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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Renton Heating Tip - Bob's Heating & Air Conditioning
Bob?s Heating offers a full range of high-efficiency heating systems designed to improve overall home efficiency of your new home construction in Kirkland, WA. We can help design a heating system that can help you make the transition to a greener and more environmentally-friendly energy source. Contact Bob?s Heating today to learn more.
Here are some of the options for new construction heating systems that we design and install.
Furnaces
For new gas furnace installation, Bob?s Heating offers top quality products designed to meet the specific energy-saving needs of our consumers. We install a variety of furnace models, and we?ll help you select the model that is sized correctly to match your Kirkland heating needs.
Heat Pumps
If you want to heat and cool your home in one comprehensive system, we also offer heat pumps that provide both air conditioning and heating for your home. There are a number of different iptions, including ductless systems that don?t need ductwork installation, and you will save time and money by having them installed as part of new construction rather than later on.
Water Heaters
Bob?s Heating offers tank and tankless hot water heaters in in new construction homes. The water heaters we install are highly efficient and built to last. We also work with other construction contractors to ensure that everything is done properly and on schedule.
Never underestimate the importance of a good heating system for your home. Contact Bob?s Heating today and ask to learn more about the full range of central heating and air conditioning systems we can install in your home ? including split and packaged systems as well as ductless split systems and water heaters.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The Biz-Tech Intersect: Windows, BYOD and the Multi-Device Environment - The Software Licensing Angle
Bring your own device (BYOD) has caused heated debate and more than its share of IT issues in 2012. Early in the year, security and integration led the list of top challenges for CIOs, but recently attention has turned towards the software licensing implications of BYOD and multiple-device-per-user scenarios, especially with respect to to Microsoft licensing. Given these recent developments, it?s worth delving into a few of the trickier issues that BYOD raises for enterprise IT departments.
BYOD is not going away any time soon
It?s true that the imminent launch of a new breed of enterprise-focused (and easier-to-integrate) personal mobility offerings running on Microsoft Windows 8 makes it more likely that order may ultimately prevail over the BYOD chaos. This will apply not only to Surface tablets, but also new devices in the pipeline from the likes of Samsung, Dell and HP.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, The Biz-Tech Intersect: Windows, BYOD and the Multi-Device Environment ? The Software Licensing Angle- SiliconANGLE.com
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Mayors Against Illegal Guns Releases New Television Ad Demanding Action from Washington
Marking one month since the tragedy in Newtown, Mayors Against Illegal Guns today released a new national television ad (available?here) featuring family members of gun violence victims demanding that political leaders take immediate steps to end the gun violence that kills 33 Americans every day.
Co-chair Mayor Bloomberg also released ?Access Denied?, a new report that surveys all the efforts by the gun lobby, with the cooperation of Congress, to suppress data and research funding on gun violence, making it difficult to study the causes of gun violence and to hold the firearms industry accountable for their role in the epidemic. The report (available?here) was released at a summit focused on gun violence research at Johns Hopkins University?s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
?Thirty days have passed since 20 children and six adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School ? and still, no action has been taken by Washington to end our country?s gun violence epidemic,? said Mayors Against Illegal Guns Co-Chair and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. ?Now is the time for Congress to buck the special interests of the gun lobby that endanger our children. This means requiring background checks for every gun sale, restricting assault weapons and high capacity magazines, and making gun trafficking a federal crime. We cannot let another month go by with no action.?
"Today we remember the lives that were needlessly lost one month ago, and the 33 lives taken by gun violence across our country every day,? Mayors Against Illegal Guns Co-Chair and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino said. ?But we also continue our call for action to take the illegal guns out of our neighborhoods, and tragedies like Newtown out of our nation's future. This time must be different. Our leaders in Washington must act, and pass the common-sense gun reforms necessary to protect our children and communities."
Mayors Against Illegal Guns also announced today that since the Newtown shooting, it has added more than 100mayors to its national bipartisan coalition to end gun violence and grown to more than one million supporters.
The ?Access Denied? report released today reviews how the U.S. does nearly no scientific research to understand or prevent gun violence ? and blocks questions from police, military officers and even doctors to learn more. All of this despite the fact that Americans murder each other with guns at nearly 20 times the rate of residents of other high-income countries. This is because for 20 years, the National Rifle Association?s Washington leadership has advanced policies to obstruct access to and analysis of information related to firearms and violence.
The report shows how the restrictions have affected many fields, including:
- Science: Since 1996, CDC funding for firearm injury prevention has fallen 96 percent and is now just $100,000 of its $5.6 billion budget.
- Law enforcement: The National Institute of Justice, the principal research arm of the Justice Department, funded 32 gun-related studies between 1993 and 1999, yet it has not funded a single public gun-related study during the Obama Administration.
- Military leaders and doctors: In 2010, a defense funding bill prohibited commanding officers and mental health counselors from talking with severely depressed service members about the risks posed by guns in their private possession. This was done during an epidemic of suicide among active-duty service members in which suicides exceeded combat deaths in Afghanistan. The large majority of military suicides are committed with guns. (Congress repealed this gag order recently at the insistence of mayors, retired flag officers and mental health advocates.) The gun lobby has also passed state laws that prohibit doctors from discussing firearms with their patients.
The report recommends that these restrictions be lifted and particularly that Congress remove ?policy riders? on federal appropriations bills that limit firearms research at the CDC and NIH provide appropriate funding to study the role of firearms on public health to reduce crime and save lives. Police departments also need data to effectively fight crime. In 2006, New York City analyzed ?trace data? for guns found at crime scenes to identify the dealers who sold them. The City investigated and sued 27 of those dealers, and 24 settled and were monitored by the court to improve their sales practices. As a result, the share of guns sold by those dealers that were recovered in New York City crimes dropped by 84 percent.
The new television ad is being released at events hosted by 40 mayors and law enforcement officials across the country including Cranston, NJ; Durham-Chapel Hill, NC; Ft. Wayne, IN; Lancaster, PA; Lansing, MI; Miami, FL; Media, PA; Portland, ME; Portland, OR; Santa Fe, NM and Telluride, CO. The ad will air nationally on cable as well as in all of these markets.
In an effort to keep their communities safe, local leaders at today?s events also urged Washington to end gun violence in America by:
- Requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales: Background checks are the only systematic way to stop felons, domestic abusers and other dangerous people from buying firearms. But federal law only requires background checks for gun sales at licensed dealers. Almost 6.6 million guns are sold each year in the U.S. by unlicensed ?private sellers,? including online and at gun shows. That means that between 40% and 50% of gun sales may take place with no background check for the buyer. According to Republican pollster Frank Luntz, 82% of gun owners support criminal background checks on all gun sales.
- Banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines: Military-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines (those with more than 10 rounds) have no place on our streets. They are designed to kill large numbers of people quickly, and they have no other use in civilian hands. Today, even people with criminal records, or with serious mental illness, can and do buy assault weapons from unlicensed private sellers who don?t conduct background checks.
- Make gun trafficking a federal crime: Every year, tens of thousands of guns find their way into the hands of criminals through illegal trafficking channels. But there is no clear and effective statute that makes gun trafficking a federal crime. Prosecutors who want to combat traffickers are forced to rely on a weak law that prohibits ?engaging in the business of selling guns without a federal license,? which carries the same punishment as trafficking chicken or livestock.
Source: http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=39AD20B0-C29C-7CA2-FFCDA62E04810C3C
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Self Compassion, Not Self Esteem, Is key To Success In Life
New research at the University of Califfornia, Berkley, reveals self compassion, not self esteem, is key to success in life
Of all the subjects covered by self improvement book, one of the most popular falls under the category self esteem. Amazon has 5000 books on the subject of self esteem, books that argue that self esteem is the number one key to success. It?s a viewpoint shared by the majority of Western Civilisation.
Championing self esteem is only natural. After all, if you feel good about yourself you will be more motivated and generally happier. However, there?s one terrible pitfall about self esteem ? it prevents us from accepting our failings.
If self esteem is about feeling great about yourself then you?re naturally inclined to turn your eye from the weaker sides of your character. Perhaps this is why recent research ?has revealed that self esteem does not, in fact, lead people to become more successful. It turns out that high self esteem causes people to think they are more successful but not to actually be more successful.
But if self esteem is not the key to success in life then what is?
Recent research by the University of California Berkley science department has shown that self compassion is actually more important than self esteem.
WHAT IS SELF COMPASSION?
Self compassion is the ability to observe and accept your own weaknesses and mistakes with understanding and kindness. Self compassion is accepting the less-than-awesome aspects of yourself in a nonjudgmental manner. Self compassion has been scientifically proven to improve optimism, happiness levels and personal wellbeing.
With self compassion, you are still aware of your shortcomings and mistakes and you still strive to be the best you can be, but you accept where you are at the present time being with understanding and compassion.
By accepting and understanding who we presently are, we gain knowledge. We recognise that, for example, we tend to forget things often. Were we looking from a point of self esteem we might say to ourselves ?I have a great memory? even though, really, we don?t. This faulty viewpoint makes us incapable of working around our weak memory because we are choosing to ignore its existence.
In contrast, when we accept that our memory is not the best, when we recognise and understand this weakness in ourselves, we are then able to look objectively at ways to work around the problem.
So, the next time you screw up, accept it in a nonjudgmental manner. Be realistic and understanding. Recognise what went wrong and what led to the error. That way, you can work around the situation the next time around.
About Paul Harrison
Author of ARoleModel.com, I work as a journalist and critic in the UK. I'm also a body language and self improvement specialist.Source: http://arolemodel.com/self-compassion-not-self-esteem-is-key-to-success-in-life/
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Minn. Man Sentenced For False Insurance Claim ? CBS Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? A St. Paul man has been sentenced for filing a false insurance claim for artwork he had reported as stolen.
Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Sheedy was sentenced Monday in federal court to three years probation on one count of wire fraud.
Sheedy also must pay $352,000 in restitution and serve 500 hours of community service.
In his plea agreement, Scheedy admitted coming up with a scheme to defraud AXA Art Insurance Corp. The insurance company insures artwork and other items of historic value.
Prosecutors say Sheedy filed a nearly $275,000 insurance claim over art and other valuables he reported as stolen in 2007. He collected $254,000 from AXA.
But the insurer later documented that some of the works Sheedy listed for sale on Artbrokerage.com were the same ones it had insured.
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Source: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/01/14/minn-man-sentenced-for-false-insurance-claim/
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