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Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Basics: Selflessness Gone Awry, and the Damage It Can Cause
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists say that ostensibly generous behavior, taken to extremes, can become unhelpful, unproductive and even destructive.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Thompson Creek Windows Ranked #8 on The Replacement 100 ...
Replacement windows company recognized as one of the industry?s biggest companies who is reinventing how they think about products, customers and markets
Lanham, MD (PRWEB) October 03, 2011
Thompson Creek Window Company, the mid-Atlantic?s leading home improvement replacement products company, today announced they have been named #8 on replacement contractor magazine?s annual Replacement 100 list, up eight spots from #16 in 2010.
According to the magazine, ?Growth in the home renovation industry has stalled ever since the onset of the 2008 recession. But while the industry?s tepid growth may be the rule, there are any number of exceptions among companies that specialize in replacing roofing, siding, windows, or other parts and pieces of the house. These [Top 100] companies are mostly sophisticated marketers?? Thompson Creek Windows reviews industry and economic trends continually to ensure their product features, financing options and market strategy are tailored to their exact target customer. The resulting success has been steady and incremental throughout this economic downturn.
Rick Wuest, president of Thompson Creek, said ?I am thrilled our company has been recognized once again as one of the top replacement contractors in the country. In any economic time, sustainability in our business requires the highest-quality product, perfect installation, and stellar customer service. In these trying economic times our goals have not wavered. Our mission has always been 100% satisfaction in all we do. We have never settled for less, and our inclusion in this list is validation that we are succeeding in our mission.?
About Thompson Creek:
The Thompson Creek Window Company (Thompson Creek) is a privately owned and family-operated manufacturer and installer of energy-efficient home improvement replacement products. Founded in 1980, Thompson Creek began as a manufacturer of energy-efficient, maintenance-free vinyl windows. Since that time, Thompson Creek has evolved into one of the leading specialty home improvement contracting companies in the nation. The company?s product mix includes replacement windows and doors, vinyl siding and a clog-free gutter system. Thompson Creek is headquartered in Lanham, MD with an 80,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Landover, MD.
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Monday, 3 October 2011
Fluctuating Climate May Impede Fleeing Animals (LiveScience.com)
Climate change is expected to send many species on one-way migrations in search of new homes as their old ranges become inhospitable. Whether or not they can survive this century depends a great deal on what happens along the route, a new study has shown.
Scientists looked at 15 species of amphibians in the western United States, which they estimated travel about 15 miles (24 kilometers) per decade, following suitable habitat.
Using computer modeling, they found that the fickle nature of climate change, which can cause fluctuations in local conditions rather than steady change, could interfere.
None of the 15 species of frogs, salamanders and toads is currently endangered. However, when the year 2100 arrived under the simulation, eight species would be extinct or, at best, endangered. However, the outcome for the individual species wasn't the point of the study, according to Dov Sax, one of the researchers and an ecologist at Brown University. [Album: Bizarre Frogs, Lizards and Salamanders]
"Our paper is not trying to make predictions about the fate of individual species," Sax said, explaining that it was intended to examine how species' ranges shift in response to climate change.
"The dynamics we are examining are likely to lead many species to become endangered, even species that aren't currently of conservation concern," he said.
The researchers picked amphibians, because they have an average ability to pick up and leave when things get bad, falling somewhere between migrating birds' ability to fly between continents and plants, which can only hope their seeds wind up in a better place. In addition, there is substantial data available on where these species live and what conditions they can tolerate.
The researchers combined the amphibian data with projections from climate models using two emissions scenarios, one that projected more conservative increases in greenhouse gases and the other projecting more extreme increases. They looked at how the change would play out along paths the creatures could take ? broken down into cells one-eighth of a degree latitude by one-eighth of a degree longitude, or roughly 54 square miles (140 square kilometers) ? in decade-long increments from 1991 to 2100. [Earth in the Balance: 7 Crucial Tipping Points]
They found that gaps in the animals' treks to new homes were caused when local climate became too hot, too dry or otherwise inhospitable to a species for too long a period. These gaps formed barriers preventing species from continuing their northward shift.?
For example, during the latter half of this century, the speckled black salamander could expand from its range in northern California, north into Oregon. However, in the simulation, climate fluctuations rendered areas along that path unsuitable ? for example, between 2071 and 2080 ? preventing the animal from spreading toward Washington.
For some species, this dynamic could mean losing territory as their current habitat shrinks and they are unable to expand into new areas. This puts them at a greater risk of extinction, according to Sax.?
A species' ability to persist outside its optimal habitat can determine whether a climate fluctuation would block its journey. However, persistence is a characteristic that is poorly understood for most species on the planet, Sax said.?
The findings mean that simply creating corridors through which species can travel as their habitat changes may not be enough to save them, since fluctuations (rather than physical barriers) can block their paths, according to the researchers. And so in order to preserve wild populations, conservationists may need to relocate populations to new, suitable habitat, which they could not reach on their own, according to Sax.
While conservationists have attempted this practice, called assisted migration, it's controversial, because it calls to mind the damage done by invasive species, which flourish outside their native ranges after humans relocate them.
While the findings focused on the more conservative greenhouse gas-emissions scenario, their analysis showed that the more extreme scenario could result in a larger area of suitable habitat opening up, but that these new areas were often more difficult to reach, according to Regan Early, also a study researcher and a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidade de ?vora in Portugal.
Their work appeared online in the journal Ecology Letters on Wednesday (Sept. 28).
You can follow LiveScience writer Wynne Parry on Twitter @Wynne_Parry.?Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience?and on Facebook.
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PMS 10 ? What is the problem with glucose ... - Health & Fitness Blog
Premenstrual Syndrome 10 ? What is the problem with shows glucose tolerance to cause PMS
As we have seen in previous articles, the effects of premenstrual syndrome about 70% to 90% of premenopausal women in the U.S. and less for women in South Asia because of their differences in style life and social structure. The emergence of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) are longer than in the past 50 years through the acceptance of it as a medical condition that is caused by poor diet high in saturated foods doubled. Premenstrual syndrome as a dysfunction of the ovaries in conjunction with the woman?s cycle is set, it causes a woman?s physical and emotional state, and sometimes interfere with daily activities due to hormonal fluctuations. The syndrome occurs 1-2 weeks before menstruation and then decreases when the period begins. In this article we will discuss what causes high levels of estrogen in the PMS.
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Sunday, 2 October 2011
Four Seasons LA Debuts iPads in All Guestrooms ... - Travel + Leisure
09.29.11
Do you have iPad envy? Book your next trip at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills and you can pretend like you own one during your stay. Each of its 285 rooms and suites will be stocked with iPad2s for guests to use throughout their stay starting October 3.
Each iPad comes with an innovative program called ICE (Interactive Customer Experience?) from Intelity that will make you feel like you're staying at the Jetson's. How does it work? Instead of picking up the phone to order room service, just press a few buttons and food arrives at your door. You can also make restaurant reservations, request valet parking, airport transportation, spa treatments, and housekeeping. So far, the Four Seasons LA is only hotel on the West Coast and the first Four Seasons property to offer this cool and convenient amenity.
Lyndsey Matthews in an online editorial assistant at Travel + Leisure.
Photo Courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills
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Saturday, 1 October 2011
How your brain reacts to mistakes depends on your mindset
ScienceDaily (Sep. 30, 2011) ? "Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you're right," said Henry Ford. A new study, to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who think they can learn from their mistakes have a different brain reaction to mistakes than people who think intelligence is fixed.
"One big difference between people who think intelligence is malleable and those who think intelligence is fixed is how they respond to mistakes," says Jason S. Moser, of Michigan State University, who collaborated on the new study with Hans S. Schroder, Carrie Heeter, Tim P. Moran, and Yu-Hao Lee. Studies have found that people who think intelligence is malleable say things like, "When the going gets tough, I put in more effort" or "If I make a mistake, I try to learn and figure it out." On the other hand, people who think that they can't get smarter will not take opportunities to learn from their mistakes. This can be a problem in school, for example; a student who thinks her intelligence is fixed will think it's not worth bothering to try harder after she fails a test.
For this study, Moser and his colleagues gave participants a task that is easy to make a mistake on. They were supposed to identify the middle letter of a five-letter series like "MMMMM" or "NNMNN." Sometimes the middle letter was the same as the other four, and sometimes it was different. "It's pretty simple, doing the same thing over and over, but the mind can't help it; it just kind of zones out from time to time," Moser says. That's when people make mistakes -- and they notice it immediately, and feel stupid.
While doing the task, the participant wore a cap on his or her head that records electrical activity in the brain. When someone makes a mistake, their brain makes two quick signals: an initial response that indicates something has gone awry -- Moser calls it the "'oh crap' response" -- and a second that indicates the person is consciously aware of the mistake and is trying to right the wrong. Both signals occur within a quarter of a second of the mistake. After the experiment, the researchers found out whether people believed they could learn from their mistakes or not.
People who think they can learn from their mistakes did better after making a mistake -- in other words, they successfully bounced back after an error. Their brains also reacted differently, producing a bigger second signal, the one that says "I see that I've made a mistake, so I should pay more attention" Moser says.
The research shows that these people are different on a fundamental level, Moser says. "This might help us understand why exactly the two types of individuals show different behaviors after mistakes." People who think they can learn from their mistakes have brains that are tuned to pay more attention to mistakes, he says. This research could help in training people to believe that they can work harder and learn more, by showing how their brain is reacting to mistakes.
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- Jason S. Moser, Hans S. Schroder, Carrie Heeter, Tim P. Moran, and Yu-Hao Lee. Mind your errors: Evidence for a neural mechanism linking growth mindset to adaptive post-error adjustments. Psychological Science, 2011
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