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Subject: Priorities don't include culture, history or saving lives
DOUGLAS JEHL and ELIZABETH BECKER
WASHINGTON, April 15 The plunder last week of Iraq's national museum, one of the Middle East's most important archaeological repositories, occurred despite repeated requests to the Pentagon by experts and scholars that the site be protected when American troops entered Baghdad.
A senior Pentagon official said the military had never promised that the buildings would be safeguarded.
"We could never guarantee ahead of time the safety of a single building," said Dr. Joseph Collins, a deputy assistant secretary of defense for humanitarian and peacekeeping operations.
But experts, including McGuire Gibson, a professor at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, said they believed that the military had understood the need to protect the buildings against looting as well as bombing.
"I thought we had understandings," Dr. Gibson said today as he prepared to leave for a meeting of antiquities experts in Paris called by Unesco to assess the damage from the museum's destruction. "I didn't expect that we would stand by and let them loot the museum and burn the ministries."
The experts met with Pentagon officials as early as January to warn that the impending war could pose grave risks to Iraq's archaeological treasures. They renewed the warnings in e-mail messages in the days before the American attack on Baghdad began, some of the experts said today.
Representatives of the American Council for Cultural Policy, a New York-based group of museum officials and prominent art collectors, also met with Defense and State Department officials in the months before the war, and said they were encouraged by the meetings.
At the Pentagon, defense officials said that the museum had in fact been put on the American military's no-target list in response to the scholars' warnings, and that the military had refrained from bombing it.
But in an e-mail message, Mr. Collins said that "in no case" had his office instructed military commanders to provide protection for the museum or library.
"We leave such decisions to commanders on the scene," he said.
In interviews, the experts said their warnings had addressed the dangers posed by looting as well as by aerial attack.
Dr. Gibson, a leading expert on Iraqi antiquities, said he met in January with Mr. Collins, whose office was responsible for helping determine which sites could not be bombed.
But Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon briefing today that the protection of the museum had been assigned less importance than the combat operations that were continuing sporadically in Baghdad last Thursday and Friday while the museum was being looted.
"It's as much as anything else a matter of priorities," General Myers said when asked whether the military had made a mistake in failing to defend the museum.
In other parts of Iraq, American forces followed the military's plan to to secure oil wells, dams and other critical sites ahead of the troops' main advance, and in Baghdad they secured at least the oil ministry and kept looters at bay.
But they did not try to guard the National Museum either before or during most of the two days after Iraq's own security apparatus collapsed, defense officials acknowledged today. In interviews in Baghdad, museum officials said American troops came only once for a half- hour at midday on Thursday.
In the absence of any security presence, the looters exacted what experts believe was a heavy toll on the museum and its collection, stored in 28 galleries and vaults, including the loss of perhaps 50,000 irreplaceable artifacts and the burning of museum records.
"You'd have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find looting on this scale," said Eleanor Robson, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a council member of the British School of Archeology in Iraq, a semiofficial scholarly institution.
British scholars asked Prime Minister Tony Blair as early as last December to protect Iraq's museums and historical sites against looting and destruction. In particular, the scholars were worried by the precedent set following the gulf war in 1991, when 9 of Iraq's 13 regional museums were ransacked and their treasures were sold on the international art market.
They said they suspected that professional thieves were behind the looting of Baghdad's museum and library.
Archaeological officials in Baghdad took reporters through the museum today and pointed to what they said was clear evidence of professionalism on the part of some looters: the use of glass cutters, the bypassing of reproductions in favor of valuable originals and the carting off of major pieces weighing hundreds of pounds.
Dr. Gibson said he and other experts issued warnings in two meetings at the Pentagon in January and February.
"Maybe I just wasn't talking to people high enough in the organization," he said.
"I got nothing in writing," he acknowledged.
At the Pentagon today, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended the military's approach.
"To try to pass off the fact of that unfortunate activity to a deficit in the war plan strikes me as a stretch," Mr. Rumsfeld told a reporter who asked whether the looting of the museum reflected a military mistake.
Pentagon officials said today that the military was working closely with scholars at the University of Chicago and other institutions to identify missing pieces and to provide photographs of them to American troops. The hope is that forces now guarding Iraq's borders might be able to intercept at least some of the looted items before they are smuggled out.
Less publicized is the damage to Iraq's main library, the House of Wisdom, the repository of the country's historical archives, said Charles Tripp, a professor of Middle East politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
"This is really a terrible thing for Iraq," he said. "One of the problems has been establishing an identity, a place in history and in the future. If you lose those documents you are subject to remolding of history which will be extremely dangerous."
While war and looting are synonymous, few scholars could remember such a spectacular loss in recent times. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew Pol Pot in January 1979, there was virtually no looting of ancient Khmer art or manuscripts. During World War II, the Allies changed their military strategy to avoid fighting inside Florence, Italy.
Langdon Warner, a Harvard archaeologist, is a hero in Japan for persuading the Air Force to spare the ancient cities of Nara and Kyoto from firebomb raids that laid waste to other major Japanese cities in 1945. No such solicitude was shown for Berlin or Dresden.
Relief Groups, Bush Administration
at Odds on Iraq Aid
By WILLIAM BOLE c. 2003 Religion News Service
(RNS) In a sign of sharpening differences between the Bush
administration and international aid organizations, several leading
religious agencies say they will refuse to take part in relief operations in
Iraq if the efforts fall under control of the U.S. military.
The administration has put the Pentagon in charge of the humanitarian
campaign in post-conflict Iraq. However, private aid groups would like to
see the United Nations coordinate the delivery of aid, as it has in the
aftermath of past conflicts.
The United States is departing from the tradition of letting civilian
authorities manage relief efforts as soon as the fighting stops, said Rick
Augsburger, who directs emergency programs for Church World Service, based
in New York.
"This flies in the face of humanitarian principles, and the humanitarian
code of conduct," said Augsburger, whose agency represents 36 Protestant,
Orthodox, and Anglican communions with 50 million members in the United
States. "As an organization, we would not allow our efforts to come under
direction of the U.S. military."
The administration's plans have triggered opposition by a broad range of
aid groups, including the evangelical Protestant agency, World Vision. Now,
some humanitarian organizations are taking the further step of saying they
will not take part in any aid deliveries managed by the military.
It is unclear what impact this stance will have on the overall
humanitarian effort in post-conflict Iraq. For example, Church World Service
believes it might be able to deliver aid through channels independent of the
military, as long as the military does not keep an airtight grip on aid
The agency has shipped $3.8 million of aid, primarily medical supplies,
to Iraq over the past 12 years. That it would be ready to boycott the U.S.
aid plan for Iraq is one sign of a growing divide between the administration
and humanitarian assistance groups.
Relief officials say the military is less able or inclined to make sure
that aid gets into the hands of Iraqis most in need.
They point to recent chaotic scenes of relief distributions in southern
Iraq. There, American soldiers hurled provisions off trucks while firing
shots in the air to keep order.
Relief officials say the aid wound up going to the swiftest and
strongest, not necessarily those who were most in need. And that goes
directly against the mission of humanitarian agencies, especially
faith-based agencies, according to the officials.
"Our theology directs us to provide assistance to those who are most
vulnerable, from a perspective of unconditionality," said Augsburger.
He said there is no indication that the Pentagon has conducted such an
assessment of humanitarian needs in Iraq.
They also fear that military coordination will remove the shield of
neutrality aid workers need in order to move safely around the country.
"This makes things very complicated for us, because we don't want to be
seen as part of the war machine. We don't want to be seen as simply an
extension of the military effort," said Nazare Albuquerque, an expert on
post-conflict emergency relief with Catholic Relief Services. The
international agency is sponsored by the U.S. bishops and based in
"We've always had good relations with the military, but we believe the
military should do what it's good at, which is creating and ensuring a safe
environment for the humanitarian agencies to work in. And it should let us
do what we're good at," Albuquerque said.
Yet, while opposing the administration's relief plans, Catholic Relief
Services is signaling it will participate nonetheless. For one thing, the
Catholic agency plans to seek funding from the United States for its relief
work in Iraq, while Church World Service says it will not use government
"We're not saying we're not going to cooperate. But how we do it is a
question," said Albuquerque. "It's difficult to operate in these
circumstances, but at the end of the day, what matters is the good of
people. We need to help people."
Some other religious relief agencies are less willing to work under the
Pentagon's umbrella.
"Absolutely not," said Janis Shields, a spokeswoman for the American
Friends Service Committee, when asked if the Philadelphia-based Quaker
agency would go along with the U.S. plan. "The blurring of lines between the
military and humanitarian work is dangerous. It's dangerous to relief
"I don't believe so," said Jonathan Frerichs of Baltimore-based Lutheran
World Relief, when asked the same question. He said the organization works
mainly through local Christian aid associations in Iraq and Jordan that
would likely resist taking orders from the American military.
"It's not an adversarial position. It's just a matter of respecting the
division of labor that makes it possible to do the job on both ends," he
said, explaining that the United Nations has a successful track record of
coordinating emergency relief campaigns.
Even World Vision, which is considered more conservative or politically
neutral than some other major agencies, is unsure about its relief role in
postwar Iraq.
"The military is not trained to do this, and we're concerned about the
safety of our staff, that they'll be potential targets," said Bruce
Wilkinson, a senior vice president of the organization based in Tacoma,
Asked if World Vision might opt out of the aid campaign in Iraq, he
replied, "That possibility exists, yes."
Still, there is much uncertainty about the administration's position
regarding the relief campaign in Iraq.
President Bush has said coalition forces intend to give the United
Nations an important role, but he placed the humanitarian effort under the
command of the Pentagon's newly established Office of Reconstruction and
Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq.
At a press briefing in late March, Andrew Natsios, director of the U.S.
Agency for International Development, said the United Nations will "clearly
have a role, and the question is what the role will be."
Some relief officials are quick to say that in certain circumstances,
the military has not only a right but also an obligation to handle the
humanitarian effort.
"If the military is the only one on the scene, it has to be in charge.
They have to do it, if the bullets are still flying," said Frerichs of
Lutheran World Relief. "But there's a switchover point. Once public order is
restored, it's time to hand it over to those with the expertise and
competence, those who can do the job without seeming to be on one side or
the other."
Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 10, 2003
groups say security and profiteering cause problems
By Stephen G. Greene
Security concerns and alleged profiteering are complicating the work of charities providing humanitarian aid in or near Iraq, even as more of them begin to appeal for greater support from donors to help people harmed by the war.
For some groups, simply getting relief supplies to the region has proved challenging. Cargo planes are in short supply, since the Pentagon has hired many private air carriers to help transport military supplies to the Middle East. As a result, some airlines have been quoting prices much higher than normal for renting the few planes they have available.
Airlines previously had often been willing to rent a cargo plane to charities for just the cost of fuel and flight crew -- about $80,000 between the West Coast and the Middle East, says Richard M. Walden, president of Operation USA, in Los Angeles. Even if relief groups were unable to rent a plane at cost, the commercial price for a Boeing 747 jumbo-jet flight was normally around $300,000, he says.
But since hostilities broke out in Iraq, some American airlines have been quoting prices of as much as $500,000 to rent even smaller planes like DC-8s or DC-10s to nongovernmental organizations. Mr. Walden adds that, after complaining to the Pentagon about such inflated prices, he was able to get a quote of $120,000 from Royal Jordanian Airlines to fly an Airbus from New York to Jordan. But the high cost of air travel had already prompted his group to send its most recent shipment of medical supplies by sea, which will delay its arrival by about a month.
Drug Companies
Profiteering may be occurring among other companies, too. One pharmaceutical corporation that normally donates products to humanitarian groups like Operation USA has suspended those donations until it learns whether the U.S. government will purchase its products at full cost for use in relief work, Mr. Walden said. Referring to reports of the billions of federal dollars expected to be spent on relief in Iraq, he added: "With all those money figures floating around, it looks like NGOs are going to get frozen out completely of the American market."
Even in the face of mounting needs among Iraqi civilians for water, medical care, and other emergency support, many aid groups have been slow to rush in to help them because of security concerns. Indeed, Doctors Without Borders, which had had a six-member medical and surgical team working in a Baghdad hospital, pulled the remaining four members out of the country after two others went missing this month. Groups fear that their workers might be exposed to attacks even after coalition troops control much of Iraq.
"We have suspended all operations while we work to secure their safe and speedy release," said Chris Torguson, a spokeswoman at the charity's office in New York. "The security situation is making it very difficult for groups like ours to work there."
What's more, added Mr. Walden, anti-American feelings fanned by the war in Iraq have complicated relief and development work in other quarters of the globe as well. Television shots of coalition soldiers distributing relief supplies tend to reinforce suspicions in many parts of the world that American relief workers are closely allied with, or even agents of, the U.S. government.
"They're making it damn near impossible for Americans to work in the southern Philippines, in the Muslim parts of India, in northern Nigeria, in Indonesia, in much of Saharan Africa, and in all of the Arab countries," Mr. Walden said, "because they've obliterated the line between military and civilian relief."
He added that even his organization's name, Operation USA, emblazoned on its aid shipments, has become a liability in some places. "It's an unfortunate time to be American," he said. "I can't wear our T-shirt anywhere. It has become very dangerous for us to do our work in an atmosphere that has become as hostile as it has."
Soliciting Gifts
Aid continues to flow into the Middle East, however, and some charities have become more aggressive about raising money for their work there.
Oxfam America, for example, has raised about $900,000 so far for Iraq.
About $120,000 has come through the mail, and the remainder has been donated online in response both to an appeal on Oxfam's own Web site and to an e-mail request sent by MoveOn.org, an organization that promotes grass-roots activism.
Catholic Relief Services to date has raised more than $230,000 for programs conducted by its partner, Caritas Iraq, which intends to help Iraqis displaced from their homes by offering food, water containers, bedding, stoves, fuel, and other emergency supplies.
The group says it hopes to raise $8.3-million to assist some 260,000 Iraqis who it expects will be displaced from their homes in the next several months.
Save the Children, which is planning to offer a similar array of services in four southern provinces of Iraq, raised about $20,000 for its Iraq Children in Crisis Fund during the first week it was promoted on the charity's Web site. But that organization, like many others, was planning to hold off on a major fund-raising campaign until the dimensions of the humanitarian emergency became clearer. Eventually, it hopes to raise $3-million from private sources to supplement money from government and United Nations sources.
"When the focus shifts to innocent civilians in need, we expect the public to be as generous as it has been in the past," said Mike Kiernan, a spokesman for Save the Children, which has not yet mailed any requests for support.
CARE USA has so far raised about $29,000 for Iraq -- including some $7,000 donated online since it posted an appeal on its Web site after the war started. But Allen Clinton, a CARE spokesman, said the charity would not mail out appeals or do other more aggressive fund raising until it had a better idea of how it could help. CARE's Iraqi staff members have been helping to keep hospital generators running and providing water and hygiene supplies, he said.
Mercy Corps, which has been supporting the work of Peace Winds Japan in northern Iraq for about a year, hopes to raise $2-million for such efforts over the next two months. To motivate potential donors, it is posting on its Web site daily updates of the amount it has received for that campaign.
"Being able to report human needs and donor response in real time will be a really powerful tool," predicted Matthew De Galan, the charity's chief resource development officer.
Peace Groups
Relief organizations have also gotten some help from groups whose focus, before the fighting began, had been on opposing the war. For example, Working Assets, a communications company in San Francisco, raised about $200,000 this year to help organizations that opposed war in Iraq. When the war started, however, the company immediately started another appeal, this time to raise money for aid groups in the region and to help rebuild civil institutions and promote democracy in Iraq.
About $100,000 has been raised so far for the Iraqi Emergency Relief Fund, which intends to distribute the proceeds to various organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, Mercy Corps, Oxfam America, and Unicef. Michael Kieschnick, president of Working Assets, said that, judging by similar campaigns in the past, he expected to raise an additional $250,000 in response to requests accompanying customers' long-distance telephone bills.
"Our customers are a very compassionate bunch," he said. "I think they feel that the United States is responsible, and that we need to do the right thing."
From the Voices web site:
Less than 24 hours after issuing
a press release
highlighting the failures of the U.S.
military's attempts to oversee humanitarian intervention in Iraq, Voices in the
Wilderness was banned from meeting with the U.S. Civil Military Operations
Center, or with international journalists working out of the Palestine Hotel in
If the freedom to critique U.S. policies in Iraq regarding humanitarian issues is being curtailed already, then exactly what does this mean for building "democracy" here?
Heavy-handed and hopeless, the U.S. military doesn't know what it's doing in Iraq
Press Release, Iraq Peace Team
16 April 2003
Voices in the Wilderness representatives met today with the U.S. Military's Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC) in their headquarters at the Palestine Hotel to discuss the emergency, humanitarian crisis facing Baghdad. Trash removal has not occurred for a month. Electricity, Sanitation and Communications were all seriously damaged during the U.S. war, and have yet to be restored in Baghdad. Cholera outbreaks have been reported in Basra, and rumored to have been found in the central Iraqi city of Hilla. Some of the local clinics are up and running, but medications for conditions such as hypertension and diabetes are no longer available. Quality control equipment and systems are also unavailable, and the lack of quality control could lead to serious problems in treatment, as well as creating the potential for epidemics due to contaminated blood products.
The previous distribution system set up under the "Oil-for-Food" program is in total collapse, and - unless essential services are immediately restored - Iraq faces a humanitarian catastrophe.
Prior to the war, the Pentagon set up Humanitarian Operations Coordination Centers (the HOC in Qatar and Kuwait, and the HAC in Jordan), as well as disaster assistance response teams (DART), to coordinate relief efforts between the U.S. military and United Nations and non-governmental organizations. Not only are HOC, HAC, and DART personnel not in Baghdad yet, CMOC was not even aware of the existence of these other military-humanitarian coordinating bodies.
CMOC reported that they did not yet have a plan for how to restore essential services in Baghdad, but are working on creating such a plan today. However, that information will not be publicly available for review, and will only be shared with organizations that agree to work with the U.S. military in Baghdad - cutting out any humanitarian agency that insists on maintaining neutrality.
CMOC also reported that they spent several days locating hospitals, power plants, and water & sanitation plants in order to do needs assessments. Apparently no one in the U.S. military thought to ask the United Nations, or other international organizations working in Iraq, for any of this information prior to, or even after, the fall of Baghdad. The World Health Organization and the Red Cross have been working in Iraq for years. The United Nations Development program has been working to assist Iraq in restoring electricity since 1996. Locations and assessments of civilian infrastructures are not secret information - except in the Pentagon's world. Why didn't anyone ask for this information? Why wasn't a plan for rehabilitation developed prior to the war?
When told that of rumors of a cholera outbreak in Hilla, CMOC even asked Voices in the Wilderness where that neighborhood was located in Baghdad - unaware that Hilla is a major Iraqi city located approximately 1 hour south of Baghdad!
The biggest problem CMOC reported is the lack of local workers needed to get civilian systems up and running. However, CMOC seemed unaware that the mostly unmanned roadblocks put up throughout the city are making it difficult for anyone to get to work, as is the lack of a coordinating body responsible for organizing these efforts.
A coordinating body, not associated with any military organization, needs to be created to direct humanitarian assessment and relief efforts by all of the agencies working, or seeking to work, in Iraq. Previously, this was the corrupt, but functional, Iraqi Red Crescent Society.
- Senior-level administrators at hospitals and other civilian centers fled with the collapse of the previous regime. This has led to chaotic conditions where lower-level staff are unsure who, if anyone, has the authority to make urgent decisions. This "power vacuum" must be immediately filled by creating new, decision-making-structures, not corrupted by the previous regime.
- The U.S. military has demonstrated that it is neither prepared, nor interested in becoming prepared, to deal with the humanitarian crisis caused by their war. The international community must exert itself, and return UN control to dealing with this crisis, until Iraqis can form a government of their own to deal with the problems created by 12 years of sanctions and war.
Time is short.


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Former Drake Soccer Player Earns Third Career MLS Championship
Former women's basketball standout Lindsay Whorton was awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholar this week, while former Drake men's soccer standout Ezra Hendrickson earned his third career Major League Soccer Cup championship when the Columbus Crew defeated the New York Red Bulls, 3-1, Sunday before a crowd of 27,000, at the Home Depot Center.The Crew, one of the league's charter teams, was making its first appearance in the final in its 13-year history.
The Crew went 17-7-6 and won the Supporters' Shield, which goes to the team with the best regular-season record.
Hendrickson, a tall, skillful defender with attacking instincts, completed his 12th MLS season, having also earned MLS Cup titles in 2004 while playing for D.C. United and in 2002 with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Hendrickson played at Drake from 1990-93 where he became the school's lone All-American earning third team honors as a senior. He was a three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference performer and a two-time Academic All-MVC selection.
He was honored with the Jerry Howlett Award for most outstanding student-athlete as a senior. Hendrickson earned a bachelor's degree in marketing from Drake in 1994.
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I had the honor to co-host a teleseminar with two colleagues from New York, Kathleen Cuneo and Grace Freedman, who also co-founded the Blog for Family Dinner Project that kicks off today. I wanted to tie in some of the discussion that came out of that teleseminar and pass them along for those who didn't get a chance to be a part. When we generalize obstacles for family dinner we come up with three parts:
Picky Eaters
I will be doing a three part series on these obstacles this week, today I would like to discuss Time a little more in depth and offer a few suggestions to try at dinner tonight.
Commitment to time is the most common challenge. With adult activities (work, community involvement, friends, etc) and children activities (music, sports, homework, friends, and general mischief) it's a miracle we make it to the end of the day. Some days seem to turn into mom and dad cab with a hope that you get it all right and don't end up waiting at the wrong stop for the wrong kid and leaving one stranded. Work has a "big" project that could potentially lead to a raise or promotion, and then there are bake sales, community boards, oh and the birthday gift dog of whom you love, but just chewed up your last pair of dress shoes. There is an online calendar tool that is free that could help called Cozi.com. The discussion goes much deeper than that. It is more than just scheduling otherwise we have the solution. Life is not schedule-able (I may have just made that word up) all the time. A plan is a great guide but we cannot predict what will happen next as often as we would like. So we try to simplify the best we can. We say this line over and over, but everything a parent worries about can be dramatically reduced with the simple act of eating dinner together.
Laurie David has written a guide/cookbook that attacks some of these challenges. You can actually view her TedxManhattan talk (it's 11 minutes) where she lays out great statistical framework for commitment. Do not be overwhelmed. Find resource that work for your family. Maybe a slow cooker that you can set before work and be ready for dinner time works for you. Maybe you have a break in between mom and dad cab stops to throw dinner together. We don't say this often enough, but maybe it is your night to eat out. It is simply a commitment of time, but start smart. If you are not eating dinner as a family start with 1 meal. Commit 40 minutes to dinner conversation without distractions (no tv, no cell phones, no electronics). Show a sincere interest in others. Teach your children by example to listen, instead of just waiting for their turn to talk. Then move on to two dinners a week. Then Three….. You may end up discovering that dinner is the MOST insightful activity your family participated in.


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November 30, 2015
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) _ A person close to John Edwards says the former presidential hopeful endorsed Barack Obama in an effort
to unify Democrats.
Edwards made the endorsement Wednesday at a rousing campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The carefully timed plug steals the
thunder from Hillary Clinton the day after she trounced Obama in
West Virginia.
Edwards, who received a thunderous ovation when Obama introduced
him to the crowd of several thousand, said party unity is needed to
defeat John McCain. Edwards told the jubilant Obama supporters
``the Democratic voters have made their choice and so have I.''
In a further bid for party unity, Edwards saluted Clinton, saying she's ``a woman who is made of steel'' and ``we are a stronger party'' because of her work.
A Clinton campaign spokesman says the race remains ``far from
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Great, I very nice break from work.
I agree that we should not have ritnoig and Occupy Wall Street is not ritnoig. They are protesting. Big difference. The country is going to hell and will make if action like this isn't taken. I admire and encourage them.
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The UK based company Ecotricity is working its magic to green energy for the health of the planet and all its inhabitants.
Kicking off a new campaign called "Dump the Big Six," the company just released a new video featuring the destruction of some symbolic, and upset, cooling towers.
Ecotricity writes on their blog, "The campaign's crumbling cooling towers are symbols of a passing era, of an old industrial approach to energy production – through burning fossil fuels. The overwhelming feeling this animation gives me is that it's 'time to move on' – as a country we need to, and as people we need to."
The self-proclaimed "first green electricity company" takes the profits and turns them right back around to build new wind mills.
Check out the video below, and don't feel too bad for the cute animated cooling towers. It's their time to go.
About Ali BermanAli Berman is the author of Choosing a Good Life: Lessons from People Who Have Found Their Place in the World (Hazelden) and Misdirected (Seven Stories Press). She works as a humane educator for HEART teaching kids about issues affecting people, animals and the environment. Her published work can be found on her website at aliberman.com. In early 2012 Ali co-founded flipmeover, a production company with the mission to use media to raise awareness of social issues.
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by Joshua K. Hartshorne
Until retrocession to the mainland,
Hong Kong was one of the last non-Mandarin strongholds of
the Chinese World and until a few years ago Mandarin-speaking
Chinese tourists found Hong Kong nearly un-navigable. Since
mainland rule arrived in 1997, Mandarin is increasingly
common and Hong Kong is becoming an increasingly attractive
base for studying the language. The spectacular scenery,
stunning modern landscape, cheap restaurants, and excellent
transportation system are all just extras.
A typical Mandarin program is offered
by the Center for Study Abroad (CSA), which
runs a network of language programs around the world. Classes—of
three hours a day, limited to seven students—start
more or less year-round. Like most other study-abroad programs,
CSA can help arrange a variety of accommodations including
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Information about students named to the first-semester honors lists at Mountain Home Christian Academy has been submitted as follows:
All A's
? First grade - Kyla Baker, Kelsey Blackwell, Alivia Levine and Erin Smith
? Second grade - Kytalin Cotter, Max Huebner, Raine Hunter, Noah McKay, Paul Mace, William Mooney, Jace Peglar, Caroline Robinson, Megan Rodgers, Emory Warden, Kaden Wendfeldt and Brandon Wert
? Third grade - Domanik Gibbs, Mason Newman, Maddy Simmons
? Fourth grade - Kelly Baker, Easton Peglar and Haley Solomon
? Sixth grade - Bryce McKay, Jack Wendfeldt and Rebekah Winslow
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The Evergreen Fire Protection District board will hold a special meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, at fire department headquarters, 1802 Bergen Parkway.
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How long is 29 years? Well, in 1980 the Greater Evergreen Empire had exactly one grocery store, one high school, two video arcades, three stoplights, four travel agencies, no mocha lattes, and maybe 20,000 warm bodies, tops.
And it had the Whippletree, a semi-rustic Bergen Park roadhouse with a reputation for good eats, stiff drinks and occasionally rowdy clientele. That was good news for Bruce Breazier, a local carpet installer who arrived in Evergreen in 1976 and found himself at loose ends four years later when a back injury pulled the rug out from under his career.
Kristi Sigal has been named the new executive director of Evergreen Christian Outreach, taking the reins from Lesley Jackson.
Jackson was on staff with EChO for eight years and became the executive director in 2002.
Sigal is an ordained United Methodist minister from Ann Arbor, Mich. She arrived in Evergreen 18 months ago with her husband, Myles, and sons David, Drew and Zachary.
More than 30 people gathered at the Mountain Resource Center in Conifer on Jan. 20 for an open house and ribbon cutting for the MRC's new children's health center.
MRC executive director Sharon Schrage told attendees they had a job to do after the open house was over.
"We need to find children and families who don't know we're here," she said. "And, many who need us most stop preventative care (for kids). If we have kids who can't get health care — get them here."
Although they never got close enough to see the new president, those who made the trek to Washington from Evergreen for Inauguration Day were not disappointed.
"It was so inspiring," said Janet Heck Doyle, who attended the Sunday concert. "There were all these people you see on TV and the themes of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.
"The setting was so cool. There was the statue of Lincoln looming over, like he was blessing the whole thing," Doyle said.
Developer Ron Lewis of Evergreen is seeking a zoning change for a half-acre now used for storage west of the Evergreen South Shopping Center at Highway 73 and Turkey Creek Road in Marshdale.
The fenced-in property is used by an auto repair shop and houses some trailers and fencing materials.
Lewis said he has no plans to build anything on the parcel; he just wants to replace the existing residential zoning with more appropriate commercial zoning in case he ever decides to use it for parking or something else.
The Paradise Hills Homeowners Association has filed for an injunction in district court asking one of its members to remove a structure that the association says violates the HOA covenants against unapproved fences.
But the homeowner, Christine Arnold, says the enclosure is needed to protect her children and pets from the neighbor's dog and is refusing to take it down. She has filed a counterclaim, attacking the HOA for a breach of fiduciary duty and asking for unspecified damages.
A kids-only dental practice has purchased the last 4,000 available square feet in the Honka Log Homes Building in El Rancho Center and is planning to open by the summer after extensive remodeling.
All Kids Dental, based in Glenwood Springs and Rifle, acquired the space in the office condo building for $1 million, according to published reports. The company will occupy the entire third floor above Rustic Point, a furniture and home goods store.
Sixteen elk were killed in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 at Highway 65 about 1 a.m. Jan. 23, when a semi truck collided with the herd as it was trying to cross the freeway.
The semi jackknifed as it hit the animals, and two cars were involved, one of which rolled over. Luckily, none of the vehicle occupants was hurt seriously enough to be taken to the hospital, said Garry DeJong, chief of Evergreen Fire/Rescue. The names of the individuals involved were not available.
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Winners of the Math Meet 2004
The thirtieth annual Math Field Day was held at the University of Wisconsin-Superior on April 28, 2004. Ten teams from high schools in Wisconsin and northern Minnesota attended. The Wisconsin schools included Ashland, Bruce, Drummond, Grantsburg, Hayward, Rice Lake, Superior, and Unity. The Minnesota schools were Barnum, and Hermantown.
The competition began with a Team Event, in which the eight-member teams collaborate in solving ten problems within 20 minutes. Schools with 500 or more students compete in the large-school class; the other schools form the small-school class. Runner-up in the small school class was Barnum, with a score of 64. The winner in the small school class was Grantsburg, with a score of 74. In the large school class, the runner-up was Hayward, scoring 78, and the winner was Superior, scoring 88.
The individual events consist of 15 problems to solve within a time limit of 15 minutes. The top finishers in each event received a Math Meet T- shirt; the winners of each event will also receive a $100 U.S. Savings Bond. (No student may receive more than one bond or more than one T- shirt.) The top finishers in each event and their scores are:
Event II - Plane Geometry:
|1st Place:
|Luke Schultz, Hayward
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|Molly Schaffer, Rice Lake
Nadine Yoder, Hayward
Jon Wick, Grantsburg
Tegan Schmandt, Rice Lake
Josh Speros, Hayward
Event III - Algebra II and Analytic Geometry:
|1st Place:
|Charles Kwak, Hayward
|Top Finishers:
|Brett Friermood, Drummond
Zak Flately, Ashland
Liz Dalzen, Barnum
David Blommel, Drummond
Kyle Williamson, Hayward
Tom Schaffer, Rice Lake
Kelly McCoy, Unity
Event IV - Trigonometry and Elementary Functions:
|1st Place:
|Brandon Harris, Superior
|Top Finishers:
|Karissa Swenson, Hayward
Frank Emert, Superior
Event V - Probability and Statistics:
|1st Place:
|Mitch Tromberg, Grantsburg
|Top Finishers:
|Kristi Freitag, Rice Lake
Aaron Sampson, Rice Lake
Quick Response / Calculator Event:
The quick-response verbal event just prior to lunch then provided a nice change of pace from the sit-down events. Dr. Chad Scott from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science coordinated a series of toss-up and bonus questions. The students who won candy bars for correct answers were:
|Kuya Takami
|Celina Cooper
|Emaija Disaho
|Kevin Juleen
Jonathon Wick
|Charles Kwak
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|Tom Schaffer
Brandon Willger
Tegan Schmandt
|Joe Maki
Brandon Harris
The Math Meet T-shirt for this year showed a coded message on the front, and the scheme for decoding it on the back. The students were challenged to decode the message early in the day, before seeing the decoding. The first person to successfully decode the message ("Mathematics holds the key!") was Celina Cooper from Bruce. She won a large candy bar as a prize.
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Founded in 1997, the South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations, affectionately known as "SCANPO," is the only statewide membership organization and network that brings together nonprofit leaders to strengthen the state's entire nonprofit sector.
We are run by nonprofit leaders, for nonprofit leaders. We believe that well-managed and responsibly governed nonprofits result in stronger and healthier South Carolina communities.
Our logo – hands firmly shaking across the state – reflects SCANPO's core value of collaboration and our bold vision for a vital and effective nonprofit sector. The bright teal-blue color conveys optimism and impact.
Our tagline – "together. for good." – tells how we will move forward, and why.
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The SCANPO Board uses its mission, vision and values to guide all decision-making, understanding that its primary responsibility is oversight of our mission. Our services and programs are simply mechanisms used to achieve that mission.
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We envision a future in which South Carolina's nonprofit sector has the knowledge, resources, public trust and legislative environment necessary for them to positively impact the lives of South Carolina residents.
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One way to help is by getting prescriptions filled at the local Military Treatment Facility or through the mail order program.
The average markup for filling a prescription in a retail pharmacy is five times what it costs the military pharmacy to fill?
For example, TRICARE is billed $171 for 30 capsules of the most expensive drug filled off base right now, but the MTF can fill it locally for only $12.
In January, more than 9,800 prescriptions were filled by Holloman beneficiaries.
Eighteen percent of them were filled at retail pharmacies at a cost of $252,000.
The pharmacy here filled 75 percent them for just $207,000. That's 57 percent more prescriptions filled for $45,000 less.
Filling prescriptions on base also helps avoid the increased co-pays that went into effect in February.
Here are a few other reasons to choose the convenience of the Holloman pharmacy:
• You can transfer your prescription from retail and other base pharmacies. Prescriptions can be transferred more than one time as long as they are not controlled medications.
• Doctors can fax prescriptions for all medications except narcotics. General prescriptions are automatically filled by 1 p.m. the next duty day without needing to check in and activate them. The fax number for the pharmacy is 572-5781.
• The pharmacy recently added 22 medications based on which prescriptions were being filled most frequently downtown.
• The following formulary link provides information on what the pharmacy here carries and is helpful information for doctors. This link is continually updated. http://www.holloman.af.mil/units/49thmedicalgroup/index.asp
• Refills can be placed through TRICARE online.
• A 90-day supply can be filled on all non-controlled medications as long as it is specified on the prescription.
• The Express Scripts service allows beneficiaries to enjoy the convenience of having their medication delivered to their door. Express Scripts will not charge a co-pay for most generic medications. www.express-scripts.com/tricare
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Earlham took it to the Twin Cedars' girls once again, this time on the softball diamond, ending the Sabers' season with an 11 – 1 win last night in the semifinals of the Class 1A regional tournament. Brittney Roby suffered the loss, allowing seven earned runs. She was 2-for-3 at the plate, however, and Ayla Crosby scored the Sabers' lone run on a Payton Fee RBI single. Alee Hugen, Bailey Stone and Baylee Zellmer also had a hit for Twin Cedars, as they finish their season with a record of 24 – 9.
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The government has allocated the next batch of its rural broadband budget to Wiltshire, Norfolk, Devon and Somerset. The areas will receive £50m of a total of £530m to be dstributed between now and 2015.
Devon and Somerset will receive about £30m, with Norfolk awarded £15m and Wiltshire £4m.
This funding will be supplemented by financial support from local authorities and private investors.
These initiatives are in addition to the existing broadband pilots announced last October in North Yorkshire, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, Cumbria and the Herefordshire borders.
The government will announce the distribution of funding for every local authority in the country later this year.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "This is great news for people in Wiltshire, Norfolk and Devon and Somerset, and other councils will soon have the chance to bid for a nationwide funding programme."
Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said: "Our new Rural Community Broadband Fund will also help to end the rural digital divide allowing farmers and schoolchildren to work online, as well as allowing people in the countryside to enjoy the social networking and online shopping that the rest of us take for granted."
Local authorities and their delivery partners were invited to bid for a slice of the £530m funding allocated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in October's Comprehensive Spending Review.
A total of 18 bids were received and it is anticipated that all will receive funding during the current Parliament as their proposals evolve.
The infrastructure will be upgraded using satellite, broadband and mobile, following this procurement process, and it is hoped that suppliers will start rolling out the new infrastructure within a year.
Internet service providers (ISPs) will then use these networks to offer services to homes and businesses.
Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) will be working with all the authorities that submitted local broadband plans over the coming weeks with a view to supporting them all.


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The sounds and sights of the Caribbean will bring the streets of Notting Hill to life in less than two weeks.
Taking place over the August bank holiday weekend (30th August 2009 until 31st August 2009), the Notting Hill Carnival is a popular event, so travelers would do well to book their London hostels in advance.
A street festival celebrating music, costume and dance inspired by the culture of the West Indies, the Notting Hill Carnival has been a fixture in the British outdoor summer scene since 1965.
Children's Day takes place on Sunday and has a family flavor with youngsters dressed in colorful attire as they travel on floats and in procession along the carnival route.
Traditional soca and calypso music can be heard alongside contemporary reggae, soul, dance, hip hop and R n B on both days as sound systems compete for dominance.
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GREENVILLE, Mich. (WZZM) - A Montcalm County toddler is in critical condition after suffering a severe closed head injury which police are investigating as possible child abuse.
Sunday night, Greenville Department of Public Safety officers were sent to a house in the 300 block of West Grove Street on a report of an unresponsive child. On the scene, authorities found a two-year-old girl unconscious but breathing. She was transported by ambulance to United Health Systems in Greenville then flown by AeroMed to Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids.
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With a fresh set of programming tools, Finnish handset maker Nokia is trying to win over software developers to attract more content to its online application store and boost smartphone sales.
The smartphone business is increasingly about applications, or apps, as buyers want to be able to fill their devices with fun stuff like games and widgets to access Facebook, check weather forecasts and so on.
While Nokia has lost high-end market share to rivals like Apple, and a growing crowd of Android phone makers, its online application store has been lagging behind competing outlets as well.
The rather oddly named Ovi Store (ovi means "door" in Finnish) offers some 13,000 apps and generates around 2 million downloads a day, according to Nokia's markets chief Niklas Savander.
Meanwhile, according to research firm Gartner, Apple's App Store has more than 200,000 apps on offer and has seen a total of 6.5 billion downloads since it opened around two years ago. And the quickly growing Android market has 200,000 applications in store, with over 1 billion downloads since launch. To be sure, both stores have been around for about a year longer than the Ovi Store, which was launched in May 2009, but that's not really a credible excuse for the alarmingly big gap in terms of the number of apps Ovi offers.
But, with a bit of luck, Nokia may be on its way to closing the gap. At this week's Nokia World event in London, the phone maker showcased a range of new tools to make developers' lives easier.
Click here to find out more.
The agenda for this week's Nokia World in London is in pieces following news that two of the company's keynote speakers have announced they are quitting the Finnish company.
Nokia said Monday that Anssi Vanjoki, its smartphone chief, is stepping down. Read the press release here, it'll take you all of three seconds. There's no comment from the company and some bland PR-ed statement from Vanjoki about "new opportunities". Read our coverage here.
Amazing. Vanjoki heads up a key division–Nokia's Mobile Solutions unit–and he is executive vice president and a member of Nokia's group executive board.
What's more, he's slapped his resignation letter on the boss's desk the day before Nokia World, which according to Nokia blurb, is where "the best conversations happen when the right people get together".
Mmm. Doesn't look like all the "right people" will necessarily be there tomorrow.
After all, the other dampener on the event is that just last week Nokia announced that CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is being replaced by Stephen Elop, currently head of Microsoft's Business Division, and Nokia's first non-Finnish CEO.
For sure, Vanjoki was passed over for the top job. But to leave in a fit of pique never looks good. He said that he remains "one hundred per cent committed to doing my best for Nokia until my very last working day" and that he is "really looking forward to this year's Nokia World and sharing news about exciting new devices and solutions". But it's hard to be convinced.
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I'd be very nervous leaving your own equipment in his garage. When he finds out that he can't afford to replace the stuff you own he's going to change his story and claim it was all jointly owned to the judge.
Trying to force you to buy out "his interest in the jointly owned equipment". We know that is not the truth. But you have nothing in paper to prove what you say to the judge.
Time to split the business is now. You take your stuff give him the cash for his half of joint owned stuff and store it in your garage, parent's garage, grandparent's garage.
This guy if given the time to bite you in the ass will not hesitate to do so as soon as he realizes that he is to broke to go and pay for whatever it is that you take away access from him.
You make a valid point there! I just bought a Red Max 8050BP Blower from a guy on CL today I havent taken it to where the other equipment is currently located. I will talk to my other friend tonight and have a chat with him.
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Hope Young with the painting she learned was a print at Antiques Roadshow in Baton Rouge.
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In the spring I hit the lottery - kind of. I was one of the lucky winners of two tickets to Antiques Roadshow (my favorite TV program, LPB, Mondays at 7 p.m.) Saturday in Baton Rouge.
For those who haven't seen Antiques Roadshow, a group of experts in everything old, from antique furniture to vintage toys, travel the country appraising the odds and ends and family treasures brought in by regular folks.
Most of the time, an antique figurine turns out to be nothing more than an object carefully crafted to look old and sold to tourists.
This happened to friends of mine with a beaded basket from Africa. Saturday a Roadshow expert told them it was made in the 1950s for the tourist trade. They were hoodwinked for $200.
But sometimes ... a garage sale table turns out to be Chippendale or there's an original version of the U.S. Constitution underneath an old painting. That's when the experts give mega-estimates in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. When you have those kinds of finds, they put you on the TV show.
My daughter Annabelle and I went to the Baton Rouge Convention Center, along with 5,000-6,000 other holders of precious heirlooms with hopes of high estimates sending us straight to early retirement.
We took a gold pocket watch my great-grandfather gave my great-grandmother as a wedding gift at the turn of the last century, a pair of antique gold and pearl earrings I received as a wedding gift in the late '80s (that's 1980s and time matters on the Roadshow).
Just before we left, I grabbed my antique painting of Jesus in the Temple. I bought it about 20 years ago for $75 at a long-closed antique/junk shop in Archibald or Baskin.
After snaking for an hour through the art line, I got the first appraisal. My painting turned out to be a print of a young man "made for the decorative market" somewhere between 1910 and 1920, according to the expert. Value, a whopping $50.
But I thought it was Jesus in the Temple!
The expert asked what made me think that and I said I didn't know, I just had a feeling. Well, my feeling dropped the value even more. The expert said religious prints are so common they are worth even less.
More bad news over at the watch table. My great-grandmother's pocket watch was gold-filled, the expert said. Adding insult to injury, somewhere along the family line the watch stopped working and its "guts" had been removed. I had an empty watch case valued at $200.
At the jewelry table I did better. The dangling earrings shaped like upside-down horseshoes and covered with pearls and gold wire swirls and curls, were made in 1890-1900 and appraised at $1,900.
Wow! Pretty good for a pair of earrings I've worn once.
I talked to other people while waiting in line and there was more disappointment than delight. One man's porcelain mantle clock which I had watched him protectively cradle in his arms for hours was worth $400. It would have been more if the face glass wasn't missing.
The couple behind us had a reproduction metal clock which would cost more to repair than it was worth.
A woman in front of us clutched a homemade box made of old pieces of wall paneling which contained part of her cameo collection (although an email from the Roadshow advised against bringing cameos because they are not rare and are rarely valuable).
I don't know how she did value-wise, but she did not talk with the expert very long.
At the Roadshow that is a telltale sign that what you have isn't as special to the expert as it is to you.
That's essentially the conclusion I came home with. During the four hour drive back to Monroe, I realized that the value of our things is ultimately sentimental. It's in the memories attached, the history, the whose-did-it-used-to-be, the occasion it marked.
The monetary value by the expert is only real if someone shows up cash in hand to buy it. And who's going to sell grandma's china? Not me.
Monday morning the earrings and watch were returned to the bank. But my print of Jesus in the Temple will not return to the darkness of a closet.
I still haven't taken the back off to see what might be hiding underneath...


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Retired principal Carol Bebout, community relations coordinator Becky Gilliam, North Central Correctional Complex senior education instructor Donna Strine and carpentry instructor Kenny Van Buskirk hold city schools memorabilia.
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As Marion Harding High School Principal Carol Bebout spent her last day at work Friday, she made sure the district's history is preserved.
Bebout and Marion City Schools spokeswoman Becky Gilliam worked together to create an archive room at the high school. The room will feature high school yearbooks, photos, copies of the Harding Herald school newspaper, records of past classes and "just cool stuff," Bebout said.
"What we hope is people will want to donate stuff," she said. ...


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This March, at Conexpo, Hyundai will reinforce its excavator line with the introduction of three new models of mini excavators ranging from 1.6 to 6.0 metric tones in size. The R16-9, R27Z-9 and the brand new R60CR-9 are loaded with the latest operator conveniences, serviceability improvements and efficiency enhancements.
Following the growing popularity of compact radius machines, Hyundai will also display two models of compact radius excavators including the R145LCR-9 and the North American debut of the R235LCR-9, a 23 metric ton compact radius excavator.
When it comes to wheel loaders, Hyundai's newest 9 series line-up tops the competition in several areas. This ConExpo 2011, Hyundai will display two popular 9 series wheel loader models including the versatile HL740TM-9 -Tool Master and the very productive HL760-9.
Hyundai will also be launching the 9S series excavator line with the debut of the R210LC-9S. This machine will only be sold in Latin America and other parts of the world where diesel quality is inconsistent. It will include most of the new features of the 9 series excavators sold into North America, but will be equipped with a simplified Tier II compliant Cummins engine for use in Latin America. The new combination of a reliable tier II Cummins engine and all of the 9 series features will make this excavator series the most valuable and reliable choice for Latin American customers.
Another big debut is the newest and largest addition to the Hyundai forklift line, the 250D-7E, 25 metric ton fork lift. This large forklift will be hard to miss.
Hyundai will also display the service capabilities and advanced technologies of our HDTV (Hyundai Diagnostic & Training Vehicle), including on-site demonstrations of Hyundai's advanced and proprietary Hi-Mate – Remote Management System.
Make sure to visit our booth in the Silver Lot # S-617 to see these exciting new machines in person. Hyundai is… Power, Performance and Profits.
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2011 NHL Trade Rumors – Maple Leafs Moving Tim Connolly?
The NHL is not even two weeks into the regular season, and there are already a number of trade rumors circulating around social media sites.
The latest rumor has the Toronto Maple Leafs looking to move center Tim Connolly before the trade deadline later this season. Bleacher Report is the main source of this rumor and most of the story deals on what happened last season.
NHL teams are always looking for good centers, and Connolly was involved in talks last year at the trade deadline, but nothing materialized. If the veteran can stay healthy and perform, a team in need could make contact with Toronto.
The Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke is well-known for making deals, and any deal would not be that much of a shock, but the team is looking to make the NHL playoffs with improvements they made during the off-season and team chemistry is a big concern, so making any kind of trade at this point of this season seems highly unlikely.
Look for the Maple Leafs to reconsider any options later in the year, and if the front office thinks it is in the best interest of the organization, deals could happen, but for now fans will be cheering for their team to break their playoff drought and possibly make a run at the Stanley Cup.


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How demonstrations can boost your ROI.
One of the sad truths about business today is that people simply lack the creativity to change the ways in which they talk about their products. Companies invest millions in developing products, but they spend very little time and money thinking about how to showcase them. The laws of marketing don't allow you to just be good at a few things - if you want success, you have to fire on all cylinders. So step up, pretenders!
Businesses would see much stronger returns on their investment (ROI) if they'd focus their effort on shaking up the conversation. The best way to do this is by demonstrating what a product has to offer.
Show-and-Tell Time
While we've become a much savvier society as far as technology is concerned, one thing remains true: we like to sample things before we buy. Showrooming is a concern for brick-and-mortar stores that are losing customers to their lower-priced online competitors. Instead of complaining about it, why don't more retailers use that in-store experience to their advantage?
Consumers are more engaged when they're part of the selling process, rather than viewing the selling process. Consumers who physically handle a product have a much higher probability of buying than those who don't - the simple act of touching an item increases a shopper's sense of ownership over it.
Demonstration not only entertains a customer, but it also educates her. Having a prospective buyer use a product allows her to draw on her own experience, rather than consider an experience she's being told about. This makes it easier to assess the value of the product. It also makes it easier for her to share her experience and insight with someone who's influencing the decision-making process.
Sharpening Your Hook
Demonstration offers a great opportunity for companies to get creative. Unfortunately, most companies stop short of doing that. Businesses in a category where no one demonstrates their wares have a big opportunity on their hands. Similarly, industries in which demonstrations are nearly identical routines offer another big opportunity.
To determine your brand's hook, take a field trip to a club store/warehouse (à la Sam's Club or Costco). There, you'll find everything from food to power tools being demonstrated. Your team should observe these interactions and hold an internal brainstorming session to see how you can adapt - and improve upon - these methods. Imagine how customers use this item outside the store, and try to bring that inside.
Of course, not everything can be demonstrated inside a building - you wouldn't ask people to use hunting weapons or gas generators where others are present. This is where our love of technology serves us well; smartphone demos are equally worthwhile. In some cases, we need to use technology to our advantage.
Doing the Deed
A few companies have found impressive ways to demonstrate their products. When shoe shopping, most people try on a few pairs and buy one after walking a lap around the small retail area, hoping the shoes will hold up under more intense circumstances. The Nike Store in Chicago, however, wants customers to know their shoes will hold up. Runners who are considering their shoes are placed on treadmills within the store; they're videotaped, and the sales associates then explain which features are most needed, based on the runner's style. They enable people to use the product the way they intend to, and that drastically increases conversions.
Elk Castle Shooting Sports in Fort Worth, Tex. allows customers to shoot guns on its range before buying them. In the same vein, many golf stores enable consumers to hit with their clubs before making a possibly regrettable purchase. And even e-tailers are getting in on the action, like Zappos.com's use of video demonstration, which has helped it boost conversions up to 30 percent.
A Few Caveats
If you're taking the plunge with demos, it's essential that your sales, marketing, and research and development teams work together. Sales will help you understand what kind of limitations the retail environment has. In some cases, retailers charge a fee to have demonstrators present, and sales can keep you aware of these costs. Marketing can offer the creative perspective, while R&D can offer insight into how products can be tweaked or used to meet a customer's needs.
The education piece is critical - you can't simply place a remote in a customer's hand (how many of us are still struggling to figure out how to use our own DVRs?). Without comprehensive training, you'll hurt yourself more than help. If it's highly technical and difficult to train on, you're better off opting to show a video, where you can control the message.
There's nothing worse than seeing a sales associate at the mall attempt to guide his toy helicopter along the aisle and back to his audience - and not being able to do it. It's not only embarrassing for the salesperson, but it raises doubts in consumers' minds that hadn't been there before, a double whammy. If your product is difficult for a sales associate to grasp, takes a long time to demonstrate, requires extensive cleanup or tools, or is space-prohibitive, your item probably doesn't qualify for a live demo.
Mitigating risk is a huge psychological factor to overcome, and demos can very visibly do that for your customers. By negating the fear of making a buying mistake, you've upped your own chances of a very successful sale.
Because this article was published, a donation will be made to Reading Is Fundamental so a book can be given to a child.
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Mark Quinn is a Segment VP of Marketing with Leggett & Platt and has more than two decades of experience. Quinn writes a bedding industry and marketing blog called Q's Views.
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Apple's third quarter sales for its only cellphone, the iPhone, have vaulted the company into a top ten list of phone suppliers, ousting BlackBerry maker RIM in the process, research group Strategy Analytics says. A Thursday report said Apple's increase to 6.9 million handsets shipments found Apple, along with Samsung and Sony Ericsson, as one of the only major phone makers on the list to increase its market share during the third quarter of 2008.
Apple held 2.3 percent of the cellphone market in the quarter and jumped from well outside the top ten to sixth place, trailing behind LG (7.6 percent), Motorola (8.4 percent), Sony Ericsson (8.5), Samsung (17.1) and Nokia (38.9). The result is considered impressive considering Apple has only a single product to offer in the market, as well as its entrance into the industry just one and a half years ago.
The iPhone's success is though to have likely cost sales at Nokia, LG and Motorola, whose sales all fell. The research company noted Apple still has a long way to go in order to match its closest rival ahead of it, LG, at 23 million units sold in the third quarter.
Nokia, they noted, is not taking full advantage of the quickly-growing smartphone market in the US by not making all of its high-end devices available stateside. The company instead prefers to launch some models only as unlocked devices and isn't set to release its first touchscreen phone, the 5800 XpressMusic, until 2009 for most areas.
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