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Best Western Henry Parkes: The garden is still growing
Tenterfield NSW, Australia
Formerly the' Comfort Inn Henry Parkes'

Well we chose this Motel as it was written up by V T member iandsmith and we are not disappointed. The name has changed and so have the owners but they are very friendly ...the food is still good in the dining room and the garden is still growing...but the new owner is not a gardener.

They took note that we had come from a VT write up.

Our room is large and well appointed. The bed is comfortable...there are tea making facilities.
Well I must say the food was very pleasing...it was NOT 'greasy spoon' by any means. Specials were available but we chose Atlantic salmon with asian greens and potato mash.

The tables were set with a tablecloth and there was a nice sitting area. We rarely eat at motels around the place as the offerings are not always to our fancy.

Really good is the offer of coffee and cakes available all day....well the motel was booked out so they must be doing something right.

There is an iron..a hair dryer and something I find unusal in the motels we use.... a laundry and ironing service

AND THE MOTEL IS STILL PINK!
- iandsmith
- Reviews: 5914
Stannum House: A touch of class and history
This stately mansion was built in 1888 for John Holmes Reid who made his wealth mining for tin.
Once used as a camp hospital during the Second World War it also has an historic bunyah pine at the rear.
These days it serves as a lovely B&B for those wish to add a touch of class to their vacation.
- iandsmith
- Reviews: 5914
Comfort Inn Henry Parkes: SOmething different
Good motel, the best I've stayed at in the town. Food is good, as is the service in the restaurant.
All units are ground floor though some are higher than others as the block slopes.
What can you say about this motel. It's pink for a start. In fact, it's other name is "The Pink Place". Now, Ed and Sandra have owned the place for years and Ed is a legend. When business is slow he has touted for business out on the street, a fact that didn't endear him to some of the locals, obviously unaccustomed to travelling in eastern countries!
Ed is a character and, should you call in, you will often find him working in the garden. Though Ed gives the appearance of running everything, he always defers to Sandra should the occasion arise.
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A DecADe of chAnge John F. Kennedy once said, "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." This quote, though valid throughout time, rings especially true today. The reality of the present and possibility of the future blur together more than ever before. The past decade has bred unprecedented innovation in technology, financial collapse, increased fear of climate change, and the democratization of media creation and consumption in a globalized society dealing with the aftermath of a major terrorist attack. Without a keen eye and a fervent passion to both evolve and drive change, it is easier than ever for both brands and individuals alike to blink and be left behind. chAnging of the guArD While youth have always introduced new ideas that help shape culture, today's young generation have found themselves at the very epicenter of major societal change. While Millennials may not yet be CEOs of Fortune 500 companies or leaders of the free world, they are possibly the biggest influencers and innovators around today. A 25-year-old is the CEO of the most searched brand on the web, a site with a larger population than the United States. We have a Commander in Chief who won his spot in office thanks to a grass roots movement fueled by social media. He YouTubes, tweets and cannot be separated from his Blackberry. Clearly President Obama doesn't fall into the 1977-1996 age range used most frequently to define Millennials, but he understands the importance of adopting their values and thinking like one. Embracing the Millennial perspective is key for anyone wanting to keep up (and move ahead of the curve). the new LeADers Change will not slow down as time passes; in fact, most see it accelerating at an unprecedented rate. Social technologies will further pervade and integrate into our lives in ways that the rest of us not named Zuckerberg or Jobs ever dreamed of. Successful companies will not focus on "what's always worked." Their leaders will not be educated using traditional means, as the information in textbooks will be out of date before it is even printed. So what will lead successful companies and drive growth in the next decade? New ideas, creative approaches, innovative products, integrated organizations, open communication, connected communities, responsible ethos, and most importantly- an increased passion for change.
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weLcome to miLLenniAL inc As society continues to embrace and consistently demand drastic change, it is Millennials who are most poised to lead tomorrow's successful businesses. By the end of the next decade, Millennials may not be CEOs of every Fortune 500 company- probably not even the majority of them. But Millennials like Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Kevin Rose (Digg), Chad Hurley (YouTube), Blake Ross (Mozilla) and Jack Nickell (Threadless) will bring the change by continuing to shake up how we communicate, consume media, browse the web and make products. In order to succeed, organizations will need to have Millennial values sewn into the fabric of their companies. They must strive to find new ways to empower this budding generation and unlock employees' creativity as they advocate change. This is Millennial Inc. About the miLLenniAL inc stuDy The following research study was conducted by Intrepid, a world-renowned market research consultancy, and Mr Youth, an integrated marketing agency recently named as one of Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Marketing and Advertising Companies. The goal: show you what your company would look like if Millennials were already in charge. After all, they are already your major consumers, leading influencers of culture and future leaders of your company. Through a six-month study taking place in both the United States and the United Kingdom, we explored and identified major themes using a three-tiered approach: DIgITAl ETHNOgRAPHY – The study began with developing an online community to bring Millennials from around world to a single place to discuss various lifestyle topics . Intrepid's team of anthropologists immersed themselves in this digital space where they observed patterns in conversations and teased out the topics that were of the most importance to this generation. VIRTUAl COMPANIES – Next, two groups of Millennials (one in the US and one in the UK) were tasked with developing the business of tomorrow. This exercise was held during three in-person sessions and challenged the two groups to explore the various aspects of creating a fashion retail business (organizational structure, product development and marketing), resulting in identifying Millennials' main approaches for creating and managing a successful business. QUANTITATIVE SURVEYS – To conclude the study, over 800 individuals were surveyed online across the US and UK to confirm and validate our findings. Topics included their viewpoints on their careers, work environment, marketing and messaging preferences, incorporation of technology into their lives, ecology/green living and more.
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The DNA of Millennial Inc.
Our research identified three key themes that Millennials embraced across three major areas of any business. Those are:
the orgAnizAtion
1 COllABORATIVElY lED ENTERPRISE
2 STIMUlATED WORK ENVIRONMENT
3 IDEA-POWERED CUlTURE
the ProDuct
TECHNOlOgY BREEDS HUMANITY
2 QUAlITY IS CORE
the mArketing
CElEBRITIES = OVERPRICED MANNEQUINS
3 PEER-TO-PEER DRIVES INFlUENCE
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The Organization Collaboratively Led Enterprise
let's get cozy. Say goodbye to the long boardroom table and say hello to the round table. Collaboration, shared responsibility and consensus rule Millennial Inc. fLAtteneD LeADershiP Millennials view success as something shared across the organization. In observing the creation of their virtual companies in both london and Seattle, teams did not assign a definitive CEO but had each member focus on an area of responsibility (design, finance etc). shAreD resPonsibiLity While our Millennials found it important to have areas of expertise, they all wanted to weigh in on other areas of the company. The quantitative study completed by nearly 1,000 participants showed that 82% of Millennials believe it is important to have a staff that can do each other's jobs. Decision by consensus Expertise across areas of responsibility is valued and seen as a key input to decision making. Design and creativity hold as much weight as finance and management and Millennials see the value of bringing diverse thinkers together to come to a collaborative decision. 54% of Millennials prefer to make decisions by consensus, and that number shoots up to 70% when they are amongst their peers.*
Stimulated Work Environment
401Ks and stock options may be nice but Millennials need to be in an environment that continually keeps them stimulated and engaged or they will keep looking. continuAL chAnge Millennials grew up in a continuously stimulating world. Sometimes dubbed the ADD generation, they are always searching for work that keeps their attention. In fact, the number one reason in both the UK (34%) and US (37%) for switching jobs was, "Just Needed a Change." That need for change far exceeds the desire for a better salary, benefits, or a more senior position. The average 26-year-old has craved stimulation so much, they've changed jobs an astounding seven times from age 18, in search of something more. chALLenging environment In addition to a workplace that is both "fun" and "friendly", "challenging" was identified as the key component of a good work environment for Millennials. This intellectual stimulation creates an exciting and rewarding work place. Word clouds from the digital ethnography conducted with both US and UK participants showed a challenging work environment to be a core factor in Millennial job satisfaction.
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innovAtion-Driven cuLture google and Microsoft led the list of companies that Millennials in the US aspire to work for by a large margin. In the UK, The National Health Service came out on top with google and Microsoft taking second and third places respectively. google and Microsoft, along with Apple and Nike, were seen as innovators both for their products and their approaches. Technology and innovation have the same allure that previous generations attributed to fashion and celebrity.
Idea Powered Culture
"Seniority" and "tenure" are dirty words to Millennials. Authority is earned and proven through direct interactions, not given blindly based on titles and experience. oLDer is not better In the 2008 Presidential election, John McCain came out of the gates with the campaign slogan, "Best Prepared to lead on Day One." With twenty-three years military experience and twenty-six years in national government he may have been. But, of course, it was Barak Obama's mere four years in national government and "Change We Can Believe In" message that captured 62% of the Millennial vote. Millennials are not swayed by the "been there, done that" mantra intoned by previous generations, but are driven by ideas that move forward. eArn uP moDeL In creating their virtual companies, Millennials designed a model that required each employee, despite title or skill set, to start at the ground level and move her way up through the company. This approach ensured that every "employee" would have some face-to-face contact with his customer base and experience the brand firsthand. Those who excelled would be promoted quickly and paid more for their ability, rather than being rewarded for a demonstrated facility in corporate politics. While this may sound impractical to most of us, many Millennials believe that high-level executives lack proper understanding of the front lines of their own business. This point is the basis of Undercover Boss, a hit CBS TV show that aims to expose CEOs to the daily challenges of their employees. foLLow the iDeAs In a world where anyone can be an author, director, photographer, journalist, comedian, actor or ad man, Millennials are used to a democratized playing field where good ideas and work rise to the top. Individuals with big ideas are successful and gain respect through their work, and Millennials expect this to be true everywhere, especially in their career. If not, their ideas go elsewhere.
"In setting up the hierarchy of the company, we shouldn't have 'experience' or the amount of time someone has held a roll determine their aptitude for a specific position – I've had more jobs where my manager doesn't necessarily know more than me or have the ability to do the work better, they just have been there longer. We should let people grow through the company to demonstrate ability instead." - Dan, 23, Seattle
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The Product
Technology Breeds Humanity
While there would be no technology without humanity, Millennials actually flip the statement and look to technology to make their lives more human. PersonALizeD AnD tAiLoreD Amazon.com has been around for many Millennials' entire lives. They've grown up with the ability to customize many of the products they buy, the option to access personalized content and discover new entertainment recommendations based on purchase behavior. They view technology as a facilitator that allows companies to cater to consumers and create uniquely personal experiences. For instance, in creating their virtual companies, Millennials who were designing fashion solutions explored developing an in-store system that can scan a customer's body measurements, compare them to carefully designed algorithms and match that customer with clothes that fit their body type perfectly. crowDsourceD creAtion Millennials want idea development to come directly from real people so that brands can deliver products that meet consumers' needs and incorporate their collective creativity. In their virtual companies, both groups perceived crowdsourced business models like Threadless as being very effective.* invisibLe technoLogy While user experience design is a relatively new field (particularly outside of websites and technology gadgets), it is intrinsic to many Millennials' perception of brands both online and off. They expect to be able to intuitively navigate products and services so that technology enables a seamless user experience. This is clearly illustrated by Millennials' obsession with Apple Technology, which has as much to do with the physical design of devices as it does with the simple and intelligent user interface. Millennials want to minimize the device (or more precisely, the feeling of the device) while still maintaining the experience that technology enables. The Wii brought Nintendo exceedingly high sales through a simple, nearly button-free controller. Now Xbox's Project Natal wants to remove the game controller completely, leaving only the gamer's actual body movements to guide the experience.
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Quality is Core
While many brands incorrectly view the youth market as caught up in flashy trends, quality products are what ultimately gain their purchase and loyalty. QuALity evokes Love While Apple, Sony and Nike all make seriously stylish and innovative products, they are Millennials' favorite brands because they have become synonymous with quality. In describing the brands that Millennials love, quality was the #1 trait cited by a landslide.* Longevity creAtes vALue Creating long-lasting products may largely be out of fashion in favor of offering cheaper alternatives, but Millennials still value longevity as a measure of quality, value and sustainability. *Only 11% of Millennials disagreed that they would not spend more for items that they knew would last..
"When I purchase something, I want to know that it's going to last for a while. I don't know, maybe it's just the nostalgia of getting things handed down to me from my parents and grandparents and the history they had but it makes me sad to think that our generation's purchases won't go through the same ordeal – everything's 'insta-use' and once it's used it's gone." –Brittney, 21, Seattle
exPectAtions not forgotten For brands with products that meet and exceed consumer expectations, Millennials' cry for quality is a reassuring message. And for brands that oversell, overhype and under deliver-- well, be warned. Millennials are the savviest consumers ever. They are wary of ads and become more so when they witness products not living up to their claims. They get recommendations from friends, read reviews, post on Facebook, chat on message boards and do research online. The truth doesn't escape the Millennial. The only way to gain their trust is to deliver and do so consistently.
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Eco is Nice
Despite widespread belief that Millennials are highly eco-conscious, it is not a key driving factor in product choice. eco AwAreness but not concern Millennials may be concerned with the effects their lifestyle has on the environment but it doesn't drive their day-to-day actions. While recycling and other eco-friendly actions may have become more integrated into their lives, it may be providing them a false sense of their overall contributions to environmental issues. In fact, only 20% of respondents in the international study were concerned about the effect their lifestyle has on the environment.* convenientLy conscious Millennials want to feel as though they are making as little negative impact on the world as possible as long as it doesn't change their lifestyles drastically. They view the responsibility to move towards greener lifestyles to lie with businesses creating greener products, rather than with the individual. When these products fit their needs and are convenient to use, they will make a switch if it's costeffective and non-intrusive. gooD for Profit's sAke In creating their businesses, one of the initial goals Millennials had was to create a model that is both eco-friendly and conscientious. They keyed in on business models like Toms Shoes to integrate a positive world contribution with sales. However, as they further explored costs and business planning, Ecology and humanitarian causes became less of a focus. Ultimately, Millennials see value in positive messaging when it helps with the core selling proposition and brand DNA, but were reluctant to acknowledge the usefulness of these components beyond that initial context.
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The Marketing Celebrity = Overpriced Mannequins
Millennials recognize the visibility that many celebrities can bring to a brand, but feel that companies are foolish to forge formal relationships with celebrities. Why? The average Milllennial cannot identify with the average pop celebrity. Direct enDorsement is tAboo While unsolicited publicity (like spotting Scarlett Johansson wearing TOMS shoes) is seen as acceptable, Millennials view the usage of celebrities directly in advertisements as taboo. *It feels forced, fake and totally inauthentic. **In the virtual companies conducted in both london and Seattle for this study, both groups opposed giving celebrities' paid endorsements but recognized their pop image value.
"If the paparazzi were to catch Victoria Beckham in our clothes I would be completely fine with that– she's the kind of person that we want in our clothes. But to actually come out and advertise using her as a model would only alienate our audience." –Becky, London, age 25
roLe moDeLs fALL fLAt Charles Barkley got it right nearly 20 years ago when he said, "I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids." In a world where celebrities' character flaws and mistakes surface on a daily basis, even the most seemingly safe endorsers falter. Most recently, Tiger Woods left a roster of big name brands scrambling after his world came tumbling down. Some of the world's most prolific brands couldn't have predicted his public demise. His fall from marketers' grace clearly outlines that no celebrity is safe from potential scorn, scandals or misfortune. Millennials recognize this and will avoid it when leading their own companies. chArActers connect While celebrities fail to connect with Millennials, the characters they play fare significantly better. This is due to the fact that the relationship Millennials have with a celebrity is really with the character that he or she plays. Often times those celebrities' personal personas bear little to no resemblance. This is evident in the success of Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy Shorts he did for Priceline and Burger King where Millennial-created and shared pop culture memes and characters were used to convey the thought of the advertisement effectively. Characters from TV shows like Flight of the Concords (HP), Macgruber (Pepsi), and NBC's Community (TurboTax) have recently been used in advertisements portraying the character they play on TV, rather than themselves. The connection that Millennials have with characters also reveals why YouTube and other smaller stars now often resonate with this audience more than a multi-millionaire professional entertainer. *Figure 7 **Quote 3 ***Figure 8
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Interaction Keys Connection
Not surprisingly, a generation that innately consumes, creates and participates in media is easily turned off by one-way communications and brands that don't deeply interact with them. commerciALs Don't convert Millennials view most commercials as simple notifications, superficial media for watching without any real engagement. Commercials help them remember that a brand or product still exists but won't necessarily drive them to buy. In fact, only 17.7% of Millennials agree that their favorite TV spot led them to purchase the advertised product. These lackluster results combined with the fact that most ads are fast-forwarded or ignored prove that Millennials are hard to sway using traditional media that doesn't promote interaction. incLusion buiLDs efficAcy Not all marketing and advertisements are viewed as ineffective by Millennials though. To be effective, campaigns need to invite Millennials into the process and allow them to get involved with the brand on a deeper level. User-generated Ads, Facebook Brand Pages, Twitter and a host of new technologies have opened up doors for Millennials to have dialogues with brands. Millennials now expect to be able to interact with companies to participate and promote the products and brands they are passionate about and they're not turning back. Even typically one-way communication like commercials are expected to engage and invite vs. push and persuade. exPeriences engAge Millennials live in a 360 degree world where media bleeds together seamlessly. They don't see digital, print and TV as distinct individual channels separated from their physical lives. As lines continue to blur, content is becoming more and more pervasive, and mobile. The best recent example of this fusion is the iPad, an all-in-one print, digital and video experience often used outside of the home. Because they've grown up in such a digital world, Millennials value tangible experiences to make a genuine connection with products and brands. **Successful companies will learn that 360 does not mean utilizing every channel, but requires creating a plan that merges and connects with Millennials fluidly at several life touch points. Nike+ is a great example of a platform that combines a device, community and digital resources together with products to add true value to runners' lives.
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Peer-to-Peer Drives Influence
Millennials' distrust in advertising and dismissal of typical ad noise make impacting their behavior through commercial messages increasingly difficult. Peers remain as the one reliable source to break through and influence this over-stimulated generation.
worD-of-mouth trusteD to inform Millennials innately distrust commercials and understand that many brands will often say anything in an attempt to win their wallets. At the same time, there have never been more resources to research product choices thanks to friends on Facebook, a global online community via Twitter, peer product reviews or a host of other tools. Millennials realize that every commercial claim can be easily investigated before making a purchase and they will utilize all available tools in order to do so. Not surprisingly, word-of-mouth was the #1 preferred place to receive news and information about products, with nearly as many Millennials preferring it (43%) to TV (26%) and Web Pages (22%) combined.* Peers DeLiver reLevAnce Not only does WOM give Millennials a method to validate claims, but it also enables them to learn about products and services from peers who can lend perspective and relevance. Whether looking for novels for their book club, parenting information from a young parents message board or a new set of skis from their Facebook Ski group, Millennials have easily accessible resources to learn about purchases from people who best understand their needs. likewise, Millennials proactively seek to tell others about products they love and do so effectively as they share information about the product in a way that matters to them as individuals, not through mass marketing messaging. recommenDAtions Drive behAvior The trust and relevance Millennials have with peer-to-peer communications, and the outlets Millennials have for communicating through them, makes peer recommendations a hot commodity in marketing any product. While TV can still give a lot of ground cover and drive awareness for brands, it is word-of-mouth recommendations that have the greatest influence over purchasing behavior.**
"The reason why Apple marketing is widely successful is because it merges giving an overview of the product in a compelling manner with constant reminders that it exists through press releases around the hype that the product has produced (e.g. the wait lines for stores to open). This combination creates an 'event' – only open for a certain amount of time which drives the desire to get involved and become part of a larger group." - Gordana, London, age 26
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The Future of Business
While the past decade ushered in new challenges that companies are scrambling to get their head around, the next decade will require that businesses make large scale changes to the way they operate. While previous large shifts in media and developments in technology have evolved the face of big business, the game stayed the same in many ways. Manufacturing advanced, the media shifted slightly but the formula remained the same. Create a decent product that serves a large consumer need, deliver enough reach and frequency to get people to buy it, rinse and repeat. So, what's changed now? Well, everything, and it will only keep evolving. Change may be underestimated by most and likely unclear to every business , but when looking at Millennials' beliefs, it's obvious that the old formula of business will not reign in the future. Millennial Inc is a real-time, two-way, customized, collaborative and merit-based business where brands and consumers form close relationships and have expectations of one another that more closely resemble those with friends or relatives than with a global conglomerate. So how does a business evolve to become more like Millennial Inc? Here are ten core principles that successful business will adhere to: enAbLe oPen coLLAborAtion Across the orgAnizAtion. Remove silos and enable diverse cross-functional teams Ask for more from every emPLoyee. Continually present new challenges and allow for rapid growth for those who perform vALue iDeAs over exPerience. Seek out and recognize good ideas wherever they exist in your eco-system, whether from the CEO, mail room clerk, supplier or even customer engineer humAnity. Utilize technology to make products more customized, communications more personal and consumers lives more enhanced Don't skimP on QuALity. Consumers will quickly avoid those products that fail to meet their expectations and have megaphones to ensure their thoughts are heard integrAte resPonsibiLity into the core of the business. Don't give back- be a company with a mission beyond just profits be genuine. Don't hide behind celebrity personas- focus on connecting to individual consumers and communities in ways that are authentic, relevant and meaningful think 2-wAy. Partner with consumers across all areas of the business- live and breathe transparency and open communication foster ADvocAcy. Build products and create marketing that invites consumers to share and leverages word-of-mouth, the most influential source of information chAnge. If your business is not continually searching, evolving and finding new ways to do things, you won't keep up
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Millennials' Preferred Approach to Decision Making
Amongst Peers 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% I prefer someone else to make the decisions, I don't need to get involved I prefer to be part of a team that makes decisions on a consensus basis I prefer to have the ability to make decisions myself with little input from others in the workPLAce
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Reasons Why Millennials Sought Out Their Last Job
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Descriptors of millennial preferred work environment
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Companies Millennials Aspire to Work For
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"We should creat e products using a model lik e Threadlesshave our consum ers design what they want. That way we're always pro ducing what our customer ba se wants -Mia, 24, Seat tle
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Descriptors of millennial preferred work environment
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"If I buy s omething, I want it to la st. I can justify the e xpense of something th at's a bit mo re pricey if I k now it'll las t me more tha n a season o r two." – Kim, 24, Lo ndon
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I am concerned about my personal impact on the environment
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"No, we're no celebrities... I t using with the ave can't identify – can you? H rage celebrity ask our custoow could we mer base to!?" –Jake, Seat tle, age 28
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Celebs as Spokespeople
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Icon Millennials identify with more
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Research Methodology
As Franz Boas – the grandfather of modern anthropologic science – would say: a collection of data from every aspect is the most important element in understanding culture. In attempting to stay true to his thoughts, Intrepid and Mr Youth sourced their data for this study from 3 different methodologies and an assortment of Millennial minds. These included an ethnography of an organically-built online community, a set of consecutive focus group think-tanks and a quantitative survey conducted across a larger population of Millennials. Each component was used in tandem to shape the questions we asked throughout the research and corroborate the empirical insights that we arrived upon. To reach our ultimate goal of understanding the underlying interactions between Millennials and the consumer world, each stage of research was used to slowly build the Millennial mindstate and clarify how their thought process worked. The digital ethnography gave us their environment; the Virtual Company allowed us to observe their perspective on modern business; and the quantitative survey gave us the chance to test and confirm our hypotheses.
THIS STuDy WAS CONDuCTED IN 3 PHASES:
DIgITAl ETHNOgRAPHY VIRTUAl COMPANIES QUANTITATIVE SURVEY
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Structure 1 ONlINE COMMUNITY - HTTP://MIllENIAlSINC.NINg.COM/ 377 MIllENNIAlS – AgES RANgINg FROM 18 TO 32 2 MONTHS OF ENgAgEMENT Weekly engagements through forum topics Semi weekly engagements through blog topics TOPICS COVERED Job hunting First job Continued education Entrepreneurialism
Over a two month period of time, Millennials from around the world were recruited to join Millennials Online and to be socialized with a group of their peers to engage in various activities. This stage of the research primarily served as structure. We covered top-of-mind subjects such as furthering their education, job-hunting after college and first jobs to get Millennials to talk amongst themselves and become engaged. This allowed us the ability to both gauge what the Millennial mindstate was and position the community for recruitment into the board of directors for the virtual companies. This leg of the research showed us that the Millennial population was inquisitive and skeptical of the way past generations conformed.
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Structure 2 MIllENNIAl BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1 london, UK based (7 Millennials) 1 Seattle, WA USA based (6 Millennials) 3 CONSECUTIVE ENgAgEMENTS – 1 per week over a 3 week period TOPICS COVERED Product development Branding Advertising Business culture Organizational behavior Company structure
From the Millennials Online community, two select teams were chosen to provide a robust collaboration of viewpoints for three focus group think tanks where they would build the ideal Millennial-run business. Each session would have its own theme and build on the last, slowly developing their concept. In the first week both groups covered desired businesses ideas, collaborated on a venture and structured their product offering. The ideas teams came up with were all-encompassing (green, local, humanitarian, crowdsourced, politically-minded, personal, etc). However, it became evident early on that many of these features were not mandatory, but were nice-to-have considerations. Week two covered messaging propositions. This is when the strength of engagement in non-traditional media and the lack of immersion in passive advertisements were discussed at length. All marketing campaigns the Millennials developed stemmed from community culture experiences and were deeply rooted in word-of-mouth techniques. Branding also notably played less of a role here, which foreshadowed later data that suggests a diminishing strategic need for branding amongst the Millennial population. The final week explored company structure and organizational behavior. In aligning their business model to their core offering, Millennials chose a bottom-up advancement structure and merit-based acknowledgement plan over the traditional model. This choice originated from a lack of connection participants observed in the marketplace between the products themselves and many of the companies behind them. Throughout these sessions, observations about interactions were also made. Amongst themselves and without stimulus to do so, the Millennials took on an egalitarian mantle – indicative of their community orientation and desire for peer-to-peer engagement. This fundamental basis would be seen resonating throughout the remainder of the research.
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QuANTITATIVE SuRVEy
Structure 1 20 MINUTE SURVEY WITH MIllENNIAlS RANgINg FROM 18 TO 32 FROM THE US AND UK 812 COMPlETES TOPICS COVERED Career attitudes Branding/messaging preferences Work environment Communication/interaction preferences Tech usage Political activism local awareness/association Ecological/ethical alignment
After developing Millennials Inc and reviewing business creation with the board of directors in the virtual companies, validation was needed to corroborate the insights found. To do so, 812 Millennials in the US and UK were surveyed online over a two week period. This leg of the research drilled further into the Millennial mindstate and addressed many subjects, strengthening some hypotheses and annulling others. Among these annulments were the noted singularities within the groups around political activism, localization, and humanitarian collaboration that were not reflected by the broader data. Confirmations have been presented in the body of this whitepaper itself.
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New World Resources Plc, an unprofitable Czech supplier of steelmaking coal, rose for a fourth day, extending its longest rally in almost five months, after the company said it will sell assets to pay for debt.
The stock added 1.6 percent to 22 koruna at the close in Prague, bringing a four-day increase to 24 percent, the longest stretch of gains since February. NWR was the second biggest advancer in percentage terms on the benchmark PX index, which fell 1.6 percent. The Czech miner invited bids for its OKK coking-coal subsidiary, the Paskov mine and other assets, it said today.
NWR first signaled the possibility of asset sales in May, after posting a first-quarter loss. The company has 578 million euros ($749 million) of debt due in 2018, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa SA is among the "many" European companies invited by NWR to analyze assets put up for sale, PAP newswire reported July 1, citing the mining company's chief executive officer, Jaroslaw Zagorowski.
"JSW is a logical buyer," Petr Bartek, a Prague-based analyst at Erste Group Bank AG, said in a phone interview today. "The coking unit is an interesting asset, while the Paskov mine is old and probably losing a lot of money. I can imagine someone buying the two assets together as most of Paskov's coal is processed by OKK."
Moody's Investors Service lowered NWR's debt rating to B2, or five levels below investment grade, with a negative outlook on May 29. NWR's operating performance has worsened in recent quarters as a result of a prolonged deterioration of the coal market, Moody's said.
"The first-quarter results reveal elevated cash burn," Roger Bell, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst in London, wrote in a report to clients in May. "We anticipate the business should be able to manage until 2018, at which point an about 500 million-euro bond maturity presents very challenging refinancing risk."
NWR's shares tumbled 74 percent in the three months ended June 30, the steepest quarterly slump since at least September 2008, as a recession in the Czech Republic and the euro area damped demand. The drop compares with a decline of 8.8 percent for the PX Index.


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No. 22 Michigan at Purdue, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN: Purdue needs this one. Boy, does Purdue need this one.
January hasn't been kind to the Boilermakers, figuratively and literally. Before Saturday's blowout loss at Michigan State -- a game preceded by Purdue's hours-long flight delays amid a classic Midwestern winter storm (why do we live here, again?) -- the Boilermakers had gone 2-2 in Big Ten play. Those losses came in questionable fashion, the first a 20-point blowout at Penn State (yikes) and the second a missed opportunity to take down Wisconsin at home. (Plus, some jerk at Michigan State even said something about Robbie Hummel's knees. Not cool, dude. Not cool.)
Now the Boilermakers are back in the comfy, presumably warm, sure-to-be-rowdy confines of Mackey Arena. Now they have an opportunity to get a win against a ranked conference opponent. Fortunately for them, that opponent hasn't had the best luck on the road this season, either.
Michigan has yet to win a road game in Big Ten play. It is also yet to win a road game this month. This past Saturday, the Wolverines fell behind to a crazy-hot Arkansas team early, and despite an impressive late run on the road, they eventually fell in Fayetteville. In some ways, this game is every bit as important for John Beilein's team as it is for Matt Painter's, as the Wolverines seek to get that first big road win, the kind you have to get if you plan to compete for top honors in the Big Ten (and this team does). At the very least, the Wolverines can't afford another Iowa-esque performance (a 75-59 loss). Something has to give.
At the risk of simplifying a rather complex game, then, this one is likely to come down to shooting. Both teams rely heavily on perimeter players to do the bulk of their scoring. Michigan has Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. and its coterie of lethal spot shooters. Purdue has Lewis Jackson and Ryne Smith and, of course, Hummel. Neither team spends much time working through its post players. Both teams prefer to play almost entirely at the basket.
This is good news for Purdue, actually; dealing with bigs is not its specialty, and the home atmosphere probably lends an inherent marksmanship advantage. But it also makes this game -- at home, in the midst of a crucial portion of the Big Ten season, against a stylistically similar team that doesn't have a go-to post player or disruptive interior defender -- something of a must-win. We'll see.
No. 7 Baylor at Oklahoma, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN3: Monday night, Syracuse was on the road against a quality conference foe after its first loss of the season. It got a win, and a rather big one, considering the circumstances. A day later, Baylor's story is similar: The Bears, losers of two straight, are seeking redemption Tuesday. Like Syracuse, they'll have to find it on the road.
Of course, the Sooners aren't the Bearcats; Cincinnati is a much better team, and hotter to boot. But Oklahoma could present challenges for this Baylor team. Wait ... huh? Oklahoma is mediocre, right? (Right.) Baylor is really good, right? (Also right.) So why should Baylor fans be slightly worried heading into Tuesday's game? The Bears are just way too talented, aren't they?
The answer is simple: rebounding. Particularly offensive rebounding, and particularly offensive rebounding against Baylor. It's one of the statistics Missouri's one-man frontcourt of Ricardo Ratliffe (with apologies to Steve Moore, but come on) dominated in Waco in its win Saturday. Upon further review, we should have seen that coming. Baylor is, for all its success this season, one of the nation's worst defensive rebounding teams; it allows opponents to clean up 34.2 percent of their misses, the No. 243 rank in all of Division I basketball. First of all, this is baffling: Why does a team with a starting frontcourt of Quincy Acy (6-foot-7), Perry Jones III (6-foot-11) and Quincy Miller (6-foot-9) get outworked so routinely on the defensive end? Based on sheer physics, that shouldn't happen. (Based on sheer numbers, it definitely shouldn't happen against Missouri, but Ratliffe was just more active, more determined and more opportunistic. "Outworked" is the appropriate way to describe it. Ratliffe is a beast, but still.)
More bad news for Baylor: Oklahoma is better than average at exactly one thing this season. Yeah, you guessed it: offensive rebounding. The Sooners chase down 39.4 percent of their misses this season, which is the 14th-highest mark in the country.
In other words, it's not too difficult to imagine Baylor getting dragged into a tough road fixture here. Then again, the Bears have been great on the road this season. So, you know, maybe not. But whatever happens, the long-term questions about this Baylor team are likely to linger. Why doesn't it rebound its glass? Why isn't Jones keen to attack the rim? Why do last season's turnover problems persist?
More than ever before this season, Missouri exposed these issues. Now it's up to the Bears to rectify them. And soon.
Everywhere else: New No. 1 Kentucky, which has already handled road tests better than last year's Final Four team, travels to Georgia in the late ESPN game Tuesday night. ... San Diego State encountered major travel issues on the way to remote Laramie, Wyo., for Tuesday's rather huge Mountain West matchup; Wyoming coach Larry Shyatt has improved his first Cowboys squad immensely this season, and it's a real threat to knock off the Aztecs -- travel problems or no. ... Marquette hosts South Florida. ... Tennessee is at Vanderbilt. ... And in a sneaky-good game in the Big 12, Iowa State travels to Texas, where trigger-happy Texas guard J'Covan Brown will need get his points much more efficiently if the Longhorns plan on taking down Royce White and the rest of Fred Hoiberg's upstart transfer crew.


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We stayed here for one night out of desperation because the bus dropped us off here after 12 hours of travel from Atitlan. They wanted 120Q for two people in a dorm. We bargained down to 100Q. There was no hot water (as promised) and the place was loud even at 3AM. The pillows were terrible and smelled horrible. Down the street at Hostal d'Acuña we got a private room for 100Q )the same price! and enjoyed great hospitality. This is the place to go in Coban!
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iris photos of scorch in my garden. The photos that
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To try to answer Debi's question....when iris leaves
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natural...it looks sick. Normal die back DRIES up and
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Zayed Khan: I am more serious about my career now!
He may not have seen the success he dreamt of in Bollywood, but he has not yet given up. A few mistakes later Zayed Khan is back to films, but this time as an actor and producer. The 30-plus actor opens up candidly on his past follies, present project (Love Breakups Zindagi) and future aspirations
After playing an infidel boyfriend in Anjaana Anjaani, Zee aka Zayed Khan returns to the silver screen with another love drama – Love Breakups Zindagi. The soon-to-be-father-for-the-second-time has not only acted in it, but also produced the slice of life flick along with his close friends actor Dia Mirza and filmmaker Sahil Sangha. At the film's music launch event Zayed sounded excited and nervous, all at the same time. Not surprising, especially for someone who is taking a second chance at his career. After the event concludes, we sit down for a chit chat…. Click here to read more


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Every year BOMB puts together a special "Americas Issue" focusing on art and literature from a different part of the Americas. This tends to mean South America, but you never know, maybe Canada will be—or was?—the focus at some point in time. Regardless, this is always one of my favorite issues of the year from this esteemed magazine that's been around since 1981, and this year's focus on Colombia and Venezuela keeps that tradition going.
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The "First Proof" literary supplement also has pieces by Luis Enrique Belmonte, Carolina Lozada, Victor Manuel Gaviria, Yolanda Pantin, Federico Vegas, Hector Abad Faciolince, Igor Barreto, and Luis Molina-Pantin. (You have to buy the actual magazine to get access to these pieces . . .)
I don't know as much about contemporary Venezuelan literature, but Colombia is pretty hot these days with both Vasquez's The Informers and Rosero's The Armies getting a lot of good attention. Not to mention Santiago Gamboa . . .
Prose translators will likely disagree, but I believe translating poetry requires a significant level of talent, a commitment to the text, and near mania, all of which suggests that the undertaking is the greatest possible challenge. The task is to. . .
The biggest issues with books like The Subsidiary often have to do with their underpinnings—when we learn that Georges Perec wrote La Disparition without once using the letter E, we are impressed. Imagine such a task! It takes a high. . .
Following The Infatuations, Javier Marías's latest novel seems, like those that have preceded it, an experiment to test fiction's capacity to mesmerize with sombre-sexy atmospheres and ruminative elongated sentences stretched across windowless walls of paragraphs. Thus Bad Begins offers his. . .
Death by Water, Kenzaburo Oe's latest novel to be translated into English, practically begs you to read it as autobiography. Like The Changeling, as well as many other works not yet released in English, Death by Water is narrated in. . .
Jocelyne Saucier's Twenty-One Cardinals is about the type of unique, indestructible, and often tragic loyalty only found in families. For a brief but stunningly mesmerizing 169 pages, Twenty-One Cardinals invited me in to the haunting and intimate world of the. . .
We know so very little; so little that what we think to be knowledge is hardly worth reckoning with at all; instead we ought to settle for being pleasantly surprised if, on the edge of things, against all expectations, our. . .
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A red flag stuck by one of my clumps is a marker to dig and toss as soon as it finishes blooming. I think this one might deserve better than that. I like it. Oddly, good, strong whites that manage my conditions haven't been that easy to find. ARCTIC EXPRESS seems to be settling in for the long haul and I went to get pollen to use for some haft width. Didn't have any. Oh well. I wasn't planning to make any TBxTB crosses this year anyway.
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Semiconductors are crystalline or amorphous solids with distinct electrical characteristics. They are of high resistance – higher than typical resistance materials, but still of much lower resistance than insulators. Their resistance decreases as their temperature increases, which is behavior opposite to that of a metal. Finally, their conducting properties may be altered in useful ways by the deliberate, controlled introduction of impurities ("doping") into the crystal structure, which lowers its resistance but also permits the creation of semiconductor junctions between differently-doped regions of the extrinsic semiconductor crystal. The behavior of charge carriers which include electrons, ions and electron holes at these junctions is the basis of diodes, transistors and all modern electronics.
Semiconductor devices can display a range of useful properties such as passing current more easily in one direction than the other, showing variable resistance, and sensitivity to light or heat. Because the electrical properties of a semiconductor material can be modified by doping, or by the application of electrical fields or light, devices made from semiconductors can be used for amplification, switching, and energy conversion.
The modern understanding of the properties of a semiconductor relies on quantum physics to explain the movement of charge carriers in a crystal lattice. Doping greatly increases the number of charge carriers within the crystal. When a doped semiconductor contains mostly free holes it is called "p-type", and when it contains mostly free electrons it is known as "n-type". The semiconductor materials used in electronic devices are doped under precise conditions to control the concentration and regions of p- and n-type dopants. A single semiconductor crystal can have many p- and n-type regions; the p–n junctions between these regions are responsible for the useful electronic behavior.
Although some pure elements and many compounds display semiconductor properties, silicon, germanium, and compounds of gallium are the most widely used in electronic devices. Elements near the so-called "metalloid staircase", where the metalloids are located on the periodic table, are usually used as semiconductors.
Some of the properties of semiconductor materials were observed throughout the mid 19th and first decades of the 20th century. The first practical application of semiconductors in electronics was the 1904 development of the Cat's-whisker detector, a primitive semiconductor diode widely used in early radio receivers. Developments in quantum physics in turn allowed the development of the transistor in 1947 and the integrated circuit in 1958.
The global semiconductors market has been volatile over many years. Setting up a chip fabrication industry requires the investment of billions of dollars. The cyclic fluctuations in demand and supply have caused significant fluctuations in price and margin.


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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis appealed for humanitarian assistance to South Sudan where famine threatens the lives of millions of people already suffering due to a three-year civil war.
"Religious music has had a great impact on my life," says Cahill, who is both a solo performer and a lead singer with Celtic Thunder. "No hymn is out of place in an Irish music concert in my book."
Registration is now open for the fifth-annual Sacred Liturgy Conference, scheduled for July 12 –15 in Medford.
Cardinal Raymond Burke, Archbishop Alexander Sample and Bishop Robert Vasa will be part of the three-day discussion of the church's sacred liturgy and its living musical heritage.
Archbishop Alexander Sample's schedule Feb. 17-March 5
"If you don't choose your future, your future will choose you," Holy Cross Brother William Dygert, schools superintendent, told dozens of Catholic education leaders at a Feb. 8 session. "We are blessed because we are planning from strength, not weakness. It isn't falling apart."
Another CYO swim season has ended, and with it swimmers will carry memories of hard work, new friends, snow, ice, and keen competition.
There were four championship meets: The Polliwog, for kindergarteners to third graders; two division meets for 4th – 8th graders; and the most popular, the All Stars Meet for 4th – 8th graders competing against their own gender and grade.


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Against Wind and Tide
Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
In this final collection of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and journals, we mark Mrs. Lindbergh's progress as she navigated a remarkable life and a remarkable century with enthusiasm and delight, humor and wit, sorrow and bewilderment, but above all devoted to finding the essential truth in life's experiences through a hard-won spirituality and a passion for literature.
Between the inevitable squalls of life with her beloved but elusive husband, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, she shepherded their five children through whooping cough, horned toads, fiancés, the Vietnam War, and their own personal tragedies. She researched and wrote books and articles on issues ranging from the condition of Europe after World War II to the meaning of marriage to the launch of Apollo 8. She published one of the most beloved books of inspiration of all time, Gift from the Sea. She left penetrating accounts of meetings with such luminaries as John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Thornton Wilder, Enrico Fermi, Leland and Slim Hayward, and the Frank Lloyd Wrights. And she found time to compose extraordinarily insightful and moving letters of consolation to friends and to others whose losses touched her deeply.
Against Wind and Tide makes us privy to the demons that plagued this fairy-tale bride, and introduces us to some of the people—men as well as women—who provided solace as she braved the tides of time and aging, war and politics, birth and death. Here is an eloquent and often startling collection of writings from one of the most admired women of our time.
(With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.)
—From the Introduction by Reeve Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in the year 1906 and died almost ninety-five years later in 2001. Not only did she live through most of the twentieth century, but her adventures, her personal history, and her written reflections made a significant...
—Los Angeles Times
"Those already familiar with Lindbergh will get to know her more deeply, and those who don't will be introduced to an intelligent, sensitive woman trying to deal with enormous changes through four decades of a sometimes-ordinary and sometimes-extraordinary life."
—Columbus Dispatch
"A rich and inviting book . . . full of introspective, beautifully crafted accounts of joys and conflicts; a recurring theme is Lindbergh's frustration at the confines of prescribed gender roles. An enticing publication."
—Library Journal (starred)
"These letters, coupled with Lindbergh's diaries, provide searing insight into the inner life of her brilliant and sensitive mind. Equally fascinating are the tidbits she drops about her unconventional, yet essentially interdependent, relationship with "Lucky Lindy." A witness to and active participant in almost an entire century of progress, Lindbergh certainly had a lot to muse about."
"A perceptive, intimate, and spirited journey of a woman as artist, wife, and mother."
—Publishers Weekly
From the Hardcover edition.


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Federal Retirement Processing: Applying Information Technology Acquisition Best Practices Could Help OPM Overcome a Long History of Unsuccessful Modernization Efforts
GAO-15-277T: Published: Dec 10, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 10, 2014.
In a series of reviews, GAO found that the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) efforts over two decades to modernize its processing of federal employee retirement applications were fraught with information technology (IT) management weaknesses. Specifically, in 2005, GAO made recommendations to address weaknesses in project, risk, and organizational change management. In 2008, as OPM was on the...
Labor Relations Activities: Actions Needed to Improve Tracking and Reporting of the Use and Cost of Official Time
GAO-15-9: Published: Oct 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 2014.
The ten agencies GAO reviewed reported using 2.5 million official time hours in fiscal year 2013 compared to about 2 million hours in fiscal year 2006. Although the total number of hours charged increased by 25 percent, 7 of the 10 selected agencies reported lower official time rates in fiscal year 2013 as compared to fiscal year 2006. Three agencies reported increased official time rates over the...
Program Evaluation: Some Agencies Reported that Networking, Hiring, and Involving Program Staff Help Build Capacity
GAO-15-25: Published: Nov 13, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 2014.
In a governmentwide survey of agency Performance Improvement Officers (PIO), GAO found uneven levels of evaluation expertise, organizational support within and outside the organization, and use across the government. The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) is a key component of the enabling environment for federal evaluation capacity, having established a solid foundation of agen...
Federal Paid Administrative Leave: Additional Guidance Needed to Improve OPM Data
GAO-15-79: Published: Oct 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 20, 2014.
Policies. Agencies have the authority to grant paid administrative leave—an excused absence without loss of pay or charge to individual leave—and to set policies governing its use. Among the five agencies GAO reviewed—the Departments of Defense (DOD), the Interior, and Veterans Affairs (VA); the General Services Administration; and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—age...
Managing for Results: Agencies' Trends in the Use of Performance Information to Make Decisions
GAO-14-747: Published: Sep 26, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 26, 2014.
Agencies' reported use of performance information, as measured by GAO's use of performance information index, generally did not improve between 2007 and 2013. The index was derived from a set of survey questions in the 2007 and 2013 surveys that reflected the extent to which managers reported that their agencies used performance information for various management activities and decision making. GA...
Health Insurance Exchanges: Coverage of Non-excepted Abortion Services by Qualified Health Plans
GAO-14-742R: Published: Sep 15, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 16, 2014.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), insurance plans offered in health insurance exchanges—known as qualified health plans (QHP)—may cover abortion services as a benefit consistent with federal and state law. Federal law applicable to QHPs for the 2014 benefit year prohibits the use of federal funds made available to offset the cost of QHP coverage to pay for abortion...
Human Capital: OPM Needs to Improve the Design, Management, and Oversight of the Federal Classification System
GAO-14-677: Published: Jul 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 2, 2014.
GAO's analysis of subject matter specialists' comments, related literature, and interviews with Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials identified a number of important characteristics for a modern, effective classification system, which GAO consolidated into eight key attributes (see table below). GAO's analysis shows that in concept the current General Schedule (GS) classification system'...
Security Clearances: Tax Debts Owed by DOD Employees and Contractors
GAO-14-686R: Published: Jul 28, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 28, 2014.
In summary, GAO found that about 83,000 Department of Defense (DOD) employees and contractors who held or were determined eligible for secret, top secret, or sensitive compartmented information (SCI) clearances, or related interim clearances, had unpaid federal tax debt totaling more than $730 million as of June 30, 2012. DOD reported to GAO that about 3.2 million civilian and military employees a...
Federal Workforce: Human Capital Management Challenges and the Path to Reform
GAO-14-723T: Published: Jul 15, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 15, 2014.
Serious human capital shortfalls can erode the capacity of federal agencies and threaten their ability to cost-effectively carry out their missions. While progress has been made, continued attention is needed to ensure agencies have the human resources to drive performance and achieve the results the nation demands. Specifically, additional areas needing to be addressed include:Classification GAO'...
Human Capital: Strategies to Help Agencies Meet Their Missions in an Era of Highly Constrained Resources
GAO-14-168: Published: May 7, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 6, 2014.
GAO convened a forum of chief human capital officers (CHCO) who described a number of difficulties their agencies face in maintaining the capacity to meet their missions during lean fiscal times. GAO's analysis identified three broad recurring human capital challenges and strategies to address them. While these challenges were not new nor exclusively a result of constrained budgets, reduced resour...


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The representative of Domenico Criscito has revealed that Napoli came very close to signing his client in 2010.
The Zenit St Petersburg player is again being linked with the Azzurri, three years after the switch almost occurred.
"In 2010, Genoa reached an agreement with Napoli, but the move collapsed over contract terms," Andrea D'Amico told Radio CRC.
"A move now? I can't answer such a question because neither of the clubs have been in touch with me.
"If that doesn't happen then we are talking about nothing."
The full-back, 21 caps for Italy, moved to Russia in the summer of 2011 after Zenit paid €11m to Genoa for him.
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A Connecticut middle school has started a fitness club for students that includes CrossFit strength and conditioning exercises. About 90 students are participating in the intense program, which uses exercises based on one's own body weight. While weight training is not typically offered for children, physical-education teacher Mark Fong says learning correct techniques keeps the workouts age-appropriate.
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9/11 Tribute Center
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A museum created by the September 11th Families' Association conveying first-person experiences of 9/11. Guides are 9/11 family members, survivors, lower Manhattan residents, recovery workers, and volunteers. Walking tours are available to the 9/11 Memorial, sharing the history of the World Trade Center, the events of 9/11 and aftermath. Limited 9/11 Memorial passes available with Tribute WTC admission.
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