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Beer is The Answer
In Corporate Site Selection and Economic Development on November 23, 2015 at 5:50 am
I am fast coming to the conclusion that beer is the answer to the ills of the world and should be foundational to economic development.
I say that partly in jest, but partly not. I actually believe and have witnessed how the establishment of craft breweries have transformed communities for the better.
Now if those ISIS fellas would only have a pint or two, I think they would calm the hell down. Of course, they're not going to do that, being the teetotaler bunch that they are, which is part of their problem.
Not Your Father's Beer
The consumers of craft beers are typically, although not exclusively, millennials who want something better.
The proof is in the numbers, the overall beer market in 2014 was flat, registering one half of 1 percent growth. But the craft beer industry, made up of small niche players, grew by nearly 18 percent.
And let me tell you, the craft beers being made today are far better brews. They are not your father's beer, the largely massed-produced stuff with the character of white bread.
Today's millennials, if I can generalize broadly, do not subscribe to blind consumerism and an unquestioning "follower" mindset, certainly not as much as my generation, the baby boomers. Many have no desire to work for a large company and are attracted to purchase products tailored to their tastes.
The craft brewers inherently get this. By definition, they are makers, engaged in small production runs, or batches, often seasonal and aimed at a niche market.
I mean, why buy a Bud when you can get, for instance, a Velvet Hammer or a Blood & Honey or a Bent Rut? Now those are beers.
A Precursor for Manufacturing
I think in many respects the craft brewers, typically young entrepreneurs, are foretelling the future of manufacturing in this country. And I know certain communities, certain economic development organizations are taking notice.
A couple weeks ago, I proffered that very theory while participating in the Consultant Connect Summit in Dallas. I was one of nine site consultants meeting with nine economic development leaders from throughout the United States.
And while the other consultants talked about workforce and infrastructure, all worthy subjects indeed, I spoke about how craft beer is a revealing forerunner of things to come.
A Different Birmingham
A few weeks back, I was in my old stomping ground – Birmingham, Ala. – where I lived for many years.
When I left Birmingham eight years ago, I did not have a very optimistic view of the city. Local government was dysfunctional, nothing was really happening.
But when I returned a few weeks ago, I saw how local, really non-establishment investors had essentially created entire new entertainment districts. Four craft brewers, that had not existed when I left Birmingham in 2007, were now key to neighborhood vibrancy that was previously not there.
A Neighborhood Transformed
A neighborhood called Avondale was not the Avondale that I remembered. An old-brick mechanic's garage, probably circa 1930s, where I used to get my truck worked on was now a restaurant/café with many people sitting outdoors. The same was true across the street in another building that was once an auto repair shop.
Up the street, sat Avondale Brewing, and a host of other high-end pubs and restaurants, including SAW's Soul Kitchen, which has made my list of favorite barbecue restaurants.
SAWS wasn't around when I lived in Birmingham. Back then, Avondale was a depressed, working-class neighborhood, with a smattering of small businesses just trying to hang on. It is far from that today.
A Personal Brew Tour
My friend, Don Erwin, with the Barber Companies (unfortunately no relation to me) and Doug Neil, with the Daniel Corporation, took me to all four craft breweries in Birmingham during the three days I was there.
In addition to Avondale, there was Trim Tab Brewing Co., Good People Brewing Company (great T-shirt) and Cahaba Brewing Co. (great hat), all populated by patrons who were young, educated, and who I thought of as "hipsters."
And talking to them, I got a real sense that they had an optimistic view of Birmingham. They saw Birmingham as a good place to live. No need to go to Atlanta, Charlotte or Nashville to get your groove on, to live the way you want to live.
That was not the same Birmingham I left eight years ago. Now Birmingham is cool.
The Coolness Factor
So I have to think this coolness factor should be worthy of serious consideration to economic developers who should want to retain in their communities youth and vitality – the next generation of workers and entrepreneurs.
Bottom line is we are talking about quality of life. And that means different things to different people. For some seasoned citizens like myself, quality of life might mean the availability of good health care.
For others, it might mean good schools for which to send their children to. For others, it might mean outdoor recreation opportunities, or restaurants or whatever. Quality of life is in the eyes of the beholders.
Smart Companies Want to Have Fun
The point is there is an emotional aspect to decision making, where we want to work and where we want to live, and this is especially true of younger people.
The smart companies, the 21st century companies, get that and they are coming up with ingenious ways to connect with their customers. They don't necessarily play by the same rules as their predecessors, which was the subject of my Nov. 8 blog.
Sure, there are some constants. Even smart companies will want to be cognizant of costs. They would prefer a favorable business climate pertaining to taxes, permitting and regulation. But they also tend to gravitate to places where they can find the kind of people that they want.
Riding the Youth Train
By definition, youth represents the future. Always has. More and more, youth will be calling the shots in this new digital age that we are entering. Of course, they are that already.
And don't you know the moneyed establishment in Birmingham and throughout the country is trying to grab a ride onto to that youth-driven train. I want some of that. There is money to be made.
After I gave my talk at Consultant Connect, several economic developers told me how craft brewing had made a significant positive mark in their respective communities.
One was Ron Kitchens, who served as the moderator to the Consultant Connect. Ron is also CEO of Southwest Michigan First. He said he had 15 microbreweries in his region, with the vast majority having located in downtown Kalamazoo in historic buildings. Another five are on the way.
"Beer creates a mixing bowl for the community. We are no longer members of private clubs. I am a Mason and I am younger by 20 years than anyone else at my lodge. Microbreweries have replaced that in the community," Kitchens said.
"It's a place where people meet and where they get to enjoy a local product. It's a culture. It's become the Midwest's version of California wine country. Many of the craft breweries are now adding gourmet restaurants, or gastropubs, with really unique food. Then they will often add entertainment to go with the food and beer."
Kitchens said there are now walking beer tours and bused beer tours in and around Kalamazoo, which got its first commercial brewery in 1837. In 2015 Kalamazoo Beer Week featured over 250 events all across Kalamazoo County.
With more breweries per capita than anywhere else in the U.S., Asheville, N.C., was first named Beer City USA in 2009. Asheville has 18 breweries and counting, making about 100 local beers. You'll find artists, farmers, lawyers and possibly the mayor rubbing shoulders and drinking craft beer there. A great mixing bowl, indeed.
Duluth has claimed to be the craft brewery capital of Minnesota. I was there a couple years ago, and I won't argue that point. North Shore brewery tours are scheduled for Dec. 5 and Jan. 16 to six of the ten local breweries. My kind of fun.
The International Economic Development Council to its credit has sponsored seminars on how craft brewing and craft distilleries have been able to grow local economies. But as my grandfather used to say, even a blind hog can find an acorn ever once in a while. Ok, that was a low blow.
No Small Potatoes
According to the Brewers Association, the trade industry group for the craft brewing industry, the craft brewing industry contributed $55.7 billion to the U.S. economy in 2014 and more than 424,000 jobs.
Those numbers are derived from the total impact of beer brewed by craft brewers as it moves through the three-tier system (breweries, wholesalers and retailers), as well as all non-beer products like food and merchandise that brewpub restaurants and brewery taprooms sell.
Now those are no small potatoes by any account.
There are now about 4,000 breweries in more than 2,000 cities across all 50 states. At the same time, there are also nearly 1,000 cities with a population of more than 10,000 that don't have a local brewery yet, and numerous neighborhoods in larger cities without a local brewpub or taproom.
So there is hope. There is room for growth.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where I live, there are currently 39 craft breweries, according to the website Dallas Brew Scene, with more on the way, which indicates that I live in a bastion of civilization.
As an aside, my hobby is music, and the Lone Star String Band, to which I am a member, has performed at a number of local craft breweries, including Franconia, Deep Ellum, Martin House, and Cedar Creek. (With more on the way.)
Cradle of Civilization
The cultivation of grain saw man transition away from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and drove the desire to settle down and start a farm. This started happening about 10,000 years ago.
Some scientists say it was brewing that drove agriculture, that bread actually came afterward.
Now if this is true, and I am emotionally biased to believe that it is so, then this is further proof that beer is a foundational block to civilization as we know it.
Yes, beer is the answer, creating culture, prosperity and that great mixing bowl. So Cheers!
And I'll see you down the road.
Dean Barber is the president/CEO of Barber Business Advisors, LLC, a location advisory and economic development consulting firm based in Dallas. If you liked what you read here, invite Dean to speak at your next meeting. He can be reached at dbarber@barberadvisors.com or at 972-767-9518.
And There Will Be Blood
In Corporate Site Selection and Economic Development on November 15, 2015 at 5:41 pm
In the wake of carnage in Paris, could the Islamic State jihadist group wage a similar multiple-team, commando style terrorist attack here in the United States?
It might be tougher to pull off, but I think you don't have to be security expert to believe that such an attack could take place here in the U.S., despite what the White House says.
What is clear is that ISIS has revealed a new dimension to its demented death cult, with the downing of Russian airliner in Egypt, suicide bombings in Beirut and now the massacre of innocents in Paris.
A growing issue worldwide, terrorism has caused around 130,000 fatalities worldwide between 2006 and 2013. Business people instinctively know that there is a cost, not just in lives but where and how investment takes place.
No doubt the Paris attacks will test already-fragile global markets, especially in Europe, where a shaky economy is still attempting to recover from a series of debt crises and lackluster growth.
There are costs. There are always costs.
Analysts Point to Resiliency
Analysts trying to put the Paris attacks in some historical context say prior events like this in Europe have tended not to have any durable market or economic effects.
"As horrific as these events are – and this is truly awful – economic activity does tend to be pretty resilient," Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at His Global Insight, told Reuters. "The UK, Spain and France itself has all seen its economies little damaged by terrorist atrocities in the past."
Europe has suffered similar coordinated attacks on public transport systems in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005. Almost 250 people were killed and more than 2,500 wounded in those bombings on trains and buses by Islamic militants.
Still, I'm not sure I buy the argument that economies are little damaged by terrorism as there is evidence of the contrary.
While the direct economic costs of terrorism may be shorter-term in nature, the indirect costs can be significantly larger as they affect the economy in the medium term by undermining consumer and investor confidence.
Consumer Spending at Risk
Just imagine for a moment all the soft targets posed by Christmas shopping, both here and abroad. If such an attack were waged on American shoppers in an enclosed, crowded mall, well, I don't even want to think about it.
If the U.S. were to be hit again, depending on the scale of the attack and damage inflicted, an economic contraction would likely happen as fear and uncertainty would cause people, at least initially, to stay home.
Consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of the U.S. economy, could be severely affected. Airlines, restaurants, entertainment, cruise lines, automobiles, appliances, and big box retailers would take the biggest hits, while utilities, pharmaceuticals, and consumer staples would do well.
The Global Economy Pays
According to the 2015 Global Peace Index, war and violence cost the global economy upwards of $14 trillion each year. These costs include lost productivity due to conflict, falling levels of consumption and costs associated with homicides and terrorism.
A 10 percent reduction in global violence would inject $1.43 trillion into the global economy – that's over six times the value of Greece's bailout and loans from the IMF, ECB and eurozone combined.
A decade after 9/11, the New York Times published a survey of estimates of the true economic costs of the attacks. The total cost of 9/11 was pegged at a staggering $3.3 trillion.
It was the U.S. military response which accounted for 95 percent of the costs, whereas the economic toll from actual damage due to the attacks is estimated at $178 billion.
White House Policies Under Scrutiny
President Obama's counter-terror policies are now under serious scrutiny by both Democrats and Republicans. It has become increasingly apparent that ISIS was re-born in the power vacuum as a result of Obama's 2011 decision to withdraw virtually all U.S. forces from Iraq and his 2012 decision to renege on his "red line" threat to take action in Syria if chemical weapons were used.
Remarks by the president last week that ISIS is "contained" seemed as out of touch as President George Bush's "mission accomplished" moment. And wasn't it Obama who not so long ago referred to ISIS as a "JV team"?
It's becoming clear that we don't have a strategy, but are just employing half-measure tactics. Presidential leadership is needed.
I have to believe that Paris will serve as a wake-up call – that there will be a realization in this country that a more robust military approach is required, which unfortunately will entail boots on the ground along with a coalition force.
And there will probably be a respondent increase in military spending. Watch for market analysts to be recommending many defense and security stocks as buying opportunities.
After the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, Congress approved the Patriot Act, which expanded access of law enforcement agencies to business records, including library and financial records.
Europe already had similar measures, which were enacted in the 1970s and 1980s following attacks by communist terror groups. But in the wake of Paris, the push to increase surveillance and boost police powers will intensify further. Moves that once seemed politically unthinkable may well become unstoppable.
G-20 Point to Rising Inequalities
Leaders from the world's largest industrial and emerging economies meeting in Turkey won't exactly ignore GDP, but the attacks in Paris have shined a light on Islamic extremists and hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war in their homelands.
The G-20 will say that rising inequalities in many countries may pose a risk to social cohesion, according to a draft of the final conclusions obtained by Bloomberg News. In it, member governments will pledge to create jobs and bolster inclusiveness while targeting an additional 2 percent growth in gross domestic product by 2018.
As well as the economic communique, a separate statement on terrorism will talk of striking at the heart of terrorist financing and tightening border controls.
"We have to wonder whether one of the causes of these terrorist attacks is jealousy," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech Sunday at the opening of the two-day summit. "We have to investigate whether unemployment, poverty caused these attacks."
A Third World War
Well, maybe there is some truth to that. I am certainly no expert to argue. But I must point out that many of the Jihadists have been college educated, with seemingly bright futures ahead of them if they only didn't become radicalized.
The Saudis responsible for 9/11 were not poor and unemployed. Nor was Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major responsible for the fatal shooting of 13 people and wounding of 30 others at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009.
How and why the perpetrators of these horrendous crimes against humanity became jihadists, with no fear of death, is something we have to figure out, as I don't know if we can kill them all to prevent their atrocities.
The terror attacks in Paris are part of a "piecemeal Third World War," Pope Francis said Saturday.
And the economic impact of this Third World War is likely to be significant. There will be costs to be borne by us all, from the plains of West Texas, to the mountains of East Tennessee, to the shores of Boston Harbor.
And there will be blood.
21st Century Companies: The Makers Make It Cool
In Corporate Site Selection and Economic Development on November 8, 2015 at 7:55 am
Consider this, Alibaba, the world's most valuable retailer, holds no inventory.
Airbnb, the world's largest provider of accommodations, owns no real estate.
Uber, the world's largest car service, owns no cars.
And Apple, classified by the U.S. government as a manufacturer, says "substantially all" of its products are made by others.
Now do you think maybe, just maybe, there is a new paradigm at work here?
And do think economic developers, the good folks charged with aiding and abetting economic growth in their respective communities, have adjusted accordingly?
I posed that question at a conference of the Young Professionals group with Southern Economic Development Council this past week in Dallas.
Most of the attendees had been employed in economic development for less than a year. Being millennials, they already had a strong hunch that some of the stuff being sold to them as economic development truisms (and I have been guilty in propagating some of this stuff) comes from a 20th century mindset.
Look, there is something to be said for traditional, tried and true approaches that have worked well in the past. But we are entering a new era in which labor, information, and money move easily, cheaply, and almost instantly, largely because of digital technologies.
Not surprisingly, some of us oldsters have a hard time wrapping our heads around that.
As a result, some companies, typically run by old white guys, are quickly finding themselves not where they want to be. And I could make the same argument with some economic development organizations.
21st Century Companies
Forward-looking companies, 21st century companies, are creating new, more fluid relationships with customers, workers, and owners.
Alibaba, Airbnb, Uber and Apple have found ingenious ways to connect buyers and sellers directly and conveniently, enabling new, nearly capital-free business models.
The one and only single slide that I showed to my YP-SEDC audience, (I did not want to subject them to death by PowerPoint) was labeled "The New Reality."
It was a bar chart showing big-named companies creating high value with scant hard assets. The subhead read: "Assets? We don't need no stinkin' assets."
Older Companies Can Change
The 21st century companies are learning that they can thrive while owning less, creating value in new ways as they reinvent R&D and marketing.
And we're not just talking sexy Silicon Valley startups here. Older companies can transform themselves into a 21st century companies if they bring in the right people who stay abreast of new technologies.
Nike is reinventing manufacturing with 3D printing and using social media for marketing. Companies that don't adapt, well, they are likely to fade away.
The highlight of my time with the YPs was not giving my speech, but showing one of them an app on my android phone that captures business cards. I know some senior, high-ranking economic developers that don't even know what an app is.
The New Reality Begins With Capital
The new realities begin at capitalism's foundation, capital. A company doesn't need nearly as much as it used to.
As technology continues to advance, barriers to entry, commercialization, and learning continue to erode.
New players with access to new tools can operate at much smaller scale, enabling them to create offerings once the sole province of major companies. 3D printing screams out for the classic garage or basement business to be born.
Make no mistake, some large companies will continue to dominate certain segments of manufacturing, but we're seeing a rise of local, small-scale, agile manufacturing ecosystems, precisely because the cost of entering the game has been lowered by advances in technology.
Makers Make It Cool
I recently spent a few days in Birmingham, Ala., where I took it on myself to visit all four craft brewing companies that have set up shop in the city in recent years — Avondale, Good People, Trim Tab, and Cahaba. (Yes, conservative, Bible Belt Alabama is home to 24 breweries, with at least another six in process.)
They were are all the vision of young "makers" who wanted to bring great value, great beer, to a niche audience.
I call them hipsters, but that is likely stereotyping or just unflattering. My point is these were young entrepreneurs who had formed companies to purposely make small batches of their product for small audiences. And this small-batch maker environment they had created was making Birmingham a pretty cool place with the creation of new entertainment districts.
I cannot help but believe that their maker mentality foretells of things to come with manufacturing in this country – more small manufacturers, making small runs of product specifically tailored to niche groups of consumers.
Numerous factors are leading manufacturers to build to order rather than building to stock. In this environment, intermediaries that hold inventory are becoming less and less necessary.
And again, this poses opportunities for both big and small communities alike.
Wherever they reside, whether it is an urban or urban setting, economic developers should work toward fostering an environment that encourages and, yes, even coddles and protects, business startups. And then watch for the gazelles, those fast-moving, fast-growing companies that are fulfilling a niche by offering true value to their customers.
What I Didn't Want to Talk About
Facing these young professionals who are just now getting their feet wet in economic development, I didn't want to talk to them about ceiling heights or how big a spec building should be or whether they needed more rail-served sites.
That is pretty mundane stuff, and they are going to hear that ad nauseam from others.
What I wanted to talk about, what I wanted them to think about, was how these 21st century companies are taking root and often disrupting the marketplace with imaginative ways to bring value to customers.
The New Destroyers
McKinsey Global Institute says "some tech and tech-enabled firms destroy more value for incumbents than they create for themselves."
Microsoft's Skype brought in some $2 billion in 2013, yet McKinsey calculates that in that year Skype transferred $37 billion away from old-guard telecom firms to consumers by giving them free or low-cost calls.
When Airbnb entered Austin, hotel revenue dropped 8 to 10 percent, and hotel rates dropped accordingly.
Frankly, this new breed of forward-thinking disruptors are reflective of younger demographics, the very people that I was speaking to at the SEDC conference.
So there you have it. That's much of what I said to the young professionals at the SEDC conference. They were a bright bunch, and I had this lingering thought that they could actually teach the teachers a thing or two.
Twernt Me
The Tennessee Economic Development Partnership was also in Dallas last week. I had breakfast with a couple of economic developers one morning.
That night, I was invited to attend a Tennessee singer-song writers event, sponsored by the Tennessee economic developers. I couldn't make it because I had work to do.
But at the SEDC conference the next day, I learned that some drunk guy had stumbled up to the gathering, saw my name tag sitting on a table, put it on and wandered into the group.
"He asked me what we were doing here, what we were about," said one young economic developer. "He was obviously drunk, and I tried to be polite, but it was a bit unnerving. Several people came up to me afterwards to tell me that was NOT Dean Barber."
Which was absolutely true. It twernt me.
Now I wish I could claim that I have never been in my cups or full of myself. All I can say is that I wasn't guilty this time.
SWOT THIS!
In Corporate Site Selection and Economic Development on November 1, 2015 at 10:05 am
When a community calls me in to provide counsel on matters of economic development, the end goal is almost always the same – economic growth.
Communities want to know how they can be more competitive in order to attract or support corporate investment. (This would include both recruitment and business retention and expansion. Never forget existing industry provides the most new jobs in any given place.)
Communities also want to know if they are pointed in the right direction and are barking up the right (or wrong) tree.
I like to keep things clean, simple and understandable, not only for the benefit of my clients but for me, too. Clients are not paying me for going down the wrong rabbit holes.
To that end, I like a structured planning method to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a community.
A SWOT analysis involves specifying the objective. Again, it's almost always economic growth and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve that growth.
This past week, Tim Feemster, the managing principal of Dallas-based Foremost Quality Logistics, and I spent three days in a rural Texas community engaged in a SWOT analysis.
Confidentiality prevents me from naming that community, but I will tell you that it faces many of the same problems that other small, rural communities throughout this country have to deal with.
By virtue of it being small and rural, there are limited opportunities, principally because of the size of the universe with fewer people (and jobs) with certain skill sets. And this corresponds with what vocational education opportunities are made available and existing infrastructure.
But we don't give up the ship. All places have strengths, which can be leveraged with planning and execution. In the dozen or more interviews we did over the course of two days (and we're not done), it was clear to us that people in this small town were proud of their school system and hospital, both of which were excellent.
Without going into great detail, we asked questions about the local labor market, financial capital, transportation and access to markets, buildings and sites, infrastructure and utilities, education and training, business climate and quality of life.
And in the course of our investigation, I learned, among other things, about shooting wild pigs, Charles Goodnight, and the Comanche, who were truly fearsome lords of the plains.
The Feemster
Tim's strength is that he is a logistics guru par excellence. On a corporate site search for a manufacturing client shipping product, you can bet that I'm bringing Tim into the equation to analyze cost structures involved shipping product both in and out of a proposed plant site.
Believe me, this is a huge cost that is frequently not factored in during the site selection process. Tim has an expertise that I don't possess and besides, he's fun to work with and be around.
Then there is my homie, Jason Hamman with the Hamman Consulting Group based in Cleveland. Jason is a topnotch geographic information systems operator and all-around data base dude. Think Wizard of Oz guy behind the curtain and you get the idea.
Mark my words, utilizing Big Data effectively to target opportunities and potential customers will separate the winners from the losers in business and economic development in the future. It's already happening. Jason will be examining our subject community through a host of data bases.
Me, well, my strength as a consultant is that I ask a lot of questions. I was a business journalist for many years and I am not too shy about probing and trying to determine what is real and what is not. When I get conflicting information or stories, it just makes me want to dig more.
Now pointing out the truth can get you fired in Corporate America and even in economic development, but as consultant, that's what I am being paid to do. I'm not trying to embarrass anyone by pointing out shortcomings.
Rather, we want to point our clients in the right direction as a result of our findings and provide practical counsel on achieving their goals. Now let's briefly take a look at the elements of SWOT and how it works.
Strengths: This would be characteristics of the community that would or could give it an advantage over others.
Weaknesses: Naturally, this would be just the opposite — characteristics that place the community at a disadvantage relative to others.
Keep in mind that strengths and weaknesses are internal factors in that they are internal to community. Then you have your external factors, those presented by the environment external to the community.
Opportunities: These are the things that the community could exploit to its advantage.
Threats: These are the things in the environment that could potentially cause trouble with a capital T.
External threats are things like tornadoes and hurricanes, ISIS, and cyber criminals. Sometimes you just feel kinda helpless about them.
But external factors may also include macroeconomic matters, such as low interest rates and low fuel prices. They can include technological change, legislation, sociocultural changes, as well as changes in the marketplace or in competitive position. (Interstate highways, railroads and airports have hugely influenced growth for some communities.)
The purpose of identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats is important, because the analysis can be used in coming up with recommendations. And that's what we do. It's why communities and companies turn to us.
When we find a strong connection between strengths and opportunities in a community, well, that's a good thing, because it allows for embarking on an aggressive strategy of business development. But if we come across a strong interaction between weaknesses and threats, then we point that out as a red flag and advise on defensive measures that we think should be considered.
Ideally, we want to identify a competitive advantage by matching the strengths to opportunities. We also hope, when possible or practical, to convert weaknesses or threats into strengths or opportunities. Finding new markets is one way to do that, although it's easier said than done.
Competitive Advantage is Key
Companies and communities that want to grow are looking for a competitive advantage, attributes that allow an organization to outperform its competitors. These attributes may include access to natural resources, inexpensive power, highly skilled personnel, geographic location, etc.
New technologies, such as robotics and information technology, can also give a community a competitive advantage, especially if it is being taught in local schools or being utilized in a big way by existing industry.
A community typically hopes to exploit its competitive advantage in two ways: lower cost or differentiation. The advantage derives from the attributes that allows a community to outperform its competition.
Cost Matters
On the cost side, a community would want to demonstrate that there would be a distinct cost advantage to making a particular product or providing a particular service in relation to its rivals.
I think a community should want a company to earn a good profit, as that increases the odds that the company will expand and create new jobs. Kinda basic, but you would be surprised how many folks don't get that.
Being Different Matters
The goal of differentiation strategy is to provide a variety of products, services, or features that competitors are not yet offering. For an innovative company like Apple, this is the central strategy. It's what makes them different and a star.
Communities can also look for ways that differentiate themselves from other places. They may not be the low-cost provider, but they are providing something else, something different.
Silicon Valley comes to mind. Certainly not a low-cost environment, but the innovation taking place there sets it apart and makes it different.
So there in a nutshell is what we are doing with SWOT and how we are trying to leverage it in ways for a community to find a competitive advantage.
Economic developers should be all about building and sustaining competitive advantage. At least that's what I think. I believe Tim and Jason would agree.
If they don't, I reckon I'll hear from them. In the meantime, I'll see you down the road.
Dean Barber is the president/CEO of Barber Business Advisors, LLC, a location advisory and economic development consulting firm based in Dallas. If you liked what you read here, invite Dean to speak at your next meeting. He can be reached at dbarber@barberadvisors.comor at 972-767-9518.


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The Kolibri Games Newsletter
Enjoy the July Edition of the Kolibri Games Newsletter. This is where we review the events of the past weeks and keep you updated on recent company and product milestones.
This month, we publicly announced our new 4+1 flex work system: from September onward, for an initial trial period of 12 months, all Kolibris will be able to choose whether to work from home or the office on four days a week and will only be required to come to the HQ once a week for a team day.
Going from being heavily onsite-driven to a fully remote work style as part of our COVID-19 measures, showed us that we can comfortably take this step and improve overall employee satisfaction, without risking productivity loss.
We evolve and adapt to new circumstances to stay ahead – even if that means rethinking what the future of work at Kolibri Games will look like. Our new system offers all teams and individual members a significant degree of flexibility and the freedom to decide how and where they want to work.
We Appeared In
Over on Startstories, our Co-CEO Janosch gave insights into challenges the co-founders had to overcome, their biggest achievements and plans for the future.
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Are there historical errors in the Bible?
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-The Gospels tell the story of a herd of possessed pigs in the town of Gedara, who run off a cliff and into the sea. Gedara is thirty miles from any sea.
-The Gospel of Mark gets the geography of Israel totally wrong. It mentions travelling from from Tyre by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilea, which would be like travelling from New York to Washington by way of Los Angeles. He mentions a town called Dalmanutha which does not exist.
-When was Jesus born? According to Luke, it was during the reign of the Roman governor Quirinius, during a census ordered by Augustus throughout the whole world.According to both Luke and Matthew it was also during the reign of king Herod "the Great."The problem is that Herod died in 4 B.C.E., and this was fully ten years before Quirinius' census. Furthermore, during Herod's reign, no Roman census could have been held in his territory, which included both Judaea and Galilee, the locations of both Bethlehem and Nazareth. Herod would have collected his own taxes, and given tribute to the Romans. Lastly, the existence of a census throughout the whole empire is contrary to the practice of the Romans, who collected taxes province by province, often subcontracting the process to "publicans."
-Though Luke 1:5 dates the birth of Jesus in the "days of Herod, King of Judea," who died in 4 B.C., he wants the journey from Galilee to Bethlehem to have occurred in response to a census called when "Quirinius was governor of Syria." As historians know, "the one and only census conducted while Quirinius was legate in Syria affected only Judaea, not Galilee, and took place in A.D. 6-7, a good ten years after the death of Herod the Great." In his anxiety to relate the Galilean upbringing with the supposed Bethlehem birth, Luke confused his facts. Indeed, Luke's anxiety has involved him in some real absurdities, like the needless ninety mile journey of a woman in her last days of pregnancy – for it was the Davidic Joseph who supposedly had to be registered in the ancestral village, not the Levitical Mary. Worse yet, Luke has been forced to contrive a universal dislocation for a simple tax registration: who could imagine the efficient Romans requiring millions in the empire to journey scores of hundreds of miles to the villages of millennium-old ancestors merely to sign a tax from! Needless to say, no such event ever happened in the history of the Roman empire, but Micah 5:2 must be fulfilled.
-In the nineteenth century an eminent scholar, Rabbi Wise, searched the records of Pilate's court, still extant, for evidence of this trial. He found nothing.
-There are many similarities between stories about Jesus and contemporary myths of Pagan godmen such as Mithras, Apollo, Attis, Horus and Osiris-Dionysus, leading to conjectures that the Pagan myths were adopted by some authors of early accounts of Jesus to form a syncretism with Christianity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus cache version)
-Crucifixion was a slow death. It usually lasted several days. Death followed from exhaustion, inability to respire property as a result of being in an upright position or attacks by wild animals. Why did Jesus, who was a fit and healthy man used to walking the countryside for long distances, die so quickly in only a matter of a few hours?
-Vinegar is often considered to have a stimulating effect, rather similar to smelling salts. Why, in Jesus's case, did it suddenly lead to his death? (John 19:29)
-The three Synoptic Gospels have Jesus being arrested and condemned by the Sanhedrin on the night of the Passover. This could not be real history because the Sanhedrin, by Judaic law, were forbidden to meet over Passover. The Gospels state that the arrest and trial occurred at night, but the Sanhedrin "were forbidden to meet at night, in private houses, or anywhere outside of the precincts of the temple
-Another historical impossibility in the crucifixion story is the removal of the body of Jesus from the cross. According to Roman law at the time, a crucified man/woman was denied burial. The person was left to the elements, birds, and animals, which completed the humiliation of this form of execution.
Yes, a few. But more often there are completely fabricated pseudohistorical accounts, like most of the history of the Jewish people.
Categories: Washington Death Records Tags: Absurdities, Bethlehem, Birth Of Jesus, Dalmanutha, Errors In The Bible, Galilee, Gedara, Geography Of Israel, Gospel Of Mark, Gospels, Judaea, King Herod, King Of Judea, Last Days, Mile Journey, Quirinius, Roman Census, Roman Governor, Sea Of Galilea, Sidon
April 15th, 2011 at 00:44 | #1
For it to have "errors" it would have to be non-fiction.
zoozoo
Correction!……Are there any historical facts in the Bible?
Legal Alien
No believer will believe you. No unbeliever needs convincing.
Hobbie Horse
When 'christians' see questions like this, the immediately start lying for 'jesus'.
Andyman
I think you elaborated enough to answer your own question…
sonofEatonWrite
you've only just barely scratched the surface of the amount of historical absurdities in the new testament alone. To me the most obvious Christian lie is "the Jews killed Jesus." So the Jews decided to go to the leader of the empire that was oppressing them and demand that they execute a descendant of David during the Pentecost? What a load of babble worthy of Glen Beck.
Loveness
Yes I believe in the Holy Word and also believe some of the people that created the Bible stated some false testimonies in some of those scriptures such as saying the Earth is flat.Also most of those dates are four years late.Not all of that is correct from misinterpretations.
Barthayn
There are no errors within the Bible, this includes historical errors. To date, no one found any that people can agree on with.
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April 15th, 2011 at 04:46 | #10
There is new information about crucifixion. It was believed that death could result from collapsed lungs but current research shows that the lungs would not collapse if the arms are outstretched, only if they were raised above the head. Death was commonly caused by the shock of nails being driven into the wrists (not hands where they would tear out) and the flogging that was usually administered before the attachment to the device. In order to alleviate cramping (I guess the Romans had a bit of pity), they would break the legs of the convict. Also, it was rare that nails were used because they took more time than rope to get the job done.
If you cross refer the dates in the various gospels you will see that Mathew, Mark and Luke are at variance with John by 24 hours. The first three relate that the last supper was a Passover seder (they only have one in Israel, not two). John says it was the day before the seder. Again, considering Jewish laws regarding holidays, it's very unlikely that the deed would be done on the Passover. And we haven't even discussed Jesus' genealogy that varies from gospel to gospel and contains deliberate errors in order to link him to King David.
The Naked Archaeologist
1. No, there are no errors. 2. the geography of many cities are different in Bible times than now. 3. no one can prove when the census started or how long it took. 4. why wouldn't they travel to PAY taxes even though she was pregnant? the pharisees traveled over 80 miles just to bring a complaint to Jesus about hand washing before they eat bread! tradition got them introuble. 5.so we r supposed to take the word of rabbi wise over the thousands of ppl present at the time? don't think so, logic deems otherwise. 6. u answered this one yourself, there are big differences between Jesus & myths. just that, the others are myth. 7. ur right on one point. crucifixion usually is a slow death, but what you conveniently forget is the fact that Jesus Christ was beaten so badly that His skin was hanging off His body & a crown of thorns stuck in His head, not exactly the picture of perfect health you claim. 8. He didn't take the vinegar & it didn't kill Him. 9. Jesus was arrested by Romans. 10. so it's not possible that Joseph of aremethia & Nicodemus who was a very influential pharisee could have talked someone into letting them have the body of Christ? plz. you have a lot of what appears to "intellectual thought" appearance has deceived you.
seeker of Holy God
no there are not errors in the bible
no the story did not take place in the city of Gedara
you have not read the text
Mar 5:1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
Mar 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
not a city but the country of the Gadarenes
Gadara was located east of The Jordan River on a mountain about 6 miles / 10 kilometers south-east of The Sea Of Galilee. The people of Gadara were known as Gadarenes, although the general area was also known as the "country of the Gerasenes" after the city of Gerasa which was about 45 miles / 73 kilometers farther south. They were still mostly Gentiles in the time of Christ, as indicated by their keeping of pigs
you have not looked at a map lately
Mar 7:31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
there is no problem with this route of travel
Quirinius was found to rule earlier then the census in 6 to 7 AD
4) pilates records are not available to be seached they have not be found
5) no there are not similar stories of the myths you mention
that is a false assumption and internet rumor
6) jesus died because his back was scourged open to the bone and he bleed to death
you will not live several days with blood pouring from your back and the wounds in his head and the nails in his feet and hands
jesus never took of it
they offered it to him and he rejected it
8) they were forbidden but did it any way because of their hatred for jesus
not every one of the Sanhedrin were at the meeting
just enough to convict jesus
pilate was appeasing the jews they burried the dead before the sabbath
1: Matthew 8:28 "And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes…" Notice it doesn't say "city of the Gergesenes" but "country". The location of the city being referred to (in verses 33 and 34) relative to the sea cannot be determined, neither is there any record of time elapsed or distance traveled by any party concerned in the narrative. Not enough information is available to create a contradiction of any sort.
2: This is why I don't use the NIV translation… Mark 7:31
(NLT) "Jesus left Tyre and went to Sidon, then back to the Sea of Galilee and the region of the Ten Towns."
This is ridiculous, I don't know what site you're parroting these off of but it's not looking too credible so far. Try reading the Bible for yourself rather then relying on other peoples lies to take cheap shots at Christians, you just make yourself look like a fool.
The bible is what is known as "Faction" a fictional story set in a factual time and place! Therefore the time and place are correct and many of the real characters of the time but the fairy stories woven into it are all just fiction!
you are talking about new testament.
old testament is full of such history anachronisms and errors
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Q: Get a file's complete git status, including ignored, untracked, unmodified, modified Sometimes I'll have a file in a git-controlled repository, and I'll want to know how git understands the file. Is it tracked and modified? Tracked but unmodified? Untracked and ignored? Untracked and not ignored?
Problem: the commands I know don't give complete information:

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*git status fileName: shows nothing unless file is tracked and modified

*git check-ignore fileName: shows if a file is ignored, but shows nothing if untracked or tracked

*git check-ignore --no-index fileName: ignores the index, and so won't show whether file is tracked

Is there a git command (or series of commands) which will show everything git knows about a file (except perhaps any diff if modified)?

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Sometimes I'll have a file in a git-controlled repository, and I'll want to know how Git understands the file.  Is it tracked and modified? Tracked but unmodified?  Untracked and ignored?  Untracked and not ignored?

This is fundamentally a bit tricky.
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*A tracked file can either exist in the working tree, or not; if it doesn't exist in the working tree, it's considered "modified", and if it's modified as compared to the index version, git ls-files --modified will show it as modified.  So use git ls-files to check its status here.
A tracked file can also be marked --assume-unchanged and/or --skip-worktree.  These show up as flag letters in git ls-files -v output.
Hence, git ls-files is the command to use for everything: you just have to use it more than once, and take further actions based on the first one's output.
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In a terse statement Monday, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom said the companies advised Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that they "wish to stay further Court proceedings until Jan. 18, 2012, to allow the two companies to evaluate all options."
The Department of Justice, which is fighting to block the merger, joined in the filing. The regulator was set to file Tuesday to either stay the case or dismiss it.
Judge Huvelle ordered that the next status conference would be held Jan. 18. AT&T and Deutsche Telkom must file a status report on their proposed transaction, including whether or not they intend to proceed with it, by Jan. 12.
It's hard to figure just what "options" AT&T has after Friday's status conference on the case when the DOJ argued that the case should not proceed as is since AT&T had withdrawn its merger application from the Federal Communications Commission. Judge Huvelle questioned AT&T's timetable and tactics, leading many to believe that the case could be delayed, which would be another serious blow to AT&T.
Rather than duking it out with the Department of Justice, which was expected to file a stay tomorrow in the Court proceedings, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom decided to step back and reevaluate the deal. In AT&T's press statement, the companies seem to indicate that they will be looking to restructure the deal.
"AT&T is committed to working with Deutsche Telekom to find a solution that is in the best interests of our respective customers, shareholders, and employees. We are actively considering whether and how to revise our current transaction to achieve the necessary regulatory approvals so that we can deliver the capacity enhancements and improved customer service that can only be derived from combining our two companies' wireless assets," the AT&T statement said.
From the moment AT&T announced its blockbuster deal to acquire T-Mobile, it caused a firestorm among public interest and consumer groups that argued the combination of the No. 2 and No. 4 wireless companies would harm consumers. Regulators agreed. The DOJ sued, and just before the FCC was set to send the deal to an administrative law judge, AT&T and DT pulled the application.
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CEO outlines comeback plan as world's biggest smartphone market shrinks
Published on 8 Feb, 2018 12:00pm Coordinated Universal Time
Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Xiaomi, speaks during a news conference in Beijing last year
People in China are buying fewer smartphones, but Xiaomi thinks the shifting market is an opportunity: It wants to regain its position as the country's best-selling smartphone brand within two and a half years.
Speaking to employees, Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun said, "The market is consolidating while the competition becomes more and more brutal. There is no turning back for us and we have to charge forward... only by winning China can we win in the rest of the world."
Xiaomi lost its place as China's top smartphone maker in 2016. Research firm IDC says it now ranks fourth, behind Huawei, Oppo and Vivo. But there are signs that Xiaomi is re-gaining momentum: It climbed back into the top five global smartphone vendors last year.
Xiaomi began expanding into Western Europe in November when it started selling phones in Spain. It's also returning to Indonesia, a market it previously abandoned due to supply chain issues.
Large, emerging markets like Indonesia have long been at the heart of Xiaomi's strategy. The company still doesn't sell phones in the United States. Instead, last year it overtook Samsung as India's top smartphone seller.


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Matt Chamberlin, Dave Abbruzzese, and Jack Irons were snubbed by the Hall of Fame.
Pearl Jam have invited all five of their drummers to their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Only founding member Dave Krusen and current drummer Matt Cameron are to be formally inducted alongside frontman Eddie Vedder, bassist Jeff Ament, and guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready.
Matt Chamberlin, Dave Abbruzzese, and Jack Irons were snubbed by the Hall of Fame and will not be formally inducted. Dave Abbruzzese drummed with the band from the 1991 tour behind 'Ten' and contributed to the recording of 1994's 'Vitalogy'.
Abbruzzese recently posted an open letter to Facebook, writing, "I challenge anyone to justify why I am not worthy of a place in the history of Pearl Jam. The official reason given from the RRHOF makes it bullshit."
"It make my years of hard work appear to be worthless towards the success born of the formative years of Pearl Jam. This is simply not the case. The milestones and the success obtained during my period in the band… The Grammy, AMA's, MTV Awards, over 20 plus million albums sold. MTV Unplugged performance. SNL twice, etc. Over 275 shows," he continued.
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Pearl Jam have now expressed their desire to reunite with Abbruzzese and their other former drummers, Jack Irons and Matt Chamberlin, at the induction ceremony next month.
"While awards and accolades are understandably subjective and a countless number of our peers have yet to be honored, we do feel fortuante to be recognized and provided the opportunity to reunite with everyone who has been part of the group," an open letter reads. "Specifically the drummers who all left their distinctive mark on our band in the pre-Matt Cameron years."
"Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlin, Dave Abbruzzese, and Jack Irons are each individually great players who gave their all to the early recordings and live gigs. Looking forward to seeing them and all the other musicians on the bill."
You can read the full letter from Pearl Jam above.
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Toto (Bengali: ,  Toto: ) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken on the border of India and Bhutan, by the tribal Toto people in Totopara, West Bengal along the border with Bhutan. It is also spoken in Subhapara, Dhunchipara, and Panchayatpara hillocks on India-Bhutan border in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal (Ethnologue).

Status
Toto is listed as a critically endangered language by UNESCO, with perhaps 1,000 speakers. However, most families in the community speak Toto at home. Most children learn Toto at home, although they use Bengali in school.

Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) set out to conduct a study on language of the Toto tribe, whose population has dwindled to 1,536, they did not realize that the language is more endangered than the tribe itself. Researchers as well the members of the Toto community admit that the language is under threat and the influence of other languages, particularly Nepali and Bengali, is increasing day by day.

The Himalayan Languages Project is working on the first grammatical sketch of Toto.

Phonology

Vowels
Toto consists of 25 segmental phonemes, of which 19 are consonants and six are vowels. The phonemes of this language are as follows:

Vowels: there are six vowel phonemes in the Toto language. They can be classified horizontally into three as front unrounded, central unrounded and back rounded vowels and vertically as close, close-mid, open-mid and open.

The following minimal pairs establish the phonetics status of the vowel:

/i/~/u/

/Jiya/		'rat'

/Juya/		'bird'

/i/~/e/

/iŋ/		'brother in-law'

/eŋ/		'ginger'

/ciwa/		'tear'

/cewa/		'cut' (cloth)

/i/~/a/

/guJi/		'owl'

/guJa/		'pocket'

/nico/		'fire'

/naco/		'two'

/e/~/o/

/je/		'grass'

/jo/		'breast'

/e/~/a/

/lepa/		'brain'

/lapa/		'jungle betel leaf'

/kewa/		'birth'

/kawa/		'sound'

There are eight diphthongs realized in Toto. These are /ei/, /ai/, /oi/, /ui/, /əi/, /eu/, /au/ and /ou/. Diphthong /ui/ occurs in all positions, /eu/ occurs initial and medial positions, /ai/, /oi/, /əi/, and /ei/ occur medial and final positions. While /ou/ and /au/ occur only in the medial positions.
Furthermore, with regard to consonants, Toto has an inventory of ten obstruents, eight of which are contrastive in voicing.  Toto also distinguishes the voiceless obstruents /t/ and /p/ with its aspirated equivalents /tʰ/ and /pʰ/, respectively.

Consonants

Vocabulary
Below are some Toto words from van Driem (1995), who uses these words to suggest that Toto may be a Sal language.

 'to drink'
 'shoulder'
 'cooking pot' (second syllable), cf. Dzongkha  'jug'
 'seed'
 'today'
 'moon'
 'fall' (cf. Benedict's PTB  'dive, sink, drown')
 'big' (first syllable)
 'shit'
 'right' (vs. 'left')
 'stomach' (first syllable); the second syllable  is cognate with Toto  'meat'
 'meat'
 'bamboo species' (first syllable), Nepali
 'paddy'
 'wing'
 'sun'
 'stand'
 'yesterday'
 'navel'
 'bring'
 'to shit'
 'sleep'
 'urine'
 'dog'
 'name'
 'horn'
 'flower'
 'snake'
 'stone'
 'tongue'
 'to dream'
 'ear'
 'eye'
 'fish'
 'body hair'
 'I'
 'sole of the foot'
 'pig'
 'thou'
 'tooth'
 'die'
 'eat'
 'be sweet, taste sweet'
 'mango' (suffix: )
 'jackfruit' (suffix: )
 'kill'
 'dig'
 'egg'
 'sit, stay'
 'water'
 'tear'
 'spit'
 'rain'
 'blood'
 'milk'
 'buffalo'
 'come down, descend'
 'neck'
 'weave'
 'cry'
 'monkey'
 'mouse, rat'

Pronouns
The Toto personal pronouns are (van Driem 1995):

Numerals
The Toto numerals are (van Driem 1995):

Writing system

An alphabetic script developed for the language by community elder and author, Dhaniram Toto, was published in 2015, and has seen limited but increasing use in literature, education, and computing; most significantly, the Toto alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 2021. Prior to the publication of this script, Dhaniram Toto and other members of the community (whose literacy rate as per sample survey carried out in 2003 was just 33.64 per cent) penned books and poems in the Bengali script.

Unicode

The Toto alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 2021 with the release of version 14.0.

The Unicode block for Toto is U+1E290–U+1E2BF:

See also
Dhimalish comparative vocabulary list (Wiktionary)

Notes

References

Amitabha, S. (1993). Toto, Society and Change: A Sub-Himalayan Tribe of West Bengal. Firma KLM.
Basumatary, C. (2014). The Phonological Study of Toto Language. Language in India, 14:6, 59–84. Retrieved February 9, 2015, from http://languageinindia.com/june2014/chibiramtotophonology1.pdf
Chaudhuri, B. (1992). Tribal Transformation in India. New Delhi, India: Inter-India Publications.
Doherty, B. (2012, April 29). India's Tribal People Fast Becoming Lost for Words. Retrieved February 8, 2015, from http://www.smh.com.au/world/indias-tribal-people-fast-becoming-lost-for-words-20120429-1xted.html

Mehrotra, R. (1974). Endangered Languages in India. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 105–114. Retrieved February 9, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20111016074549/http://www.degruyter.de/journals/ijsl/detailEn.cfm
Perumalsamy P (2016) Toto Language LSI West Bengal Vol.I in the website of Office of the Registrar General India, New Delhi http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-documents/lsi/lsi_wb/5TOTO.pdf
Singh, S. (2014, August 1). Toto Language More Endangered Than Tribe. Retrieved February 8, 2015, from http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/toto-language-more-endangered-than-tribe/article6270931.ece
van Driem, G., & Bronkhorst, J. (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the  Greater Himalayan Region Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language (pp. 559–760). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Pub.
van Driem, G. (2007). South Asia and Middle East. In C. Moseley (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages (pp. 289–348). London and New York: Routledge.
van Driem, George. 1995. The Ṭoṭo language of the Bhutanese duars. Paper presented at ICSTLL 28.

External links
India's Tribal People Fast Becoming Lost for Words
About Toto People
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
World Oral Literature Project
Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
[http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-documents/lsi/lsi_wb/5TOTO.pdf

Kiranti languages
Languages of India
Languages of Bhutan
Endangered languages of India

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My first modification was to improve the lack luster sound system. I replaced the factory speakers with Blaupunkt 4x6s in the front, and 6.5s on the rear deck. The head unit was replaced with a motorized Kenwood CD player, which was later modified to be Ipod compatible. A Kenwood 600W amp, 1 Farad capacitor, and 2 10″ kicker subs in the trunk round out the system.
After that, my driver's side rocker panel rotted out so I decided to make the best of it, and stuff my exhaust through there, and weld up metal around the pipe (keeping clearance so it doesn't vibrate the car to death). Ever since then, the exhaust has dumped out of the driver's side rocker panel in a viper-like sidepipe configuration. Around the same time, I also did the 300zx front brake conversion.
In 2004 I picked up another daily driver and pulled the 240 off the road for more serious modifications. I swapped the stock open differential out for a JDM 180sx Limited Slip unit, that allowed me to keep my current axles. I replaced the stock clutch with a Centerforce Dual Friction kit from a local shop. I then made a little trip to a fellow NICO Member's house (username Fiznat), where I picked up a B&M short shifter, and KYB AGX struts with Eiback Pro-Kit springs. The motor was pulled for a full rebuild. I had a machine shop assemble the bottom end using ARP hardware and supertech 9:1 pistons, as well as rebuild the head. Final engine assembly was done by myself.
Around the same time, a friend of mine was upgrading his WRX, so I figured I'd take his stock turbo, and use it for mock-up purposes (it was way too small for a KA). I ordered a naked JGS turbo manifold, and welded it up myself with subaru flanges. The battery was relocated to the trunk to make room for intercooler piping and the Z32 blow through mass air flow sensor setup. 370cc injectors were installed and controlled via E-manage Blue with Profec E-01 boost controller/programmer. The injectors were later upgraded to 550cc, the Emanage to NISTUNE, and the turbo was upgraded to a Td06 23G.