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Among the featured complete vehicles at the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association Show in Las Vegas will be the Icon 4×4 Bronco, featured in Sunday's Automobiles section. Here, Jerry Garrett explains how this thoroughly modern $159,000 retromobile came to be.
Check in with Wheels on Tuesday, the first day of SEMA, for coverage from the convention center floor.
VAN NUYS, Calif. — In the 1956 movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," beings from outer space replace people with reasonable facsimiles.
The imposters are given away only by their perfection; the replicas lack the idiosyncrasies that make humans unique.
This cult classic, remade in 1978, came to mind as Jonathan Ward of Icon 4×4 explained the birthing process of new Icon replicas of the 1966 Ford Bronco, a renowned 4×4 that was also somewhat reviled for its many foibles.
"We're looking for donor cars," Mr. Ward said, conjuring images of space invaders combing junkyards for Bronco carcasses. "We only need the VIN number. Nothing else."
What Mr. Ward is building is an all-new, 21st-century Bronco in the image of, and within the dimensions of, the original. The price is a little more outsize than its inspiration: $159,000 and up.
It would not be difficult to improve the 1966 Bronco, which changed very little through the 1977 model year. This was a vehicle, made up of Mustang and F-100 pickup parts, that was consumed by corrosion almost from the moment it left the dealership. Oil usually leaked from every orifice of its straight-six and V-8 engine offerings. And the rattles, squeaks and shudders from its poorly reinforced body were almost enough to cause its operator hearing loss.
Naturally, a certain rugged, rough-hewn segment of the buying public loved them; nearly a quarter million Broncos were sold during the span of the first generation's production run. Enthusiast clubs have kept many on the road since then, although most have vanished into junkyards or have become piles of rust.
In those early Broncos, the VIN was conveniently attached to body panels, not the frame, making replacement of the entire vehicle relatively easy. Another reason for possessing the bodies of first-generation Broncos is that the reborn Bronco can be built to '60s-era emission and safety standards, which were virtually nonexistent.
That said, the Icon Bronco uses a modern, emissions-compliant Ford Coyote V-8 and is equipped with sturdy lap and shoulder belts at all seating positions.
Mr. Ward said that Icon's goal in re-envisioning the Bronco was to revisit, in a respectful way, the design heritage of a classic 4×4 and interpret it in a modern way. The company has also had notable success doing the same sorts of things with old Toyota Land Cruisers and Jeep CJs.
In reimagining the Bronco, Mr. Ward's team created a surprisingly sophisticated, modern vehicle from the silhouette of what was originally a very crude piece of workmanship. Interior panels, originally left open to the exterior body panels, are now enclosed with storage compartments and sound-deadening materials. Wheel wells that were open traps for water, mud, road salt and other corrosive materials are now panel-covered. Brakes, lighting, suspension structures, wheels and chassis pieces that were originally quite primitive have been upgraded with sturdy, beefy, modern materials and components.
The Icon Bronco's Coyote V-8 is the same 5-liter 412-horsepower crate engine that can be purchased from Ford's high-performance catalog; it is fitting somehow, given the original Bronco's reliance on Mustang parts, that the Icon would use the same V-8 found on a 2012 Mustang GT.
The original Bronco weighed close to 3,600 pounds, about what the Icon Bronco tips the scales at, despite the feeling that this modern one feels substantial enough to have been carved from a single block of granite.


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iFixit has been busy once again this week taking their toolkit to the new Google Chromecast 2.0 to reveal its inner workings to the world.
But rather than providing a repair ability score as with other teardowns the company has decided to not mark either of the older or new 2015 Chromecast devices.
Although the team did say how impressed they were with the detachable HDMI cable. Explaining :
That said, we absolutely love the internally detachable HDMI cable. It adds longevity to the 2015 Chromecast by addressing what is likely to be the most common problem—a damaged plug or loose HDMI connection.
We've arrived at the conclusion of our double feature teardown—and, once again, we've decided not to assign a repairability score to either of the 2015 Chromecasts. Ultimately any device like those in the Chromecast family will be the same story—a board in a box. There is very little to repair in the event of an internal failure.
Hardware inside the Chromecast 2.0 includes :
– Marvell Avastar 88W8887 VHT WLAN, Bluetooth, NFC and FM Receive
– Nanya NT5CC128M16IP-DI/EKDDR3L 2Gb SDRAM
– AKM AK4430 192kHz 24-Bit Stereo DAC
– Marvell Armada 88DE3006 1500 Mini Plus dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 media processor
– Toshiba TC58NVG1S3H 2 Gb NAND Flash Memory
– Texas Instruments DRV632 DirectPath 2-VRMS pop-free stereo line driver
Jump over to the official iFixit website for full details and photos of the complete Chromecast 2.0 teardown
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Calculating home affordability in Grand Rapids Michigan is a critical preliminary step for all home buyers and should be considered before seeing homes. This preserves time and minimizes heartache. There are many financial figures to look at such as loan payments, taxes, homeowners insurance, dues, and maintenance costs.
Mortgage Expenses
Mortgage Expenses can be the same for the entire mortgage term or can alter at set intervals. This is dependent on your particular loan program. Typically, loan payments include contributions towards the mortgage principal and an interest charge. Thus, it is dependent on your exact interest rate, which is not usually known until you have selected a property and know the closing date. Your mortgage professional can prepare an estimate using the current rate and a particular value, but keep in mind that these calculations are not final since every home will be different.
Local Taxes
Most mortgage companies require that you set aside funds into an escrow account for the purpose of paying hazard insurance. The mortgage company then sends the payments from that account directly to the municipality. This is their way of ensuring that you maintain enough money to cover taxes and that payments are not delayed. Amounts differ based on the area and assessment amounts. Larger homes or those with more land generally have more taxes. Amounts can also adjust yearly.
Hazard Insurance
Hazard insurance is another item for which you might be asked to set aside funds into escrow. Payments are due once a year and may be adjusted by your insurance company. You have the option of selecting your insurance company, although minimum amounts will be needed to comply with the loan terms.
Other Budget Considerations
There are other common amounts that you should consider. If your down payment is below a certain percentage, mortgage insurance may be included in your monthly payment until your principal reaches a certain amount. Properties in subdivisions or condo complexes may include monthly or yearly fees. This will vary with every property, so be sure to ask your real estate broker about any applicable fees prior to entering into purchase contracts.
Repair Costs
Home buyers sometimes forget to account for repair costs. Whether you are purchasing a condo or single family home, there will be both predictable and unpredictable repairs to be made. Always account for such items and estimate larger amounts for older homes or those in regions where weather may play a role in exterior maintenance.
Calculating Home Affordability In Grand Rapids Michigan
Calculating home affordability in Grand Rapids Michigan is an important starting point in the real estate purchase process. Price sensitive buyers must stay educated on fluctuating interest rates and the affect that it will have on home affordability. Home buyers should also understand what expenses will remain unchanged versus those likely to change over the in the future. Some costs, such as repairs, can be somewhat difficult to predict but should still be accounted for. Only by performing a detailed analysis of all expenses involved in property purchase and ownership will buyers make an educated decision on price range.


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Vietnam Airlines said it supported VND 2.1billion for seven central provinces and southern provinces, aiming to help local residents overcome difficulties due to flash floods, heavy storm.
|Many organizations, individuals support flood hit people
The amount is from Vietnam Airlines' social fund which contributed by its staff.
Earlier, Vietnam Airlines and Jetstar Pacific, VASCO transported over 35 tons of cargo to flood hit provinces.


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The WaterProducer-Greenhouse™ design is intended for tropical small islands, many of which are small island developing states. Here is a link to the official United Nations list of small island developing states.
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A recent online article by Dr. Fernando Pérez Monteagudo (Professor at the Centre for Hydraulic Research, Havana, Cuba) in Water & Wastewater International explained how desalinated water supplements the rainwater fed drinking-water system on Grand Turk.
Sustainability must be the goal of water resources management in small islands, and Grand Turk, the capital of Turks and Caicos Islands, is carefully preserving its complex water supply system fed mainly by rainwater and supplemented by desalination. Read more...
I have the privilege of being accepted as one of the presenters during the Technical Sessions at the 23rd Annual Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) Conference and Exhibition scheduled for October 6-10, 2014 at Atlantis Resorts on Paradise Island, Bahamas. Here is the Abstract of my paper:
Regional droughts in the Caribbean are common. Water managers seeking solutions to water scarcity are often unfamiliar with the option of using water-from-air technology. Maps of the specific humidity composite mean for Junes and Decembers during the ten-year period 2004–2013 quantify the water-from-air resource demonstrating it is suitable for operation of water-from-air systems in Caribbean countries. Quantitative investigations by the author found droughts and long-term climate change do not appear to affect the magnitude of the Caribbean region's water-from-air resource. Case studies include one for a proposed water-from-air commercial greenhouse on Grand Turk. Another case is about the experience of commissioning a 2500 L/d water-from-air machine in Belize City. Lessons learned from the case studies are outlined.
Feeding Turks and Caicos
I discovered that Turks and Caicos Weekly News Online featured an article (August 12, 2011) about our project participant Nicholas Turner.
The opening paragraphs from the article.
TCI'S long neglected agricultural sector is in for a major boost thanks to a forthcoming national training centre to educate a new generation of farmers.
North Caicos' listless government farm is to be transformed into a venue to research the best way to grow crops – with the emphasis on organic produce.
Aspiring farmers will be given plots of land on the vast 160-acre site for a peppercorn rent. They will then receive training from farm staff on the best techniques on everything from irrigation to fertiliser.
It's just part of plans unveiled by new agriculture director Nicholas Turner who hopes the Islands will eventually yield enough fruit, veg, dairy products and meat, to feed the entire nation.
March 25, 2013--http://tcweeklynews.com/agriculture-coop-in-planning-stages-p3690-127.htm
July 7, 2013--http://tcweeklynews.com/agriculture-department-still-without-director-p4111-1.htm
Jan 27, 2014--http://tcweeklynews.com/agriculture-projects-for-provo-and-middle-caicos-being-reviewed-p4725-1.htm
Apparently, I should not be so frustrated that the WaterProducer-Greenhouse™ project has not yet built its first installation! New technologies have often taken about two decades to become mainstream. Steven Johnson gave several examples in his interesting book (published 2010) titled, Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation. It takes typically about ten years to construct the "platform" and another ten years for widespread adoption (the 10/10 rule).
I am experiencing this (agonizingly) with the WaterProducer-Greenhouse™ Project. The two year viability study, completed in 2003 resulted in a unique knowledge base (the reports to CIDA) that could be marketed to interested people. Lots of mild interest. Many hours are spent on personal networking and development of this information-rich website. Now, more than ten self-funded years later, I am hopeful that there exist some early adopters with the imagination and guts to exploit this innovative technically and commercially viable platform (along with our team's expertise) for improving water and food security for the people living on and visiting tropical small islands. Water-scarcity remains one of the global "key societal challenges" reminds an editorial in the January 2, 2014 issue of Nature. In the same issue, Colin Macilwain listed examples of mounting societal problems in this order: water, food, health, energy, and climate change. The WaterProducer-Greenhouse™ addresses the first two problems.
Our online store is now selling complete sets of the printed and bound reports our Grand Turk water-from-air greenhouse project produced for CIDA. These peer-reviewed documents are an invaluable knowledge base about a practical method of improving water security and food security for the people living on and visiting small tropical islands.
Water security appears to be the subject of many search engine queries in North America. Although other countries do not appear on the regional interest list this does not indicate necessarily an absence of queries but rather a low volume of queries. Qualitatively, it seems that interest in water security has been fairly stable during the last year.
Food security was clearly of concern during the previous 12 months in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Australia as well as in North America and the UK. There appears to be a recent upsurge of interest in food security.
In the context of these regions, the WaterProducer-Greenhouse™ may be investigated as a possible water-plus-food-security solution for small tropical islands, with access to deep cold ocean water, associated with especially India (Lakshadweep, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands), Australia (Coral Sea Islands), and USA (SE Florida, Florida Keys).
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Roland Wahlgren is a Physical Geographer. He was scientific and technical consultant to the WaterProducer-Greenhouse™ Project while it was "live" as a CIDA-supported Viability Study during 2001-2003.
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26 Jan JobFair'19 North Campus
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KIET Noth Nazimabad Campus organized its Second Job Fair on Saturday 26 January, 2019 at North Nazimabad Campus.
Many engineering, computing and business companies got themselves registered for the Job Fair. A number of Alumnae and final semester students visited and appeared in interviews for various positions.


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The APSA Caravan was launched in 2014 and is comprised of a podiatrist, nurses and health educators who travel across the island to care for those suffering from diabetes. The objective is to provide a program of proximity to fighting against amputation. Education, preventive care and check-ups are being carried out along with the distribution of the booklet 'je prends mes pieds en main'
January 2018 – December 2018
9 villages visited
965 foot assessments
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1. An abutment of sod raised 3 to 4 inches above the sand level of the bunker facing the putting green which prevents a player from putting out.
2. On a baseball or softball diamond, a slightly elevated ridge in the turfgrass adjacent to a skinned area, caused by the intrusion of skinned area soil into the turf, which can prevent proper drainage and inconsistent ball response; also referred to as a "mounded ridge."
A sample picture of a lip on a baseball field.
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Sparks flew Wednesday at a House hearing investigating battery fires associated with the Chevrolet Volt electric car.
Republicans hammered David Strickland, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), over his agency's handling of the battery fires during a meeting of a subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
But Strickland defended the Volt, insisting the electric car produced by General Motors, the beneficiary of a 2009 government bailout, was perfectly safe.
"The Chevrolet Volt is safe to drive and it has been safe to drive the whole time," Strickland told the panel Wednesday. "Not only would I drive it, I would [take] my wife, my mother and my baby sister along for the ride."
Republicans on the committee remained skeptical, accusing Strickland of concealing the investigation of the Volt batteries because the Obama administration was intent on pushing electric vehicles.
"Whose best interest were you acting in?" Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said. "It certainly wasn't the American public.
"Is the commitment to the American public or is the commitment to clean energy that we are going to get there any way we can?" Kelly continued. "When the market is ready … it won't have to be subsidized."
Republicans zeroed in on allegations the highway safety agency kept an investigation of a June explosion of a Volt quiet until news reports about the incident surfaced in November.
"You knew about that explosion ... when you came
and testified before Congress, and when the president talked about [fuel efficiency] standards,"
the panel's chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), said to Strickland during the
"But for the [news reports], would you have ever told us?" Jordan asked Strickland.
Strickland responded that the agency's investigation "took every second of that time," and he defended the safety of the electric vehicles.
Democrats on the committee defended both Strickland and the Chevy Volt. They argued Republicans were using the battery fire in the Chevy Volt to attempt to put the brakes on the Obama administration's clean-car proposals.
"This hearing is not about safety," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said. "This hearing is about an attack."
"I wouldn't want this committee's activities on this issue to discourage companies like GM from continuing to innovate," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) added. "We don't want to be buying lithium-ion batteries from China in five years."
General Motors CEO Daniel Akerson likewise argued that the debate
about the Volt was too political, telling the committee, "[W]e did not
develop the Chevy Volt to be a political punching bag.
"We engineered the Volt to be a technological wonder," he said during his opening remarks to the committee. "Motor Trend called it a moon-shot, and it is."
But House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said he was more interested in the Obama administration's involvement in the Volt's development.
"Your administration is not up to speed to maintain safety in an electric age," he said to NHTSA Administrator David Strickland. "You don't know what you're doing [and] an anomaly happened."


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Carris Health Rice Memorial Hospital
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Carris Health is a health care system that is driven by its purpose, which is to serve rural communities and address the health care needs of people at all stages of life. Carris Health serves people throughout West Central and Southwest Minnesota. Formed in January 2018, Carris Health is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CentraCare, one of Minnesota's largest health systems.
"Care" is at the core of everything our partnership represents. The name Carris is an adaptation of the word "care" and speaks directly to why this collaboration was created – to provide better care throughout the region. Ultimately, the name and meaning of Carris Health will be defined over time by how we work together to deliver health care in a new way that benefits communities throughout Minnesota.
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On average, that means each person's inbox is hit by about 120 emails a day – with some people receiving less and some receiving many more. Breaking through to your target audience when you're up against such odds can be tough. Even with all the inbox competition, email marketing can be quite lucrative when handled correctly. Read more Hiring For Customer Service Positions? Look For Goldilocks! May 26, 2016 by Anne MacKeigan in Customer Relationships Just like all the other areas of a company—the warehouse, the accounting department, shipping—customer care is a process. In fact, it typically involves a number of processes, such as incoming order processing, returns and re-stocking, setting up new accounts and solving customer problems. If a customer-care candidate does not already have a process orientation, it will be an uphill battle to instill one. Consider the following true story. Read more Sales Blog: Building Client Relationships May 4, 2016 by John Rosso in Customer Relationships At the end of the day your main priority is your customer's satisfaction. Your frontline staff is probably well-trained in areas such as customer consulting, product/service maintenance, and even sometimes disaster management. The question is: Are they excellent communicators? Read more Sales Blog: Setting Expectations with Your Customers May 4, 2016 by John Rosso in Customer Relationships In many cases, frontline or customer service teams are the only contact point from your clients to your company. It is very important for your staff to develop and maintain a good relationship with your customers. So, how do we promote togetherness, and set our team up to deliver an excellent customer service experience? Read more Delivering Personalized Service For Exceptional Customer Care April 28, 2016 by Markku Kauppinen in Customer Relationships Instead of repeating the same customer service behaviors over and over with customers who have their unique characteristics and preferences, every employee must learn how to adjust their customer service style from one customer to the next. If we do not do this, some customers are left disappointed, even when the customer service standards have been met. Read more Sales Blog: How Well Do You Read? April 22, 2016 by Len Petrancosta in Customer Relationships Ever been hit by a situation completely out of 'left field'? Yes, there is a lot of repetition in customer care, but there are also situations that are so completely 'out there' that we have to touch our fingers to our chins to close our own mouths. Read more Sandler Training Brief: Salespeople, Are Your Days Numbered? April 8, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Will you be replaced…by a smartphone app? Read more Sales Blog: Lucky to Have You April 8, 2016 by John Rosso in Customer Relationships You've hear the old saying, "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity…" but how often are you preparing for or thinking about adding value to a client relationship? Read more Sandler Training Brief: People Don't Buy Products and Services April 8, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Knowing how your prospects view the outcomes they desire—solved problems or achieved goals—and the motivation for those outcomes will enable you to present your product or service from the most favorable position. Read more Sales Blog: Money Does Grow on Trees… Referral Trees April 8, 2016 by John Rosso in Customer Relationships On a scale of 0-10 rate your current referral plan. Zero means you just learned how to spell referral. Ten says you are proactively generating all of the referrals you could ever possibly need. If you have rated yourself lower than a seven, read on. Read more Sandler Training Brief: Do Your Presentations Trigger Fight or Flight Responses? April 8, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships To understand how your presentations may trigger a prospect's fight or flight response, you must first understand how the brain processes information. Read more Sandler Training Brief: Customer Retention: Magic or Method? April 8, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Communicate in a personal manner. Most salespeople are so focused on their work that they don't take enough time to meet with, talk to, and listen to their customers. Read more Sandler Training Brief: When is it Appropriate to Ask for Referrals?? April 8, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Clients' willingness to provide salespeople with referrals is primarily a matter of trust. And, salespeople can earn that trust not only by providing products and services that ultimately deliver exceptional results, but also by "delivering" exceptional experiences. Read more Sandler Training Brief: Are You Building Your Dream House on Swampland? April 8, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Whether you're building a house or a sale, you'll need solid ground on which to build it. If the base is unstable, it's only a matter of time before the structure collapses. Read more Tactic #49: Don't lead them into a swamp. April 5, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Don't involve your customer in your problems and your company's problems. Your customer has enough of his own problems. Read more Sales Blog: What's the Lifetime Value of a Customer? April 5, 2016 by Scot Teachout in Customer Relationships Oh well, it's just one customer. Our attitude and beliefs around each of our customers should come from the perspective of what the lifetime value of that customer brings to our company, and ourselves. Read more Tactic #28: Adapt or go out of business. April 1, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships How many salespeople look upon their relationship with their customers as one that should endure regardless of what product is being sold? Read more Tactic #48: Only give a presentation to confirm an order. April 1, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships People in pain want relief; don't get in their way of getting relief. Read more Tactic #29: Move on with them. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Salespeople, in general, frequently move on to other companies. There are many reasons: lack of performance at the former, poor product line, perhaps the former company was poorly run. The list of possible reasons is long. Read more Tactic #30: Work the referral factory. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships You are building the referral factory. Keep building, and always thank everyone for every sale. Read more Tactic #33: You start. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships You start. That's about as complicated as it gets. Instead of you starting, the prospect starts. Or, if you already have a customer with whom you are meeting or calling, tell her to start. Read more Tactic #39: Never ask why. Always ask what. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships What you find out is more important than why you found it out. Read more Tactic #37: Are you saying... ? January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships To really understand what someone means, not what you hope he means, ask for clarification. Read more Tactic #41: Let your prospects do 70% of the talking. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships If you decide to continue with a prospect, you are managing your time. If the prospect decides what to do, who is managing your time then? Read more Sales Blog: Why Bother Bonding? January 28, 2016 by Jim Gaffney in Customer Relationships Why is it important for sales people to bond with a prospect? It sounds like a stupid question but one that many sales people can't answer. The fact is that no one ever won a deal because they could bond well with others. Read more Tactic #50: Know who your clients are. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Customers, if given the choice between buying from a stranger or buying from someone they know, will always buy from someone they know. Read more Tactic #51: Is there a problem? Did we fix it? January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships If you don't solve both customer repair problems, the actual and emotional, there are tons of other salespeople ready to do the job and take your commission. Read more Tactic #3: Can we talk about that? January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships When the prospect seems to be upset, annoyed, or bothered, ask him about that. By ignoring his feelings, you will be shown the door. Read more Tactic #15: Get Into Their World. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships The world of the prospect and/or customer is the only world that matters in a business situation. Read more Tactic #25: Get a ticket on their train. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Just because you sold your client something yesterday, doesn't mean he'll know you're still around today. Let him know you are. Read more Tactic #26: Dispose of disaster. January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Is it really a disaster, or is it a brush-off? Only the prospect knows unless you ask. Read more Tactic #5: What's The Future? What's The Past? January 28, 2016 by Peak Performance Management in Customer Relationships Knowing where your client is, future and past, tells you where your prospect is in the present. Read more Five ways to make more sales with referrals. October 29, 2015 by Mike Montague in Customer Relationships When someone hands you a business card and says, "you should call this person", it's not really a referral. Without more information, it is more like they're sending you on a cold call. Cold calling is way down the list of favorite prospecting activities for most salespeople, and sometimes that frustration can spill over to referrals. Read more Why You Will Want to Adapt Your 30-Second Commercial April 17, 2015 by Hamish Knox in Customer Relationships All salespeople with a small amount of experience have a 30-second commercial (a.k.a elevator pitch, popcorn introduction, etc.) down pat. And that's the problem. Read more Do You Have A Fear of Asking Questions During Sales? March 24, 2015 by Chip Doyle in Customer Relationships I spend about 80% of my time working with sales professionals to perfect their ability to structure the questions that need to be asked. They all understand the importance of asking questions but need some assistance in creating their own tailored versions. Salesmen often enjoy the exercise of deciphering which questions uncover the compelling reasons the prospect should do business with them. Read more 6 Ways to Improve Customer Service July 1, 2014 by Dave Hiatt in Customer Relationships You know good customer service when you experience it. It's hard to explain at times when it's not so great, but it's easy to recognize when a customer service agent has gone above and beyond to make sure you're satisfied. At some point, every day, everyone is a customer. A good customer service experience is something that everyone can relate to - so what is it that makes for an exquisite customer service touchpoint Read more Ask "Why?" Five Times May 29, 2014 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships There's something to be said about children who continue to ask "why" about everything. When they ask and you respond, and they ask "Why?" again, it means they don't have the complete answer to their question. They will continue to ask until they understand the entire concept or until the adult gets frustrated. In business, asking "Why?" five times can produce the same quality understanding to prepare for better results. Common complaints we hear often in business: Read more How to Prepare for Departing Clients March 4, 2014 by Dave Mattson in Customer Relationships Nothing lasts forever, right? While it may seem pessimistic, having a plan for dealing with a client's departure is sound advice when it comes to maintaining business and clients. We spend so much time building solid, trusting relationships with clients that it can come as quite a blow when news hits that your client contact announces they're leaving their current position. Read more Voicemails: Old School or Still Appropriate? Results May Vary. February 24, 2014 by Dave Hiatt in Customer Relationships Like it or not, times have changed and the usefulness of a voicemail is up for debate. With email, text messages and Caller ID, some people find it irritating to see that they have a blinking red light or a notification alerting them to check their voicemail. And as sales professionals, the last thing we're trying to do is annoy a prospect or current client. Read more Old Clients, New Business October 1, 2013 by Dave Mattson in Customer Relationships A mistake too many salespeople make is not keeping in touch with former clients. It's not uncommon for past clients to come to a point where they need your product or service again but don't remember how to get in touch with you. They are more likely to have your competitors' information handy. (Your competitors are still calling on your client even though you are not). Read more Are Your Customers Buying from Your Company or Your Salesperson? October 10, 2012 by Mike Montague in Customer Relationships The good and bad of relationship-based sales. The Good Relationship-based sales methods are ideal. Most of the time those relationships are the only thing protecting you from competing solely on price. In sales training, we have a saying: "All things being equal, people buy from people they like. All things being unequal, people still buy from people they like."e Read more Networking Works! September 1, 2011 by Abby Donnelly in Customer Relationships Attending a networking event? WHY?? That may seem like a strange question, but time is one of our most limited resources! Taking a few minutes to evaluate why you should attend THIS particular networking event may save you hours of unproductive time and energy.Often, sales professionals tell me that they make their decision to attend an event based on the location of the event and their calendar availability. Instead, base your decision to attend an event based on: Will your ideal target market likely be there? If not Read more Sales Training and CRM June 9, 2011 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships Aberdeen's research shows that the best sales training companies, like Sandler Training, integrate sales training and customer relationship management. Read more Why Do We Accept Lies From Prospects? March 8, 2011 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships A prospect has agreed to meet with you and indicated they are genuinely interested in your product or service. You arrive at the meeting and spend 40 minutes with the prospect sharing how your product can solve their problems, which they've just shared with you. They are very impressed with you and all the features and benefits that you've shared... They're happy with the delivery timelines, the after sales service that will be provided and once you send the proposal with the price they're sure they can get the rest of the committee to agree to move forward Read more Making Decisions for Other People February 15, 2011 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships I had an interesting conversation at a social event that made me recognize that I, along with people in general, seem to want to make decisions for other people. This is an interesting observation from a sales perspective and it's also applicable in our everyday lives. Let me share the story Read more Being Afraid of Asking "That Question" January 25, 2011 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships Why do we think that by asking a question we'll hurt the prospect's feelings? What you need to remember is that that you are not responsible for how a prospect reacts to a question that you ask. Clients share with me daily the questions they've avoided asking for fear of upsetting the prospect. Sometimes they get frustrated with themselves because they feel they lost a sale or an opportunity of a sale because they lacked the guts to ask questions. They would rather bite their tongue than ask a question that they think might make the prospect uncomfortable Read more Strength of Relationship Determines Success December 22, 2010 by Bill Bartlett in Customer Relationships Spend some time in the psychology or self-help section in any bookstore and you'll find hundreds of books written on transforming troubled relationships. Whether husband/wife, parent/child, friend/friend or employer/employee, they dominate the shelves promising THE magical solution to resolving any issue imaginable. If you're in sales, what about the buyer/seller relationship? The same elements that make any relationship thrive also apply to developing and strengthening bonds with our prospects and customers Read more Video: Sandler Rule #3: No Mutual Mystification December 13, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships Sales isn't for the faint of heart. You don't just encounter negativity on a fairly frequent basis. In many cases, it is your job to sniff it out and address it immediately. Sandler Rule #3: "No Mutual Mystification," deals with an issue that often plagues sales professionals – "happy ears." Read more Why Do People Have a Hard Time with the Word "No"? December 9, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships You may not recall the first time you heard the word NO; however, that first time and the many times you heard it after all happened when you were a toddler. You continued to hear the word NO through your childhood years and eventually it became ingrained in your psyche. Read more Dealing with Difficult People: A Sales Tip That Pays Emotional and Financial Dividends October 27, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships Wednesday mornings are tough enough without our most annoying client calling in with the usual simple problem that he is over-reacting to. We sigh and answer the phone - all while making the facial gestures of a person eating oysters for the first time in their life. WHY does that client seem to be determined to drive you insane? It's your fault ... Every morning the manager from the operations department stops in to tell you how your team messed up his operations this weekend. She is soooo abrasive. You answer in abrupt sentences and quite rudely push her out the door Read more Get Over It: Stop Fearing Rejection, Stop Seeking Approval, Start Prospecting September 10, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships That's a headline straight out of sales training boot camp, but it's true. There is a question most people want answered when they go to a sales training program or read one of the many sales how-to books; that question sounds like this, "Is there really one secret weapon or magic formula to make me better and increase my sales?" Wouldn't it be wonderful to find one ... so would winning the lottery, but not many do it Read more Video: Sandler Rule #26: People Buy in Spite of the Hard Sell, Not Because of It August 25, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships Countless people go through sales training seminars every year only to emerge with slick tricks, a few doses of confidence and a belief that they'll be able to bully any prospect they meet into signing on the dotted line. While this may do just fine for the quick, lucky payday, it is not a system that builds long-term, profitable relationships. Read more Video: Sandler Rule #49: Leave Your Child in the Car August 6, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships No, we're not advocating neglect. Just understand that the salesperson should be looking for neither approval nor acceptance from his or her prospect. Learn how you can leave your emotions out of the equation. Read more Ouch! That Stings: How Salespeople Got a Bad Rep July 26, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships I've spent a lot of time considering why the occupation of selling has been given such a low approval rating over the past 40 years. It wasn't always that way. Here's a story that got me thinking about this again. A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him Read more Going from a Typical Salesperson to a Trusted Advisor in Three Easy Loops July 6, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships Recently I was working with a company's executive team in reviewing the progress we had made together in solving a longstanding, difficult problem that had stunted their growth for years and slowed their momentum. It was rewarding to see their excitement as we reviewed the results of our efforts together. It was a good team meeting and an encouraging feeling to share our successes. I should have left well enough alone, yet I recognized that the true learning and best growth had not gone far enough. I posed three follow-up questions: Read more Email Is Not a Sales Strategy July 1, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships I don't like emails! Thought I'd get that out on the front end so there's no mystery as to where I am heading. Now you're wondering what in the world has happened. What did he do wrong? What caused such a negative reaction to something as simple, routine and harmless as email Read more Wake Up Call June 30, 2010 by Bill Bartlett in Customer Relationships I have been doing a lot of traveling during the last two months. In spite of Chicago's brutal weather and some minor inconveniences, my flights and hotel reservations have gone remarkably smoothly and I have experienced a high level of customer service. Read more Before You Approach a Prospect, Consider the Lifetime Value of the Relationship June 23, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships If your sales objective is to make the sale regardless, get the biggest order possible and structure the best deal for your company, then your entire focus is really on you. Read more A Simple Trust-Building System That Works Every Time June 10, 2010 by Will Crist in Customer Relationships The other day, people in the training center were discussing how they go about building trust. The group shared lots of ideas, and every idea they shared would probably do the trick. When all was said and done, we had a list of about twenty things people could do to build trust. Read more The Changing Face of Training June 8, 2010 by Bill Bartlett in Customer Relationships Today's business is focusing on something that champion athletes have always known: the right combination of training and coaching will help achieve greatness. It's not enough to have a superior product or service. You must have the skills to get that message across to your prospects. Training imparts the knowledge critical for success in today's competitive economy. Read more Why Do People Buy From You? June 7, 2010 by Will Crist in Customer Relationships How would you answer this question: Why does someone or a firm engage you or decide to buy from you? Take a moment and write down the reasons you think people buy. From what I have seen in most professional schools, people compete to have the best grades, the most outstanding ideas and the most highly thought of papers. I have noticed that students who do well often get the most attention from teachers Read more Bad Movie Offers Great Sales Tips (Sorry, Burt Reynolds) May 19, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships As a salesperson, I seem to take quite a few lessons from movies and some of the best lessons are in some of the worst movies. Most people think Burt Reynolds played only tough guy roles and the occasional slapstick comedy role. But one of the best sales lessons I have ever learned was from the movie "The End." If you have not seen "The End," do not rush out to rent it. I am about to spoil the plot for you. This is kind of a cute movie starring Dom DeLuise and Burt Reynolds. Read more Becoming a Trusted Advisor (Not Just a Vendor) May 14, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships As a sales trainer with Sandler Training, I spend a lot of time talking to my clients and I get paid to work with them in four areas of their business: Strategy, Structure, Staff and Skills. Because I spend hours talking to them, I learn quite a bit. And despite that fact, they still manage to surprise me with the questions they ask me. Read more Selling With Sandler, Not Selling by Accident May 10, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships Twenty years ago, when I was a young salesperson just starting out, I was fortunate enough to get sent to quite a bit of sales training. All of the training programs seemed to center around the "Three Big Steps to Selling." The "Three Big Steps to Selling" are: 1) Prospecting 2) Presenting 3) Closin Read more That's Not My Monkey April 30, 2010 by Sandler Training in Customer Relationships Imagine walking into a prospect's office and having him or her say, "I have a problem. There is a monkey on my back and I want to make it yours." Any normal person would know better than to say, "Great, toss that over here and let me add that to the monkeys I am already working with." As a sales coach, I spend time with quite a few people who have big monkey collections. They have accepted that their prospects and clients' problems are actually theirs. Unfortunately, these monkey collections have some predictable consequences Read more That Ice-Cream Truck Music... April 29, 2010 by Tim Roberts in Customer Relationships Recently, I found myself absorbed with the notion of influence. I wondered aloud who the great influencers of our time are, then wondered further how each had reached their influential positions. A voice in the room, that of a top trusted advisor, shot back, "The number-one salesman in the world is a kid who wants ice cream!" We laughed.. Yet buried in that answer was delicious truth. Read more When Talk Isn't Cheap April 13, 2010 by Dave Mattson in Customer Relationships Whoever said talk is cheap didn't know much about sales. Talk-too much talk, that is-can cost a lot. This is a difficult lesson for many sales professionals to learn, and that's understandable. People in sales tend to have outgoing personalities. They enjoy good conversation, and the longer they are in sales, the better they get at making small talk, establishing an emotional connection with the prospect, and driving a conversation toward the specific end of closing a sale Read more Don't Tell Me What to Do! April 5, 2010 by Dave Mattson in Customer Relationships I don't know about you, but I have never liked being told what to do. I don't think I've ever met anybody who did respond well to that kind of instruction, even when the person in charge-a coach at sports, for example-clearly knew what he was doing if the message is delivered wrong. It doesn't matter if what you are saying is true, if it's not delivered properly. You can be the authority, but no one cares if you can't deliver your message in a way that others can accept. The fact that you have good prudent knowledge, the fact that you're correct, doesn't matter if not delivered properly. Read more Is a Good Offense Always the Best Defense? March 23, 2010 by Dave Mattson in Customer Relationships It's March Madness time, which I enjoy, but not always for the same reasons my friends do. Because I'm in sales, it's fun just to watch the teams execute their strategies and then try to figure out how these strategies apply to my own profession. And what stands out, season after season, is how predictable the plays have become and how easily they can be countered Read more Too Much Product Knowledge Can Cost You March 15, 2010 by Dave Mattson in Customer Relationships If you're like most sales professionals, you work hard to learn as much as you can about your product or service. You take pride in how much you know about your business. When you can answer any technical question that might come up in a call with a prospect, you feel confident. That's only natural. But as important as it is to be knowledgeable, your eagerness to display that knowledge can damage a relationship and cost you sales. To avoid this problem, you need to remember that expertise can be intimidating. It can turn people off Read more Be Friendly with Your Customers, But Never Friends March 8, 2010 by Dave Mattson in Customer Relationships Hidden in the uproar over Mark McGwire's admission that he used steroids was a lesson for sales professionals. You might remember the moment, which has been replayed over and over: When McGwire hit his record-breaking homerun, Sammy Sosa-one of the Cardinal slugger's opponents-raced in from the outfield to hug him. It "looked great on TV," one of Sosa's Cubs teammates said recently, but the other Chicago players "didn't appreciate it." Sosa forgot an important rule of sports, of sales and of business generally: Your meter's always running. Read more


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text: Mastering Your Pitch: Good PR Gets Media Paying Attention to Your Experts March 20, 2019 Share | By Diana Ennen Working as a publicist, marketing expert, editor, PR pro, etc. — no matter what you call it — can be stressful. The highs and lows and ups and downs can be better than most roller coaster rides. Some days you send a pitch and immediately get responses and some days you send an equally good pitch and you can hear a pin drop. It can be easy to be discouraged and scale back your efforts or even stop completely. But remember, exposure in other media outlets is crucial to becoming and remaining a thought leader, not to mention the recruitment and retention benefits. First what exactly is a pitch? It can be a number of things, but my best successes over the past 20 years of doing this come from sending out expert articles and then writing an introduction (the pitch) on why the article is newsworthy and also why the expert is the one to share this information. You can bullet point the main points from the article in the pitch. Then you send this pitch to the right targeted media contacts, and hopefully the result is getting you and your association and members in major media or the publications they want. Here are some additional tips to pitching the media: Learn What Works — When you don't receive a response to a good pitch, take the time to figure out why. Was it not timely? Did someone else get there first? Was it not on a good topic? Was the information not unique and too often repeated? What can you do better for more success next time? Note sometimes it just boils down to nothing you did, it just didn't work. But it's important to take stock and learn from each attempt. On the same token, when a pitch gets awesome results, do the same thing. What contributed to its success? Why do you think major media picked it up? What can you continue to do to see these results more often? This always leads to better media coverage in the future. Research Topics — This seems so basic but you have no idea how important it is. It's not enough to have great content, you have to be able to explain why it matters. It's critical to research topics of interest and find the ones that are most newsworthy, on topic, game-changing, time-sensitive, and something you or your members are experts on. The easiest place to start is internet searches on topics of interest. This allows you to see headline topics and with that information you can dig deeper. Now combine that expertise with what the media might be interested in and bam — you have a winner. Now if a publication just ran an article, it's doubtful they will do another so soon. However, this can show you that there is an interest on it and also you can target other publications on those topics. You might discover that publications write frequently on similar topics so that opens up doors for you as well. Build Relationships — Now this isn't only building relationships with the media. It's just as important to build relationships with your member experts. Know their voice, their strengths, their subject in and out, etc. Also, with the media build solid relationships by going over and above for them time and time again Use a Similar Format Each Time – I found a format that works and I like to keep that same format. When someone receives my pitches they know what to expect: quality articles from experts. And the way I set it up, makes it easy to review. Begin with an opening paragraph discussing the topic and then the mention that we are including an article by the expert on that topic below. Then I break down into bullet points key points from the article. Next comes a paragraph similar to a bio stating the expert's qualifications as well as where the expert has been featured, which I continually update. Follow this up with a closing paragraph inviting them to run this article or contact us for an interview or additional articles and then the closing. In the past few months, my pitches have resulted in several big wins including Fast Company, Forbes, CNN, Social Media Today, Inc., Young Entrepreneur, New York Post, PR Daily, Site Pro News, CEO Mom Magazine, and many others. I believe my success is attributed to all the above, but most importantly being the kind of publicist they like to work with. When media emails for additional information, I get back to them professionally and promptly with everything they need. Plus, I make it personable so it doesn't feel just like another transaction, but more of a great connection. Pitching the media and doing PR can seem overwhelming. But with these tips and a little perseverance, you'll soon be reaping the benefits of broad media coverage. Diana Ennen is president of Virtual Word Publishing.


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Why Surya opted out of 3 Idiots remake?
Ghajini star Surya's reason for opting out of Nanban has paved the way for new speculations. Rumours have it that the actor's high demands made the makers of the film to drop him from the project.
Soon after Gemini Film Circuit confirmed Vijay's entry, speculations started doing rounds that Surya's remuneration and other issues made the filmmakers to bring back Vijay again. Shankar, who tried to break the deadlock, failed to convince the actor.
Meanwhile, a source close to Surya has rubbished the reports and said that he is fully occupied with Maatraan and Ezhaam Arivu. His dates are jam packed and the actor was not keen to delay Nanban. Hence, he decided to drop the film.
However, soon the actor will hold the press meet to announce the reason for walking out of the project.


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Feb. 9, 2011
ATLANTA – Dean O'Brien and Guillermo Gomez remained undefeated this spring in doubles, and Gomez notched his 101st career singles win as Georgia Tech shut out Georgia State, 7-0, in men's tennis Wednesday afternoon at the Bill Moore Tennis Center.
The 21st-ranked Yellow Jackets improved to 5-1 with their third straight win and await No. 11 Georgia for a 1 p.m. match Saturday on their home court. The Panthers (5-3) saw their five-match winning streak come to an end.
"Georgia State is an improved team, but a very young team," said head coach Kenny Thorne, whose team has yet to lose a singles or a doubles match at home this spring. "We were able to capitalize on some quick starts at No. 2 and 3 doubles, and in our first three singles matches. We've tried to be consistent in our attitudes, whether we win or lose. In these team matches, you have to take pride in what you do on the court."
Gomez and O'Brien won their sixth consecutive doubles match this spring by defeating Juan Pablo Gutierrez and Lucas Santana, 8-2, at No. 3 doubles. That started a sweep of the doubles matches for the Yellow Jackets, who clinched the point after Eliot Potvin and Ryan Smith stopped Breon Badger and Vincent Verpeaux, 8-3. Juan Spir and Kevin King, the nation's 8th-ranked tandem, came from behind to defeat Victor Valente and Thomas Cook, 8-6.
The teams played the No. 4, 5 and 6 singles matches first, and all three Tech players came through with straight-set wins. King was the first to score for the Jackets, routing Gutierrez, 6-1, 6-1, at No. 4 for his fifth straight win of the spring. O'Brien defeated Santana by the same score at No. 6, and Magin Ortiga clinched the match with a 6-2, 7-6 win over Verpeaux at No. 5.
"I was happy we were able to play our 4, 5 and 6 matches first today," said Thorne. "Those guys have not been under the same pressures as the top three guys in some earlier matches. Last week, they didn't get to play much. I wanted them to come out and set the tone for us in singles, and they did."
Gomez, Tech's All-America senior from Alicante, Spain, defeated Valente, 6-1, 6-1, improving to 16-5 this spring while tying Bryan Shelton, Tech's current women's head coach, for second place on the all-time Tech singles list. Tech men's coach Kenny Thorne is the Jackets' all-time leader in singles victories with 112.
Juan Spir, ranked 48th in the nation, was the only player to go three sets, winning a 10-7 pro-set after splitting the first two sets against Thomas Cook at No. 2. Eliot Potvin completed the shutout with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Gave Townes at No. 3.
Tennis Match Results
Georgia State vs Georgia Tech
Feb 09, 2011 at Atlanta, Ga.
#21 Georgia Tech 7, Georgia State 0
Singles competition
1. #12 Guillermo Gomez (GT) def. Victor Valente (GSU) 6-1, 6-1
2. #48 Juan Spir (GT) def. Thomas Cook (GSU) 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7)
3. Eliot Potvin (GT) def. Gabe Townes (GSU) 6-0, 6-3
4. Kevin King (GT) def. Juan Pablo Gutierrez (GSU) 6-1, 6-1
5. Magin Ortiga (GT) def. Vincent Verpeaux (GSU) 6-2, 7-6 (8-6)
6. Dean O'Brien (GT) def. Lucas Santana (GSU) 6-1, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. #8 Juan Spir/Kevin King (GT) def. Victor Valente/Thomas Cook (GSU) 8-6
2. Eliot Potvin/Ryan Smith (GT) def. Breon Badger/Vincent Verpeaux (GSU) 8-3
3. Guillermo Gomez/Dean O'Brien (GT) def. Juan Pablo Gutierrez/Lucas Santana (GSU) 8-2
Match Notes:
Georgia State 5-3
Georgia Tech 5-1; National ranking #21
Order of finish: Doubles (,2,1,3); Singles (4,6,5,1,2,3)
Match played indoors


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Common sense should tell you that a pharmaceutical that stops women from ovulating must be a very powerful drug. So it should not surprise us that studies have shown oral contraceptives or birth control pills put women at enhanced risks for glaucoma and multiple sclerosis.
Now add brain shrinkage to the list.
A new study out of UCLA found that the birth control pill may thin areas in a woman's brain and affect their functions in regulating emotional reaction and future planning.
Only women using the combination form of oral contraceptives were used in the study – it did not measure women using progesterone-only or other forms of oral contraceptives. The research found that oral contraceptive use was significantly associated with a thinning in two areas of the brain: the lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex.
The lateral orbitofrontal cortex is involved in emotion regulation and response to rewards, while the posterior cigulate cortex regulates inward-directed thought, such as recalling personal memories or planning for the future.
The research study by Nicole Petersen, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Joseph M. Andreano and Larry Cahill, "Oral contraceptive pill use is associated with localized decreases in cortical thickness," was published in April 2015 in the journal Human Brain Mapping. Here's the abstract:
Oral contraceptive pills (OCs), which are used to prevent pregnancy by the majority of women in the United States, contain steroid hormones that may affect the brain's structure and function. In this investigation, we tested the hypothesis that OC use is associated with differences in brain structure using a hypothesis-driven, surface-based approach. In 90 women, (44 OC users, 46 naturally-cycling women), we compared the cortical thickness of brain regions that participate in the salience network and the default mode network, as well as the volume of subcortical regions in these networks. We found that OC use was associated with significantly lower cortical thickness measurements in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex. These regions are believed to be important for responding to rewards and evaluating internal states/incoming stimuli, respectively. Further investigations are needed to determine if cortical thinning in these regions are associated with behavioral changes, and also to identify whether OC use is causally or only indirectly related to these changes in brain morphology.
Although the study only measured brain structure, the findings suggest that there could be possible effects on behavior.
According to Catholic World Report, May 15, 2015, Dr. Nicole Petersen, a neuroscientist at UCLA and the study's lead author, noted that "Some women experience negative emotional side effects from taking oral contraceptive pills, although the scientific findings investigating that have been mixed. So it's possible that this change in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex may be related to the emotional changes that some women experience when using birth control pills."
Since the UCLA study is one of the first of its kind in measuring effects of the birth control pill on brain structure, it's difficult for scientists to draw any definite conclusions at this point. But Dr. Larry Cahill, a professor of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California-Irvine and a co-author of the study, said he's amazed at the lack of research considering how long the pill has been on the market: "You might think after 50 years and hundreds of millions of women taking various incarnations of the pill, there would be a large and cohesive and impressive body of evidence on it, but there's next to nothing. I honestly find that amazing."
Although Cahill cautioned against a panic or alarm because of the recent study, he said it raises further questions for research that are important to the millions of women who use oral contraceptives every day. For example, follow-up studies are needed to determine whether the thinning effect is permanent, or whether it just occurs if a woman is currently using the pill.
In April 2011, Cahill and three other researchers found that the emotional memory of women using hormonal contraception was more similar to that of men than of women. Combined with the evidence of the most recent study, Cahill said one group that might benefit from the pill's possible impact on emotional memory could be women in combat or other traumatic situations. If using hormonal contraception, these women could be potentially less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder than naturally cycling women in similar situations, though more research is needed.
Dr. Cahill said these studies are part of a growing body of research on sex differences in the brain, which is challenging the long-held assumption that men and women are mostly biologically the same, save for their reproductive organs: "We're all blinded by our assumptions, and there's simply been an assumption…that any differences between (men and women) occur in the bikini zone and that's it. And now we're realizing, well, no. There's sex differences all over the place. It's important that we stop assuming that women are just men with pesky hormones."
Cahill also said that he and his fellow researchers, by challenging established assumptions (otherwise called "prejudice"), have experienced "road blocks" in trying to publish their findings, because they are often dismissed as being "alarmist." However, he believes that as a scientist, it's important to continue to study the potentially good, bad or neutral effects of a medication that millions of women use for large portions of their life. He said:
"If I'm a woman on the pill, or I know a woman who's on the pill…or I have a daughter who wants to go on the pill, you want to operate from knowledge, not from complete lack of knowledge. That was the goal, to explore what the pill might be doing just as we've been doing for 3 or 4 years."
See also:
- Women who took birth control pills for more than 3 years double the risk of glaucoma
- Birth control pills linked to 30% increased risk of multiple sclerosis
- Birth control pills and other chemicals producing intersex Franken-fish


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I was at the final "Vote for Change" concert in DC last night, covering it for my radio station. The good news was that the five hour concert contained less than 15 minutes of overt political content. The better news (for me, anyway) is that most of the political commentary was innocuous, idiotic or both. Bruce Springsteen, for example, announced that one reason he's backing Kerry is to get a "living wage," i.e., a $10/hour federal minimum wage. This will no doubt come as news to Sen. Kerry.
James Taylor took a few cheap shots, calling John Kerry the "smart one," and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam sang a song fantasizing about the approaching death of some unnamed political figure currently serving as president of the United States. But most annoying was the insufferable Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks. She immediately brought up her infamous Bush-bashing incident when she slammed the president during a concert in London last year. "People asked me if I wanted to take back what I said," she twanged last night. "Well, no, 'cause Bush would just call me a flip-flopper."
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A proportion of the CFOs questioned are setting their sights on attractive investment locations, including the US, UK and Germany, but also the BRIC countries. These are also those countries that are inspiring more investment confidence and seeing a boom in investment, with nearly half of respondents investing or planning to invest in these markets.
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Greens to boost Child Safety
There would be 50 more Child Safety Officers, if the Greens were a part of the next government. Greens Leader Cassy O'Connor made the commitment yesterday, costing it at $22m. Ms O'Connor said they'd also employ 10 new administrative staff and a policy officer. A further commitment was developing a TasTAFE diploma in child, youth and family intervention.
We all know our Child Safety Service is underfunded and there aren't enough Child Safety Officers to protect Tasmanian Children. In December 2017 there where about 494 children who did not have a dedicated Child Safety Officer due to understaffing; and there's been a 12% reduction in the recurrent funding available to child safety services to provide care and support to vulnerable Tasmania children since 2013. The CPSU welcomes these initiatives from the Tasmanian Greens.
The Greens also commitment to stopping the practice of hiring for-profit third parties. We welcome this commitment as public services are there for all Tasmanians and for-profit corporations are there to make money and look after their shareholders.
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