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In the Hermes Global Equities team's latest investment update, Geir Lode, Head of Hermes Global Equities and Portfolio Manager of the Hermes Global Equity Fund, navigates the increasingly divergent tech sector to highlight five diverse stocks he believes can deliver strong, sustainable returns to investors.
There has been a real divergence in the tech sector between the consumer-facing innovators and the hard component stocks. While tech stars such as Amazon and Facebook steal the headlines, we are finding value in unloved semi-conductors and hard component companies.
Innovative tech firms are shaping the world, but what we look at is the shape of future shareholder returns. It is our job to consider whether company management carries a hubris premium. We must ask whether company management is empire-building or constructing a platform for sustainable returns to shareholders.
This is perhaps best epitomised by Elon Musk's, Tesla CEO, 2012 lofty vision of a solar-powered 'Hyperloop' that would take passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 25 minutes. This type of idea has the ability to change the world but it will mean billions in terms of capital allocation risk. For us, company management must demonstrate a pathway to future profits and returns to shareholders.
We like stocks with robust financial statements, competitive strength and a proven ability to consistently beat revenue and earnings expectations. Ideally, these companies should also be guided by impressive management teams and mitigate ESG risks. We assess each stock's value, growth and quality characteristics, along with market sentiment towards the company, to find those with the optimum combinations.
Our process does not discount all big name tech companies, but we select those companies with management that demonstrate restraint in growth projects and a commitment to return cash to shareholders. Alongside some household consumer-facing names with this type of profile, we highlight some interesting hard component companies that are flying below the radar.
Google is one of the stellar names in our portfolio. The tech giant is seeking to branch out into new growth projects from driverless cars to wearable technology, but they are conducting this activity at a relatively modest scale. For example, Google Ventures provides capital funding to bold new companies independent of Google. Since we have owned the company, it has delivered strong earnings. It is trading at an attractive valuation and, crucially, the company is still growing.
The Apple share price has been undergoing some recent volatility, but we remain supporters of the stock. People tend to get hung up on things like new products and how many are they selling, and when will they disclose the numbers, but we think you need to take a broader, longer-term view. There is work to be done in product transitioning in the US and Europe, but if you look at the quality of their product lines versus the competition and the company's enormous cash pile, we believe Apple remains in a very strong market position.
Lam Research
Lam is a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry. It develops innovative solutions that help its customers build smaller, faster, more powerful electronic devices. We think Lam has a very strong product line. The company is growing its market share and we are impressed about how the management is building the business. We have high confidence in the model.
ASML is a Dutch company that is currently the largest supplier in the world of photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry. The company is impressively growing the breadth of its technology. Success depends, to an extent, on how they will be able to penetrate the market with new products, but we believe this company should also be able to grow a strong franchise.
Micron Technology
This US-based company manufactures memory chips. This is deep cyclical name that is down 75-80% since its peak. Ten years ago there were tens of players in this space. Now with just two key players withstanding, the duopoly situation should give more cover going forward. The company is still making money, and it has cash on its balance sheet, so we can wait for a rebound. We expect a high return on capital going forward, given the size of the industry.
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Floyd Mayweather Celebrates Victory With 50 Cent, Justin Bieber, and Lil Wayne
The Money Team was all smiles after Floyd Mayweather's defeat of Miguel Cotto on Saturday night's main event. To help with the celebration, 50 Cent, Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne flocked to the ring after the fight. Check out these flicks of how it went down.

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1910 T210 Old Mill Tobacco "Series 2" Virginia League Complete Set (87)
Starting Bid - $1,000, Sold For - $7,050
Complete set of all eighty-seven different 1910 T210 Old Mill "Series 2" cards featuring Virginia League players. The T210 set is actually comprised of eight different series, each a set unto itself, representing a different minor league. The "Series 2" cards feature players from the Virginia League. A complete series such as this is very rarely offered. This "Series 2" set is part of an extraordinary complete T210 Old Mill set (Series 1 through 8) that was assembled over a period of many years by an extremely advanced collector, and that is being offered by series in this auction. Seventy-seven cards range from Vg-Ex to Ex-Mt (averaging Ex), and ten are in slightly lesser grade (mostly Vg). Very sharp-looking group especially for T210s! This complete "Series 2" set consists of the following: Andrada, Archer, Baker, Beham, Bonner, Bowen, Brandon, Breivogel, Brooks, Brown, Busch, Bussey, Cefalu, Chandler, Clarke, Clunk, Cote, Cowan, Decker, Doyle, Eddowes, Fisher, Fox, Foxen, Gaston, Gehring, Griffin (Danville), Griffin (Lynchburg), Hale, Hamilton, Hanks, Hannafin, Hoffman, Holland, Hooker, Irvine, Jackson (Lynchburg), Jackson (Norfolk), Jackson (Portsmouth), Jackson (Richmond), Jenkins, Keifel, Kirkpatrick, Kunkel, Landgraff, Larkins, Laughlin, Lawlor, Levy, Lloyd, Loos, Lovell, Lucia, MacConachie, Mayberry, McFarland, Messitt, Michel, Mullaney, Munson, Neuton, Nimmo, Norris, Peterson, Powell, Pressley, Pritchard, Revelle, Rowe, Schmidt, Schrader, Sharp, Shaw, Smith/batting (Lynchburg), Smith/catching (Lynchburg), Smith (Portsmouth), Spicer, Titman, Toner, Tydeman, Vail, Verbout, Walker, Wallace, Waymack, Woolums, and Zimmerman. The T210 Old Mill Tobacco card set has always been extremely highly regarded by advanced collectors due to its featuring so many players that appear in no other sets, as well as its very distinctive design, its scarcity compared to most other tobacco-card sets of the era, and its extremely striking photos that are unique to the set. The T210 Old Mill set is also well known by all collectors due to its inclusion of Joe Jackson (Series 8) and Casey Stengel (Series 6), two of the most famous and valuable of all baseball cards. It is virtually impossible to complete the entire set, and only a few complete sets (or even sets minus a few cards) have ever been assembled. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a complete set of one of the key series, featuring Virginia League players of the Southern League (interesting note: some of these players will be familiar for their appearance in T206), painstakingly assembled by an extremely dedicated advanced collector. As is often the case with these red-bordered cards, there is some wear to the red borders, mostly in the corners. This is a particularly impressive group, far better than normally found, with many cards in very high grade for this condition-sensitive issue. Total: 87 cards. Reserve $1,000. Estimate $2,500+. SOLD FOR $7,050
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Efforts show community's holiday spirit
Every year the community reaches out to help those who are in need.
One of the most successful of those program, and our personal favorite down here, is the annual Shop With A Cop program.
Originally put together by the police department, in more recent years its leadership has moved into the hands of Mary Morin and her staff at Pioneer Federal Credit Union.
With a broadbased board to help, Morin and her team raise as much money as they can during the year, funds that come from both local businesses and individuals. They try to keep enough "seed money" left over each year to make sure the program can keep going, but the vast bulk of what they raise throughout the calendar year goes to the kids. Because that's what it's all about for everyone who participates. The kids come first.
How many kids they can serve is based on the generosity of the community, but there's never enough money to go around to meet all the needs. The program relies on different agencies around town to help identify the children most in need. It's rarely the same kids from one year to the next, as every family has changing circumstances. But in today's economy, there are a large number of families that are stressed to provide anything resembling an adequate Christmas for their children. An IOU from Santa until February or March just doesn't cut if for a little kid.
But the really great thing about this program is how much the kids enjoy buying presents for others. It's actually tough to get them to buy anything for themselves. Mom and dad and their siblings have a higher priority for most of these kids.
The program helps buy or acquire gift cards for the kids not only at Wal-Mart, but at Paul's Market so the family can get some food for the holidays, and the families also get a movie at Take One Cinema. McDonald's helps out with the breakfast for Santa and Idaho Power is a key contributor to the program.
So Mary and her team and all the emergency service volunteers in town, on base, and elsewhere, get the satisfaction of putting some smiles on some kids faces who were facing a bleak holiday. And it's pretty tough not to walk away from a day with the kids without a little tear in your own eye for what it means to these kids.
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Another huge project for the holidays is raising enough food for the local food pantries to meet the needs of the area's poor over the Christmas season -- and beyond.
At one time, there was the Cheer Basket Project, a centralized and coordinated effort to put food on the table of the area's needy. It was a mammoth undertaking, and the people who last were in charge of it ran out of energy and couldn't find anyone else to pick up the ball.
So today, you get a lot of individual efforts. Some are businesses that collect non-perishable food. Others are groups and organizations. The schools do a boom business collecting food.
In the end, it may not be centrally coordinated anymore, but those pantry shelves get filled by the sheer will of effort of hundreds of people in the community.
This area has two food pantries -- one run by El-Ada Community Action Agency, one of the basic welfare services in the city, and the other by Grace Lutheran Church. The church does not limit its food distribution to its own members. They don't ask what religion you belong to. All they want to know is if you need help.
The long lines outside both those pantries on distribution day is a testament to the need.
What's ironic is that during the holidays that need is largely met. But it doesn't go away the day after Christmas. That need is year round. The holidays bring out the best in people, but that best shouldn't be restricted to just this time of year. We need a food drive every month.
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Finally, there's the Chamber's Giving Tree program. That's an effort to help give families a merrier Christmas by putting together gift baskets for needy families. It goes beyond kids. It includes adults, and many times lonely senior citizens for whom a small gift can truly brighten their day.
Don't forget the Giving Tree on your list.
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Missing in all of this is any coordinated effort to provide toys for children at Christmas. The Giving Tree focuses on clothing and other necessities (they won't turn down toys, however).
For many years, the Santa's Workshop program made sure kids got toys, and in the old days the Giving Tree program also put a heavy emphasis on new toys for the kids. But the people who ran Santa's workshop got old and/or died, and no one picked up the slack.
The Giving Tree now focuses its efforts on necessities.
You hear a lot about Toys for Tots, the excellent Marine Corps program, but very few of those toys collected here get returned to this community. At least not directly. There's usually a small distribution at one of the churches on Airbase Road, and sometimes we're told, the El-Ada staff has, in the past, driven some families down to Boise where the main distribution is held. But Boise is where the toys and collected and most of them disbursed. You can count on the fact that all those toys are going to good homes, but usually this community winds up being a net exporter of the toys.
So for someone or some organization out there looking for a major project, one that will eat up huge amounts of time and effort, reviving the Santa's Workshop in some form would meet a holiday need not being adequately served at present.
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In the end, however, there are few communities that can claim such a widespread effort to help those less fortunate, to truly participate in the spirit of Jesus Christ. Once all the programs are added up, along with all the people who donate something, it literally amounts to thousands of people who reach out to help others. For all of you, thank you. Have a happy holiday, and a very Merry Christmas.
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After scoring the first touchdown in the Buffalo Bills-Cleveland Browns matchup Sunday, Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller suffered a shoulder injury in the first quarter. During the broadcast postgame news conference, Bills Coach Chan Gailey said Spiller will "for sure miss this week" (against the New England Patriots at Ralph Wilson Stadium) as his injury continues to be evaluated.
Spiller is scheduled to appear on "The Fred Jackson Show" on WBBZ-TV Monday night.
Buffalo Bills running back Fred Jackson hosts "The Fred Jackson Show" live every Monday at 6:30 p.m. on WBBZ-TV. The show, sponsored by Sahlem's Roofing and Siding, features Bob Koshinski as co-host. The two of them will break down the Bills 24-14 win against the Cleveland Browns.
Last week, Spiller commented on Jackson's leadership with the team, despite the LCL injury Jackson sustained in the first game of the season against the Jets. Jackson is expected to return to practice this week.
"The Fred Jackson Show" is re-broadcast Monday nights at 10:30 p.m. and Tuesdays at 9 a.m. WBBZ-TV can be viewed on Channel 5 on Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS and Dish Network; and on Ch. 67 on DirecTV (where available) and digital Channel 67.1 over the air.


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Village Directory
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Beats Mixr by Dr Dre Headphones
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Incredibly durable.
Beats Mixr headphones are built to withstand the rigors of DJ life, which means creating a housing flexible and tough enough to take a beating. The ultra-flexible headband was also crafted to be super lightweight and easily foldable for jetting off to your next destination.
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Samardzija, Cubs hold off Pirates
Pittsburgh, PA – Anthony Rizzo slugged a two-run homer and Jeff Samardzija tossed eight scoreless innings as the Chicago Cubs silenced Pittsburgh, 3-1, in the 2013 opener for both clubs from PNC Park.
Samardzija (1-0) struck out nine and walked one while serving up only two hits, and Kyuji Fujikawa recorded the final out of the contest to earn his first career save.
Carlos Marmol was sent in to lock up the game in the ninth, but recorded only one out and allowed an RBI single to Pedro Alvarez and walked Gaby Sanchez before leaving with two on and one out.
James Russell came on and retired Neil Walker on a fly to right and Fujikawa induced a game-ending fly out from Russell Martin.
Welington Castillo added two hits and drove in the other run for the Cubs, who are looking to reverse a 61-101 finish last season.
Andrew McCutchen scored the lone run for the Pirates, who ended up 79-83 in 2012 despite contending for the NL Central crown until late July.
In his first career Opening Day start, A.J. Burnett (0-1) allowed six hits and three runs in 5 2/3 frames. He struck out 10 and walked one in defeat.
Starlin Castro singled to left with one out in the first and Rizzo followed with a shot to right center for a 2-0 Chicago edge.
"It's my first Opening Day...and to get the win is good to get off on the right note," Rizzo said.
In the sixth, Burnett plunked Nate Schierholtz with one down and paid for it when Castillo followed with an RBI double to make it 3-0 for the visitors.
Samardzija retired the last seven batters he faced and only allowed one runner past second for the duration of his start.
"The last two times we've seen him, he's been a beast out there," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said of Samardzija. "He's had command of everything out of his hand."
Game Notes
At 35 years, two months, and 29 days old, Burnett became the oldest Pirates pitcher to start on the season's first day since Rick Reuschel, at 36 years of age, did so in 1986 ... Pittsburgh had won five of its last six season openers ... Chicago batters fanned 15 times ... Prior to the game, the Cubs announced the following roster moves: placed pitcher Scott Baker on the 60-day disabled list; placed pitcher Matt Garza and infielders Ian Stewart and Darwin Barney on the 15-day disabled list; selected the contracts of pitcher Hisanori Takahashi and infielders Alberto Gonzalez and Brent Lillibridge from Triple-A Iowa and optioned outfielder Brett Jackson to Iowa; designated pitcher Robert Whitenack for assignment.


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Mother Dolores Hart, who lives a cloistered life at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethelhem, CT, will walk the red carpet Sunday in support of the Oscar-nominated documentary, "God Is The Bigger Elvis," about her life.
Here is Frank Rizzo's interview from four years ago.
BETHLEHEM, CT -- "Past old stone walls, lush greenery and hidden driveways to handsome homes, the winding country road in northwestern Connecticut leads to a simple wooden sign that says Abbey of Regina Laudis.
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A new beginning? Heat aim to start win streak against Hornets
For the first time in almost two months, the Miami Heat head into a game after losing the previous one.
Their 27-game winning streak was snapped in Chicago by the Bulls on Wednesday night, so the Heat will try to start a new one on Friday when they visit the New Orleans Hornets.
Miami fell 101-97 on Wednesday to end the second-longest winning streak in NBA history. They fell six games short of tying the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers record-setting mark, but the focus is still on a bigger goal than a winning streak.
"It was a heck of an experience for all of us to have together. We'll understand, probably more so later on in our careers, the significance of that," said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. "It was never about the streak. We have a bigger goal."
That goal is a second consecutive championship.
On Wednesday, the Bulls definitely rattled the Heat with physical defense.
LeBron James, who led all scorers with 32 points, complained after the game about two fouls committed against him that were not "basketball plays." He himself committed a Flagrant-1 foul against Carlos Boozer.
"It's been happening all year, and I've been able to keep my cool and try to tell Spo (Spoelstra), 'Let's not worry about it too much,'" said James. "But it is getting to me a little bit because every time I try to defend myself, I got to face the consequences of a flagrant for me or a technical foul."
Chris Bosh had 21 points and Dwyane Wade netted 18. No other Heat player scored in double figures and Miami was outrebounded 43-31 by the more physical Bulls team.
The Hornets had a three-game winning streak snapped on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Clippers came to the Big Easy and won, 105-91. It was the second setback in a homestand where the Hornets are 3-2 thus far with Miami and Cleveland still on deck.
"I thought for the most part we forgot a bit about how we won these past three games - defending, moving the ball and playing with a level of force that's necessary to have a chance to compete," said Hornets coach Monty Williams.
The Hornets trailed by two at the start of the fourth quarter, but L.A. outscored New Orleans 26-14 in the final frame.
Eric Gordon led the Hornets with 24 points, followed by 19 from rookie Anthony Davis. Robin Lopez had 13 and Brian Roberts added 10. Starting point guard Greivis Vasquez went scoreless in almost 28 minutes.
Miami has won three in a row in this series with New Orleans, but the Hornets have taken six of the last 10. The Hornets have also won six in a row and 13 of 15 at home against the Heat.


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Our winners are-
busyworkingmom - Enlitened Cooking
Malk - Kosher Elegance
Les - Silver Spoon
Due to the adverse weather, many people couldn't join in our contest and we've decided to extend the date to enter recipes until September 19. Go ahead and post your recipes. You can still win cookbooks!
My neighbor has a flea market addiction. Every Sunday I'm bound to walk out of my house and find a piece of furniture on her driveway. If it's not furniture, it's bikes, toys or books. As much I'm tempted to join her to find bargains, the 6 am wake up keeps me from joining (the best deals are in the morning).
One day she brought home a piece of furniture for her dining room. As she opened the draw to clean it up, she noticed a newspaper.
Not just any newspaper, a newspaper from 1932.
I heard about her find in the find, and I headed over to check out the newspaper. In 2011 the first thing I do when I open any newspaper or magazine is I look for recipes. (Come on, admit it , you do it too :) And out of habit I started looking. Low and behold there were recipes.
A sample recipe: Onion stuffing (fine for chicken or duck): Put six medium-sized peeled onions through the food grinder, then put this chopped vegetables over the fire with barely enough boiling water to cover, and let simmer 8 minutes. Do not drain off the water. Instead, stir one- half butter into the parboiled chopped onion and when melted, add two teaspoons of "poultry seasoning" (sold at all grocers in small packages), four cups of soft white bread crumbs and enough salt and pepper to suit individual liking.
Looks like not much has changed from 1932. Granted today's recipes are more sophisticated, may include newer ingredients and electrical equipment. But the basis is the same. Decades pass and people are still looking for new recipes, new ideas and there never seems to be a shortage of recipes.
Let's get to it - Want to win cookbooks with lots of new recipe ideas?
We'll be giving away three cookbooks, that means three winners will each win one cookbook.
All you need to do is add recipes to our website. Sign in and click add recipe. We'll be holding track of every recipe added from today until September 2. Every recipe is an additional chance to win one of the cookbooks. We'll first pick the winner of Kosher Elegance, the second Enlightened Kosher Cooking and the third winner will win the Silver Spoon.
All cookbook are sponsored by Feldheim Publishers.
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1-Day IELTS Masterclass in Abu Dhabi
Friday, December 15, 2017 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Gulf Standard Time United Arab Emirates Time)
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Hi, I have a 3 week old baby and I've been dealing with really sore/cracked nipples apparently due to a shallow latch. Every position seems to hurt! Right breast is the worse! I posted here before and got a lot of good advice; nipples look better but I'm still in pain :/
I was told laid back breastfeeding could help fix the latch but I' m not sure how to do it.
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Description:IBM 600GB Serial Attached SCSI 2 (SAS-2) 6G 10K 2.5-inch Slim Hot-Swap Hard DrivePart Number(s)
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Overview:The IBM 600GB 10K rpm SAS-2 6GBps 2.5-inch Slim HDDs provide 2.5-inch form factor that can be used as Hot-Swap drives. The addition of a 600 GB 15K rpm offering to the System x and BladeCenter blade family of 2.5-inch SAS HDDs makes it one of the highest-performing SFF options. These drives are positioned at the top of the SAS SFF HDD line based on increased performance and capacity.


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Naomi Watts Presents Spirit Award to Apl.de.ap at Happy Hearts Fund Gala 2014!
Naomi Watts shares a sweet moment with Apl.de.ap after honoring him with the Spirit Award during the 2014 Happy Hearts Fund Gala held at Cipriani 42nd Street on Thursday (June 19) in New York City.
The 45-year-old actress was also joined by John Legend, Sheryl Crow, Taboo, Bones star Michaela Conlin, and models Karlie Kloss, Petra Nemcova, Coco Rocha, and Arlenis Sosa at the event celebrating the achievements the fund has made 10 years after the Indian Ocean tsunami.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Naomi Watts
The day before, Naomi was spotted chatting on her cell phone while running some errands in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
FYI: Naomi is wearing a Burberry dress, Edie Parker clutch, Brian Atwood shoes, and Bulgari jewelry. She is wearing Big Star shortalls while running errands. Michaela is wearing a vintage dress, Casadei shoes, a Salvatore Ferragamo clutch, House of Lavande earrings, and a Slight Jewelry ring.
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Can Lincoln High School Finish Strong in Boys Basketball?
The old adage is it's not where you start, it's where you finish. The Lincoln Patriots boys basketball team is hoping that comes true as the regular season winds down with three games remaining.
At 6-11, the Patriots have struggled this winter, and haven't quite lived up the their hype after being ranked No. 1 in Class AA to start the season. Head coach Jeff Halseth says his team is keeping their heads up, and hopes to finish strong with the postseason right around the corner.
"The key is right now, we are improving. We are playing better and better every game. As the scores show you, we are losing some close ones over time, but are getting better. We are heading into the right direction."
Lincoln has lost a few close games. The Patriots have lost two very good games to a solid Rapid City Stevens team. They lost a double-overtime game at home early in the season to the Raiders, and again last Friday night, 52-50. In their district, the Patriots lost a double-overtime game to Washington on the road, and lost by four points at home to the Warriors. Three other tough losses have come by eight points or fewer to Brandon Valley, Roosevelt, and Watertown.
Despite the losses, Halseth shares the Patriots remain hopeful and want to finish the season strong.
"They are a competitive bunch of guys. They don't like to lose. They are frustrated with their record. These guys are an amazing bunch of guys. They come to practice every day, trying to make themselves better, and finding a way to make the team better. That's what I love about these guys. They don't give up."
The Patriots will have to continue fighting because a tough stretch concludes with three games at home. Two of the games are against city-rivals O'Gorman (8-10), and Roosevelt (13-3).
"We have to get a few wins in. We want to finish as high as we can in our district, seedwise. Even that, that really doesn't matter. All we have to do when it comes to our district and region, is win two games, and get to the state tournament. Once the state tournament begins, and we are in there, it's an entirely new season. We can forget about what happened in the past, and look to the future in the state tournament," adds Halseth.
Their district is winnable, too. Washington is on top with a 11-7 record, and 42.11 seed points. Yankton is second at 12-6, (40.83 seed points) and Brandon Valley is third with a 10-8 record. Lincoln is fourth.
During the season, Lincoln has lost to Washington, as stated earlier, and split with Yankton and Brandon Valley. The Patriots fell to the Lynx by seven on the road, but thumped the Bucks on the road, 72-45.
Lincoln will need to keep grinding to make a postseason run, and rely on their core of players that has been developing chemistry for their team all year long.
"Malik Dunn has been a kid that has been doing a fantastic job. He and Addison Park have been our leading rebounders. He's (Dunn) one of our go-to guys in the paint as well. Calvin Krause, he's an inside, outside guy that's helped us out a lot. Caleb Rector is a senior and is coming off the bench and has been a nice defensive spark. Tate Lindsay is finding his new role as the starting point guard. We've been looking for a one, and Tate has done a nice job running the point. Overall, we have had a host of guys that come off the bench. We play nine, ten guys and all of them have contributed in one way," shares Halseth.
The Patriots hope to stay in the mix as the Class AA state tournament in Rapid City is inching closer and closer.
"We are team that is continuing to improve, and hope we are team nobody wants to play come the end of the season," concludes Halseth.


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Servings: 6 to 8
Bruce and Eric Bromberg, the brothers behind the now nine-restaurant Blue Ribbon phenomenon, have eaten their fair share of brisket. After many years of it at family holiday meals, they embarked on a personal quest to create an exceptional version (that wasn't a dried-out, stringy mess). In this recipe from their soon-to-be-published Blue Ribbon Cookbook, just in time for Passover, they include their mom's touch of keeping the aromatic vegetables in the pot, which get pureed all up into a rich, full-bodied and luscious sauce for the brisket.
3 to 3½-pound brisket
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter
5 pounds (about 10) small yellow onions, peeled and halved through the root
1 cup dry white wine
1 cup veal or chicken stock
1 ½ tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 celery stalks, diced
1 tomato, diced
4 garlic cloves, peeled
Preheat the oven to 300°F.
Sprinkle the brisket with the seasoning and let stand for 15 minutes. Melt the butter in the bottom of a Dutch oven. Arrange the onions, cut side down, in the pot. Cook over medium heat for about 7 minutes, until well browned on the bottom. Pour the wine and stock over the onions, covering them by 1 inch. Add more stock, if necessary. Add the thyme and pepper. Bring the liquid to a simmer on the stovetop. Place the brisket, fatty side up, on top of the onions. Sprinkle the celery, tomato, and garlic over the brisket. Cover and cook in the oven, turning once, until very tender, about 3½ hours.
Transfer the brisket to a serving platter and boil the braising liquid over high heat until reduced by half, about 15 minutes. Purée the liquid and vegetables in a food processor and then strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Serve the sauce alongside.


text: First drive: the new Mercedes G63 AMG As we know from so many other AMG cars, this twin-turbo 5.5-litre V8 engine is a marvel. It's not even fazed by hauling the G-class. Put it up against a weight of 2.6 tonnes and a Cd of 0.53, and it still manages to produce serious performance.At any revs, a jab of the throttle calls up a satisfying forward lunge. Epic gusts of NASCAR rumble issue from the four side-exhaust tips below the doors.For a vehicle that can actually get itself into fairly hostile off-road territory, this is impressive - albeit by no means unique these days.That, m'lud, concludes the case for the defence. Every other characteristic of the G63 lies on the prosecution side.AMG's normal practice is to take Mercedes models - cars that are already highly competent in handling and braking - and then give the chassis a thorough overhaul to take it to an even higher level. In the case of the G-Class, it's a vehicle that was launched 33 years ago, and was never designed for on-road duty. Plus, because the chassis consists of solid axles, there's very little AMG can do to change it.So the G63 is ridiculously bad at cornering. It has pathetically little grip and tragically vague steering. Really, you arrive at the first corner and it feels like someone has buttered the road. You flail away with huge armfuls of steering input, understeer madly, then feel the ESP juddering into action.Braking, especially from speed, doesn't feel too stable either.Never mind, you'll soon be stopping to steady your nerves. You'll have to, because the tank will be empty. I saw 4.6kpl.Despite the G-Class's Titanic weight, it's not that big or comfy inside. This latest facelift has added contemporary sat nav and communications, but it's a tissue-thin gesture. The driver's seat doesn't go very far back, and if it did there'd only be enough rear legroom for kids. Because of all unsprung ironmongery down below, the ride's shuddery. The shoebox shape kicks up a load of wind noise.So let's put it in some sort of Mercedes perspective. You're paying the price of a V12 S-class. You're getting something with the performance of a V6 SLK but the cornering of a Smart. It has the space of an A-class, and the consumption and refinement of an Actros truck. It's all wrong.AMG does an ML off-roader that does a far better job in every measurable way. But people buy these G-Class cars because they are cool. Well I can't agree. Come on people, what's so cool about something so dumb? Paul Horrell 15 May 2012 First drive: the new Mercedes G63 AMG


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Sources for house history
When starting your house history you may need to search in many different documents and maps. You may find it easier to find out about the various owners and occupiers than about the building structure or exact construction date. To find out when it was built you need to work backwards and identify when a house disappears from maps or other records
Sources you can use
|OS Maps
|Tithe maps
|Enclosure maps
|Building control plans
|Sale Particulars
|Land Tax
Census Returns
Census Returns are probably the most useful of all sources for family history in that it is the only resource that brings together a whole household, often including extended family. The ages and places of birth can lead you to an individual's birth certificate and/or baptism entry.
Census returns also enable local historians to obtain a complete record of the inhabitants of a place, and its occupational and social structure.
A census has been taken in England and Wales every ten years since 1801, with the exception of 1941, on account of war.
The information required on the census has increased over the years.
Ordnance Survey Maps
The origin of the Ordnance Survey lies in the appointment of a Trigonometrical Survey in 1791, to provide a complete cartographical survey of the country for military purposes.
County Series
From the mid 19th century, the Ordnance Survey began to compile County Series maps at 6 inches and 25 inches to the mile. These maps were known as the County Series. Hampshire Record Office has a large, though incomplete, collection of County Series maps for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and a few others for adjacent counties.
Editions were produced as follows:
After the First World War, the Ordnance Survey tended to focus on areas of rapid change, so between 1921 and 1939 some areas have more maps than others. Many towns were also mapped at an even larger scale of 50 inches to the mile. We hold some of these, including a full set of Winchester, c1870.
National Grid Series
After 1945, all Ordnance Survey maps formed part of one National Grid, rather than using separate references for each county.
The scales range from 6 inches, 25 inches and 50 inches. As revisions were made when necessary rather than after a certain time, we may hold more maps for urban areas than we do for rural areas. We hold a large, though incomplete, collection of National Grid maps for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight dating from c1945 to c1980.
Hampshire Tithe maps
Tithes were the tenth part of a person's produce which was paid in kind annually to the church. Tithe maps were made following the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 which provided for the commutation of tithes into a money payment. The maps accompanied an award or schedule.
The accompanying award gives details for each individual property including a description, the name of the owner and occupier, its acreage and its cultivation.
Often, buildings are coloured pink to indicate dwellings, or grey to indicate outhouses and other buildings.
Some properties, shown and numbered on the map, are not included on the award. There could be a variety of reasons for this, the main one being that the land was owned by the tithe owner. There are significant gaps in the Christchurch tithe award for this reason.
There is a tithe map and award for every parish in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight except Beaulieu, Binstead (IOW), Chilworth, Corhampton, North Baddesley, Portsmouth, St. Lawrence (IOW), Woodcott and the town areas of Southampton and Winchester.
In many parishes, the original statement in the tithe award has been changed subsequently by a document known as an altered tithe apportionment, which was usually accompanied by a map. Many parish collections also include altered apportionments. Most of these duplicate the diocesan series but some supplement the main series. Sometimes certificates of redemption of tithe rent charge are also accompanied by a map.
Hampshire Enclosure maps
Enclosure of the common fields has gone on from an early date. Generally early enclosures were made by private agreement between the landowners and even when the agreement was formally written down there was usually no accompanying map. However from the mid eighteenth century, enclosure by Act of Parliament became common. The Act appointed Commissioners to allot the common land in a parish to the principal landowners in as fair a way as possible. Their decisions were embodied in an enclosure award for the parish or the affected part of the parish, and a map was drawn up to accompany the text. In rare instances, a pre-enclosure map was also made so that the situation before and after enclosure could be compared.
Together, the enclosure map and award provide a wealth of detail about land use, settlement patterns, ownership and tenure, field names and boundaries, rights of way, roads and footpaths, and responsibilities for public places.
Unlike the tithe survey, there are a considerable number of parishes in Hampshire which were not covered by enclosure. This could arise if the parish (or a sizeable part of it) was enclosed by private agreement at an early date or if it was never enclosed. Sometimes too the Enclosure Commissioners did not authorise a new map but used and adapted an existing estate map. Sometimes the Tithe Commissioners dealt with enclosure and vice versa. A Guide to Enclosure in Hampshire, 1700-1900 (John Chapman and Sylvia Seeliger, 1997), part of the Hampshire Record Series, gives a comprehensive survey of the evidence for enclosure, parish by parish.
Building Control Plans
If a house was built or extended after 1895 (1850s in Aldershot and Fareham, 1870s in Basingstoke and Winchester), a building control plan should have been submitted to the district or borough council to enable it to check that the building was structurally sound with adequate light, ventilation and drainage.
Plans had to be submitted for approval before work could start, and cover structural work, not services.
Estate agents' brochures or sale particulars
Sale particulars contain details of property and land for sale. They can date from the eighteenth century, but from the late nineteenth century, they often provide detailed descriptions of buildings and land, sometimes including plans and photographs. Some sale particulars give details of the owner's right to sell, or information about their bankruptcy or death.
Sale particulars are sometimes endorsed with the name of the purchaser and the amount paid. Sale particulars can survive for large estates as well as individual houses. Sale particulars of large estates can give details of individual fields and cottages. Sale particulars of houses can include descriptions of each room. Modern sale particulars of large estates can include information on the history of the estate.
Land tax assessments
The land tax was a national tax levied on landowners from the 1690s. The returns for parishes record the names of owners and occupiers and the sum for which they were assessed. They are a valuable source for tracing changes in ownership and occupation of a property and for information about the personal wealth of inhabitants.
In 1780, payment of land tax on freehold property annually established voting qualifications and copies of the assessments were kept by the Clerks of the Peace.


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When I wrote the Good Blogging Guide last year, I concentrated on audience, purpose, search and writing like a real person (I hear voices saying "Look at yourself Ray, you've forgotten it all already!"). What I spent little time on was the technical side of blogging and the web – navigation, usability, content such as images, and other areas.
But the COI (Central Office of Information) for the Government have produced an excellent, and easy-to-read, set of usability guidelines for creating usable website in the public sector. It includes technical and design advice, as well as some very good pointers towards writing effective web content.
If you're involved in a school website project – whether that's external for parents, or internal for students and staff, it is a very worthwhile read. Useful too if you're planning a new SharePoint 2010 project.
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To drop your defenses and let yourself get fucked by as many willing dicks as you can find. To give up the ass is considered a noble thing, especially when it's to me.
You know that bitch Laquanda? Man, I found her giving up the ass at the party last week to all the homies. I let that bitch suck my dick off later on. It was tight.
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Australian households should quickly notice a fall in energy costs after the scrapping of the carbon tax.
But while Prime Minister Tony Abbott is confident prices will drop in the next round of power bills, the net saving for Australians remains unknown amid other budgetary measures.
"There are swings and roundabouts," Mr Abbott told ABC TV on Wednesday, hours after the repeal passed the Senate.
He cites Treasury figures that the repeal will save the average family $550 a year and the first benefits would be seen in coming power bills.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had been given the funding and powers to ensure savings are passed on to consumers.
But the prime minister would not commit on what further savings might flow.
"I'm going to let people come to their own conclusions."
Could the baseline saving be neutralised by government-proposed legislation such as the GP co-payment?
"This is all part of a comprehensive economic plan and all the bits go together," Mr Abbott said.
Most importantly, Australia has got rid of the world's biggest carbon tax, he added.
"What we lost today was an international aberration because no other country anywhere had an economy-wide carbon tax or emissions trading scheme on this scale."
A climate change believer, Mr Abbott will push ahead with plans for Australia to meet its emissions reduction target by way of Direct Action.
"I'm confident that by the time the legislation goes to the Senate it will get support," he said.


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Manchester United vs Juventus live stream, TV coverage and highlights will all be available exclusively with US Live watch on Thursday night as the Gunners head into a landmark Europa League semi-final first leg.Manchester United vs Juventus have no fresh injury concerns ahead of the second leg of their Europa League semi-final against Atletico Madrid on Thursday.
The Gunners headed to Spain with the tie finely poised at 1-1 but have the boost of a fit Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who returned from a knee injury at the weekend having sat out the first leg.Alex Iwobi has travelled despite suffering a slight hamstring injury in the weekend defeat at Manchester United but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is cup-tied and Mohamed Elneny (ankle) and Santi Cazorla (Achilles) are also out.
Manchester United vs Juventus Live need to score at least once at the Wanda Metropolitano if they are to have any chance of reaching the final in Lyon later this month.That will be a tough ask given Diego Simeone's Atletico have not conceded at home in 11 games and have lost just three times at their new home since taking up residency in September.
Manchester United vs Juventus manager Arsene Wenger said: The history has to stop somewhere. That is what we will try to do. In the first game we created chances, that is why we want to create the situation where we created many chances but we didn't manage to put them in the net.We have to keep the same commitment, not focus too much on the way we play. Just how we attack and build the game up from the back.
Scoring will be one challenge but keeping Atleti at bay will also prove a tough test, especially if fit-again Diego Costa is included for the hosts. The former Chelsea forward proved a scourge of Manchester United vs Juventus during his time in England, scoring three times in six games against Wenger's team and often proving more than a thorn in the side of the defence. He was an unused substitute in London last week as he recovered from a thigh injury but played over an hour in Sunday's LaLiga win over Alaves.
In history he has shown he can make the difference, conceded Wenger.He played in England and was very successful. It is our job to keep him quiet. Maybe the way is not to play too much in our half and to play more in the half of Atletico Madrid.
Atletico boss Simeone admits he will not be happy to sit in the stands following his sending off at the Emirates Stadium last week.He said: I won't carry it too well. I'm sad about the situation and the suspension. I will have to improve and I best not say anything else.It is not going to change the way I coach the team, seeing myself on television, it could be
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VANCOUVER, BC – For the second straight year, Vancouver Island soccer fans will have an opportunity to see Vancouver Whitecaps FC play in their own backyard, as the Major League Soccer (MLS) club announced today a friendly match versus the University of Victoria Vikes men's soccer team. The Vikes will host Whitecaps FC at UVic's Centennial Stadium on Saturday, March 16, at 1 p.m. PT in British Columbia's provincial capital.
The 'Caps and Vikes have played every year since 2005 when the Blue and White were a North American second division club, including last year's 2-1 win for Whitecaps FC in the first-ever meeting between an MLS club and a Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) side. Vancouver holds the edge in record with five wins, one defeat, and one draw.
"We're thrilled to bring the highest level of professional soccer in Western Canada back to the island," said Whitecaps FC president Bob Lenarduzzi. "It was a great event last season, so we're looking forward to another strong turnout from the Victoria community and another exciting match for fans."
Following their first two MLS regular season matches, the March 16 friendly against the Vikes will provide an early chance for Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie to assess the overall depth and progress of his new squad.
"With a break from MLS action that weekend, this match will be a good opportunity to continue momentum early in our season," explained Rennie. "The Vikes provided a very competitive match for our squad last year, so we expect another entertaining match."
The Vikes completed their 2012 season with a record of 6W-6L-2D and finished third overall in the Canada West Pacific division. UVic are coached by 2011 Canada West conference 'Coach of the Year' Bruce Wilson, an original member of the North American Soccer League Vancouver Whitecaps from 1974 to 1977. Wilson is celebrating his 25th season at the helm of the Vikes.
At least five Vikes have previously played professional soccer with Whitecaps FC including Jamie Lowery, Chris and Nico Craveiro, Geordie Lyall and current men's soccer coach Wilson.
Another tie to Whitecaps FC is the development of 2011 CIS tournament Most Valuable Player Cam Hundal, of Surrey, B.C., and 2011 CIS All-Canadian and women's soccer player Jaclyn Sawicki, of Coquitlam, B.C. Both Hundal and Sawicki have spent time with Whitecaps FC development programs, a testament to the player development model the 'Caps pride themselves on.
"As always, hosting Vancouver Whitecaps FC provides a very special and unique atmosphere for the soccer community on the island," said Vikes men's head coach Bruce Wilson. "Fans will have the opportunity to see both the Vikes team, as well as Whitecaps FC, who will be just starting their MLS season. I think we will have a very good turn out."
Whitecaps FC have strong ties in Victoria through their partnership with the EA SPORTS BC Soccer Premier League and club Vancouver Island Wave, and through their relationship with Victoria Highlanders FC.
The Vikes-Whitecaps FC game will be streamed live at http://UVic.canadawest.tv.
Tickets for the Victoria match on March 16 will be made available for purchase online or at the gate. For more information, visit: http://www.govikesgo.com/whitecaps or contact Janine Prince at (250) 472-4772 or email@example.com.
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Crews battle Augusta fire
Fire damages apartment building
Crews battle Augusta fire
Fire damages apartment building
AUGUSTA, Maine —
Crews battled a fire in Augusta Tuesday afternoon that damaged a four-story apartment building.
The fire was located at the corner of Penobscot and Washington streets.
The fire chief said everyone in the building made it out safely, but the cause is unknown.
Augusta police and the Maine Fire Marshal's Office were on scene investigating.
A woman in the building said she found out about the fire when a police officer broke in and told her to get out.
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Editor's note: This is a guest post by Robert Norberciak, Marketing Director at the Scottsdale, Arizona day spa, Mozaik Skin & Body, and one of the founders at Service Business Hustlers.
People love shopping local. Even more so, people love buying gifts that are local. They want to treat their friends to amazing experiences at local businesses.
With my day spa, I don't sell anything online except for gift cards. I don't try to compete with e-commerce stores. I simply focus on the one thing that no one else does in my market well. I focus on making it easy for my customers to buy gift cards.2018 Sneakers Gazelle Men Adidas Originals Sneakers Gazelle Indoor 2018 Sneakers B24976 6129f75
I had the joy on Mother's Day to watch a family go into my competitor. They asked if they sold gift cards. The lady was like "No".
They came over to my spa and walked out with $300 in gift cards that they bought for their mother. Guess who got the new customer?
Each year, I sell close to ~$23,000 of gift cards just online. We sell another $25-35k in-store.
I'm going to break down for you my exact strategy on how I am selling so many gift cards through my website and in-store.
Has anyone ever bought a McDonald's hamburger because they wanted the pickle?
According to McDonald's – the company sells 225,000,000 burgers worldwide each year. 75 per second!
At 10 seconds per pickle per burger for producing, transporting, managing and serving the pickle – that's up to 71 years of peoples lives wasted (per year) on McDonald's pickle habit. (A lifetime wasted every year!)
At 5 cents per pickle to produce, transport, manage and serve – that's $11.25m of pickle expenses per year.
And why?
All so picky-eating pickle-flickers and flick their floppy pickles onto McDonalds' clean windows.
If McDonald's removed the pickle – I doubt there'd be protests in the street, with millions of pickle-munchers shouting "Bring back The Pickle!"
In fact, I doubt McDonald's would see their sales suffer at all.
I reckon those pickle-munchers are fickle-pickle-munchers. They'd still buy the burgers anyway – pickle or not.
And McDonald's would save millions of dollars – and decades of wasted time – each year.
The Price To Be Paid is Bigger Than We Often Think
Every feature you offer comes at a cost.
Not just a financial cost – but a cost of effort, a cost of attention, and a cost of positioning too.
It's easy to ignore the cost of providing a feature when you're so focussed on marketing and sales.
After all, it's always a great idea to "value-stack" and "over-deliver" and offer your customers more and more if you're concentrating solely on the sale!
But at some point, it pays to look at your products and offerings under the harsh light of their cost.
And this could lead you to retire entire products – or product offerings.
Burning Money with Jet-Fuel
Have you seen Antiques Roadshow.
Every episode, some little old lady brings in a old trinket that has been in their attic for decades gathering dust, and an expert in tweed reveals:
"This is no ordinary dusty old trinket. It's actually a priceless historical artifact"
The Priceless Historical Artifacts in Your Business
By far, the most valuable asset most businesses own is their past leads and customers.
But most of the time, your most valuable asset is stored in the attic – gathering dust.
Today – it's time to climb up to the attic, dust off this priceless trinket, and put it in pride-of-place in your business. Because we're going to make this asset shine!
The Irony of Advertising
How much should you charge for your products and services?
Whole PhDs have been dedicated to finding the best and most profitable price to sell an item for.
Forget about the meaning of life!…
…It seems like more of the worlds' smart people have dedicated their lives to unlocking the mysteries of pricing strategy than almost any other mystery.
I can understand why…
Upsells, add-ons, cross-sells, support packages, insurance – they can all substantially increase your revenue and profit.
And that's what we're trying to do in this email series – increase your profits!
But improving the Items-Per-Sale lever is perhaps the hardest of all of the 7 Levers to improve.
Not because it's physically difficult (it's not); or that it takes a big investment of money or time (it doesn't – it only requires you to change how you interact with existing clients).
It's difficult because it requires a lot of thinking.
And unless you've done it 100's of times before (or have the help of someone who has), it's hard to do it effectively.
When upselling Items-per-Sale is done poorly:
This first point is where I'm going to focus today. Because when some people think they're increasing sales – what they're actually doing is very different.
When Upselling ISN'T Upselling:
Today, let's get right down to brass tacks.
In the next 3-5 minutes (depending on how fast you read), I'm going to give you the distilled essence of an incredibly powerful sales formula.
This sales formula is the the reason I'm able to go into a business and immediately help even the most experienced and knowledgeable sales team to get better sales…
Let's Get Some Big Sales Results – Fast!
If you want to increase sales, there are three key strategies
The latter two steps – increasing the frequency that you make your offer, and improving your product – take time and effort to implement.
But an improvement to your offer can be planned-out in an afternoon, implemented the next day, and result in a lifetime of increased sales.
Note: It's worth coming back to the this process again when – and working on improving the percentage of "Prospects" who turn into "Converts" using the other two strategies I've outlined above – improving your product, and offer frequency.
(This is a big reason to repeat the entire 7 Levers process several times – to keep improving your profits.)
But for today, focussing on improving your sales offer is typically the fastest and most effective action to take.
The Keys to Effective Sales Offers
There are 3 elements to an incredibly effective sales offer:
Have you seen Jeremy Piven in the TV series – Mr Selfridge?
It follows the story of Harry Gordon Selfridge – the revolutionary retail magnate who changed the face of shopping, and ushered in the era of department stores.
The Red Gloves Scene
There's a great scene in the series involving a red pair of womens' gloves – with Jeremy Piven's character firmly-yet-politely demanding that they remain on-display and accessible to all customers.
It was a battle of wills – between a well-meaning shop clerk, and the owner himself.
But Selfridge had a good reason for making this demand.
Before Selfridge, conventional retail wisdom was to put items behind counters, in display cases, or in boxes – only to be reached on-request.
Selfridge wanted to turn shopping from a chore into a leisure activity – building his department store in a model somewhat more like a theme park for consumer goods, than a traditional high-street shop.
And part of the theme park model was making goods visible and accessible.
This one "tweak" to the way retail worked had an unintended side-benefit…
Any time a consumer picked up an item, they immediately revealed their interest in purchasing. Salespeople quickly learned this was the signal to go in for the kill – with the words "Can I help you".
Every business owner wants to make more sales.
And the logical way to do this is to run more ads – to bring more people in the door of your business (the first of the 7 Levers – "Suspects").
Running more ads makes sense – to an extent.
But Advertising Takes an Investment
While advertising can make you more money (which can be spent to increase your capacity: time and effort) – ads take attention (time and effort) and money in order to be effective.
There are only so many hours in the day to run more ads – only so much attention you can give your ads over other business activities – and only so much money that you can redirect into your advertising budget.
So – at any point in time – there's a limit to how much advertising you can run.
You might want to achieve 10x your existing sales – but investing 10x more time, effort or money into advertising is a whole different kettle of fish!
(If you're reached a plateau in your business, you'll understand this limitation most acutely. You might WANT to be spending more on ads, and investing more effort into sales, but you simply can't find the capacity to do more.)
And then there's the problem of FOCUS!
I love weird science experiments…
And Professor Stephen Morris is a Canadian physicist with a weird collection of dominoes.
The first domino is smaller than a Tic Tac – just 5mm by 1mm.
(This domino is so small that Dr Morris has to place it with tweezers.)
The rest of Professor Morris's dominoes increase in size – with the 13th sitting as high as his chest – and weighing around 100lbs (45kgs).
An Increase of Two Billion Times The Force…
Lining the dominoes up in order, he lets the tiny Tic Tac domino tip gently over – pushing down the larger second, then even larger third domino – all the way to the largest 13th – which comes thundering down with a crash!2018 Sneakers Gazelle Men Adidas Originals Sneakers Gazelle Indoor 2018 Sneakers B24976 6129f75
It's an impressive demonstration of "domino magnification" – the compounding effect of physical force you can achieve with different sized dominoes.
In fact, the force from the 13th domino falling is TWO BILLION TIMES the initial force from the first domino!
"If we had 29 dominoes, the last domino would be as tall as the Empire State Building!" Dr Morris reveals with a grin.
Einstein was right.
The most powerful force in the universe IS compounding.
We see it in physics – and the example above, where force can be multiplied 2 billion times over a series of 13 steps.
And we see it in finance – where a bank can receive back more than double the initial capital loaned in the form of interest, when interest is charged regularly.
But Compounding Isn't Just For Bankers and Physicists
It's possible to achieve compounding effects in business too.
You just need to look for these 3 traits:
Archimedes – one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived – once proclaimed:
"Give me a large enough lever, and a place to stand, and I can lift the entire Earth."
At the time, he must have sounded like a crazy person…
…An old bearded dude claiming that – with nothing more than a stick and a hill – he could be as strong as Atlas.
But he proved all his naysayers wrong.
By single-handedly using leverage to launch a huge ship into the ocean – a feat that would have taken hundreds of men without leverage.
It Was An Idea That Changed The World
Archimedes had discovered that – through leverage – a little focussed effort could get many times the typical result.
This is where the term "business leverage" comes from. While we don't see physical poles or "levers" in business leverage, the principles are the same…
…A little bit of time, effort, or money invested today provides more than its value back – in saved time, saved effort, saved costs, or gained profits.
The key is to find a point of leverage.
Who Was Smarter: Al Gore, or George W. Bush?
Pete Williams is an entrepreneur, author, and marketer from Melbourne, Australia.
Before being honored "Australia's Richard Branson" in media publications all over the continent, Pete was just 21 years old when he sold Australia's version of Yankee Stadium, The Melbourne Cricket Ground For Under $500! Don't believe it? You will! Check out the story in the FAQ section (it really is our most asked question).
Since then, he's done some cool stuff like write the international smash hit 'How to Turn Your Million-Dollar Idea Into a Reality' (+ the upcoming 'It's Not About the Product') and he's created a bunch of companies including Infiniti Telecommunications, On Hold Advertising, Simply Headsets and Preneur Group.
Lots of other people think he's pretty good too! He's been announced as the Global Runner-Up in the JCI Creative Young Entrepreneur Awards for 2009, the Southern Region Finalist in the Ernst & Young 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year, and a member of SmartCompany's Top 30 Under 30.


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MarketWatch Week Ahead: Earnings Season Kicks Off
Earnings season gets underway next week and a raft of U.S. economic data is released. Plus, how you can tweet at Ben Bernanke. Polya Lesova joins Markets Hub to discuss. Photo: AP.
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Ten years ago on Saturday, the bullet-ridden bodies of
investigative journalist Norbert
Zongo and three friends were found in Zongo's burned-out car outside the
capital of
Zongo, editor of the weekly L'Indépendant, was one of the best-known journalists in
this landlocked, West African nation dubbed the "
Zongo was just one of 24 journalists killed in the line of duty in 1998. He is among the 70 percent of journalists and media workers around the world who die not in crossfire but because they are deliberately targeted for what they have written or aired.
The 10th anniversary of Zongo's unsolved assassination will pass with his killers still at large; a judge dismissed charges in 2006 against the only suspect in the case. Nevertheless, Zongo's widow, colleagues, and human rights activists are using the occasion to demand justice.
I spoke this week with Abdoulaye Diallo, who runs the National Press Center named after Zongo
in the capital,
On Saturday morning, Diallo will join Zongo's widow and
three children, along with supporters and activists, to lay a wreath on the
grave of the late journalist. They will march through the streets of the capital,
ending at
The Zongo case remains a sensitive topic for probing journalists and taboo in government circles. Infomercials advocating for the reopening of the case have been running on two private television channels, Canal 3 and Sport-Music TV, but not the government-controlled national broadcaster RTB, according to Diallo. No government representative was expected to take part in the activities, according to local journalists.
Murder is the ultimate form of censorship: The killing of a prominent
journalist like Zongo casts an invisible chill on the media's ability to probe issues of public interest. Worse, an unsolved journalist's murder sends
the message that the enemies of the press enjoy total impunity. CPJ research has
found that in nations worldwide where journalists are murdered, there is justice
in less than 15 percent of the cases. CPJ is committed to reversing this trend,
and publicly remembering Norbert Zongo this weekend will hopefully put his killing back in the spotlight. Justice remains to be served in
Read this blog entry in French.
Click here to read a reflection on Norbert Zongo by independent journalist Tidiane Sy, a former CPJ consultant for West Africa who is based in Dakar, Senegal.


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GRANTS PASS — The man who ran horse racing in June and July at Grants Pass Downs said former Josephine County Fair Manager Wes Brown's financial numbers for racing don't add up.
Other county officials, however, said the numbers were accurate.
"I don't believe he was interested in horse racing," said Lonnie Craig, who ran the nine-day race meet on a volunteer basis. "I think he used his own discretion in applying numbers to profit and loss."
Brown reported a loss of about $22,000 from horse racing to the Josephine County Fair Board Tuesday night.
A day later, he told County Commissioner Simon Hare of his plans to resign, according to Hare.
An official letter of resignation could not be confirmed by the Daily Courier.
Last year, Brown reported losses of $50,000 for the 2011 racing season.
By Craig's count, this year's races came close to breaking even, even though the handle (money wagered) was down more than 30 percent from 2011.
But Josephine County Chief Financial Officer Rosemary Padgett said Brown's accounting is accurate, and Hare also defended the accounting. The summary of revenue and expenses provided by Padgett actually shows a loss of just over $42,000. Padgett said $20,970 in internal service fees — administrative fees assessed on all county departments — were not included in Tuesday night's presentation that showed the $22,000 loss.
"Those numbers came from what was deposited with the treasurer," Padgett said, referring to the report delivered Tuesday night to the Fair Board.
The future of racing, a fixture for more than 50 years, remains cloudy for Grants Pass.
"We haven't had enough horses, we don't have enough jockeys. I'm not really sure where we're going to go forward," Hare said. "We're going to have to make some radical changes in how we're going to operate Grants Pass Downs."
Hare said accounting has improved.
"It's been a lot better than it used to be," he said. "We got a letter from our auditor when I took office that said our cash handling (at the fair) was something we had to improve on."
Brown declined a request for comment Friday morning.
At issue for Craig, and also for fair board member Dan Shepard, is $22,133 in administrative expenses for Brown and two other people at the fair office during horse racing. Craig also doesn't believe Brown collected on $6,800 in race-program advertising that was sold.
Brown was paid his normal salary during horse racing, Padgett said. The $22,133 administrative fees, while not actually paid to anyone, are still an additional expense on the spreadsheet.
"I have a hard time with that," Shepard said. "That means $7,000 in labor costs for each of them, for a nine-day meet."
It's standard accounting, "part of the cost of doing business," Padgett said.
The local people who race horses were never thrilled with Brown.
"It was a comedy of poor relationships all the time, no matter what went on," said Sally Reid, vice president of the Southern Oregon Horse Racing Association. "No matter what went on, there was always some conflict with Wes Brown."
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Josephine fair chief's accounting questioned
GRANTS PASS — The man who ran horse racing in June and July at Grants Pass Downs said former Josephine County Fair Manager Wes Brown's financial numbers for racing don't add up.


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The complex web of life on earth, including human life, has always been profoundly affected by the natural environment. Understanding of the relationship between humankind and the environment can be traced to the writings of Darwin in the mid-19th century. From that time until the early 1960s, attention focused primarily on the influence of the environment on humans. Not until the side effects of the Industrial Revolution became increasingly evident in the current century, however, did attention shift to human influences on the environment. Over 30 years ago, in her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson made us aware of how fragile our environment is and how much we are dependent upon it. Books by Carson and other authors, such as Aldo Leopold (A Sand Country Almanac), fostered the modern movement to save the environment.
By the 1960s, concerns about harmful effects of human life on Earth's natural environment had grown to the point that the quest for means to preserve and protect it began in earnest. The citizenry expressed its concerns, and action groups were formed to increase pressure on governments at all levels to begin or strengthen environmental protection programs. In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon established the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Most of the early efforts of the new agencies and others concerned with the environment stressed the importance of education, rather than just regulatory policy, in solving environmental problems. Information dissemination became the key to educating the public on ways to preserve the environment. The Study of Environmental Quality Information Programs (SEQUIP) and activities of the Office of Science and Technology Policy focused on the organization, processing and disseminating of environmental information from the government perspective. The Regulatory Liaison Group, composed of the EPA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, addressed the issue through an environmental information subgroup.
The EPA library system was built to provide access to environmental information for the staff of organizations that were drawn together to make up the EPA. This network focused on building a reservoir of environmental information that existed at that time, and through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), created an index of publications from the offices that made up the new agency. This encouraged the development of a number of information products and services in the private sector. In some instances, these were existing services that added environmental sources to their coverage, but others such as Pollution Abstracts and Environment Abstracts and its document delivery service, Envirofiche, were new initiatives responding to increased public interest.
The NOAA Library and Information Network was also formed during this period, bringing together libraries and information centers from the predecessor agencies that were integrated to form NOAA. These libraries included the Coast and Geodetic Survey Library, which had roots back to the early 19th century, and the Weather Bureau and Bureau of Fisheries collections, which also dated back at least 100 years.
Although the United States was in the vanguard of the environmental movement, the rest of the world community was not far behind. In 1972, the United Nations (UN) Conference on the Human Environment devoted many of its sessions to information and recommended the establishment of an international referral service (INFOTERRA) as a source of information open to all countries. The UN General Assembly approved the initiative.
Also in 1972, the EPA, in cooperation with other governmental organizations, such as the National Science Foundation, Council on Environmental Quality and the National Library of Medicine, organized the National Environmental Information Symposium. More than 1700 participants representing most of the producers and users of environmental information in the United States met to achieve three basic purposes:
Later that same year, the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science held a three-day Institute on Information Resources in the Environmental Sciences. Co-sponsored by the Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality, the event invited discussion about environmental information sources in government agencies, academia, scientific and educational libraries, and school media programs. At that time, the newness of the environmental sciences field and its interdisciplinary nature were cited as reasons for the difficulty in locating information resources.
Environmental policy and institutions changed during the 1980s when few new regulations were put into effect. The conservative political outlook and interests of business slowed the environmental activists. By the end of the decade, the environment had again become an important issue with more programs being developed. As a result of the 1987 UN World Commission on Environment and Development, the concept of sustainable development where the economy and the environment work together became a hot issue. Environmental problems were seen in relationship to other issues, instead of as fragmented interests isolated by themselves.
Since those early efforts at identifying and organizing environmental information, there have been several ongoing activities that have continued to focus attention on environmental information and its accessibility. The Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (CNIE) has proposed a National Institute for the Environment (NIE). The proposal, which stems from a grassroots effort, is backed by business leaders, scientists, government officials and environmental activists. The NIE's purpose is to bolster the scientific basis of environmental policy and to act as the broker in identifying environmental problems by assessing what we know and funding research on the governmental, business and academic levels in order to come up with information, education and policy for decision makers. The National Library of the Environment, a virtual library linking environmental information and data sources regionally, nationally and eventually worldwide, would be an integral part of the NIE.
Other major activities abound as the U. S. government and many of its international counterparts have decided that environmental information and data collected and contained in agency databases should be available for study by scientists and policy makers worldwide. And that is the genesis for this special issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science.
The articles selected for inclusion in this issue show much of the progress made in the planning and implementation of environmental information sources, processes and programs. But they also point to the need for continually examining and evaluating the growth in sources of environmental information to meet the need for diverse communities. In the first article, Sean Gordon and Dan Tunstall describe the World Resources Institute (WRI), an independent organization dedicated to the aggregation of environmental information from sources around the world. Among other challenges, the WRI must face the issue of incompatible data formats and inconsistent data collection.
Two U.S. government projects that seek to encourage cross-discipline research efforts are identified in this issue. Kevin Schaefer describes in detail NASA's efforts to bring together the massive amounts of environmental data collected by dozens of Earth-orbiting satellites and to facilitate cross-discipline use and analysis of the data. Roberta Y. Rand looks at an interagency program that is building an assisted search for knowledge (ASK) system that will provide diverse users with access to the vast array of data acquired in support of the program's mission to observe, understand and predict global change.
Then, with a look at how one local area has capitalized on its combination of natural resources and extensive research activity, Roger L. Born shows how the Monterey Bay region of California is transforming itself into a research and education mecca.
Finally, William B. Feidt and Catherine Roos give a brief overview of some of the environmental resources available on the Internet, and we take a closer look at accessing environmental and geographic information on sub-Sahara Africa in a look at a new World Bank project.


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