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Fri, 18 December 2015
Let me ask you something: Do you think you're doing the work you were born to do? And, is there even such a thing?
Many solopreneurs struggle with this question. Worrying they are working like an over-caffeinated beaver on the "wrong" thing. Spending most of their waking hours working on something that isn't quite "it."
I think we all struggle with this question. Wondering if there is such a thing as a "calling." Well, this is one subject we get deep into in today's interview with solopreneur and writer, Jeff Goins. This is why he wrote The Art of Work—because many people were asking this question: How did you find your way?
Once Jeff declared himself a writer—his Obi-Wan Kenobi moment— everything changed. We talk through that moment, where he started, and how he's built a career and life around it.
His online journey started in non-profit marketing, and he had eight different blogs before starting goinswriter.com. But after reading books by writers like Seth Godin, he was inspired by the thought of spreading an idea worth spreading. In fact, it helped him understand why marketing matters. And this, combined with his turning pro, is where it all started.
We also talk about his thoughts on living a portfolio life. What it means, why it's not a new term, and why it defines the future of work. This includes spending some time on Charles Handy's The Age of Unreason, and why a portfolio life is a smarter way to build a career. Whether you think of yourself as a jack of all trades or master of one, it doesn't really matter, this is the future of work, and a topic you should be paying attention to.
Most of our conversation centers around this question: How do you find that thing that sparks you, and then build your vocation and lifestyle around it?
Jeff is a speaker, a podcaster, but most of all, he's a writer. He's the author of 4 books, including the Art of Work. He was an amazing guest, and I know you'll love this show.
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Direct download: 30Jeff_GoinsHow_to_Listen_to_Your_Life_and_Find_Your_Calling.mp3
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Tue, 15 December 2015
My guest, Gini Dietrich, is the founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, a Chicago-area integrated marketing communications firm. She also runs the PR and marketing blog, Spin Sucks, one of the most popular PR blogs on the planet.
Gini delivers keynotes, panel discussions, coaching sessions, and workshops on the subject of using online technology in communication, marketing, sales, and HR. In my opinion she is an expert when it comes to modern blogging, brand-building, and community.
We talk about her early career, from working for Fleishman Hillard to her current firm, Arment Dietrich. We get into when she first started her firm, her many life changes along the way, and the lessons she's learned, in business and in life.
We discuss how she helped her firm weather another of our nation's financial crises, particularly how she started to restructure her firm to get new business. Gini worked to change her company from the ground up by focusing less on media relations and more on social media, social advertising, content marketing, etc. An integrated approach to doing things—something practically no one in her industry was doing at the time. The big guys weren't doing it, but she was. And Gini was focused on doing more, much more, to help her clients grow their businesses.
She created a lean team and went virtual. So, we get into a few details regarding building a virtual organization with people scattered around the globe. We also drill-down into the specifics of integrated marketing, how it relates to the PR industry, as well as small businesses and solopreneurs.
We also get into the mechanics of branding, story, and marketing for the small guy, We even discuss the fact that Gini recently became a foster parent. So we get into the foster care world and how she is doing her own thing to change it. We even get into a not-so-timely discussion of the Chicago Cubs. I know you're going to like this.
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Direct download: Episode_29Gini_Dietrich_On_Changing_Perceptions_in_Business_and_in_Life.mp3
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Thu, 10 December 2015
Brian Clark describes himself as a serial entrepreneur. He is CEO of Rainmaker Digital, founder of Copyblogger, and host of the Unemployable Podcast.
To say he's a content marketing expert would be a severe understatement. He's a guy with chops and I've been dying to talk with him for a while. If you're a solopreneur trying to make your way in the online realm, you should get out a pen and paper and listen to this interview.
Before starting the extremely popular site Copyblogger around 2006, Brian built three—count 'em, three—successful online service businesses before moving to a completely online business model (Copyblogger). Fast forward to now and the result of all the blood, sweat, and tears Brian put into Copyblogger—Rainmaker Digital.
Brian has always been about providing rock-solid advice and solutions that empower people to successfully grow their businesses through social media and online marketing. And in my humble opinion, he is "The Man" when it comes to this stuff. I know of no one better.
We discuss Boulder, Colorado, the hipster-tech-Mecca of Austin, Texas (he's lived in both hot spots), tech hubs in general, and why our online realm should give us freedom. The topic of freedom leads us to Brian's illustrious online career.
And what about the brand launch for Rainmaker Digital? We discuss why he decided to depart from the Copyblogger name. So there are some great branding lessons in this interview—detailing his methodical, subtle, and extremely effective transition from the Copyblogger brand to the big, bold, new Rainmaker brand.
We get into the rationale behind the controversial decision to kill comments at Copyblogger and why they might go back to accepting comments.
Brian's online story all started with the book Permission Marketing by Seth Godin. After a stint at a law firm, he started his own solo law practice, then moved to real estate—he built a virtual real estate brokerage around 2002. At the time people thought he was insane, well… let's just say Brian is pretty good at predicting what's around the corner. The point is that Brian has been hard at work in the online space since the early 2000's, meaning he as a ton to teach.
We get deep into authenticity and how to frame your online persona… starting with Louis CK, leading to James Altucher, and ending with Erika Napoletano. I'm a fan of each, and Brian articulates with great precision, lessons on how you can learn how to share the right part of yourself to your audience. We really get into a great discussion on entrepreneurship and MINDSET. We also get into his new personal project, Unemployable, and how it originated.
Brian has been featured in a variety of books, including Linchpin by Seth Godin, Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi, and Free Agent Nation by Daniel Pink.
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Direct download: Brian_ClarkThe_Secrets_of_His_Success.mp3
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Tue, 8 December 2015
My guest, Ryan Hanley, is the head of marketing for TrustedChoice.com. He is also a keynote speaker, author, and founder of Agency Nation, an advanced content marketing agency helping insurance agents grow their audience.
But here is what else Ryan Hanley does: He helps brands and businesses find their audience, tell their story and win the battle for attention online.
We open the podcast by talking about young outliers in the online world (Lewis Howes, John Lee Dumas, Derek Halpern) and quickly transition to Ryan's own platform and methodologies.
We start by discussing his roots, the insurance business, and how he started in the online world. Ryan earned his chops in the online marketing world by doing great things for a small insurance agency in upstate New York. At that time he learned as much as he could about marketing, started to love it, and this is where his "Content Warfare" brand was hatched.
This small agency's site was outdated and stale, so he looked for a way to bring it to life. In fact, you might say asking questions was the secret to his success. He asked insurance clients questions, trying to gather the most common questions people ask about insurance. He collected 147, cut it down to 100, and on January 2, 2012, he held up his cell phone camera and started answering questions and recording to video—for 100 days in a row.
This successful experiment in content marketing brought business to the firm and still does. The firm quickly shot up in local search rankings (even outranking Geico in the local market).
Lesson: Ryan simply crushed it in search by creating and delivering value. Since this little marketing "experiment" the agency has made more than $100K in revenue to date, just from the series.
So Ryan certainly has online marketing chops. But we also talk about the mistakes many solopreneurs make, from spending waaaaay to much time on social media, to moving forward without intent. We really get into a detailed discussion on branding and story. Including details on how someone could begin telling their own story, and how that applies to ongoing branding done right. So, this podcast is infused with advice on how to develop clear branding, find your ideal customer, tell your ongoing story, and win the battle for attention online. You're going to love the show.
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Direct download: Episode_27How_to_Win_Your_Battle_for_Attention_Online_with_Ryan_Hanley.mp3
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Thu, 3 December 2015
My guest, Robert Rose, is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Content Marketing Institute (CMI). He's been with CMI since the beginning in 2009. Robert's passion is to help marketers become stellar storytellers, and this is one of the main reasons I had him on the show. Not to mention he's a featured writer and speaker at technology and marketing events around the globe.
Robert originally came to his current home (Los Angeles) from Texas. He was going to be a rock star, but as a keyboard player in late 80s (the hight of Grunge phenomenon) Robert had to make other plans. After a brief writing stint in the entertainment business, he decided this wasn't the business for him. This is when he transitioned to marketing, jumped into the TV business at Showtime Networks, and where he really cut his teeth in the world of marketing.
He then spent three years in Washington, D.C. working for a website design company, but ended up back in sunny LA working for a large consulting firm (US Web). After the "dot bomb" era (late 90s—2001), he spent 8 years in marketing working for a company that spun out of the dot bomb mess. He learned a ton during this time and soon realized the amazing power of content marketing. At the time he wanted to do something completely different, a practice few others were doing—continuously pushing out quality content.
In 2008 Robert when out on his own and started speaking about the power of content. He met Joe Pulizzi of CMI and soon after, started working with Joe and the crew at CMI.
Robert has worked with such companies as 3M, Dell, Adobe and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—helping all of them with developing smart and creative content marketing strategies. But his focus is always on the people within a corporation. He believes that if you walk in to an organization with the intent to help individuals, you'll help the business so much more.
So this naturally translates to our solopreneur world. Robert is, after all, a solopreneur. We discuss solopreneur strategies—figuring out your why, finding the right audience, getting past fear, then making it it all work by integrating work and life. He even runs through a case detailing how a woman made great strides within a company by getting past the fear of "the ask," then making big changes within the company.
We talk about his book, "Experiences: The Seventh Era Of Marketing" which is all about how content-driven experiences can be created, managed, scaled, promoted, and measured in today's business.
The conversation is so relevant because many successful solopreneurs (like many big companies) are becoming more like little media companies. And much of our talk centers on this new era of marketing and storytelling.
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Direct download: Episode_26-_Robert_RoseHow_Solopreneurs_Can_Thrive_in_the_New_Era_of_Marketing.mp3
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Mon, 30 November 2015
My guest, Ryan Biddulph started his blogging journey after being laid off from his security guard job at a shipping terminal. When he started he didn't know what a blog was, had serious financial problems, and some very limiting beliefs to get past. But being laid off, combined with his initial naiveté, was a blessing, catalyzing his exploration of the world of online marketing.
Ryan's rags to riches story is about a former security guard now making big things happen in the online realm. He's even given a talk at NYU and his message is simple… if he can do it, so can you—he's living, breathing proof of it. A guy who had about four pennies in his pocket seven years ago is now blogging from paradise.
We talk about the mechanics of branding, audience-building, and online marketing, but we also talk about the importance of maintaining a daily practice. Ryan credits daily meditation with really turning things around. It helped him fully let go of his old beliefs (relics of his old life) and finally get his groove on. He now meditates daily, to expand his awareness, setup his day, and focus on his intent. And the power of intention (vs. the constant scramble to make more money) is at the heart of this conversation. It's also the best way to find those people who will come to like, know, and trust you.
Ryan started his blog seven years ago but three years in he was still not clear on his mission. He earned enough from his writing gigs but he struggled and didn't have clarity. He had enough to travel the world on the cheap but it wasn't until roughly 15 months ago that things finally turned around for him—when Blogging from Paradise was hatched. We discuss his new brand, how he built it, and how he's built marketing momentum around it.
We also discuss how his goal to create a more effective passive income stream, led him to books and the world of Amazon self-publishing. With over 100 books on Amazon, more than 20 going to paperback, and 30 plus converted to audio books, he's certainly done it in a big way. And he is now spending most of his time on writing 6,000-7,000 word eBooks.
We get into the mechanics of his self-publishing model and how he found the right audience for his books. And if you want to learn a ton about online publishing on Amazon, you'll definitely want to listen to this interview.
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Direct download: Episode_25How_to_Build_an_Audience_Self-Publish_and_Work_Your_Way_to_Freedom_with_Ryan_Biddulph.mp3
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Mon, 23 November 2015
My guest, S. Anthony Iannarino is an international speaker, author, teacher, and sales leader. But what I really love about Anthony is his depth of knowledge and amazing capacity to deliver it in multiple formats, over and over. From his daily blogging habit to powerful keynote speeches, he is always on point with actionable advice.
In this interview, we not only discuss what he knows best, sales, we also talk a little Zen, Ohio state football, and hair metal.
The start of our conversation centers on Anthony's life in the early 90s. In 1992 while living in Los Angeles and thriving in a sales career, Anthony was forced to have brain surgery and had to return home to Ohio. He ended up working at the family staffing business. Well he actually rejoined Solutions Staffing and he's help build that company into what is is today.
Anthony has not only built an amazing career, he's created a rock-solid personal brand. And part of the reason his brand is so established is his daily blogging practice. In fact, on December 28th, 2009, he told his wife he was going to write and share all he knew, daily. He also told her that within a year he would be keynoting conferences. He is now a sought after speaker but that has not slowed down his writing at all.
Fun fact? It turns our Anthony was the front man for rock band called Bad Reputation. He started the band when he was 17 because he saw Whitesnake and saw the way women looked at David Coverdale. It was like nothing he'd ever seen, so the next day he called his brother and said "we are starting a rock band, immediately if not sooner." They played Columbus, then L.A.
NOW he is playing around the world as a keynote speaker, more specifically, delivering keynotes and workshops in 36 cities across 8 countries. You'll love what he has to say. Anthony even runs through a cold calling script to give you the basics on getting customers via that old device called… wait for it… a phone.
Whether you cold call or not, if you want to get customers you should listen to this interview. We discuss everything from the power of selling to Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Direct download: Episode_24Sales_Power_Mindset_and_Lessons_in_Leadership_with_S._Anthony_Iannarino.mp3
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Wed, 18 November 2015
Ana Hoffman has a property called Traffic Generation Cafe. A place built to help online business owners increase traffic and profits. She runs this site and teaches others how to efficiently run an online business. And she is quite good at it.
But in today's show we talk about a lot more. We kick off the talk with a discussion about her recent trip to Russia. And, yes we talk about Vladimir Putin… for a second ;) We discuss Ana's background and what it was like growing up in Russia, her world travels, and why she eventually left for the U.S.
It turns out that a chance meeting with an American missionary on the Streets of Saint Petersburg set the course for the rest of her life.
Fast forward a few years, and Ana is married and living in the U.S. But when her husband was unexpectedly unemployed (separated from the Air Force due to medical conditions) things changed. She had a young daughter to take care of, motivating her to start dabbling in the online realm. Starting with Ebay, then Multi-Level Marketing (MLM), she was soon immersed in the world of Google and SEO—she worked to learn all she could about this new and exciting world.
Like many, her first blog was a complete failure, so she scrapped it and started Traffic Generation Cafe (and, by the way, "cafe" is in there because she loves, loves coffee). When it came to generating traffic online, she was tired of feeling clueless, so she decided to change that, and boy did she ever. You'll love her actionable advice. And you'll be fascinated by her story.
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Direct download: Episode_23Ana_HoffmanCommunity_Traffic_Generation_and_One_Amazing_Journey.mp3
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Mon, 16 November 2015
My guest, Meg Worden, was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. With her father in the oil business and her mother working for the airlines, she spent a lot of time moving—from Norway to Texas, she's been just about everywhere. She has also lived quite a life, and has an amazing story to tell.
She's a Wellness Consultant, Writer, and Health Coach. But Meg is not your everyday health coach. Her methodologies go way beyond diet to a place where your body is a brilliant tool—to give, receive, and connect. Her practice is about giving individuals the ability to be more responsive (vs. reactive) to the things that life throws at you on a daily basis—to survive and thrive. To say her sessions go pretty deep would be an understatement.
Meg basically works to activate magic in people. She's the Director of Strategic Partnerships at A Social Ignition, an organization that has developed a curriculum for entrepreneurship taught inside and outside of prison. She writes, helps spread stories about the broken justice system, coaches, and speaks internationally about using health and wellness as an element of success.
But the most inspiring part of her multi-layered life is when she found her voice and learned to tell her fascinating story. That story involves drug charges and federal prison. And it's a story you'll want to listen to.
It turns out learning how to tell this story was so important on so many levels. And when she finally decided to do it, pushing past the worry, about her business, neighbors, and clients—it was one of the best decisions she's ever made. And that is why I wanted her on the show–to teach others how to put something in the world that creates a connection.
Letting her story out was beyond scary. Think about it… "Hi I'm Meg, I'm a health coach and I was in prison." But in the end, the decision to tell her story has made all the difference in the world because it's established many connections with other humans, some her own clients. It's actually helped her health practice because having it out there makes people feel they'll be working with a human. Honesty like this activates compassion not judgement or fear.
We go deep into her coaching practice, her daily routine, and what inspires her. We also discuss why the pervasive messages centering on self-improvement—the "you're not good enough" message—might be detrimental and why it infuriates her.
Meg has an amazing story and she has a lot to teach. I think you'll love this interview.
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• The importance of putting something out into the world that creates a connection.
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• Do you see your time prison as a gift?
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• A Social Ignition
Direct download: Episode_22How_Owning_Your_Story_Can_Change_Your_Life_with_Meg_Worden.mp3
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Thu, 12 November 2015
"How many Mondays have you woken up with that sinking feeling in your stomach? … That feeling you get each morning when you know you have to go to a job you hate. That feeling you try to numb by telling yourself "At least I have a paycheck coming in." Ugh."
This copy, from Jill and Josh Stanton's site Screw The Nine To Five sums up why they've built up such a loyal fan-base. They are speaking to individuals who want a life that lights them up inside. A place where they are boss. Wanna–be solopreneurs.
We go deep into "The Screw," including methodologies for building a brand and attracting the right customers. You'll love the way they play off of each other, and you'll learn more than a thing or two from them.
We discuss how they started with affiliate sites. And how that slowly but surely evolved into something amazing. It took roughly two years but eventually they came to their current iteration of Screw the Nine to Five, and they certainly are NOT looking back.
I also get a great 1-2-3 methodology for someone wanting to build an online brand that attracts customers. These two are really great teachers, so you'll love their detailed answers, and I know you'll walk away with a branding/marketing to-do list.
You'll learn why getting products out there and testing, testing, testing might be better than the conventional "build an audience first" strategy.
And then there is SCRUM, yes, SCRUM You'll learn how Jill and Josh used this method to complete an insane amount of work in a really short amount of time.
We walk through a brand-building process–from finding your ideal customer to site design to the importance of cutting the fluff in your writing. If you're a soloprenuer looking to build a brand, create products, offer services, or all the of the above, you'll want to listen to this show.
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Direct download: Episode_21-_Screwing_the_Nine_to_Five_with_Jill_and_Josh_Stanton.mp3
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Lee Min Ho and Lotte Duty Free honored by Korean Brand Awards
South Korea's 2017 National Brand Awards has honored top contributors for enhancing the nation's image. Among the winners this year include Hallyu star Lee Min Ho and famous conglomerate Lotte Duty Free. Why did they win? Who else won? Find out more here:
Lotte Duty Free, a famous retail and commercial brand from South Korea, is consisted of about 60 diverse business units. It is recognized for contribution to the Korean economy in promoting K-dramas and tourism. On February 22, the National Brand Award honored Lotte as "The company that contributed most to the improvement of national brand value."
A wildly successful marketing campaign from Lotte Duty Free, known as the "7 First Kisses" web drama, has already garnered more than 5 million views via social media platforms in China. The web drama cleverly weaves a romance-comedy story in a series of short episodes to showcase 7 handsome Korean leading men, among which is Lee Min Ho, another honoree at the 2017 National Brand Awards.
Lee Min Ho is awarded the grand prize in the culture category because of his far-reaching appeal around the world in increasing awareness and interest for Korean dramas and culture. He rose to fame in the 2009 Boys Over Flowers and followed with other successful dramas and movies. Over the years, he has also become a strident benefactor for charity causes, such as starting the PROMIZ platform which recently contributed 50 million won (about USD$44,000) to victims of domestic abuse. The inspiring actor is also appointed as the goodwill ambassador for the "2016-18 Visit Korea Year" promotion, as well as the honorary ambassador for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Other winners include Park In Bee, Rio Olympics gold medalist in women's golf, winning the grand prize in the sports category. Piano Paik Kun Woo won the prize in the arts category.
Congratulations to Lee Min Ho, Lotte Duty Free, and all the other winners!
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The Government's War on Freedom of the Press
The index cited "judicial harassment" of New York Times reporter James Risen, the arbitrary arrest of at least 15 journalists during the Ferguson, Missouri clashes, and the fact that U.S. journalists are still not legally entitled to protect sources who reveal confidential information about their work.
The U.S.'s slip in press freedom rankings mirrors its seven-place drop in Freedom House's Global Press Freedom Index from 2013-2014, though the country still ranks among the 14 percent of countries whose press is classified as "free" in the latter scale.
Reality may be even worse than the rankings suggest. Legal protections for the press have only eroded since the 2006 trough year when the Bush Administration threatened to prosecute Risen for publishing stories chronicling warrantless wiretapping of citizens' phone calls.
Since the Obama Administration took power, it has used the Espionage Act to prosecute data leakers a record seven times—more than every other president combined in the law's nearly 100-year history—a Fox News journalist has been spied on by the Justice Department under the justification that he's a criminal conspirator, Wikileaks creator Julian Assange has been declared "a hi-tech terrorist," and the Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court ruling against Risen stating that the First Amendment doesn't protect him from refusing to testify about a whistleblower that allegedly leaked classified information about the CIA's efforts to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.
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A pilot shortage, tougher training requirements for new pilots, and high fuel prices are challenging the nation's web of regional airlines.
And while small airports are expected to bear the worst cuts, trims to the regional airlines could mean fewer flights to small markets and higher ticket prices at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
American, which merged with US Airways in December, accounts for about 90 percent of all daily flights at Charlotte Douglas. The majority of those daily departures are on regional jets, operated by an array of airlines flying under the name US Airways Express.
Some airports have already begun to see the effects of less regional flying. United Airlines recently announced it would no longer keep a hub at Cleveland, cutting 60 percent of its daily departures there. Almost all of those were regional flights operated as United Express. And Republic Airways, which flies many regional routes for major carriers, said it would ground 27 of its jets because it can't find pilots to fly them.
At Charlotte Douglas, about 340 daily flights are operated by various regional carriers under the US Airways Express name. That compares with 270 daily US Airways mainline flights.
Although there are more regional flights, mainline jets are larger than their regional counterparts and carry more passengers. For example, an Airbus A321 operated by US Airways seats 187 passengers, while a DeHavilland Dash-8 (300) seats 50.
Companies are also shifting more flying from the 50-seat planes that are now common to larger regional jets that seat about 70 passengers.
"I think what you're going to see is an increase in mainline flying, although you may see a decrease in flights" at Charlotte Douglas, said Helane Becker, an aviation analyst with Cowen & Co.
Bill Swelbar, an aviation consultant with interVISTAS, said major shifts in the regional airline model are just starting to become apparent, and the effects on individual markets are hard to predict.
"It is too early to tell the exact geography that is going to be impacted," said Swelbar. But he said one thing is certain: "Networks are going to be smaller tomorrow than they are today."
Charlotte Douglas is American's second-busiest hub, and more than three-quarters of the airport's passengers are connecting to another destination, rather than starting or stopping their journeys in Charlotte. That means Charlotte is especially reliant on connecting traffic and its service network to smaller, "feeder" markets.
American Airlines said it hasn't had to change its flying because of the regional airlines' troubles yet. Republic's decision to ground jets didn't have an appreciable impact on the company's operations.
"American Airlines and our regional partners are adequately staffed to support our operations," said spokesman Davien Anderson.
Low pilot salaries
The three remaining legacy carriers – United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American – contract with a complex web of subsidiaries and small airlines to operate their regional, or express, fleets.
Approximately 108 daily departures at Charlotte Douglas are operated by PSA, and 59 are operated by Piedmont Airlines, both of which are wholly-owned subsidiaries of American. Across the nation, experts say that regional carriers account for about half of all daily domestic departures.
Pilots at regional airlines typically make far less than their counterparts at mainline carriers, often starting with salaries less than $20,000. That's one reason the major airlines contract with them.
Labor is the airlines' second-biggest expense after fuel, and many analysts agree that pilot salaries at the regional airlines aren't enough to attract enough new aviators. One consequence could be higher airfares.
"Wages do need to come up," Swelbar said.
Another pressure regional airlines face is the price of fuel. With jet fuel above $3 a gallon, where it's been for years, 50-seat regional planes are far less efficient to operate.
New federal rules on pilot training implemented last year mandate new passenger pilots have 1,500 hours of flight time, up from 250 before. The rules were passed in response to the crash of a 2009 Continental Connection flight operated by Colgan Air that left 51 dead.
And pilots at the mainline carriers are starting to hit the mandatory retirement age of 65 in larger waves. Capt. James Ray, spokesman for the union representing US Airways pilots, said about half of the new American's more than 14,000 pilots will hit mandatory retirement in the next 10 years.
That means the mainline carriers will be hiring more pilots away from the regional carriers at the same time the regional carriers are having more trouble finding replacements.
"The impending pilot shortage is a real concern," Ray said. "The airlines that are going to suffer first are the regionals."
The shortage will be felt most acutely by small communities, some of which depend completely on regional flights. But experts warn major hubs such as Charlotte won't be insulated.
"It definitely will have an impact on large hubs," Matt Barton, co-founder of FlightPath Economics, said of the pilot shortage and resulting regional airline cutbacks. "It's certainly going to affect connections to some locations."
Fewer flights, fewer options
Some routes could see cutbacks while not actually losing seats, experts say.
"If you have seven 50-seat flights a day and you replace them with five 70-seat flights a day, it's still 350 seats," said Becker. American recently announced plans to purchase 90 new 76-seat regional jets to replace 50-seat planes.
But fewer flights on larger planes means fewer times for travelers to choose from. Take a small market such as Lynchburg, Va. The city's air service consists of six daily US Airways Express flights to Charlotte. If those were replaced by two mainline flights carrying the same number of passengers, the route's capacity technically wouldn't change.
That means fewer options for the top-dollar business travelers that make many routes profitable. Bob Mann, a New York-based aviation consultant, said that would mean many routes to smaller cities would no longer work because fewer parts of the day would be covered.
"It's not as if you can take a market that's served by six 50-seat jets and put in two mainline jets, because the 'day-part' coverage is insufficient," said Mann. "A business customer really wants four, five, six frequencies."
That could mean some small communities lose their scheduled air service. "There are going to be some markets out there that just can't sustain service from a 76-seat plane," Swelbar said.
At American, the carrier has been wrestling with the issue of how to deal with its legacy regional carrier, American Eagle. The company and its Eagle pilots have been unable to reach a contract, and American now plans to shift more regional flying to other carriers.
While that could affect some American hubs where Eagle operates a large number of flights, such as Dallas/Fort Worth and Chicago, Mann said the effect on Charlotte should be minimal.
Mann said the question of what happens with regional flights will ultimately come down to whether the airlines are determined to keep flying to even the smallest markets.
"Do the network carriers want to preserve the ubiquity of 'anywhere to anywhere' service?" he said. "Or are they going to collapse into the size of market that a mainline aircraft can economically be deployed on?"


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by Jeff McVay
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It all started when I came home on August 7th, 2008. I knew that I would be taken home to a good home and mommy, along with my two brothers. Oh yah, my name is Chain. So anyway, my brothers are in a better place now because their owner(my owners friends)lost them to a hit and run car accident, and I now live with my nonbiological brother, Sprocket. So, I am a comedian because I am a very cute, 'snorty' puppy. You can tell when I am happy because I snort a lot, just like a little piggy. Well that's enough of me, so pleeaaaseee pick me, I'll be waiting for your E-mail.
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This favored bit of Texas known today as Victoria County is where the history of Texas began. In 1685 the French explorer, Rene' Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, arrived and established an outpost near the southeastern tip of present day Victoria County. Nearly 140 years after LaSalle's arrival, the Republic of Mexico approved Don Martin de Leon's request to establish a colony on the lower Guadalupe River in 1824. De Leon named it Villa Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de Jesus Victoria, commemorating Our Lady of the Guadalupe and the first president of Mexico, a close personal friend of his.
The town was developed around a main street, "la Calle de los Diez Amigos," which referred to influential men and friends of de Leon. The town was known as Guadalupe Victoria until Texas gained her independence from Mexico in 1836. Since then, it has been known as Victoria. The only way to truly understand the uniqueness of Victoria is to come see it for yourself. Whether you are shopping, dining, or exploring the exciting attractions that are offered, we welcome you to experience the charm of Victoria and the Guadalupe River….where Texas history began!
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so, instead of telling you all about my meager attempt at lemon drizzle cake yesterday (in a word: sunken), i'm just going to quickly mention a couple of changes i made to the blog.
- london guide - this was promised ages ago, but i finally decided to post it up here. it's definitely a page in progress, and i'll try to update it as frequently as possible. on that page, i have also linked to my yelp list, which features only restaurants where i have had a good experience related to my food allergies. my london guide is by no means complete or lengthy, but it's a good starting point for anyone unsure of where to eat in the city.
- about & allergies - these pages have been slightly updated and moved around.
- recipes - finally got around to adding all of the recipes from my blog since march! have a look around on that page. the list is growing all the time!
there will be more to come, but that's it for now!
tomorrow i'll post a recipe that i can't believe i haven't posted yet (or cooked in a while) - and later in the week i'll be working some more on my banana coconut bread. i knew i bought loads of bananas last weekend for a reason!


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Capital city rental markets remain tough for tenants with generally tight and tightening vacancy rates reflecting overall chronic shortages of accommodation.
All capitals reported vacancy rates for houses below 2.0 per cent over April with the exception of the mining capitals of Brisbane, Darwin and Perth.
The Darwin and Perth rental markets are however now clearly stabilising following the recent sharp increase in vacancy rates following the end of the mining boom.
Unit vacancy rates have fallen sharply in Melbourne over recent months and at 1.5 per cent are well below the 2.4 per cent recorded over April last year.
Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart remain the tightest rental markets with overall vacancy rates of 1.3 per cent, 1.2 per cent and 0.7 per cent respectively.
Higher rents will likely follow tight and tightening rental vacancy rates in most capitals with the shortage of accommodation likely to continue, driven by surging migration, low first home buyer activity, empty apartments and Airbnb.
Actions by policy makers to restrict residential investor activity will be more bad news for tenants if it results in fewer choices of available properties.
from Property UpdateProperty Update http://propertyupdate.com.au/tighter-rental-markets-more-bad-news-for-tenants/


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Homeshop18 awards Eleven Brandworks its creative biz
MUMBAI: On air and online retail brand Homeshop18 has appointed Eleven Brandworks as its creative partner following a multi-agency pitch.
Eleven Brandworks has been entrusted with the duty of building and establishing a strong ?HomeShop18? brand across the verticals of TV, web and mobile.
Homeshop18 CMO Rashmi Berry said, ?Eleven Brandworks displayed the right combination of creativity & agility, both critical in the highly competitive and cluttered E-commerce space. We look forward to building a compelling & differentiated brand with them with their highly talented team of rofessionals.?
Eleven Brandworks is a full service agency based in Mumbai and Gurgaon, founded three years ago by Prateek Bhardwaj who was earlier a creative director from McCann-Erickson. Its client list includes Tata Mutual Fund, Times Group, Big FM, Archies Ltd, NDTV Goodtimes, Sportsfit and Star Plus.
Bhardwaj said, ?Homeshop18 is already a household name in India. Eleven Brandworks? mandate is to create a robust integrated strategy for the brand and help carve a distinct dotcom brand out of it too."


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According to EW.com's Michael Ausiello, former Friends cast mates will re-unite on ABC Cougar Town. Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe on the '90s era sitcom, will be joining Cougar star Courteney Cox in a guest role.
"She'll play a dermatologist that my character can't stop going to even though [she's] mean to me," Cox told tvguidemagazine.com.
This Kudrow episode of Cougar Town will air in early 2010.


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Hi there,
I have what one might consider a simple, four field (column) database: a check-box, a pop-up, and two text fields. After putting it together I decided the pop-up field should be the last and changed the field order accordingly (and tap Save after each time I change). After syncing I find it back in its original position as the second field. I have a similar issue with sorting: the pop-up is the primary sort field with one of the text fields the secondary. The secondary sort will always revert back to I'm-not-sure-what-it's-doing after syncing. The primary sort will remain in tact. Using iPhone 6.
Using the application is straightforward, but I'm guessing I'm missing some nuance that is getting in the way of keeping bananas ahead of oranges. Thoughts would be appreciated.


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Aspidomorphus schlegelii (GÜNTHER, 1872)
Can you confirm these amateur observations of Aspidomorphus schlegelii?
Aspidomorphus schlegelii
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|Higher Taxa
|Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
|Common Names
|Schlegel's crown snake
|Diemenia schlegelii GÜNTHER 1872: 35
Pseudelaps muelleri BOULENGER 1895: 32
Pseudelaps muelleri insulae BARBOUR 1908 (fide BRONGERSMA 1934: 235)
Aspidomorphus schlegeli — MCDOWELL 1967
Aspidomorphus schlegeli — WELCH 1994: 19
Aspidomorphus schlegeli — METZGER et al. 2010
Aspidomorphus schlegelii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 58
|Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea [East Sepik Province: Prince Alexander Mts., 3.5922°S, 143.4937°E, 270 m elevation (Kraus 2013); Aitape (McDowell 1967)]
Type locality: Misool Island, Indonesia Map legend:
- Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.
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|Holotype: BMNH 19126.96.36.199
A. schlegeli differs from the other species in the genus in the form of the maxillary bone and the anterior mandibular dentition; it seems to be confined to northwestern New Guinea and adjacent islands, since specimens from the eastern end of New Guinea that had been referred to schlegeli are actually A. lineaticollis (McDOWELL 1967).
|Named after Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884), German herpetologist.
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|Vogue, December 2012
The actress tells Vogue she starved herself relentlessly for her role in Les Miserables and also endured the horror of a really ugly haircut. The kind of hack job you'd kick your hairdresser for, yet which was probably performed by some moody, fit-throwing Hollywood stylist who then billed the movie studio fifteen grand.
Preparing to play the part of dying 19th-century prostitute Fantine, the already super-thin Anne shed an additional 25 lbs thanks to a diet consisting almost entirely of kale and oatmeal paste.
"I had to be obsessive about it," Anne tells Vogue. "The idea was to look near death." Well I'd say you nailed it, sister. And call me crazy, but isn't this what MAKEUP is for? (Take a peek at Anne's anguished look right here. You just KNOW she's looking at a big cheeseburger she can't have.)
Anne is just the latest overzealous actor to latch onto the hottest new trend in Hollywood ... wilfull starvation ... thereby adding creepy glam to an affliction most supermodels have to go to rehab for. In case you haven't seen Matthew McConaughey lately, here's what he has done to his body to "prepare" for a role in The Dallas Buyers Club. (Warning: This will scare the living sh*t out of you and also send you headlong into the nearest Krispy Kreme outlet, screaming, "I'LL HAVE ONE OF EVERYTHING!") Click on Eeek!
Editor's note: Great plagues of locusts! I like it a lot better when he "prepares" for movies like Magic Mike.


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Two bits of inspiration & some next steps for #GetOrganizedBK
Two bits of inspiration & some next steps for #GetOrganizedBK
Every day seems to include some new darkness (and not only because the days are still getting shorter). So far this week we've seen the nomination of a climate-denier to be the EPA Administrator, a segregation-denier for HUD Secretary, a violent attack on a DC pizza restaurant based on right-wing fake news, and a continued stream of hate crimes in NYC.
So I'm feeling the need for some small but bright spots of inspiration. Here are two:
*** Standing Against Islamophobia in Grand Central Station: This past Sunday, some of our very own #GetOrganizedBK actvists (led by Ben Wides and joined by two dozen others, who got started at our meeting last Thursday) organized an impromptu vigil in Grand Central Station, responding to the hateful attack on Muslim Baruch College student, Yasmin Seweid. They got some great press coverage, and made clear that we will not tolerate hate crimes. Thanks for standing up to say #NotInOurCity. Check out this video clip of their beautiful action.
***City Council Passes a Resolution Affirming NYCs Status as Sanctuary City: On Tuesday, the City Council (of this historically immigrant city) overwhelmingly passed a resolution affirming that despite President-elect Donald Trump's senseless (and probably unconstitutional) threats, NYC will remain a sanctuary city for our immigrant residents. I was proud to co-sponsor the resolution, along with Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Immigration Chair Carlos Menchaca (who many of you met last Thursday). Right afterward, Carlos went up to Trump Tower to deliver the resolution to the President-elect.
You can join our anti-Islamophobia or immigrant-solidarity working groups. Check out the reports linked below, join the #GetOrganizedBK Facebook Group, or join us on Tuesday, December 20th.
Next Steps:
Let's keep it going. Here's some of what's next:
*** Kids' Speak Out March: This Sunday, December 11th: This Sunday, December 11th, kids from all over NYC will be marching and speaking out for the values, ideals and rights that unite us all – kindness, fairness and equity. The march begins at the Central Park Children's Gate at East 64th Street & 5th Avenue at 12:30pm. We will march together to the Bandshell in Central Park, with a speak out starting at 1pm. Homemade signs are encouraged. More details on the event are available here.
If you'd like to travel together to the march from Brooklyn, meet at 11:30 AM at 7th Avenue and 9th street in Park Slope, and we'll take the train together. Please RSVP here, so we know how many people to expect.
*** #GetOrganizedBK Working Group Reports: At our second large #GetOrganizedBK meeting last week, the 750+ attendees broke out into more than a dozen working groups (like the one that organized the Grand Central Station action). We've posted short summary updates from each group on my website. We'll also be posting the summaries on our new Facebook group page one at a time, so you can join in on the conversation. Several of the groups are meeting before our next large meeting on December 20th, and you are invited to join them.
*** Join our #GetOrganizedBK Facebook Group: We'll continue sending out these email updates periodically, but if you are able to join the Facebook Group, it's the easiest place to connect with all the great organizing work that we're already kicking off. We're at 1100+ members and growing. Invite your friends to join as well.
*** Next #GetOrganizedBK Meeting: Tuesday, December 20th
We'll gather together as a full group one more time this year, to get reports from the working groups, and plan for more resolute action in the weeks to come.
We can't blot out the darkness, and we know there's more coming. But our community – and so many others across the city, and across the country – are lighting a lot of candles. Let's keep working to make sure they grow into a bright blaze.


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VisionMobile's quarterly developer survey in July 2014 revealed that the majority of mobile apps aren't commercially viable: 50% of app developers make less than $500 per month in revenue. Some other interesting revenue statistics revealed in the report:
- 69% of app developers make $1k per month or less and only 3% of app developers make more than $100k per month;
- 33% of developers make games and 40% of downloads are games, yet 57% of game apps make less than $500 per month;
- 80% of mobile app revenues are driven by games;
- 70% of game developers have shipped less than 4 total mobile games;
- Of game developers that have shipped more than 50 mobile games, more than half (51%) make at least $5k per month.
This is fascinating insight into the nature of the app economy, characterized by a revenue distribution that is heavily skewed to the top firms and which rapidly declines into a long tail. A common refrain used to describe this distribution is that "app store discovery is broken", implying that revenues might be more evenly distributed if consumers were able to find apps with more precision.
There are three problems with this argument. The first is that, according to the VisionMobile report, only 23% of app developers release apps with the explicit intention of generating maximum app store revenues -- VisionMobile classifies this group as "Hunters". VisionMobile identifies another group of professional app developers as "Guns for Hire", or app developers that create apps for other businesses on contract.
The picture of sustainability changes when the idea that 77% of app developers aren't earnestly pursuing a sustainable business is considered. Most app developers don't make a living through their apps, but most aren't trying to.
The second problem with this argument is that it implies that marketing isn't a form of app discovery; that in an app ecosystem populated by more than 2MM apps across Google Play and Apple's App Store, all apps should be equally visible and serendipitously "discoverable".
This isn't how these app platforms were designed to facilitate discovery; if they were, there would be no app featuring, and app install ads would not be possible. Marketing is as viable of a mechanism for app "discovery" as search or word of mouth; implicit in an app developer's large marketing campaign is that its app both monetizes beyond marketing costs and is broadly appealing. King, the developer of Candy Crush Saga, spent $400MM on marketing on $1.88BN in revenue in 2013; surely King wouldn't agree that app store discovery is broken.
And the third problem with the "app store discovery is broken" argument is that it ignores the fact that all markets with low barriers to entry ("perfect competition" in practice, not in the abstract) take the form of a long-tail, "winner take all" distribution.
In the March 2005 edition of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Thomas Noe and Geoffrey Parker, both from Tulane University, described the state of the post-bubble internet ecosystem in a paper called Winner Take All: Competition, Strategy, and the Structure of Returns in the Internet Economy as:
The Internet economy is characterized by heavy expenditures on marketing and advertising, fierce competition, a few firms earning large returns with most incurring losses...However, these large expenditures on advertising and site development have frequently generated insignificant returns except to a few big winners. In pioneering academic studies of the real returns from Internet investment, Hand (2001, 2003b) documents reliably positive value generation from Internet marketing expenditures only for the largest spenders. Hand also documents significantly increasing returns to scale for the value of brand intangibles. In short, profitability is confined to a very small number of Internet winners. In fact, Hand (2003a) shows that increasing returns to brand-intangible expenditures are so large that for Internet firms expenditures can be inversely priced by financial markets, with valuation positively related to expenditures. As a sign of wider acceptance, practitioners have begun to use the paradigm of winner-take all Internet competition to predict the evolution of emerging internet markets.
Though structural differences do exist between the internet economy at the time of the paper's release (2005) and the app economy of today, the factors being analyzed are fundamentally consistent across both:
We model a market in which Website investments are sunk, marginal costs of increased patronage are trivial, tolls are not charged for site access, site patrons face zero site-switching costs, and patronage is highly sensitive to site quality.
No one asserts that "discovery" is broken on the web because a few websites generate outsized returns relative to the entire internet; it's similarly absurd to contend that app store discovery is broken because such is true for mobile apps. That the app economy, with its low barrier to entry and zero marginal distribution costs, is "winner-take all" is not a criticism but a statement of fact; the app economy was designed to be winner-take all, as are all low-barrier marketplaces.


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Gold Coast Locals Talk About Their Dawn Treader Roles
Posted December 12, 2009 7:14 am by fantasia_kitty
Two Gold Coast locals talk to The Weekender about their different roles on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The first is Morgan Keavney-Rattue who was the stand-in double for Will Poulter. The second is Robbie Harrison who played one of the first mates aboard the Dawn Treader. You can read their stories at The Weekender's website here. Thanks to ellz_bellz for the heads-up!
UPDATE: NarniaWebber icarus found a digital edition of the same article that includes pictures of both actors. You can view it here, but there are some very adult ads in this version. This particular article is on page 16 and 17.
8 Comments For This Story
Mike says: December 12th, 2009 on 8:09 AM
He says Will Poulter's contract was for $4 million? Isn't that a bit steep? Or are they including his potential role in "Silver Chair"?
Alice says: December 12th, 2009 on 8:27 AM
I actually think that the pay is about right. this movie's a pretty big deal, it ends up all over the world. and I think that maybe an 8th of that is for the potential silver chair role
ernesto says: December 12th, 2009 on 12:35 PM
yo quiero ver el trailer de leon Aslan bye.
L_o_V_e says: December 12th, 2009 on 3:55 PM
I swear I remember Morgan Keavney-Rattue from the set cos I remember him looking exactly like Will and I swore it was him at times he waved at me every now and then he is such a nice guy and I hope his career does succeed cos that would just be incredible knowing that I met him when he was just starting out his career and then seeing him years later as someone like Brad Pitt haha that would just be incredible good on you Morgan!
~Lava~ says: December 13th, 2009 on 1:12 PM
It goes over to 18 as well
ChristProclamer says: December 14th, 2009 on 11:40 AM
Interesting story. Being a Narnia stand-in would certainly be an interesting way to start a career!


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Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy NC REPORT CARD SCORE
Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy
PO Box 14331300
Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Elizabethtown, NC 28337
24 March 2015
Dear PBLA Parent/Guardian,
One of the benefits North Carolina public schools offer parents is transparency. Public school accountability is a standard practice for North Carolina going back to the early 1990s, and the North Carolina School Report Cards provide parents with information on such key issues as student performance, teacher experience, and school safety. Data are provided at the school, district, and state levels to enable parents to compare the performance of their student's schools with others across the district and state.
Legislation (G.S 115C-83.15) passed during the 2013 long session of the North Carolina General Assembly provides an additional measure of school performance in the form of School Performance Grades. Beginning with the 2013-14 school year, the annual North Carolina School Report Cards display a letter grade of A, B, C, D or F for each school in the state.
The School Performance Grades are based 80 percent on our school's achievement score (student proficiency) and 20 percent on students' academic growth. At Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy, our achievement score is based on how well our students' performed on Grades 6-8 Mathematics, Grades 6-8 English Language Arts/Reading, Grade 8 Science, Math I, English II, and Biology End-of-Course Tests.
The purpose of this letter is to inform you that Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy received a School Performance Grade of F for the 2013-14 school year. Although we are committed to improving this score, it is important to remember that just as no one single score or grade tells the whole story of a student, neither does it tell you everything about the performance of a school or the opportunities that our school provides. Please keep in mind many of our students arrived performing below grade level. It is important to note that 59% of our students showed growth. We are in no way satisfied with our scores. We are committed to be the number one charter school in North Carolina and the number one school in Bladen County. The report card unfortunately does not measure work ethic, character, leadership, or discipline. All areas that no test can measure but you see every day with your child. Forty percent of our cadets in the eleventh grade are currently enrolled at Bladen Community College earning dual credit while working towards earning their associates degree. Next school year we plan to exceed that number with this year's sophomore class. We will send a male and female cadet to represent PBLA at Boys and Girls State this summer. We will send one cadet to the North Carolina State Troopers Academy this summer. Many more positive things like this are happening at PBLA. Things unfortunately the test does not measure.
One of our top priorities for 2014-15 is to improve our School Performance Grade. There are a number of key programs we have in place to help improve student performance. These include:
1. Morning remediation. On days the cadets cannot go outside for drill due to weather extra study time has been created. Cadets are going to teachers to receive remediation in certain subject areas. Cadets that are not going to a designated class are using the extra time to study.
2. Middle School cadets have been placed in math twice a day. While reluctant at first many of the cadets have admitted that the extra time has really helped them to grasp the concepts.
3. In the afternoon cadets can attend help class to receive extra help. Help class is from 1505 to 1535. This gives the cadet one more chance before the end of the day to receive help.
4. Saturday Academy will be held for cadets who have received below an "F" in their classes.
5. High school cadets taking Biology are going to an extra class session during drill period.
As you can see we are not going to hope that the scores change we are going to change the scores with hard work on the faculty and the cadet's part. What can you do to help us? Set aside time every night free of television, phone and social media for your cadet to study and do homework. Even if they have competed their work have them read for you. Many of our cadets are technology driven. They have learned to skim over something while reading. Make them read it and explain to you what they have read. This is a team effort. With your help we are confident that our scores will increase. If you have any questions please feel free to call me at (910) 862-2965.
Carl T. Lloyd
Commandant of Cadets
The Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy


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Starting lineups:
OSU-Lighty, Deibler, Lauderdale, Turner, Simmons
BGSU-Larson, Polk, Jakubowski, Moten, Clements
-OSU leads 30-24 at the break. You ll take that if you re BG, although I m not particularly impressed with the way the Falcons are playing. They are really having a hard time getting decent looks against an OSU team that is long everywhere.
-Both teams are shooting 40 percent, and the biggest difference is OSU is 4 of 10 on 3-pointers and BG is 1 of 6. OSU has been very patient against BG s zone and is getting solid looks almost every time down the floor.
-Otis Polk has put together a pretty nice game for BG, playing 17 minutes, scoring six points and grabbing five boards. He also has a block and a steal and has picked up just one foul. He s played good defense on OSU s Dallas Lauderdale, who is a force defensively but terrible scoring around the basket.
-Darryl Clements and Nate Miller lead BG with seven points each. Miller started attacking the bucket late in the half and had success doing it. He flung a floater over top 7-footer B.J. Mullens for a nice bucket. If Miller is going to keep penetrating he s gonna have to hit some free throws. Right now he s 1 of 4.
-BG, despite being disadvantaged in size, is rebounding the Bucks 18-15. I once heard that if you can consistently out-rebound a team you ll eventually beat them. But BG is gonna have to start getting better looks offensively to have a chance here.
-Joe Jakubowski has handled OSU s press very well. JJ has four assists and one turnover and added a couple of steals. Backup guard Dee Brown has played five minutes, turning the ball over once.
-Miller and Chris Knight didn t start again. Miller has logged 15 minutes, which is about what you d expect. But Knight has played a total of four after playing just 13 against Wayne State. ForwardErik Marschall has been on the floor for eight.
-OSU freshman William Buford, a Toledo Libbey graduate, has two points on a pair of throws. I was speaking to a member of the OSU media who thinks Buford is excellent based on the season opener against Delaware State and an exhibition against Walsh.
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Etienne Gagnon wrote: > The http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/ClassUnloading wiki page is > "Immutable". How can I contribute to it? It is immutable for "anonymous" guests, you need to register and login somewhere. All pages are editable by all registered users. > Do I have to submit JIRA bugs? If yes, how do I make the patches? (svn > diff?) We use JIRA to submit code patches. 'svn diff from the root of the workspace' is a (one of) correct way to create a patch. (Root of the workspace is one of the enhanced/drlvm/trunk, enhanced/classlib/trunk etc.) Some hints for contributors, including patch creation, are available at http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/get-involved.html
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Last night I dumped Jack out of his car seat and onto his head. Don't ask me how it happened, because I don't really know. All I know is that one moment I was holding the car seat and telling Matt that I was going to take my sleeping, bundled baby boy upstairs, and the next minute I was watching in horror as he flipped out onto the floor.
I worry so much about…stuff.
What people are thinking of me
Things I think I "need"
My list of things to do
But last night, as I sat and rocked my crying son, nothing else mattered. As I cradled him in my arms, kissing the top of his fuzzy head and whispering to him, "I'm so sorry. Oh, I'm so, so sorry" over and over, all that mattered was that he was OK. My house could have burned to ashes around me. A thief could have walked through my front door, stuffed everything I owned into trash bags, and walked right back out. I would have gladly given up my degree or poured out my savings account–all for one breath of reassurance to my overactive imagination that he wasn't going to die or be brain damaged or grow up to resent me for the permanent knot deforming his otherwise perfect little head.
As I sat there with my heart all tangled up with sadness and guilt and worry, my priorities untangled themselves. There is an awful lot of big stuff in this world to worry about. But there's a lot of little stuff, too, that's not worth my energy.
I'll probably forget this resolve tomorrow, but for today, I'm going to spend some extra time kissing on my little boy, wrapping my arms around my little girl, and listening, really listening, to Matt. I'm going to pray more and fret less. Listen more and talk less. Play more and work less. Hope more and worry less. Risk more and fear less. And love more, more, more.