Ultimate Warrior On If He'll Be At RAW 1000, ROH Stars At 3XW Event, Warrior University

- 3XWrestling will present their 7th Anniversary Event on Friday, July 27th in Des Moines, IA. ROH stars Davey Richards, Kyle O'Reilly and Tony Kozina are scheduled for the event. The show will be held at the Baratta's@Forte Center in Des Moines and will be filmed for future airing on 3XW's weekly television program on Iowa CW Network affiliates. You can get more information or purchase tickets at 3XWrestling.com.

- A fan sent a tweet to The Ultimate Warrior stating that "everyone thinks" he will at the 1,000th episode of RAW this Monday night. Warrior replied, "I've never done what everyone else thinks. Never. Not once."

- Speaking of the Warrior, he posted the following video on his YouTube channel stating that the doors to Warrior University are open (warning: contains strong language):

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16 Ways to Motivate Employees | Electrical News

by Timothy F. Bednarz, Ph.D. | Author | Publisher | Majorium Business Press

A leader?s primary function is to help employees develop a strong belief in the mission of the company and the importance of their individual jobs. Their secondary function is to ensure optimal results from delegated assignments and tasks given to employees. Excellent results spring from methods of motivation that help employees feel successful and increase their effort toward achieving goals and increasing performance.

Employees are the chief resource leaders can utilize to maintain and enhance their leadership abilities. Therefore, understanding and applying appropriate motivational methods for employees on delegated assignments is important for leaders. By motivating each employee to perform at his or her maximum level of efficiency, leaders also maximize their own success. Furthermore, as leaders motivate their people, they not only help the company gain financially, but also develop personal relationships between themselves and their employees.

Much research in behavioral science has focused on analyzing the factors that contribute to workplace motivation. Many studies indicate that the strongest factors are based upon individual self-determined needs. Aware of these factors, one can craft specific methods in the workplace to foster improvements in employee attitudes, their desire to excel and their feelings of success.

Leaders need to apply such motivational methods to effectively stimulate their organizational unit as a whole and the individuals within it. Once done, their units will reach peak performance, free from slowdowns and negative influences.

Motivational methods are effective when they are aimed at individual satisfaction. This is necessary to understand because methods that are positive motivators for some employees are not always effective for others. Each individual is driven by specific needs that determine their performance and whether or not they will accept new assignments. If specific needs are not met, it inhibits the employee?s desire to accept new challenges and delegated opportunities.

Outlined below are 16 major methods focused on individual needs and desires that leaders can use to effectively and consistently motivate their employees. When used by the leader intermittently, they produce high motivational success.

1. Help employees see the final results of their dedicated and consistent efforts as being part of advancing their own careers and futures.
2. Develop and utilize incentive programs that have a definite purpose and meaning for each employee. Linking incentives to productivity and results tends to be a more effective motivator than many other methods.
3. Take time to give employees deserved praise and meaningful recognition. However, effective leaders will utilize this method in moderation; otherwise, it becomes meaningless. Praise must always be specifically related to performance rather than vague comments like, ?You?re doing OK.?
4. Provide all employees with goal-oriented job descriptions. This method charts a course for them to go in with specific actions they should accomplish to achieve positive results, and guidelines for how to be successful in assignments.
5. Give each employee the opportunity to achieve. Even small tasks and assignments can build success. Any taste of achievement is a great motivator.
6. Aid employees in determining personal goals. Leaders should link these to the overall goals of the company.
7. Help employees acquire and maintain a spirit of achievement. Careful planning and organization of tasks and assignments directed at meaningful results can accomplish this goal.
8. Help employees set and achieve personal self-improvement goals. These need to be realistic and achievable for individuals to grow and develop skills and knowledge.
9. Acknowledge and publicly recognize employees? accomplishments to reinforce the fact that they are valuable and important?a key need for individuals.
10. Help employees understand their value to the company, the leader and senior management. By verbalizing employees? value or giving them letters of appreciation to acknowledge their efforts, leaders effectively reinforce that achievements are important to both the individual employee and others.
11. Tell employees how and why they are performing valuable and useful work. This means giving them effective and useful feedback about their progress in a way that focuses on personal productivity and how to increase performance.
12. Listen with interest to employees? problems, ideas, suggestions and grievances. Remember, even if seemingly trivial or irrelevant, these things are important to the employee.
13. Never neglect or ignore an employee. A failure to provide individual attention is one of the worst mistakes leaders can make in terms of motivating or supervising their employees.
14. Enact a personal commitment to a vision and direction. Effective leaders show employees how to give personal effort and provide consistent performance to align themselves with the vision.
15. Help employees develop an increased sense of responsibility. Acceptance of responsibility facilitates feelings of success and a greater sense of self-worth.
16. Relieve the boredom of assignments and tasks, where possible. Doing so makes work more meaningful for employees and allows them to be more creative and attain greater job satisfaction. Furthermore, it builds inward security and fosters self-motivation.

If you are seeking proven expertise and best practices on how to motivate employees to train or educate your employees to solve problems and improve their performance in this area, refer to Delegation: Pinpoint Management Skill Development Training Series.

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Turkish bank sale drags Citi's net down 12 percent

NEW YORK (AP) ? Citigroup's net income fell 12 percent in the second quarter partly due to a loss on the sale of its stake in a Turkish lender. The income of $2.9 billion was still better than analysts were expecting.

Citi is one of the largest international banks in the world and its results are often seen as a gauge of how the global economy is doing. Investors are particularly concerned about recent signs of a slowdown in China and India, two large markets for Citi. Citi's consumer banking business in Asia and Latin American barely declined by less than one percent.

"We are largely an urban bank in Asia, and cities are growing," Vikram Pandit, Citigroup's CEO, said in a conference call with analysts. "Urbanization is a very powerful trend. Middle class is growing. People are coming in the cities. That's what drives our business."

In a separate conversation with journalists, Citi's chief financial officer, John Gerspach, said the strength in the dollar versus other currencies had negative impact on the bank's earnings from overseas.

Gerspach said the Mexican peso depreciated about 5 percent in the quarter and the Brazilian real about 11 percent. Without the effect of currency depreciations, Gerspach said, Citi's overseas business grew. Gerspach said Citi was excited about the opportunities for growth in those two countries, especially in credit cards.

As more of its customers paid back loans on time, Citi kept aside less for future losses. The bank reserved $27.6 billion at the end of the quarter, compared with $34.4 billion in the same period a year ago.

"Many markets are slowing down and we worry that it could hit the credit quality of customers," said Citi shareholder Gary Townsend, head of the investment firm Hill Townsend Capital. "Citi executives indicated that they don't see any discernible change and that is an important takeaway."

The bank drew down its current loan loss reserves by $984 million and took an accounting gain of $219 million because the value of its debt decreased. Both of those items padded earnings.

Citi lost $424 million on the sale of its one-tenth ownership stake in Akbank. Excluding that loss and the accounting gain, Citi's net income was $1 per share, exceeding the 89 cents expected by analysts surveyed by FactSet, a provider of financial data.

Revenue was $18.6 billion, down 10 percent from the year-ago quarter. Analysts expected $18.8 billion.

Citi's stock rose 18 cents to $26.82.

Market volatility in the second quarter related to the European debt crisis hurt Citi's earnings from investment banking, where revenue declined 21 percent to $854 million.

However, as interest rates hit record lows, more homeowners refinanced their mortgage loans or bought news houses.

Citi's retail banking revenues grew 32 percent to $1.6 billion from the second quarter 2011, largely due to higher mortgage revenues.

Over the weekend, Citigroup said it will not seek to increase its dividend this year but may seek permission to raise it in 2013.

"I believe we will be in good shape and have the capital to be able to do that by the end of the year," Pandit told the U.K.'s Sunday Telegraph in a rare interview. "That's a decision that will have to be taken with our regulators and we will have those conversations at the end of the year."

The bank did not ask the Federal Reserve for permission to raise its dividend last month, when it submitted its latest capital plan. Citi currently pays a token amount of 1 cent per share every quarter. Pandit had previously promised shareholders a higher dividend earlier in the year.

The Fed in March said the bank did not have enough capital to raise its dividend and also withstand another financial crisis. That was a blow to Pandit, whose 2011 compensation package of $15 million for last year and $10 million retention pay was rejected by shareholders in an advisory vote the following month.

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Obama parade parody causes controversy

(700?WLW)Texas A&M alum Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale was killed on June 28 during a training exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C. Tisdale was killed by another soldier who then?shot himself.

Days after the soldier's death, word spread that Westboro Baptist Church members were planning to protest Tisdale's funeral.

When Ryan Slezia, a former Texas A&M student, heard of the group's plans, he hatched a plot to foil their efforts.

"In response to their signs of hate, we will wear maroon. In response to their mob anger, we will form a line, arm in arm. This is a silent vigil. A manifestation of our solidarity,"?he wrote on Facebook, inviting others to join him in a peaceful protest.

Listen to?Scott Sloan?talk to Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps Jr. below:

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Fill 'er up! States with the cheapest gas

By Lisa A. Nelson and Samuel Weigley, 24/7 Wall St.

?By Lisa A. Nelson and Samuel Weigley, 24/7 Wall St.

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Travis Wayne fills a tank in Memphis, Tn. Gas prices in the state have decreased by 9.7 percent in the past 12 months -- the fourth-biggest decline in the country. I

Fiscal woes in Europe and sluggish job growth in the United States have put downward?pressures on oil prices. As a result, gasoline prices declined in all but two states over the past month, dropping 7.1 percent across the country. In many of these, gas prices are on the verge of falling below $3.00 per gallon.

Despite the overall decline, the range between gas prices among states is still wide. 24/7 Wall St.?examined?AAA?s Daily Fuel Gauge Report to determine?the 10 states whose residents pay the least at the pump. We found that the most decisive factor in determining gas prices is?location. Most of the states with low gas prices are located on or near the Gulf of Mexico. They also have among the lowest gas taxes in the country.

Five of the 10 states with the lowest gas prices are located?on the Gulf Coast, where a disproportionate amount of crude oil is processed. Furthermore, among the five states not on the Gulf Coast, three?border?the coastal states. Residents of these three states benefit from lower costs of transporting oil.

?Gulf Coast states benefit from having ready access to the refineries that are in the region,? says AAA spokesperson Michael Green. ?In fact, Gulf Coast refineries produce the most gasoline of any region in the country, and generally have a surplus, which means they?re sending gasoline that?s made in Gulf Coast refineries to other parts of the country.?

The states with the lowest gas prices have seen a more precipitous decline in those prices compared to the rest of the country. South Carolina and Mississippi, the states with the two lowest gas prices, now enjoy 9.1 percent lower prices compared to a month ago. Green points out that West Texas Intermediate (WTI)?crude oil, which is produced primarily in the Gulf Coast region, is cheaper than other forms of crude and has seen a faster decline in price.

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Another factor?determining gas prices is a?state?s?gasoline tax. All but two of the states on this list are in the bottom half of states in terms of total taxes charged, which include a federal 18.4 cents a gallon tax and state taxes. But the relationship between gas taxes and prices is far from perfect. Alaska has the lowest gas tax but the second-highest gas prices. The states with the second- and third-lowest gas taxes, Wyoming and New Jersey, did not make our list.

While not always the case, transportation costs in the states on 24/7?s list tend to be lower than the national average. Nine of the 10 states are in the lower half of states in terms transportation costs, while?three?are in the bottom 10 states.

AAA provided 24/7 Wall St.?with?the most recent available average price of regular unleaded gasoline by state. The organization also provided prices from one week, one month and one year ago. 24/7 Wall St.?also?examined the number of refineries and total refining capacity as of January 1 of this year, provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The American Petroleum Institute provided state gas taxes, which were also as of the beginning of this year. This includes state gas excise taxes, as well as other taxes (including sales tax).

These are the 10 states with the cheapest gas.

1. South Carolina

• Regular gas price per gallon:?$2.99
• Tax per gallon:?16.8 cents (4th lowest)
• Number of operating oil refineries:?0

South Carolina has the lowest average gas prices in the nation, and is the only state currently under the $3 per gallon mark. Compared to last year, gasoline prices in the state have decreased by 10.5 percent -- tying Mississippi for the highest proportional decrease in the country. Low prices in South Carolina are likely due in part to the low tax per gallon of 16.8 cents, which is the fourth lowest in the country. South Carolina?s prices have fallen by about 19 percent since their early April peak of $3.70.

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2. Mississippi

• Regular gas price per gallon:?$3.06
• Tax per gallon:?18.8 cents (7th lowest)
• Number of operating oil refineries:?3

Gasoline prices are down about 18 percent from Mississippi?s yearly peak in the first week of April. The state ranks among the lowest in total taxes and fees per gallon of gas, which help keep its fuel prices low. The three refineries in Mississippi process 364,000 barrels of raw crude?per day, the 11th most in the country. Low carrying costs for fuel could therefore?also contribute to the state?s low gasoline prices. There is just a 19 cents per gallon tax for gas sold in Mississippi, the seventh-lowest in the country. The state also has no sales tax to drive up what people pay at the pump.

3. Alabama

• Regular gas price per gallon:?$3.07
• Tax per gallon:?20.9 cents (14th lowest)
• Number of operating oil refineries:?3

Alabama has three major refineries that process 120,000 barrels of crude each day. The state also had a 36-cent decrease in gas prices last year -- the highest decline in the nation. Gasoline prices continue to drop rapidly in the state, with an 8 percent decline last month alone. Transportation costs in Alabama are the ninth lowest in the country, and the state has the eighth-lowest excise tax, at 16 cents per gallon.

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4. Tennessee

• Regular gas price per gallon:?$3.08
• Tax per gallon:?21.4 cents (15th lowest)
• Number of operating oil refineries:?1

Average gas prices in Tennessee have decreased by 9.7 percent in the past 12 months (the fourth-biggest decline in the country). In the past month alone, gas prices fell by 28 cents, an 8.3 percent decrease. According to the Cost of Living Index, low gas prices help drivers in Tennessee enjoy the seventh-lowest cost of transportation in the U.S. Tennessee drivers also pay the 15th-lowest state taxes on gas in the nation, at just 21.4 cents to the gallon, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

5. Louisiana

• Regular gas price per gallon:?$3.16
• Tax per gallon:?20 cents (tied for 12th lowest)
• Number of oil refineries:?18

Louisiana is second to Texas in the number of oil refineries and gallons of oil processed per day, at more than 3.2 million barrels between its 18 major refineries. With close proximity to offshore drilling in the Gulf and the relatively low state tax on gas -- 20 cents per gallon -- Louisiana drivers pay some of the lowest gas prices in the nation.

Read the rest of the list of states with the cheapest gas at the 24/7 Wall St. Web site

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