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Cast Iron Waffles Reopens in Southpark
Cast Iron Waffles was created by husband and wife team Chris and Krista Duggan.¬† Serving up fresh and delicious, classic Liege waffles.¬† They were twice voted Best Coffee in Charlotte by Charlotte Mag... »
Cast Iron Waffles was created by husband and wife team Chris and Krista Duggan.¬† Serving up fresh and delicious, classic Liege waffles.¬† They were twice voted Best Coffee in Charlotte by Charlotte Mag... »
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If the thought of getting through work today¬†is overwhelming, rest easy knowing you can save a few bucks on coffee. Today¬†is National Coffee Day and many businesses are serving up free coffee or steep... »
RUSH has opened in Brevard Court.¬† Rush is a coffee shop serving pastries that is geared for the grab and go business crowd.¬† They are only open 7am to 5 pm Monday through Friday.¬† Rush is the sister ... »
The popular Fourth Ward Bread Co. had a serious fire this past Friday night.¬† So serious that it took 70 firefighters to put it out.¬† Fourth Ward had just celebrated their 1st year anniversary and had... »
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McDonald's is going after industry leader Starbucks to revive their sagging US sales.¬† Make no mistake about it, McDonald's, as the world's largest restaurant chain, is an 800 pound ... »
Starbucks is opening another cafe along the Colony Rd./Rea Rd. corridor between Runnymede and Providence Rd.¬†A Starbucks drive-thru is opening at the new retail strip under construction at the Marvin ... »
@RestauranTrafic @DunkinDonuts at Colony Place is now OPEN! pic.twitter.com/tJiRHR0pi7 'ÄĒ Brian Graboski (@Go_Daddy_Go) December 4, 2013 Big ups to Brian Graboski for alerting us that the new Dunkin Do... »
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Dunkin' Donuts will open a store in the Overstreet Mall in Uptown this fall.¬† Dunkin will take over the former Caribou Coffee space in the BB&T Center which is directly across from the Merle... »
Cast Iron Waffles recently opened in Piedmont Town Center in Southpark.¬†¬† Cast Iron is home to the Authentic Belgian Liege Waffle which is created on their 100 pound cast iron waffle press.¬† This bran... »
Caribou Coffee announced this week they were closing 11 of the 14 stores here in Charlotte.¬† The only stores to be spared the chopping block were the Park Road Shopping Center, Founders Hall and Fairv... »
We ran into Bob Fetterolf who is the Senior Manager for Real Estate for Burger King¬†.¬† He told us that BK is offering $1 Lattes this week.¬† That is right you can get their coffee house style lattes fo... »
Coffee giant Starbucks has announced they will open locations in Vietnam in 2013.¬† The Seattle based chain has over 20,000 locations in 61 countries.¬† I was watching an Oliver Stone special on the Vie... »


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The Good News: Harvest House
Date: February 4, 2014
by: Nick Friedman | Staff Writer
Nine years ago, Kristen Kohl's life was much different. Her 2-year-old son died tragically in a firearm accident. Subsequently, she lost custody of her other two children, and their father was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Overcome with guilt and grief, she turned to drugs to escape the situation. She'd hit rock bottom.
In 2008, after going through a detox program in Fort Myers, she learned about Harvest House Transitional Centers, a social service in Sarasota that provides drug and alcohol treatment as well as transitional and permanent housing, and she decided to check in.
She graduated from the program and moved back to Fort Myers, but within a month of graduation, she relapsed and began drinking and using drugs again.
"I couldn't function normally sober," she says. "I just didn't know how. I had a lot of shame and a lot of guilt."
After continuing to struggle with addiction, Kohl made the decision to enroll in Harvest House again, and she was finally able to overcome her addiction. After recently graduating from the program, she says she's found a new sense of hope and purpose.
"I learned a lot about myself," she says. "It gave me an opportunity to heal. Today, I have this hope, and it's amazing. I've been sober before, but I was just existing. Now, I want to give back and help the next person who's hurting, because I know what that feels like. No matter what's happened before, it doesn't have to stay like that."
Matthew Minor, director of development and community engagement, grew up immersed in Harvest House, which his parents founded in 1992. The center started as a six-bed drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility for men but steadily grew to offer services for both men and women, including case management, transitional and permanent housing, counseling, job application assistance and more.
"I love it," says Minor. "It's what fueled my passion of being able to make a huge difference. It's a lot of work, but compared to the transitions these people make in their lives, it's not a lot of work at all."
100 — Number of treatment beds
22 — Years since Harvest House was founded
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Stop Sending Dusty Messages
We all agree that up-to-date communication methods do contribute to our organizational effectiveness. However, "it's not the medium," writes Pat MacMillan, "that needs dusting off, it's the message!"
Telling your story is an art. It can be done well. It can be done poorly. Sometimes the one telling the story gets "a little too close to the sun" thinking the story is about them, and they and the organization both get burned.
Two things we can learn from Annette Simmons, author of The Story Factor; guilt and fear don't work. "Stories that use fear or shame to mobilize action may seem effective in the short term but can be counter productive in the long term," she writes. Fear and shame are emotions that move people "away from" not "towards."
The key to attracting the very best is in communicating how others have brought their strengths to the work, every day, and how they can do the same.
Set Up Your Successor for Success
"The hallmark of a great leader is one who sets his or her successors up for success, rather than failure."
The key to successful succession planning is to establish systems that make it possible for the organization to go on when a key individual leaves. And that goes for all key staff — the CEO, and any other critical positions.
Steps to Building a Succession Plan
Step 1 Identify Critical Positions
Begin your plan by identifying all of the critical positions within your department or team. These could be currently filled position, currently vacant positions, or positions you would like to add.
Step 2 Color Code Critical Positions
If the position will be vacant within 1 year or the wrong person is in the position, color code the position red. If the position will be vacant within 2 years, color code it yellow. If the position is safe for 2 years, color code it green. Add explanatory notes to all red and yellow positions (e.g., promoting, retiring, resigning, etc.). Identify any new or proposed positions in blue.
Step 3 Identify Potential Successor
Identify any potential successors whether they are inside or outside the organization, providing name, current title or position, and proposed title or position. Potential successors will be ranked green if currently qualified for the position, yellow if they could be qualified in 1 year, and red if they could be qualified in 2 or more years.
Step 4 Create a Development Plan
Help each of the candidates create a development plan that would prepare them for the desired position, within the time required. The key is to make every open position a leadership development opportunity.
Step 5 Review You Plan
The succession plan should be reviewed or updated at least once a year, or whenever there is a change in any critical position.
"We go through life together and if we can help each other, that's a good thing. I don't like the word mentor. I like to think of it as a friendship. It's a two-way street, and we learn from each other." Bill George
What's Love Got to Do with It?
"What's love got to do with it?"
Tina Turner wasn't the first to ask that question, and she won't be the last. For a leader, the answer is simple. Everything!
If you are a leader, love is critical. And I don't mean the kind of "love" that is all about me. You know the type. "I want you to love me, because I like what I get." What I am taking about is the type of love that says, "I will show care, looking out for the interests of others because I simply decide to." It doesn't mean I don't love myself–if you don't like you, you want like others. It does mean I am interested in the lives and success of all the people who make our organization or business a success and in the lives of the people we serve.
Being a leader is not always easy. Loving others is the same. It may not be easy, but it is critical. You need it. Your team needs it. The world needs it. Lead with love and you will never lead with power or fear ever again.
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. —Gandhi
Don't Start Packing Too Soon
Creating clarity about your direction as a team begins with a clear understanding of exactly where you want to go. Every journey begins with an idea about "Point B"—the destination or end. Where are you headed? What do you want to become? Who will you serve, help, or heal? Who will go with you? How will the world be different because you went there? These are the types of questions you use to help you see your goal clearly.
Many of us want to start packing or planning before we even know where we are going. There are many things you will need on any trip, like talented, ethical, motivated, inspired people for instance. But each trip demands differing types of preparation and differing resources. So, don't waste your time and everyone else's by loading up that van and heading out on a journey to "nowhere" or "somewhere." First know where you are going, and then, and only then should you start packing.
Choose Effective People
Your ability to choose effective people will not only determine your ultimate success…but will greatly influence the amount of energy you expend to achieve that success. (Pat MacMillan)
Every organization will have its own criteria for selecting team members. Pat MacMillan in his book, Hiring Excellence, has a chapter dedicated to the subject of candidate selection. His list of criteria includes:
- spiritual maturity and growth,
- emotional maturity,
- a willingness to be teachable,
- character and courage,
- a team player mindset,
- commitment to excellence,
- interest in this job,
- concern for people,
- demonstrated ability to set and achieve goals,
- intelligence, and
- balance.
Pat concludes with this admonition, "Look for people who show a total life pattern of success consistently, over time."
Why Nonprofits Don't Innovate
"In the absence of a profit test, size is the one criteria of success for a service institution, and growth a goal in itself." Peter Drucker
According to Peter Drucker, this is one of the biggest obstacles to innovation in public-service institutions. In Drucker's 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, he dedicates a chapter to this issue and begins with the statement that "most innovations in public-service institutions are imposed on them either by outsiders or by catastrophe."
"They (service institutions) are good at building empires–and they always want to do more of the same. They resist abandoning anything they are doing. But they rarely innovate once they have been established." Peter Drucker
Drucker's list of three obstacles to innovation:
First, the public-service institution is based on a "budget" rather than being paid out of its results…And "success" in the public-service institution is defined by getting a larger budget rather than obtaining results.
Second, a service institution is dependent on a multitude of constituents…The public-service institution has to satisfy everyone, certainly, it cannot afford to alienate anyone.
Third, The most important reason, however, is that public-service institutions exist after all to "do good." …If one is "doing good," then there is no "better."
Mapping the Value Stream
Isn't it strange, that whenever we seek to improve an organization one of the first things we do is restructure the organization chart. What we fail to do is change the way things get done.
One of the first principles of Lean is to directly observe work as activities, interconnections, and flow. As we learn to see work in this way—as interconnected activities and flow—we will also see things differently, and we will see opportunities to change things for the better.
Womack and Jones, authors of "The Machine that Changed the World," define Value Stream as "The set of all specific actions required to bring a specific product through three critical management tasks of any business: …problem solving, …information management, …physical transformation." As you gain an understand of the value streams within your organization, you discover the three categories of activity:
1. Steps that definitely create value
2. Steps that create no value but are necessary
3. Steps that create no value and can be immediately eliminated
Since no one wants to consider what they do as waste, the job of mapping and evaluating a value stream needs to be done at a fairly high level. And the focus needs to be on four basic principles:
1. Add nothing but value (eliminate waste)
2. Focus on the people who add value (transfer authority and responsibility to the people who are adding value)
3. Let value flow from demand (eliminate as many handoffs as possible, expose problems as soon as they arise, and correct immediately)
4. Optimize across the organization
Trust Everyone, But Cut the Cards
I once had a friend tell me he was concerned that his boss, the CEO, was not telling the Board of Directors the truth. That is a terrible place to be in any organization, and one I would not wish on my worst enemy.
If you are a member of the Board, how do you know your CEO is telling you the truth?
"Well," you say, "we trust him." Or, "We've known her for a long time." Or, "He's my wife's brother."
I believe in the power of trust, and think it is the key to great leadership, but as a Director, you are accountable to the moral ownership of the organization, and the CEO is accountable to you.
So, how do you answer the question, "How do you really know your CEO is telling you the truth?" John Carver in Reinventing Your Board, suggests three ways a Board can acquire accountability data:
(a) by internal reports, in which the CEO discloses compliance information to the Board,
(b) by external reports, in which an external, disinterested third party selected by the Board to assess compliance with board policies, and
(c) by direct board inspection, in which a designated member or members of the Board assess compliance with the appropriate policy criteria."
The problem with Boards is it is easy to get lazy and only look at the internal reports–a report created by or under the direction of the CEO–and not look at the external reports and direct inspection that are needed to get a true picture of the CEO's performance in achieving the "Ends" of the organization.
Carver reminds us that the "Board members and CEO are colleagues." The relationship is "collegial, not hierarchical." However, the Board's desires must be clear, and the CEO response must be in compliance with those desires. Both have a job to do and need to be "personally responsible" for the job they do.
They also need to be "cumulatively responsible," or as Carver puts it, "accountable for the total contribution and compliance of his or her team, however extensive that team might be." How will you know if the CEO is accountable? Start using your entire accountability toolkit: internal reports, external reports, and direct inspection.
10 Rules for Stifling Innovation
A little over twelve years ago The Drucker Foundation published Leading for Innovation and Organizing for Results. Contributers included Clayton Christensen, Jim Collins, C. William Pollard, Margaret J. Wheatley, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. It has proven to be one of the most practical guides for anyone seeking to lead their organization to greater levels of performance.
Kanter's chapter, Creating the Culture for Innovation, is most helpful, not so much in how she outlines how innovation is started, but in how she outline how innovation is stopped. Her "rules for stifling innovation," are as follows:
1. Be suspicious of every new idea from below—because it's new and because it's from below. (After all, if the idea were any good, senior people would have thought of it already.)
2. Insist that people who need your approval to act go through several other levels of management first. (Most will fade away before getting back to you.)
3. Ask departments or individuals to challenge and criticize one another's proposals. (That saves you the job of deciding; you just pick the survivors.)
4. Express criticisms freely, and withhold your praise. (That keeps people on their toes.) Let them know they could be fired at any time.
5. Treat identification of problems as signs of failure, to discourage people from letting you know when something in their area isn't working. (Fear of mistakes will reduce risks.)
6. Control everything carefully. Make sure people count everything that can be counted, frequently. (That ensures a tight ship with nothing extra for unproven plans.)
7. Make decisions to reorganize or change policies in secret, and spring them on people unexpectedly. (That also keeps people on their toes.)
8. Make sure that requests for information are fully justified; don't give it out freely.
9. Assign to lower-level managers, in the name of delegation and participation, responsibility for figuring out how to cut back, lay off, move people around, or otherwise implement threatening decisions you have made. And get them to it quickly.
10. And above all, never forget that you, the leaders, already know everything important about the business. (Isn't that why you're in charge?)
"A kaleidoscope, not a computer, is the ultimate weapon to help leaders meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. It represents the ever-changing patterns and endless new possibilities, powered by human imagination, that lie at the heart of innovation." (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
The Story You Need to Tell
Would you like to encourage your team, renew their passion, return the joy to their work?
If you are new to leadership and you want to connect with your team in a meaningful way, try telling them your story. Begin with the story you don't need to memorize, the one you already know, the story of who you are. "Before anyone allows you to influence them," writes Annette Simmons, "they want to know, 'Who are you and why are you here?"
Put away the research, the vision statement, the plan of work, and tell them who you are. Where did you come from? Who are your heroes? What events have shaped your life? Tell them about a time you laughed, a time you cried, a time you fell, a time you got up and tried again. Annette Simmons tells us, "At a deep level we know that true strength is found not in perfection, but in understanding our own limitations. A leader who demonstrates this self-knowledge (by telling their story) demonstrates strength."
"Truth, naked and cold, had been turned away from every door in the village. Her nakedness frightened the people. When Parable found her she was huddled in a corner, shivering and hungry. Taking pity on her, Parable gathered her up and took her home. There, she dressed Truth in story, warmed her and sent her out again. Clothed in story, Truth knocked again at the villagers' doors and was readily welcomed into the people's houses. They invited her to eat at their table and warm herself by their fire." Jewish Teaching Story from The Story Factor by Annette Simmons


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The wing's score – created brilliantly by George North's break, some fine handling and Elliott's own excellent running line – came in the Round 3 trip to Kingsholm.
The three Dream Team inclusions meanwhile are Luther Burrell at outside centre, Stephen Myler at fly half and Samu Manoa in the second row.
The team was selected by BT Sport's BT Sport's on-air team of Martin Bayfield, Lawrence Dallaglio, Matt Dawson, Jill Douglas, Craig Doyle, Sarra Elgan, Alastair Eykyn, Austin Healey, Ben Kay, and Nick Mullins.
Burrell's fine form for both club and country made him the outstanding candidate at 13, while Myler's importance to the Saints' success and supreme consistency earned him praise from the panel. The final inclusion, Manoa, has had another immense season and led the league's second row forwards in terms of tries (six), clean breaks (seven) and offloads (18) in the 2013/14 regular season.
The American powerhouse was also among the nominations for Player of the Year and Forward of the Year, while Dylan Hartley and Dom Waldouck made the shortlist for Community Player of the Season. Elliott's second nomination came in the Discovery of the Season category.
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text: United States Patent: 7011381 ( 1 of 1 ) United States Patent 7,011,381 Roberts , et al. March 14, 2006 Counter top ticket dispenser, display, and writing stand Abstract A relatively tall embodiment of a lottery ticket dispenser with a small footprint is fitted onto the countertop of a check-out counter of a retail store. The dispenser includes a housing, the top of which is flat so as to provide a convenient place for customers to write checks with the tickets being displayed immediately below being highly visible to the customer. Inventors: Roberts; Brian J. (Carlsbad, CA), Petch; David B. (La Jolla, CA) Assignee: GIECH Corporation (West Greenwich, RI) Appl. No.: 09/738,234 Filed: December 15, 2000 Related U.S. Patent Documents Application NumberFiling DatePatent NumberIssue Date 09394660Sep., 1999 09385336Aug., 1999 09238682Jan., 19996726077 09128406Aug., 1998 09060423Apr., 1998 Current U.S. Class: 312/34.4 ; 206/503; 221/155; 221/45; 225/39; 225/41; 463/17 Current International Class: B65D 83/12 (20060101); B26F 3/02 (20060101) Field of Search: 225/39,41,42,46,47 220/826,504,916 312/34.7,34.4,34.8,34.23 221/45,46,61,62,155,35 232/43.4 206/393,394,409,503,824 242/590,594,594.5,594.6,594.8,597.8,598.5,598.6 463/17 References Cited [Referenced By] U.S. Patent Documents 2482714 September 1949 Mell 2578115 December 1951 West 2752106 June 1956 Thompson 4738384 April 1988 Tigner 4858806 August 1989 Schafer 4982337 January 1991 Burr et al. 4995507 February 1991 Schafer 5131561 July 1992 Casperson et al. 5222644 June 1993 Moreno 5305937 April 1994 Barnett 5399005 March 1995 Schafer 5449111 September 1995 Sauzedde et al. 5492398 February 1996 Schafer 5943241 August 1999 Nichols et al. 5944354 August 1999 Feola 6056233 May 2000 Von Schenk Other References Take-A-Ticket, Inc.,#400-U "Ultimate" Take-A-Ticket, Inc. (TAT) Inc. In-Counters!!, "Public Gaming", Jul. 1999. cited by other . Ads of Schafer Systems Inc. (p. 37), "Public Gaming", Oct. 1998. cited by other. Primary Examiner: Dexter; Clark F. Attorney, Agent or Firm: Kenyon & Kenyon Parent Case Text This application is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/394,660, filed on Sep. 13, 1999 (pending), which is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/238,682, filed Jan. 26, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,726,077, of Ser. No. 09/128,406, filed Aug. 3, 1998, now abandoned, and of Ser. No. 09/060,423, filed Apr. 14, 1998, now abandoned, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/385,336, filed Aug. 30, 1999(pending). Claims The invention claimed is: 1. In combination, a store checkout counter and a countertop ticket display dispenser structure for dispensing tickets, the combination comprising: (a) a housing having a front cover, a rear cover, and a ticket dispensing ticket outlet; (b) a store checkout counter having a countertop with a customer side for a customer and a clerk side for a clerk; (c) said housing further having an upper portion extending between a front of said housing and a rear of said housing, said upper portion including a flat portion for accommodating a typical bank check for said customer to write the bank check on it; (d) said front cover having a transparent portion through which said tickets can be seen from said customer side, and said ticket dispensing outlet being located on the rear cover; and (e) said housing being mounted adjacent said counter top with said front cover facing said customer side, said rear cover facing said clerk side, and said flat portion accessible to said customer at said customer side of said counter; wherein the front and rear covers are each hingedly coupled to a remainder of the housing to open outwardly from the remainder of the housing toward said customer side and said clerk side, respectively, and wherein at least a substantial part of the upper portion of said housing is displaceable upon opening of at least one of said front cover and said rear cover to permit access to the inside of the housing. 2. The combination as in claim 1 including structure inside said housing for storing and holding said tickets so as to be visible through said transparent portion, and for guiding said tickets towards said outlet. 3. The combination as in claim 2 wherein said transparent portion is arcuate. 4. The combination as in claim 1 in which said tickets are strip-form gaming tickets, a plurality of strips of said tickets being located and displayed side-by-side in said housing so as to be exposed to the customer through said transparent portion. 5. The combination as in claim 4 further comprising: a plurality of said outlets, one for each of said strips; and guide means for guiding the passage of said strips upwardly adjacent said transparent portion so as to display said ticket strips to said customer as said tickets move towards said outlets. 6. The combination as in claim 1 wherein said front cover has an arcuate portion for guiding said tickets towards said outlet. 7. The combination as in claim 1 wherein said transparent portion is arcuate for guiding said tickets towards said outlet. 8. The combination as in claim 1 wherein said housing is mounted on said countertop. 9. In combination, a store checkout counter and a countertop ticket display dispenser structure for dispensing tickets, the combination comprising: (a) a housing having a front cover, a rear cover, and a ticket dispensing ticket outlet; (b) a store checkout counter having a countertop with a customer side for a customer and a clerk side for a clerk; (c) said housing having a flat portion for accommodating a typical bank check for said customer to write the bank check on it; (d) said front cover having a transparent portion through which said tickets can be seen from said customer side, and said outlet being located on the rear cover; and (e) said housing being mounted adjacent said counter top with said front cover facing said customer side, said rear cover facing said clerk side, and said flat portion accessible to said customer at said customer side of said counter; wherein the front and rear covers are each hingedly coupled to a remainder of the housing to open outwardly from the remainder of the housing and permit access to the inside of the housing; wherein said checkout counter top has an edge at said customer side, and a rail extending above said edge, and in which said transparent portion extends over said rail adjacent said edge. Description This invention relates to ticket dispensers, and particularly to dispensers of lottery tickets joined together in strips in which the tickets are delineated from one another by lines of weakness. In particular, the invention relates to such dispensers from which customers can see and select lottery tickets, and the tickets are dispensed by a store clerk or the customer. One of the problems with prior lottery ticket dispensers of the type described above is that the dispensers take up a great deal of counter space and thus are in the way if they are placed on or near check-out counters in stores. Another problem with such dispensers is that, when they are stacked on top of one another, they tend to shift and fall off. Moreover, it is difficult to see the tickets in the dispensers at the bottom of the stack because the customer's view is blocked by the upper dispensers in the stack because the upper dispensers in the stack block the customer's view. Another problem with prior lottery ticket dispensers of the type described above is that the dispensers do not control the inventory of lottery tickets in the dispenser or account for the tickets sold during the dispensing process. It is an object of the present invention to provide dispensing devices, installations and displays that eliminate or alleviate the foregoing problems. In particular, it is an object of the invention to provide a ticket dispenser which is of the size and configuration to make it a welcome addition to a check-out counter. Another object of the invention is to provide a rack or cabinet for stacking relatively short, wide ticket dispensers; a rack or cabinet that holds the dispensers in a stable stack structure. A further object of the invention is to provide such a rack or cabinet which laterally staggers the positions of the dispensers relative to one another so that the lower dispensers in the stack are more visible. It also is an object of the invention to provide a drive and separating module which can be easily mounted in any of the dispenser housings with a minimum of assembly, labor, tools and hardware. It is a further object of the invention to provide such structures which are robust, relatively inexpensive to manufacture, and relatively easy and efficient to use. In accordance with the present invention, the foregoing objects are met by the provision of a ticket dispenser which has a housing including a hinged front cover forming the top end portions of the side walls of the housing, and another hinged rear cover forming the rear complementary portions of the side walls of the housing, so that the front cover can be lifted to give access to the ticket storage area, and the rear cover can be rotated away to give access to the dispensing portion of the housing. Another aspect of the invention is the provision of a rack or cabinet to support a plurality of relatively low and wide dispensers on top of one another so as to keep them stable. It is preferred that the positions of the dispenser housing be staggered laterally so that lower ones of the housing are more visible than if the housings were stacked vertically with respect to one another. It also is preferred that the width of dispensers at the top be less than that of dispensers below so as to align one end of each dispenser vertically with the corresponding ends of the other dispensers. A check-out counter dispenser is provided which not only occupies relatively little check-out counter space, but also serves a useful function which makes it a desirable addition to the check-out counter. A relatively tall dispenser is provided in which space for storage of the tickets is located underneath a drive module. The stack of tickets to be dispensed is stored at a substantial angle from horizontal. The housing thus has a relatively small footprint and takes up relatively little countertop space. Preferably, the top of the housing is flat and extends to a height making it a convenient surface upon which a customer can write checks. The tickets to be dispensed are visible through the transparent cover of the housing immediately below the flat top where the check is being written. This increases exposure of the tickets to the customers and promotes sales. Preferably, each of the different sizes and shapes of housing uses a single drive and separation module which fits into the housing easily and quickly with a minimum of installation labor and hardware being required. The module contains a drive motor and drive rollers for a plurality of different channels, each adapted to drive one strip of tickets. A rotary helical separator mechanism is provided, with a drive motor to rotate it, so as to separate one or more tickets from each strip. Preferably, the dispensing of the proper number and type of tickets is controlled by a clerk in the store operating a point-of-sale terminal or a computer, preferably a small palm top or similar computer with a keypad. Optionally, the actions performed by the clerk can also be performed by the customer and such computer controller can be mounted in such a location or position to allow dual use by both the clerk and/or the customer, e.g., the computer can be mounted on a swivel mounting. The foregoing and other objects and advantage of the invention will be set forth in or apparent from the following description and drawings. IN THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is perspective, partially schematic view of a countertop ticket dispenser installation on check-out counter in a store; FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view, taken along line 2--2 of FIG. 1, partially broken away, and showing the housing open instead of closed as in FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a front elevation view, partially broken away, of the dispenser shown in FIGS. 1 and 2; FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional, partially schematic side elevation of the drive and separation module used in the dispenser of FIGS. 1 through 3, as well as in other dispensers described herein; FIG. 5 is perspective view of a relatively short but wide countertop dispenser in which the tickets are stored laterally of the drive and separation module; FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional, partially schematic view of the dispenser shown in FIG. 5; FIG. 7 is a partially broken away front elevation view of the dispenser shown in FIGS. 5 and 6; FIG. 8 is a side elevation view of a display rack for multiple ticket dispensers of the type shown in FIGS. 5 through 7; FIG. 9 is a side elevation view of an alternative display of ticket dispensers; and FIG. 10 is a rear elevation view as viewed in the direction of the arrow 136 in FIG. 9. SMALL FOOTPRINT DISPENSER FIG. 1 shows a dispenser 20 mounted on a check-out counter 22 with side rails 24 and 26 in a retail store or supermarket checkout lane. The unit 20 has a particularly small footprint, even though it dispenses instant winner scratch-off type lottery tickets from four different channels and from four relatively wide or long stacks 42 of tickets (see FIG. 2). The unit 20 includes a pair of side walls 28 made of cast aluminum or other strong, secure material, with a curved portion 29 protruding out over the side-rail 24 of the check-out counter 22, or flush with the front of the counter depending on the installation. The rail 24 is on the side of the counter that is nearest to the normal position of the customer when having his or her purchases checked-out. The check-out stand includes a point-of-sale terminal or computer 33 with a keyboard 35, or a hand-held computer 37 with a keypad 39 and a display 41. Alternatively, terminal 33 can be an on-line lottery game terminal such as those used to sell lotto and similar games. Any of these input devices can be used to select the type of ticket and quantity of tickets desired by the customer, as described more fully in the disclosure in the above-identified co-pending U.S. patent applications. The dispensing unit 20 includes a housing with a front cover 34 (see FIG. 2) which is hinged to the housing at 46 so as to fold to the left and away from the interior of the dispenser housing to give access to the interior for replenishing tickets, service, etc. The housing of the unit 20 also includes hinged rear cover 30 which has a pair of side panels each having a forward edge 43 including a sloping edge 45. The cover 30 is hinged to the housing at 40. The side walls 28 have an angular reinforcing rib 32 along a portion of the rear edge of the front cover 34. The edges 45 and 43 of the rear cover 30 abut against the ribs 32 when the covers 30, 34 are closed. When the cover 34 is closed it is seated against a ledge 48 formed around the periphery of each of the side walls 28. Mounted in the housing is a drive and separation module 38 which pulls a strip of tickets from a supply, separates the number of tickets desired from the strip, and issues them through an outlet opening to the right, as shown in FIG. 2. Four fan-fold ticket stacks 42 each consisting of a continuous strip of scratch-off lottery tickets or similar tickets is stored in the housing at a location partially below the drive module 38 so as to help minimize the footprint of the dispenser. Additionally, the footprint is minimized by storing the ticket stacks 42 at a substantial angle to horizontal. This is accomplished by use of a curved support 44 at one end of each stack, and a roller 50 for supporting each stack. The support 44, in essence, serves as a bottom wall for the dispenser housing. A ticket strip 53 is taken off of the left-hand face of the ticket stack 42, around the roller 50, and upwardly past the upper edge of the stack, and over a curved guide 52 into an inlet opening 58 (See FIG. 4) of the drive unit 38. The housing has an upper portion that, in the embodiment shown, is formed by an upper portion of the rear cover 30 and an upper portion of the front cover 34, wherein the upper portion of the front cover 34 includes a top portion 34a. As it is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the top portion 34a of the front cover 34 of the housing is flat. Since the housing extends vertically by a substantial distance, this flat surface is very convenient to the customer standing at the check-out counter while having his or her purchases checked-out to write on. In particular, it can be used as a check-writing stand. Preferably, the cover 30 can be locked in place. Preferably, an edge 36 of the cover 34 overlies the edge of the cover 30 so as to lock the housing and prevent unauthorized access. FIG. 3 is a front elevation view of the rear cover 30 showing its rear wall 31 with a thin slot extending across most of the width of the housing, through which tickets can be dispensed. Referring again to FIG. 1, four strips of tickets 47, 49, 51 and 53 are stored in the housing. A transparent portion 34b of the front cover 34 allows the customer to clearly see the tickets in the four channels of the dispenser mechanism, whether or not the top is used as a writing surface. Thus, because of its relatively small footprint, the unit 20 is less obtrusive than prior countertop powered ticket dispensers. Moreover, it is a welcome addition to the check-out counter since its top provides a convenient check-writing surface for the customers' use. Drive/Separator Module Drive/separator module 38 is shown schematically in FIG. 4. The module 38 includes a housing 55 with a plurality of inlet openings 58 (FIG. 5), one for each channel of the dispenser. Four sets of input drive rollers 62 and four sets of output drive rollers 64 are provided. Tickets are issued through four outlet slots 60 (See FIG. 7). As it is described in greater detail in the above-identified co-pending patent applications, a separator mechanism is provided. It is formed by two halves 66 and 68 of a housing which forms a cylindrical interior in which rotates a set of helical separator blades 255, one for every channel, extending from a single shaft. A drive system is indicated by the dashed-circle 70. It includes a single drive motor for selectively driving the drive rollers 62 and 64, and a motor to rotate the helical separator blades 255 to separate tickets from the ticket strips. Further details of this unit will not be described here because of the complete description appearing in the above-identified co-pending patent applications. Low and Flat Countertop Dispenser FIGS. 5 through 10 and particularly FIGS. 5 and 6, show a relatively low flat dispenser structure 72. Whereas the aspect ratio, that is, the ratio of the height H to length L of the dispensing unit 20 shown in FIG. 1 is around 1 or greater, the ratio of H to L in the units 72 is substantially less than 1. The units 72 can be used in areas near the countertop of a check-out area or another counter in a store where there is more space and a larger footprint for the dispenser is acceptable. The dispenser 72 includes a bottom wall 78, a pair of metal side walls 74 and 76 extending upwardly from the bottom wall 78, a hinged transparent cover 86 which is hinged to the rear edge of the bottom wall 78 by means of a hinge indicated schematically at 88 in FIGS. 5 and 6. The hinged cover 86 is curved in the rear portion so it forms a curved rear wall for the housing, as well as a top cover for the housing. The housing of the dispensing unit 72 also has a hinged front cover 80 which folds down, as shown in FIG. 6 to allow ready access to the drive module 38. By opening the cover 86, access is given to the interior of the housing for replenishing ticket supplies, etc. The ticket strip in each of the four channels is pulled back over the top of their respective stacks 92 of tickets and back towards the right where it enters the inlet opening 58 of the drive module 38. By taking this path, the tickets in each strip are very visible to someone viewing the unit from the rear or the left, as it is shown in FIG. 6. As with the unit 20 shown in FIG. 1, the front cover 80 can be locked with a key lock (not shown), and this is effective to lock the cover 86 as well. FIG. 8 shows a display rack in which four of the units 72 are stacked one atop the other. The display rack includes vertical members 104 at the four corners of the structure secured to a plurality of horizontal shelves 106, 108, 110 and 112. Preferably, the shelves 106 have an upstanding ridge 101 around the periphery to keep the dispensing units from sliding off. It should be understood that the display rack is intended to be representative also of a display cabinet which has side walls to further enclose the dispensing units, for better security and/or better appearance. The vertical members 104 at the corners of the structure can be angles or other suitable metal structural members, and the shelves can be similar structural members and attached to the vertical members. Cross-bracing can be provided as needed. Tickets 100 and 102 are shown after they have been dispensed and are ready for the clerk to grasp and hand to the customer, who normally stands to the left of the display in FIG. 8. Staggered Display FIG. 9 shows a different embodiment of the dispenser display of the invention. Three dispenser units 114, 116 and 118 like or identical to the dispenser 72 are mounted on shelves 122, 124 and 126 of a rack having vertical structural members 120 and 128. The vertical member 128 is spaced laterally to the right of the left edge of the bottom shelf 126. Each of these shelves, as with the shelves of the unit shown in FIG. 8, has a peripheral ridge like the ridge 101 shown in FIG. 8 to minimize the chances of one of the dispensing units falling off of the display. As shown, the rear walls of each of the units 114, 116 and 118 are staggered relative to one another. That is, the rear wall of the unit 116 is recessed to the right as shown in FIG. 9 relative to the unit 118, and the rear edge of the unit 114 is similarly staggered to the right relative to both units 116 and 118. The rear edges can be staggered along a line of any shape, but in this case are staggered relative to a sloping straight line 138 in FIG. 9. It also is preferred that each of the three dispensers, 114, 116, and 118 are of different lengths so that the front surfaces of the units will be approximately aligned vertically along a line 131. The different lengths of the dispenser can be created by adding to the standard length dispenser tray one or more extension pieces of the same length. All extension pieces are identical and secured to one another and/or the standard dispenser tray by means of a mating male and female connector. This "standard" length dispenser is dispenser 114 shown in FIG. 9. The housing is divided into two sections, one to the left of the vertical line 170, and one to the right of that line. The line 170 is located near the left boundary of the feed and separator module 38. The housings are secured together with tongue-and-groove elements (not shown) which are force-fitted together, or with another suitable fastening arrangement. To form the larger dispenser 116, an insert 176 forming another section of the housing is fastened between the left and right sections, with suitable fastening means, like those used to fasten the right and left sections together. Similarly, to form the longest housing 118, a second insert 178 is secured between the left section and the insert 176. By the foregoing construction, the hinged covers, the left section, the right section and the inserts all can be standardized to ensure economy of manufacture. As it can be seen, the length of the stack 130 in the top dispenser 114 is shorter than the length of the stacks 132 and 134 in the housing 116 and 118, respectively. However, it should be understood that a short stack of a single size could be used in two or more of the dispensers, depending upon the need. A ticket 133 is shown protruding from the front face of the dispenser 114 ready for a clerk to grasp it to hand to the customer who is standing to the left of the display. The display shown in FIG. 9 is particularly advantageous because is maximizes the viewing area of the rear portions of the dispensers when viewed from an angle such as that indicated by the dashed line 136 in FIG. 9. FIG. 10 is a view, partially broken away of the display of FIG. 9 taken from the angle indicated by the line 136. The dispenser 114 contains four strips 148, 150, 152 and 154 of tickets. Similarly, the dispenser 118 at the bottom of the stack has four strips of different tickets 140, 142, 144 and 146. The middle dispenser 116 has only three strips of tickets 158, 160 and 162. The fourth channel 156 is empty. As it can be seen, from the angle indicated by the arrow 136, a relatively large area of each of the three dispensers is visible. Also, the staggering of the units makes appear as if there is simply one large display consisting of multiple tickets available to the customer. Thus, the customer does not need to bend over and peer intently at an obscure lower or middle dispenser in a dispenser stack, but can readily see the tickets to choose ones he or she desires. This again facilitates attracting buyers and selling tickets. It also should be understood that the display rack shown in FIG. 9 is intended to be representative of a housing as well which provide more enclosure at the sides and, perhaps at the top so as to make a more attractive and sturdier display. The above description of the invention is intended to be illustrative and not limiting. Various changes or modifications in the embodiments described may occur to those skilled in the art. These can be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. * * * * *


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The Extension & Outreach Committee's name has changed to Public Engagement to be more in tune with the two-way exchange of knowledge and ideas embodied in service to communities. The Public Engagement Committee next meets Tuesday, November 18th to discuss recent IT Governance developments, how to work with a new IT Council committee, and expectations for IT Governance in 2014-15.
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Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store"
—Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons"
"Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities!
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!"
—Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
�Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. �Corporation� is just the most recent name for it. In the Middle Ages it was the Catholic Church. They had a great logo, too. You might have seen it, and they had more branches than Starbucks. Go back before that, and it was Imperial Rome. It�s a natural process as old as humanity.�
—Daniel Suarez, Freedom�
Doctor: You blood-sucking leech! You won't stop until you own the entire galaxy, will you? Don't you think commercial imperialism is as bad as military conquest?
Collector: Mm, we have tried war, but the use of economic power is far more effective.
"It's a security system worthy of Shinra. After all, all the power in Midgar and the world, for that matter, is controlled by them."
"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere. The Microsoft Galaxy. Planet Starbucks."
"Who do you think runs Congress? Big Pharma. It's the big pharmaceutical companies, Glenn, that make all the big decisions. Big Pharma paves your roads. Big Pharma delivers your mail. Who do you think teaches your kids how to read? Teachers? Try again: Big Pharma. Big Pharma took us to war in Vietnam, synthesized crack, and killed Kennedy. Big Pharma came from outer space, invented Ben Franklin, started a little company called the Internet, and polluted the ocean with high-fructose corn syrup. We're everywhere, Glenn."
— Ben Hayflick, Childrens Hospital
"Tomorrow's resources, today!"
"And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary government, from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls the planet. In former times the energy monopoly was called "The Power Company"; we intend to give this name an entirely new meaning."
— CEO Nwabudike Morgan - "The Centauri Monopoly", Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri
"Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."
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"Of course we'll bundle our Morgan-Net software with the new network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us. "
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— Richard "Dick" Jones, RoboCop (1987)
"Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors."
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Tak: All they see is another faceless corporation, not a plan for world conquest.
Dib: Wait... is there really a difference?
"The Hyperion Corporation: we make your life. Period!"
— Hyperion New-U Station, Borderlands 2
"What do we do? What don't we do?"
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"Megacorp: Your best choice. Your ONLY choice."
— Vending machine, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
"You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today... The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime."
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—Gore Vidal, Palimpsest
"Those on the left backed by NGOs will say that access to air is a human right. However, oxygen is just like anything else. It's a commodity. People want it. And a market value should ascribed to it...Once we know what air is worth, we'll know how large the subsidies need to be to keep poor people breathing."
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"Goldman Sachs is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
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Zack Wheeler (photo credit Daily News) It's no secret the Mets have concerns in their rotation, but that doesn't mean they should rush Zack Wheeler, regardless of how good a spring training he has. The Mets tooker a somewhat patient approach with Matt Harvey, waited to bring him up last summer and gave him ten starts in which he showed his potential. The Mets need to do the same with Wheeler. I still maintain the Mets rushed former first-round pick Mike Pelfrey out of necessity when he clearly wasn't emotionally or mentally ready. Pelfrey had the physical tools, but had trouble keeping his poise and concentration, struggled with pitch selection, and couldn't put away hitters or innings. Harvey doesn't have those problems and is ahead of where Pelfrey was at a similar stage of his career. Pelfrey is trying to hook on with Minnesota, while Harvey has a place in the Mets' rotation. Wheeler is expected to open the season in the minor leagues and pitch with the Mets later in the season. ...
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