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Show Your Support For Safety E-Petition Regarding Motorcyclists

You may remember that a few weeks ago we mentioned the e-petition relating to the current driving theory test which doesn?t ask any questions relating to motorcycles. The e-petition is aiming to get one hundred thousand signatures and is already one third of the way there. The Motorcyclists Matter e-petition has now received a boost by three of the industry?s biggest organisations giving their support to the e-petition.

MCI, BMF and MAG are publicly giving their support in asking the government to assist in raising awareness for motorcyclists in the UK by making sure that questions relating to motorcycling are compulsory in the driving theory test. Motorcycles only total one per cent of the traffic on the road; however they account for nearly twenty per cent of fatal injuries. Simply asking one or two questions as part of the theory test will ensure that drivers are aware of motorcycles from the beginning of their driving life. Nearly two thirds of all accidents which involve motorcycles are caused by the carelessness of drivers.

Please add your support to the e-petition by adding your signature. It is available at www.bikerpetition.co.uk. With approximately 1.3 million motorcyclists on the UK roads it is essential that all drivers are aware of safety issues surrounding bikers.

First Open Day of the Year for Black Bear Harley-Davidson

The popular Newmarket showroom welcomes everyone to its first open weekend of 2012 which starts on Saturday, 14th April. It has become something of a tradition and the event promises to be a lively affair. Two new Harley-Davidson models the Seventy Two and Softail Slim will be available for demonstration rides.

There will be live music by Norfolk band Firewire, spectacular bikes and accessories to enjoy. The only other thing to add to the perfect weekend would be co-operation by the weather. Further information about this great day out is available at www.blackbear.co.uk or by phone at 01638 664455.

BEN?S Motorcycle Rally 2012

The automotive industry charity, BEN, has announced that the Motorcycle Rally for 2012 will take place on 22nd September. This will be from Dover to Monaco with entrants crossing the English Channel, enjoying the beauty of the French countryside whilst on their way to Monaco in Southern France.

The entry fee of ?475 covers two people sharing the accommodation, ferry crossings, breakfasts and evening meals. Although there isn?t a minimum sponsorship requirement, obviously as it is a charity event, the higher the sponsorship amount raised the better!

This is a new event which should prove popular. Much more information is available at http://www.ben.org.uk/mcr2012. Alternatively ring Lewis Honeywill on 01344 294700 or by email [email?protected].

All monies raised from this event will support and give care to colleagues and their dependents within the automotive industry.

This is a great way to raise funds whilst having a wonderful experience of motorcycling to Monaco.

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The weather is being very kind to us at present which means that there will be more vehicles on the roads, particularly at the weekend. Ensure that you keep your distance from drivers who may not be as bike-aware as necessary.

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What your winning lottery ticket buys

Bill McDavid / Hall and Hall

Mill Creek Ranch property

By Allison Linn

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Welcome to the 1 percent, hypothetical lottery winner.? Here?s what you can buy with your winnings.

The Mega Millions lottery jackpot hit a record $540 million Thursday and by Friday it had climbed to $640 million with a lump sum option of $462 million.

If you're lucky enough to beat the 1-in-176 million odds and win, the bad news is you won?t be able to take home that full amount. That's because lottery officials will withhold 25 percent for federal gaming taxes, according to Arlen Harris of the Washington's?Lottery, which participates in the Mega Millions.

Still, you should be pretty well set for life.

While you still might be on the hook for state taxes, you would have the kind of money to afford multiple homes, travel by private jet and take up a fancy hobby like collecting fine wine or antique cars, said Bruce Wallin, editorial director of the luxury goods magazine Robb Report.

"That kind of money affords the ability to pursue your passions to the kind of extreme that a lot of us dream of," he said.

You could even follow in the underwater path of Hollywood director James Cameron and spend a few million on a personal submarine, one of the latest trends among the superrich.

Still, Wallin cautions that you might want to try before you buy. For example, a 220-foot luxury yacht, complete with a crew and all the toys you can imagine can be rented for about $300,000 a week. That's well within your new budget and a good way to test the waters, literally, before spending $10 million or $20 million on your own yacht.

If you are ready to buy, here are some items to consider for your shopping list.

Your own island

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Allan Island in Washington state

What?s the first thing that?s going to happen after you win the lottery? Inevitably, that guy who was a jerk to you in high school or that relative who?s been ridiculing you for years is going to find you on Facebook and start hitting you up for money.

Time to get away. Far away.

Private islands range in price from under $50,000 to $160 million. For just a small fraction of your winnings, you can be the owner of 292-acre Allan Island in Washington state, listed for $13.5 million.

Still, the upkeep alone can be daunting. Wallin recommends renting an island before you buy.

"One of the things you'd want to do in winning the lottery is take a great trip," he said.

Your own ranch?

Bill Mcdavid / Hall and Hall

Maybe you get seasick easily or you fancy yourself more of a rugged Western type. Don?t despair, you can still find plenty of privacy on the mainland.

With?less than?one-tenth of your winnings -- or $29.5 million -- you could be the owner of Mill Creek Ranch, a nearly 26,000-acre ranch in Red Bluff, Calif., with a 7,388-square-foot Spanish Colonial home.

Of course, you?ll have to budget about $48,623 a year in taxes. For perspective, that?s a little less than the median annual household income in this country.

A jet

Mike Wintroath / AP

A Hawker 4000 jet airplane

The good news about the Red Bluff property ? it?s just a few miles from a jet-capable airport.

Here?s where you might want to take some advice from the other 1 percenters. Warren Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway owns NetJets, which provides fractional ownership of jets and saves you the hassle of having to buy a whole jet all on your own.

The Marquis Jet Card gets you 25 hours of flight time for a mere $119,000 a year.

If you take the lottery's annual payment option, that would represent just a few days' worth of your yearly payout.

Your dream car

Porsche

Before you won the lottery, maybe your idea of a dream car was just something that didn?t leak too much oil and was less likely to break down on the freeway during the heavy commute hours.

Now, you can afford to have a lot more fun on the road.

The Porsche 918 Spyder may be a good option, if you can wait a while.

Porsche only plans to make 918 of these, so it will set you back $845,000. But on the bright side you?ll be saving money on gas. The plug-in gas-electric hybrid, due out in November 2013, has V8 engine that generates 500 horsepower plus two electric motors that help it get an estimated 78 miles per gallon.

A great party

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Orient Express Royal Scotsman

Look, you?ve just won the lottery: Beer and chips at your place is just not going to do.

When it comes to luxury party planning, the options are endless. If you want to keep the gathering intimate, and keep the paparazzi and unwanted guests out of your hair, it?s best to keep moving.

The Royal Scotsman will take you and up to 36 of your closest friends on a four-day excursion through the Scottish Highlands. Yes, you?ll be traveling on your own private train. The ?rolling house party? starts at just $166,800, or less than 1 percent of those annual payments.

A sports team, or a few companies

The Mega Millions lottery hit $540 million on Thursday, reports CNBC's Darren Rovell.

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If you do win the lottery, the most common bad joke/piece of advice you're likely to hear is, "Don't spend it all in one place." (Wow, is that going to get old.)

But if you do want to go big, CNBC notes that your winnings are enough to buy the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League or a medium-sized company like Rosetta Stone or Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

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Career development plan can help employees to do their jobs more ...

It is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation with technology. (BPM) Business Process Management is a systematic approach to making an organization?s workflow more effective of adapting to an ever-changing environment. A business process is an activity or set of activities that will accomplish a specific organizational goal. The goal of (BPM) Business Process Management is to reduce human error and miscommunication and focus stakeholders on the requirements of their roles. (BPM) Business Process Management is often a point of connection within a company between the line-of-business (LOB) and the IT department. (BPEL) and (BPMN) were both created to facilitate communication between IT and the LOB. Both languages are easy to read and learn, so that business people can quickly learn to use them and design processes.
Business Process Re-Engineering a very modern buzzword, but one that has proven to be business critical in today?s business world . Business Process Reengineering is the redesign of business processes for substantial improvement. Said simply, it is the redesign of the way work is performed. A process is any series or combination of tasks or activities which produce a result. The result could be a machined part, a drawing, or a requisition for materials. Business Process Reengineering is approached by examining the strings of processes or cycles. Cycles are sequences of recurring successions of processes or events. The cycle time is the time from the beginning of the first step of the process until the beginning of the first step of the next process. Processes can be decomposed into smaller activities. Every business has basic cycles that govern the way that paper is processed, parts are manufactured, and decisions are made.
A Career development is an organized planning method used to match the needs of a business with the career goals of employees. Formulating a Career development plan can help employees to do their jobs more efficiently. Additionally, these plans can be beneficial for employees who might want to move up in a company or look for other jobs in the future. In the business world, there are generally two groups that direct the Career development process: upper management and human resource personnel. Managers, for example, might have the responsibility of making sure the needs of a business coincide with the employee?s career goals to achieve an overall balanced work atmosphere. They will often identify the skills, experience, and knowledge employees need in order to provide their best possible work. Professional networking is a usually important, and as a result, employees might get tools to start networking from the HR department.

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Japan industrial output down on weak export demand

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, a security guard controls the traffic at a container terminal in Tokyo. Weaker than expected factory production in Japan has underscored the fragility of its economic recovery as growth throughout Asia slows. Softening demand for exports led to the first decline in industrial production in the world's third-largest economy in three months, the government said Friday, March 30, though it reported modest improvements in employment and consumer confidence. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, a security guard controls the traffic at a container terminal in Tokyo. Weaker than expected factory production in Japan has underscored the fragility of its economic recovery as growth throughout Asia slows. Softening demand for exports led to the first decline in industrial production in the world's third-largest economy in three months, the government said Friday, March 30, though it reported modest improvements in employment and consumer confidence. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2012 file photo, a worker pedals a bicycle at a container terminal in Tokyo. Weaker than expected factory production in Japan has underscored the fragility of its economic recovery as growth throughout Asia slows. Softening demand for exports led to the first decline in industrial production in the world's third-largest economy in three months, the government said Friday, March 30, though it reported modest improvements in employment and consumer confidence. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, File)

TOKYO (AP) ? Weaker than expected factory production in Japan has underscored the fragility of its economic recovery as growth throughout Asia slows.

Softening demand for exports led to the first decline in industrial production in the world's third-largest economy in three months, the government said Friday, though it reported modest improvements in employment and consumer confidence.

The news cast a pall over share markets in Asia, already jittery over the pending release Sunday of Chinese economic indicators. The Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo fell 0.3 percent to 10,083.56.

The 1.2 percent decline in industrial output in February was worse than expected and reflected lagging output in the transport equipment, electronics components and machinery industries. Production of cell phones, large passenger cars and liquid crystal devices also weakened, the government said.

"Whether this recent trend will be sustained will depend on the extent of the recovery in Asia," said Masayuki Kichikawa, an economist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. "The uncertainty over Chinese data is a very important factor."

The devastating tsunami in March last year ? and a shift of manufacturing overseas to cut costs and reduce damage caused by the strong yen ? plunged Japan's trade account into the red in 2011 for the first time since 1980.

Slowing growth in powerhouse China, the debt crisis in Europe and continued frailty in the U.S. economy have further bit into demand for exports, which remains the strongest driver of growth for Japan.

Despite February's relatively weak number, output is forecast to rise 2.6 percent in March and 0.7 percent in April, as growth accelerates due to a pick up in rebuilding of northeastern regions devastated by last year's disasters.

Kichikawa said he expects the economy to "bottom out" in the second quarter of the year, boosted by strengthening demand for industrial materials such as steel, nonferrous metals and chemicals.

"We think production in Japan is on the uptrend, mainly due to reconstruction demand," he said.

Japan's economy shrank at an annual pace of 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter, also hit by slowing public investment due to political bickering that delayed parliamentary approval for a 12 trillion yen ($156 billion) extra budget for tsunami reconstruction.

The economy contracted last year by 0.9 percent from 2010, when GDP grew a robust 4.4 percent. In 2009, the economy shrank 5.5 percent.

In its latest economic assessment, however, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development forecast that Japan's growth would lead that of other major industrial economies in the first quarter, at 3.4 percent.

In other data for February, Japan's consumer price index showed a stronger than expected increase in February of 0.3 percent from the year before, to 99.8. It was up 0.2 percent from January.

Forecasts had been for virtually no change in the index.

Rising costs for fuel and food were the main factors pushing prices higher, the Statistics Bureau reported.

Although rising crude oil prices threaten to further push production prices higher, slight gains in inflation are viewed as a positive for an economy that has been wrestling for years with deflation, or falling prices, which can be a drag on economic growth.

Meanwhile, unemployment fell in February, to 4.5 percent from 4.6 percent in January.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported that the ratio of job offers to job seekers rose to 0.75 in February, up from 0.73 in January. It was the highest figure since November 2008, the ministry said.

Consumer confidence also rose, reflected in a 3.5 percent uptick in retail sales, the largest year-on-year gain since August 2010, the trade ministry reported Thursday.

Demand was also boosted by government subsidies for car purchases, which rose 21.4 percent from a year earlier in February, after jumping 24 percent in January.

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Solar energy panels Intended for Residences Save Cash Electrical ...

Posted by admin on March 30th, 2012

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Electric power has become very costly so we are created aware about it just through contrasting our previous electric powered invoice with this regarding A few years in the past. Usually the latest electro-mechanical invoice has grown through 25-30%.

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But you are we without doubt electricity is vital to the lifestyles? A few research workers requested themselves if we may live without electrical power as well as soon after several weeks involving exploration, physical exercises explained ?no, currently electrical energy is vital to the lives. We can not live without it?.

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As opposed to seeking a brand-new style of strength we will consider lowering the power bills. Very often this specific probability just isn?t considered, however might not an individual be happy if you had to repay to 60-70% below your current genuine monthly bill for all your up coming electrical bills?

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There?s a way that this tends to occur and it is not so difficult at all to relieve the electrical monthly bill through 60-70%: you just need to develop your personal electrical energy through solar panels. These kind of solar power panels acquire whilst the power from the sun?s rays along with switch it in to electric power that any of us will use daily within our normal existence. Usually, many individuals which first listen to solar panels imagine that they don?t benefit from it?s make use of because they just operate in sun-drenched parts. It?s not so, the truth is with all the brand-new creation involving solar panel systems they?re able to make a wide range of electrical power even during wet climate.

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Using solar power systems, we can easily save up in order to 60-70% with electricity bills since all of us employ your own energy (the action made by your screen).

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That this solar panels work is super easy: initial they must be fitted (most of the time, on the roof of residences) and they consider the energy through the sun rays involving sunshine as well as transform this through solar energy to help electrical power.

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The particular solar power panels are a great strategy to protecting our world by smog in addition to smog. The issue is the fact solar energy panels are certainly not published plenty of, along with too many people do not have any idea what they are.

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Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Common in Packaging for Food ...

via The Environmental Working Group

One of our biggest concerns is the array of chemicals we are exposed to on a daily basis, much of it from the disposable packaging in which prepared foods and commercial beverages are provided. A recent interview on NPR?s Living on Earth?featured Laura Vandenberg, a research fellow at Tufts? Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. She was discussing her new study looking at the harm to humans from endocrine disruptors, chemicals that mimic hormones within the human body.? These chemicals include BPA (Bisphenol A) and phthalates. BPA is used in the epoxy lining of most canned products, whether soup, veggies or soda pop, while phthalates are found in certain plastics, like #1 PET and #3 PVC. Endocrine disrupting chemicals migrate from the packaging materials right into our food and drink.? Ms. Vandenberg?s work shows that minute amounts of the chemicals ? parts per billion, even parts per trillion, can have serious effects on the human body.

Environmental Working Group?is currently circulating a petition to the FDA to remove BPA from food packaging, which you can sign?here.

The chemistry and plastics industry have always insisted that the very low doses of chemicals that leach into edible products are not harmful to us.? Indeed, the American Chemistry Council, a trade association for the U.S. plastics industry, has a website ?FAQs: The Safety of Plastic Beverage Bottles? specifically intended to allay consumer fears.? Not only does the site reassure us that the FDA strictly regulates food packaging for safety, but it also states that with regard to chemical leaching, a 1989 study (that would be 23 years ago now) found levels of chemical compounds in PET to be ?well below applicable safety levels.?

Laura Vandenberg?s research has produced a starkly different finding.? Her interview concludes with this ?takeaway for the layperson?:

Chemicals that act like hormones are not safe at the doses that we are exposed to. There is no safe dose of a chemical that mimics a hormone.

As she wrote for Environmental Health News this week, ?Academic, regulatory and industry scientists must work together to identify and replace such chemicals that are ubiquitous in everyday consumer products. Reducing and eventually eliminating these exposures is absolutely needed to protect human health. ?

We consumers can do our part, too, by avoiding canned goods and plastic-packaged foods and beverages. We can buy fresh foods and prepare them at home. We can favor non-leaching containers, such as glass and stainless steel. And we can push both corporations and the FDA to take action on these latest findings.

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Egypt's Azhar withdraws from constitution panel

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Clay Aiken Disses Rihanna -- And Admits to Plastic Surgery

Has Clay Aiken been spending too much time with Donald Trump? During his Tuesday visit to Bravo's Watch What Happens, the normally mild-mannered singer (and current Celebrity Apprentice contestant) dissed Rihanna's singing skills. We hope Clay isn't seriously trying to start a feud -- because we're 99 percent sure Rihanna could take him. Watch the clip below!

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Specialization for underwater hearing by the tympanic middle ear of the turtle

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

A group of biologists from Denmark and the US led by Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark, and Catherine Carr, University of Maryland, have shown that the turtle ear is specialized for underwater hearing. The new discovery is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B March 21st , Special features of the turtle ear ? a large, air-filled middle ear and a movable tympanic disk increase its sensitivity for underwater sound. Laser measurements of disk vibrations in response to underwater sound show up to 100-fold larger vibrations of the disk than the surrounding water, most likely because the air volume resonates in an underwater sound field and drives the tympanic disk.

The tympanic middle ear is often seen as an adaptation to hearing in air, but the turtle tympanic ear is an anomaly here, because turtles are generally 100-fold less sensitive than other animals with eardrums, like mammals, birds and reptiles.

However, turtles are amphibious animals, and anatomical and biophysical studies by a group of biologists from Denmark and the US have shown that the ear of the red-eared slider is specialized for underwater rather than airborne sound.

CT scans, laser measurements from the ear under water and auditory evoked responses showed that the turtle ear was more sensitive for underwater than for airborne sound. The sensitivity is caused by the air filled middle ear. Resonance in the air cavity lined by the tympanic disc drives the disc and amplifies its vibrations up to 100 fold under water.

What the turtle is using its sensitive underwater hearing for is unknown. However, the sensitive hearing can be used for prey capture, predator avoidance and navigation under water. An alternative possibility is that turtles communicate by underwater sound. Underwater sound communication is unknown in the red-eared slider, but has recently been described in two other turtle species.

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Tears, defiance at French shooting victims? burial

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Mourners at the Jerusalem funeral for the four Jews killed by a gunman in Toulouse, France on Wednesday.

By Paul Goldman, NBC News producer

JERUSALEM ? The Har Menuchot Cemetery looked like it was painted in black Wednesday. Hundreds of mourners, many of them men dressed in the black suits and broad-brimmed hats worn by orthodox Jews, came to pay their respects for the four Jews killed by a gunman in Toulouse, France, on Monday.

The bodies of 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his sons, Arieh, 5, and Gabriel, 4, and 8-year-old Myriam Monsenego were laid on stretchers after being flown to Israel from France.

Small white cards were placed on each body indicating their names.

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The announcer asked dignitaries to limit their speeches to five minutes due to the heat and out of respect for the bereaved families.????

In tears, Shlomo Amar, the Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Israel, was defiant. "We will keep on fighting and teaching our youth with our heads high up,? he said. ?Our enemy will not defeat us.?

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Mourners at the Jerusalem funeral for the four Jews killed by a gunman in Toulouse, France on Wednesday.

A woman started shouting and other weeping women soon followed. Someone brought a large cotton cloth to cover the victims? families from the sun.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe sat still with a somber face throughout the speeches; eventually, he spoke in French, which was translated into Hebrew. "The French nation is in shock,? he said. ?I came here today to show the French nation's respect. We will do our out most to protect the Jewish community in France. We will not tolerate terror."

Monsenego's grandfather was asked to say a few words, but he couldn?t find the strength to stand up and talk.

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But Myriam's eldest brother, Avishai, offered some words. He wailed and had one last plea for his dead sister? "Please give strength to father and mother to overcome this tragedy.?

Then the slain rabbi?s father, Shmuel Sandler, spoke about his son, "You were a magnificent person killed by a barbaric person," he said. Unfortunately, the middle of his speech was interrupted by police using a megaphone asking the owner of a Daihatsu car to move the vehicle because it was blocking the road.

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The caskets for the four Jews killed by a gunman in Toulouse, France at their funeral in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

While the bodies were taken to be buried, I spoke to David Naor, a relative of the Sandler familyr. I asked him about the news coming out of Toulouse that the suspected gunman had been found.

?Finding the killer won?t help the dead children,? he replied. ?But it helps to know that he won?t kill again.?

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Liquid-like materials may pave way for new thermoelectric devices

ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2012) ? In the continual quest for better thermoelectric materials -- which convert heat into electricity and vice versa -- researchers have identified a liquid-like compound whose properties give it the potential to be even more efficient than traditional thermoelectrics.

Thermoelectric materials have been used to power spacecraft ranging from Apollo to the Curiosity rover now headed for Mars. Recently, however, scientists and engineers have been turning to these materials to use wasted heat -- released from automobiles or industrial machinery, for instance -- as an efficient energy source. They have also proposed using these materials to create more efficient heating systems in electric cars or even as new ways to exploit solar power.

In identifying this new type of thermoelectric material, the researchers studied a material made from copper and selenium. Although it is physically a solid, it exhibits liquid-like behaviors due to the way its copper atoms flow through the selenium's crystal lattice.

"It's like a wet sponge," explains Jeff Snyder, a faculty associate in applied physics and materials science in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a member of the research team. "If you have a sponge with very fine pores in it, it looks and acts like a solid. But inside, the water molecules are diffusing just as fast as they would if they were a regular liquid. That's how I imagine this material works. It has a solid framework of selenium atoms, but the copper atoms are diffusing around as fast as they would in a liquid."

The research, led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Science's Shanghai Institute of Ceramics in collaboration with researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Michigan, as well as from Caltech, is described in a paper recently published in the journal Nature Materials.

A thermoelectric material generates electricity when there is a temperature difference between one end of the material and the other. For example, if you place a thermoelectric device right next to a heat source -- say a laptop battery -- then the side closest to the battery will be hotter. The electrons in the hot end will diffuse to the cool end, producing an electric current.

A good thermoelectric material must be good at conducting electricity but bad at conducting heat. If it were good at conducting heat, the heat from the hot end would move to the cool end so fast that the whole material would rapidly reach the same temperature. When that happens, the electrons stop flowing.

One way to improve thermoelectric efficiency, then, is to decrease a material's ability to conduct heat. To that end, researchers have been developing thermoelectric materials with a mix of crystalline and amorphous properties, Snyder says. A crystalline atomic structure allows electrons to flow easily, while an amorphous material, such as glass, has a more irregular atomic structure that hinders heat-carrying vibrations from traveling.

These heat-carrying vibrations travel via two types of waves. The first type is a longitudinal or pressure wave, in which the direction of displacement -- in this case, the jiggling of atoms -- is the same as the direction of the wave. The second type is a transverse wave, in which the direction of displacement is perpendicular to the direction of the wave, like when you shake a jump rope up and down, resulting in waves that travel horizontally along the rope.

In a solid material, a transverse wave travels because there is friction between the atoms, meaning that when one atom vibrates up and down, an adjacent atom moves with it, and the wave propagates. But in a liquid, there is minimal friction between the atoms, and a vibrating atom just slides up and down next to its neighbor. As a result, transverse waves cannot travel inside a liquid. Ocean waves are different because they have an interface between the liquid and the air.

The team found that because heat-carrying vibrations in a liquid can travel only via longitudinal waves, a material with liquid-like properties is less thermally conductive. Therefore, a liquid-like material that's also good at conducting electrically should be more thermoelectrically efficient than traditional amorphous materials, Snyder says.

In the case of the copper-selenium material that the researchers studied, the crystal structure of the selenium helps conduct electricity, while the free-flowing copper atoms behave like a liquid, damping down thermal conductivity. The efficiency of a thermoelectric material is quantified using a number called a "thermoelectric figure of merit." The copper-selenium material has a thermoelectric figure of merit of 1.5 at 1000 degrees Kelvin, one of the highest values in any bulk material, the researchers say.

NASA engineers first used this copper-selenium material roughly 40 years ago for spacecraft design, Snyder says. But its liquid-like properties -- which were not understood at the time -- made it difficult to work with. This new research, he says, has identified and explained why this copper-selenium material has such efficient thermoelectric properties, potentially opening up a whole new class of liquid-like thermoelectric materials for investigation.

"Hopefully, the scientific community now has another strategy to work with when looking for materials with a high thermoelectric figure of merit," Snyder says.

In addition to Snyder, the research group includes Caltech graduate student Tristan Day. The other authors on the Nature Materials paper, titled "Copper ion liquid-like thermoelectrics," are Huili Liu, Xun Shi, Lidong Chen, Fangfang Xu, Linlin Zhang, and Wenqing Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Science's Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Qiang Li of Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Citrad Uher of the University of Michigan.

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Is Personal Customer Service Dead? | Business 2 Community

Maybe I am just getting older (I am forever 29), but I miss the personal service that used to be inherent in the customer experience. I can?t say from a former era because it?s really not that long ago! I?m not referring to the 1920s or 30s here ? just the 70s!

What happened? Did we lower our expectations? Do we just not interact with people the same way? Do people just not carry on a conversation the same way? Are we so busy texting and emailing that we have forgotten how to converse with people? Do the Millennials not want to talk to people? Would they prefer interacting with avatars?

Well, when I was growing up ? uh oh, here she goes ? she walked a mile to the school bus, up hill the whole way in the pouring rain, right? No, not that bad. But just picture a skinny, red-haired, pig-tailed schoolgirl who wore knee socks and who the neighbor boys called Pippi Longstocking.

Despite my gawky wardrobe back then, I was still Grandpa?s little girl, or should I say ?Papoo?s? pride and joy. I was always by his side. We would venture everywhere from my allergy shot appointments to the bank and grocery store. Now, even though it is some 35+ years later, I still have clear memories of those trips.

After every weekly trip to the doctor for my allergy shot, we?d stop off at Jack in the Box. I can?t recall what we ate, but I do remember the older woman with short curly black hair who always helped us. She knew us by name, knew our customary order and would come by the table while we were eating to check on us. These days, I don?t often have the occasion to go inside a fast food restaurant, but even so, I can?t remember the last time someone stopped by my table while I dined in at a fast food restaurant.

When?s the last time you found yourself inside a bank? They?re nearly empty these days. Between ATM cards and online banking, I think most of us no longer have that personal interaction with a teller. No ? Wait ? I take that back. My mother-in-law doesn?t see the need to use an ATM machine when she can go inside the bank every week to obtain her cash. Ok ? my mother-in-law. That?s a totally different story. Let me just say I could write a book.

Now, I?m back to a bygone era. When Papoo and I made our trips to the bank, I always knew what to expect. We ALWAYS would see the same teller. Even if it meant waiting in a line we didn?t have to, we would still wait for her. Deposit or withdrawal ? I don?t know. I just remember her hair. Fire red!

She would say, ?Oh, little Laura, I just love your hair. Look, you and I have the same color hair ? yours is just a little longer.?

?Yes, ma?am we do,? I would always respectfully reply.

Years later I understand why her fire red hair still blazes my memory. When you are eight years old, you just assume God gave her that Ronald McDonald hairdo, but age grants me the clarity and wisdom to realize she had overzealously dipped her hair in the Miss Clairol Red bottle. This doesn?t tarnish my memory, however. What I remember most are the extra cherry lollipops she always slipped me ? two for me and one for my younger brother.

What could beat a lollipop? A trip to the grocery store with Papoo of course!!

A grocery store trip with Papoo spelled adventure! That?s right ? adventure! We could spend hours in the store. We would go up and down every aisle just in case I might find another item I wanted. (Can you say spoiled? Me ? ABSOLUTELY!) Let?s just say I now understand why grocers place the frozen items in the last or next-to-last aisle. Our ice cream would be dripping from the cart otherwise.

First important stop ? the Deli ? for Macaroni Salad! We?d always wait for our favorite deli lady, Imojean. Papoo and Imojean would discuss pleasantries ? the weather, family, the sick neighbor ? all while Imojean would load us up with all our much-loved items ? roast beef, coleslaw and lots and lots of macaroni salad! She would even send me off with a little cup of macaroni salad I could eat during the rest of the trip. Macaroni salad still takes me back there. When I eat it now, I am practically in the store again with Papoo. Much to my dismay, St. Louis isn?t the macaroni salad capital, and I still haven?t found a local deli that sells it.

Next stop, the Bakery for some black and white cake ? a little slice of heaven freshly baked that morning by Sudie. Sudie could have been twins with Esther Rolle, who played Florida Evans on Good Times. Her coworkers even called her Flo.

She would always greet us with, ?Why, Mr. Meredith, how do you do??

?Very fine, Miss Sudie. How do you do??

?A bit down in the bread basket the other day, sir, but I mended quickly and I am mighty fine now.?

?Tis good to hear, Miss Sudie.?

I tugged on Papoo?s shirt to garner some attention. ?Papoo, how can Miss Sudie fit in a bread basket? Isn?t she too big??

?I?ll explain later, Laura Ann.?

?Now, Miss Laura Ann,? Sudie caught my attention.

?Yes, ma?am. How do you do??

?Mighty fine, but not as fine as the black and white cake I baked special for you, Miss Laura Ann, just this morning.?

Off we went after the good-byes with the most heavenly cake in the universe. One last stop ? the check-out line.

Miss Mattie captained our checkout lane of choice. We always waited for Miss Mattie?s lane, even when others were open. Miss Mattie and Papoo would go through the same ritual every time, much like the one with Miss Sudie at the bakery. It was customary to always ask about your mother. In this case, it was Miss Mattie?s mother and my mother since Papoo?s mother had ?passed on? some time ago. Groceries bagged and we were off. A young man always wheeled your bags to and loaded them in your car. Tipping was not allowed.

Speed the clock ahead ? I am married and we moved west to St. Louis. I have grown accustomed to the city, but all else being equal, I prefer my roots. I don?t find the personal touches in everyday life events inherent in how people behave here.

Are those skills and behaviors we are born with? Are they regional? Cultural? As I age (now over 40), I find myself turning into my mother. That was once a scary thought, but why fight it? My teenage kids say, ?Mommy, you are just like Maw! Why do you have to compliment the lady at the bank window about the color of her horrific flowered blouse or tell the girl at the drive-thru that her painted nails look nice? Are you nuts??

?Why do you do that!?!?

I do tend to chat with people I come into contact with on my everyday journeys ? just small talk, pleasantries. It certainly makes the sometimes seemingly mundane tasks more pleasant and the world a nicer place. Do I really think the yellow nail polish is a good look? No, but it is certainly striking. And why not pay her a compliment?

Are you ?personal? with your customer service providers first? I am just curious. Do you expect them to add a ?personal? touch, or would you rather them say nothing and just hurry up? Clearly, I prefer the former. Is all our texting making us forget our ?personal? interaction skills?

There is no doubt that humans are social beings, so we clearly connect with other humans. That?s a no-brainer. No connection = no procreation. Simple point, don?t you think? But, I think the personal interaction skills must be learned. As children, we learn from our families, classmates at school and we keep learning as adults in the workplace, with friends, at church, in countless settings.

I observed personal customer service skills growing up that I imitate today. But I don?t think you either ?have it or you don?t.? These skills can be taught. It?s challenging, but imperative, for customer service personnel to learn how to connect with a customer on an emotional level. Are you doing all that you can to assist your customer-facing employees learn those specific customer service skills to truly connect with your customers?

We would like to hear about your personal customer service experiences and how you are working with your employees to ensure a connection with your customers. Please share your thoughts with us.

Source: http://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/is-personal-customer-service-dead-0149442

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House panel approves contentious GOP budget plan

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of his budget plan entitled "The Path to Prosperity," Tuesday, March 20, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of his budget plan entitled "The Path to Prosperity," Tuesday, March 20, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? It's on to the House floor for a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan.

That's the next step after the House Budget Committee approved the bold but contentious blueprint by a near party-line vote late Wednesday.

Republican leaders may have a tougher time corralling the votes to pass the measure through the full House, where some tea party conservatives think it doesn't go far enough, even though it calls for cutting $5.3 trillion from President Barack Obama's budget over the coming decade, including sweeping cuts to federal health care programs and social programs aimed at the poor.

The GOP plan is nonbinding but calls for repealing Obama's health care law, while transforming Medicare into a system in which the government subsidizes purchases of health insurance on the private market instead of directly paying medical bills.

The Medicare proposal won't be the subject of follow-up legislation under the arcane budget process on Capitol Hill. Nor do Republicans plan to pass a detailed proposal to overhaul the nation's complicated, loophole-ridden tax code this year.

But other elements of the measure are likely to advance this spring ? at least in the GOP-dominated House ? as parts of a 10-year, $261 billion package of cuts to replace deep, across-the-board spending cuts set to hit the Pentagon and domestic agencies in January. Those cuts were required under last year's budget pact because of the failure of the deficit "supercommittee" last fall.

This spring's substitute cuts are likely to target, among other programs, food stamps, federal employee pensions, farm subsidies and a proposal to require higher-income Medicare beneficiaries to pay higher premiums. There's also a proposal to require higher-income Medicare beneficiaries to pay higher premiums. Some of those ideas have been marched through the House before, only to die in the Democratic-controlled Senate. But the agriculture and food stamp cuts haven't ? and may prove troublesome.

The Senate has no plans for a companion measure.

The budget measure also would force new austerity on an upcoming round of spending bills for domestic agencies without regard to spending limits carefully negotiated with Obama and Senate Democrats last summer.

The GOP plan, drafted by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would use sharp cuts to domestic programs to shrink U.S. deficits to $3.1 trillion over the coming decade, less than half the size of those proposed by Obama last month.

But it does so in ways that would be unprecedented ? and unrealistic ? by relying on assumptions like cutting transportation outlays from $93 billion this year to just $50 billion in the 2013 budget year starting in October. Its cuts to the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled would total more than $800 billion over the coming decade, which Democrats warned would mean that many frail, elderly people would lose nursing home care.

The main budget document, called a budget resolution, sets the parameters for follow-up legislation on spending and taxes. Even though its broader goals usually are not put into place, it is viewed as a statement of party principles.

Ryan's plan is more of a campaign manifesto than a governing document. It is a dead letter in the Senate and is not even a starting point for a dialogue with Obama. For one thing, it breaks faith with last summer's hard-fought budget pact, seeking to impose new 5 percent cuts on domestic agencies whose operating budgets will be written by the appropriations committees later this year.

"It would be difficult to overstate the radicalism of the domestic cuts proposed by the House budget," acting White House budget director Jeff Zients said. "Over a decade, the resolution would cut over $1 trillion in non-defense spending on top of the reductions the president has already signed into law."

The measure is, however, more generous to the Pentagon, calling for restoring more than half of the nearly $500 billion cut from defense accounts over the coming decade by last year's budget pact. But it fails to address a $300 billion-plus hole in Medicare's budget under an archaic formula for physician reimbursements.

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Egypt lawmakers, government disagree on IMF loan

CAIRO (AP) ? An International Monetary Fund team was due to leave Cairo Wednesday without securing an agreement over a $3.2 billion loan to help boost the nation's battered economy.

Holding up the deal was political wrangling between the Islamist-dominated parliament and the government, an arm of the ruling military.

Economists say Egypt needs to sign the loan agreement within six months to shore up confidence in an economy hit hard by the effects of political unrest following Hosni Mubarak's ouster last year.

The IMF has made broad political consensus a condition for the loan, but both the country's powerful Muslim Brotherhood and the second most powerful party, Al-Nour, said Wednesday they will not support accepting the loan as long as the government's plan remains vague.

The $3.2 billion dollar loan is about a quarter of what the government says Egypt needs to prop up reserves and external financing in order to avoid an uncontrolled devaluation of the Egyptian currency.

The stand-off leaves Egyptian politicians and officials with just a few months to quibble, since Cairo will eventually have to sign the deal with the IMF, according to the London-based consultancy Capital Economics.

"In the near-term, uncertainty is never a good thing for financial markets," said Neil Shearing, a senior economist at Capital Economics.

"Two months is probably the maximum we can wait," he said. "It's not the case that the deal needs to be signed and delivered and done in two months, but Egypt cannot go for six more months without some kind of assistance."

Egypt elects a new president at the end of May, and the winner is to be announced a month later. Then the military pledges to hand over power, putting a time frame around the contacts over the loan. If the military leaves it all for the new civilian government, the six-month target might not be met.

The chief economist of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Abdel-Hafez al-Sady, told The Associated Press that the Cabinet has put forth a plan to request the money, but it has not said how Egypt would spend the funds or repay the loan.

On Monday, Al-Sady and other Brotherhood leaders met with the head of the IMF delegation, regional director Masoud Ahmed. The IMF team had meetings with members of parliament on Tuesday and wound up its three-day visit Wednesday.

Finance Minister Mumtaz al-Said told the Al-Ahram daily that the IMF did not object to the government's economic program. He blamed the dispute on the Brotherhood and other parties that want to see the government replaced.

The Brotherhood's party, which controls nearly half of seats in parliament, wants transparency, al-Sady said.

"The Brotherhood does not trust the current government, because ministers are not giving us correct figures," he said.

The party has been in a power struggle with the ruling generals, who took power after Mubarak was forced to step down last year in a popular uprising. The Brotherhood's lawmakers have recently stepped up calls for the current government, appointed by the military, to be fired.

Al-Sady said that the government has promised to review its economic program for the loan, but that so far "we are just hearing words and not seeing action."

Similarly, the head of the ultraconservative Islamic Al-Nour party, which controls 25 percent of seats in parliament, said his party rejects the government's plan and said that corruption under Mubarak persists under the new government.

"All the various committees in parliament have rejected the government's political platform," Emad Abdel-Ghafour told the AP.

The year of political uncertainty and unrest have decimated tourism and driven investors away, and a persistent wave of strikes and protests have badly hit productivity. The government has used foreign currency reserves to protect the local currency from collapse.

The country's net international reserves were down 50 percent year-on-year by the end of December, leaving serious questions about how the country can raise new funds to cover a widening deficit.

Aid packages from the EU, oil-rich Arab Gulf states and elsewhere are contingent on Egypt signing off on the IMF loan.

A newly launched grass roots campaign called "Drop Egypt's Debt" is lobbying for loans taken during Mubarak's era to be written off as "illegitimate debts."

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Reign Check: Abundant Rainfall May Have Spurred Expansion of Genghis Khan's Empire

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It is generally thought that changing precipitation patterns impacted the rise of the Mongols and their domination of the Eurasian continent in the 13th century--but was it rain or drought?

By Charles Q. Choi ?| March 21, 2012

A Siberian pine in Mongolia. Image: Amy Hessl

The Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan carved out the largest contiguous land empire history has ever witnessed, reaching at its apex from Asia's Pacific coast to eastern Europe and down into Persia and southeastern Asia. Although conventional wisdom suggests drought may have pushed them across the steppe to conquer more bountiful lands, ancient, long-dead trees discovered in a forbidding lava field in Mongolia give evidence that unprecedented rains might actually have helped fuel their expansion.

The Mongols took the Old World by storm in the 13th century. Their invasions and expansion are often attributed to the unstable climate they experienced on the steppes, "with them preying on others because they did not have a constant set of resources," says geographer Amy Hessl at West Virginia University. "Now, we agree they experienced a variable climate. However, this idea of drought driving the Mongols to expand their territory isn't really based on any climate data from that time, but on inferences based on modern conditions there."

In 2010 Hessl was on a National Geographic?sponsored mission there with forest ecologist Neil Pederson at Columbia University's Lamont?Doherty Earth Observatory to look at the climate history of Mongolia and how climate change might affect the area's wildfire risks. Driving by the Orkhon Valley, the original seat of the Mongol empire, they saw a huge lava field that had been produced by a volcanic eruption 7,000 years ago and checked it for ancient wood. Tree rings can shed light on a region's history ? fat rings suggest abundant water that promoted growth, thin ones mean years with less water and growth; the number of rings is linked with how many years a tree has lived ? and the live Siberian pines they saw in the area can live about 700 years. ?

The researchers also took samples from dead wood in the lava field because it can be much older than any living tree there, given how the cold, dry conditions can slow decay. Pinpointing a dead tree's age can be difficult, but a unique growth pattern of fat and thin rings in a living tree might act as a "bar code" to identify wood alive during a specific period such as the 15th century. Seeing the same pattern in living and dead wood of a certain species from the same area reveals that both were alive during the same historical period. Determining the dead wood's age then involves counting back all the rings before that span of time.

All in all, the research team of U.S. and Mongolian scientists sampled 17 trees. "We felt if we got records going back 500 years, that would be fantastic," Pederson recalls. Unexpectedly, they instead discovered two samples with tree rings dating back to A.D. 658, now the longest climate record for this part of the world? and with further research, "we might be able to find tree rings going back maybe 2,000 years," Pederson adds. "We collected these samples as an afterthought when we were exhausted and sick. To find they might go back that far is unbelievable."

Surprisingly, their preliminary findings based on the tree ring data suggest the Mongol empire actually rose during a time of abundant rain. These would have turned grasslands there extraordinarily lush, enabled the Mongols to raise vast numbers of horses and other livestock. "There are actually massive wetlands in the area, and during a warm, wet period, they might have been incredibly productive," Hessl says. "There's actually quite a lot of evidence that the Mongols were practicing agriculture around there in the early 1200s, contrary to this image of Mongols as only herders and these horseback hordes."

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Acupuncture Weightloss Chicago For Obese People | Article Listings

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