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Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is a high fantasy real-time strategy video game released by Blizzard Entertainment on July 3, 2002 in the U.S. It is the second sequel to Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, and it is the third game set in the Warcraft fictional Universe. An expansion pack, The Frozen Throne, was released on July 1, 2003.
Warcraft III contains four playable races:[1] Humans and Orcs, which had previously appeared in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and the Night Elves and Undead, which were introduced to the Warcraft mythos in this installment.[2] Warcraft III 's single-player campaign is laid out similarly to that of StarCraft, also by Blizzard Entertainment, being told through all four of the game's races in a progressive manner. Multiplayer mode allows for play against other players, via the internet, instead of playing against computer-controlled characters as is done in the single-player custom game mode.
The game proved to be a best seller and one of the most anticipated and popular computer game releases, with 4.5 million units shipped to retail stores and over one million units sold within a month.[3] Warcraft III won many awards including "Game of the Year" from more than six different publications.[4]
Warcraft III takes place on a map of varying size, such as large plains and fields, with terrain features like rivers, mountains, seas, or cliffs. In Campaign mode, the map is initially covered with the Black Mask, an impenetrable covering.[5] The Mask is removed from areas that have been explored, but those that are no longer within sight range of an allied unit or building are instead covered with the Fog of war; though terrain remains visible, changes such as enemy troop movements and building construction are unseen.[5] During a game, players must establish settlements to gain resources, defend against other players, and train units to explore the map and attack computer controlled foes. There are three main resources that are managed in Warcraft III: gold, lumber, and food.[6] The first two are required to construct units and buildings, while food restricts the maximum number of units the player may control at one time.[7]
The game also introduces creeps, computer controlled units that are hostile to all players.[8] Creeps guard key areas such as gold mines or neutral buildings and, when killed, provide experience points, gold, and special items to a player's hero.[8] Warcraft III also introduced a day/night cycle to the series.[9] Besides having advantages or disadvantages for certain races, at night most creeps fall asleep, making nighttime scouting safer; however, the line of sight for most units is also reduced. Other minor changes to the gameplay were due to the 3D terrain. For instance, units on a cliff have an attack bonus when attacking units at lower elevations.[2]
In previous Warcraft games, there were two playable races, Orcs and Humans. In Warcraft III, the Night Elves and the Undead are added as playable races.[1] As in StarCraft, each race has a unique set of units, structures, technologies, and base-building methodology.
In addition, Warcraft III adds powerful new units called heroes. For each enemy unit killed, a hero will gain experience points, which allow the hero to level-up to a maximum level of 10. Progressing up a level increases the heroes attributes and also allows the hero to gain new spell options (bringing role-playing video game elements to the series).[10] Certain hero abilities can apply beneficial auras to allied units. All heroes can equip items to increase skills, defense, and other abilities. At level six, the hero can obtain an "ultimate" skill that is more powerful than the three other spells that the hero possesses. Heroes can also utilize the various natural resources found throughout the map, such as controllable non-player characters, and markets in which the hero can purchase usable items.[11] Often, hero units become the deciding factor in determining a winner.
Warcraft III 's campaign mode is broken up into five campaigns (including an optional prologue), each featuring a different race which the player controls (2 Orc campaigns, 1 Human, 1 Undead, and 1 Night Elf). Each campaign is itself divided into chapters. Unlike previous Blizzard titles, such as Warcraft II or StarCraft, players are not directed to mission briefings in which plot exposition occurs and objectives are announced; rather, Warcraft III uses a system of "seamless quests."[12] Some plot development happens in an occasional cinematic, but most occurs in-game with cutscenes. Objectives, known as quests, are revealed to the player during the progress of the map. Main quests are those that the player must complete to proceed to the next chapter, but there are also optional quests which are not initially revealed, but can be discovered and completed alongside the main objectives.
Through each race's campaign, the player retains control of one or more heroes, which slowly grow in experience as the levels progress. This experience is carried over to subsequent missions, allowing the hero to grow throughout the course of the campaign.
While different in terms of storyline and precise gameplay, all of the different races' campaigns are structured similarly. Each begins with a level involving simple mechanics to introduce the player to the race and the basic elements of their hero and units. After one or two such levels the player's first "building mission" occurs, requiring them to build and maintain a base while competing with one or more enemy forces. The only campaign that breaks this pattern is the Night Elf campaign, whose first mission involves building a limited base. The last level of each race's campaign is an "epic battle" which means that the player has to strike down a large number of enemy foes and finally destroy their main base.
While campaign games can have many different objectives, the sole objective in multiplayer games is to destroy all the buildings of the opposition. In default melee matches, players can pick their own heroes, and losing one will not end the game. To make the game proceed more quickly, by default the map is covered in fog of war instead of the Black Mask.[2] Warcraft III, like Blizzard's previous title StarCraft, allows for single and multiplayer replays to be recorded and viewed, allowing a game to be played at slower and faster speeds and viewed from the perspective of all players.[13] Like all previous Blizzard titles since Diablo, Warcraft III uses the Battle.net multiplayer network. Players can create free accounts in regional "gateways," which helps reduce lag; these are Azeroth (U.S. East), Lordaeron (U.S. West), Northrend (Europe), and Kalimdor (Asia).[14] Unlike previous Battle.net-enabled games, Warcraft III introduced anonymous matchmaking, automatically pairing players for games based on their skill level and game type preferences, preventing players from cheating and inflating their records artificially.[15] If players want to play with a friend in ranked matches, Warcraft III offers "Arranged Team Games", where a team joins a lobby and Battle.net will search for another team; as with anonymous matchmaking, the enemy team is not known beforehand.[15] Players can also host custom games, using maps either created in the Warcraft III World Editor, or the default multiplayer scenarios. The game also offers Friends Lists and Channels for chatting, where players can create custom channels or join Blizzard-approved ones.[16] Warcraft III also allows players to band together to form "clans", which can participate in tournaments or offer a recreational aspect to Warcraft III. Global scores and standings in matchmaking games are kept on a "ladder".[17] These rankings can be checked online without the need of the game.
Due to the version 1.24 patch, many third-party programs have been rendered unusable. Several third-party programs that reveal the entire map, commonly known as maphacks, have been released for the update. It also disabled collided maps, which would make modified custom maps appear to be the same as the original. Another effect of the patch, which is not included in the release notes, is that custom maps with large filenames will not appear in the game. The limit is believed to be 20 characters, but this has not yet been tested.[18] This patch also rendered many custom maps unplayable due to custom map scripts. Even some versions of the famous Defense of the Ancients were no longer functioning.
Warcraft III takes place in the fictional world of Azeroth. Several years before the events of the games, a demon army known as the Burning Legion intent on Azeroth's destruction corrupted a race called the Orcs, and sent them through a portal to attack Azeroth. After many years of fighting, the Orcs were defeated by a coalition of humans, dwarves and elves known as the Alliance; the surviving combatants were herded into internment camps, where they seemed to lose their lust for battle. With no common enemy, a period of peace followed, but the Alliance began to fracture. The events of Warcraft III occur after a timeskip from Warcraft II. This period was originally intended to have been documented in Warcraft Adventures, but that game was canceled in mid-development.[19]
The game's plot is told entirely through cinematics and cutscenes, with additional information found in the Warcraft III manual. The campaign itself is divided into five sections, with the first acting as a tutorial, and the others telling the story from the point of view of the humans of Lordaeron, the Undead Scourge, the Orcs, and the Night Elves, in that order.
The game opens with the
Warcraft III was met with critical acclaim; the game averages a 93.02% at GameRankings,[32] and "Universal Acclaim" at MetaCritic, based on dozens of reviews.[33] While GamePro noted that "WarCraft III doesn't revolutionize the RTS genre", they still praised Blizzard for delivering a title with "a well-executed story, drum-tight game-play and a long shelf life as a multi-player title."[34] GameSpot noted that as with StarCraft, the ability to experience the action from all sides "is of great appeal." The reviewer also noted that Warcraft III made the early stages of the game more interesting and less formulaic; in most RTS games, he noted, "the initial build-up period in such games is merely a race to get to the best units first."[35] Most reviewers noted that Blizzard had finally fleshed out the storyline of the first two Warcraft titles, finally giving each side its own motivations and differences beyond cosmetics.[38] IGN noted that "There's not a ton that's new to RTS buffs out there, but it's done well enough that you either won't notice or won't care."[36] However, reviewers noted that the character models were of mediocre quality, especially when viewed up close during in-game cinematics.[35]
Warcraft: The Board Game, a tabletop board game released in 2003 by Fantasy Flight Games, draws heavily on Warcraft III for plot and other elements of the game.
Warcraft III is also available in the Best Sellers Series alongside StarCraft and its expansion StarCraft: Brood War, Diablo, Diablo II, and World of Warcraft. Also, a selection of games from other companies other than Blizzard have been included in the Best Sellers Series.
Another version, the Exclusive Gift Set, came bundled with the cinematic DVD, official BradyGames strategy guide, and Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition.
Blizzard Entertainment also released the Warcraft Battle Chest, which contains Reign of Chaos bundled with The Frozen Throne in one box, along with guides from BradyGames.
In addition to the regular game, there also exists a limited Collector's Edition Warcraft III bundle.[31] The collector's edition box contained a Warcraft III cinematic DVD, including behind-the-scenes features and the cinematics of all prior Warcraft games; a Collector's Edition Soundtrack; a Collector's Edition instruction manual; The Art of Warcraft book; and lithographic prints.
In the middle of January 2002, Blizzard shipped out 5000 beta versions of Warcraft III to randomly selected testers in order to help improve it before being released in stores. The beta release had all the game's units and races; however, it was only playable over Battle.net. Single player games and LAN play were not playable on the beta version of the game.[30]
After ECTS 2001 Blizzard experimented with different resources and had versions of the game with gold, lumber, mana stones and upkeep or a race depending resource that represented the population like the required food in newer versions.
The next change came at ECTS 2001, when the interface became almost what it is today. The biggest changes of this version was, that lumber became a resource and heroes got an inventory, though in a video from April 2001, you could already see an item on the ground.
Around April 19, 2000 Blizzard released new screenshots of Warcraft III, these were completely without interface. These screenshots showed heroes and a number of abilities. More screenshots came around May 2000. These screenshots showed the new interface of the game, which looked like the human interface in the eventual final release, however had small cannons above the minimap and the command button space. The gold display was still eye-shaped, but the last screenshot before E3 2000 shows a rectangle-shaped gold display. Most models, icons, textures and abilities that you can find on these screenshots never appeared in the retail version. Then from E3 2000 around May 12, 2000 to ECTS 2000 the game didn't change very much. The next major changes came between ECTS 2000 and E3 2001, when a different interface and the Night Elf race was revealed.
Around January 24, 2000 a video from Korea appeared on the Internet; the video showed some aspects of gameplay along with commentary by Rob Pardo. This version already had an interface concept, however most of the interface were placeholders. It had a map, icons for abilities and unit commands and an eye-shaped display for gold.
Warcraft III was announced as a role-playing-strategy game (RPS) with flexible camera movement. The first version shown at ECTS 1999 had no interface however did have portraits for the heroes. Various articles showed that abilities and items were used via right-click on a unit and an appearing icon collar.
The game was announced by a press conference inside the Henley-Suite at the European Computer Trade Show 1999. Development started in early 1998 and development stages were presented at ECTS 1999, 2000 and 2001, E3 2000, 2001 and 2002 and on a tour where Bill Roper visited video game magazines.
Some custom maps have enjoyed great success, particularly maps based on AoS (Aeon of Strife) such as Defense of the Ancients, which became a tournament item at BlizzCon 2005 and other tournaments around the world.[28][29] These inspired the fruition of the multiplayer online battle arena genre.
As did Warcraft II and StarCraft before it, Warcraft III ships with a "World Editor" program that allows players to create their own custom scenarios and maps. The World Editor has features such as unit editing and event triggers. Through Battle.net, players can download and play peers' custom maps. To facilitate modding, third-party developers released tools for spell editing through SLK spreadsheets, customizing skins with .BLP converters, JASS editing, and a file importer that opened up .MPQs. The World Editor was expanded and improved for The Frozen Throne expansion. Though the editor has received updates through game patches, it is not officially supported as a product.[27]
One of the signatures of Blizzard games are the unit quotes. If a single unit is clicked four or more times in a row, the unit's voice samples become increasingly comical. The unit may start getting angry at the player, or make allusions and references to other games, film or jokes. Works quoted include Monty Python, Blade Runner, Star Wars films Episode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Army of Darkness, and Toy Story. Games like Mortal Kombat, Warhammer 40,000, Blizzard's own StarCraft, and Banjo-Kazooie are paid homage, in addition to shows such as Saturday Night Live, The Twilight Zone, and Beavis and Butthead.
Most of the music of Warcraft III was composed by Tracy W. Bush, Derek Duke, Jason Hayes, and Glenn Stafford.[26] The Limited Edition of Reign of Chaos came with much of the orchestral music on a separate soundtrack. Each of the four playable races has different music: monastic music for the humans; ambient and Native American-sounding music for the Night Elves; warlike African-sounding music for the Orcs; and fast, haunting music for the Undead. New musical themes were added in the expansion.
Tyrande Whisperwind, leader of the Night Elves, is outraged to find the Humans and Orcs violating the forests and blames them for Cenarius' death, so she initially vows to destroy both. However, she soon finds out that the Burning Legion has arrived on Kalimdor. In order to oppose the Burning Legion, Tyrande reawakens the sleeping Elf Druids, starting with her lover, Malfurion Stormrage, and frees his brother Illidan Stormrage from prison, against Malfurion's will. Illidan meets Arthas, who tells him about the powerful "Skull of Gul'dan". Consuming the Skull and becoming a demon-elf hybrid, Illidan uses its power to kill Tichondrius. He is however banished from the forest by his brother as he is now part demon. Meanwhile, the Prophet summons Thrall, Jaina, Tyrande and Malfurion, and reveals that he used to be Medivh, the Last Guardian and the betrayer from Warcraft: Orcs & Humans... The Humans, Orcs, and Night Elves form a reluctant alliance to spring a trap on the Burning Legion, and delay it long enough for many ancestral spirits to destroy Archimonde at Mount Hyjal. Peace once again comes to Kalimdor as the Burning Legion's forces wither away in defeat.[25]
Thrall the warchief arrives on Kalimdor, meeting Cairne Bloodhoof and the tauren, and clashes with a human expedition on the way to find an Oracle. Meanwhile, the Warsong Clan are left behind in Ashenvale to build a permanent settlement, but anger the Night Elves and their demigod Cenarius by cutting down the forests for resources. To defeat them, the Warsong leader Grom Hellscream drinks from a corrupted fountain of health contaminated with the blood of the Legion's pit lord commander Mannoroth, successfully killing Cenarius, but binding his clan to the Legion's control. Thrall manages to reach the Oracle, in fact the Prophet, who tells him of Grom's doings. Following the Prophet's directions, Thrall and Jaina join forces to purge both Grom and the world of demonic influence. They succeed in capturing Grom and healing him of Mannoroth's corruption. Thrall and Grom begin to hunt Mannoroth and Grom kills him, dying in the process, but in doing so freeing the orcs from the demonic control of Mannoroth at last. Thrall tells the lifeless Grom that he freed them all and lets out a piercing roar alerting Jaina and Cairne to Grom's death.
Now an Undead Death Knight, Arthas meets with the leader of the dreadlords, Tichondrius, who assigns him a series of "tests". Arthas first exhumes the remains of Kel'Thuzad and contains them in the magic urn that holds the ashes of his father, which was protected by Uther the Lightbringer, head paladin of The Order of the Silver Hand as well as Arthas' former mentor and close friend. Arthas kills him too, then sets off to Quel'thalas, kingdom of the high elves. He then later attacks the gates and destroys their capital of Silvermoon. He kills Sylvanas Windrunner, the Ranger General of Silvermoon (only to resurrect her as a banshee), corrupts their sacred Sunwell and revives Kel'Thuzad as a Lich. The Lich informs him of the Burning Legion; a vast demonic army who are coming to consume the world. Kel'Thuzad's true master is the Lich King, who was created to aid the Legion with his Undead Scourge, but in truth he wishes for the Legion to be destroyed. Arthas and Kel'Thuzad open a dimensional portal and summon the demon Archimonde and the Burning Legion, who begins his purging of Lordaeron with the destruction of Dalaran. Arthas and Kel'Thuzad are cast aside by Archimonde, and Kel'Thuzad reveals to Arthas that the Lich King has already foreseen it and is planning to overthrow the Burning Legion.
Meanwhile, the Lich King. Some time later, Arthas returns to Lordaeron and kills his father, King Terenas.
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Firefighters were alerted at 3:38 a.m. and although the fire was visible from the beginning of the street, trucks struggled to get down the residents' long driveway at 2847 South Villa Avenue, said Kevin Finkenkeller of Cal Fire-Butte County.
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One unidentified occupant, a 26-year-old male, was pronounced dead on the scene and the surviving occupant of the home escaped through a window, Ekdahl said.
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This article discusses the early history of Maryland in the context of religious discrimination, specifically in reference to discrimination against those of the Jewish faith, even though the state "was founded as a haven of religious liberty and beacon of toleration." It also highlights a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Thomas Kennedy, a Christian, as being the leader of the movement to ultimately correct this injustice. Part of the problem were clauses in the state's constitution requiring officeholders to be Christians. Kennedy lost his seat in the House, but didn't give up the battle. Ha had tried several times to get bills passed to solve this problem, but many of these failed. After six years of effort, and after having been reelected to House of Delegates, his bill on behalf of the Jews passed, in February of 1825.
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Lasson on How Maryland Jews Won the Right to Vote
The Gentleman from Hagerstown: How Maryland Jews Won the Right to Vote is an article by Kenneth Lasson, University of Baltimore School of Law. It appeared in Baltimore Jewish Times (2008). Here's the abstract:
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Oberon necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Chucktown Squash
We are a relatively new nonprofit organization providing after school academic and athletic programs to motivated and talented students from economically disadvantaged families. We are based in Charleston, South Carolina, USA and are one of a handful urban squash programs that have sprung up in cities across the United States
We need to appeal to educators (teachers), donors, students, and parents, probably in that order. So the logo can't be overly sophisticated - it has to be simple, and appealing. Please see the examples attached from other urban squash programs.
We would like to keep the Blue & Yellow color scheme of the old logo. You can see the original logo as the second-to-last attached item, and a slightly revamped version as the last attached file. We don't like either of them. Feel free to use or throw out any of the elements, except the color scheme. No font requirements either.
Doesn't necessarily need to incorporate any of these elements, but possible imagery includes:
Imagery relevant to Charleston, South Carolina:
- The Ravenel Bridge (google it and you can see it in the current logo, attached)
- The Palmetto logo (a palm tree and moon, again, you can google it)
- Pineapples (a symbol of charleston
- Anything else you can find that symbolizes Charleston (maybe a crab??)
Imagery relevant to academics:
- pencils
- rulers
- Blackboards
- etc
Imagery relevant to squash
- squash rackets
- squash balls
- squash players
We need a high res pdf of the winning logo, and ideally an illustrator file as well.
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What's a Southern Sensibility Today?
Alan Jacobs on the editorial change at The Oxford American:
But you know, the South remains its own place, with its own distinctive take on the Human Comedy, and on the various human tragedies as well, and I hope it will continue to punch above its weight, literarily speaking. I think is this is going to happen the Grit Lit thing will need to be overcome, or at least to become just one of the punches it might throw at any given time. The ordinary middle-class Southern existence hasn't had a true recording angel since Walker Percy; I'd sure like to see another one. (Garden and Gun is fine as far as it goes, but Southerners have more, and more varied, stories to tell.)
I'd love to see the new Oxford American stretch the intellectual boundaries of Southern culture, and push into new territories of writing. I wish Roger Hodge well as the magazine's new editor.
I've never subscribed to TOA, though I might do it to see what Roger Hodge does with the magazine. TOA has always been a magazine I've admired, but rarely read, and I'm not sure why, other than the fact that I've always felt out of step with its portrait of the South, and Southernness. It's been so long since I've seen an issue that I've forgotten why, to be honest. I seem to recall that there was something too self-consciously Southern about it, in an English-major way. Anyway, I'll reacquaint myself with it under the new editorial leadership, and hope for the best.
We subscribe to Garden & Gun, which I like, but I'm not really the right demographic for that magazine either. But I got to thinking in the middle of an e-mail exchange with Alan yesterday: What kind of magazine of the South would hit my personal sweet spot?
I suppose it would be part TOA, part G&G, but also feature serious writing about ideas in contemporary Southern life. I got to thinking further about this, and wondering what, exactly, defines the South today? What is a Southern sensibility? Twenty-five years ago, the late Walker Percy had this exchange with an interviewer:
INTERVIEWER: Can we discuss the "Los Angelized" and re-Christianized New South? Is there anything new in the way the South is developing in the 1980s or in the way you read the South or your own relation to it?
PERCY: The odd thing I've noticed is that while of course the South is more and more indistinguishable from the rest of the country (Atlanta, for example, which has become one of the three or four megalopolises of the U.S., is in fact, I'm told by blacks, their favorite American city), the fact is that as Faulkner said fifty years ago, as soon as you cross the Mason-Dixon line, you still know it. This, after fifty years of listening to the same radio and watching millions of hours of Barnaby Jones. I don't know whether it's the heat or a certain lingering civility but people will slow down on interstates to let you get in traffic. Strangers speak in post offices, hold doors for each other without being thought queer or running a con game or making a sexual advance. I could have killed the last cab driver I had in New York. Ask Eudora Welty, she was in the same cab.
I think that's still true — that there is something distinct about the South, even today. But what? You still know it when you're here and not there, but why?
I don't think it makes much sense to say that there is a single Southern sensibility, but rather Southern sensibilities. Florence King famously distinguished between the South of horses, tobacco, and Episcopalians, and the South of mules, cotton, and Baptists. Black Southerners, obviously, have a different view on things than white Southerners, and there are class and regional variations among those groups. The race issue is still very real, though it's significantly different than it was in the 1960s. Even here in my town, there are people whose experience of the South are rather distinct. For example, the hunting club South is not the same thing as the golf course South, though some men may partake of both. Northerners tend to have this idea that Southerners grow up knowing all about the Civil War. I live a stone's throw away from my town's Confederate soldier monument, but I don't know much about the Civil War, and I'm pretty sure most people of my generation don't either. For better and for worse, television and mass culture washed away a lot of our particularity.
And yet, things are different here. I've said in this space before that one thing I noticed when I left the South at age 25 and moved to Washington, DC, is how my Southern friends and I would get together at bars or parties and start telling stories about back home, and our pals from the West, Midwest, and Northeast would listen in astonishment, assuming that we must be making it all up. But we weren't, or if any of us were, the stories were entirely plausible. We had all seen it before.
I've taken pleasure in every place I've lived in the US, but the older I grew, the more I found myself feeling like a displaced person. I never imagined that I would move back to the South, but I thought about the South a lot. I loved it sometimes and I hated it other times, but I couldn't get it out of my system. Here's the thing: I could list the things that I missed about the South, but what I really missed about the South was not the sum total of that list. But what was it?
I think I finally figured it out today, when thinking about why, even though I've lived in many good non-Southern places, none of them really felt like home. I never quite got used to the literal nature of the people among whom I've lived in other parts of the country. Don't misread me: that's not a criticism, but it is a distinction I've observed. The Southern mind is so much more poetical. Southerners don't expect 2 + 2 + 4 to add up to 8, at least not all the time. And that's okay. It's a violent region, and a region of great poverty. But it's also a region of intense humanity and powerful grace. Life here seems so vivid, like something you'd read about in a story. With Midwesterners, what you see is what you get. Not with us. The mystery and dream logic of life here appeals to me, though I wonder if I would love it so if I hadn't been raised with it. Anyway, I fit in that world, and in that worldview, in a way I didn't quite fit anywhere else.
We had a lovely thread here a while back in which New Englanders talked about the things they loved about their region. Though I've never lived in New England, and scarcely even visited it, it was a pleasure for me to read people who have writing about their passion for the place. If Southerners want to do that here, that's fine by me. But what I'd really like to know is what Southerners today think defines the sensibility of our region. Is there some unifying thread tying together the various sensibilities? I know this is a difficult question; there are distinct differences between the people from northern Louisiana and the people from southern Louisiana, and they don't all have to do with the Catholic vs. Protestant thing. Still, nobody would mistake any of us for Minnesotans. What do you non-Southerners notice about the Southern people you know and spend time around? I'm not talking about politics (so please don't!), but more general aspects of their character and way of thinking and moving through the world. Help me figure out what makes Southerners in 2012 distinct from other Americans.
To repeat: I'm not interested in reading people's complaining, but rather in thoughtful critical analysis. If you just want to take cheap potshots at the South or Southerners, don't bother.


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To celebrate her 24th birthday and status as Penthouse's June Pet of the Month, Alexis Ford invited more than a dozen of her peers to party with her at With Leather's unofficial headquarters, Rick's Cabaret, in New York City. You may know Ford from her work in such adult classics as This Ain't Jaws XXX, Cheerleaders Academy 1 and 2, Women Seeking Women 55, Captive Costume Queens and, of course, Brave Businesswomen's Bondage Peril. I own two copies of that last one.
And while Ford apparently forgot to send a couple of invites to us, her party was ultimately the place to be, as evidenced by a little birdie telling us that one professional baseball player was quite adamant about meeting the star of Squirt Girl.
Elise added, "There was a famous baseball player who started the night in the Champagne Lounge on Rick's Cabaret's first floor, and he heard about the party upstairs and asked if he could meet Ms. Ford. When he met her he gave her a loving bear hug and whispered something into her ear that made her smile."
We asked Rick's Cabaret New York spokesman Lonnie Hanover to identify the baseball player, but he declined, saying "We respect everyone's privacy at Rick's Cabaret." (Our research shows that the Tampa Bay Rays were in town against the Yankees.)
"Rick's Cabaret Girl Alundra purred, "I got to give the birthday girl a dance and it was a thrill. Alexis Ford is so sexy. I wanted to rip her clothes off."
I just remembered that I forgot to get my morning coffee, but I'll have to wait a few minutes for that now. In the meantime, we can play my favorite new game: "Which Baseball Player Snuck Into Alexis Ford's Birthday Party?"
I think the inclusion of the information about the Tampa Bay Rays is meant to mislead us. For starters, Evan Longoria is clearly the first bro-dude we'd all think of crashing porn star parties at strip clubs, but 1) he's injured and 2) he already has his hands full with Playboy Playmate Jaime Edmondson. But maybe that's all just a clever smokescreen. Maybe it's just a way to convince us that it's not actually Joba Chamberlain. Quit playing mind games, inside tipsters!
I'm just going to assume it was Rays second baseman Will Rhymes and that's why he was so seemingly sleepy when he was hit by a pitch last night.
Oh, and in case you're wondering what a porn star birthday party looks like, well, here's the PG-13 version.


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I have recently gotten a job offer that requires me to move for the summer. The hours will be long, and as any of you know who've moved before, it will be consuming a great deal of my time (the job and the move). So, as much as I hate to put the strip on hiatus for the summer, I have to to save my sanity. If this angers or irritates any of you, I apologize (not really), but paying work has to take precedence over this strip right now. I love drawing Tonja Steele, and will continue to over the summer, but I will have enough deadlines to worry about without the TS deadline on top of it. So, until further notice, TS will be put on hiatus until September.
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Irek Mukhamedov was trained at the Ballet Academy of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (1970 – 1978). His exceptional ballet career started in 1978, when he became a First Soloist with the Moscow Classical Ballet Company. From 1981 to 1990, he was a Principal Dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet and then pursued his artistic career in London, where he was a Senior Principal Dancer at the Royal Ballet until 1998 and from 1998 to 2004, a Guest Principal Dancer of the same ballet ensemble. Before he took over his post at the Slovenian National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, he was an Artistic Director of the Ballet Ensemble of the Greek National Opera and Ballet. Among other things, Irek Mukhamedov is also a President of the Legat Foundation and Vice President of the Arts Educational School Tring.
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In a One Book, One School program all of the students and faculty in a school read the same book and have organized opportunities to discuss the book. It provides each member of the school community a topic of common discussion, and can help to promote a culture of readers.
I wish I could remember where I first heard about One Book, One School. Maybe it was in the back of my mind after hearing about universities using a similar approach, or maybe it came from our public library's newsletter for the One Book, One Community, but I likely got the idea from someone suggesting it through Twitter.
I had been seriously considering the idea of trying out a One Book, One School program for about a year before I was finally able figure out the logistics of how I wanted it to work. I knew what I didn't want it to be. I knew I didn't want it to be a hassle for our families, and I didn't want it to be another assignment, or a huge contest. I wanted it to generate some excitement around reading, and give all kids and adults in the school a common frame of reference. I wanted it to be something that was fun and that could be used as a discussion starter, and something teachers could use as a touchstone text to introduce students to new ideas in their classrooms.
Because I didn't want to put more pressure on my teachers or families, I thought the best way to go about this was to buy every adult (certified and classified staff) in my building a copy of the book and it could be used for a read aloud with classes. This way parents wouldn't have to be responsible for it, and teachers wouldn't have to do anything extra - just sub one of their usual read alouds out for the selected book.
My teachers take their read alouds fairly seriously, even though it's 5-10 minutes each day that they get to spend relaxing with their class, so I met with each of my teachers this summer to ask them if they would be willing participate in the One Book, One School program. After I explained what I wanted the program to look like - and that all they would have to do is read the book to their class - all of the teachers were on board. I had a short list of books that I thought would be good: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Because of Winn Dixie, and Igraine the Brave, were the three I kept coming back to in my mind. The teachers unanimously picked Because of Winn Dixie.
ActivitiesTo generate some excitement around the program, I decided to add a few "low maintenance" activities that classes or individual students could choose to participate in. I ordered a few extra copies of the book, so I was able to give some of those copies away as prizes for participation in voluntary activities.
- Reading Calendar - I created a calendar with a suggested reading schedule.
- Daily Trivia - Each day our principal announces a trivia question that I write based on the reading calendar. Classes email me their responses and can earn a point for getting the answer correct and a bonus point for using evidence from the text to support their answer. I felt like including the text evidence was a good way for classes to practice Common Core skills. Each day our principal announces one of the correct answers submitted by a class, as well as a new question, so every day the kids are hearing good examples of how people are using evidence from the text in their responses. I also try to ask questions that will get at character development and key plot events. This also helps the kids practice Common Core skills in a fun way. There is no prize for the class with the most right answers - just a fun way to keep track of what is happening in the book. I hung a chart on the library door and fill it in when a class gets an answer correct. The kids stop by daily to check their class's progress:)
- Favorite Parts Slip - students can write down their favorite parts from the book and we are hanging them on a bulletin board. I will occasionally draw a winner from the stack of submissions and students can win a copy of the book.
- Read to a Dog Day - I contacted our local public library and was able to get the name of the owner of a therapy dog who often comes to the library for children's programming. Just this week I was able to have 24 reluctant or developing readers come to the library to read to Wilma, the therapy dog! It was such an exciting event!
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- Special Lunches - Our cafeteria agreed to have special treats associated with the book - and since even our cafeteria workers got copies of the book, I think it made it even more special.
- Character Scrapbook Page - we used the activity from Scholastic and kids who finished things fast in the computer lab or who were interested could create a character scrapbook page for their favorite character. I encouraged students to connect the character to the Character Traits program our guidance counselor has developed and give examples of how the characters in the story meet those traits.
- Animal Shelter Drive - we collected pet food and supplies for the local animal shelter.
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Sharing the Book With OthersI wanted to make sure when I shared the book with the adults in my building that I made it special. I created book marks and we tied the bookmarks to the book using ribbon. I also bought copies for the members of our School Board and the members of our Central Office administration team that work to make our school. Some members of our journalism club were presenting at the board meeting, during the month we held One Book, One School so it was perfect because they were able to deliver the books and as a sidebar explain what it was all about.
School ResponseThe response to our first One Book, One School program has been overwhelmingly positive. The younger students, who are being exposed to chapter books and discussion questions at a young age are especially loving it, and the teachers have had nothing but enthusiasm to share with me about the choice of book and about the use of the questions and extra activities. Hearing kindergarten students answer higher order questions about a complicated story and point to specific examples from the book has really been exciting to see. The read to a dog day, even though we only were able to have 24 students, made a tremendous impact on those students and will be a positive experience they can always remember about reading. For students who may not have many positive experiences with reading due to difficulty, that may be enough to recharge them.
I plan to continue the program next year and will seek feedback from my teachers about what they thought worked and didn't. We didn't have a large response to the extra activities, but I didn't consistently promote them either because I was afraid students and teachers already had enough to do with other academic demands. Those will for sure be ideas that I revisit and reflect on with teacher input.
Now, I just have to come up with a list of potential books for next year! I'm hoping students and teachers have some good ideas for things they would like to read now that they have taken a chance on this!


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Manifest will take over the account from 1 April, including management of the brand's Twitter and Facebook profiles.
The agency has also been tasked with supporting the brand's presence at several UK music festivals this summer.
The appointment was made after a competitive pitch reported by PRWeek earlier this month and the account was understood to have been previously handled by an agency called Margaret.
It was understood that the brand has grown market share since 'starting off as a trendy alternative' to brands such as Magners.
A source told PRWeek: 'They've now got a bit more of a mainstream audience and they need to create work to reflect that wider appeal.'
Speaking about Manifest's appointment, Kopparberg head of marketing Rob Calder said: 'Appointing Manifest is part of a bigger plan to evolve the marketing strategy for Kopparberg, taking it beyond the more niche and cultural focus it's had over recent years.'


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By Jean-Michel Koch, European Marketing Manager, Geomagic
The Steigenberger Graf Zeppelin hotel downtown Stuttgart was poised and ready to welcome the European Geomagic resellers and OEMs for the presentation of the new 2012 versions of Geomagic Studio, Geomagic Qualify, Geomagic Qualify Probe and Geomagic Wrap.
An amazing number of attendees were expected, 60 people, including 44 partners from 14 countries. Public transportation is on strike today in Germany, hopefully that's not gonna hurt. The event is expected to start at 11.00am for registration and a quick coffee reception .
11.00 Perfectly on time the registration started around a nice buffet and strong coffee, perfect timing as the autumn season was apparent outside and kind of freezy.
11.45 Public transportation strike? No way, they all made it. Hooray! Gerd opened the meeting with a welcome to all partners, presenting them 1:1, that s cool! and an overview of the schedule
12.30 Porsche (image left) gave us a presentation as a taste of the great content we can expect during the next couple of days. Great presentation, showing us that Porsche cars are more than just a product
13.00 Lunch, around 70 people walked over to the Graf Zeppelin restaurant for lunch, all people mixed up from 14 different countries, no language barrier, perfect networking
14.00 The show must go on. One of the most exciting parts is ready to be presented:- Geomagic Qualify Probe. Steve Fletcher from Geomagic UK took the lead and brought us through the whole new functionalities of this metrology software. Amazing, Nice, that's what people were saying to themselves. The atmosphere was about"give me more", very interesting times in front of us J
15.00 Time for some automation. James Preiss and Marco Albrecht presented the new functionalities of scripting and the flexibility for future applications. Exciting, very exciting.
15.30 Time for a break around a good coffee, a few people were staying in the presentation room to offer feedback of what they saw during the last 2 hours. The expression on their faces was pretty clear; it's good to be here,
15.45 Time for Geomagic Studio and Geomagic Wrap: Eric Wind was presenting the new functionalities with a focus on the anticipated Sketching functions in the 2012 products. Another step in the right direction, well done. CAD is getting closer and my job is now even easier. Cool Stuff!
17.00 Meyer Werft (image right) is presenting their shipyards; How can this huge peace of metal stay over water? A great presentation from Ralph Zimmermann about the production of the floating palace. Thanks to Geomagic these monsters can float J.
18.00 End of Day 1, we were all invited for a special event in downtown Stuttgart in a restaurant called La Commedia, a popular location for Stuttgart locals.
20.00 Perfectly on time, we were all welcome at Luigi s La Commedia, a beautiful Italian restaurant with a lounge bar just for the Geomagic community. Networking and relationship become the words of the day, with all the partners from all the countries mixing around a fantastic meal with an excellent wine. Good choice, I will come back!
02.30 We left the restaurant with the very last partner, another great day in front
After a short night and an early wake up, its time to talk business. Gerd opened the session with Information about the company, the market and the future. It resulted in a lot of interaction between the partners and a very good feedback about the positioning of Geomagic Qualify Probe in the market.
Marketing followed with a presentation (by Jean-Michel) presenting the website and the launch of the 2012 products. Good interaction between partners asking about branding, how Geomagic will announce the 2012 products and how Geomagic can help them to promote. There are a lot more tools and resources available today and they were excited to start using them.
Competitive analyses, presented by William Momenceau, were interesting to better understand how Geomagic understands its place on the market. With the new versions coming that's gonna change, way up!
After these 2 days, I left the meeting with a very positive feeling for the future. It was a very good meeting, very good information, strong networking and a clear message about the future direction. People I talked to during the meeting felt the same: I was told several times that it was the best meeting Geomagic ever held.


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I know Chaitin's constant Ω is not computable (and therefore transcendental). Are there other specific, known noncomputable numbers? I am trying to understand what distinguishes a computable transcendental number, such as π, from a noncomputable transcendental number, such as Ω. Is there anything revealing that can be said about the set difference {transcendental numbers} \ {computable transcendental numbers}?
I ask this as a novice. I am re-visiting a wonderful book that sadly can no longer be updated by Victor Klee, in which he and Wagon pose this as an open problem: If an irrational number is real-time computable, is it then necessarily transcendent? [Problem 23]
Update (19Jun12). There is an illuminating discussion under the title "Why The Hartmanis-Stearns Conjecture Is Still Open" at the Lipton-Regan blog. The Hartmanis-Stearns Conjecture is the open problem mentioned above: If a number is real-time computable, it is either rational or transcendental. If true, this has what strikes me as a counterintuitive consequence: that algebraic irrationals like $\sqrt{3}$ are in some sense "more complicated" than transcendentals.


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Tampa Bay Times Launches 'Reimagined' Web Site – TampaBay.com
By: Press Release | Tampa Bay Times
The search is smarter. The stories are easier to read. The site is filled with more video. No matter what size screen you're on, the site automatically detects it and adjusts itself to fit.
This is the new TampaBay.com, the #1 local news Web site of the Tampa Bay Times, Florida's largest newspaper.
"The new TampaBay.com now reflects the same high quality presentation of content that readers enjoy in Tampa Bay Times and tbt*. We now have three world-class delivery systems for our news and information," said Joe DeLuca, publisher of TampaBay.com and the Tampa edition of the Times.
"We have tremendously powerful search capabilities and cleaner design, which make it easier for our readers to find our great content. We also have video – a complementary storytelling platform that plays to our strengths. So far, we have had great response from our readers and advertisers," DeLuca added.
In addition to improved search, better design, and more video, the reimagined TampaBay.com loses no features when users switch from a PC to a tablet to a smart phone – a feature known as adaptive design. The new TampaBay.com also makes it easier to share photos and stories with friends on social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more.
The Times worked with 352 Media Group, which helped design the site. "Not only is it an improvement for the Times, but it also sets a new standard for the entire industry. The site lets users find information about everything from world news to what's going on in their neighborhood," Peter C. VanRysdam, chief marketing officer of 352 Media Group.
About the Tampa Bay Times
The Tampa Bay Times is widely considered one of the Top Ten newspapers in America and has won eight Pulitzer Prizes. It is Florida's largest newspaper, with an average circulation of 379,375 Sunday and 313,003 daily (ABC FAS-FAX September 2012). The Times is produced by the Times Publishing Company, which also publishes TampaBay.com – Tampa Bay's largest local news Web site with 2.7 million unique visitors each month (Nielsen NetView six-month average for 05/12-10/12). Additionally, the company publishes the free daily tbt*, an edition of the Tampa Bay Times, tb-two*, a free paper written by Tampa Bay area students distributed to students, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, PolitiFact.com; and produces special events, specialty publications, and targeted advertising programs.


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|Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's Regular Press Conference on December 1, 2017
Q: The United States has formally submitted a document to the World Trade Organization (WTO), stating its opposition to granting China market economy status, which could mean that the US is able to maintain high anti-dumping duties against Chinese exports. What's China's comment?
A: We have noted relevant reports. The spokespersons of the Commerce Ministry and our Ministry have talked about China's position on this issue many times.
The concept of the so-called non-market economy can be found in no multilateral WTO rules, since it was created by several countries during the Cold War and only incorporated into domestic laws of a scanty few of the 164 WTO members.
According to the Article 15 of China's Protocol on the Accession to the WTO, the surrogate country approach in anti-dumping cases must be abandoned as scheduled in the Protocol. It has nothing to do with whether China meets the so-called standards of market economy status or not. Some countries and individuals are trying to force a connection between these two just to serve their purpose of pulling the wool over the eyes of the public.
It is written down in black and white in the Article 15 of China's Protocol on the Accession to the WTO that the surrogate country approach used when calculating anti-dumping measures against Chinese exports must be terminated on December 11, 2016. This is clear-cut and beyond dispute. All WTO members should faithfully honor their pledges, strictly observe the rules of the international law, and earnestly fulfill their obligation under international pacts.
Q: Japanese Emperor Akihito will abdicate on April 30, 2019. He is the first Japanese Emperor to visit China. How do you comment on Emperor Akihito? What do you think of his abdication?
A: What you said is Japan's domestic affair on which we have no comment.
Emperor Akihito visited China in 1992 and held meetings with the Party and state leaders of China many times. He has played a positive role in promoting the development of China-Japan relations.
Q: Does China believe that the US objection to China's market economy status will damage China-US trade ties? What about China-US cooperation on the Peninsula nuclear issue, as the US is also seeking your cooperation on that one?
A: As I said, the concept of the so-called market economy only exists inside several countries, not in the WTO rules. By introducing this concept, the relevant countries meant to confuse it with the obligation under the Article 15 of China's Protocol on the Accession to the WTO, thus skirting their own responsibilities. We once again urge the relevant countries to strictly observe the international law and international norms and honestly fulfill its obligation under international agreements.
As for whether it has any impact or not on China-US cooperation on the Peninsula nuclear issue, China's position on this issue is very clear. In fact, we remain in communication with the US side on the Peninsula situation. You may have noticed as well that President Xi Jinping had a phone call with President Trump at the latter's request, during which they exchanged views on the Peninsula situation. We believe that China and the US are on the same page when it comes to realizing denuclearization of the Peninsula and maintaining its peace and stability. We hope that the US could work with China and the international community to bring the issue back to the right track of settlement through dialogue and consultation at an early date.
Q: A Russian parliament member said upon return from a visit to the DPRK that the DPRK has explicitly rejected the "suspension-for-suspension" proposal. Does China know anything about that? Has the Russian side informed the Chinese side of this? Have you ever directly raised this proposal to the DPRK side and what was their reaction?
A: On the Peninsula nuclear issue, China and Russia have the same stance and have been in close communication and coordination. The joint initiative, a legitimate and reasonable one based on the "dual-track" approach and "suspension-for-suspension" proposal of China and the step-by-step vision of Russia, takes into full account and accommodates in a balanced way the concerns of all relevant parties and contributes to properly resolving the Peninsula nuclear issue.
We hope that all relevant parties could show their goodwill and flexibility, and endeavor to cool down the situation on the Korean Peninsula and bring the issue to the right track of settlement through dialogue and consultation at an early date. As for the proposals separately raised by China and Russia as well as our joint initiative, the DPRK knows them very well.
Q: Senior officials in the US administration have said that President Trump plans to potentially replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with the head of the CIA. I'm aware that China doesn't comment on internal affairs of other countries, but can you comment on whether China believes it had a good working relationship with Secretary of State Tillerson, particularly over cooperation on issues like the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue?
A: You actually answered your own question. The appointment and removal of senior officials of the US government is their domestic affair. We have no comment on that. We would like to work with US officials in charge of diplomatic affairs to ensure the sound and steady development of China-US ties and safeguard regional and international peace and stability through enhanced communication and coordination on regional and international issues.


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The Yin and Yang of Inflation
Inflation like all risk is a double edge sword. Its negative nature will upset the apple cart and pose uncomfortable challenges for SME managers that have grown accustomed to the status quo.
It will force managers to reconsider their well conceived business plans and perhaps more closely scrutinize this quarters P&L or the company balance sheet. It will present serious challenges for businesses supply chain and client relationships. It may raise the eyebrows of your shareholders and credit providers perhaps provoking some pointed questions concerning your management skills and the validity of your business model.
That said inflation does have an upside. Like all risk factors it has the potential to create opportunities. Inflation will drastically alter market conditions. It will reveal inefficiencies that nimble SME can actively engage and manage to turn those market conditions to their advantage. The key operative words are management, intentionality and active engagement.
Inflation is a silent killer. It stalks all SME threatening to gobble up product margins, revenue opportunities and bottom line profits. It diminishes customer buying power and may threaten the solvency of large customers and suppliers. It drives up the cost of capital, making credit more expensive while it forces state and local governments to raise taxes and fees.
The inflation bogey man lurks in the profit and loss statements of all businesses with SME being particularly vulnerable to its effect. Inflation dramatically shows itself on the expense side of the ledger in the increases for basic materials, energy, delivery services, T&E, administrative expenses and employee benefits. Inflation also affects the income side of the profit loss statement. It erodes the buying power of your customers and threatens collection of receivables by extending days outstanding, increased write offs or the sale of uncollected debt for pennies on the dollar.
SME profitability is particularly sensitive to the effects of inflation because of economies of scale, concentration of risk factors and lack of pricing power.
Many SME lack pricing power. Pricing power suggests that if price of a product rises to a certain level demand for that product will not diminish. For a SME to have pricing power it must offer value add product to dependent buyers. Its product or service cannot be easily replicated or widely available from other sources.
While pricing power escapes most SME numerous factors inhibit their ability to become low cost producers. They deliver product or service differentiation to their customers by other means then low price. Inflation erodes consumer purchasing power driving buyers to seek low cost producers. In this environment SME may suffer when buyers trade down to low cost providers. Key customers may compel SME to lower prices to be more in line with lower cost producers. This is a major threat to SME.
SME tend to have greater risk concentration in their business model. Heightened risk concentrations are most pronounced in small businesses due to a limited product line, geographical risk, market cyclicality and in client and supply chain relationships. Consider a small manufacturer of finished steel products for the home construction industry. Generally, manufactures profitability is highly correlated to the price it pays for basic commodities and has an extremely high concentration of supply chain and product risk. Small businesses may not be able to recover or adjust its product prices to cover increased commodity prices due to existing contractual agreements with customers or its lack of pricing power. The abatement of market demand due to a recession may provoke larger customers to demand price concessions by threatening to move their business to lower cost producers. The pressure on this small manufacturer is compounded by a spike of smaller account losses and moribund demand due to weak cyclical market conditions in its target market.
It's almost a perfect storm of negative business conditions. Small businesses managers need to understand how inflation touches all aspects of their business and must manage its impact to maintain profitability and sustainable growth.
Managing Inflation Risk with a WIN Campaign
SME can meet the challenge of inflation head on by implementing a Whip Inflation Now (WIN) program that engages the numerous risks inflation poses. In deference to our former President Gerald Ford, business managers can initiate WIN Programs and actions to temper the impact of inflation and to seize opportunities that rapidly changing market conditions create. Small businesses must be extra vigilant and proactive in managing all classes of business risks.
Some small businesses will cave into the demands of their large accounts to cut prices to prevent them from going to a lower cost provider. This is very dangerous for small businesses and can result in "death by a thousand cuts." Managers should not wait for their largest account to approach them seeking price concessions. Now is the perfect time to go on the offensive and alter the value proposition that only your firm can uniquely deliver to key accounts. Remember your largest accounts are experiencing the negative effects of inflation as well. Go to them and propose a WIN Campaign.
A company's WIN Campaign can offer a joint marketing program using advanced web enabled technologies. Your WIN Campaign can implement an expanded training and support program tied to a business development program or supply chain rationalization. You may suggest a partnership to develop a new product or put in place a customer loyalty program. Your job is to create a unique value proposition that adds value to your product and convey it to your customer so they cannot commoditize your product. Together you and your clients can WIN the fight against inflation and turn it into a business development initiative. Your clients will appreciate the fact that you are thinking about their business success.
Another common knee jerk reaction to fight rising business costs is to reduce expenses by cutting expenditures on areas that do not support the mission critical functions of the business. Capital is allocated to maintain funding to support sales, production and product delivery. This is coupled with a lean administrative management structure and this model is seen as a recipe for economic survival. Being good stewards of corporate capital is essential during these times. Capital leakage is always a threat to business profitability and needs to be even more diligently managed during times of economic duress. But this strategy is a subsistence survival strategy. It is based on investing the barest minimum of capital to address fluctuating market conditions. This strategy may limit small businesses ability to literally capitalize on opportunities that changing market conditions present.
Cutting expenses for marketing is usually another budget casualty when businesses look to cut costs. This will reduce your current expense line for this quarter and will certainly help bottom line profitability; but skipping this year's trade show will not help you to locate that new customer who is looking for a supplier because his current provider is struggling with product quality issues. Cutting this expense won't provide you with the critical insights you need to stay competitive and ahead of new market entrants that are attending trade shows. Who by the way are also aggressively courting your largest account to get just a tiny slice of your business to demonstrate their "superior value proposition."
Employee benefits and training is another area that is often the focus of budgetary cutbacks. Many SME need to closely consider the gains they will realize by cutting back on benefits offered to its employees. Cutting benefits could increase employee turnover. Training and hiring new employees are an expensive proposition for SME. The loss of key employees can potentially devastate a small business. Expertise, intellectual capital and critical business intelligence leaves the organization when a key employee walks out the door. This is doubly true if some key employees leave the firm and walk some major client relationships out the door with them.
SME can also try to employ risk transfer strategies. Insurance purchases may help in some areas but to fight inflation small businesses can use financial instruments (capital permitting) to hedge against rising prices. The purchase of TIPs, FX forward contracts, commodity or energy futures can help to offset the negative effects of key inflation business threats. As the price of oil rose this summer a modest equity position in oil or other energy company would have helped to offset the increase in energy expenses.
Thankfully adverse economic conditions will force SME to take an honest look at their product lines and business model. Economic adversity provides an opportunity for management to make hard decisions concerning product lines. This is an ideal time to focus and fund the development of products that offer the greatest potential for long term profitability and sustainable growth.
Inflation is a significant problem for small businesses but it is a problem that can be managed. Changing economic conditions alter the landscape for all businesses that accelerate and starkly reveal market inefficiencies. These inefficiencies create market anomalies and opportunities that astute small business owners and managers can capitalize on through an intentional practice of a risk management and opportunity discovery program.
Sum2's objective is to assist clients to implement corporate sound practices that enhance profitability and sustainable growth. Sum2's offers a wide stable of risk management apps for SME. The Macroeconomic Risk Assessment App helps managers review macroeconomic and event risks to better manage its potential effect on their business. Sum2 offers a Macroeconomic Risk App and can be downloaded from Google Play or by visiting http://www.sum2.com or by calling us at 973.287.7535.
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July 21, 2014 - Posted by riskrapper | banking, customer risk, economics, inflation, SME | #macroeconomic, #marketrisk, #metasme, #mobileoffice, #smeiot #eventrisk, #supplychain #office365, #WIN, inflation, risk: #sme, Sum2
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As part of our supportive online community, I want you to be among the first to hear about an ambitious and far-reaching project now underway here called BLUEprint, which we have undertaken to design a robust future for the National Aquarium.
As you know, we are at our core a conservation organization that operates one of the nation's leading aquariums in pursuit of our mission to inspire conservation of the world's aquatic treasures. This mission drives the work of our Board, staff, and volunteers, yet we know we must evolve to remain relevant. Through BLUEprint, we are probing the foundation of what it means to be a world-class aquarium, both now and in the decades to come.
We have partnered in this effort with exceptionally talented professionals, led by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang and her world-renowned design and architecture studio, Studio Gang Architects. In addition to creating transformative architecture, Studio Gang employs the tools, methods, and visionary capability of design to catalyze positive change through public engagement and advocacy. We believe their emphasis on work informed by cultural and environmental trends syncs precisely with our design and planning needs.
Here's a brief overview of the four pillars we are currently exploring in this groundbreaking effort:
I. The future of aquariums worldwide
In the 33 years since the era of modern aquariums began here in Baltimore, we have made quantum leaps in terms of the care we offer our animals, the science that informs our work, and the evolving role of aquariums in the nation and world. We have touched the lives of 50 million guests, many of them students who have grown up with this valuable community resource.
We have also experienced a significant evolution in the audience we serve: it has become younger, more concerned about the health of our planet, and less willing to simply accept the same way of doing things. Our audience of the next 33 years recognizes the urgent need to protect the health of oceans and aquatic habitats worldwide, and we believe we have an obligation to help them learn how they can be a part of the solution.
This has, in part, driven our transformation from an aquarium attraction with a nascent conservation program to a nationally recognized conservation organization that operates a world-class aquarium to carry out its mission. A key part of the BLUEprint inquiry is to identify the core elements of this desired future state and map out the steps it will take to attain it.
II. Reimagining the National Aquarium experience
When it opened, the National Aquarium set a new standard for aquariums, telling a compelling story through its exhibits, creating drama, and evoking powerful messages about the world of water. As it has evolved, the facility has become more diffuse, with three very different exhibit experiences: Australia: Wild Extremes in the Glass Pavilion, the dolphin amphitheater on Pier 4, and the original exhibits on Pier 3. Separated by water and differing exhibit approaches, these experiences have been challenging to unify. This is the central work of the BLUEprint: to weave these exciting but disparate parts together to tell a powerful story of aquatic conservation.
Some of the ideas now in the concept stage include:
- A "perched wetland" in the slip between our piers to depict the Chesapeake Bay watershed's quintessential habitats while demonstrating what a healthy, thriving urban waterfront might be
- A new gallery of exhibits focused on the nation's 13 marine sanctuaries, which range from Massachusetts to American Samoa in the mid-Pacific
- A more cohesive visitor pathway
- Public access to back-of-house zones traditionally off-exhibit, such as our animal care center, marine animal rescue facilities, veterinary lab, and food preparation space
- A fresh approach that could make the bridge between our piers an exhibit experience unto itself.
Among others, these concepts are now being tested in the marketplace by our predictive analytics firm IMPACTS for efficacy and feasibility. Our objective is to reimagine the National Aquarium experience and implement those changes over the next 10 years.
III. Designing a new role in the nation's capital
As you may know, we operated the original National Aquarium in the Department of Commerce Building in Washington, DC, from 2003 until last fall, when it was closed to make way for the U.S. General Services Administration's $1 billion renovation of its 1930s-era building. At that time, we pledged to find a way to continue the National Aquarium's presence in the capital, and since then, two compelling ideas have emerged.
The "ocean embassy" idea envisions a program spearheaded by the National Aquarium to bring together ocean advocates, aquarium leaders, and policymakers to perform for the ocean what embassies do for nations: debate issues, promote mutual welfare, negotiate disputes, and represent the interests of their constituents. As a matter of fact, the open ocean comprises 43 percent of the planet, yet it is ungoverned. We believe that such critical ecosystems need an embassy, and our partners at Studio Gang are investigating possible approaches for the idea.
We are also exploring potential collaborations with our colleagues at the Smithsonian Institution; discussions continue and we are optimistic about future partnerships.
IV. The future of dolphins at the National Aquarium
As we develop, evaluate, and refine our plans, our highest priority is to ensure the health and well-being of the animals in our care.
To that end, with a heightened understanding of the emerging science and an intimate knowledge of the eight dolphins in our care, we are studying and evaluating all possible options for providing them with the best possible living environment in the years ahead.
In fact, we began this evolution two years ago with the introduction of Dolphin Discovery, a new interpretive approach to exhibiting our dolphin colony. There are no longer scheduled shows, and guests can come and go from the amphitheater as they please. Now, guests are invited to engage in one-on-one conversations with the biologists who care for the animals, and interaction sessions focus on natural behaviors as an analog for the dolphins' lives in the wild. These efforts have already garnered us recognition as an innovative leader among aquariums worldwide.
Our next step is to evaluate the most beneficial options for our aging animals, like 42-year-old Nani, who has been with us since the opening of our current dolphin pavilion. There are many issues to consider when planning for the future of these social, cognitively advanced mammals.
Later this month, we will host a summit to convene animal care experts, veterinarians, and biologists to determine the feasibility of a variety of potential solutions, including designing and building a dolphin sanctuary in an ocean-side setting and exploring in detail the requirements for operating such a facility. We will pursue our exploration and address this need with our highest priority in clear view: to ensure the continued health and well-being of our dolphin colony.
Though we have achieved much over our first decades, we are not resting on our laurels. To the contrary, we are embracing these changes enthusiastically as we design a future that will ensure we remain relevant to audiences of tomorrow.
We are pleased to report that even at this early phase of our work, we have caught the attention of The New Yorker magazine, whose May 19 "Innovators Issue" features a story on Jeanne Gang and highlights our BLUEprint project.
Since its beginnings, the National Aquarium has been a proud partner in Baltimore's renaissance and the Inner Harbor's rebirth. The reputation we have worked hard to build over these years has earned us the distinction of being one of Maryland's leading attractions, with a well-documented, positive economic impact on the city and the state.
We take this role seriously. We know it is only possible thanks to the dedication and generosity of our family of supporters, and we thank you for your commitment to our work. We plan to continue to share this journey with you and invite your feedback as our plans evolve.
To sign up for email updates on BLUEprint and to offer feedback and questions, please visit aqua.org/future.
Together, we will attain our vision to change the way humanity views and cares for the ocean. After all, it's what gives us life.


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