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"On the Job With..." is a regular feature of Sunday Inc. Today Q&A session is with Ted Clem, president of the Albany-Dougherty Economic Development Commission.
Q. If you were a young adult fresh out of college, what would you do first in searching for a job?
A. If you have waited until your senior year or have already graduated, you have waited too long. College is a great opportunity to meet people and begin to build your network. Build relationships with your professors and fellow students who have like minded career aspirations. You never know when these connections will pay dividends throughout your life. You should take every opportunity to co-op or intern with companies in your chosen field to get vital experience and make sure you leave a good impression.
Q. What was the first thing you spent money on when you received your first ever paycheck?
A. For my first real job out of college, I had to borrow $1,000 from my dad to buy a few suits and ties to wear to work. In addition to paying off that debt, I still remember the first major purchase my wife and I made as a couple - a new washer and dryer from Sears. I don't think we have ever been prouder of a purchase.
Q. What's the single most effective technique you found over the past two years for keeping employees motivated?
A. Nothing works better than financial incentives and rewards, but I think it is human nature to respond to praise and verbal validation. We all want to know we are appreciated and valued.
Q. What was your first job?
A. I grew up in Butler County, just outside of Georgiana, Ala., and like most kids in my community, started working on local tobacco farms at a young age. Cropping, racking, and putting green tobacco in the curing barns has to be one of the nastiest jobs I've ever experienced. That's where I learned to value a good education.
Q. What led you to your current position?
A. I took a course in economic geography at Troy State University and became fascinated with the subject of business locations and how choosing a location can ultimately determine the success or failure of a company. In a sense, economic development is nothing more than the applied knowledge of economic geography. At the time, the University of Southern Mississippi had the only degreed graduate program in economic development. I applied for the program and was admitted as a graduate assistant.
Q. Do you have a role model or mentor in your career?
A. Too many to name. There are literally dozens of people in this profession who I have learned from and still ask for their advice to this day. I learned very early that I would never have all the answers. But one of the great things about this profession is that most people are willing to share ideas and be helpful.
Q. What is the biggest lesson you as a business leader learned from the recent recession?
A. Two common phrases come to mind: "All good things must come to an end" and "what goes up, must come down." In spite of this, most people were caught flat-footed with the collapse of the housing market, which led to the financial meltdown, and ultimate recession. I would hope that after last decade's Internet bubble and this decade's housing bubble that we will be able to recognize a bubble when we see one in the future. As an economic developer, we have to recognize there is only one way to create wealth in a community -- provide a service or make a product that someone else will value and purchase.
Q. If you could turn the clock back on one aspect of technology - examples e-mail, automated phone systems, cell phones, PDAs, etc. - what would you most like to see go away?
A. I think all of these examples are vital to the way we do business today, but we rely on them way too much. Personally, I think we use e-mail way too often for important communication. Most people have poor written skills to begin with and as a communication tool, a poor writer cannot make up for the loss of body language, tone, and emotion sometimes needed for proper communication. As a result we can sometimes read too much or too little into the email.
Q. What is your favorite work-related gadget?
A. It's not a gadget, per se, but I love our GIS-based mapping website at the EDC. We can conduct real estate site searches for companies with varying demographic, infrastructure, and transportation needs with a few clicks of the mouse. When I first started in this profession, it took weeks to conduct this type of analysis.
Q. What was the last book you read? Do you have things you read daily or regularly?
A. The last book I read was "The Power of Surrender" by my pastor, Michael Catt. This book is a call to personal and corporate revival, and I encourage every Christian to read it. Another recent book I've read that has been of great influence is "Radical" by David Platt. A totally different subject area, but the Michael Lewis book "The Big Short" was very helpful to me in understanding the recent financial meltdown. I read several Internet versions of newspapers daily. Everything from the Albany Herald to the Wall Street Journal.
Q. I'm up and going by? And what is your morning routine?
A. I'm usually up by 6:30, take my son to school, and get to the office about 30-45 minutes before office hours. I enjoy that time to both prepare for the day and check some of the headlines from our community and around the world.
Q. Favorite hobbies or activity outside work?
A. With three kids, they are my hobby. I do enjoy an occasional round of golf or an even more occasional quail hunt.
Q. If you could take back one business decision you made in your career, what would it be?
A. I don't necessarily regret any one decision, but I wish I had been a little more patient earlier in my career to learn and grow.
Learning from mistakes is a great way to learn, but I probably made too many of them early on.
Q. Best thing about your job?
A. Every day and every project we work is a new challenge and that helps to keep your head in the game.At the end of the day, we know that our success in economic development can change the quality of life for an individual, a family, and a community. That's great motivation.
Q. Worst thing about your job?
A. There are so many factors that affect our ability to be successful that are totally beyond our control.
Q. The most beneficial course I took in school was?
A. Probably the typewriting class I took in high school.
It's a skill I use every day and never would have made it through college or graduate school without it.
Q. What would be your dream job if you were able to pick a position outside your current career path?
A. Probably a professional golfer. If I can just fix that slice, the senior tour is right around the corner.
Q. Finish this thought; "On the first anniversary of my retirement, I see myself ...
A. Have you seen my 401K? I don't think my wife and I are the types to retire to the good life. We both want to be useful and do something meaningful in our senior years. We've discussed doing some type of mission work at some point in our lives.
Q. What is the one trait a strong business leader cannot afford to be without?
A. Integrity.
Q. Crystal ball time: What's your call on when the economic recovery for our area will be in full swing?
A. Technically, it already is recovering, but I think it will be some time before it begins to feel like it. I'm very hopeful that 2011 will be a much better year for Albany.
Q. What kind of music might I find on your list of most played on your iPod?
A. I don't own an iPod, but listen to satellite radio in my truck. You will find it tuned to the contemporary Christian radio channel or ESPN radio.
Q. What do you think is the biggest change Albany will see in the next 10 years?
A. A decade from now I think you will find a vibrant downtown, though probably much different from what people may imagine or remember from Albany's past, and I think East Albany will be a much different place fueled by retail growth around the new Wal-Mart, the new Albany-Dougherty Industrial Park, and growth from Marine Corps Logistics Base.
Q. What was the best vacation you've ever taken? Why?
A. Our family is fairly simple when it comes to vacations.
One of the best was the few days we spent last summer at Callaway Gardens with our extended family. We had a blast on the bike trails with our kids.
Q. What are the biggest changes you have seen in your specific line of business during the past few years?
A. You have to know your community and have quality information at your fingertips.
We used to have weeks to prepare a proposal or request for information, but now we feel blessed to have more than 48 hours to respond to a company or site consultant.
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Randal, on the other hand, made the right move by focusing on salespeople. The people from the temp agency were great. And I loved how Randal and Rebecca swiped the other team's bullhorns. I'm not sure I would have done the same, though. It seemed a bit too slimey. Not surprisingly, the Donald loved it. I think Bill hit the nail on the head when he said that Randal thought big. Instead of hiring 30 temps and giving them double-sided sandwich boards, he switched gears and hired 60 temps, giving them single-sided boards. He's really quick on his feet and isn't afraid to readjust his plans when necessary.
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Peabody Elementary School is located in Memphis, TN and is one of 122 elementary schools in Memphis City School District. It is a public school that serves 354 students in grades PK-6. See Peabody Elementary School's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2011, Peabody Elementary School had 12 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Tennessee average is 15 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
In 2011, Peabody Elementary School had 12 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Tennessee average is 15 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Hi guys,
Recently I did an experiment with one of my SEO web pages and you may already be aware of this, but anyway I will leave the results here because if someone is helpful.
I put on a website from my property, two links to the same URL, with two key words invented in which there were no results on Google.
For the keyword of the first link in the html code, I can find both my website URL as the target, while the second keyword appears only my website, but not the URL.
Sorry for my bad English.
Edit: Now I hope to see the results on Yahoo and Bing.
And I have news. In Yahoo and Bing, the two links count, the first and the second..
I don't get the point you're saying. Mind explaining any better? Thanks.
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When Google index this post, you only can find the url for first anchor text. In Yahoo and Bing, you can find both.
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Do they have to be the same exact url? I mean what if you put two links on the same page, one to example.com and the other to example.com/example.html
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London - Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp said he does not bear a grudge against former club Tottenham Hotspur and will shake chairman Daniel Levy's hand when the two teams meet in the Premier League Saturday lunchtime kickoff (1245).
Redknapp was fired by Spurs in June after almost four years in charge. In that time he guided Spurs to a first-ever Champions League campaign in 2010 and fourth-place finishes in the Premier League in two of the last three seasons.
He returned to management in late November. Rangers are deeply embroiled in a battle for Premier League survival, propping up the standings after 21 games and five points adrift of safety.
"I can't lie and say my four years at White Hart Lane meant nothing. I don't think anyone would believe me anyway," Redknapp wrote in his column in The Sun Newspaper on Friday.
"It was a special time for me and for the club. But now I've gone I'm not the sort to bear a grudge - I pity people that do, in fact.
"I'm 65 now and where is that going to get me? Nowhere, fast. Life does move on. That is football. I have not got a problem with anyone at Tottenham, for sure."
Redknapp said he had no problem with Levy and "would shake his hand, no problem".
He added: "On the day I started at QPR, the first call I got was from Daniel wishing me luck.
"What's happened has happened and is in the past. He is the chairman, he decided he wanted a change of direction with regard to the manager and that's that.
"I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Spurs but now my focus is to get three points for Rangers when we play them.
Rangers, winless when Redknapp replaced the axed Mark Hughes on Nov. 24, have just two victories under Redknapp, including a shock 1-0 win at Chelsea in their last league game on Jan. 2.
They host third-placed Spurs at Loftus Road and Redknapp said he believed his old side were capable of winning the Premier League "within a season or two".
"I left behind a fabulous group of players at Spurs," he said. "The manager now, Andre Villas-Boas, has added a couple of names to that and look at them go."
Rangers announced on Friday that former Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cotterill had agreed a short-term coaching role to "assist Harry Redknapp and his backroom team". – Reuters
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Tallahassee, Florida -- It looks as though Gov. Rick Scott will have a tough time getting his teacher pay raise plan through the Florida Legislature.
Scott has proposed giving a $2,500 raise to all full-time teachers in Florida. His idea would cost the state an extra $480 million next year.
But so far, leaders in the House and Senate have not endorsed the idea.
House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz both say they would like to reward teachers, but they're talking about giving raises based on performance.
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"My preference would be that there'd be some recognition and reward for teachers who come early, stay late, take on tough challenges and get learning gains as opposed to treating the best teacher in Florida the same as you would treat the worst teacher in Florida. We don't give everybody in school a C. There are A's, B's, C's, D's and F's."
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Addressing Tobacco Use in Homeless Populations (PDF)
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|The Next Generation All Good Things come to an end...but not here.
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|March 6 2013, 09:30 AM
How far has Starfleet explored
A couple of thoughts popped up in my head.
1. Star Trek is perhaps the most optimistic sci-fi universe we have and in it, we're only really operating in a quadrant of the Galaxy. When you think about the actual universe, the thought of exploring other galaxies, or perhaps other local clusters, it's such a distance that even if we become an advanced species, could we explore it? How far has 24th century technology carried us?
Do we have probes in other galaxies (although they are millions of lightyears away so maybe improbable)? How far have we mapped out?
2. Now in the 24th Century we have plenty of other Alien "Empires" around us so does that mean when we go exploring we butt up against other civilizations and instead of just exploring we move into diplomacy mode? With Starfleet space basically surrounded by Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians and more - is there even a frontier to send probes?
3. Since technology is so advanced, has Starfleet done away with deep space probes and just uses starships?
4. This has always been a depressing thought of mine. In the Star Trek universe, we've mastered light speed. That's really technically not fast enough for us to explore other galaxies that are a HUGE distance away. So we're basically contained in the Milky Way, which is big enough, but that's our small pond and that's as far as man can get until we evolve into basically another race that maybe are as powerful as Q or something?
I've always wondered if light speed isn't possible, then we're essentially stuck on Earth and the Solar System for the very forseeable future. This is it. While we know there is a bigger universe out there, we can't get to it. You're talking thousands upon thousands of years to get to the next star and there might not be any light there. Meanwhile the resources on Earth are finite and overpopulation is becoming a problem. Are we doomed?
And if the Star Trek universe can't make it to another galaxy, are they at the mercy of just how long the Milky Way will last?
I know this is crazy, out of the box stuff, but I'm just wondering with Starfleet's mission to explore, just how far out there have they fictionally gotten?
|March 6 2013, 09:57 AM
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|March 6 2013, 02:31 PM
Re: How far has Starfleet explored
Probably most of exploration in the TNG era is still conducted with probes, and crews only follow if there's something of interest there. Back in TOS, there might have been the additional step of establishing automated supply depots for staged missions (Delta Vega in "Where No Man) if the need to send a crew arose - much as with old-time polar exploration or mountaineering.
In hard numbers, TNG quoted either 11% (season 1, "Where No One") or 19% (season 2, "The Dauphin") of the galaxy as having been explored. This is unlikely to mean "seen through a telescope", because even our current telescopes of limited penetrating power can basically see something like 50% of the Milky Way already. Whether it means "visited by probes" or "visited by people associated with the UFP", we don't know. The percentages could be attained by going just a few thousand lightyears into deep space in multiple directions, though, so starship visits (not just by the glamorous few explorer vessels, but by the sum total of all sorts of transports, smugglers, fugitives and whatnot) just might account for it all.
Even the sudden jump from 11% to almost double that might be "real", consisting of some well-informed culture suddenly making contact with the Federation and sharing its information. Would any of the contacts made by our TNG heroes after "Where No One" count? The Ferengi seem well-traveled, but getting the information out of them would be expensive. The Jarada might be bigger players than we think. Or perhaps the Tkon Sentinel revealed something useful in the aftermath of "The Last Outpost". Them, or the Aldeans. (My money is on the Tkon; the Iconians would also be a possibility if not for the fact that "Contagion" only comes after "The Dauphin".)
Timo Saloniemi
|March 6 2013, 03:58 PM
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Location: NJ, USA
Re: How far has Starfleet explored
Several key points:
Even with advanced starships Gene Roddenberry didn't want to make too big of a setting to play in, with 200,000ly to work with and 200+ billion stars, this galaxy is a big enough playground. Compare that to Star Wars that treats flights across the galaxy like a 1930s pulp mag.
Probes should still be useful and in reality a starseed project or neumann probe exploration would be the quickest way to explore all of the galaxy. Even at sublight, neumann probes can be used to reach both the galaxy AND other galaxies within 500,000 years. Exploration and settlement would follow.
Seeder ships from Scifi Science:
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities".
|March 6 2013, 05:02 PM
Re: How far has Starfleet explored
Not sure what their source for this was.
|March 6 2013, 06:01 PM
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|March 6 2013, 08:11 PM
Re: How far has Starfleet explored
After "Encounter at Farpoint", which itself takes place at an already known world, only "Where No One" and, somewhat surprisingly, "Symbiosis", feature locations previously truly unknown to the Federation or substantially distant of well-established UFP strongholds. "Justice", while featuring an all-new world, takes place right next to a UFP colonization project; "When the Bough Breaks" describes the discovery of a mythical planet a few hours away from the beaten path; "The Arsenal of Freedom" involves a "mystery" world previously visited both by long range probes and a starship and well known by reputation; "Skin of Evil" finds our heroes within shuttlecraft range of some conference location or another...
It's actually rather amusing how little is made of the fact that the two worlds of "Symbiosis" are new to the Federation.
Timo Saloniemi
|March 6 2013, 09:16 PM
Re: How far has Starfleet explored
Of course, we don't know if that means Quadros-1 actually was in the gamma quadrant. If it is, we'd probably have to subtract at least another 70 years from that time, as I think it would be unlikely 24th century starships could still not fly as fast as a 21st/22nd century probe. So I would tend to think this was actually a long-distance analysis. But still... the 'Friendship' ep from VOY doesn't rule it out imho.
|March 6 2013, 09:30 PM
Re: How far has Starfleet explored
Perhaps stars alone give no real possibility of fixes, there being too many almost exactly alike - so Dax ignored the one right there and wanted the computer to analyze the nearest star system, with a more unique ID thanks to the presence of planets?
The thing is, the UFP has access to powerful telescopes that can probably give fairly good spectrography on distant planets; today's systems are almost capable of that already, after all. Yet the UFP or Starfleet clearly lacks the means of getting realtime data on distant systems - it cannot tell that the Doomsday Machine is eating planets or the Ceti Alpha system is being rearranged until a starship pays a close and personal visit.
Various explanations may be offered. Perhaps "realtime telescopes" (subspace sensors or whatnot) lack the required range, even in the case of massive installations such as the Argus Array, just like it seems that starship sensors only tend to get "passive", time-lagging data such as planetary classifications beyond a certain range, and have to fly close to the planet to get up-to-date information. Or perhaps subspace telescopes do have the range, but are extremely expensive to build and operate (Argus Array again), and thus have only been able to map a tiny fraction of the galaxy so far, focusing on one target at a time. With the number of interesting targets out there, it might be thousands or even millions of years before a telescope could afford to take a second look at Ceti Alpha, for example.
The exact nature of the limitations is debatable. But their existence seems obvious, and gives Starfleet the reason to keep sending both crewed and uncrewed exploration spacecraft. Some other unknown but pressing reason may make them favor crewed over uncrewed - or then the thousands of probe missions per each crewed sortie simply go unreported in the episodes and movies.
Timo Saloniemi
|March 7 2013, 12:12 AM
Re: How far has Starfleet explored
|March 7 2013, 09:04 AM
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Location: Liverpool, UK
Re: How far has Starfleet explored
Regarding the rather depressing thought that we are stuck in the Solar system with finite resources - it doesn't have to be that way. The technology exists now, with some fine-tuning, to produce a "generational ship". Well worth reading about. Even at sub-light speeds we could have the galaxy colonised within a couple of millenia.
One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, energies that could ultimately hurl us to other worlds in... some sort of spaceship.
|March 7 2013, 09:41 AM
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Re: How far has Starfleet explored
I felt the vibe going forth into the unknown was pretty much absent from TNG onward. TNG had its merits in other areas, but the whole first contact thing was rarely done. They could be non-aligned worlds, and it could have been the first time the alien species was shown, but the world was already known. That would be disclosed in the initial captain's log exposition. So right from the get go you lose all the mystery of what it is they're coming across.
(BTW, I think that's why Darmok is one of the best episodes because at least you have a species that is truly alien and they can't even communicate properly.)
They tried to recover this vibe in Voyager, but in the context of an "accident", almost like Starfleet no longer had a true mission to explore the rim. Then once there, they brought in familiar faces like Q and the Borg.
By the time Enterprise rolled around I had pretty much given up.
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So, if you accelerate to .88c relative to Earth, then decelerate back into Earth's frame of reference, you will seem to have traveled 1.76ly in one year, even though from Earth's perspective, you have done it in two.
It is probably pretty reasonable to think Starfleet has sent deep space probes into other galaxies, but they'd still probably take awfully long to get there, and then years to send subspace communications back.
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