BOSTON (AP) - Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine knew Adrian Gonzalez would get one more at-bat if he left him in the outfield a little longer.
He did, and it turned out to be the right choice.
Gonzalez, playing right in Boston's injury-riddled outfield, drove in the tiebreaking run to help lift the Red Sox to their 14th win in 19 games, a 6-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.
"Keep him in, let him stay in, have (Kevin) Youkilis go to third (from first), I don't know," Valentine said, smiling when asked what his plan usually is to get the slow-footed Gonzalez out of the outfield.
Valentine said at one point he was talking with bench coach Tom Bogar about lifting Gonzalez in the sixth, but then said, "No, he's going to come up again."
Boston currently has six outfielders on the disabled list.
David Ortiz and Will Middlebrooks each hit two-run homers, and Youkilis had a solo shot for Boston.
Gonzalez had a pair of doubles for Boston, his second coming after he had a ball bounce out of his glove for the tying hit.
"We joke around and say, 'Who's going to play the Little League game and get the six-inning pull?" said Gonzalez, mostly a first baseman.
Miguel Cabrera went 4 for 5 with three doubles and drove in a run for Detroit, which has dropped the first three of a four-game series in Fenway Park.
The Red Sox can close out the sweep Thursday night when Josh Beckett faces Tigers righty Max Scherzer.
Matt Albers (1-0) gave up a tying hit, but retired one batter to get the win. Alfredo Aceves collected his 13th save in 16 chances, working for the fourth straight day.
With the Tigers trailing 4-3 in the seventh, Jon Lester was pulled after he fanned the final batter he faced - Quintin Berry - and Albers entered with a runner on second. Danny Worth reached on an infield hit before Cabrera looped one down the right field line that bounced off Gonzalez's glove as he attempted a sliding catch near the short wall, tying the game.
But Gonzalez's ground-rule double moved Boston back in front 5-4 in the bottom of the inning. Daniel Nava drew a two-out walk and Mike Aviles singled off reliever Octavio Dotel (1-2).
"After we tied it up, we got two real quick outs in that inning then they end up getting that run," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "That's tough."
The Tigers had built a 3-0 lead against Lester with a run in the first and two in the third before Boston rallied with four after two outs in the fourth against starter Drew Smyly.
"We knew the second time around what he had already," Middlebrooks said. "He showed us what he had so the second time around we knew what to expect."
The Red Sox entered the game leading the majors with homers (24) and extra base hits (61) against left-handed pitching. After being held to just an infield single, they added to those numbers with their big fourth.
After Smyly got the first two batters on a fly to the track in center and a strikeout, Boston collected five consecutive hits - highlighted by the two-run homers by Ortiz and Middlebrooks. Ortiz hit a shot into the center field bleachers - his 12th of the season - and Middlebrooks had a line drive into the first row of the seats above the Green Monster.
"You definitely want to keep it in the yard," Smyly said. "Just (the) two-run home runs, it's hard to win like that."
Lester gave up four runs, 10 hits, struck out seven and didn't walk anyone over 6 2-3 innings.
"We just haven't been able to get that big crusher hit," Leyland said. "We had some really good at-bats against Lester."
Smyly allowed four runs on eight hits in six innings.
Lester, coming off his second-worst start of the season when he lasted only four innings and gave up seven runs in a loss to Tampa Bay last Friday, gave up three straight singles to load the bases before Delmon Young's run-scoring grounder made it 1-0.
Worth had a sacrifice fly and Prince Fielder a run-scoring grounder to make it 3-0 in the third.
NOTES: The Tigers placed RHP Doug Fister on the 15-day DL before the game with and will promoted 23-year old lefty Casey Crosby from Triple-A Toledo to make his first major league start at home against the Yankees on Friday. ... Detroit purchased the contract of C Omir Santos from Toledo on Wednesday after they optioned INF-OF Ryan Raburn back to Toledo following Tuesday's game. ... Valentine said OF Darnell McDonald, on the 15-day DL with a strained right oblique, would stay with the club for a few days until he felt better. He had played with Triple-A Pawtucket in three rehab appearances. ... A big cheer went up when highlights of the Celtics-Heat Eastern Conference final was shown on the center-field scoreboard.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Google will try to win more converts to a computer operating system revolving around its popular Chrome Web browser with a new wave of lightweight laptops built by Samsung Electronics.
Tuesday's release of the next-generation Chromebooks will give Google and Samsung another opportunity to persuade consumers and businesses to buy an unconventional computer instead of machines running on familiar software by industry pioneers Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.
Unlike most computers, Google's Chromebooks don't have a hard drive. They function like terminals dependent on an Internet connection. The laptops come with 16 gigabytes of flash memory ? the kind found in smartphones, tablet computers and some iPods. Two USB ports allow external hard drives and other devices to be plugged into the machines.
Chromebooks haven't made much of a dent in the market since their debut a year ago. In that time, more people have been embracing Apple's iPad and other tablet computers ? a factor that has contributed to a slowdown in sales of personal computers.
The cool reception to Chromebooks has raised questions about whether Google misjudged the demand for computers designed to quickly connect to its dominant Internet search engine and ever-expanding stable of other online services, ranging from email to a recently introduced file-storage system called Drive.
Google says it always intended to take things slowly with the Chromebooks to give its engineers time to understand the shortcomings of the machines and make the necessary improvements.
"This release is a big step in the journey to bringing (Chromebooks) to the mainstream," said Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president of Chrome and apps
The upgraded laptop, called "Series 5 550," is supposed to run two-and-half times faster the original machines, and boasts higher-definition video. Google also added features that will enable users to edit documents offline, read more content created in widely used Microsoft applications such as Word and Excel, and retrieve material from another computer at home or office. More emphasis is being placed on Chrome's Web store, which features more than 50,000 applications.
The price: $449 for models that only connect to the Internet through Wi-Fi and $549 for a machine that connects on a 3G network. Samsung's original Chromebooks started out with prices ranging from $429 to $499. Like the original Chromebooks, the next-generation machines feature a 12.1-inch screen display and run on an Intel processor.
Google and Samsung also are introducing a "Chromebox" that can be plugged into a display monitor to create the equivalent of desktop computer. The box will sell for $329.
The latest Chromebook and new Chromebox will be available online only, beginning in the U.S. Tuesday followed by a Wednesday release in the United Kingdom. The products will go on sale in brick-and-mortar stores for the first time in still-to-be-determined Best Buy locations next month.
The expansion beyond Internet-only sales signals Google's determination to attract a mass audience to its Chromebooks, just as it's done with smartphones running on its Android software. More than 300 million mobile devices have been activated on Android since the software's 2008 release.
Without providing specifics, Pichai said several other computer manufacturers will release Chromebooks later this year. Google plans to back the expanded line of Chromebooks with a marketing blitz during the holiday shopping season in November and December.
One reason Google is confident Chromebooks will eventually catch on is because the Chrome Web browser has attracted so many fans in less than four years on the market. The company says more than 200 million people worldwide currently are using the Chrome browser.
Like other laptop and desktop computers, the Chromebooks will have to contend with the accelerating shift to the iPad and other tablets. The iPad 2, an older version of Apple's tablet line, sells for as little as $399, undercutting the new Chromebook. Other low-cost tablets are expected to hit the market later this year. One of them might even be made by Motorola Mobility, a device maker that Google bought for $12.5 billion earlier this month. Google so far hasn't commented on Motorola's future plans for the tablet market.
The new Chromebooks also are hitting the market at a time when some prospective computer buyers may be delaying purchases until they can check out machines running on Windows 8, a makeover of Microsoft's operating system that is expected to be released in September or October. Microsoft designed Windows 8 so it can be controlled through touch as well as keyboards. That versatility is expected to inspire the creation of hybrid machines that are part laptop, part tablet.
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Google just announced that its Google Apps for Business service has earned ISO 27001 certification. This certifies that Google is following the standard ISO information security management protocols and best practices "for the systems, technology, processes and data centers serving Google Apps for Business." If you're a startup or individual user, chances are you don't care too much about whether a company you are working with is following any of the ISO's over 19,000 standards. This certification, however, will likely give give larger and more highly regulated businesses (and the executives who sign off on these deals) the necessary reassurances that moving to Google's cloud solutions is safe.
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UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute receives 2 grants to explore interface of physics and biologyPublic release date: 29-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Shelly Leachman shelly.leachman@ia.ucsb.edu 805-893-8726 University of California - Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) Imagine being able to mathematically describe the process by which an embryo develops into an animal, assigning numbers to its every function, and dysfunction. Such capability holds enormous implications for medicine, pointing to the potential for determining when and where things go developmentally awry and paving the way to possible solutions.
This sort of breakthrough is one of the long-term goals of theoretical physicists and experimental biologists at UC Santa Barbara, where the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) is uniting researchers from the disparate disciplines in joint study. Two new grants, together totaling $2 million, are giving those interdisciplinary efforts a big boost.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded KITP $1.6 million for its ongoing interdisciplinary biology initiatives, including workshops, postdoctoral fellowships, and plans for a new summer program the Santa Barbara Advanced School for Quantitative Biology (SBASQB) aimed squarely at the interface of physics and biology. A $400,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund will go exclusively toward the latter endeavor.
"We are profoundly grateful for the extraordinary gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, whose steadfast support of scientific research and the pursuit of knowledge in emerging fields is of vital importance. Their grant to KITP will be a tremendous boon to the institute's work at the interface of physics and biology," said UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang. "The remarkable generosity of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund provides another lasting benefit by helping to launch the Santa Barbara Advanced School for Quantitative Biology, an innovative, interdisciplinary new course with the potential for groundbreaking scientific discoveries."
Set to welcome its first class in 2013, SBASQB aspires to advance both physics and biology by unifying their practitioners in intensive summer study. Side-by-side in lectures and in the lab, researchers will explore subjects such as morphogenesis, embryology, microbial biology, and evolution. The new program is the brainchild of physics professor and permanent KITP member Boris Shraiman, and Joel Rothman, chair of UCSB's Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.
"We thank the Moore Foundation for their generosity and their vision in supporting a broader range of activities at the KITP, and we are delighted that, with our proposed course, we were able to rise to the challenge set by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund," Shraiman said.
"It really has been a dream to set up a course like SBASQB," Shraiman added. "It is a merger of two cultures drawing on the lab course tradition in biology and the workshop tradition in theoretical physics and it is going to be a rather unique combination of the two."
Describing SBASQB as the culmination of their shared vision to bring together theorists and experimentalists in an active lab setting, Shraiman and Rothman said the venture was largely inspired by the storied research program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., which boasts more than 50 Nobel laureates among its past participants.
What sets such courses apart, said Rothman who likes to think of SBASQB as a sort of "Woods Hole West" is the way they turn scientific convention on its head. The elite, intensive program will, on occasion, see graduate students and postdoctoral students serving as instructors to faculty; theorists engaging in lab work; experimentalists participating in theory-focused lectures; and instructors and students collaborating on experiments. Differentiating SBASQB from Woods Hole: the former will be built on the foundation of the KITP, grounded in the physical science community.
"There is a lot of exciting stuff going on at the interface of traditional, hard physical sciences and biology that I think will engender what really will be a new discipline," said Rothman, who served as Woods Hole summer faculty for 18 years, spending five years as course director. "A new generation of scientists who've had strong training in both realms will ultimately be creating the new departments of quantitative biology."
In fact, a quantitative approach may be essential to scientists as they seek to truly understand, and definitively explain, the most intricate biological problems and processes such as the inner workings of an embryo.
"Biologists like myself have become very good at collecting data, but we're only fair at making sense of that data," Rothman said. "We're missing a major instrument, and that is the math. Math is the language and the tool that really allows you to get insights."
Shraiman concurred, noting, "It won't be a simple 'equation,' but understanding how to encode something as complex as, say, the shape of a limb in DNA is a challenge that will require new tools quantitative tools yet it's not that far off. It's not something we can do today, but it's a safe bet that some of the graduates of our new course will be able to do it in 10 or 15 years."
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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to advance environmental conservation and scientific research around the world and improve the quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Foundation's Science Program aims to make a significant impact on the development of provocative, transformative scientific research, and increase knowledge in emerging fields. For more information, please visit http://www.moore.org.
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities.
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UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute receives 2 grants to explore interface of physics and biologyPublic release date: 29-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Shelly Leachman shelly.leachman@ia.ucsb.edu 805-893-8726 University of California - Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) Imagine being able to mathematically describe the process by which an embryo develops into an animal, assigning numbers to its every function, and dysfunction. Such capability holds enormous implications for medicine, pointing to the potential for determining when and where things go developmentally awry and paving the way to possible solutions.
This sort of breakthrough is one of the long-term goals of theoretical physicists and experimental biologists at UC Santa Barbara, where the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) is uniting researchers from the disparate disciplines in joint study. Two new grants, together totaling $2 million, are giving those interdisciplinary efforts a big boost.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded KITP $1.6 million for its ongoing interdisciplinary biology initiatives, including workshops, postdoctoral fellowships, and plans for a new summer program the Santa Barbara Advanced School for Quantitative Biology (SBASQB) aimed squarely at the interface of physics and biology. A $400,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund will go exclusively toward the latter endeavor.
"We are profoundly grateful for the extraordinary gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, whose steadfast support of scientific research and the pursuit of knowledge in emerging fields is of vital importance. Their grant to KITP will be a tremendous boon to the institute's work at the interface of physics and biology," said UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang. "The remarkable generosity of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund provides another lasting benefit by helping to launch the Santa Barbara Advanced School for Quantitative Biology, an innovative, interdisciplinary new course with the potential for groundbreaking scientific discoveries."
Set to welcome its first class in 2013, SBASQB aspires to advance both physics and biology by unifying their practitioners in intensive summer study. Side-by-side in lectures and in the lab, researchers will explore subjects such as morphogenesis, embryology, microbial biology, and evolution. The new program is the brainchild of physics professor and permanent KITP member Boris Shraiman, and Joel Rothman, chair of UCSB's Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.
"We thank the Moore Foundation for their generosity and their vision in supporting a broader range of activities at the KITP, and we are delighted that, with our proposed course, we were able to rise to the challenge set by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund," Shraiman said.
"It really has been a dream to set up a course like SBASQB," Shraiman added. "It is a merger of two cultures drawing on the lab course tradition in biology and the workshop tradition in theoretical physics and it is going to be a rather unique combination of the two."
Describing SBASQB as the culmination of their shared vision to bring together theorists and experimentalists in an active lab setting, Shraiman and Rothman said the venture was largely inspired by the storied research program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., which boasts more than 50 Nobel laureates among its past participants.
What sets such courses apart, said Rothman who likes to think of SBASQB as a sort of "Woods Hole West" is the way they turn scientific convention on its head. The elite, intensive program will, on occasion, see graduate students and postdoctoral students serving as instructors to faculty; theorists engaging in lab work; experimentalists participating in theory-focused lectures; and instructors and students collaborating on experiments. Differentiating SBASQB from Woods Hole: the former will be built on the foundation of the KITP, grounded in the physical science community.
"There is a lot of exciting stuff going on at the interface of traditional, hard physical sciences and biology that I think will engender what really will be a new discipline," said Rothman, who served as Woods Hole summer faculty for 18 years, spending five years as course director. "A new generation of scientists who've had strong training in both realms will ultimately be creating the new departments of quantitative biology."
In fact, a quantitative approach may be essential to scientists as they seek to truly understand, and definitively explain, the most intricate biological problems and processes such as the inner workings of an embryo.
"Biologists like myself have become very good at collecting data, but we're only fair at making sense of that data," Rothman said. "We're missing a major instrument, and that is the math. Math is the language and the tool that really allows you to get insights."
Shraiman concurred, noting, "It won't be a simple 'equation,' but understanding how to encode something as complex as, say, the shape of a limb in DNA is a challenge that will require new tools quantitative tools yet it's not that far off. It's not something we can do today, but it's a safe bet that some of the graduates of our new course will be able to do it in 10 or 15 years."
###
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to advance environmental conservation and scientific research around the world and improve the quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Foundation's Science Program aims to make a significant impact on the development of provocative, transformative scientific research, and increase knowledge in emerging fields. For more information, please visit http://www.moore.org.
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities.
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Native Americans have a high rate of intermarriage with other groups. Many are not identifiable by appearance, which has made it possible for almost anyone to assume a Native persona. That seems to have been the case with US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
By Jesse Washington,?Associated Press / May 26, 2012
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What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Native American identity is shining a rare spotlight on the malleable nature of Indian heritage and the long history of murky claims to such ancestry.
Warren, a Harvard Law School professor and Democrat who is running in Massachusetts against Republican incumbent Sen. Scott Brown, was listed as Native American in several law school directories. Warren has said that her "family lore" described Indian ancestors, and the New England Genealogy Association said it found indications ? but not proof ? that Warren had a Cherokee great-great-great grandmother, which would make her 1/32 Indian.
"I'm proud of my heritage," Warren said Thursday. Asked how she knew it included Native Americans, she replied, "Because my mother told me so."
Her opponents question whether Warren chose this heritage to gain advantages available to Indians and other underrepresented groups in academia.
"Warren has zero evidence that she is at all Native American," said Brown's campaign manager, Jim Barnett. The genealogy association acknowledges that it found only secondary references to Cherokee family members, not primary sources such as marriage, birth or census records.
Among Native Americans, the varying opinions demonstrate that Indian identity is subjective even among Indians themselves.
When David Eugene Wilkins first saw Warren interviewed during her nomination to a federal post, he was smitten by her intelligence and politics. But when he heard about her claims of Indian ancestry, "I shook my head and said, 'Oh no.'"
"For us it was always about allegiance rather than biology or ancestry," said Wilkins, an enrolled member of the Lumbee tribe and professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota.
"It's where you place your political, cultural, emotional allegiance. She lived her entire life and never had any association whatsoever with any community. So something doesn't wash for me," Wilkins said.
But David Treuer, an award-winning writer and Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota, said there is a difference between Indian identity and ancestry ? you can have one without the other.
"An Indian identity is something someone claims for oneself; it is a matter of choice," Treuer wrote in a Washington Post essay titled, "Elizabeth Warren says she's Native American. So she is."
BILLINGS - The community is rallying behind a family that lost their home in a fire Saturday.
The Hagen's house on Vandaveer Road went up in flames at 7:15 Saturday night. Firefighters said the house is a total loss, but no damage estimates are available yet. A few local businesses are now joining forces to host a benefit for the family.
"Even in a recession, no matter what goes on, when somebody falls on hard times people just automatically pull together. I just think Billings is the best place to live, and we've got the greatest community that pulls together for each other a lot," organizer, John Blair said.
The benefit will take place June 16th. It starts at 4:00 p.m. and ends at 8:00 p.m. at the Blue Creek Fire Department. Food and entertainment will be available. They also hope to hold a silent auction. If you would like to help out, please call 259-0909.
The city of Atlanta has developed into one of the most flourishing real estate hubs in the U.S with Atlanta foreclosed homes being highly favored by buyers over other properties due to their attractive price discounts as well as various housing incentives available in the region. So if you are on the lookout for a lucrative real estate opportunity, opting for a foreclosure in this city would be one of the most beneficial investments for you as the region makes for an ideal destination to live, work and play.
Home to some of the most unique attractions such as the largest museum on puppetry as well as the oldest running ballet in America, the region has a very impressive cultural heritage which has successfully made it one of the most favored residential areas in the country. Another remarkable fact about the region?s vibrant lifestyle is that the city is home to one of the largest number of theaters, museums, outdoor recreational spots like the Georgia Aquarium, great parks, festival and as well as sporting events.
With the development of MARTA which is the city?s rapid transit system, the region?s real estate value has appreciated by leaps and bounds. The transit system connects all the major residential communities in the area in a manner that travelling from one end of Atlanta to the other is very time efficient as well as hassle free. With features such as easy commutation, a safe and crime free society, ready access to some of the best education and healthcare facilities investing in Atlanta foreclosed homes makes for a very wise decision indeed.
Other benefits of buying Atlanta foreclosed homes is that the Housing Finance Division (HFD) which is under the Atlanta Development Authority (ADA) is promoting various residential schemes in the region for first time home buyers. Apart from offering tax credit incentives and down payment assistance to buyers of foreclosures, the HFD is also helping home buyers in availing housing loans at the lowest interest rates in the market by connecting them to suitable lending agencies.
Another notable aspect of residing in the area through investing in a foreclosure is the ADA has been working sincerely on various neighborhood stabilization programs under which they are ensuring affordable and quality neighborhood services to its residents. The Atlanta Development Authority has also adopted a dynamic Economic Development Plan (EDP) for the city through which it is working successfully to provide an improved quality of life by adopting various measures to strengthen the region?s economy.
While buying a property in this area has several benefits, one of the major reasons that make residing here a very wise option is the availability of a wide range of Atlanta foreclosed homes at highly lucrative prices. Moreover these foreclosures are located in some of the most high end and prime residential communities which make the venture a very sound investment for first time home buyers. Some of the communities where foreclosures are available at attractive asking prices include the premier residential communities of Legacy Park, Buck-Head and Wellesley, amongst several others. Now that you are aware of the wide range of benefits that can be availed through Atlanta foreclosed homes, go ahead and pick up your dream home to enjoy the vibrant lifestyle of this remarkable city.
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When a business needs help with accounting, a certified public accountant often is retained for their expertise. When things do not add up ? cash flow isn?t what it is supposed to be, inventories are too low or too high ? we see the signals right away. Unfortunately, business owners and managers often do not perceive the signals their businesses send out to consumers.
Consumers also see ?signals.? Most are visual (more than 90 percent), others are vocal or come from the sense of smell. These upfront signals create perceptions and expectations that strongly influence what a consumer believes about your business and you personally. If the signals are favorable, you?re likely to win at business; if not, the game may be lost. Even worse, those who have unfavorable impressions not only do not come back, but are likely to tell five to 10 or more people about their experience.
To avoid this situation and to improve your odds of winning, it is advisable to conduct or have conducted for you a ?customer perception audit? (the other type of CPA). This ?audit? is designed to spot those negative signals that directly set consumers? attitudes toward your business. These signals create perceptions that are difficult to change and to overcome.
Many businesses do not realize there are signals that can be sent before a consumer even enters your business or encounters your service. For example, what happens when a consumer calls your business? How long does it take to answer the call? Is it a professional, welcoming response? What does your business look like on the Web? Is your website attractive, informative and easy to navigate? Is there a customer contact link, or phone number listed? What does your signage and the front of your building and-or door look like? What signal does this sight send: clean and appealing or dirty and unattractive? Speaking of doors, are they freshly painted and-or is the glass clean? Clean reflects fresh and new. Consumers like that signal.
Once they are in the door, what do they see? Is the floor clean and-or carpet clean? If there is a plant, is it healthy or attractive or sending off the signal of death? Are your business, merchandise, and customer service personnel sending positive signals and impressions? Unless you?re in the antique business, consumers prefer new, clean and uncluttered. All of these signals create an atmosphere of acceptance, which, combined with great customer service, will help you command premium prices and repeat business.
Another set of signals focus on lighting and color. Is the lighting adequate and appropriate for your type of business? There is no bigger turnoff to a food service customer than a light or ceiling fixture displaying dead flies or bugs. Likewise, if you?re dealing with senior citizens, your lighting must be bright and all printed materials have type a little larger on a good contrasting background. If you?re selling upscale or expensive premium products, is there an upscale color deployed? Black, gold and silver are perceived as giving the upscale signal; orange, yellow, and red the ?price/promotion? signal; and green and blue for environmental products and services. Are your colors appropriate to your product, pricing and marketing objectives?
What signals do you give out that tell customers you want them to come back? In our highly competitive marketplace, more than the sincere ?thank you? is required. Do you have ?bring them back? signals such as a percent-off or money-off your next purchase thank you promotion card? Customers want welcome-back incentives and consider these your signal of valuing their business.
One of the most difficult signals to deal with is the appropriateness of an employee?s attitude and demeanor with consumers. This can be especially challenging in a family business if it is a family member that is sending off the wrong signals. Kiss-of-death signals are things such as paying more attention to someone on the phone than to the customer in front of you, or employee-on-employee disagreements or confrontations. Place yourself in the customer?s shoes and you will quickly discover unacceptable signals.Yes, sometimes the only solution is to change personnel to send the right signal and satisfy and retain the customer.
If you do not wish to hire an objective third party to conduct a detailed customer perception audit, take the time to develop your own checklist. Walk through all the points of encounter as if you were the customer. Ask yourself, how did your business do? What needs to be fixed, improved or immediately changed? A customer perception audit is likely to improve your customer retention and overall business performance.
Ronald A. Nykiel, dean of the College of Business at Husson University, is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, has authored a number of books on management and marketing, counseled the President?s Commission on Executive Interchange and chaired a governor?s revenue forecasting commission.
As you may recall, when the United States passed a law in March 2012 overruling a couple federal court decisions and retroactively applying US law to scads of completed countervailing duty investigations of Chinese imports, I explained that the law's illogical, biased structure - in particular, not addressing WTO-inconsistent "double counting" in any case completed before the law's enactment - all but guaranteed at least one WTO challenge from the Chinese government because the WTO's Appellate Body (in DS379) had already ruled that a failure to fix the problem in several other cases violated WTO rules.
The first dispute, it appears, arrived today:
China has asked for consultations at the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body on countervailing duty measures applied by the U.S. against 22 Chinese products, including solar panels, a statement posted on the Commerce Ministry's website said Friday.
The measures also were related to paper and steel products and affected $7.29 billion of Chinese exports to the U.S., Commerce Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said in the statement.
U.S. actions on subsidy calculations and in determining that China's export restrictions were "effectively a subsidy" are violations of WTO rules, Mr. Shen added....
"The U.S. practices are an abuse of the trade remedy mechanisms and have damaged the legitimate interests of Chinese companies," Mr. Shen said. "We are greatly dissatisfied with this."
Mr. Shen said China has reiterated its stance on many occasions, but the U.S. has ignored China's concerns and "repeated its improper methods in the recent solar panel case."...
"China is hoping that the U.S. will correct its mistaken actions in anti-subsidy investigations," Mr. Shen said, adding that Beijing also hopes the U.S. "will use positive talks and communication under the WTO dispute-resolution mechanism to return to practices that are in line with WTO rules."
If consultations fail to produce a solution, China may request a ruling by a WTO panel.
China's formal request for consultations isn't yet available on the WTO's website, but the WSJ article makes clear that China is challenging several issues in these investigations. ?BNA[$] adds that, according to the Chinese mission in Geneva, one of those issues is the US Commerce Department's treatment of Chinese state-owned enterprises as "public bodies" (i.e., as the Chinese government itself) in order to determine whether their sales of goods and services to targeted exporters constitute subsidies. ?As you may recall, the public body issue also was addressed in DS379, and the United States just informed?the WTO that it published on May 18 a preliminary determination on public bodies in the "Section 129" determination that the Commerce Department is (delinquently) completing to comply with the Appellate Body's DS379 report.
I guess Commerce's May 18 determination wasn't what the Chinese Government was hoping for, eh?
Anyway, today's WTO dispute adds to the long string of litigation surrounding the United States' application of CVDs on imports from China and other "non-market economies." ?The US government recently had the opportunity to end much of this litigation, but instead doubled-down on the messy status quo when it passed the CVD/NME law in March and in the subsequent Section 129 proceedings. ?Since then, we've seen the law's constitutionality challenged in US court, and now China's back at the WTO complaining about, among other things, what the law didn't fix in 20-plus CVD investigations. ?Both of these legal reactions were completely expected, and pretty much ensure that US-China trade policy will be marred by an issue that (a) was easily solvable via one of several rational policy options; (b) keeps the US on the defensive in bilateral trade talks; and (c) increasingly looks to be putting American exports at risk via China's imposition of WTO-sanctioned retaliatory tariffs due to continued US malfeasance.
The restaurant industry will employ 12.9 million people this year, representing 10% of the total U.S. workforce, and making it one of the best industries for starting a business in this year.
Why it's hot:
Think about it: What's for dinner? Not takeout. Not fast food. And definitely not a homemade meal.
Instead, the subtle hand of the economic recovery is inspiring Americans to pull up a chair at a neighborhood sit-down restaurant. In 2009, revenue earned by full-service restaurants declined by 6.8%, reflective of consumers' having less disposable income (and therefore showing preference for fast-food restaurants or eating at home), says Nima Samadi, senior analyst at IBISWorld, a market research organization specializing in long-range forecasting of industries and business environments.
Restaurants in this segment of the industry "were the first to feel the pinch and the last to feel the recovery," Samadi says.
Barriers to entry:
Although the full-service restaurant industry is ripe for growth, Samadi notes a saturated market as a big barrier to entry.
Another barrier: the significant day-to-day costs associated with running the business. According to Sageworks, a financial information company that provides industry data, the cost of sales, including inventory, direct labor, material, and other costs directly associated with the generation of revenue, will eat up nearly 41% of sales revenue.
Samadi says success can also be contingent on familiarity with the day-to-day operations. "Especially with full-service (restaurants), the failure rates are pretty high for people that start a restaurant without any prior restaurant experience, or if they don't hire someone that has the prior experience," he says. "I think expertise plays a pretty large role, and it's a pretty good indicator of success."
Fastest growing segment:
Need ideas for what kind of restaurant to start? Healthy eating continues to be popular, as well as offering locally sourced and locally grown foods, according to the National Restaurant Association's "What's Hot in 2012" survey. Technomic, a food-service research and consulting firm, says the biggest trend for 2012 will be meals with a twist?whether comfort food with an ethnic spin or surprising tweaks to sandwiches. So go ahead, dig in.
Growth potential:
Industry sales-revenue has slowly recovered, growing 1.6% in 2010 and 2.8% in 2011, and it is projected to increase 4.5% this year and 5.5% in 2013. The National Restaurant Association expects the entire restaurant industry, not just full-service restaurants, in 2012 to book $632 billion in revenue and to employ 12.9 million. That would be a slight increase from 2011, and represent 10% of the U.S. work force. Plus, as the economy improves, Samadi says, restaurants should benefit from lower unemployment rates and higher levels of disposable income.
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One good thing about a drought is that you know your plans for a cookout won?t get rained out. So take advantage of the dry spell. Move your kitchen outdoors, along with your wine fridge and corkscrew, and try some of these summer grilling ideas.
Oysters & Pinot Grigio
Make sure your oysters are live when you buy them; they should be tightly clamped shut. Dead oysters will have loose or half-open shells. Scrub the shells under cold water with a brush. Discard any open or broken shells. Throw oysters on the grill; they?ll pop right open when done. Shuck ?em and serve with melted butter, your favorite hot sauce and lemon wedges.
Wash your oysters down with a glass of Graffigna Centenario Pinot Grigio from Argentina. This wine is fresh and young with refreshing flavors of peach and apricot, which give it roundness in the mouth, but don?t take away from a nice, crisp, clean finish.
Guacamole & Sauvignon Blanc
You don?t need a grill for guacamole, but you do need something to tide you over while you wait for the grill to do its thing. Use three Haas avocados that are nicely ripened (overripe avocados have lost their flavor). Scoop avocado meat into bowl, add ? to ? cup of chopped, fresh cilantro, a teaspoon of coarse sea salt and a couple of teaspoons of lime juice. Blend ingredients together by mashing up the avocado mixture until smooth.
Cleanse the palate with a sip of Line 39 Lake County Sauvignon Blanc. This Sauvignon Blanc has lots of citrus flavors, which enhance the cilantro in the guacamole. No feeling parched with this wine; its crisp acidity invigorates the taste buds and cools down the palate.
Burgers, Dogs & Carmen?re
Everyone has a burger recipe of their own. Try prepping the meat the night before to intensify flavors, and don?t forget the egg and bread crumbs! As for hot dog do?s and don?ts, there are definitely two camps: 1. Dog is done when plumped out and juicy. 2. Dog isn?t done until charred.
I?m firmly entrenched in the second camp, but hot dog arguments (mustard? relish? chili? ketchup? onions?) can be worse than politics. Luckily, whether you do burgers or dogs, there?s no argument that Lapostolle Casa Carmen?re from Chile is the liquid to pour. Carmen?re is Chile?s signature grape and is the wine to serve when you want a comparable substitute to Cabernet or Merlot. You?ll get bold, earthy flavors and fresh red fruit. I?d stay away from mustard on the burger or dogs when serving this wine. Instead, try it with mushroom-topped burgers or chili dogs.
Grilled Fruit & Sangria
Grilling fruit diversifies its natural flavors. Nothing is easier than grilling pineapple. No special prep; just lop off the top and bottom, and slice. (You don?t even have to remove the rind.) Then, throw slices on the grill. But spray the grates with oil or non-stick cooking spray beforehand. Otherwise, you?ll have bits of pineapple stuck to the grate.
If you haven?t yet tried grilled watermelon, now is the time for a taste. A little more work is involved, but it?s certainly worth the effort. Slice watermelon into wedges, and lightly sprinkle salt on both sides. Stand the wedges on their edges on a rack over a sink, and let them drain for half an hour. Then, they are ready to head for the coals. Again, make sure you prep the grates so the watermelon wedges slide off easily.
While you?re deciding if you?re in the mood to eat the grilled watermelon alone, drizzled with balsamic vinegar or atop a bed of arugula with goat cheese, pour yourself a glass of Eppa Supra Fruta Sangria. A refreshing glass of fruity sangria in the middle of a dry spell is just what the doctor ordered. This sangria is made from Cabernet and Syrah with pomegranate, blueberry, Mediterranean blood orange and a?ai juices blended in.
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