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The Idea in Brief
The Idea in Brief
It's virtually impossible to differentiate yourself from competitors based on products alone. Your rivals sell offerings similar to yours. And thanks to cheap offshore labor, you're hard-pressed to beat overseas competitors on product cost.
How to pull ahead of the pack? Become an analytics competitor: Use sophisticated data-collection technology and analysis to wring every last drop of value from all your business processes. With analytics, you discern not only what your customers want but also how much they're willing to pay and what keeps them loyal. You look beyond compensation costs to calculate your workforce's exact contribution to your bottom line. And you don't just track existing inventories; you also predict and prevent future inventory problems.
Analytics competitors seize the lead in their fields. Capital One's analytics initiative, for example, has spurred at least 20% growth in earnings per share every year since the company went public.
Make analytics part of your overarching competitive strategy, and push it down to decision makers at every level. You'll arm your employees with the best evidence and quantitative tools for making the best decisions—big and small, every day.
The Idea in Practice
To become an analytics competitor:
Champion Analytics from the Top
Acknowledge and endorse the changes in culture, processes, and skills that analytics competition will mean for much of your workforce. And prepare yourself to lead an analytics-focused organization: You will have to understand the theory behind various quantitative methods so you can recognize their limitations. If you lack background in statistical methods, consult experts who understand your business and know how analytics can be applied to it.
Create a Single Analytics Initiative
Place all data-collection and analysis activities under a common leadership, with common technology and tools. You'll facilitate data sharing and avoid the impediments of inconsistent reporting formats, data definitions, and standards.Example:
Procter & Gamble created a centrally managed "überanalytics" group of 100 analysts drawn from many different functions. It applies this critical mass of expertise to pressing cross-functional issues. For instance, sales and marketing analysts supply data on growth opportunities in existing markets to supply-chain analysts, who can then design more responsive supply networks.
Focus Your Analytics Effort
Channel your resources into analytics initiatives that most directly serve your overarching competitive strategy. Harrah's, for instance, aims much of its analytical activity at improving customer loyalty, customer service, and related areas such as pricing and promotions.
Establish an Analytics Culture
Instill a companywide respect for measuring, testing, and evaluating quantitative evidence. Urge employees to base decisions on hard facts. Gauge and reward performance the same way—applying metrics to compensation and rewards.
Hire the Right People
Pursue and hire analysts who possess top-notch quantitative-analysis skills, can express complex ideas in simple terms, and can interact productively with decision makers. This combination may be difficult to find, so start recruiting well before you need to fill analyst positions.
Use the Right Technology
Prepare to spend significant resources on technology such as customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Present data in standard formats, integrate it, store it in a data warehouse, and make it easily accessible to everyone. And expect to spend years gathering enough data to conduct meaningful analyses.Example:
It took Dell Computer seven years to create a database that includes 1.5 million records of all its print, radio, broadcast TV, and cable ads. Dell couples the database with data on sales for each region in which the ads appeared (before and after their appearance). The information enables Dell to fine-tune its promotions for every medium—in every region.
We all know the power of the killer app. Over the years, groundbreaking systems from companies such as American Airlines (electronic reservations), Otis Elevator (predictive maintenance), and American Hospital Supply (online ordering) have dramatically boosted their creators' revenues and reputations. These heralded—and coveted—applications amassed and applied data in ways that upended customer expectations and optimized operations to unprecedented degrees. They transformed technology from a supporting tool into a strategic weapon.
Companies questing for killer apps generally focus all their firepower on the one area that promises to create the greatest competitive advantage. But a new breed of company is upping the stakes. Organizations such as Amazon, Harrah's, Capital One, and the Boston Red Sox have dominated their fields by deploying industrial-strength analytics across a wide variety of activities. In essence, they are transforming their organizations into armies of killer apps and crunching their way to victory.
Organizations are competing on analytics not just because they can—business today is awash in data and data crunchers—but also because they should. At a time when firms in many industries offer similar products and use comparable technologies, business processes are among the last remaining points of differentiation. And analytics competitors wring every last drop of value from those processes. So, like other companies, they know what products their customers want, but they also know what prices those customers will pay, how many items each will buy in a lifetime, and what triggers will make people buy more. Like other companies, they know compensation costs and turnover rates, but they can also calculate how much personnel contribute to or detract from the bottom line and how salary levels relate to individuals' performance. Like other companies, they know when inventories are running low, but they can also predict problems with demand and supply chains, to achieve low rates of inventory and high rates of perfect orders.
And analytics competitors do all those things in a coordinated way, as part of an overarching strategy championed by top leadership and pushed down to decision makers at every level. Employees hired for their expertise with numbers or trained to recognize their importance are armed with the best evidence and the best quantitative tools. As a result, they make the best decisions: big and small, every day, over and over and over.
Employees hired for their expertise with numbers or trained to recognize their importance are armed with the best evidence and the best quantitative tools. As a result, they make the best decisions.
Although numerous organizations are embracing analytics, only a handful have achieved this level of proficiency. But analytics competitors are the leaders in their varied fields—consumer products, finance, retail, and travel and entertainment among them. Analytics has been instrumental to Capital One, which has exceeded 20% growth in earnings per share every year since it became a public company. It has allowed Amazon to dominate online retailing and turn a profit despite enormous investments in growth and infrastructure. In sports, the real secret weapon isn't steroids, but stats, as dramatic victories by the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots, and the Oakland A's attest.
At such organizations, virtuosity with data is often part of the brand. Progressive makes advertising hay from its detailed parsing of individual insurance rates. Amazon customers can watch the company learning about them as its service grows more targeted with frequent purchases. Thanks to Michael Lewis's best-selling book Moneyball, which demonstrated the power of statistics in professional baseball, the Oakland A's are almost as famous for their geeky number crunching as they are for their athletic prowess.
To identify characteristics shared by analytics competitors, I and two of my colleagues at Babson College's Working Knowledge Research Center studied 32 organizations that have made a commitment to quantitative, fact-based analysis. Eleven of those organizations we classified as full-bore analytics competitors, meaning top management had announced that analytics was key to their strategies; they had multiple initiatives under way involving complex data and statistical analysis, and they managed analytical activity at the enterprise (not departmental) level.
This article lays out the characteristics and practices of these statistical masters and describes some of the very substantial changes other companies must undergo in order to compete on quantitative turf. As one would expect, the transformation requires a significant investment in technology, the accumulation of massive stores of data, and the formulation of companywide strategies for managing the data. But at least as important, it requires executives' vocal, unswerving commitment and willingness to change the way employees think, work, and are treated. As Gary Loveman, CEO of analytics competitor Harrah's, frequently puts it, "Do we think this is true? Or do we know?"


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The offseason headlines for our nation's most popular sports league, the NFL, have been taken over by the violent nature of football.
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As popular two-stroke motorcycles were being phased out within the first ten years of the 21st century, more capable four-stroke options were presented to riders: this is the essential nature of the Suzuki RM-Z model line. It is encouraging to see a well-known, reliable Japanese manufacturer continue its pursuit of excellence, even within its most popular and best-selling models. The 2005 Suzuki RM-Z models were made more powerful and capable in the low-end RPM range, with a few simple engineering tweaks.
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The 2005 Suzuki RM-Z250 runs strong on a 249cc, liquid cooled, single cylinder four-stroke. The five speed gear box offers plenty of run and RPM capability from top to bottom. When it comes to getting off the line and finding the power of the low-end torque, these bikes are hard to beat in overall performance. Throttle responsiveness of the 2005 RM-Z was the most impressive to date, and with the common performance modifications and tweaks to the carburetor, the modifications will open up even more engine potential.
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---- — Gloucester Police maintained a presence at Gloucester High School throughout the day Friday after police received an early-morning call from a "credible source," reporting that the source understood someone had written a gun threat on a bathroom wall within the school.
Police received the call about 6:35 a.m. and sent two officers over to check the bathrooms for any threats, while other officers notified Police Chief Leonard Campanello and the superintendent of schools Richard Safier, according to a police report. Police found no such markings in any of the high school, after checking all of the bathrooms, police said. But, officers were still stationed at entrances to the school throughout the day.
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Students who had left school were still allowed to participate in extracurricular activities later in the day, due to the circumstances, Safier said. The girls' home basketball game, scheduled for Friday night, was postponed, but that was due to a late-day power outages at the school, and was not in any way tied to any reported threat.
Police had been conducting daily security checks at city schools since the Connecticut school shooting last Friday, according to Campanello.
"We do it just to give a little bit of extra attention to the school's in the wake of what happened in Connecticut," Campanello said.
The city's memorial to the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings went off as planned, with Mayor Carolyn Kirk and other city officials attending that ceremony, which featured the ringing of Gloucester's City Hall bells. That event was also in conjunction with a national memorial 26 seconds of silence in honor of the 26 Connecticut school victims, with many radio and TV stations across the country also falling silent at 9:30, the reported time the Connecticut shootings began exactly a week earlier.
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- Adjust oven rack to low position and heat oven to 425 degrees.
- Toss onions with oil, sugar, salt and pepper in medium bowl. Transfer to a cookie sheet with rim in a single layer. Roast onions until golden brown, about 30 minutes, stirring at 20 minutes and again at 25 minutes, adding garlic at this point.
- Meanwhile, bring vinegar to boil; simmer over medium-high heat, about 10 minutes, until reduced to 1/3 cup - it should be a thin syrup. Put onions into a bowl, add reduced vinegar and parsley; toss to coat. Serve hot, warm or at room temperature.
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Used fresh pearl onions for this -- at least I think that's what they were. Cheap at produce market, pain to peel for recipe, but all worth it. This recipe is so simple and delish. Made me feel like a pro. Got great reviews. Reminded me of "Drunken Shallots" I had had at a favorite local Italian restaurant (although, I think those used a red wine reduction). Planning on making the full recipe from frozen onions for a camping trip this weekend. Such an easy snack to put out with some white bean spread (also easy and both not bad nutrition-wise). Highly recommend this recipe. Be patient with the reduction. It's worth it to let it get thick.
Very simple and delicious. I like this better than traditionally caramelized onions because it eliminates the slicing and the stirring (and the tears!). It took an extra 10 minutes in my oven to fully cook. Also, although the balsamic glaze is good, we preferred the onions without it. The glaze masked too much of the onion taste, which we love.
I made this a little differently. After reading other recipes, I sliced up onions and put them in a skillet with the sauce ingredients. When caramelized, I did what they did in the recipe for "Green Beans with Caramelized Onions" and added frozen green beans, that were thawed. Just to make it even better, when serving, I tossed in some cooked bacon pieces. Fantastic !!
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Amount Per Serving (8 total)
- Calories
- 155 cal
- 8%
- Fat
- 7.1 g
- 11%
- Carbs
- 22 g
- 7%
- Protein
- 1.5 g
- 3%
- Cholesterol
- 0 mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 77 mg
- 3%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Just picked up my S-line Cab. Only had it a week and already there is a big crack in the winscreen.
Any idea how much that's going to cost me?
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Just picked up my S-line Cab. Only had it a week and already there is a big crack in the winscreen.
Any idea how much that's going to cost me?
Use your car insurance. Then normally it's just È50 and it normally has no effect on your NCD.
Check your policy first though!!
Actually before you do....
Check carefully for a stone chip along the crack. If there isn't one you could see if Audi will replace it as a stress fracture.
as above....
policys cover windscreens for È50 excess without effecting your NCD..
but as scotty said check first..
It's all well and good getting it done under your insurance, but all they do is chuck in some crappy after market glass, and this doesnt have the Audi rings on the screen and no longer matches the rest of the glass, so you can see its been changed.
Not really a big deal unless your anal like me [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
See if they will replace it with Audi glass
I'm with Direct Line and I took mine into Audi to have it done. I'm pretty sure they get autoglass or someone in to do fitment, but it has got the audi logo on. Direct line re-imbursed me minus the È50 excess
I had a lot of grief getting Audi badged glass in my TT. They reckoned it was three times the price but also claimed it was identicle. I'd read things about softer easier chipping glass so I insisted and eventually Autoglass and my insurers gave in.
I had the glass replaced on my A3 (8P), they had only been out here for a few weeks. I phoned the insurer (Direct Line) who instructed AutoGlass, it was an OEM windscreen but took 3 days to source due to the car being new to the country.
I prefered the wait to get an OEM screen though.
I had the same issue of not wanting any old rubbish windscreen fitted after a stone chip and crack. I was going to claim back the cost from my insurers as agreed.
However, the OEM Audi screen fitted is not green tinted. Audi claim that the original is not made anymore. does anyone know if the laws or the available screens have changed ??
I now have a non tinted windscreen and green tinted windows. What they have fitted is a non tinted screen they claim is the standard for the 2005 car.
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An early morning fire at Domino's Pizza in Oak Hill appears to be accidental, but caused an estimated $40,000 to $50,000 in damages, said Bob Begley, assistant chief for Oak Hill Fire Department.
Begley said 20 total firefighters — 15 from Oak Hill and 5 from the Fayetteville Fire Department — arrived the scene after the call at 6:49 a.m. Wednesday. The fire in the building created heavy smoke but crews were able to control the fire within approximately 10 minutes, Begley said.
No one was inside the business, located 1108 E. Main St., when the fire began and there were no injuries. Begley said the cause of the fire is still under investigation; but, it does not appear to be suspicious.
Begley said the exterior of the building was not significantly damaged, but there was heat and smoke damage to the interior.


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The whole Darwin thing can still be a tad controversial in Kentucky, a state that hosts a high-tech, Bible-centered, natural-history-style museum that asserts that the Earth is roughly 6,000 years old.
In Hart County, about an hour and 20 minutes south of Louisville, the local school superintendent is now expressing his frustration that a new state biology test is, in his opinion, treating evolution as a fact, rather than a theory.
He also charges that the test is omitting the "creation story" that cites God as the originator of the universe.
The Lexington Herald-Leader's Jim Warren reported Tuesday that Superintendent Ricky D. Line raised the objections in emails and letters to the state education commissioner and education board.
"I have a very difficult time believing that we have come to a point … that we are teaching evolution … as a factual occurrence, while totally omitting the creation story by a God who is bigger than all of us," he wrote, according to the newspaper. "My feeling is if the Commonwealth's site-based councils, school board members, superintendents and parents were questioned … one would find this teaching contradictory to the majority's belief systems."
He may not be too far off-base with that last bit. Supporters of teaching evolution agree that many Americans have a hard time getting their heads around what Charles Darwin called his "dangerous idea."
"Overall, the nation has a big problem," Dr. Brian Alters, a professor and author of the book "Evolution in the Classroom," said in a National Institutes of Health newsletter in 2006. "Approximately half of the U.S. population thinks evolution does (or did) not occur. While 99.9% of scientists accept evolution, 40% to 50% of college students do not accept evolution and believe it to be 'just' a theory."
The superintendent remained defiantly skeptical in the face of scientific consensus, noting that it was "interesting that the great majority of scientists felt Pluto was a planet until a short time ago, and now they have totally changed that."
Are you serious??? Stupid arguments like this make me so……
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Whether you use a shovel, snow blower, a plow or some other form of heavy machinery, you've got to clear your driveway and sidewalks somehow. But how do you clear a path if you are not up to the challenge?
Here is a list of snow removal services and resources here in Lake Zurich:
Ortiz Plowing and Landscaping
Know another snow removal business, or have services to offer? Please post in the comments.
Snow Shoveling Safety
The Snow & Ice Management Association (SIMA) offers these tips for those who choose to take on the cold, sweat and tears associated with digging yourself out:
- Wear layers: SIMA says wearing layers of loose clothing allows you to peel some off as you become active and warm. They also say to avoid wearing heavy wools, manmade materials or other materials that don't allow perspiration to evaporate.
- Wear winter footwear: Wearing quality waterproof boots with good traction is very important. "Good traction is critical to ensuring that you don't slip and fall," SIMA says.
- Loosen up: Take time to stretch and get limber before you start. "Shoveling snow is a workout so you need to stretch to warm up your muscles, particularly because you are shoveling snow in the cold weather. Stretching before you start shoveling will help prevent injury and fatigue," explains SIMA.
- Push, don't lift: SIMA says pushing the snow to the side instead of trying to lift the snow to remove it helps you exert less energy. Pushing also places less stress on your body. "If deeper snow is in need of removal, take it in layers," suggests SIMA.
- Stay hydrated: SIMA recommends taking frequent breaks and drinking lots of fluids. "You should drink water as if you were enduring a tough workout at the gym or jogging."
- Utilize equipment: If possible, use equipment that can remove more snow with less time/effort, to increase your efficiency and reduce the amount of labor needed.
TELL US: Finished your driveway and still have some energy? Maybe you're looking to make some extra cash? Help your neighbors shovel out by offering your services in the comments section below.


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Are you passionate about food and have you always dreamed about owning an eatery of your own? Or do you already have a business and...Read More »
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NEWARK, N.J. -- What in the world is going on with the Devils? And I'm not talking their 0-4-1 home record or complete no-show in Saturdays' 6-1 loss to the Sabres.
Coach John MacLean must want to see the unemployment line quickly in his first month on the job. I don't care what Ilya Kovalchuk did. When you're a $100 million guy, you can't be a healthy scratch. A rookie head coach, even a popular ex-player like MacLean, won't ever win that battle.
Said MacLean: "It's between him and I. It was my decision. I take responsibility for all my decisions."
I asked MacLean if it was a non-hockey issue (like maybe Kovalchuk showed up late for the game). He wouldn't go there. Simply said it was his decision and that Kovalchuk "knows where I'm going with this."
He wouldn't even say if Kovalchuk would play today against the Rangers. Devils beat writers were told that GM Lou Lamoriello was unavailable. Hmmm. After what this team went through all summer to finally get Kovalchuk, this happens eight games into the season? And how about the fans who paid good money to see this star player and then see him get sit down for no apparent reason with no explanation?
It's not like the Devils didn't know Kovalchuk doesn't play a lick of defense and likes to stay on the ice for a minute or more at a time. But they wanted him to fill seats in this beautiful but often-empty arena in the NHL's newest hinterland. Stay tuned. Things are really heating up here in this tropical paradise.
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A visit to Mesa Verde Country® is not complete without experiencing the bounty of the area. Farmer's markets are an excellent way to taste, touch, and savor local flavors. Depending on the season, opportunities abound to U-pick apples, peaches, or pears; or wander a pumpkin patch and select the perfect one. Get up close and personal with a llama or an alpaca, or drive past fields of sunflowers turning their heads to the sun. Purchase grass-fed beef or fresh lamb. Visit a winery and sample some incredible wines, or if you prefer beer, Mesa Verde Country® is also home to several microbreweries. We even have our own distillery.
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Woodward, Okla. —
The Northwest Oklahoma Alliance (NwOA) met at the Woodward Conference Center on Thursday to discuss retail business development opportunities in the region.
"What's happening with the energy play in Northwest Oklahoma is like nothing this country has seen in years," said guest speaker Mike Gallagher, vice president of market planning and franchising for Sonic Drive-Ins. "Because of it there's a massive amount of opportunity for retail here."
Not only is energy development bringing in more people to live and work in Woodward and the surrounding area, but it is also increasing the flow of traffic through the area, Gallagher said. And traffic flow is something that a lot of businesses, including Sonic, look at when considering where to locate, he said.
Because of issues like traffic flow, Gallagher said Sonic is even beginning to branch out its franchising to smaller towns that were formerly overlooked due to size.
"We're very excited about small town development," Gallagher said, noting there were around 627 small towns nationwide Sonic was looking at for its development pool.
While he admits that the company does not plan to build restaurants in all 627 small towns, it will consider building stores in around 10 percent of them.
In making its decision on which towns make it into that 10 percent, Gallagher said Sonic officials will look at a number of factors that help to drive traffic into the communities.
He said these "opportunity drivers" can include what other facilities are based in those communities such as "vibrant" grocery stores, movie theaters, feed stores, hardware stores, and 2A or larger size high schools. Also attractive are communities that are located near highway intersections or with increasing economic bases such as energy or manufacturing, he said.
With the increase of energy production Northwest Oklahoma could soon become very interesting area for other retail developers in addition to Sonic who are interested in capitalizing on small town markets.
In other business during Thursday's meeting, NwOA members discussed current improvements to the quality of life around Northwest Oklahoma, including new walking trails in Buffalo, new housing additions in Kingfisher and Alva, as well as Woodward's restoration of the tornado damaged areas, including the Lakeside 6 movie theaters.


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Jim Zirin, Contributor
I write about law, foreign relations and politics.
By James D. Zirin
In 1910, President William Howard Taft appointed a brilliant lawyer named Frederick William Lehmann as his Solicitor General. Representing the U. S. government in the Supreme Court, Lehmann would occasionally "confess judgment," a practice in which the Solicitor General admits that the government has been wrong all along and just drops the case even when supported by a lower court's prior decision. Inscribed in the office rotunda of the Attorney General in Washington are Lehmann's famous words: "The United States wins its point whenever justice is done…."
Lehmann's guiding principles inform the prosecutor's duty in the bizarre case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. DSK, a French lawyer, teacher and economist was until May of this year the highly respected Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. He had a promising political career; and, as we all know, was prominently mentioned as a Socialist candidate for president of France. He is detained in New York for the time being, awaiting trial on seven counts of forcible sexual assault on a maid at the Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan. It is apparently undisputed that the two had sex; the issue, as often it is in such cases, is one of consent.
Defendants are not cyphers; they are people. No one can conceivably deny that DSK had the private morals of an alleycat. He engaged in a series of extramarital affairs that would make Don Juan turn green with envy. No one can apologize for his immorality, and I do not do so here.
The case assumes the proportions of high melodrama–a weird encounter in a posh hotel room, a reversal of fortune and fall from grace laced with graphic sexual detail. The lurid charges against DSK have inspired a public feeding frenzy with the case tried out more in the media than in the courtroom where under our system it belongs.
As Reader stated, it would take extraordinary force or a life threatening threat to will someone to do oral sex and I would assume there would be a lot of evidence to prove a forced act.
What is interesting is that according to Madame Diallo's televised credibility campaign she relates of conversation between her and Strauss Kahn, something she failed to state in her previous story telling . It contradicts her earlier statements that a naked man came out from the bathroom, strode across the room to lock the door, (while she gasped in shock I can imagine), then grabbed her, tore her panty hose, grasped her vagina (I would imagine that at this point, she would be kicking and scratching a naked man so I firmly believe that DSK's DNA would be found under her nails which by the way I have yet to read, and there would be skin abrasions from her kicking on DSK's naked body – which again, I have yet to read), forced her to perform oral sex, dragged her to the bathroom and forced her to perform oral sex again. Then somehow she escaped.
The conversation. It would be interesting if they spoke French, Madame Diallo coming from a country whose official language is French. In my experiences in life, among strangers, a common language, religion or way of life mysteriously breaks the ice and a certain kind of cordiality happens.
They talked. Maybe Strauss Kahn doing his usual seducing advances which he is known for and she reasoning out she didn't want to lose her job and her supervisor will be passing soon, etc. Whatever happened in that room, there is too much public rallying by Madame Diallo and Kenneth Thompson to sway the prosecution and the public to back up Madame Diallo. None of that coming from the defence save one statement: Dominique Strauss Kahn is not guilty, the forensic evidence is not consistent with forced assault and he will be exonerate.
Forensic evidence – this has been the basis many supporters of Diallo claim as the strong evidence to proceed to trial and convict Strauss Kahn. It has been released that Strauss Kahn's DNA was found. Yet what about Madame Diallo's? Wouldn't her DNA also be present in DSK's body parts, DNA from her saliva for example? Her DNA in the supposed sperm spat on the floor? If there is any report on this by the way, would someone please post as I have not come across any article that states Diallo's DNA was found elsewhere? Thanks
Whatever happened in that room, justice has already been served. If Madame Diallo has accused an innocent man, she has paid by the charges which she will be facing soon – felony for lying to a grand jury and legal proceedings for fraudulent asylum and tax claims. Her not so pristine character has also been exposed, and she is ruined.
If Dominique Strauss Kahn is guilty of having assaulted Madame Diallo, he has paid. His high flying career is over, his political aspirations gone, and I would not be naïve to think that his marriage will not suffer after all the exposures of other women. His family life and his life in general is ruined.
Drop the case, both parties have paid heavily accordingly.
In answer to your question, Kirin,
"DNA evidence not only confirms that a sexual encounter took place, but also of the nature that Diallo recounted: she describes being forced to perform oral sex on Strauss-Kahn and then spitting as she ran out of the room. The forensic team sent to the room found samples containing both Strauss-Kahn's semen and her saliva."
I hope "gallagher" and "mickey," who have made the silly claim above that the Strauss-Kahn DNA was likely not from sperm, will take note and adjust their positions accordingly. But somehow I doubt that this will happen.
johnnyt – Absolutely stunning detective work. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Kirin, I don't think dropping the case would be in the interest of Diallo and Thompson. It's not because they can cash in on the case, but because they cannot afford the cash out it if DSK wants to cash in.
I may be wrong as I'm not American and ignorant of civil suit proceedures in the U.S., but if the case is dropped, that would mean that Dominique Strausse Kahn can file a civil suit and ask for recompense for his loses and damages. And these are real and enormous – his career, his political downfall, his image, his family life, his name, and his future. No matter what his sexual appetite was, he was held in great respect owing to his achievements, capacity and abilities. He had a life.
Thompson is gambling that with persistence and pressure to bring the case to trial, win or lose, he could still cash in millions from it in a civil case. On the other hand, if it is dropped, he will be the one shelling out the dosh.
Then there is Cyrus Vance wanting to look good for the next election. Would he gamble? and go to trial inspite of knowing it could be lost due to an unreliable witness?
Roll the dice!
Thanks JohnnyT. Another reference to add to my growing pile.
It blows my mind how many people believe it would be so very difficult to forcefully make a hotel maid perform oral sex on a hotel guest. This is HOGWASH. It is VERY PLAUSIBLE to me that Dially felt very afraid of DSK, who was apparently pushing her around violently. She felt afraid of her physical safety, intimidated, not sure of what else he might do to her, afraid of losing her job, and she almost certainly felt "one down" against a rich guest who was behaving in a very frightening manner toward her. She did not know what else he might do, and so she submitted. Pure and simple.
As for the posters who believe she is a prostitute, I don't believe any of these individuals have thought through this issue AT ALL. The Hotel Sofitel tracks all of its housekeeping staff members every minute. They do this electronically and otherwise. And the staff there have a FULL work schedule, and plenty to do. To seriously entertain the thought that Diallo could keep up with her work schedule (she has been at that hotel for over three years, and her work evaluations have been very positive) and be turning tricks with the guests at the same time is RIDICULOUS.
I would seriously ask the male posters on this article (and the author of the article) to question THEIR OWN attitudes toward women. I'm not a rabid women's libber, but I honestly believe the defenders of DSK are filtering this case through their own prejudices and, yes, I will say it: through their own negative feelings about women.
And by the way, the biggest hater of women is DSK himself. He said "I love women, so what??" NOT TRUE. He hates women, wants to degrade them, and wants to get off on dominating, humiliating and possibly raping women.
To me, it's pretty obvious what really happened. It is just that neither of them is willing to tell the true story. I'll tell it as it was. DSK is aware that housekeeping is due to show up soon, so with his heightened sexual thrill seeking tendencies, he strips off, and waits in the bathroom for her to show up.
Being in the bathroom of a large suite is a reasonable excuse for not hearing the customary "knock, knock, housekeeping!" alert. His intention is to flash her and see if she wants to take it further in any form.
Part one: She enters, commences her duties and he walks out from the bathroom naked and erect, to get his first reaction thrill, she acts surprised, and is about to do what is normally expected, that is apologize and start to leave.
Before she can do this however, DSK decides prolong the encounter, to see what power and money can still do. So he says to her "Oops, it's Ok, I won't report you, you won't get in trouble, and I don't mind you seeing me naked, in fact, are you interested in earning a nice little tip, like $400.00?"
Now, she is very tempted, having worked in a hotel for a while she is not overly surprised by the initial event (it happens more frequently than you'd imagine), the prospect of making nearly a month's wages tax free, is clearly attractive. So she asks what he is proposing. He says "Well let's frolic a little and you can give me a BJ, it won't take long and you can get back to your duties".
Part two: She thinks she has nothing much to lose, and a nice little earner to gain, and nobody will ever know about it, and away they go.
After finishing him off, he decides he no longer wants to part with $400 now that the deed is done, so he tips her $50 and tells her to go about her business.
Part three: She is naturally pissed, and not quite sure how to deal with the way she has been treated, she has agreed to an act that is a breach of duty, and he has treated her like garbage and not completed his half of the bargain, a number of thoughts run through her mind as to how to extract revenge. She says to him, "Pay up or I'll say I was assaulted" he says "Try it, do you know who I am?" and thereafter the threats and anger levels spiral, he leaves, she goes to mull over her options, and then concocts the version(s) of the story that we have all read in the press. The rest is history.
This adequately explains the evidence in the room, the timing of the coming and going from room 2820 and 2806 and the delay in informing the supervisor of the alleged attack. As time wore on, and as the notoriety of DSK became more apparent, more and more people thought that there might be a fruitful gravy train to jump aboard, as this would be bound to make great headlines, they just all had different versions and ideas as how best to extract the maximum from the gold mine.
So there you have it. That is what really happened!
I agree : it has reached the status of a melodrama although justice will have the last word.
Robert Macio
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The Union-Recorder
The Old Governor's Mansion is hosting "Labor Behind the Veil" tours every Tuesday in February from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. by appointment. Ticket cost is as follows: adults, $15; seniors, $8; adult groups, $10; students, $4. To make a reservation (due the day before), contact (478) 445-4545.
The Animal Rescue Foundation Inc. (ARF) will hold its 15th Annual ARF Auction on Saturday, March 2, at the Milledgeville Country Club. Tickets are $40 and there will be heavy hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.
Ocmulgee Court Appointed Special Advocates is looking for volunteers for its next training session. CASA is a non-profit organization that works with abused and neglected children that have found themselves involved in the court system through no fault of their own. These children need a voice in court and that is the role of CASA to see that these children have an opportunity to have their voices heard and to received services needed. Interested volunteers should contact the CASA office at (478) 452-9170 or visit their website at www.ocmulgeecasa.org.
The City of Milledgeville water department will be conducting maintenance on the 1 million gallon ground storage water tank located on Dunlap Road. The tank will be out of service beginning Jan. 29 and will remain out of service for approximately six weeks. This is part of the City's preventive maintenance program to ensure a high quality of drinking water for our customers. Customers in this area may experience low water pressure and/or discolored water. If you experience this please contact the Water and Sewer office at (478) 414-4052.
Thursday, Feb. 21
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Harriet's Closet, a free supply closet to help fill the needs of cancer patients, is open. The nonprofit organization dedicated to helping cancer patients in Central Georgia has relocated next door to Georgia Cancer Specialists building at Oconee Regional Medical Center. For information or to volunteer, call (478) 457-2124.
11 a.m.: AARP will hold a meeting at Golden Corral. Bring food items for the food pantry.
Noon: The Rotary meets at the Country Club.
Noon: The Eatonton Kiwanis Club meets at Central Georgia Tech on the James Marshall bypass.
12:30 p.m.: The Eatonton Duplicate Bridge Club, an official member of the American Contract Bridge League, meets at the Plaza Arts Center, 305 N. Madison Ave. in Eatonton. For more information contact Betty Roper at (706) 467-3079.
2 p.m.: Learning In Retirement Book Review meets at the First Presbyterian Church, 210 S. Wayne St., to be followed by the Writer's Group at 3 p.m. For more information call Ethelene Jones at (478) 453-8751.
2 to 5 p.m.: Free HIV testing at 900 Barrows Ferry Road. (478) 445-5518.
3 to 5 p.m.: Digital Bridges Open Computer Clinic is open in the Knight Community Innovation Center, 127 W. Hancock St. Work station availability is limited. The clinic is designed to teach basic skills to adult beginning computer users. Participants may come with specific questions or for general knowledge. For more information, call (478) 387-0254 or e-mail email@example.com to reserve your slot or to volunteer.
3:30 p.m.: Mary Vinson Memorial Library, 151 S. Jefferson St., will host a Teen Movie Night (middle and high school students). The movie will be "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" (rated PG-13). For more information, contact Dabney Kinser at (478) 452-0677 ext. 127.
5:30 to 7 p.m.: The Milledgeville-Baldwin County Chamber of Commerce hosts Business After Hours. Call (478) 453-9311 for the location.
6:30 p.m.: The John Milledge Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, meet at the Milledgeville Country Club.
7 p.m.: The Milledgeville Lions Club meets at the Golden Corral on North Columbia Street.
7:30 p.m.: Bingo is held at the American Legion Post 523 on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Refreshments will be sold. (478) 452-1611.7:30 p.m.: Bingo is held at the American Legion Post 523 on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Refreshments will be sold. (478) 452-1611.
7:30 p.m.: Lake Country Twirlers is a square dance club that meets at the Harmony Association Building on Highway 44. Everyone is invited to come by, meet members, enjoy refreshments and see what fun square dancing can be. For more information, call (706) 468-5090 or visit www.LCTwirlers.groupsite.com.
8 p.m.: Georgia College Theatre Department is proud to present I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, a musical comedy with lyrics and book by Joe DiPietro and music writtenby Jimmy Roberts. Dr. Amy Pinney directs with Dr. Wendy Mullen directing music. The performance will take place in Russell Auditorium. Tickets — General admission: $16; senior citizens, Georgia College faculty and staff: $12; Georgia College students: $7. Groups of 10 or more can get a discounted rate of $11 per ticket.
To purchase tickets in advance visit GCSUTickets.com or call (478) 445-4226.


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Prophet Hills Country Club
Built in 1966, this semi-private, 18-hole golf course is situated on extremely hilly terrain, and features a putting green and chipping area.
CITY: Prophetstown
Atkinson Motorsports Park - Gob Hill
216 acre OHV Park in Northwestern Illinois. Once the Peabody Coal processing facility, over the past 40-years Mother Nature has created some of the best riding ground you will ever see. 100 acres of undiscovered timber with lakes and hills, 116 acres of desert-like riding with lakes, hills and valleys, and some of the most open and unrestricted riding you will find this side of California. For the more conservative riders, the perimeter road is over 4 miles long and has some beautiful vistas.
CITY: Atkinson
Deer Valley Golf Club
Located just 10 miles south of Rock Falls, Deer Valley is a challenging 18-hole championship golf course.
CITY: Deer Grove
Bureau County Metro Center
The Bureau County Metro Center is a 50,000 square-foot recreation center with full size gymnasium; 25-yard indoor swimming pool with wading pool and observation balcony; racquetball courts; weight room; cardio-vascular room, elevated running/walking track above the gym; and locker rooms. A 40' x 80' multi-purpose room with adjacent kitchen provides the perfect setting for conventions, expositions, meetings, or wedding receptions.
CITY: Princeton
Hunters Ridge Golf Course
A beautiful mature 18-hole public course, perfect for group outings! Featuring a practice driving range, putting green, locker rooms, cocktail lounge, rolling hills and tree-lined fairways!
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Clinical Trials: A Primer
When it comes to creating an accurate picture of what it takes to cure diseases and develop vaccines, a few pieces of the puzzle are missing.
Racial and ethnic minorities suffer disproportionately from diseases such as cancer, diabetes and HIV. While research has proven to be integral to prevention, the Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC), which works to reduce minority disparities in cancer, is tackling low minority participation in clinical trials.
"The role of a clinical trial is to ensure that advances in science are fully benefiting as many people as possible," said Dr. Armin D. Weinberg, professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas and director of its Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center.
A 2005 study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology showed that racial minorities "were reluctant to participate," regardless of their knowledge about trials. The Journal also pointed out that young people 18-24 were also reluctant to participate in a clinical trial.
Dr. Primo Lara Jr., director of the UC Davis Cancer Center Clinical Trials Support Unit and professor of medicine, said "this suggests that we would have to go beyond just increasing awareness for these particular groups to increase one's willingness to participate in clinical trials."
Reluctance to participate can result in skewed findings or the cancellation of the clinical trial, because minimum participation requirements weren't met.
Funded by Genentech, Inc., the four-year and $4.4 million initiative is divided into two groups, policy and research. The policy research branch addresses the health policy and patient advocacy that affects recruitment of targeted populations. The field research demonstration focuses on the barriers and aids to recruitment and retention of the targeted populations in order to develop outreach materials, particularly for cancer and asthma trials.
"This is where EDICT can help end health disparities," explains Dr. Weinberg. "It puts policy and application side-by-side so when we look at policy, we'll have a better understanding of the environment in which these policies can bring about change."
The major barrier is access, Dr. Keydron Guinn post-doctoral fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine said. "Access could very well be something as simple as transportation. Or could be the person's inability to take off work and go to the trial."
Research to explain the low participation of minorities in clinical trials has pointed to low literacy, cost or lack of health insurance, lack of awareness and invitation, language differences and mistrust.
"When it comes to African Americans and clinical trials, there's this idea of a trust issue. We are a lot less trusting of clinical trials, because of what happened in the past, for example, the Tuskegee incident," Guinn said. "People don't want to be guinea pigs when it comes to pushing someone else's agenda."
The National Cancer Institute's Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial recruited 18,000 men, of which only eight percent were minorities. From January 2003 through June 2005, about 89 percent of participants were Caucasians, while minority groups comprised the remaining 11 percent.
Despite instances of unethical practices in clinical trials, Dr. Rochelle Rollins, from the division of data and policy for the Office of Minority Health, said those instances should not deter people from participating.
"You don't ask any population to get over what has happened in the past because you need to remember," Rollins said. "I think progress is being made and people should not forget, but aiming low should not be accepted."
Roundtable discussions for the EDICT Project took place in September 2006. The meeting tackled the issue of minority participation on the policy level through nine different areas, including community involvement, pharmacology, public and institutional education and insurance coverage, EDICT Project Manager Cindy Spiker said.
"It is not just minorities. It's the rural, the elderly, and other underrepresented populations as well. The majority of participants are white married men. We need to make sure the drug in a trial works on all populations," Spiker said.
Dr. Weinberg, who co-founded ICC, agrees. The main areas touch on everything from what can be done on a national level, such as policy making, to local level involvement by community members.
However, some people still believe that participating in a clinical trial has more costs and risks than benefits, and don't see it as something as urgent as blood and organ donations, for instance. With a background in medical sociology, Guinn said "altruism" has not been enough to get people to participate in clinical trials.
"I think people understand the function of blood," Guinn said. "People understand blood is a necessity for human life, but for people who aren't cancerous, they can't understand inclusion in a clinical trial. You say "clinical trials" and the wall comes up - they don't learn."
Dr. Rollins thinks the advantages of clinical trials are undeniable.
"Minorities benefit and society benefits from having a diverse population in clinical trials. Clinical trials are the mechanism for discovering if the vaccine works," she said. "If done right, EDICT can have a major impact on health."
Fia Curley is a writer for the OMHRC. Comments? Email: email@example.com
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Fred scored the go-ahead goal in the 79th minute to help the Philadelphia Union open their new stadium with a 3-1 win over the Seattle Sounders on Sunday.
Sebastien Le Toux, who assisted on the Brazilian's goal, scored on a penalty in the 55th for his team-leading sixth goal. Seattle's Tyrone Marshall took down Alejandro Moreno in the box.
"It's good to be home," Union manager Peter Nowak said. "This is our place to play and it was fantastic with the fans supporting the team."
Five minutes later, the Sounders were also awarded a penalty, but Noonan's shot was saved by Chris Seitz.
"I watch a lot of tape of players' tendencies, and I think it helped," Seitz said. "I guessed right, and the save kept the crowd into it. We took back the momentum from there and got a huge win."
Rookie Danny Mwanga added a goal in the 85th minute to seal the win at $122 million PPL Park, where some of the crowd of 18,755 arrived four hours before the game.
Philadelphia plays 13 of its next 20 games at the new stadium.
The Philadelphia suburb has been operating under a state of emergency after rash of shootings killed four people in eight days.
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Veit noted that 400 of 600 game-day employees are current Chester residents.
"I've talked to a large number of fans, and I haven't heard one complaint," Veit said.
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