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Saturday, January 12, 2013
The Nature of Golf
As the weather turns from chilly to hot during the Spring/Summer season, it can be challenging for players to keep their cool. Luckily, PUMA Golf?s new Spring/Summer 2013 apparel collection combines unmatched style with cutting-edge technology that is guaranteed to keep golfers looking and feeling fresh, all while helping to improve their game both on and off the course. Professional golfers like Rickie Fowler, Lexi Thompson, Jonas Blixt and Blair O?Neal swear by the PUMA Golf collection to bring them performance on the course with unquestionable individuality and style.
Hitting a backyard barbecue after a round of 18 is no longer a problem with features like PUMA CELL, side vents, odor control and UV protection, designed to keep issues like sweat, odor and sunburn at bay. The collection stays true to PUMA Golf?s mantra, ?Look Better. Feel Better. Play Better,? offering the utmost in comfortable functionality and style.The collection features PUMA CELL; a system of performance benefits that are made possible through performance enhancing technologies and features. CELL-powered products are arduously tested, meticulously constructed and, most importantly, inspired by the mental and physical needs of athleres. CELL tackles performance from the inside out, starting with the true essence, or "nature," of performance.
It doesn?t stop there. UV protection in select styles (tops, bottoms and layering pieces) provides golfers with either a UPF 40+ or UPF 50+ sun protection rating; COOLMAX? All Season keeps golfers warmer during a cool, dewy morning and then keeps them cool and dry as the day heats up; PURE by HeiQ promises to keep garments odor-free for the lifetime of the product with a special anti-microbial treatment; and the Duo-Swing technology found in many of PUMA Golf?s tops reduces friction and drag in the cut of the shoulders. (This fabric also contains an anti-microbial treatment and UPF 50+ sun protection?you?re welcome.)
As PUMA Golf fans of all ages know, the brand has never been one to shy away from color and the Spring/Summer 2013 collection is no different. Sharp Green, Blue Atoll, Cabaret, and Vibrant Orange are just some of the hues found in the Men?s Collection and key styles include the Golf Duo-Swing Polo, Ombre Tech Polo, Golf Track Jacket, Golf 5 Pocket Tech Pant, and New Wave Stripe Short. For women, PUMA Golf has tapped shades like Bright Violet, Irish Green, Cabaret Heather, Sulphur Spring, and Capri to tell the collection story. Styles include the Golf Henley Sweater, Golf Novelty Skirt, Ombre Print Polo, and Golf Colorblock Dress. In both Men?s and Women?s, patterns like ombre plaid, watercolor stripes, polka dots and herringbone are sure to make a splash on the course as well. This is not your Grandfather?s argyle!
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
'Help me!': Teen's 911 call played at Holmes hearing
911 calls from the movie theater where a deadly shooting spree was under way were played in court, on the second day of hearings to decide if the alleged gunman should stand trial. NBC's Leanne Gregg reports.
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Veronica Moser-Sullivan, in an undated family photo.
By Tracy Connor, NBC News
Weeping through closed eyes, Ian Sullivan listened Tuesday to a 911 call that detailed the death of his 6-year-old daughter, Veronica, in a Colorado movie theater.
The 4-minute recording captured the voices of two people: a 911 dispatcher and a crying 13-year-old desperately trying to get help for her little cousin and for Veronica's gravely wounded mother, Ashley Moser.
"Who's been shot?" the dispatcher asked.
"My two cousins," the young caller said. "On the floor ... not breathing."
The 911 operator told her she had to perform CPR, but it was too loud in Theater No. 9 -- the movie still playing, screams filling the air -- for her to follow the instructions.
"Help me!" the girl shouted a few times.
Ashley Moser, 25, shot in the stomach and neck, survived but suffered a miscarriage and was paralyzed. Her daughter could not be saved.
Veronica was the youngest of the 12 people killed at the Century 16 theater when James Holmes allegedly opened fire during a midnight screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises"?
The 911 call was played during a preliminary hearing in which prosecutors are laying out their case to convince a judge there's enough evidence to put Holmes on trial for first-degree murder.
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Victims relatives have been in the courtroom and overflow rooms, reacting with anguish at times during hours of emotional and sometimes graphic testimony.
During Tuesday's proceedings, prosecutors played a second 911 call. It was barely half a minute long, but the sound of 33 gunshots could be heard.
The caller, Kevin Quinonez, struggled to be heard but managed to convey some sense of the inexplicable horror unfolding around him: "There's some guy after us."
NBC News? Mike Taibbi and KUSA's Blair Shiff contributed to this report.
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Outsourcing HR - Business 2 Community
Perhaps the greatest burden for small business starters lies in the area of business management. Our most talented veterinarians, bakers and plumbers are not likely to find their forte in the exacting demands of employee recruitment, training, payroll, taxation, workers? compensation, benefits, company policies and the labyrinth of government regulatory compliance. What a headache!
Background
Professional employer organization (PEO) firms obtained popularity in the 1980s as a way to outsource the HR burden for small to medium sized businesses. PEOs operate by hiring a company?s employees in its stead. As the employer of record, a PEO becomes legally responsible for the hiring, firing, payment, insurance, taxation and regulation of all employees of the company.
According to the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO), approximately 700 PEOs were operating in the United States as of 2010, co-employing 2 to 3million workers in fields as diverse as accounting, technology, manufacturing and government agencies. Small businesses comprise the majority of PEO clientele.
Advantages
The most immediate benefit of utilizing PEO services is saving time and staff. When tedious HR responsibilities are eliminated, managers are freer to focus on core competencies and grow their business. A second advantage is the access to higher caliber benefits packages. PEOs can offer Fortune 500 quality benefits that will attract more skilled workers. Another advantage is the lower cost of worker?s compensation insurance that PEOs are able to negotiate.
PEOs can also provide turnkey advanced HR services such as conducting professional candidate interviews and preparing employee handbooks and company policies. Fifthly, using a PEO reduces a company?s legal liabilities and obligations toward employees. The PEO conducts all statutory compliance training and manages all employee risk and safety issues.
Disadvantages
Despite the numerous merits, there are several reasons why a company may not want to outsource its HR management. First is the loss of control that any transfer of administrative power implies. For example, a company?s choice of benefits packages will be limited to those offered by the PEO. Also, the company?s power to hire and terminate workers may be limited by its PEOs policies.
A second drawback is excessive subjection to business statutes. Many governmental regulations designed for larger enterprises do not apply to smaller businesses. Nonetheless, a large PEO firm, being the legal employer of a company?s workers, will enforce all such regulations on its co-employer. A third disadvantage is the possibility of employee dissatisfaction. Suppose that all one?s employees are summarily terminated and rehired by an unfamiliar outside entity and forced to cooperate with it. This can understandably be a confusing and undesirable situation for many workers.
Saving time and staff, lower insurance costs, superior benefits packages, advanced HR services, and reduced liabilities render PEOs an attractive option to businesses that do not mind some loss of administrative control, increased regulation, and possible employee inconvenience. Entrepreneurs in diverse fields have found HR outsourcing a lifesaver for over 30 years, and it continues to merit the serious consideration of every business start-up.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
How to Negotiate When You're Literally Far Apart
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The Scenario
Imagine that you?re the CEO of a sports clothing manufacturer based in Chicago. You recently traveled to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to meet with a distributor who has a rich and diverse network in the European sports market.
During the business trip, you both express enthusiasm about the possibility of a joint venture and agree to give the potential alliance more thought.
Back home, you learn that one of your competitors has discussed similar plans with the same distributor.
Though you don?t want to lose a potential alliance, you?re reluctant to fly back to Amsterdam to take immediate action.
You could pick up the phone, but given time and scheduling differences, it could be days before you reach the distributor.
You?re not sure whether sending an email or leaving a voice-mail message is the right option, either.
The Resolution
It?s a dilemma that negotiators face with increasing frequency: growing economic globalization offers a multitude of new opportunities yet often necessitates alternatives to face-to-face meetings, such as phone calls, email messages, video-conferencing, or instant messaging.
Newly available technologies can be powerful negotiating tools that save time and money, but if not managed properly, they also come with some predictable pitfalls, such as misunderstandings and mutual distrust. What?s more, your choice of communication medium is likely to affect the quality of the relationship, the amount of information shared, and the efficiency of the negotiated agreement.
In this article, we present a range of strategies to help you navigate various types of communication mediation in long-distance negotiations. Specifically, our ?MEDIA approach? advises negotiators to:
- Manage effects of communication characteristics
- Enrich technology and relations
- DIAgnose the other party?s comfort zone in relation to your goals
1. Manage the Effects of Communication Characteristics
Different communication media vary in terms of richness, or their potential to convey the sensation of social presence, which can be so important in negotiation:
- A phone conversation may allow you to feel psychologically close to a foreign partner despite the fact that the two of you are speaking across the globe
- Videoconferencing, which adds visual cues to the exchange, may contribute even more of a social presence
- The impersonal nature of an email exchange, on the other hand, may leave parties feeling distant
A second dimension underlying media is their level of synchronicity, or the extent to which individuals work together on the same activity at the same time.
Phone calls, videoconferencing, and computerized chats allow negotiators to respond immediately to each other?s actions and words, whereas asynchronous media such as email, voicemail, and fax messages delay the communication process, with potentially disastrous consequences.
According to insiders, the extensive use of asynchronous media (voicemail and email) by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was partially responsible for the significant delays in emergency assistance ? and the desperation and death that followed.
Synchronicity of Communication in Business Negotiations
Media richness and synchronicity have a strong impact on negotiation.
In a recent research review, Roderick I. Swaab (one of the authors) and Victoria Medvec and Daniel Diermeier of Northwestern University discovered that vocal cues, visual cues, and synchronicity all promote more efficient outcomes by facilitating information sharing and the use of complex strategies such as making multiple equivalent simultaneous offers (MESOs).
Negotiators leave less money on the table when they are able to pick up clear social cues. Furthermore, Swaab and colleagues found that vocal cues most effectively improve relations between negotiators and thus reduce the likelihood of impasse. By contrast, visual cues available in videoconferencing and the synchronicity of instant messaging did not contribute to the development of positive relationships.
Clearly, when preparing to negotiate, you should choose a medium that suits your purposes; above all, strive to enhance the negotiation with appropriate communication cues.
2. Enrich Technology and Relations
It may seem an obvious step, but professionals often overlook the importance of familiarizing themselves with a particular technology before they start to negotiate.
You don?t need to master every available communication media, but we do encourage you to improve your ability to deal with ? and without ? various characteristics, such as the presence or absence of audio and visual cues.
And, of course, you?ll want to avoid embarrassing situations, such as being unable to place a conference call.
Compared with email communication, instant messaging enables negotiators to take advantage of intricate arguments and thus claim more value, researchers Jeffrey Loewenstein of the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Morris of the Columbia School of Business, Agnish Chakravati of Microsoft, Leigh Thompson of Northwestern University?s Kellogg School of Management, and Shirli Kopelman of the University of Michigan School of Business have found.
For this reason, something as simple as increasing your typing speed can be a decisive factor in synchronous online negotiations. After all, when you type faster than your opponent, you gain more airtime and opportunities to exert influence.
You should consider introducing rules of engagement when beginning a negotiation in a particular medium.
In an email negotiation, you might suggest a 48-hour response rule for any proposals made. Agreeing in advance to take turns ?speaking? can also avoid miscommunication in a synchronous negotiation.
It also makes sense to devote time to enriching your relationship with the other party, both before and during the negotiation. Researchers Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University, Janice Nadler of Northwestern University, and Leigh Thompson ?have found that parties can overcome the diminished rapport inherent in an email negotiation by engaging in a short get-acquainted phone conversation beforehand.
Similarly, Swaab?s research shows that negotiators who communicate using collective pronouns promote a common bond (such as we, us, and our) in their online text-based negotiations are perceived as more friendly, obtain higher profits, and are more likely to be included in final deals than negotiators who use non-collective pronouns.
In addition, and most successfully among younger negotiators, a simple emoticon can overcome misunderstandings by conveying a friendly tone.
3. Diagnose the Other Party?s Comfort zone and Your Goals
Now that you understand the effects of various media characteristics and how to enrich them, it?s almost time to negotiate ? but not until you?ve diagnosed the other side?s comfort zone as it relates to your own negotiation goals.
First, consider how much your counterparts might value certain communication characteristics
When it comes to establishing rapport, for example, some people rely on visual cues, particularly eye contact, more than others. Neuropsychological research shows that women value gazing more than men do; as a result, eye contact helps build relationships among women but could signal attempts to dominate among men.
In a similar vein, professor Susan Fusell of Carnegie Mellon University has found that people from collective cultures (such as India, China, and Singapore) prefer visual cues to build relationships, and, as a result, gain more from a videoconference than do those from individualistic cultures such as the United States.
Now match your knowledge of peoples? preferences for certain cues with your negotiation goals.
If you?re striving to create maximum value for boths sides (as we encourage you to do), try to negotiate in the other party?s preferred communication environment. Suppose that you know that your Dutch counterpart is uncomfortable speaking English; if so, an email negotiation may suit him best.
Comfort with the chosen medium will increase the likelihood that the other party will share his priorities and preferences.
In addition, when you let your counterpart choose the format, he?s more likely to appreciate ? and reciprocate ? the favor. By contrast, when you?re focused on claiming value in a short-term distributive negotiation, choose a medium that gives you an edge. If you know that someone lacks quickness under pressure, you might prefer instant messaging to prolonged email correspondence.
Discover step-by-step techniques for avoiding common business negotiation pitfalls when you download a FREE copy of our Business Negotiation Skills: 5 Common Business Negotiation Mistakes special report from Harvard Law School.Eddie Murphy died Suzanne Barr Clint Eastwood speech Maria Montessori clint eastwood Julian Castro Blue Moon August 2012
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