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A transformer explosion knocked out power to parts of Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy.Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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A transformer explosion knocked out power to a wide swath of Manhattan on Monday night. ConEd says it could take up to a week to restore power to tens of thousands of customers. It?s not yet clear whether the explosion was directly related to the storm. How can a hurricane cause a transformer explosion?
By degrading the insulation. Electrical transformers are composed of a series of coiled electrical wires. The wires are sheathed in paper-based insulation, which prevents electricity from jumping across wires within the coil. Over the course of 20 to 60 years, depending on how hard the apparatus is made to work, the insulation in a well-maintained transformer degrades from 1,200 molecules thick to 200 molecules thick, at which point the coils should be replaced. Water accelerates that degradation process immensely. When the insulation fails, parts of the coil touch, causing a ?turn-to-turn fault??a form of short-circuit that creates a spark inside the transformer. The spark ignites the oil surrounding the coils, and the resulting explosion can be massive, as video from Monday night?s failure demonstrates.
It?s not yet clear whether water penetration caused the explosion in Manhattan, or, if it did, how much water was involved. It doesn?t take much, though. Even small amounts of water can quickly be fatal to an electrical transformer. Transformers are usually protected by air dryers to remove humidity from the air, and engineers regularly replace the insulation surrounding the entire machine. Even water released from inside the transformer?as organic materials in the system heat up and age?can pose a problem. Modern transformers are also equipped with a tank of silica gel that absorbs water from air entering the electrical system.
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When you see a website go down, the blame usually falls on hackers or, more often, software bugs. We don't often think of the Web as having a physical existence, but sure enough, Sandy has shown that nature can impact websites with greater force than any team of malicious code wizards can summon up.
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Regarding the damage Hurricane Sandy visited upon much of the East Coast over the past 24 hours, I?ll just parrot the supremely appropriate words of Scissor Sisters? Ana Matronic: ?Ooh girl, she?s been a bitch tonight!? If the dearth of recaps of last night?s episode on the web this afternoon is any indication, I gather that many queens have had to take their kikis offline for the time being (rude, Sandy!). But like Sally Field laughing through her tears, I?ll try to make the best of a bad situation and address a couple of commenter points that have arisen over the past week.
First, I absolutely share RMIsaac?s sentiment that last evening?s Untucked?the back-stage, bonus footage jaunt that follows Drag Race?was the better show. RMIssac found the queens discussion of their relationships with their fathers ?very moving and emotional,? and observed that ?it?s a shame that kind of material isn?t in the main show.? A shame, indeed. After an estrangement lasting 25 years, drag veteran Chad Michaels was treated to a video postcard from his very straight father in which dad apologized for the lost time and expressed an interest in reconnecting. Suffice to say, the queens were lucky to be wearing waterproof mascara.
The moment highlighted an issue that often goes unrecognized when we talk about the acceptance of LGBT kids by their families: how you express gender is often more of a bugaboo than who you sleep with. It is just a matter of fact that a ?traditionally masculine? gay man will have it easier than a man who makes his living performing as Cher. Gender expression, it seems to me, is the true frontier in the battle for acceptance.
But deeper emotions aside, I?ve often felt that Untucked was the superior show in terms of humor (especially compared to last night?s dreary reanimation of 60s game show kitsch). Perhaps it?s a matter of taste?I much prefer the queens? dishier moments to Drag Race?s often arbitrary competitive conceits?but, in any case, I will heartily recommend that you start watching Untucked if you aren?t already.
Now, I?d like to quickly address a point that commenter Syzygy raised on last week?s post; namely, a sense of sadness that Drag Race ?has gotten so mainstream? as to merit TV Club coverage in a general interest publication like Slate. Syzygy continues: ?I guess it's only a matter of time now before drag culture is mined out of everything that made it special. Bad enough that our only network is catering to straight people now, but we gays can't have even just one show to ourselves??
To be honest, I actually share Syzygy?s trepidation about the mainstreaming of gay culture, at least in a general sense. I strongly believe in the existence and importance of such a subculture, and I worry that a certain assimilationist impulse hidden in the guise of ?we?re all the same? political rhetoric threatens to render that subculture so bland as to make it meaningless, if not to kill it off entirely. A holdout in the age of Grindr, I want gay bars to survive!
But here?s the thing: RuPaul?s Drag Race, as high-profile as it may seem to be becoming, manages to maintain its bite. Ru insists on dealing in a mix of aesthetic values, slang, humor, camp sensibility, and pop cultural knowledge that, while theoretically open to all, are not accessible to the uninitiated without some effort. The show?s understanding of categories like gender, family and beauty are still uncommon and, if I can toss out an overused word, fairly subversive.
All of which is to say: I don?t think covering the show a little on Slate or elsewhere threatens to undermine the specialness of drag or gay culture. For some, the show will simply entertain on the level of funny men traipsing around in dresses, while for others, it will broadcast deeper pleasures on higher frequencies. And that?s the brilliance of the thing: everyone?s invited to the kiki.
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Tom T. Hall arrives at the 60th Annual BMI Country Awards on Tuesday Oct. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP)
Tom T. Hall arrives at the 60th Annual BMI Country Awards on Tuesday Oct. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP)
Miranda Lambert, left, Angaleena Presley, center, and Ashley Monroe of the Pistol Annies at the 60th Annual BMI Country Awards on Tuesday Oct. 30, 2012, in Nashville. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP)
Luke Bryan arrives at the 60th Annual BMI Country Awards on Tuesday Oct. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP)
Hunter Hayes arrives at the 60th Annual BMI Country Awards on Tuesday Oct. 30, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Tom T. Hall is a bit of a loner, so he found the red carpet at the BMI Country Awards a little overwhelming Tuesday night.
Truth is the newest BMI Icon is a homebody.
"I'm missing the second episode of a two-part 'Gunsmoke' tonight," Hall joked. "That was bad. But I was very proud of the fact I could get back in my tux. I don't think I've had it on in 12 years."
The performing rights organization honored the 76-year-old Country Music Hall of Fame member with a wide-ranging tribute that was hard to categorize. Toby Keith represented mainstream country with "Faster Horses (The Cowboy & The Poet)." But folk rockers The Avett Brothers were there, too, playing "That's How I Got to Memphis." Bluegrass stars Dailey & Vincent sang "Can You Hear Me Now" and rising Americana singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle sang "Homecoming" for Hall, showing how far-reaching his music has become.
"I think a song is just a song," Hall said. "They can do it with all kinds of different bands. It's just a lyric and a melody. I was talking to Kris Kristofferson one time. They asked him what was country, and he said, 'If it sounds country, it's country.' So that's my philosophy."
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent said they were on hand to pay back Hall for his support of bluegrass.
"I just really love his heart," Vincent said. "The bluegrass industry doesn't really have big budgets ... and he's been so gracious to the bluegrass industry. He's got a studio in his home and he has helped so many bluegrassers get started. He just gives them a shove to get started and it's just so kind."
Songwriter Luke Laird said Hall's style of songwriting is immediately identifiable.
"His songs, they call him 'The Storyteller,' and they really do just suck you in," Laird said. "It's like a 3-minute movie. He really has mastered the art of that."
Laird doesn't have a nickname yet, but he's also come up with a winning songwriting formula. The Nashville resident was named songwriter of the year, tying for the honor with 2011 winner Dallas Davidson. He also won song of the year for Rodney Atkins' "Take a Back Road," written with Rhett Akins.
He said it felt strange walking the red carpet and giving interviews.
"It's not what I'm good at," Laird said. "The stars are good at that. But it's really cool that they would honor songwriters. There's such a high regard for songwriters in Nashville and just to get to be part of that community, I feel really fortunate."
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? The NCAA is demanding everyone in college sports play by the same book.
Those who deviate from it and flout the rules will soon be paying a steeper price.
On Tuesday, the NCAA's board of directors passed a package of sweeping changes that will hold coaches more accountable for rule-breaking offenses and threaten rogue programs with longer postseason bans and fines that could cost millions of dollars.
Coaches say it's about time.
"Throughout history, the only way to keep civilization and to keep things in order is to have very strong rules and enforce them," said Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer, who won two national titles at Florida. "There's no other way. Clear rules with very firm and swift ? it has to be a little bit more swift ? punishment."
The NCAA believes they have fixed the problem of swift justice, too, by approving an increase in the number of infractions committee voting members, from 10 up to 24.
The plan is to split the full committee into smaller panels, all of which could hear cases and allow as many as 10 meetings to take place annually instead of the five that have traditionally been held.
The board overwhelmingly supported all pieces of the legislation and voted unanimously to approve it, though it was unclear if all 13 board members participated in an unusual conference call.
Typically, members attend the Indianapolis meetings in person. But when it became clear that Superstorm Sandy could have a significant impact on travel plans, the members who were not yet in Indy were told to stay home.
Oregon State President Ed Ray, the NCAA executive committee chairman, told The Associated Press it was the first time in his 5?-year tenure the board met on the phone.
But after debating these measures since August 2011, the board was not going let a storm, or anything else, derail the reform movement.
"We have sought all along to remove the 'risk-reward' analysis that has tempted people ? often because of the financial pressures to win at all costs ? to break the rules in the hopes that either they won't be caught or that the consequences won't be very harsh if they do get caught," NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement posted on the governing body's web site.
So the board started by trying to strip cheaters of two of the biggest benefits ? money and prestige.
Violators found to be in "serious breach of conduct" with aggravating circumstances could face penalties similar to those imposed on Penn State earlier this year following the Jerry Sandusky scandal ? a four-year postseason ban and a $60 million fine.
Head coaches will find themselves under more scrutiny, too.
If any member of the coaching staff commits a serious infraction, the head coach must prove he or she was unaware it occurred or face a suspension ranging from 10 percent of the season to one full season. Some don't believe it is that much to ask.
"Being an assistant for so long, I still think like an assistant coach," Indiana football coach Kevin Wilson said. "I think it's my responsibility, and I like to educate our staff on what to do and that you know what those guys are doing and that you make sure our guys are doing things properly."
Committee members couldn't agree more.
"Everyone I've talked to tells me that if there's anything that coaches are, it is control freaks," Ray said. "They not only know what's going on in their program, they know everything that's going on in their program ? and if they don't, they should."
Tuesday's decision is the latest chapter to update and toughen NCAA enforcement policies and procedures.
It started in August 2011 when Emmert asked dozens of school presidents and chancellors to attend a retreat during one of the most scandalous years in college sports.
Afterward, Emmert and Ray among others called on school leaders to get tougher on the most egregious rule-breakers.
The current two-tier penalty structure, for major and secondary infractions, is being scrapped for a four-level stepladder ? severe breach of conduct, significant breach of conduct, breach of conduct and incidental issues. Punishment could also be impacted by charges of aggravating circumstances, or intentional violations, and mitigating circumstances that could help a school with its case.
NCAA officials believe it will help allocate more staff to the most serious cases.
But critics worry this may be just another round of tough talk and little action.
"It sounds nice in theory but until I see a big-time coach like (John) Calipari or somebody get suspended for a year, I will not believe this will do anything," said David Ridpath, an Ohio University professor and past president of the NCAA watchdog The Drake Group. "I think there a lot of loopholes in there when you start reading it."
If the policies don't clean up college sports, the NCAA could tweak the legislation, too.
"We'll continue to evaluate it and if we recognize something is not working in the right area, that's a step we will rectify," NCAA director of enforcement Chris Strobel said.
Infractions that occur after the meeting but are not resolved before Aug. 1. 2013, will be subject to the new sanctions. Schools currently under investigation, such as Miami, also could be hit with the new penalties if their cases are not resolved before Aug. 1.
Emmert has backed every legislative piece of the reform movement.
Last fall, the governing body passed a measure calling for tougher eligibility requirements on incoming freshmen and junior college transfers; another that tied academic performance to postseason eligibility; a third that give schools flexibility to offer multiyear scholarships or stick with the standard one-year scholarships (it withstood an override attempt); and a fourth that allowed student-athletes to collect stipends of up to $2,000.
The stipend plan was shelved, though Emmert wants to put it in place. That is unlikely to happen before the board's January meeting. Another committee is trying to shrink the NCAA's massive rule book, but no formal proposal is anticipated before January.
The board is already looking toward next year's reforms. A formal proposal to shrink the massive rule book also is expected to be heard in January, and it agreed to put off any legislation for the 2013-14 academic year until after other reforms are passed.
But on Tuesday, the NCAA rewrote the book by putting a greater emphasis on the role coaches will play moving forward.
"We delegate responsibility to our head coaches, and presidents delegate to athletic directors, just like companies delegate to different levels of management," Kansas State athletic director John Currie said. "Ultimately the leader is accountable."
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Associated Press Sports Writers Larry Lage in Detroit and Dave Skretta in Kansas City, Mo., also contributed to this report.
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? Would you take part in a weight-loss program in which you were explicitly asked not to lose any weight for the first eight weeks?
Although the approach sounds counterintuitive, a study from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that women who spent eight weeks mastering weight-maintenance skills before embarking on a weight-loss program shed the same number of pounds as women who started a weight-loss program immediately. More importantly, the study showed that the "maintenance-first" women had regained only 3 pounds on average a year later, compared to the average 7-pound gain for the immediate dieters.
The study's authors say that the maintenance-first approach may offer a way to halt the cycle of yo-yo dieting.
"Those eight weeks were like a practice run. Women could try out different stability skills and work out the kinks without the pressure of worrying about how much weight they had lost," said lead author Michaela Kiernan, PhD, senior research scientist at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. "We found that waiting those eight weeks didn't make the women any less successful at losing weight. But even better, women who practiced stability first were more successful in maintaining that loss after a year."
The study was published online Oct. 31 in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Obesity contributes to a variety of health problems, including heart disease and diabetes. Previous research has shown that losing 5-10 percent of your body weight can decrease the risk factors for heart disease. Yet despite the plethora of diet books and programs, many people who lose weight are unable to keep it off.
Over the years, Kiernan has interviewed both those who have succeeded and those who have failed at keeping the pounds off. She was particularly struck by one woman who said that she had never "maintained" her weight in her life; instead, she was always either losing or gaining.
"She had no sense what she was aiming for," Kiernan said. "We wanted to see if there was a way to help people get away from this all-or-nothing approach that is associated with losing weight."
Kiernan noted that weight maintenance may require a different set of skills and behaviors than those used for losing weight. So she and her colleagues came up with the idea to teach weight-maintenance skills first so that people could experience how to fine-tune their behavior in response to everyday pleasures and disruptions rather than being "on" or "off" a diet. Among these stability skills are searching out low-fat or low-calorie foods that taste as good as high-fat/high-calorie options to avoid feelings of deprivation; occasionally eating and savoring small amounts of favorite high-fat/high-calorie foods; weighing daily to see how their body weight naturally fluctuates from day to day; identifying a personalized weight-fluctuation range of about 5 pounds to account for common disruptions, such as water gain and vacations; strategically losing a few pounds before a known disruption (such as a vacation) to minimize its effects; and eating a little more when reaching the lower limit of the personalized 5-pound range.
Kiernan said the approach is designed to help people make peace with the scale and learn how to pay "relaxed attention" to their weight in ways that can be maintained over the long term -- without keeping food records.
"Losing a significant amount of weight requires a lot of focused attention to what you're doing, and most people can't keep up that intensity over the long term," Kiernan said. "For weight maintenance, we wanted something that would make the day-to-day experience positive while not requiring overwhelming amounts of effort."
For the study, 267 overweight/obese women were randomized into one of two groups. The women in the control group immediately began taking part in a 20-week behavioral weight-loss program that encouraged greater intake of vegetables and fruit, increased physical activity and use of proven dieting strategies, such as keeping daily food records. The women attended weekly 90-minute sessions with a group facilitator to learn problem-solving skills aimed at losing weight. At the end of 20 weeks, they spent eight weeks using a similar problem-solving approach to learn weight-maintenance skills.
By contrast, the women in the maintenance-first group spent the initial eight weeks learning the stability skills Kiernan's group had developed. The women were asked not to lose any weight during that time; if they did lose a few pounds, they were asked to gain them back. Kiernan said this skill mimics a more real-world approach for maintaining weight within a range of a few pounds, rather than aiming for a single number on the scale. After the eight weeks were up, the women embarked on the same 20-week weight-loss program as the women in the control group.
After both groups completed their 28-week programs, Kiernan said the results showed that the women on average lost a similar amount of weight -- about 17 pounds, or roughly 9 percent of their initial weight. Once the weekly group sessions stopped, the women were on their own for the following year.
"We scheduled the weekly sessions to end in October so that the women would have to navigate the holidays by themselves, without any guidance from the group facilitators," said Kiernan, the principal investigator for the study. "We wanted this to mirror real-life conditions as much as possible."
When the women were weighed one year later after no contact with their group facilitators, Kiernan said she and her collaborators were pleased to see that the maintenance-first women had regained only 3 pounds on average, compared to a 7-pound average gain for the control group. She added that the 3-pound gain falls squarely within the personalized range that the women were taught to use. Additionally, 33 percent of the women in the maintenance-first group displayed what the researchers categorize as a favorable pattern -- that is, losing at least 5 percent of their body weight without regaining more than 5 pounds over the course of a year -- compared with 18 percent of the women in the control group.
Kiernan said the maintenance-first approach, though sounding a bit unorthodox, could be a useful tool for those who are trying to slim down and be healthier. "This approach helps people learn how to make small, quick adjustments that can help them maintain their weight without requiring a lot of effort," she said.
In the future, she hopes to further test the approach to see if people are able to maintain the weight loss for more than a year, and would also like to test it in larger, more diverse populations including men. She also noted that the initial study did not recruit any participants who had reported binge-eating behaviors, and so researchers would need to determine whether the maintenance-first skills were viable for vulnerable subgroups of people.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Lawmakers in indebted European Union member Hungary are waving the prospect of a passport at well-heeled foreign investors.
Proposed legislation listed on parliament's website would grant permanent residency and ultimately Hungarian citizenship to outsiders who buy at least 250,000 euros ($322,600) worth of special government bonds.
Hungarian passport holders are entitled to live and work throughout the European Union.
The move, backed by the ruling government party, is designed to attract new investors, especially from China.
Hungary has billions of euros worth of foreign currency debt maturing in the next few years and has explored a variety of ways to refinance.
Its plans include selling euro-denominated bonds to domestic buyers and trying to attract major new investors from Asia. Selling debt in western bond markets would happen only after tricky talks with international lenders wrap up, the government has said.
Budapest has asked for a financing backstop from the EU and the International Monetary Fund, but talks are dragging on and analysts see only a 50 percent chance of a deal.
The proposed legislation calls for the debt management office to issue special "residency bonds" to foreigners. Holders of at least a quarter of a million euros' worth of the paper would get preferential immigration treatment.
"The goal of the modification is to create the institution of 'investor residency' in Hungary," the lawmakers who put forth the legislation wrote in their proposal.
"The proposal ties gaining citizenship to buying bonds because it intends to aid state financing this way," they wrote. "Other investments from those applying for such residency could boost the real estate, retail and investment markets."
One of the authors of the proposal said Chinese investors were specifically targeted.
"The Chinese have articulated repeatedly that we should help their Hungarian investments," ruling party lawmaker Mihaly Babak told the daily Nepszabadsag. "If someone is a Hungarian citizen they have more (investment) opportunities."
"The condition of a preferential process is the purchase of 250,000 euros worth of bonds with a five year maturity ... We can attract capital from the so-called Third World this way and also finance reducing state debt."
($1 = 0.7749 euros)
(Reporting by Marton Dunai. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt.)
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A few weeks ago, I was surprised to learn that my brother got married. It?s not that he wasn?t the marrying type or anything like that, it?s just that he said his ?I dos? without inviting any of the family, or his friends to partake in the happy occasion.
He had been seeing a young lady for more than a year that he was head over heels for, and after news broke that homegirl was preggo, he decided to do right by her and put a ring on it. ASAP. I was getting all mentally prepared for another year of trying to put money together to pay for a bridesmaid?s gown, and gifts, and tickets to fly home, and ish for a shower (including a baby shower), and more. These were all things I wasn?t well prepared for a year before when I watched my sister say ?I do? in lavish fashion. But to my surprise, my mother called me a few weeks after the baby and engagement announcement to tell me that my brother and his bride-to-be had already tied the knot. Without anybody knowing, without any? friends or family for witnesses, they took off work, flew down to Florida and made a major commitment to each other under the sun, and God, on a beach. They didn?t ask for any help, any presents, or any ballyhoo surrounding their nuptials. Compared to all the time, money and energy spent for my sister?s wedding, this one was a pleasant surprise.
Recently, my mother and father came to visit me and when they did, they brought along the DVD that my brother sent to everyone of the beach nuptials. It was just the two of ?em, along with a photographer and an officiating minister on the beach in Miami. My brother and his new wife stood inside of a heart drawn in the sand and read their vows, said their ?I do?s? and kissed. After their small ceremony on the beach, the two walked up and down said beach, on the water, taking romantic photographs, kissing and rubbing the little one in my new sister-in-law?s belly. As simple as the whole thing was, I couldn?t help but find myself tearing up at how in love they seemed, and how happy they were, just the two of them, ready to move on to the next chapter of their lives. Well, make that the three of them with the baby chilling womb-side.
After watching the cute DVD (which had a homemade soundtrack made by my bro with the sounds of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes and other classics) and thinking about how fast, simple and inexpensive they had done things, I couldn?t help but wonder if all the fuss and the debt over big weddings is really all that necessary. There was something incredibly romantic about my brother and his lady running off to have a ceremony somewhere quiet and focusing on the two people who would have to make the marriage work. You know. Them.? She had the dress, they had the rings, they had each other, and honestly, isn?t that what it?s all about? In fact there was something more desirable to me about tying the knot like that (not let?s run off to Vegas style) than you and your man and everyone you know to drop big bills on an expensive wedding, to lose your mind trying to find a planner, a DJ, a huge venue for a reception, trying to schedule space in a church, trying to come up with and cut down a guest list, and having to hurt some feelings in the process of picking bridesmaids. It sounds very desirable actually.
But that?s not a shot at people who have been waiting all of their lives to have the big white wedding that shows like ?My Fair Wedding? have us fawning over. Do what your heart desires, and save me a piece of cake if you do go that route. But in the midst of a still slow-growing economy, I was just wondering if you would you ever consider downsizing and making your wedding just about you and the boo? And not about you, the boo, and everybody you know too? Could you have a happy wedding if it wasn?t surrounded by all your loved ones and all the trappings we?ve come to associate with a ?real? ceremony? While it might not sound as fairytale fab, you still walk away with the ultimate prize: the man of your dreams.
Could you have a happy wedding if your friends and family, the big cake and ornate flowers, and all the dressings ?My Fair Wedding? has us wanting weren?t there?
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We prospect to generate more business yet there are salespeople who don?t. We have found that there are four main reasons why:
??? ?They don?t feel comfortable
??? ?They don?t know how to ask
??? ?It?s not measured by their company
??? ?It isn?t part of their sales process
Working with only existing customers over time reduces revenues. The reasons vary from businesses closing or merging to replacement buyers/decision makers preferring to deal with other suppliers.
Prospecting requires sorting sales opportunities that are genuine from those that are a waste of time.
Your success in prospecting lies in being consistent. There are many ways to prospect but the fact is the colder the situation, for example phone canvassing, the more people you need to speak to, the more time is consumed and the selling cycle tends to be considerably longer.
Referrals are an effective and an enjoyable way to acquire new customers and grow sales. Competition is reduced and referral business is more profitable. In fact referrals can create a new customer 50-95% of the time. The reason why a referral has this impact is because it is personal. The creditability and trustworthiness of the person who referred you has now been transferred to you.
As outlined earlier there are salespeople that don?t develop their referral business yet the opportunities are huge. For example, a major US stock broker surveyed its best customers and asked if they would be willing to refer their stock broker. The response was yes in 84% of cases. When the firm asked their brokers the percentage of time they asked their customers for referrals the answer was 15%.
How to get started?
Make a list of everyone you know ? customers, sort through dormant accounts, social media such as contacts on LinkedIn and friends on Facebook.
1.?? ?Prioritise the list from best to least known
2.?? ?Diarise an equal number of people to contact every week and aim to meet them in person wherever possible
3.?? ?Let them know you would like to grow your sales through referrals and briefly describe the profile of your ideal customer. Then ask for 1-2 names that fit the profile
4.? Ask qualifying questions and contact details
Examples: ?Why do you think they would be interested??Who is their current supplier??Who makes the decisions??
5. Ask the referee to make the introduction by phone, email or in person if appropriate
Example: ?Sam would you mind calling Mary and introducing me so she will expect my call and know what it is about??
6. Thank them
7. After you have contacted the referral let the person who referred you know the outcome. This shows courtesy and can lead to you been given more referrals.
When a prospect becomes a customer the customer will tend to refer others to you because that is how they were introduced to you.
If you only ask for a name and phone number you have a cold referral. You don?t know enough about them and their business, and they are not expecting your call. A referral becomes warm or hot when you ask qualifying questions and the referral knows who you are and is expecting your call.
Growing sales through referrals saves time, is an enjoyable way to work and develop new business. It?s also more profitable.
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In 1990, Julia Roberts wore?a now-iconic outfit of?black leather boots, blonde wig, and white tank top connected by a gold ring to a?blue mini-skirt as "Pretty Woman's" hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Vivian Ward.
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Emma Roberts dressed as her aunt Julia Roberts' character from "Pretty Woman."
This Halloween, her niece Emma Roberts -- who wasn't even born until the year after the film came out? -- donned a replica of the same outfit to attend a Halloween party with boyfriend Evan Peters ("American Horror Story"). (No, Peters didn't dress as Richard Gere's character from the same film.)
The costume has sparked controversy before. Child beauty pageant contestant Paisley, age 3,?was dressed up in the same outfit, only a million sizes smaller, on a 2011 episode of "Toddlers & Tiaras" on TLC.
At the time, another pageant mom was horrified, saying ""I would never ever do that to my little girl. Ever ... It's outfits like that that give us a bad rap."
At 21,?Roberts is?hardly a toddler, and she's apparently not the only woman who wants to dress like a prostitute on Halloween.?In fact, you can buy similar costumes online.
Still, not everyone loved the getup. Wrote Alexis Rhiannon on Crushable.com, "(Julia Roberts)?also played many other roles! Very few of them actual hookers! You could?ve been Tinker Bell from 'Hook,' or Erin Brockovich, or even a Mystic Pizza! The boys would?ve loved that!"
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2012) ? Getting a flu shot may not only protect you from getting sick, it might also prevent heart disease. Two Toronto-based researchers presented studies at the 2012 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress which found that the influenza vaccine could be an important treatment for maintaining heart health and warding off cardiovascular events like strokes and heart attacks.
Dr. Jacob Udell, a cardiologist at Women's College Hospital and the University of Toronto, and his team from the TIMI Study Group and Network for Innovation in Clinical Research looked at published clinical trials on this subject, dating back to the 1960s.
"For those who had the flu shot, there was a pretty strong risk reduction," says Dr. Udell.
The flu vaccine provided an approximate 50 per cent reduction in the risk of a major cardiac event (heart attack, stroke, or cardiac death) compared with placebo after one year of follow-up. A similar trend was seen for the flu vaccine reducing death from any cause (approximately 40 per cent).
The influenza vaccine reduced cardiovascular events and cardiovascular death in people with or without heart disease.
The combined studies examined a total of 3,227 patients, with an almost equal split between patients with and without established heart disease. Half of the participants were randomly assigned to receive flu vaccine and those that did not typically received a placebo vaccine.
Dr. Udell says these results provide support for current guideline recommendations for influenza vaccination of individuals with a prior heart attack, but for a different reason than simply reducing flu risk. And although it was encouraging to see a reduction in non-fatal cardiac events, he believes a large, lengthier multi-national study would comprehensively demonstrate the vaccine's effectiveness to reduce fatal cardiac events and save lives.
"A large study that was international in scope and representative of patients such as those in North America and Canada in particular could help answer this question," he says.
This research could also potentially boost use of the vaccine, which Udell believes is still woefully low. "The use of the vaccine is still much too low, less than 50 per cent of the general population; it's even poorly used among health care workers," he says. "Imagine if this vaccine could also be a proven way to prevent heart disease."
An Ipsos Reid survey conducted by B.C. and Quebec Lung Associations this year found that 36 per cent of Canadians reported having received a flu shot in 2011.
And according to the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), the 2008 Adult National Immunization Coverage Survey found that vaccination rates for adults 18 to 64 years of age with a chronic medical condition is low at 35 per cent.
It also found that non-institutionalized seniors aged 65 and older have higher coverage, at 66 per cent.
According to the NACI, rates for both groups have declined somewhat since their 2006 survey and fall short of the 80 per cent national targets for influenza vaccine coverage in adults under age 65 with chronic conditions and in seniors.
People with ICDS who get the shot have fewer adverse events The second study, conducted by cardiologists Drs. Ramanan Kumareswaran and Sheldon Singh from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre examined the use of the influenza vaccine in patients with implantable cardiac defibrillators or ICDs.
"Anecdotes suggest that patients have more ICD shocks during flu season. We were trying to figure out what we can do to reduce the amount of shocks in (our clinic's) ICD population during the flu season," says Dr. Kumareswaran.
Patients with ICDs that had appointments at the Sunnybrook Hospital ICD clinic between September 1st 2011 and November 31st 2011 completed a survey that identified their demographics, health status, if they received a flu shot in the past year and opinions towards the vaccine.
The patients' health charts were reviewed to determine all ICD therapies in five months preceding the 2010 flu season (June to October) and for three months during the 2010-2011 flu season (December to March).
A total of 230 patients with an average age between 70 and 74 completed surveys with 179 (78 per cent) patients reported receiving the vaccination in the previous year. Just over 20 per cent did not receive the vaccine.
The patients who did not receive the flu vaccine had a trend toward experiencing more ICD therapies on average. Specifically, 10.6 per cent of patients who received the vaccine received at least one ICD therapy during flu season compared to 13.7 per cent of patients who did not receive the influenza vaccine.
"What is interesting is that if this is consistent over time, it could be of significant benefit to our patient population who already have compromised survival to start with," says Dr. Singh.
"We would like to look at this on a larger scale to determine whether or not our results can be replicated. We're in the process to determine how best to do that." An ICD is a small battery-powered electrical impulse generator implanted in patients who are at risk of sudden cardiac death.
The device is programmed to detect cardiac arrhythmia and correct it by delivering a jolt of electricity or increasing the heart rate to restore a healthy rhythm once an irregular beat has been detected.
About 5,000 Canadians get ICDs every year and there are about 100,000 Canadians who currently have them. (Most Canadians with advanced heart disease are potential candidates for ICDs.)
Heart and Stroke Foundation spokesperson Dr. Beth Abramson says these studies strengthen National Advisory Committee for Immunization recommendations for the use of the influenza vaccine in those at high risk of developing influenza related complications, such as patients with heart disease or diabetes, and those who have close contact with those at high risk of developing complications.
"In addition to leading a heart healthy life, having an annual flu shot could be another easy way to help prevent cardiac events," she says.
Dr. Abramson notes that the Heart and Stroke Foundation recommends an influenza vaccination for those at high risk of influenza-related complications or hospitalization (including people with heart conditions, those with diabetes, people over 65 years of age, people with a BMI at or above 40 and children or adults treated with ASA). It is also recommended for people who are most likely to transmit influenza to high risk individuals (family members, friends, coworkers, healthcare provider and caregivers).
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So here it is at last, the Nexus 4. After countless leaks we finally got a chance to put our dirty little paws on Google and LG's lovechild. The verdict? It's simply phenomenal. By combining the nicest elements of the Optimus G with the latest iteration of Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) the two companies have created something that's better than the sum of its parts. Like its cousin, the Nexus 4 is built around Qualcomm's snappy 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdradon S4 Pro SoC with Adreno 320 graphics and 2GB of RAM. Storage comes in 8GB and 16GB flavors with no microSD expansion. It features the same lovely 4.7-inch 1280x768-pixel IPS display but sheds LTE support for an unlocked pentaband DC-HSPA+ (42Mbps) radio and wireless charging. On the camera front the Nexus 4 inherits the Optimus G's optional eight-megapixel BSI sensor and f/2.4 autofocus lens, instead of the slightly fancier 13 MP shooter. WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS, NFC, Miracast plus a sealed 2100mAh Li-polymer battery complete the package.
Aesthetically, the Nexus 4 blends aspects of the Optimus G and Galaxy Nexus designs, with a glass-covered back and rounded-off top and bottom edges. This phone looks and feels great -- materials and build quality are much improved over last year's handset. At 9.1mm (0.36 inches) thin and 131g (0.31 pounds), it's also very comfortable in hand. Most of the controls are unchanged from its relative -- standard 3.5mm headphone jack and secondary mic on top, volume rocker and micro-SIM tray on the left, micro-USB port and primary mic on the bottom and power / lock button on the right side. The Optimus G's capacitive keys give way to on-screen buttons and the LED notification light moves below the screen (from its former position near the 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera). Overall we're really impressed with the Nexus 4, and that's just the hardware. Sadly, we spent very little time with the software, which includes a plethora of improvements.
You'll be able to purchase a Nexus 4 unlocked in the Play Store starting November 13th for $299 (8GB), $349 (16GB) or $199 with two-year contract on T-Moble (16GB). Stay tuned for our review and until then, take a look at our gallery below and hit the break for our hands-on video.
Brad Molen contributed to this report.
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