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7 Steps to Selling On More Than Price
Originally published: 05.01.10 by George Hedley
Taking pride in your company's awesome service and workmanship is one thing, but getting paid more than your competition for better quality is another.
Every service company, professional, engineer, contractor, subcontractor, and builder I've ever met boasts that their company's quality and service is superior to the competition. If true, this is a great thing, but after you present your proposal and the excitement settles down, what really matters? PRICE!
Ask yourself this question: Do my customers pay me more than my competition for the same work?
To get paid more, you must offer more. Most companies want to sell quality over price, but they really don't offer any more than their competitors. A contract normally is awarded based on bidding lump sum for the minimum required per the project specifications, plans, and customer's project requirements. When preparing a proposal, estimate, or bid, most companies never consider including more than the minimum required. Why? They've got to be low bidder to get the work!
Imagine living in a world where customers, clients, project owners, developers, builders, and homeowners actually pay more for quality work and excellent service. I took an interesting survey while speaking at a Construction Owners Association of America (COAA) convention. COAA is composed of organizations and companies that regularly engage in building major construction projects as the owner or developer. During my presentation, I asked these attendees to tell me how much quality and
Ninety-five percent of these project owners stated that quality and service matter when selecting their service providers, suppliers, and contractors; and 89% said they will and do pay more for better quality and service! I found this astonishing. As a general contractor, when I bid or propose on most projects, the contract award is primarily based on the lowest bidder.
How much more will building owners and developers pay for quality workmanship?
• 36% will pay 1 – 4% more
• 36% will pay 5% more
• 18% will pay 10% or more
• and ONLY 10% will NOT pay more!
How much more will building owners and developers pay for good service?
• 38% will pay 1 – 4% more
• 29% will pay 5% more
• 17% will pay 10% or more
• and ONLY 16% will NOT pay more!
Most general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers are proud of their quality of work, reputation, and personal service. But today's financial demands, project complexities, and tight schedules require project owners and developers to often look for more than a low bid. However, if they aren't aware of the added value or quality workmanship you offer, the buyer has no choice but to evaluate and select based on price. The bottom line — four out of five say they will pay more for better quality and service! How much more and when depends on each customer, project, and property. In order to sell quality over price, you must determine specifically what your customer wants on every project you bid on. Focus on the important issues that make a difference by asking before you bid, and then address it in full detail in your proposal.
7 Ways To Sell More Than Price
1. Build trusted relationships by getting in front of customers: Most customers buy based on a perception of value and trust. If your company is perceived as a company that provides exceptional quality and on-time work, it will easily get on lots of bid lists. And when you are the lowest bidder, you should get lots of competitive work to build. Over time, success will be determined more by your reputation than price.
Remember that your ultimate goal is building long-term relationships with people so that they become loyal customers. You will do this by demonstrating that your most valuable asset is trust versus just sticks and stones.
At first, the purpose of your bid or proposal is to get in front of your customer. Then, as you start to do quality work for them, you can get to know them personally during project interactions, plus taking them out to breakfast, lunch, industry meetings, or ballgames on a regular basis. Take your top 10 customers out at least every two to three months. The only way to create trusted, deeply loyal relationships is to spend face-to-face time with customers in a fun or relaxed atmosphere. As with friends, building trust takes lots of quality time.
2. Be the "select" bidder: Leading companies are known for being the best at something. Some are known for project types, or difficult jobs, or fast-track schedules, or design-build, or detailed quality workmanship. People will pay more for the best. To be the best, your customer must know what you specialize in. Let them know and tell them again and again. Use press releases, articles, photos, or brochures. Send them something often and constantly — at least every three months. Why is Nordstrom known for customer service? They tell their customers all the time!
When you're known as the best in your market for the type of projects you specialize in, your company will get the first chance to propose, and the last chance to match, the price needed. Experts get the great jobs at their prices. Generalists get the leftovers when their price is the cheapest. What are you known for? What are you the best at? Do your potential customers know? If I visited your town looking for the type of quality work you specialize in, would your company get the only referral?
3. Get on the right proposal and bid lists: Before you sell quality over price, determine what type of work your company wants to do, and for what type of customers. At Hedley Construction, we determined our best customers were developers who needed full service construction and development project management, from initial concept and feasibility, to working drawings and permits, to construction and completion. These customers need what we offer, and don't mind paying for full service. Eliminate customer targets who just want a low bid and don't give you credit for extra quality and professional service.
Create a "bid-grid-sieve" to determine if and what you will bid. Include these factors:
• Repeat business potential
• Profit potential
• Project type
• Project location
• Project size
• Project profit
• Competition
One excellent strategic decision our company made was to stop trying to be all things to all customers. When we developed our bid-grid-sieve we decided to stop bidding and only negotiate projects; make it our goal to primarily work for repeat customers and try to convert them to loyal customers who will use only us to build their projects; specialize in a limited number of project types; work only within a 60-mile radius; target a minimum project size; work only on projects with a minimum profit margin; and propose only on projects with a maximum of two or three competitors. With this narrow focus, we now concentrate our efforts on the right projects and customers who we can create trusted relationships with.
4. Offer more than low price: As a builder, we bid and price out several jobs every month. For each project, we receive about 100 subcontractor bids for the 30 sub-trades usually required. On average, less than 10% of these bidders ever call us to present their bid, review their proposal, discuss their bid, or even to meet with us for any reason. When we don't hear from our valued subcontractors or suppliers, we assume they don't have more to offer than a low price based on the minimum required per plans and specifications. And when they finally do call, they ask only: "How do I look?" which translates: "Is my price too high?" or "How much do I need to cut?"
Every project has different needs. Sometimes price is the only differentiating factor, but how will you know what really matters to your customer without asking before you bid? On most projects price is not the only determining factor. On many projects, subcontractors are weighed heavily based on specific factors like: schedule, quality, safety, professionalism, technical skills, cleanliness, financial capacity, manpower, or responsiveness. But when all we get is a faxed or handwritten bid proposal, we don't know if they intend to help us meet our project goals.
Before bidding every project, ask your customer:
• What do you want most from us?
• What are your most critical problems?
• How can we help reduce your risk?
• What will help you award this contract to us?
• What else can we do for you?
Include solutions to these questions in your proposal and presentation. Always try to deliver your bid in person, and present it in a visual and convincing way so your customer will see and believe your company has the answers to their problems. Use photos of the project site and similar projects you have worked on that depict the similar challenges and concerns. Also use bar charts, samples, a proposed schedule, material brochures, flip charts with lists, or project photos. The better you look, the better you'll look.
5. Be a squeaky wheel: Estimators are more than price givers. They are in the sales business and need to spend lots of time with customers. Be in the right place at the right time by being in your customer's office or home every week during the bidding process to show you want the job more than your competitor does. Stop by, ask lots of questions, offer ideas on how to make their project better, provide alternative suggestions, and look for ways to help your customer.
After the bid presentation, follow it up aggressively, and in person. Estimating and preparing the bid is only half the work. To sell more than low price and present your quality workmanship, you must do more than fax in your bid. Go see your customer and bug them until they buy or die! Bids don't sell, people do.
6. Remember that your price is NOT too high: Be confident in your company and what it has to offer. When customers tell you your price is too high, always answer: "No, it's not," then patiently wait for them to speak the next words. They will always tell you something you can comment on in a positive or creative manner. If you quickly respond with "No, we're not too high," and don't wait to hear what your customer has to say, you start an argument you'll lose. Let them talk first, listen, and look for ways to offer suggestions to improve your position.
Ask them the same questions we discussed earlier, and look for ways to help them reach their goals and use your company to build their project. You may have to give and take a little on price to get the job, but without a conversation, you have no chance.
7. Always ask for the order: Most bids and presentations end without the presenter asking for the order. When you don't ask, the answer is "No!" Get in the habit of asking these tough questions:
Will you negotiate?
Who else is bidding?
Who have you used before?
How will you review the proposals?
What is the contract selection criteria?
What is the most important selection criteria?
If all else is equal, what are the chances we have to be awarded the job?
Selling quality takes persistence, discipline, and determination. The tendency is to get caught up in the price game. The first question is always "How much?" People buy price once and live with quality forever. Your job is to remind them of this over and over and not let them forget what you have to offer. Never assume by doing good work you will get the next job at your price. Try implementing these seven ideas, sell more than price, and see your bottom-line improve.
George Hedley is the best-selling author of "Get Your Business to Work!" available at his online bookstore. As an entrepreneur, popular speaker and business coach, he helps business owners build profitable companies. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com to request your free copy of "Business Tools To Boost Your Bottom-Line!" or sign up for his free monthly e-newsletter. To hire George, attend his "Profit-Builder Circle" boot camp or be a part of an ongoing "Executive Roundtable Peer Group" call 800-851-8553 or visit www.hardhatpresentations.com.
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Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises is situated in the Haute-Marne (Champagne-Ardenne region) in the north-east of France at 22 km from Chaumont, the department capital. (General information: Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises is 200 km from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Chatillon-sur-Seine at 46 km and Langres at 52 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour) Chatillon-sur-Seine (46km); Langres (52km)
Regional Natural Parcs Foret-d'Orient (37km)
Remarkable gardens Le château du grand jardin (30km); Le jardin de mon moulin (33km)
Sites of natural beauty Lacs Amance et du Temple (33km); Lac du Der-Chantecoq (39km); Lac d'Orient (41km)
Amusement park / theme park Nigloland (21km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie) Colombe-le-Sec (8km); Neuville-sur-Seine (41km)
Commune: Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises
Canton: Juzennecourt
Arrondissement: Chaumont
Department: Haute-Marne
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Postcode: 52330
from Chaumont (prefecture): 22 km
from Paris: 200 km
from Calais: 374 km
from Nice: 535 km
from Bordeaux: 563 km
from Strasbourg: 215 km
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The Transformation of Television
A review of the new cross-platform media center, boxee.November 13th, 2008 | Michele Meek
Joost, Hulu and boxee – one thing is for sure, names like the American Broadcasting Company (aka ABC) are a thing of the past. Instead, the future of broadcasting is filled with silly-named companies that aim to overthrow your idea of television.
I must disclose my bias – this past summer my husband and I decided to forego cable television so we could read more and avoid media over-exposure to our one-year-old daughter. After a few months of watching the same Arrested Development episodes (true, they never get old) and squinting at my laptop screen to watch The Daily Show online, I was not convinced 'no cable' was for me. Not to mention, when visitors came over, it caused confusion. When my 82-year-old grandmother asked me to turn on the TV one day, I had to break it to her that we didn't have television. She squinted perplexedly at our 42-inch flat screen TV and said, "Isn't that a television?"
So began the quest to find "the solution" – cable didn't seem worth $100 a month (or even $20) since we rarely watched it, but we did have the desire to watch programming of our choice through our 'big-screen' television. We considered Apple TV, but quickly brushed it aside since it meant paying for programs like The Daily Show (about $10/month) through iTunes, even though they are available free on the Internet.
That's when we discovered boxee. Still in its alpha-testing mode, boxee is not yet available to the general public. The company aims to have it in beta-testing mode (for everyone) in early 2009, with an official product launch in 2009. In short, boxee is open source (free) software that can run on a computer (and they hope, eventually, also a game console, cable box or any other device that connects to your television), which uses the Internet to power your media – from movies, television shows, photos, and music. The beauty of boxee is in the fact that it's open source – this enables the public to contribute to the project and allow it to grow organically with how its users envision it. For example, some people have already been successful in getting boxee to work on their Apple TVs. The only 'technical' part, really, is hooking up your television to your computer (or other device), which in many cases is already done.
Essentially boxee could be described as a "social media center." Once installed, boxee will start scanning your local movies, music, and pictures folders automatically. It attempts to link artwork, reviews, cast, and other details for all your media, so browsing even your local library becomes more interactive and visual than looking at a list of files. Through your boxee account, you can access media from both your computer and the Internet (so it finds both video files on your computer in addition to media 'channels' on the web). To make it social, you can 'friend' other members and thus, recommend and share information about movies, TV shows, music and photos that you're enjoying. Better yet, if the content is available from an approved source on the Internet, boxee will automatically link to it.
Already, there are dozens of channels offering their shows online. The mainstream media has perhaps learned from the music industry's plunging CD sales – soon bandwidth would be cheap and plentiful enough where downloading a film or TV show would be as easy as a song. So they got smart. If their content was going to be given away for free, then they would be the ones to do it. Currently, ABC, NBC, CBS, as well as dozens of cable stations (Comedy Central, CNN) offer their programming for free online. Here's the catch – you typically have to go to their "official" website to watch it. Why? Well, mainly because the networks want to be able to ensure their ads are included in the content (there has to be something in all this for them, you know) but also because they want to control the length, quality, and delivery of the content. So that's where sites like Hulu and software like boxee come into play.
Ultimately, this could forever change the broadcasting model, for independents as well. "Boxee's goal is to bring any type of media into one place. We've picked out some of the most popular stuff so we released Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central," says Andrew Kippen, who handles press relations for boxee. "But really the platform itself can play any streaming media – anything like YouTube to Revision3, which is all just available on the web. So if an independent film producer has their content available online you could view that via a RSS feed." Kippen states that boxee is open to integrating indie outlets into the current system, perhaps such as AtomFilms or iFilm.
"There is a ton of content out there so the hardest part for you as an Internet user or television watcher is not having enough content but knowing what to watch," says Kippen. Of course, if all goes according to plan, there will also be a ton of content to watch via boxee as well, so how can this get filtered? "If you're friends with someone on boxee, you can share information on what you're watching," he says. "There used to be 'Must See TV' on Thursday night so everyone was talking about it around the water cooler on Friday morning. But now people are watching so many different things, that's kind of disappeared. And this is a way to transfer that concept to the digital world."
Boxee won "America's Top Gadget" in this year's iStage technology contest, which awarded them a $50,000 check plus a booth at the International Consumer Electronics Association (CES) show in January 2009. And they believe their future looks bright.
"Over the next couple of years, we'll see a lot of growth in this space," says Kippen. "We'll see a paradigm shift from regular TV watchers to people consuming all of their media on a computer."
I've seen the future in boxee, and I like it. It's a world filled with (mainly free) movies and television at your fingertips so you watch what you want, when you want. And you never know, maybe in the next few years, even my grandmother will be giving up her cable subscription.
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boxee rocks
I stuck it to the cable company and went rabbit ears and boxee. I am not looking back for sure.
New models
This is really some of the first signs of consumers embracing new models of distribution through the web. I just hope we don't see a big rash of organizations trying to control internet content. I'm sure we will see some content control, but my biggest concern would be for indie filmmakers trying step into indie distribution movement that is just starting to become a viable option for indie filmmakers online.
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boxee is great, but is it more old than new?
I can't help but think of boxee as simply a distribution shift.
What's new is that it allows you to bypass the cable companies media distribution platform to access the content at its source. This is not unlike broadcast television. It is essentially a very good user interface on top of web-facing content.


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Henris photo did an awesome job capturing our moments, I highly recommend this company for photography for any occasion!


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Cabrera, Posey capture Major League MVP trophies
New York, NY, United States (4E Sports) – Detroit Tigers slugger and Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera captured the American League Most Valuable Player award, beating Los Angeles Angels rookie sensation Mike Trout.
Meanwhile, Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants won the National League version of the award, edging last year's MVP Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers.
It was the second straight year that a Tiger won the AL MVP plum after Pitcher Justin Verlander bagged it last season.
Cabrera received 22 of 28 first-place votes while Trout receiving the other six. Cabrera finished with 362 points and Trout had 281.
He followed Carl Yastrzemski, Frank Robinson and Mickey Mantle in 1967, 1966 and 1956, respectively, as players to win an MVP in a Triple Crown season.
"That means a lot," said Cabrera, the first Venezuelan-born player to win the MVP trophy. "I thought it was going to be very close, because Trout did a very good job this season.
"You had two unbelievable seasons. I was not expecting to win, but I was like, 'Thank God they voted for me to get this award," added Cabrera, the first Tigers position player to win the award since Hank Greenberg in 1940.
Before bagging the MVP plum, Cabrera captured the AL Triple Crown with a .330 batting average, 44 home runs, and 139 RBIs.
Trout, for his part, hit .326 with 30 homers and 83 RBIs, and he led the majors with 129 runs and 49 steals.
Meanwhile, Posey received 27 of 32 first-place votes and totaled 422 points to beat Braun, who received three first-place votes and finished second, with 285 points.
Pittsburgh's Andrew McCutchen (245 points) and St. Louis' Yadier Molina (241), who each garnered two first-place votes, were third and fourth, respectively.
"This is an award that can be shared with the whole Giants organization because they have great ownership, a great front office, and that translates to putting good players on the field," Posey said.
Posey hit .336 to become the first catcher to win the NL batting title in 70 years. He also amassed 24 home runs and 103 RBIs after missing most of the 2011 season with an injury.
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The promise you madeThe breeze so cold; carrier of the sorrowful tiding;
Wingless Angels were we, yet my heart felt like gliding.
The steepness of your eyes, the endowed visage,
outshining the splendor of nature's foliage
Words wedged in the throat, too shy to be eloquent.
Thus I replied with a smile, yet happiness... distant.
I sighed, a deep slumbering sound, complimenting a tear
for reality had realized my worst nightmare.
Oh the days spent moseying through dense shrubs,
by the beauty of the summer spring where dwell the cherubs.
Oh we shared twice the sorrow as we shared each others pain
yet our memoirs, our companionship let the pain not remai


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I am Marcus …
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Air Jordan XIII Retro – French Blue – University Blue – Flint Grey – White
November 21st, 2010 by Aaron Hope | 50 comments
Ballistic nylon has become an increasingly popular design choice for sneakers in recent years, but one colorway of one legendary shoe stands out as the watershed moment when this tough-as-nails material had its breakthrough. The Air Jordan XIII 'Flint' debuted in 1998 rocking French Blue dimpled side panels six years before that shade served as the name for an equally impressive AJ12 retro release. And even though these sections make up the majority of the AJ13′s upper, this particular palette became known for its signature shade of grey along the suede mudguard and midsole sections. Keep reading after the jump for some nice new Kenlu pics of the Flints, currently slated to drop alongside numerous other high profile releases on Black Friday. If you can't wait, early adopters can already grab their AJXIII 'Flints' on eBay.
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To mark the near-completion of the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, UCSF is holding a celebratory Hard Hat Walk followed by the Lights On Festival, featuring food, music and a spectacular light show on Sept. 6.
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Lisa Mogannam, a registered nurse in Neurology, was selected to lead a team of her clinical colleagues to ensure that the Mission Bay hospital is patient ready and that the clinicians treating them will have everything in place for the Feb. 1 opening.
January 23, 2013
Ten years after the UCSF Mission Bay campus was established, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay – the key patient-care component of the campus – is only two years away from opening.
October 29, 2012
For the children, women and cancer patients who will be treated there, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will be an invaluable resource offering groundbreaking care for patients and a full range of amenities for their visiting family members.
May 23, 2012
Construction of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay is well underway, with the building's exterior panels, glass, and interior studs being installed.
April 10, 2012
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Methamphetamine busts in 2012 were at an all-time high statewide, but Allen, Kosciusko and Wabash counties all reported a decline in meth lab seizures last year, according to Indiana State Police data.
While all other counties in northeast Indiana showed increases from 2011, police data show the growth was less than in prior years.
But some law enforcement officials warn that fewer arrests in those counties don't necessarily mean fewer labs or less meth. More likely, producers are becoming better at hiding.
Last year's 1,726 meth lab seizures statewide set a record, according to state police data. In 2011, there were 1,437 seizures.
The increase is probably due to meth-related education for law enforcement officers and the public, said Sgt. Niki Crawford, commander of the Indiana State Police meth suppression unit.
Crawford said it's difficult to say whether more labs are being created or just added awareness.
It's probably a combination of the two, she said. A lot of it has to do with education; teaching local officers what to look for.
Noble and Kosciusko counties reported the highest number of meth labs in northeast Indiana, each with 47. Madison County, home to Anderson, led the state with 96 (see chart).
Dangerous drug
When methamphetamine first began to permeate northeast Indiana in the 1990s, meth cooks kept out of sight in rural areas, creating the drug in makeshift labs using anhydrous ammonia, a toxic and volatile farm fertilizer.
But more recently, most meth addicts have switched to the one-pot or shake-and-bake method, which produces less of the drug and doesn't create as many harmful fumes as a traditional lab, in part because it doesn't require anhydrous ammonia.
Without the scent of anhydrous ammonia to follow, Fort Wayne police Detective Robert Kirby said, it's much more difficult to find hidden meth labs. And since meth can be made in single servings, there isn't as much foot traffic in and out of a cooking area as police see with other drugs such as marijuana or cocaine, he said.
Thus, Fort Wayne officers must rely heavily on tips from the community and repeat offenders, Kirby said.
The one-pot method of making meth, which involves mixing chemicals in a plastic bottle, accounted for 1,344 of meth lab seizures last year, according to state police data.
Statistics also show that the number of arrests related to meth labs increased from 1,420 in 2011 to 1,482 last year.
Meth labs accounted for 25 deaths in Indiana last year, including two children, according to state police data.
Of those deaths, 11 were caused by fires or explosions, three were car crashes, one was a suicide and four were related to medical complications.
The remaining six deaths were from police-action shootings and homicides, though state police data were unclear whether the killings took place where meth was found or whether those killed tested positive for the drug.
A total of 292 Hoosier adults were injured from meth labs, including 83 law enforcement officers, plus 13 children. The injuries included burns from fire and chemicals, exposure to chemical vapors or swallowing toxic chemicals.
Kirby said he has seen an increase in the number of children testing positive for methamphetamine, even if they're only playing in an area where meth was being made.
Meth vapors can settle into carpet or the interior of vehicles, and children can come into contact with meth simply by crawling or playing in the area, he said.
It depends on the levels and how long they've been in the environment, he said.
No meth-related deaths for children or adults were reported in Allen County in 2012, Kirby said.
Mixed results
Although Kosciusko County remains in the state's top 10 list, the number of meth busts declined there last year, according to state police data.
Sgt. Chad Hill, spokesman for the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department, credits law enforcement officers for the aggressive attack on meth throughout the county and local residents for reporting incidents and educating others about the drug.
But Hill also warns that lower numbers aren't necessarily a cause for celebrating.
It could be several things, but part of it is that people have taken it on to more of a mobile situation, Hill said. I'd like to think the drugs are going away, and I wish it would, but I don't think it has.
Hill said officers are finding mobile labs, including those made in vehicles, and trash labs – meth leftovers found scattered along Indiana's roadsides – more often than they are busting meth cooks hiding in cornfields or apartments.
DeKalb County Sheriff Don Lauer warned that statistics can be deceiving – especially because there are many factors involved with the increased presence of meth labs. Last year, DeKalb County doubled its total meth lab busts from 12 to 24.
It's easy to assume that going from 12 labs to 24 labs means an increase in meth use or labs, Lauer said. I do not believe there has been a large increase in meth labs, but I don't believe they are decreasing either.
Lauer said factors such as having a good informant, increased community awareness and more active and better-trained officers can make a big difference. Luck also plays a role.
In our case, I believe it's a combination of all, he said.
Fort Wayne's Detective Kirby said he doesn't consider Allen County's decrease a significant change.
Kirby said the numbers are just scratching the surface on how many meth-related cases police handle annually. Incidents like trash labs don't make the list, and meth isn't going away even slightly, Kirby said.
In fact, it's more than likely spreading, he said.
I would expect the number of labs to shoot up this year, Kirby said.
More challenges
Adding to the problem is legislation that limits the number of pseudoephedrine pills people can obtain, Kirby said.
The drug is used in the production of methamphetamine and is tracked through a program called the National Precursor Log Exchange, or NPLEx. As Hoosiers buy pseudoephedrine from pharmacies, they must show identification and sign a log sheet.
To gain more pills, meth addicts use what Kirby calls a pyramid scheme.
The scheme starts as meth cooks exceed the number of pills they can buy and turn to other people, asking them to buy pseudoephedrine. As more people supply the drug, more start to realize that instead of waiting for a cook to make more meth, they can make their own, Kirby said.
A half-hour trip to (the store) and 45 minutes later, your meth is ready, he said.
Since NPLEx was implemented in January of last year, the number of lab seizures has increased by more than 22 percent, according to state police data.
The program's creators say that one of the greatest benefits of the NPLEx program is its ability to link retailers from several states, allowing police to track offenders across state lines.
But what NPLEx doesn't do is help prevent meth labs, Crawford said.
To avoid being caught, meth cooks use smurfs to buy the drug in exchange for money or other drugs, she said.
(Smurfs) are just marking their calendars for when they can purchase more pseudoephedrine, she said. It's just becoming a larger black market.
This year, Indiana legislators are considering a bill that would further limit the amount of pseudoephedrine that can be bought.
In February, the bill passed the Senate 44-4 and was referred to the House. On Wednesday, legislators heard testimony on the bill but delayed the vote until this week because of the winter storm.


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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Interested buyers will have another opportunity to purchase 40 acres of land in the Black Hills next month.
The Pennington County Board of Commissioners decided Friday to hold a second auction for the land west of Deerfield Lake on Dec. 4 at the Pennington County Courthouse.
An auction for the land earlier this month was declared a "no sale" after the man who made the winning bid realized he could not afford the price tag. He had made the winning bid of $2,550 thinking it was for the whole parcel. But it was actually per acre.
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Business Planning and Black Swans
Have you read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan*? It's a great book. It should be required reading, especially for business planning and management. The black swan is the big event we didn't predict, that we couldn't have predicted, but that we convince ourselves, after the fact, that if we'd only read the signs right, we would have known.
The black swan is 9/11. It's that big crash in 2008 and 2009. It's that huge wave of reality that surprises everybody and changes everything. And, by definition, it's not in your business plan.
The best planning isn't about accurately predicting the future. It's about keeping long-term and short-term and all those business interdependencies organized so you can manage them quickly and effectively when you have to.
For example, say you're running a business planning software business when the economy crashes in the Fall of 2008. Of course the crash wasn't in your business plan. Now what? Has all that planning been a waste of time? Would you have been better off not planning at all?
No, quite the contrary; your planning is even more important when the black swan appears. If you have a business plan in place, and you've been managing a planning process, you can adjust. 'Oh no. Sales are way down. How do we react?' Look at your plan: you've got budgeted spendings right there. You've been tracking how sales are down, in which lines, so you can quickly react with inventory and direct costs, related overhead, and appropriate adjustments in sales and marketing expenses.
Without the planning process already in place, when the big unexpected hits, it takes a ton of special analysis to figure out what it means and how to react. So here we are in a crisis situation, in need of quick action, but without the information that might help us piece together the possible causes, the possible alternative actions to take, and so on.
So what are the action points here?
- Make sure you have a plan. Form follows function, do you don't necessarily need a full formal plan; but you do need a good reference to long-term goals, strategies, focus, marketing programs, and basic numbers including projected sales, costs, and expenses.
- Keep the plan alive. It's the planning that matters, not just a plan. Take an hour or two each month to review the plan, key assumptions, and what's change.
- Never do anything just because it's in the plan. Stay alert, aware, and flexible. Planning manages change.
- Never stop watching. Expect the unexpected. Planning helps you notice when things go awry. It's part of your early warning system.
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Most state and local governments nationally cut employees last year. But Utah saw increases that were among the country's highest — coming mostly from hiring more teachers to handle ever-growing enrollments.
"If you pull education out, you basically have no change in the employment levels of state and local governments" in Utah, said Mark Knold, chief economist for the state Department of Workforce Services.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that in 2011, Utah had the second-highest increase in full-time equivalent employees among state governments, up 4.3 percent. That was behind only North Carolina's increase of 5.4 percent.
Among local governments — such as cities, counties and school districts — Utah ranked No. 4 nationally with an increase of 4.5 percent. That was behind Arkansas at 13.3 percent; Wyoming, 5.6 percent; and Maine, 5.3 percent.
In comparison nationally, employment by state and local governments was down an average of 1.4 percent.
Knold said K-12 school enrollment growth "is just an ongoing thing in this state" with the nation's highest birthrate. Also, an extra population wave has been hitting.
"You had the original baby boomers, who produced their own baby boom in the 1980s. Then in the 2000s, those people got married and had their own kids and are producing their own baby boom. That is rolling into the K-12 system," Knold said.
At the same time, higher education employment grew because, he said, "as the economy went bad, college enrollments went way up."
Knold said other types of government employment in Utah have remained flat — so governments "are serving a growing population with the same amount of employment. So they are finding ways to be efficient, using technology, et cetera. Education happens to be a little more labor intensive," he said.
Also helping Utah is that the economy here has been in better shape relative to other states.
"Other places have just had to gut their spending," said University of Utah research economist Pam Perlich. "Our budgets have been improving relative to other places."
The Census Bureau's 2011 Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll said Utah state government had 53,501 full-time equivalent employees. About half — 26,476 — worked in higher education. The next-highest segment of state-government employment was in corrections, which had 3,068 full-time equivalent workers.
Utah's local governments had 94,090 full-time equivalent employees — and 58,147 were in K-12 education. The next-largest segment for local governments was police, with 5,592.


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Note: If you're running a 25-man raid with 5 healers, and the top 2 are at 30% or higher, with the next highest at 14%, there's probably something going wrong. And it's not (necessarily) that the top 2 are sniping heals, especially when people are dying because not enough healing is going out.
And if you're a healer and aren't on the healing meters? Yeah, the rest of the healers notice. Especially when we wipe because of it. Yeah, I might be a bit bitter about that failure of a group. To be fair, it wasn't just that we only had 3 people healing in a 25man Madness attempt, the dps weren't killing things they needed to either. Yes, it was LFR, and yes, I bailed on the group after the 3rd wipe.


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It's not always possible to charge your smartphone while traveling outside city limits and into the great outdoors. That being said, there are easy ways of conserving your phone's power while exploring the wild...
Here's what I did on a recent hiking trip:
1. Put Your Phone Selectively Into "Airplane Mode": Instead of going through what apps to switch off, and which settings to modify, a good way to manage your power usage on your smartphone is to simply put it into Airplane Mode. You should see a considerable increase in battery time, and you will be able to continue using most of your services, except the ones that rely on a 3G connection.
2. Wait to Upload Media: While the temptation is great to simply upload any new pics that you've taken immediately, if you're on a hike or trip, it might not be possible. I've grown accustomed to simply taking photos with my native photo app, and uploading them to Instagram and other services once I have access to a power source, like in my car or hotel room (aka #Latergram).
3. Get a Cheap Battery Power Pack: There are some dedicated battery packs for iPhones and other smartphones, but honestly, these type of devices do not last that long, which is one of the reasons I purchased a couple of generic external batteries instead. They usually get my battery from 20% up to 70% in a about 30 minutes or so, and can be easily recharged. The ones I use cost between $20 and $40, and are no name battery packs made in China.
4. More Expensive Battery Packs: If cheap isn't good enough, then you can check out our selection of higher performing battery packs, including the ones from Mophie, which will last you longer, but also cost more.
5. Modify Location Services to Optimize Battery Usage: On iPhones, navigate to Settings > Location Services > System Services in order to check if the purple location icon is displayed in your status bar. If it is, then toggle off "Setting Time Zone". Your battery should last longer, from 30 to 50% more.
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I turn down the brightness on my screen - it seems to help.
Yup. For everyday use I just turn the brightness down to minimum. My battery lasts all day and sometimes all night or more, providing that I don't spend a lot of time fiddling on my phone besides the usual functions (email, phone calls, texts). Also turn off all non-essential apps and functions like GPS/wifi unless needed.
If I'm out in the boonies, I don't put my phone on airplane mode, I just turn it off. What's the point of having it on if you don't have reception anyway?
This may already be known to most people, but you really shouldn't charge your phone every night, especially if there's a good deal of charge left. Ideally you should let your phone's battery go down to almost nothing before charging it again. Of course, this is not always possible and can be a pain at times, but it definitely helps, both for daily length as well as overall battery life.
I'm going to have to start using #latergram because that's just too funny.
I just returned from Southern Africa and met some amazing people creating solar panels that are small and can charge any phone. They are designed (read marketed) for folks in Africa but its a fantastic concept, and I'm pretty sure you can find them in the states. They are perfect for camping and hiking! http://www.fti.co.bw
If I had to choose between being without my iphone and spending $20-$40 on several pieces of cheap electronics from China, I would rather be without my iphone. Until China has better manufacturing regulations and more transparency regarding the products they are exporting, I would rather do without than get a "deal" on something that could possible harm my health (by handling it) or the health of who knows how many in China (via their many unsafe manufacturing practices, especially on cheaper goods).
In addition to the other suggestions, quickly double click the round button on the bottom and close all of the open programs on the phone. Press and hold one of the icons that come up and you'll see the little jiggly minus sign. Just go down the row and click on the minus signs until there aren't any left. This closes all the apps you've used and saves a lot of battery time. I was surprised at how many people I know didn't know this.
I have an older phone but it does take pictures... Recently I found a replacement battery online at Accessory Geeks (I think) that was less than half of retail. Now I just carry IT when I'm out hiking...
it's a myth that you shouldn't charge your phone over night. that used to be the case years ago, but not anymore. if you don't use your 1999 nokia, that is.
SAANNEC: what do you think your iphone is, if not a piece of electronics manufactured in China. Sure, it's "designed by Apple in California" - but production is in China, where conditions are far from virtuous. I feel the battery packs carry much more realistic prices than the woefully marked up "design piece" that is the iPhone.
Aperocot - The manufacturing on cheaper goods is much less regulated than the higher end electronics which have some sort of controlling hand from other countries (design, materials, etc). It's the cheaper knockoff goods that carry a much more immediate threat to one's own health as well as the workers' in China and the people who live around the manufacturing plants.
But hey, the importance of saving money by buying cheap knockoffs from entities that have made it more than clear on a global scale that they care more about their bottom line than the health of workers, consumers, and the planet is part of what's wrong with the world now, so why try to make small changes on your own, right? It's six of one, half dozen of another, right?
• Turn down brightness
• Turn of unnecessary push notifications from apps you rarely use, I only have badge for Twitter and Facebook
• Turn of email push/auto check, I've set mine to manual since I have 7 emails setup, mayor battery difference
And sometimes I force quite apps, seems to make my iPhone run smoother, even though they aren't in use :)


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