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CounterPunch provides a feeble analysis of the struggle for $15.00 in Seattle.
What kind of "analysis" do you call this?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/06/anatomy-of-a-minimum-wage-victory/
There is no objectivity at all in this "analysis."
Not one single word here about the failure to link the struggle for a higher Minimum Wage to cost-of-living factors nor any mention of the failure to bring forward the fact that every single working class family is experiencing a "Cost-of-Living Crisis."
The struggle for an increased Minimum Wage is not a struggle over a "number;" the struggle is for a living wage based on what goods and services working people can purchase with their wages.
Socialist Alternative and 15 Now were sucked into the exact same fold of class collaboration as the labor "leaders" they claim to despise who can't win increased wages because they fail to note actual cost-of-living factors.
In fact, Socialist Alternative and 15 Now failed to note that many, if not most, union contracts provide for wages of less than $15.00 an hour.
It is highly unlikely any union with contracts of less than $15.00 an hour is going to support a movement for the Minimum Wage to be a real living wage based on all cost-of-living factors unless the union is prepared to recognize that workers can win an improved standard-of-living through mass class struggle which they can't win at the bargaining table--- check out the millionaire members of the AFL-CIO's Executive Council and see how many of these labor "leaders" would be willing to put the resources of their unions into the kind of mass struggle that would be required to win a real living Minimum Wage. Also check out the number of contracts each of these unions have that provide wages less than $15.00 an hour.
Even the UAW has a three tiered contract with workers on the low end of the wage scale getting $14.00 an hour.
The struggle over the Minimum Wage has to be related to actual cost-of-living and the increase in the Minimum Wage has to come now not years later when the amount will have no relationship to cost-of-living in terms of today's living standards.
To put this in perspective we only need to ask one question: Would any union negotiate a contract in terms of today's living standards only to have the contract go into effect two, four or ten years from now with the terms of the negotiated wages remaining the same at the time of implementation of the contract?
Why then would we call $15.00 a victory when it is at best borderline poverty today when we all know workers will be able to purchase even less at the time of implementation years from now than what they can purchase with $15.00 today? This makes no sense at all.
And, once again, the lowest paid workers will have to wait the longest for an increase in their pay!
The solution to the Minimum Wage issue is very simple but would face massive opposition from the Wall Street crowd, which includes their Democratic and Republican parties--- the two-party trap the working class is caught up in--- and the Democrats' coalition partners, the foundation-funded outfits as well as the millionaire labor "leaders" who have shoved concession contract and poverty wages down the throats of their own members with no relationship to actual cost-of-living, the "Cost-of-Living Crisis" for working class families nor soaring corporate profits--- the wealth created largely by poverty-waged workers all with no regard for the standard-of-living and quality-of-life for the working class.
Socialist Alternative and $15 Now may consider this a "victory;" but, what this provides in terms of an improved standard-of-living for working class families says otherwise.
This "victory" does not improve the standard-of-living for impoverished workers and their families right now; and, it won't provide a higher standard-of-living along with an improved quality of life at the time of implementation over what workers and their families are experiencing now.
The one and only way to address the problems with the Minimum Wage is to legislatively tie the Minimum Wage to all cost-of-living factors in the eight categories each with two-hundred sub-categories used by the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, then index this to inflation with a periodic increase in the Minimum Wage to provide an improvement in the standard-of-living which would begin to provide a decent quality-of-life befitting a working class creating such enormous wealth now being hoarded by the Wall Street crowd.
And, with millions of workers unemployed and millions more forced into part-time employment we need to be discussing solutions to the Minimum Wage question along with the need for full employment and a Basic Income Guarantee.
This requires some kind of broadening of the New Deal to reflect economic realities of the present.
All of this should become part of an economic package that could be included in some kind of "21st Century Full-Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" since it will be pretty much impossible to create the millions of jobs required paying real living wages as long as these dirty wars and militarism consumes so much of our national wealth.
Like with health care reform, we can't expect reform to be initiated by Wall Street's Democratic Party--- working people need a party of our own--- a progressive working class-based people's party to take up this struggle.
Democrats and their foundation-funded think-tank outfits and millionaire labor leader allies are simply not capable of thinking outside the capitalist box as is required if we are serious about real economic reforms intended--- not for political expediency--- but to improve the lives of working people... our entire working class.
We could solve many of our economic problems which have resulted in deep-seated social problems simply by putting millions of people to work filling potholes in our roads and highways, creating a National Public Health Care System which would provide the American people with free health care at hundreds of community and neighborhood health care centers which would create some twelve to 15,000,000 new jobs, a National Public Child Care System which would provide free child care and create well over three-million new jobs--- all for a lot less than these present dirty imperialist wars and this insane militarism is costing us... and, with such a people before profits and wars approach to the economy and government we could start closing down the prisons instead of our public schools.
The insanity of Wall Street's agenda has to end.
We need to challenge Wall Street for political and economic power and the struggle for a real living Minimum Wage is a good place to begin... but, the struggle for a real living wage needs to be developed taking into account the relationship between wages and cost-of-living.
Democrats and the well-heeled muddle-headed middle class intellectuals and millionaire labor leaders who are trying to perpetuate the hoax that it is possible to talk about some kind of "economic populism" without confronting militarism and wars are not going to initiate or lead these required struggles--- the leadership is going to have to come from the grassroots and rank-and-file movements of which there are far too few and this is not going to change until leftists begin to think very publicly outside the capitalist box. Without hesitation, and without fear, we need to place our socialist ideas in the public square but these ideas need to be based on real facts and figures not numbers pulled from a hat which provide our Wall Street enemies the opportunity to derail our movements.
Check out what is being passed off as an "analysis" of what has gone down in Seattle... (anyone seen the actual legislation?)
This is a very feeble analysis--- at best. With an "analysis" like this one below, it is going to be difficult for working people to win anything:
Seattle Approves $15 an Hour
Anatomy of a Minimum Wage Victory
CounterPunch.org - Tom BARNARD - June 6-8, 2014
On June 2, 2014, Seattle made history by being the first city in the country to pass legislation to raise the minimum wage for workers to $15 an hour.
Anyone predicting such a result two years ago would have been branded as hopelessly naive at best. Yet though the vote was taken by the City Council, the credit for such a victory belongs largely to two unlikely forces operating in tandem in the organization known as $15 Now. The first was a genuine socialist organization, Socialist Alternative, who had already managed the politically unthinkable feat of electing a City Council member, Kshama Sawant. The second force were the people of Seattle themselves, from which sprang hundreds of activists willing to go to demonstrations and rallies, pass out leaflets, collect signatures for ballot measures, pack public hearings and attend City Council meetings, where they forcefully stated their demands and denounced each effort of the politicians to weaken the original proposal.
For the first time in recent history, the initiative for a significant reform came from and remained with the people, despite all attempts by the corporate sector and their political allies to defeat it or render it harmless, and deaden the ferment behind it. That is a history which deserves a second look, for its success may be a preview of future struggles to come, in Seattle and across the country.
The hallmark of a real mass struggle fought to a conclusion is that everyone eventually reveals their true nature. The initial phase of the struggle may seem murky, with some forces out in front while others keep their cards close to their chests. But the inevitable sharpening of the struggle compels the forces that represent the various classes to show who they stand for and with. In producing an anatomy of this struggle, it's useful to look at the roles of six political actors: newly-elected Mayor Ed Murray, the big business sector, the small business community, the Seattle King County Labor Council that represents the large unions, the Seattle City Council, and $15 Now itself.
Mayor Murray: Voted into office in 2013, in the same election that swept socialist Kshama Sawant to a City Council seat on the promise of a $15 an hour minimum wage, the Mayor was presented with an immediate problem. On the one hand, Sawant had so successfully channeled the mass motion around a $15 minimum wage in her campaign, both Murray and his opponent had to make enacting it one of their campaign planks. The $15 an hour SeaTac ballot initiative, the strikes by fast food workers in different cities, the rallies here for the measure, and the election of Sawant herself made that unavoidable. At the same time, the business community that supported Murray had absolutely no desire to enact any wage raise, let alone one that significant, if for no other reason that it came from a socialist and her working class supporters. What Murray needed was to create something that looked like $15 an hour but wasn't, that would simultaneously mollify the business community, keep labor from uniting with Sawant, keep an initiative of any kind off the ballot, and isolate both Sawant's forces and the more conservative members of the business coalition. A tall order indeed.
To do that, Murray needed a coalition he could present as representing the city as a whole, that he could both use as a smokescreen to weaken the measure and hopefully steal the motion away from $15 Now and its allies. The Mayor's Income Inequality Advisory Committee was that tool – composed largely of the city's corporate sector like Howard Wright III, owner of a Seattle's largest hospitality corporation and the iconic Space Needle. It also had a sprinkling of small business owners, union officials, and, unavoidably, Sawant herself. Meeting outside the view of the public, it went as far as it could in weakening the measure without destroying the coalition itself by impelling the unions to bolt. A tip credit was put in, compensation for health insurance and other benefits was listed as part of the wage, a long multi-year phase-ins depending on the size of the business, with small businesses, defined as under 500 workers, were given the longest. When the IIAC finally announced its deal, the union members and the liberals were supportive, claiming the best deal was won, and demanding the deal be voted on by Seattle City Council exactly as it was. But though the Mayor was lauded for having driven the Committee to a deal, Councilperson Sawant denounced the corporate loopholes, and threatened to go to the ballot with the $15 Now plan – one without corporate loopholes. But more on that later.
Big Business: Early on, the major voices in the business community decided it was wise to present themselves as willing to compromise and only be interested in the fate of small businesses. Some truly surreal moments occurred, one being the CEO of Starbucks explaining that he could certainly pay his workers $15 an hour, but was "worried by the effect on small businesses" – this from a corporation responsible for mowing down more local coffeehouses and Mom and Pop eateries across the country, let alone in Seattle. Nonetheless, this argument was seized on by media to whip up opposition by small business owners, which in turn gave the politicians easy excuses to weaken the legislation, all the while allowing big business to hide their own opposition, and pretend to compromise on a deal through the Mayor's Committee.
Yet once the "deal" was announced at a Seattle City Council meeting, it became obvious to everyone that there was in fact no deal, and that the exercise was just the opening move for corporate Seattle. As far as they were concerned, there wouldn't be a measure until they got plenty of chances to lobby their friends on the Council in their time-honored fashion to try and weaken it still further. And a section of them formed their own group called "One Seattle", promising to run their own initiative.
Small business: Whipped up to a panic by large business, various well-known restaurant owners like Tom Douglas and Dave Meinert insisted that this measure was the end of Western civilization, and that tumbleweeds would roll through the streets of Seattle if it were enacted. Even after being granted a seven-year phase in, a temporary credit for tips and benefits, Douglas was still darkly predicting it would cause 25% of all restaurants in Seattle to fail. Of course, since the majority of restaurants fail to last more than five years anyhow, this was a fairly safe bet.
What the hysteria did create was a screen for pro-business politicians and others to hide behind while they did their best to weaken the measure. There are of course small businesses that would be threatened eventually – those whose slender profit margins only existed in the first place by paying their workers the absolute minimum wage to begin with. Sawant's response to that was to create a three-year phase in for any business under 250 workers, and ask the City Council to find ways to subsidize the costs through taxation on large businesses. The only response was to extend the phase in to any business under 500 workers. Her other proposals were met with deafening silence.
Labor and the "$15 for Seattle" coalition: The best way to achieve the goal of $15 an hour would be to create a strong enough movement to get a $15/hr. initiative on the ballot in 2014. Either such a measure would pass, or threat of one would force the politicians to enact something roughly as strong on their own. But the forces that make up the labor leadership in Seattle simply couldn't go there. Tied by a thousand threads to the Democratic Party leaders in Seattle and beyond, incubated in the tradition of negotiation and not confrontation, and more or less allergic to movement-based politics, the labor leaders that make up the Seattle-King County Labor Council decided to take a different tack. They formed a coalition of themselves and labor-based community groups – known as $15 for Seattle.
Represented in the Mayor's advisory committee, with friends on the City Council, they would issue statements, take positions, negotiate through back channels, stage the occasional small action for the press, but they would not call out their troops for a real fight. Some unions, particularly David Rolff of the SEIU was openly hostile to the idea of a ballot initiative. Others counseled endless patience, and to wait and see what the Mayor's committee would come up with. Though initially willing to consult with $15 Now, and even have it as part of their coalition, once it became clear that a ballot initiative by $15 Now was a real possibility, they simply asked them to leave. The result was to weaken the overall movement, promote a weakened measure as a great deal, and then to howl in useless outrage when the City Council weakened it still further. This should be an object lesson to all those who think that progress lies only through following liberal champions whose only strategy is to "work through the process" to gain significant reforms.
At the same time, not all labor withheld support. The local IBEW 46 pledged its support, as did the ATU international, as well as AFSCME union, WFSE Local 1488. Casa Latina, a labor-based latino community organization, was also strongly supportive.
The Seattle CIty Council: When the Mayor's Committee released its final draft plan, it was concluded by the unions and their liberal allies that enough pro-business loopholes existed that the Council would simply pass it. Little did they understand the depths to which the Council would stoop to please their business constituents, and ignore the needs and aspirations of working class citizens they claim to represent.
The ensuing struggle in the City Council revealed two factions, openly pro-business, and liberals willing to surrender to the Mayor's plan, with Sawant off to one side flaying the pro-business faction every chance she got. The liberals desperately wanted to go with the Mayor's plan, and thought they had that in the bag, yet it was clear from the opening volley at the initial City Council meeting that this was not the case, despite their expectations. Once it was clear the business types had not signed on to the Mayor's plan, Council members starting asking about a "training wage" for younger workers. One of the labor reps from the Mayor's Committee said that it was off the table altogether, since the object was how to raise the wage, not lower it. That should have ended it, but didn't. Instead, the Mayor intervened, apparently to take the political heat, and stuck it in, explaining it was just a small issue, and consistent with state laws governing the handicapped. Then Council President Sally Clark intervened late in the game, proposing a further four month delay in implementing any wage increase. When she was asked why, she thought that the possibility of a ballot measure would "cause too much confusion" among businesses. Nobody could parse this logic, but it stayed in anyway.
The meeting of the Council when they passed it was instructive. Kshama attempted to introduce several amendments to bring the measure back to what was first proposed by $15 Now – all were defeated by 8-1. Nick Licata tried to strip out the training wage, that also failed, but by a closer margin, as did a similar measure to strip out the additional delay. The end result was to take a flawed measure, make it worse, while simultaneously showing the difference between a principled socialist, the openly pro-business faction, and the more liberal members, like Licata. But what was really exposed is the weakness of the liberals in the face of concerted business influence. The lesson here is clear for many activists and citizens, and will hopefully result in more Sawant-type candidates in 2015, when all nine seats are up for election or re-election. This is the first election since the passage of a measure breaking up the at-large system for all nine, with seven of those seats in individual districts, and two at-large.
Socialist Alternative/$15 Now: Many organizations participated in this struggle, on their own, and in various coalitions with others, and all are to be commended for their work. But even the President of the City Council, Sally Clark, acknowledged that without Kshama Sawant and $15 Now, there would have not been the momentum that induced the City Council to pass the legislation they did.
A crucial advantage for this campaign was having Kshama present on the inside of the Council and the IIAC to denounce the various stratagems and the players behind them as they arose, while $15 Now maintained a strong independent public campaign on the outside that allowed activists to keep up the pressure on the politicians.
During the course of the campaign to raise the minimum wage, SA and $15Now were offered mountains of advice and some criticism as well on how to conduct the struggle. They were too radical, too sectarian, too controlling, too uncompromising, too inexperienced, and not inclusive enough. They were told they should follow the time-honored method of forming the widest possible coalition with every labor and liberal leader that would sit with them.
But though they participated in the "$15 for Seattle" labor coalition, they insisted on running $15 Now as a campaign, and one under the leadership of SA and a few close allies. They welcomed other activists with similar views to work with them on a democratic basis, and they went out of their way to get the widest possible participation of ordinary workers, students, and others. But they would not surrender the campaign to leadership from outside forces, no matter what their supposed size and prestige. And they were right.
Had they done so, the inevitable result would have been that their efforts, rather than gaining strength from the participation of other forces, would have been diluted. The leadership of the campaign would have had to spend time in useless meetings with people and organizations who had nothing to offer but negotiations with a Mayor and City Council on which pro-business compromise they should make, as indeed other political forces did. That in turn would have hindered their efforts, both politically and organizationally to mobilize participation in the struggle from the people of Seattle in general, and low-wage workers and students in particular.
In addition, $15 Now was called upon repeatedly to be able to move quickly and flexibly, both strategically and tactically, as the business sector and its politicians tried repeatedly to sow general confusion, use their alliances with politicians to weaken the measure, and conduct a propaganda campaign in the local conservative media. On top of this, while devoting the majority of their efforts to the local struggle, they had to at the same time do whatever they could to encourage the attempts by activists in other cities inspired by $15 Now to build their own minimum wage campaigns across the country. Having a cohesive leadership at the head of the struggle made both of those challenges manageable.
Lessons for the future... This is not to say that every move they made worked out as they planned – such is the nature of a real struggle. The goal to put into motion 30 neighborhood groups never grew to that degree, and they repeatedly struggled with how to turn general support from activists into ongoing work.
An early effort at mobilizing people through the annual Martin Luther King Day march backfired, precisely because the $15 Now participation in the march was large and highly visible. Not realizing there had been repeated attempts to hijack the annual event by white activists in past years trying to use it to recruit support for their pet cause, they were unprepared by the level of hostility they met from some MLK organizers during and after the event.
The struggle is not entirely over. Too many corporate loopholes remain. A national business group of franchisers is threatening a lawsuit. The enforcement provisions and structure of the new wage law are not yet in place, and will require separate legislation. The Council can always decide at a future date to weaken the provisions still further. And a plethora of other issues await, from affordable housing, regressive taxation, budget cuts for social services, homelessness, mass transit cuts awaits. Meanwhile, the struggle in other cities is building. But an example of successful struggle has been shown, and a victory has been achieved. Let us hope we can learn its lessons.
Tom Barnard was a volunteer in the $15 Now campaign. He is a long-time activist on social change issues. He works as a policy analyst in Seattle.
Do we want education to be turned into a fiasco and a racket like health care?
The dismantling of public education is taking place. As a result, education is turning into one big fiasco and racket just like the for-profit health care system.
Most people don't have an inkling of who these charter school operators are or what is taking place because the public has no input into the decision-making process because it is the Wall Street crowd in control of local, state and federal politics.
New Orleans no longer has a public school system. How did this escape debate?
So, who are these charter school "operators?"
Check out how these charter school operators actually "operate:
http://fortune.com/2014/06/02/chicago-charter-school-fraud/
It took a struggle to win public education; it will take a struggle to save public education from the Wall Street investors.
Do you want Bill Gates of Microsoft and the Wal-mart Walton Family dictating what your children will learn in school, and profit-making the purpose and aim of education?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-new-orleans-traditional-public-schools-close-for-good/2014/05/28/ae4f5724-e5de-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html
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Working Group C
Bridging Together Ground and Space Capabilities for Users and Operators
Monday – February 27, 2023
9:00 AM-11:30 AM PT
This working group looks to bridge the gap between space and ground capabilities for various users and operators, especially system customers. Specifically, this working group aims to identify the most pressing challenges facing integration of these types of capabilities. These capabilities range from basic low-bandwidth communications to moving massive amounts of data from observation satellites, typically high-bandwidth video and imagery. Position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities, such as GPS's Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), increasingly fuse together both space and ground based signals.
Various efforts to help bridge this gap are prevalent throughout civil, commercial, and national security space. For civil space, NASA has developed the Near Space Network (NSN), bridging together ground stations, low earth orbit, and deep space. An increasingly common example in the commercial space sector include cellular signals, broadcast from both satellites and ground, received from the same personal device (tablet or phone). On the national security space front, efforts such at the US Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) and US Space Force's meshONE-Terrestrial (meshONE-T) attempt to bridge the gap in moving massive amounts of data especially for warfighters in an increasingly mobile tactical environment.
Working group attendees will share their past experiences and thoughts through a whiteboarding and breakout session. A near-term strategic action plan to bridging this gap will also be developed during this session. We anticipate that these attendees will be representative of a cross-section of both ground and space system entities throughout the civil, commercial, and national security space sectors.
Lead Alvin Leung, SSC/BCTI
Alvin Leung is the meshONE-T Technical Lead with the United States Space Force's Civilian Service, Space Systems Command, Enterprise Corps, Los Angeles Garrison, Los Angeles AFB CA. Alvin developed architectures for the space launch ranges at the 30th and 45th Space Deltas and for the Satellite Control Network (formerly AFSCN). Previously, Alvin spent over 10 years at Boeing in various engineering and business development roles, designing satellite communications systems and integrating avionics on the International Space Station. Alvin completed his MBA and MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), and his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. A lifelong aviation and space enthusiast, Alvin is an Eagle Scout and licensed private pilot.
Last updated on - December 6, 2022

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Major League Baseball is bound for expansion one of these days. Commissioner Rob Manfred has kicked around the idea of a 32-team league for a while now and brought up the notion again during last week's All-Star festivities.
One of the potential locations he named during an interview with Fox Sports 1 was Montreal, ironic considering Manfred's predecessor, Bud Selig, spent years trying to move that franchise practically anywhere else. The Expos played 22 games in Puerto Rico in 2003 and 2004, and after baseball's 29 other franchises pitched in to purchase the team, the island - along with Portland, northern Virginia and Washington - made offers to the league.
Of course the District of Columbia won, and 13 years later, the Nationals are squarely at home in Washington, showing off its 10-year-old ballpark and star players over the All-Star break. The Nationals selectively honor parts of the franchise's history, but Montrealers generally have moved on to root for other teams.
But the city hasn't moved on from baseball, experts say, and would eagerly welcome Manfred and an expansion team despite the league's checkered past north of the border.
"It was a blank slate, clean page, whatever the expression is," says Matthew Ross, president of the ExposNation Committee, a nonprofit that promotes Montreal as a sight for a future expansion team, and a radio host on one of the city's sports talk channels. "We heard that Rob Manfred was very worldly when he looked at baseball. He cared about doing things outside the United States."
Montreal is a three-sport city between the NHL's Canadiens, MLS's Impact and Canadian football's Alouettes. It's also one of the world's preeminent boxing destinations. But baseball is woven into its history.
Jackie Robinson played for the minor league Royals, a team with consistently high attendance numbers, before breaking the major league color barrier in 1947. Montreal hosted the first All-Star Game held outside the United States in 1982.
Since the Expos moved in 2005, the Toronto Blue Jays regularly play a pair of weekend preseason games in Montreal that between them draw close to 100,000 fans. This season, those games were on weeknights - and still drew 50,000 fans.
"Major League Baseball had to buy the franchise and run it into the ground to move it to Washington," said Rich Griffin, the Toronto Star's baseball columnist.
Until the end - when the Expos were playing in worn out Olympic Stadium, when league leaders were openly shopping the team to other cities, when the team agreed to move a quarter of its home games to Puerto Rico - Montrealers insist the city supported the team.
When the ballclub was good, contending for the pennant as a labor strike loomed in 1992 through 1994, an average of 21,000 fans showed up for each home game.
When it was bad, the bottom fell out at the box office. In the final seven years in Montreal, fewer than 12,000 fans went to each home game, on average. The final season, the Expos only averaged 9,000 fans. That convinced the league the city wasn't good for baseball any longer. And that engendered a fair amount of bitterness among Montrealers.
"When they were playing games in Puerto Rico, it was almost like they were telling fans, 'Goodbye, we're done, you're not good enough,' " said Griffin, who previously worked in the Expos' front office.
"When things are good here, they're really good," Ross said. "It just seemed like there was always something that would happen for the Expos not to take off or do well."
That is what tamps expectations among residents despite Manfred's repeated mentions of Montreal: The league has dissed Montreal before.
The Tampa Bay Rays and Oakland Athletics both need new stadiums, and Expos boosters fear that MLB officials will threaten municipalities with franchise relocation to Montreal if governments don't pony up money for new ballparks.
Montrealers know that's largely an empty threat, Griffin said, because Canadian politicians are loathe to use public money on private athletic facilities, unlike their American counterparts. Besides, the Rays just released renderings of their proposed new stadium and the Oakland city council voted to negotiate with the A's on two proposed stadium sites. Both teams are likely to get new ballparks without enduring the threat of relocation.
"It's an intelligent fan base," Ross said. "They know nothing can happen until Tampa Bay and Oakland are sorted. There's a hurry-up-and-wait mentality."
That leaves Montreal only one option to get a team - expansion - but there is competition: Manfred also listed Nashville and Charlotte, North Carolina, as targets, along with Portland, Las Vegas, Vancouver and even Mexico.


Thomson Impressions is conveniently located a stone's throw away from the future Bright Hill MRT station. The Bright Hill MRT station will be an underground MRT station and is scheduled to be completed in 2020. It will form part of the new Thomson line which runs all the way from the East at Bedok to the North at Woodlands bypassing the Central Business District and Orchard regions. Thomson Impressions is approximately 600 metres away from suburban shopping mall, Thomson Plaza. Over here, there is a good mix of retail specialty shops, food & beverage outlets and a supermarket. The AMK hub and Junction 8 shopping malls are also a short drive away from Thomson Impressions. Recreational Parks such as Lower Pierce Reservoir, Bishan – Ang Mo Kio Park and the Singapore Island Country Club is also within close proximity.


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The Bible tells us about a city named Caesarea. Built by Herod in 20 B.C., and named for Augustus Caesar, it was located on the Mediterranean Sea, north of Joppa. One of the essential qualifications for a Roman city was running water, so the city's aqueducts were a critical part of its design. For a Roman city, a well was insufficient as a source of water for its citizens.
"Then Peter began to speak: 'I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.'" (Acts 10:34-36) Peter shared the story of the Lord's crucifixion and resurrection. He told the family of Cornelius that, "'…everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.'" (Acts 10:43) The Holy Spirit came on all listening to Peter's message. They spoke in tongues, praising God. "Then Peter said, 'Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.'" (Acts 10:46-47) They were subsequently baptized as the first Gentiles coming to faith in the book of Acts.
We're reminded of Jesus' words, "'If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.' By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive." (John 7:37-39) When the Spirit is leading us, we who have the Spirit in us will share God's message with those who will receive the Spirit. Living water will then flow within them, as it does in us.
From Joppa Jonah, the prophet fled from God. From Joppa Peter, the Apostle followed God. Symbolically speaking, we're all at Joppa. Asking God each day to lead us will keep us in a dynamic and faithful relationship with Him. We'll help people access the living water that Jesus offers. People may be dramatically different from us, as the Gentiles were from the Jews, but "God does not show favoritism." His living water is for all!


I'm a Half Breed German Italian mix with a love for cooking and baking. Outdoor activities are the most fun, though I am prone to enjoying nights inside and relaxing on the couch. I've been a lifeguard for 8 years, a baker for less then one, and currently into restaurants, and running my own company which is a little more stressful then I expected.
My musical taste varies depending on the day. I range into the classics, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, Jazz for those slow nights, Alternative and Rock, Country on some days when its been rough, to 8-bit. Dance music is fun, but have never been a fan of rap music. I'm into Indie music and a concert goer of local bands downtown.
What I look for? Someone who I can go for walks with. Someone to hold through movies, or to take onto the dance floor. Someone who has a thrill for cooking up a storm, and someone who would rather order in chinese food. Yet to find that, so looking for good friends who enjoy a satisfying conversation over drinks or downtown adventures.


What doesn't happen is that subways start springing up all over the place, unfortunately. Although Miller, Martin and McGuinty, through their words (Martin) and their deeds (McGuinty and Miller) are committed to helping the TTC through its fiscal crisis, it's a hefty fiscal crisis that it has to be helped through. Back in November, when the stars appeared to be aligning and the 3M Alliance materializing, somebody on the Urban Toronto board asked what it all meant for the TTC. This (edited) is the reply I came up with.
The TTC is excited by the St. Clair LRT project. Come what may, in 2005, much of the trackwork on the St. Clair streetcar line will have to be replaced. For a few million dollars more over the expected budget, the TTC can change the streetcar line into an LRT operating on private right-of-way, just as is the case on Spadina Avenue. Although some business groups are having NIMBY reactions, the proposal has support from members of the community, and three out of the four councillors enroute are favouring the project (Michael Walker, the lone opponent, is muted in his opposition).


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Q: Performance differences between linq and classical method I want to know performance differences between below two code lines. Which one is faster?
1.
anyList = Enumerable.Range(0, 1440).Select((n, i) =>
          {
          if ((i >= 480 && i < 790) || (i >= 1050 && i < 1170)
              return 0;
          else if ((i >= 790 && i < 1050)
              return 1;
          else
              return 2;
          }).ToList();

2.
for (int i = 0; i < 1440; i++)
{
    if ((i >= 480 && i < 790) || (i >= 1050 && i < 1170)
        anyLisy.Add(0);
    else if ((i >= 790 && i < 1050)
        anyLisy.Add(1);
    else
        anyLisy.Add(2);
}

Which one is faster, which one has much more allocated memory?

A: use StopWatch and make some benchmark something like this
Stopwatch stopWatch = new Stopwatch();
        stopWatch.Start();

for (int i = 0; i < 1440; i++)
{
    if ((i >= 480 && i < 790) || (i >= 1050 && i < 1170))
        anyLisy.Add(0);
    else if (i >= 790 && i < 1050)
        anyLisy.Add(1);
    else
        anyLisy.Add(2);
}
stopWatch.Stop();
TimeSpan ts = stopWatch.Elapsed;

        // Format and display the TimeSpan value.
        string elapsedTime = String.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}.{3:00}",
            ts.Hours, ts.Minutes, ts.Seconds,
            ts.Milliseconds / 10);
        Console.WriteLine("RunTime " + elapsedTime);

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Tiny mouse deer, thought extinct, found in Vietnam first time in 30 years
Posted 1:29 PM, November 11, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 01:28PM, November 11, 2019
A camera trap photo of a silver-backed chevrotain, a deer-like creature that was thought lost to science but has been discovered living in the wild in Vietnam.
CREDIT: Southern Institute of Ecology/Global Wildlife Conservation/Leibniz Institute/NCNP
(CNN) — A tiny deer-like creature about the size of a rabbit has been photographed in the wild for the first time in three decades in southern Vietnam, delighting conservationists who feared the species was extinct.
The silver-backed chevrotain, also called the Vietnamese mouse deer, was last recorded more than 25 years ago when a team of Vietnamese and Russian researchers obtained a dead chevrotain from a hunter.
"For so long, this species has seemingly only existed as part of our imagination," said Vietnamese biologist An Nguyen, an associate conservation scientist with Global Wildlife Conservation, a nongovernmental organization, and a PhD student with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research.
"Discovering that it is, indeed, still out there, is the first step in ensuring we don't lose it again, and we're moving quickly now to figure out how best to protect it," he said in a statement.
Scientists had thought the tiny creature, which had been among a list of 25 "most wanted" lost species compiled by Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), had fallen victim to habitat loss and intensive hunting for the illegal wildlife trade. Wire snares are widely used in the region.
Details of the rediscovery were published Monday in the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
After interviewing villagers and forest rangers near the beach city of Nha Trang, the team of scientists set camera traps for five months in areas where the locals said they may have seen the animal.
This resulted in 275 photos of the mammal. The team then set up another 29 cameras in the same area, this time recording 1,881 photographs of the chevrotain over five months.
Despite their nickname, chevrotains are neither mice nor deer, but the world's smallest ungulates or hoofed mammals, according to GWC. They are shy and solitary, appear to walk on the tips of their hooves and have two tiny fangs. They typically weigh less than 10 pounds.
The species was first described by scientists in 1910 when four specimens were collected around Nha Trang. There were no scientifically verified records again until 1990 when a single animal confiscated from a local hunter in central Vietnam, further north.
"Then nothing. So little known about it that the species was one giant question mark," said Andrew Tilker, Asian Species Officer at the GWC.
One of the biggest challenges was deciding where to start the search.
"We had these two historical localities separated by quite some distance—one in the southern part of Vietnam and the other much further north," said Tilker.
"But we knew that many people have camera-trapped in the wet evergreen forests and hadn't seen it, so we thought we should look at the dry forest habitat that's really different and where not many people have looked."
The study's findings have implications for other species that are lost to science, Tilker said.
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"It was a matter of a few points" - Medvedev after win over Ivashka
Daniil Medvedev is closer to celebrating his return to World No. 1 with a trophy thanks to a solid display against Ilya Ivashka in the quarter-finals at the Libema Open on Friday.
The top seed was clinical in taking his chances in a tight opening set and was resilient in defence in the second to complete a 7-6(8), 6-4 victory at the ATP 250 event in Den Bosch. In his on-court interview, Medvedev said:
"I didn't do so good in the beginning of the first set, but finally we both managed to find our rhythm, there were great points. It was a matter of a few points where sometimes I served well or got a bit lucky at 8-8 [a net cord in the first-set tie-break], and that's tennis sometimes. So today I was better in the deciding moments and sometimes luck was on my side, and that made a big difference."
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He further added:
"I don't have many points to defend on grass and I have some to win, so hopefully I can play well, starting here. Every round is points and the higher you get, the more you need to step up."
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Letters, letters, letters – you've got sales questions, Jeff has sales answers. With more than 30 years of sales experience, Jeff understands the issues that sales professionals face. In today's Episode of The Buyer's Mind Jeff answers 5 questions that are on your minds.
[0:56] How can I stand apart from the crowd?
[5:44] What is the No. 1 attribute of a great salesperson?
[7:33] What are the most important questions to ask in the sales process?
[12:34] How do I balance quotas with selling in my customer's best interest?
[17:47] Why do my customer's always say – I want to think about it?
As an in-demand sales keynote speaker, author and trainer for over three decades, Jeff has a unique ability to connect with audiences on a personal level and transform the way they look at what they do, inspiring meaningful and lasting change.
In a crowded field of sales keynote speakers and sales training programs, Jeff Shore stands out with his research-based "buying formula" methodology. Combining his extensive front-line sales experience with the latest leading-edge research into buyer psychology, Jeff has created a highly effective, personalized way to reset sales paradigms and deliver industry-leading results.
Jeff: It's time to open up the mailbag on today's episode of The Buyers' Mind.
Man: Welcome to The Buyers' Mind where we take a closer look deep inside your customers' decision-making mechanisms to reverse engineer the perfect sales presentation. Now, please welcome your host, Jeff Shore.
Jeff: Well, welcome everyone, once again to The Buyers' Mind the podcast where we try to understand what our customers are thinking so we can reverse engineer that sales presentation, make it easy for them to do what they already wanna do. They wanna buy, right? And today is a special episode. We do this from time to time, but our show producer, Paul Murphy has picked out questions from our listening audience, and I'm gonna answer those questions that you have asked. So, Murph, welcome as always and let's just dive right into it. What are people asking?
Paul: All right, here we go, Jeff. So, here's the question number one, I feel like customers view salespeople the same way and it's usually not good. How can I stand apart from the crowd?
Jeff: Yeah, you know there is a bias out there that we see, it's not so much a bias as it is a heuristic, a set of mental guidelines that people carry around with them and it helps them, their decision-making process. So they are in a sense biases and they walk through the door with an idea of what a salesperson is or what they fear a salesperson might be. And that might be based on their own experience, it might be based on what they've seen in the media or movies or television. Their picture of a salesperson might be that, you know, that cheesy salesperson with the plaid jacket and a white shoes and the, you know, medallion and the chest hair and all of that. Or maybe it's just a super, super slick, it's the Leonardo DiCaprio selling garbage bonds or stocks or Alec Baldwin yelling, you know, always be closing. So, people carry around these biases with them, and when they walk through the door in the first place, there could be a little bit of that guard up because of either their experience or their impressions.
It's not that these are mean people, it's not that they are just generally as the way that they live their life, skeptical and cynical and I mean, I look at myself, I'm going to admit it. I'm a nicer guy when I walk into a cocktail party than I do when I walk onto a car lot, right? And my guard is up and I just think it's a natural behavior. I think the great salespeople out there, the ones who understand that, they don't make moral judgments about the way that their customer's behaving. They understand that there is a message that that customer is setting and the message is that they're a little afraid, that there is fear there. So, it is the salesperson's, the sales professional's obligation and responsibility to own that. It's not about saying, "What's wrong with this guy?" It's a matter of owning that and recognizing that that trust, that relationship, that connection, none of these things can be assumed, nobody owes us anything, when that customer first walks through the door. This is all the work that we have to do.
But here's the good news, when we are fully engaged, when we are our best selves even for those first few seconds, if we are 100% connected and committed, it'll make a huge difference, because so much of what we communicate about ourselves, about our environment, about the energy is simply the way that we carry ourselves. It's our facial posture, it's the light of the eyes, it's those things that say, "I'm a good person here." It's not faking it, it's not a matter of you know, I'm gonna pretend like I like you, that does not work. We got to look at it and say, "How can I be my best of self, the best version of me possible for the person who was just walking through the door, and when I do that, the customer picks up on it. Now, if that customer is still a little bit wary, a little bit defensive, I would suggest the decision that you made to be your best self is a unilateral decision. That is, you made it without thinking about what the customer's response or attitude is going to be.
So, if it's a unilateral decision, that means that your decision was made apart from the customer's actions or behaviors. So, even if the customer is resistant, snarky, negative, whatever it is, it only means that there is more fear there that still needs to be dealt with. But we have to make that decision that I'm not going to allow that to take me down. Because if I allow a customer's snarkiness or negative attitude or whatever it is to drag me down, then I'm in the victim role. I do my customer no favors whatsoever when I adopt their negative energy. I have to make a decision to outlast whatever that customer is gonna bring me and here's the good news. When you do that, when you bring that person around, that will be your best customer because you are willing to go places where other salespeople are simply not, and you'll have a connection with that customer that other salespeople will never have.
Paul: And we talked about that in the past, the fact that if somebody comes in with a negative attitude, if you have a negative attitude, how do you make that a win-win situation? It's impossible. But like you said, you need to outlast them.
Jeff: Yes. And if you're positive and they're positive, then you both win. I think that's the critical issue here, it's not that you win and they lose, its when you're positive and you can bring them positive, that's where the win-win takes place.
Paul: There we go. So, question number two, and I think I might know the answer to this, but you're gonna have to check me if I'm wrong. And that is what is the number one attribute of a great salesperson And I'm going to say it's insane curiosity.
Jeff: Well, I'm gonna disagree with you. Look, I think…and I'll tell you why and it's a question of semantics. I would say that insane curiosity is the number one skill set of a great salesperson. But if the question is attribute, that's more about something that I just sort of carry around inside, it's a part of my person, it's a part of my character, whereas insane curiosity, that is a skill, it can be developed. And so, I would look at curiosity as a very, very important skill set but when it comes to attribute, I would say the number one attribute would be achievement drive. Great salespeople have to win, they have to. It drives them crazy when they are not successful, when they are not performing. So, you know, I always suggest to sales managers that they're thinking through what does the top salesperson look like? What are those key attributes? And in order, I list them as achievement drive is number one. Number two is positive energy, because I can't teach that, you have it or you don't. I might be able to tweak that a little bit but if you're not a positive energy person, I can't help you.
And then number three is coachability, the desire to learn, the desire to grow. So, those are those three attributes. Now, if we're looking at skill sets that I'm gonna agree with you, I'm gonna say insane curiosity.
Paul: The question was attribute so I bow to the master, I bow to the master. All right, question number three, what are the most important questions to ask in the sales process?
Jeff: Oh, boy, that's a big question because when I think about the most important questions to ask, I think about it from the perspective that there is nothing that a sales professional will do that will help their presentation more than to focus and study the questions that they are asking. Great salespeople aren't great because they have all the answers. Great salespeople are great because they ask the right questions and I think we have to be consumed with asking great questions. I think a great question is like a paintbrush in the hands of an artist who's painting a true masterpiece. There are okay questions, there are good questions and there are great questions. I think we have to be consumed with great questions because that's the great questions that really help us to learn what it is that we need to learn from our customer, it helps our customer to connect with us.
Because if you're asking a question that is generating an I'm just looking, then I would ask a different question. We ought to be able to constantly test the quality of our questions based on the quality of the responses. All right now, go back and reread that question to make sure that I have it exactly right there, Murph.
Paul: What are the most important questions to ask in the sales process?
Jeff: All right, so I think if I was going to look at the single most important question to ask, it would be the motivation question. Why are you thinking this might be good for you? Why are you thinking? Why are you shopping for this? It's anything that leads me to the back story and that is that most salespeople are so consumed with what a customer is moving to that they fail to understand what a customer is coming from. And I want to know what happened before you got here. What is going on in your world? So, if I look at an example of that, you know, just look at something like shopping for we could say anything, we'll just say pillows. Somebody's out shopping for a pillow and I am in Pillows 'R Us, right? I'm a pillow salesperson, I'm one of the greatest pillow salespeople in the world. Now, I got tons of pillows, I got fat, I've got thin, I've got memory foam, I've got feather, I got anything you want in a pillow.
So, I could if I chose to look at it and say, "Do you like this one? Do you like this one? Do you like this one?" Those are not good questions. What I wanna know is, why did you feel the need to walk into my pillow store? Why did you feel the need to walk into my pillow store? That's the only thing that really matters here is to understand the reason that they are there in the first place. And when you think about it, something's going on, something's going on. Maybe it's a splurge. Maybe they just felt like, "I wanna take care of myself and I wanna good pillow" or maybe they woke up with a sore neck or maybe they…something happened, their dog jumped up on the bed and shredded their pillow. I don't know what it is, but if I can figure out what they're coming from, it will guide the questions of where they are moving to. So, I would say that the most important question in all of sales is that initial motivation question.
However you ask the question is gonna be up to you, it's gonna be situational, but what you're trying to figure out is, why are you here? Now the second most important question then would be, would you like to buy it? It'll be that final close, the ask for the sale in a way that's simple, natural, conversational and a normal extension of everything that has been spoken about in between. So, if you think about your sales presentation as bookends, the open…the bookend as you open is the motivation question, why are you thinking about moving. The bookend at the finish is that closing question, would you like to make this yours or however you want to ask that, but to me those are the two most important questions in sales.
Paul: All right, question number four, I'm not sure, this could be somebody who's selling cars, could be anything I guess. But the question is, how do I balance meeting quotas and still selling with the customer's best interest in mind?
Jeff: Well that's an interesting question and it's something that I think everybody has to consider and deal with and sort of work through, chop through in their own mind. The fact of the matter is that business plans are real things, that companies exist on business plans, that they do tend to look at it and say, "How do I," as a business leader, as a company owner, whatever it is, "how do I meet my goals for the organization?" And because sales is the lifeblood, if you have no revenue, you have no organization because sales is the lifeblood. Yes, there is going to be a business plan and that is going to be associated with quota. So, that is a business reality that I don't really think that we can get around. But the question is how do I justify the quotas against working in my customers' best interest?
And the application in the question is that those two things are exclusive, that is I can work to get the quota filled or I can work in my customers' best interest and I just don't think that's the case. I like to think that if I am working in my customers' best interest, that if I am really understanding who it is they are and why my solution is the best for them, I'll make my quotas, I will make my quotas if I can get this all figured out. Now, there's a big caveat in there and I wanna open up that can of worms here just a little bit, because what I just said is that if I believe that my solution is the best for that customer, well, that could be a big if. And I think that that's the dividing line, for people who are quoted driven only, they don't really care whether their solution is the best for the customer. What they care about is whether they can get the customer to buy their product and it's just not a game that I wanna play, it's not a part of who I want to become.
Now that doesn't mean that my product is perfect for this customer but I still want to be able to show them how my product can help this customer. Now, if the customer deems that the product can't help them, or that another product can help them substantially more, that's the decision that they are going to have to make. So, I still have a responsibility to the product, to the organization, and to my customer to show them the ways that this will benefit them, that this will be a good solution for them. But ultimately, if it's not a good solution for them, I can't fight that. So, I wanna be able to look at it from the perspective that if you are putting your customer first, if you are showing them very specifically how your product can really help them, then at the end of the day, they will make the decision with your persuasion, with your influence, yes, but ultimately they will make the decision as to whether this makes sense for them.
So, I'll just give you an example. I'm actually building in my house, I've got a big storage space in my house and I've moved most of the stuff out of the storage space and put it in the garage and I'm building a hockey training room. Well, part of that means that I've got to determine what kind of floor I want and there are two choices that I have. One are called stick handling tiles, they're a slick, hard plastic, where you can just stick handle with the puck and shoot the puck. The other is synthetic ice where you can actually put on a pair of skates, ice skates and skate as if you were on the ice. Well, this synthetic, guys, is dramatically more expensive. But I was talking to a salesperson, he told me all about the benefits that I'm going to get and how it's going to be, you know, so much…so helpful to me in the sense that I get that real experience of being on my skates while I'm practicing.
And he was passionate about it. He was enthusiastic about it and at the end of the day I had to look at it and say, you know what, I spent a lot of time on the ice already. What I really want this for is not for my skating skills, I want to use this for my puck handling and shooting skills and because of that, I don't need to spend what will end up being five times as much for that different type of service. Now, the salesperson did a great job, his influence was strong, his passion was high, I think he did his job very, very well. At the end of the day, I made the decision as to what was best for me and he did not get the sale, but he still did his job. So, we've got to be able to look at it and say, if the behaviors are right, if we're doing the things that you're supposed to do, the quota will get filled. Now, if the behaviors are right, and the quota is not getting filled, well, then you got a value problem. And that's a different situation that is separate from the performance of the salesperson.
Jeff: Did customers say that? Did customers say, "I want to think about it?" I've never heard that before, Murph.
Paul: I've said it a few times myself.
Jeff: Exactly. You know what? It's one of those things where it's really frustrating, right, for sales professionals to hear a customer say, "I wanna think about it." You've just spent 30 minutes, 60, 90, maybe 2 weeks, maybe 2 months with this customer and now they say, "I want to think about it." And it's infuriating, right? Because you think, "Why would you possibly want to think about it? It's perfect for you." And I think there is one key reason why a customer says I want to think about it. And just to be clear on this, I don't think it's code word, I don't think it's a customer playing games with us, I don't think it's a customer who's being elusive. I think the customer really does legitimately mean by that, I wanna think about it. The question is why? Why do they feel the need to process even more? And the answer to that question comes in the form of the idea that the sales process or the purchase process, the buying process is not one decision, it's actually a series of decisions.
So you can pick any product that you want, let's go back to pillows here since we used that example earlier. It seems like a fairly simple decision, right? A pillow. Except when you think about all the small decisions that go into it and then give it a little thought. Just chop that up for a little bit. I haven't bought a pillow in a long time but I'm just thinking as a consumer right now, what are the decisions that I have to make. Okay? Here's a list, what kind of pillow or pillows have I had in the past? What pillows have been comfortable and what pillows have not? When I'm in a hotel room as I am often, what type of pillow do I enjoy? What kind of pillow do I hate? How much does a pillow cost? How much do I want to spend for a pillow? What do the experts say? Are the review sites specifically for pillows? Why am I thinking I want to buy a pillow in the first place? Is this a neck issue? Do I sleep on my back, on my stomach or on my side?
I mean, listen, these are all decisions that I have to make over something as simple as a pillow and I could go on. The problem that we run up against it's, and I believe that this is the fault of salespeople, quite frankly, is that salespeople think that the closing question is this one question that you asked at the very end, what do you think? Would you like to buy this pillow? The issue that we have there for a customer is that if that customer has not been making decisions all throughout the process, then all of those mini decisions now have to bubble up into one final decision. Now, that might be possible with a pillow but it's far more complex if you have a more complex product. Say you're selling cars or homes or life insurance products or something that is a more difficult consideration. So, the salesperson who fails to gain small agreements throughout the process, you've all been told, if you're a salesperson you've all been told, do the soft closes, do the soft closes. Yeah, you should but the question is why?
I think we've been sold a bill of goods by sales trainers that's say, you're supposed to do the soft closes for you so that you know where the customer is at, that's wrong. You don't close for you, you close for them, you close so that they know where they are at, because every small decision, every time they make a small decision, that decision becomes real. It becomes conscious and it becomes memorable. So, now when it's time to make my big decision, I can simply look back at all of my small decisions and then ask myself does that make sense? All the small decisions bubble up into that big decision and that's when it's easy to buy. So, if we've not been asking our customers these agreement questions all throughout the process, now we're saying, "What do you think? Would you like to buy it?" They're gonna to try very quickly to process everything you've been talking about but in the absence of any small decisions.
And you know what they're gonna say? They're gonna say, "I need to think about it" and they're not lying. They do need to think about it and if you say to them, as you've been taught in training classes, "Well, what do you need to think about?" You know, what they're gonna say? They're going to say, "Well, I need to think about what I need to think about." It's true, they need to go back and reprocess everything you've spoken of. So, if you want to get away from the, 'I wanna think about it," the answer is very simple. It's a critical habit, you have to get your customer making small decisions all throughout the process.
Paul: Well, Jeff, that's all that we have in the mailbag, but I would also make the suggestion that If you're wondering about the "I want to think about it" question, we do have a podcast on that number 33 with Amy O'Connor, who's on our short consulting team. So, I'd encourage you to take a listen to that as well and I appreciate it. If you have other questions that you wanna send into us, I would love to get them in front of Jeff. If you wouldn't mind writing to us at ask@jeffshore.com. That's A-S-K @jeffshore. com. We will be happy to include that in the next time we have a mailbag, which will be the fifth week of every month that we have that opportunity. We're gonna try and open the mailbag on a regular basis to get your questions answered. Thanks for tuning in and we hope that you'll go out there and change somebody's world.


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'Hitman 3': Watch the explosive new launch trailer
Here's one final sneak peek at the six new locations
IO Interactive has unveiled a new launch trailer for Hitman 3 ahead of the game's release on January 20.
The explosive video features never-seen-before in-game cutscenes and locations, such as Berlin's seedy nightclubs, the neon-lit streets of Chongqing and Argentina's luscious vineyards.
The cinematic clip puts the game's six locations on full display, featuring never-before-seen shots of the recently revealed locations, as well as Agent 47's diverse arsenal of assassination tactics that range from poisoning people, to throwing them off roofs.
The trailer also feature moments from the game's first two levels, where players infiltrate a skycraper in Dubai, before travelling to Dartmoor to play detective as Agent 47 disguises himself to solve a family murder in a manor, while getting closer to someone to assassinate them.
Watch co-operative action in the new 'Wasteland 3' trailer
Watch the launch trailer below.
Hitman 3 will feature the developer's new Glacier engine, which is being applied to locations from the prequels. The game will also wrap up the World Of Assassination trilogy as the final entry of the series.
IO Interactive has confirmed that PC players will not have to re-purchase Hitman 2 in order to import levels into the upcoming game. The developer reassured players that all levels will be released at no additional cost, although the release of Hitman 2's levels for Hitman 3 will only arrive after launch.
Hitman 3 will launch on January 20 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Google Stadia.
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New business building would house Koch-funded Institute for the Study of Economic Growth
Matthew Kelly, Editor in Chief|March 3, 2019
The Innovation Campus business building, Woolsey Hall, now has a $60 million price tag. Up from $50 million.
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If this week's Shock the Future referendum passes, $20 million in student fees from students across all six of Wichita State's academic colleges will go towards Woolsey Hall, the $50 million business building set for construction on Innovation Campus.
Donors have already raised $30 million for the building, which would become the new home of the Institute for the Study of Economic Growth, currently housed in the basement of Clinton Hall. Announced in September 2017, the institute was funded through a $3.6 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation.
Through his foundation, the billionaire Koch Industries CEO has supported the creation of centers for economic research on college campuses across the country — spurring on concerns that his conservative, free-market ideology could compromise universities' academic research.
WSU has a Center for Economic Development and Business Research that operates independently from the institute. WSU officials have maintained that the university's academic freedom will be preserved in the institute.
"Preserving academic freedom and following normal university processes . . . Those two principles were paramount in our decision to move forward," Barton School of Business Dean Anand Desai said in 2017. "It was important that we preserve those things at Wichita State.
"The goal is to expose our students to a broad range of ideas and methodologies so that they will ultimately decide. We're not forcing them to think in any particular manner. It's their choice."
WSU already named a director for the institute, Ted Bolema, who is teaching Principles of Macroeconomics this semester. There was no university press release announcing Bolema's hiring.
Bolema said the institute would take up "a very small portion" of Woolsey Hall.
Prior to coming to WSU, Bolema researched and wrote on communications economics and policy for the Free State Foundation, which promotes "free market, limited government, and rule of law principles at the federal level and in Maryland," according to their website. The Center for Media and Democracy classifies it as a "conservative" think tank.
Prior to that, Bolema spent five years as director of policy research editing at George Mason University's Mercatus Center. The center describes itself as "100% privately funded," and has received major contributions from foundations that support conservative causes, including $8.8 million from the Charles Koch Foundation between 2002 and 2012, according to the Center for Media and Democracy.
Bolema said that at the Mercatus Center, one of his initiatives was to make sure research was "unassailable in quality and could reach a variety of different audiences with differing viewpoints on public policy issues."
Desai said the Charles Koch Foundation played no role in hiring Bolema.
"The Charles Koch Foundation had no input in the process and none was requested," Desai wrote in an email. "After Dr. Bolema accepted the position and the onboarding process was completed, we connected Dr. Bolema with the Foundation."
Bolema said WSU is in the process of filling two more professor positions funded through the Institute for the Study of Economic Growth. Bolema said he, along with another member of the economics department and a member of the management department, reviewed more than 280 applications in January.
The committee is now conducting on-campus interviews with candidates, who will meet with business school faculty, the dean, and the provost, Bolema said.
"The Charles Koch Foundation did not have any say in who we choose to interview or hire, and has not sought to direct our hiring process in any way," Bolema wrote.
WSU officials discussed a potential Koch-funded institute in emails provided anonymously to The Sunflower in 2016.
"This opportunity is transformative for the Barton School," then Provost Tony Vizzini wrote in a July 2016 email. "By us being stewards for the [Charles Koch Foundation] we assist them in their mission. They, in return, transform us allowing us to advance in our mission."
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Q: How to use Spring roo with for PURE spring MVC services? I'm about to rebuild an existing app almost from scratch and i would like to use spring Roo to gain productivity.
The app will be composed of two parts:

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*A web backend which will be a pure REST web service backend.

*A single page rich js frontend with backbonejs.

I've been able to start generating the structure of the app and many nice set up has been made. however when i scaffolded the web layer, i got a bunch of views/tags/tiles that has been generated for me.
I see also many seetings/dependencies that has been added too.
Now the issue is i don't want all those stufs and i want to get rid of them.
When i suppress a few of them i'm not able to use Roo anymore as all scafolding are disabled.
Any clue on what should i due??

A: First off, you dont have to use scaffolding.  You can just create blank Controllers.  You can also remove the scaffolded controllers you don't want.  the Roo Shell will detect when you delete one, and should clean up all the "settings/dependencies".
The one thing that I like to point out to people is that the scaffolded controllers do follow a RESTful paradigm.  It actually follows it quite strictly.  I personally like using the scaffolding to setup a base app, then I start slashing-and-burning the stuff I don't want out.  For instance, removing the menu on the left.  Also, I prefer JSON over straight web calls, so I usually add that.  Spring Roo magically converts all the Controllers to do both standard and JSON REST calls.
If you want to switch to using some other framework, I don't think there is anything stopping you.  It sort of defeats the purpose of using Roo, unless all you wanted was the Entity beans.    I personally use jQuery.js in addition to dojo.js (the default).  All of the UI components are implemented as a combination of JSPs and custom tags all controlled by Apache Tiles.  For instance, to add/change/remove script tags loaded on all the pages, look at the load-scripts.tagx.  I think you will find it's pretty easy to add custom JS to use on the UI side.


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Americans vote on climate change today
In response to the Trump administration's massive rollback of environmental regulations, citizens across the US have put forth ballot initiatives to restrict carbon emissions, stop fracking, and encourage renewable energy development. L. Michael Buchsbaum goes in-depth.
Americans in the west of the country are backing climate-friendly candidates and new laws (Photo by Tom Arthur, CC BY-SA 2.0)
For many voters, this year's mid-term election is a way to fight back. With Trump controlling the executive branch and Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, state governors races and state legislature contests are some of the few tools progressives have left to advance their own energy agendas. While Democrats possibly could re-gain the House of Representatives, (and some even hope the Senate), voters are also concentrating on local races for state governors and legislatures.
But another powerful way to protect the environment is through state-level ballot initiatives. One of the few actual examples of direct democracy in the US, ballot initiatives are possible in twenty-four states, including most Western ones. Citizens who gather enough petition signatures are able to put new laws and regulations to a vote in general elections, with the winners added to State Constitutions.
Nationwide, 64 citizen-driven initiatives will appear on state ballots this November. In Washington State, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and others, the proposed initiatives are designed to restrict carbon emissions, fracking or encourage renewable energy development — or all three.
In Arizona, Proposition 127, known as the Renewable Energy Standards Initiative, would require utility companies to get half their energy from renewable energy sources by 2030. California billionaire Tom Steyer has contributed over $8 million to the campaign through his political action organization, NextGen Climate Action, which is funding a similar initiative in neighboring Nevada. Question 6, also known as the Renewable Energy Promotion Initiative would also require Nevada utilities to get 50 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
In Colorado, Proposition 112 — the Safer Setbacks for Fracking Initiative — promoted and backed by a host of progressive, grassroots environmental groups, would prohibit new oil and gas wells and production facilities within 2,500 feet of schools, houses, playgrounds, parks, drinking water sources and more.
But perhaps the most far-reaching ballot measure this year is in Washington State, which could become the first state to pass a so-called "carbon fee." Prop 1631 would impose a $15 per metric ton fee on carbon emissions starting in 2020, which would increase by $2 per year until the state's 2035 carbon reduction goals are met. The state estimates that the levy would generate $2.2 billion in its first five years.
While the initiative's supporters concede that gasoline prices would rise and citizens would pay about $10 a month, the State would also be directed to invest about 70% of the proceeds into projects that would accelerate the state's transition from fossil fuels including public transportation, energy efficiency, wind and solar plants. The rest will be used to protect forests and streams and shielding low-income ratepayers from higher electricity bills.
In a recent editorial, the New York Times editorial board threw their support behind the measure, citing the call to action embedded within the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. "It is thus encouraging that in this time of torpor and climate denial at the highest levels of the federal government, voters in the state of Washington will soon be given the chance to adopt, by initiative, a carbon pricing plan that would charge polluters like refineries a fee for emitting greenhouse gases."
The fee, which is termed by economists a Pigovian tax after the British economist Arthur Pigou, would factor in the now unaccounted costs of more frequent and intense hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and other natural disasters linked to climate change. In the words of George Frampton, a senior environmental adviser to Bill Clinton and co-founder of a group that favors carbon taxes, Partnership for Responsible Growth, it's an overdue stab at "honestly pricing carbon," which industry has until now been able to hurl into the atmosphere pretty much for free.
Powerful backers including Google's Bill Gates and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well as Gov. Jay Inslee (a Democrat) and many Native American groups. Polling so far suggests a close vote with the heaviest support coming out of the bigger cities of Seattle and Spokane. However, voters across the state remember the vast amounts of smoke from wildfires that clogged skies all summer.
Though in total, according to the Times, the initiative covers about 80% of Washington's climate-warming emissions, there are some built in exemptions, including allowing the state's only operating coal-fired power plant, already scheduled to close in 2025, to avoid paying. Boeing, the state's largest employer will also be exempt, as well as paper companies, and a giant aluminum smelter. However, oil companies will have to pay. And for that reason, they are spending big, pouring at least $31 million into the race.
Supporter Governor Inslee, widely considered a potential presidential candidate for 2020, was deeply impressed by the new IPCC report that warned "unprecedented" action was needed over the next decade. "Given what the oil industry has done — unfettered, unlimited in time or amount — to the one atmosphere we have, it shouldn't cause a lot of angst or tears to be simply asking them to not treat our atmosphere like a sewer," he said.
Currently, about 40 governments around the world, including the European Union and California, have put a price on carbon. A yes vote in Washington State would add further momentum, and possibly convince a few in Washington DC that voters are ready for a US-wide carbon market. But its rejection would also be taken as a sign that carbon taxes are still not politically viable domestically.
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Today Show Nutrition Expert Joy Bauer's Kitchen Was Designed to Be Camera-Ready
A robust Instagram presence led to a big-deal commission for New York City designer Augusta Hoffman, principal of Augusta Hoffman Studio. Jesse, the 24-year-old daughter of TV nutrition expert Joy Bauer, found Hoffman's page and liked what she saw. Joy was looking for an up-and-coming designer to create a laid-back, sophisticated aesthetic for their family's dream home in Westchester, New York—a five-bedroom, nearly 8,000-square-foot house for Joy, her husband, and their three adult children. It would also be used as a studio for shooting television segments. Finding Joy was kismet.
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As the house had good bones, most of Hoffman's transformation was done using paint and wallpaper. The biggest interventions were updating two fireplaces and the kitchen counters and fixtures—the latter being crticial for Joy, considering her profession. Hoffman also had to get creative with some made-for-TV details, just as a pendant light on a pulley system above the kitchen island so it can be lowered or raised depending on camera angles.
"This was their first time working with a designer," says Hoffman, "so they were incredibly excited about the entire process… It was a great experience to collaborate with them, because while Joy was the primary client, Jesse spearheaded the design decisions. It is a space that absolutely reflects the love of their entire family."
Most of the furniture and rugs in the home are from Mitchell Gold Bob Williams.
"The Bauers wanted a home that felt elegant but super practical and fun," Hoffman explains. "They are constantly entertaining and asked for a space to comfortably host large gatherings. The table in the dining room expands to seat 25 people."
Tablecloth fabric: Schumacher. Dining chairs: Henning Kjærnulf.
In addition to being such a fabulous cook, Joy (and her son Cole) are both "talented musicians," Hoffman reports. "Most people don't know that I used to play keyboards in a rock band before my nutrition career," Bauer reveals. "Cole is a singer-songwriter and fills the house with beautiful music. I love to entertain—holidays, weekends, a random Tuesday or Wednesday night—and after every delicious meal, we all grab instruments and gather in the music lounge.
So instead of a formal family room, Hoffman was tasked with creating a music lounge. "We've had so many amazing moments in this room," Bauer says.
Wallcoverings: Phillip Jeffries. Chairs: Giancarlo Piretti "Arki" Easy Chairs.
"Joy films for the Today show right from her kitchen," says Hoffman. "One of the continued topics of conversation throughout the design process was how everything would look on camera." A clean neutral palette allows a few extra stylish elements, like the statement range hood that Hoffman DIY'd, to shine.
To give it that patinated finish, Hoffman "used a special wrought-iron-finish paint from Portola that at first is flat black and then, once an acid formula is applied, slowly begins to mimic the look of iron," Hoffman explains. "This was a really cost-effective way of modernizing the kitchen while creating a textural focal point.
Walnut cabinet pulls and zellige tile add earthiness. "By focusing on replacing generic items with more organic and layered pieces, we got a lot of bang for our buck," the designer explains.
"My kitchen is the heartbeat of my house," says Bauer. "It's my office, my hangout, and my laboratory. It allows me enough room to move comfortably, and it's TV-filming-friendly for remote spots, with high ceilings and an open design." One of her favorite details is the Lapitec counters: "They are crisp, low-maintenance, and basically indestructible."
Countertops: Lapitec, ABC Stone.
Situated between this room and the family room was a breakfast bar, which Hoffman dropped to counter height "to allow for more natural light and a consistent view from the camera."
Sourced during a trip to Hudson, New York, the marble table now boasts a custom honed finish.
House Beautiful: How does the space represent your clients' personality?
Augusta Hoffman: Joy referenced the set design of Nancy Meyers since she was looking for a cozy family home. Jesse is a bit edgier and was sending inspiration images of 1970s Italy, midcentury Scandinavia and casual California chic. I think we were able to achieve a cool balance of both personalities resulting in a very wholesome space for a charming family with a few unexpected details.
HB: What surprised you the most about this project?
Joy Bauer: That less is more. I've learned how a simple touch can create a special moment. Our marble table in the breakfast nook comes from an antique shop—it was actually a resting spot for small treasures, but we fell madly in love with it and made the store owner an offer. The distressed hood in the kitchen is such a unique focal point and guests are always asking about it. The refurbished European brown suede chairs in the living room are so stunning and cozy. I love how the two velvet colors in the music room, the green couch and golden brown chairs, complement each other. And the subtle yet snazzy silver textured wallpaper on the ceiling in the dining room really makes that room shimmer.
HB: How did you make pre-existing pieces work with the new design direction?
AH: The Bauers wanted this home to feel like a completely fresh chapter and did not use many existing pieces. This allowed us to really curate individual spaces in the home and achieve a consistent design. However, we were really cognizant of adding elements with warmth and patina to make the home feel layered with history. We mixed in a few special family heirlooms such as Joy's grandfather's old Cinzano ashtray in the bar and her vintage Fender Rhodes piano from her days as a musician.
HB: What's your favorite thing about the finished space?
AH: I love getting to see the Bauers enjoying this space as a family. Between Joy's instagram and the Today show, I often get a little peek into how they are living in the home we designed together. This is rare in my work, and it fills my studio with happiness and motivation. This is the reason we put so much time and passion into our client's homes.
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Nothing to Spit On: Fun, Funky, Flavor-Filled Dining at Spitz
April 19, 2019 by Ted Scheffler Leave a Comment
Photos courtesy of Spitz and Ted Scheffler
Opening an eatery with the word spit in the name doesn't strike me as especially keen marketing. But then, what do I know about branding? Not much, apparently. Because Spitz is doing quite well, thank you very much, with four Utah locations plus more in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Portland.
Spitz – with stores in downtown SLC, Sugarhouse, Cottonwood and Lehi – calls itself the "home of the döner kebab." Don't know what a döner kebab is? Well, it's very much akin to what you typically find in Greek gyros or Arab shawarma: meat stacked and cooked on a vertical rotisserie, sliced into thin strips and served, sandwich or wrap style, stuffed into pita bread. That's very much what's going on at Spitz; that and much more.
One of Spitz locations in Utah
Spitz is very much a mix-and-match, customizable affair in terms of menu selections. There's a nearly infinite number of permutations of the "Mediterranean Street Food" served there, and all items can be made vegan or vegetarian. There are bowls, salads, wraps and an array of sides to choose from.
For most of the Spitz offerings – salads, döner wraps, bowls – you'll begin by selecting a main ingredient. There's beef and lamb döner (very much the same as typical gyro meat – a mix of lamb and beef), chicken, mixed meat, falafel, or veggies. From there, the sky's the limit, with a chance to make your döner, salad or bowl truly your own.
My wife, for example, opted for the Spitz Remix Bowl, which was brimming with Berlin slaw, tomato & dill quinoa, minced cucumber, olives, crumbled feta cheese, tomato, roasted corn, crispy garbanzos and harissa, topped with beef/lamb döner, and finished with a sprinkling of sumac and parsley. There's a lot going on in that bowl, but somehow it all just works – the melange of flavors blending together beautifully.
Spitz remix bowl
Part of the appeal of Spitz, for me, is the intentional kitsch. Spitz restaurants are decorated with classic vinyl record album covers ranging from Molly Hatchet and Barbra Streisand to Saturday Night Fever and Yes. Board games too – both classic and contemporary – play a big part of the Spitz ambiance and frivolity.
There's also a keen sense of humor here, like the sign at the counter tip jar which reads: Every time you don't tip, a child gets a mullet. SAVE THE CHILDREN! I also appreciate that although the franchise is expanding, no two Spitz eateries that I've been in are alike; each is unique. These are not cookie cutter cafes.
My favorite wrap at Spitz is also their most popular: the Street Cart wrap. It comes with a choice of protein rolled up with romaine lettuce, cucumber, onion, cabbage, tomato, green pepper, tzatziki sauce, garlic aioli, and fried lavash strips. Now that's a helluva wrap!
Street car wrap
Another house favorite are the fries. There are Street Cart Fries topped with garlic aioli and feta, or Berliner Fries which come with Berliner red sauce and a cabbage & carrot slaw. You can also get what's called a Döner Basket: salad and fries with tzatziki, garbanzos, falafel, olives, fried pita, hummus, feta, pepperoncini, tomato, green pepper, onion, and cucumber.
Döner Basket
On Saturday and Sunday, Spitz offers brunch with a special menu and choices like the Breakfast Döner Wrap, Spitz Griddle and The Hangover Basket. Beverages such as Mimosas, Sangria, and Spicy Mango Chelada (pilsner, mango puree, cayenne pepper, fresh lime, salt) make weekend brunch all that much more festive.
While Spitz might not have invented the döner kebab, it has certainly elevated it to a level and status that all but obscures its humble beginnings, with a nearly endless variety of appealing accouterments, all served up in a fun and funky atmosphere.
Culinary quote of the week:
There will not be peace until access to the kebab is universal. — Kofi Annan
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