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Chapter Getting 1 Good Recruits I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. —Larry Bossidy, Coauthor Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done C HOOSING THE RIGHT PEOPLE WHEN GROWING A HIGH-PERFORMING, PROFITABLE sales force is a significant challenge. When it's done well, the gains are considerable, because in our people lie most of our dollars. By selecting employees who have the right competen- cies and other attributes required for the job, organizations can build a high-performance sales force capable of sustaining future growth. Learning to apply the information you obtain during the hir- ing process to develop your newly hired employees will go a long way toward increasing the longevity of their tenure and reducing turnover. THE HIGH COST OF SALES TURNOVER How long does the average salesperson stay in a position? Top 1 salespeople will always be in demand, and their skills are eas- ily portable from one sales environment to the next. Losing them to a higher bidder or a more lucrative sales opportunity is too easy to be taken lightly. The cost of hiring a new employee for any position is signif- icant regardless of whether an employee is fired or laid off or leaves voluntarily for a different company. There are many for- mulas that have been derived through research to calculate such costs. They vary widely but range upward of 200 percent of an employee's annual salary. That includes not only the obvi- ous tangible costs of severance pay, vacation accrual, advertis- ing, and relocation, but also the costs of routine hiring practices such as résumé review, recruiter fees, interview time, assess- ment, and then new-hire orientation and training. Consider all the factors that contribute to calculating turnover costs. For each item, there are direct costs, for exam- ple, the recruiting agency or advertising fees, and indirect costs, such as the staff interviewing and administrative time. Some costs are even more unquantifiable; they might include customer dissatisfaction, poor employee morale, and loss of revenue during transitions. Here are just some of the costs you should consider when estimating your cost of losing a sales employee: ◆ Exit administration for voluntary separation or firing ◆ Recruiting ◆ Interviewing ◆ Hiring ◆ Orientation ◆ Training ◆ Compensation and benefits while training ◆ Lost productivity ◆ Customer dissatisfaction ◆ Reduced or lost business ◆ Lost expertise ◆ Severance pay 2 THE PERFECT HIRE Let's assume the average salary in a given company is $50,000 per year. If the cost of turnover is 150 percent of salary, then the cost of turnover in dollars would be $75,000 per employee leaving the company. For a mid sized company of 1,000 employees with a 10 percent annual rate of turnover, the annual cost of turnover is $7.5 million. What about a company with 10,000 employees? The cost of turnover is $75 million. Once you realize what it's costing, in both dollars and people assets, you'll want to take seriously how to reduce your turnover rate. So making the right hiring decisions and then supporting those decisions with targeted development is cru- cial to creating a high-performing sales team. REDUCING YOUR TURNOVER As you begin to look at ways to reduce your turnover, you should be able to answer all these questions: ◆ What is your annual turnover rate? ◆ What is your year-over-year average turnover rate? ◆ Can you tie significant changes in the rate to environmen- tal factors? ◆ Are there times during the year when people leave with more frequency? ◆ What is your turnover rate compared to your competition? Answering these questions will help you to understand all aspects of turnover within your sales force and provide insights in determining how to reduce turnover in your organization. PITFALLS OF POOR HIRING DECISIONS A Harvard University study reports that 80 percent of employ- ee turnover can be attributed to mistakes made during the hir- ing process. The implications are huge: up to 80 percent of your turnover can be blamed on hiring mistakes. The problem lies in the employee selection process. Simply put, when you hire people for the wrong job, they leave. Hiring the right people starts with understanding, describ- GETTING GOOD RECRUITS 3 ing, and correctly advertising the position you are hiring to fill. Starting with a definition of competency-based hiring, man- agers must learn how to define the soft skills and problem- solving skills required for the sales position, to assess, and to hire the best match. Know Why Your People Leave Be sure to conduct exit interviews and assess why your sales- people leave. While it can be difficult to get candid answers about personnel because often an employee who is leaving knows there is nothing to be gained (only lost) by saying any- thing negative, asking exiting employees to rate factors on a scale of 1 to 5 can point to the problems in a more objective and equally productive manner. You can ask them, for example, to rate the level of sales support, management support, fairness of sales goals, fairness of compensation, and so forth. Design your questions to determine whether you are creating an environ- ment that salespeople can thrive in. If you find those leaving feel that sales quotas are unattain- able, or that they can't live on their compensation between sales, or that they simply think they can make more money someplace else, you'll have a better understanding of what you can do to change the environment. INCREASE SALES FORCE RETENTION WITH BETTER HIRING PRACTICES There are hiring practices you can implement that will help reduce your turnover and increase retention of your best peo- ple. Here are a few: ◆ Make attracting high performers part of your ongoing busi- ness practices. ◆ Define your hiring criteria so that you hire the right people for the job. ◆ Learn how to screen résumés for top performers. ◆ Give your hiring managers the skills they need to do the job right. 4 THE PERFECT HIRE ◆ Gather the right kind of data to ensure your candidates have the requisite skills. ◆ Create a consistent and thorough interview and selection process. ◆ Hire salespeople by looking at three areas: (1) experience, (2) technical skills, and (3) soft skills and problem-solving skills. Hiring the right people starts with having a pool of quality candidates to choose from. THE JOURNEY TO THE XC INSIGHT SYSTEM I started my career in sales, and because I was successful, I eventually found myself working for a sales consulting firm, traveling the country offering companies sales training and sales talent management advice. What I found was that many of the companies I worked with didn't have the right talent matched to their positions and often didn't have the right sales leaders, either. So I suggested to the company I was working for that we could help our clients assess their talent, and these services would provide them value. Our company leadership didn't buy into the idea, feeling the company was profitable enough, and told me to continue doing what I was doing. Eventually, I hired an executive coach who exposed me to my first personnel assessments. I started to research assess- ment companies both to determine what tools were available on the market to assess talent and also to figure out how the tools worked, because I was convinced these kinds of tools would be crucial for companies. Eventually, I started my own company and had the opportunity to put into practice what I had learned about assessments. Initially, I distributed five assessment products that I felt were needed to get a complete enough view to determine whether a candidate was a good fit for a position. I knew that no single tool could do it, but using multiple assessments from multiple companies wasn't easy. Not only did I need to manage GETTING GOOD RECRUITS 5 all five assessment systems and learn to administer and score them all, but I also had to get certified and licensed in all these areas. After about two years, even with all the certifications and tools, I was frustrated. No one system had all the compo- nents I wanted. Some had one component but not another, while others containing the missing components assessed some overlapping attributes with others. Managing the results was even more difficult and required me to completely customize and computerize a reporting system. XC InSight System for Hiring and Developing Employees Is Born It was then I decided I needed to develop my own system, one that incorporated all the pieces of the assessments I was using as well as a vision I had for other attributes, and most important, additional ways to use the data and make the data more practi- cal to use. Thus began a six-year journey that started by learn- ing all the requirements to develop a well-constructed test. Based on more than 25 years of talent assessment experi- ence, my company, XB Consulting, was assessing multiple dimensions and providing some of the most sophisticated com- puterized reports available. Yet we knew there was so much more that could be done to coordinate data collection across multiple attributes and use the information collected in many more useful ways, such as: ◆ Provide more extensive assessments and results reports in a more efficient, user-friendly way, especially to make candi- date comparisons easier ◆ Create more applications for the assessments and their results, not only to hire the right people, but also to provide an easier transition into their company, as well as give ongoing development support ◆ Update the research to ensure the measures reflect the modern workplace Because I wanted to do it right, I hired nationally known scientists, industrial and organizational psychologists, and 6 THE PERFECT HIRE PhDs to build and validate the XC InSight System. The assess- ment system we developed complies with all the U.S. govern- ment Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (a joint effort to provide guidance for the correct use of tests and other selection procedures in accordance with applicable rules developed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and three other federal government agencies), the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Principles, and the American Psychological Association (APA) Standards. In addition to creating assessments held to the highest industry standards, the constant vision for development was translating data into meaningful, useful statements and visual graphics that anyone at any level could read, understand, and apply in real-world situations. We developed a new model for creating correlations among the data and applying the out- comes in new, more meaningful ways—an integrated system that displays the data from multiple aspects of the assessments, even multiple candidates, to present results in a highly read- able and understandable format. The final result is the XC InSight System for hiring and developing employees. Insights from XC InSight Development Today, XB Consulting Inc. provides top-talent management serv- ices and over 50 products to make companies more profitable by optimizing employee selection, productivity, and development. XB Consulting employs a trained team of expert coaches, train- ers, and assessment analysts who use the XC InSight System to improve hiring practices and provide tools for developing and maintaining high-performance workforces. The practices and advice in this book are based on the development and research for creating the XC InSight System and our international consulting experience in over 28 indus- tries. We share the results of our validation, the specific attrib- utes we recommend that you assess in hiring and development, and the best ways to combine assessments with other hiring and management practices. While these strategies are easier to GETTING GOOD RECRUITS 7 implement with the XC InSight System, the information in this book should help you improve your assessment practices for any size business, whether you are looking at using assess- ments for the first time or want to review your current practices and find new ways to apply the assessment results in a more efficient and productive way. HOW TO ASSESS FOR SOFT SKILLS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS There are many tools on the market that provide insights and information about candidates. Sometimes they provide surpris- ing results, and other times they confirm with certainty what a candidate's track record shows. While the XC InSight System incorporates multiple assessment methodologies so that report- ing coordinates and uses the results for greater efficiency, there are many assessment options on the market. Understanding their purposes and knowing what the assessments can measure will help any hiring manager make better choices and realize the many uses for the results. There are many types of assess- ments that measure a variety of attributes to ascertain the like- lihood that a candidate will be a good fit. A number of companies use more than one type of assess- ment because they view the information and the variety of per- spectives as an investment in better hiring decisions. Looking at as many job-related attributes as possible—attributes tied to successful job performance—will increase the candidate-to-job match and help you make a more informed hiring decision. A comprehensive assessment system includes assessments of both a candidate's soft skills, such as communication preferences, interpersonal skills, and other attributes that characterize how a candidate will perform in a particular job environment, and the candidate's problem-solving skills, the cognitive skills and knowledge to successfully perform the job. Too often managers hire for the technical skills and fire for bad attitudes. One of the chief advantages of using an assessment is hav- ing empirical and factual data—information that gives hiring 8 THE PERFECT HIRE managers something other than the candidate's word or a hir- ing manager's human interpretation when judging the top can- didates. When you use well-constructed tests, candidates can't cheat or guess at the answers they think you want for a good job match. Unlike an interview situation, where it's easy to rely on your gut instincts, the assessment will confirm or contradict what you learn from the candidate interview. Getting the right people into the right positions is only the first step. There are many other measures that contribute to employee longevity. UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING YOUR TALENT Too often hiring managers glean valuable insights into employ- ee preferences, strengths, and weaknesses during the hiring process and then fail to use the information as a resource to help develop and retain the employee. So rather than focusing exclusively on hiring, this book also simplifies developing sales employees by showing managers how to use the in-depth knowledge provided by assessments of sales employees. All that you learn during hiring can be used to continually improve the job–person fit. THE SOLUTION To hire the best, you need to use the best practices for making the perfect hire. This book presents the steps and information you need to determine how to hire, develop, and retain sales- people based on the research and best practices of the XC InSight System and the experience as a top-talent management company. It's not enough today to have the right skills and abilities. Top employees also must demonstrate the right fit with organi- zational culture, mission, and values. In other words, top employees exemplify your brand. Identifying top performers leads to: ◆ Increased productivity GETTING GOOD RECRUITS 9 ◆ Higher-quality work ◆ Reduced training time ◆ Higher retention ◆ Higher job satisfaction All these factors contribute to higher profitability for com- panies. Hiring for the perfect fit along with developing your top performers creates a top-performing sales team. MOVING FORWARD Creating a hiring strategy will help you to develop a process to recruit top sales people and to avoid a revolving door of hiring and firing. Most hiring decisions are made based on technical skills and experience. Assessing your candidates' abilities to perform the job, with the addition of soft skills and problem- solving skills, will allow you to match the top candidates to your job requirements and to your organization. Once you get top sales talent, you need to figure out how to keep them happy. Part of establishing your strategy includes investing time and resources to develop and retain them. The next chapter discuss- es the first step in the solution to finding the perfect hire: creat- ing performance standards or a clear definition for each job you need to fill. Excerpted from Katherine Graham-Leviss, The Perfect Hire. Copyright © 2011 by Katherine Graham-Leviss. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. 10 THE PERFECT HIRE
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Rock County is home to approximately a 32 +/- Million SF industrial and warehouse market, featuring available buildings greater than 100,000 SF. The majority of these buildings are located within minutes of an Interstate Interchange, providing access control amenities to ensure efficient in-and-out truck movements.
High bay, wide columns and the ability to accommodate single or multi-tenants are standard offerings found throughout Rock County's Distribution / Fulfillment Center inventory. Rail service, crane infrastructure, heavy power and onsite expansion room are some of the features commonly found among the County's Advanced Manufacturing property portfolio. Food Processing tenants can select from a wide array of existing food-grade properties. Meanwhile, back office or customer service centers have plug-and-play and/or "white box" offerings anchored within various Central Business District locations.
To accommodate emerging or smaller projects, regardless if office or production orientated, prospective tenants are encouraged to consider the Janesville Innovation Center (JIC).
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NFL reduces fines after appeals
PITTSBURGH -- The NFL has reduced the fine levied on Steelers linebacker James Harrison for his Oct. 17 hit on Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi from $75,000 to $50,000.
The league's appeals officer, Ted Cottrell, reduced the fine because he said Harrison understands the player safety rules and has made an effort to adjust his technique to play within those rules. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell supported the reduction.
Harrison's four fines this season for dangerous hits now total $100,000.
Harrison's agent, Bill Parise, also plans to appeal a $25,000 fine Harrison was assessed for a hit on Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick on Nov. 28.
Harrison sidelined both Massaquoi and returner-wide receiver Josh Cribbs with hits that caused concussions. He was not fined for the Cribbs hit. The teams meet again Sunday in Cleveland.
The NFL also reduced fines to defensive backs Dunta Robinson of the Atlanta Falcons and Brandon Meriweather of the New England Patriots for flagrant hits against defenseless receivers.
Robinson's fine was reduced from $50,000 to $25,000 and Meriweather's fine from $50,000 to $40,000.
The league announced several new fines Friday, including one on Tennessee right tackle David Stewart, who was hit for $20,000 for unnecessary roughness after hitting a Kansas City player "late and away from the play on two separate instances" on Sunday.
Indianapolis' Gary Brackett was fined $15,000 for roughing the passer, when he hit Oakland quarterback Jason Campbell in the head and neck area. Brackett was fined $10,000 earlier this season for a similar hit on Philadelphia's Michael Vick.
Oakland's Lamarr Houston was fined $12,500 for poking his finger in a Colts player's facemask near the eye.
New England's Jerod Mayo has to pay $10,000 for unnecessarily striking a defenseless Buffalo receiver in the head and neck area on a pass play. It was unclear if the fine was for a hard hit on Steve Johnson or David Nelson, both in the second quarter.
Minnesota quarterback Joe Webb was fined $5,000 for a major penalty when he pulled down on Philadelphia linebacker Jamar Chaney's facemask while running for a first down.
The New York Giants' Terrell Thomas was fined $5,000 for unnecessary roughness, when he hit Green Bay's Donald Driver late.
San Francisco's Ray McDonald was docked $5,000 for hitting St. Louis quarterback Sam Bradford in the head.
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The FOMC Talks and the Markets Shriek
The Fed held its monthly meeting to determine the course of the world over the past two days wherein it was decided that the current QE program would continue indefinitely. But, the rhetoric surrounding said indefinite time frame was apparently hawkish enough to send everyone scrambling for cash. In the wake of the press conference and statement pretty much everything that was not the US Dollar or the Chinese Yuan was sold with impunity. The yuan not selling off, at first blush, may seem strange but not until you look at SHIBOR rates and note the turmoil in the Chinese interbank markets.
China is attempting to break the back of its shadow banking system at the same time as the Fed is still desperately trying (and failing) to prop up the one in the U.S. So, in light of the Fed continuing with its $85 billion per month QE program and a macroeconomic picture that looks awful Bernanke is sitting up on the hill trying to talk his way out of the corner that he and the rest of the central banks have painted themselves into.
And they've used paint laced with contact explosives to do it.
The 10 year yield has exploded to the upside to 2.34%. I'm waiting for the Southeast Asian markets to open tonight and if those yields follow then expect the beginning of a real liquidity nightmare to unfold there in the next few weeks which could crater the economies of Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore in about an hour and a half or so. Good thing most of the banks there have low NPLs and high Tier 1 Capital ratios. By the time Bernanke is done with them they will need every penny.
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Direct TV bumps to Channel 1
bobbiewinJanuary 3, 2010
Starting a few weeks ago each time I press the mute button on Direct TV, the channel jumps to Channel 1. This has been happening on 2 of my 3 tvs ever since they added channel 1 to the Direct TV lineup. The tvs are 2 different brands. One has a Direct TV remote; the other has an Aurora MX950 Universal Remote. Direct TV claims it has never heard of this problem. Anyone else out there with this annoyance?
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after installing ATI driver (9.2,9.1, 8.12 or 8.10) on OpenSuSE 11.1 and configuring the driver I get blank screen and it is impossible to do anything. My graphic card is radeon hd 3870 x2, I...
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after installing ATI driver (9.2,9.1, 8.12 or 8.10) on OpenSuSE 11.1 and configuring the driver I get blank screen and it is impossible to do anything. My graphic card is radeon hd 3870 x2, I...
I`m running fglrx.
With latest driver will work. My card is working. I tried it on Slackware, openSuse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and it is working very well but only single GPU. I tried also to install wine and run some windows...
Please, is there any chance to remove "AMD Unsupported Hardware" logo? My graphic card (Radeon HD 3870 x2) is not supported but it is working with that logo, please help... My distro is Slackware 12.1
Does anyone know how to remove "AMD Unsupported Hardware" logo on ATI driver 8.4?? My Radeon HD 3870 x2 works with ATI driver 8.4 not with 8.5 but only when I add chipId
It`s not working on Mandriva so I have installed openSuSE and it is working , I just had to put chipId in xorg.conf and it is ok now :) Thank you very much
I have a in a bottom right corner...
I tried too, and still does not work heh
04:00.0 0300: 1002:950f
I tried with fglrx and I always get this error message
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:0) found
(EE) No devices detected
Fatal server error:
no screens found
But in ATI release notes for new driver says:
Note: The ATI Radeon HD 3870x2 series of product is currently not supported by the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite
pfff, ok :)
I am new with radeonhd driver and I just want to know is it possible to get 3D support on radeon hd 3870 x2 with new radeonhd driver , I really need 3D support for my card on linux...thanks
does anyone know is there any chance to get 3D working on linux with radeon 3870 x2
When can we expect 3D support for radeon hd 3870 x2 on linux?
When can we expect a 3D support for radeon hd 3870 x2 or it won`t be? Fglrx does not work for me on Linux, radeonhd does but with no 3D.
I am using now Mandriva 2008 but I can install openSuse 10.3 and Slackware 12. Which one is the best for catalyst.
Hello everybody,
please, can anyone help me with my radeon hd 3870 x2 card on linux. Which driver should I download and how to set it up? Is it possible to get 3D acceleration?I heard that I can`t...


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Stephen Curry News Archive
Stephen Curry, GS PG
Curry scored 25 points (8-13 FG, 6-9 3Pt, 3-3 FT) with four rebounds, six assists and one steal in 30 minutes Saturday.
Curry posted 38 points, three rebounds, 10 assists, three steals, and one block in 34 minutes of action Friday against the Grizzlies.
Curry scored 24 points (8-14 FG, 5-8 3Pt, 3-3 FT) with six assists, five rebounds and two steals in 28 minutes during Monday's blowout win over the Wizards.
Curry scored 24 points (8-18 FG, 3-6 3Pt, 5-5 FT) with three rebounds, three assists and three steals in the win against the Jazz on Saturday.
Curry continued to struggle Friday against the Pelicans, posting 16 points (4-17 FG, 6-6 FT, 2-10 3Pt) to go with two rebounds and 11 assists in 27 minutes of action.
Curry scored 19 points (5-14 FG, 2-6 3Pt, 7-7 FT) with nine assists, four rebounds and three steals in 33 minutes during Monday's win over the Lakers.
Curry returned to the Warriors lineup Saturday, scoring 25 points (8-15 FG, 6-10 3Pt, 3-3 FT) with three rebounds, 11 assists and three steals in just 27 minutes.
Curry will be given the night off to rest Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle's Rusty Simmons reports.
Curry scored 36 points (14-24 FG, 7-13 3Pt, 1-2 FT) with six rebounds, five assists and four steals in 36 minutes during Monday's win over the Suns.
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Reds Organization Report
The Reds are hoping the pitchers they've sent to the Arizona Fall League can step up and give the club better depth for future seasons.
The Reds are hoping the pitchers they've sent to the Arizona Fall League can step up and give the club better depth for future seasons.
For White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and others in the organization, Ryan Sweeney's performance after a September promotion was far more impressive than the numbers.
Infielder Ryan Theriot decided in 2005 he was going to hit righthanded, and not switch-hit — going against the wishes of the organization. The move paid off as Theriot batted .304/.365/.391 at Double-A West Tenn and made the majors.
In getting George Kottaras in the August trade that sent lefthander David Wells to the Padres, the Red Sox received an athletic catcher with power potential.
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Chris Narveson has bounced back after several injury plagued years.
The Nationals don't yet have a wealth of talent in the minor leagues, but two of their affiliates moved closer to Washington in this year's affiliation shuffle.
Carlos Maldonado's long wait to make the majors finally paid off in a callup to Pittsburgh.
Righthander Dustin McGowan will go to the Arizona Fall League to continue his search for a more defined role, and to continue to regain the strength lost from diabetes.
Righthander Edinson Volquez learned during his eight-week audition in the Rangers rotation: He may be a prospect, but he's still not a big leaguer.
The Phillies are making it clear that this will be a very important offseason for Gavin Floyd, who needs to show that he's worth the team's continued patience.
Shortstop Reid Brignac's goal coming into this season, his third as a professional, was relatively simple: He wanted to hit more balls with the fat part of the bat.
Jeremy Brown has improved defensively this year, which may help him make the majors in the future.
Only a strained arm muscle prevented righthander Brandon Morrow, the 2006 No. 5 overall pick, from beginning in earnest his fast ascent through the Mariners organization.
The Yankees credit Nardi Contreras for the improvement in pitching depth in their system.
First baseman James Loney hit .380 to win the Triple-A Pacific Coast League batting title, though he continued to show a glaring lack of out-of-the-park power.


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The Risk of Wealth and Income Gaps
The American Income and Wealth Gap
The issues and events represented in the broadening public discussions about "wealth and income disparities" or the "wealth divide" or the "1% and the 99%" are certainly top-of-mind for many people as we created this Hot Topic in October 2011. These are certainly not new issues, but for many Americans the Great Recession is intensifying some of the troubling aspects of income inequality and certainly the obvious wealth inequality in the USA today.
The essence of the American Dream has been about the assurance of equal access to quality education, the enjoyment of a good income ("living wages"), access to affordable healthcare, and the means to acquire a home of one's own.
These have been the traditional pathways to building personal and family wealth at least since years of the Great Depression. In the "Era of Prosperity," after World War II, the American middle class emerged in great numbers. Thanks to equal access to credit and capital, steadily increasing wage levels for workers, and reasonably-priced housing and durable goods, attaining higher levels of education, among other things, each generation could expect to be better off than the previous. Until now. What most Americans believed to be "financial fairness" for a rising middle class has been fading away since the financial sector crisis of 2008-2009, if not in reality, than in the perceptions of many people.
In contrast, the 1947 to 1975 years, as author Robert Reich points out in his book, "Aftershock," was an era when the benefits of economic growth were more broadly shared. But since 1975, the economic gains have been steadily concentrated in the upper income and wealth regions of the US economy, and the middle-class and lower income earners have been missing out on the dividends paid by (among other things) the end of the Cold War and the onset of globalization that followed.
Unemployment is stuck at the 9% level; and, many Americans are under-employed, working two jobs, or out of work for so long that they have given up on finding a job. Which leads to more financial stress on millions of families.
As the former Secretary of Labor writes, "None of us can thrive in a nation divided between small number of people receiving an ever larger share of the nation's income and wealth and everyone else receiving a declining share…" We agree.
Real opportunity and access – and not that portrayed today by certain pandering politicos – has been slipping away for millions of Americans. The Capitol Hill rhetoric does not square with the facts on the ground -- the statistics and facts and consumer surveys paint a different picture, first in the facts, and more recently, in the perceptions held by many Americans.
Not About Wealth Re-Distribution
This reality of diminishing economic returns is not about income or wealth re-distribution, or pursuing socialist or left-leaning political ideologies or policies, or schemes to tax the rich. This is about both the reality and perception of financial fairness and equity, and equal access to economic opportunity, which many middle-class and low-to-moderate income earners now believe is no longer the American Dream for them. This is a potentially dangerous social condition and one that our policymakers – or the fortunate affluent and wealthy -- should not ignore.
As this introduction is prepared, the Occupy Wall Street protests are in their third month, with hundreds of other cities and communities seeing demonstrations on their main streets. The protests so far have been peaceful and civil if not raucous at times.
The movement has spread to other countries. Earlier in 2011, citizen protests were staged in the Middle East – in the Arab Spring, young and old protested against repressive government policies and the lack of economic opportunity for the masses in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, and Syria. A major part of the complaints: lack of jobs, and lack of or unequal opportunity in terms of income and wealth-building, as well as the desire for more democratic rule.
There is now abundant news & commentary about the income and wealth divide in the United States, as well as a growing gap between rich and poor in many other countries. We are bringing you the highlights of this issue in this Hot Topic, because we believe that everyone should be tuned in to this critical social issue, which threatens the well-being of the nation, and individuals in all socio-economic categories. The solutions are not easy, or simple, or something government can prescribe. All Americans have to address the issues – and some of us will have to give a little to get back on track.
We cannot afford to lose the Millennial Generation (born 1975-2000) – the young people who seek the opportunities that their parents and grandparents enjoyed.
The editors have been focused on the issues surrounding the income and wealth divide for some time – this Hot Topic is being added to Accountability Central as the issues continue to gain momentum. We will be offering commentary in a running series, "The Divide – Danger Ahead."
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April 28, 2014 French economist Thomas Piketty's grim view of the wealth gapSource: SCMP
Thomas Piketty, the French economist who helped popularise the notion of a privileged 1 per cent, sounds a warning in his new book: The US economy has begun to decay into the pattern of aristocratic Europe of the 19th century....
April 21, 2014 Stop Obsessing Over Exorbitant CEO PaySource: Slate
Last weekend the New York Times published its annual list of executive compensation, with Oracle's Larry Ellison topping the charts at $78.4 million (and Disney's Bob Iger in a distant second, at $34.3 million). Pay packages have...
April 17, 2014 Is a global wealth tax the key to reducing income inequality?Source: Washington Post
Does 39.6 percent, which is today's top marginal tax rate, sound like the optimal top marginal tax rate to you? No? How about 80 percent? Not that either? Well, if you're concerned about reducing income inequality in the United...
April 16, 2014 5 Takeaways On Wealth and Inequality From PikettySource: Wall Street Journal
French economist Thomas Piketty has caused an international stir recently with his book about disparities in international wealth and income, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The widening gap between the very rich and...
April 9, 2014 New U.S. CEO-worker pay ratio regulation fraught with grey areasSource: Financial Post
Let the hyperventilating over CEO pay begin. Thanks to auto parts magnate Frank Stronach and the tidy US$52-million he pocketed in consulting fees from Magna International Inc. last year, the annual outrage over runaway CEO pay...
April 3, 2014 The Shocking Rise of Wealth Inequality: Is It Worse Than We Thought?Source: Business Insider
America's gap between the rich and the rest might be worse than we ever knew. Economists Emmanuel Saez, of the University of California–Berkeley, and Gabriel Zucman, of the London School of Economics, are out with a new set of...
April 3, 2014 U.S. Residents Paid 9.8% of Their Income in State, Local TaxesSource: Bloomberg/BusinessWeek
U.S. residents paid 9.8 percent of their income in state and local taxes in 2011, a slight decrease from the 10.2 percent a year earlier, according to a Tax Foundation report. The highest burdens were in New York, where residents...
April 1, 2014 How You, I, and Everyone Got the Top 1 Percent All WrongSource: The Atlantic
For years, I've been making the same embarrassing mistake about U.S. economic inequality. Sorry. I've written, over and over, that the most important divide in our wealth disparity was between the 1 percent and the 99 percent....
March 28, 2014 How rising student loan debt is widening the wealth gapSource: CBS News
Every month that Gregory Zbylut pays $1,300 toward his law school loans is another month of not qualifying for a decent mortgage. Every payment toward their student loans is $900 Dr. Nida Degesys and her husband aren't putting in...
March 26, 2014 The Wealth Gap Widens, As The Poor Lose GroundSource: Ideastream.org
Cities tend to be hubs of the extreme when it comes to income. In an urban center you will find the best-paid lawyer or banker, just as you will find folks relying on social assistance and public housing. The causes and effects...
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In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Murch explores how black southern migrants formed the Black Panther Party (BPP) during an era of expansion and political struggle in California's system of public higher education. The BPP started with a study group, she argues. In the face of social crisis and police violence, the most disfranchised sectors of the East Bay's African American community--young, poor, and migrant--challenged the legitimacy of state authorities and of an older generation of black leadership.
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Cavatelli with Mussels, Lillet and Dill
The perfect match for this creamy cavatelli-and-mussels dish: Muscadet, a coastal wine that's superb with shellfish.
Pairing: Briny, crisp Muscadet: 2008 Michel Delhommeau Cuvée St. Vincent Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Sur Lie.
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Pipeline repair may add $26M to $41M to cost of Carlsbad desal project
From $26 million to $41 million may be added to the cost of the proposed Carlsbad desalination project, to repair corrosion and other defects on a pipeline, the San Diego County Water Authority's board of directors was told Thursday.
The defects were found on a 27,000-foot section of the Water Authority's Pipeline 3, which will carry the desalinated water to the Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant in San Marcos, said Bob Yamada, the authority's water resources manager.
The cost would be added to the estimated $750 million the project will run. That estimate was provided by Poseidon Resources, the company that plans to build the project. The authority is considering a 30-year water purchase agreement with Stamford, Conn.-based Poseidon, which will finance the plant itself. Poseidon will be repaid by sales to the authority
The pipeline was built more than 50 years ago to bring in treated water. But it was rendered redundant by a newer pipeline, Pipeline 4, that can carry all the treated water imported, Yamada said. So the authority plans to use it to connect with another pipeline to be built with the project to bring the desalinated sea water 10 miles inland.
The 27,000-foot stretch of Pipeline 3 will be used to transfer the water north from near SR 78, where it will connect to a pipeline from the desalination plant, to the water treatment plant in San Marcos. The water pressure will be higher in some sections, and the flow of water reversed from the original direction, so the authority decided to inspect that portion to see whether it would hold up.
The pipeline looked overall "in pretty good condition" for one more than 50 years old, Yamada said, but it showed some isolated corrosion pitting. In addition, some parts of the pipeline didn't meet design criteria for pressure surges that might come from the desalination plant. Other parts have collapsed from round tubes into ovals because of stress.
The desalinated water emerges already treated, Yamada said; it will be temporarily stored at the Twin Oaks Valley plant to prevent any pressure surges from reaching the rest of the system.
In all, about 19,300 feet of the 27,000-foot stretch of pipeline "absolutely needs to be relined," Yamada said. The corrosion was detected with a magnetic flux leakage machine, commonly used in the oil and gas industry, Yamada said, and only recently introduced into the water industry.
The device "allows us to determine wall thickness for existing steel pipelines without having to dig up the pipeline and cut out sections of pipeline to physically determine that steel pipeline's fitness," Yamada said.
The machine found weak spots that otherwise would have required more costly physical inspection, Yamada said. Poseidon paid for the machine's use. Some spots where the machine indicated weakness were excavated. There was little evidence of corrosion at first glance, but more was found when the lining was removed to show the bare pipeline.
"The tool is telling us things that we might not normally pick up, even in an excavation, so we believe it to be a technology to be worth putting in our toolbox," Yamada said.


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Designing a sewing closet
I am beginning a new project and think the voices on this board can give me some good advice. I dabble in upholstery and have started to get a bit more serious. So I purchased a used PFAFF 145 H4 machine to handle heavy fabric. Now I need a place inside to keep this beast. I have a large closet--double louvered doors, about 6 X 3--that I am going to use to create a sewing closet. I would also like to tuck my Singer in there somewhere.
What are the must haves you guys would recommend?
google sewing room ideas and see what others have done.
I took the doors off my closet in the sewing room and have bookshelves and plastic cabinets.
In working with upholstery you will need a fairly large work area around your machine. That's why I would suggest a sturdy table for your machine that could be on casters and rolled out of your closet when being used and rolled back inside when you are through. A shelf on the bottom of one side might be the place to store your Singer. Remember, of course, that it has to fit in the closet with the doors shut so the measurements will have to be right. Lots of shelves overhead would be nice for storing your supplies. Think about transparent storage bins for keeping all the loose stuff. Keep in mind the higher you go with shelves the lighter the weight of containers. (I found that out the hard way) Also organization is key. Label your containers and keep like items together to avoid plundering through things to find something. Don't forget the back of the doors where you could mount a bulletin board for notes and ideas. (If the doors are the swing out kind) Have fun.after-all it's whatever works best for you!
If it's a beast, make a roll-around cart for it that can roll up to your work table so you aren't lifting it.
Look at the way good workshops have the proper height work bench, and small carts that roll into position with the tool permanently mounted.
A place for hanging material, on rods for heavy stuff and hangers for dress weight. Or folded on shelves.
A place for your iron and board.
A corkboard for pinning up pattern instruction sheets and apttern pieces as you use them (my mom'strick).
As many shelves as you can fit in there, sized for some cheap brand of plastic storage: shoebox size and maybe a bit larger for the notions and threads. Take a cone with you when you buy boxes.


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And this is why getting out the new consoles will help the pc side also. When the next gen Xbox games are finally on dx11.1 then straight ports to the pc won't have the same outcome.
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Well when this is on steam sales for $5 earlier the better, I bought the first two only because they were cheap and I thought I shoulda spent more, but hearing this I'll gladly spend $5 this time to max.
It's an Origin exclusive so it won't be released on Steam. I wasn't too interested in this game before but with this news, I wouldn't buy it if it was on sale for $1.
Dead Space is a franchise that'll be super-cheap on Steam in a couple months after release. i bought DS2 for like $2
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I hear that.. brings "lazy console port" to a whole new level. Doesn't exactly scream "buy me." Shoot "pirate me" is just barely a whisper. DS2 ran ok for me though; only problems I had were chalked up to wonky (at the time) ATI drivers, long since fixed.
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David Grossman began working on his novel To the End of the Land while his son Uri was in the Israeli Army. He hoped it would protect him. It didn't. Uri was killed, and Grossman's fiction explores the fragility of families, nations and life itself. More at NPR.org
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In the tradition of fine East Coast Diners,our mission is to provide good value, great "home-style" food, and friendly service at reasonable prices.Our goal is to be the best Diner within 100 miles. You can spend a lot more somewhere else, but why?
We offer a large variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner items. Our eclectic menu ranges from pancakes, omelettes and crepes to steak, burgers, seafood, asian and vegan/vegetarian. Santa Cruz Diner offers a full selection of wine, beer and espresso drinks and lots of yummy desserts. We truly have something for everyone.
It's the little things that differentiate us from the "chains" - such as coffee brewed from ground beans, real mashed potatoes, flame broiled burgers, seafood delivered fresh daily, thick hand-scooped milkshakes, and more.
We also try to provide superior service. As an "everyday" restaurant we understand the importance of repeat business and word-of-mouth referrals. Many of our servers have been with us for years and they really know how to make you feel welcome
The Santa Cruz Diner takes food safety seriously and we are especially proud of receiving and displaying the highest certification from our local health department. We also provide a good selection of healthy selections for those who prefer low fat, low salt, or vegan/vegetarian options. Since 2002 we have used only Soy oil in our fryers to provide good taste without unhealthy trans-fats
We are kid-friendly with a really interesting decor and a kids-play area. Santa Cruz Diner also offers a 15% senior discount to guests 55. We accept most credit/debit car ds.
When in town we suggest that you ask a local where to get the best selection, value, and quality for breakfast, lunch or dinner. We'll bet that you'll hear "try the Santa Cruz Diner"
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