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Maintaining an Agile Company
In today's business world, with its ever-changing marketplace, many companies recognize the need to adapt and change in order to remain competitive. This article will help you reinvent your company's vision to more closely match trends and customer preferences. By doing so, you will be better equipped to satisfy customers and increase profits. As change doesn't come easily, this article will help you devise strategies that will allow you to thrive in a change-or-die environment. By following the steps outlined here, you will be able to better identify opportunities for change, determine if you are ready for change, recognize what your customers want and create the proper environment for change in your company.This article will help you to think like an innovator, and it will reveal how you can use Internet technology to help you implement your strategies.
I. Identify Opportunities for Change
David Bowie sang about it. Bob Dylan did, too. It's change, and it's something that usually strikes a little fear in the hearts of most ordinary people. Whether it's moving into a new home, changing jobs or giving up the single life to start a family, change has given us sweaty palms at one time or another. But in the business world, the ability to change and adapt to change has become the keystone of many successful operations. Without it, your business risks becoming stale and alienating customers as buying trends and consumer preferences shift over time.
Therefore, as a businessperson, you have no time to be afraid of change. Instead, you need to embrace it. Change in the business world often means reinvention. In more specific terms, it means reinventing yourself to satisfy your customers and reap bigger rewards down the road. Reinvention is often the end result of identifying a changing tide in public opinion. Throughout modern history, corporate executives and business owners have prided themselves on keeping their fingers on the pulse of the public. That means identifying what consumers want now or will want in the future. Many successful businesspeople say that such ability is the key to their accomplishments.
Some organizations are inherently better suited than others to make changes. Small businesses, for example, are generally more adaptable than their large counterparts.
"The one advantage that a small business has over a very large company is that it can reinvent itself and move very, very quickly," says Jeff Hyman, co-founder of Career Central (formerly MBA Central). "Big companies basically have all the advantages. They have brands. They have deep pockets. The one thing they can't do is change very quickly. So, I think it's very important for a small business to leverage that one advantage by reinventing itself, and I think every year or two is not too frequent."
As a result of the need for change, many companies have altered their product offerings, target markets, customer service practices, locations and even their names.
But change, especially when it comes to a business vision or plan, is a tricky thing. The truth is that most business owners have trouble altering their business strategies. Some don't even know where to start. And yet others don't know how to sustain the change momentum once they've started it. But in this day and age, the new law of business has become change or die. So, eventually, it must be done
One reason why business owners struggle with change is that the idea of change itself has changed. It used to be a guessing game: What might work now that our present plan has gone awry? Today, creating change requires skill. It has become a type of art form in the business world. It's something that takes practice and learning to accomplish in an effective manner. The best news of all is that there are methods available for measuring the effects of change and gauging the outcomes of change. For a full discussion on the effects of changes on your business, see Expand With New Market Development and New Products and Services.
Change is also no longer a practice that is implemented from outside the organization, spearheaded by a savvy "change agent." Instead, change in today's business environment is intrinsic. Either you or a qualified person on your staff must regularly address the need to change and establish a change plan that is based on your level of resources, personnel and funds.
Self-Assessment: Are You Ready for a Change?
Is the time right for your business to make a
change of one kind or another? To answer that question, take the following short quiz:
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, it might be time to consider making a few changes subtle or drastic to the way you do business. If your sales are decreasing significantly or you are losing customers at an alarming rate, it's probably because someone new has intruded upon your turf and become what you once were: an agent of change who's revitalizing an industry and attracting new customers your customers. If this is the case, you need to get on the ball immediately.
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II. Case Studies in Change
Linda Rae Tepper is a business owner in tune with the need for change. In the mid-1970's, Tepper ran a successful fashion business called Ruby Slippers, which peddled antique clothing and accessories from various time periods ranging from the Victorian era to the 1960s. At the time, Tepper was one step ahead of the retro-fashion trend. However, in the 1990s, everyone seemed to be selling vintage clothing everything from the '60s "flower child" look to pre-World War II "swing."
These changes led Tepper to look for new opportunities in vintage fashions and she found them. In the process, she initiated a new trend and created a new identity for herself. In retrospect, what she noticed seemed simple. She observed that customers in her New York City store were looking for sleepwear and having a hard time finding it. It didn't necessarily have to be vintage sleepwear, either. Sleepwear, in general, was something that fashion designers had moved away from at that time.
Being a savvy entrepreneur, Tepper jumped on the market opportunity and made a change in her product offering to satisfy the need she discovered. Today, she and her partner Steven Abrams run Nick & Nora, a Manhattan-based sleepwear company that specializes in outfitting customers with humorous and retro-style pajamas.
Even though Tepper's inner circle of advisers told her that nobody wore pajamas anymore, Tepper did some research and found that the reason sleepwear had taken a plunge in the market was because the only "PJs" available wear the very expensive, upscale kind. The opportunity was ripe, therefore, for the development of a line of comfortable and casual pajamas.
So Tepper reinvented her company and became the queen of whimsical sleepwear. She started manufacturing and selling pajamas with humorous themes, featuring bacon and eggs and Oreo cookies. Now, her reinvention has developed a niche within the fashion industry and turned Nick & Nora from a small startup to a company at the forefront of a trend. Today, you can see Tepper's pajamas on television shows like Ally McBeal and in the pages of the Victoria's Secret catalog. This is a classic example of a small business owner finding an opportunity for change and reinventing her product offering to address the wants of consumers.
Likewise, Jeff Hyman and his partner Lun Yuen at Career Central, an email-based executive placement service, pulled off a similar reinvention, although in a different manner. Before there was Career Central, there was MBA Central, a service exclusively for M.B.A. students and graduates. The change for this young, successful company was spurred by the fact that its founders didn't want to stand around and let competitors catch up to them.
"When we started the company, we only focused on marketing people, accounting people, people who had M.B.A.s," Hyman says. "Then we started asking clients what else would be useful. A lot of them told us they had trouble finding software developers also. So we decided to launch a similar service for software developers and change the company to be broader and include a lot of other different kinds of people. That was not our original plan, but it kind of worked out that way."
In the midst of this transition, the company changed its name to reflect its broader focus. The new moniker, Hyman will tell you, has boosted business dramatically and attracted more customers.
"Now people don't think of us for just M.B.A.s any longer," he says. "We get calls and inquiries from people we probably would not have before. It's definitely helped."
In fact, Career Central is a company born out of reinvention. The company began when Hyman graduated from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1995. He was surprised to discover that job offers were hard to come by. The reason he was having a hard time, he realized, was that his target market, the technology industry, didn't know he existed. Eventually, he found a position with software developer Intuit, Inc., but couldn't get past the fact that the job hunting process was harder then it needed to be.
When he hooked up with Yuen, a computer scientist, the two realized that the Internet offered a new opportunity for job hunting and placement. Instead of the old slow and expensive method that companies had to go through to find candidates, new technology presented an opportunity to change the way the game was played and bring more satisfaction to both clients and job seekers.
"What we found when we talked to potential clients was that if you found a way to reduce the cost and find candidates much faster, they would pay for it," Hyman says. "So we designed a technology and email-based service that basically matches and emails the jobs to candidates very quickly and at low cost."
The new way of doing business allows Career Central to charge companies about one-tenth of the cost of traditional search firms. And the slight reinvention of the industry now puts Career Central, a small firm, in a distinct advantage over much larger and well known competition. Now, Hyman and Yuen are known as the guys that can get the job done faster and cheaper.
Identifying change opportunities can also become a lifesaver when a business begins to struggle. Take, for example, the plight of Steve Bernard, founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips in Hyannis, Mass. Bernard operated a successful, small business that prided itself on creating distinctive chips. In the beginning, his special recipe for snack foods kept attracting more and more business. However, he suddenly ran out of capital because, although they were popular, the chips weren't making any money yet. Around that time, a car careened off the street outside of Bernard's shop and crashed through the window of his storefront. The resulting insurance money gave him the capital he needed to continue, and he took advantage of that second chance by reinventing the way he sold his chips.
Bernard's marketing strategy already touted his product's distinctive recipe. But he decided to market the Cape Code brand name as well. He believed that the upscale Americana image many consumers associated with the town of Cape Cod, Mass. would improve the popularity of the chips and open them up to a new demographic nationally. He also started placing his chips in the produce section of supermarkets instead of the traditional snack food aisle. Bernard believes this new placement lent the chips a healthier, higher quality image.
All of these examples bring home one point: Success often depends on how you identify new opportunities and continue to change your company. But how do you identify these opportunities? For a start, ask yourself these questions:
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III. Know What Your Customers Are Thinking
Although we have established that change is something to strive for, change for change's sake is not a good thing. You want your changes to have a direct correlation to larger profits, more customers and more opportunities for future growth. Therefore, before you set about on a process of change, you should first realize what your customers expect from you.
How do you know what your customers want? You can look for clues in a number of ways: questionnaires, focus groups, word of mouth, suggestion boxes, online surveys and nonverbal messages. You can also analyze your customers' loyalty through their purchasing behavior.
To better understand what your customers are saying about you, consider the answers to the following questions:
Listening to and understanding what customers want is the simplest way to identify how or what you should change about your company, your products and/or your services. The changes based on this information can range from a minor adjustment in merchandise to a major overhaul of your company's strategic plan.
For an example of the former, consider the case of Jennifer's Coffee, a coffeehouse in Los Angeles. At the end of each week, proprietor Jennifer Morgan would inventory her shop and notice that some of the individual coffee bean bins were completely empty, while others were still filled to the brim. Morgan realized that her customers were telling her, in a nonverbal way, that they didn't like certain blends and that she should ditch them immediately. She continued to replace the unused blends periodically until she found varieties that were popular with her clientele.
Morgan also listens to what customers say to each other while waiting in line. One comment she heard was that customers were getting annoyed that she didn't offer free refills. Although her supplier warned her not to offer free second helpings because of the hefty capital expense, Morgan decided to appease her customers anyway. She swallowed the cost in order to become the local coffeehouse that gives free refills, a change that has enabled her to compete with the new Starbucks down the street. An individual franchisee within the large Starbucks chain probably would have had a much harder time instituting such a change, because of the red tape he or she would have to go through with the corporate headquarters in Seattle. Morgan has fully exploited the one advantage she has by being a small, owner-operated business: the ability to change for her customers now!
Others have taken a more direct approach to finding out what customers desire. Remember the partners at Career Central? Hyman says they recognized what their clients needed by asking them over the Internet and through focus groups.
"We do market research and we basically ask them," Hyman says. "And we do it in a number of different formats. We ask them individually. We organize focus groups. Then we also do surveys online."
Focus groups have long been a strong way to gather information about a company and its offerings. Usually, these informal information gathering sessions involve five to 10 customers who are led through a series of questions by an independent moderator. (Note: It is inadvisable to try to orchestrate a focus group yourself if you have no prior experience doing so. There are many trained professionals who can assist you in this endeavor.)
"We kind of walk them through questions about how or what we can do to improve our service," Hyman says. "Then we have an hour of brainstorming, where we sit back and let them talk about their ideas, and they come up with some pretty good ideas because they're faced with these problems every day."
Hyman says that the Internet now provides a direct way to ask questions, particularly through email. In fact, more and more companies are turning to the Internet to conduct market research by emailing questionnaires or developing online discussion groups, which are basically virtual focus groups. For additional reading on this topic, see Effective Use of Technology.
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IV. Become Innovative
In Toronto, Canada, television viewing is significantly different than the rest of the world. Moses Znaimer, co-founder of CityTV, explains that the difference lies in the selection of programs available. In this age of 500-channel cable systems, CityTV has become a visionary company looking to innovate the medium. Seeking to break down boundaries, it created studio-less television and program-less programming, and it embraces reality rather than make-believe.
It may sound silly, but Znaimer has taken this offbeat concept and a low-powered, low-cost television station from a $1.5 million startup to a $200 million, 600-employee empire. And he did it all on the strength of innovation. Znaimer saw that all television was becoming the same. Of approximately 1,000 TV stations in the world, virtually all of them had nearly identical programming concepts, he noticed. So he decided to make a change within the industry and developed CityTV to become a local, interactive television station.
How does the concept work? CityTV takes votes from viewers on what to air. It covers news events as real events as they happen, instead of creating half-hour news programs that air a few times per day. CityTV has even branched off into new ventures, including MuchaMusic, a Spanish-language pop music venture in Argentina.
So what do you find on CityTV? There is Fashion Television, a global search for the most stimulating works in fashion, art, architecture and photography; Media Television, an insider's look at the media process; The Originals, which explores personalities whose achievements and outstanding contributions to society make them unique; and Intimate and Interactive, where viewers get a close-up look at big-name music artists in concert. (The artists even answer questions from their audience via phone, fax or email.)
Meanwhile, innovative software companies such as Marimba, Inc. have applied new spins to old methods. Marimba's CEO Kim Polese left a high-profile job at Sun Microsystems, where she played an integral part in developing JAVA to create a new company based on a new technology: CastaNet, a Java-based multimedia information-delivery application that allows businesses to push their own information to clients across the Internet or intranets as opposed to the traditional pull method of downloading data from the Web.
What these and other companies have done illustrates how change can make a difference in a sub-market, market or entire industry. They also illustrate logical ways of making changes. All have first identified a niche market, learned what potential customers need and want, and developed their business model to reflect those desires. They also came up with innovative ways to distribute their services, which sets them apart and gives them an identifiable feature.
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V. Reinvent Yourself Through Branding
Experts say that branding can increase the value users perceive in an existing product or service and rejuvenate growth in companies of all sizes. In fact, branding is one of the most effective ways to change and update your company.
Branding can also be a synergistic part of an overall plan for change. The reason that Hyman and Yuen changed the name of their company to reflect the change in their business model was to create a new brand that could be associated with what they do. Under the old tag, MBA Central, their organization was recognized as a place for companies to find potential employees with M.B.A.s. Under the new brand, Career Central, the door is open and recognizable for anyone looking for a job or a new employee. If someone were looking for a placement service on the Web, they would not use a service called MBA Central if they don't hold a master's degree. But Career Central will attract a larger and more diverse crowd because it implies that all types of jobs are available.
Another example of branding is the case of Bari & Gail, a family-owned chocolatier in Massachusetts. When the proprietors of the company wanted to revitalize their company's image to appeal to a broader base of consumers, they set out to reinvent their brand. What they discovered was that their existing trademark was nearly invisible to consumers, and their packaging lacked a distinctive design.
What they did next changed the face of their company for the better. First, they conducted research in the fine chocolates market to better understand what leads a consumer to purchase chocolate. As it turns out, they discovered that consumers' chocolate cravings are seasonal. Using this knowledge, they developed a commemorative package to celebrate the gift of chocolate.
Before setting off on a branding scheme for your
products or service, you should first ask yourself:
For a complete discussion on this topic, see Creating a Branding Strategy.
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VI. Let Technology Make a Difference
Of the many things the Web provides, the opportunity for businesses to reinvent themselves or to reach new customers is probably the most exciting. In fact, some experts believe that the Web demands that nearly all businesses reinvent themselves or fall by the wayside.
If the real world seems crowded, the Internet seems virtually overpopulated. And this poses a singular dilemma: In order to survive in cyberspace, a business must stand out like a sore thumb. That's why new enabling software for the Web is debuting at a fast pace as companies look to distinguish themselves through new innovations.
"The Internet lets you do things faster and for lower costs," explains Hyman. For that reason, several businesses have either emerged solely to take advantage of the Internet to make an identity for themselves online. For example, Barnes & Noble, the bookseller chain, has taken advantage of the Internet to reach more customers and has done extensive work and marketing to create a brand that is now among the leaders of e-commerce retailers. BarnesandNoble.com amassed more than $65 million in online sales since launching its online presence. Likewise, Wal-Mart expanded to include an online division, which has found tremendous success at reaching new customers by changing its merchandise to fit online demographics.
In fact, the Internet has opened up a new channel for companies to change or reinvent themselves altogether. Fingerhut, the nation's largest catalog retailer, recently reinvented its business model to become a strong Internet company. Even though the print catalog business remains a giant among catalog companies, the company has embarked upon a program of acquisition and development to transform itself into an Internet company. The reason? To take advantage of a new technology that lets the company become something new and fresh, opening itself to new customers and increased sales.
On the Internet, no one has taken better advantage of changing with the times and the medium than Bluefly.com. Established in 1991, Bluefly operated under the name Pivot Rules and sold golf apparel and accessories. But, as the Internet evolved, Pivot Rules set upon a program of change and reinvented itself as Bluefly.com.
At that same time, Bluefly recognized that golf was starting to gain momentum as a recreational sport, especially among young people. As the new generation began playing, the company changed its merchandise to address the buying habits of the new generation. Bluefly officials recognized that new-generation golfers were strutting around courses in attire that was a far cry than the old-fashioned plaid polyester that older golfers wear. So it developed a site that specialized in more versatile color palettes for its clothes, better fibers and updated silhouettes.
Soon, however, the company noticed that there was more than just online golf commerce to conquer, and it set out to grow into larger markets. It identified a non-golf Internet retail niche. In an interesting twist, the company now sells brand name, end-of-season apparel and accessories via its online retail store.
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VII. Create an Environment for Change
Of course, you can plot a reinvention of your business, but you can't pull it off unless you have created an environment that supports it. That starts with you, but also includes your employees, investors and customers.
To create this environment in today's business world, it is important to remember a few things:
Employees and customers of the metamorphosing business often think of change as a bad thing. All too often, the problem is actually a lack of communication during the process which fosters an environment of fear. Employees will fear for their jobs, and customers will fear that their convenience will be lost if they sense that changes are being made without their knowledge.
How do you combat these attitudes? One way is to remember that employees are your change agents. They must be on board and part of the process from start to finish. Change cannot be dictated from the upper echelons of management without input from lower level employees, or those employees will inevitably fear the changes.
Also, when soliciting ideas about change, you should remember that not everyone will agree. People have instinctive reactions to news of change. When David Clarke was heading the IT group at W.L. Gore & Associates, the maker of GORE-TEX, he introduced a new manufacturing system for one of the company's facilities. He immediately faced skepticism from engineers. However, Clarke listened to the opposition and discovered that their concerns weren't unfounded. Thus, many of the previous ideas were rejected and new, better ones drawn up.
Likewise, change should be instituted as informal, not as a directive from the CEO or owner. Many times, change can be accomplished in individual divisions with the knowledge and input of workers who are most familiar with the part of the business that is undergoing the transformation.
In this situation, employees are more willing to accept change. In fact, they may more readily embrace it. Collaboration throughout the company, especially if yours is a small operation, allows you to get solid input while letting people ease into the change.
Finally, in any change effort, the first person to change has to be you. If you, as owner, boss and/or leader are not willing to change, you can't expect anyone else to.
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VIII. Resources
Frank R. Bacon, Thomas Butler, "Achieving
Planned Innovation," Simon &
Schuster, 1998
Rowan Gibson, "Rethinking the Future," Nicholas Brealey, 1999
Constantinos C. Markides, "All the Right
Moves: A Guide to Crafting
Breakthrough Strategy," Harvard Business Press, 1999
C. K. Prahalad, Henry Mintzburg, "Mastering
Strategy Complete MBA Companion
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"Customers for Life," Sewell, Carl.
"Re-Inventing the Corporation: Transforming Your Job and Your Company for the New Information Society," Naisbitt, John.
"The Adaptive Corporation," Toffler, Alvin.
"The Popcorn Report," Popcorn, Faith.
"The Business Planning Guide: Creating a Plan for Success in Your Own Business," Bangs, David H.
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Amma Main Bhi School Jaoongi–Mama I,too will go to School!
In the course of our surveys of low income clusters ,the large number of girls not going to school was a common problem we kept meeting .From the very beginning when we had only a few children ,a small area was set aside for the siblings.This practice helped many girls to bring their sibling along and study.The benefit was on 3 levels– access was not blocked for the girls themselves,the siblings were exposed to positive pre school environment and the mothers stopped preventing the girls and showed interest in vocational skills–this process rippled out and today we have over a 100 girls with 1 or 2 siblings ,the sibling center runs in 2 shifts so that in both sessions no child is left unattended.The free transport by our bus remains the most appreciated support.
There should be such a facility like the Anganwadi in every government run school because the governmnet is the largest education provider for the poor and underprivileged. Yet for years we are making policies aimed at the girl child and gender bias figures in seminars,posters,meetings and campaigns–so does school access and education for all—but there is no convergence of the two,in fact of of other related sectors too like child labor,health and urban poverty alleviation.If this small critical support is provided the government itself will gain effective outcomes in so many aspects–school enrolment,retention,gender deficit in school access,early learning and care for small children, boosting nutrition ,health and health and health awareness etc


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Fiscal Follies: Watch the Conversation on Budget Surplus
First, the Republicans will be eyeing the upcoming fight to raise the federal debt limit with a new agenda. Clearly, they will argue, with all these rosy numbers, we have room for more tax cuts. They will see no need to argue for restoring tax fairness and progressivity to the system. Will they succeed in holding the president hostage because now the numbers are rosy? The same day the White House explained the deficit was a much smaller problem than believed, the House Republicans voted to slash spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to help children get enough to eat. Clearly, Republicans signaled that smaller deficits did not mean they were wrong on the need for austerity; the projections only proved they were right that the rich could have more tax cuts.
The deficit projection is smaller this year, in part, because of the sequestration. So, will the President be successful in arguing that these numbers show there is room to end sequestration because we are meeting the budget targets through economic growth? Â Â Â Â Â
This may go back and forth. Now, it is almost a ballet-a beautiful choreographed drama in pantomime. The Republicans are quickly losing ground to President Obama in that they first thought they would win in 2012 because of slow job growth, and then switched after the election to pin uncontrolled deficits on the President. Now we are having deficits smaller than the President promised, and at current mediocre rates of job growth, we will be back to 2007 levels of employment by June 2014, and private-sector employment will be back earlier.
Hopefully, instead of these follies and false premises, the discussion can turn to the real labor market issues. All this discussion of austerity has netted the budget deficit targets the deficit hawks wanted. Too many people became convinced that the discussion of the deficit hawks was related to the real labor market, and so have gone along with this show, assuming that it would drive down unemployment, lead to full employment and raise wages and incomes. Instead, we can now all see that the deficit is not related to the unemployment crisis.
The unemployment rate stays mired at near 7.5 percent because merely getting back to the number of jobs that existed in 2007 is only enough to keep up with the growth of the labor force-which is slowly shrinking from discouragement and exhaustion. Youth employment remains at historical lows. Beyond people without jobs, millions are mired in part-time work but want full-time work and millions more languish outside the unemployment numbers because they are too discouraged to look. Median family incomes continue to sag from lower wages and less employment, still below where they were in 2007.
So, rather than a discussion of differences in approaches to austerity-raise taxes to restore fairness and progressivity versus cut spending regardless of the value of the program-we can turn to hiring people. The sequestration is currently forcing federal agencies to furlough workers, reducing their hours, to hobble to the end of the fiscal year. But, if the sequester is allowed to continue, many federal agencies will be forced to cut positions.
Already, public-sector employment continues to fall during this "recovery." We have lost 36,000 federal workers since January 2009, 10,000 in public higher education and 311,800 in local public education. Our need for schools have not gone down in that period, and we still need people to respond to disasters like Hurricane Sandy and the fires of the Southwest.
To solve our multi-million jobs deficit, we will need to create jobs at twice the rate we have. Rather than argue about continuing sequestration, we must be arguing about how many teachers we can hire. Deficit reduction has not led to rapid job growth, but hiring public workers will. And, we cannot forget the deficit we are leaving our children by letting our infrastructure crumble. The deficit is smaller, in part, because the cost of servicing the federal debt is low because of the current low interest rates. If we force our children to pay inflated prices for restoring our bridges and sewer systems at high interest rates, we will be leaving them with more debt, not less debt, than if we make those fixes now. And, in the process, get people on the job building America.
Wall Street is back. Deficits are down. Now let's get Main Street and Martin Luther King Avenue back up and running. Â
William Spriggs serves as Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO and is a professor in, and former chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Bill is also former assistant secretary for the Office of Policy at the United States Department of Labor.


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Really like cactus blossoms. So pretty!
April 3, 2013
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MIDDLEBURY — Citing reduced orders for its bristle products and growing competition, Monahan Filaments executives confirmed on Wednesday they will close the company's Middlebury plant on Nov. 15, thereby ending employment for 69 full-time workers.
"We don't have the business to support the facility," said Brian Crawford, vice president and general manager of Monahan Filaments, which in 2007 bought the former Specialty Filaments business out of U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
The Trail Around Middlebury (TAM), a 16-mile loop of paths that circle the village, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month.
Note: This is an expanded version of a story that appeared online on Saturday, Sept. 5.
VERGENNES — The Vergennes police chief and a junior police officer have resigned in the past week. Chief Mike Lowe resigned on Friday, Sept. 4, and City Manager Mel Hawley on Tuesday received officer Matt Roorda's official letter of resignation.
ADDISON COUNTY — Every year in the United States, anywhere from five to 20 percent of the population gets the flu, and more than 200,000 individuals are hospitalized from complications from seasonal flu.
But the buzz this year isn't about the seasonal flu. It's about the flu caused by the H1N1 virus, which was first detected in individuals in the United States in April. In June the World Health Organization signaled that a pandemic of the novel H1N1 flu was under way.
ADDISON — Lee and Pat Kayhart have each slung a bucket or two during their 40 years of dairying at their farm in West Addison.
Now the couple is poised to retire, selling their business interests to their sons — but they are not done with buckets. Lee Kayhart has started crossing off items on his "bucket list," an ambitious series of accomplishments he'd like to cross off before he is no longer able. Kayhart, 61, and a couple of his buddies recently crossed off a big one, in the form of a parachute jump not five miles from the Kayharts' farm.
BRANDON — The Otter Valley Union High School football team scored touchdowns on eight of its first nine possessions and held visiting Mount Abraham to minus yardage through three periods on Saturday, when the Otters defeated the Eagles, 56-7, before more than 500 fans on the first football game at the newly rebuilt Markowski Field.
The victory on the new field made the day more meaningful, said junior OV quarterback Zakk Williams, who completed five of six attempts for four touchdowns and 115 yards.
My son Peter is 14 and in the ninth grade. He has decided to play football this year on the Middlebury Union High School freshman team. I hope he's a better player than I was.
My dad, Peter's Granpa, was a genuinely good football player, captain of the 1934 Bates College team, when football was king on college campuses and players were Big Men on Campus. He is a member of the Maine State Football Hall of Fame, among other gridiron honors, and still attends Bates' games in the fall, at age 98, when the weather allows. He loved the hurly-burly of the game.
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First, he blames Vermont Democrats for a budget process that was "rife with deficiencies and dysfunction," and second, he says the Republican Party's grasp on the fiscal crisis facing the state is better anchored in reality.
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And multiples of color were his specialty...
It makes perfect sense pastry chefs would flip for Warhol. Let's face it, not all French pastry is wildly colorful like these famous caneles of Bordeaux. So why not box them up in a Warholesque version?
Amazing how many "artists" rip off
old Andy. Did you say you wanted a "bit" of Warhol...or a "bite"?
There's no doubt the guy was out there, always being his very colorful self, like his art,
and like your blog, Carol.
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Color makes the world go round and much more enjoyably I might add. So do pastries! Have a great weekend Carol x
*sorry for the delete, I hate typos...
The Warholizer is one of my favorite FD Flickr toys!
And YES- YES- YES to the wall of chocolate bars!
Quite a tribute to Warhol!
I know very little about him, except the "Entertainment Tonight" style of biographies.
I hope that you have a great weekend and be sure to put another log on the fire :)
I think artists 'reference' Warhol rather than rip him off.
He created a new language in a way...
Lots to learn from him IMHO William...
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Transcend ALR4 ALi MAGiK 1 Motherboard Review
Introduction, Features and System Setup
This content was originally featured on Amdmb.com and has been converted to PC Perspective's website. Some color changes and flaws may appear.When I heard Ryan was looking for a reviewer for a motherboard I was quite excited. This would be a chance for me to see how the DDR boards run and at the same time help me decide if an upgrade is due for my current system.
As many of you may know I'm a gamer and I have a unique point of view being a cookie and everything so lets take a look at what we have. I'll be running the Transcend TS-ALR4 motherboard and 128megs of pc266 Transcend memory (part# TS16MLD64V6D5) through the paces. At first look the board resembles any other Socket-A ATX motherboard but with a couple differences. With a bit of a closer inspection you will see that this is a DDR motherboard. Another difference is that this board utilizes an ALiMAGiK M1647 Super Northbridge & M1535D+ Southbridge, which by the way also comes in a mobile configuration, it has integrated audio and also two sets of dipswitches and very few jumpers. The presence of dips really has my hopes up for the possibility of overclocking the setup in order to obtain maximum performance. Another one of the nice things is that a jumper (JP4) is used to reset the Bios in the event you try to push things past its limit. (Guess how I know this…) So lets look at a list of features the board offers.
- AMD CPU Duron 600~900+MHz(FSB 200 MHz)
- AMD CPU Athlon 600~1200+MHz(FSB 200/266 MHz)
- 100~150MHz(100/133 MHz guaranteed)
- Adjustable by BIOS
- 3x184 pin DDR DIMMs up to 3GB
- Support PC1600, PC2100 DDR memory
- 2 x PCI Bus Master IDE Ports support up to 4 devices
- Support PIO Mode 3/4
- Support DMA mode 2
- Support Ultra DMA 33/66/100
- Slot 1 x AGP4x slot
- 6 x PCI slots (PCI v2.2 compliant)
- I/O Port 1 x FDD port (3 mode, 1.2/1.44/2.88MB FDD, LS120 )
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse port
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard port
- 1 x Parallel port (SPP/EPP/ECP)
- 2 x RS232 port (16550 Fast UART compatible)
- 4 x USB ports (2 by cable)
- Game/MIDI connector
- Audio Line-out/Line-in/MIC-in jack
- PC99 color coding compliant
- ezBIOS Live update
- ezBIOS Anti-Virus
- ezBIOS BIOS protect
- Award BIOS with Green, APM, Plug and Play, DMI functions
- Enhanced ACPI Feature for PC98/Win98 Compliance
- System voltage, temperature & fan status monitor
- 3 x fan status monitors with F/W programmable fan speed
- CPU overheat alarm
- Keyboard/Alarm/Modem ring on
- Software power off control
- PC99 compliant
- Wake on LAN
- Boot-up virus warning
- Suspend to RAM (STR)
- Power failure resume
- CPU Core voltage adjustable
- ATX Form Factor
- 4 layer PCB
- 8.4" x 12" (21.3cm x 30.5cm)
The configuration
I have decided to test this board using two different configurations. The first will run an AMD 800mhz Duron and then we will test using a 1.2ghz T-bird. Below are the exact setup configurations.
Transcend TS-ALR4 Motherboard w/onboard audio
Transcend 128meg PC266 CL2.5 DDR SDRAM
AMD 800mhz Duron
VisionTek GeForce3 AGP (Detonator 11.01 Beta)
SMC 1211 nic
Win98se (DirectX 8.0a)
Transcend TS-ALR4 Motherboard w/onboard audio
Transcend 128meg PC266 CL2.5 DDR SDRAM
AMD 1.2ghz Thunderbird
VisionTek GeForce3 AGP (Detonator 11.01 Beta)
SMC 1211 nic
Win98se (DirectX 8.0a)


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The Morning Ledger: Companies Brace for Tough Q1
Fourth-quarter earnings have come out a bit better than expected. But the bar was low and a lot of companies are warning that the current quarter is turning out to be a lot tougher, reports the WSJ's Scott Thurm on A1 today. Sixty-three S&P companies have lowered their forecasts for Q1 earnings and only 17 have raised them, according to FactSet. That's the largest disparity since the firm began tracking the data in 2006. It's the same old story – executives are worried about shrinking European economies and skittish U.S. consumers, with gridlock in Washington exacerbating the situation.


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2 Kings
- Chapter 1
Ahaziah turns to Baalzebub to learn if he will live—Elijah prophesies Ahaziah's death—Elijah calls down fire from heaven to consume the soldiers sent to apprehend him.
- Chapter 2
Elisha and the prophets know that Elijah is to be translated—Elijah divides the waters of the Jordan and is taken up into heaven in a whirlwind—The mantle of Elijah falls on Elisha, who also divides the waters of the Jordan—Elisha heals the waters of Jericho—Youths are torn by bears for mocking Elisha.
- Chapter 3
Jehoram of Israel and Jehoshaphat of Judah join forces against Moab—Elisha promises them water for their animals and victory in the war—The Moabites are defeated.
- Chapter 4
Elisha multiplies the widow's oil—He promises a son to a Shunammite woman—The child dies and is raised to life by Elisha—He makes the poisonous food harmless—Bread and grain are multiplied for the people to eat.
- Chapter 5
Naaman, the Syrian, comes to Elisha to be healed of leprosy—He rejects the prophet's instruction at first but relents and dips himself in the Jordan seven times; he is healed—Elisha refuses to accept a reward—Gehazi accepts a gift from Naaman and is cursed with leprosy.
- Chapter 6
Elisha causes an ax to float—He reveals to the king how to conduct a war with Syria—Horses and chariots of fire protect Elisha—The Syrians are smitten with blindness—Benhadad besieges Samaria, and foodstuff sells for a great price.
- Chapter 7
Elisha prophesies incredible plenty in Samaria—The Syrian hosts flee at a noise of battle and leave their possessions—Israel takes spoil from the Syrians.
- Chapter 8
Elisha prophesies a seven-year famine—The Shunammite woman is preserved through the famine—Jehoram and then Ahaziah reign in wickedness in Judah.
- Chapter 9
A prophet anoints Jehu king over Israel and prophesies the destruction of the house of Ahab and the death of Jezebel—Jehu kills Joram in the field of Naboth—Jezebel is killed by Jehu and is eaten by dogs.
- Chapter 10
Ahab's seventy sons are slain—Jehu destroys the house of Ahab and all the worshippers of Baal, but he continues to worship the golden calves in Bethel and Dan.
- Chapter 11
Athaliah destroys the royal family in Judah and reigns herself in Judah—Joash is preserved and crowned king when seven years old—Jehoiada the priest destroys the house of Baal.
- Chapter 12
Jehoash (Joash) reigns in righteousness—The breaches in the temple are repaired—The safety of Jerusalem is purchased with the hallowed things in the temple—Joash is slain and Amaziah reigns.
- Chapter 13
Jehoahaz and his successors reign in wickedness in Israel—Elisha prophesies that Joash will defeat Syria—Elisha dies—A dead Israelite is restored to life after touching Elisha's bones.
- Chapter 14
Amaziah reigns well in Judah—Israel defeats Judah in battle—Jeroboam reigns in wickedness in Israel.
- Chapter 15
Many kings reign in Israel and in Judah—Their wickedness, wars, conspiracies, and evils are described—Much of Israel is carried captive to Assyria by Tiglath-pileser.
- Chapter 16
Ahaz reigns in wickedness in Judah—He offers his son in heathen sacrifice—He makes a new altar, destroys the brazen sea, and changes the method for sacrificing in the temple.
- Chapter 17
Hoshea reigns in Israel and is subject to the Assyrians—The Israelites forsake the Lord, worship idols, serve Baal, and reject all that the Lord has given them—The ten tribes are carried away captive by the kings of Assyria—The land of Israel (Samaria) is repopulated by other people—Many forms of false worship are found among the Samaritans.
- Chapter 18
Hezekiah reigns in righteousness in Judah—He destroys idolatry and breaks the brazen serpent made by Moses because the children of Israel burn incense to it—Sennacherib, king of Assyria, invades Judah—In a blasphemous speech, Rabshakeh asks Jerusalem to surrender to the Assyrians.
- Chapter 19
Hezekiah seeks counsel from Isaiah to save Jerusalem—Isaiah prophesies the defeat of the Assyrians and the death of Sennacherib—Hezekiah prays for deliverance—Sennacherib sends a blasphemous letter—Isaiah prophesies that the Assyrians will be destroyed and that a remnant of Judah will flourish—An angel slays 185,000 Assyrians—Sennacherib is slain by his sons.
- Chapter 20
Hezekiah is told he will die and pleads with the Lord; his life is lengthened fifteen years—The shadow goes back ten degrees on the sundial of Ahaz—Isaiah prophesies the Babylonian captivity of Judah.
- Chapter 21
Manasseh turns Judah to idolatry, even sacrificing a son to a heathen god—Prophets foretell the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem—Wickedness continues under Amon.
- Chapter 22
Josiah reigns in righteousness in Judah—Hilkiah repairs the temple and finds the book of the law—Josiah sorrows because of the wickedness of his fathers—Huldah prophesies wrath upon the people but blessings upon Josiah.
- Chapter 23
Josiah reads the book of the covenant to the people—They covenant to keep the commandments—Josiah overturns the worship of false gods, removes the sodomites, and puts down idolatry—Idolatrous priests are slain—Judah holds a solemn Passover—Egypt subjects the land of Judah.
- Chapter 24
Jerusalem is besieged and taken by Nebuchadnezzar—Many of the people of Judah are carried captive into Babylon—Zedekiah becomes king in Jerusalem—He rebels against Babylon.
- Chapter 25
Nebuchadnezzar again besieges Jerusalem—Zedekiah is captured, Jerusalem and the temple are destroyed, and most of the people of Judah are carried into Babylon—Gedaliah, left to govern the remnant, is slain—The remnant flee to Egypt—Jehoiachin is shown favor in Babylon.


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As the years and months went by, it has evolved into this really wonderful place for me to share so many things with all of you, not just our Arts'n Crafts projects, but our experiences, my personal feelings and thoughts and so much more.
To all my wonderful readers, I know many of you personally, many of you virtually. We have developed many special friendships and your positive emails and comments constantly put a smile on my face.
The nice thing about blogging is that it really makes you feel like you are not alone. That you are not the only mom on the planet who gave her kids cereal for dinner, twice this week!
I often get emails thanking me for my printables and asking me why I don't sell them instead of just giving them away for free.
My husband, who has been my number one fan and supporter in our Homeschool journey always tells me, "Why charge 99 cents for a booklet or worksheet and have 100 people buy it for their kids, when if you give it away for free, you can give a 1000+ Jewish kids the opportunity to enjoy it?"
So after much thought, and with so many people 'offering' to pay for my printables (!) we have put up a Donate button on the Left under my bio. Yes, your contribution is very much appreciated, but I will always continue to share whatever I do with my kiddos with you for free, because it just feels good to do that.
Wishing you all a wonderful, happy, healthy and sweet New Year! May Hashem bless you with lots of patience and strength, with lots of energy, with the ability to find the humor in many difficult situations, and to see the the good in all situations.
Shana Tova uMetuka!


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As a technical communicator, you've probably sent more PDFs out for review than any other type of file. Reviewers add their comments, which you incorporate by comparing the PDF file with the source .fm document. So far, but not anymore! FrameMaker 9 lets you import PDF comments directly into your documents.
It's a simple three-step workflow that you can now follow for reviews:
1. Generate a tagged PDF out of the FM file and send it for shared review. To do this, check Generate PDF For Review Only in the PDF Setup dialog box.
See Tagged PDF in the online FM documentation for details on tagged PDFs.
2. Let reviewers add their suggestions using the commenting features in Adobe Acrobat — sticky notes, text edits, text highlights, and so on.
3. Import the comments back into the source .fm file and choose which ones to keep. Before importing comments, FrameMaker lets you select if you want to import all comments or only comments of a specific kind.
An important prerequisite here is to not modify the source FrameMaker file after sending the tagged PDF for review until comments have been imported back into it. This ensures that the comments are inserted into their exact location in the FrameMaker document. The FM import summary dialog reports the number of comments that were inserted into an approximate location, but not their exact intended place.
After import, PDF comments are inserted into the FrameMaker document as tracked text edits, text formatting, or markers. In particular, sticky notes from the PDF are imported as markers. Use the Markers pod to read and manage these markers.
Your source document will look something like the screenshot below after PDF comments have been imported into it.
It's a few weeks now since I began using this feature, and I've found it quite a time saver. Read the Adobe Help article on this feature to get hooked onto it straightaway. For a list of other cool features in FrameMaker 9, click here.


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Hellloooo from the offices of Simon Says Stamp!
Every day I drive past Highbanks Metro Park on my way to work. It is less than 1 mile from our office park and warehouse. LUCKEEEEE DUCKS we are! This time of year is a special blessing because after a cold dark long winter, the park is alive with color and life. During my lunch, and often after work, I walk over there for some inspiration and mental planning time. Often, I enjoy a short hike. On today's hike I saw a vibrant blue jay. These nature hikes feed my soul. Do you have a park near you? What inspires you?
These are some of the pictures I took today. Can you see the puffy white clouds through the trees? The clouds remind me of Hero Arts' CLOUDS rubber stamp. The stream reminded me of the beautiful colors we've blended recently using Tim Holtz' alcohol inks. Sitting in my office running reports, writing email, planning marketing and absorbed in a day of work, it is delightful to know that just over my right shoulder is a whole world calling to be explored.
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The Inside Story of Coach Bo's Latest Prank
Watch Bo Pelini Pull a Fast One on His Team
Randy York's N-Sider
Official Blog of the Huskers
On a Friday, Aug. 16 evening meeting, Bo Pelini was looking for a unique way to tell his players that because they were working so hard, he'd decided a movie that night was in order. Nebraska's head coach thought Two Guns, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, was a worthy reward to replace that night's practice. To make the announcement more fun and inspiring, Pelini wanted drama, impact and celebration. So he came up with a plan and a plot to match his passion. Why not take his team down a notch before dramatically building it back up? Wouldn't that make the movie even a bigger treat?
"Bo wanted to surprise the players," said Mike Nobler, Nebraska football's video coordinator who worked with Pelini at Oklahoma before he joined Bo at Nebraska. Somehow, Pelini decided the best way to surprise his players was to fake out the whole team and then, at the end, say Got Ya! The result is Bo's latest prank, which went viral early Friday afternoon, locally, regionally, even nationally.
Randle Only Player Totally Clued in on Prank
It was Bo at his best, orchestrating a scenario that clued in only one player – Thad Randle, a 6-foot-1, 290-pound defensive tackle from North Shore High School in Galena Park, Texas. Randle's a smart, no-nonsense young man who graduated earlier this month with a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies.
You might question the Randle solo theme when you watch the video because Ron Kellogg III pulls out a camera and starts shooting his stunned teammates when they know they've been tricked, but understand this. Kellogg was our Huskers.com video-shooting partner for this year's Fan Day, so we asked him to shoot this particular team meeting as well, thinking it might qualify for a celebration if Bo should somehow replace that night's practice with a movie or some other special treat.
Only Bo, his coaches and Nobler were clued in on the real script. Kellogg knew something was going to happen but had no idea what it would be. Players also were unaware there were hidden cameras in the front of the room and in the back.
Nobler: Video All Bo's Idea, and It Worked!
There's no need to break down the plot. The video stands on its own. Nobler thinks Pelini could not have picked a better player than Randle as his supporting actor. "It was all Bo's idea, and it worked," he said. "I mean, I was in on it and felt the tension myself."
Nobler could not resist asking Bo a simple question: "How long do you want me to wait before I hit the screen with the Got Ya!'" he asked Bo, who replied: "You'll kind of know when to do it. Just give the rest of the players enough time to get really nervous."
Watch the video, and you'll understand why it works and why it has drawn more than 450,000 views in three days. The real inside story is this: The phone that rang in Randle's backpack in the video was Bo's cell phone, and the call was made by Nobler, who pressed the button on his own phone sitting behind the lectern where he usually stands in team meetings while running slides or showing video. Who's phone did Bo pull out of Randle's bag at the peak of his anger so he could pound it with the hammer he brought back into the room? That was an old, beat up phone of Bo's, too.
Calmest, Coolest Customer? Taylor Martinez
Yes, it was intriguing to see a room full of players sit in stunned silence. When they realized they had been hijacked by their own head coach and a popular player, there was jubilation. Kenny Bell goes as gaga as anyone in the room, racing around the auditorium with an animated victory lap like he'd just won a gold in London. Josh Mitchell was on the other end of the spectrum, stretched out on the floor and still emotionally shocked despite the energy, excitement and exultation around him.
Watch the video right down to the final seconds, and you'll see who the calmest, coolest person in the room is – Taylor Martinez. Sitting by himself in the front row, his smile says it all. Makes you wonder who could possibly enjoy tension and pressure as much as he does, even when it's manufactured and has an ironic twist at the end.
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iPhone users living in southern Australia were supposed to get an extra hour of sleep with the change to daylight savings on October 3, but didn't because the alarms on their iPhones went off an hour early. Apple knows about the bug and it should be fixed in the next update.
This is a very strange glitch because the iPhone's clock correctly updated with daylight savings, but the recurring alarm clock does not recognize the new time. However, a one-time alarm works just fine.
A representative from Apple Australia said that Apple is "aware of this issue and already developed a fix which will be available to customers in an upcoming software update." I expect this update will arrive before daylight savings goes into effect in the US in a few weeks.
In the meantime, users report that the best solution at the moment is to either set a new alarm every day or set your recurring alarm for an hour later than you want it to go off.
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Forester softball team falls twice to ONU
Monday, March 25, 2013 11:49 AM
The Huntington University softball team dropped a pair of games to visiting Olivet Nazarene University, 4-1, 8-0, on Saturday, March 23.
In game one, the Tigers managed to keep the Foresters, 2-2, off the board for the first five innings and built a 4-0 lead heading into the bottom of the sixth.
That's when Huntington found its swing, as Bailey McIntire and Annie Weaver belted out back-to-back singles to get on base. Though the next two Forester batters struck out, McIntire and Weaver made things happen on the base paths with a swipe apiece, the former stealing third and the latter grabbing second. Katie Knous broke the shutout when she singled McIntire home, but Weaver was tagged out to end the inning.
The Foresters held the Tigers scoreless at the top of the seventh, but a Cristin Carter single in Huntington's portion of the frame was bracketed by a pair of Forester strikeouts but Kaitlyn Troyer couldn't bring her teammate home, going down swinging.
No Huntington batter managed more than one hit against Olivet Nazarene's Caitlin Santefort, who went the distance for the Tigers on the mound and yielded only five hits, issued a single walk and punched out 14.
Hannah Gardner had the big stick for Olivet Nazarene, going 3 for 4 with two RBI and a run.
Marcie McDougle was the losing pitcher for the Foresters, giving up 16 hits over seven innings.
Huntington couldn't get going in the second game, managing only three hits against the Tigers' Virginia McAndrews, who struck out seven over six innings for the shutout.
Katie Megyesi, Hannah Gardner, Joydyn Truelock and Lindsey Krippel each had two hits for Olivet Nazarene.
Huntington's Katie Bowers went 1 for 3 with a double.
Ariel Sheets, Emily Puterbaugh and Kaylin Yon took the mound for the Foresters, surrendering a total of 11 hits and eight runs, seven of them earned, with Sheets taking the loss.


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What Is AIDS?
January 24, 2014
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What Does "AIDS" Mean?
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome:
AIDS is caused by a virus called HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. If you get infected with HIV, your body will try to fight the infection. It will make "antibodies" -- special molecules to fight HIV.
Tests for HIV look for these antibodies in your blood or mouth lining. If you have them in your blood, it means that you have HIV infection. People who have the HIV antibodies are called "HIV-Positive." Fact Sheet 102 has more information on HIV testing.
Being HIV-positive, or having HIV disease, is not the same as having AIDS. Many people are HIV-positive but don't get sick for many years. As HIV disease continues, it slowly wears down the immune system. Viruses, parasites, fungi and bacteria that usually don't cause any problems can make you very sick if your immune system is damaged. These are called "opportunistic infections." See Fact Sheet 500 for an overview of opportunistic infections.
How Do You Get AIDS?You don't actually "get" AIDS. You might get infected with HIV, and later you might develop AIDS. You can get infected with HIV from anyone who's infected, even if they don't look sick and even if they haven't tested HIV-positive yet. The blood, vaginal fluid, semen, and breast milk of people infected with HIV has enough of the virus in it to infect other people. Most people get the HIV virus by:
Getting a transfusion of infected blood used to be a way people got AIDS, but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is extremely low.
There are no documented cases of HIV being transmitted by tears or saliva, but it is possible to be infected with HIV through oral sex or in rare cases through deep kissing, especially if you have open sores in your mouth or bleeding gums. For more information, see the following Fact Sheets:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 1 to 1.2 million U.S. residents are living with HIV infection or AIDS; about 1 in 5 people do not know they have HIV. About 75 percent of the 50,000 new infections each year are in men and about 25 percent are in women. About half of the new infections are in Blacks, even though they make up only 12 percent of the U.S. population. Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) of all races and ethnicities remain the population most profoundly affected by HIV.
In the mid-1990s, AIDS was a leading cause of death. However, newer treatments have cut the AIDS death rate significantly. For more information, see the U.S. Government fact sheet at www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/factsheets/index.html.
What Happens if I'm HIV Positive?
You might not know if you are infected by HIV. Within a few weeks after being infected, some people get fever, headache, sore muscles and joints, stomach ache, swollen lymph glands, or a skin rash for one or two weeks. Most people think it's the flu. Some people have no symptoms. Fact Sheet 103 has more information on the early stage of HIV infection.
The virus will multiply in your body for a few weeks or even months before your immune system responds. During this time, you won't test positive for HIV, but you can infect other people.
When your immune system responds, it starts to make antibodies. When this happens, you will test positive for HIV. After the first flu-like symptoms, some people with HIV stay healthy for ten years or longer. But during this time, HIV is damaging your immune system.
One way to measure the damage to your immune system is to count your CD4+ cells. These cells, also called "T-helper" cells, are an important part of the immune system. Healthy people have between 500 and 1,500 CD4 cells in a milliliter of blood. Fact Sheet 124 has more information on CD4 cells.
Without treatment, your CD4 cell count will most likely go down. You might start having signs of HIV disease like fevers, night sweats, diarrhea, or swollen lymph nodes. If you have HIV disease, these problems will last more than a few days, and probably continue for several weeks.
How Do I Know if I Have AIDS?
HIV disease becomes AIDS when your immune system is seriously damaged. If you have less than 200 CD4+ cells or if your CD4 percentage is less than 14%, you have AIDS. See Fact Sheet 124 for more information on CD4 cells. If you get an opportunistic infection, you have AIDS. There is an "official" list of opportunistic infections, put out by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The most common ones are:
AIDS-related symptoms also include serious weight loss, brain tumors, and other health problems. Without treatment, these opportunistic infections can kill you. The official (technical) CDC definition of AIDS is available at www.thebody.com/content/art14002.html.
AIDS is different in every infected person. A few people may die in a few months after getting infected, but most live fairly normal lives for many years, even after they "officially" have AIDS. A few HIV-positive people stay healthy for many years even without taking antiretroviral medications (ART).
Is There a Cure for AIDS?
Though there are two cases of people who have been cured, there is currently no safe cure for HIV (see Fact Sheet 485). There is no way to "clear" HIV from the body. Antiretroviral therapy (ART, see Fact Sheet 403) can slow down the HIV virus, and slow down or reverse the damage to your immune system. Most people stay healthy if they stay adherent to ART.
Other drugs can prevent or treat opportunistic infections (OIs). ART has also reduced the rates of most OIs. A few OIs, however, are still very difficult to treat. See Fact Sheet 500 for more information on opportunistic infections.
For More Information
More detailed information on AIDS can be found at MedLine Plus at www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aids.html.
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Committee Opinion Number 772, March 2019
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 661, April 2016)
ABSTRACT: Immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases is an essential component of women's primary and preventive health care. Many studies have shown that a recommendation from an obstetrician–gynecologist or other health care provider for a vaccine is one of the strongest influences on patient acceptance. Obstetrician–gynecologists and other health care providers should develop a standard process for assessing and documenting the vaccination status of patients and for recommending and administering vaccines. If allowed by state law, obstetrician–gynecologists and other health care pro...
Committee Opinion Number 749, August 2018
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 574, September 2013
ABSTRACT: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reaffirms its support of unrestricted access to legal marriage for all adults. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that no matter how a child comes into a family, all children and parents deserve equitable protections and access to available resources to maximize the health of that family unit. Obstetrician–gynecologists should recognize the diversity in parenting desires that exists in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and gender nonconforming communities and should...
Committee Opinion Number 627, March 2015
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 425, January 2009, Reaffirmed 2017)
ABSTRACT: Unauthorized (undocumented) immigrants are less likely than other residents of the United States to have health insurance. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has long supported a basic health care package for all women living within the United States without regard to their country of origin or documentation. Providing access to quality health care for unauthorized immigrants and their children, who often were born in the United States and have U.S. citizenship, is essential to improving the nation's public health.
Committee Opinion Number 626, March 2015
Reaffirmed 2017
ABSTRACT: Young women (aged 18–26 years) are a heterogeneous population transitioning from adolescence into adulthood who may present with unique issues and challenges, including a potential gap in health care after pediatric health care. Obstetrician–gynecologists should note that these patients may need assistance in transitioning from a pediatrician to a provider of adult health care (an internist, family practitioner, or obstetrician–gynecologist), especially in the absence of a parent. Preventive counseling is crucial for helping young women anticipate changes and stressors and for easin...
Committee Opinion Number 625, March 2015
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ABSTRACT: Women with dense breasts have a modestly increased risk of breast cancer and experience reduced sensitivity of mammography to detect breast cancer. However, evidence is lacking to advocate for additional testing until there are clinically validated data that indicate improved screening outcomes. Currently, screening mammography remains the most useful tool for breast cancer detection and consistently has demonstrated a reduction in breast cancer mortality. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists does not recommend routine use of alternative or adjunctive tests to scr...
Committee Opinion Number 592, April 2014
(Reaffirmed 2016. Replaces Committee Opinion Number 499, August 2011)
ABSTRACT: Reproductive-aged victims of sexual assault are at risk of unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and mental health conditions, including posttraumatic stress disorder. Health care providers should screen routinely for a history of sexual assault and offer victims both emergency contraception and sexually transmitted infection prophylaxis. The health care provider who examines victims of sexual assault has a responsibility to comply with state and local statutory or policy requirements for the use of evidence-gathering kits.
Committee Opinion Number 591, March 2014
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ABSTRACT: Overweight and obesity are epidemic in the United States. Obesity is a risk factor for numerous conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, stroke, heart disease, certain types of cancer, and arthritis. The prevalence of obesity is high, exceeding 30% in adult women and men. Many women, irrespective of demographic characteristics or income, are vulnerable to becoming overweight or obese because of limited resources for physical activity and healthy food choices, work commitments, and family demands. Clinicians and public health officials should address not only i...
Committee Opinion Number 576, October 2013
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ABSTRACT: Homelessness continues to be a significant problem in the United States. Women and families represent the fastest growing segment of the homeless population. Health care for these women is a challenge but an important issue that needs to be addressed. Homeless women are at higher risk of injury and illness and are less likely to obtain needed health care than women who are not homeless. It is essential to undertake efforts to prevent homelessness, to expand community-based services for the homeless, and to provide adequate health care for this underserved population. Health care pro...
Committee Opinion Number 569, August 2013
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ABSTRACT: Oral health is an important component of general health and should be maintained during pregnancy and through a woman's lifespan. Maintaining good oral health may have a positive effect on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other disorders. In 2007–2009, 35% of U.S. women reported that they did not have a dental visit within the past year and 56% of women did not visit a dentist during pregnancy. Access to dental care is directly related to income level; the poorest women are least likely to have received dental care. Optimal maternal oral hygiene during the perinatal period may ...
Committee Opinion Number 525, May 2012
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ABSTRACT: Lesbians and bisexual women encounter barriers to health care that include concerns about confidentiality and disclosure, discriminatory attitudes and treatment, limited access to health care and health insurance, and often a limited understanding as to what their health risks may be. Health care providers should offer quality care to all women regardless of sexual orientation. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists endorses equitable treatment for lesbians and bisexual women and their families, not only for direct health care needs, but also for indirect health car...
Committee Opinion Number 518, February 2012
ABSTRACT: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant yet preventable public health problem that affects millions of women regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or educational background. Individuals who are subjected to IPV may have lifelong consequences, including emotional trauma, lasting physical impairment, chronic health problems, and even death. Although women of all ages may experience IPV, it is most prevalent among women of reproductive age and contributes to gynecologic disorders, pregnancy complications, unintended pregnancy, and s...
Committee Opinion Number 498, August 2011
ABSTRACT: Long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse are varied, complex, and often devastating. Many obstetrician-gynecologists knowingly or unknowingly provide care to abuse survivors and should screen all women for a history of such abuse. Depression, anxiety, and anger are the most commonly reported emotional responses to childhood sexual abuse. Gynecologic problems, including chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia, vaginismus, nonspecific vaginitis, and gastrointestinal disorders are common diagnoses among survivors. Survivors may be less likely to have regular Pap tests and may seek little o...
Committee Opinion Number 496, August 2011
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ABSTRACT: Compared with men, at-risk alcohol use by women has a disproportionate effect on their health and lives, including reproductive function and pregnancy outcomes. Obstetrician–gynecologists have a key role in screening and providing brief intervention, patient education, and treatment referral for their patients who drink alcohol at risk levels. For women who are not physically addicted to alcohol, tools such as brief intervention and motivational interviewing can be used effectively by the clinician and incorporated into an office visit. For pregnant women and those at risk of pregna...
Committee Opinion Number 479, March 2011
ABSTRACT: Methamphetamine abuse has continued to increase in the United States since the late 1980s with its use spreading from the West Coast to areas across the country. Methamphetamine use in pregnancy endangers the health of the woman and increases the risk of low birth weight and small for gestational age babies and such use may increase the risk of neurodevelopmental problems in children. All pregnant women should be asked about their drug and alcohol use. Urine toxicology screening may be useful in detecting methamphetamine and other substance abuse during pregnancy, but this screening...
Committee Opinion Number 423, January 2009
Abstract: Applying the principles of motivational interviewing to everyday patient interactions has been proved effective in eliciting "behavior change" that contributes to positive health outcomes and improved patient–physician communication. Current Procedural Terminology codes are available to aid in obtaining reimbursement for time spent engaging patients in motivational interviewing for some conditions.
Committee Opinion Number 385, November 2007
Reaffirmed 2016
ABSTRACT: Health care providers occasionally may find that providing indicated, even standard, care would present for them a personal moral problem—a conflict of conscience—particularly in the field of reproductive medicine. Although respect for conscience is important, conscientious refusals should be limited if they constitute an imposition of religious or moral beliefs on patients, negatively affect a patient's health, are based on scientific misinformation, or create or reinforce racial or socioeconomic inequalities. Conscientious refusals that conflict with patient well-being should be a...
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Team USA opens IPC Nordic World Cup with Top 10 results
VUOKATTI, Finland — Two members of the U.S. Paralympic Nordic National Team, Dan Cnossen and Andy Soule, traveled to Vuokatti, Finland for the season opening International Paralympic Committee Nordic World Cup events, last week. Over the two cross-country and three biathlon races, the two had impressive Top 10 highlights as they build towards the 2013 World Championships in Feb. in Solleftea, Sweden.
Cnossen (Topeka, Kan.) finished with two Top 10 results including a career best fifth place finish, which brought him within 10 seconds of a podium. Vancouver 2010 Paralympic biathlon bronze medalist Soule (Pearland, Texas) showed he is getting back into peak fitness with two Top 10 results, hitting his targets with precision shooting — 9 out of 10 targets — in the sprint biathlon event earning an eighth place result. Soule then shot 19 of 20 targets in the long biathlon event.Extended race results from the Vuokatti World Cup can be found here.
Next for Cnossen and Soule is the U.S. Adaptive Nordic National Championships at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah. After nationals, the athletes head to Cable, Wis., for a World Cup event, Jan. 13-20.


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from the urls-we-dig-up deptMilitary technology is improving in a lot of ways. Armies all of over the world are constructing better robots and bombs. Considering the pace of progress for these weapons, we might need another pass at international treaties for using them. Here are a few links discussing some newer weapons of warfare.
- The ethics of using robots for military operations is getting some attention. Usually, military robots have been assigned to dull, dirty or dangerous jobs -- but now they're being assigned to dispassionate tasks... (aka Terminator-like killing) [url]
- A hypersonic vehicle could hit a target anywhere on the planet in under an hour. The aerodynamics of hypersonic flight is being studied with real rockets flying through the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour. [url]
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