in your workplace," Dumas said. "Our findings suggest that a white person in an office of African Americans would have a similar difficulty building closer relationships with co-workers as would an African American in an office of all Asian Americans."
The second study involved a national online sample of 141 adults, with 24 percent being underrepresented minorities. The participants were asked many of the same questions as were those in the first study, and the results were similar social interaction was less likely to help workers feel closer to the colleagues when they were of a different race than the majority.
But this study dug deeper to find out why.
Results showed that workers who reported they enjoyed themselves more and felt more comfortable while socializing with their colleagues also reported closer relationships. Among employees who were racially similar to their coworkers, attending company social events more was associated with greater enjoyment and comfort at the events. But for those workers who were racially different from the majority, this positive association was not present.
"It's not that these dissimilar people were avoiding social encounters with their colleagues," Dumas said. "They were going, but for them, the connection between attending the events and enjoying the events was different. That seems to explain why they weren't feeling closer."
So why did they go if not to enjoy themselves?
Racially dissimilar people were more likely to report they participated in these social activities for external reasons, such as feeling they were expected to attend.
"Many feel like they have to go if they want to get ahead at the office or advance their career," she said. "They aren't going because they enjoy it."
Dumas said these results suggest employers need to do more than just provide social opportunities for their employees. They need to monitor the culture to determine whether employees see the events as mandatory, and also give more thought to what goes on at events like company parties so that all are included.
"We need to have experiences where everyone feels comfortable, where everyone has something to contribute. If everyone feels comfortable, that can lead to something positive."
Or, she said, employers can just put less emphasis on social events and opportunities as a way to build team cohesion.
"Sometimes you can create cohesion around the work task itself you don't need outside social interaction. If everyone can feel good about the work they do and celebrate the successes they achieve together, it is not necessary to find ways to connect outside of work," she said.
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Contact: Tracy Dumas, Tldumas@fisher.osu.edu
(It is best to reach Dumas first by email.)
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Public release date: 17-Apr-2013 Share ] Contact: Tracy Dumas
Tldumas@fisher.osu.edu
Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, Ohio The workers who may have the most to gain from attending company social events may be the ones who actually get the least value from them, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that, in general, workers tended to report closer relationships with their colleagues the more that they attended company social events and shared their nonwork lives with their co-workers.
But that positive association between workplace sharing and closer relationships didn't occur for workers who were racially dissimilar from their colleagues for example, the only black person in an all-white office.
"There is something about being different from your co-workers that can make socializing less effective in building closer relationships," said Tracy Dumas, lead author of the study and assistant professor of management and human resources at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.
"We didn't see a negative relationship it doesn't make things worse to socialize with your co-workers. But when you're racially dissimilar, it doesn't have the same positive impact."
Dumas said it is unfortunate that company socializing is least effective for those who are different from their office mates. "Those are the employees who are arguably the most in need of help in forming closer relationships with their colleagues," she said.
The findings suggest that if employers promote social activities for workers, they should attend more closely to the quality of the workers' experiences at the events so that they benefit all attendees.
Dumas conducted the study with Katherine Phillips of the Columbia Business School at Columbia University, and Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Their results appear online in the journal Organization Science and will appear in a future print edition.
The researchers conducted two related studies. The first study involved a series of surveys of 165 first-year MBA students in their first term of classes at a U.S. university. The students were either currently working or had been working immediately prior to enrolling. Of those surveyed, 10 percent were underrepresented minorities, including African Americans and Latinos.
Across three surveys, participants were asked several questions about how much social interaction they had with their colleagues, as well as the demographic information of those colleagues. For example, they were asked how much they discussed their nonwork life with co-workers and how often they attended company-sponsored or informal work-related gatherings.
They were also asked to rate on a five-point scale how close they felt to each individual colleague (up to 10 colleagues in total) in their immediate workplace.
The findings showed that the more social interaction participants had with their colleagues, the closer they felt if they were racially similar. But those who were dissimilar from their colleagues did not see an increase in closeness with more social interaction.
"This does not have to do with being a member of a particular racial category it is really about whether you are similar to others in your workplace," Dumas said. "Our findings suggest that a white person in an office of African Americans would have a similar difficulty building closer relationships with co-workers as would an African American in an office of all Asian Americans."
The second study involved a national online sample of 141 adults, with 24 percent being underrepresented minorities. The participants were asked many of the same questions as were those in the first study, and the results were similar social interaction was less likely to help workers feel closer to the colleagues when they were of a different race than the majority.
But this study dug deeper to find out why.
Results showed that workers who reported they enjoyed themselves more and felt more comfortable while socializing with their colleagues also reported closer relationships. Among employees who were racially similar to their coworkers, attending company social events more was associated with greater enjoyment and comfort at the events. But for those workers who were racially different from the majority, this positive association was not present.
"It's not that these dissimilar people were avoiding social encounters with their colleagues," Dumas said. "They were going, but for them, the connection between attending the events and enjoying the events was different. That seems to explain why they weren't feeling closer."
So why did they go if not to enjoy themselves?
Racially dissimilar people were more likely to report they participated in these social activities for external reasons, such as feeling they were expected to attend.
"Many feel like they have to go if they want to get ahead at the office or advance their career," she said. "They aren't going because they enjoy it."
Dumas said these results suggest employers need to do more than just provide social opportunities for their employees. They need to monitor the culture to determine whether employees see the events as mandatory, and also give more thought to what goes on at events like company parties so that all are included.
"We need to have experiences where everyone feels comfortable, where everyone has something to contribute. If everyone feels comfortable, that can lead to something positive."
Or, she said, employers can just put less emphasis on social events and opportunities as a way to build team cohesion.
"Sometimes you can create cohesion around the work task itself you don't need outside social interaction. If everyone can feel good about the work they do and celebrate the successes they achieve together, it is not necessary to find ways to connect outside of work," she said.
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The Boston?Marathon?bombing is easily becoming the most crowd-sourced terror investigation on American soil, with the FBI soliciting videos, cell phone pictures, and anything that could lead to the capture of whoever set off those pressure cooker bombs. The FBI's plea has more or less turned the interested and the Internet into amateur investigators armed with what we know the remains of the bag and the bomb look like. On Reddit that's spurned the "Find Boston Bombers" subreddit, with all kinds of analysis, but here's the find they're most excited about: They've found a photo of a man with a backpack that has straps which resemble what federal officials believe is the detonated backpack.?
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We have obscured the man's face because, well, the only suggestion of a connection to the bombings comes from people on Reddit who have been looking at photographs:?
And one more angle, showing extreme close up of the straps.?RELATED: The Stories Behind the Most Indelible Images of the Boston Bombing
Again, we can only vouch for the image of the detonated bag, which the FBI says contained one of the pressure cooker bombs. There are no details on where the image of the man in the blue jacket came from, or at what time it was taken during the marathon, or the location? the only reference we have is that it trickled down from social media and Flickr, and down to sites like 4chan and Reddit.?Redditors, to their credit, haven't been shy in voicing the skepticism and concern with pinning this terror attack on an innocent man:
That isn't the only other photo popping up however, like this one who one poster believes could be smuggling a pressure cooker bomb because of the shape of his backpack:
And this, one, which we sorta have no idea why things are being circled:
Reading through the amateur forensics feels like an intense and puzzling game of Where's Waldo.??But it's a byproduct of what you get when the FBI asks the public for help. Jittery nerves lead to things like the?New Yorkers who reported 77 suspicious packages in the wake of the Boston bombings, and multiple incorrect Chris Dorner sightings in February. And the blue robe man, along with the pressure cooker backpack man, are all tips?tips that part of the thousand the FBI receives.?As The Washington Post reported:?
[Richard] DesLauriers said cooperation from the community will play a key role in the investigation. He said the range of suspects remained wide open, but by midday Tuesday more than 2,000 tips had been received.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/reddit-4chan-boston-bomber-case-143826837.html
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Kate Middleton is in full nesting mode! With her July due date fast approaching, the six-months-pregnant Duchess of Cambridge is busy setting up house for herself and Prince William -- and it seems she's looking for something old to go with the something new they'll soon welcome into the world. On Saturday, April 13, the mom-to-be was spotted antique shopping in Fakenham, Norfolk, near Anmer Hall, the country home where she and her royal family will one day reside.
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Wearing a purple sweater under a brown-leather vest by the Really Wild Clothing Company, the 31-year-old Duchess browsed the wares at Sue Rivett Antiques, the Fakenham Antique Center, and Mews Antique Emporium. A source told Us Weekly she was looking at vases and snapping pictures of pieces of her phone. "She seems to be very organized in her home decorating," the onlooker said.
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Another eyewitness noted that Middleton's baby bump was on full display. "She was showing," the source told Us. "She didn't have a coat on as it wasn't that cold...She looked beautiful."
Indeed, a spokesman for Mews Antique Emporium said Prince William's wife "looked radiant and well" on her brief shopping trip. "She was happy to mingle with other customers," the spokesman told Us, adding that "no purchases were made by the Duchess, although some were made by her friends."
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Meanwhile, in another part of the U.K., Middleton's husband and his brother, Prince Harry, were spotted at a friend's bachelor party at the The Feathers Inn pub in the village of Hedley on the Hill, Stocksfield, Northumberland. "It was civilized, but they were all drinking a lot after eating dinner there," a local told Us of the fete. "William seemed quite rosy-cheeked."
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Congressional investigators say pharmacy boards in nearly all 50 states lack the information and expertise to oversee specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year.
A report released Monday by House Democrats shows that most states do not track or routinely inspect compounding pharmacies. Staffers surveyed officials in 50 states about their oversight of pharmacies and then compiled the responses.
The findings come as lawmakers debate how to prevent another outbreak like that caused by the New England Compounding Center, a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. Contaminated injections distributed by the company last year have killed more than 50 people and sickened hundreds more.
Compounding pharmacies, which mix customized medications based on doctors' prescriptions, have traditionally been overseen by state pharmacy boards. But the growth of larger compounding pharmacies like the NECC, which mass-produced and distributed thousands of vials of drugs across the U.S., has prompted calls for more federal oversight.
The report from Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee argues that state regulators are not adequately policing the space, and that the Food and Drug Administration should be given direct authority over the pharmacies.
"In states from coast to coast, compounding pharmacies are going untracked, unregulated, and under-inspected, exposing patients everywhere to tainted drugs, disease and death," said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass, in a statement. Markey represents the congressional district where NECC is located.
Of the 49 states that responded to the inquiry, only officials from Missouri and Mississippi could provide the exact number of compounding pharmacies in their state. Missouri and Mississippi were also the only two states that require permits or licenses for pharmacies that perform compounding.
None of the states indicated that they track whether pharmacies sell compounded drugs across state lines or in large quantities. That kind of mass production was a key issue in the case of NECC, which shipped more than 17,600 doses of its pain injection to 23 states.
Investigators found that many states do not keep any inspection records of compounding pharmacies. Twenty-two states, or 44 percent, said they do not keep histories of problems like contamination, cleanliness and drug potency. Other states said they use a combination of inspection reports, complaints and "staff recollections," to track problematic pharmacies.
On average, most pharmacy boards have five inspectors responsible for visiting all the pharmacies in the state. Budgets vary greatly from state to state, with Nevada providing $3,000 in funding for each pharmacy in the state and Indiana providing with less than $200 per pharmacy. Only 19 states train inspectors to recognize problems with sterile compounding, which is considered the riskiest type of compounding because it requires highly sanitary conditions and complicated production techniques.
"This report clearly indicates what we've known for quite some time ? that there is no clear, functioning, or uniform process for all 50 states to manage and oversee compounding pharmacies," said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., in a statement. Dingell's office helped conduct the survey.
The findings will likely come into play on Tuesday, when a House investigative committee holds its second hearing on the meningitis outbreak. Republicans on that committee have argued that the FDA could have shut down the NECC using its existing powers. Lobbyists for the compounding industry generally share that view, and have fought proposals to give the federal government more authority over compounding for decades.
Last week House Democrats released dozens of documents from the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, the industry's leading trade group. The documents include internal memos to members suggesting how they deal with FDA inspectors, in particular: "when a pharmacist should NOT provide certain information to the FDA," and "when pharmacists should draw the line and discontinue the visit and call their attorney."
Democrats on the House Energy & Commerce Committee suggested the CEO of the trade group should testify at Tuesday's hearing. However, Democratic staffers said late last week they had not received a response on that request from Republicans, who control the chamber.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is schedule to testify.
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A Lion Air Boeing 737 crash landed short of the runway in Bali, Indonesia. All 101 passengers and seven crew members were rescued alive Saturday within minutes. But dozens were taken to the hospital. Why did a new Boeing 737-800 crash?
The wreckage of a crashed Lion Air 737-800 plane sits on the water near the airport in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday, April 13, 2013.
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All 101 passengers and seven crew members aboard a Lion Air flight were rescued Saturday within minutes of the crash. Some 45 people have been taken to local hospitals with injuries, but none seemed life threatening, according to one Indonesian airport official.
Initial reports said the aircraft had overshot the runway. But a Lion Air spokesman, Edward Sirait, told reporters that the plane did not reach the runway, it hit the water first.
Three of the passengers aboard were foreigners, two Singaporeans and a French national, according to The Associated Press. The rest of those on board were Indonesians on a domestic flight that originated in Bandung, West Java. The flight had stopped at two other cities prior to the crash on Bali.
After the crash, evacuation and rescue efforts proceeded quickly, according to eyewitness accounts. An Australian surfer told The Sydney Morning Herald that the aircraft came down in shallow water about 300 yards from where he was paddling. By the time he joined the rescue effort, about five minutes later, he said that most of the passengers were on the wing or climbing onto rocks. He helped one man to shore on his surfboard.?
The aircraft involved was a new Boeing 737-800, a popular design in use worldwide. A total of 4,293 of the 737 Next Generation aircraft (including the 737-600, -700-, -800, and -900ER models) have been delivered by the end of December 2012, according to Boeing.
Boeing boasts that the 737-800 is the best-selling aircraft in the Next Generation series (with more than 2,800 in operation and more than 4,000 ordered). Boeing says that the aircraft is "known for its reliability, fuel efficiency and economical performance, the 737-800 is selected by leading carriers throughout the world because it provides operators the flexibility to serve a wide range of markets. The single-aisle jet, which can seat between 162 to 189 passengers, can fly 260 nautical miles farther and consume 7 percent less fuel while carrying 12 more passengers than the competing model."
This was a new aircraft, only in operation since March, which should mean that aircraft mechanical reliability or age, shouldn't be an issue. But Lion Air spokesman Edward Sirait, hinted that the aircraft was the problem? ?When it tried to land at the airport, the aircraft was not able to reach the runway due to the incident," he said according to The Jakarta Post.? The spokesman did not describe the nature of the incident. The pilot, said Sirait, had more than 10,000 hours of flying experience, but he didn't say in which types of aircraft.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tighter border security must be one goal of immigration reform if the measure is to pass Congress, lawmakers who support the plan said on Sunday as they tried to build support for a proposal that should be outlined in coming days.
The plan expected later this week envisions toughening border security to discourage new immigrants, while detailing clear steps that aspiring citizens can take if they are already in the country.
Senator Marco Rubio, a leader on immigration reform, said the reform plan will confront the sensitive question of how to treat those who have already entered the country illegally.
"This is not a theory. They are actually here," the Republican said on CBS' Face the Nation, of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Proposals to round up and deport undocumented residents are impractical, Rubio said, and existing immigration rules are being abused.
"What we have in place today is not good for anyone except human traffickers and people who are hiring illegal aliens and paying them less than American workers," he said on Fox News Sunday. "This is an issue that needs to be solved."
Rubio, a Cuban-American, is a leader of the so-called Gang of Eight, which has four Democrat and four Republican senators trying to address concerns of domestic industry, labor and other interests who want a voice in the immigration debate.
The first-term senator from Florida was a guest on several Sunday morning political talk shows pushing the immigration reform message.
"Part of my job is to explain to people what it is we've worked on, try to justify it and hopefully gain their support," Rubio said on CNN's State of the Union.
The immigration proposal could come as soon as Tuesday with details still being finalized, Rubio said, but the plan would put citizenship on hold while officials tighten borders and prepare undocumented workers for the tax rolls.
Lawmakers have different views on how much more border security would be required before undocumented residents could seek citizenship but discouraging future illegal immigration was seen as a key to building broad support for the measure.
"Every Republican at the table said we've got to start with border security," Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat and another member of the Gang of Eight said on Fox News Sunday.
The questions of immigration reform and gun control will likely consume the senate in coming weeks and help shape the debate in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would have to pass its own version of reform before any measure could become law.
And while labor and industry groups have blessed a key proposal dealing with itinerant workers, many lawmakers are expected to loudly oppose a plan they say does too little to guarantee public safety.
Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, wants the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to have a direct voice in setting benchmarks for who gets to stay in the country.
"When the Gang of Eight first got together, they said enforcement would come first, before legalization," Sessions said on Sunday. "This proposal will not stand up to scrutiny."
(Reporting By Patrick Rucker; Editing by Todd Eastham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-pitch-immigration-plan-strong-border-control-172255994.html
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