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CIO weekly wrap-up: Customer feedback management, outsourcing risks
We got our first snowfall here in Boston yesterday (not counting the snow we had in mid-October — yes, October), and I think I'm already done with winter…if only Mother Nature were on board! If you're hating snow like I am — or even if you're not — check out the latest content from SearchCIO.com, covering disaster recovery, customer feedback management, outsourcing application development and log management practices.
Four lessons in IT disaster recovery planning from an FAA outage — Does the recent FAA outage contain lessons for CIOs? You bet, starting with the fact that most IT disasters are exactly like the one that hobbled the flight management system.
Customer feedback management tools advance, but still no social media — Customer feedback management tools offer new functionality, but responding to social media often falls to the call center.
Managing application development outsourcing risks — Application development outsourcing poses risks, from developers sharing information on blogs to not knowing who is really writing your code. Find out how to manage them here.
Leveraging log management for IT and business process efficiency — Having invested in log management for security and compliance, some companies are using their security information and event management tools to drive business process efficiency.
Has Google Wave impressed you as an enterprise collaboration tool?
I'm going to preface this post by admitting that Google usually impresses me with ease. Google Web search? Easily the best one out there. Google Street View? Amazing. Google Chrome Web browser? Just made the switch and glad that I did. So, when I received my long-awaited Google Wave invite last week, I was ecstatic, and quickly passed invites along to several friends and colleagues. I'd heard all the buzzwords. "Unified communication." "Enterprise collaboration." "Real-time integration." All of this, plus Google's well-earned reputation as a leader in Web and IT innovation? I couldn't wait to ride the Wave!
OK, now somebody please explain this to me, because I am so unimpressed. I've been able to chat through Gmail through years, so how is this much different? I guess the fact that you can hold a multi-person chat is cool, as is the ability to embed videos and photos directly into the chat stream (when it works). But I don't see anything revolutionary in here. Moreover, I find it cluttered and confusing to navigate, whereas Google is usually so intuitive. (Also, a friend and I each experienced an unwanted person from our past popping up on our contact list – come on, Google, you're supposed to be smarter than that!)
My experience has made me question Google's long-term strategy with regard to enterprise collaboration and Google Wave. Google likes to be the standard by which other Software as a Service applications judge themselves. More and more, Google is trying to market its services, like Gmail, to enterprise organizations. From all of the hype surrounding it, I had the impression that Google Wave would make me feel like my colleague in the Midwest is sitting at the next desk over. Alas, it hasn't, and I can't see Google Wave, in its present iteration anyway, taking on any kind of foothold in the enterprise.
Moreover, would enterprise audiences want so much pertinent communication taking place on a platform that they do not oversee? In a new and somewhat untested Web 2.0 environment, security and privacy issues are likely to emerge, and I would anticipate compliance headaches aplenty for CIOs who have employees communicating on this platform about work-related matters.
Despite the rocky start to our relationship, I'm trying to give Google Wave a second shot, and envision ways it could carry an enterprise forward. Have you tried using Google Wave in the workplace yet? What's your experience been? Can you see a CIO sanctioning its use as an enterprise collaboration platform in the distributed workforce?
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT application management outsourcing, BSM tools
Welcome back from Thanksgiving! If you're anything like me, you're still going through some post-turkey malaise. As you recover, check out SearchCIO.com's stories from last week.
Outsourcing IT application management on rise for 2010; here's why — The effects of the recession continue for 2010, with outsourcing IT application management and maintenance expected to be robust, while application development won't bounce back, our experts and users say.
Business service management software and tools for IT service delivery — Learn how business service management software and tools can help better align IT with the business and improve governance and service delivery.
CIO weekly wrap-up: Agile, app consolidation, IT management FAQ guides
It's almost Thanksgiving! And nobody is looking forward to mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie more than I am. Since those of us in the U.S. have a shortened work week ahead, I won't keep you for long, but please take a few moments to check out our latest SearchCIO.com content, from Agile best practices to application consolidation to a compilation of our best IT management FAQ guides for the CIO.
FAQ: Agile practices and their role in software development — Companies are increasingly using Agile practices to improve software project outcomes. Learn more about Agile in our latest FAQ guide, from Scrum to Extreme Programming and more.
IT exec's best practices for application consolidation include SaaS — Learn how one IT director employed application consolidation to cut maintenance costs, improve reliability and centralize data with a strategy that included SaaS.
IT management FAQ guides for enterprise IT strategies — In these IT management FAQ guides, get answers to frequently asked questions about technologies and methodologies such as ITIL, Lean thinking, Six Sigma, and more.
Customer feedback management: Is anybody listening?
I recently made my first big purchase — a new vehicle — and I made my mind up pretty much before I entered the showroom floor, thanks to customer feedback I gathered on the Internet. What surprised me when I went to test drive my dream SUV was the lack of customer feedback management being done by the car dealers and makers.
I went to Consumer Reports and Edmunds to compare safety ratings, highway miles per gallon, handling and longevity, but my list of choices was narrowed down much further by comments made at the end of the reviews by current and former drivers.
I was sure I was going to buy one particular SUV but found repeated complaints about its small back window that caused huge blind spots. Another one on my list had a souped-up engine [based on customer feedback] but left the gas tank the same size, leading to another customer complaint that still hasn't been addressed: frequent fill-ups.
I was overloaded by all the different complaints and accolades made by drivers, but when I asked the salespeople about the customer feedback I read on blogs and reviews I heard "I haven't heard that" or "No one's told me that."
I don't lay the blame on the salespeople — they might not even be encouraged to look at what people are saying on public forums like blogs, Twitter, Facebook, emails or YouTube.
But who is responsible for customer feedback management? The feet on the street, or management? How do you centralize all this information, and distribute it so front-line employees are on top of what customers are saying and equipped to respond?
Was my experience atypical, or are companies ignoring a channel that may decide what people actually buy? Are they paralyzed by some of the critiques, and choosing to ignore them instead?
This is just the experience I had when looking for an SUV. I won't even go into how the dealer dropped the ball when it came to rating my buying experience.
Share your thoughts on customer feedback management, or the lack of it — but particularly if you work for a company that does it well. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Things to be thankful for: IT executives on Thanksgiving 2009
This has been a tough year, yet there are always things to be thankful for. Indeed, the upside of the worst of times may just be to make that clear. Pondering this over the past few days with Thanksgiving approaching, I asked around to find out what things some of you were thankful for, from technologies to the softer side of managing. Here are some of your responses.
"What springs to mind immediately is that [the recession] has given us (IT) the chance to dig into regrouping, planning, reorganizing and streamlining our processes and architecture to be positioned so that we are able to meet increased demand with aplomb. Thank goodness we had that chance, because that demand has already begun with a vengeance!" — Kendyl Peebles, IT director/department manager, Clancy & Theys Construction Co.
"The sense of humor and the absurd of my staff; Windows 7; virtualization." — Joanne Kossuth, CIO and vice president for operations, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
"I am thankful for having a talented and dedicated team of professionals who have never lost their focus, passion or commitment in these difficult times." — Larry Bonfante, CIO, U.S. Tennis Association
"Our industry is going strong and gold is well over $1,100! We made a lot of headway towards standardization and process improvements and we have many key projects in our pipeline for 2010 that my team is excited and ready to execute." — Shelly Barnes, director of PMO, IT Services & Infrastructure, Newmont Mining Corp.
"That my company considered IT part of the solution (rather than a target) to finding better, less expensive ways to get work done." — Niel Nickolaisen, CIO and vice president of strategic planning, Headwaters Inc
"Not having lost anything that really matters during this year of greed and idiocy. I'm truly thankful for being reminded of what is important." — Les Johnson, CIO, North Coast Electric Co.
And we here at SearchCIO.com and TechTarget are thankful for all of you, who contribute to our efforts in so many ways as readers, as sources, as advisers and even as friends. Thank you for a great year so far, and have a great holiday!
CIO weekly wrap-up: SOA best practices, ITIL, ITSM, app consolidation
Last week was a busy one for SearchCIO.com, with SOA topping our slate. We have best practices for SOA implementation, SOA for business process transformation, SOA in action at Amtrak…you get the picture. We also quizzed you on your ITIL and ITSM knowledge and discussed application consolidation in four ssteps. For the full list of articles, click on the links below!
(And yes, if you sense some forced cheeriness, it's because I'm still trying to recover from last night's Patriots-Colts game. I don't want to talk about it — still too painful to put into words.)
Best practices for a SOA implementation and application integration — A service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation and application integration allow information to be transferred and supported efficiently. In this month's CIO Briefing, learn more about SOA best practices.
SOA implementation propels business process transformation — When business process automation was insufficient and BPM products proved too narrow, a CIO turned to SOA to streamline business processes and boost productivity by 30%.
SOA best practices from Amtrak — Amtrak's chief SOA architect offers advice to CIOs on implementing SOA services, from creating a plan and choosing standards to governance and monitoring.
Review the latest trends in ITSM and ITIL best practices — Many enterprises find that implementing ITSM and ITIL best practices leads to improved efficiencies and lower costs. Review our latest ITSM and ITIL content and take our quiz.
Should it stay or should it go? Application consolidation in 4 steps — In this piece, learn how to decide which applications to cut and which to keep when consolidating your application portfolio.
UMD CIO Forum highlights the role of IT innovation, Web 2.0 potential
Last week at the University of Maryland's 10th Annual CIO Forum, a succession of CIOs from the government, health care and publishing industries described how they are harnessing IT innovation with limited resources during the recession. The featured speakers also discussed what they see as the future of Web 2.0 in the business.
Bipin Patel, CIO of ProQuest, spoke to the audience about the ways that Web 2.0 is changing business and usage patterns at his company. As he observed, "the inflection point [for Web 2.0] has been met and passed. The old model of publishing is gone." So, what has replaced it? "The users themselves – the researchers – are creating information and reacting with each other," he said. "They are the publishers now." They're working collaboratively with their community to identify and feature useful information. As part of his company's Web 2.0 efforts, Patel's team has created an online community for graduate students, where they can publish their dissertations for public view. The online community, called GradShare, has been rolled out in about 30 schools.
Premal Shah, formerly of PayPal and now the president of Kiva, offered another example of how to leverage Web 2.0. He described how the "eBay for microfinance," as he put it, has leveraged Web 2.0 to both sustain innovation and build out features that Kiva's resources could not provide. Kiva has grown rapidly since its founding and now has made more than $100 million in loans from more than 600,000 people, with 103 microfinance partners globally. Shah said the microcredit model is working, citing a 98% repayment rate for Kiva loans, and that transparency in results is crucial to success. "Imperfect credit is OK, but imperfect data is not OK," he said. "The donors of the world want transparency."
"Radical transparency," in fact, was one of three Web 2.0 principles that Shah listed, along with providing an addictive user experience and crowdsourcing against constraints. Since engineering resources were scarce for IT innovation, Kiva opened up its API to crowdsource development. As a result, Kivadata.org is online. Shah said that Kiva now also has about 500 volunteers that work as "virtual translators," helping to translate profiles so that their projects can get funded.
Shah also offered advice on growing Web 2.0 communities: identity the influencers and power users. "Cater to your addicts," said Shah. "Keep short feedback loops."
Douglas Abel, CIO of Anne Arundel Health System, focused his remarks on how to manage growing demand for health care at a new health care campus in downtown Annapolis. He's seen success using targeted IT innovation, like bar-coding medicine at the bedside to "check to see if it's the right patient, right dose." Now, as electronic healthcare records (EHRs) enter the system, he says the effectiveness of sharing data depends on standards, identifying bad data and avoiding duplicate records. Should his efforts succeed, Bell said that Anne Arundel Health System will be in the top 10% of automated hospitals. "It's about building an infrastructure that's patient-centric," he said, "not venue-centric."
Web platforms for health care information exchange are growing outside of major hospital systems. David Horrocks, former CIO and president of CRISP, discussed the ways that he's building out Maryland's statewide health information exchange and maintaining privacy. CRISP is Maryland's statewide health information exchange, which moves clinical information electronically among disparate health information systems.
New models for IT innovation in telemedicine also are also emerging. Dr. Sean Khozin presented on Hello Health, a pilot practice in New York that uses a Web-based platform for primary health care. Hello Health requires an in-person initial checkup, after which virtual follow-ups use telemedicine, unified communications and EHRs.
9 IT outsourcing myths, and the outsourcing facts CIOs should consider
When Deloitte LLP turned to IT outsourcing, "the business case was predicated on saving money," said Larry Quinlan, CIO at the professional services firm.
"But now we stay for the value," Quinlan continued. "We think we're getting more out of the deal than we expected."
Deloitte now has 40,000 employees in the U.S. and 150,000 people in more than 100 countries around the world. Speaking at this week's Global Sourcing Forum + Expo in New York, Quinlan shared what he's learned about outsourcing, including what he called nine global outsourcing myths, and accompanying outsourcing facts CIOs should consider:
Myth: IT offshoring is not successful. "That's absolutely not true," Quinlan said – if it were, why would so many U.S.-based companies be pursuing it? In its studies, Deloitte is seeing "a significant uptick in global outsourcing activity," particularly in the Philippines, Mexico, China and Costa Rica.
Myth: Wage inflation negates the sourcing cost advantage. The global nature of this recession has depressed salaries worldwide. "There are very few things a recession is good for, but one of them is it takes away the whole issue of wage inflation," he said.
Myth: Offshore labor pools have been exhausted. "There are a whole lot of things [U.S. companies] have to do to attract the labor pool we want," Quinlan acknowledged. Still, as individual countries refine their outsourcing crafts, more and more up-and-coming professionals are seeking the schooling and training to provide needed IT skills.
Myth: There are only a few suitable locations for IT outsourcing. But different countries do offer outsourcing pros and cons, so if you're starting out or thinking of changing locales, SearchCIO.com has gathered some information on some outsourcing locations in Asia and Latin America. "You do have to figure out, in a methodical way, where you want to be," Quinlan said.
Myth: My competitor's successful location will work for me. "It's important not just to say someone went to Hyderabad or Sao Paulo, and say 'That's where I'll be,'" Quinlan said. "There are more thoughtful approach factors you should consider." Conduct your due diligence and really consider your needs as far as pricing and skills sought.
Myth: The risks are too high. The cost savings and skill sets make the case for outsourcing, but it's certainly important to consider personal safety and the risk of a natural disaster or political instability in the country or countries in which you are considering outsourcing, Quinlan said. You can mitigate accordingly by diversifying your outsourcing base.
Myth: Shared services are difficult to manage. OK, this one might be a little bit true, Quinlan admitted. Time zone differentials, the cost of travel and the quality of staff interaction can be challenging to oversee when outsourcing. But nothing worth having comes easily, he said. "To do this well, you've got to put a whole lot of effort in and make sure it's managed."
Myth: There's no need for captive centers – you should outsource everything. "You really have to think about what services you're providing," said Quinlan, whose company has two captive centers in Hyderabad and Mumbai, India, facilities that house 7,000 employees. If torn, he recommended considering a hybrid model, whereby firms establish a blend of a captive center (a firm's own facility abroad) and outsourcing.
Myth: Offshoring is bad for the U.S. economy. Quinlan compared this to a religious debate with no definitive answers, and "religious debates cannot be won." Yes, outsourcing sends jobs overseas, but it also provides for enterprise growth, which can in turn spur domestic job growth.
Is Quinlan on the mark? Are there any IT outsourcing myths you'd like to dispel? Share your thoughts below!
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing templates, SOA implementation
Good morning! We're enjoying some beautiful Indian summer weather here in the Northeast — if only every Monday could start like this! Last week on SearchCIO.com, we talked to Virginia's CIO about that state's IT outsourcing problems, provided links to some free IT outsourcing templates covering SLAs, RFPs and more, and looked at various SOA implementation approaches. Let us know what you think!
How Virginia's new CIO is fixing the state's IT outsourcing problems — In a one-on-one interview, Virginia's CIO explains steps being taken to improve oversight and performance of the state's $2 billion IT outsourcing deal, which has been beset by delays and other problems.
SOA implementation evolves from open source to Oracle SOA suite — Though SOA is something you do, rather than buy, the CIO at the Screen Actors Guild found the best approach was to go shopping and solve the problem at the database layer.
Free IT outsourcing templates: SLAs, RFPs and more — CIOs pursuing IT outsourcing deals can benefit from templates spelling out SLA and RFP best practices. Here, we've provided links to some of the best free IT outsourcing templates on the Web.


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To help prevent the spread of zebra mussels and other invasive species, the Texas Parks and Wildlife commission has approved a new regulation requiring that all boats operating on public fresh water anywhere in Texas be drained before leaving a lake. The new rule takes effect Tuesday.
The new regulation may change your fishing if you use live bait, your tournament weigh-ins or how you clean your boat after fishing. Draining all the water from your boats, including live well, bilges and motors, is the best way to prevent the spread of zebra mussels and to help protect Texas waters.
Anglers who use live bait may have to change the way they fished, since live fish cannot be transported in water away from the water body from which they were caught. Personally caught live bait can only be used in the water body where it was caught. If you enjoy fishing with bait but don't want to catch your own, you can purchase live bait from a location near a water body you want to fish. You must have a receipt that identifies where the bait was purchased with you while fishing.
The new regulations will allow tournament angler to have weight-ins that take place at an off-site location. If you are fishing in a tournament, you must have documentation provided by the tournament organizers that identifies you are a tournament participant, and you must drain all the water from your boat before leaving the weigh-in location.
Please read the new rules online at the TPWD website to make sure you are clear about how you might need to change your fishing routine. If there are parts of the new rules that seen unclear, then contact the local game wardens for clarification.
Zebra mussels are invasive freshwater mussels originating from Poland, Balkans and the former Soviet Union. Zebra mussels were introduced to the Great Lakes region in the 1980s and have spread to northern Texas. Zebra mussels have been discovered in Texoma, Ray Roberts, Lewisville, Bridgeport, Lavon and Lake Belton.
While there are currently no lakes around Abilene that have zebra mussel infestations, we want the users of our lakes to be educated about zebra mussels and how to prevent the spread. It only takes one instance of not properly cleaning a boat or trailer to introduce zebra mussels to West Texas lakes. Once zebra mussels become established, there is no known way to get rid of them. They can survive in many types of habitat, reproduce prolifically and do not have any effective predators.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Popsicles
We've got another recipe for homemade popsicles that are not only nutritious, but delicious too! My son gobbled up these Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Popsicles and also tried them as a smoothie! Don't you just love a versatile recipe?
Today is the final day of our Summer Play Days series. This week we joined the creative ladies behind Buggy and Buddy, Fun-A-Day, Nothing if Not Intentional, and Play Trains! for 3 straight days of summer fun.
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- 2 medium bananas
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Peanut (age 4) liked the popsicle and smoothie versions of this healthy treat equally. I preferred the recipe as a popsicle. Try them and let me know which you and your kids like best!
Also try our Strawberry Shortcake Popsicles. So good!!
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Take two of this tea has not improved my opinion.
It claims it is a black tea, but it tastes so herbal, and medicially herbal as well. Bleh.
I am not super impressed. I had hopes for this company as it was easily avalible, so I hoped that I could find decent tea. Judging from this one, I don't think I'll be getting more from this brand.
It was such a busy weekend! I wen't to the local Shakespeare company production of Comedy of Errors, which was fun, and then spent the rest of the time indoors, whining about the heat.
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This was this mornings cup, but I'm drinking one now. I'm tired, and could use a delicious cup of wake up juice right now.
And I can sleep a bit longer tomorrow. That will be delightful.
My eyelids are practically glued shut. Argh. I hope this morning goes smoothly.
On to the tea! This is really good. Its smooth, and not at all bitter, with warm notes layered on top of each other.
I think that this will really come into its own when its the fall. But I'll enjoy it until then.
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My house is having bizzare internet problems, so I'm sorry that posting has been spotty.
I don't like summer. Its hot. Drink hot tea every morning, and it makes me very warm and uncomfortable. Bleh.
Bring me autumn at once!
Five hours of sleep last night. Ugh. And a busy morning.
I had a cup of this to help me wake up. I prefer it in loose leaf, of course, but there is something to be said for having this in sachets as well. Even I cant screw it up, when I am barely awake.
Waho. Word count for the day is done, healthy dinner cooked, and a good book. What this day needs is a cup of tea.
I've never been much one for tea with milk, but I've been drinking a few (less than stellar) teas I have with milk, and now I'm curious? Do you guys drink Comoro with milk? I wonder….
I think I have, and liked it.
(Word count done for the day…isn't that a wonderful feeling to go to sleep on?)
I have, but I put milk in most black teas.. I think this one is well suited for it though and reminds me of vanilla hot chocolate.
So I picked some of this up from my local Whole Foods on a whim. It had been a while since I bought a new tea, and this one sounded summery and interesting. I had visions of a raspberry style creamsicle, and I like fruity black teas. Worth a shot, anyway!
This is an unusual blend. For starts, its super colorful. Lots of cornflower petals, bits of orange peel, and what look like Fruity Pebbles but must be the raspberries. Not a lot of actual tea, in comparison.
Brewed up, this has a strong flavor of herbs, and just a hint of a brighter fruit note, but not enough for me to tell if it was the raspberry or the orange.
Hmm. I'm not impressed by the first brewing. I've got a bit more (though not a great deal, thank goodness), so I can experiment a bit more.
Steepster! I have returned to you! My computer died a dramatic death on Saturday, so thank goodness I backed up my documents.
I now have a new computer, which is very shiny and somewhat intimidating, and I am happy to have returned to the internet.
So happy to be back to Steepster!
Morning thrifting went very well, with the aquisition of a stripy shirt, some black flats, and a maroon colored scarf, along with a silver candle holder. No good tea cups, though. Oh well.
I'm working on my wordcount. Its not bad. I've got about 500 more to do today to meet my target, and then I should have time to work out, before heading off to the family BBQ. I do love a cookout. Everything is so tasty!
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At least one of thefoot fetishists who have been hassling Houston-area Realtors
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A suspect was arrested by Webster police on Spetember 22, the HAR's Matt Burrus tells Hair Balls. (We tried unsuccessfully to confirm with Webster PD.)
"Thanks to diligent HAR members, a suspect has been arrested in the 'Foot Fetish Creep' matter," said a notification to the group.
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Burrus says, however, that there's probably a second guy out there calling Realtors and talking dirty about feet.
Realtors in Memorial, Katy and inside the Loop have begun getting calls, he says.
Speculation is that the callers see photos of the Realtors in ads or on signs, thus enhancing their imaginations as they make their masturbatory calls.
"I've been really shocked at the numbers our members have been reporting," Burrus says. Reports of more than 70 calls over the last six months came in once HAR started asking for information, he said.
The perp(s) are not overly bright: One called last night and, when the Realtor didn't pick up, he texted his little paean to her feet, thus revealing his phone number.
Realtors live and die by calls coming in from their signs, so it can be difficult not to pick up the phone. But when the guy on the other end starts panting about toes, you might he hesitant to take calls from blocked numbers.
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The blizzard that blanketed much of the Eastern half of the U.S. on Presidents' Day weekend, and the digging out in the days after, contributed to lowered February comp expectations at Federated Department Stores Inc. and J.C. Penney Co. Inc. Other firms were also pressured, both on the top line and in the price of their shares, as the storm took away whatever momentum the month may have had.
Federated's comps during the third week of its fiscal month further depressed expectations for a down month. The parent of Bloomingdale's and Macy's, among others, is now looking for sales at stores open more than a year to fall 7.5 to 8.5 percent in February. Through Valentine's Day, Federated had been on track to reach its forecast of a 4 to 5 percent drop.
Last week was the fourth and final week of Penney's fiscal month. Once it was over, Penney's reduced its February comp projection for its department stores to a decline of 2 to 3 percent. Previously, the retailer had been looking for a flat performance.
With its larger base, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was better able to weather the storm. After the third week of its fiscal month, the discounter said its U.S. comps overall were tracking toward the low end of its projection for a 2 to 4 percent upswing. The Wal-Mart division's February same-store sales were headed toward the low end of its expected 3 to 5 percent rise.
"This week was impacted by the snowstorm in the Northeast over the weekend and on Presidents' Day," said a spokeswoman on a recorded call. "However, as the week progressed, sales returned to prior levels. Average ticket drove the comp increase for the week. Traffic was negatively impacted by the snowstorm."
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I keep up with the news. By that, I mean I turn on National Public Radio when I drive home. By that, I mean I hear a bunch of words like "the Fed," "Edward Snowden," "Syria" and "Egypt."
It occurred to me the other night as I drove into the approaching dusk, that I don't retain too much of the information I receive in a normal newscast. I considered the possibility that it was due to how it was presented. Top-of-the-hour news is usually packaged into neat, yet very dense segments. It's like granola, in that you only need a little bite to chew on for a good while. Except the news doesn't give you a chance to stop and think about the first story, because it's on to the next one!
By the time I turn off the car in the garage, I've traveled the world, been introduced to several complex foreign policy issues, dived into the psyches of people the media considers interesting, and heard the Twins have lost yet again. Basically, it's in one ear and out the other. What have I learned?
By no means do I have the answers to this news-saturation conundrum I feel faces not only me, but many people who consume news on a daily basis. Whatever it's worth, I have the privilege of providing an insider's perspective on news as I experience news as I perceive it in the world around me.
I deal with a wide variety of news here at the Bluff Country Newspaper Group. Sure, I'm focusing on just a very small corner of Minnesota, but within that area I cover local government, schools and human interest stories. I snap photographs of area events. Though it may seem at times as if the news runs along the same wavelength and tastes the same, I guarantee you that it does not feel the same from my end. Each person, group or city has a different story to tell and each is unique.
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So, you would think the news I get on public radio would stick in my head more. After all, I hear it every day and even multiple times per day. Here is where I propose a two-word theory for why my brain leaks out all the news on the radio.
Edward Snowden.
He leaked a lot of National Security Agency surveillance intelligence, so it's not too absurd that he caused all the news in my brain to leak out, right?
You're right. It is absurd.
No, my two-word theory is "information overload." News is complex. It takes a lot of thought in order to more clearly understand. The small, bite-sized packets of information presented during newscasts are deceptive. They are like icebergs above the surface of water, diverting attention away from the extremely large ice mass under the surface. There is always, as Paul Harvey said, "The rest of the story."
News agencies earnestly try to capture the whole of the story, but many times misrepresent vital parts. Getting the gist is important, but news needs to be more. However, it is apparent in our day that trying to do more in journalism leads to ridiculous speculation. The George Zimmerman trial-by-media is a sorry example. There must be middle ground between just reporting the facts and too much speculation. Perhaps I'll find it as I continue on my journalism journey.
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quote: I am proud to pay my taxes, but I do want it spent wisely.
quote: The reason to stay in the US should not be because of a sense of gratitude. Your sense of gratitude should show by the way you value freedom.The US should stand on its own merits as the most attractive place to be and not because its citizens are indebted to it. Being in debt is the opposite of freedom.
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quote: It's 15% ON TOP of the 40% he already paid in capital gains!! I'm sorry but to believe the Government has the right to over 50% of someones' income just because they are rich is immoral.
quote: Who cares about percentages? The value of the dollar doesn't change based on what percentage you pay in taxes. $60 million dollars being laid claim to by the Government is a monstrously large sum. Damn right anyone in their right mind would do whatever it took to avoid that.
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quote: Outlandish theft? $60 million for this guy is less than 3% of his overall wealth. I pay 20% on my income. It's criminal that billionaires pay a smaller percentage than I do.
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quote: You'd give up your American citizenship; the most valuable possession on Earth? All the money in the world can't save you when some despot decides to throw you in prison and seize all your assets. Just ask some of the oil barons in Russia. They lost everything due a whim by Putin and now they rot in Jail.
quote: Just get all of Hitler's speeches and replace the word "Jews" with "millionaires and billionaires" and you have an Obama speech.
quote: I hope he never comes back. He doesn't deserve to be a citizen and is not worthy of those that died for his once held right to breathe American air.
quote: The US tax code punishes the middle class at the expense and reward of the elite upper class and lower class. If you make $50,000 - $150,000 a year you will pay a higher percentage than if you make $10 million a year. The American dream? Escape the middle class, up or down.
quote: Citizenship. It's my understanding you can't really renounce your citizenship. If you ask for it back.. They have to give it you... It's a birth right even if you renounce it.. Remember Oswald.. He renounced his citizenship and they gave it back..
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quote: Ayn Rand, while an interesting subject, was also a lunatic.She did nothing to pave her own roads or build her own "public" services, yet used them anyway.
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The Tramway de Deauville was a small 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) narrow gauge tramway system serving the balneary station of Deauville, France.
Inaugurated in 1876, the network consisted of a line stretching Avenue de la République across the town centre. Traction was by horse and transport without concessions. The tram closed in 1905.
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