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Santa Marina Resort and Villas
Sparkling sapphire waters, emerald green grass, and topaz blue skies are the jewels of Mykonos. On a private peninsula overlooking the Mediterranean and the magnificent Bay of Ornos, Santa Marina Resort and Villas is the ultimate resort in pristine white, traditional Cycladic architecture. The romantic setting is accentuated with luxurious accommodations and a wealth of facilities to pamper every guest. For the ultimate in services while avoiding the hassles of conventional traveling, the resort can arrange a luxury jet transfer from your origin destination airport directly to Mykonos with their brand new private jet, Citation CJ2. Alternatively they can arrange a memorable journey above the deep blue sea and rocky islands of Cyclades with their helicopter, from Athens or any Greek origin, directly on their helipad in less than an hour.
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Hotel Address:
- Santa Marina Resort and Villas
- Ornos Bay
- Mykonos, 84600
- Greece
Location Summary
Free Shuttle Transportation Available From Property To City Center Transportation From City Center To Property: Taxi - Limo - Complimentary Hotel Shuttle Service Available Twice Daily To And From Mykonos Town. Rental Car Pegasus - 30-289-23760. Delos Ancient Island 30 Mi 0 Blocks Horseback Riding 1 Mi 0 Blocks Mikonos Island Beach 6 Mi 0 Blocks Museums 2 Mi 0 Blocks Mykonos Island Tour 6 Mi 0 Blocks Mykonos Town 2 Mi 0 Blocks Neighbouring Islands 30 Mi 0 Blocks Santa Marina Beach 0 Mi 0 Blocks Scuba Diving 1 Mi 0 Blocks Water Park 4 Mi 0 Blocks Free Shuttle From Airport To Property Available Hours Of Operation From 0000 Hrs To 0000 Hrs Shuttle Service Is Free Of Charge For Transfers To And From The Airport/port On Arrival And Departure. Please Provide Arrival Details So We Can Arrange For Transfers. Taxi - Approx. 8.00eur Limo - Private Limosine Service Is Available For Guests Upon Request. Rental Car - Pegasus - 30-289-23760. Bus Or Other Transportation - Helicopter Service - 0700-2000 Helicopter In Our Brand New Eurocopter Colibri E120. Transfers Can Take Place Within Any Destination In Greece.
Directions to Hotel
From Mykonos Airport: Follow the road to Ornos Beach. Turn left at the end of the square, and follow the small road by the sea until you reach the end. From Mykonos Port (South): Follow the road signs to Ornos Beach. The road will go around the whole town and then by the sea. When at Ornos Beach, turn left and follow the road by the sea to the end.
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Banquets & Meetings
The conference centers can accommodate up to 250 persons. The largest of the two centers is 250 square meters and offers food and beverage facilities, convenient restroom facilities, exhibit facilities, and upon request, the hotel can organize an office for the meeting planner and a separate registration area. The small conference center is 70 square meters and can offer the same accommodations as the larger conference center. Both centers can be combined to make a total of 320 square meters to accommodate larger groups.
Fine Dining On Site
Choose from: Pool Bar, Marine Club Bar, Lobby Bar (Drinks only), Beach Bar and Barbecue, Marine Club Restaurant
Executive Retreat
Room for 8
High Speed Internet
High speed internet access in the business center.
Child Programs
The spacious grounds and private sandy beach are ideal for children, so the hotel has created a fully equipped playground and a children's pool just for their enjoyment. Babysitting service can be provided upon request.
Pool Outdoor
Outdoor heated pools. Indoor and outdoor whirlpool.
Spa Facility
To end the perfect day of relaxation, treat yourself at Lotus Spa featuring exclusively Dr Hauska, French West Indies, Leonor Greyl, and Shavata complete range of cosmetics. Therapies for relaxation, refreshment, hydration, and tightening, applied with the finest products, in combination with traditional and contemporary techniques, restore the balance between body and spirit and offer an incomparable sense of luxury.
Tennis Courts On Site
Lighted outdoor tennis courts.
On a peninsula, there is water on 3 sides, and the hotel has 20 acres of gardens
For those who wish to enjoy the seashore, the resort provides exclusive speedboat services from our private marina. The yacht is ideal for exploring the beautiful beaches or nearby islands in complete comfort and luxury. The four bedrooms include en-suite facilities and the salon has a spacious seating and dining area. There is also outdoor dining table and comfortable spacious lounge areas. Two smaller state-of-the-art speedboats are also available for a luxurious retreat to nearby beaches.
Ecological Tourism
Mykonos Island tours, helicopter tours
Enjoy shopping and casual strolls down cobblestone roads of the charming Mykonos town and a wide choice of restaurants and bars to entice the taste buds and keep the nightlife alive.
Theatre Museums
Visit the island of Delos, the birthplace of the God, Apollo, and Goddess, Artemis. Walk amidst the archaeological ruins and learn how Ancient Delos was once the most important political and economical center in the Aegean. Take a tour or a Safari excursion of Mykonos and visit the picturesque churches and countryside or visit one of the many sandy beaches with crystal blue sea. Pay a visit to the Nautical and Historical Museum, where you can find ancient artifacts of Delos, and beautiful Cycladic statuary.
Winery Tours
Mykonos Island tours
Recommended Rooms
Villa 8230 is the Presidential Villa. It has 4 bedrooms, a butler, private pool, kitchen fireplace, Jacuzzi and sauna.
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- Executive Retreat
- Fine Dining On Site
- Fitness Center
- High Speed Internet
- Child Programs
- Pool Outdoor
- Spa Facility
- Tennis Courts On Site
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who took control in a bloodless coup and left office under threat of impeachment, is not ruling out the possibility that he'll run for office once the law allows.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned under intense political pressure in August.
Musharraf, speaking on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," said he wishes the current government well and that he "would be the happiest person" if the nation deals well with threats such as the growing political and martial strength of the Taliban.
"But one is concerned about Pakistan, certainly," he said on the program, which is scheduled to air Sunday. "One does get concerned about where are we headed and what are we doing.
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Considered an ally by the United States in the fight against Islamic extremists in the region, he was criticized for impeding democratic elections in 2008 -- including delaying the elections, suspending the country's constitution, restricting the media and having political protesters arrested.
Ultimately, his political party -- Muslim League-Q -- finished third in the voting and he stepped down only after the ruling coalition announced it would seek to impeach him.
But now, President Asif Ali Zardari has public approval ratings around 19 percent. When asked by Zakaria if Zardari has the public backing needed to fight the Taliban, Musharraf suggested he does not.
He noted that Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was elected by two-thirds of Pakistan's parliament.
"Democratically, he's elected by two-thirds. And these are the people who are the representatives of the same people you're talking of -- 19 percent in favor ... ," he said.
"So, there's a dichotomy. You can analyze it yourself."
Some 1.5 million people have been displaced by 10 months of fighting between the Pakistani military and the Taliban along the country's border with Afghanistan, the chief minister of North West Frontier Province estimated Thursday.
With a government offensive against the Taliban nearly three weeks old, a spokesman for Pakistan's army insisted that the military intends to drive the Taliban out of the contested area. Musharraf said deals with the Taliban several years ago that allowed the group some power were a mistake because "it was not from a position of strength" by Pakistan
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Cantus scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song
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Ticks seem to be on the rise in Michigan, so it's a good time to learn the basics to be prepared for an outdoors adventure. Erik, what makes ticks identifiable? When are we most prone to get a tick?
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When somebody notices a tick on them, what's the best way for removing the tick?
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Say somebody has a tick, removes it, but still has reason for concern…when should they talk with a doctor?
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Are there ways to repel ticks? Are there any alternative ways or home remedies worth trying?
Jan: Use a repellent that contains 20% or more DEET for protection that lasts up to several hours. Products containing DEET include Off!, Cutter, Sawyer, and Ultrathon.
Erik: To repel ticks…
- Wear a skin repellent containing DEET.
- Treat clothing with Permethrin clothing repellents including socks and shoes. There are clothing lines available at camping and outdoors stores that have already been treated, or you can purchase Permethrin spray to treat your own clothes. These products are only for treating clothing, but are very effective. The US Military uses these products on Soldiers uniforms to prevent bites from ticks and other blood feeding arthropods. I haven't seen any convincing scientific evidence pointing to home remedies being effective.
- An alternative way to keep ticks off of your skin is to wear long pants tucked into socks, and a long-sleeved shirt when in the woods. Clothing can provide a barrier to ticks and help you to spot them before they attach.
Some bug bites are worse than others, and we don't always see the culprit. Are there particular symptoms one should watch out for when a bug bite seems abnormal?
Jan: Many tick-borne illnesses have similar signs and symptoms. If you have been bitten by a tick and develop any of the symptoms below within a few weeks, a health care provider should evaluate you before deciding on a course of treatment:
· Fever/chills: Patients can experience fever at varying degrees and time of onset.
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· Rash: Lyme disease, can result in a distinctive rash: The rash may appear within 3-30 days, typically before the onset of fever. The rash is the first sign of infection and is usually a circular rash. This rash occurs in approximately 70-80% of infected persons and begins at the site of a tick bite. It may be warm, but is not usually painful. This rash often described as an expanding "bulls eye" develops around the site of the tick bite.
Tickborne diseases can result in mild symptoms treatable at home to severe infections requiring hospitalization.
Erik: Different people react differently to bug bites, that is definitely true! When we get bug bites, our bodies react to the saliva from the arthropod with a histamine reaction. Most of the time, cleaning the area and applying an antihistamine cream will help reduce the itching and swelling. Be concerned if the bite area continues to be painful, increases in size, and develops an expanding rash or becomes infected. Some people are very sensitive to bites and stings, and if a person begins to have a more systemic reaction such as difficulty breathing, throat constriction, fever, or other dramatic symptoms, it's a good idea to have an epi-injector on hand, and to seek medical care promptly.
In the summer, mosquitoes and black flies can be cause to retreat indoors. How do you recommend keeping them at bay to extend summer fun outdoors?
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Erik: Much like ticks, DEET and clothing treated with Permethrin can help people enjoy the outdoors when mosquitoes and black flies are bad. Around the home, draining any standing water will help to reduce breeding habitat for mosquitoes. Also, placing some fans on the deck or porch directed outward toward the yard can keep mosquitoes from being able to fly close enough to bite.
For more on identifying ticks and tick bite prevention, visit Michigan.gov
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ASRC is owned by and represents the business interests of its approximately 13,000 Iñupiaq shareholders. Corporate headquarters are based in Barrow, Alaska, with administrative and subsidiary offices located in Anchorage...more...
ASRC and its family of companies, operates four diverse major business segments that extends into the petroleum refining and marketing, government technical services, energy services and construction industries. In addition, ASRC has other businesses...more...
The Arctic Slope region is a vast and ancient land that the Iñupiat people have called home for 10,000 years. There are eight distinct villages...more...
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The town of Barrow is the headquarters of ASRC, the North Slope Borough, and the North Slope Borough School District. Barrow is unique in that it is the northernmost community in the United States, and is the largest village on the arctic slope with around 4500 residents. Traditionally, the community is known as Utqiaġvik, which means "place to hunt snowy owls."
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During the commercial whaling era of the late 1800's the Cape Smythe Whaling and Trading Station was built in 1893. In the 1940's and 1950's the military played an influential role in the area. Construction of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line and exploration in the National Petroleum Reserve brought new people to the region. During this same time, the Naval Arctic Research Lab (NARL) was built near Barrow. That facility is now the home of Iļisaġvik College. Iļisaġvik means "place to learn" in the Iñupiaq language.
Visitors to Barrow will arrive at the Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport. This airport was named to commemorate the famous pilot and American humorist who died in an airplane crash just 15 miles south of Barrow in 1935.
Although Barrow is a modern community, subsistence hunting, fishing and whaling are still very important to the local economy. Many residents continue to hunt and fish for their food.
During the summer months, tour operators offer package tours of Barrow and the surrounding area. To learn more about the region be sure to stop by the Iñupiat Heritage Museum where visitors might be interested in purchasing arts and crafts such as baleen boats, etched baleen, carved ivory, masks, parkas and fur mittens from local Native artists.
ContactsCity of Barrow P.O. Box 629 Barrow, AK 99723 Phone 907-852-5211 www.cityofbarrow.org
Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation P.O. Box 890Barrow, AK 99723, Phone 907-852-4460 www.ukpik.com
Iļisaġvik College100 Stevenson StreetP.O. Box 749Barrow, AK 99723907-852-3333www.ilisagvik.cc
Native Village of Barrow P.O. Box 1139 Barrow, AK 99723 Phone 907-852-4411
Barrow Arctic Science ConsortiumP.O. Box 577Barrow, Alaska 99723907-852-4881
KBRW Radio StationP.O. Box 109Barrow, Alaska 99723907-852-6811www.kbrw.org
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Secret Music Playlist, 5/1/2016
Artist Song Album
Javi Canovas Sophrosyne Eunomia
Nunc Stans Conjunction Elementa
Darwin Raymond & Jacob Newman Beneath A Frozen Moon Transitions
Robert Davies Serene Dwelling Place Dwelling Place
Byron Metcalf Dark Brew Saving Cecil's Pride
Cyberchump Stuck In Stutter The Construction Of Things
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Transceive Route X Exit To Nowhere
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Binar Byzantium Another Day In La-La Land
Steve Roach & Robert Logan Shadowspeak Second Nature
Steve Roach & Robert Logan Omnigen Biosonic
Jim Ottaway Beta Crucis Southern Cross
Terra Ambient To The Brink And Back The Darker Space
Terra Ambient Westerly Prayer The Gate
Terra Ambient The Ghost In Me Wanderlust
Pierre Bensusan Voyage For Ireland Live
Adam Hurst To A Darkening Sky To A Darkening Sky
Marika Takeuchi Frozen Lake Colors In The Diary
Helen Jane Long Survivor Identity
Todd Mosby Eagle Mountain On Eagle Mountain
Fiona Joy Fair Not Signature - Synchronicity
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PTA building community at Bristol
Thank you for your coverage of the PTA-sponsored Bristol Elementary Fall Fest! We are so proud of our school and to have the opportunity to support the school in this way. Like the Westside Pioneer has already done with the Colorado Springs Westside, we are trying to create a closer community at Bristol Elementary School.
Thank you for your help in spreading the word!
Michelle Stellick
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The Fallacy of Equivocation at the EconomistPosted: January 3, 2013 Filed under: are you kidding me?, business school, education, ethics, rants 6 Comments
In a remarkably shoddy example of anti-market propaganda emanating from the Nottingham Business School, the Economist runs a screed that starts out with the debatable but reasonable premise that business leaders exaggerate their omniscience. It somehow ends up with the unsupported conclusion that business schools should abandon economics, finance, and the pursuit of profit for the cant trio of "sustainability," "social responsibility," and "leadership for all not for the few."
The crude equivocating shifts from intellectual humility to moral humility to altruism would qualify for an F in any class on composition, much less philosophy. The vague assertions about "business excess" (entirely unsupported or even defined), the implicit attribution of these excesses to the teachings of business schools (ditto), and the wild leap at the end (replacing business school education with an agora-like setting in which sophists mingle with scientists and philosophers with philistines to figure out what are "social needs"), all conduce to a massive loss of reader brain cells per sentence. This article might be useful as a sort of mine detector–anyone who finds it congenial is best separated from responsibility for educating or commenting on business or economic issues.
McKinsey Quarterly Top 10 of 2012Posted: December 28, 2012 Filed under: books, business school, Corporate strategy, education, links, teaching 2 Comments
The McKinsey Top Ten Articles of 2012 (registration required) contains a few items of interest for strategy folks.
First, it looks like the "s-word" is coming back into style in the endless wheel of business language faddism. Four of the articles have strategy in the title, and some of the others make heavy use of the term in the text. Birshan and Carr in "Becoming More Strategic" say
We are entering the age of the strategist. As our colleagues Chris Bradley, Lowell Bryan, and Sven Smit have explained in "Managing the strategy journey," a powerful means of coping with today's more volatile environment is increasing the time a company's top team spends on strategy. Involving more senior leaders in strategic dialogue makes it easier to stay ahead of emerging opportunities, respond quickly to unexpected threats, and make timely decisions.
Second, we have Cynthia Montgomery's rumination on "How Strategists Lead," which makes a decent complement to Dick Rumelt's Good Strategy, Bad Strategy and is based on a forthcoming book. It's mostly wisdom-talk, but of a refreshingly skeptical and thoughtful type that fits many of my prejudices, so I'm endorsing it. One part that will be of interest to many of our readers is her insight that since going into executive teaching she's found that her students are largely incapable of allowing their analyses to temper their optimism or to link their business plans to their analysis of competitive forces. We want executives with a can-do spirit, but we also want executives who are good at the Serenity Prayer and have the wisdom to know the difference between the things they can change and the things they cannot.
Third, we have "How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work," worked up from a 2011 book, which is based on a large diary study ("…nearly 12,000 daily electronic diaries from dozens of professionals working on important innovation projects at seven North American companies."). The article is based on "entries in which diarists mentioned upper- or top-level managers—868 narratives in all." It turns out that "killing meaning" is equivalent to "interfering with success on projects and thereby demoralizing team members," so the worker-motivation angle isn't really necessary to their catalogue of upper-management dysfunction. The main quibble I have with the article is that they make no allowance for the possibility that experimentation and/or creating options might be the right way to go, although in the examples they give, if that was what was going on, communication with the front-line troops was inadequate.
All in all, might be worth registering for.
Geeenius!Posted: August 5, 2012 Filed under: education, rants 1 Comment
How to Write a Malcolm Gladwell Book. Would most recently graduated MBAs get the joke?
Higher Ed Tuition Bubble UpdatePosted: July 13, 2012 Filed under: education Leave a comment
This is sobering: The looming student loan bubble – Almost half of all student borrowers were not making payments. 1 out of 4 in debt repayment past due on student debt.: "The looming student loan bubble – Almost half of all student borrowers were not making payments. 1 out of 4 in debt repayment past due on student debt."
(HT: Instapundit)
Marginalism and the Higher Ed ParadoxPosted: June 19, 2012 Filed under: business school, current events, economics, education, human capital, teaching 48 Comments
By now, you may be getting sick of reading articles and blog posts about the crisis in higher education. This post is different. It proposes an explanation of why students have been willing to pay more and more for undergraduate and professional degrees at the same time that these degrees are becoming both less scarce and more dumbed down. And that explanation rests on a simple and plausible economic hypothesis.
MBA tuition bubble updatePosted: April 10, 2012 Filed under: business school, education, law and society 8 Comments
If you want to see just where the MBA business may soon be heading, read this – just in from Balkinization (HT: Instapundit): The Law School Crunch Is Here–Finances and Quality to Suffer. New numbers released by LSAC show applicants to law school for 2012 are down in every region of the US vs. previous year, with the majority experiencing drops of 15%-20%. Enrollment is also dropping – 2012 may see the lowest enrollments since the 1990s (from 52,000 enrolled in accredited programs two years ago to a possible 43,000 this year). With such a precipitous enrollment drop comes low quality students and severe financial difficulties. The bad news is that even at these low numbers, the number of graduates far outstrips the number of available jobs. Tamanaha estimates the equilibrium number of first year enrollments to be around 35,000. The good news is hard to find.
The law school industry appears to lead its b-school counterpart by a few years. Many of the trends affecting law schools – the most salient being the discouraging cost/benefit ratio facing prospective students – are also affecting graduate business schools. The lag between the two may be due to the fact that, for law schools, the immediate value of a law degree is much more transparent. One cannot be a lawyer without a law degree and the only purpose in having a law degree is to become a lawyer. When the bottom falls out of the market for lawyers, one would expect it to fall out of the market for law education in short order. Since MBAs are, ostensibly, useful in any business endeavor, the connection between the education and practitioner markets is less obvious.
That said, business schools face other challenges. For example, law schools still provide an important certification function and, as such, have presumably retained a requisite level of educational content. This maintains their position as a necessary link in the professional chain. Business school educational content, on the other hand, has been on a downward glide path ever since the advent of Business Week surveys in the late 80s (and the Northwestern response innovation to treat students as "customers"). With no objective certification requirement, b-schools have been free to dumb down the education, admit large numbers of questionably-qualified-but-able-to-write-a-check students, and increase activities that have little to do with learning (e.g., social networking). Simultaneously, we see the stirrings of competition from untraditional sources, such as high quality schools in Europe, China and India (previously a growth segment of the domestic MBA education market), free online courses from top schools such as MIT and Stanford, and alternative forms of education (such as E[enstitute]'s apprenticeship approach). These differences suggest that the bottom, when we hit it, may be worse than that for law schools.
During a discussion of these developments the other day, a young colleague objected to (what he interpreted as) my Cassandra-like apocalypticism on this topic. The objection was misplaced. I do believe the market for MBAs is going to get a lot tougher in the near- to mid-term – perhaps catastrophically so for programs outside the first tier. In the long-term, however, the turbulence is going to force our institutions … wait, I mean us, the faculties … to revise our business and educational models to compete effectively. The reason to start thinking about the bad-news scenarios now is to prepare. So, when the crunch comes, clear-thinking colleagues can step up to implement successful responses. In my judgment, the market for business education is going to become much more fragmented and diversified. This strikes me as a good thing, with one winning strategy being to take the research-education link and its attending certification role seriously once again. And, that, in my opinion, would be a wonderful development.
B-School Disruption UpdatePosted: February 21, 2012 Filed under: business school, education, research | Tags: Academic degree, Business school, Education, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, MBA, Research 1 Comment
Want to be an entrepreneur? Enstitute is bringing back apprenticeships
This is the answer to those who think we will keep our research-based MBAs above water by making the curriculum more "relevant in the real world" … by which people seem to mean sacrificing academic content for: external projects with business sponsors, "living" case studies, 1st summer internships, support services for personal grooming, etc. As I have long argued, research faculty are not efficient providers of substitute "real world" experiences.
Apropos this discussion, last week, E[nstitute] launched in NYC by founders Kane Sarhan and Shaila Ittycheria. The idea is to pick up promising candidates with a high school diploma and put them through a two-year apprenticeship program mentored by some of NYC's top entrepreneurs. Impressive.
And, it isn't just business schools this program threatens — in a recent article, Brad Mcarty, editor at Insider points out, "… the average public university (in the US) will set you back nearly $80,000 for a 4-year program. And a private school will cost in excess of $150,000. At the end of that time, you have a bellybutton," he writes. "Oh sure, you might have a piece of paper that says you have a Bachelor of Science or Art degree but what you actually have is something that has become so ubiquitous that it's really not worth much more than the lint inside your own navel."
That's strong stuff and, sadly, uncomfortably close to the truth. Moreover, it speaks to strong potential demand for apprenticeship-style entrepreneurship programs like the one mentioned above. Personally, I think it's terrific. The existence of programs like this create more value at the society level. From the b-school foxhole, they also force research-based MBA providers to think more carefully about what, if any, comparative advantage we have vis the many non-traditional competitors we now see invading our industry.
Hint: the answer will have to involve our research. This is what we do. And, contrary to the whining and hand-wringing of so many traditional MBA providers, teaching young people cutting-edge general principles (i.e., research-based knowledge) has substantial market value. We just stopped doing it a couple of decades ago.


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Get out your spoons: Pea Soup Days June 8-11
This year's Somerset Pea Soup Days festival will run June 8-11; highlights include the annual parade scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, June 10 and fireworks set for dusk Friday, June 9.
"Friday night is kind of the big night because that is the night we do fireworks and the night the ball tournament starts, which is a big deal," said Pea Soup Days committee member David Bracht. "We also have bands both nights as well."
One addition this year is Bingo under the music tent on Saturday afternoon.
"Bingo is new this year, that goes until 2:30 p.m. following the parade," Bracht said. "That will be under the tent. The Somerset Lions got their license recently."
This year's grand marshals are Judy Schottler and Sara Measner, who will lead the parade on its usual route Saturday. The grand marshals are picked by the Pea Soup Days Committee for being good Somerset citizens and volunteers.
"There is a Somerset person who was part of the St. Paul Winter Carnival, so the Vulcans follow them around. The Vulcans are fun to see at the parade," Bracht said.
The annual softball tournament is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Friday, June 9 and will conclude Sunday.
"The ball tournament is filling up and we might have to turn teams away again because it is so popular," Bracht said.
The Somerset Boy Scouts will once again prepare and serve the namesake pea soup at the festival, Bracht said.
"It is really cool to see them making it on site. People get a pretty good kick out of that," Bracht said.
Pea Soup Days is put together by three groups: the Somerset Chamber of Commerce, the Somerset Lions Club and the Somerset Fire Department. The Pea Soup Days Committee is comprised of three or more members of each group.
For more information on Pea Soup Days, visit peasoupdays.com.


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|The homemade ice cream side of the social (that's me in the center) gearing up just before the doors of the firehouse open to the public.
|Loudoun County Fire Department Rescue Helicopter Crew demonstrating a little of what they do for our community. They told us it had been a busy day and had already helped in four emergencies since the morning.
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Another huge hit in Vancouver, the Maple Grill is a Kosher restaurant located on Broadway near the Burrard Bridge. One of the requirements of Kosher cooking is the complete separation of meat and dairy products. So any meal with a meat component cannot also contain a dairy component. Since this particular Kosher restaurant was a grill…yeah, it was nice to be able to order pretty much anything off the menu. In fact, I think the only thing I couldn't order was dessert. I'm pretty sure the rest of the menu was dairy-free!
After much debate on what to order (I'm not quite used to having so many options), I ordered the Herb Crusted Chicken Breast ("gently grilled") with Roasted Baby Potatoes, Mushroom Gravy, Seared Lemon and Seasonal Vegetables. Of all the menu items, why this one? Because I saw the word "gravy" and thought about the last time I was able to order a gravy at a restaurant. Being able to order something with a gravy just made me smile. Sometimes it's the little things in life! The chicken was moist and well-seasoned, the gravy was delicious (on both the chicken and the potatoes), and I enjoyed every minute of a restaurant experience where dairy wasn't really an issue at all.
They are open from Sunday to Thursday and have take out available on Friday (as they observe the Shabbat), and if you're in Vancouver, I highly recommend this restaurant (visit their website here)! Overall, I found the price reasonable and the food and service excellent.


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The American Housing Market Is Headed for Total Destruction
By Dan Denning
The issue with the recent robo-signing scandal is that clear title could disappear in the American mortgage market. Part of the outrage is that U.S. banks have been foreclosing on mortgages which they don't even own. Part of the reality is that the convoluted process of securitisation means banks may not be able to prove at all they actually do own the mortgages.
Already large unions in the U.S are encouraging borrowers to challenge banks to prove they won your mortgage. They've set up a website asking the question, "Where's your note?"
You can see where this is headed. No one in America wants to own a failure. The banks want to foreclose on homes and sell them and avoid taking losses. Borrowers (some of them, and some of them rightly) want to avoid paying a debt for an asset that's worth less. No one wants to be responsible anymore because the most lucrative and least painful route is to abandon responsibility and your word.
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This Acorn Squash + Ginger baby puree is simple to make and easy to eat! Baby will love the squash's mild flavor mixed with ginger for a little zip to waken up their taste buds. Ginger not only makes purees taste delicious, it is a great aide for baby's little tummies.
I have been going back and rereading some of my older posts – Whoa! Let's start with some things I have realized –
1) I am horrible at spelling
2) I am horrible at grammar (and yes I just spelled that wrong)
3) I am horrible at editing my work
Now that we got that out in the open, I am letting you know that it is totally fine to correct me (mom, who is in publishing, I am looking at you!!!). Or if you want or know anyone that wants to be my editor, I would be totally cool with that. I pay in hugs, brownies and bottles of wine. Cool.
Okay, moving on.
While, I have been busy putting together a little book for you (more about my news here), one of the things I have been looking forward to since having baby Frankie has happened – she started eating(!!!) and I wasn't prepared. At ALL! The plan was that after I wrapped up this book project, I would get into the kitchen to whip some amazing purees for her to start on. And when I say I was planning, what I really mean is that I had already scheduled a day to make the purees, what purees I was going to make (all new recipes), and had thought in depth about which purees I wanted to introduce when. All of this makes me sound crazy – which I am. I'm working on it. But in the mean time, when I am dodging working out, this is what I do.
Plan was in place, baby is growing and showing the signs that she is almost ready to begin eating (holding her head up, wanting to sit with us during meals and eyeing our food), and then about a week ago during dinner, she reaches over, grabs a hunk of avocado off of her sisters plate and starts munching away on it! At 5 months and 17 days, baby girl is ready to eat!
Which is great!!!
(Enter happy dance)
Except for one small thing… I have nothing ready for her to eat yet! Me, Mrs. Baby FoodE, who spends every waking second thinking about baby food is not ready for when my baby is ready to eat. Shame on me!
We started with mashed avocados and bananas (mostly because this is what I had around the house) – adding in a dash of cilantro and cinnamon of course. She ate them all! Sometimes with great excitement and sometimes with slight hesitation.
But I needed some variety. This acorn squash was in my fridge waiting it's turn to be used for another recipe, but instead it became my babes dinner.
Simply roasted in a hot oven until barely brown and bubbly, then pureed with a hint of ginger and a small amount of water. This puree is creamy and mild and perfect for babies first food. I added the ginger for two reasons. For starters – this puree needed a bit of zip. A little kick for the tastebuds. Secondly, I added it because with all this new food baby needed a little tummy medicine and ginger is great for calming and aiding with any stomach and digestion issues.
Other things this puree would be great with:
Slightly pureed with brown rice or quinoa for a chunky puree – great for some extra fiber and protein.
Mixed into a white fish and carrot puree.
Served as a baby soup with a swirl of olive oil and a sprinkle of fresh thyme on top.
Steamed and pureed with 2 cored and chopped apples.
Acorn Squash + Ginger Baby Food Puree
1 medium acorn squash
1 inch fresh ginger root, finely grated or 1/2 tsp ginger powder
1/4 cup water, breast milk or stock
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicon mat.
2. Cut acorn squash in half, de-seed and place on baking sheet, skin side down.
3. Cook in oven for 45-60 minutes or until squash is tender and can be pricked with a fork. Let cool slightly.
4. When cool enough to handle, remove squash from skin and place in blender. Add ginger and puree for 1 minute adding liquid in 1/4 cup increments, if needed.
Additional Spices
Instead of ginger, try adding in 1/2 tsp cloves, 3-4 basil leaves, 1 tsp fresh minced rosemary, 1/2 tsp cinnamon or even 1/2 tsp coriander.
Age: 4 months and up
Yield: roughly 15 ounces
Cook Time: 45-60 minutes
Storage: store in an air-tight container in fridge for 4 days or in freezer for 3 months. These are one of our favorite freezer storage trays (pictured above).
New to making purees? Then check of my guide on which kitchen tools you actually are going to need. Hint, it's not many!


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10 years ago today I married the love of my life. And here's to another 10!
Happy Anniversary my love.
As a side note, I am realizing that in our wedding photos we look so very young. It is amazing what 10 years and babies can do to you.
I feel so blessed and even a little proud to have made it this far. I think 10 years is quite the accomplishment.


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Directions for Royal Brompton
Download map of Royal Brompton Hospital
Royal Brompton Hospital Sydney Street London SW3 6NP UK
Tel: 02031315130 Fax: 020 7351 8473
Finding the right building:
The private sections of the Royal Brompton hospital are based across three buildings: Sydney Wing, Chelsea Wing and Britten Wing. Each building is located within the same site, accessible via the main reception on Sydney Street.
Coming in by public transport
We are a five-to-ten-minute walk from South Kensington station, which is on the Circle, District and Piccadilly lines. Transport for London's tube map or the journey planner below, might both help in planning your journey.
For the main buildings: once you have exited the tube station's main barriers, mount the stairs and take the left hand exit, cross the pedestrian crossings in front of you and walk down Onslow Place to the Fulham Road. Cross the road and 10 yards along to the right is the left-hand turn into Sydney Street. The hospital is on the right-hand side of the street.
For Fulham wing: follow the above instructions but once you reach the Fulham Road continue walking down it for 250 yards. Fulham wing is on the left side, just after The Royal Marsden hospital.
Buses serving the hospital are listed below. Transport for London provides an up-to-date online PDF bus map detailing routes for the hospital.
Numbers 14, 211, 345 and 414 stop outside the Fulham wing on Fulham Road. Numbers 49 and 211 stop in Sydney Street for our main reception. Numbers 11, 19, 22, 211, 49 and 319 serve the King's Road.
Coming in by car
Parking for patients and visitors
Royal Brompton Hospital is in a pay-and-display, parking meter zone (street parking).
There is a public car park three minutes' walk away on Sydney Street, near King's Road and managed by CP Plus Parking.
Parking for disabled badge holders
A small number of disabled parking spaces are available in Cale Street, Foulis Terrace, and in front of the main hospital entrance (Sydney wing). Remember to display your disabled badge.
Reserved parking for outpatients
We have five parking spaces in Dudmaston Mews, behind Fulham wing / South Block, available to reserve within two weeks of your outpatient appointment, subject to availability.
These spaces can be reserved by calling 020 7351 8012. Please do not use these spaces unless you have a reservation.
Congestion charge
Royal Brompton Hospital is not in the central London congestion charging zone. However, we advise you to check the Transport for London website to see if congestion charging will affect your journey to / from the hospital.
View our map including locations of disabled parking.


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Interlibrary Loan
What kinds of items can be requested through interlibrary loan?
We can request
- Circulating books, and on a rare occasions, reference items.
- CDs, books on cassette and VHS (from in-state libraries only)
- Magazine articles (please place these requests by phone, (603) 766-1720)
- Nonfiction DVDs
We can not request:
- Any feature films on DVD
How long does it take to get the item?
The honest answer is that it depends on many factors. Is the item held at a library in New Hampshire, and if so, is it currently checked in? If the book is available in state, how often does the lending library have interlibrary loan van service? Do we have to go out of state to request the book? However, on average, items take about two weeks to arrive.
Are there any fees involved?
The are two occasions when there might be fees associated with your request. If there is postage associated with sending the book to our library, then it must be paid for by the customer. In addition, some academic libraries charge a lending fee that can range anywhere from $10-$25 or more.
How many items may you request at a time?
You may submit three interlibrary loan requests per week.


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Certain equipment must be designed and tested to withstand external vibration excitation. This is common in the military, naval, aerospace and other industries.
The equipment is typically mounted on a shaker table and subjected to base excitation. The input may be random vibration if the field environment is likewise. In other cases, random vibration is used to verify the integrity of parts and workmanship separately from the maximum expected field environment.
The random vibration is typically specified as a power spectral density (PSD). Note that the workmanship screen and field level can be enveloped by a single PSD. A goal is to verify that the equipment operates properly before, during and after the random vibration test.
A more thorough test is to perform a sine sweep test before and after the random vibration test. A response accelerometer is mounted on the test article, in addition to the control accelerometer at the base input location. The objective is to determine whether any natural frequencies have shifted, or any other changes have occurred, as a result of the random test. Such changes could indicated loosened fasteners, crack formation or other defects.
A case history is given next. The data was sent to me by a colleague. I have requested further information on the equipment and will post a photo or diagram later if permission is granted.
Figure 1.
Figure 2.
A rocket engine assembly was subjected to a sine sweep test in conjunction with a random test. A resonant response occurred when the excitation frequency was swept through 85 to 86 Hz as shown in Figure 1. The equipment response would have had a similar frequency content to the input if it had been a well-behaved, linear, single-degree-of-freedom system. The response Fourier transform for the corresponding duration did have a spectral peak at 85.45 Hz matching the sweeping input frequency as shown in Figure 2.
(Note that this is an approximation because the Fourier transform is taken over a short duration and represents an average, whereas the input frequency has instantaneous change.)
But the response also showed integer harmonics with the highest peak at 683.6 Hz, which was 8x the fundamental frequency.
Please let me know if you have observed similar effects or have other insights. Hopefully, I can post more details later…
Thank you,
Tom Irvine
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My colleague Albert Turk sent me a reply, paraphrased as follows:
I suspect a component with a resonance at the input frequency that is excited to the point of metal-to-metal impact. I have seen data from repetitive impact machines (HASS) and also from gunfire (50 cps) that had these integer multiples.
If so, the sinusoidal excitation has turned the assembly into a repetitive impact machine near 85 Hz. It would be interesting to see if there is a sine input amplitude threshold below which this suddenly goes away.
And Steve Zeise wrote:
I have observed this phenomenon and tracked it down to loose joints introducing impacts into the system.
Note that joints can slip under shock & vibration loads.
"Loss of clearance" of "loss of sway space" may be appropriate, related terms to describe the problem shown in the data. Further investigation is needed.


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Born in South Philadelphia, Fred went to Southern High School and attended West Chester University where he majored in Music and Art. An accomplished violinist and pianist, Fred went onto become a music teacher at Camden High School and eventually became the Supervisor of Music and Art in the Camden School District. During this time, he married and later, he and his wife Theresa and son, also named Alfred, who they call Al, settled in Cherry Hill.
In 1965, they had a daughter, Rose Ellen, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy shortly after her birth. Wanting only the best care and education for Rose Ellen, in 1970, Fred became a board member at Pennsauken's Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center. He organized the Center's first parent advisory group who then assisted him in expanding the Center to include a school and later to exclusively teach its children. In 2005, the name of the Center was changed to Crescent Hill Academy and it continues to meet the high standards of quality education and activities for medically challenged children, teens and young adults between the ages of 3 through 21.
Fred's dedication to children with special needs grew out of a personal commitment but he saw how he could do so much more for so many other children. While he was still holding down a fulltime job in the Camden School District and running Crescent Hill, Alfred began a summer camp for special needs children on 60 acres in Hammonton, NJ. He also built an Adult Activity Center to accommodate his Crescent Hill Academy graduates and other adults along the waterfront in Collingswood, NJ and at 84 years old, he is currently looking into purchasing a group home for adults with special needs. A humanitarian with a personal dedication to children in need, Alfred Minicozzi received the Jefferson Freedom Award for his altruistic work with handicapped individuals and even has a day named after him for his 43 years of dedicated service in Camden—January 31st
Equally dedicated to his father's mission, is Fred's son, Al, the current Executive Director of Crescent Hill Academy. Al went to Camden Catholic High School then to Rowan College where he received dual degrees in Special and Elementary Education. A hard worker, he knows all aspects of the "family business" having started first in high school as a lifeguard in the summer camp's aquatics program, then as a teacher and after gaining his Master's Degree in School Administration at Rutgers University, worked his way up to the title of Executive Director.
Knowledgeable in all aspects of the Academy's operations, Al also has a personal commitment to high quality education for children with special needs like his sister and has always felt the strong sense of giving back which was instilled by his father. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Sahara Sam's Sambulance Special Needs Safety Program in Marlton.


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Taking a Look at the Benefits of Using CBD Oil
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All through the 1990s, when Islamic militants waged a ferocious war on the Algerian state and night life died in the city that once called itself "the Paris of Africa," the Hanani bar and restaurant stayed open. It was "an act of resistance," says owner Achour Ait Oussaid.
Yet today, at a time when the bloodshed has ebbed, local authorities have shuttered the hole-in-the-wall bar. "This same state has done what the Islamists never managed to do," Ait Oussaid said, standing amid abandoned tables and empty shelves gathering dust.
At least 40 bars, restaurants and nightclubs have been closed in the last year around Algiers alone, according to local media. The government insists that the closures are strictly a matter of safety and hygiene, but suspicion is widespread that Muslim conservative pressure is to blame.
Ait Oussaid, a Muslim like almost all of Algeria's 32 million people, contends that officials caved in to a petition circulated in his seaside neighborhood of La Perouse demanding that the Muslim prohibition against alcohol be enforced.
Many see this as one of a series of measures the government is taking in Algiers and other cities to soothe Muslim sensitivities and isolate the militants who still carry out bombings and assassinations.
The North African country has a history of tolerance and secular-leaning government, but its night life has gone through ups and downs.
When it was a French colony it boasted countless classy nightclubs and restaurants. The fun went on in the early years of independence in the 1960s, lost its flair when doctrinaire socialists ran the country, made an exuberant comeback, and then was devastated by the so-called "Black Decade" of Islamic violence and government countermeasures that left up to 200,000 dead.
The fighting erupted in 1992 when the army canceled elections that Islamic candidates were expected to win. In the ensuing years, bars, nightclubs and anything else the militants deemed Western could be targeted.
Ait Oussaid says he defied death threats to keep Hanani open. "For me, it was an act of resistance, a way to defend the Algerian state," he said.
Youcef Kerdache, a construction entrepreneur who still drops by Hanani for old times' sake, calls the bar a victim of "the ostentatious Islamization of Algerian society."
Mohammed Kebir, Algiers' regional governor, declined to comment for this report, but speaking to the French-language Liberte newspaper, he said safety regulations are the only consideration, not "religion or other pressures."
Still, other signs point to increasing enforcement of a stricter, more visible version of Islam. Several workers were prosecuted last fall for smoking in public during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Groups of Algerian Muslims have recently been put on trial for converting to Christianity.
Censorship of sexual content on national TV has become stricter, and although women aren't officially obligated to cover their heads, students at provincial universities complain of being pressured to wear head scarves.
While the affluent elite can unwind at Algiers' costly private clubs or international hotels, the closures appear to be hitting lower-income neighborhoods hardest.
In Boumerdes province, Gov. Brahim Merad has pledged not to approve a single liquor license. "Even better: I won't miss a single opportunity to close the existing establishments," the French-language El Watan newspaper quoted him as saying in June.
The "national reconciliation" put forward by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2005 is widely credited with ending the worst civil strife. But Rachid Tlemcani, a political science professor at Algiers University, says: "We're witnessing the slow growth and triumph of Islamism through society."
Conservatives, he charged, "are nibbling at Algerian values, and authorities are following suit."
Associated Press writer Aomar Ouali contributed to this report.


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George, aged 24 is the London city slicker turned upmarket scouse playboy. He is the heir to a property empire called The Ability Group – a company worth an estimated cool £750 million.
His father, Andreas, had the drive and vision to bring a luxury hotel to Liverpool under the Hilton brand. His company now have 7 luxury hotels in their portfolio, including the opulent Club Med in Sicily. Despite the nay-sayers predicting that opening up a five star hotel right in the centre of Liverpool would never work, Gerorge and his family have worked hard to make it a huge, and profitable success.
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Keynote Speakers
Lunch Presentations
DSEF Pack-a-Present Program
Smart Start Seminar
Tori Molnar, Utoria
Kelly McDonald: Changing Demographics & How This Affects Your Business, Today & Tomorrow
Karen Post
CMO Panel
Thursday, December 6
The Kinship Economy: Profiting from Process, People and Purpose
Be in attendance when we hear from J. Walker Smith of The Futures Company as he discusses how the demographic handoff from boomers to millennials and how the technology shift to social and mobile has fundamentally changed consumer priorities. The future is an economy of social relationships—not brand relationships. Direct sellers are uniquely situated to capitalize on this, but what do you need to know to do it right?
Putting Communications in Context
Thursday's lunch will continue as Anne Aldrich from Artemis Strategy Group provides an overview and analysis of the findings from three key pieces of DSA research being conducted this fall: the National Salesforce Survey, the Consumer Attitudes Benchmarking Survey and the Sales Strategy Survey. These are key pieces of information you'll want to be in the room to hear.
Pack a Present, Bring a Toy
Give Kids in South Bay Some Holiday Joy
Bring a toy to DSA's Communications & Marketing Conference to benefit South Bay Area Boys & Girls Clubs members! To help make the holidays a little brighter for area kids, DSEF is partnering with the Boys & Girls Club of South Bay for its annual "Pack a Present" Toy Drive.
DSEF will collect the toys during DSA's Marketing & Communications Conference from Dec. 5-6. On Thursday, Dec. 6, Boys & Girls Clubs representatives will bring a group of children to the hotel during the Holiday Reception to enjoy hot chocolate and cookies with Santa and receive the gifts.
While donated gifts may be for children of any age, gifts for teens are especially needed. Cash gifts are also welcome and all gifts should be in their original packaging and not gift-wrapped. For more information, contact Tamara Ingram.
DSEF appreciates the generosity of 4Life Research, LLC, Amway and Team National for co-sponsoring this event.
The New Breed of Communications & Marketing Leaders
Social and digital media, globalization and other developments are reshaping the nature and practice of communications as a specialization. As we continue to see material changes in the types of people who excel in this area, the profession itself is being transformed—managers and leaders with new and somewhat different skills are in high demand, and personal qualities and expertise are a must. During this workshop, you'll hear from an industry veteran about what he has done to define the core competencies for managers and leaders in the 21st century's communications profession. This work is influenced by the "Building Belief" model introduced earlier this year by the Arthur W. Page Society, and borrows from other leadership and professional development models to take our thinking about communications talent to a deeper level than ever before.
Mark Bain, Upper 90 Consulting
John Parker, Chief Sales Officer, Amway
Building Buzz and Crafting Connection
Social media serves as a fun way to create casual connections with your distributors and fans. What if you could use it to build real-time buzz around an event and even connect effectively with those not able to attend? This session will show you how Scentsy choreographed a social media tsunami around its convention using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more, creating 55 million impressions and personal connections from those following along from home. Learn how you can replicate this model for your own company, as well as how DSA will be using it to create buzz around the 2013 Annual Meeting. You must be present in the session to play an active role in the social media blitz being planned for DSA's Annual Meeting.
John Curtis, VP Communications, Scentsy, Inc.
Crashing the Direct Sales Chasm—Integrating PR Across the Enterprise
Today's growing direct selling companies sell more than products—they sell lifestyle, community and opportunity. They also use technology to effectively communicate their value proposition and employ consistent messaging and actions/behaviors that positively reflect their enterprises to drive momentum. Simply, it's public relations, and if a company doesn't tell its story, others will. While such activities have previously been left to the field, in today's hyper-connected world, your company must take charge and establish its reputation and communicate its culture and the milestones to attract distributors and customers. This session will discuss the over-arching corporate role of public relations in direct selling, as well as how to leverage new and emerging technologies as effective communication platforms. You'll take away:
• A new perspective on public relations and communications based on today's environment
• Specific information on social media tools and trends that you can integrate into your current business and marketing strategy
Kim Sater, Director, Consumer Marketing, Mary Kay Inc.
Bobbie Wasserman, Managing Director, Wave2Alliances
Game Changer: Beating Google's Latest Update and Improving Your Company's Online Reputation
In recent months Google has dramatically changed the way it ranks websites and now methods for online reputation management that have worked for years are no longer effective. This in-depth session will outline exactly what you need to be doing to improve your company's online reputation in light of these changes changes. You'll learn:
• How to take advantage of Apple iTunes to make your company look better and keep your associates more informed
• How to create an effective social circle using Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube
• Why expanding your press release strategy is critical for your online reputation
• How to properly title, tag and describe your YouTube video so they'll rank on the first page of Google
• Why search term-specific websites no longer matter
• Why Amazon ranks so high and what you can do to take advantage of it
David Sattler, Digital Marketing Manager, Scentsy, Inc.
Don Sorensen, President, Big Blue Robot
Game On!—Using Game Design to Influence Salesforce Behavior
One of the most important goals of any technology for your field is to motivate behavior—but when everyone is on "e-overload," what can you do to make sure you're providing an appealing and user-friendly experience that results in the selling and recruiting behaviors you're seeking? One answer is gamification: the use of game-design elements (such as awarding points, badges or other incentives) to make certain activities more enjoyable or easy to understand. Awarding points, creating badges or tokens and rewarding certain behaviors with tangible or intangible benefits is a proven method to motivate your field to act. During this session you'll learn how you can incorporate these elements into your salesforce's toolbox. Attendees will hear from a senior game designer at Badgeville, The Behavior Platform, as he describes what gamification is and how you can use it to drive real results in the salesforce behaviors that matter the most to you.
Tony Ventrice, Lead Game Designer, Badgeville
How to Media Train Your Field
Every company will have its moment in the media spotlight. Sometimes it'll be a welcome opportunity, and in other cases you'll wish you had just stayed in bed that day. But either way, it's likely you'll want, or need, to have one or more of your field sellers talk with a reporter. So how do you make sure your message is accurately portrayed? Advance planning is the name of the game and creating a group of reliable spokespersons won't happen overnight. Hear from one industry-leading company that has implemented a proven system to get the right people trained with the right messages so they are ready for action at a moment's notice.
Kathrina McAfee, Manager, Corporate Communications, Mary Kay Inc.
Partnering with Field Leaders to Amplify Results through Social Media
Direct selling companies have a unique advantage when rolling out social media initiatives: your independent field leaders. This panel will share best practices on partnering with team leaders to amplify social media campaign results, including:
• How to tap into your field leaders to maximize Tweet Chats, iPad apps and Facebook campaigns
• Leveraging Facebook and iPad apps to empower the direct sales channel
• Adapting programs based on lessons learned
Xanthie Drankus, Manager of Social Media, Rodan + Fields Dermatologists
Elana Schuldt, Director of Marketing, Rodan + Fields Dermatologists
New Approaches to Online Training
Every company allocates key resources to creating and refining its training program—and the Internet has introduced a whole new world of possibilities to amp it up. During this workshop, you'll hear from Lifemax about how they enlisted field members to shoot unscripted, candid training videos that resonated well with other sellers and gave viewers a new perspective on their business. Such videos are training their field for future success like no other program they operate. You'll also learn how Morinda Bioactives created an award-winning online training program that features presentations to prepare business-builders for every possible situation. Through the program, field members learn the science behind the products, the history of the company, the best strategies and practices for sharing product and how to take full advantage of the Morinda Bioactives opportunity.
Jonathan Ducos, VP, Operations & Information Technology, Lifemax, Inc.
Buck McMurray, Director of Global Channel Development, Morinda Bioactives
Why Direct Sellers Need Mobile
With the continued increase in smartphone and tablet usage, it's important to arm your distributors with mobile-friendly tools, but these tools need to be easy to use and engaging if they're going to become part of the business. Attend this session to learn how to create game-changing apps that will allow distributors to conduct business with complete mobility, while also providing analytics to help executives understand the field's behaviors in real time. You'll learn:
• Design principles of a great mobile experience
• How mobile devices change the selling process
• Ways you can create system dependency not people dependency
Lionel Carrasco, President, LeapFactor, Inc.
Konrad Mayr, Vice President, Operations, Sabika, Inc.
Using Avatars and Virtual Worlds to Captivate Gen Y
Two billion people regularly visit virtual worlds. How can your company use them and avatars as tools for training and marketing efforts to increase sales, educating and motivating distributors, collecting customer insights for new product development and promoting new products to consumers? Our panelists will use a recent case study from a pilot, DSEF-sponsored, virtual world that was constructed for the Mark. division of Avon to showcase how other direct selling companies can make the most of this technology to bring Gen Y into the fold.
Michael Solomon, Ph.D., Professor of Marketing, Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph's University
Greg Marshall, Ph.D., Charles Harwood Professor of Marketing & Strategy, Rollins College/Crummer Graduate School of Business
Bursting the Bubble: How Technology and Distributor Experience Can Bring Direct Selling into the Mainstream
Direct sellers have always found themselves somewhat isolated from the mainstream. As a result, as many as 70 percent of sellers who quit the business do so before they sell a single product, walking away from the industry without giving it the chance it deserves. We'll explore how this bubble isolates the sales channel from the rest of the marketplace and discuss how new technologies can strengthen and support the distributor experience and play a significant role in bringing direct selling back into popular culture. Attendees will:
• Learn to understand distributor retention from emotional and technological points of view and how the two intertwine
• Gain a better grasp of the types of technology available today
• Gain a deeper understanding of the field perspective and how a powerful and simple user experience is critical to making these technologies work
Kim Sater, Director, Consumer Marketing, Mary Kay Inc.
Michel Bayan, President/Co-Founder, Atlas Apps (Moderator)
Scott Nelson, Senior Director, Marketing Technology, XANGO, LLC
Creating Community Through Content
Amway North America will share how it has increased engagement and fans across its U.S. social media properties by broadening its content mix, stepping up the use of multimedia, increasing fan interaction and conducting more online influencer outreach. Specific examples discussed will include:
• Leveraging multimedia to increase engagement
• Covering events and using live streaming to create compelling content
• Executing Twitter parties to build buzz and garner impressions
• Working with bloggers to expand reach outside your fan base
Neely Adkins, Online Community Manager, Amway North America
Anna Bryce, Manager, Public Relations and Social Media, Amway North America
Chris Koops, Online Community Manager, Amway North America
December 5, 2012
8:00 a.m.: Registration
9:00 a.m.: Welcome & Introductions
9:30 a.m. Finding the Right Marketing Plan
It's your salesforce that makes your direct selling company different from other companies in other sales channels, right? But how do you figure out how your salesforce members should make their sales – and what are your options? During this session, you'll find out:
• The three different plans from which you can pick
• How your product line can affect your choice
• Why choosing well matters for your future growth
• Successful methods to put your plan to work for your company
Pam Dean, CEO, Avalla
10:00 a.m. Compensation Plan Design Essentials
Distributor commissions are what set direct selling apart most from all other business models. Missing your compass on this subject? Or are you re-evaluating your company's current plan and you're not sure where to start? We'll help you through this important process, preparing you with:
• Designs that insure everyone wins
• Principles to guarantee success—if you follow them
• Details about paying your salesforce well without bankrupting your company
• How-tos for syncing your compensation and marketing plans to drive the right behaviors
10:30 a.m. Key Operating Indicators
Every company, direct selling or otherwise, needs to pay attention to key operating indicators – the measurements that tell you everything's OK (or not….). So, to what do direct selling companies pay attention, and how do you tell if your numbers are acceptable? Your discussion leader will cover:
• The metrics to which you need to pay the most attention—and why
• Signs that the numbers are headed in the wrong direction—and how to turn them around
Alan Luce, President, Luce, Murphy, Fong & Associates, LLC
11:00 a.m. New Company Case Studies
Just as Rome wasn't built in a day, every company endures a host of triumphs and challenges in its early days. Luckily for you, knowing about the hardships you could face is half the battle. During this session, you'll hear from executives from two successful companies and find out how they have each achieved early success and learn more about what mistakes they would advise you to avoid. They'll share:
• Critical learning opportunities they've experienced in their first few years
• Lessons they've learned as they've put theory into action
• Highlights of their operations and inspirational moments that have carried them on
Mike Collins, President, LifeWave, Inc.
Gabrielle DeSantis, CEO & Co-Founder, Gigi Hill, Inc.
Monica Hillman, President & Co-Founder, Gigi Hill, Inc.
Noon: Lunch with DSA/DSEF Industry Leaders
Swap ideas and insights with some of the biggest names in the direct sales channel during this networking lunch event. Bring your questions—and an empty stomach—and learn more about the faces behind many of today's top direct selling companies.
1:30 p.m.: Industry Overview—What Drives Your Business
In a world so impacted by financial crises and the effects of globalization, direct selling is positioned to grow in the coming years. But you'll need to cater to new demographics—such as Gen Y—and find out what skills and talents you need in the field in order to drive growth to make the most of the opportunity. Hear from DSA President Joe Mariano as he:
• Identifies the latest industry trends and behaviors that will impact your company
• Reviews the effects this year's legislation have had on direct selling—and what you should be prepared to see in the next few years
• Why any of this—and DSA's role in it—should matter to your company (no matter how long you've been in business)
Joe Mariano, President, Direct Selling Association
2:00 p.m.: Sales & Marketing Basics
Unfortunately for business owners, products don't simply sell themselves. Growth and revenue rely on many different factors including your company's ability to attract and develop talent internally, recruit and retain a dynamic salesforce, nurture a vibrant culture and remain competitive in the marketplace. During this session, you'll learn:
• Where your first distributors come from
• How to develop leaders—and how they build teams under them
• What it takes to attract and cultivate creative minds to ensure your company consistently rolls out competitive products in line with your company vision
• How to ensure your company remains consistent in its branding and marketing efforts
Cindy Monroe, Founder & CEO, Thirty-One Gifts
2:45 p.m.: Building Your Business—Internal Structure
While the success of your business is largely determined by the members of your field, your internal staff plays a major role in the development of your company's culture. During this session, you'll have the unique opportunity to hear how this fast-growth company:
• Developed effective operating procedures from the start
• Consistently attracts team members who have supported the company's vision throughout their growth
3:20 p.m.: Working with a Volunteer Salesforce
You know direct selling is different from other sales channels, but it's about more than just a marketing plan or a commission payout. We'll plunge into industry philosophy in this course, as we discuss:
• Why distributor buy-in is a critical component of your company's success in a way that no other factor can claim
• How to earn your distributors' trust and why you must do so
• The four constituencies you need to consider as part of every business decision and what the answers mean for your chosen course
Alan Luce, President, Luce, Murphy, Fong & Associates, LLC
3:45 p.m.: Stretch Break
4:00 p.m.: Your Technology Toolbox
Technology is not only reshaping the way direct selling companies communicate with consumers and distributors—it's also changing how companies operate internally. If you're looking to implement the latest and greatest systems to support your company's and distributors' needs, you'll want to hear from the experts how today's emerging technology could transform how your company operates in the months and years ahead. During this session, you'll learn:
• The various technologies available get your company going—and what can wait until you're fully off the ground
• Important questions to ask internally before you even talk to a vendor
• Preparing for any situation that comes along, including those you don't know exist yet
Cynthia Tysinger, CEO & Founder, GSATi
4:30 p.m.: I Wish I Had Known...
It is often said that one of the most unique aspects of direct selling is that the sales channel fosters a culture of sharing—even among competitors. Whether you're new to the industry or you've been around for years, there's no doubt another direct selling executive has faced many of the challenges and decisions you encounter on a daily basis. Make the most of this one-of-a-kind opportunity to hear from executives from a variety of direct selling companies as they share with you their lessons learned and provide you with invaluable Q&A opportunities.
Traci Lynn Burton, Founder & CEO, Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry
Damien Douchet, CEO, H2O at Home
Susan O'Brien Huneke, CEO & Founder, Pink Papaya, LLC
Stephanie White, CEO, Become International, Inc.
5:15 p.m.: Putting Lessons Learned into Practice
Now that you've tackled the basics of marketing, compensation plans, key operating indicators and working with a volunteer salesforce, find out how you can best prioritize your company's needs and put into practice what you've learned once you return to the office. Participate in this open discussion to fully understand the essential, critical, and imperative actions your company needs to take in order to drive your business in the months and years ahead. This discussion will cover:
• Why your company must uphold the highest standards of ethics, principles and values in order to be competitive in the market
• What your company can do to encourage and promote the value of personal development internally as well as in the field
• Ways in which your company can implement fun and appealing training methods to get your distributors excited about their businesses
• Why inspiration and recognition are imperative to your company's long-term success
John Fleming, Publisher & Editor in Chief, Direct Selling News
5:45 p.m.: Wrap Up
6:00 p.m.: Hollywood Glam Reception
Join Communications & Marketing Conference attendees for the Hollywood Glam Reception to kick off the conference, continue to network with your peers and take a look at some of the best digital media projects direct selling has produced this year!


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The new type of lithium battery
As you already know, every gadget that we use is powered by lithium-ion battery. Maybe they charge fast, but they cannot last long. Even on the most expensive smartphones, they can last one day (even less if you use your phone more). You should know that those batteries are made from the anode, cathode and electrolyte. Graphite is used as the anodic material and Li-ferro phosphate is used as a cathode. While you change your battery, lithium ions migrate from cathode to anode and retains stored electricity. Thanks to researchers from the Stanford University, the new type of material for anode can be used. Lithium metal should increase the battery life and it should run longer on one charge.
Experts are suggesting to use the special protective layer of the anode, which consists of related tiny carbon domes. Scientists call this structure nanospheres. The protective layer has a thickness of only 20 nanometers. The secret that should extend battery life is in the coating of nanospheres. It has good elasticity and chemical stability.
For now, this is just a concept, but researchers are trying to make these batteries a reality. According to some tests, they would be able to power a device up to 24 hours, even when you use your smartphone for playing games, watching movies or surfing the internet. Those actions use more energy than others. Maybe it doesn't sound as some discovery that will change the world, but anyway that can help us use less energy is a green way. The other benefit is, we will be able to use our smartphones more.