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June 11, 2012 | By Cassie Conklin
If you were to describe Ricky Stenhouse Jr. as accomplished, your words would most certainly be labeled an understatement. At only 24 years of age Stenhouse has accomplished feats that some drivers spend their entire careers striving for and others can only dream of.
By the time he was 15 years old Stenhouse had 47 titles and more than 90 podium finishes as a go-kart racer. In more recent years Stenhouse was honored as the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year, he has finished in the top ten 45 top times, and in 2011 he became the Nationwide Series Champion. His championship made him Roush Fenway's 6th all-time NASCAR champion. It's easy to see that Stenhouse is nothing short of a champion.
So far this season, Stenhouse has 3 wins in the Nationwide Series. One of those wins happened to be Stenhouse's third consecutive victory at Iowa Speedway.
"It almost feels like a hometown race to us now," he said after his 2012 Iowa win. His other two 2012 wins have come from Texas and Las Vegas.
Now imagine if he were to add an Indy title to that list.
Stenhouse will be competing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 28. As the inaugural Nationwide race at IMS, it will be exciting to see how things turn out.
It will also be the first time Stenhouse has laid rubber on the IMS grounds. Can he add another 2012 win at 'The Greatest Race Course in the World'? I guess we'll find out.
I think it's fair to say that Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is well on his way to being considered a racing legend. He has so much valuable time left in his career to accomplish many goals. Will Indy be on that list?


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Sales for Starters
Hi, I'm Josh.
Course Overview
Part 1: Define Your Ideal Customer
Why define your ideal customer?
Create your idea customer
Excercise: map your ideal customer
Part 2: Refine Your Sales Story
The story formula
Example: SalesDNA
Your turn
Part 3: Build Your List
Why build a list?
What a list looks like
Creating a Google Sheet
Two ways to build a list
DIY: Elucify
DIY: LimeLeads
DIY: Data.com
DIY: GetSidewalk
DIY: Lead Gibbon
DIY: TryProspect
DIY: Salestools.io
DIY: Rapportive
DIY: Referrals
DIY: Google Search
DIY: Steal from your competitors
DIY: Find similar sites
DIY: How to find phone numbers
How to outsource list buidling
Cold Email Setup
Cold email checklist
Configure SPF & DKIM
Part 4: Cold Emailing
Cold Email & Direct Mail Lecture
The 4T Email
7 Touch Sequence (with humor)
Sales DNA 7 Touch Direct Mail & Cold Email Sequence
Example: Cold Email Campaign
The fortune is in the follow up
28 subject lines that get opened
Trigger Example: Slack
Leveraging mutual connection to get meetings
Geico Cold Email
Cold Email - Verizon
Cold Email Sequence - Skill Scout
Cold Email - The Fixer Formula
Cold Email - The Quicky
Cold Email - Live Chat
Follow up email to revive a prospect that disappeared
Email for inbound lead
Cold email to determine product market fit validation
"Giving" - Cold Email
Rippling Killer Cold Email (not personalized)
B2B Cold Outreach Examples
Over the Shoulder Video: Jessica's Cold Email that Booked a Meeting
Video Voicemails
Example of a video voicemail that kicks ass
Video Voicemail Templates
How to make a video email
LinkedIn Lead Generation Templates
Over the shoulder video
LinkedIn outreach templates
Optimizing Your Profile to Attract Leads
Part 5: Cold Calling
Cold Call Mindset
Cold Call Blueprint
Sample Cold Call Script
Cold Call Script: Verizon
Leveraging the gatekeeper
Voicemail that get returned
Cold Call Script for Financial Services
Cold Call Script for SaaS Company
Cold Call Script for Hardware
Part 6: Podcast lead generation
Generating awareness by leveraging a similar audience
Creating a podcast to generate leads with your idea clients
Part 7: Referrals
Referral approach and templates
Over the should video of the referral system
Referral system playbook
Asking for a referral without LinkedIn Connections
Part 8: Leading the first conversation with a prospect
First Conversation Guide
Part 1: Connect
More connecting questions
Part 2: Share Agenda
Part 3: Share Your Story
Example: Sales Story
Part 4: Understand your prospect's motivation
Part 5: Summarize
Part 6: Sell
Part 7: Qualify
Part 8: Schedule Next Step
Part 9: Post meeting summary
Part 9: Follow Up Templates
How to follow up without checking in
Email template for when prospects disappear
Part 10: Diffusing Objections
Objections Playbook - Know Your Lines
Preventing objections
How to get better at diffusing objections
We don't have a budget
Can you send me some information
Your price is too high
We're using another vendor
What do you do?
What's the ROI?
I need to discuss this with X
Why should I choose you?
I need to think it over
The timing is off
What if your solution doesn't work?
What is your hourly rate?
We'll buy if you can match the price
I'd like to speak with some references
Part 11: Execute & Automate
Over the Shoulder Video: Prospecting with Sales Navigator, LeadIQ & Outreach.io
Using Outreach.io to execute outreach
Using Quickmail.io to automate outreach
Step 1: Enter leads into Google Sheets
Step 2: Sync Google Sheets with Quickmail
Step 3; Add email to Quickmail sequence
Step 4: Schedule sequence
Step 5: Hook up Zapier to Pipedrive CRM
Use Flow XO to create tasks based on opens or clicks
Part 12: Getting meetings at networking events
Step 1: Research prospects
Build a list
Send email #1
Script to schedule demos with prospects
Part 13: How to respond to an inbound marketing lead
Cold Call technique
Follow up email after cold call
Part 14: How to ask for a testimonial
Cold email asking for testimonial
Video Testimonials
Video testimonial - interview questions
Part 15: How to Nurture Leads
How to Stay Top of Mind
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Today we saw the Ford Focus TrackSTer from Kentavious D. Blockenfiddle with roughly 500 horsepower going to the front wheels alone. It makes us wonder.
Naturally, this car is going to be absurdly overpowered, as BrtStlnd summed up nicely.
A 500hp FWD track car. That's like telling me I've earned an all-expense-paid vacation with Scarlett Johansson on her "red" week. You can take it for a spin, but it'll be messy.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Shanshan Feng of China won the Dubai Ladies Masters by five strokes on Saturday after shooting a 3-under 69 to capture her second Ladies European Tour title.
The sixth-ranked Feng had an eagle, two birdies and a bogey to total 21-under 267 at Emirates Golf Club.
``I didn't look at the leaderboard until 18, so I had no idea how everyone else was doing. But I'm very happy,'' said Feng, who won the World Ladies Championship in March. ``I wanted a top-five finish this week and I did even better than that. I played solid all week and my putting was the key.''
Dewi Claire Schreefel of the Netherlands (69) was next. Caroline Masson of Germany (71) and Becky Brewerton of Wales (65) were nine strokes behind the leader. Carlota Ciganda of Spain shot a 68 and earned the Order of Merit.
American Cindy Lacrosse (72) was 10 strokes back, while defending champion Lexi Thompson (70) was 12 behind. Michelle Wie (69) tied for 19th.
Masson needed to finish second to win the Order of Merit, but a double-bogey on No. 12 ended her hopes. Ciganda became the first player since Laura Davies in 1985 to win the Order of Merit and Rookie of the Year in the same season.
``It ends an unbelievable season,'' Ciganda said. ``I'm very proud.''


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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The 20th Century and Beyond
John Lukacs is an historian who has written widely on 20th cnetury European and American history, including the Second World War, the city of Budapest, Winston Churchill, Eastern Europe, and the Cold War.


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Editorial: Net neutrality must remain a core Internet principle
The success of the Internet is largely due to the fact that, since its inception, users have been able to pick and choose from all the material on it, regardless of the carrier used to access it.
This model has led to one of the greatest technological revolutions of all time. It is now in jeopardy because of a U.S. appeals court ruling last week that threw out the Federal Communications Commission's 2010 rules requiring broadband providers to treat all Internet traffic equally - the concept known as net neutrality.
The ruling is reasonable under current law, but the FCC has the power to change its regulations and make net neutrality rules legal. It needs to act - and users need to rise up in large numbers to keep Congress on their side.
The problem is that current rules don't classify these providers as common carriers, the way telephone service providers are viewed. The Supreme Court has signaled that the FCC could reclassify broadband providers to apply common carrier regulations on them, including net neutrality. That is what needs to happen.
Congress could step in, but that is an unappealing alternative. The money and political power of broadband operators could well trump the public interest in keeping creativity, innovation and an open marketplace the working principles of the Internet.
Internet service providers such as AT&T and Verizon want the right to profit from the use of their services by individual websites, much like the current pay TV system operates.
They would like sites to pay a premium for high-speed streaming while others have access only to slower service. This would limit the accessibility of small businesses and startups, which consequently limit consumers' choices.
An open Internet is a platform for innovation that is one of our most valuable technological resources. Consumers, not broadband providers acting as gatekeepers, should be able to decide which entrepreneurs succeed.
European nations and almost every other developed country in the world already regulate broadband providers as common carriers required to serve all customers equally. It seems so obviously right, but Congress, susceptible to lobbyists, may need persuading, if the FCC doesn't act. That's where Internet users come in.
They have raised their voices before. Two years ago SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, sparked the largest online protest in history because the bill backed by the entertainment industry essentially would have instituted censorship. The protest forced Congress to reject it.
Silicon Valley also has a role to play. Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo succeeded largely because of an open Internet.
Everyone, from users to small businesses to valley behemoths, benefits from equal, open access to online material.


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PSY has bought a $1.25 million condo in Los Angeles.
The South Korean rapper - who became a worldwide pop sensation when his song 'Gangnam Style' went viral on YouTube earlier this year - has used his newfound wealth to buy the lavish two-bedroom pad and paid entirely in cash.
PSY, whose real name is Park Jae-Sang, bought the 2,700 square foot apartment in 29-storey Blair House, which is near Beverly Hills, reports TMZ.com.
The 34-year-old star was reported to be incredibly secretive about the real estate deal and was flanked by security guards when he made the transaction with money wired directly from South Korea.
PSY is rumoured to have made more than $7.9 million from his hit song in the past few months after it topped the charts all over the world, while the video - which shows performing his horse trot dance - has amassed nearly one billion views on YouTube, making it the most watched video of all time.
The rapper recently apologised for a 2004 song, 'Dear Americans', which contained lyrics about killing US citizens.
He said: "I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused by those words."
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Use / LiteratureThe repertoire of original compositions for bassetto is easy to summarise. Besides the compositions of the Italian Baroque from Mazzaferrata,
ition "Aventures" (Concerto for Bassetto and Orchestra) in January 2005. It is to be hoped that many more works by different composers will follow, which will give the instrument the position it deserves as a chamber music and solo instrument.
However, the bassetto has access to a very extensive repertoire through tran-
scriptions. A part of the repertoire for violoncello can be performed in this way (a fourth lower than in the original) and acquires a special colouring from the greater fullness of sound of the instrument. Even the literature of the violin offers a large number of possibilities for playing the works of great masters.
In chamber music compositions that are scored with two cellos (e.g. the Schubert quintet), the second cello can be replaced by a bassetto. This makes the ensemble sound fuller, more orchestral.


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Compliance Verification Paths for Residential and Commercial Energy Codes
Conformity assessment is a term used to describe the processes followed to demonstrate that a product, service, management system, or body meets specified requirements, such as standards, codes, laws, regulations, or other criteria. With respect to energy codes, conformity assessment includes all activities and tasks undertaken by any number of entities to ensure that the provisions of an adopted energy code are achieved at a designated point in time. This report identifies and discusses conformity assessment activities and provides guidance for developing new or adjusting existing ways of verifying compliance. In addition, this report looks at different ways to ensure that the energy efficiency goals of an adopted code or standard are achieved.


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What Is an ASIC Bitcoin Miner?
When we say the words "block" and "chain" in the context of blockchain, we are actually talking about digital information (the "block") that is stored in a public database (the "chain"). The Bitcoin protocol is built on the blockchain. So, with the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 as the first cryptocurrency, blockchain technology had its first real-world application.


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In a nod to the old school, Strikeforce will determine the brackets of its four-woman 135-pound tournament at the weigh-ins for Strikeforce Challengers 10.
Scott Coker, the promotion's CEO, on Tuesday night confirmed with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) the four participants of the competition, which include the previously reported Hitomi Akano, Maiju Kujala and Miesha Tate, will be paired up on the night they hit the scales.
Carina Damm, who was first reported as a participant by MMARising.com, rounds out the field.
Strikeforce Challengers 10 takes place Aug. 13 at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Ariz., and airs live on Showtime. A 182-pound catchweight bout between veteran Joe Riggs and Louis Taylor headlines the event.
Coker said the last-minute matchmaking style has been given official approval by the Arizona State Boxing Commission, which oversees mixed martial arts events in the state.
In the tournament-heavy days of early MMA, brackets were often determined the day of weigh-ins.
The tournament crowns a contender to the women's 135-pound title currently held by Sarah Kaufman, who defends her belt this Saturday against Roxanne Modaferri at Strikeforce Challengers 9.
Damm (15-3 MMA, 0-0 SF), the sister of Strikeforce and BodogFIGHT veteran Rodrigo Damm, most recently fought in February at Jungle Fight 17, where she stopped Aline Serio by first-round TKO. She has not lost a fight since December 2006, when she was submitted by Rosi Sexton during her own stint in the now-defunct BodogFIGHT promotion. Only five of her 18 bouts have gone the distance.
Tate (9-2 MMA, 1-1 SF), meanwhile, is on a three-fight win streak capped by a Strikeforce Challengers 7 submission of Zoila Frausto, who recently smashed her way into Bellator's 115-pound female tournament with a first-round knockout of Sexton.
A Pacific Northwest native, Tate has suffered only two setbacks in her career – a decision loss to Kaufman in May 2009 and a nasty knockout loss to Kaitlin Young in November 2007.
Akano (15-7 MMA, 0-1 SF) fights for the second time under the Strikeforce banner. It was the "Girlfight Monster" who came up a weight class to challenge Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos for the 145-pound title in April 2009. Compounding the size discrepancy, Santos missed weight for the show, but Akano agreed to take the fight anyway and was defeated via third-round TKO.
The 35-year-old is a submission threat with 12 of her 15 career victories coming by way of tap-out.
Kujala (4-1 MMA, 0-0 SF) makes her first U.S. appearance with her tournament entrance. Riding a three-fight win streak, the Finnish fighter made her professional debut in September 2009.
Kujala recently won a single-night tournament in the Netherlands and logged 19 minutes and 12 seconds worth of ring time en route to her two victories. Kujala's lone career loss came to recent Bellator signee Aisling Daly.
MMARising.com also reports that a reserve bout will take place on the evening's preliminary card featuring a pair of competitors yet to be named.
For the latest on Strikeforce Challengers 10, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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If you've got multiple cats at home, the Gatefeeder makes dinner time easier if one of your felines is on a special diet: only a cat wearing a unique RFID tag can squeeze through its door and dine.
An electro-magnetic lock prevents the door from opening when the RFID tag isn't nearby, blocking access to other pets, and even kids, who aren't supposed to be eating what's inside. And it provides a quiet place for skittish cats who need to eat in peace.
The Gatefeeder can also be used for portion control, letting you serve up a specific amount of food for each one of your cats depending on their weight. But at $US250 it's a cost-prohibitive solution if your entire home is crawling with felines. [Gatefeeder via Cool Hunting]


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I am a freelance electronics engineer
I'm offering my services to anyone that would like it.
Im trying to build up a good customer base and relationships
as well as good networking with people who have a passion
for electronics. From hobbyist, to inventors, to new product designers,
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I work from my own studio.
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When it comes down to it, the Calgary Flames hockey club is a business like any other with objectives and milestones planned in advance of every season.
This time around Jay Feaster can look forward to a sit-down with his superiors — as opposed to dreading it — on the subject of the workload for one Miikka Kiprusoff.
"For the first time ever," the general manager says, with a distinct hint of glee. "I'm going to be able to go and tell (owner) Murray Edwards that I achieved it — that Kipper will not play 70 this year."
In what has become an annual rite of passage in these parts, the coach and/or GM pledges on the eve of training camp to not force the meal-ticket goaltender into shouldering such a massive workload.
In what has also become an annual rite of passage in these parts, Kiprusoff finds himself slinking out the back door on garbage-bag day with 70-plus games on the chassis amid questions about his perceived fatigue down the stretch.
Thanks to the latest NHL lockout, the 2013 regular season is expected to open Jan 19 with only 48 games on the docket.
"Yeah, it's going to be different," the unflappable Finn said Monday, catching his breath after skating lines at WinSport. "You know it's a shorter season. You'll have to be ready from the start, because you don't know.
"If you have a hot start, it's going to help you big time for the end."
Don't expect to see any of the so-called experts, especially outside of the 403-area-code, to give Calgary much of a chance of qualifying for the post-season. In fact, Bodog.ca lists the odds of the Flames winning the Stanley Cup at 50-1.
According to the betting website, the New York Islanders (66-1) and Columbus Blue Jackets (100-1) are the only teams with slimmer chances of hoisting hockey's Holy Grail come June (or July?).
The wild card in this equation? Well, Kiprusoff, of course. If he gets hot for a prolonged period — especially out of the gates — well, who knows what could happen?
"It's time now to push even harder to get ready," Kiprusoff said. "Because we don't have much time to when we start.
"It's a shorter season. So if you have a bad start, there's less time to catch up. But that wasn't our plan anyway, to have a bad start."
Unlike other members of the goaltending fraternity, Kiprusoff had no desire to play during the lockout in Europe. His son, Aaro, attends Grade 2 in the Calgary area, so family came first.
As a part-owner of Turku TPS of the Finnish Elite League, Kiprusoff clearly had a place to go if the season had been cancelled all together.
Or did he?
"My team didn't want to sign me," he said. "They have good goalies there. We have (Antero) Niittymaki who used to play in Philly.
"They didn't want me."
Not that it matters now. Once again, Kiprusoff is being called upon to vault the Flames over the hump into the Western Conference playoffs.
Age, however, could eventually prove a factor one of these seasons with Kiprusoff turning 36 during the lockout.
"I feel all right, actually," he said, not even trying to stickhandle around the age question. "I think I feel the same as I did years back, but I don't see myself. You'll have to tell me, because you saw me skating. I think I looked all right there."
In truth, he looked mighty winded — but the same can be said for many of his teammates skating without cumbersome goalie equipment.
"Kipper has obviously been great all along here," said defenceman Mark Giordano. "If he's not the best goalie in the league, I think he's in the top three.
"The good thing with Kipper is that he'll get to play fewer games than he has in the past. Game in, game out, he's usually our best player."
And so let the debate begin: how many games does Kiprusoff play this season? Or, better put, how many nights off does he need to remain upright with either Henrik Karlsson or Leland Irving waiting in the wings to fill in?
"This is the topic we always talk about in training camp," he sighed, before replying with a stock answer. "I feel I'm ready to play them all. I feel I'm ready to play half, whatever is best for the team and whatever the coaches think.
"But again, same old, one game at a time. Try to be sharp and earn the spot to play the next game."
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Asher Roth - Lark On My Go Kart Lyrics and Video
Artist: Asher Roth
Album: Asleep In The Bread Aisle
Year: 2009
Song Title: Lark On My Go Kart
Songwriters: N/A
Asher Roth - Lark On My Go Kart Lyrics and Video
[Verse 1]
Sitting on a truffet, puffing on the best cut buds
Trying to get butt from Miss Muffet
Me and Teddy Ruxpin sturring up a ruckus
Egging all the houses, smashing all the pumpkins
Suck a dick butkus, chumps can't funk with the punk kids
Ash Roth be the king of the blumpkins
Any Tim Duncan, spur of the moment
Let the whole world know I run shit, jump ship quick
Tell a friend that I'm dumb sick
Spit fungus that'll grow from a dumb trip
Twist to a front flip, son that was some trick
Watch all the dumb chicks hump when I bump this
[Verse 2]
Kinda like the blonde Bob Saget, Ash can get nasty
Pass me a blunt and some Captain
Chillin with an Ashley, heading to the mall
Sitting in the backseat, getting jerked off
Ten feet tall with the balls of a matador
Door-matted whore with your words, heard that before
For metaphor, pedicure, get your feet fixed
Walk in my shoes for a few, you gonna need it
Yeah, get your Wii Fit to practice your freeze with
Need a few weeks before you can compete with
Razor Ramon flow, oh so sharp
You can take Kapowski, I'ma take Lark On My Go-Kart
[Verse 3]
Ugh, yeah
Mario Kart skills are outrageous
Play me anyday and I'll be the best racist
Wait, no, erase it, meant to say racer
Traded in my cell phone for a new pager
Take off your bluetooth, now dot com
I'm at the grocery store with hot moms
Bout thirty five with at least two kids
We can make out while my friend baby sits
All up in your fridge eating left-over shit
Tuna sandwich, butterscotch, crimpets
Cheetos be my choice of chips
I enjoy for a bit, take a sip from my Simpson and split
[ Lark On My Go Kart Lyrics on http://lyrics-video-music.blogspot.com ]
[Verse 4]
Roll that J up, is it rolled?
Yeah, roll it up, ugh
Hair like a troll doll, basketball shorts on
Yeah, I'm a dork but I'm still holding court
Ball up, baller, yeah I'll take too long, get dolled up
Give a fuck if I look like I just woke up
Who am I trying to impress? Honey in the sun dress
With the breasts luscious just sent me a text
O-M-G, your the B-E-S
If your trying to have sex, I'm the best at it
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The Amazing Spider-Man was actually a pretty good movie held back a bit by insisting on being an origin story. But hey, if you have to retell an origin story, it's a good one to retell, and it actually updated the story in clever and intelligent ways.
That will probably go out the window with the sequel, but, hey, speaking of the sequel, apparently there are a few hints about it in the new Blu-Ray coming out today!
According to interviews with Entertainment Tonight, you'll need to look in two places. First, apparently the lab tour Gwen takes all the interns on has a few Easter Eggs if you know where to look. Secondly, the very last shot of the movie supposedly has one in it.
Of course, this being the Internet, somebody has already busted out the DVD and taken a look. Currently, it's pointed out that during the tour, you see a rhino on that holographic Tree of Life that seemed kind of silly. The bridge scene is a bit less obvious; either we're seeing Electro's pants at some point, or there's a brief blip of the Spidey-Sense while looking at the George Washington Bridge.
Personally, I hope the Rhino shows up. Spider-Man was always at his best, early on, outwitting bullies before beating the crap out of them. That said, I can also see why the second movie would need two villains because, let's face it, the Rhino isn't exactly a compelling character unless he's fighting the Hulk in a mall while dressed as Santa.


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Tesla car manufacturer looks to set up showroom at Natick Mall
Electric car company wants to sell to customers directly
Tesla Motors is expected to ask Natick planners for an exception to zoning regulations to allow the manufacturer of upscale electric cars to sell at the Natick Mall.
The Boston Globe reports that the exception would allow Tesla to consolidate its operations in Natick that include a showroom at the mall where customers can view a car and get information and a sales office elsewhere that handles sales.
The California company wants to sell its cars directly to consumers rather than working through independent dealerships, the traditional sales model and required by law in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the United States.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Massachusetts State Automobile Dealers Association, which tried to block Tesla's proposed mall site. The dealers group is suing the Natick Board of Selectmen.


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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
Release 2.6.3
Part Number B10284-02
Oracle Workflow delivers a complete workflow management system that supports business process based integration. Its technology enables modeling, automation, and continuous improvement of business processes, routing information of any type according to user-defined business rules.
E-business is accelerating the demand for integration of applications within the enterprise as well as integration of a company's systems with trading partners and business-to-business exchanges. Oracle Workflow automates and streamlines business processes both within and beyond your enterprise, supporting traditional applications based workflow as well as e-business integration workflow. Oracle Workflow is unique in providing a workflow solution for both internal processes and business process coordination between applications.
Business processes today involve getting many types of information to multiple people according to rules that are constantly changing. With so much information available, and in so many different forms, how do you get the right information to the right people? Oracle Workflow lets you provide each person with all the information they need to take action. Oracle Workflow can route supporting information to each decision maker in a business process, including people both inside and outside your enterprise.
Oracle Workflow lets you define and continuously improve your business processes using a drag-and-drop process designer.
Unlike workflow systems that simply route documents from one user to another with some approval steps, Oracle Workflow lets you model sophisticated business processes. You can define processes that loop, branch into parallel flows and then rendezvous, decompose into subflows, and more. Because Oracle Workflow can decide which path to take based on the result of a stored procedure, you can use the power of Java and of PL/SQL, the language of the Oracle Database, to express any business rule that affects a workflow process. See: Workflow Processes.
Oracle Workflow extends the reach of business process automation throughout the enterprise and beyond to include any e-mail or Internet user. Oracle Workflow lets people receive notifications of items awaiting their attention via e-mail, and act based on their e-mail responses. You can even view your list of things to do, including necessary supporting information, and take action using a standard Web browser.
Oracle Workflow lets you set up subscriptions to business events which can launch workflows or enable messages to be propagated from one system to another when business events occur. You can communicate events among systems within your own enterprise and with external systems as well. In this way, you can implement point-to-point messaging integration or use Oracle Workflow as a messaging hub for more complex system integration scenarios. You can model business processes that include complex routing and processing rules to handle events powerfully and flexibly.
Oracle Workflow Builder is a graphical tool that lets you create, view, or modify a business process with simple drag and drop operations. Using the Workflow Builder, you can create and modify all workflow objects, including activities, item types, and messages. See: Workflow Processes.
At any time you can add, remove, or change workflow activities, or set up new prerequisite relationships among activities. You can easily work with a summary-level model of your workflow, expanding activities within the workflow as needed to greater levels of detail. And, you can operate Oracle Workflow Builder from a desktop PC or from a disconnected laptop PC.
The Workflow Engine embedded in the Oracle Database implements process definitions at runtime. The Workflow Engine monitors workflow states and coordinates the routing of activities for a process. Changes in workflow state, such as the completion of workflow activities, are signaled to the engine via a PL/SQL API or a Java API. Based on flexibly-defined workflow rules, the engine determines which activities are eligible to run, and then runs them. The Workflow Engine supports sophisticated workflow rules, including looping, branching, parallel flows, and subflows.
The Business Event System is an application service that uses the Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ) infrastructure to communicate business events between systems. The Business Event System consists of the Event Manager, which lets you register subscriptions to significant events, and event activities, which let you model business events within workflow processes.
When a local event occurs, the subscribing code is executed in the same transaction as the code that raised the event. Subscription processing can include executing custom code on the event information, sending event information to a workflow process, and sending event information to other queues or systems.
The Workflow Definitions Loader is a utility program that moves workflow definitions between database and corresponding flat file representations. You can use it to move workflow definitions from a development to a production database, or to apply upgrades to existing definitions. In addition to being a standalone server program, the Workflow Definitions Loader is also integrated into Oracle Workflow Builder, allowing you to open and save workflow definitions in both a database and file.
Oracle Workflow lets you include your own PL/SQL procedures or external functions as activities in your workflows. Without modifying your application code, you can have your own program run whenever the Workflow Engine detects that your program's prerequisites are satisfied.
Oracle Workflow lets you include users in your workflows to handle activities that cannot be automated, such as approvals for requisitions or sales orders. The Notification System sends notifications to and processes responses from users in a workflow. Electronic notifications are routed to a role, which can be an individual user or a group of users. Any user associated with that role can act on the notification.
Each notification includes a message that contains all the information a user needs to make a decision. The information may be embedded in the message body or attached as a separate document. Oracle Workflow interprets each notification activity response to decide how to move on to the next workflow activity.
Electronic mail (e-mail) users can receive notifications of outstanding work items and can respond to those notifications using their e-mail application of choice. An e-mail notification can include an attachment that provides another means of responding to the notification.
Any user with access to a standard Web browser can be included in a workflow. Web users can access a Notification Web page to see their outstanding work items, then navigate to additional pages to see more details or provide a response.
Workflow administrators and users can view the progress of a work item in a workflow process by connecting to the Workflow Monitor using a standard Web browser that supports Java. The Workflow Monitor displays an annotated view of the process diagram for a particular instance of a workflow process, so that users can get a graphical depiction of their work item status. The Workflow Monitor also displays a separate status summary for the work item, the process, and each activity in the process.
If you are using the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications and you have implemented Oracle Applications Manager, you can also use the Oracle Workflow Manager component of Oracle Applications Manager as an additional administration tool for Oracle Workflow. Oracle Applications Manager is a tool that provides administrative and diagnostic capabilities for concurrent processing, Oracle Workflow, and other functionality in Oracle Applications. For more information, please refer to the Oracle Applications Manager online help.
Also, if you are using the standalone version of Oracle Workflow, you can use the standalone Oracle Workflow Manager component available through Oracle Enterprise Manager as an additional administration tool for Oracle Workflow. For more information, please refer to the Oracle Workflow Manager online help.
Oracle Workflow manages business processes according to rules that you define. The rules, which we call a workflow process definition, include the activities that occur in the process and the relationship between those activities. An activity in a process definition can be an automated function defined by a PL/SQL stored procedure or an external function, a notification to a user or role that may optionally request a response, a business event, or a subflow that itself is made up of a more granular set of activities.
A workflow process is initiated when an application calls a set of Oracle Workflow Engine APIs. The Workflow Engine takes over by driving the relevant work item defined by the application, through a specific workflow process definition. According to the workflow process definition, the Workflow Engine performs automated steps and invokes appropriate agents when external processing is required.
The following diagram depicts a simplified workflow process definition that routes a requisition to a manager or set of managers for approval.
We refer to the whole drawing as a process or process diagram. The icons represent activities, and the arrows represent the transitions between the activities. In the above example, new items are created for the process when a user creates and submits a requisition in the appropriate application.
This process contains several workflow activities implemented as PL/SQL stored procedures, including:


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The story's about Charlie Rowan, a bad fighter and the titular tomato can, who has few prospects and a bad debt after running into trouble with a local convict who has gang ties. Mary Pilon reports:
Now, Rowan owed money to impatient people. He tried to lie low, but in January, a group of men beat him up behind Shopko, leaving him with two black eyes, broken ribs and blood on his baseball cap, he told friends at the time.
Rowan was desperate. Then, while he was watching TV at his girlfriend's house, a show caught his attention. It was on the Investigation Discovery channel, something about a guy who staged his own death so he could start his life anew.
As with all great ideas in life, this one quite possibly came from an episode Deadly Women. Rowan decided to fake his own death—and nearly everyone bought it, including his own mother. It "broke" Rowan's heart "to think of his mother picturing him dead," Pilon writes, "but he saw no other way." The plan goes well enough, until he decides to hold up a local gun shop and nearly kills the beloved elderly owner. The police catch up to him; the fake death plot is felled; and Rowan sits in prison, where he apparently feels bad enough about what happened that he willingly, and to our benefit, talks to a Times reporter.
How'd they find this great yarn? Jason Stallman, the Times sports editor, told me that the "AP moved a short story back in March. We instantly sent Mary Pilon to Michigan to poke around. She reported it out over the next few months, while working on a lot of other stories."
"Her first call was to Mr. Rowan's lawyer, who said there was no chance he'd let Mary talk with Rowan," Stallman continued. "A while later, Mr. Rowan called Mary's cellphone directly from jail. He wanted to tell her everything, blow by blow."
Read the whole thing, as they say. The comic-book illustrations are cool, and Boardwalk Empire actor Bobby Cannavale does a story-on-tape voiceover for the piece—which is maybe one flourish too many (these are still real people, after all). But the story alone is all you need.


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What is PRK?
Stage 1: Accessing the corneal stroma
PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) – PRK completely removes the corneal epithelium, in order to gain access to the corneal stroma
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Stage 3: Closing Stage
PRK, or Photorefractice Keratectomy, is a vision correction technique similar to LASEK that removes the corneal epithelium (outer layer of the cornea) to gain access to the corneal stroma. During "Stage 1: Accessing the corneal stroma," the epithelial layer of the cornea is completely removed.
How does PRK work?
STEP 1: Mark edges of corneal epithelium (outer layer)
STEP 2: Completely remove corneal epithelium.
STEP 3: Resurface cornea with cool beam laser.
STEP 4: Contact lens placed to secure epithelial layer.
With the PRK technique, it takes a few days for the corneal epithelium to heal before vision clarity returns. For that reason, IQ Laser Vision suggests that the procedure is done to only 1 eye and the other eye is done 1-4 days after (depending on the recovery time). The procedure would be done on the first eye and corrective lenses are used to provide functional vision with the other eye – contact lenses or glasses will be provided by IQ Laser Vision.
What are the benefits of PRK?
The PRK procedure completely removes the epithelial layer in order to gain access to the corneal stroma. A specialized contact lens is placed over the cornea to protect the cornea during the healing process. Most patients do not experience any discomfort during the 15-minute procedure. There may be some discomfort the day after the procedure but within 3-4 days, patients typically achieve driving vision.
Major advantages are:
- No complications associated with a corneal flap
- PRK procedures may reduce the development of dry eyes in some individuals (when compared to LASIK)
- Decreases the chance of post-operative epithelial in-growth
Who is a candidate for PRK?
Good candidates for the PRK technique include patients who:
- Individuals who are over 18 years old
- Have healthy corneas and no major vision-related issues
- Stable vision – No significant change in their vision within the past 12 months prior to the procedure
- Patients who use glasses or contact lenses to improve their vision are ideal candidates
- Patients with steep or very thin corneas
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With the PRK technique, like LASIK, our goal is to eliminate or reduce, your dependency on corrective lenses. The benefit of the PRK technique is that you increase the positive results of your LASIK procedure. The technique retains the existing corneal epithelium which acts like as a natural bandage for the treatment area.
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- Foreign object sensation
· Dry eyes
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All risks are discussed and addressed before, during and after the procedure. IQ Laser Vision is dedicated to answering any and all questions you may have to ensure complete conformability and proper expectations with the procedure.
FAQs about PRK
A: Immediately following the procedure you would need to have someone drive you home. Depending on how quickly you are able to recover, and your particular case, most patients are typically able to drive 3-5 days after the procedure and return back to work 3-5 days after.
A: As part of the follow-up process, your recovery will be assessed at each follow-up visit to determine when it is suitable to return to physical activities. Typically patients are able to return to physically activity sooner than expected, however strong, direct sunlight and dirty/dusty environments should be avoided for as long as possible after your procedure.
A: During the procedure you will feel no pain. Some patients report minor to moderate pain during the recovery period. IQ Laser Vision will provide instructions to minimize any discomfort and do everything to ensure you are fully aware of expectations. Everything is discussed before, during and after the procedure.
A:Studies have shown that nearly every patient experiences a marked improvement in their vision as compared to their previously uncorrected vision with glasses or contacts. Over 99% of patients will attain corrected vision that will meet or exceed the DMV licensing requirements.
A: During the procedure, we will ask you to focus on a blurry, blinking red light. Immediately after the procedure the red light should become much clearer, and you should notice an improvement in your vision.
A: This is a common fear many patients have. Since every patient moves during the procedure, the laser treatment is designed to stop instantly if necessary. Our lasers, the Alcon Nidek EC-5000 and the Alegretto WaveLight Eye-Q 400Hz, have eye trackers that will follow your eye during the procedure. The laser delivers the pulses wherever they are supposed to go, despite any eye movements.
A: To minimize blinking, your eye will be numbed by an aesthetic. Even if you blink, the eye is held open by a small device called speculum, a minimal discomfort, and the Eye Tracker will still track your eyes to ensure proper laser placement.
A: Patients will wear a clear shield immediately after the procedure and during sleeping hours.
A: In rare cases, scarring may be seen right after the procedure but after a few days of recovery, there is NO evidence of scarring.
A: At the FREE consultation, we will gather data about your eyes including: visual acuity, refraction, measurement of current glasses, biomicroscopy, infrared pupillometry (measurement of nighttime pupil size), pachymetry (measurement of corneal thickness), corneal topography (using up to 3 different systems to measure both anterior and posterior surfaces), and if applicable, wavefront analysis. Based on these findings, our surgeon, Dr. Robert Lin will select the best treatment for your eyes. He will take as much time as necessary to thoroughly understand your expectations and explain the risks and benefits of the procedure.


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The global political economy is a multilevel system of economic activities and regulation in which the domestic level continues to predominate—in other words, it is a global system comprising national capitalist economies. Nations differ in terms of the regulations and institutions that govern economic activity, an observation that is embodied in the so-called "varieties of capitalism" (VoC) literature. Contemporary VoC approaches highlight the significance of social and political institutions in shaping national economies, in stark contrast to neoclassical economics which generally ignores institutions other than markets or sees them as hindrances to the functioning of free markets. Three analytical premises inform the diverse conceptual frameworks within the VoC literature: the firm-based approach, national business systems approach, and the governance or "social systems of production" approach. The VoC literature offers three important contributions to our understanding of the global political economy. The first is that different sources of competitive advantage for firms and nations are institutionally rooted and not easily changed. The second contribution is that these distinct national arrangements give rise to different interests/preferences in how the global economy is constructed and managed. Finally, the VoC approaches provide a framework for analyzing long-term institutional changes in capitalist systems and the persistence of diverse forms of capitalism, including the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 that may usher in yet another epochal change in the "battle of capitalisms."
Keywords: global political economy, varieties of capitalism literature, firm-based approach, national business systems approach, governance approach, social systems of production, capitalism, competitive advantage, global financial crisis, battle of capitalisms
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One of the most important things you can do as a DBA is to keep tabs on the errors reported in the error log, but there's a lot of information there and sometimes it's hard to find the 'good stuff'. You can open the errorlog file directly in a text editor and search for errors but that gets tedious, and string searches generally return just the lines with the error message numbers, and in the error log the real information you want is in the line after that.
PowerShell 2.0 introduced a new cmdlet called Select-String which searches through a text file and returns the lines matching the target string. What it adds is an command-line parameter [-context] which allows you to specify the number of lines before and after the match is found. Bingo! By specifying the parameter -context 0,1 with the Select-String cmdlet it returns the line with the error, and the line afterwards.
To see what this does, first navigate to the errorlog directory, then issue the following commands:
$errlog = Get-Content '.\ERRORLOG'
$errlog | Select-String -pattern 'Error:' -context 0,1
Now that's really useful, but it does mean that I have to log on to each server to get the errors, or I have to somehow know where every server's errorlog directory is and connect through the network to get to the files. Not so nice if you want to work from a client and 'just get the errors'.
Using SMO, there's a method under the Server object called ReadErrorLog() which reads the error log and (if assigned to a variable) creates a DataRow object containing the LogDate, ProcessInfo and Text properties from the errorlog. The ProcessInfo property contains the spid or other identifying value to indicate the source of the problem. By connecting to an instance using the Server object and loading the error log into the DataRow object, we can then get similar results, but we have to add an additional parameter, -inputobject, which lets us specify the property to search for our string.
$svr = new-object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SMO.Server') MyServer
$err = $svr.ReadErrorLog()
$err | Select-String -inputobject {$_.Text} -pattern 'Error:' -context 0,1
The advantage of this solution is that I don't log into the target server and I don't have to know where the log file is. The downside is that we lose the LogDate and ProcessInfo properties altogether, and there's no way to piece the parts back together. (Now, as sure as I say this Chad Miller will pipe up with a cleaner way to do this. This is good, and it's how I learn.)
What I found that works, though it's a tad clunky for my taste, is to concatenate the properties back together before sending it to the Select-String cmdlet, like this:
$errlog = @()
$err | foreach { $errlog += [string] $_.LogDate + ' ' + $_.ProcessInfo + ' ' + $_.Text }
The problem with this approach, of course, is you have to pass through the errorlog twice. To minimize this, I added an option to only report the errors starting with a particular date.
$errlog = @()
$err | where {$_.LogDate -ge $startdt} | foreach {
$errlog += [string] $_.LogDate + ' ' + $_.ProcessInfo + ' ' + $_.Text
This minimizes the issue, and if you're properly cycling the error log (normally once a week) the amount of log data it has to cycle through twice isn't too bad. With the properties concatenated we then return to the original search command to get our results.
$errlog | Select-String -pattern 'Error:' -context 0,1
But wait, there's more! After playing with it for a bit I realized I'd like an option to just return DBCC results. Unlike errors, DBCC results are reported on the same line as the DBCC reports it was run, so I don't need the line afterward. In my script I added a variable called $srch to the command line arguments, and if it's equal to 'DBCC' it just returns the DBCC lines.
# Search the errorlog and return any error and the subsequent detailed message
if ($srch -eq 'DBCC') {
$errlog | select-string -pattern 'DBCC' -context 0,0
else {
$errlog | select-string -pattern 'Error:' -context 0,1
And that's it! I named the script scan-errorlog.ps1, and it takes the instance name, start date and (optionally) 'DBCC' as parameters, and returns either errors for that server after the start date, or DBCC results since the start date.
./scan-errorlog.ps1 MyServer 9/25/2012
That command line will return any errors reported in the errorlog since midnight last night.
It's really fun to find gems like this that make our lives as a DBA much easier.
Hi. I think you should say that PowerShell v2 introduced an "updated" Select-String cmdlet instead of a new cmdlet. According to Bruce Payette's books, Select-String was a v1 cmdlet. For PowerShell v2 it was updated to include several additional parameters to make it far more useful. The -context paramater is one of them.
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You're absolutely right, Ronald. It does work with sqlps.exe, so I removed that comment. Thanks for helping out! See you in November.
Thanks for the post Allen.
We can concatenate the properties inside -inputobject. This code works for me.
$err | Select-String -inputobject {[string] $_.LogDate + ' ' + $_.ProcessInfo + ' ' + $_.Text} -pattern 'Error:' -context 0,1
Thanks, Ana! That makes so much sense once I see it, but it didn't occur to me as I was building the script.
I don't know why it returns without any results when i give something like ./scan-errorlog.ps1 ServerName 09/27/2012 DBCC. When i look at the SQL Server log, it has DBCC logs. Any thoughts?
I got answer to my question. The script above is trying to search for current log ReadErrorLog() and the DBCC messages which i'm searching for are stored in a previous log... I tried changing it to $err = $s.ReadErrorLog(0) + $s.ReadErrorLog(1) to grab current and earlier log and it returns the result. Thanks for your awesome script Allen.
I accept your challenge, sir :)
Here's another way of doing this by using the linenumber property returned from select-string. The linenumber property is a 1-based index, while the err variable is a Datatable which consists of datarows which is 0-based index. LineNumber -1 is row which matches and linenumber is the \next row. You can also provide an array as input to the pattern parameter.
$svr = new-object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SMO.Server') "MyServer"
$err = $svr.ReadErrorLog()
$err | Select-String -inputobject {$_.Text} -pattern 'Error: ','DBCC' |
foreach { $err.Rows[$_.LineNumber - 1] |
add-member PostText $(if ($_.Pattern -eq 'Error: ') {$err.Rows[$_.LineNumber].Text}) -PassThru -force }
out of curiosity, how do you run this? do you run it on your workstation and just read the results? do you save them or email to yourself?
i have vbscripts running on all the servers and using logparser to dump the data into a database and then SSRS to send the reports daily.
Chad, I knew I could count on you! Thanks!
sql_noob, I run this manually right now, but it'd be easy to assign the results to a variable and then make that variable the body of an email message, sent via SMTP, like this:
$email = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpsrv)
Great article, Allen!
Do you have any comparative performance feedback on this approach? For example, I might've looked at this in the past using SMO (or as close as I could get) or a linked server query against sys.dm_os_performance counters.
Is this faster? I'm sure it has other benefits too (security, maybe?) but I don't know PowerShell well enough to guess what those benefits might be.


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The epicenter of the economic and markets news these days is certainly located in Europe. Although this issue has been with us for several years, it seems as though we may be approaching the critical hour. Most of us are aware that borrowing from Peter to pay Paul will only work if Peter is willing to lend. However, if Peter thinks the risk is too great, he will not lend, or he will require a higher rate of interest to compensate for the additional risk. This is precisely what has happened in Europe.
Europe may be divided into the stronger countries of the north and the weaker ones to the south. The table below shows the rate of interest on the 10-year government bond for several European countries.
Note the drastic difference in the cost of borrowing for the first six countries as compared to the bottom seven. For example, Germany's government can borrow money for 10 years for only 1.37% while Spain has to pay 6.31% and Greece…well…let's just say they probably don't have too many takers. Obviously, countries saddled with paying higher rates cannot sustain this indefinitely.
There has been a lot of discussion over the creation of a 'Eurobond.' However, I don't believe we'll ever see it. Why? Because it would reward the weaker countries and punish the stronger ones. How? The interest rate on a Eurobond would have to factor in the credit risk of all countries involved. The resulting rate would certainly be higher than that of the stronger countries and lower than the weaker nations. In essence, it would increase the borrowing costs of the stronger countries.
Would Germany accept this? Not likely. However if the present course continues, it's probable that some weaker countries will exit the eurozone, which would lead to a stronger euro, but would hurt exports of the remaining nations. Moreover, if a weaker nation were to leave, they would revert back to their former currency, which would likely weaken initially, causing inflation and economic suffering.
The most relevant question to the stronger, larger, more powerful nations in the eurozone is this: "Is it less expensive to allow a country to leave the eurozone or to continue to prop it up through a re-distribution of wealth (i.e., bailouts)?"
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B2B Perspective: Xerox08 May, 2012 | (01 hr)
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This session is based on the tenets of the book "The Changing MO of the CMO - How the Convergence of Brand and Reputation is Affecting Marketers," a bird's eye view into the thinking of some of the world's most successful marketing leaders in both the B2C and B2B spaces. In an era where social media has resulted in an increasing lack of control over how brands are perceived, these marketers have embraced a broader definition of marketing to include two-way communications and engagement, taking a different approach to organizational structure and planning processes. Indeed, some of the marketers interviewed suggest the emergence of a new discipline: a hybrid between traditional push marketing and the relationship-building aspect of public relations.
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- discover the growing importance of integration in marketing teams and practices;
- learn how some organizations are structuring marketing functions to be more holistic and inclusive of new disciplines;
- hear about engagement, conversation and story-telling that cultivates brand advocacy; and
- understand why engagement with all audiences, not just customers, is increasingly important in driving success for marketers.
Audience: CMOs and Marketing Directors, other senior marketing executives, marketing managers and brand managers, CCOs and senior communications executives
Christa Carone
Christa Carone is the chief marketing officer of Xerox Corporation. She was named to this position in September 2008, and was appointed a vice president of the corporation in May 2010. Carone is responsible for global marketing strategy and initiatives that include advertising, experiential marke...Full Bio
MaryLee Sachs
MaryLee Sachs is the Program Director for The Conference Board Council for CMOs. MaryLee has over 25 years of experience in integrated marketing in the international arena, and is the Founder and CEO of BrandPie Inc which she launched in 2014 as the sister firm to London-based BrandPie Ltd; a bra...Full Bio


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S'mores Cookies
No fire necessary to create these gooey, chocolaty treats!
Recipe & Photo via- Martha Stewart
- Yield Makes 30
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)
- 1 cup whole-wheat flour (spooned and leveled)
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup light-brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 8 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, cut into 30 squares
- 15 large marshmallows, halved horizontally
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a food processor, pulse oats until finely ground. Add flours, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt; pulse to combine. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, scraping down side of bowl. With mixer on low, beat in flour mixture just until combined.
- Drop dough by tablespoons, 1 inch apart, onto two baking sheets. Top each with a chocolate square. Bake just until lightly golden, 11 to 13 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Remove sheets from oven; heat broiler. Top each cookie with a marshmallow. One sheet at a time, broil until marshmallows are lightly browned, 1 to 1 1/2 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool.
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Blumenthal, DeLauro propose manufacturing reinvestment bill
MIDDLETOWN -- Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro are offering legislation they say will help grow manufacturing across the country.
DeLauro, who represents the state's third congressional district, reintroduced the Manufacturing Reinvestment Account Act in April. It enables manufacturers to open such a manufacturing reinvestment account in a bank, similar to an Individual retirement account. They would be able to make annual, pre-tax contributions of up to $500,000, for seven years.
Funds could be withdrawn to invest in machinery, facilities and job training.
Blumenthal is expected to introduce a Senate version of the legislation sometime in the fall.
The two Democrats are scheduled to discuss the legislation on Tuesday at a news conference in Middletown. Both are scheduled to tour Pegasus Manufacturing, which constructs fabricated tube and pipe assemblies.


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Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to seven years in jail and given a lifetime ban from public office by a court that convicted him of paying for sex with an underage woman and then abusing his power in trying to cover it up. Manuela Mesco reports.
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Conference Tournament Primer: America EastPosted by Tommy Lemoine on March 8th, 2014
Championship Fortnight continues with yet two more conference tourneys tipping off today, so what better way to get you through the next week-plus of games than to break down each of the Other 26′s postseason events. Today, the America East and the Summit get started.
Dates: March 8, 9, 15
Site: Quarterfinals and Semifinals: SEFCU Arena (Albany, NY); Championship: Campus site (higher-seeded team hosts)
What to expect: After suffering its only conference defeat in late January, Vermont thoroughly dominated the America East over the remaining five weeks of the regular season. Throughout the month of February, the team steamrolled opponents, winning ten straight games by an average of 21.3 points per contest and capturing the league's top seed in the process. Their KenPom ranking has skyrocketed from 169 to 62 since the New Year, a byproduct of the numerous beatdowns in that span. Stony Brook has talent – 6'8'' forward Jameel Warney is a load underneath – and should present the most substantial threat in this tournament. There could be some level of drama if they meet up in the title game, but either way, expect the senior-laden Catamounts to go dancing for the third time in five years.
Favorites: Vermont. The Catamounts nearly upset Duke back in November, yet they might be a better team now than they were then. Five of their six top-scorers are seniors, and each of them probably remembers the sting of last year's home loss to Albany in the conference championship game. Focus will not be an issue for Vermont.


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The game of professional football really began to take shape and gain popularity following World War II.
High school teams were in abundance, and Saturday afternoons were a time for exciting gridiron exploits. Many of the top high school players moved on to the college ranks, while others continued to hone their skills on the numerous semipro teams that every community seemed to have back then.
Worcester was home to such semipro squads as the Quinsigamonds, the Eagles and the Dartmouths, while there were also the Leominster Lions, Gardner Merchants, Webster Colonials, Auburn Cyclones, Athol Dukes and Milford Trojans.
In addition, Millbury, Dudley, Marlboro, Southbridge, Clinton and Hudson were among the many other towns that boasted semipro football.
Once television became prevalent in homes, semipro football met a sudden demise since football fans didn't have to venture out to chilly autumn football fields. Instead, they could tune in to watch the weekly exploits of the New York Giants, who were the local favorite of many by virtue of their continual appearance on television.
This week, we'll take our final look at local products from Central Mass. high schools who moved on to professional football careers in the NFL.
Paul Duhart, who was a fine player at St. Peter's High in the late 1930s, attended the University of Florida before entering World War II. With the number of college players volunteering for the service, the Gators team was forced to disband. So after being discharged in 1944, Duhart had no college team to return to.
All discharged veterans were allowed to sign free agent contracts, so Duhart joined Green Bay and helped the Packers win the 1944 NFL championship. The following year, he entered the NFL Draft and became the first former Gator to go in the first round when he was drafted by Pittsburgh with the second overall pick.
Following several injuries which shortened his career, Duhart played for both the Boston Yanks and Pittsburgh in 1945 before his career ended after 13 games. He later coached at Mary E. Wells High in Southbridge.
Worcester Classical athlete Vinnie Yablonski and Southbridge's Bill Swiacki (Wells High) each attended Columbia University in the mid-1940s and played for Leominster's Lou Little. In the 1947 game where Columbia ended Army's 32-game unbeaten streak, 21-20, Swiacki scored a touchdown and Yablonski booted the extra point for the margin of victory.
Yablonski joined the Chicago Cardinals in 1948 and played a total of 40 games at fullback in a four-season career, while Swiacki spent five seasons in the NFL with the Giants and later the Detroit Lions. A left end, Swiacki caught 10 touchdown passes in 1948 and wound up with 18 for his career.
Another Worcester-born player, Clayton Lane, who played college ball at the University of New Hampshire, had a one-game career as a tackle with the New York Giants in 1948.
Gene Filipski attended Bartlett High in Webster for two years, playing football and baseball, but at age 15 moved to Sacramento, Calif., to live with his brother, who was in the Air Force. Filipski was all-state in California and received an appointment to West Point, where he played under the legendary Red Blaik. The halfback spent two years for the New York Giants in 1956-57, winning the NFL championship with them that first season.
Gardner's Frank Morze was a standout lineman who helped the 1950 Wildcats to the Class B state title, kicking the extra point in a 7-6 victory over Leominster to clinch a 9-0 season. He followed his high school coach, Walt Dubzinski, to Boston College before spending eight seasons and 84 games in the NFL with San Francisco and Cleveland as a center/tackle.
Several other Central Mass. high school standouts also saw some NFL time through the 1960s. Hudson's Pete Manning, who was a sensational high school running back and went to Wake Forest, spent two seasons as a defensive back with the Chicago Bears (1960-61). Harry Crump, who graduated from Westboro High in 1959, played fullback at Boston College and later played two games in 1963 with the Boston Patriots.
Pete Perreault, a 1957 graduate of Shrewsbury High, attended Boston University and went on to a nine-year pro career with the AFL's New York Jets from 1963 through '67, the AFL's Cincinnati Bengals in 1968, then returned to the Jets from 1969-70 before finishing up his career with the Minnesota Vikings in 1971. He played a total of 87 games at guard and linebacker.
The first three-generation family in the NFL was the Pyne family of Milford, but later they were joined by the Clay Matthews family (Clay Sr., Clay Jr. and Clay III). George Pyne Sr. played a season for Providence in 1931, while his son George Pyne Jr. was a defensive tackle with the Boston Patriots in 1965 for 14 games.
Jim Pyne had the longest NFL career, spending seven seasons in the NFL with Tampa Bay (1995-97), Detroit (1998), Cleveland (1999-2000) and Philadelphia (2001). Pyne attended Milford High and later Choate Rosemary Hall before moving on to Virginia Tech, where his No. 73 jersey was retired. An offensive lineman, he played in 81 NFL games.
St. Bernard's graduate Milt Morin, who later was a standout at the University of Massachusetts, had one of the most storied careers of any local player. An exceptional tight end, he was a first-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns in 1966 and spent 10 seasons with them. In 129 career games, he caught 16 career touchdown passes with his best season coming in 1968 when he had five touchdowns and more than 700 yards receiving.
One of Morin's teammate at UMass was Phil Vandersea, a 1961 graduate of Northbridge High who played in the Rams' backfield and scored in each of the four varsity seasons he played. He finished with 148 career points and 16 2-point conversions, a Northbridge record.
He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1965 as a defensive end and played for the NFL champions that season. After a year in New Orleans in 1967, he returned to the Packers in 1968-69, playing a total of 46 games in his career.
John Fitzgerald was a 300-pound fullback at Southbridge High and later played as a two-way tackle at Boston College. He was a fourth-round draft pick of the Dallas Cowboys in 1970 and spent his entire 10-year career with them. A durable center and tackle, he played in 138 NFL games, including four Super Bowls.
Brian Herosian and Bill Cooke both attended Worcester Academy and later the University of Connecticut before pro careers beckoned. Herosian played one season with the Baltimore Colts at safety in 1973 before playing in the Canadian Football League with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Cooke, a defensive specialist, saw time over six seasons with four teams — Green Bay (1975), San Francisco (1976-77), Detroit (1978) and Seattle (1978-80).
Unquestionably, the most successful football player from Central Mass. has to be Milford's Howie Long, whose 13-year career with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders included a Super Bowl win in 1984 and landed him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
While at Milford High, Long played for Dick Corbin's 1975 Super Bowl champions that beat Pittsfield, 42-14. He later attended Villanova. He was a second-round pick of the Raiders and played 179 games at defensive end and defensive tackle, and continues his TV career to this day.
Prior to Long, Milford had two members of its 1974 team go on to play in the United States Football League. Pat Cornelius was a tackle with the USFL's Los Angeles Express in 1983.
Teammate Joe Restic Jr., who later played for the Notre Dame's national champions of 1977, was with the Boston Breakers in 1983, then moved with the Breakers to their next two destinations — New Orleans in 1984 and Portland in 1985.
The now-defunct Wachusett League probably sent more players to the NFL in the 1970s and early '80s than any other Central Mass. league, with some players having more success than others.
No question, the Morris family of Ayer provided Central Mass. with one of the most prolific backfields in history when the late Owen Kilcoyne coached the Panthers.
Older brother Joe Morris was a dynamic running back at Ayer before taking his talents to Syracuse and later the New York Giants for eight seasons, including a Super Bowl in 1987. While many felt the 5-foot-7 running back was too small for the NFL, he proved skeptics wrong, scoring 50 career touchdowns and three times rushing for more than 1,000 yards.
His brothers, Larry Morris and Jamie Morris, both of whom helped Ayer to a 50-0 Super Bowl win over Monty Tech in 1980, attended Syracuse and Michigan, respectively. While Larry played only two games for Green Bay in 1987, Jamie spent three seasons in the NFL with Washington (1988-89) and also played three games with New England in 1990.
Ironically, the fourth brother, Mike Morris, whom many felt was the best all-around athlete of the brothers, never played in the pros, but worked for many years as a strength and conditioning coach with the New England Patriots.
Oakmont Regional's Shawn Halloran, who succeeded Doug Flutie at Boston College, played three games as a replacement player for the St. Louis Cardinals during the strike season of 1987.
In addition, two Lunenburg products, Brian Saranovitz and Bob White, both of whom played for Walt Dubzinski Jr.'s Super Bowl champions that edged Southbridge, 15-14, in 1979, also caught on with NFL teams. Saranovitz was on the 1987 New England Patriots roster but never got into a game, while White spent three seasons as an offensive lineman with Dallas from 1987-89.
Kenny Gamble, who played a season at Cushing Academy in 1985, moved on to Colgate and spent three seasons as a running back with the Kansas City Chiefs (1988-90).
The 1990s had two local products who led their respective high schools to Super Bowl championships before eventually moving to the NFL.
St. Peter-Marian's Jerry Azumah helped another football dynasty led by Kilcoyne to the 1994 Super Bowl championship with three touchdowns in a 42-15 win over Oakmont. After an outstanding career as a running back at the University of New Hampshire, he was a defensive back with the Chicago Bears for seven NFL seasons, from 1999-2005.
Gardner's lone Super Bowl championship came in 1997, and co-captain Jacques Cesaire was one of the more important cogs in the Wildcats' 12-6 win over Wahconah Regional. Cesaire later starred at Southern Connecticut State. He was not drafted, but signed with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent and played on the defensive line for nine seasons before his release just prior to the 2012 season.
Currently, three local high school products are connected with NFL teams. Burncoat's Ron Brace, who played at Boston College, has been a defensive tackle with the New England Patriots since 2009.
Meanwhile, Ryan Durant, a St. Bernard's graduate via Syracuse University, has been on the roster of the Tennessee Titans the past three seasons and is now on the season-ending injured reserve list, while Holy Name's Emil Igwenagu made the Philadelphia Eagles' eight-man practice squad.
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A post-mortem is due to take place on Wednesday to determine how teenager Nora Quoirin died after her body was found in Malaysia.
The 15-year-old's body was discovered beside a small stream, about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) from the jungle resort of Dusun, on Tuesday.
It followed a large-scale operation to find the London teenager, who disappeared from the resort on Sunday August 4 while on holiday with her family.
Police in Malaysia said the body – later confirmed to be Nora's by her family – was found by volunteers who were helping the search team.
Deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor told reporters at a press conference that the remains were winched by helicopter to a hospital mortuary.
He added that the body "was not in any clothings" and that while it remained a missing persons case police were looking into all possibilities including the "angle of criminal investigation".
Nora's mother made a heartfelt appeal on Monday to find her as a £10,000 reward – donated by an anonymous Belfast business – was offered for information leading to her safe return.
The teenager's parents, Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin, a French-Irish couple who have lived in London for 20 years, had thanked those looking for her as fundraising pages set up by Nora's aunt and uncle collected more than £100,000 from well-wishers.
Following the confirmation that Nora's body had been found, Irish premier Leo Varadkar said that the situation was "every family's worst nightmare".
He tweeted: "Our thoughts & sincere condolences are with Nora Quoirin's parents, siblings & wider family at this unimaginably difficult time.
"They have experienced every family's worst nightmare. I'd like to pay tribute to everyone who searched for Nora. May she rest in peace."
President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, and his wife Sabina offered their "deepest condolences" to Nora's parents, to her siblings and to her extended family.
He said: "On behalf of the people of Ireland, I would also like to express my gratitude for the assistance given by the Malaysian authorities in the search for Nora, for the volunteers who answered the call to join the search and for all those throughout Malaysia, Ireland, Britain and France who offered what support they could.
"Our thoughts and prayers are now with Nora's family, at this most difficult time."
The French Foreign Ministry also expressed its sincere condolences to Nora's family.
In a statement on Twitter, written in French, Europe and foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and secretary of state for Europe Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said: "The French authorities are at the disposition of the Malaysian authorities so that light can be shed on the circumstances of her death."
Volunteer hikers and even reportedly a shaman were among those taking part in the search for Nora, who was born with the brain defect holoprosencephaly.
The Quoirins had said Nora's condition meant she was not independent and had difficulty walking.
Search crews looking for Nora had played her mother's voice in the dense Malaysian forest near where she disappeared.
Mrs Quoirin could be heard saying "Nora, darling, Nora, I love you, Mum is here," on the recording.
Police had said the teenager, who was travelling on an Irish passport, was believed to have climbed out of her resort room window.
After Nora went missing, her family described how she was particularly vulnerable.
Describing her as a "very special person" they said she would not have gone anywhere alone.


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