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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Bernanke cautious on recovery, worried on jobs (Reuters)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday offered a tempered view of the U.S. economy, pouring cold water on the notion recent upbeat signs herald a stronger recovery.
Kasich, doctors highlight the future of OARnet -- Ohio's Academic Research Network
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Tenfold increase in speeds will boost medical research, education and patient care
Following his State of the State announcement of a tenfold boost to OARnet's statewide network bandwidth, Governor John R. Kasich joined medical researchers from across the state on Feb. 27 in a video teleconference to discuss how the faster network speeds will help enhance innovation.
Together with researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Summa Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Kasich showcased the latest research technology and discussed how Ohio's accelerated bandwidth of 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) will allow them to more easily collaborate on a global scalegreatly enhancing Ohio's grant competitiveness and efforts to create a medical corridor as a leading hub for clinical innovation, research, patient care and medical education.
Under a recently approved agreement with leading network companies Cisco and Juniper, Ohio will invest approximately $10 million to harness new innovative technology that will, in essence, "open the faucet" of Ohio's 1,850-mile broadband network, and increase its capacity from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps.
Ali Rezai, M.D., professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience and director of the Center for Neuromodulation at Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, discussed the benefits of high capacity broadband communications to advance patient care, clinical research, as well as medical training and education.
"Ohio's enhanced 100 Gbps broadband capability will help put us at the cutting edge of medical innovation and information sharing which will greatly facilitate our patient care, clinical research and training programs," Rezai said. "We can remotely evaluate and monitor our patients' clinical status, and further optimize their treatment and management remotely. Additionally, this capability will facilitate research collaborations across the state and nationally thus facilitating efficient, smooth and rapid exchange, and storage of large data files between researchers; including imaging, video, audio, physiological and many other research data sets."
Rezai discussed the importance of collaboration and training with his colleague George Jaskiw, M.D. a specialist in psychiatry and post-traumatic stress disorder from the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Hospital.
Dr. Joseph Broderick, Chairman of University of Cincinnati's College of Medicine Department of Neurology also spoke of how Ohio's broadband technology will benefit his clinical work using telemedicine to facilitate treatments for stroke patients. Broderick highlighted the technology challenges the medical research community faces in transmitting medical information, particularly complex genomic data that consumes so much capacity and bandwidth that current broadband speeds can't handle. Ohio's new 100 Gpbs network will change that.
Up until now, the only way to transmit these data was to physically load them onto large external hard drives and ship them between institutions," Broderick said. "At these new unprecedented speeds, we will be able to transmit these data in minutes at the click of a button."
Dr. Samer Narouze M.D., Chairman, Center for Pain Medicine at Summa Western Reserve Hospital also joined by videoconference to discuss new, innovative procedures being used by the medical community in Akron and how Ohio's extensive broadband network will benefit the state for training doctors on the newest clinical procedures.
"Ohio is already a national leader both in advanced medical procedures and its unsurpassed connectivity within the state and to the broader national medical community," Narouze said. "Increasing the speed and capacity of this network will help expand medical training and make Ohio an advanced competitor for federal research grants."
"Ohio has a rich history as a pioneer of innovation whether it's our role in aviation, the Space Race, or, today, in the information technology race," said Governor Kasich. "Our state has tremendous advanced resources in medical research that are the envy of the nation, and this is just the beginning. Enhancing our already impressive broadband network with minimal investment is certain to reap benefits for our next chapter in innovation and growth."
This expansion leverages the fiber optic network operated by OARnet, a member of the Ohio Board of Regents Ohio Technology Consortium. The 100 Gbps network will connect Ohio's major metropolitan areas to northern and southern connection points of Internet2, a nationwide advanced networking consortium led by the research and education community, spanning U.S. and international institutions who are leaders in the worlds of research, academia, industry and government.
For the network, $8.1 million will fund hardware development for Phase 1, which will connect Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Toledo by June 2012 and Phase 2 markets of Akron, Athens and Youngstown by October 2012.
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Ohio Supercomputer Center
Tenfold increase in speeds will boost medical research, education and patient care
Following his State of the State announcement of a tenfold boost to OARnet's statewide network bandwidth, Governor John R. Kasich joined medical researchers from across the state on Feb. 27 in a video teleconference to discuss how the faster network speeds will help enhance innovation.
Together with researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Summa Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Kasich showcased the latest research technology and discussed how Ohio's accelerated bandwidth of 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) will allow them to more easily collaborate on a global scalegreatly enhancing Ohio's grant competitiveness and efforts to create a medical corridor as a leading hub for clinical innovation, research, patient care and medical education.
Under a recently approved agreement with leading network companies Cisco and Juniper, Ohio will invest approximately $10 million to harness new innovative technology that will, in essence, "open the faucet" of Ohio's 1,850-mile broadband network, and increase its capacity from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps.
Ali Rezai, M.D., professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience and director of the Center for Neuromodulation at Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, discussed the benefits of high capacity broadband communications to advance patient care, clinical research, as well as medical training and education.
"Ohio's enhanced 100 Gbps broadband capability will help put us at the cutting edge of medical innovation and information sharing which will greatly facilitate our patient care, clinical research and training programs," Rezai said. "We can remotely evaluate and monitor our patients' clinical status, and further optimize their treatment and management remotely. Additionally, this capability will facilitate research collaborations across the state and nationally thus facilitating efficient, smooth and rapid exchange, and storage of large data files between researchers; including imaging, video, audio, physiological and many other research data sets."
Rezai discussed the importance of collaboration and training with his colleague George Jaskiw, M.D. a specialist in psychiatry and post-traumatic stress disorder from the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Hospital.
Dr. Joseph Broderick, Chairman of University of Cincinnati's College of Medicine Department of Neurology also spoke of how Ohio's broadband technology will benefit his clinical work using telemedicine to facilitate treatments for stroke patients. Broderick highlighted the technology challenges the medical research community faces in transmitting medical information, particularly complex genomic data that consumes so much capacity and bandwidth that current broadband speeds can't handle. Ohio's new 100 Gpbs network will change that.
Up until now, the only way to transmit these data was to physically load them onto large external hard drives and ship them between institutions," Broderick said. "At these new unprecedented speeds, we will be able to transmit these data in minutes at the click of a button."
Dr. Samer Narouze M.D., Chairman, Center for Pain Medicine at Summa Western Reserve Hospital also joined by videoconference to discuss new, innovative procedures being used by the medical community in Akron and how Ohio's extensive broadband network will benefit the state for training doctors on the newest clinical procedures.
"Ohio is already a national leader both in advanced medical procedures and its unsurpassed connectivity within the state and to the broader national medical community," Narouze said. "Increasing the speed and capacity of this network will help expand medical training and make Ohio an advanced competitor for federal research grants."
"Ohio has a rich history as a pioneer of innovation whether it's our role in aviation, the Space Race, or, today, in the information technology race," said Governor Kasich. "Our state has tremendous advanced resources in medical research that are the envy of the nation, and this is just the beginning. Enhancing our already impressive broadband network with minimal investment is certain to reap benefits for our next chapter in innovation and growth."
This expansion leverages the fiber optic network operated by OARnet, a member of the Ohio Board of Regents Ohio Technology Consortium. The 100 Gbps network will connect Ohio's major metropolitan areas to northern and southern connection points of Internet2, a nationwide advanced networking consortium led by the research and education community, spanning U.S. and international institutions who are leaders in the worlds of research, academia, industry and government.
For the network, $8.1 million will fund hardware development for Phase 1, which will connect Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Toledo by June 2012 and Phase 2 markets of Akron, Athens and Youngstown by October 2012.
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Nvidia announces new Tegra 3 optimized titles, redefines mobile gaming
I know a lot of you folks out there like games. I like them, too, and it's a big part of the reason I'm a fan of what NVIDIA has brought to Android with their Tegra chipsets. When you build the hardware and help developers optimize their software for it, you get something that works great, looks great, and is a load of fun. It's the reason that companies like Apple can have games and apps that perform so well without having great hardware specs.
NVIDIA powered devices, especially ones with the new Tegra 3 chip, have great specs. They also have optimized software available for them, through the Market or places like the Tegra Zone. When you mix the two together, they really shine.
Tonight, NVIDIA has set the bar a bit higher and is bringing a new set of Tegra optimized games to Market -- Sonic 4: Episode II, Golden Arrow THD, Dark Kingdom THD, Eden to GREEEEN THD, and Hamilton's Great Adventure THD. Hit the break to have a preview of each of them.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Dropbox Who? Apple Demonstrates The Simplicity Of iCloud In Latest Ad Spot
iCloud just works. That's the message of Apple's latest commercial titled iCloud Harmony. The service took off like a rocket when it first launched late last year. Partly fueled by the massive success of the iPhone 4S, Apple claims to have more than 85 million users on the service. But as awesome as iCloud is now, it's set to get even better and this commercial is likely just the first of a larger advertisement campaign.
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Police, Murdoch aides stalled hacking probes, inquiry told (Reuters)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - British police and officials from Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World newspaper stalled early attempts to investigate allegations of phone hacking by its journalists, a British judicial inquiry was told on Monday.
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Senators clash over idea of more Pentagon cuts (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - Leading senators on the Budget Committee clashed Tuesday over whether the Pentagon could bear even deeper budget cuts, with defense officials warning that additional reductions would hit jobs across the 50 states and affect national security.
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G20 works on huge rescue deal for April (Reuters)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - The world's leading economies worked on Sunday to line up a deal on a second global rescue package worth nearly $2 trillion to stop the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis from spreading and putting at risk the tentative recovery.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Child support debts may leave some with no income
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Old child support debts could cost thousands of poor men their only income next year because of a policy aimed at reducing the cost to the government of mailing paper checks to pay federal benefits.
The Treasury Department will start paying benefits electronically next March. It will stop issuing the paper checks that many people rely on to safeguard a portion of their benefits from states trying to collect back child support.
States can freeze the bank accounts of people who owe child support. A separate Treasury Department rule, in place since last May in a preliminary form, guarantees them the power to freeze Social Security, disability and veterans' benefits that have been deposited into those accounts.
Once paper checks are eliminated, about 275,000 people could lose access to all of their income, advocates say.
"It's kind of Orwellian, what's being set up here for a segment of the population," says Johnson Tyler, an attorney who represents poor and disabled people collecting federal benefits. "It's going to be a nightmare in about a year unless something changes."
In many cases, the bills are decades old and the children long grown. Much of the money owed is interest and fees that add up when men are unable to pay because they are disabled, institutionalized or imprisoned.
Most of the money will go to governments, not to the children of the men with child support debts, independent analyses show. States are allowed to keep child support money as repayment for welfare previously provided for those children.
In some instances, the grown children are supporting their fathers.
The rule change illustrates how a politically desirable goal like cracking down on so-called deadbeat dads can have complicated, even counterproductive, effects in practice.
"The rule doesn't look at the fact that the money is mostly interest, the money is going to the state, the kids are usually adults, and it's leaving the payer with nothing," says Ashlee Highland, a legal aid attorney who works with the poor of Chicago.
Highland says her office has clients in eviction, in foreclosure and unable to pay their bills because of states' aggressive efforts to collect back child support.
Marcial Herrera, 44, has had his bank account frozen repeatedly since 2009, blocking his access to $800 a month in government benefits. Unable to work because of a severe back injury he suffered in 2000, Herrera fell behind on child support. He owes more than $7,000 ? not to his 22-year-old son, but to the state of New York, because his son received welfare years earlier.
Herrera sought help in court and had his son speak on his behalf, but the judge could not erase the thousands he already owed.
"I'm just waiting for them to lock me up," he says. "I don't see no other way of me repaying that debt."
A legal aid attorney suggested Herrera collect his benefits by paper check. It costs him $15 to cash the check each month, but at least he can be sure that he will have money to pay his bills.
States have had the ability to freeze accounts for years. That's why people like Herrera rely on paper checks to safeguard part of their income.
Starting next March, that option will disappear. The Treasury Department will deposit federal benefits directly into bank accounts or load them onto prepaid debit cards. Either way, state child support agencies will be able to seize all of it.
Electronic payments are expected to save the government $1 billion over the next 10 years, the Treasury Department says. It costs the government about $1 to mail a check, compared with about 10 cents for an electronic transfer.
The Treasury Department understands that forcing people into direct deposit could deprive them of all of their income, say officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the rule-writing process.
States can garnish only 65 percent of benefits before the federal government sends them out. But the limit does not apply once the money is in an account and states ask banks to freeze it, according to a Treasury Department memo obtained by The Associated Press.
A Treasury spokesman declined to discuss the policy. The officials who spoke on condition of anonymity say they believe the policy is legally unavoidable. They described a dilemma: Restrain states trying to collect child-support debts or risk depriving thousands of people of their only income.
Treasury's legal justification assumes that receiving a paper check is still an option, says Tyler, the Brooklyn attorney.
Letting state agencies seize the money contradicts the public stance of the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal agency in charge of child support collections. The department does not want states to collect child support so aggressively that poor people lose their only income, spokesman Ken Wolfe says.
"Child support enforcement ? getting that money and passing it on to parents and children ? is a measure to fight poverty, and it doesn't make sense to accomplish that by impoverishing somebody else," he says.
Wolfe said HHS is developing guidelines for states to "make sure we're not putting someone into deep poverty as a result of an automatic collection." He declined to provide details of those plans.
Lawyers from HHS agreed with Treasury's decision to let states seize benefits, according to the Treasury memo.
An early version of the Treasury department rule protected people from having their federal benefits frozen by debt collectors ? including private collection agencies and states seeking back child support.
State child support agencies replied in public comments on the proposed rule that blocking their access to people's benefits would cause great harm to parents and children receiving child support.
HHS research suggests the policy could deepen the hardship for people who collect benefits as well.
People who owe large amounts of child support are almost universally poor. Among those owing $30,000 or more, three-fourths had no reported income or income of less than $10,000, HHS says. Many had their earnings interrupted by disability or jail time and are unlikely to repay the child support debt, the government-sponsored research says.
The usual methods of collecting back child support often don't work with the poor. States typically start by garnishing wages. If that doesn't work, they can suspend driver's licenses, revoke passports and take away professional credentials.
Those measures have little effect on poor people without jobs who rely on federal benefits. They have no wages to garnish and no passports. Many can't afford a car and do not need a driver's license.
State child support agencies echo the HHS view that child support enforcement should not be so draconian that people end up with nothing.
"You don't want the noncustodial parent to go out and be living on the streets. You're not going to collect anything at that point," says Tom Shanahan, spokesman for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
The Idaho department requires people who owe child support to show good faith by paying a minimum amount and seeking jobs when they are out of work, Shanahan says.
The White House is reviewing the final version of the rule. Its impact so far has been limited, legal-aid lawyers say, because people can still use paper checks. A White House spokeswoman did not respond a request for comment.
In a letter sent last week, the National Consumer Law Center and dozens of other groups called on the head of the Social Security Administration to withdraw his support for the rule.
"While both current and past due child support orders should be paid," the letter said, it should not result "in the complete impoverishment of recipients" of federal benefits.
The issue has failed to raise alarm in part because most people feel little in common with men labeled deadbeat dads, says John Vail, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Litigation who provided legal services for the poor for decades.
"There's not a lot of sympathy for deadbeat dads, and justly so," Vail says. "But everybody's got limits, and I think people who have never walked a mile in some of those old, worn-out shoes are a little quick to rush to judgment about what that life might be like."
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AP Business Writer Christina Rexrode contributed to this report.
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Laura Paull: Literature As Legacy: Writing Across The Generational ...
Within the creative writing program at Vassar College many years ago, we all recognized the major talent in our class -- and it was only in part because she was the great niece of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer and the granddaughter of the other Polish-Jewish American writer, I.J. Singer.
Brett Singer came into her sophomore year with a personal tragedy already under her belt, which set her apart from those of us still seeking the subjects of the stories with which we hoped to break readers' hearts. She channeled the suicide of her high school lover into her first novel, The Petting Zoo, which was already percolating in the short stories she offered up to our writing seminars on the days when she was able to lift her burden enough to make it there.
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The impact of great writers on the generations of writers who follow them is a theme of a multi-day event at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center his weekend, through Tuesday, Feb. 28. Another, broader theme is that of literature as a creator of dialogues that deepen and explore the dynamic between different generations.
"Among many writers there's a shared sense of legacy, of style, of content, language and identity," explains festival organizer Stephanie Singer (no known relation to the aforementioned Singers), the manager of lectures/special programs at the JCCSF.
"The earlier generations of writers provide a reference to those who come after, even while there are differences between them. A reference and a difference at the same time," she posits: "A lineage. And I thought, why don't we bring some of them together to talk, to have a multi-generational conversation?"
'Bookfest 2012," now in its seventh year and open to all, will feature among other literary delights a tribute to the great American novelist Saul Bellow, by the inexhaustible contemporary writer Joyce Carol Oates; Benjamin Taylor, who edited a book of Bellow's letters (Saul Bellow: Letters); and the up-and-coming San Francisco novelist Peter Orner.
New York novelist Nicole Krauss, (Great House; A History of Love), who the New Yorker magazine named one of the "best 20 writers under 40" in 2010, will be flying in to speak on Sunday, as will the octogenarian writer and literary critic Harold Bloom, who will join a panel discussion of "Literature as a Way of Life. "
Cynthia Ozick, the 83-year-old writer, poet and grande-dame of contemporary American literature whose work no English major in any good U.S. college is likely to have missed, will take part via Skype in a "Tribute to Cynthia Ozick" presented by young talents Dara Horn and Joshua Lambert.
The afternoon will wind up with a talk by current U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, 84, who is also flying in from New York. California is practically a second home for him, as he taught for some 30 years at the University of California, Fresno.
And on Tuesday evening, the conference will feature the 86-year old French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, best known for Shoah (1985), his nine-and-a-half-hour oral history of the Holocaust, in dialogue with Regina Long. Long worked at the Holocaust Museum for six years on the outakes of Lanzmann's film, enjoying the informal mentorship of the great filmmaker, Singer says.
Lanzmann is also here for the U.S. debut of his new memoir, The Patagonian Hare, and will discuss it at a sold-out event co-sponsored by the French Consulate in San Francisco, which will close BookFest 2012.
The inspiration for the intergenerational theme of this year's festival really came from Nicole Krauss, says Singer.
"I had read Nicole Kraus' Great House, her latest book, and liked it. One of its core themes is the burden of inheritance," she explained this week amid final preparations for the festival."I began to thinking about that burden in terms of literary inheritance: what do we owe the generations that come before us, what do we take with us, and what's beyond that?
"New generations of writers keep on coming up. How do they relate to Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, or further back, to the generation of I.B .Singer?" she wondered. Focusing on these seminal American writers "brings a new relevance to these people who they've known for a long time and brings them back into play for a new generation."
As for the readers, "Writers like Ozick and Bloom and Bellow have been in our reading lives for years and years," she says. And people who read are interested in those who write them.
"If you're passionate about the the literary world," Singer says, "what authors say is like food to you."
Speaking of food, Bookfest opened Friday night, Feb. 24, with an sabbath dinner event called "Literary Feasts: Savoring Jewish Cookbooks," in recognition of the fact that both food and text (words) are essential elements of Jewish culture.
The festival started seven years ago as a one-day book event with about six featured authors.
Today it is not only a larger festival but one with broader reach, less narrowly defined as either a Jewish or purely literary event. Singer describes it as " a multi-day, multi-disciplinary, literary festival about books and writers with a subtext of Jewish interest. We have performers, film, theater, even culinary arts, with about 20 different authors participating and literature holding it all together."
The festival doesn't have explicitly Jewish themes, she says, although most of the featured authors are Jewish and reference this background in some way. The need to find or build connections between the generations is an issue for American culture in general, "and we love to provide this opportunity for people to connect around something that matters to all of them."
For those who can't make it to the event, some of the BookFest 2012 events will be streamed live and then permanently archived on the San Francisco Jewish Community website.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Ford officially unveils 2013 Ford Escape
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Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Friday morning, Mayor Greg Fischer, Congressman John Yarmuth and Ford officials officially unveiled the 2013 Ford Escape in Louisville.
It's the first official look in Louisville at the city's auto future - Escape sales were up 38 percent in 2011 and Ford said they expect an even bigger increase with this new design.
"It's not just about bringing a new product to Louisville, it's about bringing a winning product," said Jason Sprawka, the Ford Escape brand manager.
The model at the Louisville Auto Show is one of the last prototypes as the Fern Valley Road Plant is gearing up to make hundreds of thousands of Escapes each year.
"We're putting the final touches on the plant right now and then the second week of March we start production on two shifts and our employment level is going to be around 3,000 people," said John Savona, the Louisville Assembly Plant manager.
And by summer, another 1,300 workers will push LAP employment to more than 4,000 workers - a big boost to the local economy.
"We love it. now we gave them incentives though so we don;t get all of it back but, we get part of it back and then the spin-off effect obviously is wonderful," said Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.
That spin-off effect is estimated at anywhere between 5 and 10 jobs for every auto worker job. WHAS11 checked the parts suppliers for the Escape and found thousands more local jobs.
Martin Rea's Shelbyville stamping plant invested $12 million to expand the plant to manufacture parts for the Ford Escape. Piston Automotive in Jeffersontown makes the Escape's cooling module assembly.
"We're happy because when people are working they're spending money and obviously they're happier as well. So it's a great thing for the city," said Fischer.
Source: http://www.whas11.com/community/blogs/news-blog/2013-Ford-Escape-unveiling-Friday-140271843.html
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BRICS call for open selection of next World Bank chief (Reuters)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - A meeting of BRICS major emerging countries discussed the selection process of the next head of the World Bank and emphasized it should be open to all countries, rejecting the tradition that the job automatically goes to an American, a senior BRIC official said on Saturday.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Benefits Of Sales Training Programs | New Topics
Right sales training is necessary for the accomplishment of any enterprise! The efficiency of this sales depends upon various interrelated factors for example the efficiency and the abilities of your organization members, the ability of your company to develop and explore new sales opportunities, as well as a chance to close potential product sales. In addition, a proper consumer relationship management can keep up with the clients interest in the offerings offered by your company. Considering the idea that the profitability of an company depends on its members contact with clients, a successful business should focus on better understanding customers wants, enhancing the transmission with clients by giving good feed-back and as well on improving relationships with clients. Using the ways of productive contractor sales training courses, it is possible to strengthen the relationships between clients and the members of your organization.
Whether or not you are the master of a large, prominent company or a small business, proper sales training of the team members could be the key in accomplishing and maintaining a powerful position available on the market. In order to be able to strengthen the relations together with your loyal customers also to attract new customers to your offerings by increasing the actual exposure, popularity and credibility of this business, you have to be sure that your business team features a solid sales instruction. A proper income training program can assist you boost the profits of the business by familiarizing you along with your team with numerous strategies for attracting new clients. In addition, sales training programs give you effective solutions for selling more to your already existent clientele, by maintaining them keen on your products or services.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Big Profits: 7 Companies Cashing In on Americans' Obesity (LiveScience.com)
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Hodan Property Management & Development, Inc is a reliable real estate services company specializing in the management of commercial properties, apartments and condominium associations. The firm began its operations in 1975, and since then it has maintained its market-leading position, currently managing 2,800 condominium units. It follows a hands-on approach to property management, which has helped it develop long-term relationships with both rental clients and property owners. The company focuses on creating, maintaining and improving the value of all residential/commercial properties that it manages.
Located at 105 N, Washington Street, Boston, Hodan Property Management utilizes an efficient bidding process to award contracts to various services such as landscaping. The company monitors every detail carefully and ensures that all properties retain the services of best contractors. Moreover, it takes care of administrative and financial aspects of property management. The firm?s professional service is entirely based on the extensive experience of its management team and dedicated staff. The management team comprises professional individuals who have knowledge and experience to bring any property up to its full potential. Many team members hold industry-leading accreditations such as AMS, LCAM and CMA.
Known as a leading full-service property management firm, Hodan Property Management & Development, Inc strives to fulfill all of clients? management services needs. It provides complete assistance in the preparation of annual operating budget, and helps prepare Year-to-Date Budgeted versus Actual Income and Expenses Analysis. Moreover, the company collects all assessments and monthly charges due and deposit into appropriate client accounts. Presently, it is offering electronic funds transfer option to its clients, eliminating the need of writing a check.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Dealbuilders is a inside sales training firm specializing in a cold call training for Fortune 1000 companies to small businesses as well as lead generation services, having scheduled over 2500 sales meetings with company executives and decision makers within a range of industries, and Dealbuilders provides effective techniques for job hunters in a struggling economy. Dealbuilders was founded in 2002 by sales expert and well respected cold call guru Peter Ekstrom.
Dealbuilders recently announced the launch of a new user friendly website focused on providing businesses and individuals sales-focused advice and service. The new website includes a look into Peter Ekstrom?s brain child and Dealbuilders? exclusive Gold Call Training program. This is a system for cold calling and sales calls that has been the recipient of unprecedented praise within the industry. The system includes scripts for different industries, coaching, recordings and more.
The new website includes a number of features unavailable previously such as a deeper look into the Gold Call Training Program, free advice from the experts on the Gold Call blog and a comprehensive list of services.
?I?ve been in the business for over 25 years, and Dealbuilders has been helping our clients reach their goals for over a decade now. What makes the new site different is a closer look into our Gold Call Training Program and our other services. We want businesses everywhere to see more precisely just how Dealbuilders can help them increase sales. Other changes include better navigation and a new look. Really it?s the information that makes this new site great though. We don?t want to waste our clients? time, we want them to come to our new Dealbuilders site, see exactly how we can help them, and decide if our services are right for them or not.? Peter Ekstrom added, ?We find most of the businesses visiting our site, who are looking for serious, effective solutions for increasing their sales do decide to contact us. We made that easy too with a simple form. We couldn?t be happier with the setup and are looking forward to helping more people achieve their goals.?
The new Dealbuilders site, http://www.dealbuilders.com/, also features a number of informative videos and recordings, many from company founder Peter Ekstrom.
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Peter Ekstrom is a professional sales hunter and sales expert with over 25 years in the industry. He started the award-winning sales prospecting business, Dealbuilders, in 2002 and the company has helped hundreds of businesses, including fortune 1000 companies, increase sales. Peter Ekstrom also offers speaking engagements and sales training. You can find out more by visiting http://www.dealbuilders.com/.
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Home Inspections of a Property You Wish to Purchase | Home ...
If you are in the marketplace for a new house, you have to be prepared, right? You have got to be prepared financially, emotionally and physically for all the stress that may tag with the experience of home purchasing. Now, if you have already spotted the property you want to purchase, there?s one thing more that you need to get ready for and that is property inspections, says Property Inspections Melbourne. What is it and why is it vital?
Property inspection is typically done before a house purchaser purchases a house. Can you skip this process? Of course you can! Are there consequences if you skip over this process? Yes, there are! In reality the repercussions are unfortunately pricey and extremely nerve wracking.
First, after you?ve bought the house without checking it, there is no way you can give it back to the previous owner. Second, since you can?t give back the property, you couldn?t also get your investment back. And most critical of all, you?ll have to spend more on repairs. Now, if you?re going to sum up the total price of the property plus the repairs bills that you?re going to incur, you?ve reputedly spent more cash than you must. If this isn?t harrowing, I?m not sure what it is.
Hence by now you should have realized how significant property inspection is. So before you actually sign any document of ownership, make sure you?ve had the property checked by a professional. Yes you will have to spend a few hundred greenbacks. But what?s about a hundred bucks to thousands of dollars of never-ending repairs and fixes? A few hundred bucks can save you from inexplicable stress. So go ahead and prepare to pay a superb property inspector.
Next, the property inspector will inspect each nook and corner of the property you would like to buy. He?s going to check the pipes, water drainage, walls, roofs and other parts of the house that you could have missed to test when you went round the property. He will identify presence of damages and termite infestations. These 2 Problems are the leading factors behind property damage in the country. They are also the most expensive.
You have to never purchase a property without having it checked first. For full info regarding this topic, visit Home Inspections Melbourne.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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HEALTH NEWS: Self improvement
The Self Help academy is now providing no cost self-help video clips to help individuals increase self respect and become more assured. Self-esteem is important to have to be able to stay a wealthy and complete lifestyle where objectives are obtained and issues are met head-on. It is learning our experience to stay a good lifestyle, of our value to take it easy and our potential to be satisfied. Low self-esteem will always badly affect almost every side of your lifestyle, such as your interactions, your job and your health.
If you have low self-esteem, the no cost video clips which are offered by the self improvement academy will help you understand how to funnel the energy of your own ideas and philosophy to be able to modify how you experience about yourself and the individuals around you. Enhancing your self-esteem is important on many stages but it is best to pay attention to your personal and expert life first. If you have a balanced feeling of self-esteem, you are able growing normal and balanced interactions with your close relatives, your associates and the people you work with.
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Job creators? Some cities are poachers instead
CORALVILLE, Iowa?? When the leaders of this small Iowa city became desperate to land a new department store, they didn't have to look far: They lured one from the city next door, along with up to 100 jobs.
The store called Von Maur agreed to leave Iowa City for a platter of incentives offered by Coralville, which promised to put up a bigger, $9.5 million building, to provide a $1.5 million parcel of land and to discount the store's property tax bill. It even offered $650,000 to cover any penalties related to the store's departure.
As the economy slowly strengthens, neighboring cities and states can be pitted against one another in the competition for jobs and development. But it's not always clear how many positions are actually created, rather than just poached and shuffled around. And some people question whether the deals are worth the high cost.
"I think it's ridiculous," Amber Wherry said after buying a pair of jeans at Von Maur in Iowa City, expressing concern about what will happen to Sycamore Mall when the store moves five miles to the new location, probably sometime in 2013.
Coralville first tried to negotiate with Nordstrom's, Target and others, but those companies weren't interested or the talks fell apart. Local leaders say the deal with Von Maur will attract other stores and restaurants to a new retail development. But Iowa City officials are bitter.
"It's a big blow to that mall and a big blow to that area of town," said Rod Sullivan, a supervisor in Johnson County, which includes both cities.
Communities of all sizes are launching a dazzling number of taxpayer-funded schemes to bring in new businesses or keep existing ones. They're giving grants and loans, cutting business taxes, building new infrastructure and bending the ears of anyone willing to hear a sales pitch.
The competition, which includes politicians of both parties, is often just spirited jousting among rivals. But in extreme cases, cities have been willing to raid their neighbors in the quest for jobs.
"You don't have to be a mathematical wizard to figure out that's never going to pay for itself," said Peter Fisher, research director of the Iowa Policy Project, a think tank that has estimated the value of Von Maur's incentives at $18 million. "It's simply not economic development. You are moving a store from one place to another. It doesn't do anything to increase the economy of Johnson County."
Making matters worse, he said, Iowa City residents are helping subsidize the move because Coralville is diverting tax money from the county and schools to pay for the project.
The system known as tax-increment financing allows cities to use property tax revenue in once-blighted or undeveloped areas to pay for incentives to attract businesses and for improvements such as streets and utilities. Every state but Arizona has authorized its own system.
But critics say the incentives have strayed from their original mission and are increasingly used to recruit employers to suburban developments at high cost and questionable benefit. Tax revenue is diverted from education and government services without much accountability.
Tax-increment financing districts "are a very popular economic tool. In effect, they are a way of raising money without raising taxes," said Richard Briffault, a Columbia University law professor who has written about the growth of TIFs. "They are widespread, but there's also pushback out there."
California Gov. Jerry Brown last year eliminated tax-increment financing when he signed a bill closing 400 redevelopment agencies.
Officials elsewhere are worried about what might happen in their states, said Toby Rittner, president and CEO of the Council of Development Finance Agencies, which represents 300 state and local government agencies. They are mobilizing to defend what they consider a powerful development tool.
"It's really tough to tell a community they shouldn't do something when they are looking at it from the perspective of, 'We need jobs. We need the tax base,'" he said.
The Von Maur deal has added to the momentum for changes in Iowa. Lawmakers are now considering banning cites from using the incentives to steal businesses from their neighbors. And some want to require additional study of the economic benefit of projects before they are approved.
Iowa City and Coralville are both financially stable and have low unemployment.
But leaders in Iowa City say Von Maur's closure will be devastating for Sycamore Mall, where a number of other stores have closed in recent weeks. A spokeswoman for Von Maur, a Davenport, Iowa-based chain, declined to comment.
Elected officials in Coralville, a relatively wealthy city of 19,000 with big box stores and affluent neighborhoods straddling Interstate 80, aren't backing down. They say they went after Von Maur only after learning its Iowa City location was struggling and was considering moving.
Coralville Mayor Jim Fausett said the development that will house Von Maur will transform what once was an industrial wasteland into a destination for shoppers. He credited the deal with helping persuade a brewpub to open nearby and drawing interest from other restaurants. New businesses could eventually mean hundreds more jobs in the retail, service and construction industries.
"It's finally now starting to really move forward," he said. "We think it's the right development for the area."
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46471317/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/
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Historic Charleston Revisited | Back Road Journal
Historic Charleston, South Caroline With One Of Its Many Steeples
The southern town of Charleston, South Carolina is so lovely that it deserves multiple visits to really get to know all of its? hidden charms. That is exactly what my husband and I did on our road trip down to Florida and back. You may recall that we had stopped for one day ?in Charleston?but the lure of the picturesque city was calling us back as we headed north to our home in New England. Once again we stayed at the French Quarter Inn and were greeted with Champagne as we checked in.
French Inspired Bedroom
After unpacking and settling in to our French inspired ?bedroom,?we headed out to explore the city. The hotel is within walking distance of most everything that you want to visit and is right across from the restored markets.
Making Baskets For Over 70 Years
While walking through the market, I stopped and spoke with a woman who has made lovely sweetgrass baskets for over 70 years. The making of baskets has been handed down through her family from generation to generation. Her baskets are both beautiful and unusual.
Beautiful Handmade Sweetgrass baskets
Right outside the market you can find horse or mule draw carriages that will take you on a guided tour of the historic section of Charleston, stopping along the way to explain about the history of the beautiful homes and buildings from a century ago.
Carriage Ride Through Historic Charleston
It was a damp and gray day but Charleston is such a wonderful city for walking that we ?decided to take a stroll so that we might peak down alleys and through garden gates. We discovered small hidden gardens,
Hidden Garden
some public with statues or fountains, others were private and very intimate.
Peek Through the Wrought Iron Gate To Find Hidden Garden
Walking always builds up your appetite, so we headed back to the hotel to enjoy the free wine and cheese reception and meet some of the other guests staying at the hotel. ?Then it was upstairs to our room to change for dinner, a short walk away.
Tonight?s dinner reservation was at FIG. The initials stand for Food is Good and believe me it was. Chef Mike Lata was named Best Chef of the Southeast by the James Bread Foundation in 2010. The well known restaurant is renowned for its quality ingredients sourced from local farmers and growers. The restaurant feels like a combination of a neighborhood caf? and a little chic bistro.
Appetizers were classic yet served in a stylish and creative way. We started with a Wagyu beef carpaccio and chicken liver p?t?.
Beef Breast Carpaccio, Pecorino And Crispy Potato
Main courses were a delicious slow baked snapper with artichoke-cauliflower grenobloise ?and a suckling pig confit, with saut?ed greens, roasted beets and mustard jus.
Slow Baked Snapper With Yukon Puree, Artichoke And Cauliflower Grenobloise
The next day, we were off again to explore the city. Unfortunately it was another drizzly day, but that couldn?t stop us. Thankfully the rain stopped and even though we didn?t have beautiful sun, we enjoyed our day of discovery.
Back Of The Old Custom House
The Circular Church
Historic Building With Wrought Iron Balcony
Historic Daughter Of Confederacy Building
We had made a reservation at Husk for lunch. This is probably one of the most well known restaurants in town and it didn?t disappoint.
Husk Restaurant
Husk is noted for its farm to table meals. After walking in the front door you see a chalk board that has a list of ingredients used in the days cooking and the farms they came from.
Smoky Wings With Charred Onion BBQ Glaze
We ordered to items from their snacks section of the menu to start?grilled crostinis with pimento cheese and country ham and?SC smoky wings with charred onion BBQ glaze and Sea Island benne.
Vermillion Snapper With Carolina Gold Rice And Tomato Bacon Pole Beans
Lunch was SC shrimp and grits with braised peppers and onion and Surry sausage an a Vermillion snapper with Carolina gold rice and tomato bacon braised pole beans. We had to have two of their famous sides for the table?bacon cornbread and country ham braised greens. We would go back to Husk just for another helping of sides. They were the best we have ever had.
Our evening started with cocktails at The Gin Joint and should have ended there with some small plates. The Gin joint specializes in pre-Prohibition spirits. Their cocktails are made with the best quality ingredients and spirits. They are so particular about making the best cocktail that they juice their own fruit and make their own syrups. The many paged cocktail menu is full of slings, smashes, fizzes and fine small batch sipping spirits.
James Creates The Best Cocktail You Will Ever Have
After sampling two of their delicious cocktails, I can see why they have been written up so often in both local and national magazines and papers.
I don?t like to criticize restaurants?that is up to local reviewers. I have decided to make an exception and say that my tip of the day is not to go to Amen Street restaurant. The she crab soup was like eating a bowl of bland thick gravy. A salad of marinated tomatoes, hearts of palm and gorgonzola was sent back because it was uneatable. Oysters on the half shell were fine but shucked in the kitchen instead of out front. This has been the only restaurant on our entire trip that we left without ordering a main course. I don?t think I need to say more.
As much fun as we have had on our two brief stays?we are already looking forward to our next trip to Charleston, South Carolina. The historic city, the delicious food and the warmth of the people will keep us coming back for many years to come.
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Hi, I'm Karen. After living an active urban lifestyle, my husband and I moved to a 1730's home with an apple orchard in a small town in New Hampshire. We spend our summers at a small cottage on a lake in Maine. Spend a few minutes with me as I travel the back roads of New England and occasionally further. I'll share with you great food, interesting places and enjoyable pastimes that I find along the way.Source: http://backroadjournal.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/historic-charleston-revisited/
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Paul looks for delegates, respect in caucus states (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - Ron Paul may not win the Republican nomination for president — he has yet to win a single state — but his strategy of trying to amass delegates in caucus states could land him a prominent role at the party's national convention this summer.
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Japan trade deficit balloons as fuel imports surge (AP)
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AP - Japan posted a record high trade deficit in January after its nuclear crisis shut down nearly all the nation's reactors for tougher checks, sending fuel imports surging. Exports were hurt by a strong yen and weak demand.
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