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* The CME Group/CBOE incentive package was unveiled yesterday. It's a big one…
Chicago's financial exchanges would see a 50 percent decrease in their Illinois corporate income tax bills under legislation introduced Monday afternoon by Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago. […]
Under the proposal, only 27.54 percent of income stemming from electronic trading and clearing fees would be subject to Illinois' corporate income tax, compared with 100 percent now. A spokesman for Cullerton added that the legislation could change in the days ahead.
Michael Shore, a spokesman for CME Group Inc., parent of the Merc and the Board of Trade, declined to comment. But CME Executive Chairman Terrence Duffy told Bloomberg News earlier this year that his company paid $150 million to Illinois last year.
That's $75 million just for CME, if you're counting. CME claims its state tax bill rose by $50 million when the income tax was increased. So, it'll be getting all that money back plus a whole lot more.
* But there are problems. As I told you yesterday, Cullerton postponed a vote in the Senate Executive Committee…
But, shortly after the bill was submitted, House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie suggested that the bill may not be needed at all, and certainly needs full vetting.
"I'd like to see the details," said Ms. Currie, like Mr. Cullerton a Chicago Democrat. "If there is an essential unfairness (in current state corporate income-tax law), I'd like to end it. But I don't know if there is an essential unfairness."
* The Senate Republicans weren't fully on board, either…
Patty Schuh, spokeswoman for Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, R-Lemont, said Democrats held back the bill from a committee vote Monday after Republicans questioned the overall impact of the legislation.
"When there is an attempt to speed any legislation through, there is a possibility for error and unintended consequences," Schuh said.
* Details…
The legislation would tax only 27.5% of electronic trades, down from 100% under current law. A vast majority of the trades on both exchanges are done electronically.
* Meanwhile, talks on an incentive package for Sears continue, but the company wants even more…
A compromise that could keep Sears Holdings Inc. in Hoffman Estates and placate the complaints of Community Unit District 300 is in the works, but whether the plan finds success on both fronts remains to be seen.
State Sen. Dan Kotowski, a Park Ridge Democrat, said Monday that he is working on a deal that would grant Sears its wish of an extension of its existing tax break, as well as penalize the company if it leaves and send more money to District 300, based in Carpentersville. […]
Sears could be looking for other incentives besides an extension of the tax incentives. [Misty Redman, Sears' vice president for government affairs] said Monday that the company has contacted Gov. Pat Quinn's office to ask about EDGE credits — an incentive that rewards new job creation that has been awarded by Quinn to Motorola Mobility in Libertyville and Warrenville-based Navistar, two other companies that had threatened to leave Illinois.
Sears says it will decide by the end of the year whether to move its headquarters out of state.
* Related…
* What's Next for District 300 and the Sears EDA? - More than 1,000 D300 supporters lobbied en masse in Springfield Monday afternoon.
* D-300 students, parents, faculty protest Sears' tax break
* Sears, District 300 Each Present Their Own "Myths vs. Facts"
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 8:49 am
If the tax structure is messed up, the solution is to fix it across the board.
Giving breaks away to big players harms the far more numerous little players (oddly, this is exactly the thing the ruling party castigates the minority party of being all for).
Comment by titan Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:20 am
Incentives should be formanufacturing/technology. How about a special break for bringing jobs back from China. India just announced an economic policy based on manufacturing ,so should Illinois.
We can easily get another casino in Chicgo to replace the CME
Comment by western illinois Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:23 am
Sears is dying, why chase a dying company with incentive dollars? And it's funny how CME is asking for a tax break even as the Occupiers call for new taxes on financial transactions.
I agree 100% with "titan" @ 9:20 am.
Comment by cover Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:34 am
===why chase a dying company with incentive dollars? ===
6,000 direct jobs is why.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:43 am
–The legislation would tax only 27.5% of electronic trades, down from 100% under current law.–
What incredibly sloppy reporting. Let's be clear. There is no state tax on trades.
The proposed legislation would in effect reduce the amount of corporate profit, not income, subject to income tax to 27.5%.
Sign me up.
Here's to Currie and the GOPers, who appear to be calling the bluff of the exchanges.
Cullerton and Emanuel's priorities keep shining through. CME, ComEd, casinos — what a couple of working man's heroes. The crazy thing is, in our weird political environment, these guys are considered liberal Democrats.
The exchanges make make more money than Moses. Good for them, business in Chicago is off the charts good, and has been for a long time. That's why they're the biggest, most successful derivative markets in the world.
They have a huge investment in Chicago. If they could do their "electronic business" anywhere, they would have done it a long time ago.
Don't get me wrong. The exchanges are my bread and butter. I do a lot of business on the south end of LaSalle Street. Their continued great success is to my advantage.
But I can tell you, there a lot of uber-capitalists down there who are embarrassed and ashamed by this bald shakedown. It diminishes their brand, diminishes their work, asking for a handout, like they're some loser.
The only reason it ever came about was because Duffy and his cronies were getting pounded for the outrageous compensation of their bloated, do-nothing board. They wanted to change the subject.
As for Sears, they're not going anywhere, except the abyss or Wisconsin (what's the difference?).
Does anyone really buy the proposition that a going corporate concern can pick up and move 5,000 professionals and not miss a beat? Does anyone buy the proposition that an alleged player in the retail marketplace company can't make it without state handouts?
Have we all gone crazy?
Enough is enough.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:46 am
I love how the well connected always seem to benefit in this city/state. Where is the stewardship? Where is the corporate citizenship?
Instead of asking the state to use the taxes in which they have paid more wisely, which could benefit them in the long run, CME asks for their money back. Not only does leadership propose that they get their money back, but they would get more in return? Unbelievable!
No one benefits in the long-term from such a deal. Short-term profits are made, but the pressure to maintain a high level of return is still there so CME will still have their thumbs applying pressure on leadership. While the Average "Joe" on the street sees this for what it is, crony capitalism, and that they are the ones holding the bag, increased tax bills, completely left out and angry.
That such a small group is able to hijack the debate and not only reduce their ante but take from the kitty clearly demonstrates how rigged the game truly is.
Put this bill to a vote and let's see who is really for the working stiff. Voting for this would surely make a great mailer against those incumbents who did, even if it fails.
Comment by Corporate Welfare Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:50 am
Anon 9:46 is me. In case anyone couldn't figure that out, lol. New computer.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:50 am
Sears should be eligible for an EDGE credit under the standard program available to all companies: for creating new jobs. Not get a special deal just for holding current employment levels in the state.
Comment by walkinfool Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:53 am
=That's $75 million just for CME, if you're counting=
Robbing Peter to pay Paul? I wonder what the total give away might be statewide.
"The Chicagoland Chamber estimates revenue from casino expansion would mean an additional $536 million to $785 million annually for the Education Assistance Fund, $68 million to $105 million annually for the Capital Projects Fund." http://streetwise.org/2011/07/cover-story-illinois-gambling-expansion/=
Comment by Das Man Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 9:57 am
6000 jobs is a false number Sears is a rapidly shrinking company. It doesn't employ that many now and is shedding jobs.
Comment by Fed up Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 10:01 am
That lost revenue will have to be made up somewhere.
If they do not broaden the tax base, they will have to raise another. Of course it does not matter, since it will come out of the pockets of the general public.
Thank goodness the party of the people is in charge!
Comment by Plutocrat03 Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 10:08 am
CHICAGO, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) today reported that second-quarter revenues increased 3 percent to a record $838 million and operating income increased 4 percent to $534 million from a year ago. Second-quarter 2011 operating margin was 64 percent, up from 63 percent in the second quarter of 2010. Operating margin is defined as operating income as a percentage of total revenues.
Second-quarter net income attributable to CME Group was $294 million, up 8 percent compared with the second quarter of 2010. Diluted earnings per share were $4.38, up 7 percent compared with the same period last year.
Does this sound like a company that needs tax relief?
Comment by Will Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 10:24 am
I don't know all the details but if the 27.5% figure is meant to reflect IL trades, does that mean the CME would have to pay Corporate income tax on, say for instance, NY trades at the NY level, or wherever they happen to be? I would think that other states would like this to be so.
Comment by MikeMacD Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 11:06 am
Will brings up a good point about CME 2nd quarter net income of $294 million. What's a benchmark for taxes vs net income? The top of the article states CME paid $150 Million to Illinois last year (not sure if all that was taxes). On the other hand our state government dug a deep deficit hole and we are in poor negotiating position with other states. Vicious cycle. If you have lots of campaign contributions, votes, or jobs you are in a strong negotiating position, otherwise, pony up.
Comment by Mark Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 12:23 pm
Corporate Welfare asks, "I love how the well connected always seem to benefit in this city/state. Where is the stewardship? Where is the corporate citizenship?"
kind of a silly question. for at least two decades, state and local governments have been chasing businesses and offering them tax incentives to locate in their area. businesses would be foolish not to listen to these offers (the company i owned was offered a 10-year tax holiday, which we took advantage of, among others, which we did not). granted, it's a race to the bottom on the part of governments, but how is this bad stewardship on the part of business? owners and managers do everything they can to minimize their fixed costs, and lowering their taxes is only one way of doing so. but it's one of the easiest, since even a small business with a decent number of employees is a magnet to local and state governments trying to better their area. the solution here is not to blame business. they are only acting rationally. and you'd be hard-pressed to convince one government to forego these kinds of efforts until they all do…
Comment by bored now Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 1:13 pm
The trick with this kind of lobbying is to get the government to subsidize a business for doing something it already wanted to do. The joke is on us. Before it was a publicly traded company, it was the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a club of speculators who purchased trading rights at the exchange. It was many smaller companies who built Chicago as the premier commodities exchange in the world.
Since it became a publicly traded company, with investors from all over the world, it now needs a state subsidy to survive? And people are buying this load of garbage? What a bunch of suckers we are.
Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 1:30 pm
Bored now - you're right, it is a silly question, but if left unanswered, it has serious implications on our society. In addition, I couldn't agree with you more that this is a race to the bottom, being pushed more so by government, than by businesses. But if businesses are only acting rationally today, I wonder when they will stop and see that their rational behavior, in the form of lessening their tax burden and placing more of that burden on the general public (who has seen their wages decrease over the good part of the last decade), has in fact hurt them in the long run by the impending dilapidation of cheap public resources at their disposal, particularly in the form of human capital, infrastructure and our legal system, that allows them to run their businesses cost-effectively? I don't think we can expect politicians to be this forward thinking, but business executives most certainly can be. Which begs the question, what does corporate stewardship look like today? Has it simply been reduced to employing people in a particular tax friendly region for a low cost? In addition, the most fundamental question which governments and businesses should be asking right now is, what does this race to the bottom look like 5, 10, 20 years from now?
Comment by Corporate Welfare Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 4:00 pm
Unintended consequences: Won't the tax advantage for electronic trading rapidly put all of those floor traders out of work?
Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 4:07 pm
We all know that when you are the geek loser in the states sweepstake, you gotta pay more for a date with a prom queen.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 4:29 pm
Corporate Welfare: corporate managers are more attuned with the market value and what fund managers think than these other inputs you mention. you'd literally have to change the curricula at MBA schools to change the corporate culture here. i just don't see them considering the long-term implications anytime soon. sorry…
Comment by bored now Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 4:44 pm
Are you OK?
Comment by Bill Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 5:11 pm
Fix the State's pension system and they will come. Don't fix it and no amount of corporate welfare will attract permanent jobs. Governor Sunshine does not understand this fundamental truth and never will.
Comment by wishbone Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 6:03 pm
Fix the State's pension system and they will come. Don't fix it and no amount of corporate welfare will attract permanent jobs. Governor Sunshine does not understand this fundamental truth and never will.
-Do you seriously think the first things on a corporations mind before they decide to relocate to Illinois or add jobs is the state's pension obligations? They couldn't care less. It's regulation, taxes and fees. Illinois, even after the tax increase, is still a better business environment than it's neighbors.
Comment by Will Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 6:32 pm
No Bill I am not OK.
Thanks for asking.
My phone doesn't give me much more than a tweet until I get at my iPad or laptop. But considering what has been happening over the past year it is probably good I haven't had access.
I want to add to the conversations here, not just freak out, and that has been hard to do.
I have been literally finding Quinn folks and blasting them. I'm phoning, calling legislators I wouldn't normally look at, and presenting ideas to them like they'll listen or something. I feel like there is no one who knows what to do after a decade of mass maladministration.
Rich has been helpful. He has deleted a lot of my crazy Beckian/Schultzian babbling. He has edited a lot of crazy crap.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 6:33 pm
Watching Illinois beg Sears is like watching two Zombies get it on in a cemetery. It is so nasty. You don't know what they could see in each other and all you can see is how far they have both fallen.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 6:39 pm
If it's any consolation, V-Man, at least you haven't lost that "creative flair" in your writing that so many love and appreciate.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 6:58 pm
Will: I do think the unfunded pension problem is at the heart of the state's budget problem and that in turn is a major job killer. You either revise the pensions (of current workers) or you raise taxes (even more). Corporations understand this. They are not stupid.
Comment by wishbone Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 7:21 pm
A $75 million tax break for one company? Jeebus.
Instead of arresting the Occupy Chicago crowd in Grant Park, the Chicago PD should be carpooling with them down to Springfield this week when FOP shows up to lobby on the pension bill. Wow.
Comment by hisgirlfriday Tuesday, Oct 25, 11 @ 8:55 pm
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See also: If Time Is Money, Then Forthcoming 7-11 Slurpee Giveaway May Not Really Be 'Free'
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UPDATE: 37 arrested after peaceful protest against drones
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:54:29 GMT —
Update, 11:15pm:
It was a peaceful protest that ended with dozens in handcuffs.
More than 200 people traveled from as far as Iowa and Vermont to participate. "People are coming together with the strong statement of end these wars," said Protestor Nancy Gwin.
They also want to ground unmanned aircraft, known as drones, that fly over Iraq and Afghanistan. Friday, peace advocates were lying down in the driveway of the Hancock Air Base under what looked like blood-soaked sheets. A demonstration to signify the innocent civilians that protestors say are killed in drone attacks. The rally began at 9 AM at the Federal Building in downtown Syracuse and the march ended in the town of Dewitt at the Hancock Air Field.
"We are alienating everybody in the Middle East, by killing from afar," said protestor Jim Clune. "They look at it as the cowards way, when you bomb a village you lose it politically. We are turning so many people away from us."
"When you are making the general population mad at you, we are not winning hearts and minds," said protestor Elliott Adams.
But others argue the aircraft can accurately pinpoint targets and are needed to support our ground troops overseas.
"The MQ9 is a great weapons platform, a great aircraft and the work we do here at Hancock air field is to support our U.S. and allied forces on the ground," said Capt. Anthony Bucci with the 174th Fighter Wing. When asked about the protest on the base's front lawn he said, "This is disappointing but they are well within their constitutional right."
There was a large police presence throughout the afternoon, about 20 officers from the Dewitt Police Department and the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office. Behind the base's fence were military members wearing riot gear, in case the protest got out of hand.
Protesters who refused to follow police orders after their protest permit was up were arrested for disorderly conduct. 37 people were taken away in handcuffs. The oldest was 91 and the youngest was 17.
"Part of proving their point is they are willing to get arrested and we accommodated that," said Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh.
The debate over drones is far from grounded. This protest comes as President Barack Obama approves the armed un-manned aircraft to fly over Libya.
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We've just learned 37 people have been arrested for disorderly conduct at the rally.
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Im turning 16 this year and I really would like to start getting botox. I have a little wrinkle on each side of my mouth and a couple tiny ones on my forehead. They arent noticeable, but i know they are there and it bothers me. Are there any doctors that would give a 16 year old botox? I live in Scottsdale,Arizona.
Is 16 Too Young to Start Getting Botox?
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Teenagers and Botox
Teenagers are not appropriate candidates for Botox. If you are using sun avoidance and proper skin care then you are doing what is appropriate for someone your age.
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Botox at sixteen years old?
I don't feel Botox is an appropriate treatment for your current concerns and age. Personally, I worry about encouraging cosmetic procedures in people whose bodies are still growing and changing, and don't recommend, or perform, most such procedures in young adults. I would be VERY wary of the motivations of a physician that would be willing to treat you.
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Recently, an interesting trend has come about in the field of facial plastics. Younger and younger patients are requesting facial injectables such as Botox, Restylane etc.. Although this may seem absurd there is method to what can be seen as madness. It goes something like this; if one prevents wrinkles before they start they will be able to lessen or even avoid more serious work as they grow older. Nonetheless,16 is considered to be far too young for a patient to start getting Botox. For someone at such a young age I would only recommend that Botox be used if the patient had conditions such as blepharospasms (eye spasms) or excessive perspiration. If, however, the patient still desires to go ahead with Botox for cosmetic reasons parental consent must be obtained.
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Botox is not for a sixteen year old
You may develop many more lines in the future that are more noticable. Some (a minority) of patients not that after many years of treatment the Botox doesn't last as long. Don't start using your possible limited time of Botox effectiveness by starting so young. Even if you find a doctor who would be willing to do it, I suggest you wait a decade or so. Use sunscreen every day, try to get a good night's sleep, exercise and eat a healthy diet. Use moisturizer for the facial lines and don't look too closely at your skin.
Yes, 16 is too young to get Botox
The dynamic aging changes which lead to a patient seeking treatment with Botox are simply not present in a 16 year old. Will you be able to find a "Doctor" to give it to you? Unfortunately, you might. What I would recommend is discussing your concerns with your parents, a therapist, or a responsible adult. The concerns you have are probably more related to poor self image and lack of self confidence. At age 16, self confidence will make you look much better than Botox ever will.
Botox should not be given to teenagers
Your question "is there a doctor that will give botox to a sixteen year old?" should be answered with
"i hope not."
I would suggest discussing your dislike of your appearance with your parents and those that love you as you will realize quickly that small wrinkles are on your forehead are what make you beautiful.
You are 16 - enjoy life -- earn a few wrinkles that can be seen -- how do you expect to pay for the botox. If I were your parent I would tell you to get a life. Then you will need botox.
Botox Treatment of Invisible wrinkles in a 16 year old
A 16 year old girl with invisible wrinkles (to quote you :"They arent noticeable, but i know they are there and it bothers me") seeking Botox perfection.
Your question totally blew me away. While I am an educated middle aged man who is fluent in several languages and have lived on three continents, I am painfully reminded every day that my society has permanently changed. I know being a teenager is rough but it should not cause wrinkles and requests for Botox.
Will "a doctor" give YOU Botox? Probably. Doctors have a small number of unethical jerks in their ranks just like all other profession and the poor economy has lowered the threshold of misbehavior for many. Will an ETHICAL Plastic surgeon / Dermatologist treat you with Botox? I seriously doubt it.
A discussion with your parent(s) is in order as well as potentially a referral to a psychologist to help you with your body image.
Botox for 16 year old
For purely cosmetic reasons, botox is inappropriate for a 16 year old. Once you go down this road you will end up as cosmetic surgery addict. Ensure that you are pursuing the proper path of skin care and avoid potential problems such as tobacco use and tanning beds. You will be amazed what these simple steps will do to optimize your appearance both now and in the future.
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Botullinum Toxin (Dysport and Botox) in a 16 year old
If you are doing every thing else to maintain your apperance including avoidance of sun exposure ( no tanning beds, no tobacco use) good skin care, etc, I can't logically or ethically recommend this for a 16 year old and I can't imagine how your wrinkles could be that bad at your age.
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Sustainability Day to launch compost program
Sweet Briar and its dining service provider, ARAMARK, will mark Campus Sustainability Day 2013 on Wednesday, Oct. 23, by kicking off a pilot composting initiative during lunch at Prothro. From 11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, diners will be asked to dispose of food waste in designated containers for collection.
Assistant professor of environmental science Tom O'Halloran says it's the next step in planning for a large-scale compost production enterprise that he hopes to propose in the near future. As in past short-term trial periods, O'Halloran and his students will analyze the food waste to glean data such as its chemical make-up and weight to determine its suitability for a sustainable composting program on campus. Preliminary data and cost analysis by environmental science and business students have shown promise, he says.
Following this trial, O'Halloran wants to begin small-scale production using a small composter as a precursor to the expanded operation, should it be approved and if funding is found. The composter, which is on display in Prothro this week, was purchased with Honors Program funding by Madeline Artibee '16, who wrote the grant as part of her honors variant in O'Halloran's Introduction to Environmental Issues course.
Other ways the community will note Campus Sustainability Day include a meat-free lunch menu and specially featured apples and cider from Virginia orchards. A representative from Produce Source of Roanoke will be on hand to talk about the orchards and other Virginia farms they work with to supply Sweet Briar.
Ebi Zahabi, director of dining services, says ARAMARK is always looking for ways to promote sustainable practices, and he and his staff strive to buy produce from Virginia farms within 200 miles of campus.
Launched in 2003, Campus Sustainability Day is organized or endorsed by a number of organizations, including the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium, National Wildlife Federation, Second Nature and Society for College and University Planning.
Each October, colleges and universities are encouraged to create events on campus and elsewhere that draw participants for the exchange of ideas and knowledge among faculty, staff and students, from across all departments and disciplines. CSD is held annually on the fourth Wednesday in October.
This year's theme is "Climate Adaptation: Resilient Campuses & Communities."
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Moore named athletic director at Rolesville High School
Posted February 4, 2013
When Rolesville High School opens its doors for the first time this fall, the athletic department will be led by someone with experience.
Tommy Moore, the boys basketball coach and athletic director at Enloe High School, said Monday that he has been hired as the first athletic director at Rolesville.
Moore has led the Eagles to much success as the basketball coach and athletic director. The boys basketball team has made state playoff runs, appearances in the HighSchoolOT.com Holiday Invitational, and has produced players such as Melvin Tabb (Wake Forest) and Emanuel "Poobie" Chapman (NC Central).
This summer, Moore will serve as an assistant coach for the East boys basketball team at the N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Games.
One of the first things Moore will do at Rolesville is help select the school's first head football coach. The position has already been listed on the Wake County Public Schools website.
Enloe is already looking for Moore's replacement too.
The WCPSS website lists the Enloe boys basketball and athletic director positions as vacant.
Moore will remain as the head basketball coach at Enloe for the remainder of the season.
Rolesville will open in August for students. The school will start with just freshmen and sophomores, but is expected to play varsity sports in all sports the first year, except for football.
The school will be a member of the Greater Neuse River 4-A Conference.
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Here is the setup.
3 Projects - one for SL application, one for the hosting Web site, one for the custom control. So the App only has one Page, the default. Page xaml has the custom control I created. The custom control is skinnable using Style with the Tempalte Setter. The
custom control is also scriptable. Web site has an ASPX page that uses
Silverlight plugin to download the XAP. The idea is that the SL control can be "drawn at" from Javascript.Therfor, the ASPX page also has some javascript logic to
"draw" on the control.
The way I wired it is this. the plugin
OnPluginLoaded calls the Javascript function that gets the reference to the scriptable class and calls the drawing functions.
The effect is NullReferenceException. That is because inside the control RootElement was not yet instantiated. That is because MyCustomControl.OnApplyTemplate has not yet been called. it is inside OnApplyTemplate I instantiate ElementRoot
ElementRoot = GetTemplateChild(ElementRootName)
So here is the short question: what shold I do? How do I make sure the page controls are all loaded before the javascript layers kicks in. If anything else fails, I'll wire up a MyConstomControl.Ready event to some Javascript function.
The long question - what is the inner mechanics? I assumed without actually knowing, that plugin loads, it downloads the XAP, creates teh App, hence App.App() is called, then it somehow calls Application_Startup and Page() gets created, where its Loaded event
is routed to Page_Loaded handler
I further assumed it is only then the event is fired to trigger Javascript.
Hello, the order is: SilverlightPlugin.OnPluginLoaded, Application.Startup, Page.Loaded, and finally, Control.OnApplyTemplate. So in your case, yes, you should create a custom event to use in JavaScript after OnApplyTemplate is completed.
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After a long day exploring the Palace of Fine Arts, discovering Fisherman's Wharf, or shopping in Chinatown, come back to the Howard Johnson Express Inn South San Francisco SFO, comfortably park your car right in front of your hotel room, and rest your weary body in a soft and comfy bed. When you wake up, meet our friendly staff in the hotel lobby, where a complimentary deluxe continental breakfast and fresh coffee awaits you. At the Howard Johnson Express Inn South San Francisco SFO, your expectations for high standards in quality, cleanliness, and service are matched only by our staff's dedication to please you. Every room is newly remodeled and includes an coffee/tea maker, iron/ironing board, hair dryer, In-Room Safe, Free Wireless High Speed Internet Access, and 25 inch Cable TV with HBO/ESPN. At the Howard Johnson Express Inn South San Francisco SFO, you will always be treated like royalty!
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FOOTBALL; Crush Gives Elway Another Championship
Published: June 13, 2005
Clay Rush kicked a 20-yard field goal as time expired to give the Colorado Crush a 51-48 victory over the Georgia Force on Sunday in the ArenaBowl.
John Dutton set up the winning field goal with a 37-yard pass to Kevin McKenzie with 5 seconds left. Georgia was penalized for roughing Dutton on the play, giving the Crush the ball on the 4.
The former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway accepted the Foster ArenaBowl Trophy as the part-owner of the Crush, which won its first title in just its third season in the Arena Football League.
Elway called it a thrill to win the ArenaBowl as an owner, but ''a totally different gratification'' from winning the Super Bowl in 1998 and 1999.
Dutton finished 23 of 41 for 347 yards and 3 touchdown passes. Damian Harrell led the Crush in receiving with 8 catches for 122 yards and 2 touchdowns, and Willis Marshall added 6 receptions for 111 yards and a touchdown and also ran 4 times for 12 yards and 3 scores.
Georgia's Matt Nagy was 24 of 36 for 247 yards and 4 touchdown passes and also ran for a score. Derek Lee had 12 catches for 133 yards and 3 touchdowns, and Chris Jackson added 7 receptions for 84 yards and a touchdown.
There were six running touchdowns and one field goal in the first half, unusual in a league that emphasizes passing.
Georgia lost momentum early, turning the ball over on an interception and fumble in its first three possessions.
On the Force's first play from scrimmage, Nagy's pass was intercepted by Ahmad Hawkins, who went on to win defensive player of the game honors. Hawkins also recovered a fumble late in the second quarter.
Nagy said the interception threw the Force off their rhythm, and Dutton said it energized the Crush. ''The defense steps up and gets a big pick, and then it is on from there,'' Dutton said.
The Crush took just 2 minutes 42 seconds to score on a 1-yard plunge by Marshall, who was selected the offensive player of the game. He also was honored as the ironman of the game, an award given to the game's top two-way player.
The game attracted a crowd of 10,822 at the 15,621-seat Thomas & Mack Center.
Photo: Ahmad Hawkins, left, and Donny Klein celebrated yesterday after Colorado won its first Arena League title. (Photo by R. Marsh Starks/Associated Press)


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by Jim Boyle
Excitement is building for Manufacturers Week, which has been proclaimed by the city of Elk River as Oct. 22–28.
Four Elk River manufacturing businesses are working with Elk River High School and the city of Elk River to offer tours of their facilities, in addition to public tours of two of the businesses, according to Clay Wilfahrt, assistant director of economic development for Elk River.
M and M Machine, J and J Machine, Alliance Machine and Metal Craft have agreed to open up to students. M and M Machine and Metal Craft have tentatively agreed to host public open houses from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23.
"Manufacturers contribute to the economy with $16.4 billion in wages throughout the state," Wilfahrt told members of the Elk River Economic Development Authority.
Elk River is home to about 65 manufacturers, which employ 800 people.
Wilfahrt also touched on the recent decision to seek greater collaboration and partnership between government, education and manufacturers at a recent Sherburne County Manufacturers Connections event at Glenn Metalcraft in Princeton.
Manufacturers Week will be a chance to foster that. More meetings are planned between the groups.
One goal of the tours is to get students networking with professionals and learning about what occupations are out there when they're young and can readily switch and decide what their career paths will be.
Bryan Provo, owner of Alliance Machine, said he's glad the EDA is staying involved with this effort.
"(Manufacturers) get overlooked in a lot of communities," he said. "Speaking as a manufacturer, we do need more up-and-coming talent. The well is running dry.
"It's easier to persuade kids than someone who needs to change their career path, although that's fine with me, too."


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Panasonic Corporation (TOKYO:6752)(NYSE:PC) held a ceremony to honor winners of its Eco Picture Diary Global Contest at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Japan on Tuesday, November 6. On June 3, 2011, Panasonic and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre signed a strategic partnership agreement to promote sustainable development through World Heritage conservation and environmental education for the next generation. The Eco Picture Diary Global Contest Ceremony was held in conjunction with the 40 th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention.
Welcome message by UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova (Photo: Business Wire)The Eco Picture Diary Global Contest is a program that gives children the opportunity to learn about environment issues while keeping track of their eco activities in a diary format. Approximately 300,000 children from 51 countries and regions participated in the 2012 Eco Picture Diary Global Contest. The national winners from 33 countries attended and were honored at the global ceremony in Kyoto. Each of the children gave a presentation of their unique eco activity in their respective countries. Many dignitaries attended this global event, including Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa, UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova and UNESCO Artist for Peace ambassador and world famous soprano singer Sarah Brightman. In her speech, Mrs. Bokova said that the bright future lies in the hands of the children and encouraged them to spread eco activities among family and friends. On November 7, the day after the ceremony, the children visited Ryogaoka Elementary School in Kyoto to meet and interact with their Japanese counterparts. They enjoyed cultural exchange and challenged together to make a Japanese traditional craft called "uchiwa," a fan made of wood and paper. In the afternoon, the children visited Kiyomizu Temple, another UNESCO World Heritage site in the ancient capital of Japan, as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Eco Learning Program. In this program, students can visit and participate in an interactive environment for learning about World Heritage conservation activities in cooperation with UNESCO and World Heritage Sites. Since its launch in 2011, the program has been held in 10 countries with approximately 4,000 children participated. During the Kiyomizu Temple tour, the children took part in a special light bulb changing event. Each of the children took turns changing the temple's light bulbs to LED bulbs and learned how energy-efficient LED technology contributes to environmental protection.


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Teamvantage seeks to build large facility on Fenway Avenue
Clint Riese
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The largest non-retail/non-government employer in Forest Lake is poised to become the first tenant in the city's Airport Business Park. The Forest Lake City Council will decide next month whether to donate land and $150,000 in site improvements to lure Teamvantage to build a 93,400-square-foot facility on the east side of Fenway Avenue.
Teamvantage specializes in the manufacturing of components and assemblies for medical and defense/aerospace industries. The business currently operates in 40,000 square feet at 22455 Everton Ave. N. and employs about 110 workers.
It expects to double its employee base within the next decade.
Teamvantage's plan
The privately held organization, which moved to Forest Lake from Hugo in 1992, unveiled its expansion plans at a joint meeting of the city council and Economic Development Authority on Monday. Teamvantage is working with the same architect and builders as Xccent used for its new headquarters in Wyoming.
The similarities do not end there, Teamvantage officials said. The building itself would be similar in size and appearance. The Xccent structure was also used to help project a valuation of nearly $4.2 million for the proposed building.
Officials hope to break ground in August and have construction wrap up at this time next year. Plans for the current facility are in the works but are not ready to be released at this time.
The new structure would initially be more spacious than Teamvantage would need, but would allow for anticipated growth. In fact, the company originally envisioned a smaller building but reconsidered after determining they might have needed to add on within only a few years.
Teamvantage's payroll totaled approximately $6 million in 2011 and officials estimate the business contributes another $500,000 to the local economy each year through purchases.
Formerly known as Regal Plastics, Teamvantage employed 13 workers upon its move to Forest Lake.
Now, officials hope to keep the business in town, though they say other communities are actively seeking it to relocate.
City incentives
On the city's end, there are a number of hurdles to clear before dirt can be moved. City Administrator Aaron Parrish laid out on Monday the case for providing incentives for Teamvantage to build here.
The company, he noted, is a significant employer that could add a large amount to the local tax base.
A side benefit, Parrish felt, is that the move could spur interest in the business park near the airport, which has long sat empty.
"Really, as you're aware, we've been trying to get the Airport Business Park kicked off and get that positioned for a successful long-term future in Forest Lake," he said. "To do that we've made attempts to be very aggressive given the environment we're working in."
According to the proposed development agreement, the 7.49-acre parcel will be sold for $1. The agreement will be among several documents up for consideration at the June 25 council meeting. State law also requires cities in this type of arrangement to adopt a business subsidy policy.
Also on the docket will be the development of a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district, which is how the city plans to recover the $150,000 of site improvements it would provide. The TIF district would run through 2024 and provide an additional $176,130 on top of the $150,000 repayment.
The parcel has a current market value of $660,400.
Councilwoman Jackie McNamara wondered whether the incentives would set a precedent which would make it hard to avoid such measures in future deals. Parrish said that in these times, that would be a good problem to have.
"I hope that this can serve as a catalyst for future development in the Airport Business Park," he said. "This model might be something we can replicate in the future."


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Caranthir Tower is a mod inspired by the official plug-in for The Elder Scrolls Oblivion called Frostcrag Spire. The plug-in added a wizards tower just outside of the city called Bruma, which the player had inherited from a long lost relative. Caranthir Tower was created to bring a wizards tower into the world of Skyrim, as it seems to be one of the things missing from the vanilla game. Upon entering Caranthir Tower, you will notice that much like Frostcrag Spire, it is an empty husk which you will be required to slowly fill as you play through the mod. You will first restore the tower to its former glory, and then you will have the ability to recruit members and access many of the towers great features.
No DLC is required to use this mod, however I do recommend that you have the latest version of Skyrim running on your machine. The mod will look at its best while using the Realistic Lighting Overhaul mod by Sydney666.
- Massive player real estate with plenty of storage
- Restore the tower from rubble back to its former glory
- Customizable decoration including statues
- Over 40 new spell tomes
- New staves and the ability to craft existing ones (Vanilla game only)
- The ability to recharge staves (This mod and vanilla game only)
- Hire your own staff including merchants and a personal bard
- Hire Guardians to keep watch over your tower, including a dragon for the balcony
- New followers all with their own unique abilities, including the ability not to set off traps
- Conjuration Altar for creating animal followers including Spriggans & a Wispmother
- Portals to major cities in Skyrim
Caranthir Tower can be seen from anywhere in Skyrim with a clear view of the Winterhold area. To gain access to the tower you must first gain entry to the College of Winterhold and it is best that you become the Arch-Mage, however it is NOT a requirement. You need to make your way into the Arch-Mage quarters and find a strongbox on the table oposite the bed at the back of the room. Once you open the strongbox and retrieve the key and deed, you will be able to read the deed which will show the tower's location on your map. You are now free to head over to the tower and use the key you received to gain entry.
To install the mod without the Nexus Mod Manager, download the file and use some archive software like WinRAR or 7zip. Next you will need to unzip the folder and follow the folder structure though until you get the Data folder. Drag and drop the Data folder into your Skyrim directory and let the process overwrite any files or folders it wants. Now make sure the mod's esp is ticked in your load order through the launcher you use for Skyrim, and you're good to go. If you have NMM, it is recommended you use it to install the mod rather than doing it manually.
If you wish to send me a long detailed bug report or anything like a full TESEDIT error log, then please be sure not to post it in the comments as you will clutter the page with content others do not wish to see. Send the bug report via PM on the Nexus forums or use my websites contact form. Only I need read bug reports so I can fix the issues. Thank You.
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Unified Communications Case Study: How New Unified Communications Deployment Raises Productivity for Cisco Sales
Early deployment of Unified Communications gives Cisco employees more time for customers, plus greater flexibility and collaboration.
Cisco equips its employees with the best communications and collaboration tools available to help them succeed in their work. However, today's globalized marketplace and emerging technology trends are changing the nature of business communications and the demands on employees worldwide. These changes include:
- Heightened emphasis on workplace productivity
- Greater need for workplace collaboration, often occurring spontaneously
- Use of communications tools to replace travel
- Higher customer expectations for responsiveness
- More flexible work schedules to be productive outside "regular" office hours
Cisco has more than 90,000 employees and contractors working together at 300 sites worldwide. These workers have 90,000 IP phones, 45,000 software IP phones, 40,000 mobile phones, and 70,000 voicemail boxes. Employees use instant messaging; desktop video and Cisco TelePresence®; Cisco Unified MeetingPlace®; WebEx® and WebEx Connect; and third-party web tools such as wikis; as well as file-share servers and email to collaborate and share information.
What all of these sophisticated communications tools, and the employees who use them, could benefit from is more integration to allow users to move efficiently from one tool to the next, or use several tools at once with minimal effort. They could also benefit from a capability known as presence, which gives users awareness of each other's availability, for instance, whether a coworker is currently on another call or available to join a conference. Along with presence, increased integration of unified communications tools and other collaborative applications could help Cisco employees address new workplace challenges, leading to significant productivity gains.
Randy Sorensen
Regional Sales Manager, Enterprise Voice, Cisco
A recent Cisco IT survey revealed the following:
- The average Cisco employee spends approximately 15 minutes per day "playing phone tag" with customers and business colleagues.
- The same employee spends 13 minutes per day calling multiple devices to locate an individual.
- After employees have reached each other, they spend an average of 12 minutes setting up meetings and conference calls each day.
To help address these challenges, Cisco IT partnered with Cisco sales and the Cisco Voice Technology Group to lay the foundation for the NEW. The plan's goals include:
- Provide early unified communications support to members of the Cisco ecosystem who do the most communicating; that is, sales people, to enable them to collaborate effectively with the most sophisticated unified communications tools, anytime, anywhere, and on any device.
- Furnish sales teams with unified communications products so that they can experience the business benefits first-hand, and share that experience with customers.
- Determine the best way to use the network as the platform to transform the way that users communicate and collaborate.
- Act as an early reference and experienced advocate for Cisco Unified Communications within Cisco.
An early deployment of services within the Cisco production network, NEW provides a reference point for sales, improves solution quality through internal feedback to the business units, and accelerates internal solution deployments through early exposure to support and training issues. The initial focus of NEW in 2008 is the deployment of unified communications solutions, taking advantage of the strong partnership between IT and the Cisco Voice Technology Group (VTG). The IT project team began general deployment in November 2007, deploying the NEW capabilities to more than 3500 sales people worldwide over four months.
Cisco IT's plan is to closely follow the VTG's deployments of unified communications services and apply them globally for the Cisco sales force, giving the field an opportunity to "use what they sell and sell what they use." According to Ahmed El-Gabalawy, NEW program manager, NEW serves as a link between the company's alpha and production environments, allowing users to fully incorporate the unified communications experience into their daily work lives. "We walk the line of trying to get the latest technology out to the users, while factoring in the stability of the network and being careful not to throw users into an environment that's set up to fail", says Kelly McCoy, lead IT engineer in Cisco's Alpha Solutions Group. "Our work with NEW has definitely benefited the VTG Business Unit and other groups at Cisco to find different issues or enhancements to the system that might not have been identified in an alpha or lab environment."
A recent survey of NEW users indicates that these tools are already transforming the way that Cisco employees, and particularly the sales force, do business. The more than 800 responses show that early exposure and use of the Cisco Unified Communications solutions that are available through NEW are ultimately helping employees to unify their workspaces (regardless of operating system, location, application, or device) to save time and increase productivity.
The results of the NEW deployment in all areas have been positive, and Cisco IT is on track to deliver these tools across the enterprise. User feedback in the Cisco IT survey illustrates how unified communications can immediately translate into business productivity. Within the first three months of usage, 80 percent of the survey respondents had overwhelmingly positive comments about the NEW capabilities ("I can see a real benefit here"), and 22 percent said their overall personal productivity increased ("It has made my daily work experience much better or more efficient").
Based on these limited and early survey results on productivity improvements, projections for unified communications deployment to the entire Cisco field show an estimated annual benefit of more than 1 million hours within the Cisco sales force. (The projection for annual impact assumes that only 50 percent of operational efficiencies are converted to productive use.) In monetary terms, this projected productivity impact translates to an annual benefit of US$63 million to US$80 million. (Results projected to 15,000 sales people were based on responses of 792 full-survey participants.)
The results of the NEW early field trial were so positive that Cisco IT has already successfully deployed the presence and Cisco Unified Personal Communicator capabilities in the company's production network, and as of September 2008, mobility-related solutions will be deployed in production shortly.
"Unified Communications makes my borderless office and borderless home a reality," says Randy Sorensen, a regional sales manager for Enterprise Voice. "Getting all your calls the first time, and resolving issues with the first call, eliminates telephone tag, which is a productivity killer. I find that my phone rings less, and I have fewer voicemails, even less email, because I handle most issues in a single call. Customers don't have to call back; they can reach me right away."
Cisco Unified Communications mobility products include Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator software and the Cisco Unified Mobility Advantage server, along with updates to Cisco Unified Communications Manager, to support single-number reach and dual-mode capabilities. These products played a key role in improving productivity in the NEW early field trial.
Cisco Unified Mobility, the single-number reach feature, allows employees to be reached on any of their telephones, including desk phones, mobiles, home phones, etc., using a single phone number. This capability gives users the flexibility to take calls wherever they are, and in so doing, increase both their personal freedom and their work productivity. Many users said that they felt "untethered" from the office phone, and that they could afford to do other things while waiting for an important call. In addition, the ability to reach Cisco employees with one call can influence the customer experience in positive ways.
Rob Paris, a Cisco systems engineer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, learned firsthand how single-number reach can be invaluable in a business-critical situation. One Saturday morning, a law firm that he supports had a pipe burst above an equipment rack in a remote location. The water destroyed all the equipment in the rack, taking down the network. The customer's IT manager needed to reach the systems engineer, but he only had one number for Paris: the main Cisco number. Navigating through the directory, he called Paris: extension. With single-number reach enabled, Paris' mobile phone rang in parallel to his office number. He took the call on his mobile phone and was able to help the customer get the equipment replaced on Saturday, with almost no downtime. "The customer couldn't believe he got me live," says Paris. "He thought I was in the office. Without the NEW single-number reach, this problem probably would not have been resolved until Monday morning."
When another Cisco employee needed to travel to Bogotá, Colombia, for the adoption of his first child, he was concerned that his extended stay there could interfere with his work. "I used Cisco Unified Communications capabilities, available in NEW, to keep in touch and remain productive," says Steven Craven, a Cisco consulting system engineer in Nashville, Tennessee. "Customers who called my office number could reach me no matter where I was: at the hotel, the office, or wherever I was in Colombia. My customers never had to wonder where I was, because I was always available and could support them regardless of my location."
Cisco employees in the NEW field trial estimated that the single-number reach and the single business voicemail features saved them, on average, approximately 20 minutes per day. More than 40 percent of users surveyed reported that Cisco Unified Mobility made their daily work experience much better or more efficient in the first three months.
One of the problems that NEW solved with the single business voicemail feature in Cisco Unified Mobility is the multiple mailbox scenario. "There have been many times in the past when there's been an urgent voice-mail message waiting for me in one of my mailboxes, which I didn't happen to check right at that moment," says Brooks Borcherding, director of operations for Cisco IT in the East Coast United States. "For instance, I might receive a message on my mobile phone, but the battery would be dead, so I couldn't use it. There was often a lag of hours." Borcherding observes that the single business voicemail allows him to receive all his messages, from any phone number, in one mailbox. Single-number reach makes this feature possible. When a user enables the single business voicemail feature, an unanswered call to the mobile phone terminates before the mobile voicemail box picks up, and the call rolls back into the corporate voicemail box. This capability drastically reduces not only the amount of time required to check messages periodically during the day, but also the risk of missing an important message.
Other features in Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator and Cisco Unified Mobility include presence, visual voicemail, corporate directory access, click-to-dial, and conference notification capabilities enabled by using the Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator client on mobile phones. When surveyed on how much productive time they gained each week from using these features, Cisco employees reported an average savings of approximately 17 minutes per day, with many "power users" indicating savings of more than five hours per week.
"What I've found to be the most useful tool for voicemail is Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator. It has some great features," Borcherding says. The Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator application runs on multiple mobility platforms. "I use it on my Nokia e61i. Basically, it's my office extension on my mobile phone. It gives me the ability to set my status, and then it will update my status on everything from IM to email to everything else. And I can change my status in real time." Mobile Communicator also gives users access to the corporate directory. "So if I need help from someone on my team, I can check the status of everyone on the NEW network and figure out who's available."
The convenience of the voicemail notification feature appeals to Borcherding. "If I get a new voicemail in my Unity mailbox, it sends out an indication to my mobile device, and then it streams that message to my mobile device as well. So I don't even have to call in to listen to my voicemail." Other features of Mobile Communicator that Borcherding appreciates include call logs and secure text messaging.
The dual-mode capability is another valuable mobility feature. Its chief benefit is cost savings, because it automatically shifts a call from the more costly cellular network to a wireless IP connection whenever a wireless network is available. Approximately 19 percent of Cisco employees said that being able to use their dual-mode phones as both mobile and IP wireless phones made their daily work experiences much better or more efficient. Another 41 percent responded, "I can see a real benefit here."
Employees who used the Cisco Unified Personal Communicator client for Macintosh and PC systems reported that these features saved them on average about 17 minutes per day, and about 20 percent of users said that Cisco Unified Personal Communicator made their daily work experience much better or more efficient. Cisco Unified Personal Communicator is a communications client that includes an IP softphone, allowing employees to use their laptops as both portable office desktops and portable office phones. It integrates presence, phone calls, voice messaging, instant messaging, and ad hoc meetings into a single tool, making access to people and information fast and easy. Presence status information lets employees see on their laptop whether a business associate is available. Visual voicemail lets employees see each voicemail in a list, which they can selectively listen to or delete. And the Click-2-Conference feature lets employees instantly initiate a web conferencing session for quick sharing.
Figure 1. The View/Listen Screen on Cisco Unified Personal Communicator Shows Available Contacts and Voicemail Messages
"As quickly as I think of someone I need to talk to, I can see if they are available," Sorensen says. "If they are, I click on their name and I'm connected." Sorensen estimates that features such as presence improve his work time productivity by about 5 to 10 percent.
Chuck Churchill, Unified Communications program owner, says, "Here is the power of unified communications: I was reviewing a financial spreadsheet from a colleague when I noticed a critical error. I used Cisco Unified Personal Communicator to see if the person was available, and then used Click-to-Dial to call his office. When he picked up, I explained my concern, then used Click-2-Conference to launch an ad hoc web conference, through which I quickly shared the spreadsheet. My colleague gathered another person in his office and we all agreed on the issue. This interaction took place over the course of five minutes."
Another useful feature is synchronization of the "message waiting" indicator. Cisco Unified Communications give users the ability to check voicemail from their single business voicemail box on the device of their choice. Marc Sanchez, a channel systems engineer in Paris, often uses Cisco Unified Personal Communicator to check voicemail from his laptop. The "new message" indicator is synchronized with all his devices, so that if he deletes a voicemail message from his laptop or his mobile phone, the light goes off on his desk phone.
Cisco employees said Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 6.0 (with optional video-conference support) saved them on average approximately 10 minutes per week. Because most users already had access to an earlier version of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace voice and web collaboration, the difference in productivity gains was not as significant as in other product areas. Having access to integrated Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web collaboration through Cisco Unified Personal Communicator's Click-2-Conference feature saved an additional 10 minutes per day. Many survey respondents commented that they liked the ability to set up a video conference as quickly as an audio conference with Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, especially with the mobile scheduling option.
Figure 2. Cisco Unified MeetingPlace: Incorporating Voice, Video, and Web Collaboration
Brooks Borcherding appreciates the ease of collaboration delivered in the NEW Unified Communications, and says that he and his colleagues have quickly made it a staple of their workplace communications. "I can start with a simple chat conversation and then escalate that smoothly to web collaboration, and from there to web and video collaboration, to web video and telephony," says Borcherding. "Within my team, that ability has gone from being an interesting type of technology, to something we've started to ingrain into our day-to-day business.
Through the acquisition of WebEx, Cisco now has another powerful conferencing solution in its toolbox: WebEx Conferencing. The company offers both conferencing options to its employees. Whereas MeetingPlace is used at Cisco as an on-premise solution, WebEx Meeting Center is a cloud-based, software-as-a-service solution that enhances the company's ability to work more closely and efficiently with customers, partners, and for Cisco's own internal needs.
Survey respondents also noted that integrated video will likely prove to be even more effective as more and more people incorporate it into their everyday collaboration toolkit. Twenty-five percent of the respondents said a desktop video solution would enable them to avoid travel.
According to Borcherding, spending physical time with customers to develop a personal rapport is still very important. "But the NEW tools enable me to have much more frequent, much more rich conversations with customers," he says. In terms of travel avoidance, he says that the tools enable him to spend much less time traveling to be with his team. "In the past, from a coaching, development, and relationship perspective, I found myself feeling compelled to travel more to spend physical time with people. Now I can have a much better, richer experience with my team through these tools, and I did significantly reduce my travel because of that."
Figure 3. WebEx Meeting Center: Incorporating Voice, Video, Presence, and Web Collaboration
Employees estimate that Cisco Unity® 5.0 saves them an average 13 minutes per day, and 18 percent of those surveyed say (Cisco Unity 5.0) "has made my daily work experience much better or more efficient" Cisco Unity messaging (version 5.0 and later) integrates with Microsoft Outlook, IBM Lotus Notes, and other integrated email packages, enabling employees to retrieve voicemail messages from the same inbox that they use for their email messages. This capability is significant, because 33 percent say they use Cisco Unity "continually throughout the day," and another 30 percent say that they use it "multiple times per day.
Marc Sanchez is among those who use Cisco Unity throughout the day. Among the many Cisco Unity 5.0 improvements that Sanchez appreciates is the ability to visually differentiate between email and voicemail messages in the queue. Message types are indicated with icons.
One of the most innovative features in the NEW version of Cisco Unity is Message Monitoring (supported in Cisco Unity versions 5.0 and 7.0), which gives users an unprecedented, two-part voicemail capability: first, to screen voicemail while a caller is leaving a message; and second, to intercept the call midway through the message. This feature is similar to that provided by telephone answering machines.
Since the start of the early field trial, Cisco IT has upgraded the NEW environment to Cisco Unity 7.0, which introduces several valuable features and benefits:
User interface improvements include enhanced capabilities of the telephony user interface, such as "follow me" features that are easy to modify, and the ability to establish a preferred answering device based on the calling party ID. Another improvement is the ability to shorten messages and to know the length of the message before playing it.
Increased productivity results from the system's ability to learn from and adapt to repeated user behavior, For example, if a user logs in from the same number repeatedly, she might be asked if she would like the system to recognize her at that number. Additionally, the system can now match a user's search keystrokes against a list of names most recently called, speeding the number lookup process by reducing the number of keystrokes needed.
Scalability Improvements include reduced total cost of ownership and operations expenditures (OpEx). Cisco Unity 7.0 increases scalability by supporting twice the number of users (one Unity 7.0 server supports 15,000 users, as compared to 7500 users with version 5.0). It also saves IT staff time by supporting the ability to import and edit voicemail box configurations in bulk.
Cisco Unified Communications operates on a network-centric architecture delivered on software. One major benefit of the unified communications architecture is that it requires no servers in remote field offices. "The architecture within Cisco is entirely supported by the 15 production Cisco Communications Manager clusters in our global data centers," Sanchez says. The NEW environment at Cisco is global, with three clusters serving the United States and Canada, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions, in parallel to the aforementioned production clusters.
Figure 4. Cisco Architecture for the NEW Field Trial
To support the services that make up the NEW product set, Cisco IT staff needed to make several additions to the company's current architecture, including:
- Four new classes of server or appliance in the network:
- Cisco Unified Presence servers, which (through integration with the Cisco Unified Personal Communicator client software) learns and shares presence information.
- Cisco Unified Mobility Advantage servers, which support transferring calls across mobile and office phones, and support dual mode connectivity for both in-office, IP-based Wi-Fi, and cellular mobile outside the office.
- Cisco United Application Environment servers, which provide support for any new application for integration with the UC environment, like any-context click to talk, or presence information for partner applications
- Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, which secures the Internet connection to Presence and Mobility Advantage servers, and supports phone proxy services for secure phone access from the Internet
- Three basic network upgrades:
- Java Telephony Application Programming Interface (JTAPI) clusters of the Cisco Unity voicemail Interactive Voice Response (IVR) upgrades (these are the voice response units that guide callers through the voicemail menus) to work with the new Cisco Unified Communications Manager servers.
- Cisco Unified MeetingPlace conferencing server upgrades, to support video and better integration with Cisco Unified Personal Communicator.
- Two new client software packages, which employees can download:
- Cisco Unified Personal Communicator client software to turn the PC into a single unified communications device, providing access to voice, video, web conferencing, instant messaging, and presence information.
- Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator software for mobile PDA (personal digital assistant) and Wi-Fi devices to support single-number reach.
The NEW environment is highly dynamic and changes frequently as the IT group deploys the latest available product versions and capabilities. The survey results discussed in this case study are based on product versions that were in use in April 2008. As of September 2008, Cisco's NEW environment has been significantly upgraded, and upgrades will continue to change this environment throughout the life of this document.
|Table 1. NEW Environment Components
|Version: April 2008 (Survey)
|Version: September 2008
|Cisco Unified Communications Manager
|Cisco Unified Presence Server
|Cisco Unified Messaging
|Cisco Unity 5.0
|Cisco Unity 7.0
|Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator
|Secure Proxy
|Proxy Servers for Presence and Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator servers
|Cisco ASA 5500 Series supporting Cisco Unified PhoneProxy
|Cisco Unified MeetingPlace
|6.0 (for audio server) and 7.0 (all others)
|Cisco Unified Personal Communicator
|Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator
Because the NEW deployment is a field trial and not yet supported in the entire Cisco enterprise production network, the Cisco IT project managers have worked closely with both users and the product development team. One of the measures that the IT group implemented was to establish a set of online self-support forums, which were originally intended to help lower support costs. A healthy and engaged community of users now frequents those forums. According to Chris Ross, IT project manager for NEW, what makes these forums valuable to the users and the IT organization are several elements:
- The IT group has defined forum moderators to create the effect of an informal online meeting. Additionally, the moderator helps control and direct discussions.
- The ability to pose questions directly to their peers gives users real-world feedback from others using the product in the same way.
- Users not only pose questions or problems, but also post their successes and solutions as references for others.
Another important part of the field trial involves gathering feedback and using it to improve the product for general availability. Ahmed El-Gabalawy has spotted several opportunities to fine-tune the products. For example, with Single-Number Reach, many users might want to set their phones to reach their mobile device from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and then afterwards turn their phones off. "With the early product release we have right now, that setup requires three menu options. Based on feedback from users, we're going to make that interface much easier and faster," says El-Gabalawy.
Within NEW, Cisco IT is aggressively extending the business transformation benefits of unified communications. Already, Cisco IT has tested and is beginning to deploy the latest versions, including:
- PhoneProxy for secure IP phone access from any location.
- Cisco Unified Operations Manager, in testing now, for monitoring all of an organization's unified communications, providing an overall snapshot of the unified communications environment. The tool creates reports and includes a user-facing application so that end users can get a synopsis of the environment as well. This tool is now in Cisco's production environment, running on Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.0.
- Cisco Unified Presence Server federation, enabling users at different companies to gain visibility into the presence of other companies' employees.
- Cisco Unified Application Engine servers: Cisco application developers are starting to integrate unified communications features into sales and engineering support tools using Personal Communicator APIs. One early example is a tool that links partners, requesting authorization for a sale, to a presence-enabled, click-to-dial list of Cisco sales approvers, cutting days off the partner approval process.
- A new Click-to-Dial feature, supported by Cisco Unified Communications Manager, that enables a user to click on text within an application such as Word or Excel and, if the text is recognizable as a phone number, the software will automatically initiate dialing the number on a user-defined CTI device (typically the desk phone).
- Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, to help automate the labor-intensive task of provisioning voicemail.


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