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NEW YORK (TheStreet) --Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) was sued by the Federal Trade Commission over allegations the online retailer didn't get consumer consent regarding the purchases of mobile-apps by children, Bloomberg reports.
Amazon said in a letter sent to the agency that the FTC was looking to name terms similar to those it laid out in a suit against Apple Inc. (APPL), in which Apple had to refund at least $32.5 million to customers regarding mobile charges made by children.
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But Amazon said its purchasing procedures already meet the requirements set by the Apple lawsuit and that it has returned money to customers for unwanted purchases. Amazon is planning on fighting the lawsuit, which was filed in a Seattle Federal Court, Bloomberg noted.
Shares of Amazon are lower by -0.18% to $329.39 in early afternoon trading on Thursday.
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 4.3%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 22.8%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- AMAZON.COM INC has improved earnings per share by 27.8% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past year. We feel that this trend should continue. This trend suggests that the performance of the business is improving. During the past fiscal year, AMAZON.COM INC turned its bottom line around by earning $0.58 versus -$0.10 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.05 versus $0.58).
- Despite currently having a low debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, it is higher than that of the industry average, inferring that management of debt levels may need to be evaluated further.
- The gross profit margin for AMAZON.COM INC is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 33.92%. Regardless of AMZN's low profit margin, it has managed to increase from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 0.54% trails the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has declined marginally to -$2,502.00 million or 5.48% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing the cash generation rate to the industry average, the firm's growth is significantly lower.
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Keep in mind, the real incomes of the top 1% have increased by 700% over the last thirty years. Over that same period of time, the increase for the average, working American has topped out at about 22% (one third the growth of the previous 30 years).
That quote from the original article I posted still boggles my mind. This is the core, economic issue of our times. Who's talking about it in Washington? Less than a handful that I know of - Bernie Sanders, Sherrod Brown and Mary Landrieu. And that's about it. And yet, history tells us that few elements of a society carry as much danger as income inequality. This is why I'm coming to despise Obama. He's phoning it in. It doesn't matter that you have a bunch of troglodyte reactionaries jamming the works on the Right. If that happens, you get out on the road like TR and you start leading. You start making the argument.
Like this, Barry:
At many stages in the advance of humanity, this conflict between the men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess is the central condition of progress. In our day it appears as the struggle of freemen to gain and hold the right of self-government as against the special interests, who twist the methods of free government into machinery for defeating the popular will. At every stage, and under all circumstances, the essence of the struggle is to equalize opportunity, destroy privilege, and give to the life and citizenship of every individual the highest possible value both to himself and to the commonwealth.
Obama is just another status quo president, like Clinton.
That 27% unemployment rate in Spain is going to take that country apart. I just hope that fascism doesn't rear its ugly head again.
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I've used this thing for about ten days now.* Like the (many) other people whom Google let see the phones in advance, I was sworn to secrecy until the formal launch yesterday. I'll leave for another time some of the "meta" issues about what it means that Google is getting into the hardware business, or that mobile-phone customers will at last have a choice about buying a phone, separate from the choice about which carrier to sign up with,
or the full implications of the Google Voice service, which seems quite significant but which I'm just starting to use. There's a good set of overview links from the Atlantic Wire here and the Atlantic Business Channel here and here, with extra from the WSJ here and the NYT here. The main Google site about the phone is here.
Instead, here are a few user reactions. In one way -- really, one and a half -- I am ideally positioned to react favorably to the phone. The main way is that I'm already a T-Mobile customer. (Great coverage and data service if you spend a lot of time outside the U.S. In America, T-Mobile coverage seems only so-so.) While the Nexus One isn't tied to any carrier, the initial price is much cheaper for T-Mobile customers. All I did was pull the SIM card out of the back of my T-Mobile Blackberry Curve, on which I've sent and received email all around the world, and snap it into the Nexus One. (Query: why isn't this just called the Google Phone?)
The half-factor in my favor is that I've never used the Apple iPhone, so I found some of the Nexus visual features more gee-whiz than iPhone veterans might. The half-factor working the other way involves the reason I haven't used an iPhone: for me the BlackBerry's keypad is easier to punch out messages on, compared with the iPhone's on-screen touchpad. The Nexus also has an on-screen touchpad, which is the main thing about the phone I don't like.
Apart from that, here are the mainly positive initial impressions:
- The thing is very handsome, to look at and to hold. The screen is much more attractive, high-rez, and deeply colored than the (real-size) image above conveys. As some other reviewers have mentioned, the animated screen-savers are surprisingly interesting to see.
- It is very well integrated with Gmail -- go figure! -- and makes cruising through those messages much faster than it is on a Blackberry.
- It seems fast, compared with my BlackBerry (which is, of course, working off the same carrier) -- able to load applications and switch from one to another with a kind of peppiness. As a tech-specs matter I understand that its processor is faster than the iPhone's, but I can't speak about the difference first-hand. I also understand that it's "multi-threaded" in a way computers are and most mobile devices aren't, so it can run processes in the background and let you have a couple of things going on at once. This does seem true compared with my BlackBerry.
- It also is well integrated with Google Maps -- go figure! -- and must have a GPS receiver, since the on-screen real-time map was showing my precise location while driving down streets on places outside the US, where I've been recently. My BlackBerry's on-screen map only gives approximations, based on cell-tower location.
- Its "voice search" feature has the potential to make me a believer in something about which I've always been extremely skeptical. Among the many kinds of technology I wish existed, but don't, is a reliable voice-into-text system. That way, I could make recordings during an interview, and have them instantly converted into transcripts. Hah! But one of the apps on this little phone allows you to speak a search engine query, rather than type it in -- and so far I have been more surprised by its successes than its failures. Examples from this evening: I heard a radio report about Democrats deciding not to run for reelection, including in Colorado. I picked up the phone and said to it, "colorado governor ritter" -- and within seconds the first hit was for the Wikipedia entry on Governor Bill Ritter, and the second hit was for his official colorado.gov.governor site. I then said "denver mayor hickenlooper," in normal tones, and had similar success in finding out about Mayor John Hickenlooper. Later my wife and I were seeing a DVD of the (sleeper, and very good) movie Sunshine Cleaning, with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. I was wondering, what was that last odd sleeper movie in which we saw Emily Blunt? I picked up the phone, said "movies with emily blunt," and got the IMDB listing of her films. (Answer: The Great Buck Howard.) I'm not recommending this as a way to behave in company, but technically it's impressive.
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MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (7/31/2012) —A recent study conducted by the University of Minnesota Tourism Center examined how travel patterns among households with school-aged children change when school starts before Labor Day. The results provide missing data for policy makers as they consider ending the mandate that school districts start after Labor Day in Minnesota.
The study finds that:
- Family trips of two or more nights away from home decreased by 50 percent in August or September when school starts were moved to before Labor Day.
- Family overnight travel throughout the season—from May through September—decreased by 30 percent when school starts were moved to before Labor Day.
Data for the study was drawn from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a national study sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The survey is designed to describe how Americans use time on a daily basis. While past studies have asked hypothetical questions about travel, the Tourism Center study examined actual travel behavior of families in five states.
This study compared ATUS data about travel in Minnesota, Virginia, Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin as they transitioned in and out of school calendar or policy changes. Steps were taken to assure that the behavior change was attributed to school start times, rather than other conditions. For example, the study found that families without children who were from similar demographic and economic groups showed no difference in travel when school starts date changed.
The report, authored by Elton Mykerezi of the U of M Department of Applied Economics and Genti Kostandini of the University of Georgia, notes that school districts want flexibility in start dates due to a variety of concerns, such as the need for time to prepare students for testing. Mykerezi says arguments against earlier start dates come from those concerned about the value of family leisure time, as well from members of the tourism and hospitality industry concerned that a pre-Labor Day start will hurt tourism by reducing family travel.
"Policy makers considering school start dates are weighing important matters for the public good," says Ingrid Schneider, Director of the University of Minnesota Tourism Center. "Everyone wants strong educational outcomes, and the tourism industry wants to remain a successful economic force. We wanted to bring objective and comparative data to this issue."
The Carlson Chair for Travel, Tourism & Hospitality was the study's fiscal sponsor. To view the (pdf) report, visit www.extension.umn.edu/go/1117.
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On the other hand, the ETA is the date the goods will arrive at the destination, or in the case of importing/exporting, it is the date it will arrive at the destination's port/airport.
It's important to distinguish between the two, as the term 'delivery' can mean different things to different people.
The following example shows the importance of distinguishing ETD and ETA. A Purchasing Officer places an order for fibre-optic cable from a supplier in China. The supplier advises an ETD of December 2nd. The Purchasing Officer then advises the sales department that the ETD on the cable is 2nd December. The sales department misunderstands the meaning of ETD and advises the customer that the cable will be delivered to their store on the 2nd of December!!! On the 3rd of the December, the customer phones up the sales department asking where their cable is. The sales department ask the Purchasing Officer where the cable is and the Purchasing Officer explains that the goods have only just left China on seafreight on December 2nd, and therefore won't arrive (ETA) until January 5th. Not a happy customer!
Everyone has their own terminology for deliveries, so communication is important. This is highlighted in the following article called The Heartache of Delivery Dates!


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I love this stuff! I have combination skin with dry patches depending on the day. Some days I'm more oily than anything and some days I have super dry, flaky patches. Some days my skin is pretty normal. This moisturizer works great no matter what my skin is like. It never feels greasy and when I wake up in the morning my skin generally looks better. I'll never be without this stuff.
An above average moisturizer that does its job. The size of the bottle compared to the price is another story. It felt like I made a mistake and ordered the travel size.
Thanks for your review! The size of this facial moisturizer is on par with others from most men's lines sold today. In some cases, we're actually offering nearly twice as much product, as many men's facial moisturizers are only offered in a 1-ounce size.
I gotta say, I was pretty underwhelmed when the bottle showed up. It's very small. I haven't used the product yet so I can't speak on its effectiveness, I'm sure it will be great but how long is it intended to last if used every night? I feel it will go incredibly fast.
Hi there! The size for this nighttime moisturizer is actually above average for this category of product. You don't need much; a thin layer, plus perhaps a bit more aronud the eyes, is all it takes. The tube should last at least 2 months, probably 3, with nightly usage.
AMAZING nighttime moisturizer. I've always used Paula's Choice Skin Recovery Moisturizer before bedtime after I apply Estee Lauder ANR serum. However, when I replaced Skin Recovery with PC4Men Night Repair Moisturizer -- magic happened.
I even let my mother and best friend try it. THEY LOVED IT! You wake up the next morning with amazing skin. If you use it with ANR or Retin-A or Tazorac... results are even more amazing! THANK YOU PAULA and your R&D team! YOU GUYS AMAAAAZING!
I like how Paula's choice brand has designed a skin care line targeted towards men because a lot of men don't take care of their skin as they should. Having said that, I'm a woman and I love how this moisturizer melts into my skin without leaving it too oily or too dry. Its quite lovely!
This is a great nighttime moisturizer for any skin type, at any time of the year because it has a light lotion texture. Not greasy at all. Absorbs really easily. Smooths, brightens, works on wrinkles and brown spots, fights dry patches. A real winner.
First time I bought a moisturizer specifically for at night. Before this I used Hydralight day and night. While good, Hydralight can sometimes leave weird flakes in my stubble and doesn't repair as much. This goes on light, absorbs quickly, and when I wake up my skin looks a heck of a lot healthier. I've noticed my skin on average is less oily, but it's hard to say if that's because of this product "repairing" my skin or not. I really like this product, though.
Great product. Being a "person of color" I tend to get ashy. The quickness that this lotion absorbed and left me feeling soft was great. Also I wet my hands 20 minutes after application, and no greasy residue!
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Nighttime Repair contains a unique complex of ingredients proven to make your skin look younger, smoother, and healthier by building and preserving all layers of your skin. It also hydrates and makes a visible difference in the appearance of lines, wrinkles, and brown spots. Your skin will feel fresh, clean, and comfortable—never slick or greasy.
This product contains no added dyes, is 100% fragrance-free, and is clinically proven to be non-irritating.
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PC4Men Nighttime Repair is for men who want to prevent and reduce the signs of aging, eliminate dry, rough skin, and have a healthier-looking complexion.
Biochemical Pharmacology, December 2008, pages 1,590-1,611 and February 2008, pages 787-809; Clinics in Dermatology, November-December 2008, pages 614–626; Skin Therapy Letter, September 2008, pages 5–9; Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, July 2008, pages S7–S12; Archives of Dermatology, May 2008, pages 666-672; Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 2007, pages 343-357; Dermatologic Therapy, September-October 2007, pages 322–329; Dermatologic Surgery, "The Antioxidant Network of the Stratum Corneum," July 2005, pages 814–817; Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, February 2005, pages 287–295; Exogenous Dermatology, June 2004, pages 154–160; Cosmetics & Toiletries, March 2003, pages 43–52; Toxicology Letters, December 2003, pages 65–73; Cosmetic Dermatology, December 2001, pages 37–40; and The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, March 2000, pages 480-486.
Key Ingredients:
tetrahydrodemethoxydiferuloylmethane, Camellia oleifera, antioxidant, tocopheryl acetate, tetrahydrobisdemethoxydiferuloylmethane, Glycine soja oil, lecithin, soy extract, tetrahydrodiferuloylmethane, squalane, palmitoyl oligopeptide, Chamomilla recutita flower extract, green tea, ceramide 3, adenosine , skin-repairing ingredients, cell-communicating ingredients, chamomile, licorice extract, Glycine soja seed extract, Punica granatum extract, licorice root, glycerin, vitamin E, retinol, soy oil, shea butter, pomegranate extract
Water, Dicaprylyl Carbonate (emollient), Glycerin (skin-identical ingredient), Ethylhexyl Stearate (thickener), Cocoglycerides (emollient), Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter (antioxidant emollient), Squalane (emollient), Sodium Polyacrylate (film-forming agent), Lecithin, Adenosine, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 (cell-communicating ingredients), Ceramide 3 (skin-identical ingredient), Retinol (cell-communicating ingredient), Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Extract, Camellia Oleifera (Green Tea) Leaf Extract (antioxidants), Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract (anti-irritant), Tetrahydrodiferuloylmethane, Tetrahydrodemethoxydiferuloylmethane, Tetrahydrobisdemethoxydiferuloylmethane, Tocopheryl Acetate (antioxidants), Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract (anti-irritant), Glycine Soja (Soybean) Seed Extract, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Seed Oil (antioxidants), Butylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol (slip agents), Glyceryl Polymethacrylate, (film-forming agent), Xanthan Gum (thickener), Phenoxyethanol (preservative).
DIRECTIONS: Use at night as the last step in your PC4Men routine. It's great for use around the eyes. For stubborn dry skin, use during the day under PC4Men Daytime Protect SPF 30.
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Summer Scarf: Version 1
By: Dana Willard
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Make a light-weight summer scarf in cotton, sear sucker or linen fabric for the warm, summer months. Make a scarf bursting with ruffles with this scarf sewing tutorial from Dana Willard.
See this project and more at Fall Fashion Help: 16 DIY Fall Fashion Trends!
- 1/2 yard of very light-weight cotton, seersucker, knit or linen; fabrics that seem to "breathe" and will give your scarf a bounce. (If you use knit, you don't need to do anything to the edges. Just leave them raw. Your project time just got cut in half!)
- Sewing Machine
- Elastic Thread
- Cut strips of fabric so that you end up with one long strip that's about 125 x 6 inches (318 x 15 cm). I cut out three long strips and sewed them together on the ends.
- Serge all the way around the outside of your entire scarf, ends and sides. If you don't have a serger or if you want a more polished look, you don't need to serge. Instead, iron all the sides over about 1/4 or 1/2 an inch and then skip to the next step.
- Iron over all the edges of your scarf about a 1/2 inch.
It should look something like this.
- Sew this "hem" down, all the way around the scarf.
Here's your scarf, ready to be ruffled.
5. To get the ruffle, we're using Elastic Thread. Simple!
NOTE: IF THE ELASTIC THREAD is NOT gathering up on your scarf, a few things you can try:
- Spray your scarf with water and ironing. This usually does the trick.
- You may need to adjust your bobbin tension(esp if you have a BROTHER machine).
- You can make a scarf without using Elastic Thread. See the Summer Scarf, Version 2.
You can Elastic Thread at most sewing stores in the notions area, or online (about $2). For very detailed info on sewing with Elastic Thread, please see our Summer Vacation Dress and Shortie Pattern. But this tutorial should tell you all you need to know for your scarf.
- Okay, so wind the elastic thread around your bobbin. Not too tight, not too loose, just somewhere in the middle. And load it into your machine.
- With normal thread on the top of your machine, you're ready to gather. Start in the middle of your scarf (make sure you are sewing on the TOP of your scarf, the nicer looking part). Do a stay stitch (back and forth stitch at the beginning). And just start sewing down in a straight-ish line. Don't worry about drawing a line on your scarf. Just eyeball it. It's going to be all gathered up and ruffled when you're done, so if you're a little off, no one will know.
- Watch the fabric gather up behind you. I love it every time!
- Continue to the end and do another stay stitch.
- Then, repeat this one more time, doing another line of elastic thread about 1/4 inch or 1/2 inch from the first line. Don't worry if it's not completely centered on your scarf.
- And voila, you're done! Okay, tie it around your neck! (no special method here, just one simple tie, like you're getting ready to tie shoelaces).
You can add more or less lines if you'd like. Here are my observations after making 2 scarves :
- Why not just sew ONE line of Elastic Thread? I found that doing one line felt too weak, like it was going to snap. Two gave it more strength.
- I also tried it with multiple lines which spread further out on the scarf but it's a totally different look. It won't ruffle and twist as it does in the photos here. It will lay more flat and look like a shirred scarf.
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Key value paired data structure is provided by the Map interface so that for mapping the keys to values. Keys are unique which are used for retrieval of the values, from Map.
Key features are as following:
- Key value repair is used for storage of all values. Key is used for the retrieval.
- When Map doesnt contain any element, various methods throw the NoSuchElementException.
- When compatibility of element is not present with map elements, ClassCastException gets thrown.
- In Map, Null objects are not permitted. In these cases, NullPointerException would be thrown.
Java Code: A map is declared by this code.HashMap<String, Object> myMap = new HashMap<String, Object>(); Map<String, Object> myMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
- Interface implemented is the major thing which differentiates the two mentioned approaches.
- Map<String,Object> shall be used. This helps to provide the substitute for underlying implementation.
Java Code: Java Hash Map Exampleimport java.util.*; public class MyMapDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { Map m1 = new HashMap(); m1.put("Ankit", "8"); m1.put("Kapil", "31"); m1.put("Saurabh", "12"); m1.put("Apoorva", "14"); System.out.println(); System.out.println("Elements of Map"); System.out.print(m1); } }


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Dear ATT.
Tuesday I got really mad at you. Openly mad.
I expressed my anger on Twitter. Geez…
Which sucks, because anger attracts anger just like happiness attracts happiness.
It's hard to explain really, but I feel like both options for internet and television services in my area are not very, well… people focused or friendly.
Charter is my only other option besides you.
I changed to your U-verse service about a year or so ago and I had high hopes. And I thought it would be cool to have HD. Long story short, but IT NEVER WORKED quite right. If you sneezed it got derailed. A random rainstorm could down my internet. I've had about 3 or 4 tech guys out on separate occasions and of course it worked perfect when they were there.
But with no internet and no TV Monday night (again), I agreed to one last tech visit. You promised a "most senior" guy this time. He was supposed to come between 4-8 but he called my office at 2:30.
I stopped what I was doing and went home to meet him. And lucky for me he was great! He took one look at my wiring set up and said, "I can't believe this. It's completely wired wrong. Someone just tried to wire it to the old Charter line. I can't believe you ever got reception with it set up this way."
This wonderful Senior Tech begins to put in a real ATT line. While I'm waiting, I decide to try again to cancel my data plan for my ipad.
A data plan I never needed.
This was my second attempt to cancel this unneeded data service with you. I gave up on my first try a couple of months ago. Well, over 49 minutes later and with 4-5 transfers to different departments, I lost my cool.
Big time.
I was mad. Cussing mad.
Hard to explain.
It finally got resolved, but it took a lot of grief and effort just to cancel my $14.99 a month plan. It actually felt like the people I talked with were purposely making it hard, so I'd give up. I threatened to call the BBB. I would go into great detail here and tell you about how one of your employees actually took my credit card number, then disconnected me when he put me on hold, but it really doesn't matter.
I came to realize that service at such a large scale as yours might never be remarkable or great.
I hate to admit that, but maybe it's just the truth. Maybe when there are so few options for a particular service, there is just not much reason to work on skills like listening or empathy. Or to create plans and reward people for NOT transferring customers from department to department. It might not be possible to trust or empower a large staff from all parts of the world to settle issue using their own smart, judgement. Or even use their own words for showing kindness.
There may not even be a reason for trying to set a more definitive appointment time for repairs. 12-4 pm is not an appointment time.
I got my last call from you about 9pm Tuesday night.
Your employee shared with me that I had been "red flagged" since I was so mad. He said to me, "It sounds like you are very unhappy with our service. I am not speaking as ATT when I say this, but perhaps you should not use our services anymore."
Hmmm. He might have gone off script?
You know what I wanted you to say?
"We're sorry that we set your service up wrong, Robbin. We are sorry we didn't believe you that 3 or 4 times we sent out a junior tech. We're human and we obviously made a technical mistake that has cost you time and effort and frustration. What can we do to make you happy?"
But that was not on your scripts. (And boy have you got some scripts.) Admitting fault also must not be allowed at your company.
I sure hope the nice tech guy is not in trouble for telling me the real issue with the lines.
So. I am sorry ATT. Tuesday I ABSOLUTELY was not the woman I want to be.
I over reacted and failed to see your side of the story. I failed to have empathy for you. You're simply just not able to create relationships or even have much of a human, empathic dialogue with those of us that need to use your services.
There is such a thing as too big to care and that really breaks my heart.
While I was ranting, I remember saying something to this effect:
"This is America! We should do better than this! Can't you try just a little bit harder? Why can't the brilliant minds at ATT remember their roots (connecting people) and find ways to do just that with their customers?"
I woke this morning feeling sorry for you, ATT. All of you. The great tech guy, the numerous sales reps I touched and ranted to, the CMOs, the social media folks (yes, I know a few of you personally) and the CEO.
It must be very, very hard to have so many customers, from so many walks of life.
I can't imagine what it must feel like to have to speak from a script. Or to ask your employees to work off a script when dealing with people. I just can't imagine that life from anyone's point of view.
So from now on, I will try and understand what you are up against, in case we have to interact ever again. I will rethink what is actually truly possible and accept that you are most likely just doing the very best you can do.
You have my word on that.
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I think you're giving them too much grace. What they've done during your experience is the stuff of schiesters. Then again, you contain more grace and forgiveness than any human I know. And just maybe they'll get the message by way of the kindness you extend to them… and maybe I can follow you, and a bunch more people can follow, and by that growth of grace, they may finally be moved.
Someone on twitter commented that Zappo and Amazon have customers serice at scale down. It was a great point. I think so that so many of the mundane things could be handled online, rather than dealing with human robots talking off a script. Intuit Tax Filing has it down!
What I hated about the entire exchange that you are alluding to here, is it brought out THE WORST in ME to deal with them. Maybe by showing kindness and compassion….Maybe???
Hmmm… I've been studying how the people around me affect me. They *do*. And when I'm surrounded by great people, I strive to be great, too. Okay, so why didn't this work the other way? What makes the bad take over, when the good should be running the show? I have no idea. I wonder if it's like the "green" post today. We get complacent, being surrounded by mutually graceful people, and we let our guard down.
Or, is it that simply the organization can't hear past the dollar signs? That would be a very sad state of affairs. I'm hoping for the forme.
Robbin, you have way more patience than I. I just cancel the plans of the undesired IPS and not let it get under my skin. We've been with Charter for years and I give them my highest recommendation. They have always been responsive, corrected the issues and thrown us bones when they could have charged us. It's time to switch my dear.
Don't you think it's a roll of the dice. I had the before I switched and found them hard to deal with too. But the service worked as I recall!
Good question. I like Charter because it's a cable in the ground. I may be off on this, but all other IPS providers use a dish or a phone line which has smaller ban width and is subject to weather.
Hi Robbin, So sorry you ran into this. I sent your post on to some of our friends over there.
Thanks Neil. I thought long and hard about writing it as you can imagine.
I certainly CAN imagine. The team there are both colleagues and friends.
I find myself having more frequent conversations with folks about the perceived loss of care in the daily interactions we have. I imagine there was a time when one relied on and interacted with a close(er) community where more people were known and therefore required to be civil, thoughtful or at least understand the direct link to the outcomes of our behaviors and actions. Today, too many interactions take place behind a wall of anonymity or with people in a system/company they can't change – this interrupts that linkage between actions and outcomes.
Well, that is my philosophizing for the day
We are saddled with AT&T at work. It is the most disgusting case of buyer beware I have ever encountered. I have spent countless hours on hold, been disconnected a score of times, had senior sales staff "no show" for scheduled conference calls, been ignored, you name it. We spent over 12 months trying to have a billing issue fixed. Then they told us they only look back six months for credits. I have nothing but contempt for AT&T.
Hi Robbin,
I'm sorry you had such a frustrating experience and that it made you into something you're not, that's really the worst part. I know how that is first-hand. I worked for AT&T for almost 12 years on the retail phone side. Our goal was to sell and helping customers was not a part of the plan. Employees had their sales performance thrown in their faces daily. You were told to sell or you could be out of a job by the end of the week. That environment made me numb. It changed who I was because I naturally want to help.
I made a decision that if I was going to get fired I was going down on my terms. So instead, my goal was to help one person a day; the person that really needed it. Then I could go home feeling good about my day. Before I got on the phones each morning I said to myself, "Who am I going to help today?" and "What's going to happen to me today, that's never happened before?" This second question was important because instead of looking at a call as difficult, it made it challenging. And if I could learn something new it would help me down the road to help someone else out.
The funny thing is, soon after taking this approach, where I ignored my sales quota, I was helping more than one person a day. And the most dramatic thing was that I started meeting my sales quota month after month. I was one of the high sales reps in the call center. When I was called into a meeting to help improve sales in the call center, I suggested they get rid of the sales objective and focus on helping customers. My idea was dismissed and I was ignored the rest of the meeting.
So, that is the problem; no one wants to change. They didn't even want to know why I said what I said. So, they muddle through, upsetting customer after customer and generate revenue only because they are a huge company. But, they could be so much more. So, I think about the person who is numb to life on the other end of the phone when I call somewhere and feel sorry for them. They don't have the opportunity to change things.
Thankfully my job was downsized (scary at the time, but a real blessing now). I haven't looked back since. Hopefully next time you get someone who hasn't been numbed to the experience of helping.
Thank you for sharing this story and how you dealt with it Greg. I have a lot of empathy with their employees now. And I have to say the social media team has done a great job of stepping in.
-from the inside—at att they are losing people faster than they can hire them at their call centers—and there's a union!-your experience is very, very, typical and what we hear about all day every day–we are 'graded' on how fast we deal with the customer and —-and whether or not they call back in a month—ever second we take to fix a problem counts against us—and these metrics are weighted—the time we take to fix a problem counts against us—2x for effect—so if we just hang up that is better in one metric —we see our friends one day and then they are gone—"didn't meet the metrics"–nothing in the hiring process about that—so if you research a problem or try to make sure everything is ok—you'll eventually be fired—-they don't care about keeping their own employees and think they are going to keep customers……
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Beet.TV Asks Huffington About Partnership with Yahoo
Is Arianna Huffington moving to New York? Not really. Her daughters are going to school back east, which is why she's hanging on the right coast. But New Yorkers will claim her anyway, as indicated by this interview with Beet.TV.
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' The Sonim XP3.20 Quest is the toughest phone I've seen yet, and it comes with the best warranty in the business: a three-year, no-questions-asked replacement policy. '
'the sound quality is good enough for comfortable conversations.'
'Battery life is extremely good with the Sonim XP3 Enduro.'
'The Sonim XP3 Sentinel is a practical handset that is tough and can cope with the harshest conditions.'
'Easy to use.'
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'The Sonim XP3 Quest is an ultra-durable phone perfect for the adventurous and clumsy alike.'
'It's now completely waterproof (at a level shared only by G'zOne phones), allowing you to leave it in the aquarium overnight (so your fish can text or something) without putting it in danger. '
'Overall, there is still no doubt that XP3 Quest is one of the most robust phones we've tried. '
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'We were actually quiet surprised with the Sidekick and its performance.'
'Increased speed with the EDGE network is a nice feature that makes IMing and web browsing better, but it's not the only device on the market with EDGE and web browsing. '
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Ariba Follows the On-Demand Trend
The company will announce Tuesday a three-pronged approach to its new on-demand strategy: a redesign of its on-premises software and services offering geared to smaller companies, subscription-based pricing, and three levels of on-demand software (Basic, Professional and Enterprise).
While Ariba, of Sunnyvale, Calif., is not the first of its competitors to offer on-demand softwareProcuri Inc., Ketera Technologies Inc. and Emptoris Inc. all have hosted versionsit is taking a different tack with its approach.
According to Bob Calderoni, CEO of Ariba, the company is expanding its reach beyond its traditional enterprise customerswhich, combined, have run billions of dollars in spend through the Ariba Buyer supplier networkto now include smaller and midsize companies, through its on-demand offering.
Read more here about Aribas interest in an on-demand procurement model.
"Our customers are some of the largest companies in the world," Calderoni said in a statement. "While we continue to expand the value we deliver to our long-term enterprise customers, we are now putting powerful spend management results within the reach of every company, regardless of size, so they can better compete in todays global market."
While that much is true, its also a fact that software companies from Microsoft Corp. to SAP AG and Oracle Corp.the worlds biggest business applications providersare also embracing the on-demand model.
With runaway success from the likes of Salesforce.com, which has amassed nearly 17,000 customers and 308,000 subscribers in five years of business, the on-demand model is one enterprise companies feel they can no longer ignore.
Ariba, for its part, started down the on-demand path inadvertently. It began partitioning its software about four years ago when users said they wanted access to individual components in the Ariba Buyer module.
Click here to read about how Ariba Adapter opens the companys Global Supplier Network to users of other vendors procurement software.
Over the past year and a half, with a more focused intent, Ariba continued the partitioning work across its 13 modules, according to Rick Collison, director of spend management marketing at Ariba.
"So weve separated out configuration issues, user issues and data," Collison said. "The partitioning work was the bulk that was done," for Aribas on-demand software.
In fact, Aribas on-demand and on-premises, or traditional, software are one and the same (some companies offer separate applications for hosted and on-premises customers). While on-demand users will see frequent upgrades, Aribas traditional users will see 12- to 18-month upgrade schedules.
With the acquisition of FreeMarkets Inc. in January 2004, Ariba nearly doubled its services capabilities. As a result, the company began offering sourcing expertise around a number of different commodity areas. The sourcing consultantspeople who live and breathe their area of expertiseare able to go to a company and determine the best sourcing options in a given area, according to Ariba.
Ariba is extending its on-demand strategy to the consulting side, providing to smaller companies expertise typically accessible only to deep-pocketed companies. Those sourcing experts are now available to answer questions over the phone or via e-mailat a greatly reduced price.
The basic package, which includes six spend-management processes geared for small and midsize companies, is available now. The Professional package will be available next quarter, followed by the Enterprise edition around the third quarter of 2006.
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Claire comes home with the exciting news that she was invited to senior prom. Jay is excited about it and volunteers to chaperone at the dance, in order to keep Claire safe from her date, a senior quarterback. But Jay's exaggerated excitement makes Claire feel uncomfortable, especially when her parents are crowned queen and king of the prom. Michael tells Claire that she shouldn't be upset about it because Jay never attended her own prom as she was giving birth to Junior that night, and so Claire lets her mom enjoy her moment.
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The joy of being a parent continues as My Baby enters the toddler years. After caring for a newborn, then experiencing the magic of baby's first steps in the first two My Baby games, this time your baby will make some friends. Feed, bathe, change, and care for your baby as you interact using the DS Stylus, Touch Screen, and Microphone. Develop your child's hand-eye coordination by playing with balls, completing simple puzzles, and sharing other activities. The two of you can visit three new environments where you'll encounter a dog and another baby, giving your little one a chance to make her first friends.
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I actually went out and bought this game a few weeks before I started Gamefly. It cost $10. When I brought it home, I started playing it. I was addicted to it but it actually ends! When you are done, it has the credits then the adoption screen again! I do recommend you renting this but not buying it...more
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"Quiltique is a fabulous store and shopping experience. I am a beginner quilter and have been taking classes there over the past year. I love the fabric selection and special events. Staff will go out of their way to help you. I have made a fantastic T-Shirt quilt via a class with Regina, along with four other wonderful quilts and totes. Next month I am taking a class with a special guest quilt teacher, can't wait. Quiltique is the place to go in the Las Vegas area."
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We invite you to our company, which operates continuously since 1989. We are engaged in handicrafts products. The main range of products are made of wicker and birch, straw, vows, which are not only ecological product, but also lend a unique atmosphere and warmth in every home. Our company has been producing, buying, selling both wholesale and retail goods domestically and abroad.
In our offer you will find about 360 articles in various sizes which gives over 1000 products at attractive prices. We accept orders for custom products according to your projects. We wholesale orders for companies, shops, workplaces and individual orders.
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Black silk textured panelled coat from Moncler Gamme Rouge featuring a round neck, a front zip fastening, strip detailing at the shoulders and sides, cropped oversized sleeves, a gold-tone metallic motif at the upper arm, zip fastening pockets at the sides, a boxy fit and a straight hem.
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I'm so sorryThe first story I posted on here was about how I was studying Psychology. I mentioned in the story that I was 13 and I had started studying it when I was 12 (which was true). A few hours after posting this story I received a message from a user who was an adult male and who asked me all sorts of questions about my life, so we began talking. It was September 2009, and at that point in my life I had no self-esteem, hardly any friends and I had an obsession with perfection. I wanted to be perfect, because if I was perfect people would like me and be interested in me. This man was interested in me, he taught me so many useful things and we shared life experiences. Then I started to exaggerate. W… [more]
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Leek CSOB Football Club approached Falco to see if they could assist in the donation of two new shelters to be used as sports dugouts at their new home at the John Pointon Sports and Recreation facility at Pointon Park, Cheddleton.
Falco is pleased to announce the graduation of our Sales Office Manager, Bryan Duggan, who graduated at Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent last month with a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management.
Last week saw the UK wide cycle hire scheme 'Bike & Go's' first anniversary celebration. Held at Blundellsands & Crosby Railway Station in Sefton, Merseyside where the latest scheme launch went live, the event commenced with coffee and a home made cycling themed cake which featured a Bike and Go bike! Kaj Mook, Bike & Go Director, made an excellent speech regarding the scheme and uptake of cycle hire in general across the UK. Afterwards on a very sunny day, the guests were invited on a Bike & Go bike ride around the local area with a look at the Antony Gormley statues on Crosby beach.
Two members of the Falco team are celebrating over 20 years service within the cycle parking and street furniture industry! Managing Director, Jeremy Green, presented the long service awards and champagne at a presentation morning last Friday.
Falco has manufactured, supplied and installed a futuristic space shuttle style bench with solar powered LEDs to commemorate the first Dutch astronaut - Wubbo Johannes Ockels. Wubbo was born in Almelo, Netherlands, in March 1946 and participated in a flight on a space shuttle (STS-61-A) in 1985, making him the first Dutch citizen in space!
Last month Falco attended the Bike Week 2014 conference at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands at Hyde Park Gate in London. Bike Week is the UK's biggest mass participation cycling event for the second year running and provides a catalyst for encouraging people to use pedal power.
A Pocket Park (sometimes referred to as 'Parklets' or 'Mini Park') is an European concept aimed at bringing park-like features to urban areas such as towns and cities. These are usually small and bespoke and designed to fit in unexpected areas such as car parking spaces. A Pocket Park is effectively a scaled down version of a park, incorporating a number of key features such as cycle parking, seating, planters, trees and flowers. Although Pocket Parks are usually no larger than a few car parking spaces, they can however be designed to meet any bespoke shape or size and can accommodate a wide range of park or garden features. Pocket Parks are becoming increasingly popular in higher density areas where the lack of greenery and outdoor seating areas are virtually none existent.
Falco has manufactured, supplied and installed a futuristic space shuttle style bench with solar powered LEDs to commemorate the first Dutch astronaut - Wubbo Johannes Ockels. Wubbo was born in Almelo, Netherlands, in March 1946 and participated in a flight on a space shuttle (STS-61-A) in 1985, making him the first Dutch citizen in space!
Follow Falco's Pinterest page and see some of the innovative and inspiring products that we are designing, manufacturing and installing right now! Our page is full of unique and creative ideas that you can use to accentuate your street furniture, cycle parking or canopy design scheme.
Falco has donated a number of tools and equipment for the 'Together for Zambia' project, which focuses on young people living in Zambia who want to learn a trade in fabrication. Around half of Zambians are unemployed with more than 85% considered to be living below the poverty line.
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Roca, Patron's New Tequila, Now Available in Miami
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Executive chef Dannin DeFalco, who hails from Florida's west coast, has put together a short menu of "Caribbean fusion" cuisine: one soup of the day, two salads, three starters, and five main courses -- sometimes fish du jour makes up a sixth. It was therefore somewhat surprising that relatively early on in the evening we ordered an appetizer of honey lime shrimp, only to be told they were sold out. That shrimp are bought and stored frozen makes this shortage even less comprehensible. We managed to hook up with the dish on our next visit, a quartet of medium-size crustaceans centered by a small thatch of mixed greens, seared to just the right point of doneness. The caramelized honey, along with squirts of chipotle aioli, created a sweet heat and sunny flavor.
A "napoleon" of smoked salmon was likewise spiked with sweetness and spice by way of a zesty wasabi citrus vinaigrette. Three circular fried wonton skins formed the crisp "pastry" layers between which were sandwiched smooth slices of smoked fish, strips of roasted red pepper, and mixed field greens. Nice to look at until you attempt cutting the first portion, at which point the structure collapses and you're left with a chopped-up mess of nonetheless delectable tastes and multifarious textures.
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Belgian endive and spinach salad brought another brilliant juxtaposition of flavors, the two main components julienned and tossed with Roquefort cheese, smoky bits of bacon, snippets of dried apricots, and a stimulating lemon walnut dressing.
I was considerably less enthused over a starter of seafood gratinée. Served in a small porcelain oval, the nuggets of swordfish were moist enough, and the cream sauce offered a mild Dijon kick along with whispers of garlic and unsubstantiated rumors of tarragon. What I objected to was the thick crust of melted Parmigiano-Reggiano, which with the potent fish flavor and rich sauce combined for more than my taste buds cared to handle. Still a tip of the toque to chef DeFalco for savvily serving a side of vinegary, quite piquant cabbage slaw (flecked with peas) to serve as a foil to those fats.
Main courses were splendid, excepting a couple of miscues that were mostly in the way of missing ingredients. Like the cashews that didn't make it to an otherwise faultless rendition of slow-roasted duck, a fleshy breast and leg cooked to a moist, medium point and surrounded by a thin, terrific brown sauce sweetened with dates and ginger; disks of sweet potato underneath the bird were barely cooked through.
While inquiring about doneness for duck may be deemed debatable, a waiter should definitely ask about such preferences in regards to pork. Ours did not, and a meaty pork chop, rubbed with cumin, lightly breaded with panko crumbs, and pooled in a sauce sweetened with orange and peaches, arrived, like the duck, cooked to a medium (but juicy) state. Promised pearl onions and bacon were undetectable, but sautéed spinach made a surprise appearance in their place; pumpkin purée was a softly satisfying starch.
A hefty, irreproachably prepared snapper fillet, served crisped-skin side up over thick slices of malanga, was aptly accompanied by tart capers, sweet red onion confit, fried leeks, and a savory orange sauce redolent of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and a little anise.
Desserts were disappointing: a flourless chocolate cake too dry; a lemon grass-ginger crème brûlée lighter than the traditional, but with a caramelized topping that was uninvitingly cold. Better were a variety of delicious ice creams and sorbets in enticing flavors (green apple, sweetsop, black sapote), purchased from a Haitian-owned farm in Homestead. The best dessert is "pain patate" homemade by the owners' mom, a huge hunk of cake featuring sweet potato, banana, ginger, and spice. Unfortunately they only serve it on weekends during these dog days of summer.
Service was excellent on one occasion, sloppy and neglectful on another. Management was on hand both times to see that we were being accommodated, and the staff does a commendable job of making diners feel at home. The kitchen crew does a swell job of cooking up food freshly by the order, but they need to pick up the pace -- on both visits there were noticeable lags between courses.
Excepting a $14 roasted free-range chicken with herbes de Provence, all of Citronelle's main courses are priced at either $18 or $19. That's about $10 less than what you'd pay on South Beach, but salads and appetizers are $8 or $9, desserts $4 or $5, cappuccino $4, and, well, if you're adept at math you can see that in the end it adds up to more than what one might expect to pay at a neighborhood restaurant in, to put it kindly, a nonscenic neighborhood. To put it less kindly: If you're going to fork over $90-$100 on dinner for yourself and a mate, you might prefer to look out upon radiant Rollerbladers or a breezy bay, rather than some forlorn soul with spittle running down his chin.
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I almost made it through this busy Saturday without remember that today is the anniversary of D-Day. May God bless the souls of all the soldiers who died that day fighting to oppose the evil that surged out of Germany and attempted to enslave the whole world. Peace of the Lord be with those who died later and with those who are still with us!
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Also on this day in history in 1942, the battle of Midway was winding down with victory for the USN, sinking 4 Japanese CV's (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu) for the loss of 1 American CV (USS Yorktown).Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf
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(b) Books.
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2. What river does Hemingway love to walk by?
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(b) The Seine.
(c) The Danube.
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3. What does Gertrude think of the story 'Up in Michigan'?
(a) It is obscene.
(b) It is predictable.
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(d) It is abstract.
4. What does Hemingway do to distract himself from his own writing?
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(c) Paints.
(d) Visits museums.
5. What does Hemingway lie to Hadley about while he is hungry?
(a) Eating lunch with friends.
(b) Getting a paycheck soon.
(c) Meeting with male friends.
(d) The amount in the bank account.
Short Answer Questions
1. What odd article of clothing was Belloc wearing when Hemingway first saw him?
2. What does Ford chastise Hemingway for while they sit together at a cafe?
3. How many race tracks does Hemingway switch off between?
4. Why does Hemingway stop betting at the race track?
5. Which of Hemingway's jobs does he quit first?
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