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3 The concept of ecocities and solarcity Linz, Austria (...) The concept of ecocities and solarcity Linz, Austria, as example for urban ecological development Jürgen BREUSTE Fig. 1: The ecocity solarcity Linz, model photo of the first settlement area with integrated green spaces (TREBERSPURG & STADT LINZ 2008) Zusammenfassung Das Konzept der Ökostadt wird momentan auf verschiedenen Ebenen getestet und neu entwickelt. Es wird ganz oder teilweise in vielen in der Planung oder im Bau befindlichen Ökostädten weltweit umgesetzt. Diese Städte oder Stadtteile können Beispiele für eine neue nachhaltige Stadtgestaltung werden. Eine Ökostadt ist eine ökologisch gesunde Stadt. Eine Ökostadt ist eine Stadt, die Umweltbelastungen verringert, Lebensbedingungen verbessert und die Verwirklichung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung unterstützt, indem eine umfassende Planung sowie ein effizientes Flächenund Ressourcenmanagement das städtische System nachhaltig verbessern und Umweltverbesserungsmaßnahmen umsetzt (GORDON 1990). Die Entwicklung neuer Siedlungen ermöglicht, stets den neuesten Stand der Technik, Architektur, Planung und Design zu integrieren. Ehrgeizige moderne Planungen werden immer versuchen, ökologische Kriterien in der Planungen zu berücksichtigen. Solche neuen Städte oder Stadtteile werden "ökologische Städte" oder "Ökostädte" genannt. Am Beispiel der Öko-Stadt solarcity Linz wird untersucht, welche ökologischen Kriterien bezüglich Bau und Design beachtet wurden. Zudem wird eine Bewertung auf Basis allgemeiner ökologischen Kriterien durchgeführt, um die tatsächliche ökologische Zielerreichung der Ökostadt zu evaluieren. Schlüsselwörter: Ökostadt, nachhaltige Stadtgestaltung, nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung, solarcity Linz Laufener Spezialbeiträge
4 The concept of ecocities and solarcity Linz, Austria (...) Jürgen BREUSTE Abstract The ecocity concept is actually in proofed and developed new on different scales. It is implemented completely or partially in many ecocities worldwide which are in planning and in built. They can be examples for a new sustainable urban design. An ecocity is an ecologically healthy city. An ecocity is a city that decreases environmental stress, improves living conditions and helps in achieving sustainable development through a comprehensive urban improvement system involving planning and management of land and its resources and implementation of environmental improvement measures (GORDON 1990). The development of new settlements always allows the integration of the state of the art in architecture, planning and design. Ambitious modern planning will always try to use ecological planning criteria. Such new cities or districts are often called Ecological Cities or ecocities. On the example of the eco-city solarcity Linz it will be showed which ecological principles had been used in building and design and an evaluation of the general ecological criteria and its implementation allows clearly estimating the ecological content of the ecocity. Keywords: ecocity, sustainable urban design, sustainable urban development, solarcity Linz 1. The ecocity concept 1.1 What is an ecocity? An ecocity is an ecologically healthy human settlement modelled on the self-sustaining resilient structure and function of natural ecosystems and living organisms. It is an entity that includes its inhabitants and their ecological impacts. An ecocity is a subsystem of the ecosystems of which it is part of its watershed, and bioregion (ECOCITYBUILDERS 2011). An ecocity is a city that decreases environmental stress, improves living conditions and helps in achieving sustainable development through a comprehensive urban improvement system involving planning and management of land and its resources and implementation of environmental improvement measures (GORDON 1990, 15ff.). An ecocity must enable people to live in balance with nature and achieve sustainable development. People oriented ecocity development requires the comprehensive understanding of complex interactions between environmental, economic, political and sociocultural factors based on ecological principles (RAVETZ 2000, 3ff.; ECOCITYBUILDERS 2011). Ecocity development integrates administration, ecologically efficient industry, people's needs and aspirations, harmonious culture, and landscapes where nature, agriculture and the built environment are functionally integrated (BARTON 2000, 10ff.). The ecocity concept also starts on the neighbourhood-scale, the city-district level (Ecodistrict). Ecodistricts allow learning about district-scale sustainability best practices in finance, governance and policy, district energy and water utilities, net-zero buildings, smart grid, networked transportation, urban ecosystem services, zero waste, and human behaviour. Fig. 2: Scales of the ecocity concept (BREUSTE, unpublished) 1.2 What does ecocity development require? Ecocities can be characterized by some essential elements: Ecological security clean air, and safe, reliable water supplies, food, healthy housing and workplaces, municipal services and protection against disasters for all people. Ecological sanitation efficient, cost-effective eco-engineering for treating and recycling human excreta, grey water, and all wastes. Ecological industrial metabolism resource conservation and environmental protection through industrial transition, emphasizing materials re-use, life-cycle production, renewable energy, efficient transportation, and meeting human needs. Ecological-landscape integrity arrange built structures, open spaces such as parks and plazas, connectors such as streets and bridges, and natural features such as waterways and ridgelines, to maximize accessibility of the city for all citizens while conserving energy and resources and alleviating such problems as automobile accidents, air pollution, hydrological deterioration, heat island effects and global warming. Ecological awareness help people understand their place in nature, cultural identity, responsibility for the environment, and help them change their consumption behaviour and enhance their ability to contribute to maintaining high quality urban ecosystems (GORDON 1990, 38ff., BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2008). 1.3 What actions for ecocities are needed? To target on an ecocity a set of actions can be inluded: Provide safe shelter, water, sanitation, security of tenure and food security for all citizens. Minimize the loss of rural land by all effective measures, including regional urban and peri-urban ecological planning. Identify ecologically sensitive areas and identify areas where nature, agriculture and the built environment should be restored. Design cities for energy conservation, renewable energy uses and the reduction, re-use and recycling of materials. 20 Laufener Spezialbeiträge 2012
5 Jürgen BREUSTE The concept of ecocities and solarcity Linz, Austria (...) Build cities for safe pedestrian and non-motorized transport use with efficient public transportation. Provide strong economic incentives to businesses for ecocity building and rebuilding. Provide adequate, accessible education and training programs to increase community participation and awareness of ecocity design and management. Create a government agency at each level city, regional and national to craft and execute policy to build the ecocity. The agency could coordinate and monitor functions such as transportation, energy; water and land use in holistic planning and management, and facilitate projects and plans. Encourage and initiate international, intercity and community-to-community cooperation to share experiences, lessons and resources in ecocity development and promote ecocity practice in developing and developed countries (TJALLINGII 1995, 10ff.; RAVETZ 2000, 263ff.; BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2008). Tab. 1: Selected ecocity projects in China (2011) Fig. 3: Main features of an ecocity (ARKITEKTUR 2005, quotet by BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2008) Actually several ecocities are in planning or in built. Only 170 Chinese cities aim to become sustainable or ecocities. 40 ecocities are in China actually in planning or in process (see tab. 1). 2. The ecocity solarcity Linz, Austria 2.1 The planning The project initiative for an ecocity in the scale of an ecodistrict began in 1990, when Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, introduced a policy of lowenergy social housing. At that time 12,000 people were looking for homes in the Linz area. Simultaneously awareness was increasing that high consumption of fossil energy was a significant contributor to the greenhouse effect. Both facts provided decisive arguments for an ecological and sustainable housing scheme. It was decided to construct a major development on low energy lines with a minimised consumption of fossil fuels. So the idea for building a "solarcity" was born. Many planning issues were raised by this objective. One was the supply of energy to houses; another was the design of the settlement in a manner that minimised transport requirements. The selected development area in the south of Linz next to the village Pichling is characterised by small lakes and by the Traun-Danube floodplains, one of the largest, continuous, natural biotope landscapes in Upper Austria (MAGISTRAT LINZ 2004). This required careful planning, to provide a sensitive integration of a future housing estate into the existing landscape surroundings. Laufener Spezialbeiträge
6 The concept of ecocities and solarcity Linz, Austria (...) Jürgen BREUSTE The master plan for the Linz-Pichling residential district (ecocity solarcity) was finished in This master plan makes provision for between 5,000 and 6,000 homes together with the entire infrastructure servicing the area. This concentrates development in nodes along a tram route that links in to a local railway station and the city centre. In 1993, the Linz City Council took the proposal further by commissioning a study to demonstrate how the homes in Pichling could serve as an example of low energy living. The following year the City of Linz, together with four of the most important non-profit-making housing associations in Linz, agreed to finance the planning and development of 630 low energy homes in Pichling. Eight nonprofit-making building organisations joined the development in Therefore current plans propose 1,317 on a site of around 32 hectares forming one of the nodes proposed in the Master Plan. The City of Linz commissioned world-class architects Norman Foster, and Richard Rogers from England and Thomas Herzog from Germany to plan the first 630 homes. The EU General Directorate XII for Research and Development subsidised the planning work with a contribution of EURO 600,000 (EIBLMAYR 2004, 44). The planned school, kindergarten and community commercial centre are models of resource-saving solar architecture, with special provision for bio-climatic design to reduce expensive air conditioning. The project has been led by an interdisciplinary group working according to systemic principles working with a project advisory board drawn from the public sector, business and the community. Considerable effort has been allocated developing a project identity and project marketing. Awards from the European Union and the 100 Best Practices Programme have been prominently publicised as part of the development of a marketable image. The construction was finished in 2005 in its first part on 35 ha ground with 2,942 residents live in 1,293 apartments. Each of the 12 housing associations involved in this project have finished their buildings by 2006 (BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2007). 2.2 The actual status and key principles of sustainable framework The leading architect TREBERSPURG wrote 2008 The solarcity is a model for a sustainable future. To be more precise, it is a complex, conscientiously planned, constructed, used an inhabited urban model which at all levels and in all aspects represents the latest state of development (TREBERSPURG & STADT LINZ 2008, 9f.). This had been proved by BREUSTE & RIEPEL Beside the several very positive results this statement could only be partly confirmed (see 2.3). The name solarcity implies an extensive utilization of solar energy according to the European Solar Charta in architecture and town planning, installed in The term solar is to be understood in a wider sense and includes functions as follows: designing residential areas and individual buildings according to the principles of solar architecture, utilization of active and passive solar energy, direct use of the sun to increase welfare of people inside as well as outside of buildings, general utilization of renewable energies, emphasizing the aspects nature and leisure, social integration, social warmth, social energy and new approaches in general for a lasting development of residential areas (MAGISTRAT LINZ 2004). The city of Linz set up criteria for preserving the basic ideas of the solarcity. Low-energy construction (with an energy factor not exceeding the maximum of 40 kw/m²a) was compulsory, as well as the use of solar panels for creating hot water. Furthermore, the city of Linz invested approx. EUR 73 million into the exemplary and complete infrastructure. Due to its costs, solar electricity generation was only applied in individual projects of the solar city s infrastructural buildings. Solar hot water production, on the other hand, took place ubiquitously and reached an average of 47-48% of WW demand. The buildings normally run at a level much lower than recommended. Some require a thermal heat value of only 28 kwh/m²a, others do not even exceed 21 kwh/m²a (WAECHTER-BÖHM 2004, 33). A tramway line of about 2.3 km connects the city center of Linz since September 2004 with the solarcity. However, the distant to Linz and who to bridge it is the weakest point of the ecocity. Most part of the Traun-Donau wetlands is legally protected. This unique nature reserve remains protected and at the same time it is meant to constitute a nature experience for the solarcity s residents. Wooden footbridges for walks are installed in the alluvial forests. Info-checkpoints make the offer complete. The connection of nature protection and urban development is a very important and actual challenge for urban development. SolarCity is an example for a project in which this was not only included in the design of the city and its surroundings, but in which, beyond that, nature protection and recreation were excellently integrated so that both complement each other. The solarcity Pichling is not only regarded a positive example for a well-organized town planning project because of its architecture, but it also sets a benchmark by simultaneously completing the overall project and the infrastructure necessary for the residents. It is the perfect example for a smooth town expansion in the open countryside, too. That is because way back in the beginning of the project ecological aspects and social demands were connected with each other (WAECHTER-BÖHM 2004, 33). Yet one must not forget that a project in this dimension involves a high degree of complexity. The development of the project turned out to be a learning process for all participants. New technologies, knowledge transfer and setting up an extensive communication network were new and unfamiliar to them. When building the solar City, the emphasis clearly lay on the energy supply concept. Besides thermal solar panels and photovoltaic, also wind and biomass were taken into account in the energy concept. All in all, the solarcity project was awarded several prizes. In 1998, for instance, the United Nations granted them the Best Practice award in the course of a competition for the enhancement of the environment. In 1999, the solarcity received the Environmental Award 2001 from the Earth Society Foundation, an NGO group (non-governmental organization) located in New York. In 2000, the project stood among the top five innovative building concepts in the competition Haus der Zukunft ( House of the Future ), and in 2001 it also found itself on the same position in the second international conference business and municipality new partnerships in Bremen (MAGISTRAT LINZ 2004). 22 Laufener Spezialbeiträge 2012
7 Jürgen BREUSTE The concept of ecocities and solarcity Linz, Austria (...) Fig. 4: SolarCity residential estate (Photo J. Breuste) The designers and planners of the ecocity list up the following in aspects of ecological development they have included for solarcity: Energy efficiency and sustainable energy usage, Recreational infrastructure and pedestrian routes, Open spaces and landscape as planning focus, Nature protection and people s contact with nature, Innovative building concepts, Management of resources, Social stability (ownership and rental, age groups etc.), Urban district management, Mobility management, Optimization and adaptation of both constructional and social standards to changing conditions, Sustainability - Monitoring focusing particularly on urban development, architecture, energy management, climate protection, material management and user satisfaction and Adaptability of the concept to other places 2.3 Ecological evaluation of the project It goes without saying that not all guidelines can be met in this ecocity project. Preconditions and circumstances differ enormously between evaluation subjects and project areas. However, it is striking that most criteria and guidelines that had been detected were regarded in the development concept and during the construction of the solarcity. Moreover, the guidelines are just there to give some clues for an ecological housing development project. Still, the more criteria and guidelines a project fulfils, the more ecological a residential area gets, in a sustainable sense. A large number of criteria were met in this project, the emphasis lying definitely on the energy concept and open space planning. Other criteria, such as soil, were neglected, not fulfilled or even not target at all. But the ecocity project solarcity, with its lasting effects and organization, is undoubtedly a positive step towards a sustainability-oriented future, as far as guidelines in ecological settlement projects are concerned. On the basis of the results an arithmetic mean could be calculated. With this, an overall evaluation of the single criteria, implemented in the solarcity Linz project, can be deduced. The arithmetic mean is that point in the scale which is at a time below and above of the half of the values (ZÖFEL 1988, 43). The grade 5 (insufficient) corresponds with the former category 1 (not implemented): 1 = excellent, 2 = good, 3 = satisfactory, 4 = sufficient, 5 = insufficient. The used (BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2007) assessment scale consists of five categories with a different hierarchy (ZÖFEL 1988: 267ff): 1 = not implemented, 2 = partly implemented, 3 = implemented, 4 = well implemented, 5 = very well implemented. To achieve a final grading of the ecocity project solarcity Linz, the five hierarchical categories are going to be transformed into grades from 1 to 5 (VAN DER VEN 1980, 34). The arithmetic mean from all criteria was calculated to achieve this final grading and resulted in the value This value stands for the cumulative grade satisfactory. A comparison and assessment is more effective with the evaluation of the assessment categories and the single criteria instead of summarizing them to single number. The ecocity solarcity was evaluated by BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2007 on its ecological criteria. This analysis is based on the evaluation of all available relevant documents, observations, inquiries and conversations with the stakeholders. It is as possible objective and proves all relevant ecological criteria. The following criteria had been included, following KENNEDY 1984a, b and KENNEDY & KENNEDY 1998: siting and land use, open space, soil, material, indoor environmental quality, energy, traffic, waters and waste. Assessed criteria Assessment results Open Space Use existing vegetation and landforms to moderate climate conditions and provide pro- 3 tection for native habitats Plant native or well-adapted species 3 Use greenbelts and protected wetlands to 4 create a continuous web of native habitats Restore the native landscape 4 Open space for recreation and child s play 5 Roof gardens can be established on the flat 2 roofs of buildings using potted trees, shrubs and plants Energy Energy-Conscious Urban Planning 5 Energy Conservation 4 Use renewable energy sources 5 Passive Heating and Cooling 5 Insulation 3 Alternate Sources of Energy 4 Daylighting 4 Energy Efficient Equipment and Appliances 1 Traffic Settlements should be located around or close to public transport nodes and frequently used routes 3 Laufener Spezialbeiträge
8 The concept of ecocities and solarcity Linz, Austria (...) Jürgen BREUSTE Settlements should be planned around a network 4 of pedestrian routes which encourage walking and cycling Limit on-site parking 3 Use porous alternatives to traditional paving for 3 roads and walkways and reduce street width Carpooling strategies should be encouraged in 1 addition to mass-transit use Use existing vehicular transportation networks 2 to minimize the need for new Infrastructure Minimize noise disturbance 1 Water Use permeable surfaces 3 Collect and use harvested water 4 Collect and use rainwater 4 Design an appropriate harvesting and storage 5 system Reduce overall water use 4 Utilize greywater for nonpotable purposes 4 Use constructed wetlands 4 Treat brownwater from toilet-flushing with onsite 4 systems Use reclaimed water for purposes such as 3 toilet-flushing Waste Minimize use of resources - Reuse Existing Buildings Minimize waste generated from construction, renovation and demolition of buildings Minimize waste generated during building occupancy Material Design for future reuse and adaptability 3 Use durable products and materials Choose low-maintenance building materials 3 Buy locally produced building materials 4 Use salvaged building materials when possible 1 Minimize packaging waste 5 Indoor Environmental Quality Design for human comfort 5 Improve indoor air quality 4 Siting and Land Use Renovate older buildings 1 Create community 4 Encourage in-fill and mixed-use development 4 Minimize automobile dependence 4 Value site resources 5 Existing planted vegetation that has to remain on 4 site needs to be protected during construction Situate buildings to benefit from existing 1 vegetation Building smaller is better 3 Design for durability 3 Soil Minimize pavement area 1 Emphasize preservation of mature vegetated 1 soils Minimize earthwork and clearing 1 Minimize use of landscape irrigation, herbicides, 1 pesticides, and fertilizers Consider use of permeable paving materials 1 Build pedestrian surfaces with loose aggregate, 2 wooden decks, or well-spaced paving stones Tab. 2: Structuring of evaluation criteria and assessment for solar- City (BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2007) 3. Summary Figure 5: Validation of the single criteria (BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2007) The location, gross density and form of an ecocity should be determined in conjunction with programs for energy supply and conservation technologies. Lots of studies demonstrate that the pattern of growth is more important than the amount of growth in determining the level and efficiency of resource use and traffic congestion. On the basis of the case study solarcity the development as well as the current methods for the ecological settlement planning had been mentioned. Solarcity Linz is a good example for an ecocity. The standardisation of ecological criteria, which were already implemented in smaller ecological settelment projects, are often not sufficiently applied yet in 24 Laufener Spezialbeiträge 2012
9 Jürgen BREUSTE The concept of ecocities and solarcity Linz, Austria (...) bigger projects, for instance in the solarcity Linz. One of the reasons for this is that there is not enough experience with such huge projects. The general conditions for the various projects are too different and the willingness to change planning to a more ecological attitude has not happened yet. It is predominantly the duty of public authorities and private planning entities, which are responsible for projects like the solarcity Linz, to consider the ecological standards in town and settlement planning in order to not keep on destroying nature. The existing ecological standards according to a list of criteria had been implemented to the solarcity example. This list does not define the technical instruments for ecological settlement planning but set the holistic standards with simultaneous consideration of ecological aspects. Considering this list of criteria it would be possible, before starting an ecological settlement project, to develop scenarios, which, depending on different existing general conditions could show various ecological approaches and thus could lead to the ideal solution. Most important is not the technical measure, like the supplies of energy through for example wind power or biogas, but that renewable energy is used at all. Developing such scenarios a collaboration of various scientific areas would be useful in order to develop the concept of ecocity further (BREUSTE & RIEPEL 2007, 2008). References BARTON, H. (2000): Sustainable Communities: The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods. Earthscan. London. BREUSTE, J. & RIEPEL, J. (2007): Solarcity Linz/Austria a European example for urban ecological settlements and its ecological evaluation. In: Warsaw, Univ., Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies (Ed.): The Role of Landscape Studies for Sustainable Development. Warsaw. BREUSTE, J. & RIEPEL, J. (2008): Development of the EcoCity Why and where sustainable urban development? In: SINGH, A. L. & SAHAB, F. (Eds): Urban Environmental Management. B. R. Publishers. New Delhi. ECOCITYBUILDERS (2011): Ecocities. URL: ( ). EIBLMAYR, J. (2004): SolarCity taugt das Konzept? Vorgaben und Ausblick. In: Bauwelt 18/May: GORDON, D. (1990): Green Cities. Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space. Black Rose Books. Montreal. KENNEDY, M. /Ed. (1984a): Öko-Stadt. Prinzipien einer Stadtökologie. Materialien zur Internationalen Bauausstellung Berlin (IBA). Volume 1. Fischer. Frankfurt am Main. KENNEDY, M. /Ed. (1984b): Öko-Stadt. Mit der Natur die Stadt planen. Materialien zur Internationalen Bauausstellung Berlin (IBA). Volume 2. Fischer. Frankfurt am Main. KENNEDY, M. & KENNEDY, D. /Eds. (1998): Handbuch ökologischer Siedlungs(um)bau. Neubau- und Stadterneuerungsprojekte in Europa. Reimer. Berlin. MAGISTRAT LINZ (2004): Linz. Eine Stadt lebt auf. Präsentationsmappe zur solarcity Linz. Linz. RAVETZ, J. (2000): City Region 2020: Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Environment. Earthscan. London. TJALLINGII, S. P. (1995): Ecopolis. Strategies for Ecologically Sound Urban Development. Backhuys Publishers. Leiden. TREBERSPURG, M. & STADT LINZ /Eds. (2008): solarcity Linz Pichling. Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung. Springer. Wien. VAN DER VEN, A. D. (1980): Einführung in die Skalierung. Verlag Hans Huber. Bern. WAECHTER-BÖHM, L. (2004): Linz und die solarcity. Ein Rundgang. Bauwelt 18/May: ZÖFEL, P. (1988): Statistik in der Praxis. 2. edition. Gustav Fischer. Stuttgart. Contact of the author: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Breuste RG Urban and Landscape Ecology Dept. Geography and Geology University Salzburg Hellbrunnerstr Salzburg, Austria Laufener Spezialbeiträge
11 Impressum Laufener Spezialbeiträge 2012 Implementation of Landscape Ecological Knowledge in European Urban Practice ISSN ISBN Verkaufspreis 10, 2 Herausgeber und Verlag: Bayerische Akademie für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege Seethalerstraße 6, Laufen (ANL) Internet: Satz: Hans Bleicher, Grafik Layout Bildbearbeitung Druck: Korona Offset-Druck GmbH & Co.KG, Freilassing Stand: Januar 2012 ANL, alle Rechte vorbehalten Gedruckt auf Papier aus 100 % Altpapier Schriftleitung: Ursula Schuster, ANL Tel.: 08682/ Fax: 08682/ Für die Einzelbeiträge zeichnen die jeweiligen Autoren ver ant wort lich. Die mit dem Verfassernamen gekennzeichneten Beiträge geben nicht in je dem Fall die Meinung der Schriftleiterin wieder. Redaktion für das vorliegende Heft: Jürgen Breuste, Annette Voigt, Martina Artmann. Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ulrich Ammer, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Gill, Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Haber, Prof. Dr. Klaus Hackländer, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hampicke, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Alois Heißenhuber, Prof. Dr. Kurt Jax, Prof. Dr. Werner Konold, Prof. Dr. Ingo Kowarik, Prof. Dr. Stefan Körner, Prof. Dr. Hans-Walter Louis, Dr. Jörg Müller, Prof. Dr. Konrad Ott, Prof. Dr. Jörg Pfadenhauer, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pröbstl, Prof. Dr. Werner Rieß, Prof. Dr. Michael Suda, Prof. Dr. Ludwig Trepl. Erscheinungsweise: unregelmäßig (ca. 2 Hefte pro Jahr). Urheber- und Verlagsrecht: Das Heft und alle in ihr enthaltenen einzelnen Beiträge, Ab bil dun gen und weiteren Bestandteile sind urheberrechtlich geschützt. Jede Verwendung außerhalb der engen Grenzen des Urheberrechts ge set zes ist ohne Zustimmung der ANL und der AutorInnen unzulässig. Bezugsbedingungen/Preise: Über Preise und Bezugsbedingungen im einzelnen: siehe Publi ka tions liste am Ende des Heftes. Bestellungen über: oder über den Internetshop Auskünfte über Bestellung und Versand: Zusendungen und Mitteilungen: Manuskripte, Rezensionsexemplare, Pressemitteilungen, Ver anstal tungs ankündigungen und -berichte sowie Informations material bitte nur an die Schriftleiterin senden. Für unverlangt Ein ge reich tes wird keine Haftung übernommen und es besteht kein Anspruch auf Rücksendung. Wertsendungen (Bildmaterial) bitte nur nach vorheriger Absprache mit der Schriftleiterin schicken.
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Witnesses sought after boy struck by car
Police are calling for witnesses to a car accident in Halls Head, south of Perth, which has left an 11-year-old boy in a critical condition.
Police say the boy was walking with a friend along Old Coast Road about 12:30pm yesterday when he ran across the road and was hit by a car.
The boy suffered extensive injuries and was airlifted to QE11 hospital.
Police say the car involved was a Holden Commodore sedan and are asking anyone who witnessed the accident to contact them.
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Published in 1896, The Well at the World's End is the longest of the remarkable series of eight prose romances that William Morris produced in the last decade of his life. Its plot is complex, but the psychology of its characters is even more complex. Though Morris's The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897) relies more on medieval ideas about Courtly Love than does The Well at the World's End, the latter book is arguably the more chivalric, for at its center are the adventurous wanderings of a knight errant through a forest and wasteland where the marvelous may intrude on everyday life. Its hero, the prince Ralph of Upmeads, is engaged in a dual quest to rescue a maiden and find the Well at the World's End, a …
Boenig, Robert. "The Well at the World's End". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 July 2007
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If n = x then d = jake gyllenhaalIt's Pancake day today and soon we shall be gorging on pancakes a pleanty!
Nat has been in a rather strange mood all day, which seems to have rubbed off on me. Her, Vicki and I went to see "Proof" starring Anthony Hopkins, Gwyenth Paltrow and the gorgeous Jake of course. It was such a film that appealed to my inner geek and also touched me in a rather strange way. Gwyneth's mental brakedown was well executed and the film had a rather Tarentino-esque feel to it, with the bouncing back and forward between various time states. And the proof in question just invovled differential equations, that's not so difficult really is it? Maybe it is...
Now we're currently planning birthday events as i'm eager to see a band. In order to tide me over i'm going to see Paul Smith from Maximo Park, DJ tomorrow night (aren't you jealous?).
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Melvin Booker is never happy when a job is only half completed.
The US-born BC Khimki guard was adamant that Tuesday's 95-85 win over Unics Kazan in the first leg of the FIBA Europe League quarter-final was already a distant memory.
"It means nothing. We have to win one more game for me to be totally satisfied," said Booker.
"I won't be pleased until we have won the series."
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Kazan have dominated in games against Khimki in recent seasons, and have claimed two wins over them in this year's Russian Superleague.
Booker reserved special praise for Venezuela guard Oscar Torres, who had 22 points and 11 rebounds.
"He must be one of the best players from Venezuela to play in Europe," said Booker.
"He's not just a great shooter. He's explosive and powerful all around the court."
Booker was at his best late in the game, sinking two efforts from outside the arc to give Khimki a 80-74 lead late in the final quarter.
Kazan point guard Shammond Williams scored a game-high 29 points and Booker admitted the New York-born sharpshooter, who turns 30 on April 5, is key to the Russia team's success.
"He is very difficult to play against because he can both shoot and penetrate," said Booker.
The two teams face each other again on Saturday in Kazan and Booker is hoping his side's shooting is spot on again as it was in Tuesday's final quarter.
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A Manual for new Commons committers
Idea being that we bring the various how-to's and guides into one centralised document/book/site/thing. It should be both easily viewable online, and printable so you can sit on the toilet and read about our goings on.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Commons - What it's all about.
- Communication. How to use the mailing lists. Voting.
- Subversion information. How to check code out.
- Maven information. How to build.
- Site information. How to generate the site. How to upload your changes.
- Releasing. How to release.
- PMC. What it's there for.
- Legal. How to not screw-up.
- How the sandbox works / how components get promoted / how components get made dormant/active/dead.
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text: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Christian Kujau wrote:> > if someone could give me a hint here what to do next or perhaps tell me> that the whole things was totally pointless - please say so.> i am somehow lost as to which is the right person to bug here.Since you seem to be a BK user, try doing a bk revtool sound/pci/ens1370.c and see if you can find the change that caused your problem. Of course, the real change might be somewhere else in the sound driver initialization path, so it's not like just that one file might be the cause. Regardöess, the more you can pinpoint when the problem started, the better.Also, if you enable frame pointers (under kernel debugging), the tracebackwill look a bit better. As it is, your oops looks looks like something hasjumped off into la-la-land by jumping through a bad pointer (the value isstill in %ecx), but it's definitely not clear _where_ that happened. Your trace points to pci_enable_device_bars(), but that may well be juststale stack contents. Linus-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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I get the need to justify your position with the appearance of diligence and purpose, and God knows that if any body needs a public relations make over, it's Congress, but whenever a group of them get together and foment some totally useless endeavor (much like trying to defund Obamacare), it goes beyond scratching your head with ,"What are they thinking?".
With all that is going on with the nation at present (we've been in worse shape in the past, noted, but clearly their sense of hierarchy needs work) a new bill coming down the pike would eliminate the death penalty for just about all federal crimes;
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and seven other Democrats have proposed legislation that would eliminate the possibility of imposing the death penalty for a range of federal offenses, including several categories of murder and crimes against the government like treason and espionage.
They cover just about every offense that would warrant the death penalty. Odd, but things like fire bombing an abortion clinic, or a company refusing to cater at a gay wedding, those are not exempted, would not want to remove all the teeth from the death penalty.
Clearly they must have some notion that this superfluous flummery will not see the light of day in the House or have even the remotest chance of becoming a law.
You think this has anything to do with Snowden or Tzarnaev? We know how much those bunch think Snowden is a patriot, and Tzarnaev, hell, they all want to adopt him, he is so cute.
With all the legitimate work staring them in the face (they still have to pass that bill that would fund Obama's image being placed on Mt. Rushmore, money don't grow on trees, don't you know) this little diversion seems frivolous and a waste of time. I guess their latest mission (to exempt all their staffers from Obamacare, like they got for themselves) was a Mission Accomplished, time to move on to other things.


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Anyone interested in the Club O2 Teen Schedule?
I just found the schedule for Club O2 on the Carnival Miracle.
Club O2 is for 15-17 year olds.
As teens, they can come and go as they please. The Dance Club O2 is held from 9:30pm to 11pm (I think it was 11pm) in a dance club with a floor-to-ceiling video wall, glass dance floor, state-of-the-art lighting and a jammin' sound system. After the teen hours, you need to be 18 to get in.
My son attended only the activities he thought were cool. He thought some were lame but had a good time overall.
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Del Sol Deck Party – Midnight party
Arcade Tournament – Joker's Room
Battle of the Sexes – Fountainhead
20 Questions & Cards – Joker's Room
Family Karaoke Party – Mad Hatter's
Mummy Wrap – Mad Hatter's
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Nova Scotia sailing trio medal at Summer Games after marathon week
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They went into the Canada Summer Games among the elite young sailors in the country, and they didn't disappoint on Thursday afternoon in Sherbrooke Que.
First it was Corrine Peters from the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, who captured silver in the female laser radial class. Shortly after that, her fellow RNSYS members Greg Simms and Devan Dube struck bronze in the 29er event.
Peters, who just weeks before the Games competed at the Youth Sailing World Championship in Cyprus, was ecstatic about her first Summer Games medal.
"After the youth worlds I was just trying to get my feet back on the ground and to just keep up my momentum," she said. "I came here to win a medal and I'm so happy to be going home with one."
Used to ocean training, the 18-year-old had to adjust to trickier, unpredictable lake conditions.
She went into her last of 12 races over six days on Thursday having won five of them, which guaranteed her an overall top three finish.
"I went into today hoping to win silver, and I did."
After capturing the 29er Canadian championships held in Kingston last month, Simms and Dube came short of their goal of a gold or silver medal.
"We made a few mistakes that cost us, but we're just happy to be coming home with a medal," said Dube.
It could have been much worse for the pair. After a disastrous run on their second of six days of sailing, which set them back 10 points from the pack, they clawed back to an eventual third-place finish.
"We're still third in the country," said Dube. "That's not too bad."
Claire McNally of Bridgewater earned her second medal of the Games with a bronze performance in the 200-metre individual medley; Para division( 4:33. 34). New Glasgow's Tim Ferris collected his fifth medal of the Games, earning a bronze in the 50-m freestyle; Special Olympics division (29.83). Sean Berrigan of Dartmouth struck bronze in the 50-m backstroke (27.17.)
Team Nova Scotia has a total of 13 medals at the Games.
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This blog post is taken from an article in the Q1 2017 issue of PX Advisor. In it we talked to healthcare marketing expert Debbie Landers about communicating HCAHPS results.
Of the hospitals with sufficient data to calculate a star rating, there are clearly some great success stories. However, all hospitals will need a plan to address these ratings both internally and externally. Given the complexity of the ratings and the potential for both internal and external audiences to misunderstand them, a good communication strategy is rapidly becoming mission-critical for hospitals.
Because there is little indication that these public measures will be disappearing from the healthcare landscape, Landers and Jarrard, Inc. actively encourage their hospital clients to embrace the data and share it openly.
Six Key Strategies for HCAHPS Communications
Landers shared six key strategies that her colleagues at Jarrard, Inc. deploy for their clients when developing effective communication about these ratings:
1. Be proactive. It does not matter where your score falls on the continuum. Share the scores openly with internal constituents and respond openly with external constituents when necessary.
2.Be transparent. This is the best way to build trust with employees, physicians, and the community.
3. Give "the talk" inside first. Educating employees and physicians is a not-to-be-missed step as they can be both constituents and advocates.
4. Define the tone and message on your own terms. Do not be on your heels for this. Talk to the media, but have your message and your tone well-defined in advance of those conversations.
5. Be physically engaged in the communication. In the age of electronic information, it is tempting to let the "Internet of Things" rule your strategy, but Landers encourages face-to-face communication with the media and physicians. In addition, most hospitals still use some form of a town hall meeting where this type of information can be clearly and openly addressed with internal constituents.
6. Shorten the news cycle. If you do not have the rating that you want (and many hospitals will share that dilemma), communicate the information in a positive and proactive way. Do not hide from the media. This is the time to talk about your current strategies and those in development. If your current scores are great, they can be shared and celebrated. If the news is currently not so great, this should be a rally call internally—an opportunity to help everyone understand where we do not measure up and to begin developing the strategies that will improve the patient experience.
Time to Shift the HCAHPS Focus
In addition to these recommendations, there are some overarching strategies that hospitals should have in place. Landers emphasizes never taking your eyes off of quality, even in the face of an avalanche of other types of measures. Those metrics are critical to physicians and consumers as well. She also recommends accepting the data as it is. "Discussions about the CAHPS methodologies, data adjustments, timeliness of data, etc. should be behind us now. It is time to pivot the focus to the patient and what we can learn from their experience."
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Pretty Simple. Review My work. I'll Review yours. If you don't like it. Tell me, If you love it... Tell me. If you Find something you think would be a better change, Express yourself. Dance to the beat of your own drummer, and I'll do the same. So check out my work. Some of it is total fiction, some of it is straight from the heart. Either way, it is a part me. And I'd like to hear what you think.
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Iran considers great importance for significant development of its mid & downstream sectors to diversify away from oil products and build downstream industries. Iran is committed in boosting its petrochemical and refining capacities to achieve the first rank at regional level by 2025. In this context, launching new petrochemical industries with the purpose of diversifying the products, will provide an appropriate opportunity for further development of downstream industries as the consumers of petrochemical products.
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Wilmington, Ohio 5/24/2016 - On Wednesday, May 18, R+L Carriers and Lima Company Memorial gathered in Lafayette, Indiana for the unveiling of the new Lima Company Memorial hauler. The new hauler, initiated by R+L Carriers as a commissioned project, evolved into something much bigger; a generous donation from Wabash National Corporation and 26 additional vendors.
About the Lima Company Memorial: The Lima Company Memorial, the Eyes of Freedom, started with a vision of artist and creator Anita Miller. With the help of the family members of the fallen and the returned Marines of L3/25, she created 23 life-size murals, depicting the fallen of Lima 3/25. The Eyes of Freedom is now a traveling memorial that rallies the public around one common theme, saluting our great military who sacrifice with their commitment.
Mike Strahle, Director of the Lima Company Memorial, and representatives from R+L Carriers presented a token of their appreciation to Brent Yeagy, Senior VP of Wabash Commercial Trailer Products.
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About R+L Carriers: R+L Carriers is a family owned and operated global freight shipping company based in the United States. Celebrating 50 years of service in 2015, R+L Carriers, Inc. serves the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic with LTL, Truckload, Business Critical, Logistics and more. To learn more about R+L Carriers' Worldwide shipping solutions visit R+L Carriers.


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As a work-around to the security features of wordpress.com, are there any plug-ins I can install that will allow me to place the amazon widget in my sidebar?
The blog I need help with is kapitalcon.wordpress.com.
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As a work-around to the security features of wordpress.com, are there any plug-ins I can install that will allow me to place the amazon widget in my sidebar?
The blog I need help with is kapitalcon.wordpress.com.
No. Sorry but tThere is no FTP access to wordpress.com blogs and we can't install plugins. Please read > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
In a nutshell free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM cannot be used to drive traffic to third-party sites by means of advertising and/or affiliate programs (see next section for more clarity). E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on wordpress.COM blogs. No retailing or reselling the work created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed.
Affiliate marketing blogs
The only exceptions with regard to affiliate links are found here:
Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes ("Make six figures from home!!", "20 easy steps to top profits!!", etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
I am sorry, but advertising is not allowed on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. The only exceptions are for high traffic blogs that qualify for and are accepted into the Ad Control program, and very high traffic blogs that qualify and are accepted into the paid VIP hosting program.
If you require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links on your blog, you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org In that case, please see the information at the link below to learn about the differences between free hosted WordPress.com blogs and WordPress.org software installs for self hosting.
That's was what I was afraid of. Thanks anyway. One more question though. If I was to use wordpress.org, would I be able to transfer my blog from wordpress.com? If so, how much does it cost to use wordpress.org?
You would need to register a domain name, hire a web host such as godaddy, dreamhost, etc., then install and configure the software from wordpress.ORG. Figure an average total combined monthly cost of $10 to $25.
You will then be responsible for all installations, all upgrades, all backups and all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong, you have to figure it out and fix it.
You need to be comfortable with using an FTP client and at least some knowledge of web site management is a plus (knowing what htaccess and php.ini files are and how to modify them.
Just a note on advertising: Most people only make about $100 per year on average (which typically doesn't cover their costs) unless their sites get up over 1000 hits per day, and generally it takes about 2500 to 5000 hits per day before you have coffee money.
In other words, don't expect to get rich and don't quit your day job.
what about paid accounts? I just paid the $17 to register a domain via WordPress? is that still excluded from Amazon widgets?
@bacchus713: Even if you paid for domain registration and mapping, the rules are the same: no plugins. See note below ("Before upgrading - important notes"):
@bacchus713 - paid upgrade for the Domain Mapping does not get you Amazon anything or any other advertising etc - it just gets you a fancy name.
Thanks for the info. So, even though I acquired the domain through wordpress, the rules of no advertising still apply?
Yes. Please read -> ("Before upgrading - important notes"):
That is correct - no ads and all the other Terms of Service also apply.
you can however host your blog elsewhere and still use the registered domain by changing where the name-servers point.
thank you very much for the information.
You're welcome from me.
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Scorpions will face defending champs
Published 10:31 pm, Sunday, September 30, 2012
The Scorpions will take on defending champion Minnesota in the NASL semifinals this weekend after the sixth-seeded Stars upset host Puerto Rico 2-1 on Sunday in the first round in Bayamon.
The home-and-home series will begin Saturday in Minnesota before shifting to Heroes Stadium on Oct. 14.
The Scorpions (13-7-8) won the season series with the Stars 1-0-3.
They largely outplayed Minnesota (8-9-11) in their most recent meeting Sept. 23, but the Stars scratched out a second-half equalizer to earn a 1-1 draw.
Minnesota had proven to be a dangerous postseason foe even before Sunday's result. The Stars won last year's title as the sixth seed, going 3-1-1 in five playoff matches.


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Release Blitz
Title: LOUD
Series: A Sunday Series Standalone
Author: Noell Mosco
Cover Designer: Susan Garwood with Wicked Women Designs
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Caroline Bordalon has a career, volunteers, has good friends...essentially has it all. She's an independent woman in her thirties, and, much to her mother's dismay, is single. Love isn't on her radar until she meets him.
For Avis Torres, music has been his longest relationship. He, with Cole Clarke and Gunner Kinney, makes up the band Sunday Told A Secret. They've taken the music world by storm, and stormy has their path been. Avis has notoriously been dubbed the band's playboy, a title he wears proudly. Why should he limit himself to one person when there's so many people in the world willing to give themselves to him?
Since relocating from L.A. to Pittsburgh, Avis has tamed his wild ways, for the most part. The band has taken on a mellower vibe and now that Avis sees Cole and Gunner settling into their lives, he can't help but feel as though he wants more than just a string of one-night lovers and to put a stop to his desires of drinking his desperation into oblivion. Caroline and Avis meet in an unconventional way. She's everything he never knew he wanted, from her southern Louisiana drawl to her honey-sweet innocence.
There's an instant fascination with Ms. Bordalon that Avis can't shake. That, combined with his ambitious plans to fall in love, drives Avis to be consistent, charming, and monogamous. But Caroline has secrets. Secrets that might be too much for Avis to accept.
LOUD is now part of a growing series! This sexy standalone can be read on its own, or readers can choose to broaden their Sunday Told A Secret horizons by reading about Cole Clarke in THE OTHER WOMAN.
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The Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón is a stadium located in Avellaneda, Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires. It is situated on the streets of Corbatta Mozart adjoining with Italy and Columbus.
Racing Club owns the stadium and plays its home matches there. Today, some sections are closed off resulting in a 51,389 people capacity.
It was inaugurated on September 3, 1950 having a capacity of more than 100,000 people and has been the scene of several national and international finals.
It was the first stadium in Argentina to have all their terraces have roofing after the reforms made in the 90s in the lighting system.Features
The playing field dimensions are 105 x 70 meters, making it one of the largest pitch in the country. In its opening days, it could easily accommodate more than 100,000 people in their stands. According to several sources, this number was exceeded several times, even up to the 115,000 spectators most notably in the Intercontinental Cup of 1967.
After remodeling was done to adhere to Argentine Football Association safety standards, the capacity was reduced to 64,161 spectators. With more remodeling done, the capacity of the stadium today is 51,389 spectators.History
In 1946, the National Executive signed a decree giving the institution a loan of three million argentine pesos to be allocated to the construction of a new stadium. Ramon Cereijo, the finance minister, arranged for the loan to receive another eight million pesos.
In 1947, construction of the new infrastructure began. By December 1, 1947, the old stadium opened its doors once against Webmail Rosario Central. The demolition of that stadium took place a few weeks later.
In 1950, the new stadium was finally opened on September 3 against Velez in the local championship. The meeting ended with a victory of the premises by a zero. In 1951, it hosted the inauguration of the first Pan American Games.
In 1951, it hosted the opening ceremony of the 1st Pan American Games.
In 1966, it was renovated with new lighting towers. With this improvement, the club invited Bayern Munich to play a friendly match. Bayern won the game 3-2.
In 1967, it hosted the final played by the local Copa Libertadores. Compared to National Uruguay, and the Intercontinental Cup, Against the European champions Celtic Scot. In both meetings, hosted more than 100,000 people.
In 1988, it hosted the first Supercopa Sudamericana final, where the local team beat Cruzeiro from Brazil 2-1. In 1989, it also hosted the first Recopa Sudamericana final. This time with less fortunate for the club owner.
In 1995, installation began of a translucent roof mounted on a metal structure that holds the lighting system at the renovations completed in 1997, Became the first Argentine stadium have all roofed stalls.
In 2002, a security monitoring system was installed, consisting of several cameras and speakers. In 2004, all perimeter fences were removed and stalls were opened in the field.
In 2007, month of November, it hosted the final of the Copa Sudamericana. In 2008, in the month of August and for the second time in its history, it hosted the Recopa Sudamericana.


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Today's mlm tip has to do with skills. As Tom Schreiter always says, to be successful in network marketing, a rep has to have skills. There are three important skills all of us must have in order to build a successful mlm business. They are:
-Skill #1: Learn how to talk to people commercially
-Skill #2: Find somebody to talk to
-Skill #3: Take the volunteers
With these skills, there are a number of specific strategies under each area that are important to master. So, today, we will talk about the four secret languages, which is the most important strategy under skill #1.
This actually is the easiest skill to learn. Even better, we already speak one language perfectly! It's our native language and we always think and explain things in our language. The four languages are yellow, blue, red, and green. If you are a yellow like me, you are already an expert in the "yellow" language. But, what about the other mlm prospects and potential customers you may talk to? Do they understand yellow? Blues, does your downline and customers understand you?
The most important mlm tip to remember when building your mlm business is that no matter our color, we always must be "multi-lingual". If not, people won't "get us" and won't join our business.
For example, for the yellows, the most important word in their language is "help." Yellows love to help others; they absolutely live to help others. As a matter of fact, their entire motivation is to help others! Yellows love to hear how products help people or how the opportunity can help moms who want to stay at home with their kids.Yellows could care less about the compensation plan, the titles, or recognition.
Here are examples of terrible things to say to yellows when talking to them about your business opportunity:
-You can make a fortune with our company.
-Now is the time to get in on our ground floor opportunity.
-All those other network marketing companies out there are losers.
I think you get the picture. Now, here are excellent things you can say to yellows:
-Our diet cookies help new moms lose all the baby weight quickly.
-Our products help grandma's have more energy so they can keep up with their active grandkids.
-Our business opportunity will help bring in extra money each week so families can spend more time together.
Notice the difference? I think you get the idea now. So remember, today's mlm tip is to take the time to learn the four secret languages. There are a number of resources out there which you can use to educate yourself. I have listed them at the bottom of this article.
The more confident and competent we are when talking with others, the more our business can grow!
Michael Dlouhy: "Powerful Networking Secrets" http://mentormonique.powerfulnetworkingsecrets.com
Jerry Clark: "The Magic of Colors"- http://www.clubrhino.com/products/item6.cfm
Tom Schreiter: "How to Speak the Secret Language" http://www.fortunenow.com/products/item13.cfm
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