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Troubletown Told You So: Comics that Could've Saved Us from this Mess
Here is the latest collection of the satirical comic strip Trouble town, the satirical view of our mishaps in the war in the Middle East.
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Stepped Record Bowl
Possibly the coolest bowl I've ever seen. Not only is this completely unique, vintage, and awesome - but it's eco-friendly as well :-)
These are just awesome like scented markers without the mess. If you have kids you know what I mean!
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Are Selena Gomez And Justin Bieber Together again
Over the weekend Selena Gomez was celebrating her 21st birthday yet again! And this time she had an unexpected visitor!
Justin Bieber decided he's stop by Gomez's gypsy themed birthday party. He showed up with Jaden Smith and brought Selena a single red rose. Selena and Justin left together at 2AM after the party.
On Friday morning she told "Good Morning America" that they have a history together and she will always care about him and protect him if anyone tries to be mean.


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Marketing, ExperienceGR.com website, social media, development of Experience Grand Rapids support materials, Experience Grand Rapids brand and logo use and project manage special projects.
Bachelor of Arts with a Major of Advertising - Michigan State University, Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA)
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22 years
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My first job was cleaning hotel rooms at Point West, a resort in Holland, MI. My first job after college was marketing travel destinations for Carlson Wagonlit Travel (travel agency). I've spent that last 14 years with Experience Grand Rapids - marketing our great destination!
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Oh, just one? If you're traveling with kids, make sure you visit the John Ball Zoo - it's a great urban zoo that the kids will love (and not get too tired exploring)! Also, make time for the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park - their Lena Meijer Children's Garden is perfect for kids - and don't forget to bring a change of clothes (the Great Lakes Garden is fun to splash in)!
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Yesterday I overheard mom and dad talking about one of mom's friends and how easily she gave up her cat, and some other man in her office that gave up their Jack Russell Terrier. What mom does not understand is how you can own a cat for 11 years and a dog for 6 and decide that you can no longer take care of them. I have known mom to go without lunch so I can get my flea medicine, since we are not rich and I seem to cost mom a bunch of money. Mom and Dad both said that it would be hard, and that she love her critters too much and managed to humanize us too much. I am glad my mom doesn't see me as a throw away. I have a nice bed, yummy food and all this medicine to make me stop itching, I get treats when I look cute and what would be a morning without Cheese when they make sandwiches and ice cream for dessert.
Mom says it changes her opinion of those people, she really does not like them too much since she says she can see their true colors and how temporary they see animals in their lives and do they see their friends that way too.
So, to Shiggie the cat, and Roscoe the dog. I am sorry. I am sorry that your pawrents don't love you as much as mine do. Thank goodness mom and dad are in it no matter if I have too much shedding going on, if I sometimes act naughty and tinkle on the floor that they will not let me go to some other home or something on Craig's list.
Thanks so much Mom and Dad...Love Coco
Ok Pal good play! You caught the foot ball now here is what you are suppose to do. Leave me a bone on my page first. Then Tell me 5 naughty things you have done in the past. Then pick five pals and send them the same message , but be sure to tell them to leave you a bone on your page ok!
1.I ate an entire stick of butter, I jumped on the chair, to the dining room table and ate that greasy soft stuff. Not so yum yum
2. I steal other pups toys when I go to day camp and dig them into holes and they can't be found unless it rains.
3. I drag daddy's underware outside
4. I hide my rawhides and cookies in the bed.
5. I pee in strangers shoes when they come in the house.... I know it is naughty and mom has tried to stop me, but I will sneak when no one is looking.
Here is who I threw the foot ball to>
Ok team go get em, throw that ball!
I was tagged by Wilson. Now I have tagged 3 other pups: Bobby, Pixie and Kaydon!!
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IDSM2 License Installation Error
I am facing a problem applying licenses on 2 different WS-SVC-IDSM2-BUN (installed on core switches). I keep getting the attached error.
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Slanted + Facial Plastic Surgery Q&A
What procedure would best correct my facial asymmetry? I have misaligned teeth and jaw after braces. (photos)
20 years old now, but I had braces from 12-16 and my orthodontist took out 4 teeth to correct slight bucked teeth and crooked bottom teeth. I think... READ MORE
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I have always known about my weak jawline and I always wondered if there was a way to fix it. My lower jaw slants in at a steep angle right below my... READ MORE
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Today is our final instalment from Cookes Food, and what would an Australiana-inspired menu be without the iconic Aussie Pav!? Sophie's take on this much loved summery dessert includes and unexpected twist – a sprinkle of freshly ground pepper! Its smoky flavour works surprisingly well with the sweetness of the strawberries and meringue… go on, I dare ya! – Lucy
Mango and Berry Pavlova (with a peppery punch!) by Cookes Food. Photo – Brooke Holm.
I think the best thing about pavlova, and what makes it inherently Australian, is that it looks like a mistake that someone has tried to cover with some cream and a pile of seasonal fruit.
As a chef who cannot bake, I am particularly drawn to these types of desserts, as even when they are bad they are perfection – as long as the outside is a little flaky and crisp, and the inside is like moist marshmallow, there is no need to worry.
If you split it or someone takes a greedy pinch from the side it's okay, just fill with cream and a few strategically placed berries. I'm not personally a fan of uber sweet desserts, so I add no sugar to the cream, and sparingly sprinkle the strawberries with freshly ground pepper.
Keep in mind that you can't just start throwing pepper willy-nilly on every fruit dessert, however, in this case the balance of sweet and sour strawberries with the smoky, hot black pepper is a wonderful surprise.
8 egg whites
500g sugar
4 tsp cornflour
1 vanilla bean (all pods scraped out)
1 ½ cups thickened cream (add a little of the vanilla)
1 tsp white wine vinegar
1 punnet of strawberries
1 mango
1 tsp freshly cracked black pepper
1 pinch sea salt
Preheat your fan forced oven at 180 degrees. In a clean dry bowl add the egg whites and a generous pinch of sea salt. The sharp flakes cut through the whites and make it fluffier. Mix for 5 minutes.
Add the sugar fairly slowly, by half cups. Continue whipping until the sugar has dissolved – test it by pressing a little of the mixture between your fingers to see whether the sugar is still undissolved. Add the vanilla and mix again. Remove the whisk and with a metal spoon, turn through the vinegar and cornflour.
Place in a 30cm cake tin, lined with baking paper, fill to about 1cm below the rim. Place in the oven and immediately turn the oven down to 150 degrees. Bake for 30 minutes. Reduce heat further, to 120 degrees, and bake for a further 45 minutes. Remember to never open the door, as the hot air will be released and it won't be as good. Once the 45 minutes are up, turn the oven off and leave it in the oven for 1.5 hours. While your pavlova is cooling down, prep the strawberries by slicing them however you like.
The perfect meringue base, by Cookes Food. Photos – Brooke Holm.
To assemble – the world is your oyster! Our way is to slice the mango into thin slices and set aside, we like small discs for the strawberries. Un-tin the pavlova (we turn ours out upside down) and spread with the vanilla cream – if you use thickened cream, you don't have to whip it and you get a much more luxurious result! Next, lay the strawberries in the middle and the mango around the outside. Sprinkle the pepper over the strawberries, serve and plate up. I assure you all bowls will be left clean!
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Christina Marchetti (Syracuse U.) "Phase separation and jamming of dense active matter"
Recent experiments on confluent layers of epithelial cells and vibrated granular media have motivated interest in the behavior of active systems at high density, where the interplay of steric repulsion and activity can yield active glassy or jammed states. In this talk I will discuss the behavior of dense collections of self-propelled particles in two dimensions. Two specific results will be highlighted: (i) the suppression of motility due to steric repulsion yields macroscopic phase separation in the absence of any aligning or attractive interaction; and (ii) confinement yields jammed active states where the dynamics is dominated by spatio-temporal heterogeneities reminiscent of glassy systems.
Joseph Henry Room · 12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Condensed Matter Seminar - Juerg Froehlich, ETH Zurich & IAS, Princeton - Gauge Theory and Topological Phases of Matter
We study a general class of systems of condensed matter including electron liquids and atom gases. Thanks to the U(1)- and SU(2)- gauge invariance of the quantum theory of such systems, one may study their response to coupling the electric current to a vector potential and the spin current to an SU(2)- gauge field. Response equations are found by determining their effective actions (or free energies) as functionals of the U(1)-vector potential and SU(2)-gauge field (and of the metric of the sample). The physical interpretation of these fields is explained. Using only general principles gauge invariance, cluster properties of connected (current) Green functions in systems with a mobility gap, power counting the form of the effective actions is determined. This leads to a gauge theory of phases of matter complementary to the well-known Landau theory. Applications to systems exhibiting the quantum Hall and the spin Hall effect, to 3D topological insulators, and to the primordial plasma in the universe are discussed.
PCTS Seminar Room · 1:15 p.m.– 2:30 p.m.
High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Piljin Yi, Korea Institute for Advanced Study - Wall-Crossing & Quiver Invariants
Bloomberg Lecture Hall - Institute for Advanced Study · 2:30 p.m.– 4:00 p.m.


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Startup Grind San Antonio Hosts Patrick Condon (Co-founder Rackspace, Investor)
Startup Grind
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CST)
Patrick Condon is one of the cofounders of Rackspace Hosting, a San Antonio based hosting company that has grown to $1 billion in revenue. At Rackspace, Condon has held all kinds of leadership positions in marketing, customer care, and business development. Condon attended both Trinity University and Santa Clara University. He received a BA in Finance from Santa Clara University. Today, Condon spends most of his time helping startups. He was instrumental at Rackspace in the acquisition of Webmail.us, an email company in 2007. It was Rackspace's first acquisition. Rackspace went on to buy Slicehost and Jungle Disk a year later. Condon is actively involved in San Antonio's technology entrepreneurial ecosystem and Rackspace's Startup Program. He has served as a mentor at 3 Day Startup San Antonio, High School Startup, TechStars Cloud and at Geekdom, the collaborative workspace in San Antonio. Pat is also an active angel investor. He has invested in companies like Austin-based Greenling, which delivers organic local produce to homeowners, TrueAbility, a technical testing startup, ParLevel Systems, a vending machine system company and ZippyKid, a WordPress hosting company, all based at Geekdom. He focuses on early-stage Software-as-a-Service companies that serve small businesses and freelancers. And this little nugget comes from David Cohen, founder of a TechStars, in a blog post: "Pat's guilty pleasure is the television show Wipeout, he once paddled 200 miles non-stop in a canoe, and he has an incredibly sensitive sense of smell." Pizza and beer at 6 p.m. Interview at 7 p.m. Special thanks to venue sponsor: Geekdom In an interview with Rackspace, Condon gave the following advice to startups.
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Laura Lorek is the founder of Silicon Hills News, an online technology news site covering entrepreneurs and companies in the Austin and San Antonio region. Founded in 2011, SHN won a New Media Women Entrepreneur grant to provide seed stage funding to launch the site, which now has a staff of five reporters and is growing dramatically. She also launched Slice of Silicon Hills News, an online Web show, which spotlights a local technology startup every Friday. Previously, she worked as a senior writer covering technology and business news at the San Antonio Express-News, a senior writer for Interactive Week Magazine and a specialty writer and technology columnist at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Laura is interested in startups, entrepreneurship, technology and storytelling. She is a slow but determined runner who completed the Chicago Marathon in 2012 and has done 8 half marathons , 4 sprint triathlons and plans to run the Napa to Sonoma Half Marathon in July. She lives in Wimberley, in the Texas Hill Country, with her husband, Charlie, teenage son, Teddy, and two Labradors, Apollo and Zeus.
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Members of Womens S&D Qualify for Olympic Trials
MUNCIE, Ind. - Ball State's Bridgette Ruehl, Mallory Miles and Haley Richter of the women's swimming & diving team competed in the 2012 Indianapolis Grand Prix from the Indiana University Natatorium.
The three-day meet (Thursday-Saturday) was co-hosted by Indiana Swimming and the Indiana University Natatorium and is the fifth stop on USA Swimming's Grand Prix series.
With a time of 1:01.58 in the 100 long course fly prelims recorded Thursday, sophomore Haley Richter (Roanoke, Ind./Columbia City) qualified for the Olympic Trials, held in Omaha, Neb. June 25-July 2.
Saturday during the 100 long course breast prelims, sophomore Bridgette Ruehl (Lowell, Ind./Lowell) also punched her ticket to the Olympic Trials, hitting the mark with a time of 1:12.19.
Also posting phenomenal performances Saturday in the 100 long course back prelims and final rounds, sophomore Mallory Miles (Holland, Ind./Southridge) recorded times of 1:04.39 and 1:05.91, just shy of qualifying for the Olympic Trials (1:03.99).
2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Event Schedule:
Monday, June 25
Men's 400m IM
Women's 100m Fly
Men's 400m Free
Women's 400m IM
Men's 100m Breast
Monday, June 25
Men's 400m IM - Final
Women's 100m Fly - Semifinal
Men's 400m Free - Final
Women's 400m IM - Final
Men's 100m Breast - Semifinal
Tuesday, June 26
Women's 100m Back
Men's 200m Free
Women's 100m Breast
Men's 100m Back
Women's 400m Free
Tuesday, June 26
Women's 100m Fly - Final
Men's 200m Free - Semifinal
Women's 100m Breast - Semifinal
Men's 100m Breast - Final
Women's 400m Free - Final
Men's 100m Back - Semifinal
Women's 100m Back - Semifinal
Wednesday, June 27
Women's 200m Free
Men's 200m Fly
Women's 200m IM
Wednesday, June 27
Women's 200m Free - Semifinal
Men's 200m Free - Final
Women's 100m Back - Final
Men's 100m Back - Final
Women's 100m Breast - Final
Men's 200m Fly - Semifinal
Women's 200m IM -- Semifinal
Thursday, June 28
Men's 100m Free
Women's 200m Fly
Men's 200m Breast
Thursday, June 28
Men's 100m Free - Semifinal
Women's 200m Free - Final
Men's 200m Fly - Final
Women's 200m Fly - Semifinal
Men's 200m Breast - Semifinal
Women's 200m IM - Final
Friday, June 29
Women's 100m Free
Men's 200m Back
Women's 200m Breast
Men's 200m IM
Friday, June 29
Men's 200m Breast - Final
Women's 100m Free - Semifinal
Men's 200m Back - Semifinal
Women's 200m Fly - Final
Men's 100m Free - Final
Women's 200m Breast - Semifinal
Men's 200m IM - Semifinal
Saturday, June 30
Men's 50m Free
Women's 800m Free
Men's 100m Fly
Women's 200m Back
Saturday, June 30
Men's 50m Free - Semifinal
Women's 200m Breast - Final
Men's 200m Back - Final
Women's 200m Back - Semifinal
Men's 200m IM - Final
Women's 100m Free - Final
Men's 100m Fly - Semifinal
Sunday, July 1
Women's 50m Free
Men's 1500m Free
Sunday, July 1
Women's 200m Back - Final
Men's 100m Fly - Final
Women's 800m Free - Final
Men's 50m Free - Final
Women's 50m Free - Semifinal
Monday, July 2
No Preliminaries
Monday, July 2
Women's 50m Free - Final
Men's 1500m Free - Final
Prelims begin 10 a.m. CDT; finals begin 6:45 p.m. CDT


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The eggs were disgusting and there was not a lot of options for hot food. For the cost you would think that they could have had a waffle maker.
Comfy beds, thoughtful room service. Only three elevators for 15+ floors? It was a nightmare waiting for one to come down and actually fit in one when it did. I took the stairs every time after that.
The lobby was comfortable and inviting. The staff was kind and helpful. The pillows and beds were my favorite part.
The hotel overall is very clean and the staff are fantastic. Our room was clean and the bed was comfortable. The elevators are slow and with a full hotel we had to wait awhile for a lift. Breakfast buffet is overpriced for the quality and selection of food.
It was a freezing night in Knoxville and we were so happy to find a wonderful and warm hotel!
Cleanliness, comfort and friendly staff. Rooms very spacious and comfortable. Room temperature very inconsistent. Air wouldn't cool room down
The location is great for walking around downtown. The hotel was clean, and the associates were really friendly. Also, the fitness room has a decent amount of equipment in it which was nice. I wished that there was a sink and mirror outside of the bathroom. It would be helpful when you need to get ready and the other person staying with you can still use the restroom. Parking is expensive, especially considering that locust street garage is free on nights and weekends and that lot is right beside the Hilton lot.
Excellent location, easily walkable to attractions, great view from upper floors. Couch was dirty and badly stained, bathroom exhaust fan didn't work but front desk made no attempt to fix, changed parking rates between booking and our stay with no notice.
It was in a great location, and the staff was very helpful. We stayed during the week and it was very nice to be able to get a glass of wine in the bar after everything was closed. It would have been nice to have a refrigerator standard in the room. We didn't have anywhere to keep our leftovers from dinner.
The location The room and bed were surprisingly small. Bed was about a foot off the ground. Almost like a sofa bed (without the sofa). Guessing they put us in an adjoining room to a bigger suite... which wouldn't have been as big an issue had they described it that way.
Smelled musty. Very dusty room. My allergies went crazy and couldn't breath in the morning.
Food in restaurant was sub par
We were in room 717. Brawling in the next room (715) brought management up twice. (Someone else called the management.) Dog barking down the hall. A party down the hall broke up at 2:30 in the morning with much shouting. In the room, lumpy old bed, peeling wallpaper, old mismatched furniture and lamps in the room. I have photos. We stay there every December when we visit family. This is our first bad experience. Do not accept a room on the 7th floor!
When I entered the Crowne Plaza on a Friday night the lobby smelled overwhelmingly of fish. There was a buffet on the next floor up that was the cause of the odor. I know there was lots of fish because when I asked if they had any vegetarian options I was offered many species of fish. I was shocked that the staff at a restaurant wouldn't understand what a vegetarian is. I normally travel with my husband who has life threatening food allergies. I would not have trusted this uneducated staff to properly ensure that his food was safe. I ordered instead from room service. The options were not impressive but I opted for pizza. I asked for "light cheese". It was repeated back to me correctly. I received a pizza with extra cheese and no sauce. I ended up ordering delivery food from outside the restaurant in order to get an edible meal. That was made difficult by a horrible WiFi in the room. It crashed 3 times in the course of my order. I won't be back.
Beds very soft, pillows very nice
No hay nada especial en este lugar excepto el precio. La ubicación no era tan cerca de nuestro destino como nos dijeron. El personal siempre parecía ocupado charlando con otros. Rampa y terraza de entrada zona difícil. Muy caro para lo que te dan. No hay lugar para pasear perros.
El aparcamiento era confusa.
Los acabados interiores y decoración cálida, habitación bien equipada con muebles de gran utilidad, amable y eficiente personal de recepción, a un precio razonable y con buena relación calidad-precio. El techo del baño no había sido totalmente reparado después de una fuga de agua.
Ubicación, fácil de encontrar. Personal amable en la recepción, las camas eran muy cómodas y el hotel estaba limpio. El desayuno era bueno, típico pero bueno. La señora de recepción era muy servicial a la hora de ayudar a encontrar un lugar para cenar esa noche. Es agradable tener una cara sonriente en la salida.
Breakfast was a bit weird. Confusing and understaffed. The folks that were working were great, just not enough of them. Thought $12 was a bit much for what Is usually a complimentary breakfast in similar settings.
* Friendliness and competence of staff * Mandatory valet w nightly parking charge * King Room cramped, uncomfortable sitting chair, & no foot stool * No pool/hot tub * No bathtub (only room w bath is Queen Double) * Access off Cumberland Ave (coupled w staff's complete lack of information on construction or local stores & restaurants * No ice cream in pantry
The housekeeping staff were the most pleasant, welcoming and engaging staff. The valet staff and front desk staff need guest interaction training. The valet staff do not provide a warm welcome and need training on looking at guests when speaking rather than looking past guests. The front desk staff need to be trained on providing a warm welcome. A simple smile and "Welcome to the Hilton Garden Inn. How may I help?" Having stayed at many Hilton properties throughout the world, the Knoxvilee Hilton Garden Inn/University and Knoxville Downtown Hilton properties appear to have the worst management and many poorly trained staff.
very nice and convenient place to stay.
Rooms were great, breakfast was wonderful, staff was awesome!
value clean
They have a security guard that walks the lot at night. It's good if you're traveling with equipment or gear you can't bring to your room. The pillows and bed linens were not very comfortable and felt cheap. I've stayed in similar places at similar prices and their bedding was much better.
Right off the interstate with more eating choices than you could ever use. Very comfortable beds
Very pleasant staff Breakfast was not that good.
We stayed at Country Inn on our way to Florida and on our way back. On our way there the staff was absolutely amazing. So friendly and it was a nice welcome after a 9 hour drive with two kids. On the way back in Knoxville, the staff was a little rude. They seemed bothered that we were checking in which was a little annoying. But overall it was a nice hotel.
Friendly staff, good location, clean, will stay there again when in the area
I really enjoyed the bed. We had a wedding reception and I was very tired. When I finally got to bed, it was the most restful night I've had in a long time. NO!!
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I loved the huge shower in the bathroom. The saltwater pool was awesome, too. The beds are very comfortable. The made to order omelets were delicious! They also have a meet and greet every evening from 5:30 to 7:00 with complimentary drinks. There was nothing I did not like about this hotel.
The friendly staff, nice room, and manager's reception. The power went out so we had to leave. We were told the same thing happened the night before also. From what we could tell there were only 3 or 4 businesses without power. The staff was incredibly understanding and gave us a full refund.
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The people were very nice and the guy at the made to order grill was AMAZING.
The breakfast was awesome. The chef, was very friendly and accommodating. Overall the entire staff at this location was friendly. The room was also very nice The refrigerator seemed to malfunction.
Breakfast is amazing In my particular room we had no dressers to unpack outlet suitcases in, that was rather disappointing. Not sure if it was because it was a handicap room not. Other than that, we we very satisfied! Great place to stay, short or long term!
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The hotel was very nice and clean. I loved the fitness center and the breakfast buffet. Everyone working there was very nice and helpful.
The breakfast buffet put it over the edge--it was delightful. The suite was a nice touch, making it more comfortable for our family of 5. They were willing to switch us to a 2-bed room when. We requested it, which we appreciated.
Some of the staff was friendly and helpful. When booking, there was no mention of getting a smoking room. The whole floor reeked of smoke, and the room was unbearable. On top of that, refrigerator didn't function. The front desk was particularly unconcerned when we asked about getting another room and inquired about the fridge.
Great room, very comfy. Friendly staff (except the day manager) The day manager at this hotel was very very rude that we got our reservation online and that we got such a discount. She repeatedly commented on how annoying it is when people book online and pay so little. She was crazy crazy rude when we checked out. She tried to charge us twice for the room and argued with us for over 20 mins abut weather the charge was already taken off our credit card. Also, she made us pay $15 upfront saying it was for in case we decided to steal anything. And the tub was broke.
Great comfy clean place. Good breakfast and friendly staff (except the day manager who was a raging b-hole) The day Manger lady was terrible. She was very vocal and mean about her unliking of the low rates we got and how annoying it is to her for people to book online. She tried to charge us twice and argued with us about what we said and what we did. It was insane!
Room was comfortable; staff were very friendly; breakfast was good. A very very pleasant stay Nothing
I had stayed in 3 different hotels in the same weekend. This one by far was the best. Very clean, hall smelled like smoke, but the room did not. Room did not show signs of wear. Comfortable beds, a little too soft for me. Room great use of space, didn't feel cramped, large bathroom. Microwave & fridge in room. Loved that there was a small counterspace above the fridge. Microwave was in a shelf attached to the wall. Fridge had nice shelves and crisper drawer so items fit better in the fridge. Location perfect, just off the highway. Gas and fast food very close to the hotel. Breakfast was good. A fitness room and pool were available. Staff fairly friendly, when I checked in I wasn't told where the elevator, fitness room, etc. were, the attendant yelled that the elevator was the other way when I went the opposite way. This was the cheapest hotel I stayed in and it had the most amenities. Would have been helpful to have a couple more plugs near the bed. I had to unplug the alarm clock to plug in my phone.
Clean room, friendly staff, and quiet atmosphere made this hotel the perfect pit stop. Access to it was hard to find, not the hotel's fault.
The front desk receptionist really seemed to hate her job. We asked for suggestions on where to eat and she acted as if she was annoyed that she had to answer our question. Breakfast in the morning was bare and didn't look appetizing.
The staff was great especially Josh and the room was clean and comfortable.
Very nice and clean Walls very thin...could hear everything in next rooms.
Breakfast buffet Beds were comfortable
Good value. Great location
El personal era muy amable y servicial.
Limón al otro lado de la calle sirve increíble comida tailandesa.
Fuimos a la ciudad de Knoxville para un partido de UT. 3 de nosotros estábamos en una habitación con dos camas tamaño queen. Teníamos un montón de espacio y tuvimos una estancia estupenda.
Camas cómodas para el sueño quisquilloso!


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January Homespun ATL Brunch
Homespun ATL
Saturday, January 25, 2014 from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Photo Credit: Morgan Blake Photography
Each brunch gathering features a locally sourced meal to include: snacks, juice + coffee, and family style brunch. We will email you further details after registration. Cash Gratuity Welcome.
When & Where
659 Auburn Ave. NE
Saturday, January 25, 2014 from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM (EST)
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Homespun is a wholesome dining experience that brings community back around the table. We host monthly gatherings and offer in-home and corporate personal chef services. Guests enjoy a fresh, seasonal meal prepared with the best hand-selected ingredients from the local farmer's markets. The purpose is not just to dine but rather break bread and share life.
Homespun gatherings are hosted in Atlanta, Ga. by Chef Jason Jimenez and his wife, Jamie.


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Steve Winwood - a '60s rock 'n' roller turning 60
By Steve James
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Turning 60, Steve Winwood is starting to believe rock 'n' roll may be a younger man's game. Maybe.
"I think to be a musician (at 60) is fine, but to be a rock 'n' roller at a ripe old age is maybe slightly questionable," said the singer, guitarist and organist who played with 1960s rock legends the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith.
"If rock 'n' roll is, indeed, what I play, I'm not sure whether it is, as I try and combine bits of folk and jazz.
"The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old," Winwood acknowledged in an interview.
Half a lifetime ago, Winwood was aware of the contradiction of an aging musician playing essentially youthful music. "'Cause my rock 'n' roll is putting on weight/ and the beat it goes on," he sang on his 1980 album, "Arc of a Diver."
Winwood has been performing for 45 years -- as long as the Rolling Stones, who are still playing well into their 60s.
Whatever the definition of his music, Winwood has played his share of genres, from backing blues greats like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, performing with Eric Clapton, arranging English folk with Traffic and recording artfully produced 1980s hits like "Higher Love" in the early years of MTV. His new solo album, "Nine Lives," just came out.
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- 1/2 pound bulk Italian sausage
- 1 medium sweet red pepper, chopped
- 1/2 pound fresh mushrooms, chopped
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2/3 cup vegetable or beef broth
- 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes
- 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- 8 ounces uncooked wagon wheel pasta
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup minced fresh basil, optional
- In a large skillet, cook the sausage, red pepper, mushrooms, onion and garlic over medium heat until sausage is no longer pink and vegetables are tender; drain. Add broth; bring to a boil. Cook until liquid is reduced by half. Add the tomatoes and Italian seasoning. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
- Cook the pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, heat the cream. Slowly stir in the sausage mixture; cook and stir for 5 minutes. Drain pasta; toss with creamy sausage mixture. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and basil if desired. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Wagon Wheel Pasta Plate in Country Woman March/April 2003, p45
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By Joe Brewin
Robin van Persie has hailed the impact of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain this season - but believes people should not expect too much too soon.
The young forward caught the eye once more in Saturday's 7-1 win over Blackburn, scoring his first Premier League goals in Arsenal colours.
Van Persie has been impressed with the 18-year-old's contributions so far this season but insists the youngster should still be handled with care.
"He is a fantastic player already; he's only 18 and is so young," said the Dutchman. "He's good on the ball - he has everything. He's quick, he has movement, technique, can score a goal or give an assist. He has a great future.
"But don't put too much pressure on him. You always have periods when you are young when you have really high highs and you go up and down until you balance it a bit better.
"He will have ups and he will have periods when he's not playing so well. So my advice is to be aware of it and be patient."
Oxlade-Chamberlain's fine form has led to speculation about a possible spot in England's Euro 2012 squad, after several impressive displays for Stuart Pearce's Under-21s.
Van Persie, who should feature for Holland in this summer's tournament, believes the teenager's full international opportunity will come when the time is right.
"Why not?" he said. "In the future, definitely. He's a big prospect. Everyone is enjoying watching him. I do, you do and he brings something extra to the game and people just love it.
"It reminds me of my own period when I was breaking through and was 18 or 19. I believe when you have all these qualities it gives you confidence and you can enjoy yourself.
"He's not someone who thinks about negatives, just positives and you can enjoy the game like that.
"I had that as well when I was younger. I wasn't thinking about 'oh, big stadium, or big game'. I was just enjoying myself."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Sometimes death is not the end...The brilliant chiller from 'Britain's answer to Stephen King and Michael Crichton' Sunday Express Charley has a strange feeling when she sees the idyllic mill house with its cluster of outbuildings, the lake and the swirling mill stream; a powerful sense of recognition, as if she has been there before. Except she knows she hasn't. After Charley and her husband Tom move into Elmwood Mill, sinister memories of a previous existence start to haunt her. Despite both their attempts to dismiss everything with rational explanations, the feeling turns to certainty as the memories become increasingly vivid and terrifying. Charley is persuaded to undergo hypnosis - but in searching deep into her past, she unwitting opens a Pandora's box of evil ...and now the terror is free.
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 17th November 2005
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 17.7 x 11.2 x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.19
Edition Number: 1


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The Civil War and Reconstruction
By 1860 the issue of slavery had become a tinderbox – a moral, social and economic issue which slowly divided the northern and southern states. Tennessee found itself divided when the General Assembly voted to secede. Many people in East Tennessee supported the Union and even fought in the Union Army.
Tennessee was the primary battlefield of the Civil War in the west, with more than 400 battles and skirmishes within its borders. Each of the major battles in Tennessee is highlighted with artifacts from the battlefield. The Tennessee State Museum's holdings of uniforms, battle flags and weapons are among the best in the nation.
Tennessean Andrew Johnson became the country's 17th president in 1865 after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. In conflicts with the U.S. Congress over reinstallment of southern states, Johnson was the first president to be impeached. After a trial in the Senate, Johnson was acquitted by one vote. Johnson's tickets to his own impeachment trial are included in the museum's exhibits about the president.
Displays include:
Sam Davis' boot cut open by Union troops to search for hidden papers;
General Patrick Cleburne's cap;
Nathan Bedford Forrest's revolver;
Photographs of Tennessee African-American Union soldiers;
Flag of Confederate raider, C.S.S. Alabama;
President Andrew Johnson's piano; and
Hand-drawn map of the Shiloh battlefield prepared for Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard
505 Deaderick Street
Nashville, TN 37243-1120
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m.
Closed: Mondays and four holidays: New Year's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.
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NEWPORT, R.I. – Luck was on the side of competitors yesterday for the opening day of the 2008 C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Regatta as a cold front went through Narragansett Bay with fierce thunderstorms that fortunately split north and south to bypass the area. With predictions for breezier conditions today, racers in the three Paralympic classes who were joined for the first time at this event by the blind sailors racing in J/22s, went back to work on-the-water as an up and down northerly with an ebbing current made for a challenging day.
Luck, however, was not a factor in determining the 2008 Blind Sailing World Championship which was won by skipper Sengil "Inky" Inkiala (Watertown, Mass.) and crew Nancy Jodoin (West Brookfield, Mass.), sailing with sighted guides Ken Legler (Reading, Mass.) and Harry Berman (Hull, Mass.). "A great amount of our success comes from the sighted guides," said Inkiala who has sailed with Legler (the head sailing coach at Tufts University) for over 10 years. "Communication is important and when he gives me a command I know [exactly] what he means." Jodoin, however, had only practiced one time with Inky prior to racing this event with him. "He called me on the phone last week so we could get some communication over the phone," she said. "His advice was to 'be calm.'" The win of the national championship marks the "fifth or sixth" time Inky has claimed the title — with this one earned on his 51st birthday. "It was more fun to be with The Clagett," Inkiala added. "Each time we went out from Sail Newport Ken was giving us info on the other boats [racing]. We loved it!"
Inkiala's team started the day with a two-point lead over the team helmed by defending champion Matt Chao (Boston, Mass.). Chao's team — crew Deborah Keating (Woburn, Mass.) and sighted guides Peter Frisch (Swampscott, Mass.) and Tom Winston (Charlestown, Mass.) – were able to win only one race on the final day of the series to the four bullets posted by Inkiala whose worst finish — a fourth in race nine – was dropped to give his team the championship title with 12 points to the 20 collected by Chao's team. Jason Wallenstein (Quincy, Mass.) with Mark Bos (Gloucester, Mass.) and sighted sailors Bill Rapp (Rockport, Mass.) and Lisa O'Connor (Hull, Mass.) finished third overall with 22 points. Duane Farrar (Watertown, Mass.) and Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (San Diego, Calif.) with sighted guides Patrick Schule (Boston, Mass.) and Bob Costello (Medfield, Mass.) were fourth with 33 points. Nina Kagan (Boston, Mass) and Bruce Howell (Needham, Mass.) sailed with sighted guides Arthur O'Neill (Needham, Mass.) and Peter Harrington (Newton, Mass.) to a fifth place finish, followed by the California team of Alan Spector (San Francisco), Danette Davis (Berkeley) with visually impaired sailors Philip Kum (San Francisco) and Walter Raineri (Belmont).
Next March the teams helmed by Chao and Wallenstein will represent the USA at the 2009 Blind Sailing World Championship in New Zealand. At the world championships, the vision classification of the skipper determines in which division each four-person team will compete. Chao, who has been totally blind since birth, will competed in the B1 Division, while Wallenstein, whose vision loss is due to complications from Diabetes, will race in the B3 Division for sailors who are the least visually impaired.
Lucky would not be the term used today by the USA's 2008 Paralympic representatives in the Sonar class after a collision with a submerged concrete slab damaged their boat and put the brakes on the lead they held after day one's five races. Rick Doerr (Clifton, N.J.), Tim Angle (Somerville, Mass.) and Bill Donohue (Brick, N.J.) placed 2-3-2 in today's racing while the Canadian Paralympic team helmed by Ken Kelly with crew Don Terlson and Mark Shaw (all Victoria, B.C.) won all three races to move into first overall in the four-boat fleet. The two teams are now tied at 10 points each heading into the final day of this event.
In the SKUD-18s, day one fleet leaders Scott Whitman (Brick, N.J.) and Julia Dorsett (West Chester, Penn.) remain in first overall despite the consistent sailing of John McRoberts and Stacie Louttit (both Victoria, B.C.). Canada's Paralympic representatives opened the day with a fourth-place finish and then won the final three races to end the day with 13 points – two points out of first – to set the stage for an all-out battle in tomorrow's final races.
In the 2.4 Metre class, Canada's Paralympic representative Paul Tingley (Halifax, Nova Scotia) won the first three races and followed with two second-place finishes to retain the overall lead with 11 points. The USA's Paralympic representative, John Ruf (Pewaukee, Wisc.), has 15 points after finishes of 2-2-2-3-1. Charles Rosenfield (Woodstock, Conn.), who also won a race today, remains third overall with 19 points.
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- 02.14.13
SodaStream, Samsung Build A New Refrigerator That Dispenses Sparkling Water
Hear that? That's the sound of innovation bubbling in your water glass.
Remember when Samsung unveiled a concept for a refrigerator with Evernote integration at this year's CES?
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Like how a company can be allowed to contaminate the water of an entire major city (Charleston WV).
"Liberals this, liberals that" Why do some insist on a 'categorized' segment of the population in order to make an argument, while ignoring their own contribution? A more inclusive and truthful statement might be;"All politicians live and die by the polls" The examples are plentiful enough and hardly favor one side or the other. As I already said, its all a distraction, even this very discussion is a waste of energy and serves no purpose other than to keep our 'illusionary' divisions alive and well……so we don't notice what's really going on :shock:.


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How Corporations Snoop To Conquer
It was a brutal internal corporate battle. On one side: anxious marketing managers at Monsanto Co.'s Nutrasweet unit. On the other: the subsidiary's secretive competitive intelligence (CI) operation.
According to sources familiar with the events, customers told Nutrasweet sales reps in 1991 that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration was about to approve a rival sweetener from Johnson & Johnson, called sucralose. So Nutrasweet managers proposed to then-Chairman and Chief Executive Robert E. Flynn a three-year, $84 million defensive ad blitz to help preserve Nutrasweet's two-thirds share of the $1.5 billion market.
Then Nutrasweet's CI unit stepped forward. Like the Central Intelligence Agency analysts whose techniques they borrow, the corporate snoops had carefully cultivated contacts among regulators at the FDA and in Canada, which had already approved sucralose. The sources helped the analysts conclude that FDA approval wasn't imminent--and that the outlay would be a waste of money. The recommendation created internal friction, forcing Flynn to make a tough choice. Siding with the intelligence analysts, he delayed the advertising. It was a good call: Five years later, the FDA still hasn't O.K.'d sucralose.
"IMPERATIVE." The tale of how competitive intelligence saved a company millions is unusual only because people were willing to discuss it. Indeed, one of Corporate America's biggest secrets is that more and more companies have in-house operations to keep tabs on rivals. The number of large corporations with CI units has tripled since 1988 to about 10%, estimates David H. Harkleroad, director of business intelligence for the Futures Group Inc., a Glastonbury (Conn.) consulting firm. CI "is an imperative for survival," declares Robert C. Mauch, retired president and CEO of UGI Corp.'s AmeriGas Propane Inc., a $1 billion Valley Forge (Pa.) gas marketer.
What is competitive intelligence? It's not illegal spying or theft of trade secrets. Rather, it is much like the classic intelligence gathering that has long been used to guide public policy. But in the corporate world, CI experts have a more prosaic goal: to give executives a systematic way to collect and analyze public information about rivals and use it to make decisions. "I don't ever want to be in a fair fight," says Quaker State Corp. Chairman and CEO Herbert M. Baum. "I want an edge everyplace I go."
CI can be used both tactically and strategically. It borrows tools and methods from strategic planning, which takes a broad view of the market and how a company hopes to position itself, and from market research, which is more focused on customers' desires. Corporate snoops--including anyone from librarians to ex-government spooks--focus on the broad competitive environment, adding an analytical twist: the anticipation of a rival's move. CI serves as a radar screen, spotting new opportunities or helping avert disaster. It's also controversial. Murky ethical and legal boundaries have kept many away from the practice.
Using techniques that range from Internet surfing to rooting through trash bins, analysts dig up everything from rivals' new products and manufacturing costs to profiles of executives and their decision-making. The oddest things can come in handy. Anne E. Selgas, Eastman Kodak Co.'s director of competitive intelligence, regularly reads an extensive list of publications that even she considers a tad bizarre. Her favorite is The Transylvania Times, a semiweekly out of tiny Brevard, in North Carolina's Transylvania County. A medical-film rival--Sterling Diagnostic Imaging Inc.--has a plant there, and Selgas says the paper has lots of hiring and layoff news that helps her understand what's going on.
DATA GLUT. Yet it's not enough simply to obtain piles of data. Thanks to the Internet and computer databases, information is now a commodity, cheap and widely available. Good CI helps filter through that noise to find and analyze the relevant facts. "We no longer live in the age of information," says Larry Kahaner, author of Competitive Intelligence, a new book that sold out its entire 20,000-copy printing six weeks after it hit the shelves. "We live in the age of intelligence."
Although long accepted in Europe and Asia, CI is only now taking hold in the U.S. That's partly because of the globalization of the economy, which requires better intelligence to anticipate threats from abroad and to penetrate overseas markets. The quickening pace of technological change and deregulation also is fueling the trend. It's easier than ever to be blindsided by a competitor who can take the lead with a single innovation. In fast-deregulating and restructuring industries, such as utilities and financial services, tomorrow's archrival may not even be on the playing field today. "The past isn't as relevant," says Vance D. Coffman, president and COO of Lockheed Martin Corp. "Hockey players skate to where the puck is going to be. You have to play the game that way."
Increased competition prompted discount brokerage Charles Schwab & Co. to create a CI program in 1994. Schwab keeps track of both traditional and new competitors by paying consultants to visit rivals' facilities, hiring competing firms' workers, and quizzing customers. "Our antenna is much more attuned to our competitive environment," notes William S. Baughman, senior vice-president of strategic marketing.
The payoff can be handsome. Nutrasweet's Flynn, who retired last year, has estimated his intelligence unit was worth at least $50 million a year in sales gained or revenues not lost. Still, one of CI's highest hurdles is misunderstanding. When gas utility Pacific Enterprises created its unit, its "James Bondish type of fame" soon gave way to employees' realization that "there's nobody talking to telephones in the bottoms of shoes," recalls Charles B. Rooney, director of business strategies.
The shady image is buttressed by companies that allegedly crossed the line. Example: the industrial espionage case Boehringer Mannheim Corp. filed June 19, accusing Johnson & Johnson's LifeScan Inc. of stealing confidential data and eavesdropping on a sales meeting to learn about the performance of Accu-Easy, a Boehringer blood-monitoring device. Boehringer is suing for triple actual damages and punitive damages. J&J admits to some improper activities (BW--July 8), but denies other charges and hopes to settle the dispute. And the costs of missteps just got steeper. On Oct. 11, President Clinton signed legislation making industrial espionage a federal crime carrying penalties of up to 15 years in jail and $10 million in fines.
Yet most of what corporate snoops do is completely legal, nerdy work. They spend hours attending trade shows and talking to securities analysts and suppliers. A gift for finding nuggets in obscure places is a big asset. Last year, a client hired Cambridge (Mass.) consultant Fuld & Co. to study a competitor's manufacturing capacity. Fuld found a publicly available Uniform Commercial Code filing the company had submitted to the state--containing a detailed listing of every bit of equipment in the plant. "We hit a gold mine," says Fuld Senior Vice-President Michael A. Sandman.
NO GUARANTEE. Using competitive intelligence is no guarantee of success, of course. In 1992 Merck's Mevacor cholesterol-lowering drug was suffering from a marketing arrangement between Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and drug distributor Medco Containment Services Inc. that substituted Bristol-Myers' Pravachol for Mevacor. Merck's intelligence unit learned that Bristol-Myers was discussing a possible merger with Medco. The company hired consultant Booz Allen Hamilton & Co. to run simulations, which found that Merck's pricing power would shrink as the clout of Medco and other new forces grew. Merck concluded the only option was to buy Medco. But one source familiar with the events says the CI unit missed a key tidbit: Bristol-Myers had already lost interest. So Merck paid $6.6 billion for Medco in 1993--a price many think inflated. Merck declined a specific response but says Medco was "a highly successful acquisition."
Intelligence can also be thwarted by rivals' countermeasures, as is illustrated in a tale of intrigue involving Kodak and Xerox Corp. In early 1995, a Kodak copier salesman told a Xerox technician that he was being trained to service Xerox products. The Xerox employee told his boss, who passed the news to the intelligence unit. Using such clues as a classified ad Kodak placed seeking people with Xerox product experience, they verified Kodak's plan--code-named Ulysses--to service Xerox copiers.
Kodak drew blood first, growing into the largest independent servicer of Xerox copiers and shrinking Xerox' margins. But the warning allowed Xerox to devise a scheme to reemphasize its service and Total Satisfaction Guarantee, which allows copier returns for any reason as long as Xerox does the servicing. By May, 1995, when Kodak launched its plan, Xerox had been trumpeting its line for three months.
Kodak parried. Its corporate snoops had anticipated Xerox' move, so it pledged to honor its rival's guarantee. Yet in the end, Ulysses' servicing gains didn't offset Kodak's lagging profitability from copier sales. Xerox' margins bounced back in the second quarter of 1996. Says Xerox spokesman Jeffrey J. Simek: "We were able to mitigate any incursions into our market share." In September, Kodak agreed to sell most of its copier business to Danka Business Systems PLC. Xerox' CI folks had anticipated that deal too, and had a press response ready: They'd target Kodak customers.
While that battle was above board, some CI forays end up in gray areas. Consider a "competitive ambush" that J. Nile Wendorf, a senior partner at Oak Park (Ill.)-based Tactical Marketing Associates (TMA), undertook three years ago for a food-industry client. Its goal was to grab share by surprising a rival with a steep price cut. Wendorf's first task was to analyze the target's decision-making structure, which gave the rivals' sales reps some leeway to cut deals on the spot with retailers.
First, Wendorf's team interviewed retailers and ex-employees to find out where sales reps' discretion ended and higher-ups had to sign off on a discount. Then they used CD-ROM databases to track down phone numbers of top execs' neighbors. The snoops weren't shy. One investigator told an executive's neighbor she wanted to speak with the executive's wife at a Brownies' meeting. The neighbor said the couple would be in Europe. It turned out that several senior managers were going on a European plant tour, and Wendorf's team located their travel agent--who provided the itinerary.
That gave Wendorf's client the opening it needed. The price cuts were launched when its rival's executives were several time zones away. It took days for each rung of the competitor's U.S. management to O.K. matching prices, and more time was lost because of time differences. Wendorf says many retailers switched because the other company couldn't take orders quickly enough. Integrating information into a plan of attack was key, he adds: "Until you do that consistently, you haven't really exploited the full value of CI."
Such techniques have detractors. Talking to the travel agent is "short of looking into somebody's briefcase, but not much," sniffs W. Michael Hoffman, head of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. Even Wendorf admits he would consider the call to the neighbor "an invasion of personal privacy," saying that sort of thing is used as a "last resort."
Indeed, as the use of intelligence spreads, it faces major obstacles, from skeptical executives to cautious lawyers. One barrier is cultural. Unlike executives in Japan and France, where many companies pursue CI and sometimes even industrial espionage with gusto, some U.S. managers consider the process unsavory. Emmanuel A. Kampouris, CEO of $5.2 billion American Standard Inc., which makes toilets, brakes, and air conditioners, says he won't go much beyond studying the press, financial reports, and market research. "This is not warfare," he says. "I don't consider our competitors as communists or Hitler."
Other execs see intelligence as a must in a cutthroat world. In his book Staples for Success, Staples Inc. Chairman Thomas G. Stemberg tells of having his wife, Dola, apply for a job with archrival Office Depot Inc.'s Atlanta delivery-order center. Staples, which has since announced plans to buy Office Depot, was considering starting its own delivery service. Dola halted the process before an interview--but not before learning some training methods. While some experts disapprove, Todd Krasnow, Staples' executive vice-president of marketing who oversees competitive research, responds that job ads are an invitation to ask for information, and that Dola asked questions any applicant would.
ANTITRUST? Indeed, there is a fine and not always clear line between nosiness and illegality. Some companies could fall into legal booby traps even if they aren't stealing secrets. Companies with large market share have the most to fear, says Carole Basri, a Deloitte & Touche consultant and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She says a market leader might run afoul of antitrust laws if it gets pricing or raw-material cost information and uses it in anticompetitive ways. Companies with less market clout run fewer risks.
Legal constraints are less of an issue for companies using technology to collect the vast quantities of public data. Web pages contain new-product information that once took days to ferret out, and databases have turned what was once an information famine into an equally confounding feast. Companies such as Real World Intelligence Inc. have sprung up to help sort through the maze. Founded by ex-CIA official Herbert E. Meyer and software expert Michael S. Pincus, the Chesterland (Ohio)-based company offers customized software developed for the CIA. M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC of Nashville used the package--which searches by concepts instead of tracking keywords--to help it gauge demand for publications on privacy and telecommuting.
Many companies have stitched together electronic networks to gather news from the field. Pacific Enterprises created an online system in July, using Lotus Notes and an Intranet to let employees funnel information into a central location. It also published information-gathering guidelines as part of the code of conduct. Ryder System Inc. CI Chief Faye Brill tells all employees that their insights are essential. "Eighty percent of what you need to know is inside your company," she explains.
To cover their tracks, many companies hire consultants. Targets may keep mum if a competitor calls but be more open with consultants who say they are doing benchmarking. This has helped turn a cottage industry into a mushrooming business. Real World Intelligence, for example, has doubled its earnings every year for the past five years, and Kaiser Associates Inc. in Vienna, Va., has doubled revenues in the past two years to about $20 million. It expects to double its size in 1997 and 1998. Consultants also help companies defend themselves from snoops (table) without stifling the information flow needed to recruit employees and spur innovation.
In the end, the best defense may be a good intelligence offense, as AT&T, Motorola, and the few other companies that have had CI operations for years know. In the 1970s, Motorola Corp.'s Robert W. Galvin served on the White House Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and was so impressed that he hired ex-CIA and military-intelligence folks to set up a unit. Companies such as Xerox learned the hard way. Flummoxed by the entrance into the copier market of Japanese rivals such as Canon Inc. in the early 1980s, Xerox officials concluded they needed an intelligence operation to halt market share losses. Whatever the impetus, more companies are learning that competitive intelligence sure beats competitive stupidity.


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What do you do? How do you balance? I know I'm preaching to the choir and most of you have families, jobs, and various other obligations, so I'm curious how you balance it when you let enthusiasm (or impatience to "just be done") convince you that you can take on far more than is realistic?
In addition to a full-time job that also requires 10-40 hours a week of communication with employees and customers at night and on weekends, I have a husband who travels for his work and special-needs child that cannot just entertain himself when Mommy's doing homework and studying. So why - honestly, why?! - did I think it was a good idea to sign up for two regular courses, an e-pack course/exam, a TECEP, a DSST, two Penn Foster courses, and a self-paced Colorado-Pueblo upper level course? The last four are self-paced, but I really need to finish them by the end of this semester (end of December) if I'm going to stick to my designed time line to apply for graduation at the end of June because I have two more Penn Foster courses and two more Colorado-Pueblo courses planned to start in January in addition to three more courses at TESC. Why do I have my sights set on being done at the end of June? Money, mainly, particularly with TESC raising tuition for future enrollment.
Am I insane? (That one is rhetorical, don't feel obligated to answer.) How do you strike that balance between motivated and ridiculous and exhausted (did I mention I'm averaging only three hours of sleep a night to get it all done)?