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Haute fashion + beauty news roundup: Justin Timberlake gets his home design on for HomeMint; Michelle Obama's prom photo; Fiona Kotur launches Muses collection for HSN; Christian Louboutin takes credit for Chanel ballet flat
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Have you seen Michelle Obama's prom photo? The First Lady admits that the split in her gold dress was just "a little high." Ed: We think she still looks fab in this retro photo. (Essence)
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Singer and actor Justin Timberlake is now dabbling in home decor & design. He's collaborating with stylist and designer Estee Stanley on HomeMint, the the fifth brand under the BeachMint social commerce company. (ELLE Decor)
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Welcome to the Big Canoe POA Website
The POA is the governing body of the community. This website is designed to provide governance information as well as amenity and event news. To contact the POA, use the top menu bar. If you know the name of the person or department you want to contact, go to "POA Staff & Contacts" on the signpost.
Inside the Gates is our monthly magazine about life in Big Canoe, what's happening at our facilities and highlights individuals and organizations within the community.
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Rules and Regs July 2013
911 Address List
This list cross references 911 addresses to "Lot Numbers." The 911 address is now the sole physical address for a home in Big Canoe, and the "Lot Number" will be the Property Owner's Big Canoe account number. 911 addresses are assigned by Pickens and Dawson Counties. The Dawson 911 address information line is (706) 344-3604 and the Pickens 911 address information line is (706) 253-8980.
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Regarding the upcoming Scizor DW event, I have no Pokémon League in my area and no reasonable way to attend a league event. Is there any way to obtain a Player ID so that I can get the Scizor as well as upcoming DW pokémon.
Maybe a league organizer out there can hook me up with a Player ID without me actually attending your league?
For those of you with the Japanese Black 2 & White 2 games, the third of the special ape promotion password is: げきりゅうハイドロポンプ. I'm not sure if it has been revealed yet but I have tried the password and it works. The Pokemon is Panpour.
If your wondering how i know the password it is pretty obvious if you look at the other two passords: The first part ( げきりゅう) is the Hidden Ability of the pokemon and the second half (ハイドロポンプ) is it's strongest/4th move.
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I can't believe the sheer amount of Eevee promotion going on in Japan, I mean I know pokemon fans in Japan love eevee to death but looking at some of the products, I wonder if its over the top...
Oh and any word on a release date for the new Mystery Dungeon internationally?
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Possible, but Nintendo has plenty of stuff to push this holiday season. Their publicity efforts and the game itself are both better served in waiting until the game can breathe a bit before unveiling it. Announce it now and it'll be smothered by the larger things they have on their plate for this Christmas, things that they're actually trying to sell, not just announce.
My guess? Q1 reveal for a Q2 release.
Speaking of Eevee promotion, I present these postcards of the Eeveelutions that are being released next week. http://www.jrhakatacity.com.e.bv.hp..../blog/post_68/
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GTS Distribution reveals first images and details of Plasma Storm boosters, tins.
02/06/2013 release date.
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The next season of BW in the dub is to be called "Black and White: Adventures in Unova". The premier date is not yet known, so we don't know which episode this will start on.
This most likely means a new opening. Yes!
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Not really huge news related to Pokemon, but it was just confirmed that HarmoKnight is being published here in the US. The trailer they showed in today's Nintendo Direct was most of which was in the original trailer, and includes the clip of the level with Reshiram in the background.
Ok.. Chances are it will have been on the EU one, which should be nearly finished now.
EDIT: Confirmed during the by the show listings. http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nint...ct-638747.html
US Sinnoh DW Starters are being released. I'll edit this post in a sec.
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Mark Holmes hands out the sought-after TEAMtalk Soccer for Player of the Season as week one of the 2011-12 ceremony draws to a close.
The PFA and FWA Player of the Season awards have already been handed out, but the trophy the top stars really want on their mantelpiece is the TEAMtalk Soccer.
This season's winner was extremely hard to pick, however. Players such as David Silva started superbly but faded, Antonio Valencia on the other hand missed the start of the season but finished it brilliantly, and then Papiss Cisse and Nikica Jelavic made terrific impacts following January transfer moves.
Players at lower-ranked clubs like Clint Dempsey and Grant Holt also came into consideration, but none of the above quite made our top five.
Player of the Season - by Mark Holmes
5. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United):
Rooney's achievements this season have been surprisingly downplayed.
Perhaps it would have been different had Manchester United held on to win the title but their late collapse should not detract from what a good season they had - and Rooney was at the heart of that.
He scored a career-best 35 goals in total and 27 in the Premier League - only three less than Robin van Persie and in four less games - and his overall contribution to the team was immeasurable.
Remember, this is a world-class centre forward that has played in midfield and wide left this season. He has matured hugely over the past nine months, putting the team before himself and cutting out the moments of ill-discipline that have blighted him in the past.
Simply put, he deserves far more credit than he has been given.
4. Yaya Toure (Manchester City):
No matter how many millions of pounds you spend building a team there will always be that one big-game player that steps up when it's most needed.
That player at Manchester City is Yaya Toure. He proved it last season with goals in the FA Cup semi-final and final, and his two strikes at Newcastle this term were arguably the most crucial of the Blues' entire campaign.
Like Rooney, he is a player that perhaps doesn't get the credit he deserves, but the rocky patch City experienced during his spell at the African Nations Cup left fans in no doubt about his importance to the team.
Roberto Mancini must do everything in his power to keep hold of the Ivorian this summer.
3. Vincent Kompany (Manchester City):
Kompany was recently named the Barclays Player of the Season after another impressively-consistent nine months for the Citizens.
His header in the 1-0 win over Manchester United alone earns him a place in City folklore but it is testament to just how good a defender the Belgian is that he is spoken of so highly by a set of fans that get to watch talents such as David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Mario Balotelli on a weekly basis.
While that trio claim the headlines more regularly, Kompany is the one that, as captain, leads from the front both in terms of his performances and his attitude on the pitch.
He is the bedrock of City's side and, despite all the fine players that have arrived at Eastlands in recent seasons, supporters will tell you Kompany has been their best signing of the modern era.
2. Sergio Aguero (Manchester City):
You may feel it is too obvious to name three Manchester City players in a Player of the Season list, but Aguero is another without whom the club simply could not have won the Premier League.
Voted City's Player of the Season by their fans, Aguero's success has been as impressive as it has been surprising: one only has to consider the time it took Silva to settle in the Premier League to know how impressive Aguero's achievements have been this term.
He scored 30 goals in all, 23 of which came in the league, and that sort of return is virtually unheard of for a foreign player in their debut campaign on these shores.
The Argentinian is far more than simply a goalscorer, though, and the flare he has provided Mancini's men this season has transformed them from an efficient if slighly boring team to one that thrills fans and neutrals on a weekly basis.
He will surely go down as one of the Premier League's best ever imports.
1. Robin van Persie (Arsenal):
As well as the aforementioned players have performed this season, none have been quite as important to their teams as Van Persie has to Arsenal.
When deciding on a Player of the Season, the most important things to consider are a player's consistency, the effect they have had on their team's season and the impact they have made on the league as a whole.
Kompany can challenge Van Persie in terms of consistency, but it's questionable whether any player has ever had such an effect on a team's season as the Dutchman has on Arsenal's over the past nine months.
There is no magic formula to discover how many points he has won the Gunners, but it's highly doubtful they'd have made the Champions League without him and that makes him worth his weight in gold to a club that needs to be competing in Europe's premier competition.
His tally of 37 goals in 48 appearances is quite extraodinary, and scoring 30 goals in a Premier League season is something few players have managed over the past 20 years.
Van Persie set up a further nine goals in the league, meaning he scored or assisted over half of Arsenal's entire Premier League tally.
What's more, he scored goals in big games - who can forget his hat-trick at Chelsea - and special goals that will live long in the memory such as his superb volley against Everton.
There is no question that the 28-year-old was the stand-out player in the Premier League over the past nine months and we can only hope his talents are still on English shores come September 1.


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to masturbate in celebration. When I came in first in the race, I went home and celebated.
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To not have sex, to be without sexing up. Can be either for relgious reasons, personal, or because no one wants to have sex with you. Person 1: I can't believe Tom has been celebate for so long!
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To masterbate in celebration. When Fred got a date with Sharon he went home and celebated.
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Using the activity of masturbation to celebrate recent fortunate events. The act of "celebation" must be declared beforehand in order to qualify. Can be applied to, but is not limited to: sexual advances with the opposite sex, triumphant achievements of human ability, and/or fantastically tantilizing foodstuffs. "What? An 92 on my Gay/Lesbian Studies exam? Time to go celebate!"
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Celebrating through masturbation.
i.e a victory wank How do you celebrate?...I have a victory wank...a celeBATE if you will.
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Failure to abstain from sex after a vow of celibacy. Pioneered by celebrities who announce celibacy, and then proceed to break this vow soon after. Person 1: "What happened to Paris Hilton's 1 year without sex?"
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The re-invention of "celebrate." Celebate is a word used to describe a type of celebration about famous people. Hence the word celeb, in celebate. I'm going to celebate lindsay lohan getting out of prison!!


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The customer is (finally) king: Knowledge sharing, collaboration and communities in a buyer-centric marketplace
The buyer-seller relationship is changing. Driven by shifts in the global economy and fuelled by the proliferation of knowledge-sharing networks and collaborative communities, the customer is finally taking charge. KM practitioners in turn will play a key role in the transition from a marketplace dominated by seller/push, to one increasingly characterised by the emergent buyer-centric model. By Jan Wyllie
Two of the most important contributions knowledge management has made to organisations are in the fields of knowledge sharing and collaboration. Successful knowledge-driven organisations do not act on the basis of personnel hierarchies, ideologies and prejudices; they act on the basis of the best available knowledge and expertise and, by being effective collaborators, apply that knowledge to achieving their purpose.
Many, if not all organisations, are using the array of KM practices to improve service, to win more customers, work better as a group, and save time and money with the purpose of maximising profit. Organisations with the best prospects of profit growth are in turn the most attractive to investors.
But what would happen in a contracting marketplace, where the customers no longer have the financial means to pay for market growth? Factors such as peak oil, consumer indebtedness, negative growth, recession and worse are far from remote, theoretical possibilities. They are now probabilities (see sidebar: New probabilities).
Under these conditions, good intelligence and knowledge management are likely to become even more important as organisations look to adapt to change, with very little margin for error. The practices, processes and tools of knowledge management will need to extend beyond the organisation to include self-reliant trading communities of buyers and sellers. For example, in an environment of ever-growing energy costs, the use of common taxonomies and collaboration software and techniques would significantly cut commuting and business travel, saving both energy and peoples time.
Knowledge practitioners business storytellers, taxonomists, collaboration facilitators and network analysts, together with their software tools will play a key role in the transition from a marketplace dominated by seller/push, to one increasingly characterised by a buyer-centric or purchaser/pull model.
Understanding the buyers market
So given that suppliers could soon be facing contracting markets, it is likely that their income and profits will also decrease. The open market will become cut-throat and unpredictable, advertising (except to children, perhaps) will become even less effective than it is reported to be now, and thriftier buyers will become even more demanding.
From the buyers point of view, cash-strapped suppliers operating in an uncertain marketplace will not be able to give them the quality and reliability they have come to expect. The experience of paying more for less is unlikely to be a happy one, especially when money itself is scarce. The experience of unreliable supply may be even worse.
In a buyer-centric marketplace, groups of buyers and their agents would engage groups of sellers to fulfil specified needs. Groups of buyers would be able to negotiate better prices from sellers; sellers would benefit from a relatively secure and predictable income. Massive savings will potentially be made by eliminating the need for marketing, advertising and even financing, since trusted traders are more likely to be given the option of entering into interest-free mutual-credit agreements. Both sides stand to benefit. This marketplace would, as it happens, be much like the collaborative networks and knowledge-sharing communities with which readers of Inside Knowledge are so familiar, which is why the knowledge-management community has such an important part to play, both during and after the expected transition.
When waste and unnecessary frills become too expensive to sustain, the wasteful and expensive seller-centric, push model will come under increasing pressure. The thrifty buyer-needs-first model is likely to be more favoured. Among those who would not benefit from the establishment of buyer-centric marketplaces are sales-oriented middlemen: retailers, credit-card companies, advertisers and advertising-supported media. Most other suppliers would potentially benefit from the more direct buyer-centric relationships in which uncertainty of demand and price can be minimised.
Going beyond CRM
Even without considering the spectre of peak oil, peoples attitudes to the mass marketplace have been showing signs of changing for some years now. This transition started with concepts such as relationship marketing (in the 1980s) and customer-relationship management (CRM) in the 1990s, both of which promised personalised, one-to-one interactions between suppliers and buyers informed by a new richness of customer knowledge stored in CRM software suites, available at the touch of a key stroke. The most advanced CRM software connects customers, sales people, call-centre staff, marketing and production departments in a two-way network designed using what Patricia Seybold, author of The Customer Revolution, calls customer scenarios, which are stories relating to everything a type of buyer might do and feel during the course of the transaction.
Now the buyer-centric market model has been emerging as an alternative to the dominant supplier/push market model, starting with the early flowering of business-to-businesses exchanges. The first signs that CRM was changing into a radically different way of doing business began to appear during 2000.
The difference between a customer and a buyer is that a customer is defined as belonging to the supplier company, as in they are customers of IBM, while the term buyer implies an independent entity beholden to no-one. The statement they are buyers of
IBM equipment does not suggest that buyers in any way belong to IBM.Alan Mitchells Right Side Up: Building Brands in the Age of the Organised Consumer identifies three main types of buyer-centric market arrangements.
The first is when groups of buyers use agents to specify requirements and negotiate more favourable terms. The second is reverse auctions, in which sellers bid each other down until the buyer decides that the price is right. This kind of auction is very effective when there are too many suppliers in a marketplace. The third type of agent Mitchell calls a solution agent, who, much like a consultant, is tasked with helping buyers achieve their goals. According to Mitchell, a key component of the buyer-centric marketplace is community, organised around interests and around purposes.
In his 2003 article A new typology for buyer-centric commerce, Scott MacStravic puts forward the concepts of shared success and what he calls customer-success management. The primary goal of a supplier according to this model is not to increase sales for the sake of its own interest, but rather to act as much in the interest of the success and good health of the buyer as possible. Instead of achieving a balance between the essentially adversarial relationship between buyer and seller when the buyers interest is to buy cheap and the sellers interest is to sell dear the goal, in this kind of relationship, is now mutual benefit.
For example, success for a chocolate supplier may be to sell less, not more, to a community, if obesity is becoming a problem. Equally, if a seller within a trusted trading community gets into difficulties, then mutual interest dictates the community provides a level of support, rather than taking advantage or buying from a competitor.
Existing buyer-centric organisations operate by reversing the knowledge flow. A well known example, at least of a step in this direction, is Dell Computers, which manufactures computers to order according to customer specifications, rather than manufacturing a batch of one particular model with the intention of selling them all. The direction of the specification flows from the customer to the production department.
The success of E-bay also shows the huge potential of self-managed, trusted trading communities. One of the key factors in E-bays success is that all participants in transactions are evaluated by each other. This kind of trading reputation is much more useful to buyers and sellers than the self-serving communications of marketers and advertisers. Peer assurance becomes even more valuable when money is short, when buyers cannot afford to take chances on sales pitches.
Adapting thinking
Psychologists say that unlearning is much harder to accomplish than learning. Probably the most difficult task in dealing with peak oil and stringent limits to spending is unlearning a set of assumptions about growth, prosperity and what it means to be successful, which are the real cause of the hardships to be faced by both buyers and sellers in the wake of peak oil and unsustainable finances. People working in the knowledge-management field will have a crucial role to play in adapting peoples thinking to the new reality of thrift and community trading. An economy driven by a psychology that drives individuals and corporations to maximise advantages for themselves would need to change to the psychology of trading for mutual benefit by selling precisely what is needed.
As for opportunities, trusted trading communities have the potential to offer new types of work, interest-free mutual credit and a secure members-only electronic trading system. A mutual-benefit economy would promote work-sharing schemes, whereby community members would be able to obtain goods and services from the community in return for work needed by their peers. Buyers and sellers would be able to exchange services, keeping track of transactions using interest-free mutual credit units, thereby reducing the need to borrow interest-bearing money. By far the greatest benefit of this buyer-centric, mutual-credit trading model, however, is that because it works by demand/pull, rather than supply/push, it can reverse the compound-interest-driven growth imperative, at the same time as mitigating its painful financial consequences. And since less would have to be made and sold, people would have more time to pursue their own non-profit-based interests.
Organisations need to commission more research into peak oil and its implications, and set up intelligence-monitoring systems to keep abreast of developments and trends. Also, they need to look beyond the facile consumer-confidence indexes to consider the actual state of, in particular, US consumer finances. Then projections need to be made about buyers future income and expenses, including projected tax rises and soaring energy and medical costs (factoring in inadequate pension provision for the baby-boom generation, not to mention the consequences of a falling dollar).
If, after doing this research, preparing for a buyer-centric marketplace still seems like a prudent option, the next question is, how much time is there before any serious market contraction takes place? Although it is impossible to know exactly, the answer to this question is not actually important. With the probable threat as it is, the only rational course of action is to start preparing now and hope that there is enough time. If there is not enough time, then at least some preparations will have been made. Being prepared early will only relieve a great deal of stress during what promise to be extremely demanding times.
A wealth of precedents
The good news is that there are precedents to draw on. In the
During and just after the last, late-1980s recession in the
Business barter schemes such as Bartercard (see www.bartercard.com) are reported to be growing at a rate of 20 per cent a year, with an estimated 1,500 exchanges worldwide. With an average of 1,000 members per exchange, the global trading community already incorporates some 1.5 million companies. In 2003, according to International Reciprocal Trading Association (www.irta.com) and National Association of Trade Exchanges (www.nate.org) statistics, $14.27bn of barter trading, that is trading relying on either no cash or part cash/part barter, was carried out.
Simply being listed in the right category as part of a community replaces the need for advertising and marketing. Of course, how a supplier presents itself and its offerings will make a lot of difference. Above all, though, and just as with E-bay, the recommendation of other community members will be what counts most in securing work. Members of existing B2B exchanges could easily decide to issue credit to each other in a form that was tradable with other members. Indeed, many already do so, by counter-trading surplus goods, for example.
As yet, little significant growth is reported in end-user buyer co-ops, whose raison detre is negotiating better terms from suppliers. Early examples are Mercata.com and Letsbuyit.com. By aggregating buying power, these buying agents aim to give their members both lower prices and reliable service.
There is no disputing that the traditional supplier/push model of doing business is still very much in the ascendant. However, when the need arises that is, when consumers run out of easy money and seriously need to practice the art of thrift there will be very little development work to facilitate the transition, because both the experience and the technology are readily available and tested, and reliable precedents already exist. Therefore, the change from the seller-centric to the buyer-centric marketplace could take place very quickly, particularly if the buyers of last resort, mainly US consumers, hit their credit limit and curtail their spending.
Execute decisions
The first rule of wing-walking is not to let go of the strut you are holding before you have a firm grip on the next, otherwise you will be blown off before you realise what has happened. It seems obvious, but organisations all too often embark on a programme of change without sufficient knowledge of what they are actually looking to achieve.
The ideal situation would be to try out any new system before making a significant commitment to it. In the case of trading communities based around mutual credit, this suck-it-and-see strategy is eminently possible and cheap, especially if the process can be fuelled by the exchange of mutual credit between all trading parties. Signing up to an existing service, such as Bartercard, is a cheap, quick and easy way of obtaining a first taste of community trading with interest-free credit.
However, to set up a new service or to change an existing B2B system is an intensely collaborative process. Every participant needs to consider key issues, such as the value of their time and the value of what they produce. They must write their entries in the database of offers and wants. Once the database is published, buyers with needs must look through what is on offer that they can obtain without cash, using what amounts to an interest-free loan from the seller. Note that for the seller, the value of this loan is not guaranteed by the buyer, but by the whole community of traders who promise to return equal value from the communitys selection of skills and assets.
A key component of the success of this kind of trusted trading group is how the database of offers and wants is organised. What is most needed is a first-rate, intuitive taxonomy of goods and services. Organisations need to reverse their information and workflow from broadcasting (creating demand) to receiving (being responsive to buyer needs).
Other tasks to be carried out include making rules of inclusion and exclusion based on proficiency and ethics. Standards of transparency within the communities must be very high, as the basis for building trust between traders. One of the great powers of this kind of trading group is that any party found stealing or working against the interests of the group can be punished with the ultimate sanction: exclusion, and all trading rights revoked. Credit limits must be set so that trading does not get out of balance, with certain members owing too much without paying it back, for instance.
New processes will have to be invented to evaluate the success of mutually beneficial transactions where benefits accrue to both parties. Systems are being developed by Microsoft, among others, to enable buyers to keep, and control access to, their own trading information in personal data vaults, so that this data will simply not be available for any unauthorised use, wiping out unsolicited direct marketing at a stroke.
The hope must be that the buyer-centric marketplace is the harbinger of a different form of human enterprise, based on the traditional economic virtues of thrift, self-reliance and community, rather than the post-WW2 economic consensus of growth at all costs. KM practitioners have the capabilities intelligence-gathering, knowledge-sharing and collaboration expertise to usher this mutual-benefit marketplace into the world.
New probabilities
Peak oil
James Howard Kunstler, author of Geography of Nowhere and described by the New York Times as being one of a growing band of new urbanists (13 March 2005), is quoted as calling oil-guzzling, car-dependent American suburbia, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
According to Kunstler and a growing band of local political organisers and energy-generation entrepreneurs, the end of suburbia is the inevitable consequence of what is known as peak oil. This term refers to the fact that known reserves are being drawn down faster than new discoveries are being made. Oil companies have been reluctant to spend their huge profits in finding and exploiting what are increasingly risky, low-margin, remote reserves.
The consequence of peak oil is that the price of oil will rise faster as the rate of depletion increases. A growing portion of buyers income will have to be devoted to energy expenditure. At the same time, a greater portion of suppliers costs will need to be allocated to energy, pushing up prices of necessities such as food and water, as well as the prices of virtually everything else. Under these conditions, discretionary income and government tax receipts would fall, while self-employment, unemployment and supplier costs would increase.
Current debate among experts is not about whether peak oil will happen, but about when it will happen. Some experts say it may already have occurred. An article in the New Scientist recently placed the year of peak production as 2004. Virtually all experts believe peak oil will occur before the end of this decade. Only a few say that the peak will come in 25 years or more.
The relationship between buyers and sellers is, for this reason alone, about to change significantly, as is the way that knowledge flows between them. For example, it will no longer pay for sellers to create the desire for cars that buyers cannot afford or even use.
Limits to spending
Although companies have been trying with some success to become, first, customer-focused and, later, customer-centric, the purpose of the exercise is still to sell customers as many products or services as possible. In markets that have in most cases been characterised by oversupply, companies try to hook customers into repeat buying: cross-selling and up-selling using better customer knowledge and loyalty schemes that promise benefits such as gifts and discounts to regular customers. Achieving customer lock in is the apotheosis of the traditional CRM programme.
The ideal marketing campaign combines CRM and multi-media advertising to find and sell to target customers. The nature of the supplier-to-customer relationship is that the supplier is the active party doing something to or for the customer, whose sole role is to choose from the options on offer or to complain if the product or service is deficient.
In consumer markets, sellers use all manner of actions, including sex, status, greed and addiction, as strategies to attract more customers who can then be made loyal using an array of powerful CRM techniques based on better customer knowledge. There can be no denying that, as a strategy, this enhanced, traditional supplier-to-customer relationship has worked pretty well since the early 1990s, pushing both consumer spending and debt to unprecedented levels.
The question is whether this increasing indebtedness is any more sustainable than the high levels of energy consumption in the face of the peak-oil threat. Also, like peak oil, although this financial crunch is self-evidently coming closer, it is impossible to say exactly when it will happen. Again in common with peak oil, the consequence of chronic long-term indebtedness will be sharply reduced consumer spending.
Once and future exemplars
WIR, here since 1934
WIR (www.wir.ch) is short for Wirtschaftsring, which means economic circle. It is a Swiss business community that has been using its own private, interest-free currency for trading since 1934. Initially, the idea was simply that business people who knew and trusted each other would extend each other credit for purchases within and between their group, cutting down the need to borrow from banks. It has grown to more than 60,000 account holders and has a turnover in excess of £1.2bn. If new WIR members satisfy the communitys collateral and credit terms, they are given a loan in WIR, a cheque book, a plastic charge card and a large directory listing all the other members with whom they can spend their loans.
Since WIR credit cannot be spent outside the community, purchasing power stays within it, generating more business for all participants. The cost of the loan is very low, typically 1.75 per cent for mortgages. A huge range of products and services are listed in the WIR directory. According to WIRs public-relations office, the main areas are gastronomy and the building trade, both key locally based industries.
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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Asian stocks tumbled Thursday after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting stoked concerns that central-bank policy-tightening moves will reduce global liquidity, which has supported stocks in recent months.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index /quotes/zigman/2622475 HK:HSI -0.63% dropped 1.7%, while the Shanghai Composite Index /quotes/zigman/1858913 CN:000001 +2.81% plunged 3%, with worries about liquidity tightening by the central bank adding to the selling pressure.
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The Fed, along with other global central banks, has provided massive amounts of liquidity to markets since the onset of the global financial crisis — liquidity which has worked its way through to various asset classes.
Perpetual Investments head of investment research Matthew Sherwood said that while stocks had gained aggressively over the past eight months, in part due to central-bank largesse, "all of a sudden" that pillar of market gains may be at risk.
Crédit Agricole strategist Frances Cheung said Asian investors were concerned that "a smaller-than-anticipated size of the Fed balance sheet ... would imply less funds available to purchase [assets] than what is currently priced in."
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Patch Talker: Readers Sound Off After State of the State Address
What are the top issues affecting Illinois today? What would you like to see fixed in the coming year? Do you think Quinn chose the right priorities to highlight during his State of the State speech? Do you think he should be re-elected in 2014?
Following Governor Pat Quinn's State of the State address, Patch asked readers what they think the top issues affecting Illinois are. What needs to be fixed? Do you agree with the governor's priorities?
Here are some of the responses we received. Some comments have been edited for length, grammar and clarity:
"TERM LIMITS. Enough said."
"[In light of Quinn's proposal to raise minimum wage to $10/hour] Yep, the politicians are certainly expert enough to tell private business how to run their operations since we all know how well the state runs it's business."
"We already have term limits - 2 terms only. One in office, one in the Federal Lockup. What we need is a governor who has a higher IQ than his shoe size. Quinn is a Space Cadet, not a Rocket Scientist."
"The #1 issue in IL is the ongoing erosion of trust between citizens and politicians. The drum beat goes on of investigations, arrests, indictments and convictions (Even with no conviction it still erodes the trust but to be fair is not the same as being found/pleading guilty). Public corruption is one of the main reasons for this situation including generations of one family in office and taking govt jobs/pensions/goodies. The other is the massive failure to be good financial stewards of public dollars and allowing $9 Billion in backlog of bills owed to IL businesses and $100 Billion in underfunded pension payments. All of this happened with the full knowledge of our State Representatives and Senators."
"There is no trust for politicians, because you give them an inch they take a mile everytime. Raise taxes, great answer. Didn't we already do that?(67%). Maybe we should pay politicians $10.00 an hour? We couldn't do any worse. $10.00 an hour = less jobs. These politicians have no clue. There just going thru the motions and lining there pockets on our lazyness. Vote them out, it's the only way to send the right message. Start with Cullerton, Madigan and Quinn."
Have an opinion? Share it in the comments.
1:46 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
Raising minimum wage always leads to less hiring and more unemployment.
5:16 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
Sorry Mac, but I don't see any proof via numbers in Mr. Rockwell's fanta... oops, I mean article.
Jim Thorpe
7:40 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
Why not raise the minimum wage to $20 per hour? Or even more? If we raise the minimum wage high enough, people will be able to afford their own healthcare without government subsidies and will start paying taxes that can help reduce the national debt.
7:50 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
We're almost there, on track to keep pushing those evil capitalists who make profit out of this state. All that will be left is retired teachers looking for their pension checks.
9:00 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
What are you so angry about Mac? Obviously you have some extreme resentment over something. What is it?
9:13 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
Perhaps it is the ignorance that people like you display by voting for Santa Claus and his merry men. I see an unsustainable path that has already shown record welfare, unemployment, food stamps, massive debt, contraction of GDP, and more much more of the same.
7:46 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
Quinn, the Madigans, Cullertons, Daleys have run this state into the ground over the last 40 years while nearly all the reins of power have been in their hands. I wonder if their personal wealth has gone in the same direction as the State's during that time? Not.
marco sangria
12:51 pm on Saturday, February 9, 2013
fire them all. they are not responsible to anyone but themselves! lowest approval ratings and they are still in office. The electorate are the fools for tolerating this incompetence. no accountability.


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Updated: January 2, 2013
TXDOT will hold an official ribbon cutting for their new rest stops east of Pyote on January 3rd.
The new rest stops are located near the F.M. 115 interchange.
The $14.1 million facilities have several interactive exhibits that showcase the history of the surrounding area -- including a World War II army base that was once located there.
There are also nature trails and playgrounds -- along with plenty of parking -- at the rest stop.
Ground was broken for the project on February 15, 2011, and the previous rest stops located in the area closed on April 11, 2012.
However, TXDOT officials say construction was delayed from the original schedule after a sidewalk shifted due to changing soil conditions.
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