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It is hard to hear the sound of your own voice. But that sound may affect other people’s impressions of you even more than what you say.
A strong, smooth voice can enhance your chances of rising to CEO. And a nasal whine, a raspy tone or strident volume can drive colleagues to distraction. “People may be tempted to say, ‘Would you shut up?’ But they dance around the issue because they don’t want to hurt somebody’s feelings,” says Phyllis Hartman, an Ingomar, Pa., human-resources consultant.
New research shows the sound of a person’s voice strongly influences how he or she is seen. The sound of a speaker’s voice matters twice as much as the content of the message, according to a study last year of 120 executives’ speeches by Quantified Impressions, an Austin, Texas, communications analytics company. Researchers used computer software to analyze speakers’ voices, then collected feedback from a panel of 10 experts and 1,000 listeners. The speakers’ voice quality accounted for 23% of listeners’ evaluations; the content of the message accounted for 11%. Other factors were the speakers’ passion, knowledge and presence.
People who hear recordings of rough, weak, strained or breathy voices tend to label the speakers as negative, weak, passive or tense. People with normal voices are seen as successful, sexy, sociable and smart, according to a study of 74 adults published recently in the Journal of Voice. “We are hard-wired to judge people. You hear somebody speak, and the first thing you do is to form an opinion about them,” says Lynda Stucky, president of ClearlySpeaking, a Pittsburgh coaching company.
Other common vocal irritants include “uptalk”âpronouncing statements as if they were questionsâand “vocal fry”âending words in a raspy growl. Such quirks “make the listener think the person who is speaking is either uncomfortable or in pain,” says Brian Petty, a speech pathologist at the Emory Voice Center in Atlanta.
Annoyed listeners often assume nothing can be done to change an irritating voice, and the speakers are often unaware of the problem. But in most cases, people’s voices can be strengthened or improved through therapy, coaching or feedback.
Some voice problems have a medical cause, such as nodules on the vocal folds, or cords. A hearing impairment can cause people to talk too loudly, says Edie Hapner, director of speech-language pathology at the Emory Voice Center at Emory University. Also, advanced age can cause a person’s voice to lose volume, she says.
Analyzing Vocal Styles
Nearly everyone has worked with or for someone whose voice drives them crazy. Listen to sentences read in the style of some of the chief irritants.
But many voice problems can be eased through therapy, including exercises to support the voice through improved breathing, or to strengthen laryngeal muscles or change the way they work.
Speech pathologist Jayne Latz says she often receives requests for voice coaching after performance reviews in which a boss raises the issue as a problem for co-workers or customers. She uses sound-level equipment and audio recordings to make clients more aware of how they sound. She also teaches vocal exercises and helps clients replace filler words such as “you know” with a pause for emphasis, says Ms. Latz, president of Corporate Speech Solutions, New York City.
New York financial executive Gerard Vignuli consulted Ms. Latz because he knew he spoke too fast, clipped the ends of words and often used filler words such as “like” to give himself time to think, he says. “When I was speaking, people didn’t know what the hell I was saying,” he says. With coaching, “I learned to step back and pause rather than saying, ‘Uh, uh.’ ”
His friends noticed the difference: “People didn’t tell me until I started taking lessons, then they said they saw a difference. They said, ‘Oh, we used to hate it when you said ‘X,’ ” he says. “I said, ‘Great! Why did you wait until now to tell me?’” Now, he asks friends to help him practice, telling them, “Call me out” when they hear him lapse into old speech patterns.
Nearly everyone has worked with or for someone whose voice drives them crazy, yet many are clueless that their voices are making a bad impression. Sue Shellenbarger joins Lunch Break with a look at latest research in âpeople analytics.â Photo: Getty.
People don’t hear their own voices as others hear them. The voice must travel through the bones of the head before reaching the speaker’s ears, changing the way it sounds, says Dr. Hapner.
Raising the issue can be touchy, Ms. Hartman says. Some people become defensive about their voices, saying, “That’s just the way I talk, and people shouldn’t judge me,” she says. Also, sensitive factors such as gender, ethnicity, age and cultural background play a role in how people talk, and so managers should take care not to discriminate against an employee based on those characteristics, she says.
It helps to raise the topic on a positive note, such as, “I admire the way you talk to clients. I’ve learned a lot by listening to you,” Ms. Hartman says. She suggests using an “I-when you-because” formula when raising the problem, saying, “I’m unable to think when you talk loudly because it’s distracting to me.”
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The Whisperer: Marilyn Monroe was known for a breathy voice, but it is risky at the office.
Ways to Improve Your Voice
Good habits and vocal awareness can make a difference.
Record your voice on your phone and listen to how you actually sound.
Ask a friend or co-worker to signal to you discreetly if you lapse into bad habits such as using ‘um’ or ‘you know.’
Increase your fluid intake and avoid frequent throat-clearing to keep the vocal cords healthy.
Ask a voice coach for breathing and vocal exercises to make your voice more resonant and relaxed.
See a speech pathologist or physician for persistent problems such as vocal fatigue or hoarseness.
Learn to warm up and rest your voice before and after intense use, such as teaching or coaching.
Have your hearing checked if your voice is too loud.
Work teams can sometimes help raise an employee’s awareness, says Gillian Florentine, a human-resource consultant with Howland Peterson Consulting in Pittsburgh. A publishing-company sales team she worked with two years ago was disrupted by a rep whose voice boomed so loudly that co-workers couldn’t hear clients on the phone, Ms. Florentine says. Co-workers in team meetings shared recordings of their calls, so the rep could hear himself in the background. He toned it down a bit, and agreed to a plan to rearrange their desks and place soundproof panels near his desk, she says. The problem was solved and the team has since been able to work smoothly together.
Ms. Florentine advises employers to screen job seekers based partly on their voices. Hiring managers typically focus on other factors, such as skills and experience, only to realize later than a new hire’s speech patterns are annoying to co-workers or customers, she says.
When Jim Roddy interviewed Jon Dudenhoeffer five years ago for a recruiting job, he liked everything about him but his voice, says Mr. Roddy, president of Jameson Publishing, an Erie, Pa., publisher of trade magazines and websites.
“After the first half-hour, I had to put down my pen and say to him, ‘We have a lot of high-energy, engaging people here, and I don’t think they’re going to like working with you because I can hardly hear you,’ ” says Mr. Roddy, author of “Hire Like You Just Beat Cancer.” He added, “How about loosening up? People are going to think you have no pulse.”
Mr. Dudenhoeffer says he learned to speak in a low-key, deliberate tone during his 20-year stint as an investigator and trainer in the Air Force. He is also naturally reserved and has a calm, controlled manner. He was surprised that Mr. Roddy made an issue of his voice, but promised, “Sure, I’ll give it a try.”
He had to make an effort at first to put more energy into his voice, but “after I got more comfortable, my personality just came out,” he says. He has since been promoted to senior director of sales.
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Release Date: 05/01/2013Contact Information: Elias Rodriguez, (212) 637-3664, rodriguez.elias@epa.gov
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a legal agreement with D.S.C. of Newark Enterprises, Inc. to obtain $1.6 million spent by the EPA to clean up the Friction Division Products site in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The site was formerly home to Friction Division Products Inc. and was abandoned by the company when it shut down the business. Friction Division Products filed for bankruptcy and D.S.C. of Newark Enterprises was the owner of the site. The property was littered with asbestos material, acids, flammable materials, waste oil, solvents, and metal compounds. Asbestos is known to cause a form of lung cancer and can cause other serious health problems. In 2007, the EPA cleaned up the abandoned automotive brake pad manufacturing facility and the settlement announced today repays the EPA for a large portion of that work.
“The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters, not taxpayers should pay for the cleanups,” said EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. “The EPA works hard to recover taxpayer dollars spent on the cleanup of abandoned and polluted sites. In this instance, more than 90 percent of the costs will be repaid through the agreement.”
At the Friction Division Products site, the EPA removed up more than 800 drums and containers, including dozens of drums of unknown materials. The process included taking an inventory of the chemicals and categorizing them through sampling. They were then sorted for disposal at a licensed facility. Additionally, the EPA identified and disposed of approximately 70 tons of asbestos-containing material generated from the grinding of brake pads.
From the early 1960s to 1996, automotive brake parts were manufactured at the site by two companies, most recently Friction Division Products. In 2006, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection requested the EPA’s assistance in addressing the threat posed by the abandoned chemicals. The EPA secured the site and began the cleanup after discussions with the company to carry out the work failed to result in a cleanup.
Superfund is the federal cleanup program established by Congress in 1980 to investigate and clean up the country’s most hazardous waste sites. When sites are addressed under the Superfund program, the EPA looks for parties responsible for the pollution and requires them to pay for the cleanups.
For more information on Friction Division Products site, visit: http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/removal/frictiondivision.
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Twenty-nine of Jimmy Savile's victims in West Yorkshire were abused in the county's hospitals, figures show.
The new information follows last week's publication of a West Yorkshire Police report into its dealings with the former BBC entertainer.
The main location for Savile's offences was Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) with complaints from 23 victims, who were aged between five and 34 at the time.
A spokesman for Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust declined to comment.
Hundreds of allegations of abuse emerged across the UK following the disgraced presenter's death in October 2011.
The report published on Friday revealed West Yorkshire Police was investigating a total of 76 crimes involving 68 victims. The force has since given a further breakdown of the figures.
Two victims, aged five and 12 at the time, were receiving treatment at St James's Hospital, Leeds.
One victim, aged 15, was at Dewsbury and District Hospital, and two, aged five and 45, were at the now closed High Royds Hospital in Menston.
A spokesman for Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, which runs St James's and LGI, said: "A thorough independent investigation into Jimmy Savile's association with hospitals in Leeds is currently under way and is expected to report later this year.
"It would be inappropriate to comment further while that work is still going on."
None of the cases had been reported before Savile's death, according to the force.
The police report released on 10 May found "no evidence" Savile was protected from arrest or prosecution by his relationship with the force.
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When the Social Security Administration released its annual list of the most popular names on Thursday, all the usual winners were there: Jacob and Sophia are tops. Again.
But the fastest riser for girls in 2012 was Arya, shooting to 413 from 711 in 2011 and 942 in 2010.
It’s the name of a beloved character in the “Game of Thrones” series on HBO. The youngest daughter of the Stark family, Arya (played by Maisie Williams) is a fan favorite — a defiant tomboy with a stubborn, independent streak — and the polar opposite of her proper sister, Sansa. Arya is happier firing arrows on the archery range or secretly attending “dance lessons” with Syrio, a trained killer who teaches her to wield her sword, Needle.
Based on “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the epic fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, “Game of Thrones” has been a breakout hit for HBO. (HBO and CNN are units of Time Warner.) Now in its third season, the show initially delighted genre fans, but quickly built a much larger audience with its blend of action, intrigue and ample doses of sex and violence.
(For the record, Sansa, Syrio and Needle are nowhere in the top 1,000.)
The fastest riser for boys in 2012 — Major, coming in at 483 — is harder to peg. The Social Security Administration helpfully points out that it could be “in tribute to the brave members of the U.S. military,” or perhaps because Major is the name of the youngest son of designers Cortney and Robert Novogratz on the HGTV show “Home by Novogratz.”
Parents submit children’s names when applying for Social Security numbers when they’re born. Popular names sometimes reflect characters in pop culture, style icons or plain old demographic changes.The names Gael and Perla also rose fast in 2012, the Social Security Administration said, noting that both are popular among Spanish speakers.
Rounding out the top 10 for boys in 2012 were Mason, Ethan, Noah, William, Liam, Jayden, Michael, Alexander and Aiden. Jacob has dominated the top spot since 1999. Liam made its debut in the top 10 in 2012, booting Daniel.
For girls, other top names were Emma, Isabella, Olivia, Ava, Emily, Abigail, Mia, Madison and Elizabeth. It’s not Elizabeth’s first trip to the top, but it did replace Chloe on the list in 2012.
CNN’s Doug Gross contributed to this report.
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With modern architecture, that can mean just about anything.
Some of the extraordinary edifices above were designed to entice a reaction — contemporary museums and exhibition centers come to mind — while others astound by their mere existence.
The most controversial are the buildings inspired by whimsy; designed by architects with free rein to exercise their creative impulses on ordinary spaces.
Whether you consider the buildings above awe-inspiring in their architectural complexity or hideous monstrosities, there’s no question they capture your attention.
Inspirational, intriguing or visually grating? What do you make of our selection of buildings above? Let us know your favorite bizarre buildings.
Europe’s hottest destinations for 2013
Where to see the buildings
1. Atomium: Atomiumsquare B1020, Brussels; +32 (0) 2 475 47 77; open daily 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; www.atomium.be
2. The Banknote Building: Taikos str. 88a, Kaunas, Lithuania (office building); www.1000lt.com
3. Casa Mila: Provença, 261-265. 08008, Barcelona; +34 934 84 59 00 ; open November 5-February 28: daily, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., March 1-November 4, daily, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; www.lapedrera.com
4. Castel Meur: Brittany, auto route D25, 29260 Kernouës, France. (Private residence not open to public)
5. Dali Theatre-Museum: Plaza Gala-Salvador DalÃ, 5 17600, Figueres, Spain; +34 972 67 75 00; open November 1-February 28, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., March 1-June 30, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., July 1-September 30, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., closed Mondays; www.salvador-dali.org
6. Nationale-Nederlanden Building: RaÅ¡Ãnovo NábÅežà 80, 120 00 Prague 2. (It’s an office building and not open to the public, but there’s a restaurant/bar on the top two floors, details here.)
7. Futuroscope: Avenue du Téléport (avenue René Monory), 86360, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France; +33 (0) 549 493 080; opening times vary, check website for dates and times; futuroscope.com
8. Guggenheim Bilbao: Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 48001, Bilbao, Spain; +34 (0) 944 35 90 80; Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
9. Krzywy Domek: ul. Haffnera 6, 81-717 Sopot, Poland; +48 (0) 58 55 55 125; krzywydomek.info
10. Kunsthaus Graz Museum: Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria; +43 316/8017-9200; open Tuesday-Sunday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; www.museum-joanneum.at
11. Eden Project: Bodelva, St Austell, Cornwall, UK; +44 (0) 1726 811911; opening times vary, check website for dates and times; www.edenproject.com
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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic online) – There is word that Zhang Yimou, director of “The Flowers of War” starring Christian Bale has seven children from his two marriages and from relationships with two other women. The 61-year-old Zhang is also known as the architect of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics.
“We are trying to confirm the online rumors,” a woman at the general office of Wuxi city’s family planning committee said. The authority couldn’t reveal any other information until authorities had finished investigating the accusations.
Zhang could face a fine of up to 160 million yuan – or a stagger $26 million in U.S. dollars, according to newspaper reports. People caught breaking China’s family planning policy must pay a “social compensation fee” based on their annual income.
Comments on local social media have been fast and furious, drawing distinctions between how the elite and ordinary people are treated.
“However many children a person has is their basic right, but in a twisted society, basic rights have become a privilege,” one Beijing resident wrote on Sina Weibo.
“Why is China unable to win the world’s respect? Rich people with groups of mistresses, old celebrities changing wives, Zhang Yimou getting so many privileges. Four women and seven kids, if this was an ordinary person they would have killed you or fined you an unreasonable amount of money, but he is fine … he is no better than ordinary people, such an unfair world will never gain respect.”
Other Zhang films include “A Simple Noodle Story,” an adaptation of the Coen brothers’ 1984 movie “Blood Simple,” and “Under the Hawthorn Tree,” a love story set in China’s decade-long, ultra-leftist Cultural Revolution.
Known to many as China’s one-child policy, the rules limit most urban couples to one child and allow two children for rural families if their firstborn is a girl. The government introduced the policy in 1979 as a temporary measure to curb a surging population. The much-despised edict remains in place, reviled by many Chinese citizens.
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By Valerie Volcovici
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Tue May 7, 2013 4:09pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States’ new proposal to let countries draft their own emissions reduction plans rather than working toward a common target can unlock languishing U.N. climate negotiations, the U.S. climate change envoy said on Tuesday.
The proposal that a global climate deal by 2015 should be based on national “contributions” gained traction at last week’s round of U.N. climate talks in Germany, although China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, said it wanted far more binding commitments by wealthy countries.
In the first public U.S. statements on the plan, Todd Stern, the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, told reporters on Tuesday that the U.S. approach was designed to bring as many countries as possible to the table through a form of peer pressure and break the impass over a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
“Countries, knowing that they will be subject to the scrutiny of everybody else, will be urged to put something down they feel they can defend and that they feel is strong,” Stern said from Berlin during a summit of environmental ministers focused on ways to advance the U.N. climate talks.
The approach would mean abandoning the format of the Kyoto Protocol, to which the United States was not a signatory, which set central goals for industrialized countries to cut emissions by 2012 and then let each work out national implementation.
Stern said that having each country’s plans and targets “in an environment of intense public interest” may encourage countries to step up their existing plans.
Stern said countries could submit their initial plans several months before a ministerial meeting in Paris in 2015 to let other countries and stakeholders review the plans, and give enough time to strengthen or clarify the proposals.
The plan, said Stern, would provide an alternative to a negotiation process that has failed so far to deliver a legally binding agreement for both developing and developed countries to reduce their emissions under a common target.
“It is very hard for us to imagine a negotiation with dozens and dozens and dozens of counties actually negotiating everybody else’s targets and timetables,” Stern said.
In recent weeks, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has approached 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history, according to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, a mostly symbolic threshold but one that shows how rapidly carbon dioxide levels have been rising.
Carbon dioxide concentrations have risen from around 350 ppm in the past 25 years.
“The urgency of the situation is absolutely real but I don’t think it has dramatically changed for climate negotiators this week as compared to before the news,” Stern said, referring to the Scripps study.
(Reporting By Valerie Volcovici; editing by Ros Krasny and Alden Bentley)
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When Thomas Abel gets home from a stressful day at work, the 43-year-old airplane mechanic likes to let off steam by playing videogames.
But he doesn’t like to play against kids. He says they spout mom jokes and infantile nonsense during online matches on Microsoft Corp.’s
Xbox 360 system, which allows players to form teams and battle one another over the Internet.
So Mr. Abel retreats to a safe haven where he knows he can find suitably mature joystick companions: a website he helped found called Geezergamers.com, where players meet on forums with names like “Get off my lawn.”
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Ralph Atkinson, a 77-year-old retired butcher from Melbourne, Australia, plays under the alias Claw.
“You get these 12-year-old kids swearing and being obnoxious online,” says Mr. Abel, a father of two from Detroit. “You wonder where their parents are.”
Communities of graying gamers have sprouted up world-wide as generations reared on Pong and Pac-Man have become addicted to the latest iterations of Halo and Call of Duty, but are no longer as fast with their trigger fingers. So they are extending their playing days in virtual versions of the senior leagues.
Mature gamers meet up on websites with names such as 2old2play.com, which are typically supported by donations and advertising, because they prefer to play with people of a certain age. But occasionally, senior teams also test their mettle against the hordes of young guns on public Internet serversâeven if it ends badly. Mr. Abel says he is still stinging from an especially harsh beat-down at the hands of “some 12-year-old girls from Japan” in a giant-robot game called Chromehounds.
“It seems these kids today are pretty much living on Xbox,” he offers by way of excuse. “I have to work and spend time with my family.”
Yet the oldsters sometimes prevail, thanks to seasoned marksmen like Ralph Atkinson, a 77-year-old retired butcher from Melbourne, Australia, who fulfilled his national military service obligation more than a half century ago.
Part of an online society called The Older Gamers that has 57,000 members world-wide, he shreds competitors in the online shooting game Battlefield 3 under the alias Clawâa reference to the signature move of a 1950s-era pro wrestler, Killer Kowalski.
“When I win I let them know: You just got your butt kicked by a pensioner,” says Mr. Atkinson, who used to play with his son but laments that “he’s in business, he’s gotten too busy.”
Older gamers say their subculture reflects the evolution of videogames from child’s play to mainstream hobby. The average age of U.S. game players is now 30, according to the Entertainment Software Association, and the average age of frequent game buyers is 35.
“There is still a stigma associated with this pastime,” says Stefaan de Keersmaeker, a 41-year-old information-technology expert from Melbourne, who founded The Older Gamers because he “got fed up with all the juvenile behavior” from younger players online. “It is very hard to explain to some people, but it’s not all kid’s play anymore.”
Many of the more mature groups include actual clans: organized players who regularly meet up at set times and take competition seriously. But most are casual forums for police officers and lawyers to show they’ve still got game. The groups also provide a setting where they can wax nostalgic about the heroic feats of their youth, say, beating the Mother Brain monster at the end of the original 1980s Nintendo
game Metroidâwith someone who understands what they are talking about.
A commonly held belief among older gamers is that videogames are less challenging than in the old days, when the games took months to complete. Players had to map out their progress in virtual worlds on sheets of graph paper, or write down lengthy passwords to save games.
“Kids today have it easy,” says Joel Albert, a 33-year-old web developer from Chicago who co-founded 2old2play.com seven years ago. “It was definitely tougher for our generation.”
The 2old2play community, whose minimum age is 25, says it carefully screens applicants for “squeaky voices” and other telltale signs of adolescence. It has helped adult gamers find friendship and, in a few cases, love. The other founder of 2old2play.com, Derek Nolan, a 39-year-old software programmer from Massachusetts, is now engaged to the site’s editor, Tiffany Fary.
She helps line up reviews of whether new games are appropriate for children as well as parents, and pens editorials on sensitive topics, such as coping with the awkwardness of being the old dude at the midnight launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
The couple met at a convention where she was representing a group of women gamers who call themselves the PMS Clan. They bonded over their love of Halo, which pits a tough-guy space soldier against hordes of aliens. Now they have four children from their prior relationshipsâand five Xboxes in their home.
“She is as much of a Halo gamer as I am, which goes against the stereotype for the women gamers,” Mr. Nolan says with pride. “We have commonalities.”
Halo, an FPS (or first-person shooter) game, “played a huge role in our courtship,” Ms. Fary agrees. “In 2old2play, you find people who also have husbands and children, and who understand you can no longer stay up all night playing an FPS because you have to work the next morning.”
The 2old2play crew likes to boast it can still hang tough in online competition against younger folks. But its players have learned that there are limitations to what they can accomplish.
Some of the group’s top guns tried their hand at Major League Gaming, a North American professional videogame league, where elite players compete in tournaments for tens of thousands of dollars in prize money. The results were humiliating.
“We kind of got our aâ kicked” in Halo 2 by teenage players, Mr. Nolan admits. The denizens of 2old2play, he says, plan to stick to the amateur circuit from now on.
Write to Miguel Bustillo at miguel.bustillo@wsj.com
A version of this article appeared February 19, 2013, on page A1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: These Videogame Sites Are for ‘Mature’ Audiences Only.
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Release Date: 04/16/2013Contact Information: Molly Hooven (News Media Only), hooven.molly@epa.gov, 202-564-2313, 202-564-4355
WASHINGTON — Today Sarah Bittleman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) senior Agricultural Counselor to the EPA Administrator will speak on a conference call to agriculture trade press publications. She will discuss her background and her role at EPA as an advisor to the Acting Administrator on ways environmental policy may impact growers and the greater agriculture community.
WHO: Sarah Bittleman, senior Agricultural Counselor to the EPA Acting Administrator
WHAT: Agriculture trade press conference call
WHEN: Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 2 p.m. EST
HOW: To participate, please dial in 10 minutes prior to the beginning of the call at 877-317-0679 and give the conference ID number: 41558502
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