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Launching a new product or service can be exciting and challenging.
It offers a golden opportunity to make a big splash and capture the spotlight. It also means doing a lot of legwork to make sure everything is ready to support the launch so it can be as well received as possible.
The process can consume a lot of time and it involves a long list of small and large tasks along the way. But if done well, a launch can be an amazing coming-out party that sets the stage for future success.
I recently helped one of my clients, Wave Accounting, launch its free online account service for small businesses. The planning started a couple of months ago, at a time when the Toronto-based start-up was also applying the finishing touches to its service, which is going head-to-head with rivals such as Quicken.
For Wave, the launch kicked off with a video that shows the service's features and benefits. Even though it's only 90 seconds long, it took several weeks to write and approve a script, create storyboards, and then produce it.
At the end of the day, it was a solid investment because it provides a quick and user-friendly snapshot of the service for the media, bloggers and potential users.
Wave also hired a public relations agency to help with the launch. It took several weeks to do the research on potential agencies, to invite a small group to provide proposals, and to then make a selection. The agency had to get up to speed about the service, build a target list, and create a press release.
Another part of Wave's launch plan was the creation of a "media" page on its website that featured the press release, screen captures of the service, the video and photos of the management team. It was crucial to develop an interesting theme other than the fact Wave is a new service. While the company is excited about debuting, it can be difficult to capture the attention of media and bloggers without a different angle.
For Wave, the pitch was that it's a free service in a marketplace featuring paid services, and that it is a service designed to stop small-business owners from using spreadsheets and shoeboxes to do their accounting.
With everything in place, Wave officially debuted earlier this week, and it reached out to dozens of reporters and bloggers in Canada and the United States. With the launch finally done, the reality is Wave needs to continue spreading the word because it can take time for media and bloggers to pick up on the story when there is so much happening - even a new and interesting service can slip through the cracks.
The hard work and preparations for a launch need to be viewed as a long-term investment as opposed to something designed for one-time use. While the world may not beat a path to your door right away, having the right collateral in place for the debut means being prepared when the spotlight finally shines on what you are doing.
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After an initial, tepid flash of subdued indignation, and after much thought, I -- well, to put it plainly, I came to agree. Of course, such a thoroughgoing change in outlook did not happen instantly. First, I had to acknowledge the obvious: Voters clearly understand -- and believe in -- something about Willie Brown that I have been missing. Over the course of several weeks, I made an honest effort to erase preconceptions, and to look at the mayor in the way one of his supporters -- someone uninvolved in the conventions and gossip of journalism and politics -- might. When I did this, something else became suddenly obvious: If I wasn't looking for a story, if I was just looking to explain (even if the real explanation was rather boring), all of the blaring but unproven allegations of untoward behavior that hover around the mayor seemed remarkably empty. In fact, the more I looked at the general run of coverage of the Brown administration, the more I saw it not just as slanted, but repeatedly, almost purposefully off-point.
For a while, I could not think how to respond; after all, I was one of those who had written most harshly about the mayor. Every idea for correcting or balancing the media portrait of Willie Brown that I had helped paint seemed, on second and third thought, insufficient and insincere, especially coming from me. Yet I couldn't just stop writing about the mayor altogether, just because his story was no longer sexy, as my wise friend was suggesting.
In the end, I decided on a straightforward approach. I would re-report and rewrite a few misconstrued news stories from recent weeks, adding the context missing from the original accounts. And I would continue this service through the end of the second Brown term as mayor, hoping my changed view of the mayor would, however gradually, win out in the marketplace of ideas. This hope may be naive, but in this special case, it seems to me that naiveté may be the best policy.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Mayor Willie Brown has named Emilio Cruz, a dynamic young executive who previously served as the top executive for the Municipal Railway, to lead the city's economic development efforts. Because of his extensive political and private-sector connections -- he is state Sen. John Burton's son-in-law, and recently worked at one of the nation's largest construction management firms -- Cruz is expected to be able to tap into a broad array of resources as he does for San Francisco's economy precisely what he did for Muni. Sue Hestor, Bruce Brugmann, and Fidel Castro hailed the appointment. "Only a good, long, deep recession can stop the dot-com boom that is ruining this city with clean, high-paying jobs," Hestor said. "And Emilio may be the only person who can create recession less than an hour from Silicon Valley."
"Ditto, ditto dum, da da dum, da da dee," Brugmann and Castro intoned in unison.
San Francisco tenant activists also supported the move, saying they expect a Cruz-led business downturn to reduce residential rents to mid-1970s levels by the end of the year.
Sources close to Cruz say he plans to push the city's economy toward past levels of inactivity by hiring several thousand surly, ill-trained union workers to handle all applications for everything businesses need quickly from the government. Other past-reclaiming initiatives under consideration are a per-minute tax on Internet usage, a Palm Pilot ban, and subsidies aimed at encouraging the re-formation of the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead rock groups. Starbucks stock fell 93 percent on news of the Cruz appointment.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Economists are hailing San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown's plan to apply means-testing to beneficiaries of rent control, saying it could become a national model for achieving housing equity. Although the mayor has not released details of his plan, it would apparently make people designated as "too rich" ineligible to lease apartments at rent-controlled rates. Milton Friedman, dean of American conservative economists, says the combination of means-testing and rent control has a unique power that essentially vaporizes the law of supply and demand. Whereas ordinary rent control is a form of price restriction that inevitably leads to supply shortages and high rents, Friedman says that adding means-testing to the mix creates a rental situation so confusing that ordinary market considerations simply vanish.
"It's called the 'Poof Effect,'" Friedman says. "A similar plan has already made Manhattan's residential rent problems go poof. There's no reason Mayor Brown's plan can't stimulate poofing in San Francisco and, indeed, cities across the country."
According to Friedman, under the Brown plan, people who are "too rich" would flee the city, rather than pay non-controlled high rents; this flight-of-the-rich, or poof, mechanism would increase the supply of available apartments and reduce rents for regular people to historic lows. The expected Cruz recession would only enhance the effectiveness of Brown's rent-control plan, Friedman says.
As for suggestions the plan would lead landlords to let their apartments to wealthy tenants, who could pay high rents, and avoid renting to regular people, who would pay only much lower, rent-controlled rates for the same apartments, Friedman said, "I hadn't thought of that, and I'm a lot smarter and greedier than most landlords."
SAN FRANCISCO -- A group of mayoral appointees to a new commission overseeing the Municipal Railway provides the experience needed to make the city's transit agency work in a reliable, safe, and timely manner, unbiased observers say.
H. Welton Flynn, who has served on the current Public Transportation Commission and its predecessor, the Public Utilities Commission, for almost three decades, will use his position on the new commission to continue the program of rapid management improvements he instituted at Muni 29 years ago, independent public policy analyst Jack Davis says.
Meanwhile, hotel and restaurant union president Mike Casey and Shirley Breyer Black, the child movie star, ice cream heiress, and retired president of a service employees union, will team up to help the new Muni commission ensure that the long-standing dedication to customer service shown by Muni's unionized workers will continue unabated, neutral transit specialist Joe O'Donoghue predicted. "Fast Pass my ass -- do you want to step outside, or should I mash yer face right here, runt?" O'Donoghue said.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Charlie Walker, a salt-of-the-earth businessman who has been repeatedly targeted by law enforcement authorities solely because of his race, has turned over records from his trucking firm to the City Attorney's Office, even though most legal authorities believe civil rights law prohibits the city from reading the documents. Sources within the City Attorney's Office acknowledge that the records show Walker, an African-American, has done nothing but be black, foulmouthed, and a loyal friend of Willie Brown, and that an FBI investigation of city contracting practices is based on complaints already debunked by the bureau's X-Files unit.
SACRAMENTO -- The reported appointment of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown to the 13-member California Public Employees' Retirement System board of directors heralds a new age of beneficial synergy in government, public policy experts agree.
The Sacramento Bee reports that Gov. Gray Davis will soon appoint Brown to replace former Long Beach Mayor Tom Clark, who serves in the position on the CalPERS board reserved for a local government representative. CalPERS currently has about $168 billion in assets; because Brown has effective control of the multibillion-dollar City of San Francisco budget, experts say, once the mayor joins the CalPERS board, he should be able to exert significant influence on all major investments, public and private, in California. The picture for national and international finance is less clear, but experts believe the mayor will eventually control most economic activity in 27 states and 11 foreign countries, including Russia.
Brown's ascension to the CalPERS board should show some of its most startlingly positive effects in San Francisco development circles, finance experts say. Through his positions in CalPERS and city government, Brown will be able exert enormous pressure on developers operating in San Francisco, simultaneously influencing their access to capital and city development permits. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan says this leverage will allow Brown to extract a wide variety of concessions from prospective developers, to the benefit of everyone living in San Francisco, including the mayor.
Of particular note, Greenspan says, is Catellus Development's multibillion-dollar Mission Bay project, in which Brown will play the role of mayor and, as a member of the CalPERS board, owner. CalPERS owns approximately 20 percent of Catellus, and should be as eager to make Mission Bay a success as the company, the mayor, and the citizens of the city, observers say. Greenspan adds that Brown's position on the CalPERS board also will help him deal with cocky financier Warren Hellman, who derives significant portions of his investment capital from CalPERS, and whom Brown should be able to humiliate at will during his tenure on the board.
The vast power created by the synergy of Brown's mayoral and CalPERS posts creates no conflict-of-interest problems of any kind, good-government groups say. Even his ownership interest in a CalPERS-funded golf-course development near Sacramento poses no potential for conflict, Common Cause President Mister Magoo says. "Why would he do anything that directly impacted his holdings in California," Magoo asks, "when he has $168 billion and an entire world to play around in?"
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT THE CAVALIERS AND ROUND HEADS WORE cavaliers round head clothes parliamentarians the difference did it make a big difference on the war becauseof the clothes ? cavaliers thank you for watching :) cavaliers wore court dress of the day
with knee length leather boots tunics
plus hats that had plumes . The cavaliers
had much more high quality equipment
because the king had more money than
the parliamentarians. the parliamentarians had much more
simple uniforms they had a leather
tunic metal helmet round which is why they were called the round heads and metal breastplate as well as red the difference between the caviliers
and round heads are that the caviliers
had good quality clothes where as the
round heads had simple clothes i
would describe rough but pretective
and i would describe the cavaliers
clothes as fine and expensive . i believe that the clothes did not make
a big difference on the war because
it was not the clothes that won the war
it was the inspiration of the reason
of the war that won it. shine by rebecca lowden stars are the back round to my shining answers
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during the civil war the two sides were differrent in what they wore this shows the difference between them.
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America's founding fathers did not envisage church slaughter
America was founded upon the idea that the government's power should never be allowed to outweigh the rights of its people. That's what the founding fathers had in mind, anyway. But when they etched that conviction in stone some 230 years ago, chances are they had no clue the rights they sought to protect would end up creating a rationale for mass murder.
It's hardly been a month since a black prayer group was mercilessly gunned down in a South Carolina church and we're already mourning yet another act of senseless gun crime. Last week, 100 people in Lafayette, Louisiana, went to go see a new Amy Schumer comedy. Yet just 20 minutes into the film, some middle-aged white guy got to his feet, turned around and started spraying bullets across the room.
He had no known motive, no targets; he was just a sick guy with a gun in his hand. At least three people are dead because of him.
Words of sorrow and kindness flooded in from across the world. Everyone expressed shock and promised to pray for those affected. That sentiment is really nice.
But you know what? Those words are hollow and those prayers are not being answered. This keeps on happening - and it's going to keep on happening until people demand action.
Just hours before the shooting in Louisiana, President Barack Obama pointed out a bitter pill that his freedom-loving countrymen simply refuse to swallow: "If you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands."
He's absolutely right. How many causalities of terror can you name off the top of your head? Benghazi, the Boston Marathon bombings, a string of Isis beheadings.
A couple of times per year, brave US citizens find themselves at odds with brutal, senseless acts of global terrorism. But these isolated incidents are nothing compared to the intolerable inferno that Americans inflict upon themselves.
Let's talk about Chattanooga. Charleston. Fort Hood. Virginia Tech. Tucson. Binghamton. Aurora. Oak Creek. Sandy Hook. They don't all make the news, either. Mass killings take place in America every two weeks - and nearly all of them involve a sick mind with a gun.
Many of America's leaders would love to do something to stop these attacks, too. But politicians like Barack Obama don't have the power to change a damn thing about gun laws until voters ask him to.
Around a third of the US population owns at least one gun and most of those people aren't willing to give their weapons up. After all, the right to own a Glock is laid out plain and simple in the US constitution - and the process to amend it is fraught with peril.
Any politician brave enough to call for tighter gun restrictions is branded an un-American nut-job and is almost certain to get the axe within a fortnight. Yet, can we not please address the fact that this fundamental right American gun-owners hide behind is nothing but a dusty remnant of colonial history?
America's founding fathers didn't establish the right to bear arms so that racists could shoot up churches.
This right was drafted during a post-war era in which military resources were stretched thin - when a fledgling American government needed to ensure that every baker, blacksmith and field hand had the means to defend their country in the event of an attack.
Fast-forward a couple centuries and the US has got one of the largest and most well-equipped standing armies in history to take care of those threats. Joe the Baker doesn't need a gun to defend himself from invading Redcoats and neither does his deranged 15-year-old son.
Does that mean every single American should lose their right to own a gun? Maybe, maybe not. But it's something that needs to be put up for discussion.
America has finally reached the point where you can't go to a shopping mall, the cinema, school or even church without looking over your shoulder; wondering who might be carrying a gun and whether today's prayer group, or this year's hottest comedy, may be your last.
That's not the sort of life America's founders had in mind for its people. And it's not the sort of life we should be inflicting upon our children.
Yet, at the end of the day, there's only one way for Americans to put an end to these senseless murders and that solution is frightfully simple: they need only ask.
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The Playstation 3 finally launched in the United States on Friday and gamers and scalpers were finally able to get their hands on the hardware. The limited supply of consoles meant that demand was driven to frenzied levels, surpassing the madness of last year's Xbox 360 launch. One thing seems clear, though; it seems like very few retailers learned their lesson last year, and a confluence of events led this launch to be worse in many ways.
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First, much of the blame can be laid at Sony's feet. They simply were not able to produce enough of the core components of the Playstation 3 to get nearly enough of the consoles into gamer's hands for launch. Sony was projecting to have 400,000+ consoles available on launch day, analysts as late as last week were predicting 150,000 units, and the true count lies probably somewhere in between. The lack of console supply lead the company to reduce and re-allocate consoles to retailers, seemingly at the last minute, leading to retailer and customer confusion and anger.
In the brick-and-mortar world, lines for the Playstation 3 started early. When GameStop announced that they had learned from last year, and were making extremely limited numbers of consoles available, gamers camped out early to get their hands on a pre-order slip. Later, when Sony reduced their console allocations, somewhere around half of these campers would be disappointed and would probably have to find themselves in line again. Even GameStop's meager projections of console availability were dashed, but executives probably should have seen the writing on the wall earlier for this one. GameStop wasn't the only retailer hit by this; according to Internet reports, Toys 'R Us got either smaller allocations than expected or a different mix of consoles, forcing some gamers with pre-order slips to either go without or take a 20 GB configuration rather than a 60 GB version. Wal-Mart's allocations seemed to be shifting in the weeks prior to launch, but this may have been related to ill-informed employees.
Those companies that did not hold pre-order campaigns also were not exempt from angry consumers. Several instances of violence were reported at lines across the country, and the behavior of some managers is somewhat to blame. Many managers controlled the camp-out lines poorly, giving mixed messages as to how console allocations were to be given out. Perhaps the worst was the Wal-Mart manager who decided that a foot race was the best option for allocating their 10 Playstation 3 consoles. Better direction needed to be given to stores from the corporate offices prior to the system launch. Given that the Xbox 360 launch happened just one year ago makes their actions seem willfully ignorant. Even Sony's own stores fell victim to problems, with lines in New York and San Francisco rapidly growing into the hundreds.
Online, things were not much better. Stores offering stock online were quickly swamped and brought down by the swarming masses. Costco was perhaps the worst; when they announced that Playstation 3 consoles would be available on or around 8:00 AM PST on launch day, gamers got their browsers ready. The company actually got the ordering link online at around 7:40 AM, and the site nearly immediately crashed. Some consumers were able to get the console into their cart, but would be thwarted at the checkout screen. Others would be able to persist and place orders up past 12:00 PM PST, but most were locked out as the site continued to display seemingly random error messages.
Circuit City online also briefly offered bundles, but again, cart problems plagued gamers trying to get a Playstation 3 to ship. Playstation 3 consoles would also briefly show as available on other sites, including the SonyStyle website. It is unclear whether the SonyStyle showings actually reflected stock amounts, as many report that their orders were later cancelled. The largest window of opportunity was when for a couple of hours, people were able to place orders with Target through Amazon.com. No one is really sure whether or not these orders are valid; some suggested that this was a momentary glitch, while others report rumors that Target had a special allocation of 10,000 20 GB units available for sale online. At any rate, further clarification should come Monday.
Ebay also has been flooded with people reselling Playstation 3 units. While early on, resellers were routinely getting $2500 and more for their consoles, the current closing prices seem to be more within the $1000 - $1700 price range. This will fluctuate over time, and if Sony is not able to get more units into people's hands soon, this may push prices higher as Christmas approaches.
Monday will also bring fresh rumors of restocks. Some gamers online reported that Best Buy saw limited restock shipments of 2 – 4 consoles appear in stores later on Friday, after the morning rush. If Sony hopes to make their shipment goals for the year, new shipments should be coming in slowly across the online and brick-and-mortar retailers, but it is anyone's guess right now when those would be. Finding stock either online or in actual stores will become luck more than anything else. The truly dedicated may be able to find more consoles than others, but a lot will depend on how the retailers handle restocking; some will put consoles on the floor immediately, others restock after hours. Gamers looking at picking up a Playstation 3 may have to rely on online rumors and inside information to find a console.
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Sort users on logon screen
I searched a little bit and found no good answer, maybe i miss some terms.
I have a computer with 4 users and want to change the order of the users on the logon screen.
Currently it is:
User_not_more_using | Remote_Access | User_Active | me
i want to have it like:
User_Active | User_not_more_using | Remote_Access | me
all i found so far looks like that i have to clone all profiles and give them trailing numbers like
01 User_Active
02 User_not_more_using
03 Remote_Access
04 me
maybe there is a registry tweak way?
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The sorting is done alphabetically or in the 2nd method you have in your post.
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On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, The Wilderness Society today released a report that debunks one of the primary arguments allies of the oil industry have put forward to promote drilling in one of America's last pristine, untouched landsc
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Many games these days offer quite elaborate Easter Eggs. The good news is that the internet will always provide a means of finding Easter Eggs much quicker than in days gone by. The latest Easter Egg doing the rounds has been found in a Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer map, "Hijacked", which features none other than batman. The build up to unlocking this features titbits from Christian Bale's childhood, amongst others.
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Maybe we can still learn from the animal kingdom. In Africa, there is an ant that captures termites and forces them to do the dirty job that the ants avoid—chewing plants and turning them into digestible pulp. The ant—instead of doing this uncomfortable job of chewing and digesting—now only has to consume the regurgitated meal provided by its outsourcer, the termite. The problem is this: if the termite dies, so does the ant because the ant has forgotten how to independently chew and digest plants.I share this fable with you because I was part of the bozo team that lost the TV business in the U.S. In 1972, one of my first jobs in industry was a part of a team representing a consortium of the top-five U.S. TV manufacturers. We were tasked to open up a Far East buying office. We selected a low-cost city—Tokyo—as our headquarters. We also developed a relatively unknown-at-the-time Japanese manufacturer—Panasonic. Panasonic, like the termite, did all of our dirty work. Panasonic grew from a piece part provider into a components provider, then a provider of subassemblies, then major assemblies, and finally, the finished product. Eventually, Panasonic started manufacturing and selling TVs in the U.S. directly under the Panasonic brand name. In the 70s, we were not concerned, rationalizing that no one would actually buy Japanese-made TV sets. After all, their quality was terrible. The label "Made in Japan" was an indicator of low-quality junk. Yet Panasonic was selling TV sets that had more features, were better quality, didn't need repairs annually, and cost less than a U.S.-manufactured TV set. The rest, as they say, is history.So all those who have wisely outsourced their messy production problems to low-cost countries, are you concerned? Do you know the difference between outsourcing and abdication? Do you know the impact of the supplier's performance (and the supplier's supplier's performance)? Are you concerned that the terms of sale for production in many countries requires you to submit all of your technical and production intellectual properties? Is it possible that you are developing your replacement competitor?Honestly, if your "termites die," are you capable of reinstituting your production facilities? Is your skilled labor still readily available? Do you still know how to make your products?I suggest you revisit your initial value decisions to outsource your critical production and parts sourcing to low-cost countries; then, prioritize and quantify the risk inherent in those decisions. I suggest you recalculate your total cost of ownership (TCO) and put a financial numerical value on the risk of becoming compromised or obsolete by your managerial decisions. I suggest you review the attached TCO Sanity Checklist to help determine the real cost of global manufacturing and sourcing. Based on actual experienced cost factors, the checklist starts with the Current Case cost to manufacture and source domestically and then supplements that cost if certain negative risk factors would occur—the Worst Case. By requiring the buyer to estimate the Most Likely Case, it might challenge conventional thinking that low-cost-country manufacturing and sourcing is actually low cost!Are you an ant or a termite? It might be of value to know which you are and if you have forgotten how to chew. Survival of the fittest is applicable to all members of the animal kingdom, including humans and their institutions.
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Supporters of the European Union breathed a sigh of relief when the Netherlands right-wing leader Geert Wilders failed to win the Dutch elections of March 15. He was tipped to win the most seats, which would have given him a good chance of forming the next government. Wilders, whom the media called the Dutch Trump, is not just right-wing but an ultra-nationalist who detests the EU and the euro regime, is against immigration and Muslims in particular, and in every possible way an opponent of the Union's self-image as liberal, cosmopolitan, inclusive and multi-cultural. Each of these descriptions is anathema to Wilders and his supporters who feel the EU is forcing the Dutch and other societies to dilute national identities to vanishing point while making concessions to immigrant communities, especially Muslims, that give them no incentive to assimilate.
Indeed there is a widespread feeling that the Union's approach has encouraged Islamic radicalism in every country where Muslims have a significant presence. If we add to this the perception that immigrants steal jobs and disrupt the old sense of community, we have a potent, flammable mixture just waiting for the right demagogue to exploit the sense of grievance. Britain got it in the unlikely persona of Nigel Farage of UKIP, who was joined by hard right conservatives in a campaign that stoked nativist discontent to the point where a majority of Britons voted to leave the Union in June last year. Then came the election of Donald Trump, the unlikeliest of hard right candidates in the world's oldest democracy.
Brexit and the US election were thus a huge shot of oxygen for the likes of Wilders, Marine Le Pen of France's far-right National Front and neo-fascist right wing groups in Germany. The latter two are due for elections in the next few months, so the Netherlands was considered a sort of advance run by moderate and liberal elements who were watching with bated breath. Wilder's inability to make the final cut is being seen as a victory for sanity in a Europe turning increasingly inward but appearances can be deceptive. Wilders may not be the next Dutch prime minister but his agenda has advanced beyond expectations.
For one thing, his Party for Freedom (PVV) gained five seats over its previous 15 and is now the second largest in Parliament. It's also increased its popular support from 10.1 per cent of the vote to 13.1. By contrast the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) of Mark Rutte, now the largest at 33, lost eight seats and its vote share slipped by five per cent. For left-wing Labour (PvdA) 2017 was a catastrophe. It lost 29 of the 38 seats it held and its vote share slipped from 24.8 per cent to 5.7. More importantly, Rutte's now notorious outreach to far-right voters through an open letter that said "People who refuse to adapt and criticise our values should behave normally or go away" shows he may be closer to Wilders than he cares to admit. It could have been a tactical move but if the right continues to rise in popular sentiment, Rutte or his party may align with VVD at some point.
The real story here is that the right in Europe, whether Christian, fascist or Catholic, is by definition anti-Muslim, opposed to non-white immigration and strongly nationalist in spirit. In other words, it stands for all those things the European Union was set up to oppose and its popular appeal is surging. If France or Germany bows to this nationalist tide it would mean the end of the EU and the world as we have known it since World War II. It is impossible to estimate the chances of this happening but it is worth noting that French opinion polls widely predict a Marine Le Pen victory in the first round of the presidential election. Data from a March 20-23 survey showed her polling at 25 per cent. Her main rival is the moderate right-wing maverick Emmanuel Macron, shown at 26 per cent. The left and liberals are nowhere in the picture.
People and cultures are different across the world but the hard right—whether in the US, France or India—has one thing in common with the hard left; it holds in contempt any opposition to its ideals. It brooks no rival either, as is clear from Poland, Philippines or the state government in Uttar Pradesh. Democracy, on the other hand, is critically dependent on shared political space, compromise and recognition of the other, a complex balance that is threatened by the monotone refrain of cultural nationalism.
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"We don't speak for the BAA or any Boston Marathon or City of Boston officials," says Burfoot. "We speak from the heart of all marathoners, of all Boston marathoners. We just happen to be among the lucky few who can call ourselves Boston champions. It is a great privilege that carries few responsibilities.
"One of them is this: To thank the hardy, resilient people of Boston for their enduring support."
We, the undersigned Boston Marathon champions, wish to offer our deepest sympathies to the individuals and families harmed by Monday's tragic bomb explosions.
At the same time, we express our appreciation to the citizens of Boston who have embraced us for so many years, and we likewise declare our support for future Boston Marathons. We shall return.
Some of us will toe the starting line again next April, even though we had no such intention before Monday's events. Others will return to swell the sideline and sidewalk crowds more fully than ever before. All of us, even if not present in person, will be there in spirit.
The Boston Marathon has long been known for its start in rural Hopkinton, its screeching coeds at Wellesley College, and its leg-searing Heartbreak Hill. These, however, are mere geographies. To us, the essence of Boston has always been its huge, supportive crowds--the biggest, loudest, and most knowledgeable in the running world.
Those killed and wounded on Monday had gathered at the finish-line area with a single purpose: to cheer for Boston marathoners. That makes them part of our extended family. When they cheer for one Boston runner, they cheer for all of us.
We will never forget this year's victims or the millions like them who line the Hopkinton-to-Boston streets each April, challenging us to be our best. Without them, we could not run so strong or reach our goals.
We know they will be back next April in greater numbers than ever and more enthusiastic than ever. They are resilient, they are defiant, and they are enduring. So are we.
We agree with President Obama, who said yesterday in Boston: "Next year, on the third Monday in April, the world will return to this great American city to run harder than ever, and to cheer even louder, for the 118th Boston Marathon. Bet on it."
We're betting on it. We shall return.
Gayle Barron: 1978
Sara Mae Berman: 1969, 1970, 1971
Amby Burfoot: 1968
Jack Fultz: 1976
Roberta Gibb: 1966, 1967, 1968
Jacqueline Hansen: 1973
Ron Hill: 1970
Nina Kuscsik: 1972
Greg Meyer: 1983
Lorraine Moller: 1984
Uta Pippig: 1994, 1995, 1996
Lisa Weidenbach Rainsberger: 1985
Bill Rodgers: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980
Allison Roe: 1981
Alberto Salazar: 1982
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The dividend distribution tax (DDT) to be paid by the AMCs whenever a dividend is announced on non-equity mutual funds is 28.325% (25% + 10% surcharge + 3% education cess).
According to the announcement made on budget day, with effective from October 1st 2014, the way in which DDT is calculated has been revised.
In this post, we will try to understand the 'old' and 'new' methods of calculating DDT.
For those who can understand the strange language adopted by the income tax guys, here is the official wording:
The Finance (No. 2) Bill, 2014 proposes that for the purpose of determining the tax payable, the amount of distributed income be increased to such amount as would, after reduction of tax from such increased amount, be equal to the income distributed by the Mutual Fund. The proposed change is effective from 1 October 2014.
Source: Tata Mutual Fund tax recokoner shared by 'IFA Galaxy' Srini at facebook group Asan Ideas of Wealth (AIFW)
Old method: article on Effective DDT (not available anymore)
New method: AIFW tax expert Sundaram Anathakrishnan
Let us assume DDT = 25% for simplicity. You can put in the actual DDT in the calculator below.
Old Method of computing DDT
Distributable income available = Rs. 100
Actual dividend paid = D
We write, 100 -(D x 25%) = D
Since pre-tax amount = 100
post-tax amount = 80
The effective tax rate or effective DDT is
(80/100) -1 = -20% (negative sign because it is a tax!)
Thus in this example,
effective DDT = 20%
Actual DDT = 25%
Had there been no DDT, the investor would have had to pay 20% tax on Rs. 100. That is the net dividend would be Rs. 80.
Taking this into account, although the DDT is 25%, the effective tax 'paid' by the investor is only 20%
We can write,
D = 100 x (1-EDDT)
Where EDDT is the effective DDT
Since the actual DDT = 28.325%
the effective DDT is 22.0729% That is, 28.325%/(1+28.325%)
Thus someone in 30% tax slab has a tax arbitrage of 8.83% (30.9% – 22.0729%)
New Method of computing DDT
The new method removes the idea of an effective DDT.
That is,
If DDT = 25% and
if distributable income available = Rs. 100
Actual dividend paid = D = 100 x (1-25%) = 75
Or in other words, the effective DDT,
(75/100) -1 = -25%
is the same as the actual DDT!
Since the actual DDT = 28.325%
effective DDT = 28.325%
Thus someone in 30% tax slab has a tax arbitrage of 2.58% (30.9% – 28.325%)
This is a whopping reduction of 6.25%
Use this calculator to play with the numbers yourself
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Several years ago, I read Scott Peck's book People of the Lie. I had suffered from a particularly painful experience that involved another person who absolutely seemed to have no empathy at all. Without empathy, there can be no conscience, and without conscience, evil can easily occur because people who cannot feel for others never see their own behaviors–in regard to those others. It has been 25 years since I read the book, but if I am not mistaken, excessive narcissism is essentially the phenomenon that Peck addressed in People of the Lie. The book opened my eyes.
In this absorbing and equally inspiring companion volume to his classic trilogy—The Road Less Traveled, Further Along the Road Less Traveled, and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond—Dr. M. Scott Peck brilliantly probes into the essence of human evil. – Amazon
Narcissism is a complex issue and narcissists appear in many shapes and forms. But most narcissists have a glaring lack of empathy, which is a kind of numbness. In my opinion, the anecdote to numbness is the ability to see. By this, I don't mean the ability to look. Looking and seeing are two separate things. Even flies can look. Looking is nothing more than image recognition. Seeing is a deeper thing. It has to do with perceiving, with understanding, and with feeling. Seeing has to do with empathy, and empathy is not the same thing as having sympathy. Sympathy can be nothing more than pity. Empathy is an ability to feel another's pain.
Douglas LaBier, Ph.D., a business psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, is the Director of the Center for Progressive Development in Washington, DC. LaBier distinguishes between empathy and sympathy, and he points out that many of the people who have lost empathy are the people who have become obsessed with acquiring–with greediness.
"But many of the people I see everyday, whether in psychotherapy or executive consulting, struggle with their own versions of the same thing through too much emphasis on acquiring – both things and people. That's going to promote vanity and self-importance. Then, you become increasingly alienated from your own heart, and equate what you have with who you are." Read More Here
Narcissists Are All Around Us.
In fact, a narcissist is probably the evilest person in many of our circles, but narcissists have the skill to make other people question themselves and not the narcissist. In this post, I will point out some important things to know about narcissists.
Important Things to Understand about Narcissism
Being Successful Is Not the Same As Being Correct
Because many of the most successful and powerful people among us are severe narcissists, the lines become fuzzy. Too often, we correlate being successful with being correct, and that is not always true.
Narcissists Are Masters of Deception
Another confusing detail is that when it is to a narcissist's advantage, he/she can be relentlessly charming. A narcissist's charm is his most powerful weapon. Since other people seem to love the narcissist, we begin to doubt ourselves and not the narcissist.
Narcissists Deceive Themselves
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about a narcissist is that he/she is absolutely unaware of any of his/her wrongdoing. Like an alcoholic, if a person cannot see a problem, the problem cannot be fixed. There simply is no reasoning with a narcissist about any way that you feel you have been wronged or even misunderstood.
Narcissists React Violently to Criticism
In my experience, confronting a narcissist about how he/she has hurt you is an effort in futility. A narcissist, who cannot tolerate criticism at all, is only enraged by confrontation.
Narcissists Are Vindictive
And then there's hell to pay.
For more information about narcissism, the following article from Psychology Today is helpful:
The following are some of the narcissists' traits mentioned in Psychology Today:
1. Narcissists are highly reactive to criticism. Or anything they assume or interpret as negatively evaluating their personality or performance….
2. A narcissist has low self-esteem [but seems to be overly self-assured] This facet of his psyche is complicated because superficially, a narcissist appears to be highly self-confident.
3. A narcissist can be inordinately self-righteous and defensive. Needing so much to protect his overblown but fragile ego, a narcissist's ever-vigilant defense system can be extraordinarily easy to set off.
4. A narcissist reacts to contrary viewpoints with anger or rage. [But because narcissists are masters of charm and deception, that rage may not be obvious to others. Like a ticking time bomb, the rage may be hidden, out of sight, but it is still threatening].
5. A narcissist projects onto others qualities, traits, and behaviors they can't—or won't—accept in themselves.
6. A narcissist unconsciously views others as "extensions" of himself and regards others to serve their own needs.
7. A narcissist routinely put his own needs before everyone else's.
8. A narcissist has no empathy.
In closing, if I did not see myself in at least part of the above list, I would be the very worst person of the lie. I absolutely do have some of the very unattractive qualities named above, and I continuously appraise myself and buffet myself–seeking to keep potential problems in check. Therein is the distinction, and I believe my own saving grace: I DO recognize some of my own negative behaviors. A severe narcissist does not.
Have you met the Queen of Denial? She is probably a narcissist.
©Jacki Kellum September 11, 2017


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This property offers 192 spacious one and two bedroom apartment homes on a park-like campus. Huntington's convenient location means it's close to shopping (including Macomb Mall, Universal Mall, and Oakland Mall), the YMCA, the Warren community center and Warren ice rink, as well as the public library. Residents enjoy the outdoor swimming pool in the summer, and units' private entrances, A/C, and the on-site professional staff add to the luxurious living experience.
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Forecast: Smartphone sales to recover after down year
Dive Brief:
- After a three-year low for smartphone purchases last year, an Accenture survey sees the space rebounding because of better security, new functions, improved performance and device refresh schedules as outlined in an Accenture press release. The report found 54% of respondents plan on buying a smartphone this year, up from 48% in 2016.
- The Dynamic Digital Consumers report also predicts a down year for smartwatches and fitness monitors because of high prices and persistent concerns about the security and privacy of their personal data.
- As artificial intelligence becomes a more active part of most consumers' lives, the report indicated that consumers are embracing AI capabilities like personal digital assistants.
Dive Insight:
With smartphones approaching full penetration, sluggish smartphone sales have meant that many are holding onto older models that cannot take advantage of newer functionality like mobile payments, 360 video and more. If a significant number of consumers upgrade their phones this year, it will be good news for marketers, whose mobile-driven efforts may get a boost.
If the forecast bears out, it will also be good news for Apple, which has been struggling with sluggish sales. Other original equipment manufacturers would similarly welcome an upswing in sales.
Accenture's prediction that the wearables category will struggle in 2017 is hardly a surprise and highlights a challenge in the wearables category which has been faltering because of price points and features, particularly with smartwatches, that largely overlap with smartphones.
Given the current emphasis on AI tech, acceptance by the public is a positive step for tech products and marketers utilizing AI capabilities. Sovie stated that 2017 will "be the year when artificial intelligence goes mainstream in consumer devices." The most common interaction consumers will have with AI will likely be digital assistants such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana.


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JENSEN HUGHES has extensive experience with evaluating smoke alarm technologies (ionization, photoelectric, combination, and multi-sensor/multi-criteria) over the past twenty years. Research has included evaluations of smoke alarm response to various fires relative to occupant notification and escape and the development of alarm thresholds and guidance for detector response modeling. JENSEN HUGHES engineers have conducted thousands of full-scale fire detection experiments, as well as smoke box sensitivity tests and fire room tests in general accordance with UL 217.
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