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Ralph Martire, executive director for the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, has a warning for the General Assembly: Most of the pension reform solutions you're considering are unconstitutional, and would be overturned after a court challenge by state employees.
Today marks a welcome fresh start. Illinois lawmakers now have a second chance to work with our coalition to produce a thoughtful, reasonable, and legal solution to the state's fiscal problems. Although public employees did not cause Illinois' pension funding dilemma, they are problem solvers by trade and willing to do their part to fix it. Accordingly, we will continue to work diligently to organize a summit with legislators as the 98th General Assembly begins its work.


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NEW YORK (AP) _ With the ink not even dry on the New York Jets' dreadful season, Rex Ryan fled to the Bahamas only to be photographed lounging poolside at a resort hotel, book in hand, with an interesting tattoo gracing his right biceps. It showed his wife, Michelle, wearing an unmistakably green Jets jersey emblazoned with the unmistakable No. 6 of embattled quarterback Mark Sanchez. And nothing else. The Daily News ran a front-page photo Friday and by lunchtime it was an Internet sensation. That's pretty much the way the NFL team's soap-opera season played out. Ryan was criticized for sticking with Sanchez despite losing efforts when Tim Tebow was available. The Jets finished the season 6-10. When approached by a Daily News reporter, Ryan cursed and bolted with his wife. There were no other jersey numbers tattooed on Ryan's arm, based on the photo. But it did sport a large shamrock with the names of his children.
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Lyrics & Chords
This is dedicated to Rafi Saab and our indian soldiers….who lay down their lives for our country…
I recorded the song yesterday and today when i was listening to the original , I was amazed by the ease Rafi Saab rendered the song and I had goose pimples coz of the way he conveyed all the emotions of a person who loves his/her country more than his life……
Panchabaanan said
Buddy Very Good Singing……Very Energetic….!!!
I think you can mix better than this…. by reducing the reverb…. and some other settings….
Krishnan N v ( nvk ) said
Hi raakesh…
Sounded like a Kishore da's version of the song….But was quite good…
The recording was not upto the required level…. The vocal was too prominent As PB said you could have reduced the reverb at least after the "Vatan saathiyon…" in the first line.
All the best
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Radhakrishnan Nair said
Well sung Rakesh. Recording could have been better.
Good luck!
Dhiraj Barla said
great attempt man, i don't know whether this is the right karaoke, you sang the high notes effortlessly, keep up the good work.
Pushpa . said
well sung.
but it seems that this song was sung by kishor ji…….
i feel that the feeling of this song is missing in the whole song……
and also this song is not from orignal scale……
somwhere i feel that u have prouncation problem as well as……
u have nice voice…….
but try to get feel……………then it will sound much better
Sushane Shankar said
Hi Rakesh……
Good job yaar……. i really dont know much abt rec 2 comment but i felt dat as a listener der was sum prob wid d song……. 2 much of reverb i guess………
but ur voice was AWESOME……… effortless singing…….
Looking 4ward 2 hearing more songs from ur end….
Sudeip Ghosh said
lol … i ll second NVK…this sounded more like a Kishore Kumar version of the song !! very nice loved it …
~ Muziboo…get an audience…BECOME A STAR !!!
Sourabh Sharma said
very nicely sung……
Learn Smthin Abt Evrythin n evrythin abt smthin
Harshan Nambiar (away for a month india vacation) said
Rakesh ….I had not heard this song of yours earlier ….now I know how this song would have sounded if Kishoreda had sung instead of Rafi saab :-) High notes were just awesome…very expressive ….rendition. I love this song and you have done full justice to the original by your soulful singing ….just felt some issues with beats ….neverthless an awesome rendition of an awesome song.
Full marks from me ….for this soulful rendition.
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Fret 'n' tune said
Loved this rendition for the emotional quotient. There were a lot of good emotions flowing through.
Pure singing wise, I think you held back, trying to get Rafi Saab's voice right with your pitching.
If time and willingness permit, do it sometime in your normal singing voice.
If you can try 'Suhani Raat Dhal Chuki', nothing like it. Rafi Saab's voice modulation was slightly different in his earlier days, and might be closer to your singing range.
Shaniruh said
Nice Attempt Rakesh ;-) as i always say you have a brilliant voice ;-)
Listen To My Latest :
Jab Koi Baat Biger Jai
Bhool Gaya Sab Kuch
Suhani Chandni Raaten
Zindagi Kay Safar Main
Cheers :-)
Ankit Anand said
agar kishore da is gane ko gate to aisa hi lagta……:)rakesh bhai plz plz plz sing phoolon ka taaron ka……plz
Lalit saidI LIKE THIS SONG… AND I LOVE INDIA….
Nice!! Looks like mix had a latency issue. Would you please share its Karaoke with me?
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Vidhya k said
Appreciate your singing with the right feelings. Many things wrong with the mixing. The Music seems to play from some where far away. This same piece would sound wonders with the right mixing.
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BURNETT COUNTY, Wisconsin (WQOW) - Gripping testimony in the case of the Burnett County parents charged in connection with their young daughter's death.
Three and a half year old Reena Williams of Danbury wandered away from her home in August. Rescuers found her body in a canal just a few yards away. Prosecutors charged Reena's parents, Jenna Danish and Thomas Williams with neglect, resulting in death.
At the Burnett County Government Center the judge made an important ruling in the case of 2 parents charged in the death of their young daughter. This summer -- Reena Williams wandered away from home--and drowned just 25 yards away. She was by herself.
Jenna Danish and Thomas Williams were in court Wednesday (10/31), where prosecutors laid out their case. Accusing the couple of neglect, resulting in death -- at their home surrounded by water.
District Attorney, William Norrine says, "When you have a circumstance where you have a very dangerous environment, I would argue the standard of care increases in that instance."
Where as Attorney, James Rennicke the Public Defender says, "We all as parents want to supervise our children. I think the overall history is that they did supervise their child."
Wednesday the judge heard from witness after witness about the girl apparently wandering off---up to a half-mile from home--numerous times.
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Automotive Digital Marketing ProCom 2014-09-23T22:29:46Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale http://api.ning.com/files/QRLV2bu-SV*kKST0DX0EseQBudmZBpTXavPmOe19sEkdyi7oMFEQ2tWe7NFN8H-RSC3fhX8wJllxsAWa0*xJgwwmN10Cz-0Bqxjhesnfuxw_/Mummyslonghair_edited.jpg?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1 http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=23cpxk6ak2i9t&feed=yes&xn_auth=no Five Technologies That Will Make Future Cars Safer tag:www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com,2014-09-20:1970539:Topic:556921 2014-09-20T15:20:36.645Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale

Pedestrians sometimes wander into traffic. Imagine if their cell phones could alert oncoming drivers. In a system being tested by auto-parts supplier Denso, computer software in the car would receive the phone signal, analyze speed and direction, and instantly determine if the pedestrian will cross the car's path. That cuts down on false warnings. "It even can go as far as…

Pedestrians sometimes wander into traffic. Imagine if their cell phones could alert oncoming drivers. In a system being tested by auto-parts supplier Denso, computer software in the car would receive the phone signal, analyze speed and direction, and instantly determine if the pedestrian will cross the car's path. That cuts down on false warnings. "It even can go as far as applying the brakes for you," said Doua Vang, a Denso engineering manager.

This life saving technology, along with four other life and/or time saving technologies, are being shown this week at the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in Detroit.

• Walking Safely

The technology is five or more years away. Cars need receivers and radio frequencies need to be set aside by the government. Sending out a constant signal will quickly drain a cell phone battery. And engineers are working on distinguishing between a phone in a pedestrian's pocket from one held by a passenger inside another car, Vang said. The hope is fewer pedestrian deaths. In 2012, the last year for which data is available, 4,473 pedestrians died in traffic crashes, the highest number in five years.

• Preventing Pileups

Black ice that forms suddenly is often blamed for multi-vehicle pileups worldwide, because drivers can't stop in time. Now, state transportation officials in Nevada, Minnesota and Michigan are testing technology that can warn people when the first car hits ice. "We're using it now," said Steve Cook, field services engineer for the Michigan Department of Transportation, who wouldn't guess how long it will take to get all cars on the system.

Sensors on the vehicles measure road surface temperature and other weather data. They also check the pavement for potholes. The cars relay the information, as well as data on location and windshield wiper, antilock brake and traction control use, to a central computer that sends messages telling other drivers to slow down.

• Automatic Braking

We've all seen television commercials advertising fancy radar systems that automatically brake a car to avoid a crash and save an inattentive driver. The systems are typically expensive options, around $3,000, on high-end luxury cars. But auto parts maker Aisin aims to bring the technology to mainstream cars.

The system's cameras, two in the front and two in the back, can sense children, other cars and even deer, and automatically brake the car, said Ichiji Yamada, deputy general manager of chassis systems. Engineers wouldn't reveal the price, but said Aisin is working with Toyota to put the system on mass-market cars around 2020. The cost is lower because of advancements in camera technologies.

• Traffic Light Alert

Bicycle riders are often ignored by systems designed to change a traffic light when a car arrives. A Raleigh, North Carolina, company called Kimley-Horn has come up with a smartphone app that gets cyclists noticed. It uses the phone's GPS and signals a central computer via the Internet to turn the light green. The system will be tested this fall with 100 cyclists in Austin, Texas. It could go citywide by 2016, said Kimley-Horn's Doug Gettman. Similar transmitters could be installed on all vehicles, so the computer can detect them and manage traffic lights, keeping them green for large blocks of vehicles, Gettman said.

• HOV Lane Monitor

Japanese technology company NEC wants to stop single riders from cheating in high-occupancy vehicle lanes reserved for cars with two or more people. NEC has a system of cameras and infrared sensors that records the number of people in a car and the license number. Isamu Suzuki, senior manager of business development, says enforcement is low because a limited number of humans monitor the lanes. The system can immediately notify police or store information so traffic tickets can be sent later. Due to privacy concerns, it doesn't store facial images. State governments could begin using the system late this year or early next year, hopefully speeding up travel for those who use the lanes properly.

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I've recently learned of a new car pricing tool that Vauto debuted earlier this year. I think we are going to sign up with it, but I wanted to know if any of you all were using it and what are your thoughts on it? Specifically, do you feel it works well and is a time saver when it comes to pricing new inventory and if you have found any "best practices" with it.

I've recently learned of a new car pricing tool that Vauto debuted earlier this year. I think we are going to sign up with it, but I wanted to know if any of you all were using it and what are your thoughts on it? Specifically, do you feel it works well and is a time saver when it comes to pricing new inventory and if you have found any "best practices" with it.
 Do Self-Driving Cars Spell Doom For Auto Insurers? tag:www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com,2014-09-13:1970539:Topic:555960 2014-09-13T17:38:11.501Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale
The self-driving car seems like a terrible driver's dream: no steering wheel to control, no trouble parallel parking, no concerns about having a couple of beers on the way home from work. But the removal of fallible human drivers might create havoc for auto insurers.

Human error accounts for 90 percent of road accidents, according to the International Organization for Road Accident Prevention, and our collective failure…

The self-driving car seems like a terrible driver's dream: no steering wheel to control, no trouble parallel parking, no concerns about having a couple of beers on the way home from work. But the removal of fallible human drivers might create havoc for auto insurers.

Human error accounts for 90 percent of road accidents, according to the International Organization for Road Accident Prevention, and our collective failure rate helps the auto insurance industry rake in a cool $157 billion in premiums each year. So if self-driving cars eliminate all those driver mistakes, the business of insuring vehicles will necessarily change as well.

A recent study by RAND Corp. predicted increased liability for auto manufacturers while personal liability plummets. "If a vehicle and a human share driving responsibility, the insurance issues could become more complicated," the study noted. The RAND authors had a sober message for insurers: If automated vehicles succeed in reducing the risk of crashes, the industry could see a "significant reduction in insurance premiums." The average cost of auto insurance in the U.S. is $1,020, according to AAA, giving the industry a lot to lose.

In writing driverless insurance policies, underwriters will likely focus on the make and model of a car instead of a driver's accident history or how often he drives. There may also be the introduction of "black boxes," data recorders akin to those found in airplanes that can track car data and decipher what really happened seconds before a crash.

Another possibility: an uptick in no-fault insurance, where an insurer covers the damage regardless of who's to blame. This type of insurance has fallen out of favor in recent years as the cost of medical claims has increased, despite the expectation of lower litigation costs.

While it's too early to tell which way auto insurance will go, there's another cost for car owners that may go up. With fewer accidents keeping the nation well supplied with mechanics, repairing that fender bender may cost you more.
 RIP Facebook – February 4, 2004 to February 11, 2016 tag:www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com,2014-09-12:1970539:Topic:555977 2014-09-12T13:54:15.915Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale
MENLO PARK, Calif., February 11, 2016 – Facebook, the first major social-media network, which gained more than a billion users worldwide and revolutionized interpersonal communications forever, died today after suffering a long illness of user dissatisfaction. It was 12.

Facebook is survived by its father, Mark Zuckerberg; stepmother, Priscilla Chan; uncles, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Sean Parker; adopted siblings,…

MENLO PARK, Calif., February 11, 2016 – Facebook, the first major social-media network, which gained more than a billion users worldwide and revolutionized interpersonal communications forever, died today after suffering a long illness of user dissatisfaction. It was 12.

Facebook is survived by its father, Mark Zuckerberg; stepmother, Priscilla Chan; uncles, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Sean Parker; adopted siblings, Instagram and WhatsApp; benefactors including Peter Thiel and Accel Partners; and numerous children in the form of niche, private social networks.

A memorial service will be simultaneously broadcast at 3 p.m. GMT tomorrow on Google+ and YouTube as well as on major television networks throughout the world. Burial will be under the statue of John Harvard on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss will officiate.

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Facebook's dramatic life story involved stealth entrepreneurship, startup growth, company expansion, societal disruption, and wealth creation before falling victim to its own success later and turning off its users in attempts to make even more money.

But it all began as just a way for friends to keep in touch. Here were the overlapping phases of the life of the social-media giant. (For more details on the pivotal events in Facebook's life that I mention below, I will refer you to Wikipedia.)

Phase One: The College Network (2004 to 2005)

After spending a month writing Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg launched the social network on February 4, 2004 as a Harvard-only social network. It was merely a way for students to meet, connect, and interact with each other. Over the next two months, Facebook expanded to eight other major universities and was incorporated into a company founded by Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin.

In June, Facebook moved to Palo Alto, California, incorporated into a new company with Sean Parker as president, and received its first capital investment – $500,000 from Peter Thiel. In December 2004, Facebook gained its one-millionth user before expanding to colleges throughout the world in early 2005.

Phase Two: Expanding Into New Markets (2005 to 2007)

In May 2005, Accel Partners invested $13 million into Facebook to fuel its ever-increasing growth. In September of that year, the social network launched a high-school version – allowing teenagers to connect with each other just as college students had been doing.

In September of that year, Facebook unveiled the News Feed, an algorithm that shows a stream of updates from a person's "friends" on the network, and, most significantly, opened itself to everyone in the world (as long as they were at least thirteen years of age and had a valid e-mail address).

The significance of this move was that Facebook was now a way for everyone to keep in touch with friends and family – regardless of whether a person was at a school or university. It was a pivotal move that made the social network the center of communication between people.

Phase Three: The First Attempt at Monetization (2007 to 2009)

In October 2007, Microsoft bought a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million. Rumors of buyouts had been circulating for some time, and other social networks such as Twitter had arrived on the digital scene. Facebook then started to change its focus from simply being an innovative communications platform to finding a way to monetize and make a profit.

In November 2007, Facebook started to offer advertising for the first time with the launch of Facebook Beacon. Data from forty-four partner sites (at the beginning) would be sent to Facebook in the form of targeted advertisements and more based on a user's activity on one of those sites. This use of personal data was the beginning of what many would see as a growing infringement on personal privacy.

The push for advertising – something that had never existed on the network before – undoubtedly worried more than a few employees who had owned stock options likely because they thought the push to make money would eventually turn users off. (The employees were correct – it would just take longer than they had thought.) In August 2008, several of them sold their shares to venture-capital firms.

Facebook Beacon was closed in September 2009 – but other forms of advertising that would allegedly be "better" would come soon.

Phase Four: Page Payments and Competition (2010 to 2013)

In April 2010, Facebook created "community pages," which were articles that were populated with information from Wikipedia. This change soon paved the way for businesses, brands, and organizations to create their own "pages" – as opposed to the "profiles" for individual people – to market themselves on the network.

After Facebook pages became very popular as a way for businesses to promote themselves – at first – for free, the network unveiled "featured posts" in January 2012 as a way for them to advertise to the friends of people who had engaged with their pages. Facebook would eventually settle a lawsuit on these renamed "sponsored posts" for $20 million. Moreover, Facebook would start to become the target of accusations of "click fraud" and "like fraud."

In October 2010, the film "The Social Network" was released to tell the story of how Facebook was created, and its unflattering portrayal of Zuckerberg would haunt the network for the rest of its life after people realized the founder's alleged business practices.

Along with the notoriety came the competition. Google, noting the success of Facebook, created Google+ -- which many viewed as the search engine's answer to Facebook. Even though Google+ has remained a smaller network – but it is huge in certain niches – its users have liked the fact that everyone's friends and family members are not there and that people are not bombarded with advertisements. (Besides, Google+ is actually much more than a social network.)

The rise of other networks would come largely as methods to capitalize on the growing dissatisfaction that many people had with Facebook.

Phase Five: IPO AND Acquisitions (2012 to 2014)

By April 2012, Facebook saw that it had a major problem – teenagers, whose reputation as early adopters led them to be viewed as an important demographic, had started to abandon the platform. After Facebook had allowed anyone and everyone onto the social network, high-school students started to get "friend requests" from their parents and other family members.

Understandably, they were horrified and started to gravitate towards other competing networks such as Instagram. So, that month, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion.

Despite the warning signs, Facebook went public. In May 2012, Facebook's IPO opened at $38 dollars per share – valuing the company at $104 billion. More financial activity followed. Facebook offered to buy Snapchat for $3 billion but was not successful. The social network did buy WhatsApp for $19 billion.

Phase Six: Abandonment and Decline (2014 to 2016)

Facebook's ability to capture and use personal data only improved – much to the horror of users who had attempted to ignore what everyone knew the social network was doing.

In March 2014, Facebook's face-recognition algorithm – which had been the focus of legal controversy since 2011 – became as accurate as human beings. By 2015, people saw that ads were targeting them based on the images in which they had appeared – even if they had not been tagged and had asked "friends" to delete undesired photos of them. There was no way to delete the information that Facebook had stored.

By the middle of 2015, Facebook faced a serious revenue problem. User growth in developed countries – where the social network can charge a premium for advertisers – started to decline as a result of all of these ongoing concerns while the only increased usage was in developing countries in which people have little money to spend on advertising.

As a result, Facebook began a death-spiral. To keep maximizing revenue and profits in the developed world, Facebook increased its ad penetration. Up to 25% of the News Feed was sponsored content. Facebook began sending push notifications several times per day from advertisers via its mobile app. Outraged users began deleting their accounts. The user growth in the Third World was nowhere near enough to compensate. Revenue plummeted along with Facebook's share price.

In December 2015 -- exactly eleven years after the network had gained its millionth user – Facebook issued a press release stating that the network would close on February 11, 2016, but that the company would retain the rights to any original content, posts, graphics, and video that had ever first been published on the platform.

The news release closed with this announcement: "We look forward to exploring how to monetize Instagram and WhatsApp just as Facebook did successfully."

For his more extensive analysis, please see Josh Kline's essay on the past, present, and future of Facebook at The Cline Group.
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Rather than speaking up when they see something wrong or have good suggestions, many employees feel that keeping their mouths shut is the best way to go.

One of the reasons for being so tight-lipped can be attributed to a belief by employees…

Rather than speaking up when they see something wrong or have good suggestions, many employees feel that keeping their mouths shut is the best way to go.

One of the reasons for being so tight-lipped can be attributed to a belief by employees that regardless of what they say, they feel they aren't powerful enough to actually make a difference, according to a new study to be published in the Personnel Psychology journal.

For their research, the authors conducted three studies: a laboratory experiment, a survey of health care workers and a survey of employees in a wide range of industries. They discovered that employees often choose to withhold information about important issues or concerns at work, which can cause problems to persist and escalate. The authors found that a key factor contributing to silence is an employee's perception that he or she has little power in relation to others at work.

"A low sense of power makes people feel less confident and optimistic, meaning that employees will be less likely to believe that speaking up will make a difference," Elizabeth Morrison, one of the study's authors and a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, told Business News Daily. "This feeling of 'why bother?' has been found to be a strong inhibitor to speaking up."

Employees also tend to stay silent on many issues because they fear some sort of reprisal, Morrison said. [Follow the Leader: How Power Influences Groups]

"A low sense of power makes people more likely to see speaking up as risky or dangerous," Morrison said.

Not speaking up, however, especially when wrongdoings are seen, can have disastrous consequences, the authors said. Among the examples they point to include the implosion of Enron, the crash of the space shuttle Columbia, the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State and the faulty ignition switch debacle at GM.

"In each case, there were people who were aware of serious issues or problems, but they failed to speak up and the situation escalated," the study's authors wrote in their research.

To combat this problem of zipped lips among employees, it is critical that managers foster a work environment that reduces feelings of powerlessness among employees, according to the research. Morrison said supervisors must convey genuine openness to input in order to encourage more upward communication.

 Morrison said research suggests the main things supervisors can do to encourage more speaking up by employees include:
 Consultation: If supervisors regularly seek input, employees will be more likely to voluntarily offer input even when not asked.
 Follow up: If employees offer input and it repeatedly falls on deaf ears and fails to lead to any action, they will tend to shut down over time.

Acknowledge weaknesses and mistakes: Humility and ability to admit that one is imperfect go a long way toward creating a safe environment for employees to offer criticism or point out problems.

Additionally, anything that helps to reduce the status and power differences between supervisors and employees can also help create an environment where are employees are more likely to speak up, Morrison said.

Morrison and co-authors Kelly See, a New York University professor, and Caitlin Pan, a lecturer at SIM University in Singapore, said the goal of their research was to better understand why employees don't speak up more often and how this tendency to withhold important information can be mitigated, so that hopefully more problems and errors in the workplace can be avoided.

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 The Source Of August 2014′s U.S. Auto Sales Growth tag:www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com,2014-09-06:1970539:Topic:555594 2014-09-06T13:47:39.739Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale
 Forecasts didn't call for rain on August 2014's auto sales parade, but there was definitely a general feeling of overcast heading into Wednesday as automakers prepared to release their monthly and year-to-date sales results.

The rate of growth in…

Forecasts didn't call for rain on August 2014's auto sales parade, but there was definitely a general feeling of overcast heading into Wednesday as automakers prepared to release their monthly and year-to-date sales results.

The rate of growth in the U.S. auto industry since the recession ended has been striking, but the chances of that growth lasting forever – particularly when a month like August is compared with a very strong month like August 2013 – seemed slim.

Yet auto sales increased by 5.5% to more than 1.58 million in August 2014, an improvement of more than 80,000 units.

The forecasts weren't all wrong. High-volume brands like Chevrolet, Dodge, and Volkswagen all reported losses, a 13% decline in Volkswagen's case, the 17th consecutive month in which Volkswagen brand sales have decreased in the United States.

Jaguar volume fell 31%. Infiniti volume fell 23%. Fiat was down 20%. Scion sales likewise slid 20%. Cadillac volume was off August 2013's pace by 18%. Sales at BMW's Mini brand were down 17%. Buick and Volvo both lost 10%; Acura and Land Rover fell 9%. Lincoln was just south of level.

The bright spots, however, were particularly bright. Jeep, Ram, Subaru, Nissan, and Toyota were the biggest brands to post significant increases. Maserati, Porsche, Smart, Mitsubishi, and Audi were among the lower-volume auto brands to post meaningful improvements: 278%, 36%, 34%, 28%, and 22%, respectively.

Mazda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, GMC, and Lexus all grew by at least 10%. Toyota brand sales were up 7%. Hyundai grew 6%. (Kia, Chrysler, Honda, Bentley, and Ford improvements were all below the market's 5.5% growth rate.)

Back to those five large and fast-growing brands, Jeep reported its best-ever sales month for the new Cherokee, America's eighth-ranked SUV/crossover in August. Ram's market share in the full-size truck category grew by more than four percentage points. Subaru sold more than 50,000 vehicles for the first time in a single month, and Nissan reported a car sales improvement of 18% in a car market that improved by just 2%. Toyota shot the RAV4 up to top spot among utility vehicles with record sales in a second consecutive month.

As for the fast-growing lower-volume brands, Maserati outsold Jaguar, albeit by just 49 units. Even with the Macan excluded, Porsche sales jumped 7.3%. Mercedes-Benz reported more than 1000 Smart Fortwo sales for the third time in five months, having not done so previously since September 2012.

Mitsubishi is not back to being a brand that can sell more than 300,000 cars annually in the United States, but sales have increased in six consecutive months and in ten of the last eleven months.

Audi reported its highest-ever monthly sales in the U.S. in August, generating 41% of the brand's sales with Q models and the A4 Allroad, including the first 243 Q3 sales.

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 Your GM Car Will Soon Know When You're Texting (And Tell You To Stop) tag:www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com,2014-09-02:1970539:Topic:555272 2014-09-02T19:18:21.813Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale
A decade ago, you'd assume that the idiot on the highway in front of you weaving back and forth across the yellow lines was drunk. Today, there's a pretty good chance that they're just trying to navigate some particularly complicated emoji. GM wants to stop the madness, and it's betting on eye-tracking to do so.

In an effort to curb driver distraction, GM has announced that it will install half a million…

A decade ago, you'd assume that the idiot on the highway in front of you weaving back and forth across the yellow lines was drunk. Today, there's a pretty good chance that they're just trying to navigate some particularly complicated emoji. GM wants to stop the madness, and it's betting on eye-tracking to do so.

In an effort to curb driver distraction, GM has announced that it will install half a million eye-tracking devices in cars over the next few years. It'll be the first major automaker to do so, and according to a report by The Financial Times (paywall), it's buying the technology from an Australian company called Seeing Machines.

Seeing Machines makes a couple of different tracking devices; some of them are aimed at monitoring exhaustion in long-haul truckers, others can detect distraction in users in situations that range from flight simulators to actual pilot cockpits. It seems like GM will be utilizing the company's Fovio model, since it's listed as a partner on the device's website, though it's possible that some other device is being developed for GM.

Fovio looks a bit like a small Kinect and can be mounted or embedded within the dashboard. It's able to not only track things like your eye movement and how much you're blinking, but also where your head is in relation to the rest of the car. According to FT, Seeing Machines is also working on adding biometric tracking data like your BAC and heart rate—which is specific enough to raise issues of data privacy, even this early in the game.

From GM's perspective, though, it's all in service of being able to know when you need a gentle (or not so gentle) reminder to watch the road. And if the technology catches on, it could be a major step towards eradicating texting-and-driving—surely one of the dumbest, most preventable reasons for accidents.

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 Is #AutoMarketing Becoming A Car Buyer's Latest Stalker? tag:www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com,2014-09-02:1970539:Topic:554850 2014-09-02T12:18:28.006Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale

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Future Auto Marketing Could Be a Little Creepy Get ready for brands to follow you everywhere.

If the automotive industry can be seen as a bellwether for digital marketing, get ready for some seriously precise targeting that straddles the line between powerfully…

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Future Auto Marketing Could Be a Little Creepy Get ready for brands to follow you everywhere.

If the automotive industry can be seen as a bellwether for digital marketing, get ready for some seriously precise targeting that straddles the line between powerfully scientific and creepily intrusive...

Written by Mike Shields

During a lively presentation at the J.D. Power Automotive Marketing Roundtable event in Las Vegas, Yong Sung, svp and digital group client director for MediaVest, and Duncan McCall, CEO and co-founder of the mobile data firm PlaceIQ, laid out a current campaign designed to target in-market car buyers, one that tracks people from the moment they begin contemplating making a purchase to the moment they leave their house and head to the dealer.

According to Sung and McCall, auto brands are currently testing using actual vehicle registration data, blended with data from auto researchers like Polk and location data from their personal mobile devices. The pair showed maps tracking groups of car shoppers as they traveled from place to place in their own neighborhoods, and laid out scenarios where they might be able to deliver ads to these folks as they visit physical dealer locations, and different ads as they go across the street to a competitor's dealership.

"We can remarket to consumers who have been to a car lot," said Sung. "This is about triangulation ... we can do this on a national scale."

Until recently, behavioral targeting has been limited to re-targeting consumers on their desktops based on their Web surfing history, Sung explained. But now, he said:

"Where you go is who you are. And we know where you live, where you've been and where you are going."

Whether or not a mobile banner ad, even with this level of precision targeting, can spark someone to buy a $40,000 car is still very much up for debate (as Weather Company chief global revenue officer Curt Hecht put it during a panel on Thursday):

"Banner ads are really difficult on mobile ... most peoples' thumbs accidentally click on them... And many think auto brands have been
 oversold on the Web."

Regardless, Sung said brands are already trying these sorts of powerful targeting tactics. And besides mobile ads, Sung added, this data cocktail of vehicle registration and location information could inform TV campaigns and direct mail.

While such a mobile-heavy, privacy-envelope-pushing approach may make some brands uncomfortable, the auto companies may have no choice, according to Clayton Stanfield, senior manager of dealer outreach for eBay Motors. That's because the millennial generation, the auto industry's next crucial target, lives this way.

Stanfield said that millennials won't tolerate the typical four-hour experience of buying a car from a dealer. They've done all the research on models, financing, etc., and they expect the experience to be quicker than the local sales guy wants. And they expect to be able to whip out their phones to comparison shop while they're walking the car lot. "There's a huge disconnect," said Stanfield.

Lee Nadler, marketing communications manager for Mini USA, concurred:

"People used to visit seven dealers. Now its 1.2. They do all the shopping research ahead of time. There is no linear funnel any more. And touch point by touch point, we have to sell cars."

Particularly to those millennials—who were a big theme at the show—as the industry grapples with research showing that young Americans care more about smartphones than Mustangs.

One obvious way to court the millennial demo is through social media.

During a fiery keynote speech on a Wednesday morning, Michael Accavitti, svp of automotive operations for Honda, referenced a socially-led campaign the company executed this past summer centered on the theme of saving American drive-in movie theaters.

Accavitti also showed clips showcasing Acura's product placement in Jerry Seinfeld's Web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, as well a two-minute Web video spot for Honda Civic featuring Nick Cannon (which has reached 2.5 million viewers and generated 70 million impressions) as examples of how the brand is targeting the young digital demo.

"We have to figure out how to target millennials, and this increasingly multicultural demographic," he said. "And we have to try things that might not work."

But perhaps tellingly, the culmination of Honda'a social campaign for drive-ins was a warm and fuzzy TV spot. And Accavitti showed four other heart-string-tugging TV spots during his keynote, exhibiting that for all the talk of mobile and social, Honda's bread and butter is still old-fashioned national TV.

Source: www.AdWeek.com/Future-Auto-Marketing-Could-Be-Little-Creepy
 Used No Illusion: Used-Car Values Mostly Unaffected by Recalls tag:www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com,2014-09-01:1970539:Topic:554632 2014-09-01T19:24:39.930Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale
Every time we see someone in a Chevy Cobalt, we resist the urge to ask them if they've made plans to sell it. As it turns out, those folks might still receive a decent return, as owners of these recalled cars—and many other models with highly publicized problems—aren't dumping them en masse.

According to a report from …

Every time we see someone in a Chevy Cobalt, we resist the urge to ask them if they've made plans to sell it. As it turns out, those folks might still receive a decent return, as owners of these recalled cars—and many other models with highly publicized problems—aren't dumping them en masse.

According to a report from Black Book, a trade publication that estimates residual values, some Cobalts actually increased in value after General Motors initially recalled 2005–2007 models for faulty ignition switches in February and expanded the problem to all Cobalts and many others at the end of March. From January through June 1, the average value of a 2005 Cobalt increased by 1.4 percent; the 2006 Cobalt went up 1.1 percent. While the 2010 Cobalt took a significant price hit between January 1 and March 1—at which point it hadn't yet been included in the recall—all other models ended June 1 fairly flat, according to Black Book. (Disclosure: Black Book is owned by Hearst, which also owns Car and Driver.)

Ford has recalled the 2013 Escape 10 times since its late 2012 debut, half of those for major engine failures involving fires and fuel leaks on its 1.6-liter EcoBoost. Yet Black Book found that the 2013 model "followed normal seasonal patterns" despite a sharp 3.0-percent month-over-month drop in May, the same month that Ford recalled more than 625,000 Escapes for airbag problems and sticky door handles. The 2013 models also followed depreciation rates of the previous-generation 2010–2012 Escape, even after Ford recalled 140,000 for overheating cylinder heads that led to engine-compartment fires.

What about Ford's Firestone debacle, where tires suddenly blew out and caused SUVs to lose control and flip? Aside from lawsuits, Ford and other financing lenders made out just fine. Looking at the 2000 Explorer, sales actually increased (versus a year earlier) when the recall began in August 2000, and residual values jumped in November when Ford added three higher trim lines. It was a similar story for the 2008–2009 Toyota Camry, which still outperformed its class average for monthly depreciation by the end of February 2010, whenToyota's unintended-acceleration recalls had reached critical mass. According to Black Book, 2008 Camrys had a 3.0-percent depreciation rate (compared with 3.5 percent among its segment peers) and 2009 Camrys showed a 3.6-percent rate (versus 3.9 percent).

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Of course, these are specific examples at specific dates and times, and auto sales and the data they churn out are cyclical, highly volatile beasts. But in general, Black Book said that while the "psychology" of a recall may make the cars appear to be at risk, "historical collateral data trends have shown that recalls typically do not adversely impact normal retention patterns of a vehicle, immediately after the recall is initiated as well as into the future." Even so, if you're looking at a used car, we'd still recommend using NHTSA's new VIN look-up tool to find out whether it's been recalled and, if so, if it has had the repairs completed.

Link to the Article on Car and Driver
 TURN CAPS LOCK OFF ON TWITTER, PLEASE tag:www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com,2014-09-01:1970539:Topic:554820 2014-09-01T11:00:58.517Z Donna Barradale http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profile/DonnaBarradale

Let's assume you don't care about getting unfollowed. Am I the only one who feels like this is an easy way to position your brand in a poor…

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(a) Applicable administrative authorities
Except to the extent inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter, the administrative authorities under chapters 1 and 2 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2351 et seq., 2381 et seq.] shall apply to the provision of assistance under this subchapter to the same extent and in the same manner as such authorities apply to the provision of economic assistance under part I of such Act [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.].
(b) Use of the expertise of Afghan-Americans
In providing assistance authorized by this subchapter, the President should—
(1) maximize the use, to the extent feasible, of the services of Afghan-Americans who have expertise in the areas for which assistance is authorized by this subchapter; and
(c) Donations of manufacturing equipment; use of colleges and universities
In providing assistance authorized by this subchapter, the President, to the maximum extent practicable, should—
(1) encourage the donation of appropriate excess or obsolete manufacturing and related equipment by United States businesses (including small businesses) for the reconstruction of Afghanistan; and
(d) Administrative expenses
Of the funds made available to carry out the purposes of assistance authorized by this subchapter in any fiscal year, up to 7 percent may be used for administrative expenses of Federal departments and agencies in connection with the provision of such assistance.
(e) Monitoring
(1) Comptroller General
The Comptroller General shall monitor the provision of assistance under this subchapter.
Source(Pub. L. 107–327, title I, § 106,Dec. 4, 2002, 116 Stat. 2805.)
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The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424. Part I of the Act is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 2151 et seq.) of chapter 32 of this title. Chapters 1 and 2 of part III of the Act are classified generally to parts I (§ 2351 et seq.) and II (§ 2381 et seq.), respectively, of subchapter III of chapter 32 of this title. For provisions deeming references to subchapter I to include parts IV (§ 2346 et seq.), VI (§ 2348 et seq.), and VIII (§ 2349aa et seq.) of subchapter II of chapter 32, see section 202(b) ofPub. L. 92–226, set out as a note under section 2346 of this title, and sections 2348c and 2349aa–5 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables.
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While many children learn by performing hands-on tasks, school systems have yet to figure out how to incorporate gardens, imagination workshops, and towering aqueduct mazes into their budgets. With 90,000 square feet of hands-on exhibits, the Children's Museum of Houston sparks creativity by allowing kids to explore 14 learning stations. Ranked No. 1 among the 10 best children's museums in the nation by Parents magazine, named one of the 12 best children's museums in the country by Forbes.com and one of the 10 best by USA TODAY, and voted Best Museum in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014 by the Houston A-List Poll, the museum has accrued a lot of praise. The Huffington Post has also given a nod to the Children's Museum of Houston, which encourages children to explore their curious nature with a variety of interactive exhibits. Exhibits include the interactive EcoStation, a solar-powered outdoor utopia with activities such as stream creation and leaf rubbing that inspire kids to think about environmental responsibility. At the Invention Convention workshop, kids can explore engineering possibilities with building blocks, propellers, and even basic robotics. The sprawling cityscape of Kidtropolis invites children to participate in a simulated economy. The experience requires them to earn paychecks, budget money on pretend debit cards, vote for political candidates, and learn how to obsessively check milk expiration dates at the onsite grocery store.
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With a stay at Hotel Contessa - Riverwalk Luxury Suites, you'll be centrally located in San Antonio, steps from Arneson River Theatre and Arneson River Theatre. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Tower Life Building and Aztec on the River.
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Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and business services. Planning an event in San Antonio? This hotel has 10000 square feet (929 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center, conference/meeting rooms, and small meeting rooms. Parking (subject to charges) is conveniently located nearby.
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Located in Lost Pines, Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa is on a river and within the region of Bastrop State Park and Lost Pines Golf Club. This 4-star hotel is within the region of Circuit Of the Americas.
Make yourself at home in one of the 491 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Your pillowtop bed comes with triple sheeting and down comforters. Rooms have private furnished balconies or patios. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature deep soaking bathtubs and makeup/shaving mirrors.
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Enjoy a bite to eat at a coffee shop/café, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). While enjoying a refreshing dip in the hotel pool, you can order your favorite drink at the poolside bar.
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Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, a computer station, and business services. Event facilities at this hotel consist of a conference center, conference/meeting rooms, and small meeting rooms. Free self parking is available onsite.
More than 325 bottles of international wine fill Zambrano Wine Cellar's shelves and its climate-controlled wine cellar, arranged by chef, wine enthusiast, and owner Cef Zambrano. When not hobnobbing with celebrities such as Harrison Ford, Nolan Ryan, and Katie Couric, Zambrano coordinates a menu of bistro fare to harmonize with his library of wine selections, which received the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in 2009. Zambrano presents updated takes on Mediterranean favorites, crafting small plates of escargot broiled in garlic butter and shallots, as well as four types of bruschetta topped with tomato, chicken, duck, or fillet tips. Diners can dive into shared nibbles with custom plates of international meats and cheeses or pizzas topped margherita-style or with signature spanish ham.
Zambrano's prized glass wine cellar sits behind a smooth stone bar, inlaid with variegated amethyst that glows as it catches the light better than an outfielder with a magnifying glass. While perched at its high-backed leather banquettes, diners can sip from the 50-plus list of wines by the glass while gazing at a flat-screen TV in the corner or admiring the custom art on the dining room's exposed-brick walls. In the front of the dining room, gauzy orange curtains frame sheets of sunlight that illuminate simple wooden tables, each adorned with a single flower that provides color and an amuse-bouche for hungrier guests. A sidewalk patio offers al fresco dining and bustling sights of Sundance Square.
In 1931, aviation legends such as Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart traversed the hallowed halls of Floyd Bennett Field, New York City's first municipal airport. Today, the same site harbors Aviator Sports and Events Center, which accommodates recreation in all of its forms, equipped with 20,000 square foot indoor field house, which includes newly resurfaced hardwood courts and new turf field, two outdoor synthetic-turf fields, and an outdoor space for events that can seat up to 4,000 people?the same number of people it takes to crack open a life-size Big Bird pi?ata. Twin NHL-regulation rinks host open-skate sessions, a majority of which are held on Rink B, every day of the week, with skates as late as 11 p.m. on weekends. Inside the center is a brand new CrossFit gym, which offers workout classes Monday through Saturday. Only youngsters enjoy summer or after-school camps, but adults and kids alike can take advantage of a roster of sports and leagues, including flag football and rock climbing, ideal for those looking to shorten morning commutes by cutting through the quarry.


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CHILTON, WI (WTAQ) - A judge in eastern Wisconsin has issued an arrest warrant for a convicted bigamist who skipped out on a court appearance Monday.
46-year-old Tim Swinea of Weston is facing forgery charges in Calumet County, after an ex-girlfriend told officers he took thousands of dollars from her company in a bad-check scheme.
A trial in that case is postponed. It was scheduled to begin next Wednesday in Chilton.
Swinea was released from the Marathon County Jail in Wausau on August 1st. That's where he served four months for bigamy, after a former wife from Weston learned that he was also married at the time to a Missouri woman who had three of his kids.
Penny Schoenke of Menasha was the victim in the Calumet County case. She told Wausau Daily Herald Media that she met Swinea online – and she almost married him.


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The Order of Precedence is the master list of Awards given in the East Kingdom and Awards given to Eastern populace, as well as some non-award information such as the Shield of Chivalry. This monumental task is managed by the Shepherd's Crook Herald, a deputy to the Brigantia Principal Herald.
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Bras on Broadway is just getting started in Downtown Fargo. The annual event to support Breast Cancer grows every year, and this year is no exception.
Last year was the first time they had enough bras to string them all around the building, but this year there are a few more surprises.
Karen Stoker, owner of the Hotel Donaldson, says they are calling it Bras Across Broadway. Looking up at the building cables of bras are floating above the heads of people and cars on the street.
In total there are 4,300 bras, those have been collected through the years.
The bras will be displayed through the week, be sure to check them out!
The group is also raising money for people fighting Cancer, all money raised stays in North Dakota and Minnesota.
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Ottawa County Red Cross and residents work for hurricane Sandy relief
To date the American Red Cross of NW Ohio has deployed 16 locally trained disaster services volunteers to help with the response to Hurricane Sandy.
Larry Coats of Elmore was one of the first on the road driving the Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) to New Jersey to wait out the storm then transport supplies, meals and other needed items to the impacted areas as soon as routes were open and safe. Many more will deploy in the next several days.
Mary Gangway Snyder of Mary's Blossom Shoppe, 125 Madison Street, Port Clinton, has announce that the Shoppe is offering a special to benefit the Red Cross's efforts to respond to Hurricane Sandy. During the month of November she will donate $5 of each $10 wrapped cash and carry fall bouquet to the American Red Cross.
The Ottawa County office has received numerous calls in the past week from people wanting to help. The response to Sandy is very large and very costly and the Red Cross needs the public's help now. More than 7,000 people spent the night in 115 Red Cross shelters in nine states. The Red Cross has already served more than 100,800 meals and snacks and mobilized more than 2,300 disaster workers and 200 emergency vehicles so far.
To make a financial donation, visit www.redcross.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Contributions may also be sent to the Ottawa County American Red Cross at or at P.O. Box 37243, Washington, DC 20013.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Red Cross blood drives have already been cancelled due to the storm resulting in a loss of more than 11,000 units of blood and platelet products. If anyone is eligible, especially in places not affected by the storm, they are asked to please schedule a blood donation Ottawa County Residents can help by donating blood at one of the following local drives:
Monday, Nov. 5, Port Clinton Moose, 1105 W. Lakeshore Drive, 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 5 – Peace Lutheran Church, 900 Jefferson Street (across from Port Clinton High School) 1 p.m.–6p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 6– Wesley Lodge, 510 Central Avenue, Lakeside, Noon – 5 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 9 – Magruder Hospital – By appointment only. Call Rachel Fall at 419-732-4061
Monday, Nov. 26 – St. John Lutheran Church, 122 W. Ottawa Street, Oak Harbor, Noon – 6 p.m.
"This response to Sandy is just getting started. The storm has left devastation in its wake and we will be helping people for weeks to come," said Tim Yenrick, Regional CEO for the American Red Cross of Northwest Ohio. "This will be very costly and the Red Cross needs help now. We ask everyone to support us as we help people recover from this massive storm."


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5 Steps To Organized Active Paperwork
Spoiler alert ahead; Instead of watching LOST Sunday night with the rest of the world, we tuned in to see Brett Michaels win Celebrity Apprentice. And while he was "hired" it was a long road to victory. For starters, he misplaced some very important paperwork needed to help his task along. Our 5 steps for keeping active paperwork organized, after the jump.
Prep your space Whether you're organizing for 15 minutes or an hour, you're going to want to create a distraction free zone. Turn the cell phone to silent, don't check your emails and if you come across something that lives somewhere else, put it back only when you're done organizing.
Sort Next, take a pile of paperwork and start sorting, like with like. To-do's in one pile, pending in another and so on and so forth. Don't let paperwork that you can't decide on trip you up. Set it aside and deal with it when you dedicating specific time to figuring it out. Right now, it's important to get through the pile of paperwork.
Choose a Home / Assign Color Where does your active paperwork live? In active file folders? In a pocket in your notebook? Pick a home and stick to it (the home can change later if isn't working out). If you're using file folders, we like to assign color to a category which makes the paperwork instantly identifiable.
Label It Beg, borrow or buy a label maker--best $30 you'll ever spend. If you're still not sold on a label maker, print labels or write legibly with a sharpie. Also, try thinking of fun names for your categories that will incite action on your part. Instead of "to-do" how about "do.it.now."
Go Vertical Instead of housing your paperwork in horizontal file sorters (which are impossible to search) go vertical like the file sorter pictured above. You can easily drop paperwork in the appropriate file and thumb through when you're looking for something important.
(Images: 1. Flickr member isaac bowen licensed for use under Creative Commons, 2. Beth Zeigler)
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Where are those file folders from and where can I get me some :)
Hmm now I'm browsing etsy looking for rubber stamps so that I can DIY my own!
FYI, when you're about to give a spoiler, you have to say what you're giving a spoiler TO! Especially when you throw in a red herring like "LOST" in the middle of the sentence. I know this isn't a TV blog, but still.
Have to agree with JoannaR. Also the spoiler alert notice was too close to the actual spoiler. I read the whole sentence in once glance before I realized that two days of avoiding TV sites was blown on AT! Bummer. I've been avoiding TV sites because I haven't seen the finale of Celebrity Apprentice yet and wanted to watch it tomorrow on my day off. Oh well, if that's the worst thing to happen this week I'm doing very well.
I don't think you're going to get a lot of readers up-in-arms about spoiling the ending of Celebrity Apprentice.
I use this mesh hanging file folder box (bought mine from Target, but couldn't find it on their website): http://www.amazon.com/Mesh-Coated-Metal-Silver-10-75/dp/B0000TQFHI/ref=pd_sim_dbs_k_3 that fits perfectly in my cubits shelving. Keep all my appliance warranties, instruction manuals, and receipts in there. One of the best moves I ever made.
I just buy the sheets of labels and print them out on the computer instead of using a labelmaker.
Could you make my work desk pretty?


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At the far end of Everglades National Park, we set up camp at the Flamingo campground. The name is a misnomer though since there are no flamingos to be found there at all.
We rose bright and early and set out in our rented canoe to check out the bay while it was still calm and cool. I was delighted when we paddled away from the marina and around the corner to discover that the pelicans nest in the mangroves unseen from the harbour. We were able to paddle up silently and admire them from below.
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You would think after two months in Florida I would have had my fill of pelicans, but they are one of my favourite birds. I love watching them fly so gracefully. But even more I love watching them take off or land in their awkward manner, bumbling and stumbling, making you wonder how they can fly at all.
Very cools images Anne. Terrific details and textures in the second one.
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Nice pictures!
Pelicans are just awesome birds to photograph. I love how close they often let you get to them
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Awesome detail.
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Very nice shots, Anne. The triplets are great but I like the second shot best. The details and composition are perfect.
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Great shots Anne. I love the detail and sharpness in the second one.
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wow, those picutres are stunning. What camera did you use to take them? I've never even see a pelican in person
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