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Lead and guide the workcell QE section in operating with a high level of efficiency, integrity and enthusiasm, striving to achieve excellence in all endeavors. Be creative and proactive, focusing on continuous improvement. Create an environment that is culturally embedded in a "Quality First" mentality in the workcell. Liaise with customer on all quality related issues together with the workcell functional team.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Recruit and maintain high-caliber work force for QA function for the workcell.
- Work with all levels in the workcell and supporting functions to improve product quality performance with ultimate goal of Zero Defect. Ensure all levels of the organization focused on providing the customer with defect-free product and customer satisfaction.
- Drive to conclusion all action items assigned to the workcell and team members and other supporting functions.
- Develop, motivate and lead all team members to perform to their full potential, providing direct and timely feedback in formal and informal media, on all issue pertaining to product quality.
- Monitor and evaluate the level of QEs' involvement and success on all activities pertaining to product quality improvement; and their contribution towards the continuous improvement of process yields and efficiencies.
- Provide support to all functions to ensure that appropriate corrective and preventive measures are taken and implemented on a timely basis.
- Evaluate and schedule training programs and/or seminar for the Quality Engineering team and other functions that required the appropriate knowledge for product quality improvement.
- Ensure plant wide ESD Controls and Product Regulatory requirements are established and maintained.
- Maintain positive employee relations with encouragement of Jabil's open-door policy, suggestion box, participation in status and team meetings, and interactive one-on-one communication.
- Ensure the responsibility and accountability are very clear; communicate calmly, but clearly, on areas that need improvement. Instill a continuous improvement mentality in all functions within the workcell.
- Review all relevant policies and procedures with direct reports and within the workcell (related to product quality) regarding the specific application to their assignments. Ensure each individual comprehend, as well as providing them ongoing support to ensure compliance.
- Foster good morale, a proactive and positive culture, and maximize the opportunity for personal growth within the workcell QA Team.
- Able to lead and coach all Quality Engineering personnel to enable independence and ownership of their efforts.
- Develop, motivate and challenge all team members to perform to their fullest potential, providing direct and timely feedback in either a formal and informal media.
- Prepare periodic performance reviews of all direct reports. Recommend salary increases and changes in job status as appropriate.
- Create a sense of pride and ownership that strive to be the best in workcell execution and performance.
- Provide and maintain a safe work environment for all employees and visitors.
- To extend support to other workcell or functions, upon request from QA Manager and/or senior management, whenever needs arise, for the benefit of the company.
- May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline
- At least 5 years of working experience in the Quality related field
- Proficient and knowledgeable in all areas related to the QA function
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively in both verbal and written media
- Or a combination of education, experience and/or training


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Sri Lanka is home to many incredible national parks, where visitors can watch elephants, birds and big cats. There's also whale watching off the island's coastlines.
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It's a living nightmare that Jeffrey Block doesn't want repeated. The Connecticut resident said an emotional goodbye to his 21-year-old daughter, Eva, in January 2012 after she and two others died in an off-campus house fire near Marist College in New York. A vibrant collegiate with a penchant for dancing and reading, Eva's zest for life was remembered at her funeral. "She wouldn't want us to be sad," Block told a Connecticut newspaper in 2012.
Three years later, the mourning process continues. Amid a tearful remembrance of Eva that he shared recently with a Connecticut news station, Block brought back the pain of the past in an effort to alter the future.
He's standing behind a legislative bill in Connecticut that would require landlords to inform tenants whether or not their property is sprinklered. Learn more by visiting NFPA's Fire Sprinkler Initiative blog.


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SINGAPORE - Singapore shares opened 0.7 per cent lower on Wednesday (March 28), with the Straits Times Index down 22.48 points to 3,416.87 as at 9.02am as Asian stocks declined following a selloff in technology stocks on Wall Street on Tuesday.
The selloff followed a report that the Trump administration is considering a crackdown on Chinese investment in technologies the US considers sensitive.
On the Singapore Exchange, about 60 million shares worth S$92 million in total changed hands as losers outnumbered gainers 97 to 33.
The most actively traded stock was HLH Group, which rose S$0.002 to S$0.007 with 44.5 million shares changing hands.
The second-highest traded counter was Genting Singapore which fell S$0.01 to S$1.09 with 35.3 million shares changing hands.
Active index stocks included DBS, down S$0.19 or 0.7 per cent at S$27.21; and Singtel shares trading down S$0.03 or 0.9 per cent at S$3.36.
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Longtime instant messaging player ICQ is going the portal route with the launch of two new e-mail services for its 20 million users.
The company has teamed with Mail2World and launched an improved version of ICQmail, a free e-mail service that will offer virus scans, spam filtering, instant e-mail translation in up to seven languages and several other features.
In addition to the ICQmail upgrade, the Israel-based outfit also announced the launch of a new premium mail service that will offer 2 gigabytes of storage and give users the ability to record and send video e-mails that can be viewed on Windows-based PCs. The service will cost $19.99 per year.
"We are extremely pleased to be working with Mail2world to provide our users with an easy-to-use and reliable Web-based e-mail service, free of charge," said Danny Ben Shitrit, vice president for Product Marketing at ICQ, in a news release. "Mail2World's solutions have enabled us to offer a highly customizable user experience."
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Yamaha TZ750
My first bike was a 1976 Suzuki RM 50 and, for an eager five-year-old, it was a fire-breathing monster.
The exhaust note and character of the two-stroke engine filled me with excitement, and its blue smoky waft has left a lasting impression with me ever since.
My road-racing career also began on two-strokes – 125cc GP machines that were perfect for learning about tuning and carburation. From there it was the popular 250cc Production class, comprising the Suzuki RGV and Aprilia RS250 twin-cylinder two-strokes. Sadly, that was the last of two-stroke Production racing in Australia and New Zealand.
During the early 1970s the blue riband GP class was limited to 500cc and dominated by MV Agusta's four-stroke multi-cylinder machines.
Yamaha built the YZF500 and it was two versus four-strokes again. It already had many years of two-stroke engineering knowledge from racing in the 125, 250 and 350cc classes and used it to hit the ground running with the YZF500. Winning on debut GP at round one of the 1973 World Championship in France, the YZF500 went on to become one of the greatest GP bikes of all time. During its reign it amassed 115 GP victories, 11 rider's and nine manufacturer's titles.
At the same time, the US market was prolific for the Japanese brands and Yamaha wanted to promote its products there via racing.
To meet the 750cc AMA rules, a manufacturer was required to build a minimum of 200 examples to enter the bike into racing. Unlike Suzuki or Kawasaki, which had production bikes to build racers from, Yamaha made a big call: it essentially grafted two TZ350 engines together to produce the TZ750.
Though initially a 700cc, this early model successfully scared the pants off its Japanese test riders so Aussie GP legend Kel Carruthers was called upon to help tame the beast. Kel's advice to lengthen the wheelbase put a stop to the bike's high-speed tank slapping.
As the engine enlarged to 750cc, the chassis adopted the new monoshock rear suspension and triangulated swingarm design.
There wasn't another off-the-shelf racer that could touch it and Yamaha sold more than 600 of them, winning countless championships along the way. TZ750s won the premier Daytona 200 event every year from 1974 to 1982.
The TZ750 even made a brief appearance in the US dirt track scene when Kenny Roberts entered his TZ750 flat tracker at the 1975 Indy Mile event. It won by beating the dirt-track champ of the time, Jay Springsteen, and a bunch of other riders on Harley-Davidson XR750s.
As the TZ had quite literally smoked the competition with its superior straight-line speed, the AMA quickly changed the rules to ban the machine from further dirt-track competition on "safety grounds" – and to save American-as-apple-pie Harley from total humiliation.
The way a two-stroke develops its power can be unforgiving, especially prior to advanced electronics to smoothen the power delivery. Power on a multi-cylinder four-stroke is delivered progressively, whereas a two-stroke is more like a light switch – there's not much until the revs reach the powerband and then, like it or not, you get almost all the power at once!
We're now in a retro muscle-bike boom with Katanas and big inline-fours from the early 1980s being hugely popular, but what about the two-strokes of the same era?
As two-strokes are no longer being produced and raced, their tuning experts are becoming as rare as the bikes. Back in the day, the paddock would be full of men with decades of two-stroke experience.
The biggest task is carburation: to get them running right, carburettor settings need to suit atmospheric conditions. This is a constant work in progress as too rich an air/fuel mixture will have the bike lethargic and reluctant to rev cleanly. Too lean and the bike may seize from too much heat and not enough cylinder lubrication.
One way to check the fuel mixture is to conduct a plug-chop hole, which involves holding the bike at full throttle for several seconds before hitting the kill switch and pulling the clutch simultaneously. You'd then head back in the pits to remove the plugs and inspect their colour where experts would read the colour of the electrode to judge if the fuelling was correct.
Many a two-stroke engine has blown up due to incorrect carburation as a simple error in tuning can have catastrophic effects – both to engine parts and the owner's wallet!
Phil, the owner of this bike, has fond memories of two-strokes and needed a new classic-racing project, so why not a TZ750, he figured. The thought of another Katana or XR69 production-based bike didn't appeal like a purebred TZ750, so the decision was simple: build one to go racing.
This isn't the kind of bike you walk into a dealer and choose from the showroom stock. You either make a vain attempt to find one for sale (good luck) or you build one yourself.
Phil started off with a chassis kit from CMR in Canada, which produces its version of the original TZ750 chassis with some claimed improvements. Completing the rolling chassis is a set of 17-inch Dymag magnesium racing wheels, comprising a 3.0-inch front and a 5.0-inch rear. Although bigger than original, these rims allow the use of modern race-compound tyres. A conventional 41mm fork from a Yamaha street bike with Ohlins internals and a Works Performance rear shock unit went to Tony from Race Bike Services in Lonsdale, South Australia, who set up the suspension.
The engine was built in Australia from parts and assembled by Barry Ditchburn. Barry knows his way around a two-stroke better than most, having raced and tuned them for much of his life. He was a podium-finisher in GP racing during the late 1970s riding for the factory Kawasaki team alongside Mick Grant and "Kork" Ballington. After relocating from the UK to Australia, Barry won the Australian Sidecar Championship and is a familiar face in the classic racing paddock today.
Few parts were straight bolt-on items and many needed to be re-engineered or fabricated specifically for the TZ build. Assembling the bike was done by Phil's mate, Bill White, in Melbourne. Peter McWiggan of Manta Engineering produced much of the hardware and Barry did the engine assembly and tuning, so the bike has some serious classic racing talent behind it.
Since completion in August last year, the bike has been well exercised on the track. Aussie racing legend Malcolm "Wally" Campbell raced the bike at its debut at Phillip Island and again at the Australian Classic Championship in Queensland. It was then raced by Barry's son, Craig Ditchburn, at the 2015 Phillip Island Classic. At the Island, the bike's on-board GPS recorded 287km/h.
The bike has been gradually evolving and has gone through many changes. The swingarm pivot height has been changed and the swingarm lengthened for more rear grip and stability.
I'd spoken to Phil about having a spin since I first heard about the project and he kindly offered me a ride – no rider would turn down the opportunity to punt a bike like this.
Just sitting on its racestand in the garage, the TZ is imposing – there's no mistaking this for anything but a thoroughbred racer.
Unlike production racer bikes that show signs of their road-going roots, there's nothing on a GP bike that isn't there to make it go faster.
At this year's Penrite Broadford Bike Bonanza in Victoria I finally had the chance to throw a leg over the TZ.
Mounted on its racestand, I waited for the remote roller to spin the back wheel to start the bike. Unlike the classic inline four-strokes I often ride, the TZ didn't need much momentum to fire.
The multi-cylinder 750cc two-stroke gurgled to life and a couple of healthy blips of the throttle had the engine revving cleanly. The exhaust note, to a two-stroke lover, is simply music: a sweet-sounding combination of raspy crack from the exhausts with the intake growl of the four carburettors, all without an airbox or any air filters.
The smell of a blue cloud of Elf HTX GP oil and Avgas is another hit to excite the senses. It also takes me back to my childhood with my RM 50.
Out on track, I opened the throttle and the tacho needle shot towards 10,000rpm. I shifted up a gear and the needle did it again, another gear showing how quickly the engine makes power. Maximum engine speed is 10,620rpm. A two-stroke race bike is either revving hard and asking for a higher gear, or it's 'off the pipe' and searching for a lower one, and there isn't a lot in between.
The bike feels small – even compared with a compact, modern sportsbike – and it feels light. Tipping the scales at just 145 kilograms, the bike is a featherweight for the performance on offer. On a dyno, the liquid-cooled inline four produces an impressive 164hp (122kW) at 10,300rpm and 117Nm of torque.
A lack of weight and bulk allows a bike to perform better, from acceleration to braking. And combined with the lack of internal inertia, there's a big response from little effort in the steering.
The TZ is a pleasure to ride, and an exciting one. Gear selection is crucial to keep power in its sweet spot.
I tried to keep the bike driving through the middle of turns and not hit its powerband until I'd picked the bike relatively upright on the tyre.
On a dry track, sunny day and the latest Dunlop Superbike tyres, it was all laughs and giggles. Trying to imagine a similar bike in the late 1970s with skinny tyres and ordinary grip at best, combined with a slippery surface or wet conditions doesn't bear thinking about.
As fun as the TZ is to ride, it demands respect and I gave it plenty. There was no stopwatch or race result to care about and I simply enjoyed each lap while building confidence and speed. Man, these bikes are demanding to ride hard.
After a solid track session I returned to the pit to digest the experience.
I was still smiling at how strong the engine was, but felt the bike was under-sprung. Swapping to heavier-rate springs in the fork and shock would take care of this and control the excessive suspension movement.
On paper, the TZ should be a match for any classic bike on the grid, but results could tell a different story. With current classic events usually held over six- or eight-lap sprint races, the slower-starting two-stroke is at a disadvantage in the drag race to the first turn.
Engine characteristics make it difficult for the two-stroke to pass.
A four-stroke will slow into a corner, turn and then jump off the exit. A two-stroke will carry much higher rolling speed through the whole turn, whereas four-strokes have a wider power curve and usually more torque to be stronger off the corner. If the two-stroke gets a clear track, it may be able to clear off, but if stuck in a battle with four-strokes spoiling its mid-turn strengths, it can be very difficult to ride to its full potential.
Given this is a relatively new build, it's well on the way to being a fully sorted race bike. The owner plans to race it again soon with a high-profile name from Australia's recent racing history. Watch this space.


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Elizabeth Diller's interdisciplinary design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has generated some of the contemporary art world's most inspiring spaces—including the Broad in downtown Los Angeles, the ICA Boston, and the forthcoming renovation of New York's Museum of Modern Art in 2019. Diller and her partners Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, and Benjamin Gilmartin have earned reputations as nonconformist, boundary-pushing thinkers, repurposing materials, and playing with space.
Nonetheless, she says looking towards the future presents unique challenges. "Time is really, really difficult for the architect," she says. "The conventions of architecture are to make buildings that last—to make them enduring." Here, she contemplates how to design buildings that transcend time, while accommodating the continuous evolution of the activities and art forms that will exist within them.
What does the future of art look like? How will the role of art evolve in an increasingly digital, global, and image-saturated world? In this series of films, each featuring one creator's unique vision, Artsy explores where artistic output is headed. Join us as we reflect on the role of tradition in an age of rapid technological advancement, and discuss the potential impact of this new work—from intimate drawings to cutting-edge buildings—on the audiences of the future.
In the past 50 years, the BMW Group has engaged in over 100 cultural projects worldwide—focusing on contemporary and modern art, classical music and jazz, and architecture and design. Click here to learn more about our co-initiatives, including the Future of Art, the BMW Art Journey, and the BMW Art Guide, and follow along @BMWGroupCulture.


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The Bangladeshi authorities are to deploy troops to help maintain order after transport blockades paralysed the country.
A man is killed and several people injured as protesters clash with police in the capital.
The Awami League, the main opposition party, and its allies have said that MA Aziz, the chief election commissioner, tried to influence elections, being organised by the country's interim government in favour of the outgoing Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) administration.
Transport blockade
Thousands of opposition supporters chanting "Sack Aziz and save the country" demonstrated and blocked roads throughout the country, police said.
A mob enforcing the blockade smashed at least 11 buses at Savar, 40km west of Dhaka, the private UNB news agency reported.
The roads were empty and many offices and schools remained closed in Dhaka and other large cities. Deliveries to and from the country's main port in southeastern Chittagong also remained suspended, and rail services were disrupted, officials said.
Meanwhile, the caretaker government has said it is working to try to end the deadlock.
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Fake voter list
The opposition has accused Aziz's commission of drawing up a list that contains 10 million fake voters, and has said that fair elections cannot be held with him in place.
It has threatened to boycott the polls unless its demands, including his sacking, are met.
At least 25 people died in four days of clashes between rival party activists when the BNP-led government's five-year mandate expired on October 27.
The clashes began when the opposition staged mass protests that led KM Hasan, a former supreme court judge, to decline to continue as head of a caretaker government in late October. The opposition accused him of being politically biased in favour of the BNP.
After talks between the BNP and the Awami League to find a compromise candidate broke down amid spiralling violence, Iajuddin Ahmed, the president, installed himself as head of the temporary administration on October 29.
The Awami League later called off its protests, saying it wanted to give the president time to show that he could be non-partisan.
On Saturday, however, it announced a resumption of protests and an indefinite nationwide road, rail and river blockade, and accused the president of failing to demonstrate his neutrality by not sacking Aziz.


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One of the Americans killed alongside Ambassador Christopher Stevens in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya Tuesday told ABC News before his death that he was working with the State Department on an intelligence mission to round up dangerous weapons in the war-torn nation.
In an interview with ABC News last month, Glen Doherty, a 42-year-old former Navy SEAL who worked as a contractor with the State Department, said he personally went into the field to track down so-called MANPADS, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, and destroy them. After the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the State Department launched a mission to round up thousands of MANPADS that may have been looted from military installations across the country. U.S. officials previously told ABC News they were concerned the MANPADS could fall into the hands of terrorists, creating a threat to commercial airliners.
via Glen Doherty, Former Navy SEAL Killed in Libya, Was on Intel Mission to Track Weapons – ABC News.


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Heat Rash – What is it?
Heat rash is a red or pink rash that is usually found in areas of the skin often covered by clothing. It occurs when sweat ducts are clogged, causing swelling, itching, and discomfort. Skin affected by heat rash will usually appear red and irritated, and may show signs of tiny bumps.
How to Prevent It
Heat rash is caused by excessive sweating, trapping perspiration under the skin. There is a higher risk for children who are highly active, dressed inappropriately for the weather, or are wearing clothes that prevent the skin from breathing.
To prevent heat rash, take the following precautions:
- Dress your child lightly in natural, breathable fabric like cotton and bamboo
- Avoid using oils, thick creams, and ointments that can block sweat glands
- Avoid staying in the sun for too long, taking frequent breaks in the shade or indoors to cool down
How to Treat It
Unfortunately, it's not always possible to prevent heat rash – no matter how hard we try. Because the sweat glands of babies and children are immature, they are highly susceptible to developing a heat rash. Fortunately, it is very easy to treat. If your child has a heat rash, here's how to treat it:
- Keep your child out of the sun, and remove or loosen any extra clothing
- After a warm day, give your child a lukewarm bath with only water to clear out blocked sweat glands
- Avoid using oily creams – this can make the rash worse and more painful. Opt for a zinc oxide-based cream instead. We recommend our NAÏF Diaper Cream, which is excellent for cooling and healing heat rash.


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Then I watched Les enfants du paradis, a French film completed in 1945. I guess the film took a while to complete, what with the German occupation of France and all. The movie's IMDb page says that a number of members of the French Resistance worked on this film, as it gave them a place to hide. It also says that one of the actors was a Nazi collaborator and fled during filming when the Allies landed in Sicily (the movie was filmed in Nice). Oh, and apparently the person who replaced him was the son of the painter Renoir. It was a neat movie. I can't say that I loved it as much as some modern movies, but it was certainly fun.
It's also long (just over 3 hours), so I didn't get home until close to midnight. I find it very difficult to go to bed as soon as I get home, no matter what time I get home. It just so happened that I received the second disc of Season 2 of Smallville yesterday, so I ended up watching the whole thing and not getting to bed until 3. Some good bits in there, although I'm getting slightly tired of the writers harping on the whole Lana-doesn't-trust-Clark-since-he-won't-t
OK, since I'm at work, I suppose I should actually do some work. Time to finish up the latest issue of the journal, and then maybe I can get some quality typesetting time in. I don't really feel like being here too long, but I want to make up for not getting this stuff done on Friday. But I also want to make sure that I get home before the snow starts, and I likely will actually take tomorrow completely off (except for maybe reading some of our books).


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- Better the devil you know....
- Myopic view of land reform.
- Africa gets more female ministers.
- Muslims welcome year 1440 Hijri.
- World's oldest drawing found in South Africa.
- Ethiopia's PM receives peace and reconciliation award.
- Zimbabwe creates Chinese documentaries.
- Kofi Annan laid to rest in Ghana.
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OR Extends Background Checks to All Gun Sales
(CN) – Oregon became the eighth state in the nation to require background checks for all gun sales after Gov. Kate Brown signed SB 941 into law on Monday.
The bill enhances stringent background requirements already in place under the Brady Law, a federal regulation signed in 1992 that mandates background checks for guns purchased from federally licensed dealers, and legislation passed by Oregon lawmakers in 2000 that extended the checks to guns sold at gun shows.
According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the bill signed Monday closes the "vast Internet loophole" by requiring anyone buying a gun in Oregon to go through a background check before purchase.
The background checks and laws stem from the work of James Brady, a White House press secretary under Ronald Reagan. Brady was nearly killed and permanently disabled in the attempted assassination of Reagan by John Hinkley, Jr. in 1981.
"Oregon's legislature has succeeded where our national Congress has failed, and every Oregonian will be safer because of it," said Brady Campaign president Dan Gross. "This makes Oregon the sixth state in the last two years to expand Brady background checks to all gun sales, and we intend to continue to take this fight state by state until Congress ultimately wakes up and gets the message to 'finish the job' and expand life-saving Brady background checks to every gun show and Internet sale in this country."
The six states passed enhanced background checks following the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.


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Posted: February 14, 2017 @ 6:09pm
Category: Terrain Park
It feels like Groundhog Day...the movie!
Here we go again folks. Just as soon as we get ourselves dug out and some parks rebuilt for your shredding pleasure, the Weather Man drops the news that another couple of storms are on deck. Hope you all got a chance to get out there and try out the new features in Belmont and the Gold Coast Jumps at Squaw as well as the new rail line in Tiegel at Alpine. If you didn't make it out, no worries, we will dig it out and rebuild again! That's what we do when it just keeps snowing. See you all out there.
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About Seattle Children's Festival
The Seattle Children's Festival is an event where the whole family can play, dance, sing, learn, and try something new! All are invited to this intergenerational celebration of the dynamic arts, cultures, and traditions that thrive here in the greater Pacific Northwest community with 2 main stages, 3 interactive workshop spaces, 2 Discovery Zones full of hands-on activities, a STEAM Lab, and so much more! With so much to see, do, and discover, this is the place to celebrate Our Big Neighborhood!
About Our Big Neighborhood
Northwest Folklife and Seattle Center are proud to present Our Big Neighborhood, a youth and family program that provides opportunities to share and sustain the vitality of folk, ethnic and traditional arts for present and future generations. With events scheduled all year round, there's always an opportunity to have fun and learn something new with family, friends, and all of us who make up Our Big Neighborhood.
Year-round events include: Movin' Around the World: Winter, Movin' Around the World: Spring, Global Playground, Seattle Children's Festival, and Our Big Neighborhood at Winterfest.
Learn More: https://www.nwfolklife.org/obn/


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The Cowgirl Way Myths Have Obscured The Lives Of Real Heroines Who Pioneered A New Freedom For Women
Fri., Dec. 5, 1997
Wholesome yet wild, hard-working but with satin shirts to die for, the cowgirl is arguably the great American heroine.
To many, she's just a figment of show biz or a recent, financial necessity on the struggling family ranch. She's the fringed barrel racer at the rodeo squeezed between the "real" events, the men's events. Or else she's Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley warbling "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun" while demurely losing a shooting match to her future husband in "Annie Get Your Gun."
But while the cowboy has been thoroughly mythologized, inflated, deflated, analyzed and appropriated, no one doubts his actual existence - either out on the frontier or in the generations of working ranch hands who succeeded him.
The same should be true of the cowgirl. She was there. She is there. A list of ranchers in Spanish Texas in 1795 includes the names of 10 women, who owned one-fifth of the region's cattle. Lizzie Williams (1843-1924) was one of Texas' most successful cattle dealers. Sally Skull has a historical marker in her name near Refugio, Texas, commemorating her life as a whip-cracking, gun-toting horse trader. Molly Goodnight, co-founder with her husband, Charles, of the famous JA Ranch in the Panhandle, rode the trail to Dodge City and owned her own herds.
And by the way, the real Annie Oakley won that shooting match.
The cowgirl was part of the West, homesteading, ranching, panning for gold, bounty hunting, working the railroad - and she helped shape the later image of the West in movies and in rodeos as a professional sports figure. Cowgirls, in fact, were the first professional female athletes to organize (the Girls Rodeo Association, formed in 1949).
A number of books about real ranchwomen, rodeo riders and their more legendary sisters have come out the past several years. They include "Cowgirls" by Candace Savage (Ten Speed), "Cowgirls: Women of the American West" by Teresa Jordan (Bison), "By Grit & Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West," edited by Glenda Riley and Richard Etulian (Fulcrum) and Joyce Gibson Roach's revised version of her 1977 classic "The Cowgirls" (University of North Texas).
There's even a new children's book of hand-tinted photos, "Cowgirls," by Bob "Daddy-O" Wade (Gibbs Smith), as well as a collection of paintings and sketches celebrating an eternally spirited, mythic cowgirl by the North Texas painter Donna Howell-Sickles, "Cowgirl Rising" (Greenwich Workshop).
Beginning with Roach's book, several of these histories argue that not only did cowgirls have a hand in the West (and its later packaging), they also pioneered a new freedom for women. When Susan B. Anthony and other 19th-century feminists were articulating their principles of emancipation in the East, working ranchwomen already embodied those ideas - out West.
Says Savage: "Many of the women who worked on ranches would not have seen any equation between themselves and the early suffragettes. They were avowedly "antisuffragette" because early feminism got sidetracked into temperance drives and the purity of women - neither idea popular among hardliving ranchwomen.
But despite such class and regional antagonisms, "cowgirls, whether they realized it or not, were doing with their bodies what Eastern feminists were doing with language and education," says Savage. "People press their cases in different ways, and the working class often uses 'body talk."'
The body talk of cowgirls spoke of a woman of authority, a woman on horseback, wearing pants, riding like a man - scandalous activities at a time when, even on the Plains, skirts and sidesaddles were considered the proper riding gear for women. The West has long represented an escape from the confines of the East, the opportunity to shed one's old identity. For many women, it also meant an escape from the strictures of Victorian femininity. Wearing pants may have been considered a sign of instability or social defiance, yet ranchwomen learned the practical reason why pants were invented: to ride horses.
At the same time, writes Savage, many frontier ranchwomen "were troubled by the loss of their womanly dignity." They were raised back East, and ranch work was and is bruising and dirty. It hardly fit the norms of demure feminine behavior.
It has its compensations, however. Roach, a folklorist who lives on a ranch near Keller, Texas, says, "The emancipation of women may well have begun when they mounted a good cowhorse and realized how different and fine the view was. … It may sound pat but it's true - once you've learned to manage a horse, work with one, there's not much in life after that that you can't handle."
But the great attraction in the West, as it was for men, was free land. The U.S. Homestead Act of 1862 treated men and women equally as potential landowners - a remarkably radical move for 19th-century property rights. Between 1875 and 1900, approximately a quarter of a million American women ran their own farms and ranches.
The Wyoming Territory was the first jurisdiction in North America to enact woman's suffrage (1869), appoint a female justice of the peace (1870), welcome a woman into the state Legislature (1910) and seat a female governor (1925). Montana was the first to elect a woman to Congress (1916). Western states were also among the first to recognize a married woman's right to her own property.
In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt came to the obvious conclusion when the drive for woman's suffrage raged on the national level. He quipped: "I think civilization is coming Eastward gradually."
Cowgirls became a tourist attraction, as unusual as buffalo herds or native Indians. Their independence infiltrated popular depictions of women. According to Henry Nash Smith's classic cultural study of the frontier, "Virgin Land," before 1880, women in dime novels existed solely to give the hero a prop to rescue. Pioneer women were depicted as patient, loving and dutiful.
But after 1880, the heroines began to change from genteel victims to "Amazons of the range" and "bandit queens."
For good or ill, many of our notions of the West were formed at the turn of the century in the development of the rodeo and the Wild West show - which, in turn, influenced the early, silent-film Westerns. And cowgirls figured in all three, sometimes the same cowgirls. Early rodeo champions Bertha Blancett, Mabel Strickland and Vera McGinnis spent the off-season working in movies as stunt riders, wranglers and performers. Lucille Mulhall made a fortune in silent films - she was one of the great early steer-ropers and the woman whom Teddy Roosevelt dubbed a "cowgirl," thus popularizing the term.
The development of all of these Western entertainments was part of "selling the West to the East," says Roach. "It came at a time of great national thirst for adventure: Teddy Roosevelt, the dime novels, the sensationalist newspapers. All of these social movements converged at roughly the same time on the West and on a folk heroine, the cowgirl."
Phoebe Ann Moses, Roach points out, was an unlikely candidate to step forward at this moment as a cowgirl heroine. She'd never been west of Cincinnati and knew little of cattle or cowboys.
But as Annie Oakley, she made the American cowgirl an international figure. As the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, she defined the essential cowgirl.
Annie Oakley didn't become a pop-culture icon just because of her prodigious marksmanship or her hard-working professionalism. It was her personality, the combination of ambition and charm - her "girlishness" - that set people at ease with a woman who could casually blast a cigar out of her husband's mouth. Annie always wore long skirts, for instance, never pants. She set the mold for the hundreds of Western performers who followed, from Patsy Montana to Dale Evans to k.d. lang: the tomboy and the little lady, audacious yet innocent.
But through the line of development from ranch to rodeo to movie reel and radio hit, Savage notes, the cowgirl's spirit was watered down and commodified. By the '30s and '40s, she was just another clothing choice offered by our pop culture, a matter of cute hats and fringe, tight jeans and boots.
What happened, Savage says, is that since Annie's heyday, the cowgirl went through a series of "cultural gatekeepers," who diluted her strength. First, there were the rodeo managers, who refused to let women compete with men. Then there were producers such as cowboy singing star Gene Autry, who in addition to his film and music empire, owned the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, once the home of the national finals. In his Westerns, radio shows and rodeos, Savage says, Autry reduced the cowgirl to "a ranch glamour gal."
"They stopped doing the roughand-tumble stuff," she says. "They became decorative. That the cowgirl came through at all with any spirit intact was a miracle."
Thanks to Barbara Stanwyck, Dale Evans and Gail Davis (TV's Annie Oakley), she did. There were occasional flashes in the '50s, strong-willed women in such films as "Westward the Women" or "Johnny Guitar" with Joan Crawford. But it was primarily these three performers, in their very different ways, who portrayed independent, self-reliant cowgirls - some of the few such media images for young women at the time.
These days, with the Western film in a long decline partly because it has had difficulty adapting to social changes such as feminism, the cowgirl has reappeared in pop-culture manifestations like the Dixie Chicks or the current off-Broadway musical "Always, Patsy Cline." She is revived as a figure of girl-group camp or sweet nostalgia. With her gender-busting crossover appeal, k.d. lang has been one of the very few inheritors of the cowgirl saddle who kicked up some dust.
But then, there's always women's rodeo. It remains a small, controlled explosion of female energy that the wider culture has rarely tapped.
Author Sara Bird of Austin, Texas, followed "alternative" rodeos for years (women's rodeos, black rodeos, kid rodeos, Native American rodeos) to write her 1993 novel, "Virgin of the Rodeo." She says the character of Annie Oakley - and the obstacles she surmounted - are still very much a part of the rodeo scene.
"It is fascinating to see how really hard it is to be female in that world," she says, "how easier it is to be a man. It's a victory of sorts for them, just retaining their femininity while trying to gain the same freedom to be wild."
Or as Roach puts it, "There's a tradition to uphold, to dress the part. It's the cowgirl way - being a woman on your terms."
Bird sees that tradition split into two rodeo subcultures today. There are the more mainstream and traditionally "ladylike" performers. "Some of these gals are packing more weight in their hair mousse than on their hips," she jokes.
And then there are the roughstock riders. "They're the wild ones," Bird says, "the ones who shut down bars. I didn't meet too many roughstock riders who had all their teeth."
That division cuts to the heart of what the cowgirl offers. It has to do with the roles that are open to women, says Savage.
She recalls watching Lynn "Jonnie" Jonckowski in the '80s - the former champion bull rider and later sports commentator. "She'd deliberately wear provocative outfits," Savage says. "She wanted to get more attention for her sport, she said, so it would get commercial endorsements like men's rodeo. So playing on her sexuality is what she felt she had to do."
In fact, ranchwomen and rodeo riders may have disdained organized feminism, but the dilemma they face is familiar to many women in the urban workplace. As long as they act conventionally feminine, the women may consign themselves to being specialty acts, not the "real" professionals.
But if they don't act feminine, they may be marginalized. "Bull dagger," Savage notes, an old pejorative term for black lesbians, is derived from "bull dogger," that is, a steer wrestler. And Bird believes that lesbianism as an instrument of accusation is a force in women's rodeo - invoked by threatened male riders or competitive women against each other.
A strong woman working hard, having fun, handling powerful animals and powerful weapons, dressing up and getting in the dirt, taking part in one of America's defining moments on the Plains: The cowgirl straddles any number of sexual, cultural and class ambiguities, fears, dreams. No wonder Hollywood has accommodated her only fitfully, despite her presence in the historical record.
Even so, she remains America's singular contribution to female independence. No one else had cowgirls.
"Throughout history," says Roach, "cultures have idealized the horseman - the knights, the warriors, the adventurers. That's really what all those legends and chivalry come down to - the advantages of a man on horseback.
"We just did the same with cowgirls."
Staff illustration by Molly Quinn
MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: Several cowgirls reach mythic status The Dallas Morning News If the cowboy legend can include gunslingers (who actually had little to do with the cattle industry), then cowgirls can certainly accommodate what today we'd call "gender outlaws." These are the only two women popularly admitted into Western mythology: Belle Starr: Born Myra Bell Shirley in 1848, she was a passionate Confederate and involved with William Quantrill's Raiders, the outlaw guerrilla outfit that included Frank and Jesse James. Her brother was a member and she married one, too, who was killed by lawmen. A crack shot and expert rider, a lover of outlaw Cole Younger (by whom she had a child), Belle later married Sam Starr, a Cherokee who owned a ranch, a bandit hideout, in Indian Territory. Known for her plumed hat and velvet riding skirt, she fancied herself a "bandit queen," and was once convicted of horse theft. But her notoriety really took off only after she was shot in the back in 1889 by an unknown assassin. Lurid pamphlets about her life promptly appeared, and she was later portrayed on film and television by Gene Tierney, Pamela Reed and Elizabeth Montgomery. Calamity Jane: Unlike Belle, Calamity Jane fictionalized her own life, although it was a ragged adventure in its own right. Born Martha Jane Cannary in 1852, she came to Montana at 11 and was soon orphaned. Fending for herself, she became a teamster and Army scout, wearing a man's buckskin outfit. She met Wild Bill Hickok during the 1876 South Dakota gold rush, but there's no evidence they were lovers. Jane did, however, help smallpox patients during an epidemic there. A binge drinker and hard curser, Jane flashed into Wild West celebrity with dime novels, a drama and her own dubious pamphlet, "My Life and Adventures." But she never made the transition to performer the way Buffalo Bill did. She died at 47, worn-out and sick. Her wandering mess of a life has inspired dozens of novels and movies, including Larry McMurtry's "Buffalo Girls." Most recently, the Warner Bros. cartoon "The Legend of Calamity Jane" was one of the only animated adventure series on TV with a heroic female lead. It was canceled this month after a brief run. Three runners-up for mythic status: Cattle Annie and Little Britches: Anne McDoulet and Jennie Stevens were the source for a Robert Ward novel and the 1980 film starring Burt Lancaster, Amanda Plummer and Diane Lane. The two were juvenile delinquents who rode with the Doolin gang in 1894 in the Oklahoma Territory, stealing cattle and horses, and peddling whiskey when they were 17 and 16, respectively. After the Doolin gang was brought to justice, Marshalls Bill Tilghman and Steve Burke tracked down Cattle Annie and Little Britches. They were sentenced to short jail terms. Anne married and settled down near Pawnee, Okla. Jennie died of consumption in New York. Texas Guinan: Born Mary Louise Cecilia in 1883, the infamous nightclub hostess grew up on the Guinan ranch near Waco, Texas. After studying music in Chicago, she toured as a vaudeville chorus girl. In Hollywood, Texas became the toughest, most self-reliant of the early silent-film cowgirls, appearing in some 200 tworeelers. But by 1921, she'd divorced her third husband, ditched her fifth producer and formed her own film company because producers found her no longer young and pretty enough. Three years later, she was in New York as queen of the speakeasies for gangster Larry Fay. She fueled her boisterous, smart-mouth reputation with her many arrests and her famous greeting, "Hello, sucker." The Depression and her inability to parlay her notoriety into a major hit on stage or screen led her to keep touring. She died on tour in British Columbia in 1933. (Source: "The Cowgirls" by Joyce Gibson Roach and "Cowgirls" by Candace Savage)
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Naima Kay on reclaiming her place as 'vocal royalty' with new single
Naima says contrary to popular belief, she never actually left she's just been cooking up hits!
Almost five years since Naima Kay stole Mzansi's hearts with her soulful voice, the songstress now wants to remind people that she belongs at the top of the musical food chain.
Naima has gifted Mzansi with music that keeps her name on the tip of the tongue even when she's scarce on the scene. Speaking to TshisaLIVE Naima said she hasn't been hiding, she's just been hard at work.
"My focus is mostly on making music, I do attend some of these red carpet events, especially when they are music related. I make sure I come up to Joburg for them because this is where they mostly happen and I stay in Durban."
Songs like Lelilanga and Shayizandla are still very popular to date even though they came from Naima's debut album, proving how timeless her music is. She said the songs were hits because they were a reflection of how hard she wanted the world to feel her fire.
Naima set the bar very high for her future in the industry because from the very beginning she came for everything. The singer won Best Newcomer at the Samas with her first album.
"Lelilanga and Shayizandla are from my debut album, this is when the drive to make it in the industry is on it's maximum level. When I had to work ten times harder to show that I really want my spot and to make my mark in the industry. I also had the pressure to prove myself to my record company to show them that they have made a right choice for selecting you out of a thousand demo's of hopefuls they receive who also wants this."
Five years later she still enjoys support like she's just entered the industry and she believes it stems from the effort she puts into releasing quality music.
Naima took a young break from releasing music and even though she also became a rare sight for Mzansi paparazzi, she explained it was all for the music.
"I actually didn't realise that I have been scarce, but I took a break last year from releasing an album. But I've have been working with other artists like Lasandra, Prince M, DJ Sammy K from Touch Africa Records and have also been writing new music for my 4th studio album that I am currently recording. So there really was no hiatus, it's been work work work!"
Along with the song that Robbie Malinga gifted her with before he died, Naima has plenty of new music to share, starting with her single Soka lami from her album Queen Kay.
"My album can be expected at the end of September. Queen Kay is the title of the album, We decided on that title after the sad passing of the legend Robbie Malinga who I have been working with in all my albums together with Mjakes, a well known music producer."


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In this primary election season, which concludes Aug. 4 with Democratic and Republic primaries that are likely to decide the outcomes of the November elections, like all elections, the issue of crime has come into sharp focus.
Many candidates, no matter the office they seek, shape their entire platforms around crime so, naturally, law and order is the central issue in the races for Hinds County sheriff and district attorney.
In the race for sheriff, incumbent Tyrone Lewis is looking to hold on to his post against fellow longtime lawman Victor Mason. We decline to endorse in this race. We cannot endorse Lewis not just because the Raymond Detention Center and downtown jails keep ending up in the headlines after daring escapes, but because he hasn't come up with a real plan to address it.
And if he plans to beat Lewis, Mason, who is just getting his feet in electoral politics, hasn't seemed to form the kind of organization that can pull it off. In short, Lewis can't seem to get a handle on the county jail; Mason can't seem to manage his campaign in a way that instill confidence that he can run one of the state's largest law-enforcement agencies.
Of course, the problems with the jail are not the creation of the current sheriff and are part of a complicated matrix that includes the police, the courts and the district attorney's office. Eight years ago, a 36-year-old Robert Shuler Smith was swept to victory by making some big promises to change the way the district attorney's office was run, but those promises have yet to come to fruition.
Like many other members of the public, the DA's office's mishandling of high-profile cases, such as the investigation into the death of police officer R.J. Washington, erodes our confidence even further.
We started getting to know Stanley Alexander, Smith's challenger, when he was an assistant DA under Faye Peterson and helped prosecute then-Mayor Frank Melton, and he always struck us as up to the task of running the office. Alexander also combines a tough-enough law-and-order ethos with compassion for first-time nonviolent offenders. Based on our observations over the years, Alexander would likely run a tighter ship, hire well, restore a strong work ethic, and communicate more effectively with the public and the media than Smith.
Of course, we acknowledge that criminal justice moves slowly and that Smith and his office aren't entirely to blame for the problems in Hinds County's criminal-justice system—but Smith also can't throw up his hands in submission and blame other people.
For these reasons, we endorse Stan Alexander for Hinds County district attorney.
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Leisure activities less than 20 km / 12 miles : Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, luge (run), ice-skating, skidoo, bathing, canoeing, rafting, golf, tennis, pathway, hiking, climbing, mountain bike (path), paragliding, horse trecking, volleyball, fishing, angling
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Ski slopes at 18.5mi.
Ski lifts at 25mi.
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Sandy beach at >31mi.
Shingle beach at 9mi.
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Public tennis court at 2.5mi.
18 hole golf course at 18.5mi.
River rapids at 9mi.
River at 9mi.
Lake at >31mi.
Forest at 18.5mi.
Mountain range at 25mi.
Via ferrata-alpinism at >31mi.
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When our cat wakes up in the middle of the night and starts meowing incessantly to tell us that she thinks it's time she was fed, we've started putting her in our office/spare room. She then proceeds to meow and scratch at the door, but we get better sleep this way. However, on the inside of the door she's scratching on were a bunch of posters, postcards, notes, clipped comics, etc. and those she has torn down to the floor in pieces, over the past week. Amongst the postcards of last night's scratchings was one for my brother Jon's Okum & Cooney Custom Interior Painting company; an old signal in the universe, held as a backward glimpse foreshadowing? Now torn down, I'll let this barnacle from a bygone era detach and float away.
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Retail TouchPoints: How Can Retailers Make Checkout Waits More Bearable?
Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is a summary of a current article from the Retail TouchPoints website.
Studies suggest that customer perception of product and service quality is the single best predictor of market share. As such, improving the perception of service quality is vitally important. Many retailers need look no further than the waiting line, where an otherwise positive shopping visit can be destroyed, to discover a place where the customer experience can be strengthened or even salvaged.
Based on David Maister's widely quoted work on the psychology of waiting lines, here are six ways to improve the perception of service quality when it comes to the waiting line experience:
- Occupy their time: Keeping customers' minds or hands busy prevents them from focusing on the passage of time, and makes the time waiting seem to pass more quickly. Two of the quickest solutions to occupying time: digital signage/video and in-line merchandising. Running promotional stills, commercials, or a TV show on strategically-placed digital screens can effectively capture and occupy attention.
- Get them started: The ability to fill out paperwork while in line, to unload the cart while another person is being served — any task that initiates a customer's transaction before the actual exchange begins — can be effective in getting people started.
- Reduce the anxiety: Retailers opting for a single-line queue with multiple servers shorten both the actual and perceived waits. Knowing there is only one option for waiting, that every customer is in it together, and that you're not missing out on an expedited process elsewhere helps customers relax and wait more happily. A service agent's acknowledgement that a customer is present can also go a long way toward alleviating a customer's anxiety about waiting.
- Make the wait certain: Eliminating this unknown reduces customer anxiety. A line might look long, but if they're being promised that the wait is only two minutes, the long line is then acceptable. The key, of course, is to be as accurate as possible about the estimated wait time, preferably overestimating. Frustrations will only increase if the wait time exceeds the expected wait.
- Explain the wait: Simply telling customers that a register isn't working or explaining whatever the hold-up may be can make them more understanding of the wait they might have to endure
- Make it equitable: This first-come, first-served method gives everyone in line a similar wait — or at least a bearable one — because it is an equitable wait.
Waiting is a necessary evil, but it doesn't have to actually be loathsome.
What do you think are some the best ways to improve the perception of service around waits at checkout lines? Is changing perception enough in many cases?
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First the perception, then the reality. All six tips are good ones, but if the follow through isn't there, then the retailer has lost the endgame.
On the opposite side, ignoring the perception of the checkout experience is a bad idea. While I am a relatively loyal CVS shopper for certain items, I often dread the checkout experience. There is no organized process for waiting and I've seen arguments among customers on more than one occasion when one person decided they were "next" but another person disagreed.
With everyone pressed for time, it's important to reduce waits in line as much as possible. While the article suggests a number of ways to keep customers occupied, so the wait seems more tolerable, retailers need to focus on reducing the actual waits.
In Los Angeles, Costco is notorious for the amount of time consumers spend waiting to check out. Lines for the registers frequently bend and stretch into the aisles, and the waits cause consumer gripes. Lately Costco seems to be addressing the issue by being ready to immediately open more registers. They have not fixed the problem, but customers can see that it is being addressed.
Other retailers should follow this example. As soon as lines start to build, open more registers. This may mean training employees to handle multiple responsibilities. If the last part of the shopping experience is checking out, why would a retailer want a customer to leave with a negative impression?
Why do they need to wait in the first place? Disney offers the Fast Pass. Drivers can use an EZPass. Even airlines, which are notorious for disappointing customer service, provide dedicated check-in lines and special 800 reservation phone numbers for frequent flyers.
Everyone has a store card (don't call it a loyalty card). Why don't retailers offer designated, reserved time checkout options for good customers?
Waiting in line should not be a necessary evil. Technology and a dedication to delighting customers have provided solutions from other industries. Success leaves clues. Follow them.
One of the most frustrating shopping experiences relates to several of the big box retailers that have 20+ check out stations and only three are open at any given time! What is the point!! And who is responsible for designing these stores? An NCR and Symbol shareholder! Accurate communication is always extremely effective and appreciated by people. Let us know what is going on and we'll suffer quietly. Shopping happens!
Our Front-end Focus research studies suggest several possible solutions.
The issue is really more perception than actual time. Providing shoppers with something to occupy their attention is key. Having TV screens, magazines and other interesting merchandise is essential.
Studies show that many customers prefer self scan checkouts because they feel more in control of the situation. They perceive their transaction time is quicker although it is often longer in real time.
Properly executed, a single line queuing system will be more more efficient and can reduce the wait somewhat but often requires significant changes in store formats and may be restricted by fire regulations.
The real key is not the actual time but providing shoppers options that enable them to transact in the way they feel most comfortable. This will do the most to enhance their checkout experience.
Make sure that all cash registers are manned when the line reaches a certain point. The most important interactions are the first and the last. People forget what happens in the middle.
Why wasn't there any mention of scheduling adequate coverage, or remedies for call-outs and low cashier inventories? Have these issues gone away since yesterday? In our quest for higher profit taking during the depression, the absence of qualified help in stores and on the phone is crippling all attempts to gain market share.
The retailers that figure this out will get returns on the investment if the solution is kept realistic. Creating an on-call solution for call-outs would by itself relieve stress on the phones and at customer service locations with room to relieve check-out pressure quickly and as needed.
I feel this is all a bit silly. It feels like ways of tricking shoppers into believing the lines are shorter than they really are. The best experience I have is when I am at the end of a line and store personnel come over and say "we can take you at checkout such and such." It turns the wait into a delightful surprise and shows the retailer cares about me.
The one line system I have seen and used at clothing outlets including Gap appears to work well. One option and it moves fast because someone is always completing an order.
For grocery this would be tough. The best option for this outlet is to be flexible on how many registers you have open. Two deep and you open another register. Be proactive and bring people from a line into your newly opened lane.
Final thought is to create an information app that people can view on their phone while waiting in line. Consumers can use your rewards app or a QR code at the register. As people wait they can learn a new recipe, and get facts on new items in the store. People truly value content. Provide them some great content while they wait and that may ease the pain.
One of the major aggravation points for shoppers is waiting in a long line, and observing many closed cash registers. Retailers tend to install cash registers to peak period demand. They might consider installing fewer registers and investing more in lane-buster mobile registers.
I hate to throw a wet blanket on this debate, but all of these "bandages" have been placed upon the POS at retailers for decades, in one form or another. The problem still exists.
I do like Richard George's ideas, though. As I have said many times in this site before, we do need to look outside our industry to the good things that hospitality and airlines do effectively. I remember when I was a grocery store manager, we had "Super Teams" way before club cards came into being. We would have three people on each register with signing for large, full-cart orders. One employee would unload the cart, the next would scan/tender and the last would bag the order. It gave a feeling of being special in the minds of the shoppers. I do believe "Premier" checkout lines for loyal shoppers adds to the perception of good, responsive service.
I'm with Joel on this one. I think it's silly. The real question is, how many customers actually abandon their carts because of the wait? Not many. Why? We know there will be a wait.
Anyone with a half a brain knows that retailers are using educated guesses to determine how many cashiers to have on hand. We know there may be reasons for longer waits sometimes. Yes, we hope they have some standbys to pull onto the registers if their is a slam.
Entertaining me through the wait does nothing for me. Smiling at me, treating me like you care, making sure it's equitable, now that's what matters and yes, I will come back!
I like what Woodmans did in Wisconsin. They have lowered prices so low that customers pretty much stand around at the checkout talking about their low prices and the high prices of competitors. Then they staff the front end with the best looking and friendliest employees. TVs, digital signage, explaining shortcomings, etc. are all good, but nothing replaces good old pleasant human interaction.
Best way to improve the wait at checkout lines… Eliminate it!
Retailers spend money getting people into their stores, then servicing and selling them, only to (sometimes) taint the experience with a long wait at checkout. It's the last impression, and it should be a (positive) lasting impression.
Time is a precious commodity, and when our customers know we recognize this, they appreciate us even more.
I'm with Joel and Lee on this one (say, that makes "three's a crowd," maybe it's time to open a new thread): perception of service quality leads to market share because it's correct…hence quality>perception>share; the idea that you can skip the first part is wishful thinking. As for the suggestions themselves, number 5 is only valid if its really true, and number 4 only works if the wait really IS brief.
In short, lines are a staffing issue; if you don't want people to wait, then staff so they don't have to wait…pretending something isn't true isn't a marketing strategy, it's a way to lose market share strategy.
Disney has this mastered. You can wait over an hour for a ride and somehow it is okay, even though you just paid $50 to get into the park. Although they break the equitable rule, the line jumping service.
In my consumer experience, Dick's sporting goods has this down fairly well. Single queue so no missing out on a shorter line, occupied my time with TVs above checkout, merchandise the queue with impulse items (could be a con) and call up help when needed.
The single best thing for perception of service is the single queue so you don't feel as if you chose poorly as a consumer.
It seems to me that retailers ought to spend less time trying to manage perception, and more time fixing the problems that have been irritating their shoppers for decades.
My belief is that there are dark days ahead for brick and mortar retailers, as online alternatives become faster, cheaper, easier AND more personalized (where the system knows exactly how you like your bananas). At some point consumers will revolt, take their precious time back, and stay home.
It's time for retailers to get their stuff together (checkout experience, in-stock, etc.), because consumers will lose patience more and more quickly as they have more and better options that allow them to skip many (not all) shopping trips altogether.
It seems Dick's Sporting Goods has this worked out equitably for all. They have registers open based on the lines and how busy the store is at certain times. The lines move fast and no one seems upset.
All of the tips in the article are great ways to improve customers' perceptions while waiting in line. A couple that I can think of from the masters, Disney, include distracting your attention while you wait, and posting estimated wait times that are actually greater than the amount of time that it will take from that point forward.
That said, an important one to address is ensuring that employees are trained to promptly serve customers in line, rather than having only one cashier when a lineup starts to form, or having cashiers chat with one another when there are customers waiting. Changing perception will certainly help, but the best is to combine it with making real efficiency improvements to minimize wait times.


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Born in 1494 in a village located South-west of Chinon, Rabelais has often bragged about his favorite wine. He especially mentioned to have drank many glasses of what he described to be a qualitative and fresh wine.
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With François Rabelais as an historic ambassador, the Chinon appellation knows how to magnify the cabernet franc, locally called "cabernet breton," and make it shine at an international level. The vines are spread across 2300 hectares.
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Welcome back to another chapter of my 100 baby challenge! Last chapter left me in complete shambles and hopefully this chapter will go a lot better for me! We start off with a shot of Carly doing some painting for da moneyz, Bella sleeping on the couch (yes, she DOES have a bed…), and Derrick walking…somewhere.
And we're going to head right into this chapter's first birthday! Also, right went I opened the save, the kids came home from school and Claire came home with an A (yay!) Then I switched to her and looked at her sim panel and found that it's her ACTUAL birthday as well. Nice. She comes home with an A the day she's going to age up anyway…
Her new trait is Hot headed…So she's a hot headed slob who wants to be a joke star…What? Like how does that happen? lol! And then her first Teen action was to care for Grayson, so at least she's not a horrible person…lol
We did the thing! It's missing a shower, but at least there's now a third toilet in the place!
Claire started learning some cooking skillz. Thank you for not burning the house down on your first go at it. Side note: Why does it look like Derrick is totally checking out his sister's butt? Can you not? That's disturbing.
Just another day in the Fairchild household. Always something that needs to be cleaned. I hate having slobs in the house.
Homework session! And I have NO idea why they separated themselves by age… it was really weird. Also, it looks like it would be really uncomfortable to do your homework on your knees like that…
This kid…always wants to come over to the house. I once told him no and he came over anyway. I think him and Emilie are going to get married in the future…
We may not have room in the house for another baby, but we can still prepare for when there is room!
Amber makes me happy that this isn't an ISBI challenge. (Which I'm currently getting set up for publishing!)
SHHHHH!!! No one make a move or sound! This is a VERY rare occurance in my game. (Grayson was awake, but he was happy)
Autonomous gardening FTW! And even while sick! I ❤ her!
Grayson aged up! He's a little cutie! He's Self-assured and his child aspiration is Social butterfly! He's got his dad's eyes and his mom's hair.
We expanded the upstairs again. We needed room for a bed for Grayson. So now they all fit up there comfortably. Also we have 9 Coolala lights. That had better be enough.
As you can see from the multiple scrap piles, we were busy while the kiddos were at school. It's nice to have an empty house while all the kids are at school. Gives me time to focus really on Carly and the house.
Bella came home with another A but once again, we have to wait for Amber to get an A…Come on Amber, get it together! lol
New toys! Derrick and Emilie got to enjoy them first. Hey Emilie, just don't breath on it. I don't want the rest of the house catching whatever it is that you've got.
So I was definitely not aware that if you didn't empty out your trash can that it would overflow. This was new for me. And gross.
Seriously Amber? I know you worked hard for that A you came home with, but tone down the dramatics will ya?
Oh? What this what Bella's cooking?
Her own birthday cake! And just in time too. Seeing as she decided to start a fire…rude.
At least Carly's on top of it! And yes Bella, you are definitely guilty of this crime.
Okay, let's get these birthdays going before anything else goes wrong… Amber goes first, as the oldest. She rolled Active. So her traits are gloomy, goofball, and active with an aspiration of nerd brain.
Bella goes next! (Grayson looks mad that his sisters are leaving) She rolled outgoing. So her traits are slob, loves the outdoors, and outgoing with an aspiration of leader of the pack.
Oh? What's this? Derrick is having a birthday? Yup, he came home with an A as well today! Woohoo!
He rolled the outgoing trait to go with creative. His aspiration is fabulously wealthy (pft! Not in this house!) He's a handsome fellow!
And we bid adiou to the first babies of the challenge, Amber and Bella! Bye girls! (They don't look happy do they?)
And this is where we end this chapter! No babies, but now that the girls are gone, we can have more! Join us next time for hopefully a baby (or two!), some birthdays, and hopefully some major upgrades to the house!


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Profit from poverty: Turning victims into consumers
There are plenty of charitable foundations and public agencies devoted to helping the world's poor, many with instantly recognizable names like Unicef or the Gates Foundation. Private companies that manage to make a profit from helping the poor are rare. Donald Mcneil, Jr. writes about a little-known Danish firm that understands that social mission and profit can co-exist by developing products that are pleasing to the eye as well as life-saving. Vestergaard Frandsen, a Denmark-based company, started out making work uniforms. But Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen turned the company's attention to relief work, beginning with distributing blankets and clothing to refugee camps. One of the company's inventions is the LifeStraw, a ten-inch plastic cylinder costing less than US$3 that filters out or kills a variety of bugs from contaminated water.
The simple device — tested nobly by Mikkel's father Torsten, who allowed television crews to film him drinking toilet water through the 'straw' — has sold thousands following the Myanmar cyclone and Asian earthquakes. The straw, turquoise and navy blue in colour, has made it into museum design collections. Other life-saving products include insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets and fly-killing tent tarpaulins. The "Very few companies take the attitude that doing good is good money," Mikkel says. One secret of their success, says an observer, is that they "think of the end-user as a consumer rather than as a patient or a victim".
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January is Radon Action Month
January is Radon Action Month
DEQ promotes radon awareness, testing, and mitigation
Helena — January is Radon Awareness Month, and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) offers steps Montanans can take to test for and address radon gas.
Radon occurs naturally from the decay of uranium and radium in many Montana soils and can accumulate inside homes. Studies indicate elevated levels of the gas are a major cause of lung cancer. Nationally, more than 22,000 people each year die from lung cancer linked to exposure to radon.
In Montana, historic radon testing indicates radon gas is present in varying levels in homes throughout the state. Radon concentrations depend largely on the underlying geology of the area. The DEQ is urging Montanans to protect their health by first testing their homes for radon.
"Testing for radon is the best way to know if people in your home may be at risk from this cancer-causing gas," said John Podolinsky of DEQ's Radon Control Program.
Radon is measured in picocuries per liter (pCi/L). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies 4.0 pCi/L as the "action level" for radon. Although easy and inexpensive to perform, fewer than 80 percent of American homes have been tested for radon. "Radon is a problem that can be easily fixed, and DEQ urges all Montanans to first test their homes," Podolinsky added.
Radon can build to unhealthy levels, especially during colder months when windows and doors are kept closed. The invisible, odorless radioactive gas can seep into homes from underground and can reach harmful levels if trapped indoors. Ventilating radon gas from under the basement floor or crawlspace is a common mitigation approach and can cost as little as $1,200 to $2,000 to address.
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