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I have about 5 tomato plants in the garden. They have plenty of fruit on them. For the past 2-3 weeks the leaves have kind of folded in half. The wasps also have been going in and out of the folded leaves. Lots of wasps.
I cut off a leaf just now and saw some pinhead size (some smaller), brown little larvae. I think it's larvae, but they are moving around. They are football shaped. So maybe not larvae just tiny insects. No wings. They are on the top side of the leaf. I think this is going to kill my plants. Does anyone know what this is? I am in Colorado, about 5,700 ft. z5 |
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Clara emerged, looking a bit woozy. The Doctor brought her up to speed. Vastra explained that her people had a bitter enemy when they ruled the world: The Red Leech, a parasite that secreted a fatal poison. It had returned in Victorian Times as the Crimson Terror. Clara suggested they investigate the chimney, where they found Mrs. Gillyflower's rocket: She was planning to poison the air with the poisonous red substance. The old dame even had a cool piano-machine-slash-secret steampunk launch controls.
The Doctor found Ada crying, and took pity on her. He thanked her for saving her life, and insisted that her mother was not to be trusted. "I need you to tell me something," said the Doctor. "Who is Mr. Sweet?" She could not betray her mother, even after everything. The Doctor insisted that she join his squad: "There's something you need to know."
The Doctor and Clara faced off against Mrs. Gillyflower. "Mr. Sweet is always with us," she explained, noting that she had a very close relationship with her silent partner. Symbiotic, in fact…at which point she revealed a terrifying red lobster-leech-parasite hiding on her chest, with cold black eyes and a wide variety of sharp bits. (It wasn't quite as gross as the reveal of Kuato in Total Recall, but consider: This was Diana Freaking Rigg.)
"He's grown fat on the filth that humanity has pumped into the rivers," she explained -- a monster from prehistoric times, brought back to life by modern pollution, who gave her his venom in exchange for sustenance. "Mrs. Gillyflower, in the wrong hands, that venom could destroy the planet." She held out her hands, and delivered the line of the episode: "Do you know what these are? The wrong hands! Haha!"
She explained her plan: To explode the rocket in the atmosphere and destroy all of humanity. Her new Adam and Eves would step out into "a new golden dawn." The Doctor changed the subject: "Tell us about Ada." The story about Ada's drunk father was all bunk. Mrs. Gillyflower had experimented on her daughter, to discover an anti-toxin -- she had left her daughter blinded, covered in scars. Ada stepped in: "You perfidious hag! You piranha! You harpy!" She began to beat her mother with her cane. Meanwhile, Clara took advantage of the moment to cripple the rocket-launch controls with a high-tech weapon: A chair.
Mrs. Gillyflower led her daughter out at gunpoint. The Doctor and Clara raced to catch up with her at the rocket launchpad. (ASIDE: Am I crazy, or did the whole look of this last scene -- the tower, the stairs, the person falling to their death -- not-so-vaguely resemble a key scene from Vertigo? Could it be that the Doctor somehow brought Clara back to life in three time periods -- or rather, inadvertently caused the soul of Clara to inhabit the bodies of three different people? Am I just reaching? END OF ASIDE.) Mrs. Gillyflower made her way to the secondary firing mechanism, and fired the rocket. All was lost -- but the Doctor had friends. Vastra and Jenny had removed the red poison.
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RSA chief marketing officer Pete Markey is to join the Post Office under the same title, Marketing can reveal.
Pete Markey: to join the Post Office from RSA
Markey, who leaves insurer RSA after eight years at the group, will bring his extensive financial services experience to bear at the Post Office, which is increasingly active in the marketplace.
He will report to Martin George, the Post Office's chief commercial officer, who joined the organisation last year.
Markey, who will start his new role in May, told Marketing that he was excited about working for such an "iconic brand with a strong retail presence and strong portfolio of products". He also described George as an "inspirational" leader.
He said: "What's interesting is that the Post Office's product range stretches across the board – from telecoms, to financial services, such as credit cards and banking. There are a number of product types that I've worked on and a number that I haven't.
"The Post Office has 11,500 retail outlets, so that will be an exciting challenge."
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Markey added: "I look forward to elevating the Post Office brand to achieve its ambition of becoming a multichannel retailer that will meet the changing needs of its customers."
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The former More Th>n marketing director is a well-known networker on the marketing scene and often seen speaking at industry events.
Before joining RSA's More Th>n in 2006, he held posts including marketing communications manager of AA and direct marketing manager of British Gas.
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In particular, Sabean and Zito hit it off. Over the course of a rambling, confessional conversation, topping out at five hours, they talked about their successes and failures, their pasts and futures. "In the end, it was obvious we had chemistry," Sabean says. "Everything was said in such a natural and honest way. What you see is what you get. It was totally refreshing."
"Awesome," Zito says.
"Lights out," Boras says.
The pair excused themselves from the table, talking privately for a little less than an hour. "That just felt really good," Zito said to his agent. Boras talked about how the ballpark was a pitcher's park, and how a switch to the National League might benefit Zito's ERA, and how that curveball of his might be even more effective against senior-circuit hitters less prone to crowding the plate -- Boras talked about the logic of it -- but Zito was going by his gut. "I told Scott to go for it," he says.
Boras returned to the table alone, opening negotiations informally. After the Rangers later refused to raise their offer beyond $88 million and were dropped out of the running, Boras pitted Seattle and San Francisco against each other, but he was always mindful that Zito would be happiest with the Giants. After a marathon conference call that went into the early-morning hours of Thursday, December 28, he won the seven-year deal he had wanted, and with a record $126 million to boot.
"I think we served our client well," he says with a smile.
That night, Sabean rubbed his eyes and exhaled. "We haven't been that successful signing free agents for the past little while, and there was some stiff competition," he says. "We really wanted to lock him up for as long as we could. So there was definitely a sense of accomplishment afterward. And relief."
Zito had been oblivious to most of the drama. He was out with a friend at a Japanese restaurant when he received a text message from Boras: "We're waiting for executive approval on a contract." He thumbed back, his heart racing, asking for specifics. He nearly choked on his sashimi when he saw the terms light up his screen: 7/126.
"I ordered a lot more sake," Zito says. "I started to hang, bro."
That Friday, Zito passed the most foregone physical in sporting history. And the following week, he flew north to put on his new jersey for the cameras, the same jersey he would take home and hang in his kitchen.
He was nearly late after fog closed in on San Francisco's airport and his flight was diverted to Oakland, where he touched down in sight of his old haunts, "those memories so close to home," he says. Almost as a rite of passage, he had to drive back over the bridge across the water. "It was kind of symbolic, you know?" Accompanied by Boras and Sabean in front of reporters, he talked about that journey, about how short and how long it was. It was a poetic introduction.
"I'm thinking, It's Emerson!" Boras says.
Zito had struck a lighter note during an earlier conference call with the media. Asked about any changes he might make to his approach, he said, "I'm thinking about canning the curveball." He might as well have said that he was thinking about cutting off his left arm. Now, his jersey still on, as well as his stiff black cap, he draped that $126 million limb over the shoulders of his father and walked the concourses of his new park. It would be the last of the quiet for a while.
The reaction to the deal was mixed, the country's opinion split down the Rockies. "I call them label contracts," Boras says, the way Zito talked about his anchors. "They always strike nerves."
West, the Giants suddenly had reason for optimism. Sabean had found a counterweight to Bonds, an anti-Bonds. Life was breathed back into what had been starting to feel like a morgue. More than anything, Sabean had acquired hope.
East, especially in New York, the judgments were harsher. The Giants had overpaid for an above-average innings eater. Sabean took the shots personally. "Kind of ironic, given the money that's been spent there, the payrolls out there," he says. "There was some jealousy, I think, and that's all I'm going to say about that."
"There's no good that can come out of that for me," Zito says. "The only opinion that matters is mine, at least as far as my life goes. I already know that anything short of a world championship will be a letdown. I know what I need to do."
First, he just wants to absorb the colors for a while.
And next is Iowa, because he is forever on the hunt for more anchors, and because he needs them now more than ever. Last season, Bobby Kielty planted a seed in Zito's fertile imagination. Kielty had been an accomplished wrestler when he was in high school, and he told Zito stories from the mat. This weekend, two of the sport's powers -- Iowa and Oklahoma State -- will meet, and Zito wants to watch. "Bobby told me that there's no more intense sport than wrestling," he says. "When you get in there live, and you see these guys going at each other, the looks on their faces, there's nothing more intense. I'm going there just to take that in."
Zito throws some more clothes from his closet into his open suitcase, as though he's taking jump shots. It looks like a laundry hamper in there. A few minutes later, he zips up his half-filled bag and carries it upstairs, legging the steps two at a time, past Carlos Santana, past Sandy Koufax, past Cy Young, past Reggie White, past his number 75 in black and orange. He takes something from each of them on his way out the door. It's the same thing Boras and Sabean seem to have taken from Zito, the same thing he will soon mine from the twisted faces of college wrestlers fighting for their lives in Iowa. It's the feeling that flushes every collector when he's found what he's looking for, and all he can do is clench his fists and bite his bottom lip and let out a little noise that implies total satisfaction.
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Mass Spectrometer 9 (MS9) in operation in Humble Oil and Refining Company, Baytown, Texas. The system was used to identify and quantify compounds and compound types in petroleum, including oxygen-, nitrogen- and sulfur-containing compounds. From left: H. E. Lumpkin at operating console and "Jug" Daniels, Electronics Technician, making tests. CHF Collections.
The mass spectrometer has proven itself in the petroleum industry as an essential analytical and process control instrument. Mass spectrometers are currently entering such diverse industries as chemical, rubber, glass, air products, meat packing and food processing, metal, and aircraft products. —D. R. Lawler, "Analytical Applications of Mass Spectrometry," Ohio Journal of Science (1952), 150
Shortly after the commercial release of mass spectrometers during World War II, chemists were reluctant to accept mass spectrometry's value, especially since engineers were required to run and maintain the complicated machinery. One group of chemists who realized early the benefits of the technology worked in the petroleum industry. Earl Lumpkin, a mass spectrometrist with Humble Oil and Refining Company and later Standard Oil Company recalls the first publication about mass spectrometry in an industrial setting during World War II:
In about 1940, the first publication about industrial mass spectrometry was a paper by Herbert [C.] Hoover, Jr., and Harold [W.] Washburn, describing the CEC [Consolidated Engineering Corporation] mass spectrometer. It turns out that a lot of petroleum people were impressed with the instrument's analysis of methane, ethane, and propane. It could also separate iso-normal butane. All the oil companies then said, "Hey, this beats the old low-temperature distillation procedure—we must have one!" (Lumpkin, 9)
1951 memorandum on preparation of gas samples at Standard Oil (Indiana). CHF Collections. Click here for full size.
The instrument was being touted as a means to analyze and separate the complicated hydrocarbons—which had very similar masses—of which crude oil and petroleum are composed. With war needs paramount, chemists around the country pursued a variety of scientific research projects, one of which was the vital need for synthetic rubber. The urgency of war necessitated much faster scientific results. So the petroleum industry became involved with mass spectrometry without planning to do so, as the process for synthetic rubber used a petroleum hydrocarbon by-product for its starting material.
After the war the petroleum industry remained intrigued by the possibilities of mass spectrometry. Humble and other oil companies were some of the first widespread users of the new mass-spectrometry instruments. However, the young Ph.D. chemists joining these companies had little or no experience with the instruments. Burnaby Munson explained:
Hear Burnaby Munson: The University of Texas in Austin did not have one. I'd actually had a little bit of indirect [experience]. . . a friend of mine who graduated a year before me was working down in Baytown, in the research center, and he ran some mass spectra of some of the material, the pyrolyzate from acetylene, aromatic hydrocarbons, polynuclear [aromatic hydrocarbons] ones, and so forth and so on. He ran the mass spectra, and we just made some guess as to what the compounds were. But I didn't know a thing at all about it. You know, the mass spectrometry was not offered and was not discussed in my graduate analytical course that I recall anything at all about. (Munson, 17)
Even though the petroleum industries in the nearby Texas oil fields were using the new instruments for analysis, academics and the universities were slow to employ them. Consequently, incoming employees usually had never worked with the complicated and often mysterious-seeming machinery before. The petroleum industry required that its chemists, burgeoning mass spectrometrists, learn quickly, and these individuals readily embraced the new technology for the necessary petroleum-analysis work.
Detail of the CEC 103 Mass Spectrometer, Photograph by Gregory Tobias.
Before the adoption of commercial mass spectrometers the petroleum industry faced crude-oil and by-product analyses that would take hours. During World War II this timeframe had proven unacceptable, and the new mass spectrometers reduced the time for a compositional analysis of crude-oil and by-product mixtures to only 4 hours. Previous methods had taken up to 10 hours to produce results. However, the CEC 21-101, introduced in late 1942, and other instruments were not a panacea. Seymour Meyerson described the early instruments as
...still really pretty primitive. For example, if you sat down to run a gas sample—and that was what most of the [petroleum] work was on the machine—running it would take maybe 15, 20 minutes. During that time you kept your hand on the potentiometer that controlled the filament current. And you kept looking at the meter that measured the ionizing current. And you kept jiggling the filament current in order to try to hold the ionizing current as steady as you could. (Meyerson, 23)
Functional separation and analysis of petroleum and its by-products required highly sensitive instrumentation because, as Earl Lumpkin proclaimed emphatically in his oral history, "Petroleum is extremely complex!" (Lumpkin, 12).
While the mass spectrometers used just after World War II were not as sensitive as petroleum chemists desired, they were more than happy to employ the new instruments for "quantitative gas analysis," even in a limited state. According to Meyerson, "That took us through the C-5s, light hydrocarbons, and fixed gases. Took us through the C-5s with all of the C-4 olefins lumped and all the C-5 olefins plus cyclopentane lumped. We felt we could tolerate maybe one- or two-tenths of a percent of C-6s without screwing up the analysis badly. And we just wrote it as C-6 and heavier on our analytical reports". With many petroleum by-products being larger than six hydrocarbons, this initial analysis was fairly limited. But even so, these instruments were better than no instruments. And while the first generation of mass spectrometers was restricted in its capabilities, chemists were excited about the instruments' potential. Capitalizing on this post–World War II interest in mass spectrometers, companies began not only producing more mass spectrometers but also improving on their current models. The two largest and most influential instrument companies making mass spectrometers were CEC in California and Westinghouse on the East Coast.
A vital part of Consolidated Engineering Corporation's mass-spectrometry operational team, Rock worked directly with chemists to improve instrumentation in the 1950s. Read More >
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OK. It started with my 7 year old being picked when he stepped off Test Track with his Grammy. After filling out some paperwork in the office inside Test Track (didn't know that was there. really cool) wewent home to pack an overnight bag. The Castle Concierge picked us up at our hotel and took us to the Magic Kingdom. We had a quick photo shoot and then went to be Grand Marshalls in the parade. It was so fun. Everyone was yelling my son, Noah's name. We had a special viewing area to watch the rest of the parade. After that we had escorts take us on Dumbo and the Teacups while we waited for the Castle Suite to be ready. Then up we went in the private elevator. Words cannot describe the suite. It was elegant and regal and they thought of every detail. 24 carat gold mosaics in the tub area, small painting of Cinderella in every nook and cranny, a telescope to look out on to the park, a magic mirror that turned into a tv, every Disney DVD imaginable (not that we had down time to watch them), a phone to call anywhere in the world and a 24 hour concierge, and a stocked fridge (no alcohol, it is still the Magic Kingdom). We were allowed to bring the rest of our family (6 extra people) up to see the suite. After soaking in the magic and taking a few minutes to absorb everything, we went downstairs for dinner at Cinderella's Royal Table. The fairy Godmother annouced us. After dinner we had 2 escorts to take us on rides with waiting on lines. Our magical night ended with the firewirks and then back up to the suite. Out kids were asleep in minutes and my husband abd I stayed up like two little kids still in shock from the day we had just had. In the moring we ended our adventure with breakfast at the Crystal Palace with Winnie-the-Pooh and friends. We were even given 3 fast passes for the next day because my son didn't get to go on Splash Mountain the night before. The people were all so amazing and I still can't believe we won. Before we left it was all my son talked about. I kept telling him not think about the castle because the odds were ridiculous and I didn't want him to be disappointed. He proved me wrong. It truly pays to have faith in your dreams.
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Submitted by cepivon on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 13:50How can we fight BIG MEDIA is the question. We have the "Alternative Media", and yes, we know so many are waking up, but how can we reach the mindless rest of the masses? I just talked to a former deputy this morning, and he still has 100% faith in Bill O'Reilly! I informed him of a few other "facts" about the bombing, and he listened, but I really am feeling at a loss as to what to do now.
We can see there is a powerful faction within our government that has and is using the power to control our Law Enforcement. We know that the FBI heads are part of this powerful faction. Did anyone see the movie "Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg? This whole incident reminds me of a totally controlled regime, from the FBI all the way to the White House & above.
I am asking for our next step, because we all saw that Law Enforcement is following their Superior's orders & on up, even if they don't like it, or even if they feel uncomfortable, they still follow orders. They need their jobs. Some are close to retirement. Others don't know how they would find another job. Still, more, others fear the perpetrators of the crimes we are seeing.
I believe there are GOOD COPS. I believe they recorded the older brother, plus the still photo, and uploaded it to the Internet. I also believe it had to have been a GOOD COP who took the photo of the younger brother as he stepped out of the boat, and also the photo AFTER he was captured showing an unconscious teen. How did this happen? There were NO JOURNALISTS allowed at that scene. Internally government-wise, people are struggling and fighting. How can we help these employees? Certainly, not "all" the FBI employees like what is going on, and the same may go for the ones who work at the CST, now that they must realize what really happened & how they are used, too.
What do we do from here? How can we fight this oncoming tidlewave of facism?
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Sorta makes me think of the first "Running Man" film
with those people who hijacked satellite transmissions and thus air time! (Dunno how realistic this is, however.)
Infiltration? Likely won't be effective or would take too long.
What would the Founders do?
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1) Buy the gift of internet TV for people. For example, Neo TV is $50 and will get you Netflix, Youtube, a browser so you can watch videos on dailypaul, etc. My mother did not want to give up cable. I made her promise to try a 'internet only' diet for one month and she loved it once she knew she where to find good video content.
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Extract: The fourth quarter is the best in the whole year, discounting exceptional impacts: the pace of growth increased in Latin America and consolidated OIBDA stabilised, after three successive quarters of sequential growth and increase in margins
The Executive Chairman of the company, César Alierta, highlighted the progressive improvement in results quarter by quarter, which reflects the implementation of a deep transformation in Telefónica, aimed at regaining sustainable growth of organic revenue and a continued increase in margins.
Telefónica announces its guidance for 2013 and reiterates the shareholder remuneration policy for 2013, of paying a cash dividend of 0.75 euros per share.
- The behaviour of net profit in 2012 compared to 2011 (-27.3%) is affected by a number of extraordinary impacts, which last year reduced this item by 2,536million euros. These included the adjustment of the value of the stakes in Telecom Italia and Telefónica Ireland, and the effect of the devaluation of the Venezuelan Bolivar. Without these effects, the consolidated net profit stood at 6,465 million euros.
- Between January and December, the free cash flow totalled 6,951 million euros, which guarantees ample coverage of the dividends announced for 2013.
- Revenues stood at 62,356 million euros at the end of December (-0.8% year on year, +0.7% excluding the impact of regulation). Particularly notable is the solid growth of mobile data revenues (+12.8% year on year) and the evolution of this item in Latin America (+5.5%), which accelerated in the fourth term to grow by +7.5% in organic terms.
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- Over the year as a whole, Telefónica's consolidated OIBDA grew by +5.1% in reported terms to 21,231 million euros, which places the OIBDA margin at 34% (+1.9 p.p.).
- Between January and December, Telefónica reduced its financial debt by over 5,000 million euros to 51,259 million euros, which means that the net financial debt to OIBDA ratio is 2.36 times. In addition, thanks to an active financing policy (€15,000M between January and December), the profile of Telefónica's debt maturities is now covered beyond 2014. All of this is compatible with the envisaged investments in areas of greater growth and the acquisition of spectrum.
- During financial year 2012, Telefónica invested 9,458 million euros, i.e. 14.2% of its revenue (excluding investments in spectrum). 81% of that investment was earmarked for growth and transformation projects.
- With regard to operations, Telefónica ended the year with a customer base that grew by +3% to 316 million accesses and the recovery of commercial momentum in Europe. Mobile customers totalled 247 million accesses at close of 2012 (+4%), with growth rates of +7% in the contract segment. At the end of December, Telefónica had 52.8 million mobile broadband customers (+38%) and had 18.6 million retail fixed broadband accesses (+3%).
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o Thanks to the new commercial strategy and the higher levels of efficiency and optimisation of resources, in the fourth quarter the OIBDA margin in Spain grew, year on year, by 5 p.p. , and for the first time in the last four years the quarterly operating cash flow increased (+7.7% year on year). - Movistar Fusión – which already has 1.5 million customers –marked a turning point in the Company's evolution in the country, boosting the growth of value services, as almost a third of the customers of Movistar Fusión have incorporated new mobile or broadband services. In addition, thanks to this service, in the fourth quarter the net gain in fibre customers accelerated (66,000 accesses), double that recorded in the third quarter, and in just one quarter the Company regained practically all the broadband accesses lost since the start of 2011.
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Telefonica UK ended 2012 with a total of 23.8 million accesses, up 4 percent year-on-year, driven by the higher contract mobile base. The mobile customer base was up 3 percent year-on-year to reach 22.9 million at end-2012, mainly driven by the mobile contract customer base (up 9% year-on-year). Contract customers accounted for 52 percent of the total mobile customer base at end-2012, up 3 percentage points from 2011. Contract net additions reached 282,000 in Q4 2012, up 61 percent year-on-year and up 37 percent quarter-on-quarter, to reach 961,000 for the year, up 118 percent from 2011. Prepay net additions turned positive in Q4 (+99,000 versus net loss in Q4 2011), boosted by the success of the new Pay and Go Go Go tariffs. Total prepay net additions for 2012 reached 697,000, of which 55 percent or 381,000 were in Q4.
Contract churn was 1 percent for the year and 1.1 percent for Q4, with prepay churn reaching 3.8 percent in Q4. Total churn improved 1.0 percentage points year-on-year in Q4 to reach 2.4 percent and 2.7 percent in 2012. Smartphone penetration reached 45 percent at end-2012, with more than 88 percent of contract handset sales in Q4 being smartphones. Tesco Mobile registered 174,000 net additions in Q4 to reach 3.5 million customers, up 19 percent from end-2011, of which 1.2 million are contract customers.
Revenue totalled EUR 7.04 billion for 2012, down 5 percent year-on-year, with mobile service revenues reaching EUR 6.06 million, down 8.6 percent. Excluding the impact of mobile termination rate cuts and new roaming regulations, mobile service revenues would have declined 4.7 percent in the year (-4.2% in Q4). O2 UK also had 377,400 fixed telephony customers at end-2012, up from 216,100 a year earlier, and 560,100 broadband customers, down from 620,300.
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I have an intermittant buzz coming from my service panel. The buzz lasts less than 1 second, and occurs as often as every 5 minutes or as seldom as once an hour.
I have removed and inspected all breakers, the bus bar and all wire connections with nothing unusual noted, so I figure it must be inside a breaker, but I don't know which one. I haven't had any breakers trip or fail, though this has been going on at least a year. Any ideas? |
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It is caused by something intermitently (sp?) pulling a heavy load ie, appliance, heater, sump pump, well pump, etc... |
I thought the same thing, but am now convinced that loads are not a factor. As a matter of fact the only time I can hear it is when I am home alone, the house is silent and nothing is running (no loads other than clocks, lights, etc) |
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I don't get it. Is lee1108 answering on pamela1963's behalf or are they the same person with two userids? |
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Sorry tom, lee is my husband and I didn't realize he was logged in when I posted....can you help me? |
Have you narrowed it down to one breaker in particular? That in itself can be useful. Replacing that breaker may just resolve the issue if it is a simple vibration you are hearing. It is not necessarily anything to be concerned about, unless it is arcing you are hearing. This may be caused by a breaker not clamping tightly to the buss and exessive heat can result. This can be checked by someone who is comfortable and competent to turn off the main breaker, remove and inspect each breaker, the connecting clip on the back and the buss bar surface where the breaker attaches. They should all be clean, not black pitted or otherwise burned or showing any signs of heat. |
Some circuit breakers will make a buzzing sound when approaching their trip point. Often, intermitent buzzing is caused by the inrush of a motor. Refrigerators draw about 4 times running current at start-up, and NEMA motors may draw anywhere from 4 to 6 times running current. High effeciency motors have greater inrush than conventional motors. The noise is caused by the magnet armature of the "magnetic trip" part of the mechanism. For 60 cycle power, the magnetic buzz would have a 120 hz frequency. This has been a design problem ever since manufacturers have been making circuit breakers for residential circuits. |
- Posted by pamela1963 (My Page) on Sun, May 24, 09 at 8:34
I have tried to isolate the breaker to no avail. I have sat out there (in the garage) for hours switching off breakers or groups of breakers and listening and waiting. Just when I think I have it figured out it buzzes again, no no matter what is switched on or off. It is difficult because it is so intermittant. I have removed and inspected all the breakers, bus bars and wire clamps, no pitting or blackness. The motor inrush theory makes sense, but it still happens when the breakers for all significant loads are off (fridge, freezer, ac, pumps, fish tank, tv, computer, etc) and nothing ia in use, nobody else home. The only loads would be clocks, a forgotten light or two and little transformers that stay plugged in like cell phone chargers. I'm not too worried about it, but I will be having other work inspected soon and I fear it will concern the inspector. Do you think he/she will be concerned? |
It depends on what the actual noise is. If it is an arc, the inspector should take notice. If it is the vibration that occurs with a loaded breaker, it does not mean anything. |
- Posted by pamela1963 (My Page) on Sun, May 24, 09 at 15:45
Thats exactly what I am trying to find out, what the actual noise is..... Can a trained ear (the inspector) tell just from the noise whether it is an arc or a loaded breaker vibration? Can anyone describe to me the difference in the sound? It sounds like "Bwwwazzzzzzzzt" and lasts less then a second |
The inspector or an electrician should be able to tell the difference instantly. One is a 60 Hz or 120 Hz vibration. |
Turn off _all_ of the breakers, see if there's still a buzz. In addition, I've known a talented housefly or two to make a very accuate imitation of an electrical arc. Have you explored possible non-electrical causes? |
- Posted by pamela1963 (My Page) on Sun, May 24, 09 at 22:20
Thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions and advice. I just pulled ALL the breakers again, inspected everything with a flashlight and magnifying glass and reinstalled. No pitting, no blackening, etc. I am satisfied that nothing is arcing. I also experimented again turning on and off breakers and testing loads. There is no buzz when ALL the breakers are off, but I still can't isolate it to one breaker or combination therof. There is also no correlation with deliberately created loads (fridge, pump, AC, etc) I give up, and I will wait for the inspector. |
Is the meter box on the garage wall, directly behind the panel box? If so, you might want to look in there. But let the POCO know you are cutting the seal, (or let them have a look). |
- Posted by pamela1963 (My Page) on Mon, May 25, 09 at 11:00
No, the meter box and main breaker are on the north end of the house. The load panel is in the garage on the south end of the house, quite far away. |
It will be followed by louder buzzes and less intermittency. When the buzzing gets so close it is almost constant then everyone gather around and watch.... KABOOM!!! Large mushroom cloud, electricity arcs and bellowing smoke. When it clears no more buzz. Have a hose handy just in case the house catches fire, but be careful not to hose the electrical panel. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Just joking. |
- Posted by shadetree_bob (My Page) on Tue, May 26, 09 at 23:10
You mentioned cell phone charger, my battery charger for my cordless makes that kind of buzzing sound. If it is one of these new smart chargers it will randomly charge the cell phone, hence the random buzz. |
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Dear Pamela: I am experiencing the same buzz however I am hearing it for the firt time 3/18/2011. How and what did your inspector find? How did you repair or elimnate? |
"I just pulled ALL the breakers again, inspected everything with a flashlight and magnifying glass and reinstalled. No pitting, no blackening, etc. I am satisfied that nothing is arcing." You cannot see the internal contacts of a breaker to check for arcing damage, just the bus bar (input) and load screw (output). |
- Posted by mustsolve53221 (My Page) on Sun, Sep 15, 13 at 15:28
It is a bad grounding system from your breaker panel. Call an electrician to install the 2 ground rods, Copper, at 5/8" thick. Use 6 gauge solid wire with no splits to the breaker panel on the bus bar on primary ground. FIXED. Check all water and gas pipe for leaks, fix if any. Call your license professional to do the work. Good Luck. This help anyone? |
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Sat, Sep 8, 07 at 22:42
Hi, I have a 1988 Ford Escort with 121000 miles and it overheats really bad in stop and go traffic. I use Pennzoil 10w30 in it. I was wondering if there would be any benefit of using full synthetic oil in my car, with the problem it has. Does synthetic help cool the engine down? Is there any other oil i should use? I appreciate any feedback. Thank you, Bob |
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febc synthetic oil is less prone to breakdown under high heat conditions. It sounds as though you have a airflow thru the radiator problem. Have you cleaned the radiator fins and checked your cooling fan for proper operation? I would probably concentrate on that area instead of changing to a synthetic oil, the stuff is expensive and really not much better than regular oil, the key to a high mileage engine is proper maintenance, when you have a overheating problem you best repair it immediately, your engine will not last very long if overheats no matter what oil you run in it. |
Ditto. Forget the oil, fix the problem. My money is on the electric fan. Changing to synthetic won't cool your engine. It will lighten your wallet. |
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I have had this angel wing for three years. First year fine, second year bloomed again, and this past year, it develops wonderful leaves that after a period fade out and drop off and no flowers.
Right now the canes are 12" long with two to three leaves at the very end of each cane. New leaves coming on and older leaves dropping off. Is this normal. There are no spots on leaves. What is going on with the leaf drop? And are the 6' angel wings I am reading about, denuded of leaves except for at the cane tips? Last question - Is the sticky stuff that drops off of these plants normal? I have had to move this plant to various locations, because of this characteristic. Thank you! |
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Kath, A lot of canes will drop their leaves when placed in a home environment. Humidity and light conditions are a major factor. Also they probably need a rest period anyway. When warm weather returns, moving them outdoors for the summer will return them to full vigor. Putting them under artificial lights while indoors will help tremendously. Canes will bloom best outdoors with lots of filtered light. The 6' angel wings you are reading about will probably experience the same thing as a 6" angel wing if placed in the same conditions. My small ones and large ones all look naked, spindly, and stunted through the winter. I usually keep all the sick-looking leaves picked off this time of year and spray for mildew - especially the mallet types ('Don Miller', 'Maurice Amey', 'Looking Glass', 'Sinbad', 'Benigo'). Then in mid-April or early May I start moving them outdoors and start watering with a half-strength fertilizer. Within a few weeks it's hard to imagine they are the same plant. Sticky stuff? Sounds like you might have honeydew, a secretion from insects such as aphids, whiteflies, etc. Butch |
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I still remember my first begonia convention--if any of you have a chance I strongly encourage you to go!!!--and the tall begonias in the show. Before that I thought I had some pretty good looking begonias (and some not-so-good too!) but I had no idea that could be that gorgeous. I think Maurice Amey himself had grown some of the most outstanding ones, and they were sitting on the floor and over five feet tall with I think every leaf they'd ever had. The only name I remember is B. Ginny, and I've never been able to grow one even close to that size and beauty. No, they don't just have two or three leaves at the top. Fairly soon now, as you see new growth at the bottom, you can prune them back hard and get two stems for every one you cut back, and with enough light and water and fertilizer you can have beautiful plants with leaves to the base--but get rid of the bugs that are leaving 'honey-dew'. They are drinking the juices of the plant and are weakening it, and probably are a large reason for the leaf drop. |
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Will Smith is developing a remake of classic musical
as a potential starring vehicle for his daughter Willow.
The erstwhile Fresh Prince is developing the project in much the same way as he was behind the remake of
The Karate Kid
that starred his son Jaden.
That redo wasn't something we were overly enthused about, but it turned out better than expected, with a surprising amount of heart.
It also kerchinged big time at the box office, which must have helped this decision.
Smith seems intent on turning his family into a supergroup of megastars. Willow has previously starred alongside her dad in
I Am Legend
, and joined her mum, Jada Pinkett Smith, for a voice role in
Madagascar 2
You may well be familiar with the precocious moppet from her head-invadingly irritating single 'Whip My Hair' which was released last year.
It's not yet known whether the
story will be adapted to a contemporary setting, but it seems likely, as Jay-Z is in talks to handle the film's music.
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Robert Spoo has managed to do what few people have: intertwined his academic passions and turned the resulting marriage into a successful career. In another life, Spoo was a tenured faculty member in the English Department at The University of Tulsa in the 1990s. A Princeton University Ph.D., he served as editor of the James Joyce Quarterly based at TU and was publishing books and articles on the modern literary figures he had loved reading since high school. However, when one of Joyce's descendants began threatening scholars over copyright issues, Spoo began reading about intellectual property law. Soon, he found himself yearning for more knowledge and enrolled in the TU College of Law as a part-time student while continuing to teach in the English Department. After deciding to pursue a law degree, Spoo transferred to Yale Law School where he served as executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating in 2000, he went on to clerk for now-Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and practiced law in New York, Oklahoma and California. While working in San Francisco with Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, P.C, he joined a team of high-powered attorneys assembled to litigate a suit filed by Stanford University Professor Carol Shloss against the James Joyce estate. Spoo said Shloss was very successful in that the two sides signed a nonconfidential settlement in 2007 giving the professor "everything she asked for in her lawsuit and more." In June 2008, Spoo received the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award for "outstanding contributions and achievements in a career field," from Lawrence University, where he had completed his undergraduate work. Also in 2008, Spoo was offered another tenured position at TU – this time in the College of Law – "and I've loved it ever since," he said. Here, Spoo shares his insight and expertise with students while continuing to practice law as time allows. He teaches courses in contracts, wills and trusts, constitutional law and copyright law and even offers a popular seminar called Law and Literature. Perhaps most importantly, Spoo is writing as much as ever. He is finishing a book examining how copyright law affected modernist authors. "For the first 150 years of the United States, we were copyright pirates and our laws discriminated against foreign authors," he said. In fact, "Joyce lost his copyright in Ulysses in the U.S." Joyce sued pirate-publisher Samuel Roth in a famous case, and Spoo said he has obtained redacted copies of the original case files after tracking them down at the New York law firm that represented Joyce many decades ago. The return to TU brought Spoo and his wife back to the city where his twin daughters were born a decade earlier. Having grown up in Wisconsin, Spoo spends his downtime with his family and cheering for his beloved Green Bay Packers.


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amazing set of stories and photography. I think there is a bit of content that everyone can relate to. Enjoy
amazing set of stories and photography. I think there is a bit of content that everyone can relate to. Enjoy
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Their site's pretty cool. Lots of great stories on there.
Enjoyed that. Didn't read it all but will go back to it. I particularly liked what the interviewed neuroscientist had to say, as it pertained to the "What do you do" thread:
I'm a neuroscience researcher."
"If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?"
"Listen to your inner voice."
"You're a scientist. Isn't 'inner voice' a spiritual term?"
"Bullsh*t! You'll hear scientists talking about following their inner voice as much as you'd hear a musician or a priest."
"So how do you know which of your thoughts are your true inner voice?"
"All of them are! The question is-- how much weight do you give them? How much authority do you give your own thoughts? Are you taking them seriously? Or are you sitting in front of the damn tube letting other people tell you what to think?"


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Jodie Kidd
Jodie Kidd | |
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Jodie Kidd (born Guildford) is an English television personality and fashion model.[citation needed]
25 September 1978 inContents
Early life[edit]
Jodie was a showjumper as a child and attended St Michael's School, Burton Park, Petworth, West Sussex.[citation needed]
Jodie is the granddaughter from Hon. Janet Gladys Aitken's (1908–1988) third marriage (1942) to Major Thomas Dealtry Kidd.[citation needed] Jodie's mother, Wendy Madeleine Kidd (née Hodge), runs the Holders Festival on Barbados.[citation needed] Jodie's father is British businessman and former showjumper John Edward Aitken Kidd, a maternal grandson of the first Lord Beaverbrook.[citation needed]
Jodie has an elder sister, Jemma Kidd (b. 1974), who married Arthur Gerald Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, son of the current Duke of Wellington, in June 2005.[citation needed] She has a brother, polo player Jack Kidd (b. 1973), who is married and has several children.[citation needed] She has a half brother, entrepreneur Nick D'arcy Whiting (b. 1962) who is married to former model Sandy Whiting (née Lanthois) and has two sons, Oliver D'arcy Elvis (b. 1992) and Michael Ayrton Clifford (b. 1994).[citation needed] She has a half sister, Debbie Parris (b. 1964), who has two daughters, Astral and Amber, and resides in Barbados.[citation needed]
Kidd was 15 when she was discovered by photographer Terry O'Neil on a beach in Barbados.[citation needed] Her modelling career began when he introduced her to model agent Laraine Ashton.[citation needed] When Kidd began modelling at 16 there was an uproar – accusations were made that promotion of her slender figure encouraged teenage girls to become anorexic when they tried to mimic her looks.[citation needed] Her skeletal figure led to accusations, because she is tall 188 cm (6'2") and at the time her weight was 48 kg (105 lbs).[citation needed]
Kidd modelled with the leading models from Capellino to Chanel, Ernesto Esposito to Fendissime, Gai Mattiolo to Ghost, Lagerfeld to Malhas, Monsoon to Motorola and also featured in campaigns for Chloé 'Innocence' perfume and Yves Saint Laurent.[citation needed] She also appeared on the cover of Elle magazine in Australia, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden and the United States.[citation needed]
During an eight-month break in modelling, Kidd increased weight to become a size eight dress size. [1]
Kidd's many magazine covers include Elle in America, Portugal, Italy, Singapore and Sweden, British Vogue, The Face and Comme des Garçons.[citation needed]
Kidd's career as a television personality has included participation on Strictly Come Dancing 2008, in which she partnered with professional dancer Ian Waite; they finished in sixth place, and Kidd left the show in a "dance-off" against former model and television presenter Lisa Snowdon. In 2014, Kidd was a finalist in the BBC's annual cookery programme Celebrity Masterchef; she lost the championship to actor Sophie Thompson.
Personal life[edit]
Kidd's hobbies include polo, motor car racing, golf, and horse riding. She has also taken part in several rallies of the Gumball 3000. [2][3]
She drives a Maserati and is noted for completing the fastest Celebrity Lap on the Top Gear car show (Series 2 Episode 8 : 6 July 2003).
Following a year-long romance and engagement, Kidd married Internet entrepreneur Aidan Butler on 10 September 2005 at St. Peter's Church, Twineham, West Sussex. The couple split up after 18 months of marriage. [4]
In March 2011, Kidd announced she was pregnant with her first child, due in August 2011 with boyfriend Andrea Vianini, an Argentinian polo player.[5] She gave birth to a boy on 5 September 2011, whom they named Indio Vianini Kidd.[6] Kidd and Vianini split in the summer of 2013. Jodie married David Blakely, a former soldier and author in August 2014.[7]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
1997 | Prince Valiant | uncredited | ||
1999 | Mad Cows | Tracey | ||
2003 | Top Gear | Star in a Reasonably Priced Car | lap time: 1 min 48 seconds (Series 2, episode 8) | |
2006 | Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy | |||
2008 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Appears as herself to trace her family tree | ||
2008 | Clarkson: Thriller | Appears as herself to race Jeremy Clarkson in a Fiat 500. | ||
2010 | Countryfile | Presenter in December 2010. | ||
2011 | Top Gear | Guest in race – Top Gear UK versus Top Gear Australia – for the Ashes. | ||
2013 | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Competitor, against James Martin[8] | Series 3, Episode 14 | |
2014 | Celebrity Masterchef | Contestant. |
- ^ "Why are they famous? Jodie Kidd". The Independent (UK: findarticles.com). 25 October 1998.[dead link]
- ^ "Supermodel Jodie Kidd Wins Her First Ever Motor Race". Classic Driver. Maserati. 7 December 2004.
- ^ "Winter warriors". BBC. 14 January 2006. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- ^ "Jodie's marriage falls apart". Metro. 23 April 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2007.
- ^ "'Excited' Jodie Kidd expecting first baby , Latest celebrity news". Hello!. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
- ^ Exclusive: Jodie Kidd happy to announce the birth of her first child - hellomagazine.com
- ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2603925/Jodie-Kidd-shows-engagement-ring-reveals-ex-soldier-David-Blakeley-proposed-Rajasthan.html. Missing or empty
(help) - ^ Celebrity Antiques Road Trip: Series 3, 14: James Martin and Jodie Kidd at radiotimes.com
External links[edit]
- Jodie Kidd at the Internet Movie Database
- Jodie Kidd at the Fashion Model Directory


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Which Competitve Strategy?
The task of crafting and executing strategy is a core leadership function. It is the starting point to maximize opportunities created by change and transform your organization. A firm's strategy is the leadership's game plan for achieving its vision, mission, and goals. It defines how you attract and please customers, grow the business, compete, and operate the company.
Competitive Advantage
You have competitive advantage when your firm has an edge in attracting customers and in defending your market against rivals. To gain advantage you must persuade buyers your service offers superior value as compared to rivals.
Your value proposition is your promise to your customer. It is your firm's unique mix of price and service. Your choice is to offer, by contrast to rivals, a low level of service and price or a superior level of service at a premium price.
Five Competitive Strategies
The choice of strategies, according to Michel Porter, is differentiated by four elements: lower cost, differentiation, mass, or niche market appeal. The combination of these elements provides five strategies (see Figure).
How do I choose a strategy? Start by asking "Do I want my firm to be a mass or niche market player? Do I want to serve an entire market or a distinct small portion of a market?" For example, Air Canada and American Airlines are mass market players. They offer various levels of service to domestic and international travellers. By contrast, Porter Air and SkyWest focus on offering service within a distinct region.
Your next question is "Does my firm pursue a low-cost or differentiated model?" Low cost should not be confused with low price. You may be low cost but not offer lower prices than your rivals. Your firm may pursue a low cost option to discipline rivals or dominate a market segment. For example, firms such as UPS and Ryan Air are constantly seeking ways to drive down operating costs to maintain an advantage over rivals. By contrast, to differentiate your firm focus on service elements. Apple, for example, differentiates itself by offering sleek products with unique applications unmatched by rivals.
Low-cost Provider Strategy
Success in this strategy requires you focus on lower cost. Strive to achieve a difficult to copy cost advantage. Your value proposition may include only the bare essential service features. Your goal is to be the low-cost leader, not to be one of many low-cost providers. For example, Southwest Airlines is the sector's unmatched low-cost provider. Rivals have unsuccessfully attempted to copy its low-cost strategy.
A firm's low-cost advantage may permit you to price below rivals and attract sufficient price-sensitive buyers to increase total profits. The reduction should be less than the firm's cost advantage. Alternatively, you may maintain pricing and market share but use the cost advantage to earn higher margins and better returns on capital. Thus, low cost does not mean low price.
Firms whose strategy is to be the low-cost provider must: achieve and maintain a lower cost structure than rivals; emphasize cost reduction and control; stress market share. Market share may be pursued at the cost of profitability and lower margins. Some mass-market auto insurers are in this category.
A low-cost strategy works best when there is: vigorous price competition; the service is a commodity available from many vendors; it is difficult to achieve differentiation; the service application is standardized; switching cost is low; buyers have bargaining power; new entrants use low cost to build customer base. The risks are: the strategy can easily be copied; you become fixed on price, ignoring customer needs; technology opens cost reduction opportunities to rivals.
Differentiation Strategies
Differentiation incorporates a differentiating service that buyers prefer over a rival's service. You must differentiate your service and create value which is not easily matched. You must not increase your cost above the premium you can charge to achieve differentiation. The benefits of a differentiation strategy are: it commands a premium price; increases sales; builds brand loyalty.
This strategy works best when: service differentiation is based on value to the customer; few rivals have a similar approach; change in technology and product innovation are fast-paced; there is a wide range of buyer needs and applications.
The pitfalls to this strategy occur when: customers do not see the value of your service or its unique features; the service has more features than customers need; the premium charged is perceived to be too high; your service difference with that of rivals is not perceptible; service features are easily copied.
Best-Cost Provider Strategy
This strategy emphasizes low cost coupled with differentiation. The idea is to provide a high-end product at a lower cost than rivals and deliver a value proposition that exceeds customer expectations. You must be a low-cost provider whose price undercuts rivals and exceeds service expectations.
This strategy's competitive advantage consists in matching rivals on service but at a lower price. It can be a winner when the service features of rivals do not meet buyer needs or when they are value sensitive. The risk is you get squeezed from the bottom by a rival's low-cost strategy and from the top by a differentiation strategy.
Niche Strategies
In a niche strategy you can be a low-cost or differentiated provider. In these strategies your enterprise is riveted around a narrow market. The objective is to serve the niche better than rivals. You choose a market where buyers have distinctive preferences, special and unique needs. Your firm develops unique capabilities to serve these needs.
To be successful with a niche strategy choose a market large enough to be profitable and with strong growth potential. You need the resources and capabilities to serve the niche. It must be difficult for multi-segmented competitors to meet buyer's needs. Few if any rivals serve the niche. Your know-how serves as a defense from rivals.
This strategy has three risks. Rivals may match the niche provider's ability to serve the niche. Niche customer preferences may shift and become similar to mass market preferences. They may shift allegiance to a mass-market rival who offers a superior value proposition. The niche may become attractive to rivals placing downward pressure on price and upward pressure on service.
Which Competitive Strategy?
Each of the above strategies positions your firm differently in the market. It defines how you will compete and creates market boundaries. Each strategy defines where the firm will focus. Will it emphasize cost control, its value chain, R&D, and/or marketing?
Your strategy choice is tied to your business model. The business model defines how the firm will generate revenue and a cost structure that yields attractive earnings. The business model supports the strategy. For example, a low-cost, mass-market strategy necessitates having a business model that emphasizes low cost. By contrast, a differentiation strategy requires that the business model's value chain deliver a differentiated product at a price acceptable to buyers. In sum, the chosen strategy defines the business model.
Your strategy should not be based on choosing the middle ground, splitting the difference, or compromising. This rarely produces competitive advantage or a distinctive strategy. Compromise strategies are a sure way to end up in the middle of the pack, with a firm that has average cost, little by way of product differentiation, an average brand, and no prospects for becoming the industry leader. Having a competitive edge over your rivals is the primary contributor to above average earnings. To achieve sustainable competitive advantage you must make an unwavering commitment to one of the five strategies and firmly commit to its execution.
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ISAW holds many lectures, seminars, and conferences throughout the academic year. Seminars are attended by our PhD students and visiting scholars, and each scholar presents a lecture based on their current research. We also hold events in conjunction with many local and national organizations including the American Turkish Society, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Archaeological Institute of America. For a complete listing of upcoming events, please see the online events calendar.
Students and scholars are welcome to propose new events, lectures, symposia, etc. If you have a suggestion, please see Kathryn Lawson.