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The U.S. Postal Service wants you to be able to cash your check or make money transfers the next time you stop by your local post office to mail a package.
In a white paper released in January, the Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service floated the idea of post offices getting into the banking business.
The pitch: The post office could provide services such as prepaid cards, check cashing and small loans to the underbanked or unbanked population, which would help the struggling postal service shore up its own finances.
The idea has traction in some policy and legislative circles, particularly among Democrats. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts came out in favor of the idea in an op-ed piece in the Huffington Post.
But unsurprisingly, many banks have been less enthusiastic about the idea. Camden Fine, president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America, wrote a blog post lambasting the idea as "half-baked and ill-considered," calling it attempted government intrusion into the financial services sector.
"The Postal Service is failing at doing the one thing it knows how to do -- delivering mail. What makes it think it could add financial services to its bag of tricks in the first place?" Fine wrote in the blog post.
Of course, this idea is not without precedent. The white paper points out that from 1911-1967, people were able to make savings deposits at post offices. It currently facilitates money transfers for customers. Meanwhile, a number of other countries already have more extensive postal banking than the U.S., including Japan and the United Kingdom.
The white paper notes that about 68 million Americans are "underserved" by banks. And criticism has been leveled at banks to do more for this population of unbanked and underbanked consumers.
What do you think of the idea of taking care of some of your financial needs at the same place you buy your stamps? Does this plan have merit?
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Sure, he's rapt about becoming a dad, but it's a long time until the baby pops out and it's almost impossible to keep him fully interested in you and the development of your bump for nine months.
However, if you employ these tactics developed by me - a bloke and a dad - you'll find his interest lasts beyond the realisation that he's got a live-in designated driver.
Us blokes love facts figures and statistics, so use that to your advantage and help him convert what is happening into a format he understands. Construct growth charts and ladders to show the growth of the baby, your tummy measurements, etc. He can get competitive with the national averages, or even with a mate if they're expecting around the same time.
Make sure he comes along to any scan appointments. For many dads, that is the first time the baby seems 'real', but it's also a good chance to have a bit of a fun wager. Before the appointments, we'd always try to guess the correct length of the baby and the loser had to make dinner. Guess the gender and win a holiday! Or maybe a takeaway!
There are loads of apps and email newsletters that give you weekly updates on the progress of your baby, such as the $4.49 Sprout app or a free app like My Pregnancy today. Don't want an app? Get an email sent with all the necessary info each week. Get HIM to sign up to them, though. He will love telling you when the bub is the size of an avocado and when their ear bones are beginning to harden. Knowledge is king in our world.
Help him understand what it feels like to be pregnant by comparing it to what he knows. Maybe morning sickness is like having a really bad hangover? My wife suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, so she'll kill me for that one - but you get the idea. Equate it too his world and he will understand and take more interest. One mum-to-be friend even referred to the due date as 'the Grand Final'.
Don't drag him shopping for every cute sleepsuit and fluffy bunny, but bring him along for purchasing of gadgets and equipment. Give him the mission of researching the best car seat and baby monitors and watch him go Google crazy. It will make him feel like an important part of the process - and you don't have to buy what he suggests, of course. I found a brilliant (and expensive) stroller with it's own air filter system, but we still ended up with a Mountain Buggy.
Take him to along to the antenatal classes so you know he is well prepared for everything and he can get answers to all the questions he's probably been secretly worrying about. It also helps him realise that there is a very real end product to all of this. Really. It does take a while for this all to sink in to our brains.
My wife was busy swapping numbers and emails at our first antenatal class. Cringeworthy as it was at the time, I'm glad she did as five years on we are still mates and able to moan about our kids who are all at the same stage in life. Remember though, blokes who are already dads are no good to him at the early stage. Unlike experienced mums, they will just delight in telling birth horror stories and saying things like 'You wait, mate. Your life is over'.
Laugh when he suggests Adolf. Go on, it won't kill you. While the naming process is a serious business you can have a bit of a joke, too. Once the gag names are out of the way, try constructing a list of your favourite names and emailing it back and forth. Strike through the ones you hate and email it back to him. Repeat. Heated debate may follow, but it keeps the interest up.
We know that he isn't going to be as interested as you in every single aspect of pregnancy, so focus on things that will make him feel useful. He might not enjoy being dragged round the shops, but might be happy to trade that in for a practical project like clearing out the spare bedroom and getting the nursery decorated. A win-win situation.
Get him a book, but make sure it's the right book. There are loads of guides out there that target expectant fathers, but most are lame and try too hard to be funny and blokey. Ultimately they will do more harm than good. Of the six I read, the only one I liked was The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy, by Jon Smith. It's funny, informative and full of real life, dads-eye view stories of pregnancy and birth.
This article was written by Tom Etherington for Kidspot, Australia's best pregnancy resource.

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Harvey Fierstein to Emcee SDC Gala Honoring Jerry Mitchell, 5/13
Acclaimed Director/Choreographer Jerry Mitchell will be honored with the 2013 "Mr. Abbott" Award for his outstanding artistry and creativity and breadth of his thirty-year career. The award will be presented at a gala event at B.B. King on Monday, May 13, 2013, from 7 - 10pm, with four-time Tony Award-winning playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein, a frequent collaborator of Jerry Mitchell, to emcee.
The event will be chaired by producers Hal Luftig, Kristin Caskey, and Mike Isaacson, each of whom has worked closely with Jerry Mitchell over the course of illustrious producing careers. Hal Luftig has been a member of the producing team on Mitchell projects including Kinky Boots, Hairspray and Catch Me If You Can. He notes, "I've enjoyed a fruitful creative relationship as well as a personal friendship with Jerry over the years. His imagination and artistry has enriched theatre in New York and across the country. I am honored to be a part of this event recognizing Jerry's great contribution to theatre. And since it's Jerry we're fêting, we guarantee we'll have fun."
Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson, producers of Fox Theatricals, led the producing team of Legally Blonde and were members of the producing team on You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Marcia Milgrom Dodge and John Rando, Board Members of SDC and SDCF, will be chairing on behalf of the SDCF Board. "Jerry Mitchell has been a force in the New York theatre community since his days as a dancer, a leader in both philanthropy and craft. He's a remarkably versatile director and choreographer who has truly added to the success and pleasure of theatre of the last 20 years and will continue to for many years to come. We're thrilled to acknowledge him with the "Mr. Abbott" Award for his body of work and look forward to a celebratory evening," says Ms. Dodge.
Marc Bruni and Denis Jones will co-direct the evening's tribute with participating talent to be announced in the next few weeks.
The "Mr. Abbott" Award, bestowed through SDCF by a committee of Directors and Choreographers to one of their peers, is named in honor of renowned Director George Abbott and is presented to a director or choreographer in recognition of lifetime achievement. Past recipients of the award include Hal Prince, Bob Fosse, Mike Nichols, Agnes DeMille, Michael Bennett, Trevor Nunn, Susan Stroman, Graciela Daniele, and the 2011 recipient, George C. Wolfe.
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text: Show Hide image Culture 1 November 2012 Anthony Horowitz: "I'm not peddling my views to ten-year-olds" The Books Interview. Sign up for our weekly email * You've been very busy. You've just published Oblivion, the last book in the Power of Five series for children. You've also written for television, as well as a Sherlock Holmes novel last year. How do you do it? I love doing it. I'm excited by it and every project that I take on is something I really want to do. I'm now old enough and successful enough to be able only to take on things I really want to do. Also, I never do two things in one day. Today, I've been writing a screenplay. Yesterday, I was finishing the third episode of Foyle's War for ITV. Do you use a different part of your brain when writing for children and for adults? Children's authors see life in fairly simplistic terms – this is a book, at the end of the day, about good versus evil. I've always seen life as a constant balance between these two opposing forces. I do believe quite strongly in evil. I think certain political figures [and] certain business people have been a force for evil. I know that's very simplistic but it's how I see it. So if I sat down to write a political thriller in the style of Robert Harris, I'd just write trash. One business person in particular came to my mind when I was reading Oblivion! Obviously, the three main characters are heavily influenced by the Murdochs. That's only because these things [phone-hacking] were going on while I was writing. In the Alex Rider books, every main character was drawn out of the news, too. The sense of crisis of the past three or four years pervades the novel, doesn't it? Yes. The whole end-of-the-world atmosphere seeps into the novel. The novel was written at a time when, every day, you'd read in the paper about some sort of collapse. Was it going to be the banks, the European Union, Greece? Was it going to be the newspapers, politicians . . . ? Oblivion opens with the evocation of a kind of post-apocalyptic landscape. Were you influenced by dystopian literature? There were two books I couldn't avoid thinking about: Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions. In your books, you broach some big issues – environmental catastrophe and financial collapse, for example. What are the dangers in writing about such topics for children? The danger is that you forget that your first duty is to entertain, to write books that are page-turners. You should try not to proselytise. The Alex Rider books were always political. Oblivion and the Power of Five likewise. I can't help the fact that, as I get older and think more about things, it creeps into my work. But I'm not peddling my views to ten-year-olds to try to change the way they see things. You say you don't want to proselytise but presumably you feel some sort of obligation as a children's author to be a public figure, an advocate for reading? The more the books are successful, the more I feel a responsibility to become a positive influence for young people. Although if I could see myself now at the age of 20, I'd be horrified at the notion of being an example. But I do get very nervous when writers like me get vocal about political issues and get up on soapboxes, because the end result can be very messy. I've just been invited on to Question Time and I'll probably do it. I'm doing it because it'll be an adrenalin rush and not because it's a good idea – it isn't. The Power of Five books have been less commercially successful than the Alex Rider series. Why do you think that is? No writer can really sustain two huge – I hate the word – franchises. Alex Rider was what clicked and what got kids excited in my books and what they are loyal to in their hundreds of thousands, whereas as the Power of Five series has always attracted a bit more of a clique. What will you do next? There's one more Alex Rider book contracted. I've got the next Sherlock Holmes novel to write and more TV and film. So there's plenty still to do. Anthony Horowitz's "Oblivion" is published by Walker Books (£16.99) Jonathan Derbyshire is Managing Editor of Prospect. He was formerly Culture Editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 05 November 2012 issue of the New Statesman, What if Romney wins? More


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Authorities are investigating whether rain may have played a role in two crashes on San Bernardino County roads that left three people dead over the weekend.
Rialto residents Pedro Almanza Jr., 24, and Daniel Andrade, 17, and Bloomington resident Armando Mendoza, 26, were killed in two crashes, one on Saturday night, the other on Sunday morning, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner's Office.
Mendoza was a passenger in a Honda Civic traveling west on the 10 Freeway in Bloomington about 1:55 a.m. Sunday, according to California Highway Patrol and coroner's reports.
The driver of the Honda reportedly made a last-minute move to exit the freeway on the Riverside Avenue off-ramp and lost control of the vehicle, authorities said.
The Honda rolled over, ejecting Mendoza onto the off-ramp. Moments later, Mendoza was struck by another vehicle on the off-ramp, authorities said.
Shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday, Almanza, Andrade and at least one more person were traveling south on North Riverside Avenue in a 2009 Honda Civic. Suddenly the driver of lost control of the vehicle just south of Sierra Avenue, authorities said.
The Honda spun into the northbound lanes and was struck by a northbound Ford Explorer.
Almanza and Andrade were killed on impact, authorities said. The driver of the Honda and a person in the Ford were taken to the hospital. Their conditions were unknown.
CHP officials are investigating whether slick roads from wet weather contributed to the fatal crashes.
The wet weather, which continued into Sunday, coupled with an increased number of motorists trying to head to local ski resorts, also led to a jump in fender-benders, authorities said.
No other fatalities were reported Sunday.
Several vehicles began sliding into each other in Wrightwood on Sunday evening as snow enthusiasts tried to make their way out of the mountain community.
Motorists traveling to the Running Springs area via Highway 330 had to contend with slow traffic and long lines. Several small crashes were reported, according to the CHP website.
CHP officials advise motorists to remain aware of dangerous driving conditions as they head out for the New Year's holiday and to designate a sober driver.
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Conducting on-the-ground research for an SGE immersion sponsor - an agricultural machinery company looking to better understand the growing market for their products in India.
As a first-year student in the Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) Immersion, I had the opportunity to travel to India over Spring Break. I thought my travels in my previous life, as a policy consultant for the US EPA, had brought me to pretty interesting places: Riverboat casinos on the Ohio River, the sand dunes along Lake Michigan, and Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco… And then I went to India with a brilliant team of "green" consultants: John Tauzel, a former agricultural lobbyist; Schuyler Blackman, a former brand manager for a brewery; and Jessica Fracassini, a former art conservator.
My teammates and I conducted on-the-ground research for our sponsor, an agricultural machinery company looking to better understand the growing market for their products in India. Traveling a few hours outside of the cities of Hyderabad and Chennai, we spent a week visiting the rice paddies of small towns and villages. With the help of regional and local guides, we interviewed entrepreneurial farmers about their successes and failures in forming a business, as well as about the economic benefits and risks associated with agricultural mechanization in India.
Prior to this trip, I had never been to a developing country, so I didn't quite know what to expect when we arrived in Hyderabad. But, I'm grinning ear to ear as I write this because it was simply an amazing, amazing adventure. Our faces were pink for a few days after we played Holi with a group of children in Hyderabad; we got lost in a bazaar in Chennai; we ate a lot of tasty vegetarian food and discovered Maaza (a delicious mango beverage); and somehow squished four sweaty people into one rickshaw far too many times.
In addition to these unique cultural experiences, being in the field helped us gain an invaluable understanding of "the story of mechanization" from the perspective of our sponsor's customer, the agricultural entrepreneurs, and their customer, the smallholder farmer. We met with and heard the stories of incredibly humble, happy, and simple farmers whose families' lives had completely changed because of the small businesses they were able to form with the equipment they purchased from our sponsor company. Going forward, it is our job to tell these stories in a way that helps our sponsor grow their operations in India, but also helps to improve opportunities for rural farmers.


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Andrew Bolt responded to my debate with Monckton by defaming me, calling me "vituperative, deceptive, a cherrypicker, an ideologue, a misrepresenter and a Manichean conspiracist only too keen to smear a sceptic as a crook who lies for Exxon's dollars". You'll be glad to hear that Bolt now says I take back my nice words about Lambert. Even though he admitted that "Many of these issues are over my head" he is now utterly convinced by a dishonest post from Joanne Nova that I somehow tricked Monckton.
Nova quote mines Pinker's explanation for this phrase:
if we give Christopher Monckton the benefit of doubt and assume that he meant "the impact of clouds on the surface shortwave radiation" than it can pass."
And claims it means exactly the opposite of what it does:
An honest look at the Pinker statement says Monckton may have gotten the terminology wrong, but allowing for this, his analysis "passes":
An honest look at the Pinker statement says that his terminology can pass but that his analysis is wrong, because as Pinker writes:
The CO2 "radiative forcing" value that Mr. Christopher Monckton is quoting refers to the impact on the Earth's Radiative balance as described above. The numbers that we quote in our paper represent the change in surface SW due to changes in the atmosphere (clouds, water vapor, aerosols). These two numbers cannot be compared at their face value.
Nova then tries to explain away the fact that Pinker wrote
Our work was properly interpreted in the latest IPCC Report (2007)
Watch the spin here:
Monckton never claimed the IPCC misrepresented Pinker. He said they actively ignored the bigger meaning; so Monckton agrees with what the IPCC said about the paper, but not with what it omitted to say. Pinker has not addressed this point at all.
Pinker was responding to this, from my email to her:
Later he [Monckton] accuses the IPCC of a fraudulent cover up of the implications of your paper.
Which was my summary of this statement from Monckton:
[The IPCC admits] that they don't really understand clouds. One of the reasons why they are willing to make that extremely rare admission that they don't understand something is that they want to conceal that they understand perfectly well the implications of Dr Pinker's paper and of a number of other papers like it, Wild et al is another one, the early satellite results is another, there's several of these papers out there all of which show for that period exactly what caused the warming which is a reduction in cloud cover. And when you see the conclusion of the chapter on Observations and the sub-chapter on Clouds in chapter 3 of the IPCC report. The only conclusion that you can come to is that they were deliberately avoiding the very clear implications of Dr Pinker's paper. They knew perfectly well that if they took proper account of that paper they would have to evaluate climate sensitivity as low by the remarkably simple calculation that I showed you on the screens or something very very close to it. And they simply fudged it because if they did that and admitted that all their previous reports were wrong they'd be out of business before you could say "Jack Robinson".
I suppose we should Nova points for trying, but there is no wiggle room there. And notice that Monckton is citing Wild et al as well, so we should also look at Wild says on the subject in Global dimming and brightening: A review: (my emphasis)
The decadal changes in SSR found in the dimming/brightening literature are at first sight often unrealistically large from a radiative forcing viewpoint, as, e.g., presented by IPCC [2007]. Therein, radiative forcings altering solar radiation between preindustrial (year 1750) and present day are on the order of minus 1-2 W mâ2 on a global average, while some of the surface-based estimates show similar or larger changes already within a decade (Tables 1-3). Indeed, under the assumption of a climate sensitivity of 0.5-1°C per W mâ2 radiative forcing as suggested by current climate models, a change of several W mâ2 decadeâ1 as inferred from surface observations would imply enormous decadal variations in surface temperature which are not observed. However, one should be aware that the radiative forcing concept as used in the IPCC reports applies to changes at the tropopause, which cannot be directly compared to changes at the surface. Scattering and absorbing processes in the atmosphere are additive with respect to their effects on SSR at the surface, but may be opposed at the tropopause. Scattering aerosols enhance the reflectance of solar radiation back to space and reduce the solar flux to the surface. Absorbing aerosols also reduce the solar flux to the surface, but at the same time may reduce the reflectance back to space, opposed to the effects from scattering aerosols at the tropopause. Therefore, surface changes can expected to be larger than tropopause changes, and consequently are also not necessarily representative for (tropopause) radiative forcing estimates (this would only be valid in a purely scattering atmosphere). SSR change estimates based on surface observations should therefore not be used to challenge the IPCC radiative forcings [Liepert et al., 2007], even if these SSR changes would be free of biases from upscaling the surface point observations to global numbers.
Nova then quotes this confused email from Monckton
The only point that Lambert scored was that I had gotten Pinker's sex wrong in my Melbourne presentation (which, from memory, is the only one in which I mentioned her sex). Otherwise, his stuff was gibberish, as the audience swiftly understood when I explained it to them. During the debate, I had kindly done the calculation on the basis that the change in surface radiance mentioned in the Pinker paper would be the same at top of atmosphere, from which a climate-sensitivity calculation using the UN's method follows.
However, since Pinker insists that it is the surface radiance that her paper addresses, one must of course use the Stefan-Boltzmann radiative-transfer equation to evaluate the temperature change corresponding to the change in radiance caused by the reduction in cloud cover. And that means just about zero climate sensitivity, which, within the usual error margins, is about the same as the 0.12 K/W/m2 that my previous method had calculated. The common-sense point, as I explained to the audience, is that with that amount of warming from a natural source there was not much room for CO2 to have made much of a contribution.
Presumably by "use the Stefan-Boltzmann radiative-transfer equation to evaluate the temperature change" Monckton means that you should treat the Earth as a black body, ie ignore the fact that the Earth has an atmosphere. But it does have an atmosphere so such a calculation will not give the correct value for climate sensitivity.


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Maybe I'm just too old—or cranky—for the Disney experience.
There doesn't seem to be an age limit on enjoying the so-called "most magical place in Earth." After all, I know people older than me (I'm 52) who continue to visit Disney World every year, spending days or even weeks there soaking up the atmosphere.
But not me.
During a recent trip with my wife, my 17-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter to Orlando, Fla., we had a chance to visit Disney's Magic Kingdom, EPCOT and Disney/MGM Studios. As expected, the facilities were noisy and crowded, but they also got me thinking about the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. After all these years, and after having established a general reputation for excellence, Disney, it seems to me, may be better at efficiency than effectiveness. In the long run, that's probably not good for the brand.
It had been years since my last visit to the theme parks (my first visit was when both Disney World and I were young, early in 1972), and my general impression this time was of a theme park suffering from wear and tear…which is very different from what Disney would have you believe. It was like the folks at Disney have been so focused on cramming as many people into the parks as possible, and getting as much money from them as possible, that the magic of the experience has somehow been diminished. EPCOT and the Disney/MGM studios were marginally better, but not much…though I have to say that the Mission: Space ride in EPCOT may be the single best ride I've ever been on.
(I also have to acknowledge here that I am an exceptionally lucky fellow, which is why some of the Disney magic may have fallen flat with me. For example, a lot of people who visit EPCOT are thrilled to spend time and money on the various exhibits that illustrate facets of a dozen or so countries. But I've actually been to every one of the countries in the park, with the exception of Morocco. It is hard to be enthralled by a fake Eiffel Tower when I've jogged under the real one. My daughter, on the other hand, had a great time…and the argument can be legitimately made that the experience is supposed to resonate more with her than with me. I would counter, however, that many of Disney's most successful movies of late have been those that have appealed both to adults and to children. It is a lesson that I think could fairly be applied to the theme-park experience.)
Now, some would say that by the very nature of the crowded conditions, Disney isn't in any immediate danger of losing brand equity. That's probably true. But I'm talking long-term. Even a company as big and successful as Disney needs to think about the distant future, and worry that it could be focusing more on efficiency than effectiveness.
It is, in fact, a question that every retailer and marketer needs to think about.
In recent days, the struggle between efficiency and effectiveness came into sharp relief with the reporting on two companies—Whole Foods Market and Starbucks—that have been far more than just retail entities. They've become cultural icons, because they have represented something more than the selling of organic and natural foods and coffee. And so, when there is even a hint that shifting priorities could be altering the DNA that allowed them to occupy special positions in consumers' consciousness, there is an almost immediate backlash.
At Whole Foods Market, which is the company that is acquiring Wild Oats Markets, the question is whether management has grown to be out of synch with its core consumers—who in fact may view the retailer as being too big and too mainstream to effectively represent their interests and priorities. Whole Foods management has to figure out how to manage the often-conflicting expectations of Main Street and Wall Street—growing and becoming more efficient while at the same time not losing the essence that has made Whole Foods so special.
This is especially hard at a time when the natural/organic debate is so focused on the differences and relative advantages of big vs. small, and national vs. local. For some, "big organic" is out of synch with the values that made people turn to organics to begin with; they also believe that as major agribusinesses move into the organic arena, they cannot help but water down basic organic standards, therefore corrupting the whole category. When Wal-Mart announces that it is expanding its organic offering and wants to make it "more accessible" to consumers, that isn't seen as validation by many diehards. Rather, it is a confirmation of their worst fears, because Wal-Mart is better known for efficiency than effectiveness.
Starbucks actually managed to get ahead of the criticism when a memo by company chairman Howard Schultz questioned whether the company was moving away from its core competency—coffee—and from the theatrical and unique in-store experiences that were the foundation for the company's growth. For example, Starbucks does-not roast coffee in-store anymore, and most of its baristas use machines to make cappuccinos and lattes rather than doing it by hand. Efficient, yes. Effective? Schultz obviously is beginning to wonder.
The suggestion seems to be that if it is not careful, Starbucks could become this year's Krispy Kreme…though I suspect that this isn't likely to happen. I haven't had a Krispy Kreme doughnut for about two years, but I can't imagine going that long without drinking a venti skim latte. I think there are a lot of people who would feel the same way and, besides, I think Starbucks' management is a lot more on the ball than Krispy Kreme's.
That doesn't mean it is going to be easy, or that Starbucks won't face its challengers. Not only is Caribou Coffee, the closest thing Starbucks has to a national competitor in the gourmet-coffee arena, getting a lot of good notices, but there are plenty of small independent coffee shops making hay out of the fact that they are the anti-Starbucks, that they are more effective than efficient. And both McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts have been improving their coffee offerings, even being ranked above Starbucks in certain taste tests. So being able to build while maintaining fidelity to the core experience and mission will be extremely important for Starbucks in both the short- and long-term.
Think about it. Disney. Whole Foods. Starbucks. Three companies that are more than just companies, and they are all facing the same basic problem.
Now think about your company. Do you have the same issues? Are you dealing with them, or ignoring them?
If you have them, and you aren't facing them head on, then you are making a mistake that could, in the long run, be fatal.


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Minor win for cyclists as prosecution guidance shifts
One of the issues that CTC has been concerned about for years has been the downgrading of cases of bad driving from 'dangerous' to 'careless' driving.
Now a change in the prosecution guidance to explicitly mention vulnerable road users may help reduce this shift from dangerous to careless.
According to Parliament, 'dangerous' means driving which falls "far below that of a careful and competent driver" and that "it would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous."
By contrast careless driving merely has to be driving which just falls "below that of a careful and competent driver."
In either case, the 'careful and competent' driver should be considered by prosecutors (and jurors) as hypothetical: for instance, the careful and competent driver should be the standard of driving required to pass a driving test. Unfortunately, this is far, far above the common standard experienced on Britain's roads.
Because of this discrepancy prosecutors and courts may, CTC has suggested in the past, be incorrectly narrowing the gap between the driving behaviour of the offender and the 'careful and competent driver'. The narrower the gap, the less likely they may be to consider it 'dangerous' rather than careless, and the weaker any sentence might be in the future - see below.
Change to the guidance
In 2007, a change in the law meant that new guidance had to be issued to prosecutors, and went out for consultation. CTC argued that the guidance must better reflect the law on bad driving. We believed that a higher standard should be expected of driver behaviour, with prosecutors therefore instructed to use 'dangerous' more often.
CTC's attempts were thwarted at that time, but a second chance emerged at the end of last year, when the CPS had to make changes to its guidance to incorporate a new offence of 'causing serious injury by dangerous driving.'
While these small changes show that pressure from cycle campaigning is paying off, we fear the guidance will still let down vulnerable road users by allowing dangerous drivers to be charged with mere carelessness."
Roger Geffen
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In the 2012 consultation, CTC was pleased to see that "failing to have a proper and safe regard for vulnerable road users such as cyclists, motorcyclists horse riders..." had been included as a criteria for 'dangerous driving', in line with CTC's wishes.
Another minor improvement is that dangerous driving should now be applied "where there is a substantial error of judgement, that, even if only for a short time, amounts to driving falling far below the required standard." This should help prevent prosecutors downgrading cases where the defendant argues that it was merely a 'momentary lapse'.
However, CTC had also asked that 'pulling out of a side road' should also be considered as dangerous driving, rather than careless driving, in the presence of a cyclist or motorcyclist, since 60% of cyclists crashes with other vehicles in urban areas occur at T-junctions, crossroads and private drives. This has still not been included in prosecution guidance.
CTC believes that improvements are still required to ensure that driving that endangers cyclists is still treated as dangerous, not merely careless.


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"Everywhere I go, I hear the same story: 'We work hard, we pay our bills, we put away savings, but we just don't know if it's going to be enough when that tuition bill comes.'" – Obama at Southern Illinois University.
"When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world." – Obama commenting on the Iraq War.
"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America." – Obama speaking for national unity.
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"I can make government and public service cool again." – Obama commenting on government.
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It took longer than many market players had hoped, but the market finally managed a small bounce on Friday. The primary driving force was some optimistic comments from members of Congress that a solution to the fiscal cliff issue would be forthcoming. Nothing specific was offered but the market was so oversold to start with, it didn't take much to bring in some buyers.
The big question now is whether we can build on this bounce. The bulls are hopeful that the market can pull off another of these V-shaped recoveries that we have seen so often in the last few years, but the dynamics are a bit different now. One of the main driving forces behind that sort of action was the flood of liquidity created by quantitative easing programs. The QE programs are no longer having the impact they once did and the constant celebrations that the European sovereign debt issues are suddenly over are also becoming less prevalent.
While there is increased optimism that the fiscal cliff issue will be resolved, it is still going to be a while before we are even close to an actual deal. The politicians are going to play their games. While they may say they are close to a solution, the devil is in working out the details and that is not going to occur until the very last minute. The point is that we better not be too sanguine that the fiscal cliff issue will no longer be a market negative. It is going to continue to push us around for a while.
While the news flow may be a bit more positive, we still have to deal with a very poor technical situation. The market has broken down badly over the last couple weeks and taken out quite a few key technical levels. We actually fell far lower than many had anticipated and it was only a matter of time before we had a little oversold bounce.
The problem now is that we have to deal with technical overhead, which is primarily a function of trapped longs looking for escape. As stocks move back toward their entry points and = have the opportunity to escape a painful investment with smaller losses, there is an inclination to sell. It is a great relief to sell a stock that has kept you awake at nights for just a minor loss.
In addition, overhead resistance is reinforced by the bears who have had success lately and are now looking for more. They will be looking to load up the shorts again as key technical levels are approached. The may give the bulls some room initially but you can bet the dark side players are not done.
Typically, oversold bounces in a downtrending market can be fairly positive so I'll be giving this market a little room to the upside at this point but it is premature to proclaim that the bottom is in. This bounce can very easily fail and it won't take much for us to retest the recent lows. We need to be very watchful for a rollover to occur.
One of the positives for the bulls at this juncture is that it is Thanksgiving week. Trading during the holiday often has a positive bias and traders are often inclined to chase thin small-caps as trading volume slows down. It can be a good time to play some momentum. However, positive trading during Thanksgiving is a general inclination and not a certainty. Don't be too complacent as the market can easily turn on us -- especially if the news flow becomes negative again.
So overall, we have a bit of an oversold bounce trying to gain some traction. We should play it while we can but we can't be over confident. The technical picture suggests a very bumpy ride and anyone looking for a quick and easy, straight-up, rally is likely to be disappointed.
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Mobile, social, solution, cloud, big data, SaaS, optimize and engage. It was impossible to have a conversation at the National Retail Federation convention in New York without hearing these words — a lot.
The frequent use of technology's top buzzwords is understandable because the NRF convention is all about retail technology. The biggest names in technology world – IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, SAS, NCR, Intel, Motorola, NCR and Cisco – occupy massive exhibits that bustle with activity throughout the show. Hundreds of less familiar companies have smaller exhibits that are equally busy as more than 25,000 people attended NRF again this year.
The big draw is the fact that technology continues to transform the retail industry in ways that every retailer understands conceptually – increasing smartphone penetration rates equal mobile opportunity – even if the strategies to capitalize on the trend are still evolving. So they come to NRF to hear and see what's next from leading technology firms who are striving to invent retail's omni-channel future. The solutions presented by exhibitors tend to fall into broad classifications that are designed to: enhance the store experience for shoppers, enable a seamless omni-channel experience, improve the productivity of the selling space, capitalizes on the mobile revolution, improve the accuracy and speed of headquarter level decision-making and simplify life for store level associates.
Mobile dominated many of the conversations. Mobile coupons, mobile checkout, mobile commerce. NCR was among those touting a mobile shopper solution that transforms smartphones into scanning devices. Consumers scan items as they put them in their cart and simply display a QR code at the completion of their store visit to initiate the payment process.
Motorola introduced a digital fitting room assistant that leverages mobile technology to help store associates better serve customers. Shoppers enter a fitting room because they want to buy something and Motorola's fitting room tablet allows shopper to, among other things, summon a store associate if they need a different size.
Catalina Marketing, long known for its ability to provide shoppers with personalized offers at the point of sale, has extended that capability to mobile devices. The company's new mobile solution means retailers can now engage shoppers with targeted offers in store in addition to online and at checkout.
Intel showcased a robot called AndyVision developed in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University that helps retailers ensure planogram integrity. Retailers and their trading partners invest considerable time and energy in the development of product assortments, but all that work goes out the window if store shelves are not set properly. The AndyVision robot can roam the store overnight and capture images of shelves to identify compliance exceptions.
While mobile self-checkout is a hot trend, conventional point-of-sale systems continue to advance. Readers are now so fast and able to decipher all but the most highly mutilated of bar codes that a store employee practically has to cover the code with their hand for it not to be read by advanced scanners.
Electronic shelf labels may finally gain traction in the U.S. thanks to reduced costs and vastly improved appearance. Early generation labels looked like small LED calculators affixed to store shelves; however, a new ESL from Pricer has the same type of paper-like display that contributed to the popularity of Amazon.com's Kindle device.
Tradestone Software, a provider of purchase lifecycle management software, has created a new platform called Bamboo Rose. It functions as a digital marketplace where retailers and suppliers can connect with one another in an efficient manner. While the focus of Tradestone is about streamlining the buying process, Bamboo Rose is all about restoring the sense of discovery to the process and aims to unleash the creativity of merchandising organizations.
This is just a fraction of what was offered at NRF. Retailers, be they merchants, operators or marketers, have never had so many powerful technological toys from which to choose. The biggest challenge is executing against the increasingly complex strategies that are enabled by the exponential expansion of new technological capabilities.
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The Indiana sophomore forward had nine points (on 2-for-7 shooting) in Sunday's 75-70 win over Michigan State. That's seven points below his team-leading average.
Add the two points he had in last Wednesday's win over Penn State (on 0-for-4 shooting) and you have signs of offensive struggles.
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Zeller made a big layup late in the Michigan State win. He also drew a big charge that negated a Spartan basket. He still grabbed seven rebounds. He still drew extra defensive attention that helped free up his teammates. He still ran the court and hustled like few big men can.
"You might say he's had a bad day or two bad games or whatever," teammate Victor Oladipo said, "but he's played phenomenal for us. He's playing at a high level. We look to him to close out games. He's 7 feet, but doesn't play like it. He just has to keep doing that."
In fact, that late drive and layup started well past the three-point line. Zeller roared to the rim like a point guard to complete the play. In the postgame press conference that drive was described as "freakish" for a guy that big.
"That's not freakish at all," Oladipo said. "He does it all the time. We see it every day."
IU point guard Yogi Ferrell agreed.
"He's always impacting the game since the day he got here," Ferrell said. "I was going to try to go to him near the end of the game because he can finish for us."
In the preseason, Zeller was touted as the national player of the year favorite with a strong shot at being the No. 1 player take in the NBA draft next spring if he gives up his final two years of college eligibility. While Zeller's stock might have dipped – Creighton's Doug McDermott has emerged as the favorite in a recent player of the year poll by ESPN.com – he remains a formidable player. He still leads IU in scoring (16.0 points) and rebounds (8.1).
"Cody can do a lot of things," coach Tom Crean said. "He's not just an inside player. There are so many areas he's just scratching the surface. He's got to talk more, especially on the back line. (Michigan State) got a couple of lobs in the first half where he wasn't as aware of his teammates as he needed to be.
"When it was winning time, Cody answered the bell. In fact, he rang the bell. When he got that charge and hit that drive and made that play in the heat of the game, that's where his mental toughness is.
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Indiana gets EJ and Thompson while having to take on Ariza and give up a 1st Rd pick. The pick is most likely in the low 20's and while Ariza's deal isn't great by moving Dahntay it eases the cap hit some and he is an upgrade over Jones on both sides of the ball.
Golden State finally moves Ellis and avoids further controversy on whether Curry and he can play together. They bring in Kaman who gives them their first legit Center in recent memory as well as Jones for some defensive punch on the perimeter.
New Orleans gets 2 1st rounders plus a guy in Ellis who not only can be a centerpiece to a team but is still young and has a decent contract. They also get several young prospects in Udoh & Tyler. When you factor in moving both Ariza & Jack all N.O. has left is Okafor as a bad contract whom they can Amnesty at seasons end if they want. I don't see them doing better than this for EJ.
Sacramento gets the legitimate starting PG they need at a bargain price and only give up a guy they are unlikely to bring back next season anyway.
I think this trade makes a lot of sense for everybody involved. New Orleans is obviously the wildcard as they have more red tape with the league being involved .


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The federal task force report on rebuilding from Sandy finds the impact of rising sea levels must be considered in planning for future storms.
Speaking at an event in Little Ferry, N.J., to discuss the report, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., says it's essential that rebuilding from Sandy be less vulnerable to sea level rise and stronger storms resulting from climate change.
"We need to take an approach that understands and recognizes it instead of fighting the science," he said.
Appearing with Pascrell Tuesday, Gov. Chris Christie says he's not reconsidering the possible influence of climate change.
"We are pursuing significant infrastructure improvements to our state in order to try to make ourselves stronger and more resilient for whenever the next storm comes," he said. "The rest of that is a scientific discussion and debate that I'm simply not engaged in."
Pascrell says he understands Christie's focus on dealing with the immediate concerns of Sandy victims, but he says it's also important to consider the long-term protections needed to prevent problems from future storms.
"I don't think the governor was being dismissive. He wants the more boots on the ground approach at this particular time and long term, but it may not be long term," he said. "We could have a storm next week, and that is why it's parallel efforts that should be going on right now."
Climate change is not what Sandy victims are concerned about now, added federal Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan.
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Construction of the Target store in San Rafael is undergoing its noisiest phase this month — pile driving. The building permits for the new 136,000-square-foot store were issued last fall after six years in the planning process.
Store officials say the plan is to open the new store in October.
San Rafael Planning Manager Paul Jensen said the pile-driving process is anticipated to be completed this month.
Work crews led by the Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. of Pleasanton are drilling about 150 to 170 feet deep into the ground to secure the building — double the typical depth — because the project sits atop an old landfill and bay mud.
Once the piles are driven, Jensen said the actual building, a big addition to the Shoreline Center off East Francisco Boulevard, will begin to take shape.
"Next, they'll be doing the building framing with pre-fabricated cast walls," Jensen said.
Target spokeswoman Donna Egan said construction is right on track, but declined to comment on any specific details.
The estimated $24 million project has been in the works since 2006. It was initially delayed because of the slow economy, and later was the target of political opposition.
Opponents cited concerns, among them low wages for store employees, harm to local businesses and traffic congestion.
In April 2011, a city-commissioned study paid for by the property owner concluded that most retailers would not be hurt by a new Target, although grocery and drugstores could see a 2.9 percent drop in sales.
In February 2012, the opposition group Keep it Local dropped a lawsuit against the project after the property owner, Cal-Pox Inc., agreed to pay $40,000 in attorneys' fees and $250,000 to an account held by the Downtown San Rafael Business Improvement District, which works to promote local downtown businesses.
In September 2012, Cal-Pox Inc. sold 15.8 acres in the Shoreline Center to Target subsidiary Glendale West LLC. Cal-Pox, a family company and longtime owner of the landfill site, still owns the remainder of the 38-acre property, which includes a Home Depot and a BMW dealership.
Cal-Pox President Stephanie Plante said she's delighted the store will be opening in October.
"I think it's good for not only the Shoreline Center and East San Rafael, but the entire San Rafael community," Plante said.
Target, which bills itself as an "an upscale discount retailer," with shoppers being at a median age of 40, has 1,778 stores in the United States, Canada and India, according to its website. The only other Marin County store opened in the Vintage Oaks shopping center in Novato in 1992.
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The Almond Board of California is working with SureHarvest, Soquel, Calif., to build a sustainability program for growers.
The idea for the program came a few years ago, when the board decided it was necessary to start telling the story of sustainability in the California almond industry, said Kendall Barton, coordinator of industry relations for the board.
"We know the growers do what they do for a reason, and we want to tell other people who don't know the reasons," Barton said.
"If you don't tell your story, someone else will, and it could be wrong. We want to be proactive and make sure it's a true story backed up by statistics," she said.
In order to gather information from about 6,000 almond-growing operations, the board is offering workshops where growers can come for lunch, education opportunities and to fill out self-assessments.
"The self-assessments are pretty much yes or no questions, and we use that data to come up with statistics to tell the story of the entire industry," Barton said.
As of July, more than 1,000 producers have completed self-assessments, which represents almost 88,000 acres. That's more than 10% of the state's total.
The board recently had that data certified as being significant enough to tell the story of the entire industry.
"It's an average for the entire industry," Barton said.
At the workshops, the board tries to partner with industry allies and targeted education, though events sometimes are short and growers simply fill out assessments.
The board also offers the assessments online.
"They can save their progress as they go even if they only have 15 minutes or so while they are waiting in their truck, which saves a lot of time for them," Barton said.
In addition, the online version, which has been available for about a year, allows growers to clone answers that pertain to more than one orchard that is managed the same way.
They also can go back in later years to make changes to accommodate for any updates or changes they've made to their operations.
"It only takes two minutes for them, but we get an entire new data set," Barton said.
The online system has brought an increase in grower participation, but the workshops are still popular.
In the future, Barton hopes 100% of the growers will participate in the program, though she's excited to begin sharing the story of sustainability in the California almond industry.
In December, the board will release its baseline report that contains statistics and information from the first four years of data that's been collected.
"Everything we've been working on for four years now will be available in December." Barton said.
Information can also be found on the board's website.
As of now, no major promotions or ad campaigns are planned using the data, though Barton says the board is looking into it.


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— December 2002
By Richard Thiel
Who's the Best?
|Rankings are only for models 24 TO 33 feet.
Chances are you're going to be hearing about the J.D. Power and Associates' 2002 Boat Competitive Information Study—at least from the winners—and if you log onto the Power Web site (www.jdpa.com), you'll find some interesting factoids that might influence your next boat-buying decision.
Power breaks down the boats in the survey into seven categories: ski/wakeboard, bass, small runabouts (16 to 19 feet), large runabouts (20 to 29 feet), pontoon boats, coastal fishing boats (17 to 28 feet), and express cruisers (24 to 33 feet). Further defining the express cruisers category is the requirement that the boat have a galley and an enclosed head.
According to the study, owners of ski and wakeboard boats were most satisfied with their boats, reporting just 2.29 problems in the first year. At the other end of the spectrum were owners of express cruisers, who registered 4.7 problems.
What is probably more significant to most of us is how the builders of express cruisers did in the overall ranking, which is an average of each builder's score in four categories: Quality and Reliability, Value for Money, Exterior, and Ride and Handling. But before you plug this data into your next buying decision, remember a few things. First, since these rankings are only for models between 24 and 33 feet, manufacturers of larger express cruisers like Carver and Cruisers weren't invited to the party. So if you're in the market for a boat that's larger than 33 feet, you have to ask yourself whether you can apply the findings—good or bad—to larger models.
That said, the envelope please. Sea Ray was the clear winner in this category, getting the maximum rating of five in Quality and Reliability and Exterior, a four in Ride and Handling, and a three in Value for Money. (By some arcane formula, Power calculates that as earning a five overall.) Following Sea Ray with an overall rating of four are Four Winns and Chaparral, while Bayliner, Maxum, Monterey, Regal, and Rinker chalked up threes. Wellcraft finished last with a rating of two.
But wait. On the Web site, there are asterisks after five of the nine brands—Chaparral, Four Winns, Monterey, Regal, and Rinker—indicating a small sample size, which according to a Power rep I spoke with means fewer than 100 respondents. In fact, he also told me that the reason Power restricts its surveys to models up to 33 feet is because of the relatively few number of boats above that size that are produced annually, and the fact that its minimum sampling size is 100. So it's fair to wonder about the accuracy of these five scores.
Indeed, I—m not sure exactly what to make of all these ratings, but I did find two other interesting conclusions. One can be summed up in a quote by Frank Forkin, a Power partner: "In the automotive industry, the gap between the automakers that lead the way in quality and customer satisfaction and those that are at the bottom is relatively narrow. In the boating industry, there is a large discrepancy between the top boat brands and the bottom boat brands."
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HelloI am a web Designer, at this time I want to increase my skill. How can I develop it?Thanks
Read, read, read and practice, practice, practice and post here when you run into something you can't figure out on your own.
You should divide the time that you spend on web-design in this way:30% for learn and read70% for practise, coding, testing, and reading forums like this, where you can post your questions, or try to solve other people problems
It depends on how passionate you are, and how you like spending your free time. Watch for other's work , get inspired and read on how to do things better. Then practice.
First you gotta learn Photoshop, all the tools, effects, and everything. You can learn this by following tutorials on the web. Once you get to a point where you feel you can recreate most things you see on the web, the rest is just creativity and an good eye.
Design everyday, whether you're tired, uninspired or whatever. Just design. Try new things, don't create the same thing over and over again, you'll get no where that way. Create a layout>get feedback>fix it up>repeat.
What is the basic need before learning the website design?What languages we need to learn and what else will my requirement for website design.I just want to start my career in this field.
First you need to start with HTML. Learn basic tags and what they do. Then follow up with CSS. In CSS you define how content of this HTML tags looks like. Then you can move to JavaScript and add some functionality to the content. You need a lot of learning and practice.
Good luck...
You can also visit some of the outsourcing websites or freelancing sites to know what web designers offer for their clients. Then you should learn those skills one by one.
What program/language do you use? Tell us more about your level of skills to suggest what you need to do more...
I'm in the same position you are...I'm just practicing, practicing, practicing trying to develop my skill and make it more natural
Join communities like stackexchange too. Help people there and learn new things too.


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Classes begin October 10. (apply now and receive a special online tuition grant.)
In an effort to assist students in attending one of the Assemblies of God's endorsed schools, AG Trust and The Alliance for Assemblies of God Higher Education created the Riggs Scholarship Fund available at AG Trust Online.
The scholarship is named after former General Superintendent Ralph Riggs, who was an early advocate for higher education in the Assemblies of God. Ten semi-finalists will be chosen for the General Superintendent scholarship. However, only two scholarships - up to $30,000 each, awarded over a 4-year period - will be awarded to one male and one female high school senior. The eight finalists not chosen will receive one-time $5,000 scholarships that will be awarded over the first two semesters they are enrolled in an Assemblies of God school.
In order to apply, students must demonstrate leadership potential through past and present involvement in an AG church, school and community; have a minimum GPA of 3.7 on a 4.0 scale; maintain a 3.5 GPA and continue attendance and active involvement in an AG church while enrolled in school and demonstrate a dedicated walk with God and a commitment to use his or her gifts toward Kingdom expansion.
For more information about AG Trust and to complete an application, visit AG Trust Online. For more information about the Alliance for Assemblies of God Higher Education, visit Colleges on AG.org.