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AMLO: The Populist Charmer
QUERETARO, Mexico -- He's been compared to Bill Clinton, a Mexican political rock star. Crowds of 50,000 have festooned him with floral wreaths, adulation and the uber-macho nickname "rooster."
This, I had to see for myself. So Campaign Conexión hit the road early Wednesday, journeying 125 miles northwest of Mexico City to attend a campaign rally for Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Polls put the former Mexico City mayor neck-and-neck with conservative Felipe Calderón. But by all accounts, López Obrador leads in the charisma contest, and for any political junkie who has endured the twang of Ross Perot, the growl of Bob Dole and the Howard Dean SCREAM, an AMLO rally seemed a must-do.
As we approached the Plaza de Armas here, the narrow stone-paved streets rang out with the chant "Oh-Bra-Door! Oh-Bra-Door!" Warming up the crowd, a local politician called out in Spanish: "What do the people want?" "Obrador Presidente," they replied. "Now Vicente will go!"
And then shortly after noon, under a blazing sun: "El proximo presidente de la Republica."
Bottom line: The guy is good. But as the late Lloyd Bentsen would say, "he's no Bill Clinton."
Nevertheless, López Obrador may well win the July 2 presidential contest in part because of his stump style, a rich blend of spicy colloquialisms, fist-waving and promises to first and foremost take care of the poor.
"Duro!" the crowd hollered, using the word hard to praise his strength.
In the six-year term of President Vicente Fox, more than 4 million Mexicans have emigrated from the country and its low-paying or non-existent jobs, López Obrador reminded the crowd. Fox, López Obrador continued, promised to create 1 million new jobs, but the nation's economy has gone in the opposite direction.
"This is what we don't want to see happen in our country," he boomed into a bank of microphones, gripping the podium with one hand.
By Mexican standards, Queretaro is a quaint city of a million or so people, touted as one of the cleanest in the nation. Children in uniforms, fruit vendors and T-shirt hawkers gave the rally a festive quality not often found at U.S. presidential campaign events, where Secret Service precautions and President Bush's hand-selected audiences produce a more choreographed flavor.
Wednesday's crowd was no more than 5,000 people, modest by AMLO standards, though locals say this is PAN territory, referring to Fox and Calderón's National Action Party.
The eldest of eight children who grew up in a lower-class family in the rural state of Tabasco, López Obrador takes pride in his humble beginnings and modest adult lifestyle.
While the "other candidates are on private airplanes" or helicopters, he is riding on a campaign bus, López Obrador boasted to cheers. "We sometimes do 1,000 kilometers a day, 3 or 4 rallies. We're going to keep going."
If AMLO wins, it will be in large measure because Mexicans want change. A vote for Calderón, on the other hand, is an endorsement of incumbency, a vote for the same policies in a slightly smaller, less handsome frame.
Delivering his litany of promises, López Obrador said that under his leadership no young person would be denied access to public universities. Government subsidies for the elderly would rise, he said, and gas and electricity prices would fall. He also pledged to bring together the many and varied factions in this nation of more than 100 million, including church officials, indigenous leaders, farmers, scientists and artists.
AMLO is aware that many in Mexico, particularly elites in political and corporate circles, are fearful that a López Obrador presidency would thrust the nation into economic chaos. But for the past three days, in rallies across the nation and again here in Queretaro, the candidate promised that he would not be "anti-business" -- only anti-influence peddling by businessmen with political connections. "We don't want businessmen to be afraid," he declared, shifting tone from strident to reassuring.
But the bumper stickers said it better than the candidate: "Sonrie. Vamos a Ganar," a cartoon AMLO says on the stickers affixed to countless cars, strollers and t-shirt. "Smile. We're going to Win."
Campaign Conexión will be on the trail with Calderón next. Watch for that first-hand report on Monday.
Cultura Links
Want to read more about the presidential campaign, Mexican politics and culture? Campaign Conexion has compiled a few of the best articles, book reviews and other sources. Please feel free to send along other suggestions for Mexico-philes, Latin America lovers or other smarty-pants types.
Two items from renowned Mexican historian Enrique Krauze, an article in the New Republic titled "Tropical Messiah," and his magazine
For an academic analysis of the implications of the Mexican election, read Pamela K. Starr's "Challenges for a Postelection Mexico: Issues for U.S. Policy," published this month by Council on Foreign Relations.
"Stakes are high for the United States in this election as well: A politically and economically stable Mexico is critical for finding a solution to the migration question, coordinating binational efforts to fight drug trafficking, enhancing competitiveness of important sectors of the U.S. economy, and fostering U.S. security," according to a release on the article.
"The winner will face many of the same domestic policy challenges as his predecessor-fiscal dependence on volatile petroleum revenues, enormous pension liabilities that expand with Mexico's aging population, insufficient investment capital in the energy sector, declining global competitiveness, weak job creation and growth, corruption, inadequate rule of law, and increasing crime,'" Starr writes.
"Although the United States justifiably felt let down by Mexico's delayed and tepid statements of sympathy after 9/11 and its lack of support for the Iraq war, U.S. officials seem to have underestimated the depth of Mexican disappointment at having fallen off the U.S. foreign policy agenda."
For some historical perspective, take a look back at Ann Louise Bardach's 1994 Vanity Fair interview with Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos.
"Only nine days before, financier Alfredo Harp Helu, the president of Mexico's largest bank and a close associate and friend of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's, had become the country's latest kidnapping victim, held for a $50 million ransom. Suddenly, Mexico was reeling. Kidnappings and political assassinations - all on the heels of a grass roots revolution in January that burst out in Chiapas, a state so poor, so desperate that, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "even the rocks are screaming.
"On January 10th, Mexican newspapers received the first communique from a man calling himself Subcomandante Marcos. It began: 'Here we are, the dead of all times, dying once again, but now with the objective of living.' By week's end, Marcos had conquered the international media just as he had taken Chiapas. He was hailed as Robin Hood, the Lone Ranger, Geronimo, the 'first postmodern guerilla hero,' even the reincarnation of his movement's namesake, Emiliano Zapata, the revolutionary Mexican peasant leader, who was tricked into an Army ambush, but who some insist never died."
And more recently, Newsweek reporter Joseph Contreras has written "Tan lejos de Dios" ("So Far from God"), reflecting on an earlier stint in Mexico in the 1980s and how the nation has changed since then.
Finally, a sweet postre from Mexico's ambassador to the United States.
By washingtonpost.com Editors |
June 22, 2006; 9:01 AM ET
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Wasn't there a Mexican who was president of the OAS and ran into some trouble?? Do you know anything about the OAS?? Who is President now and who is head of Protocol??
Posted by: Wainwright | June 22, 2006 10:22 AM
The writter of the article failed to mentioned these little details on Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador:
He was a member of the old PRI political party (he joined it in 1976). He was in fact, the president of that party in his home state of Tabasco, Mexico.
Most of the members within Obrador's PRD party (up to 48%), are made up of PRI members. The very political party itself (PRD) was created by two ex PRI members (Cuauhtemoc Cardenas & Munoz Ledo).
So it's funny that some badly informed mexicans (and reporters) will buy Obrador's comments that CHANGE will come to Mexico through him.
In fact, with the PRD and Obrador, they (Mexicans) will only see the indirect return of the PRI to the presidency.
Such fools. I expect 8 millions of mexicans to cross over to the US in the next 6 years Obrador is in power. Just wait and see...
Posted by: Angry Aztec | June 22, 2006 04:27 PM
AMLO ex-member of "the old PRI polical party"? Well the PRI candidate has recently pronounced the demise the old PRI...
Angry Aztec forgets that distinguished ex-PRI members, such as Alfonso Durazo, held important positions in Mr. Fox's cabinet (until he had to resign amidst a power struggle with Mrs. Fox). And what about former Foreign Affairs Secretary Castañeda, ex-member of the Mexican Comunist Party? PAN should be extremely proud of its shinning candidate to govern Mexico City, Mr. Sodi, who has happily belonged to the three major parties...
Angry Aztec has such accurate figures (48%)on past political afiliation of PRD members that he may be helpful in updating that party's membership records... By the way, he also conveniently forgets "the small detail" that the actual PRD was founded not only by disgruntled members of the left wing of the PRI, but also by members of left of center political organizations such as the PSUM (Mexican Unified Socialist Part).
What fools is Angry Aztec referring to? Those Mexicans who are fed up with the financial policies that have made the rich richer and the poor poorer? Haven't been 30 years time enough to show the benefits of the neo-liberal policies? Perhaps it is time to change course...
Posted by: pasilla | June 22, 2006 06:35 PM
AMLO Financial Politics really are not new, as he's mencioned. Old PRI applied them and the results can be observed in the two big Mexicans economical crisis: one in 1983 and the other in 1994. Why do Mexican people prefer to see the goverment as a father instance that an administrative & security assurance entity? Good question. AMLO is gaining votes because he is a populist politiscian. In fact, the conservative Calderon has the best ideas for jobs generating.
Posted by: Elias | June 23, 2006 12:49 PM
Let's set the records straight, for those who have not an accurate memory of Mexican political history, from there, we can start talking about economic policies in both leading sides: left and right.
The PRI was the institutional party emanated from Mexican revolution in 1910, it was created as a tool to maintain the political and social stability in times of great power struggles that held the country in a weak state. At almost the same moment, ultra-catholic conservatives, most of them from the people that revolution took the power away created PAN, as an answer to the social equity proposed at that time by the president Cardenas -the very one that expropriated oil from foreign hands-. PAN, was spawned from "the cristeros" a anti-democracy, pro-church radical and violent movement that paid paramilitary men to fight against the weak newborn post-revolution government, of course, they lost. They created PAN and inside of it there was the extreme radical conservative fascist wing, called "Yunque" that were accounted for many terrorist actions and kidnapping in the 60's and 70's, one of their foremost prominent members was Diego Fernandez de Ceballos, PAN candidate in the 1994 election, senator for the 2000-2006 legislature.
PRI with time, and power, as any absolute power became corrupt, but as they still held the revolution's flag, their national policies where more social, at those times Mexico had yearly grow rates of 6-9%, the big problem was that it was an isolated economy and there was a lot of corruption inside the government, so, although there were not as many poor people in the country, there was also social discontent.
At the end of the 60's and through 70's there where many leftist movements that were systematically repressed by the government, the role of PAN became more like a sidekick than an opposition, while they were granted some congress places and money for the party. They even had the same candidate than PRI in 1976: José Lopez Portillo.
Mexico knew no real crisis back then, and if had then been an honest government, instead of a corrupt one, Mexico could have been a lot better.
Lopez Portillo started playing with the economy, buying and selling national banks started to be the government's policy: buy expensive, sell cheap. After he came Miguel de la Madrid, the first that came from the Chicago neoliberal school, that had as a thesis a completely unregulated market, limiting governments role as a security guard, mainly, keeping the social movements on a low profile. The banks broke, the government had to buy them again at a great cost. In 1985 there was a major earthquake in México City and many of the government built social interest houses came down. That was mainly because of the corruption of the contractors that used cheap materials while they charged for the expensive ones, again, corruption made great damage to the citizens. Instead of readily accepting it's mistake, they tried to cover all up and denied international aid, when they did they made business with it. Social discontent grew up, along with leftist organizations, and many prominent left wing members of PRI, who saw no democracy or social will inside the party collided in a single left front that had as candidate the Michoacan state former governor and son of the president Cardenas: Cuahutemoc Cardenas Solorzano. The social support for his candidature was enormous, and everybody suspects that he won the election indeed, despite the great mobilization of government's resources to buy peoples vote for Carlos Salinas. On the night of the elections, the government's controlled electoral system was shut down, and the next day they said that PRI won again, on the beginning both opposition candidates were pleading against the election, the PAN candidate had a mysterious car accident and lost his life. Of course given the high heat and social discontent, Cardenas didn't died, but as he was committed to a democratic process, he held the people's rage down and stayed on the democratic path, from there PRD was created as the first real (and left wing) opposition to the government.
Mexican economy finally opened up and NAFTA was signed, state's third biggest business was sold to private hands and every social subside was shut down -calling it a "thing from the paternalist past"- the neoliberal economy at it's top. By the way, not counting the 1983 crisis (were economy dropped 6%), the average grow rate after 1982 got down to 3%, inflation was controlled but at a great cost, foreign exchange was also artificially sustained in the Salinas rule. There was one moment, as Mexico got in to the WTO, where most Mexicans were made to believe that México had a foot in to the first world. At the same moment banks were being sold to national private hands again. In 1994 the EZLN rouse up as the NAFTA started. The camping against the left was that peace where only to come from PRI, and that the left would make the conflict grow. Zedillo, whose administration started with a 6% drop and a 300% devaluation do the peso, did made up for the economy in his rule, and held yearly grow rates of 4-5% , mainly by reinforcing ties with the USA and attracting external investment. But the national banks broke as bankers made huge frauds that ended up in a taxpayers debt (instead of being rescued but to be paid after by the rescued banks), after that, national banks were sold to foreign capital in much less than what was paid for its rescue. Meanwhile the taxpayers had a great debt, and a few bankers were enormously rich, of course, they took care of the government's officials and congress men so they had protection and no one stepped in jail.
As telecommunications (TV and Telephony) were already in private hands, the next step was selling the other strategic sectors, so the government could only depend on taxes to sustain itself, but as there was a real opposition, that could not be done, even though they applied the same formula as with telephony: to demonstrate how bad administrator the state was, and how unprofitable the sector was in states (state, representing public interest's and property) they stopped reinvesting in the oil and electric industry, waiting for the moment where it brake down.
Government's critical opposition (PRD) and oil international prices didn't let that happen and the anti-democracy in Mexico started to shine in the international markets, the free trade with EU had a price: the votes should be counted now. So, the people in the power had a bright idea, if before PAN and PRI launched the same candidate, why not launch a candidate that represented their interests straight from PAN? Vicente Fox had a great media campaign and he indeed won the election, voted by a majority of people who willed a change and where unaware of who was still pulling the strings.
Economy had a big drop and had three years of consecutive negative grow, it was only when the stratospheric oil prices when it started do have a modest grow, that no Mexican outside the close circle of power has seen. The people from the PAN had a great 6 years of suspiciously very lucky business and the president's step sons became from middle class to millionaires in just 5 years. The bakers that committed fraud were even more protected and 4 million Mexicans had to migrate to the USA, affecting their economy as well. Mexico dropped from being the 9th economy of the world (even with its intrinsic inequity, where 10% of the citizen's held 80% of the wealth) to the 14th, even having those stratospheric oil prices and being the 5th world's oil producer ant the 9th exporter.
Of course, there were many disappointed people, and the left re-gained straight. It also won México's city government in 1997 and again -by a vast majority- in 2000, with Lopez Obrador. While he was ruling 70% of the private investment was done in México City and a third of the national economy was produced in the city. The corruption in the government went down (not eliminated yet, but on track to be eliminated) and the monthly check of the government officials as well, including the top positions, but making those of the base workers grow higher than inflation. With the money he saved, he made great investments in the public infrastructure, health and education; he also started programs to grant the more needed citizens a historically deserved aid, especially for the people of the third age, thus lowering long term costs on public health and improving the quality of life of the citizens. The result: 85% of the people from his city will vote for him as a president. By the way, he also improved the health of public finances and reduced the financial cost of the state's debt, that said by the congress, not only by him.
What's at stake in this election?
For the right wing party and those business man wannabe that were connected with them, now losing their connection and their privileges. For the ones that made frauds that cost zillions to Mexican citizen, being investigated and maybe put to jail and made pay. For the politicians who protected them, something similar. For the rest of the honest national and international real business men, they will have a country where to invest, with clear rules and clean transparent methods, for the citizens, better opportunities, and reduction of the poorness, that will indeed reduce the violence and crime spawned by a country with a few very, very rich men, a ever shrinking middle class and a ever growing 45% of the population well below the poverty's line.
There will be no honest people that will lose in this election, rich, middle class and poor, every honest person in Mexico should smile; we are going to be back in track.
Posted by: Amilcar Alzaga | June 23, 2006 04:19 PM
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Next month on October 7th tickets will go on sale for Glastonbury 2013, in anticipation for this event here are several facts and tales about the weird and wonderful history of the event.
- This year Glastonbury was cancelled due to the vast number of resources being allocated to the 2012 London Olympics, essentials such as police officers, portable lavatories and crowd control barriers were in short supply. The Olympics alone demanded the use of at least 14,000 portable toilets in comparison to the needs of Glastonbury which were in the number of 650-700.
- Glastonbury first took place in following the unfortunate death of Jimi Hendrix. The attendance was a comparatively miniscule 1,500 with a £1 entrance fee. Although you certainly got value for your money – there was even a complementary bottle of milk. Headlining the festival were Marc Bolan and T-rex.
- Glastonbury uses about 3000 megawatts of electricity over a single weekend which is similar to the city of Bath. However, this is understandable when you take into consideration the sheer size of the event, covering 900 acres of summerset farmland.
- Glastonbury is often inextricably linked with mud and bad weather, which is all part of the experience of course. The festival has even been designated as the origin of the new sport "mud-surfing". In 2005 there was the equivalent of 2 months rainfall in a couple of hours, the resulting flood left car parks underwater and canoes became the dominant mode of transport.
- This festival is always full of unusual incidents. In 1989 an as of yet unknown Lilly Allen was saved by Kate Moss after Lilly was stabbed in the ear and given two black eyes, due to a conflict with a female who claimed Lilly had an affair with her boyfriend, Moss bravely intervened. In 1995 the main 'pyramid stage' burned down and had to be hastily replaced, fortunately it didn't buckle under the weight of the acts.Glastonbury is worth £82 million to the world economy and with over 170,000 people estimated to descend on the festival next year, I am ecstatic to be one of those numbers. If you can't afford a ticket then you could be one of the 1,300 recycling volunteers and work off your ticket. There are no excuses, I have a feeling this will be the best Glastonbury yet!


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As the nationâs biggest retailers get into the beauty game, you need to step up your own by learning how your clients shop. Some of the industryâs top experts in consumer behavior teach you how to design retail environments that encourage the purchase.
Youâre not Sephora, and you
donât want to look as if you
are. But you have to admit:
Mass retailers know a little something
about selling product. Perhaps you
could strike a palatable balance if
you could retain your emphasis on
service while still taking a few cues
from the people whose very displays
seem able to reach out and flip open
consumersâ wallets.
âYour clients are the same people
who walk into Crate and Barrel,â says
Eurisko President Leon Alexander,
who also holds a Ph.D. in behavioral
psychology. âYour environment
should be designed around the
consumerâs needs and maximizing
the dopamine in the brain to get that
consumer into buying mode.â
Observations like those have
grown a new interdisciplinary field,
environmental psychology, which
studies the ways that our surroundings
influence us. Data gathered by
environmental psychologists give
retailers the insight to think like a
John Moroney came into the
beauty industry when professional
product lines were just beginning
to consider how to help salons
showcase products to their best
advantage. âMerchandising was a
fledgling science,â recalls Moroney,
now vice-president of salon business
development for P&G Salon
Professional. âShould you put products
at eye level? How should you
arrange them? Since that time, weâve
learned that itâs less important to
arrange the products a certain way
than it is to understand who the
shopper is and what sheâs looking
for. Retailing is not about products;
itâs about shoppers.â
Indeed, while stylists may refer
to their guests and management may
attempt to anticipate the behavior of
consumers, Moroney says the big retailers
delineate further to prepare their
space for shoppers. âAs a consumer,
a woman might be open to a product
she reads about it in a magazine,â he
explains. âIf that product is hard to
acquire, the same woman as a shopper
will probably not be as open to
it. If you want your client to think
like a shopper, make sure your retail
space is set up to enable that.â
Typically, salons with high product
sales train and even script their
stylists to become partners in retailing.
But there is a silent partner
working for you as well, and thatâs
the visual display. Itâs not a bad fallback
position to have retail sell itself,
notes Jonathan Loew, co-owner of
Design Display Group in Carstadt,
New Jersey. âSalons should think
about how to tell the productâs story
without necessarily relying on the
professional recommendation,â he
Owners talk a lot about providing an
experience for clients, and todayâs progressive
approach to retailing dovetails with
that goal. âPioneers in merchandising are
not designing the space around service,â
Alexander says. âTheyâre designing it around
an experience. Allied to great service, this
experience inspires consumers to buy happily,
return to the salon frequently and recommend
their stylist to friends.â
Panoramic View
If you have an open floor plan, youâre already
ahead in the visual merchandising
race, even if your square footage is limited.
âYou should expose the consumer to the
greatest amount of merchandising for the
longest period of time,â says Alexander.
When the consumer walks in, she should
be able to view multiple displays at staggered
heights. For example, in the forefront
she might catch a âtry-meâ counter,
she can see beyond that to a freestanding
gondola, behind that she spies a back wall
unit and, above it, a graphic sign that identifies the products.
Freestanding units create a slalom effect by
giving the consumer an indirect journey to the
desk. The height vision should allow the consumer
to see above the freestanding merchandise
to wall-merchandised units. An accent color
at the back of the retail will contribute in driving
people to the back of the retail store.
(Christie & Co. Salon Spa in New York City)
The ultimate goal of this panoramic
view is to lure the shopper to the back of
the store and ensure that she passes purchasing
opportunities along her path. Thatâs
why grocery stores stock milk and bread in
the back, continues Alexander, who urges
owners to likewise save the back of the
salon for your most essential, or perhaps
most popular, retail items.
Color psychology becomes important,
Alexander adds, with the spectrum of red
through purple/lavender stimulating the
brain to want to spend and buy. He recommends
choosing a tone within that palette
as an accent color to pop at the back of the
salon while keeping your walls neutral and
avoiding large areas of bright whites or
grays, which can cause fatigue or anxiety.
Lighting, too, plays a role. An illuminated
wall unit will capture the consumerâs eye
and focus her on the product.
Environmental psychology further has
uncovered cultural differences in the way
people move through a store. For example,
a simple habit like driving on the left or
right side of the road will determine which
way you tend to turn when you enter a
shopping milieu. While Americans look
along their right side, thatâs not true everywhere.
According to Eurisko research
(euriskodesign.com), this fact alone has
led U.S. airport space designers to locate
food outlets on the left and gift shops on
the right, predicting that people will cross
the aisle to eat but may not go as far out
of their way to purchase a gift item. Color,
too, is subject to cultural influences. While
U.S. brides wear white to symbolize purity,
in China and other Asian countries itâs the
funerals that are dressed in white, the color
of mourning.
As shoppers scan your retail selection,
youâll probably want to draw their attention
to a certain product youâre featuring in
order to, as John Moroney phrases it, âcreate
a need in the mind of your target client.â
You can use shelf-talkers, large âcheck me
outâ posters, visuals that repeat familiar
national advertising, spot lighting or even
just surrounding negative space. The idea,
says Moroney, is to make it disruptive so
that it calls attention to itself.
âYou can enter any room, and if the
lighting is low, the music soft and the walls
neutral youâll begin de-stressing without
anybody touching you,â says Alexander.
âThatâs the power of environmental psychology.
In retailing, environmental psychology
works if the furniture is spaced
out correctly, lighting is focused on the
product, graphic signs are highlighting the
merchandise, an accent color is place properly
and the smell in the air is congruent
with the product. That combination creates
a buying environment.â
Extend Their Stay
The longer you can hold the shopperâs
interest at the product shelves, the higher
the retail ticket is likely to be, agree the
experts. âPeople today are time-poor, not
cash-poor,â says Alexander. If you can
captivate them for a block of time, theyâre
likely to spend.
P&G makes it policy to measure this
dynamic. âThrough cool technology and
using people from our focus groups, we
are able to track where their eyes go and
where they linger on every display and ad
we create,â says Moroney. âIf their eyes
donât rest where we intend on the graphic,
we redevelop it.â
One way salons have been successful in
holding clientsâ attention is by providing a
sensory experience. Kiosks with âtry-meâ
samples involve all the senses in the purchase
decision as clients see, feel, smell,
touch and, in some cases, apply the product.
This can develop a powerful connection
between shopper and product.
Tasteful, festive holiday bags make simple
decorations that have the added impact
of reminding clients the salon is the
perfect place for last-minute shopping.
Donât Even Go There Sometimes following your gut instinct leads you off path, caution the experts. They list some frequent missteps:
Today, this interactive approach is going
high-tech. Loew suggests that salons might
set up a touch screen asking the client to
input a series of responses about her hair
type, and then the screen will recommend
products for at-home maintenance. A lower-tech
but still interactive panel could have
knobs to dial up or down within scaled
categories like oiliness/dryness, fine/thick,
virgin/color-treated and amount of daily
time spent on grooming.
Even simple electronic signage will keep
shoppersâ attention an extra few seconds,
Loew adds. âBattery-operated, low-voltage,
four-inch by seven-inch LED screens can
effectively tell a productâs story and keep
the consumer longer than a glamour shot
will,â he says.
Bullseye: Your Shopper
You know your clientele better than anyone.
Or do you? The information that emerges
from focus groups or from analyzing your
base of frequent, high-ticket clients may
surprise you. Moroney says you cannot
successfully retain people until you fully
understand who they are and what triggers
their buying habits.
âLetâs say you have a keep-it-simple
kind of client,â Moroney says. âThis is
not a trend-motivated, experimental client
who wants to get involved with a variety
of styling options. For this client, make
sure her needs are met for a shampoo,
conditioner and maybe the one styling
product she likes.â
A line like Sebastian goes for the opposite
consumer, Moroney continues. âWhen
we relaunched the brand nearly three years
ago,â he says, âwe very clearly targeted one
specific shopper: the beauty junkie. Sheâs
not a value shopper, but someone who wants
to be on the leading edge of trend. Weâve
learned that this person is attracted by the
packaging but hooked by the performance,
and the beauty junkie always wants to talk
about styling products.â
If your best clients are constantly asking
about whatâs new, build your retail visuals
around products that have just been added
to a line. If your clients love bargains, make
sure to alert them to special value opportunities.
Hip clients? Choose a hip line.
Luxury-leaning? Go for a classic high-end
brand. If you have a young clientele, infuse
your visual offering with the energy
of bold colors; older people prefer more
subtle palettes. âGet those colors wrong,â
cautions Leon Alexander, âand your clients
simply wonât relate to your brand.â
P&G research crystallizes the importance
of target merchandising. âFrom years
of testing, we know that a woman shopping a beauty aisle spends an average of three
to five minutes there,â says Moroney. âBut
she makes her purchase decision in under 10
seconds! What is she doing for the rest of
the time? Sheâs deselecting.â The quickest
way for her to zero in on what she wants
is to eliminate what she doesnât want, he
explains. If sheâs looking for a color-protective
conditioner for dry hair, she goes
through the product racks thinking, âNope,
thatâs not what I need,â to every item until
she finds her desired category, and then she
chooses from among the available products
almost instantly.
âThe lesson here is that a salon thatâs
trying to be all things to all people is making
the client work harder at deselecting
than at shopping,â says Moroney. âFrom
Barneys to Walgreens, most successful
retailers are laser-focused on who their
customer is.â
Sophisticated eye-tracking technology helps manufacturers understand where to place branding for maximum impactâwhich encourages the consumerâs eye to linger and prompts sales. (Estoterica Salon in Forth Worth, Texas, at left.) |
When you fashion your visual cues to appeal
to your key buyer, your look will attract
same-minded clients as well as âwannabesâ
who aspire to become that client, according
to Moroney. In addition, by designing
your retail around your best clients, youâll
keep them invested in your salon.
âThe real goal is reselling,â says Alexander.
âIf the majority of your business comes from
a regular clientele, youâre in the business of
reselling to them. They purchase a shampoo,
and the next time they come in you introduce
them to the larger size or an accompanying
styling product. Reselling to existing clients
is key to your ongoing success.â
Happier Holidays
Reality check, courtesy of retail design
consultant Peter Millard: âMacyâs and
Neiman Marcus will do a more beautiful
Christmas tree than you can ever do.â
Instead of putting up extravagant Christmas
decorations, which Millard labels âa huge
waste of money,â he suggests fulfilling your
clientsâ holiday shopping needs. With that
in mind, what are the best decorations?
Colorful bags.
âYour clients want to see the chic holiday
season,â comments Millard, who frequently
consults for Redken. âDonât be traditional.
You can do âholidayâ with metallics, lime
green and hot magenta instead of classic
red and green. Salons should be decorated
at each work station with beautiful gift bags
stuffed with beautiful tissue. When you
put that on 10 work stations, it looks like
Christmastime, but itâs not just a string of
lights. Display the bags in your window as
well, with low-cost ornaments or unique
holiday balls. Your wholesale florist has
tons of decorative holiday supplies. Or set
up a display with a candle as a gift-with-purchase
or even a purchase-with-purchase,
a concept pioneered by Estee Lauder. You
can charge a small fee for the candle when
purchased with a hair care product.â
Millard further prefers gift bags because
theyâre religiously neutral. âDecorating for
Christmas is too specific,â he continues.
âAlso, this time of year is less about whether
people celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or
Kwanza and more about its significance
as a season of generosity and giving. Help
your clients to tap into that, because the
salon is the perfect place to shop for the
people they put off until the last minute,
as well as for major people in their lives
like spouses. Because of the tight economy,
people are combining generosity with practicality.
Make the most of the fact that hair
care products are usable and practical, not
a waste of money. Put up a sign that says:
âLet us help you with your holiday stress.
We have luxurious necessities!â Next to it,
place a product bottle and maybe one nonbreakable
Christmas ornament.â
Serious retailing requires continuous shopping, with no breaks. All shelves should be in a line, since the eye loses focus with a break. (Christie & Co. Salon Spa in New York City)
Tell Your Story Visually
Visuals should always tell a story, says
Loew. When his firm works with MAC
Cosmetics, for example, his goal is to visually
feed the image that MAC already has
established with its customers. âAs much
as you can tell in that initial visual impact
is what I call âthe story,ââ Loew adds.
For a salon, the story can be distinguishing
yourself from other salons or separating
your professional products from drugstore
and department store hair care. Peter Millard
encourages owners to use signage to very
directly make those points. He advises,
âHave a sign that says, âOur products heal
your hair, and they arenât expired. We are
about beauty, not just about profits.â You
need to spell things out for people.â
People get bored easily, so visual cues
should change quarterly, says Loew. âThe
luxury product brands change every season
with new colors,â he says. âIf youâre in an
area with distinct seasons, you might change
the products you highlight according to
the humidity factor. When you switch the
products, your story changes.â
A quarterly wise schedule is about right,
agrees Moroney, who cautions owners
not to swap out a display more often than
the average client visit cycle since thatâs
wasted effort. Neither should you fret if
your most active guests have more than
one encounter with the same visual. âIt
takes people longer than youâd think for
ideas to register in their mind,â Moroney
adds. âThey might need to see it twice in
order to remember it.â


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SAN DIEGO – January 12, 2013 – The news this week about a National Institutes of Health study revealing that NFL star Junior Seau suffered from chronic brain damage, common to dozens of deceased former football playersm should have come as no surprise to anyone who follows the sport.
We have recognized for quite some time the dangers faced by professional football players, boxers, and other athletes who are subjected to repeated blows to the head, concussions, and various traumatic injuries. Studies have repeatedly linked concussions in football players to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the condition found in the NIH study of Seau's brain.
It is abundantly clear: hitting your head repeatedly over many years as a byproduct of participation in a sport is harmful to your physical and mental health.
The American Academy of Neurology published a comprehensive study in the September 2012 issue of the medical journal Neurology, which confirmed that repeated head injuries cause neurologic problems later in life. The study followed 3,500 retired professional football players and found that professional football players were three times more likely to have neurodegenerative diseases than the general population.
The study also found that professional football players were at a four times greater risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and found a higher incidence of players with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
What should be done to prevent head injuries in sports?
The question is not whether football, boxing or other sports are to blame for what happens to many of the athletes who participate. We know they are putting themselves at risk. The question is what we intend to do about it.
There are ways to make the game of football safer. Numerous suggestions have been made having to do with better equipment, improved helmets, reducing contact during practices, rethinking the nature of participation by youth and high school players, and even changing the rules to encourage a more open, less physical style of football like that played in the Canadian Football League, whose players aren't exposed to the kind of repetitive, vicious hits as their U.S. counterparts.
The same can be said for boxing or any sports where head injuries can be an issue.
But as long as we worship football and its athletes or any sport and its athletes; as long as we treat sports as a religion as we do football; as long as football plays a significant cultural role in the U.S., players will continue to sacrifice themselves and will continue to suffer traumatic brain injuries. We can slow them down, but we cannot stop them. The only way to stop them is for individuals to make the decision they will not participate in these pursuits.
This isn't going to happen.
The Goldman Dilemma
Researcher Bob Goldman began surveying Olympic athletes in the 1980s, asking whether they would take a drug that guaranteed them a gold medal but would also kill them within five years. More than half of the athletes said yes. When he repeated the survey over the next decade, the results were always the same. About half of the athletes were quite ready to take the bargain. This is now called the Goldman Dilemma.
Researchers recently started asking nonathletes the same question. In results published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in February 2009, just two of the 250 people surveyed in Sydney, Australia, said that they would take a drug that would ensure both success and an early death. The expected result was 20 percent.
What drives elite athletes to win at all costs is what drives the rest of us to watch their exploits, and reward them handsomely for it with money, fame and glory. When there is the kind of money involved in football, and boxing as well, with its multimillion dollar prizefights, it's easy to understand why an impoverished young man would be willing to game on the risk of suffering CTE or Parkinson's disease 50, 60 years down the road for the big payoff today; for the ability to feed himself and his family; for the fame and fortune athletic excellence and athletic courage can earn.
As a society and as individuals we could stop it. But we won't. Nine of the ten highest-rated single TV programs last year were football games including the Super Bowl, the most watched program in the U.S. every year with more than one-third of the population tuning in. Four of the five most watched TV programs in American history have been Super Bowls. Two of the three highest paid athletes in the world are boxers.
The duty to protect our children
If NFL commissioner Roger Goodell were to put into place tomorrow a litany of rules that would gut the game of the most potentially dangerous types of contact causing the vast majority of head injuries, the public would be up in arms.
What we can and must do, as we do with many dangerous activities in society, is limit the exposure of our children to them. What we don't know yet about brain injuries is exactly when the worst damage takes place. What if the damage is mostly being done during those first few pee-wee, Pop Warner or high school football games? It could be the case that the lion's share of the damage happens while the young brain is forming, not after a player gets to the NFL.
Emergency rooms now treat 175,000 kids each year for sports-related brain injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among high schoolers, the majority of such injuries are football-related. Now that we understand the long term effects of repeated blows to the head, head injuries and concussions, what parents would allow their sons to participate in youth football as it is now played? I would not, no more than I would let any child take drugs, have unprotected sex at an early age, or supply him alcohol and then hand him the car keys. The risk vs. reward is too great.
From the days of the Roman Empire, society has sacrificed its finest athletes for the sake of entertainment. Human nature will never change. Individuals can be fully informed of the consequences, as we now are about the lasting brain damage that looms for many football players, boxers and others. As adults, they possess free will and they must determine for themselves whether the trade offs are worth it. As children, we are responsible for them. We have a duty to protect them until they reach the age of majority when they have the legal right to pursue their desires, no matter how dangerous.
As the Goldman Dilemma shows, those with the internal drive necessary to become elite athletes will do so, no matter the cost. Fans will continue to cheer for them, worship them at the altar for fame, and pay them handsomely for it.
Gayle Lynn Falkenthal, APR, is President/Owner of the Falcon Valley Group in San Diego, California. She is also a serious boxing fan covering the Sweet Science for Communities. Read more Ringside Seat in the Communities at The Washington Times. Follow Gayle on Facebook and on Twitter @PRProSanDiego. Gayle can be reached via Google +
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Die Antwoord blasts Lady Gaga in outrageous new "Fatty Boom Boom" video
Apparently one does not simply invite Die Antwoord to be one's opening act on a major arena-headlining tour. At least not without consequences, as Lady Gaga has discovered.
Back in March, the South African rap crew was telling anyone who would listen that its former label, Interscope, had approached it with the opportunity to open for Gaga, who is apparently a Die Antwoord fan. The admiration is clearly not mutual. Yo-Landi Vi$$er and Ninja turned the offer down, and the latter explained his decision by saying that Die Antwoord's music is not "weak, superficial shit".
This was evidently not all he had to say on the matter, as the new video for "Fatty Boom Boom" makes clear. There's a Lady Gaga look-alike in it, but that's as much as I'm going to say. Wouldn't want to give away any spoilers. Watch it below.
Gaga's response, via Twitter (see above), has been relatively restrained so far, with the Mother Monster merely noting that her ticket sales in South Africa have been just fine without Die Antwoord on the bill.
I'm not a fan of pop music but Lady Gaga is pretty good as way as mindless club music goes. She at least doesn't lip synch or have all her songs written for her. Her lyrics are also a lot more impressive than 'kick you in the junk' Die Antwoord fail flow.
die antwoord are infinitely more interesting than lady gaga, also they aren't shilling their own perfume
the last best original film i saw came out of south africa too. original as in never ever done before, not a hommage, prequel, reboot or garbage stereotypical characters
Until this tactless, fuckery excuse for a music video.
2) an awfully mean reply to an offer most 'professional' musicians only dream about ?
3) What was that bug retrieved from Ms. Gaga and does it have some symbolic significance in SA culture? It didn't look like a cockroach, so I am a bit mystified?
4) I tend to think of Die Antwoord as a better version of Atari Teenage Riot with a stage show inspired by EARLY John Waters -- so not a big fan, but I enjoy tracks from SOS occasionally on the playlist.
5) Bruce Norris would certainly have issues with the gal's make up
Learn sumptin new everyday.
We could use that 3 piece outfit to help us cheer on the Caps against Portland this Sunday.....yippee ki-yay muthafu....
take their names away, look at what they're doing, and you can see where it's at.


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FOXBORO — The numbers across the board explain pretty clearly how the Patriots offense had a historic day on Sunday.
Tom Brady passed for four touchdowns and 432 yards, the fourth- highest total in franchise history. His quarterback rating of 151.8 also was the fourth highest in his 186 games as a starter.
Rob Gronkowski set a regular-season career high with nine catches (in 10 targets) for 143 yards and a touchdown. He was positively dominant early in the game.
Danny Amendola caught four passes (in four targets) for 122 yards and a touchdown.
Rookie Aaron Dobson continued his dramatic improvement with five receptions for 130 yards and two touchdowns.
Stevan Ridley had his first 100-yard rushing game of the season, piling up 115 yards and two touchdowns in 26 carries.
By the end of the day, New England had piled up 610 yards of offense, the third-highest total by any team since the AFL-NFL merger as it blitzed Pittsburgh, 55-31. Both the point and yardage totals are the most the Steelers have allowed in franchise history. Considering the problems the Patriots have had going into the game, it was a surprising day, to say the least.
"You don't wake up in the morning and think it is going to be like that," Brady said. "It's pretty sweet."
"We're clicking. We're clicking and it's awesome," Gronkowski said. "We've just got to keep working hard, keep improving and keep doing things like that."
"I'm not sure how it all happened. Maybe we got our inspiration from the Red Sox," said coach Bill Belichick.
Nearly a dozen members of the Sox organization watched the game from one of the luxury boxes after being honored in pregame ceremonies. "It just comes down to guys playing better, not as many mistakes, guys not missing blocks. That always helps," said co-captain Logan Mankins.
The Patriots set the tone early, twice jumping out to 14-point leads in the first half as Gronkowski, in particular, put on a show. He had seven catches for 119 yards and a touchdown by halftime. The Steelers came back with two quick Ben Roethlisberger-to-Jerricho Cotchery touchdown passes to tie the score at 24 midway through the third quarter.
New England responded by piling up 31 points in the final 18 minutes and turning it into a runaway. It was an impressive performance under any circumstances, but all the more so because of the way the Pats had been playing and because of the Steeler history of being such a good defensive team. The Pats made Pittsburgh look old and slow.
"It was fun. It was fun to watch on the sideline and fun to contribute," said Chandler Jones, who had two more sacks to raise his total for the season to 81/2.
"On the sideline, all we kept talking about with the way the offense was playing was that it was key to get turnovers or get stops to get the ball back in their hands," said Devin McCourty. "When we were able to do that, they kept putting points on the board. When they're playing like that, that's when we complement each other. We've got to get the ball back. We've got to pin them deep on kickoffs and you get to see all three areas play together and play good football."
Gronkowski put on a show all day. He caught three passes for 67 yards in one early drive, one on which the Pats failed on fourth and inches from the goal line and did not score. Gronkowski scored his team's second touchdown on a gorgeous 19-yard pass from Brady. It completed a six-play 67-yard march that began after New England stopped Pittsburgh on fourth-and-one at the New England 33.
Amendola had the first touchdown on a 34-yarder from Brady on which he was wide open down the middle. The Pats upped their lead to 17-3 and 24-10.
Two quick touchdowns in the third quarter, both on passes from Roethlisberger to Cotchery, pulled the Steelers into a 24-24 tie midway through the third quarter. It was all New England from there.
First, Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 32-yard field goal with 2:39 left in the third quarter to put New England back on top, 27-24.
The Pats drove 60 yards and 11 plays but had to settle for the field goal when Brady was sacked. Brady already has gone over the 300-yard mark in the air, the 55th time he has done that.
When Pittsburgh could not move, Julian Edelman returned a punt 43 yards, two yards longer than the kick itself. That gave New England possession on the Pittsburgh 34.
It was a quick march from there with Brady connecting on a back-shoulder pass to Aaron Dobson for a 17-yard scoring pass. Dobson made the catch as he was falling out of bounds. As good as that play was, it was not Dobson's biggest. That came when he and Brady connected on an 81-yarder over the top of the Pittsburgh defense to make it 48-31. LeGarette Blount joined the fun with the final touchdown on a five-yard run in which he appeared to be stopped and simply kept going into the end zone.
It was that kind of day for the Pats offense. Pittsburgh's old Steel Curtain defense no longer exists. But the vaunted offense that has made the Patriots one of the best teams in the league for the past decade looks as if it is on its way back.
And it was a game that shows why the NFL is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.


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Romanian cuisine is a diverse blend of different dishes from several traditions with which it has come into contact, but it also maintains its own character. It has been greatly influenced by Ottoman cuisine, while it also includes influences from the cuisines of other neighbours, such as Germans, Serbs, Bulgarians and Hungarians.
Quite different types of dishes are sometimes included under a generic term; for example, the category ciorbă includes a wide range of soups with a characteristic sour taste. These may be meat and vegetable soups, tripe (ciorbă de burtă), and calf foot soups, or fish soups, all of which are soured by lemon juice, sauerkraut juice, vinegar, or traditionally borş. The category ţuică (plum brandy) is a generic name for a strong alcoholic spirit in Romania, while in other countries, every flavour has a different name.
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In history of Romanian culinary literature, Costache Negruzzi and Mihail Kogălniceanu are the compilers of a cookbook ″200 reţete cercate de bucate, prăjituri şi alte treburi gospodăreşti″ (200 tried recipes, pastries and other household things) printed in 1841.[1] Also, Negruzzi writes in "Alexandru Lăpuşnenu": "In Moldavia at this time, fine food wasn't fashioned. Greater feast could have included few courses. After Polish borş, Greek dishes follow, boiled with herbs floating in butter, after that, Turkish pilaf, and finally cosmopolitan steaks".[2]
Cheese was known since Ancient history. Brânză is the generic word for cheese in Romanian. This word is from Dacian, the language of the pre-Roman population in the actual Romania.
The Dacians produced wine in massive quantities. Once Burebista, a Dacian king, angered by the wine abuse of his warriors, cut the vines, his people gave up drinking wine.[3] Legend says that the Dacian people, created their own beer.
With Romans, came a certain taste, rooted in the centuries for the pastry made with cheese, like alivenci, pasca, or brânzoaice. Introduction of porridge by the Romans, who eat millet porridge called polenta.
For two centuries and 76 years, Romania was under the rules of the Ottoman Empire. Turkish cuisine changed the Romanian table with appetizers made of eggplant, peppers or other vegetables, various meat preparations like spicy chiftele. And a unique procession of sweets, pastries combining honey and nuts, such as baklava, halva, and rahat, which is used in cakes.
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Romanian recipes bear the same influences as the rest of Romanian culture. The Turks have brought meatballs (perişoare in a meatball soup), from the Greeks there is musaca, from the Austrians there is the şniţel, and the list could continue. The Romanians share many foods with the Balkan area (in which Turkey was the cultural vehicle), with Central Europe (mostly in the form of German-Austrian dishes introduced through Hungary or by the Saxons in Transylvania) and Eastern Europe. Some others are original or can be traced to the Roman or other ancient civilizations. The lack of written sources in Eastern Europe makes impossible to determine today the punctual origin for most of them.
One of the most common meals is the mămăliga, a type of polenta, served on its own or as an accompaniment. Pork is the main meat used in Romanian cuisine, but also beef is consumed and a good lamb or fish dish is never to be refused.
Before Christmas, on December 20 (Ignat's Day or Ignatul in Romanian),[4] a pig is traditionally sacrificed by every rural family.[5] A variety of foods for Christmas prepared from the slaughtered pig consist of the following:
The Christmas meal is sweetened with the traditional cozonac, a sweet bread with nuts and rahat for dessert.
At Easter, lamb is served: the main dishes are roast lamb and drob de miel – a Romanian-style lamb haggis made of minced organs (heart, liver, lungs) wrapped and roasted in a caul.[6][7] The traditional Easter cake is pască, a pie made of yeast dough with a sweet cottage cheese filling at the center.[8][9]
Romanian pancakes, called clătită, are thin (like the French crêpe) and can be prepared with savory or sweet fillings: ground meat, white cheese, or jam. Different recipes are prepared depending on the season or the occasion.[10]
Wine is the preferred drink, and Romanian wine has a tradition of over three millennia.[10] Romania is currently the world's 9th largest wine producer, and recently the export market has started to grow.[10] Romania produces a wide selection of domestic varieties (Fetească, Grasă, Tamâioasă, and Busuioacă), as well as varieties from across the world (Italian Riesling, Merlot, Sauvignon blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Muscat Ottonel). Beer is also highly regarded, generally blonde pilsener beer, made with German influences. There are also Romanian breweries with a long tradition.
According to the 2009 data of FAOSTAT, Romania is the world's second largest plum producer (after the United States),[11] and as much as 75% of Romania's plum production is processed into the famous ţuică, a plum brandy obtained through one or more distillation steps.[12]
The generic name for cheese in Romania is brânză, and it is considered to be of Dacian origin. Most of the cheeses are made of cow's or sheep's milk. Goat's milk is rarely used. Sheep cheese is considered "the real cheese", although in modern times some people refrain from consuming it due to its higher fat content and specific smell.
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Disruptive technology leads to positive change
February 26, 2013 in Latest News
By Himanshu Palsule: Sage Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product Strategy
There are two distinct global trends shaping the technology landscape. Although the Internet has disrupted the value chain and workflow, as we know it today, it has created immeasurable opportunity and is shaping customer requirements. Choice and flexibility top the list of most users today. We no longer have a classic business model within a structured workday. Customers are often remote and disconnected, thus demanding access anywhere, any time and on any device.
This has lead to a significant transformation strategy for the Sage group, if not the entire technology industry. It has also accelerated innovation and brought about a new way of thinking. We get accounting and we get ERP. The challenge we set for ourselves was to understand our customers even better and what they wanted going forward.
Taking complexity out was a key requirement. A testament to the new way of doing business was our customers asking us to stop doing things. There is clearly a case of feature fatigue and despite having asked for the numerous features, customers now want simplicity. Whether this is a result of a slowing economy or global complexity is unclear, but customers want simpler workflows and we will give it to them.
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Mention skyline and the Valley, and there's not much to boast about aside from a strip of buildings on Phoenix's Central Avenue. Mention skyline and the East Valley, and you're likely to get a chuckle. But Tempe is poised to reshape the East Valley's skyline, if not its very identity and way of life, with buildings of 30 stories or more.
These buildings would rise from downtown, where three 30-story buildings are up for approval this week. Along Tempe Town Lake, city officials say there may be no limit to how high they'll let buildings soar.
The buildings represent a small but growing number of places in the Valley where people can live in a place that feels more like Chicago or New York City than the oneor two- story suburbs that have defined Arizona living.
Developers and Tempe's elected officials claim the highrise rush indicates Tempe is the true center of urban living in the Valley, surpassing Phoenix and its more impressive skyline.
"People are starving for that urban lifestyle," said Ken Losch, a principal at Avenue Communities, now building the 30-story Centerpoint Residential towers. "We've been behind the curve on this whole urban living thing."
Losch and Tempe planners envision a city where 10,000 residents or more will live in a vertical urban setting. They'll give up their cars most of the time and walk or take light rail. They'll eat at bistros and quirky restaurants. They'll shop at gourmet markets. They'll live in a place that will become more of a hub for entertainment or just hanging out to watch people.
It's something developers say downtown Phoenix can't match because it's so spread out and has lost so much of its history.
That may smack of biased boosterism, but an expert in urban issues agreed Tempe has a shot at creating an urban lifestyle in a way Phoenix probably never will.
"There is stuff to do in Tempe," said Joel Kotkin, who has studied the Valley and other urban centers. He's generally skeptical of efforts to urbanize dying downtowns yet sees Tempe as a logical place for that.
"There is a 'there' there," Kotkin said.
Tempe's downtown has grown more urban and tall over the last two decades, but the Tempe Butte and Hayden Flour Mill silos have long towered over everything. Several buildings have approached 10 stories in recent years, including the U.S. Airways building.
Losch's group won approval for four condo towers, including three at 22 stories. Since the city said yes, he decided the market demands more. He wants an upgrade to 30 stories, something that would bring 2,000 new residents. The City Council will vote on the matter Thursday.
The Valley didn't have many tall, unusual buildings until now because investors nationwide saw the area as a cow town, Losch said. Soaring property values and growth have brought more respect, money and a desire for something different, he said.
City officials have heard rumblings from other developers of 30-story buildings. The sudden jump in height may surprise some Valley residents used to suburban living, said Chris Salomone, who oversees downtown redevelopment efforts. But Salomone said tall buildings have exploded in other communities as people clamor for urban life.
"I saw it happen in San Diego and it blew me away," said Salomone. "I think it's going to blow people away here."
Kotkin isn't so sure.
He sees the high-rise proposals as developers playing "chicken." The market won't support many projects labeled as hip urban living, Kotkin said. The current trend is driven largely by investors who are skittish on the stock market and looking to make a quick buck in real estate, he said.
Rising interest rates will change that, Kotkin said. And once the projects are up, he predicted investors will sell, values will drop and the Valley will have only a hint of the urban lifestyle promised.
"In New York, you live in a studio because it's New York," Kotkin said. "People who move to places like Phoenix want a little bit of space, they want a pool. I don't think there's this kind of a demand."
The Valley can't duplicate the dynamics of the nation's biggest cities, though Kotkin said Tempe, Scottsdale and the Camelback Corridor in Phoenix will eventually develop their own brand of urban life. Valley leaders should be content with the suburban lifestyle and a few pockets of moderately urban development, he said.
"I think Phoenix has got a lot of dynamism," Kotkin said. "It's too bad the elites don't realize it."
City leaders say they're not after tall buildings for the sake of an impressive skyline. Market forces are driving the height more than anything. For Mayor Hugh Hallman, tall buildings are essential to the landlocked city's economic survival. Downtown Tempe needs a large resident base to get more businesses to generate tax dollars. Existing bars and restaurants aren't enough to justify years of city subsidies, he said.
City officials expect a steady flow of high-rise proposals downtown and along the lake. Tempe has outlined University Drive, the lake, Ash Avenue and College Avenue as the boundaries for tall buildings. Elected leaders aren't sure how high the city will rise within the boundary.
Councilman Ben Arredondo said the City Council hasn't addressed all of the issues that will come with density and height. Too much density could overwhelm the area with traffic and trigger the city to get rid of parking on Mill Avenue to allow another lane of traffic. That's just the tip of the iceberg, he said.
Hallman and other council members said they will judge each project on its own, but they generally favor what Hallman calls a "tent pole" skyline. That puts the tallest buildings in the middle and shorter buildings farther away. Centerpoint is at or near the top of that. As for the shores of Tempe Town Lake, that could bring an even more dramatic skyline.
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It's been said several times in the last hour or so, but it is worth repeating. That was a terrific game of football. Excellent goalkeeping, superb individual efforts and the vindication of Arjen Robben capped another year of Champions League Football. We end with some of the best pictures from a wonderful day. So many adjectives.
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Trent Hemphill, President and CEO, spent the first part of his life traveling all over North America in entertainer coaches with his family, the well-known gospel group, The Hemphills. It was a natural progression to entertainer coach leasing, as Trent and his brother Joey started what has become one of the top companies in the bus leasing industry.
Trent believes that the continuted success of Hemphill Brothers Coach Company will be based on exceeding the expectations of our clients. We do that through a combination of quality design, careful attention to detail and a world-class staff. Under Trent's leadership "Hemphill Quality" service is now an industry standard. This has resulted in many strong, long-term, relationships in the entertainment industry.
An honest and innovative leader, Trent has successfully guided this business to a record-breaking year of continued growth. The company has provided transportation for clients such as NSync, Ricky Martin, Britney Spears, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Cher, Ed McMahon, and George W. Bush, just to name a few.
Trent believes that one record-breaking year deserves another. He will continue to focus his time and efforts on maintaining established relationships, while acquiring the business of many more new clients in the years to come.
Joel W. Hemphill, Jr. (Joey), Chairman & Treasurer, has been around buses all of his life. When Joey and Trent started the company in 1980 with two old 1965 Eagles, Joey spent much of his time repairing the buses. This experience helped him acquire a talent for building and maintaining the quality buses that travel this country's highways today.
By working with many of the country's top entertainers, Joey has developed a reputation for building quality custom interiors that is synonymous with Hemphill Brothers Coach Company. Joey pays attention to the needs and desires of Hemphill clients, a key factor in the company's success.
Many of the artists who lease a new Prevost long term contribute to the design and layout of the coach, which is a key element in making Hemphill Brothers stand out from all other coach companies.
Under Joey's supervision and with the expertise of his qualified mechanics and interior conversion crew, the fleet continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
Although anyone who sees the interior of a new bus leaving the Nashville-based facility thinks it to be the most beautiful one ever made–one that could never be topped–Joey already has new plans for the next "best interior ever to be built".
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Mark started driving part-time for Hemphill Brothers Coach Company in 1985. Things quickly moved from part-time to full-time and over the next few years, he drove artists like Paul McCartney, Michael Bolton, Gloria Estefan and Natalie Cole, to name a few.
In 1993, Mark left the road to put his driving experience to work in the office assisting Trent in booking the tours and in the day-to-day operations of the company. As the fleet grew, Mark was promoted to Operations Manager where he assumed more of the responsibility of booking tours, hiring drivers and scheduling buses. He also developed specialized software and method systems for a better organized and smoother operation.
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Heather joined the Hemphill Brothers team in July, 1999 from Star Trax Celebrity Coaches in South Carolina where she was the Director of Leasing and Sales. A graduate of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, Heather worked in Marketing and Advertising before entering the Tour Bus Leasing Industry.


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Sandwich Youth Soccer will be dissolving as an independent organization and has requested that the Town of Sandwich Recreation Department take over the management and operation of their Youth Soccer Program. Both parties feel this mutual agreement will be best for the program. From this point forward the Sandwich Recreation Dept. will be taking all registrations at www.sandwichrec.com and will be running the 2014 fall program. All families that have already registered with SYS for the 2014 fall season will be transferred to the Sandwich Recreation Dept. and will not have to register again.
I would like to assure you that all Town funds, including all Recreation Dept. program funds, are overseen by bonded employees, and are scrutinized by the state Department of Revenue as well as independent auditors. Accordingly, all Recreation Dept. funds are managed with strong internal controls, which come with a complete set of financial checks and balances.
Sandwich Recreation is asking for support from all past and current volunteers to help make this transition seamless for the hundreds of participants involved in the program. We thank you in advance for your support and understanding in this time of transition and look forward to another great fall youth soccer season.
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Traders in the Citi Principal Strategies unit, led by Sutesh Sharma, would be reassigned to Citi Capital Advisors, which mostly oversees money for outside investors, said the people, speaking anonymously because the talks are preliminary. The bank would set up the traders as hedge-fund managers and seed their funds, then raise money from outside investors to redeem its stakes, the people said.
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In a new paper, by Alan S. Blinder, a Princeton professor and former vice chairman of the Fed, and Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, the economists argue that without the Wall Street bailout, the bank stress tests, the emergency lending and asset purchases by the Federal Reserve, and the Obama administration's fiscal stimulus program, the nation's gross domestic product would be about 6.5 percent lower this year. In addition, there would be about 8.5 million fewer jobs, on top of the more than 8 million already lost; and the economy would be experiencing deflation, instead of low inflation.
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The Tony Award winning musical Kinky Boots is currently one of Broadway's top-grossing shows, bringing in big audiences night after night. And later this year, people outside of New York City will finally get a chance to see the crowd-pleasing tuner. The first national tour of Kinky Boots will start off in Las Vegas at the Smith Center on September 4, 2014.
Based on the British film of the same name, Kinky Boots is about a young shoe manufacturer who saves his family business by focusing on making footwear for an untapped market — drag queens. The musical, directed and choregraphed by Jerry Mitchell, has a book by Harvey Fierstein and score by pop star Cyndi Lauper.
Kinky Boots can currently be seen on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 W. 45th Street), where it opened on April 4, 2013. Tickets are available at www.telecharge.com.
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Thu, Feb 21, 13 at 22:11
i just got some lotus tubes and was wondering when to put them in the pond it is 2 feet deep and 8 feet wide and how do i keep them until time to plant them any info is appreciated i also have some hardy water lilies that i got from lowes so i need to know when to put them in the pond also and they are in some kind of grassy stuff so should i take them out of that and put them in soil pot thanks sue |
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- Posted by frankielynn 7b (My Page) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 18:47
Zone 8, You are so lucky-it must be warm there. You can pot up your plants and get started. Search for what and how to pot up your lotus and lilies in this pond/water garden site. They have different needs and I remember reading some good instructions in days gone by. I ordered mine yesterday and can't wait for them to get here. Which lotus did you get? |
- Posted by whiteeaglesue 8 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 18:58
The whether is 40atmy nite and 60 in days. So is that OK temps to plant em |
- Posted by frankielynn 7b (My Page) on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 21:52
I have been doing a lot of reading about planting lotus and boy is it scary. I hope they wait to send mine until closer to warm weather. I like this web site the most-- http://water-garden-blog.com/planting-your-lotus-tubers/ I hope this will help. I wish someone with experience would write in. I also found good info by searching this web area. |
- Posted by whiteeaglesue 8 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 24, 13 at 8:18
I went ahead and planted mine yesterday so I hope its OK I put them in the pond about 6inthis deep so I guess time will tell it got 35my last nite. Thank u for the website it was informing. Will let u know if they make a it |
- Posted by catherinet 5 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 2, 13 at 17:21
I would probably put them at the bottom of the pond. As it warms up, bring them up. With a new lotus, the one thing you don't want to happen is for them to sprout leaves, and then it turns cold again. That can kill a new one. So I would just keep it protected as deep as possible, then bring them up when its consistently warm. |
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"Excellent! Reminds me of Christmas Eve... my Polish grandmother served these as part of a traditional non-meat 7 course meal. Loved these as a child! She would also stuff the crepes with chunky home made applesauce.... awesome.""


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Fez, High Atlas Mountains, Marrakesh
Ideal for families, individuals, couples, and groups of friends alike, this tour visits the highlights of Morocco: Fez, the Atlas Mountains and Marrakesh. Accommodation is at the country's most deluxe properties.
Begin in Fez, the intellectual and religious heart of the nation. Stay at an exclusive luxury hotel and explore the best of the city with your own private guide. Tour Fez el-Bali ("Fez the Old") and its medieval medina (old town), a UNESCO world heritage site crammed with narrow, winding streets, tiny squares and artisan workshops. Visit centuries-old mosques and universities, see the multi-colored vats of the open-air tanneries, and shop for traditional wares made from copper, ceramics and leather. Also visit Fez el-Djedid ("Fez the New"), built in the 13th century. Visit the Royal Palace and the mellah (Jewish Quarter), the largest in Morocco.
Next, spend two nights in the High Atlas Mountains at Kasbah Tamadot, one of Morocco's most acclaimed luxury retreats, best known for its traditional Moroccan design and stunning infinity pool overlooking the spectacular mountain views. While there, enjoy private visits to local villages and Berber markets.
Continue to Marrakesh, an ancient city of weathered pink buildings and orange groves at the base of the Atlas Mountains. Stay at the legendary La Mamounia or the exclusive Amanjena, a Moorish-style resort of gardens and reflection pools. During private touring, see the Djemaa el-Fna, a carnivalesque public square where water sellers, snake charmers, magicians and storytellers compete for an audience. Also see the Jardin Majorelle, stunning gardens created by French painter Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s; the Palais de la Bahia; the Dar Si Said Museum of Moroccan Arts; the Palmerie and the beautiful Jardin Menara, with its reflecting pools surrounded by a large grove of olive trees. Browse the city's most stylish shops and galleries, and dine at the finest restaurants.
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Walmart to Become Title Sponsor; Procter & Gamble Presenting Sponsor
ROGERS, Ark. - For the fifth consecutive year, the LPGA Tour will return to Northwest Arkansas and to Pinnacle Country Club in September 2011, tournament officials announced today. Similar to the timing of this year's tournament, the 2011 event will take place Labor Day week, Sept. 5-11. The 54-hole professional competition will take place Friday through Sunday, Sept. 9-11.
The tournament also announced a new name in 2011, the "Walmart Northwest Arkansas Championship Presented by Procter & Gamble", reflecting the fact that Northwest Arkansas-based Walmart has now become the title sponsor for the event with P&G becoming presenting sponsor.
"We give back locally in the communities where we operate, including Northwest Arkansas. We are proud to host the tournament and expand our support of it because the event showcases the beauty of Northwest Arkansas, one of the country's best-kept secrets," said Susan Chambers, executive vice president of Global People at Walmart. "We are committed to doing our part to help make our community one of the premier destinations to live and work."
Added Jay Allen, Tournament Chairman, "We're pleased with our progress in four years and the outstanding support we're receiving from sponsors, volunteers and fans from throughout the region. We are well positioned for future success in Northwest Arkansas, and on behalf of all those involved we will continue to grow the event and make it better in all aspects."
Said Jeff Schomburger, President, Customer Business Development for P&G, "We are proud of the tournament and the impact it has had on the quality of life in Northwest Arkansas. We're also thrilled, and believe it is in the best interests of the tournament, for Walmart to become the title sponsor with P&G moving to presenting sponsor. P&G remains fully committed to the event and looks forward to working closely with Walmart to take the tournament to the next level."
For the second straight year, the tournament will offer a total purse of $2 million in prize money, with the winner receiving a first place prize of $300,000. Relative to other LPGA Tour tournaments in 2011, this purse will make the Northwest Arkansas event one of the most competitive on Tour in 2011, according to tournament officials, including in comparison to the Tour's four "major events."
Allen added that announcements will be made in the coming months about other tournament-related activities, including charitable outreach, special events, and the player field.
For more information on the tournament, visit www.NWAChampionship.com.