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Man, you guys really hate Anthony Witrado
Baseball August 19th, 2009
Was just looking at my google analytics account and saw this which surprised me quite a bit.
The Anthony Witrado should be fired post is the 7th most popular post in the history of Miller Park Drunk. Not only that, but as of this writing it has 73 "likes" which is by far a record.
But that's no big deal, most JS readers actually "commend him on his coverage." Right, sure they do.
EXCLUSIVE: Gorman Thomas to attempt comeback with Cubs
Baseball August 18th, 2009
In an interview with a small town Illinois newspaper Gorman Thomas said that he would "like to play again." When asked why now, 23 years after retiring, he wanted to come back Gorman said that he'd "like to help the Cubbies finally get that World Series." Cubs general manager Jim Hendry declined to comment, but did admit that there was interest.
UPDATE: Gorman tells ESPN's Buster Olney that his quotes were taken out of context and he is enjoying retirement. Read the rest of this entry »
Good reasons to go home
Fans August 17th, 2009
Last week I wrote an article about people leaving Brewers games early and how there isn't really a good excuse for it. Apparently some of you took this as a challenge to prove me wrong and sent me almost 10,000 emails on the subject. Which is weird because we only have like 15 readers. Anyways, some of you made good points and some of you made bad points. I will attempt to respond to your emails here in hopes that the emailing will stop.
My wifes water broke at a game and I had to rush her to the hospital in the 5th inning. The Brewers went on to score 6 runs and came from behind to win.- Jack K, New Berlin
Aww, congratulations. That's sweet. Read the rest of this entry »
Steroids or Why it's good to be a Brewers fan
Baseball August 17th, 2009
I don't give a crap about steroids. I really, really don't. It annoys me when people talk about them. It annoys me when I have to read about them. It drives me crazy to read hack after hack talk about how baseball isn't pure anymore and that things will never be the same and blah, blah, blah. Every week a former star comes out and says he "did it the right way". (By the way, do you know why you did it the right way Joe Morgan? Because you didn't have a choice! 268 career home runs is pretty impressive for a guy your size, but 400 would be a lot nicer wouldn't it? Exactly.) Only a few like Daryl Strawberry admit that they would have done steroids. Unfortunately Daryl would have also huffed cans of Pam, smoked roofies and shared jankem with Keith Hernandez if given the chance. It just goes on and on and very few times, if ever, do you read something where the writer is logical and even handed.
Bill James is the most recent example of someone using logic and he makes some good points. He basically says that science doesn't stop and that we will continue to have drugs in our society that help us live longer and stay young. Staying young means staying good at baseball and it will only get better in the future and one day we will look back on this time and think "no big deal." He then goes on to say that most people will live to be 200 years old, have 24-hour boners and that a method of time-warp will be developed that will attract the attention of an advanced alien race called Vulcans who will then make first contact with Earth. So he's mostly right, except for the part about the Stargate and flying cars.
The thing is none of it really matters. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey everybody let's go home!
Fans August 14th, 2009
I was at the game on Wednesday and it was a good time. Yes, the Brewers lost. I know because I was there and I stayed for the whole thing. It wasn't a bad loss though. The team fought til the end and had a runner on third at the end of the ninth that would have tied the game. Cameron did his best to fight off the tough pitches, but he ended up popping out. It happens, it's baseball. The point is that I got to see the entire thing play out. I got to see Hoffman take down his former team easily in the ninth. I got to see Prince get a big hit. I got to see Escobar steal a big base in the ninth. I got to see it all and the reason I got to see it all wasn't because I had good seats or because I am Ryan Braun's favorite blogger. No, I got to see it all because, and you are not going to believe this, I STAYED FOR THE ENTIRE GAME!
I know, crazy right? I bought tickets to a baseball game and I actually stayed for the whole thing and watched it. Not because I am like this crazy obsessed baseball fan who needs a perfect scorecard, but because the team had a good chance to win and I wanted to see them do it! I KNOW!!! RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look, it's your money and you can do what you want with it. After a really exciting 7th inning when the team pulled within one I had the good feeling that they were going to be able to comeback and win the game. After the 8th, when the team didn't score I still hadn't given up hope. Apparently everyone else did because a ton of people left after the eighth inning. Why? I have no idea. To me there are only three reasons to leave a game and they are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »


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George Clooney directed and stars in this true story of a WWII platoon tasked with recovering art stolen by the Nazis. Also starring Matt Damon. Free tickets will be available at the Audiovisual Desk beginning Thursday, July 3. This program is designed for adults. An adult must accompany any child younger than 9th grade. This film is rated PG-13 and will be screened in the Program Room.

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If you ever want your own right-wing talk radio show, they're handing them out to anyone with a pulse. Also, try saying something horribly racist, like Arizona talk radio host Barbara Espinosa who called the president a "monkey" on her show yesterday.
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King Django By Matt Scheiner Published June 5, 2008 Since 1986, King Django (born Jeff Baker) has been an influential figure on New York City's reggae and ska scenes, having worked with artists like Skinnerbox, The Stubborn All-Stars and Venezuelan ska phenom Don Khumalo in various capacities as a singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer.
King Django runs the independent Stubborn Records label, and holds court in Version City—his recording studio based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Django has been committed to keeping up the flow with his monthly Version City parties at New York City's Knitting Factory, and has just put the fi nishing touches on a new reggae project that explores his Jewish roots.
What's the encapsulated history of Stubborn Records?
I started the label in 1992 after becoming disillusioned with the industry. I was pretty young and naïve, and a lot of people were promising me all kinds of things that always seemed to cancel each other out and leave me with nothing. I had always been inspired by people like Prince Buster, Coxsone Dodd, Duke Reid and Lee Perry, so I took it as a great opportunity to start my own label. The first release was my band Skinnerbox's first full-length CD Tales Of The Red, and after that I just kept releasing vinyl and CDs, with the emphasis on traditional ska and reggae, and particularly on recordings by my friends and associates.
You recently started releasing 45s with your new label and the Jamaica-based Freedom Sounds. How did that come about?
I started the Version City label last year in partnership with Bertram Brown, who has been running Freedom Sounds since the 1970s. I've always been a big fan of "version" and riddim-based music and deejay styles. I had a great track that I produced with Johnny Osbourne over one of my Version City Rockers riddims called "Fortitude." It's very roots reggae, and I was looking for someone to co-release it with me who could get it into more of the roots reggae circles. I brought the tune down to Kingston and played it for Mr. Brown, and we pretty much started the label that day. Since then we've both been voicing artists on that riddim as well as a few other Version City and Freedoms Sounds riddims. They're all new recordings featuring old-school artists as well as up-and-comers from Jamaica, New York, New Jersey and other distant locales.
How important has it been for you guys to keep the scene alive? It seemed like it was thriving in the '90s and then it took a nosedive—but Stubborn has seen it through.
Ska and reggae is what inspired me to become a musician and producer, so it will always be very important to me. I think the music that got popular in the '90s as "ska" had very little to do with the music that we release


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The world's most famous spy is back. James Bond is once again gracing the movie screens with his high-tech gadgets and charming persona. With the latest Bond motion picture, "Skyfall," already grossing more than $650 million worldwide, one wonders if it will be able to match or top some of the most successful films in the franchise's history. James Bond has been around for a long time, and because of the difference in the value of the dollar, a movie now is sure to earn more than a movie from the 1980s. That is why the films in this slideshow have been adjusted for inflation.
The most successful film in the franchise's history is "Thunderball." "Thunderball" premiered back in 1965 and is regarded as one of the best James Bond movies ever. It was a trendsetter in many areas and was the first Bond film to have a two-hour run time. "Thunderball" made just over $141 million at the box office worldwide. When adjusted for inflation that amounts to more than $1 billion in today's dollars.
The second most profitable film in the series was the 1964 Bond movie "Goldfinger." "Goldfinger" was the third film in the series and the third to star one of the most iconic James Bonds ever: Sean Connery. The film was both a critical and financial success. It was the first film in the series to win an academy award. Costing only $3 million to make, the film raked in just under $125 million at the box office. That amounts to $22.4 million in costs and $933 million in profit in today's dollars.
"Live and Let Die" was the first film to try and take a more realistic approach to James Bond. The film abandoned the super villain concept that the series was founded on and went for a more relatable conflict: drug trafficking. It was also the first film to star Roger Moore, who took the place of Sean Connery when he decided not to return to the big screen as Bond. The film cost $7 million to produce and brought home $162 million at the box office. When adjusted for inflation, the numbers are just as staggering. In today's dollars the film cost $36.5 million to make and brought in $844 million.
Once again Sean Connery graces the list with his role in one of the more peculiarly titled 007 films: "You Only Live Twice." The film was released in 1965 and was the first film to have a large impact in the United States. This movie is referred to as the quintessential James Bond film and was the inspiration for the successful parody franchise: "Austin Powers." With $9.5 million dollars in production costs, "You Only Live Twice" was one of the most expensive movies of that era, but it more than made up for its hefty price tag by raking in $112 million in the box office. That amounts to $822 million in today's dollars.
The only modern James Bond film to make it into the top five is 2006's "Casino Royale." This film marked the start of a reboot of the franchise. It was also the first film to star Daniel Craig. With the advances in cinema technology, its no surprise that this film was very expensive to produce. It cost $150 million dollars, which puts it towards the top of the list of most expensive Bond films along with the two most recent films: "Quantum of Solace" and "Skyfall." James Bond's return to the big screen was very anticipated and well-received. "Casino Royale" brought in $600 Million dollars at the box office worldwide, which amounts to over $690 million in 2012 dollars.


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Nov 27th 2011 2:14PM Are the wow comics still running? Or has blizz focused more on the novels? Also do you think brewfest is getting revamped with panda love instead of dwarves and goblins?
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Jul 20th 2011 11:56AM Q for the Q - Is the WoW comic still going? I dont get the paper backs but buy the hardcover book instead and i havent seen a new one in awhile. Are they scrapping it? making new ones? Or just focusing on the manga?
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Jul 18th 2011 1:16PM Q for the Q: Swifty was recently banned (pvp warrior well known since vanilla) for doing a lifestream event and having a server crash. There have been events where they did try to crash a server but this on wasnt trying to do that. Still he was banned (not suspended banned) seems kinda crazy to me. Is this allowed? Or do you think blizz will have to give him a full pardon?
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Jul 12th 2011 11:19AM Q for the Q - On mmo champion it showed videos for the new firelands Herioc kills, but didnt say who got world first. Who got world first? And do you think firelands heriocs are easier than launch Raid since it was done in two weeks?
Breakfast Topic: What do you during Tuesday maintenance? {WoW}
Jul 5th 2011 8:06AM As a Student (college, and done this aug) i have always made sure my classes are during the tues morning. One this gives me the distraction while waiting for tues patches or downtimes....and makes it so ill go to class with no WoW distractions >_
The Queue: Irrelevant intros are new and exciting {WoW}
Jun 20th 2011 1:12PM Question for the Que
In 4.1 they mention a troll king and how the trolls are gonna rise up...well ZA, and ZG go down pretty easy BUT this king guy is still around. Do you think we may see a troll raid? Or maybe the trolls start to worship the old gods? We have 2 more raids left and was wondering if we might see some more troll love soon.
The Queue: I'll see your Deathwing, and raise you a **distracted by puppies** {WoW}
Jun 14th 2011 11:17AM Why is it Blizzard has yet to bring the mobile armory to the black berrry? I would love to be able to use my phone and not splurge on a apple product
Breakfast Topic: What memorial would you leave behind in WoW? {WoW}
Jun 7th 2011 8:03AM A little plushy of my character when i finally stop playing. In what ever gear he has one. Just so i can give it to my son and tell him what i did before he was born and that daddy killed dragons :P
Breakfast Topic: Do you enjoy soloing instances and raids? {WoW}
May 31st 2011 8:15AM Good times indeed on soloing. Was great when i was doing a MC run for fun and started the legendary questline!


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Build-A-Story: Finding something precious
The Post's Sunday Magazine is happy to announce the return of one of our popular features, Editor's Query. But we need your help to get started.
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Greetings! Our branch of the family trees says that he was one of three brothers from England who came to work as a surveyor. We also heard that he was a gambler and lost a great deal of his money at some point. My experience in this family is that people tend to go either way. We have teachers, preachers, and some members who live "on the edge"..... Someone did a rather lengthy family geneology. I can't think now of who it was. We have a couple of older family members with pretty good memories. I wouldn't give out their addresses but if you'd like to send me yours, I can see if they would send you the information that they have. |


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I am already spayed, up to date with shots, not good with kids, good with dogs, and not good with cats.
Thunder was rescued from an abusive situation. She was pregnant at a time, unfortunately due to the abuse during pregnancy, none of her kittens survived. She is now spayed and vaccinated. Thunder is approx. 5 years old. She is very human oriented, but does not like other cats. She would prefer to be the only cat, or at least have enough space of her own not to be bothered by other cats (they tend to pick on her). She is very loving and quite the purrer. She loves to cuddle and be petted. Her little 'motor' turns on the second you touch her.
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Empire Lounge/Pizzeria da Lupo executive chef Jim Cohen on Julia Child, the confusion over Kobe beef and why you should listen to his wife
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This is part one of my interview with Jim Cohen, chef/owner of The Empire Restaurant and Lounge and Pizzeria da Lupo. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow.
For the most part, Jim Cohen is an open book. He's a straight-up, honest, no-nonsense guy who doesn't mince words -- and doesn't hold back. Still, he has his secrets. "My nickname was 'food king' when I was thirteen, and I'd eat three dinners a night at different people's houses," confesses Cohen, the executive chef/owner of the Empire Lounge & Restaurant in Louisville and Pizzeria da Lupo in Boulder.
"I always loved to eat, and when I was thirteen, I had a paper route, which ended at my best friend's house, and Dora, his mom, was a great cook and she loved me, so she always invited me to stay," he remembers. Dinner was placed on the table promptly at 5 p.m., giving the insatiable teen enough time to dart home and eat dinner again, this time with his family. But the eating orgy didn't stop there. "I had friends across the street who ate late, and they were always trying to cook from Julia Child's cookbooks," Cohen says. "There was always a lot of commotion, and it was fun to hang out and try all of this weird stuff."
But what really sparked his passion for food was eating at home. "My family spent a lot of time around the table discussing life, so I have a great affinity for dining," says Cohen, whose first kitchen gig was flipping gray matter at Burger King, a stint that, happily, didn't last long: Cohen was fired. A photography major at the University of Buffalo, he needed to make money to pay for darkroom essentials, so he landed another kitchen gig, this time working for a Frenchman. "He was grumpy and he'd yell and scream, but we did pretty good food, we were very busy, and I loved being able to handle six crepe pans at a time when no one else could," recalls Cohen, who worked his way up from dishwasher to sauté.
He eventually enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and soon after graduation moved to Colorado, landing jobs at the Denver Country Club; the long-defunct Plum Tree Cafe, which he opened in 1981; the Wildflower in Vail, where he was executive chef; and the woefully missed Tante Louise, where he was tapped as the opening chef -- an extraordinarily talented chef, hand-picked by Julia Child to appear on her television show, Dining With Julia. "We were doing New American cuisine at Tante Louise, and Julia was doing a show that showed off young chefs trying to break away from doing European food, and she chose eleven chefs from across the country to be on the show, and I was one of them," recalls Cohen, who continued to stay in touch with Child after his fifteen minutes of fame were up. "She'd come to Denver and we'd have long conversations about what American cuisine was and how to translate that at Tante Louise," Cohen recalls. But mostly, he muses, "I appreciated her intelligence."
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After a couple of games where he was ruled out at the last minute, Andrea Bargnani will finally return to the lineup against the Celtics tonight after missing the last eight weeks with an elbow injury.
Andrea Bargnani makes first reserve appearance since December 29, 2008, ending a streak of 245 consecutive starts. #Raptors
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While I may not be foolish enough to wipe the slate clean with Bargnani like so many Raptors fans naively do every time he returns from injury or starts a new season, I am genuinely looking forward to seeing how well or how miserably Bargnani fits into this new-look Raptors lineup. I'm also interested to see how quickly he earns his starting spot back. With Ed Davis playing as well as he was, nobody wanted Andrea's name to be called with the rest of the starters, but with Davis gone, the Raptors' only options at power forward are Amir Johnson in a big lineup that also features Aaron Gray/Jonas Valanciunas, Rudy Gay or maybe Landry Fields in a small lineup, or Quincy Acy in a lineup that would likely indicate the Raptors are under-manned.
More than anything, I'd like to see how Bargnani looks in a lineup where Gay attracts more of the opposition's attention. Earlier this season, when Andrea was actually shooting better from three-point range than two-point territory, I often mentioned that he had reduced himself to nothing more than a three-point specialist. Unfortunately, even his three-point shooting eventually tailed off (he's shooting 31.9% on the season from deep), and the truth is that he hasn't shot better than 35 per cent from beyond the arc in a season in three years (2009-10), which just happens to be the last time he played regular minutes with a teammate that consistently drew double-teams.
At the very least, with Pau Gasol getting injured last night and the only trade options out there for Bargnani likely players on bad contracts of their own, I'd like to see how he looks in a few games coming off the bench as a second unit scorer.
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The theme of the game is a holiday at the renowned holiday destination, Ibiza. The name of this cool game is called Ibiza Holiday. There is a day scene at the beach and a night scene in one of the awesome discos, You will have to dress her for either of the scenes. The items
Design Your 3d Garden
The name of the game is under review is called 3D Garden Decoration, In this game it's your job to create a beautiful garden to host a party in. The first thing you will notice is how this cool game looks so detailed and 3D. Te cool changeable in this game are: The garden stepping
Dress Up For School
The name of the game under review is School Is Cool. Now personally I never thought school was cool but hey that's me, the game is set in a class room with 2 models, A young boy and girl at the front of the class. They both need to be dressed up for school before
Bright & Colorful Makeover
The name of the game under review today is Crazy Colors Makeover, this is one of the more colorful dress up I've seen in a while. The idea of the game is to do a cool makeover for the girl before she goes on her date! The changeable things in this game are: Hair styles
Cool Fashion Dress Up
This review is about another dress up game called Renee Travels The World. The whole scene of the game is about shopping around the world. This pretty girl needs to look good while shopping so in this game you will be dressing her to shop! The changeable items in this game are: Eye Color, Lipstick,
Jungle Letter Spotting
No it's not a dress up game and no its not a makeover! So what is it I hear you asking? Well it's a letter finding game called Rumble in the Jungle. The idea of the game is to find every letter from the alphabet in the jungle scene. Don't think that clicking everywhere will
London Autumn Dress Up
This is a cool Autumn style dress up game, Its called Checkered Fashion. When you start the game you will notice that the game has great style and effects. You can even make it rain! From what I can see the game is based in London England. The cool changeable list consists of the following
Cool Cruise Dress Up
This game review is about another cool dress up game called Motorcycle Couple. The weather is nice and great for a cruise with your boyfriend on his motorcycle. So yeah… the theme of the game is to dress both models in the right clothing for their cruise. The cool thing about this game is you
Your Very Own Games Room!
If you're interested in making a game room for your house or you just like Home Decor games this may be a fun game for you to play. The reason I choose this game to review today is because I have never seen a 3D Home Decor girl game. The cool and interesting things about
Kissing Games For Two People
Do you want a real challenging online game? If so, then you must try out kissing games for two people. These games are becoming very popular because they combine romance with strategy. You do not just have to kiss in these games, so it isn't all about just putting your lips together. Romantic Kiss Game


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2 Dead In Possible Murder-Suicide In Bagley ID'd
The two people found dead in a Bagley, Minn. residence have been identified as a mother and son, according to police.
3 Found Dead In St. Paul Possible Murder-Suicide
Two men and one woman have been found dead in a possible murder-suicide in St. Paul Sunday, according to police.
Apparent Texas Murder-Suicide Has Minnesota Tie
A phone call from a Minnesota trucking company led police in gas masks to a grisly scene.
2 Adults, Cats Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide
Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide case in Ramsey, Minn. Officers with the Ramsey Police Department say they were dispatched to a home on the 8500 block of 176th Lane Northwest.
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text: HR Magazine - October 2000: When Efficiency Trumps Effectiveness By Robert J. Grossman 10/1/2000 Permissions Vol. 45, No. 10Architect William McDonough, principal at William McDonough & Partners in Charlottesville, Va., has no patience for foot draggers who argue for the status quo until scientific researchers discover the causes of sick building syndrome. When in doubt about whether something contributes to poor health or comfort, he advises, don't introduce it into the workplace. "If we spend our lives arguing about what or where you got toxified, it diverts us from the real issue: Why should we be exposed to any of this stuff?" McDonough blames hostile workplace environments on architects and designers who are fixated on efficiency. "Efficiency, per se, has no value," he says. "An efficient Nazi is worse than an inefficient Nazi. HR's job is to be effective. That means doing the right thing to foster a healthful, attractive environment." He estimates we're only at 10 percent of what we could do to make the workplace healthier and more attractive. An example of an HR-friendly building is the one McDonough's firm designed for GAP Inc. in San Bruno, Calif. "We set out to design an effective building—one that would allow people to do magical things for the people they work with. We sought to give them superb food, fresh air and light." Design innovations enable the energy costs of the GAP building to compare favorably with energy-efficient buildings that have minimal daylight and fresh air. What if you can't build a new building with all the bells and whistles that McDonough proposes? "Raise the ceilings, think about using safe materials, make sure your lighting is fabulous, check your intake system, track back your fresh air, and, if you're renting, make sure the landlord is actually delivering what he promises," he advises. When new construction is planned, make sure there's someone at the table with a health and safety focus. At Gannett, Celia Booth, the director of safety and loss prevention in Arlington, Va., is an active participant as the company plans its new headquarters in Virginia. "I have been very insistent that the furnishings have as little formaldehyde and volatile organic compound as possible," she says. "If they do, they will have to have been built long enough ago so the off-gassing has run its course." Also, Booth is requiring manufacturers of office furnishings to provide an inventory of the chemicals and additives in their products. That way, if a worker reports a problem down the road, she will know where to look. Permissions Related Content Improve Workplace Air Quality with Fragrance-Free Policies Top 5 Tips for Improving Chemical SDS Management Protecting Workers from Infectious Disease OSHA Seeks Hazardous Chemical Management Changes Rule Lowering Allowable Coal Dust Among Miners Goes into Effect ADVERTISING LINKS


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I am trying to listen to music from my rdio app on my nokia lumia 920 windows phone 8 from my rdio unlimited plan; however upon clicking on either music in my collection or any type of music, it does not play. The album artist image shows up, but the time remains at -1:00 and music never plays.
Everything works fine on my ipad.
Hi Joe,
Sorry about the trouble, and thanks for sharing your findings. Here are some suggestions for preliminary troubleshooting:
1. Quit and restart the app.
2. Restart your device. Does the problem persist after a restart?
3. Make sure you've upgraded to the most recent version of the app. The bug you encountered may have already been fixed in our most recent update.
4. Try streaming or syncing over both a 3G and wifi connection. Does one work but not the other?
5. If none of those do the trick, delete and reinstall the app. Though it's a last resort, often a fresh start will clear up the issue.
Let me know if the trouble persists after trying the above.
Thanks for your patience,
Kevin Ebaugh | http://rd.io/people/kev
Thank you, I tried everything myself except for the uninstall and reinstall. That resolved the issue.
Hi Joe,
Thanks for following up, and I'm glad things are working as expected at this point. If we can help out with anything else, please let us know.
Thanks for your patience,
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Toyota Echo Prices Paid and Buying Experience
Posts: 1,331
Less than sticker, but more than invoice.
mccallr Posts: 19I paid $12,800 but and sticker was about $13,700.
I have a 4-door, 5-speed, with A/C, AM/FM/Cassette/CD Player with 6 or 8 speakers (can't recall at the moment...but it sure sounds nice). I also have that cladding stuff around the car and a window defroster on the back. I also got it financed by Toyota for $0 down and 0% interest for 36 months. -
majorthomecho Posts: 1,331Kiplinger's Personal Finance has an article about cars in their December issue. In the article, they give the percentage of MSRP that should be your target price. For a base, stripped Echo, the percentage is 97%. Not sure if that applies to loaded Echoes, but it might give you an idea as to if you paid what Kiplinger's thought was a good deal.
larrykingry Posts: 15
podme Posts: 3You did very good with that price ($11275).
But what is your total price with fees & taxes ?
With the following options included (4dr, 5spd):
- Air Conditioning
- All Weather Guard Package
- Auto Idling Control
- Quarter Stone Protector
- Radiator Cover
- Sports Body Cladding
- Power Steering -
micweb Posts: 1,617MSRP $12,806 Purchase Price $11,700
plus tax, licensing, doc fee, tire disposal fee (? but only $5).
Longo Toyota www.longotoyota.com
2 door sedan, auto, defroster, floor mats, automatic transmission, power steering
From their internet sales department, I drove down from Northern California. The car was also offered on sale in an ad (exact same options, but different colors) at a local dealer, but the price was $288 more so I made the drive. -
morefaves Posts: 4Bought in Queens NY.2002 2 Door Auto/AC/PS/All Weather Package/3 in 1 Audio Package/Carpet Floor Mats/Split Rear Seats/Wheel LocksAdded Dealer Anti Theft System, which I probably overpaid for, and with License/Inspection/Dealer Fee +8.25% Sales Tax(NYC), out of Door Purchase Price came to $13,572.
lily888 Posts: 12Hi, It is my first time to buy a car. So a little scared.
I live in Detroit. I am I'm interested in 2002 Honda Civic Dx Auto 4 Dr. and Toyoda Echo Auto 4 Dr. Which one will be fit for the snow weather in Detroit? I usually use my car to commute to work and occasionally drive 4 hours to Chicago on holiday. Could anybody recommend me which one I should buy?
BTW, some people told me that it is a better deal to buying a one or two years used car than buying a new car? Could anyone also tell me your opinion on it? -
ammar Posts: 4Hi. I am also buying a first car. I found a used 2000 certified echo with 27,000 miles on it at the dealer. It has warranty till 2006. The previous owners smoked (i can tell). It has A/C and manual 5 sp shift. The dealer is asking for a ridiculous 10.2K. Edmunds says that It is worth 8.8K. I think i am going to start bargaining at about 8K. Is that OK? Any advice? What price is too much for this car?
(New 2002: 10.7 INvoice and 11.4K MSRP) -
deluxcar Posts: 47Shopping for an Echo for my 21-year old daughter. The MSRP is $14,711, invoice $13,664, dealer offered $13,444 (including $400 college student discount but must finance through them.
The Echo is optioned as follows:
4-door Automatic
Air conditioning
3-in-1 audio system
ABS brakes
Digital clock
Daytime running lights
Floor mats
My daughter loves the car but I believe the price is a bit high. Is this a good deal? Are there any special interest deals on the Echo? The offer is open until July 1. -
Karen_CM Posts: 5,035Have you checked this price with Edmunds True Market Value? Click on "New" at the top of the page.
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bob365 Posts: 32002 Echo - Polar White
2 door
5 speed
Air conditioning
All weather package (Rear defroster, heavy-duty battery, rear heater ducts)
Floor mats (which are actually pretty nice; I especially like the holes/hooks system that keeps them from moving around).
$11,176 including destination charge. -
cagliostro Posts: 1I just picked up my new 2002 echo monday. I payed $10,626.95 and that included tax title and tags. I wrote them a check right on the spot for that amount. I have the two door, 5 speed, with AC, Weather package, floor mats, AM/FM radio. I used the $1000 rebate and dropped a $500 trade to get it that low. Orignial sticker was $12,200 plus another $750 for tax and title. All told I saved rufly $2300.
cruxakira Posts: 4
josefstark Posts: 1Hi, cruxakira.
I live in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where Lake Ontario meets the St. Lawrence River.
Here, a new Toyota ECHO costs $14,025 + $750 dealer prep + 8% provincial sales tax + 7% federal GST (gods and services tax).
So, here, a new ECHO costs $14,025 + $750 + $1122 + $981.75 = $16878.75 Canadian dollars = $10886.79 US dollars.
At that low price, there's not much room for negotiation.
They sell these cars at cost, in order to get lifetime Toyota customers. I am one. My mind's open, I keep driving other people's cars and renting all the other brands, but I have never found a car that I like more than my two Toyota Corollas, for the last 20 years.
I always buy the base model. I choose the larger wheels, though, for better handling. I add my own stereo system. But, I don't want a moonroof that cuts down my headroom (I'm 6'2") or air conditioning (I buy a silver car that reflects the sun's rays). I drive a standard transmission,
The ECHO is now what the Coralla was, 15-20 years ago. It's ugly now, but if it gets prettier (or, at least, less ugly), the I might buy one, next time around (which may not be for 4 or 5 years).
Josef -
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kitschkitty Posts: 1OK a dealer is offering me a 2000 Toyota Echo, total price is 9483, includes tax, tages and a 4 yr warranty. It's a 4 door auto, w a/c power steering, cd& tape player, 60/40 split fold rear seats, power locks. Its a good price according to edmunds, but overproced according to NADA.com
kneisl1 Posts: 1,691I just paid $3000 for a 2000 ECHO with air, auto, cd player and the body molding all around it. It has 117k miles on it. There were no error codes stored in the computer, and other than a brake fluid, spark plug and coolant change the car needed no work. I did find a bent rear wheel, (which appeared to be moved to the right rear) from the front. Everything works and it got 33 mpg recently in all town driving. Im seeing ECHOs with 150k miles for sale asking $4-6k.
nippononly SF Bay AreaPosts: 12,695Yeah, the gas price crunch has had a very positive effect on resale prices for cars like the Echo! :-)
$3000 sounds like a bargain on a 117K Echo. In my area, prices don't drop much below $3000 for used Toyotas, regardless of miles, until the car in question begins to display signs of being really worn out.2013 Civic SI, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (stick)
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The Maricopa Country Sheriff's Office has many large problems, but one that I've not heard mentioned is the overweight condition of so many of its officers.
From Sheriff Joe (Arpaio), to his henchman David Hendershott, officers of the MCSO are huge! I don't know what these men and women are fed, but they should push back from the table before taking a second helping of whatever it is Sheriff Joe gives them. Every time there is a news video of MCSO officers or I see an officer on the street, all one sees are huge beer bellies hanging over belts and broad beams stretching pants to nearly their breaking point as the officer waddles around.
I know Sheriff Joe's policies have cost county taxpayers untold millions in settled lawsuits, but I would like to know what the health costs are for such an obese force. Most of these officers have to be suffering from high blood pressure, clogged arteries, diabetes, and every other disease associated with obesity.
Perhaps Sheriff Joe should give up trying to be in the limelight — his and everyone else's — and work out a healthy eating and exercise program for his officers before they all keel over dead from a heart attack.
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Ten rules for being a better leader
PUBLISHED: 03 Oct 2013 12:54:00 | UPDATED: 04 Oct 2013 08:42:21PRINT EDITION: 03 Oct 2013Telstra director Steve Vamos discovered that sometimes, having expertise in an industry can distract leaders from getting the best out of their people. Photo: Rob Homer
Fiona Smith
Today's leaders were schooled for a different era. One where the pace was slower. Where big problems came one at a time, and with some warning. One where they could have a working knowledge of most of the areas in the business.
Now, everything happens at warp speed and leaders have to accept that they can't know everything, they don't have the answers, and that everything changes.
Non-executive director of Telstra and David Jones, Steve Vamos, recalls a meeting when, as the CEO of a fledgling ninemsn, he realised he knew less about the business than anyone else in the room.
"I had no domain experience. I knew nothing about advertising and nothing about media. I came in with an IT background," he says.
"Every meeting I went to as leader, I knew less than the people in the room. All I could do was listen to what people said and distil it into things I could do and things I could change."
This was a defining moment for him as he understood that, sometimes, having expertise in an industry can distract leaders from getting the best out of their people.
This signalled the end of the "hero leader" who has all the answers.
Ninemsn went on to dominate its market for a decade and Vamos become one of the best-known leaders in the local IT sector, first heading Microsoft in Australia and then taking charge of Microsoft's worldwide sales and international operations for their Online Services Group in the US.
Vamos's experience is an example of how leadership today requires a different style of thinking. The new model leader must accept the onslaught of changes and be comfortable with ambiguity.
Engaging brain research
Dr David Rock is the Australian who coined the term "neuroleadership" and spearheaded the use of neuroscience research in improving the way we lead.
He says organisations need leaders who are "adaptive", but finding those people is one of the biggest challenges in business today. "I talk to an enormous number of chief talent officers – who are in charge of developing thousands of leaders in the biggest companies – whose constant challenge is to find leaders who are adaptive," he says, on the phone from his base in New York, where he has founded the NeuroLeadership Institute.
"They need leaders who can think really flexibly and who can adopt a style that will help the whole organisation to adapt."
His institute promotes and generates research into how people think, develop and perform.
Rock says leaders struggle to deal with change, and it is getting worse.
"I think we have promoted a generation of leaders who have come through accounting, law and engineering. They have robust cognitive skills and are very good at creating structure and process and they can be counted on to follow those processes.
"They like certainty. But we need people who are comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty, who are able to still think clearly when they are in a situation they've never been in before," he says. "The trend is now to hire people who can think about complex issues and contribute to the whole enterprise."
Rock suggests these people can be identified as recruiters trawl through their work histories to find people who have moved country every few years, have a wide range of skills, have an unconventional career path and have changed industries.
Leaders versus managers
Dealing with complexity is one thing, but understanding the difference between leadership and management is another, says one of the leading management thinkers in Australia, Roger Collins, a Professor Emeritus at the University of NSW.
In emergencies, Collins says, people reach for leadership to inspire people to go above and beyond the call of duty. But the economic downturn that started with a dodgy US mortgage market has now dragged on for five years, and leadership wears thin when too little attention has been paid to the skills of management. He laments there is now a confusion about the roles of leaders and managers.
"Some people don't distinguish between management and leadership . . . deliberately. Some do it accidentally," says Collins, who is also on the board of the Australian Institute of Management. "I have a fairly strong view there is a significant difference, although, clearly, they are both about achieving outcomes through people.
"My concern is that the past five years has primarily been about leaders. When there are problems, people deal with them better through leadership."
However, when the problem is below-standard performers, managers are better equipped to turn things around. As a result of this lack of attention, a leader may find themselves trying to forge a direction for an organisation that has become, through lack of management, dysfunctional.
"We have oversold leadership at the expense of management," he says.
It is difficult to find people who can combine both skills, but some organisations thrive when they pair their leaders with managers.
In Lend Lease, for example, the former chairman, the late Stuart Hornery (a civil engineer by background) was teamed with the former chief executive, John Morschel (who studied quantity surveying).
"Morschel was a great manager," Collins says.
He nominates some leaders who are, as he says, "ambidextrous": Telstra Corporation and Macquarie Group director Catherine Livingstone (a former accountant); former Commonwealth Bank CEO Sir Ralph Norris (a former computer programmer and CIO) and the former AMP CEO, Andrew Mohl (an economist).
Collins says he is disappointed that business schools have not recognised the value of managers.
"I've yet to see in an MBS [a course called] Management 101," he says, dryly. "Even Harvard confuses the two terms in its own literature."
The 10 things you need to know
From allowing employees to speak their mind, to trusting the judgment of managers, today's leaders also need to know what they don't know. Experts in leadership say there are 10 key things leaders should know to become better leaders.
1: Remember to think
Where are you when you get your best ideas? The most common answer to this question is "in the shower".
The executive director of the NeuroLeadership Institute in the US, Dr David Rock, is not suggesting we spend more time monopolising the bathroom, but his research reveals people do not do their best thinking at work.
In fact, of 6000 people polled, only 10 per cent say that they get their best ideas at the office, and 39 per cent indicate that it was at home.
While the shower might be the most-nominated single location, in general terms, most people (51 per cent) say they think best in a place that is neither at home nor at work.
"It could be while they are at the gym, exercising, socialising or driving to and from work," Rock says.
The reason these secondary locations help is because when we are freely conversing with others we can benefit from their points of view. And when happy and relaxed, we are more open-minded.
Research by neuroscientist David Creswell from Carnegie Mellon University in the US, studied people's ability to solve complex problems, using three scenarios:
- guessing – which was not very successful
- using a conscious problem-solving technique – which was not much better then guessing
- distracting the subject for two to three minutes, followed by guessing – which was the most successful
Rock says the benefit of distraction is, if it is something pleasant like a glance at the cricket or a funny cat video (whatever is your thing), it does not tax your brain and it makes you happy. It then allows your brain to solve the problem unconsciously.
Rock says understanding the best conditions for problem-solving is crucial if we want to get the best from our leaders. "The problems leaders face are getting more and more complex, and our ability to solve them consciously is fading. We need our unconscious problem-solving resources to get to work to solve them," he says. "The trouble is: our brains are getting busier and busier and it is not just the volume of the information we process, but also the volume of the decisions we have to make.
"The moment of insight that solves these big problems involves quiet signals in the brain that get drowned out by excessive noise. If you are always executing and on 10 different deadlines, your brain is at a high level of arousal and its electrical activity is such that the quieter signals don't make it to the surface. Unless you leave time to shut everything out, you may not have the insights you need to solve complex problems," he says.
Rock says many of the CEOs he knows find a way to shut the world out for a few hours a week.This may involve going for a walk, playing golf or sitting quietly in an armchair. "It is a time when you can't be contacted," he says. "This [quiet time] is becoming ever more important, yet technology is trying to send us in the other direction. It takes real discipline to do this."
Rock, who lives in New York, has a habit of taking a long walk a couple of times a week through city streets.
"It's an hour's walk with no agenda and no plan," he says. "In the evening, the brain is very tired. The best time for breakthroughs is in the morning – that is when our brains are quieter and not too tired yet."
2: Ask your people
US consultant to entrepreneurs (and an SME evangelist), Verne Harnish, says leaders should walk the floors and ask three questions of an employee every week: What do you think we should be doing; what should we be stopping; and what should we keep doing?
Harnish, founder of the Entrepreneurs' Organisation, says leaders really have to listen to the "stops". "These are the things that are driving people's moods and demotivating folks," he says.
Motivation is a huge challenge for organisations. Research by Gallup shows Australian workers to be among the most dissatisfied in the world and two-thirds report they are emotionally detached from their employer.
"The challenge companies have is to keep people enriched and motivated," Harnish says. "If you ever gather your team around saying 'What do we have to do to motivate our folks?' – slap yourself. Most folks have inherent motivation. They join your firm and run into a whole bunch of demotivators and it is downhill from there.
"They run into bad processes, have to deal with bullying and C players – which A players can't stand – or the leaders say something that upsets people. You need to ask: 'What are the things we need to do to stop demotivating folks?'."
3: Don't hire clones
If everybody is just like you, how many different opinions are you likely to get around the table? And how will you know whether you are meeting the needs of a multicultural Australia?
The chief executive of the Diversity Council Australia, Nareen Young, says leaders just need to look around.
"See if everyone is like you and, if they are, you've got a problem. If you look around and all the people you see look like you, went to the same schools as you, live in the same suburbs as you, do the same things you do on the weekend, meet at the same places, play the same sport – you don't work in a diverse organisation.
"We constantly need to have our views challenged by people who are different to us in order to understand our markets. Australian markets are incredibly diverse and we've been really slow as a nation to understand the link between diversity, consumers and our brands," she says.
Young says we can only tap into diverse markets when we have people who are different to ourselves working alongside. "I think the leaders in Australia are really limited. They are drawn from a few small groups and those people who do break in, who are not from the same background – like Ahmed Fahour [CEO of Australia Post] – are seen as unusual and newsworthy and noteworthy.
"I talk to people and I am staggered by their lack of understanding of the Australian community. I worry about it. People running a business need to understand what potential markets are, and they don't all look like them.
"If you are not capturing the broad Australian community in selling your product, you are not doing as well as you could be."
4: Don't shirk the hard decisions
Being a great leader means that you sometimes have to do things that keep you awake at night, says Steve Vamos,who is a non executive director, workplace policy advocate and founder of the Society of Knowledge Economics.
"You have to take out and manage the people who are persistent at not being good at it, not liking it or not being serious about it. It can't all be wonderful," he says.
"I still see many different approaches to leadership, but I see a consistent theme: leaders who 'call' people on being the best they can be; alignment with their organisation and making tough calls on products and people."
Good leadership also means appointing the right people as managers: "The days of promoting technocrats into management to give them a pay rise is over," he says.
Managers have to be accountable for being good leaders of people. "I don't believe, broadly, that the skill and responsibility of people management is prioritised enough."
Vamos says 80 per cent of a leader's job is the "human dimension", aligning people with the company's purpose; only 20 per cent of the job is "technical".
"That [alignment] is a full-time role. It is not about going out and making the hero sales call or telling product designers what a product should look like. It's a coaching role," he says.
When you get the right people in the right roles, you can trust them to make the right judgments.
The correlation between high performing companies and alignment of people with the company's purpose was the subject of a study of 78 companies and 5500 people by the Society of Knowledge Economics (led by Christina Boedker and Julie Cogin of the Australian School of Business).
"Organisations that do listen to their people and involve their people, organisations that are embracing of change, are up to 12 per cent more productive and, at times, more profitable," Vamos says.
"The essence of the leadership needed in the connected global economy now, is not well enough understood and not subject to enough concentration and analysis. As a result of that, we persist with old leadership models and old leadership thinking. We are not extracting the real potential of people at work.
"There is no choice but to pursue a new way of doing things," he says.
5: You gotta serve somebody
When you are approaching the pinnacle of your career, there are few things better for a leader than to step out of that esteemed role to help someone else.
Professor Emeritus at the University of NSW, Roger Collins suggests a commitment to work regularly as a volunteer, or as a board member, for a not-for-profit or community organisation. He lists three reasons why this is a top 10 idea:
■ You will be contributing to the needs and lives of others
This is a worthy thing to do for the communities we serve and work in, he says. "Such involvement opens up the pathway from success to significance, a shift in focus from self to others.
"This is an optional higher-order stage in our lives that offers the richest and most lasting of life experiences.
"If this contribution is consistent with your values, it will be immensely fulfilling. Alternatively, the experience may challenge you to review what is important to you."
■ Such involvement will keep you anchored in your life
Collins says success, and its rewards and recognition, can often undermine the aspects of our character and life that brought us success.
"Contributing to the lives of people less advantaged than us enables us to keep our lives, priorities and rewards in perspective."
■ You will grow
Deepak Chopra [US alternative health practitioner and thinker] tells us to "give what you want to receive," Collins says. "As we contribute to others, we develop and grow ourselves in ways that are not always available to us in our corporate lives. But there are two caveats," he warns.
"If you are an accountant, or lawyer, or engineer, or IT specialist, don't contribute in your area of immediate competence. Why? If you are to develop, you need to be involved in a contrasting activity. This will enable you to see things in a different way. It will also be a powerful source of rejuvenation and renewal."
Collins says people can also use this experience to develop as a manager: "You will need varying degrees of managerial and leadership competence to be sustainably successful".
6: Inspire change
"Alter a person's view of the world and you can change pretty much everything about them", says Nigel Nicholson, Professor of organisational behaviour at the London Business School.
"The fastest and best route to change is to alter how people see the world. This is the real meaning of 'vision' in leadership – what the leaders see and what they help their people to see."
Nicholson wrote an article on evolutionary psychology in 1995 in the Harvard Business Review, that inspired the founder of Australia's Flight Centre, Graham "Skroo" Turner to re-engineer his company structure into smaller units based on families, villages and tribes. This structure, based on human behaviour, is at the core of the culture of the travel company, which regularly outperforms its profit forecasts.
With a new book out in bookstores, The 'I' of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being And Doing, Nicholson nominates "seeing" as the key to leadership.
"It is very hard to change a person's being – who they are – though this is something we can do to ourselves, but not without difficulty. It is hard to change your identity in any fundamental way," he tells BRW.
In organisations, we devote a lot of attention to changing how we do things, through rules, structures, incentives and controls, but does this also change hearts and minds?
"Sometimes, but it's a slow process, and can fail when people follow the rules with their behaviour but not with their minds. We call that compliance."
Nicholson says we can change ourselves by changing how we do things, but "seeing" is always involved.
"By doing something different, we often see different things. Yes, seeing is the royal road to change."
"This is why vision is a leader's most important quality – not to be an idle dreamer, but to see what others cannot see, and bring them to new insights."
7: Reject forced choices
If there is one thing that seems to get Fons Trompenaars steamed up, it is the futility of forcing people to make artificial choices – between good and bad, right and wrong, local and global, this and that.
The Dutch organisational theorist and management consultant calls this kind of mindset "bipolar thinking".
It is the kind of talk that leaders use to try to inspire their troops and Trompenaars admits it can have a legitimate purpose – by using opposites, you can better define a problem. "The contrast gives meaning," he says.
However, making an artificial choice between two apparently conflicting propositions and enforcing a choice when a solution may require a combination of the two things, can be a destructive way to run a business, he says from his office in the Netherlands.
Trompenaars blames many of the corporate disasters of recent years on bipolar thinking. "Why do we have one crisis after another? If we make [unnecessary] choices, it leads to a pathology," he says.
We see this, of course, in politics where parties take opposing views so as to force people to choose between them. Their members would often rather die in a ditch than take on board the strengths of the others' argument.
Problems can also arise in when ethnic or corporate cultures clash; this cross-cultural work is at the core of Trompenaar's involvement with global corporations.
Trompenaars, an academic who has a research database of more than 100,000 managers, was listed in the most recent Thinkers50, an influential ranking of the world's management experts. He says rethinking problems and going beyond an either/or solution is not easy when you are confronting entrenched attitudes and an education system that forces people to choose between right and wrong answers.
"I think the essence of leadership is to connect opposites," he says.
The key to doing this is to reframe our choices as dilemmas, where the alternatives are equally undesirable. Then you can investigate whether you can combine the competing values to come up with something entirely new.
This is where innovation occurs and should not be confused with compromise. So, how do you know if you have a dilemma or a choice? Trompenaars says if it is a choice, the path is easy, you just have to make it. If it is a dilemma, you will know it because it is the sort of conundrum that will keep you awake at night and cannot be easily reconciled.
"You can't solve it by throwing time and money at it," he says.
Trompenaars offers a process for tackling dilemmas that includes identifying the dilemma, putting it onto a chart and noting the positives and negatives of both positions, describing them by using extreme statements, reconciling them by finding ways each position or choice can help the other, and coming up with an action plan.
8: Be confronted
Invite criticism. That is the advice of the chief executive of WD-40, Garry Ridge, who has led the billion-dollar public company for 17 years and has overseen a doubling of the share price to a historical peak of around $US63 ($67) this year.
Australian born and bred, Ridge is a believer in listening to the "resident contrarian" or bringing the enemy inside the tent. "In a lot of cases, leaders push these people away," says Ridge on the phone from his home in San Diego, adding that is a human trait to shun negative feedback.
Ridge has enshrined this principle into a published "Maniac Pledge" which gives employees permission to ask questions and speak their minds.
The pledge reads: "I am responsible for taking action, getting answers and making decisions. I won't wait for someone to tell me, if I need to know, I am responsible for asking.
"I have no right to be offended that I didn't get this sooner. If I am doing something others should know about, I am responsible for telling them."
Such a forthright approach appears to be appreciated by the workforce of 350 people, who market the can of lubricant that is beloved by handymen the world over.
Ridge says the most recent employee engagement survey showed a 98 per cent positive response to the question: "At WD-40, I am encouraged to have a different point of view".
Over the 26 years Ridge has been with the company, revenues have grown from $US80 million ($85 million) to $US370 million a year and the company has expanded to new regions and new products.
"There's lots of squeaks in China and lots of rust in Russia," he says.
Ridge admits that often, when he is confronted by criticism, he questions whether he really needs to hear it.
"But, when I have listened to it, I feel I am a better person for having listened. I try to listen to people and assume they have positive intent. If I do those two things, there's a chance I'll learn something. If I listen thinking they have a selfish intent or a negative intent, I've cut out all communication.
"The only time I resent listening is when I feel I have wasted some time. Time is the most precious thing you have. You never get it back."
Ridge has had many years of unvarnished feedback – from his mother Jean, still living in Sydney.
"I have a cup of tea with my mum, who is 99 years old. There's nothing she is afraid to say – you get it whether you want it or not, but it is done with unconditional love."
9: Show up
Invisible leaders are ineffective. Forty years ago, the idea of being "management by walking around" was popularised by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, the founders of HP, who kept in touch with what was going on by strolling through their offices and talking to people at all levels of the organisation.
According to Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, "showing up" is the first key to leadership. "If you don't show up, nothing really happens," she told an audience at a TEDxTalks event earlier this year. Moss Kanter pointed to Peter Sellers's last film Being There, where he played Chance, a simple-minded gardener for an old, wealthy man.
"It was a very instructive story," she says. Chance the gardener was hanging around as a very important meeting was due to take place at the house where he worked. "As people arrived for the meeting, they didn't know that he was only helping at the house, so they said 'who are you?' and he said 'Chance the gardener' and immediately people misunderstood and called him Chancey Gardener, invited him into the meeting and he ended up solving their problems," she says.
"Well, it was a comedy, but I thought how real that is.
"The very fact of showing up, of making oneself available, deciding that your presence makes a difference is the first key to leadership."
Moss Kanter says President Barack Obama has also been richly rewarded for showing up: "He was a fairly obscure state senator from the state of Illinois when asked to give the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. He showed up, he gave the speech and the rest is history.
"Being there makes a difference."
10: Look in the mirror
Looking over the nine previous leadership tips, consultant Dr Peter Fuda says they will ultimately fail if leaders do not first comprehend how their behaviour affects those around them. "All leaders have noble intentions. I've never met a leader yet that wakes in the morning with the intention of destroying shareholder value," says Fuda, principal of The Alignment Partnership.
"I have dealt with 200 CEOs and every one wakes up in the morning trying to do what is best for their company, community, shareholders and themselves. But there is a disconnect between their noble intentions and the way they behave."
Two-thirds of all leaders are completely unaware of the affect they are having, good or bad, he says.
"That creates an enormous tension."
Fuda wrote a management book, Leadership Transformed, based on his research and gives an example of a chief executive he knows. A CEO wants to encourage his executive team to collaborate, work well together and partner together, but when he is doing his quarterly performance reviews, he compares the results of his marketing and sales directors.
"He has unintentionally created competition. Both of his executives believe they must be seen to be better than the other and their personal competition is driven down through their departments.
"They compete for budget and they don't share information," Fuda says.
"That CEO wakes up saying, 'I want collaboration' and, without realising, only inspires competition, which takes the organisation further away from its aims."
So they can become aware of the gap between what they want and what they create, leaders should ask people they trust to tell them the truth about how their behaviour is affecting their mission. But, most importantly, they have to accept the feedback.
"It doesn't matter whether you agree with it. You don't have to like it. You just have to accept it."
Your views of others might be subjective, but how you are seen by others matters when you are trying to create the right sort of environment.
Part of that acceptance comes with the non-confrontational way that the feedback is delivered. Fuda says pointing out a disconnect between a leader's behaviour and their intention is not telling them that their behaviour is bad or that they are a bad leader.
"They need [feedback] in a way that is not personal. If you are attacked, you are forced to defend yourself, forced to react, reject and so on – especially if you are thinking it is true."
More on leadership from BRW:
- Get a little guerilla: How little guys can box clever when it comes to recruitment
- Working with your besties: Shoes of Prey's secret hiring strategy
- The part-time problem: Why so much business talent is left sitting on the bench
- Atlassian HR guru Joris Luijke exits for New York and a new job with Squarespace
- BRW Young Rich 2013: How founders know when it's time to make someone else CEO
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There is one Chip recipe on the blog Love2cook Malaysia. (1562 on all the blogs)
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Rishie, Ashika & Chocolate Chips Muffin
By Love2cook Malaysia
06/01/12 13:30
Sorry, I don't have much time to write right now. Shall take you straight to the pictures and recipe of the day... ;) See ya, wish you a beautiful weekend! CHOCOLATE CHIPS MUFFIN Ingredients :~ 250gm plain flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder...
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After the highly addictive video for "Night and Day", Hot Chip decided to go spooky. Franckenstein meets X-Files for the new video for the ballad "Look At Where We Are" off their amazing new album "In Our Heads". The clip was directed by Danny Perez, who is known for his work for the likes of Animal Collective, Black Dice, Love as Laughter etc. But kids: don't try this at home!
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This blog is a continuation of my last blog regarding proving children disabled. Over the next six blogs I will be providing some specific examples of limitations in each domain to help you better understand what must exist and be documented to prove your child disabled.
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- Does not demonstrate an understanding of words that describe concepts such as space, size, or time (for example, inside/outside, big/little, morning/night).
- Cannot rhyme words or the sounds in words.
- Has difficulty remembering what was learned in school the day before.
- Does not use language appropriate for age.
- Is not developing "readiness skills" the same as peers (for example, learning to count, reciting ABCs, scribbling).
- Is not reading, writing, or doing arithmetic at appropriate grade levels.
- Has difficulty comprehending written and/or oral directions.
- Struggles with following simple instructions.
- Talks only in short, simple sentences.
- Has difficulty explaining things.
Please keep in mind that these examples are not all inclusive but just a brief review of SOME of the limitations that may exist. Also, not all examples will be appropriate for children of all ages.
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Submitted by toby liversedge on Wed, 2013-06-19 14:02.
If you want an upgradable media centre then buy a media centre pc. They're designed to do everything you mentioned, are software AND hardware upgradable, have the multi-codec capability that a console can only dream of, and can be bought and set up for half the price of an xbox one. You'll have no restrictions on what you can install and because individual components can be upgraded a media centre pc is pretty much future proof.
A console is a games machine first and a media centre second. You're just wasting money if you buy an xbox one and then don't play games on it.
Submitted by JohnA on Wed, 2013-06-19 13:14.
"The only people who buy consoles are gamers." - really?
When it came time for me to buy my first Blu-Ray player, the PS3 was a no brainer.
Upgradeable to 3D just with software updates; streaming music, photos and videos from my PC, internet access and other Smart-TV features are just some of the reasons for buying a console.
As for playing games - I don't.
The X-Box One simply offers the next logical step in the evolution of media centric appliances.
Submitted by toby liversedge on Wed, 2013-06-19 11:17.
I think Microsoft have dropped the ball with the xbox one. The only people who buy consoles are gamers. There's no other reason for having one. To then say to your target audience, you have to have a broadband connection preferably always on, we will restrict your ability to play second hand games and we're going to charge you £80 more than our nearest rival, well that's just dumb.
More than 70 million xbox 360's have been sold worldwide, but there's only around 30 million xbox live accounts worldwide. So more than half of the world's xbox 360 users do not use their machine online.
Also Microsoft seem to have forgotten that there is a worldwide economic crisis right now. Current gen games cost £30 - £40 new. I bet the next gen titles will cost more. How many people have the spare cash to buy all the games they want to play? Second hand gaming and rental subcriptions like Lovefilm give people on a limited budget the chance to play the games they want. Ok so there's less money going to the publishers, but less money is better than no money at all.
As to the price, let's be completely honest here. The tv functionality, the ability to go online, chat via skype, watch movies, listen to music, all these features are mere frippery. The ability to play games is the raison d'etre of a console. To then offer up a machine that is substandard to it's nearest rival (DDR3 vs GDDR5?, no contest) and then to charge an extra £80, that's just plain insulting.
I used to be a loyal xbox supporter. I bought the original xbox over the PS2 and loved the 360 and laughed at PS3 owners. Time to eat humble pie.
Submitted by snowditch on Wed, 2013-06-19 03:15.
Are you serious, who cares about a few hundred bucks these days. I spend that much on a round of drinks for my mates, so I am more than happy to spend a bit more on a console that clearly has more to offer... Get a real job.
Submitted by Shadowyugi on Wed, 2013-06-19 00:31.
Even if one buys the PS4 with the Playstation eye, it would still be cheaper than the Xbox One


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May 9, 2012: We had another very successful cleanup for our second ever Barnegat Bay Blitz in Little Egg Harbor Township, despite the awful weather (which was quite possibly even worse than it was for the first cleanup). Pinelands Regional Middle School had the right idea by waiting a couple of days for better weather for their cleanup! Our cleanup at Otis Bog Rd. and Center St. was a repeat of last time, where we once again came across enormous amounts of illegal dumping. We removed large quantities of smashed televisions, tires, furniture and construction debris. We managed to haul a hot tub and a jet ski out of a small lake. We once again filled an entire 30 yd. dumpster with debris! For this Blitz, we also had 2 volunteers that braved driving rain to clean up the entire length of Great Bay Blvd, where they discovered a huge tank that they hauled across the marsh and onto the street! Pinelands Regional Middle School was also a new participant and they collected a surprising amount of trash on their school grounds, including rusty mattress springs, tires and impressive numbers of plastic bags and bottles. A very BIG thank you to all who were involved in this effort, including: the township of LEH, the public works department, all of the DEP volunteers, Bill Murphy of LEH, Ben Wurst of the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ and the teachers and students of the Pinelands Middle School. You all worked very hard and should be very proud of yourselves!
Thank you to all of the fearless volunteers that came out and braved the weather for the Little Egg Harbor clean up. It was an enormous success which would not have been possible without the partcipation of the LEH Public Works Department, the residents of LEH and a number of NJDEP employees as well as one of our NJ Watershed Ambassadors. We discovered a veritable illegal dump site at Otis Bog Rd. and Center St. and we filled an entire dumpster with all sorts of debris. Among the finds were countless smashed televisions, bicycles, mattresses, tires, and even a hot tub, toilet and sink. We ended up soaked and covered in mud, which only added to feeling of adventure! It was a memorable clean up!
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text: PATTON, DANIEL WEBSTER (1885-1963)Born on August 1, 1885, near Greenwood, Arkansas, engineer and Tulsa civic leader Daniel Webster Patton at age fifteen joined his older brother, J. Gus Patton, in Indian Territory, working for the U.S. Interior Department on townsite surveys. In 1901 the brothers platted and surveyed the town of Tulsa. The younger Patton later worked as a railroad engineer and a general engineer, surveying for roads and bridges in present eastern Oklahoma. In 1906 he married Ella Wall, a Choctaw, who died in 1912. His second wife was Ethel Galloway. Patton held the position of county engineer in LeFlore and Pushmataha counties. He had made his home in Poteau as the general manager of the LeFlore County Gas and Electric Company, and in 1915 the town's residents elected him mayor. In 1917 Patton returned to Tulsa and served as the county engineer until 1926. He orchestrated the county's first highway system, supervised the development of interurban lines, and advanced other transportation projects. A Republican, Patton capitalized on the party's 1928 national success, as Herbert Hoover defeated Al Smith for the presidential election and Patton won Tulsa's mayoral election. Serving one term, he boasted that his tenure authorized more public works than any prior administration. After emerging as a possible Republican candidate for governor, Patton was defeated in his 1930 bid for reelection to the mayor's office. In 1932 he unsuccessfully ran again, returning to his private engineering business. Beginning in1939 until 1941 he again held the Tulsa County engineer position. From 1944 to 1948 he served as Tulsa city engineer, advancing the idea of elevated expressway to encircle the town, but in 1948 Roy Lundy of Tulsa Rig and Reel Manufacturing Company ran for mayor, campaigning that he would "kill that silly expressway plan." As soon as he was elected, Lundy dismissed the engineer. Later, Patton was the state supervisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's crop loan division. Dan W. Patton died on December 30, 1963, in Tulsa. He had been a member of the Boston Avenue Methodist Church, the Tulsa Masonic Lodge, and the Elk's Lodge. He had served as president of the Engineers Club of Tulsa and the Oklahoma Society of Engineers. SEE ALSO: TULSA. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Danney Goble, Tulsa! Biography of the American City (Tulsa, Okla.: Council Oak Books, 1997). Joseph B. Thoburn, A Standard History of Oklahoma, Vol. 3 (Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1916). Tulsa (Oklahoma) Tribune, 10 December 1963 and 30 December 1963. Tulsa (Oklahoma) World, 31 December 1963. Larry O'Dell © Oklahoma Historical Society |


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A major downtown Ashland revitalization project has gotten the go-ahead.
Town Council approved Tuesday night moving forward with a long-awaited streetscape and infrastructure improvement project targeting the blocks north and south of Thompson Street on the west side of the train tracks.
The total proposed budget for the project is $600,000, Ingrid Stenbjorn, town engineer, told Town Council Tuesday. That figure is $20,000 below an estimate presented by Mike Davis, director of public works, during a July 31 work session at Town Hall, and could drop further pending final numbers on some parts of the project that will have to go through the bidding process.
Funding is being provided by local sources alongside money the town gets from the state for road maintenance. According to Stenbjorn, approximately 75 percent of the project is eligible for state funding.
The project budget contains a 25 percent contingency to cover the unexpected. Stenbjorn said that issues often arise during projects in older areas of town. Ashland's contractor Talley and Armstrong ran into similar issues during an infrastructure project in College Park where they are currently still completing improvements.
The town had already set aside $746,000 of funding in a Capital Projects Fund account for downtown sidewalks and another for sidewalks, curbs and gutters.
The town will also eat into its annual $15,000 paving budget for the project.
The project entails improving the appearance and functionality of the downtown Railroad Avenue/Center Street corridor. Improvements include installing pervious pavers, similar to those used in the downtown municipal parking lot, to capture stormwater runoff and solve occasional flooding problems in the area.
Termed "low impact design" features, the pervious pavers along with vegetative areas to absorb stormwater help give the town a head start on new environmental mandates aimed at reducing urban runoff.
In addition to "green" infrastructure, the project also entails laying new sidewalks, curbs and gutters, lighting, and landscape improvements throughout the area.
Work on the project is expected to begin in the next couple weeks. Crews will soon be onsite on the north side of Route 54, where they will begin drainage and streetscape improvements.
The town hopes to be able to begin the first phase of construction as soon as possible so that work can conclude before the holiday season.
"As we get into the holidays…we don't want to negatively impact the businesses by having all of their frontage torn up," Davis said July 31.
Work will resume in January on the south side of Thompson Street.
Once the project begins to move forward, Town Manager Charles Hartgrove told Council July 31 that staff plans to meet with business owners to keep them apprised of how the ongoing project will affect them.
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Nintendo's set to air a live action (and much CGI) Mario Kart 7 TV ad in the run up to its 3DS release next week - and it's 'ruddy brilliant.
The first Mario Kart 7 review arrived in Famitsu this morning, giving the racer 37/40. As if you needed another reason to pick it up on December 2 (Dec 4 if you're in the US).
Last month Nintendo revealed fresh details on Mario Kart 7's online features - including StreetPass and SpotPass functionality - and new info on the courses and cups that'll be included in the game.
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Santa Cruz Bronson
This bike needs no introduction, one of the most talked about new releases of the year. The Santa Cruz Bronson is in effect a supercharged Blur LT, based around the bigger 650B wheels and with 150mm of travel (up 10mm from the Blur) and with a slack 67-degree head angle. It's a bike that has been an instant hit, and has already been pressed into service this year, having become a regular sight at the Enduro World Series between the legs of the Santa Cruz Syndicate team.
At its heart is the fabled VPP suspension platform, comprising a pair of short, stout linkages connecting the main frame to the swingarm, which has been in service now for a good few years. Angular contact bearings on all pivots with handy grease ports on the linkages for easy maintenance. They'll offer a carbon frame – with a 5.3lb medium frame weight – and alloy versions.
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Read two new articles about Hal Ketchum and his upcoming album release, "I'm the Troubadour", on October 7. Read about his new song "Baby I'm Blue" and preview it here at Entertainment Weekly. Then read more about "I'm the Troubadour", his first album in six years, and preview his new song "Sweet Loreen" here at […]
Click here to preoder Hal Ketchum's new album, entitled "I'm the Troubadour." The album is set to release on October 7.
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I've got an Earthtainer with Squash planted in it. At first, everything seemed great, the Squash started growing and looked good, then, the ends of the Squash started to rot (turned brown and mushy). I has tried adding Clearex to the roots at the start, but as the plant has grown that has become harder. Any ideas, suggestions, solutions? I'd love to still be able to get some Squash I can eat from it - there are more still starting to grow. |
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- Posted by dickiefickle 5B DousmanWi. (My Page) on Thu, Jul 28, 11 at 3:43
You might try The Pumpkin Gourd Squash forum here at GW |
Suggest you keep removing the bad squash, and eventually good squash will grow. I've grown yellow summer squash a few times and every time I had early BER, but eventually it goes away, and I got good squash. |
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How big are the squash? If just a few inches, it's a good chance it did not get pollinated. JoJo |
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