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Recommended Reading ? The World of Automobiles: An Illustrated ...

The idea was a brilliant one. To create a multi-volume book set dedicated to every facet of the automobile, and for it to be researched and written by the most authoritative and well respected automotive historians and writers with the most impeccable credentials. In the end, the result was the creation of an absolute invaluable gem of a resource.

In all, 22 volumes were published. I remember well that Saturday morning back in 1974 when I opened my mail to find a fantastic offer from Columbia House for this forthcoming encyclopedia. For a young motorhead, the offer was too good to pass up, even if I had to paint more neighborhood houses to pay for it. But I signed up that day, and relished the occasion every time a new volume arrived.

Each and every volume, which mainly coincided with each letter of the alphabet, was a thick hardcover tome measuring? 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches in size and about 120 pages in length. Each book was a pleasing mixture of black and white and color photographs. Some features were two to four pages while others of the more popular makes, such as Alfa Romeo and Ford, were 10 pages. Article length was solely dependent on the popularity of the subject.

Besides profiles of all the well-known auto companies, most of the smaller, cottage-industry builders such as Amilcar, Bond, Monica and Panther, were given in-depth profiles too. How It Works explained in layman?s terms how certain components functioned, be it an ammeter, MacPherson strut or a Panhard bar. Other technical articles discussed driving, aquaplaning and night driving.

The Who?s Who chapters profiled coachbuilders, industry businessmen, team managers and race car drivers, while the World of Speed segments profile world famous race tracks and events, racing and rallying, and those companies that specialized in manufacturing cars and parts for competition.

To ensure total accuracy and a depth of quality content while maintaining convincing interest of the subject matter, many of the top writers were employed; most were British, mainly because this encyclopedia originated in London. Some of those illustrious historians were L.J.K. Setright, Cyril Posthumus, David Burgess Wise, John Bolster, Ronald Barker, Ian Fraser, George Bishop and William Boddy.

Last year at Hershey I picked up a complete set in very good condition for a mere $15. Later that afternoon, I saw two more full sets for sale by two different vendors over in the Chocolate Field for $150 each. As you can see, prices are all over the place with the $150 tag being the norm for the top price, which is usually set by book dealers. Yet according to The Car Book Value Guide a full set is listed at $90. I bought my extra set from a 70-year old gentlemen who no longer needed it, so I?m sure there are more like him willing to let their sets go for a reasonable price. Regardless what you end up paying, it will be worth every penny as the amount of information and enjoyment you will attain from within its 2,640 pages will be not only irreplaceable but unbeatable.

Source: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/10/05/recommended-reading-the-world-of-automobiles-an-illustrated-encyclopedia-of-the-motor-car/

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There?s A Fine Line Between Private And Public, And Facebook Might Have Just Crossed It

4592915995_8d12eaefc8_zAccording to The Next Web, it has come to our attention that sending someone a link to something in a private message increases the "Like" numbers on public counters, by two.

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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADTN, ED, EBAY, ENB ...

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday.

ADTRAN?Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Neutral at UBS.

Consolidated Edison Inc. (NYSE: ED) raised to Buy at Argus.

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) raised to Buy at Nomura.

Enbridge?Inc. (NYSE: ENB) raised to Outperform at BMO Capital Markets.

Energy XXI Ltd. (NASDAQ: EXXI) started as Buy at Canaccord Genuity.

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) named Bull of the Day at Zacks.

JCPenney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) named Bear of the Day at Zacks.

Lazard Ltd. (NYSE: LAZ) cut to Market Perform at JMP Securities.

MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) cut to Reduce at Nomura.

NuVasive Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA) cut to Market Perform at JMP Securities, cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo and cut to Underperform at BMO Capital Markets.

Rock-Tenn Co. (NYSE: RKT) named value stock of the day at Zacks.

SBA Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: SBAC) raised to Buy at Citigroup.

Sprint Nextel?Corp. (NYSE: S) cut to underperform at R.W. Baird.

Time Warned Inc. (NYSE: TWX) cut to Hold at Argus.

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Economic abuse affects maternal mental health, parenting

ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2012) ? Mothers who experience economic and psychological abuse during the first year of a relationship with their child's father are more likely to become depressed and spank the child in year five, researchers from the Rutgers School of Social Work have found.

The Rutgers team, which studied the impact of intimate partner violence -- known as IPV -- and the effects of such violence over time on women, also determined psychological abuse experiences during the first year of the relationship had a significant effect on the level of mothers' engagement with their children in the fifth year.

The findings specifically relate to violence against women since women disproportionately represent survivors and males as perpetrators of physical, sexual and other forms of violence and abuse, including economic, said Associate Professor Judy L. Postmus, the study's lead author who directs the school's Center on Violence Against Women and Children.

"When people think about IPV, they might think of physical or psychological abuse, maybe sexual abuse, but they rarely think about economic abuse," Postmus said. "Since the latest recession, however, more attention has been focused on financial matters such as financial literacy and personal finances. There have also been efforts by the federal government to better prepare individuals to understand financial matters. Still, there have been relatively few studies on economic abuse."

Postmus said economic abuse is considered if a father withholds money, forces his partner to turn over earnings or savings or denies her access to bank accounts or employment opportunities. Psychological abuse includes such behaviors as preventing contact with friends and family and delivering insults and criticism. Slapping, hitting, kicking and unwanted sexual contact are considered signs of physical or sexual violence. "Our results indicate that mothers who experienced physical, psychological or economic abuse at year one were more likely to experience a depressive episode in year five," Postmus said.

Controlling for such demographic variables as age, ethnicity, education, and childhood and adult living arrangements, mothers who experienced economic abuse were 1.9 times more likely to exhibit signs of depression than mothers who had not suffered abuse. Similarly, mothers who experienced psychological or physical abuse were 1.4 and 1.8 times, respectively, more likely to show signs of depression. When testing for level and changes in abuse over time (between years one and three), only economic abuse predicted maternal depression.

"It is surprising to find economic abuse more predictive of depression over time than other forms of abuse," Postmus said. She said the results linking economic abuse with depression, including changes in severity of economic abuse over several years, had not been previously identified.

Parenting at year five was measured in two dimensions: engagement in such parent-child activities as singing, reading or telling stories, playing with toys or taking a child to a playground or on an outing, and the use of spanking as a disciplinary behavior. Results indicated that mothers who experienced economic or psychological abuse in year one all reported less engagement in daily parent-child activities (5.1 compared to 5.3 for women who did not experience abuse) and were 1.5 times more likely to spank the child in year five.

"It's possible that having a partner control access to money or preventing independence through work or school may have a lasting impact on women's mental health, and feelings of disempowerment may force mothers to resort to spanking as a parenting tactic," Postmus said.

She cautioned that further research is needed to better understand the relationship between various types of abuse and parenting behaviors, including how the influence of the perpetrator's actions affects the child and the nature of the perpetrator's own parenting behaviors.

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  1. Judy L. Postmus, Chien-Chung Huang, Amanda Mathisen-Stylianou. The impact of physical and economic abuse on maternal mental health and parenting. Children and Youth Services Review, 2012; 34 (9): 1922 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.06.005

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Kraft's 4th New Logo In 4 Years - Business Insider

Kraft Foods has changed its logo for the fourth time in less than four years ... and it looks a whole lot like what it started with back in 2009.

Except the company joined in on the latest trend of going lowercase.

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This has been a big year of change for Kraft. Earlier this year, the company decided to change the name of its international snack division to Mondelez ? which got a bubble letter, purple logo in May.

Kraft is now on a kick to reinvent itself as a "new company that has been around 109 years.?

What do you think of the new/old logo?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/krafts-4th-new-logo-in-4-years-2012-10

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Discrimination from one's manager really hurts

ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2012) ? Mental health workers are more likely to be depressed or anxious when they experience discrimination from their managers than when it comes from patients, a study has found.

Discrimination from the patients' visitors also causes more distress than discrimination from the patients.

A research team led by Professor Stephen Wood at the University of Leicester's School of Management looked at the effects of prejudice, including sex, racial and age discrimination, from different groups of people on mental health workers.

The study, funded by the Department of Health's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, draws on the experience of 1,733 mental health workers in the UK, including doctors, nurses, psychiatrists and support staff. The researchers distributed questionnaires to every worker in 100 wards and 36 outpatient teams, measuring four states of mind: anxiety, depression, emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. It also looked at whether they had experienced discrimination in the past year, alongside more general questions such as how fair they perceived their organisation to be.

They then used advanced statistical analysis to assess whether workers who suffered discrimination at the hands of four different groups of people -- patients, visitors, managers and co-workers -- were more or less likely than other workers to have negative feelings.

From the four different discrimination sources, discrimination from managers had the largest impact on the anxiety, depression, emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction of the mental health worker. In addition, and perhaps surprisingly, discrimination from patients' visitors had a larger impact on depression and emotional exhaustion than discrimination from the patients themselves. Discrimination from one's fellow workers had less effect on any form of distress than that from managers or visitors.

Stephen Wood, Professor of Management at the Leicester School of Management, said: "The finding that managers can distress workers the most can be explained by managers' large power over staff's working lives, including their chances of keeping a job and winning promotion. Moreover, workers feel distressed if they feel the organisation employing them is not treating them fairly -- and the behaviour of managers is key to this sense of fairness.

"Aggression from relatives and other visitors is, like aggression from managers, viewed as reflecting badly on the procedures and fairness of the organisation. However, aggression from patients is not readily attributed to failings in the organisation."

The researchers suggest in a paper on the findings that a tightening of policy towards visitors may be desirable, arguing: "The option of permanently excluding them from the premises or involving the police might increase the sense that the organisation is concerned about their staff's welfare and treats them fairly."

Professor Wood's co-authors are Johan Braeken, Professor of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Karen Niven of Manchester Business School.

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  1. Stephen Wood, Johan Braeken, Karen Niven. Discrimination and Well-Being in Organizations: Testing the Differential Power and Organizational Justice Theories of Workplace Aggression. Journal of Business Ethics, 2012; DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1404-5

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Teen drinking and driving rate cut in half in 20 years

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New Jersey Supreme Court ruling helps comp insurers | Newark ...

While the rules and procedures may be complicated, the mechanics of workers' compensation are fairly straightforward:

Employers purchase workers' compensation insurance (or self-insure using a third-party administrator) for their employees. In exchange, they get immunity from nearly every type of personal injury lawsuits related to workplace accidents. Conversely, for giving up the right to sue, employees have the peace of mind that comes with knowing their medical expenses and a portion of their wage losses will be covered in the event they are injured in an on-the-job accident.

That's how it is supposed to work anyway. But what if an employer or insurance carrier refuses to pay benefits even after a workers' compensation judge has ruled an injured employee is entitled to benefits?

Unfortunately, this actually happens, and even more unfortunately, courts have said that workers still have to rely on the contempt remedy in the state's workers' compensation statute rather than the civil justice system. In fact, a similar scenario was involved in a recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision worth noting. The background to that case is as follows.

A man was injured in a work-related accident and filed a workers' compensation claim with his employer's insurer. After the insurer refused to pay his medical and transportation expenses, a workers' compensation court ordered the insurer to pay. But the insurer still refused to authorize treatment. As a result of being forced to delay needed medical treatments, the workers' condition got worse (which meant additional treatment). The delay also put the man through more pain and suffering. So he sued the comp insurer for the additional pain, suffering and worsening of the condition.

The lawsuit made it all the way to the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which held last month that the injured worker could not sue the workers' compensation insurer for pain and suffering caused by the delay in authorizing medical treatment.

Source: Risk & Insurance, "Workers must seek remedy for delay in treatment through comp system," Sept. 24, 2012

Source: http://www.northjerseypersonalinjurylawblog.com/2012/10/new-jersey-supreme-court-ruling-helps-comp-insurers.shtml

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