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In Karl Marx's vision, in the ultimate stage of Communism, the state is supposed to wither away. History has shown how wrong he was. Not only did Communism wither away first, the nation-state has stubbornly refused to follow suit. Even in the 21st century, we have seen the creation of new states, Kosovo being one of the latest.
But Marx was wrong not only in this sense. As the ideological progenitor of Communism — a revolutionary idea at that time — he should have known that states are born in the mind before they become politico-geographical realities. In the post-modern, post-internet world, many states exist more in the mind than in reality.
Take the Maoists. They are a state within a state. They may not control a territory entirely, but with their ideology and extended band of sympathisers they are able to make their writ run to quite an extent.
A state is not merely a historical or geographical entity; its defining characteristic is it ability to get its citizens to behave in a certain way, and when they don't, it can penalise them. Put another way, there can be no state without the ability to deploy power. A democracy may project this power less coercively than an autocracy, but the power to enforce is the critical element in the making of a state.
If we take the two ideas together — that the idea of state is essentially in the mind, and that a state is not a state if it cannot project power — we come to this conclusion: we can have states that are territorial in nature, but others can exist virtually by colonising the mind.
Does Dawood Ibrahim run a criminal enterprise or a state? He may have fled the country, but his writ runs in some parts of India, with sections of Bollywood, the police and even politicians and businessmen dancing to his tune. He may be ruling his subjects through fear, but the fact that he can enforce many of his diktats makes him a virtual state, albeit a criminal one. Like D Company, al Qaeda is also a state. It may not control much territory, but it can enforce internal and external discipline in its troops.
The same applies to the Catholic church, or to any of the faith-related organisations of the world — whether it is the Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind (JuH) or the Tabligh-e-Jamaat (TeJ), or the various Sangh Parivar entities. When the RSS says that all Indians must sing the Vande Mataram, it is essentially trying to imprint its idea of state in the minds of it followers. Ditto for the JuH, when it says Muslims must not sing the Vande Mataram.
Ditto for the Tabligh, which tries to systematically erase all syncretic practices followed by Indian Muslims. Ditto for the Vatican, when it says birth control or abortion is wrong.
All religious or quasi-religious entities are virtual states because they can get their followers (virtual subjects) to behave in specified ways even when they don't rule territories. Religious power begins by addressing the mind with the help of ideology, and this is the base from which it acquires political power at some stage. Political power may also lead to the creation of a geographical state, as the creation of Pakistan or Turkish
Cyprus or the Vatican show. In Islam, this relationship is explicit, with religious power and political power going hand in hand with the idea of state. In western democracies, there is a theoretical separation of church and state, so we have two states residing in the minds of citizens — a geographical entity and an ideological one.
There are other kinds of virtual states, and corporations are one example. GE is a state more than a corporation. Every GE executive knows what its corporate culture is, and why he has to adhere to it if he is to rise in the hierarchy. Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, in their book Built to Last, explain why every great company adopts cult-like practices for longevity.
Wal-Mart employees scream their Wal-Mart cheer (Give me a 'W', give me an 'A' and so on till the last letter 'T' in the Wal-Mart name is reached). The screaming ends with a question: "Who's No 1?" (The answer, in case you are wondering, is "The customer"). Wal-Mart is thus a state of mind for its employees; those who don't subscribe to it are usually weeded out. Precisely what a state tries to do with people who don't want to belong to it.
The existence of virtual states within states is the reality we have to deal with. While legal legitimacy rests with the nation-state, the others exist in a kind of implicit power-sharing arrangement with it.
When power-sharing is explicitly rejected by states or virtual states, they have to be decided one way or the other, either through court battles or ideological compromises or armed conflict. The Maoists have so far rejected compromise. Whatever their reason for existence, they cannot coexist with the idea of the Indian state.


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U.S. urged to step up gulch erosion control
Background: Environmental laws were waived to let the federal government construct build border fencing at Smuggler's Gulch. More than 1.5 million cubic yards of earth were moved to complete the project.
What's changing: There are mounting concerns about erosion during winter rains.
The future: Several organizations and individuals are asking the federal government to take additional erosion-control measures. Federal officials say they are monitoring the situation.
A canyon that was filled in with 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt last year to build border fencing is prompting worries about erosion and flooding, as a predicted El Nino threatens to bring heavier-than-normal winter rains.
In recent weeks, several critics of the project have raised concerns about a lack of adequate erosion control along the sides of an earthen berm built across Smuggler's Gulch, a deep canyon on the border between the ocean and the San Ysidro port of entry.
The massive construction project required filling the canyon with tons of earth from surrounding hillsides and building a steel-mesh fence and paved roads on top.
Proponents of the project said it was needed to help curb the smuggling of humans and drugs into the United States from Mexico and to make it easier for federal agents to patrol the region. The project was completed in May.
Because the work began last year, some blamed the earth-moving operation for the flooding in the Tijuana River Valley last December that destroyed property, killed livestock and ruined crops.
Now, with a wetter winter predicted, organizations and individuals ranging from state park officials and congressional representatives to the California Coastal Commission are urging the federal government to do more to control erosion.
"Our concern is that we will have a repeat of last year, when we had extensive erosion from the slopes as well as from Mexico," said Clay Phillips, superintendent of Border Field State Park, which sits downriver from the gulch. "That resulted in extensive sedimentation in the river valley. Overall, we had a very light, moderate rain year last year. And yet our sediment basins filled, which was unusual."
Federal officials say erosion-control measures have been taken, including revegetation and straw wattles to catch silt.
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection is ensuring that all slopes are hydroseeded prior to the winter rainy season," said Jenny Burke, a spokeswoman for the agency. "CBP will monitor the situation and is considering other actions as required."
The steps taken so far have worked to some degree, said Phillips, who nonetheless wrote a letter last month to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requesting additional measures.
The problem, critics say, is that the hydroseeding has failed to take properly, leaving slopes devoid of vegetation.
In a letter sent to the Army Corps of Engineers in October, Bonnie Neely, chairwoman of the Coastal Commission, wrote that "this area contains some of the most erosive soils in the country, and ones that are at best extremely difficult to revegetate."
Neely said that though the slopes were recently re-treated with hydroseed, "it is doubtful that there will be sufficient time before the rainy season commences for effective slope stabilization."

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Excerpts from Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" will be republished and sold in Germany in a series of pamphlets produced by British publisher Peter McGee, prompting some Jewish groups to denounce the partial reprint.
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I think it's important that people understand the nazi mindset and philosophy. Because it's not gone. There are still nazis and skinheads and racists who all idolize Hitler. Ignoring these facts isn't the way to deal with them.
What I want to know is... Who's benefiting from the sales of this book? Think about it.
Maybe the publisher. Maybe the state. Hitler does have relatives still alive, but they don't want to associated with him. I also don't expect there's any real profit in publishing it for anyone to benefit from.
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During the Multistate Tax Commission's (MTC) Annual Conference and Committee Meetings in San Diego on July 22, 2013, the Income and Franchise Tax Uniformity Subcommittee (I/F Subcommittee) discussed its effort to redesign the financial institution apportionment rules. In addition, the Sales and Use Tax Uniformity Subcommittee (S/U Subcommittee) will move forward in drafting a model nexus statute.
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Since 2007, the MTC's Financial Institutions Working Group has examined whether the MTC's special financial institution apportionment regulations, which were adopted in 1994 in a cooperative effort between financial institutions, MTC member states and some non-MTC member states, are still the best method to apportion income. Under the existing MTC rules, loans are sourced for property factor purposes based on where the preponderance of the substantive contacts relating to a loan has occurred. This process considers five factors: solicitation, investigation, negotiation, approval and administration of the loan (the aptly named SINAA test). The Working Group considered the sourcing of loans and the viability of the SINAA test that is provided under existing MTC rules. The Working Group conveyed to the I/F Subcommittee that states believe the existing SINAA test—as well as the variations that have been proposed to the group — are too subjective to effectively administer. States expressed the view that there is not appropriate documentation available to audit compliance with the SINAA test and that auditors do not have the requisite knowledge to review compliance with it.
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The Congress' current tally of 44 is far lower than its previous worst of 114 in the 1999 general elections.Monday, 19 May 2014 - 1:34pm
The general elections are almost over, and results due in a week. While it is widely believed that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is all set to form the next government at the Centre, one cannot deny the possibility of a Third Front government, with outside support from the Congress.Thursday, 8 May 2014 - 4:38pm
On the birth anniversary of father of Indian Constitution Bhim Rao Ambedkar, we repost an article that we published a few days back in which he spoke about three dangers to Indian democracy. These three warnings become even more important as we witness an ugly personalised electoral battleWednesday, 9 April 2014 - 9:57am
Come election season, a lot of noise is generated because of opinion polls conducted by various media houses. Political parties that lead in these polls start peddling the results as gospel truth, whereas the ones trailing behind take no time to declare them as bogus. This happens in every election...Tuesday, 25 March 2014 - 6:14pm


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England U16s coach Kenny Swain has named Demetre Mitchell in his 18-man squad for this season's Sky Sports Victory Shield opener in Northern Ireland.
England's opening fixture is tonight, live on Sky Sports 2 at 7.45.
England U16s coach Kenny Swain has named Demetre Mitchell in his 18-man squad for this season's Sky Sports Victory Shield opener in Northern Ireland.
England's opening fixture is tonight, live on Sky Sports 2 at 7.45.
Starting for England U16 tonight. Rashford, Henderson and Borthwick-Jackson on bench.
Mitchell just scored a cracker. 2-0 after 30 minutes.
Fantastic goal. He picked up the ball inside his own half, beat 2/3 men then fired in a shot from just outside the D.
What position does he play?
He's a left winger.
Just turned it on. Left wing I'm guessing.
Mitchell's goal v Bayern at the Aegon Cup earlier this year:
Starts for England U16s v Scotland. Game is live on Sky.
Mitchell has been named in England's U16 squad for the fixture against Germany on the 13th February.
Mitchell scored for England's U16s in a 4-3 defeat against Germany.
He's scoring a lot at U16/U17 level for us i've heard. Talented left winger. Looking forward to seeing him in the 18s next season.
Handed his U18s debut this morning. Gutted I missed the game when I found out he played. Anyone see the game? How did he do?
Missed the second half. I heard he was quiet. Mitchell stated that he "did nothing".
Mitchell starts for England U16 v Holland in the Montaigu Tournament.
Mitchell played 70 minutes in a 1-1 draw against Holland, and came on in the 52nd minute in a 3-1 win against Chile.
Match report: England U17s 1-2 Belgium U17s - England News | The FA
Video of Mitchell playing for England here in a recent friendly against Belgium. Scores a goal on 2.20 or so.
Freekick at 1:35.
Was talking to Demi today at the U18 game and he had a brace boot on his left foot and was also on crutches.
He said to me that he is out of action for about 3-4 months and hopes to be back for the 2nd game of the FA Youth cup should we get passed the 1st round.
He seemed quite positive about it, and said it will be good for his mental attitude in how to cope with it.
Good that he is managing to put a positive spin on it
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Awesome bachelor party prank.
Umpire wants his head kicked in.
The teacher who hates his pupils.
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This was seriously hard to watch at times.
Chalk fight.
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Man vs Metro.
Seriously screwed him up.
Pissed off dog.
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Vastu to Close at the End of November
It is with great sadness that we announce that Vastu will be closing soon.
It has been a wonderful 11 1/2 years and we are very sorry to see it end. We simply couldn't absorb the financial burden caused by increased costs and lowered revenue during last year's short change in ownership.
During our time on 14th St, we have taken great pride and delight in being invited into your homes and lives, asked to help make them a little more comfortable and stylish, and we cherish the friendships we've made along the way. It has been an adventure watching the neighborhood go from a retail wasteland where we needed to bring lunch if we wanted to eat that day to one where there are seemingly endless options for all-day drunken brunches.
Our closing isn't immediate and we will of course be delivering orders to those of you who still have them outstanding.
If you have been considering a new order, please contact us immediately to discuss this, as we will be able to help you in the short term and we would appreciate the support.
We will also be selling all of our current showroom inventory effectively immediately. We are not planning on opening another location, so we will be discounting everything substantially to clear out all of our stock. We still have a store full of wonderful items that we'd love to see go to good homes, like shelter puppies but without the housetraining and shoe-chewing… Our operating hours will be changing to Wed – Sat, 11-7, and Sun 12-5. If you would like to schedule an appointment during our closeout sale, please contact Craig at the store.
Again, thank you for your support, business, and friendship during our time in the Mid-city neighborhood.
We are very grateful.
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The Mid City Artists 2014 Fall Open House
It's that time of year again that's become super popular with all of our local art lovers: the Mid City Artists Fall Open House!
This weekend only, you can stroll through the neighborhood and visit with a variety of artists in their own studios. Enjoy the cool fall weather while you "discover painting, photography, sculpture, glass, mixed media, prints and much more".
Here at Vastu, on the lower level, you'll find the studios of Colin Winterbottom and Brian Petro.
Click Here for a downloadable map or stop by the showroom and pick one up.
Art by Rose Minetti
Minetti moved to Arizona from her native Brooklyn in 1984. She received her BA in studio art from Rutgers University, and her MA in Art from Arizona State University. She worked as President of Arizona Women's Caucus for Art 1987-89. She was affiliated with MARS Art Space, an artist run gallery in Phoenix as an Artist Member (1989-96), and a Board Member (1994-96). Her last position was as exhibit curator for the Department of Archives and Special Collections, University Libraries, Arizona State University. She lives in Gilbert, Arizona and Lewes, Delaware.
Rose Minetti's method transformed from spontaneous strokes to deliberate strokes yet her concepts have remained constant.
"My work reflects my interest in the environment; natural, as in geology/land and artificial, as in structure/architecture. My imagery is an abstraction of what I see and experience in the natural and artificial environment. My recent work is defined by the grid and a stroke gleaned from calligraphy. I experiment with color relationships, particularly neutrals, looking at how colors effect other, creating shades and values that are unique."
Rose Minetti's works will be on display in the Vastu showroom and available for purchase through December 2014.
Arrezo from Knoll Luxe: Fashion, Fabric and Furniture
The Knoll Space Sale is well under way and there may be some of you wondering how you can make your Knoll piece really special and unique. One of the answers lies in the fabric.
Take, for example, Arrezo by Dorothy Cosonas for Knoll Luxe.
Arezzo is an artisanal velvet upholstery that was inspired by a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the work of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen. This large scale pattern was created by marrying computer driven printing and hand manipulation. The end result is a random pattern where no two yards are alike.
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The Knoll Space Sale – 2014
Vastu is excited to announce the start of the annual Knoll Space Sale!
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Enjoy great savings on timeless modern designs, then choose from hundreds of fabrics and finishes to make it your own!
Check out some of our favorite classic pieces, as well as some new additions to the Knoll catalog, below:
Knoll Space Sale starts this Friday
From September 19th through September 30th, we're giving you the chance to save big on the entire Knoll Space catalog!
Take 15% OFF all new orders of iconic furniture designs for your home's living, dining and working spaces.
On top of that, all Knoll orders placed between the 19th and 30th will be eligible for FREE in-home white-glove delivery.
Preview the Knoll catalog here and contact us today for additional details.
What: Knoll Space Sale
When: September 19th – September 30th, 2014
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Duane Cregger: Continuum
As we say goodbye to Albert Schweitzer's quirky Critters, we say hello to artist Duane Cregger's Continuum.
Spanning three distinct series of paintings, Duane Cregger's Continuum is an exhibition of recent work that investigates circular and cyclical processes—physical and metaphysical. These vivid, heavily textured works in oil and acrylic explore and incorporate Cregger's distinct layering and inscribing from earlier work, reinterpreting these elements in a bright abstract narrative of his urban-to-rural migration experience and life in the mountains of Virginia.
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Duane Cregger is a contemporary artist working in oils and acrylics. His large, brightly colored and heavily textured works from an abstract narrative of life in Virginia's Blue Ridge Highlands.
Cregger's works will be on display in the Vastu showroom gallery through September 2014.
15th Annual MidCity Dog Days at Vastu
It's finally here!
The 15th Annual MidCity Dog Days Sale at Vastu is happening this weekend, August 2nd & 3rd
All weekend long, we'll be offering…
- 15% OFF all new custom Steven Anthony Upholstery orders! This includes sofas, sectionals, chairs, ottomans, beds, and even throw pillows!
- Deep discounts on various showroom models and floor samples throughout the store. Between 20% and 80% off! We have home accessories, lighting, chairs, shelving, casegoods…the list goes on and on. Floor sample pieces that have been marked down will be first come-first serve so get here early tomorrow, Saturday, August 2nd.
And when you're done at Vastu, check out what our other MidCity neighbors have in store for you!
Designer Focus: Steven Anthony
Anybody familiar with Vastu's product offerings will know that we love pieces that can be customized and personalized to fit your space and lifestyle. One of the easiest ways we accomplish this in our client projects is through custom upholstery by Steven Anthony!
We've written about Steven (yes, the brand is a real man) many times before, but enough cannot be said about what his work brings to the DC Metro area and beyond. We're able to offer hundreds of styles in any dimension, configuration, fabric, and more!
Once more, Steven Anthony is participating in our MidCity Dog Days sale and offering 15% OFF all styles of sofas, sectionals, chairs, beds, and ottomans. So if you've been considering a new upholstered piece now's the time to take advantage of great savings on exactly what you want!
Designer Focus: Daniel Stromborg
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Daniel Stromborg's young, but already robust career is informed by a variety of evolving professional interests. After studying pre-med and comparative literature at the University of Montana, Stromborg fell into object design and furniture making. He briefly studied Interior Architecture at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, before moving to Los Angeles to study Environmental Design at The Art Center of Design in Pasadena. It was in this context that Stromborg added brand-based and conceptual work to his interests.
After stints with digital-imaging pioneer April Greiman and furniture designer Richard Holbrook, Stromborg worked with Knoll-designer Don Chadwick. Accordingly, his first introduction to Knoll product design came while he worked as Lead Designer on Chadwick's Spark Series. Stromborg left Chadwick's studio to pursue his own projects full-time and collaborated with Knoll to create the Stromborg Table. He is currently working with his studio – The Creative Common Good – on a variety of contracted projects, creating inventive consumer electronics, residential furniture, and branding.
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At this point, the Bills have some key "maybes" that won't be determined as playworthy until later in the week. In addition to Edwards' head injury, Buffalo is waiting to check the improvement in cornerback Terrence McGee (sprained left knee) and safety Ko Simpson, who practiced yesterday with a strained hamstring. Receiver/punt returner Roscoe Parrish, who has missed the past two games after having surgery to repair ligament damage in his right thumb, also was back at practice.
The Chargers' opponents on this two-game road trip to Buffalo and London – the Bills and New Orleans Saints – are tied for fifth on the list of 2008 opponents with the worst combined records from 2007 at .449 (115-141). Only the team the Chargers beat last Sunday, the New England Patriots, had a weaker strength of schedule (.387) than San Diego (.422).
For the second straight week, the Chargers play a foe they once faced for the American Football League championship. They lost the 1964 and '65 title games to the Bills, but the Chargers since have taken a commanding 20-9-2 overall record against Buffalo. The Chargers are 9-4-1 at Buffalo, including their most recent matchup with the Bills, a 24-21 victory by San Diego on Dec. 3, 2006. LaDainian Tomlinson ran for 178 yards and two touchdowns, one of them from 51 yards out.
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Is Twitter business success "in the cards" for you?
Sep 18th
My friend Jayme Soulati sent me a great little story about getting new business through Twitter. I thought you might enjoy it! Here's Jayme:
The name of the game, as they frequently say, Mark, is developing relationship for ultimate Twitter success. I began tweeting for Cardthartic, a 16-year-old private greeting card publisher, in June. Currently, we have merely 130 followers and 200 tweets. Because the web site relaunch was not slated until September 2009, I knew I needed to establish a presence, build reputation and tweet about our passionate greeting cards in a sincere way.
Content is king. No doubt about that. While I could not drive traffic to the antiquated Web site, all I could do was tweet about the greeting within each card. To gain followers, I reviewed trending topics for "florists" who carry our cards that are nationally distributed and kept following people oriented to moms, grandmas, pet lovers, gift givers and florists. In a little over a month, I got my first authentic sale from Twitter!
Here's Jayme's list for Twitter success:
- Establish yourself with relevant and sincere content.
- Do not directly sell with offensive marketing gimmicks, like teeth whiteners.
- Personify yourself; a human is tweeting so who are you?
- While tweeting for a company brand is acceptable, come out from behind the curtain and be accessible.
- To convert a lead into a sale, ensure you pull in the traditional troops to close the deal.
- Monitor, monitor. Had we not been in close touch with the Tweets, we could easily have missed potential sales.
Five reasons B2B companies should reject social media marketing
Sep 15th
In yesterday's post, I demonstrated that even in the case of the most extreme B2B sales situation (one customer, long sales cycle, few competitors), there could be a place for social media marketing. Today I'll tell you why it isn't that simple.
Does my schizophrenia seem strange? I've been around long enough to know that even when there's a slam-dunk business case for something, it doesn't mean a company will do it. This has been quite apparent in B2B where hard-dollar social media successes have been few and far between, despite a lot of hype. Here are five good reasons why some B2B's should NOT adopt social media right now:
1) The economy sucks. Unless a customer is screaming for social media, it's not likely a struggling company is going to voluntarily get into a brand new marketing effort in the teeth of a recession. Even though most social media is "free," it still takes valuable time and resources many companies don't have right now. (On the flip side, your competitors are in the same boat – why not get a jump start on this now?)
OK, please let me pre-empt a few hot-blooded retorts bound to show up in the comment section … I'm not saying DON'T do social media. You know me better than that. I know that every one of these reasons I listed could be turned around as a reason TO DO social media marketing!
The case for social media marketing and "Extreme B2B"
Sep 14th
At one point in my career, I had one of the largest (if not THE largest!) sales positions in the world. I had just one customer and they bought more than US$1.5 billion of goods and services from my company every year. That's what I call Extreme B2B. Long sales cycle. High stakes. Extraordinary power in the hands of the buyer.
Is there a place for social media marketing even in "Extreme B2B?" Before applying any tactic like social media — in any situation — you first need to consider the strategy. In my position, there were four strategies I employed to keep and grow this mega-customer:
Apply high-touch throughout the organization. With a customer that large, you can imagine that operations were dispersed throughout the world. So my contacts were broad … and they were also deep – from the CEO to the machine operator on the floor, from Purchasing to R&D. There were dozens of people who influenced the purchasing decision and I had to earn trust with all of them! It was also a challenge connecting all the communication synapses between the two companies: executive, manufacturing, R&D, etc.
Raise switching costs through service innovations. Not only did I want to grow my business at this customer, I wanted to do it at the most profitable plant locations. To achieve this, I wanted to provide some extraordinary service that would make it painful for the plant to switch to a competitor. For example, at our most profitable customer location, we designed a special truck that could haul away their waste material after delivering a shipment of finished product, saving them waste hauling fees. Those trucks made us a lot of money!
Improve profitability through incremental cost savings. With an account that large, the purchasing power is extreme and that keeps margins low. It was always a challenge to find small ways to save money, especially if it also provided a win for the customer. With revenues that large, even an improvement of a fraction of a cent per unit could have a dramatic impact on profitability.
Listen better, act faster. Listening to my customer was serious business. We actually conducted formal "listen to the customer" visits using trained facilitators. Information from these visits, conducted throughout the world, was carefully compiled, thoroughly analyzed and used to create our marketing and R&D plans.
In summary, my strategy was: Be accessible, innovate through service, lower costs, and listen effectively. Hmmm … doesn't that sound like a PERFECT business case for social media applications? Even in a case of extreme B2B there are likely applications for these new tools, right?
Yes … and no. I'm sure you can think of many great social web applications to support these strategies, but that doesn't mean that B2B companies will necessarily act on them. Why not?
Even with a strong business case, there may be very good reasons why a B2B company should reject social media marketing (gasp!). More on that in the next post!
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Zimmermann wins 18th, Nationals beat Phillies 11-2
Sunday - 9/15/2013, 6:23pm EDT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Denard Span was in the middle of discussing his 26-game hitting streak when cheers, claps and whoops erupted from out-of-sight sections of the Washington Nationals clubhouse.
"I think Gomez must have robbed a homer," Span said. "OK, that's good for us."
That would be Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez, who kept Jay Bruce's drive in the park in the ninth inning of a tied game against the Cincinnati Reds. The Brewers went on win, a result that combined with the Nationals' 11-2 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday to trim Washington's deficit to 4½ games for the NL's second wild-card berth.
Jordan Zimmerman (18-8) scattered two runs and seven hits in seven innings for his NL-best 18th win, and Wilson Ramos had four hits and five RBIs on the day he became the 2013 version of the iron man catcher. The Nationals have won eight of nine and 25 of 35.
"I'd trade all those wins," Zimmermann said, "for a shot in the playoffs."
Put Ramos near the top of the list of reasons for the Nationals' late surge. He started his 23rd consecutive game, passing St. Louis' Yadier Molina for most starts in a row behind the plate in the majors this year. He tied career highs for hits and RBIs, and he has 49 RBIs in 54 games since coming off the disabled list.
"He's been hitting the heck out of the ball, catching good, throwing people out. He's hard to take out of the lineup," Johnson said. "We've missed him for two years, so we're going to ride him."
Ramos tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee last year and was hindered this season by a bothersome right hamstring. He's been close to being tagged with an injury-prone label, so his recent streak has answered at least a few of the questions about his durability.
"That was very important for me," said Ramos, who has 14 homers and 50 RBIs in only 67 games. "That's a good test for my knee, for myself, to show everybody that I can play every day."
The Nationals' other noteworthy games-in-a-row watch continued when Span singled up the middle in the third, putting him one shy of Colorado's Michael Cuddyer for longest hitting streak in the majors this season.
Washington took the lead for good with three runs in the fourth off Tyler Cloyd (2-5), starting with back-to-back doubles by Bryce Harper and Ian Desmond. Harper added his third outfield assist in the three-game series when he caught Darin Ruf trying to stretch a single off the left-field wall into a double in the sixth.
Washington added five runs in the seventh off Joe Savery and Mauricio Robles.
The Nationals' recent run has come in a soft part of the schedule. Next comes at three-game series against the Atlanta Braves, who have a chance to clinch the NL East at Washington's ballpark.
"We don't want that," Johnson said.
The Nationals are 4-12 against the Braves this season.
"We need to at least send a message these next three days that we're better than them," the manager said.
The Nationals' long day came at the expense of Cloyd, who allowed five runs and 10 hits.
"He has to be real good with his command, and it seemed like today as the game got into the fourth it looked like balls started to be elevated a little bit and caught a lot of the plate," Philadelphia manager Ryne Sandberg said. "And against that lineup, and the way they're swinging the bat, it's a tough combination."
NOTES: Every player in the Nationals' starting lineup had at least one hit. ... Washington went 9 for 13 with runners in scoring position; the Nationals began the day with a .239 RISP average, 25th in the major leaguers. ... Phillies LF Domonic Brown, returning from a right Achilles tendon injury, doubled and scored in the second inning in his first start since Aug. 30. He came off the bench Friday and Saturday. ... The Nationals' 18 hits tied their season high. ... The Phillies have not won a series on the road since the All-Star break. ... A pigeon wandered near the pitcher's mound, shortstop and second base for several innings. During warmups at the start of the eighth, the bird had a staredown with first base umpire Jim Wolf on the edge of the outfield grass. The crowd cheered whenever the pigeon attempted to fly, but the bird appeared to be injured and couldn't stay airborne for more than a few yards. "You could walk right up to him, and he wouldn't budge," Nationals 2B Steve Lombardozzi said.
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After years of hurdles, an expansion of the Los Angeles Westside subway has survived a court challenge.
On Wednesday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled that the transportation authority had taken all necessary environmental steps to move forward.
The expansion has received flak for its plans to tunnel the new system underneath Beverly Hills High School.
Laura Nelson, transportation reporter for the L.A. Times, joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to talk about next steps for the transit plans.
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If you work with video, animation or motion graphics, there are lots of reasons to invest in the Apple Mac Pro 12-core. You can get twice the processing power of the 27in Apple iMac, as two of the three Pro models have two multicore processors. You can install up to 32GB of RAM – though above 16GB you probably won't see much benefit in your apps. You can also install up to four hard drives and put in a Raid card to 'stripe', or distribute, your files across multiple drives for maximum throughput.
The Apple Mac Pro 12-core has PCI Express slots allowing you to add, say, USB 3.0 and eSATA boards to access fast storage systems (unlike with most PCs of this calibre, you don't get these as standard). You can also add video capture, monitoring and acceleration boards such as AJA's Kona or Blackmagic Design's DeckLink – or two graphics cards for high-end 3D.
The most powerful Apple Mac Pro available
To explore the potential of the Apple Mac Pro 12-core, we got our hands on the most powerful model Apple could provide us. Our test machine has two six-core 2.93GHz Intel Xeon processors, 12GB of RAM, an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card and two drives: a 512GB solid-state drive that the system and apps live on, and a 2TB media hard drive. The price tag is more Volkswagen Golf than computer – but if you need the power, it's more than worth it.
The new daughterboard, which carries the processors and RAM, may allow the processors to be upgraded in future (Photo by Paul Monckton)
Running the 3D rendering benchmark in Cinebench 11.5, which utilises the main processors alone, the Mac Pro achieved a score of 15.07. This is more than twice that of the top-of-the-line iMac, and 53 per cent better than the fastest single-chip PC we've ever seen (which had a Core i7 chip massively overclocked to 4.2GHz).
In Photoshop we saw as much of a performance boost over an iMac we tested as you'd expect from the difference in their installed memory (the iMac had 8GB). As both models had a solid-state drive and a hard drive, neither had a built-in advantage.
Launching from the solid-state drive, applications start up faster than you've ever seen from a hard drive. The combination of the two processors, lots of RAM and fast storage meant that the Mac Pro steamed through our After Effects test, applying effects and 3D motion graphics faster than any workstation we've seen.
One new innovation we liked is that in order to fit the two processors inside the casing, Apple has put them on a removable daughterboard that also carries the RAM. This raises the possibility of upgrading them in future – which hasn't been possible in Mac Pros before – though replacing the board after removing it required so much force we thought we'd break it.
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If you work with video, animation or motion graphics and need a workstation this powerful – and, more importantly, can afford it – the Apple Mac Pro 12-core is a winner.
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NEW YORK: Andre Agassi drew one of the loudest cheers at this U.S. Open when he was shown on the Jumbotrons during Wednesday night's match between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick.
Sitting in the USA Network booth, Agassi got a huge standing ovation and waved to the crowd. The eight-time Grand Slam champion and two-time U.S. Open winner played his final competitive match last year at Flushing Meadows.
"This is why I came back, right there. Thank you very much," Agassi said on TV. "In some respects, it feels like yesterday. In other respects, it feels like a lifetime ago."
Call her Corporal
Some players will leave Flushing Meadows and go to Beijing for the China Open. Others will begin preparing for the Davis Cup.
Shahar Peer has a more pressing assignment.
Now that she's done at the U.S. Open, she'll head home to rejoin the Israeli army.
The 20-year-old Peer is a corporal and will finish her mandatory two-year service in October. She's in a programme that gives her flexibility to play tennis and help develop athletes.
"From the beginning, when you're like me, I told my family I want to do it," she said Wednesday. "It was really important to give as much as I can to the country because I get so much support. It's not that it hurts my career, so I was really happy to go the Army."
Peer said her job was mostly clerical. She wears the uniform but does not carry a weapon.
"Only in basic training," she said. "We learn how to shoot."
Ranked 18th by the WTA Tour, Peer became the first Israeli woman to reach the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, then lost to No. 6 Anna Chakvetadze 6-4, 6-1.
Cheered on by fans chanting her name in Hebrew and waving Israeli flags, Peer broke into a big smile when "Hava Nagila" boomed over the sound system after an earlier win in the tournament.
"The crowd was unbelievable for me," she said. "I get so much support here."
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As Andy Roddick and Roger Federer took their final break, a familiar tune drifted over the sound system — "After Midnight" by Eric Clapton.
They play it every time the clock strikes the bewitching hour at Arthur Ashe Stadium. And it's becoming the theme song at this U.S. Open.
Late nights are something of a tradition at Flushing Meadows. Fans often stayed until the end, cheering on the likes of Jimmy Connors and Andre Agassi.
But can too late become too much?
"I think it's great," former Grand Slam finalist Mary Joe Fernandez said on Wednesday. "It's the U.S. Open and it's almost the only place it happens. You expect one or two of those every year."
Then again, she didn't go the distance for the four-setter between Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer that ended at 1:50 a.m. on Wednesday.
"I couldn't stay up for the third set and it was wild to find out that Ferrer won in the morning," she said.
Nikolay Davydenko enjoyed the match, too. Most of it, anyway.
"Too late," he said after reaching the semifinals. "Need to sleep." — AP


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Internet Business Startup Releases "Simple Math Rubik" Info-Product Line
Oyea 2 Enterprises, LLC rolls out the Simple Math Rubik video production. Highlighting "fun math games and puzzles for kids", it sets the stage for the subsequent release of related features.
Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) October 25, 2013
Web-based business, Oyea 2 Enterprises, LLC, unleashes the lead production of its Simple Math Rubik (SMR) information product offering. The target market is teens and tweens. Oyea 2 plans to expand its "info-product and content" appeal to women (and even men) of all ages.
"Oyea 2 is proud to present the Simple Math Rubik project. It is the result of research and preparation. SMR will demonstrate a reverence for the information needs of young math students. You get one chance to prove you truly care about quality," said Gerald Woodson, principle of the organization.
Oyea 2 Enterprises, LLC began its service to the Charlotte, NC music scene in 1984 as Oyea Music (BMI), a home recording studio for solo musicians. Through the years, the company has expanded to include composition, audio post–production, and video production. Since earning a Master's Degree in Economics (1995), Woodson has engaged in extensive research of customer service and technical support in the emerging residential satellite industry (circa 2003). For the last 18 months, Oyea Music has been focused on expanding its marketing efforts into the online space. Consolidating its music, video, research, and writing expertise into one business entity, Oyea 2 Enterprises, LLC is the product engine.
The video release presents the rules of algebra as it suggests alternative ways of making learning fun. The two primary messages of the video are: follow the rules and make fun a reward for getting work done. To that end, SMR and Oyea 2 introduce a unique video service touted to both guide and focus those it serves while adding valuable guidance to the experience of learning. The company will bring an ebook/audio book, and copyright-free music soundtrack to market by the first week of December, 2013.
To learn more about the release, visit http://oyea2.com/simple-math-rubik-video-is-live/.
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The mission of Oyea 2 Enterprises, LLC is to provide quality information on the pursuit of health, wealth, and happiness for raising self-awareness worldwide.
The vision is to express the mission through the distribution of information products (literature, music, and video) and related services.
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Energy felt inside the body isn't just force applied to shots, through upper/lower body uncoils, it's tinged with emotion/s, fumbling/learning shots, psych/fear/confidence cocktails, and technical skill/lack of. Intention and fear guides/controls all force in athletic action. There is the over riding intention to not lose, to hit/play well, but it's often blocked by many interior and exterior issues. Some energy is exterior. From opponent/ psyches and shots, from the onlookers, from the weather, sun, etc.
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Prior to the team's 10:30 skate commencing, there was a bit of an on-ice meeting with 10 Bruins consisting of Zdeno Chara, Dennis Seidenberg, Johnny Boychuk, Matt Hunwick, Nathan Horton, Tyler Seguin, David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron, and Tuukka Rask.
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A 26-year-old Milwaukee man accused of drunken driving in the early morning hours after Election Day wanted to talk politics during his arrest, Wauwatosa police said.
According to the Wauwatosa police report:
The man was stopped by police in the 7400 block of West State Street at 12:58 a.m. Nov. 7 after his vehicle crossed the centerline multiple times. As he pulled over, he hit the curb, according to the police report.
The man immediately began mumbling about President Barack Obama when officers approached him. They told him they believed he had been drinking, and he replied, "You're the man, and if you say I did it, then I did," the report states.
He was driving with a suspended license, and when officers confronted him about it, he began talking about politics again.
The man told police he had left from a game of poker and wanted to celebrate Obama's re-election. He then began "rambling about other issues again," the report states.
The passenger in his car was holding a beer can when he was pulled over. She claimed that it was empty and being used as an ashtray.
Refusing a Breathalyzer test, the man was taken to the hospital to have his blood drawn. On the way there, he hit his head on the back of the police car. During the blood draw, he said that the officer "busted" his head in. He later said that he was just joking with the officers.
Blood test results, which will indicate his blood-alcohol content, are pending.
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KNOXVILLE — Sentencing is set for March 27 for former judge Richard Baumgartner, convicted in federal court today of five counts of misprision of a felony.
Baumgartner faces a three-year sentence and $250,000 fine on each count of conviction, according to federal prosecutors.
On their fourth day of deliberations, a 10-woman, two-man jury found the former Knox County Criminal Court judge guilty of lying to an Anderson County judge, a Knox County judge, a state prosecutor, a child support referee and the director of transitional housing at the YWCA.
The panel acquitted him of lying to nurses at the former St. Mary's Medical Center with the purpose of covering up a drug conspiracy.
Deliberations began Tuesday afternoon. They continued most of Wednesday and Thursday.
At times jurors appeared through their communication with U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer to indicate they were having problems reaching a verdict. They asked to go home Thursday afternoon.
They resumed deliberations this morning before announcing their decision this afternoon.
Donald Bosch and Ann Short represent Baumgartner.
"On behalf of Mr. Baumgartner, we appreciate the hard work the jury has done in this case, and clearly they have struggled with the result," the firm said in a statement released today. "With that said, there are a number of critical issues that have been raised throughout this prosecution, and we will be appealing the five guilty verdicts.
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Total E&P Myanmar Ltd and JX Nippon Oil & Gas (Myanmar) Ltd will hold a 40 per cent stake and a 15 per cent stake, respectively, in Block M11. PTTEPI will hold the remaining 45 per cent participation interest, the Thai company said in a statement to the Stock Exchange of Thailand The transaction is subject to official approval from the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
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Matt Damon has slammed actors who only take roles in potential blockbusters, because he believes stardom is irrelevant.
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