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At few moments since the end of World War II has downward pressure on prices been so great. Some of it stems from cyclical factors—such as sluggish economic growth in the Western economies and Japan—that have reined in consumer spending. There are newer sources as well: the vastly increased purchasing power of retailers, such as Wal-Mart, which can therefore pressure suppliers; the Internet, which adds to the transparency of markets by making it easier to compare prices; and the role of China and other burgeoning industrial powers whose low labor costs have driven down prices for manufactured goods. The one-two punch of cyclical and newer factors has eroded corporate pricing power and forced frustrated managers to look in every direction for ways to hold the line.
In such an environment, managers might think it mad to talk about raising prices. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. We are not talking about raising prices across the board; quite often, the most effective path is to get prices right for one customer, one transaction at a time, and to capture more of the price that you already, in theory, charge. In this sense, there is room for price increases or at least price stability even in today's difficult markets.
Such an approach to pricing—transaction pricing, one of the three levels of price management (see sidebar "Pricing at three levels")—was first described ten years ago.1 1.See Michael V. Marn and Robert L. Rosiello, 'Managing price, gaining profit,' Harvard Business Review, September–October 1992, pp. 84–93. The idea was to figure out the real price you charged customers after accounting for a host of discounts, allowances, rebates, and other deductions. Only then could you determine how much money, if any, you were making and whether you were charging the right price for each customer and transaction.
Pricing at three levels
Transaction pricing is one of three levels of price management. Although distinct, each level is related to the others, and action at any one level could easily affect the others as well. Businesses trying to obtain a price advantage—that is, to make superior pricing a source of distinctive performance—must master all three of these levels.
Industry price level. The broadest view of pricing comes at the industry price level, where managers must understand how supply, demand, costs, regulations, and other high-level factors interact and affect overall prices. Companies that excel at this level avoid unnecessary downward pressure on prices and often emerge as industry price leaders.
Product/market strategy level. The primary issue at this second level is pricing a product or service relative to the competition. To do so, companies must understand how customers perceive all offerings on the market and, most particularly, which attributes—product as well as service and intangible attributes—drive purchase decisions. With this knowledge, companies can set visible list prices that accurately reflect the competitive strengths (or weaknesses) of their offerings.
Transaction level. The focus of transaction pricing is to decide the exact price for each transaction—starting with the list price and determining which discounts, allowances, payment terms, bonuses, and other incentives should be applied. For a majority of companies, the management of transaction pricing is the most detailed, time-consuming, systems-intensive, and energy-intensive task involved in gaining a price advantage.
A simple but powerful tool—the pocket price waterfall, which shows how much revenue companies really keep from each of their transactions—helps them diagnose and capture opportunities in transaction pricing. In this article, we revisit that tool to see how it has held up through dramatic changes in the way businesses work and in the broader economy. Our experience serving hundreds of companies on pricing issues shows that the pocket price waterfall still effectively helps identify transaction-pricing opportunities. Nevertheless, in view of evolving business practice, we have greatly expanded the tool's application. The increase in the number of companies selling customized products and solutions or bundling service packages with each sale, for instance, means that assessing the profitability of transactions has become much more complex. The pocket price waterfall has evolved over time to take account of this transition.
Today, it is more critical than ever for managers to focus on transaction pricing; they can no longer rely on the double-digit annual sales growth and rich margins of the 1990s to overshadow pricing shortfalls. Moreover, at many companies, little cost-cutting juice can easily be extracted from operations. Pricing is therefore one of the few untapped levers to boost earnings, and companies that start now will be in a good position to profit fully from the next upturn.
Pricing right is the fastest and most effective way for managers to increase profits. Consider the average income statement of an S&P 1500 company: a price rise of 1 percent, if volumes remained stable, would generate an 8 percent increase in operating profits (Exhibit 1)—an impact nearly 50 percent greater than that of a 1 percent fall in variable costs such as materials and direct labor and more than three times greater than the impact of a 1 percent increase in volume.
Unfortunately, the sword of pricing cuts both ways. A decrease of 1 percent in average prices has the opposite effect, bringing down operating profits by that same 8 percent if other factors remain steady. Managers may hope that higher volumes will compensate for revenues lost from lower prices and thereby raise profits, but this rarely happens; to continue our examination of typical S&P 1500 economics, volumes would have to rise by 18.7 percent just to offset the profit impact of a 5 percent price cut. Such demand sensitivity to price cuts is extremely rare. A strategy based on cutting prices to increase volumes and, as a result, to raise profits is generally doomed to failure in almost every market and industry.
Many companies can find an additional 1 percent or more in prices by carefully looking at what part of the list price of a product or service is actually pocketed from each transaction. Right pricing is a more subtle game than setting list prices or even tracking invoice prices. Significant amounts of money can leak away from list or base prices as customers receive discounts, incentives, promotions, and other giveaways to seal contracts and maintain volumes (see sidebar "A hole in your pocket").
A hole in your pocket
Many on- and off-invoice items can easily lead to price and margin leaks. Here we provide a nonexhaustive list:
Annual volume bonus: an end-of-year bonus paid to customers if preset purchase volume targets are met.
Cash discount: a deduction from the invoice price if payment for an order is made quickly, often within 15 days.
Consignment cost: the cost of funds when a supplier provides consigned inventory to a wholesaler or retailer.
Cooperative advertising: an allowance paid to support local advertising of the manufacturer's brand by a retailer or wholesaler.
End-customer discount: a rebate paid to a retailer for selling a product to a specific customer—often a large or national one—at a discount.
Freight: the cost to the company of transporting goods to the customer.
Market-development funds: a discount to promote sales growth in specific segments of a market.
Off-invoice promotions: a marketing incentive that would, for example, pay retailers a rebate on sales during a specific promotional period.
On-line order discount: a discount offered to customers ordering over the Internet or an intranet.
Performance penalties: a discount that sellers agree to give buyers if performance targets, such as quality levels or delivery times, are missed.
Receivables carrying cost: the cost of funds from the moment an invoice is sent until payment is received.
Slotting allowance: an allowance paid to retailers to secure a set amount of shelf space.
Stocking allowance: a discount paid to wholesalers or retailers to make large purchases into inventory, often before a seasonal increase in demand.
The experience of a global lighting supplier shows how the pocket price—what remains after all discounts and other incentives have been tallied—is usually much lower than the list or invoice price. This company made incandescent lightbulbs and fluorescent lights sold to distributors that then resold them for use in offices, factories, stores, and other commercial buildings. Every lightbulb had a standard list price, but a series of discounts that were itemized on each invoice pushed average invoice prices 32.8 percent lower than the standard list prices. These on-invoice deductions included the standard discounts given to most distributors as well as special discounts for selected ones, discounts for large-volume customers, and discounts offered during promotions.
Managers who oversee pricing often focus on invoice prices, which are readily available, but the real pricing story goes much further. Revenue leaks beyond invoice prices aren't detailed on invoices. The many off-invoice leakages at the lighting company included cash discounts for prompt payment, the cost of carrying accounts receivable, cooperative advertising allowances, rebates based on a distributor's total annual volume, off-invoice promotional programs, and freight expenses. In the end, the company's average pocket price—including 16.3 percentage points in revenue reductions that didn't appear on invoices—was about half of the standard list price (Exhibit 2a). Over the past decade, companies have tried to entice buyers with a growing number of discounts, including discounts for on-line orders as well as the increasingly popular performance penalties that require companies to provide a discount if they fail to meet specific performance commitments such as on-time delivery and order fill rates.
By consciously and assiduously managing all elements of the pocket price waterfall, companies can often find and capture an additional 1 percent or more in their realized prices. Indeed, an adjustment of any discount or element along the waterfall—either on- or off-invoice—is capable of improving prices on a transaction-by-transaction basis.
The pocket price waterfall is often first created as an average of all transactions. But the amount and type of the discounts offered may differ from customer to customer and even order to order, so pocket prices can vary a good deal. We call the distribution of sales volumes over this range of variation the pocket price band.
At the lighting company, some bulbs were sold at a pocket price of less than 30 percent of the standard list price, others at 90 percent or more—three times higher than those of the lowest-priced transactions (Exhibit 2b). This range may seem spectacular, but it is not very unusual. In our work, we have seen pocket price bands in which the highest pocket price was five or six times greater than the lowest.
It would be a mistake, though, to assume that wide pocket price bands are necessarily bad. A wide band shows that neither all customers nor all competitive situations are the same—that for a whole host of reasons, some customers generate much higher pocket prices than do others. When a band is wide, small changes in its shape can readily move the average price a percentage point or more higher. If a manager can increase sales slightly at the high end of the band while improving or even dropping transactions at the low end, such an increase comes within reach. But when the price band is narrow, the manager has less room to maneuver; changing its shape becomes more difficult; and any move has less impact on average prices.
Although the lighting company was surprised by the width of its pocket price band, it had a quick explanation: the range resulted from a conscious effort to reward high-volume customers with deeper discounts, which in theory were justified not only by the desire to court such customers but also by a lower cost to serve them. A closer examination showed that this explanation was actually wide of the mark (Exhibit 3): many large customers received relatively modest discounts, resulting in high pocket prices, while a lot of small buyers got much greater discounts and lower pocket prices than their size would warrant. A few smaller customers received large discounts in special circumstances—unusually competitive or depressed markets, for instance—but most just had long-standing ties to the company and knew which employees to call for extra discounts, additional time to pay, or more promotional money. These experienced customers were working the pocket price waterfall to their advantage.
The lighting company attacked the problem from three directions. First, it instructed its sales force to bring into line—or drop—the smaller distributors getting unacceptably high discounts. Within 12 months, 85 percent of these accounts were being priced and serviced in a more appropriate way, and new accounts had replaced most of the remainder. Second, the company launched an intensive program to stimulate sales at larger accounts for which higher pocket prices had been realized. Finally, it controlled transaction prices by initiating stricter rules on discounting and by installing IT systems that could track pocket prices more effectively. In the first year thereafter, the average pocket price rose by 3.6 percent and operating profits by 51 percent.
In addition to these immediate fixes, the lighting company took longer-term measures to change the relationship between pocket prices and the characteristics of its accounts. New and explicit pocket price targets were based on the size, type, and segment of each account, and whenever a customer's prices were renegotiated or a new customer was signed, that target guided the negotiations.
For companies that not only sell standard products and services but also experience little variation in the cost of selling and delivering them to different customers, pocket prices are an adequate measure of price performance. Today, however, as companies seek to differentiate themselves amid growing competition, many are offering customized products, bundling product and service packages with each sale, offering unique solutions packages, or providing unique forms of logistical and technical support. Pocket prices don't capture these different product costs or the cost to serve specific customers. For such companies, another level of analysis—the pocket margin—is needed to reflect the varying costs associated with each order. The pocket margin for a transaction is calculated by subtracting from the pocket price any direct product costs and costs incurred specifically to serve an individual account.
One North American company, which manufactures tempered glass for heavy trucks and for farm and construction machinery, sharply increased its profits by understanding and actively managing its pocket margins. Each piece of the company's glass was custom-designed for a specific customer, so costs varied transaction by transaction. Other costs differed from customer to customer as well. The company's glass, for example, was frequently shipped in special containers that were designed to be compatible with the customers' assembly machines. The costs of retooling and other customer-specific services varied widely from case to case but averaged no less than 17 percent of the target base price (Exhibit 4a).
As with pocket prices, a fuller picture emerges when a company examines each account and creates a pocket margin band. The glass company's pocket margins ranged from more than 60 percent of base prices to a loss of more than 15 percent of base prices (Exhibit 4b). When fixed costs were allocated, the company found that it required a pocket margin of at least 12 percent just to break even at the current operating level. More than a quarter of the company's sales fell below this threshold.
Traditionally, the pricing policies of the glass company had focused on invoice prices and standard product costs; it paid little attention to off-invoice discounts or extra costs to serve specific customers. The pocket margin band helped it identify which individual customers were more profitable and which should be approached more aggressively even at the risk of losing their business. The company also uncovered narrowly defined customer segments (for example, medium-volume buyers of flat or single-bend door glass) that were concentrated at the high end of the margin band. In addition, it evaluated its policies for some of the more standard waterfall elements to ensure that it had clear objectives, accountability, and controls for each of them—for instance, it decided to base volume bonuses on stretch performance targets and to charge for last-minute technical support. By focusing on and increasing sales in profitable subsegments, pruning less attractive accounts, and making selective policy changes across the waterfall elements, the company pushed up its average pocket margin by 4 percent and its operating profits by 60 percent within a year.
The game of transaction pricing is won or lost in hundreds, sometimes thousands, of individual decisions each day. Standard and discretionary discounts allow percentage points of revenue to drop from the table one transaction at a time. Companies are often poorly equipped to track these losses, especially for off-invoice items; after all, the volumes and complexity of transactions can be overwhelming, and many items, such as cooperative advertising or freight allowances, are accounted for after the fact or on a company-wide basis. Even if managers wanted to track transaction pricing, it has often been impossible to get the data for specific customers or transactions. But some recent technical advances have helped remove this obstacle; enterprise-management-information systems and off-the-shelf custom-pricing software have made it easier to keep tabs on transaction pricing. Managers can no longer hide behind the excuse that gathering the data is too difficult.
Current price pressures should go a long way toward removing two other obstacles: will and skill. In the booming economy of the 1990s, robust demand and cost-cutting programs, which drove up corporate earnings, made too many managers pay too little attention to pricing. But now that a global economic downturn has slowed growth and the easiest cost cutting has already occurred, the shortfall in pricing capabilities has been exposed. A large number of companies still don't understand the untapped opportunity that superior transaction pricing represents. For many companies, getting it right may be one of the keys to surviving the current downturn and to flourishing when the upturn arrives. It has never been more crucial—or more possible—to learn and apply the skills needed to execute superior transaction-price management.
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Linda Satchwell Staff Writer 9/8/2010
Plumas District Hospital's board held its first post-Measure B election meeting Sept. 2. In fact, board members held two meetings: a special meeting and a regular monthly meeting.
The special meeting held two agenda items of note. The first was to discuss possible action following voter approval of Measure B and its impact on bondholders and the district.
The second was ongoing negotiations between the board and Chief Executive Officer Dick Hathaway over a new contract — his current contract has been extended through the end of September.
Tension in the room was palpable, with many members of the public in attendance from both sides of Measure B.
With district counsel Steve Gross on conference call, the discussion seemed to be going in a confrontational direction. Gross said he'd been in conversation the day before with Hathaway and Chief Financial Officer John Nadone, along with PDH financial advisor Gary Hicks and bond counsel Brian Quint.
They were in agreement, he said, that the tax cap posed "an impairment of the security of the bondholders that hold the $3.2 million in bonds ... those bonds were sold with respect to a security that constituted an unlimited taxing authority of the district to tax real property to generate revenue to pay debt service on the bonds," said Gross.
He said the board had adopted a resolution when the bonds were sold, which said that the district would "protect the security" of the bonds.
Further, the district is obligated to inform bondholders of "any material events that may affect the bonds or the district's ability to repay the bonds." Gross said he got a jump on this, informing the sole bondholder, United Health Group, through its investment advisor of the Measure B results.
They discussed the election and its potential effect on the security of the bonds and, he said, "We anticipate the bondholder will be extremely concerned about the impairment of its security and will request further assurances that the district will take any and all necessary steps to protect their security."
Gross suggested the likely necessary step "could be in the form of a lawsuit that challenged the validity of the measure."
Board member John Kimmel maneuvered the discussion onto more neutral ground. He first suggested $50 per $100,000 would be more than sufficient to service the $3.2 million in debt.
When Gross replied that even if it were sufficient today and, likely, into the future, "that doesn't mean that the security hasn't been impaired" if the bondholders wanted to sell the bonds. In that case, the bonds would probably sell for a significantly lower amount because of the tax cap, compromising the current bondholder's investment.
Undaunted, Kimmel looked for a solution that involved the hospital taking on responsibility for the bonds, "Would they give us the option to buy it back first?" he asked.
"I would think that would be an option you could probably talk with the bondholders about in lieu of some other action to challenge the measure," said Gross.
Board member Bill Elliott, backed up Kimmel's thinking, and also suggested the hospital could return the "$2 million in proceeds that we haven't spent. That would mitigate any risk," he said.
Though Gross didn't use the phrase "precedent setting," it did seem the hospital bond issue might be carving out new territory once again.
He explained the bondholder is a large investor, and a promise from the hospital to pay on the bonds might not be enough.
"Protecting the security" of the bonds is tied to the fear of a "ripple effect," Gross said. United Health Group "holds lots of investments from other agencies in California, and this kind of an action ... would be of great concern."
"We got the impression that the bondholder was going to look to the district to be proactive," said Gross.
When Kimmel asked if buying back the bonds would be considered proactive, Gross enumerated a number of possible proactive measures, returning to the possibility of a lawsuit against Measure B.
"It could mean buying (the bonds) back. Another option would be maybe make some further assurances to make the debt service payments.
"Another type would be, 'We think you really ought to be going out and taking legal action to challenge the validity of that measure.'"
While board member Valerie Flanigan and secretary Fred Thon appeared to consider that idea, Elliott and Kimmel remained undaunted in searching for an alternative that wouldn't challenge the Measure B tax cap, which voters passed Aug. 31 with 52.39 percent of the vote.
Elliott again suggested paying back the $2 million, adding, "$50 at that point would be more than adequate to service the last million."
Gross then seemed to back away from pointing to the inevitability of a legal challenge. "There may be several ways to handle it. I just wanted to let the board know we were proactive yesterday in trying to get ahead of the disclosure requirements ... to build on a good relationship ... to open up as many doors as we can to think about how we might creatively address the issue."
Kimmel hammered home the need to find an alternative to a legal challenge. "I, for one, don't want to be seen as trying to stop this vote from happening. The election was done. It's valid. It seems like some way we can work this out between us and the bondholders.
"I know it's put us in a difficult position, but to go back and try to challenge the legality of the vote is not somewhere I want to go."
After the meeting, tax cap proponent Skip Alexander, who sat quietly through the proceedings, said he was surprised and pleased with the way things went.
The board adjourned to closed session to discuss Hathaway's new contract. The session stretched past the 4:30 p.m. start of the board's general meeting.
Board president Dr. Mark Satterfield announced at the beginning of the regular meeting that the board would return to its closed session contract discussion at the end of that meeting.
At the close of the second closed session, there was no reportable action; contract negotiations continue.
The regular board meeting was notable for its lack of rancor, given months of anger and the marked, emotional division between what became known as the "cappers" and the "savers."
At the conclusion of the meeting, hospital directors each made remarks and, though there was some weariness and worry as to whether hospital employees might begin to jump ship because of the election results, most comments ranged from creative to conciliatory.
Bill Elliott said, "There is life after an election ... I'd like to see a group get together to ... propose some options."
He suggested several himself, including using money available from the $3.2 million and some further borrowing to renovate the existing building; merging with a larger hospital; or joining with another hospital district ("easier said than done"), most likely Indian Valley.
Elliott said he was very open to others' ideas. The advisory group he envisions would create a list of possibilities, with a short description of how each one could work.
John Kimmel said, "I want to be careful people don't think the vote is a vote saying 'We're not for the hospital.' I'd love to see why those 52 percent voted. I think it's important to know.
"Was it 'We don't want to afford it. We can't afford it. We think it's the wrong time. We think it's the wrong project. We don't use the hospital' ... or misinformation. I'd really like to find out."
Kimmel also said he wanted hospital employees to know the board intended to keep the hospital strong, and they shouldn't "leave our employment because they think this hospital is going downhill."
Val Flanigan thanked community members on both sides, including "Skip and the group for giving the taxpayer a voice." She hoped for a hospital advisory group similar to the Quincy Library Group, made up of community members, from both sides of the issue, who would "help figure out the future of the hospital."
Fred Thon lamented the wasted time he felt the board has spent trying to come up with a solution for the hospital ultimately rejected by the community.
Finally, Satterfield rather eloquently raised his concern that community fears over the depressed economy might be the catalyst for self-fulfilling prophecy. In stopping the new hospital building, he asked, "Are we creating the very thing we're most concerned about?"


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My boyfriend really enjoyed his new wallet. Best feature is how comfortable it sits in his front pocket;no bulk with plenty of storage space for all if his essentials.
This is the third Leatherology Money Clip Holder that I have purchased. I've had and used my first one for well over a year, and it still looks like near-new. Best are the quality leather, stitching that is still perfect, and the metal clip itself, which has maintained its original spring force, and hasn't weakened from repeated use like other similar products. I highly recommend this product.
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This wallet is beautiful! I can't wait for my husband to see it on Christmas morning! Even my 4 and 6 year old boys were impressed.
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It may be because it is new, but the credit card slots are too tight and removing the card is very difficult.
The money clip is as advertised, the card pockets are perfect and the money clip hold sufficient amount of cash. Excellent product.
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This is exactly what he wanted. He has commented several times on how much he likes this instead of a bill fold. Only thing he has to get used to is not having a bulky bill fold in his back pocket. Best gift I could of gotten him.
This replaces a similar money clip from another manufacturer. I carried it for many years and it became very worn looking. This money clips looks great and works very well. It is slim and compact. The card slots are very tight. Thus it is somewhat difficult to remove a card. Overall, I am very satisfied with it.
The leather itself is of good quality. It is very difficult to remove the credit cards from the slots, and items such as business cards fall from the open flap on the right. This replaced an older one from Ralph Lauren, for which I paid less, that is of much better design.
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My husband had one like this for years and it fell apart and I have looked and looked for him a new one and this fits the bill PERFECT. Love how soft the leather is and the personalization just topped it.
The money clip / card holder I received was exactly as pictured on the web site. It arrived in a timely fashion and was well packaged . The quality of the item seems excellent. If anything, I would have to say that the profile is a little thick to be carried in my front pocket , but that may be a personal preference. I have not had a bad experience with leatherology.
An awesome wallet indeed! My boyfriend loved the wallet, and now he doesn't have to carry around a single money clip. It fits nicely in the front pocket, just a suggestion for your man.... place the money clip facing down upright in pocket, so the smooth side is flush on your skin. (Feels better in this position). Beautiful leather and great monogram!!!
Overall, I really like the wallet. The leather is high-quality and the construction is solid. My only complaint, is that (for as thin as it is), its clip needs to be flatter (closer to the wallet base) in order to make it usable in the front pocket of jeans (works fine with suit pants). Also, wish this money clip card holder was produced in as a non-fold that included the clip, slots for cards and clear slot for drivers license (rather than bi-fold).
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text: Aug 14, 2013 15:19 Legislators spend surplus, cut one-time money Legislators spend surplus, cut one-time money Fiscal hawks dislike some provisions BY MICHELLE MILLHOLLON| Capitol news bureau Aug. 14, 2013 Comments In the hectic final hours of the legislative session, state Rep. Brett Geymann broke off a conversation and absentmindedly reached for a proffered pen to sign the state supplemental budget. Geymann, R-Lake Charles, quickly realized his mistake and shrank back, declining the pen and paper before him with a shake of his head. As a member of a faction of House Republicans known as the fiscal hawks, Geymann said he could not agree to the direction of dollars in a bill that takes care of lingering expenses in the current budget year — even though he helped broker the final product. Specifically, he objected to using a state government surplus for health care expenses rather than saving it for a rainy day. Moments later, though, Geymann and other hawks backed another budget bill that clashed with their principles. The House board lit up like a string of green Christmas lights as the fiscal hawks and the rest of the House voted in favor of a $25 billion state spending plan that relies on one-time, or nonrecurring, dollars to pay expenses that must be met year after year. "It took me awhile to get there, but again, in taking a step back and looking at all the accomplishments, I was willing to go one more time with a little bit of one-time (money)," Geymann said. The hawks — who consider themselves to be fiscal conservatives — cringed when Gov. Bobby Jindal offered a state budget loaded with roughly $500 million in one-time dollars for ongoing expenses. The governor planned to sell property, settle legal disputes and grab leftover dollars from funds that are supposed to be used for building artificial reefs, fighting truancy and treating traumatic brain injuries. The fiscal hawks blasted Jindal's plan as irresponsible because it relied on money not yet in hand. They also criticized the practice of using one-time dollars to pay expenses that pop up every year. The House purged those dollars from the budget. The Senate stuffed them back in. Haggling between the two chambers resulted in a state operating budget that relies on between $80 million and $100 million in one-time money for recurring expenses. The hawks voted in favor of House Bill 1, the spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1. No concerns were raised during floor debate about money not materializing and mid-year budget cuts resulting. Afterward, the hawks said they supported the budget because it now is on a diet after years of gorging on one-time dollars. "We're down to somewhere around roughly $80 million, down almost $400 million from the (governor's plan). We've made huge strides in that. We're getting near zero," said state Rep. Cameron Henry, R-Metairie and a fiscal hawk. Henry said the one-time dollars for recurring expenses are a large pharmaceutical settlement, property sales, fund balances and other legal settlements. The dollars include some of the same ones the governor proposed using. "(We have) comfort levels that this money was going to come to fruition. If some of it doesn't, we're looking at substantially less (in cuts)," Henry said. The budget also would be supported by money from a tax amnesty program, which aims to give taxpayers an incentive for settling their tax disputes with the state. Amnesty would run for three years. For two months this year, half of interest would be waived for taxes paid in full. In 2014 and 2015, taxpayers would get a 10 to 15 percent break on penalties. Legislators put $200 million from the first year of the program into health care even though economists predicted amnesty would not generate that much money. Geymann said amnesty is a short term solution, at best, and that he does not like relying on it. "This budget's not perfect, and it didn't solve all the problems, but I do think it's a big step," he said. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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presentation or sales pitch, from yiddish slang, implying phoniness or slickness, lack of substance with focus on style.
Grandma Zeidel gave her usual shtick for serving take-out for dinner instead of cooking, claiming that her oven was broken and the cleaning lady forgot to do the dishes again.
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Yiddish slang meaning "gimmick" that has come to mean "someone's signature behavior." In the 1940's, Jewish comedians in the Catskills referred to their comedy routines as their schtick.
"Joey's schtick is talking too loud."
โดย Mambo Jambo
01 กุมภาพันธ์ 2004
a routine. This could refer to a number of different things, but generally refers
to a type of comic routine.
Yiddish origin.
to a type of comic routine.
Yiddish origin.
I saw Don Rickles in an interview about
Toy Story 2 and he was performing the same old schtick, but he still was really funny.
Toy Story 2 and he was performing the same old schtick, but he still was really funny.
โดย G Canis
26 มกราคม 2004
Some's schtick is their patter, their sales pitch, their routine. It can also simply be something that person is interested him.
"I see Jim Carey's still trying to get by with that funny-face schtick..."
โดย Iain Cooper
25 มกราคม 2004
the party piece of an entertainer, patter, German - stueck. Enters English from Yiddish
singing is not my schtick
โดย klidenengro
04 กุมภาพันธ์ 2004
a routine or special ability, appears in the game Toon. examples are flight and hypnosis
buggie's schtick is hilarious, that or flying
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09 กรกฎาคม 2004
1.A girl who is slightly chubby but cute.
2. The border between a fat girl and a cute girl, while maintaining cuteness.
2. The border between a fat girl and a cute girl, while maintaining cuteness.
Damn! That girl is schtick. Look at those curves.
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Bruce Wadleigh, founder of Barnwood Naturals, shares the ins and outs of how his company turns old barnwood into new products.
Household Hazardous Waste
September 11, 2014
Host Beth Myers-Shenai, a waste reduction coordinator with Marion County, chats with guest Jeff Bickford, Marion County's Environmental Services Division Supervisor, to learn how the county deals with hazardous wastes.
Biodiesel Production
August 28, 2014
Guest: Tyson Keever, SeQuential Pacific Biodiesel
Sustainable Communities
August 14, 2014
Guest Jane Poznar, Site Manager for Pringle Creek Community, fills us in on Pringle Creek's sustainability efforts through establishing the Mid-Valley's first truly green community.
Sustainability in Higher Education
July 31, 2014
Guest Joe Abraham, Director of the
Willamette University Sustainability Institute
talks about ways Willamette University is working to lessen its environmental footprint.
Curbside Recycling
July 17, 2014
Topic: Curbside Recycling
Guest Todd Irvine, General Manager of the
Mid-Valley Garbage and Recycling Association
delves into everything you wanted to know about curbside recycling.
Food Swapping
July 3, 2014
Guest Laurice Riddell, organizer of
Cherry City Food Swappers
walks us through a typical food swapping event, and gives tips for participating in one.
Sustainability in Correctional Institutions
June 19, 2014
Guest Chad Naugle, sustainability coordinator for Oregon Department of Corrections, discusses how State of Oregon correctional facilities are focusing on sustainability to help the environment, their bottom line and their adults in custody gain green job skills.
Reclaimed Building Materials
June 5, 2014
Topic: Reclaimed Building Materials
Guest Rich Jacobson, Director of the Mid-Willamette Valley Habitat for Humanity ReStore, discusses how the ReStore helps divert usable building materials from the waste stream to support their mission to build affordable homes for those in need.
Food Recovery
May 22, 2014
Topic: Food Recovery
Guest Rick Gaupo, President and CEO of Marion Polk Food Share, discusses how MPFS is capturing extra food before it becomes waste and getting it to those most in need.
Home Composting
May 8, 2014
Guest Bonnie White, composting expert, discusses the basics of getting started with a backyard compost pile to help reduce kitchen and yard waste and create great home-produced fertilizer for your garden.
EarthWISE Certification Program
April 24, 2014
Guest Alan Pennington, Waste Reduction Coordinator with Marion County Environmental Services, discusses Marion County's EarthWISE certification program which recognizes businesses that demonstrate sustainable practices in waste reduction, recycling, water conservation and energy conservation.
Earth Day Fair
April 10, 2014
Guest Rachel Elmer with the Oregon Garden previews what is in store for this year's Earth Day Fair on Saturday April 19th.
DEQ Vision 2050 for Materials Management
March 27, 2014
Guest David Allaway, Senior Policy Analyst with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, describes the Vision 2050 plan for how waste and other materials will be managed in the future which includes much more emphasis on the "upstream" processes where materials are harvested, manufactured, transported, etc.
Creative Reuse
March 13, 2014
Guests Jessica Ramey and Carlee Wright with DIY Studio discuss the fast-expanding world of creative reuse, also known as "upcycling", where ordinary discards (trash or recyclables) are turned into fabulous new art, jewelry, furniture…you name it!
Why Does Waste Matter?
February 27, 2014
Guest Bailey Payne, a waste reduction coordinator with Marion County Environmental Services, discusses the impacts waste has on our planet and its people.
Mid-Valley Green Awards
February 13, 2014
Guest Michelle Cordova, Executive Director of the Straub Environmental Center, highlights nominees and the schedule for the 2014 Mid-Valley Green Awards.
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ETC.: Earnhardt has completed an outstanding 99.5 percent (8,034) of the 8,075 total laps contested in 25 career starts at Atlanta. His average start is 16.2, while his average finish is 12.5. He has two DNFs there.
5 KASEY KAHNE, Chevrolet
Team: Hendrick Motorsports
WHERE HE STANDS: Kasey Kahne climbed back into the top-10 after a strong run at Bristol, going from 11th to eighth. Kahne trails points leader Jimmie Johnson by 120 points, is 13 points behind seventh-ranked Dale Earnhardt Jr., and leads ninth-ranked Greg Biffle by just three points.
ATLANTA RECORD: 16 career starts, 2 wins, 6 top-fives, 8 top-10s and 2 poles. Best career finish: First in spring 2004 and fall 2009. Finished 23rd in this race last year and was 34th in the 2011 race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: Kahne has struggled miserably at Atlanta the last three races there, finishing 32nd, 34th and 23rd. While he likely has one of the two wild-card spots locked up to make the Chase if he needs it, he'd rather make the Chase as one of the top 10 guaranteed seeds. Here's his thoughts on Sunday's race: "Since the first time I went there, Atlanta has always been one of my favorite racetracks. It kind of reminds me of racing at Eldora Speedway. When you run the outside at Atlanta right up by the wall, it feels really similar to racing a dirt track in a winged sprint car. I like that feeling you get -- that sensation of being beside the wall. And then the tires fall off, and it gets really slippery. Atlanta is just fast and rough. You have a lot of things you're kind of working through throughout a race run and just trying to get the balance of the car to be good throughout 45-48 laps. It's tough to get it right. I've just always liked racing there, it's a good one."
LOOKING BACK: Kahne did not lead any laps, but came oh so close to winning at Bristol. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't quite catch eventual winner Matt Kenseth in the final laps and settled for a runner-up finish.
ETC.: Kahne has completed 95.8 (5,008) of the 5,227 total laps contested in 16 career starts at Atlanta. His average start is 9.2, while his average finish is 18.6. He has three DNFs there.
16 GREG BIFFLE, Ford
Team: Roush Fenway Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: Greg Biffle climbed one spot back to ninth in the standings after Bristol. He trails points leader Jimmie Johnson by 123 points (down from 181 points two weeks ago), is three points behind eighth-ranked Kasey Kahne and leads 10th-ranked Joey Logano by 13 points.
ATLANTA RECORD: 18 career starts, 0 wins, 3 top-fives, 9 top-10s, 1 poles. Best career finish: Third in spring 2005. Finished 15th in this race last year and was 12th in the 2011 race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: Biffle knows what he has to do if he hopes to make the Chase: He has to remain in the top 10 and the best way to do so is to get a win in the next two races prior to the start of the Chase. Otherwise, there's a possibility Biffle may not qualify for the playoffs. He comes into Atlanta with a great deal of confidence. Here's his thoughts on Sunday's race: "I'm really pumped about Atlanta. We had a good run at Bristol and I'm looking forward to this weekend. Atlanta is a 1.5-mile track that we've had a lot of success at. We need to go there and challenge for the win and run in the top five, to head to Richmond and start the Chase off on an upswing this year. We're looking forward to Atlanta."
LOOKING BACK: Biffle recorded his second straight ninth-place finish in the last two races at Bristol, having also done the same a week earlier at Michigan.
ETC.: Biffle has completed 96.5 percent (5,670) of the 5,877 total laps contested in 18 career starts at Atlanta. His average start is 12.5 and average finish is 16.0. He has two DNFs there.
22 JOEY LOGANO, Ford
Team: Penske Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: Joey Logano continued his outstanding climb upwards in the standings in the last two races. After moving from 16th to 13th after Michigan, Logano rose three more places after Bristol to 10th place. He trails points leader Jimmie Johnson by 136 points, is 13 points behind ninth-ranked Greg Biffle and leads 11th-ranked teammate Brad Keselowski by four points.
ATLANTA RECORD: 6 career starts, 0 wins, 0 top-fives, 0 top-10s and 0 poles. Best career finish: 18th in 2012. Finished a career-best 18th in this race last year and was 24th in the 2011 race there.
LOOKING AHEAD: Logano isn't content to take his chances with a possible wild-card berth to make the Chase. Rather, he wants to continue his climb up in the standings and make the Chase as one of the 10 guaranteed berths. But Atlanta is also one of his worst tracks, so he'll definitely have to pick things up Sunday. Here's his thoughts on the race: "We plan on doing nothing different at Atlanta. We want to just keep doing what we have been doing. We have been fighting back all year long, so if we go into the weekend with the same mindset, then we will hopefully continue to perform at the level we have been. We have put ourselves in the position that we need to be right now. So now we just need to build on it. Keep gaining points and keep getting the best finish that we can. That's how we are going to go into these final two weeks. The Chase is our ultimate goal."
LOOKING BACK: Logano finished a very strong fifth at Bristol, continuing the momentum he earned with his win at Michigan.
ETC.: Logano has completed 98.6 percent (1,946) of the 1,973 total laps contested in six career starts at Atlanta. His average start is a poor 28.2, while his average finish there isn't much better at 26.0. He has zero DNFs there.
2 BRAD KESELOWSKI, Ford
Team: Penske Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 11th, only four points out of the top 10. Lost three spots last week to fall out of the top 10.


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Editor's note: This is the first in a series of periodic articles about reforms in public education.
During a conference for more than 200 Aiken County School District administrators and teachers this week, a national consultant showed them some math questions a student might find on a test.
• Express probabilities as fractions, percents or decimals.
• Classify triangles according to angle size and/or length of sides.
Then the consultant, Dr. Bill Daggett, produced other questions: Calculate percentages of advertising in a newspaper. Tour the school building and identify examples of parallel and perpendicular lines, planes and angles.
The last two questions are asking essentially for the same answers, but students are far more likely to respond positively to them, Daggett said.
"That's a framework that's interesting and relevant to students," said Dr. Beth Everitt, the district superintendent. "It's important to put their work into a context that they can understand."
She invited Daggett to Aiken to meet with educators and discuss reforms on reaching children most effectively in the classroom. A study of 75 high-achieving schools highlights their focus on rigor and relationships along with the skills and knowledge they have to learn.
"It goes beyond academics and includes the need for personal skills, which employers tell us," Everitt said. "They want to know how people get along and where they're going in their careers. The world is changing and will continue to change. Education has to change with it."
She readily acknowledges that the Aiken County School District still must continue to search for effective strategies in conjunction with principals and teachers. But good things in classrooms are already under way, she said.
Dr. King Laurence, the associate superintendent for instruction, had attended other events that featured Daggett, along with other district educators. The biggest part of the message, Laurence said, is that schools have to change the way they've operated. The tests given to students primarily assess knowledge.
"What we need to be teaching and assessing is how knowledge can be applied to the real world," Laurence said.
Where are the most demanding reading requirements in a school environment? It's not advanced courses in traditional classrooms, Daggett said. Rather, the most challenging reading can be found in career courses, such as those found at the Aiken County Career and Technology Center and in the county high schools. Automotive technology and computer-aided design and drafting would be two examples of that.
"It makes sense when you think about the readability of manuals that the students there read," said Laurence. "Any kid in career or technology programs or the military who has read an instructional manual knows how complicated that is."
Those approaches need to be provided in other classrooms, as well. Laurence believes that can be accomplished over time as the new Common Core standards are introduced in preparation for new standardized tests.
Common Core is not a federal mandate. States in recent years produced a new unified set of standards that South Carolina is implementing in math and English/language arts. Instead of rote answers, Common Core and new curricula are intended to teach students the processes they use in math. English must be taught in all disciplines to help children learn to read proficiently.
"We want education to be relevant and take students to higher levels that are more rigorous," said Laurence.
The culture of a school is crucial, where the entire faculty has an attitude that all its kids can learn, Everitt said.
"If a school is doing really great things with continuous improvement, that culture becomes a norm," she said.
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- Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo
- La Strada: Findings and Results of the European Action for Compensation for Trafficked Persons
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Car Troubles A software manager, a hardware manager and a marketing manager are driving to a meeting when a tire blows. They get out of the car and look at the problem. The software manager says: "I can't do anything about this -- it's a hardware problem." The hardware manager says: "Maybe if we turned the car off and on again, it would fix itself." The marketing manager says: "Hey, 75% of it is working -- let's ship it!"
Read All About It A newsboy was standing on the corner with a stack of papers, yelling: "Read all about it. Today: 50 people swindled! Today: 50 people swindled!" Curious, a man walked over, bought a paper, and checked the front page. Finding nothing, the man said: "There's nothing in here about 50 people being swindled." The newsboy ignored him and went on, calling out: "Read all about it. Today: 51 people swindled!"
Little White Lie Ted, a wealthy 70-year-old widower, shows up at a bar with a stunning 25-year-old blonde on his arm. The woman has the body of a model, has her arms endearingly locked around Ted's torso and focuses intently on every syllable he utters. Naturally, his friends at the bar are stunned. At the very first chance, they corner him and ask: "Ted, come on, where'd you get such a beautiful babe for a girlfriend?" Ted replies: "Girlfriend? She's my wife!" Now they're completely knocked over. They continue their questioning: "Alright, how'd you get her to marry you?" "Well, I lied about my age," Ted admits. "How old did you say you were? 50?" Ted smiles and says, "Nope! I told her I was 95!"
Three Contractors Three contractors were bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. The first contractor said: "I figure the job will run about $900 - that's $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me." The second contractor announced: "I can do this job for $700 – that's $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me." The third contractor leaned over to the White House official and whispered: "$2,700." The incredulous White House official asked him: "How did you come up with such a high figure?" The contractor smiled and said: "$1,000 for me, $1,000 for you, and we hire the second guy to fix the fence."
Picture Perfect On their first night together, a newlywed couple is getting ready for bed. The bride emerges from the bathroom, all showered and wearing her beautiful robe. Her proud husband says: "My dear, we are married now, you can open your robe." The beautiful young woman opens her robe, and he is astonished. "Oh my God!" he exclaims: "You are so beautiful! Let me take your picture." Puzzled she asks: "My picture?" "Yes my dear," he says: "so I can carry your beauty next to my heart forever." She smiles and he takes her picture, and then he heads into the bathroom to shower. He comes out wearing his robe and his wife asks: "Why do you wear a robe? We are married now." At that the man opens his robe and she exclaims: "Oh my! Let me take a picture." "Why?" he asks, beaming. "So I can get it enlarged!" she says.
Irish Coffee An old woman visits her doctor to ask for his help in reviving her husband's libido. "What about trying Viagra?" asks the doctor. "Not a chance," says the old woman: "He won't even take an aspirin." "Not a problem," replies the doctor: "You've heard of Irish coffee, right?" "Yes," replies the woman. "Well," says the doctor: "make him an Irish coffee and slip Viagra into it. He won't even taste it. Give it a try and call me in a week to let me know how things went." A few days later she calls the doctor and the poor dear exclaims: "Oh, faith! It was horrid. Just terrible, doctor!" "Really? What happened?" asks the doctor. "Well, I did as you advised and slipped it in his coffee and the effect was almost immediate. He jumped straight up, with a twinkle in his eye, and with one swoop of his arm, he sent the cups flying, ripped my clothes to tatters and took me then and there, on the tabletop! It was a nightmare, I tell you, an absolute nightmare!" "Why was it so terrible?" asks the doctor confused: "Do you mean the sex your husband provided wasn't good?" "Oh, no, no, no, doctor. It was the best sex I've had in 25 years!" says the old woman: "but I'll never be able to show my face in Starbucks again."


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Our best gatherings
by Becky Gillette Published: March 6,2011
Tags: Anne Coggins, Crystal Johnson, Harley Davidson convention, Junior Beta Club, Linda Elliff, Marika Cackett, Master Gardeners Conference, Mississippi Association of Supervisors, Mississippi Municipal League, Sandy Bynum, Senior Beta Club, South Central Manufactured Home Institute, Tennessee Motor Coach Convention, Tri-State Press Association, U.S. Postal Service Southern Officer's Conference, Walter Tipton
No shortage of contenders for best five conventions in the state What are the best five conventions in the state? There is no shortage of possible contenders. Walter Tipton, director, Natchez Convention Center, likes the Harley Davidson convention. "Obviously, this attracts people who like to travel," Tipton said. "Because of the nature of their conference, […] [...]


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Toyota's i-REAL personal mobility concept nears commercialization
October 11, 2007 One of the most exciting transportation developments in recent years has been the ongoing series of Personal Mobility devices we have seen from Toyota. It began with the PM (Personal Mobility) Concept, and was followed by the i-unit and i-swing concepts, and we have watched these developments with the parallel exploration of mobility, partner and guide robots, as the company has surged to become the world's largest automotive manufacturer. Now the next installment in this exciting personal mobility series is here, with the promise of commercialization drawing tantalizingly close. And it looks like it "carves", meaning it tilts into a corner in the same way a motorcycle does!
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