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2016: Cemented his place as one of the top defenders in Florida State history, finishing the season with 68 tackles, 21.5 tackles for loss, 16 sacks, 3 forced fumbles, 2 fumble recoveries and a blocked extra point (at Miami)...capped his career with four TFLs including one sack in the victory over No. 6 Michigan in the Orange Bowl...the consensus All-American began the season with 4.5 sacks, all in the second half, on Labor Day against No. 11 Ole Miss in Orlando, earning National Player of the Week honors from multiple outlets...had double-digit tackles in consecutive games against No. 3 Clemson and NC State...as part of a senior class that went undefeated against long-time rivals Miami and Florida (4-0 against each), he saved his best performances of the year for both teams...against Miami, combined on a TFL and blocked the extra point in the final minutes that would have tied the game, leading to FSU's 20-19 victory over the Hurricanes...against Florida in the season finale, continually applied pressure to quarterback Austin Appleby, finishing with 2.0 sacks and an additional quarterback hurry...also recovered two fumbles against the Gators, the first two recovered fumbles of his career and the first two FR game for a Nole since Xavier Rhodes also had two against the Gators in 2010...tallied multiple sacks in five different games this season (Ole Miss, Wake Forest, NC State, Syracuse, and Florida)...his 16.0 sacks was the second highest in the nation and third most in single-season history at FSU...his 21.5 TFL this year are tied for third in single-season history..ranks third in career sacks (28.5) and is third in TFLs (45)...one of five defenders to start all 13 games this season.
2015: Put together his finest season as a Seminole after starting all 13 games at defensive end…established single-season career-highs for tackles (58), TFL (15.5), sacks (10.5), pass breakups (5) and forced fumbles (4)...registered his first career interception at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl and closed out the regular season blocking his first career kick on a fourth quarter field goal attempt by the Gators in Gainesville…earned All-ACC second team honors from the media and third team accolades from the coaches as a junior…his 10.5 sacks were the most for an FSU player since 2012 and tied for fifth in the ACC...his 15.5 TFLs tied for the eighth most in the league, while his four forced fumbles tied for the conference lead...finished his junior campaign on a high note posting 22 tackles in his last two games including a career-high 13 against Houston in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl…in FSU's 27-2 victory at Florida, tallied a then career-high nine tackles, 3.5 TFLs and 2.5 sacks, while forcing a fumble and blocking a kick…the blocked kick was the first by a Seminole since 2010…was named ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week twice in 2015 after pacing the Seminoles to victories over Miami and Florida…dating back to his sophomore season has made 20 consecutive starts – the longest active streak by a Seminole entering 2016…four-time game captain (Boston College, Georgia Tech, NC State and Houston)…was named the team's Defensive MVP, along with Jalen Ramsey, at the end of the year banquet and one of four permanent captains in 2015...named Defensive MVP and Hinesman Team MVP along with fellow defensive teammate Derwin James following the 2016 spring season.
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2013: Started three games (Pitt, BCU and BC) and played in 12 as a true freshman defensive end...made his first career start at Pitt on Sept. 2...had three stops against Bethune-Cookman...set a new career high with four tackles against NC State...posted three tackles against Syracuse...recorded two tackles, both for a loss and included a sack (both career highs), against Idaho…finished rookie campaign with 18 tackles, including 2.0 tackles for loss and a sack, and also totaled three quarterback hurries.
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SIMON Ferry has said that a meeting with manager Paolo Di Canio helped ease the Swindon Town players' fears following the mention of financial problems at the County Ground.
Reports last Thursday suggested that the Robins' board had considered putting the club into administration should a new owner not be found in the immediate future, creating a brief panic around SN1.
It quickly emerged, however, that majority shareholder Andrew Black - who is looking to sell a large chunk of his 98 per cent stake in Town - will avoid that eventuality at all costs, and the Swindon squad was informed of that in a briefing with their boss last week.
Ferry, who by his own admission knows little about what would happen should the club be put into administration, stressed that Di Canio's words put the players' minds at rest.
"We had a chat with the gaffer and he basically told us what was happening. To be honest the boys never really spoke about it," he said.
"It's not really something any of the boys have been in, administration, so nobody really knows what happens.We never really thought about it.
"I think it was mentioned for the first day it came out and then we never really talked about it, nothing was said."
Ferry recognised the role he and his teammates can play in the sale of the club, however, as Town look to present the most marketable product possible to potential investors.
"We know the club is for sale and if we keep doing well then there are going to be people wanting to buy the club, so it's up to us really to keep doing well," he said.
"If we can keep going well and maybe have the chance of being in the Championship next year, it's a good club and good people and I'm sure there'll be potential new owners.
"We know how well we're playing just now. We've got a lot of important games coming up, we've got a lot of the big teams away so to be honest I don't think players really think about what's going on outside the club.
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Row over branding Exmoor ponies
People trying to care for ponies living on Exmoor in Devon and Somerset are arguing about the best way to do it.
Lots of groups try to help the horses, but they can't agree on the best way to make sure they look after them.
Farmers say they need to identify the animals, so use very hot pieces of metal to burn permanent numbers onto the horses, called branding.
But other groups think branding is painful and should be stopped, and want other methods of identification used.
They say now horses can be microchipped in the same way vets work with pets, branding is no longer required.
Paul King from People 4 Ponies said: "It is just barbaric in this day and age for human beings to be doing such terrible things."
Hot branding is banned in the UK for cows and sheep, but is still allowed for ponies.
However others say microchips aren't as good as branding because you need to be really close to an animal to scan the chip, and the horses don't stand still for long enough when people go near them.
Although the horses are wild and live on the moor, farmers look after them to help them when they're sick.
They also make sure that the correct numbers of male and female ponies live in the wild so the herds continue to grow in a controlled way.
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Hot branding isn't the only way to mark animals - some people think another method called freeze branding may be better because it causes less physical pain.
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Samsung Display has terminated a contract to make LCD panels for Apple due to supply chain issues and financial strain, according to a news report published in The Korea Times on Monday.
The display maker is not able to supply Apple with panels at discount prices, and Samsung will stop supplying displays to Apple by next year, said the newspaper report, which cited a Samsung source. Apple's tight supply chain management structure has had a financial effect on Samsung Display, according to the report.
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Samsung was a key supplier of displays to Apple for its smartphones and tablets. But there appears to be a growing rift between the companies, which compete in those markets. The companies are locked in legal battles and a jury earlier this year awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages in a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, although the South Korean firm has appealed the ruling.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment, while a spokesman for Samsung in Korea said the report is incorrect. Samsung's display business is separate from the division that makes its smartphones, he said.
The Korea Times article is "100 percent false," the Samsung spokesman said via email.
Other Apple display suppliers include Sharp and LG Electronics. The display has been a key innovation for the iconic iPads and iPhones. For example, the latest edition of the iPad displays images at a resolution of 2048-by-1536 pixels, which is the best of any tablet on the market. Apple is expected to announced a new iPad with a smaller screen later this week.
The screen of the iPhone 5, which started shipping last month, can display images at 1136-by-640 pixels. That is a bit less than smartphones such as Samsung's Galaxy S III, which has a 1280-by-720 pixel resolution screen.
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Have you noticed that whenever the mainstream media reports stories about rising sea levels in South Florida that one crucial item is always missing? Hard data. All the stories tell us how much the sea will rise in the future but pointedly ignore how much the sea level has risen in the past. Why? Could it be because there is absolutely NO DATA that indicates any sea level rise to be alarmed about? Despite this lack of data, all these stories assure us that somehow the sea level will rise to such an extent that most of eastern Palm Beach County will be underwater by the middle of this century. The latest such fable was conjured up by Michael J. Mishak of the Associated Press. So, boys and girls, check out his story and if you can guess what's missing, you win a kewpie doll:
There are few places in the nation more vulnerable to rising sea levels than low-lying South Florida, a tourist and retirement mecca built on drained swampland.
So the sea levels are rising? SHOW ME THE DATA!!!
Yet as other coastal states and the Obama administration take aggressive measures to battle the effects of global warming, Florida's top Republican politicians are challenging the science and balking at government fixes.
Yes, how foolish of those ignorant Republicans for not tossing money at a problem for which there is NO DATA to support its premise.
Democrats plan to place climate change, and the GOP's skepticism, front and center in a state where the issue is no longer an abstraction.
If its no longer an abstraction then...SHOW ME THE DATA!!!
So who is cited as the "voice of reason?" None other than Charlie Crist:
"They don't believe in science. That's ridiculous," Crist said at a recent campaign rally in Miami. "This is ground zero for climate change in America."
Good. So the next time Crist appears on the campaign trail folks can ask him for the data and he can cite just how much the sea has risen in, say, the past 40 years, right? Of course, that task might prove a bit difficult since the world's leading expert on sea levels, Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, has pronounced all the scare stories about rising sea levels to be complete hokum:
And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.
Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.
The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".
Hmmm... Who to believe? A science expert in the field of sea levels or Charlie "Flip-Flop" Crist? Of course, an "expert" is cited who again presents NO DATA:
"This is not a future problem. It's a current problem," said Leonard Berry, director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies at Florida Atlantic University and a contributing author of the National Climate Assessment, which found that sea levels have risen about 8 inches in the past century.
On the subject of sea level rise, this is what the Journal of the American Meteorological Society reports:
...the rate of GMSLR [Global-Mean Sea Level Rise] was not much larger during the last 50 years than during the twentieth century as a whole, despite the increasing anthropogenic forcing. Semiempirical methods for projecting GMSLR depend on the existence of a relationship between global climate change and the rate of GMSLR, but the implication of the authors' closure of the budget is that such a relationship is weak or absent during the twentieth century.
Mishak gazes into his crystal ball to give us this scenario via computer projection:
By one regional assessment, the waters off South Florida could rise another 2 feet by 2060...
Key word: "could." This year is the 60th anniversary of the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and if the sea had been steadily rising all that time, how is it that they still have beachfront left? Sand has been replenished from time to time but that is strictly due to erosion, not rising sea levels.
Finally, Mishak inadvertently gives away the game with this statement towards the end of his fable:
Meanwhile, Miami Beach is bracing for another season of punishing tides.
That's right. Tides. Not sea level rise. Tides. What next? Send an expedition to the moon to excavate enough of it to not gravitationally affect the tides so much?
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I wasn't sure where to post this but I couldn't find the other homeschooling section so here it goes
My 3yr old(will be 4yrs on Feb. 14) tries to read while I'm reading to her so I asked her if she wants to learn to read and she said yes. I had to explain she can't repeat me while I'm reading since she can't really hear what I'm saying while she is trying to read since a lot of what she would say would be mumbling or not the right words. So now she tries to repeat the sentences after I've read them, she is very proud of herself when she gets it right.
She knows her ABC's really well and knows a few of the sounds letters make. I haven't been pushing for her to learn to read. I don't want to discourage her from learning to read since shes trying but I'm also wondering if shes to young. Anyone have suggestions for what I should do? Or try?
She's not necessarily too young. It depends on the child; two of mine were early readers at 3, and fully fluent by 4 or 5. The trick is to let her push things forward with her interest, her questions and her observations, and to not hold any expectations about her rate of progress or the route she'll take to get there. So I don't think you want to jump in and administer some sort of systematic learn-to-read program. It's possible she won't be ready to read for another three or four years, or that the best route to reading for her brain just now will turn out to be a route you hadn't imagined. (My own eldest dd learned to read by poring over mail-order catalogs and National Geographics silently for hours and weeks on end, while I had assumed she'd by nature be a systematic code-breaker wanting more of a phonics approach.)
It sounds like right now your dd is using her aural memory to full advantage, repeating things she hears you read. It's hard to know from your description whether she's connecting those words meaningfully with their printed representation on paper. But she may be, or she may begin to. A lot of children learn to read by memorizing simple (often repetitive) books and then running through the text repeatedly by memory while gradually noticing what the associated printed words look like.
At any rate if she's enjoying what you're doing now there's nothing wrong with it and it may very well help her pick up the building blocks of reading. You might try using some simple repetitive books to limit vocabulary and allow her to begin to see patterns in the text she's gradually memorizing. Stuff like Dr. Seuss was enjoyed by my kids. She might also enjoy playing 'word hunt' after you've read a short section of text. See if she can find the word "fish" (or whatever) where it's written on the page. Give her clues if she needs them.
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She might like the alphabetti books at progressivephonics.com.They're free.
A few good resources that we have used recently are:
Miss Rhonda's Readers (Montessori based)
Preschool Prep: Meet the Phonics - Letter Sounds (also the Blends, and Digraphs)
Preschool Prep: Meet the Sight Words dvd
There's also Preschool Prep early readers, but I haven't used those so I can't attest to their helpfulness. My son is 3 and, like you daughter, he loves letters, letter sounds, etc. and wants to learn to read but says he is "too little". Have fun!
Just go with the flow of things, my babe will be 3 in February and she has really started reading words and trying to sound them out, it's really cute. My hubby was an early reader also, so it's not something i'm going to restrict.
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Some thoughts about Facebook native app
On Techcrunch Disrupt last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's remarks about their mobile app sparked a denunciation against Web App. HTML 5 seems to have become the bottleneck of poor experience of all related mobile applications. From the user perspective, Facebook native iOS App rates from the 1.5 star to four star now; since the introduction of new native app, the user usage is doubled. It's not easy to have a huge rise of user usage for such a big app like Facebook. Especially consid...
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News in the Daily Mail today that Newcastle may be after another Dutchman at Ajax, and this time it's 20 year-old Dutch Under 21 international Jody Lukoki, who has been at Ajax since 2003, and he plays as a winger.
Jody Lukoki – 20 year-old Ajax winger
Jody Lukoki was born in November of 1992 in Kinshasa, Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and it's no secret that Newcastle scouts have been watching a lot of Ajax games over the last couple of seasons, and with Vurnon Anita now starting to come through at Newcastle, the news is we could be in for the youngster in January.
It's the first time we've been linked with this player, who can play on either wing or as a withdrawn striker, but we find it strange that Newcastle would go after another winger, when we have more than enough at the club, and the defense is really where we need good players coming through the door next month.
Lukoki made his debut for Ajax back in January of 2011 against Feyenoord, and he has so far played only 11 times for the club with two goals, and eight of those appearances and his goals have come this season.
Newcastle may have an interest in this player but he's hardly a priority in January, with a striker and a defender being the players Newcastle will try to get through the door to strengthen a weak looking squad this season, which has been decimated by injury and poor form and has only 14 points from our first 17 games, and that's compared with 27 points at the same time last season. 🙁
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Subject: Re: [APG] Why we don't find everyone in the Social Security DeathIndex
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:00:14 EST
In a message dated 1/16/2007 5:46:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
There was an act passed at some point (I don't recall when) that provided
minimal payments to people who were born during a certain period and never paid
FICA. We called them Prouty benefits after the main sponsor of the bill.
No--not exactly. The Prouty Amendment provided benefits for people who were
not FULLY INSURED under SS (i.e. didn't have 40 quarters of coverage) but
who attained age 72 before 1968 and had 3 quarters of coverage in each calendar
year after 1966 and before 1968 (which by my rough calculation means 3 QCs
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Ronit Bose Roy was born on 11 October, 1965 to Businessman Brothindranath and his wife Dolly Bose Roy. He spent his upbringing days in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He was fascinated to the glamour and standard of living of bollywood stars even though he never acted. After he completed his studies his father handed a ticket to Mumbai to him and gave the address of filmmaker Subhash Ghai. RR stayed at the filmmaker's residence and he was like a father figure to him.
Later he found a job as management trainee at Mumbai's Sea rock hotel. He did dishwashing and cleaning to waiting tables and bartending to have experience at different levels. His father passed away a year later and he left his job at the hotel in a dumpy period. Subsequently he joined Mr. Ghai's production house as an assistant director. RR realized it would take many years to become a director and therefore moved into freelance editing and did some modeling assignments too.
During that lapse he got a break. Director Deepak Balraj offered him lead role in "Jaan tere naam". The 1992 movie was an immense hit having silver jubilee. RR managed to work with some of the big names of industry but none of them managed to duplicate the accomplishment of his initial one.
He decided to move on and started his security agency "Ace security and protection" which has provided security to some of bollywood's peak stars.
After 3 years, he received a call from Ekta's Balaji Telefilms office. They offered him a part in their new show "Kammal". Before this show got started, he was offered an 8 week cameo in "Kasautii Zindagii Kay".
He entered the soap as Rishabh Bajaj, in 2002. Extremely dashing and the most successful NRI Businessman, ruthless yet chivalrous, these are apposite to describe the iconic character of Indian television. His sensation attracted many and as a result the response to him was tremendously affirmative. The production house decided to make him a stable character in the show as per the great public demand and later on his pairing with the lead actress created a midpoint of consideration. The pairing is missed yet. Rishabh Bajaj made RR a household name and this led many more opportunities arrive.
Rishabh Bajaj's craze was on its peak and then he was offered another role, Mihir Virani. This character was played by two men earlier hence it was quite difficult to step into someone else's shoes but RR managed it all.
This wasn't just the end; he played another momentous character of Aparajit Deb in Zee's Kasam Se. He entered the show in April 2007. His character had various shades in the four and half months and was quite different. He won the award of "Best actor in negative role" for his great performance as Aparajit. He also played cameo roles in shows like Kayamat, Kavyanjali etc.
Apart from acting, RR showed his dancing skills by participating in realities. He took part in Jhalak Dikhla Jaa in the year 2007. He was paired with choreographer Nicole. However, he was eliminated in the 9th round but that didn't make any difference as he had proved himself already. Later he participated in yet another dance reality show in 2008, Yeh hai Jalwa. This time his team made their approach to the finals along with Hussain and Rakhi. He was the second runner up.
RR has played the character of great legendary warrior Bheeshma in Kahaani Humaaray Mahabharat Ki. He has been the judge of a dance reality "Aaja Mahi Vay" and has hosted seasons of a cookery show "Kitchen Champion".
In 2009, he came in the lead role of Dharamraj Mahiyavanshi in Bandini. His performance was highly appreciated as usual. Bandini went off air in Jan 2011.
Since 10th November 2010 he's the protagonist KD Pathak of Sony's Adaalat, a courtroom drama. KD's character has been completely different from the rest and he's been ruling since the initial with his unique style and attitude.
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ELDERLY residents at an Old Hill care home celebrated National Care Home Day with a Mexican theme.
The day at Trinity House kicked off with dressing up in homemade ponchos and sombreros – loaned by the local Chiqitos Restaurant.
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Rotary International is looking for business people or professionals to travel to Turkey next February.
The four person team will visit different parts of the country over a four-week period and spend time with Turkish business and professional colleagues to learn how their jobs are done in Turkey.
Charlotte Seymour-Smith from the Dorchester Rotary Club is leading the group, which will be hosted by Rotarians.
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Ann Veneman becomes UNICEF Executive Director
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 2 May 2005 – Ann M. Veneman, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, assumed the leadership of UNICEF today, becoming the fifth Executive Director to lead the UN children's agency in its 60-year history."It is a great honor to have the opportunity to lead UNICEF, which is truly one of the world's great institutions," Ms. Veneman said Monday on her first official day at UNICEF headquarters in
Veneman, who was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to succeed outgoing Executive Director Carol Bellamy, said that among her top priorities will be ensuring that UNICEF works to advance the Millennium Development Goals.
"The Millennium Development Goals reflect the wishes and the will of governments around the world," Veneman said. "And because they place such important emphasis on the well-being of children, UNICEF has a vital role to play in helping meet the goals."
Key to UNICEF's continued success will be strengthening existing partnerships and building new collaborations with governments, fellow UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, faith-based groups and communities, Veneman said.
"Strengthening our collaboration with partners around the world can advance the goals of reducing poverty, malnutrition and disease, as well as helping to protect children from abuse and violence," she said.
Having directed one of the largest and most complex departments of
As the 27th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture prior to joining UNICEF, she directed a department of 111,000 employees; a program level of $113 billion that would rank sixth-largest if it were a
While at the USDA, Veneman directed programs that included school meals, nutrition assistance and nutrition education, foreign food aid, and development assistance both at home and abroad.
Much of Veneman's career has been focused on child nutrition, public health, and alleviating hunger, including new approaches to help fight malnutrition around the world.
She previously served in various positions at USDA and in
Ms. Veneman earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the
For nearly 60 years UNICEF has been the world's leader for children, working on the ground in 158 countries to help children survive and thrive from early childhood through adolescence. The world's largest provider of vaccines for poor countries, UNICEF works to advance the Millennium Development Goals by supporting child health and nutrition, quality basic education for all boys and girls, access to clean water and sanitation, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of governments, businesses, foundations and individuals.
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"Homecoming" is nominated for hip hop video of the year.
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Who doesn't like a hug? They are warmer than a handshake, but less intimate than a kiss, and there is something reassuring about being held in someone's arms, even if it's just for a split second.
But there is also something intrinsically awkward about a hug if done at the wrong time or place. Say, at the office.
The potential for such hugs-gone-awry has led to the creation of "rules" around when one should or should not dole out a hug while working.
"Most of us don't want that intimacy with our co-workers. We have to be with them 40 hours a week. We don't want to hug them, too," workplace etiquette expert Jim Webber told MSNBC.
The reality is, however, most people spend more time at work with colleagues than at home with their families, leading to personal relationships being formed at the office. And sometimes these relationships can give birth to hugs, wanted or unwanted.
But if you've had to experience the awkwardness of a workplace hug, or worse, if you've perpetrated an unwanted workplace hug, there are five tips to help you avoid the embarrassment of employee embrace.
1. If you end up hugging someone that didn't want to be hugged in the first place, joke it away. Use self-deprecation to make light of the fact that you may have crossed a line.
2. If you don't want to be hugged, be clear about it. "Don't hug me."
3. If you are going to hug, Mr. Webber says, "Hug and release." No long conversation.
4. An outstretched arm clearly indicates an expected a handshake. Not a bear hug.
5. And stop moving your fingers during a hug. Because tickling someone at work is unequivocally inappropriate and outright creepy.
The alternative to this hug ethics code? A total ban of hugs from professional settings, like some schools in the United States have done. One school in New England forbids any touching between students, save a cold, clinical handshake.
To many this rule would seem draconian and might spark some sort of protest. Hug-in, anyone?
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Strategies for a Changing Retail World
by George WhalinAnytime there are significant changes in the economy, buying habits, and the consumer marketplace in general, it's important to take a look at what you ARE doing as well as what you are NOT doing to improve, fine-tune, and grow your business.
Rather than being reactionary to tough times, it is far more productive to challenge the status quo, evaluate all the costs associated with doing business in this new environment, and reposition your business for when the economy turns back around.
Much of what is written about our industry [retailing] in newspapers, online, and in trade publications is often baffling. One publication will write what a great month retailers had while another reports how tough things were for retailers that same month. If you were to believe what some in the media are saying these days about the state of retailing and the economy, you might very well become seriously depressed.
The business certainly is challenging, still there are retailers and areas of the country enjoying solid sales increases for the first months of this year. Some retailers simply choose to ignore bad news. And others dwell on the negative, wringing their hands over all the doom and gloom they read and hear. It is far better not to take what the media reports as an accurate accounting of what's going on in retailing.
If there are fewer customers coming through your doors today than there were last year, it's time to re-evaluate what you and your people are doing. If the average sale in your stores is decreasing, it's time to re-evaluate what you and your people are doing. If profits are down, it's time to re-evaluate what you and your people are doing.
Significant change in the marketplace, the economy, the competitive environment, consumer buying habits, or anything else that negatively impacts your business requires a thorough re-evaluation of the factors that affect and shape these changes. This reevaluation process is an important part of keeping every business vital and successful. And it should be done early on, when the trend first becomes apparent.
I'm always troubled when I hear of retailers going out of business because too often they didn't adjust their strategy when things first started to change. Is the bankruptcy of The Sharper Image much of a surprise to anyone? They've been selling exactly the same merchandise the same way for at least the last five years. While I don't have an inside look at the business, I suspect their problems began to surface several years ago, yet they failed to pay attention and make appropriate adjustments.
Retailers often establish individual sales and store goals based on past year's numbers. The usual way is to look at those numbers and then establish a goal that is some percentage above the previous sales results. What happens when the marketplace, economy, and consumers change? Is this method of goal setting still valid?
Establishing reachable and realistic goals for sales associates and stores should always be based on the business climate and situation at hand. This takes a more positive approach to the business and provides a motivational environment for associates and managers.
How is it that some retailers thrive and grow in a down economy? How is it that some retailers thrive and grow in the face of fierce competition? The answer to both these questions is that they don't let the economy or competition dictate how they operate their businesses. In tough economic times, these retailers pay attention to what made them successful in the first place. They leverage their strengths and eliminate their weaknesses. And they take steps to enhance and improve the relationships with their customers.
In a fiercely competitive environment, savvy retailers take bold steps to distance themselves from the competition. Rather than sticking their heads in the sand, they pay close attention to the marketplace. They continue to identify and take advantage of the opportunities that are always there even in a competitive environment and tough economic times.
Marketing and promotions are a necessary investment in your business regardless of the economy or other outside influences. During the months following 9/11, retailers whose businesses rebounded the fastest modified their approach to marketing but did not cut back or make major reductions in their commitment to marketing and promotions. Such changes included finding media that delivered customers to their doors more cost effectively as well as making an investment in direct-to-the customer marketing such as e-mail, postal mail, and special-events mailers.
Businesses that thrive over a long period of time are committed to a core set of principles. If your pricing strategy and policies have served you well during a good economy, when there is an economic downturn, such as we have today, there's no reason to abandon this approach.
Recently I had a conversation with a retailer who was thinking about cutting prices on a whole range of merchandise in his stores. He was hoping to attract a lot more customers with these lower prices. I asked him if offering low prices was a fundamental part of his competitive positioning. He said, "No, customers usually shop in our stores because of the breadth of our selection and the top-of-the-line brands we offer." I encouraged him to look elsewhere for ways to get more customers into his stores rather than cutting prices.
This is one of those things the best retailers constantly do. When times are good, it's quite easy for expenses to creep up and get out of hand. Rather than cutting costs across the board, here's a simple way to look at expenses.
Don't spend money on anything that doesn't do at least one of these four things:
A. Get more customers through your doors
B. Better serve your customers
C. Support your associates
D. Directly help grow and improve your business
Every other expense should be carefully scrutinized.
Contrary to the way many business people look at it, I have long believed that cutting jobs or reducing commissions and wages in a challenging economy is counterproductive. It is guaranteed to cause anguish among associates, greatly damaging morale. These kinds of cost savings frequently result in good people leaving to find better, more secure opportunities. Not filling jobs after people voluntarily leave, therefore reducing payrolls by attrition is significantly less-threatening to employees.
It is also important for your people to feel positive about the company, their work, and your customers regardless of the state of the economy. While I don't advocate keeping associates in the dark by avoiding bad news, explain to them that economic and retail slowdowns are a part of doing business.
If there ever is a time when it's important to expend the effort and resources to enhance and build relationships with your customers, this is it! Your store's most important asset is and always will be customers who know you, have bought from you in the past, and are expected to continue buying from you in the future.
What can you do to nurture, enhance, and continue to build these ongoing relationships?
Every business has some things that are broken. Some are badly broken. Some are just a little broken, but nonetheless broken. What's broken in your business?
Do you have a policy or procedure that causes internal difficulties or negatively impacts your customers?
Do you have an employee who is more detrimental than beneficial to the business?
Do you have a merchandise category not producing the revenues or profits you expect?
Do you have a supplier no longer responsive to your needs and expectations?
Do you have a store in a community where the demographics have changed or the area is run down and no longer produces what you expect in the way of sales and profits?
Do you have too much inventory to support today's sales volume?
With anything that's broken, the first step is to see if it is fixable and whether it can be fixed cost effectively. If not, eliminate the problem. In my work, I see retailers ignore for far too long things that need to be fixed and can be fixed. If you have some things that are broken, fix them now.
Copyright 2008. Reprinted with permission from George Whalin's Retail Management E-Letter.
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George Whalin's experience in retail is extensive and first hand. He started his career on the sales floor and worked his way up. In the 1960s, he opened and managed the original Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. He sold instruments to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jackson Five, Grateful Dead, and many more well-known and not-so-well-known musicians. After leaving the musical instrument business he became the senior training manager for a 125-store consumer electronics chain.
In 1987, George founded Retail Management Consultants, which provides business-building services to retail companies and industry suppliers all across North America. He has worked with a wide range of companies in every area of retailing from single-store merchants to leading national chains. His clients also include retail trade associations; buying groups; franchise organizations; and some of the world's best-known consumer products manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers.
In addition to giving speeches and conducting seminars, George Whalin consults with retailers helping them improve the operation of their businesses. His consulting services include helping retailers with strategic planning issues, marketplace positioning, merchandising and store layouts, developing results-driven marketing and advertising programs, personnel management, and improving store performance. If you need solid, practical, proven insights and ideas to grow and improve your business, call us toll-free at (800) 766-1908.
George Whalin's book RETAIL SUCCESS! is now in its ninth printing. If you haven't purchased a copy yet, what are you waiting for? There are also some very good deals to be had at Amazon.com.
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AT&T Wins Multimillion Dollar Networking Contract from Learning Care Group
AT&T Networking Solution to Serve 700 Additional Learning Care Group Locations
Novi, Michigan, August 13, 2007
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced a three-year multimillion dollar networking contract with Learning Care Group, Inc., one of the nation's leading providers of child care and preschool educational services.
Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T will expand its current wide area network (WAN) services to integrate 700 additional sites into Learning Care Group's network. The 700 new sites will include 650 locations for its subsidiaries, La Petite Academy and Montessori Unlimited, and another 50 locations for another subsidiary, Children's Courtyard. The expanded network will serve a total of 1,200 sites across the United States.
With headquarters in Novi, Learning Care Group provides early education and care services to children from the age of 6 weeks to 12 years under its umbrella of brands: The Children's Courtyard, Childtime Learning Centers, La Petite Academy, Montessori Unlimited and Tutor Time Child Care/Learning Centers.
AT&T currently provides DSL access to AT&T's Private Frame Relay Network at more than 350 Learning Care Group locations around the country. The network expansion project will bring DSL capabilities to the 700 new locations and will provide them with secure, high speed online connectivity. The high-bandwidth capability will enable the new locations to communicate with the other Learning Care Group sites and will help the company manage and process a higher volume of business-performance data, such as center-based human resources and financials.
With the increased network capacity, Learning Care Group will provide La Petite Academy, Montessori Unlimited and Children's Courtyard with Web-based applications that will enable them to better serve staff, children and families.
"Our goal is to leverage AT&T's networking expertise to deliver a common set of Web-based applications across all of our locations to make them the most technologically advanced in the child care industry," said Khris Hruska, director of technology for Learning Care Group. "AT&T's ability to quickly scale capabilities to meet our growing needs make this a great fit."
Under the contract, AT&T will also provide long distance voice services to the new locations and local service at sites within AT&T's local service footprint. AT&T will consolidate the company's voice services by using its industry-leading AT&T Business Network (ABN), an integrated offer that unifies multiple communications needs into a single contract with a single bill, which provides discounts across all services. A significant advantage of ABN is its eServicing capabilities, which are provided by the award-winning AT&T BusinessDirect® portal, a Web-based tool.
Using the AT&T BusinessDirect portal, authorized employees can increase Learning Care Group's internal business efficiencies by using a secure online portal to manage and monitor their network, create and track trouble tickets, manage account structures and pay their bills and implement network service orders.
AT&T also provides hosting services for the company's external Web sites, internal intranet and Web-based applications from one of 36 AT&T Internet Data Centers around the world.
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About Learning Care Group, Inc.
Learning Care Group, Inc. was acquired by A.B.C. Learning Centres Limited in January 2006. It is the parent company of Childtime Learning Centers, Tutor Time Child Care/Learning Centers and The Children's Courtyard. As one of the nation's premier child care providers, the company has approximately 10,000 employees and has grown into a network of nearly 500 centers in the United States and internationally. For more information on Learning Care Group, please call 248-697-9000 or visit www.learningcaregroup.com.
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AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at www.att.com.
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Chevrolet SSR Concept Roadster
It's almost a sure bet that the Chevrolet SSR (Super Sport Roadster), which combines the functionality of a pickup truck with the performance of a sports car, will go into production. And for that we say, "way to go GM!" because this is the truck that GM has to build. After years of middle-of-the-road truck design the SSR offers GM a chance to capture new market share with an innovative and bold design.
The distinctive exterior design of the SSR take its cues from Chevrolet's long heritage. The front grill sports a full-width Power Bar and Bow Tie and the rear has a similar combination. The strong fender lines are reminiscent of older Chevrolet trucks from the 1950's.
With a longitudinally mounted 6.0 liter V-8, the SSR is built for speed and handling. Five spoke alloy sport wheels are mounted on 19-inch wheels up front and 20-inch wheels in the back to help the truck stick to the road.
Inside the truck, with some cues from the Corvette, is a twin cockpit theme - a traditional trait of Chevrolet sports cars. The gauges and instrumentation are quite clean and free of unnecessary clutter. Underneath a dash mounted panel door are controls for the climate and stereo including navigation, weather access and a Windows computer with Internet and e-mail access. A front bench seat with foldable armrest / storage bin / cupholder allows for additional space when a third person or child seat is not present.
To create the extra space on the bench seat, designers moved the automatic shifter from the floor to the steering wheel.
The coolest feature on the SSR is its power-operated retractable hardtop. The two-piece top stows vertically between the seat and the rear storage bed.
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"On one hand, it's a roadster, but people who live with roadsters face hard challenges as far as having places to put things and carry any sort of cargo - not with the SSR," said Ed Welburn, Director of GM's Corporate Brand Character Center. "On the other hand, it can carry things for you, but it's not just about hauling things to an event. Driving it is an event in itself. It's all about cruising, whether it's on Woodward in Detroit, South Boulevard in Miami Beach or the autobahn in Germany."
The SSR was designed entirely on computer. No clay models were ever built. It went from first sketch to full-size model in a seven week period.