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The Irvine Valley men's tennis team finished the first round of Orange Empire Conference action with a 8-1 loss to Riverside at home on Thursday.
Riverside is ranked No. 2 in Southern California and improved its record to 14-0 overall and 5-0 in conference.
Irvine Valley's record dropped to 3-7 overall and 3-2 in conference. The Lasers remained in third place in the standings behind Riverside and Cypress.
The Lasers picked up their lone win of the day at No. 6 singles with freshman Stuart Webb defeating Brandon Moerer, 7-5, 3-6, (10-8).
But freshman Thallys Santos also played tough at No. 3 singles and was just edged, 7-5, 6-4, by Riverside's Elie-Noe Nicolay.
IVC's No. 1 doubles team of freshman Alvaro Mantilla and Santos and No. 3 team of freshmen Jacob Holiday and Li also competed well, but each dropped 8-4 decisions.
Irvine Valley is back in action on Tuesday, hosting Saddleback at 2 p.m. The Lasers defeated the Gauchos, 9-0, to begin conference.
1) Kayne Trustfull (RCC) def. Jacob Holiday (IVC), 6-1, 6-1
2) Thomas Pidoux (RCC) def. William Li (IVC), 6-3, 6-1
3) Elie-Noe Nicolay (RCC) def. Thallys Santos (IVC), 7-5, 6-4
4) Sami Akouz (RCC) def. Randal Murphy (IVC), 6-0, 6-1
5) Miles Clark (RCC) def. Alvaro Mantilla (IVC), 6-3, 6-0
6) Stuart Webb (IVC) def. Brandon Moerer (RCC) 7-5, 3-6, (10-8)
1) Trustfull/Pidoux (RCC) def. Mantilla/Santos (IVC), 8-4
2) Akouz/Thierry van Os (RCC) def. Webb/Murphy (IVC), 8-1
3) Clark/Nicolay (RCC) def. Holiday/Li (IVC), 8-4


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Naningrum, Lestari (2010) PENGARUH KINERJA KEUANGAN TERHADAP RISK-ADJUSTED RATE OF RETURN PADA PERUSAHAAN OTOMOTIF YANG TERCATAT DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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The research aimed to find out the influence of financial performance to Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return in Automotive Company listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, also to find out which is the most influence variable to Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return. Data used was secondary data, consisted of financial report, stock data, and daily stock price from each automotive company listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange year 2005-2007. The data analyzed using Multiple Linear Regression Analysis. Equation showed that in simultaneous way, with F test, there could be concluded that company financial performance measured from fluent ratio, total assets circulation, debt ratio, return on equity, and earning per share, altogether had no real influence to Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return. Partial test result with T test could conclude that in partial, total assets circulation and return on equity which had significant influence to Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return, while fluent variable, debt ratio, and earning per share, had no significant influence to Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return and return on equity ratio which had dominant influence to Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return in Automotive Companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. According to above conclusion, the writer suggest: Emmitent should consider debt usage to fulfill their financial needs in order to avoid high interest. Since by avoiding debt, it would influence the company ability in getting profit, where the result would influence the stock income and influence the company's risk. For investor or investor candidate, when doing investment in Indonesia Stock Exchange, they should considered fundamental financial aspect of the company, also pay attention to external aspect where this aspect also has role in triggered Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return.
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Relax; it's not about you. If you don't manage to get people to laugh, you've just not cracked the code of humour yet.
GASTA reveals the most important humour tricks that you need to be able to directly reach an audience. And once you've charmed them, nothing can go wrong.
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New Major League Baseball contract limits players' use of smokeless tobacco; players agree not to carry tobacco cans in back pockets, use tobacco during pregame and postgame interviews, team functions
November 22, 2011
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– Baseball's new labor deal will limit the use of smokeless tobacco by players, but not ban it during games, as some public health groups had sought.
A baseball union summary obtained by The Associated Press says that players have agreed not to carry tobacco cans in their back pockets or use tobacco during pregame or postgame interviews, and at team functions.
But it falls short of the call by some advocates, including members of Congress, who argued that a ban on chewing tobacco and dip during games was needed to protect impressionable kids watching on TV.
"Our members understand that this is a dangerous product, there are serious risks associated with using it," union head Michael Weiner told The Associated Press. "Our players felt strongly that those were appropriate measures to take but that banning its use on the field was not appropriate under the circumstances."
The players union has also agreed to join forces with the Partnership at DrugFree.org to create a nationwide public service announcement campaign. In addition, several players have agreed to a public outreach campaign, including Curtis Granderson, Jeremy Guthrie and C.J. Wilson. The union will start a Tobacco Cessation Center for its players, and players will be provided with training on how to give up the habit.
Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, one of the groups that led the anti-tobacco push, said that while he would have preferred a ban at games and on camera, the restrictions represent real progress.
"The new Major League Baseball contract takes an historic first step toward getting smokeless tobacco out of the ballgame, and makes significant progress toward protecting the health of big-league players and millions of young fans who look up to them," he said in a statement.
"Baseball players have been using tobacco since the earliest days of the game. This forward step marks the first time ever that the league and the players have recognized that it is time to break this unhealthy connection."
Major League Baseball did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Weiner said that players aren't running from the idea that kids see them as role models.
"Prominent players have agreed to go out there and talk," he said. "But maybe the message that's being sent by the combination of things here is a realistic one: When kids grow up they're going to have choices to make, just like players have choices."
In recent weeks, four U.S. senators and two House members urged the baseball union to agree to a ban. A coalition including the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Cancer Society and the American Medical Association had been pushing for a tobacco ban since last year. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig endorsed it at the start of the 2011 season.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says smokeless tobacco can cause cancer, oral health problems and nicotine addiction, and stresses it is not a safe alternative to smoking. Despite the risks, the CDC's most recent survey found that in 2009, 15 percent of high school boys used smokeless tobacco — a more than one-third increase over 2003.
In the minor leagues, where players are not unionized, smokeless tobacco has been banned since 1993.
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Blade and Soul episode 09
This episode pissed me off so much that I can't even think clearly. I won't rewrite this post or edit it in anyway, just like my other posts, so I'm sorry if I offend anybody. Even more so now that the story is still following the exact same pattern.
Remember how I raged about Blade and Soul's annoying pattern? This week's exactly the same… Aruka becomes an employee of that blonde and makes a new friend that showed her the ropes and supported her. At the end she, too, was killed just for coming in contact with Aruka. When will this pattern end already!?
I cannot believe that Aruka accepted a proposal to become a waitress. That's not like her. She's hard-core and awesome. Watching her serve people food and drinks was just annoying. Watching her become emotional was even worse. What the hell happened to the ice cold character that I loved in episode one?
Of course, what pissed me off most is that Karen, that blonde b*tch, turned out to be an enemy after all. I knew it. I never liked that character and always thought that something was off. I just knew it. To see Aruka fall into her trap like that was so aggravating and disappointing that I almost decided to drop the show altogether.
The very worst part is that I can't really blame Karen either. I mean, Aruka killed her beloved husband. I can somewhat understand her losing her mind over that. I can somewhat understand her wanting to torture Aruka as much as she can. Still, I don't like Karen so I'm hoping that Aruka will get another power boost by turning back to her old ways in order to kill that two-faced b*tch. No mercy, no retreat!


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28th August 2014
By David O'Sullivan
News that Minister for Food Simon Coveney is backing a National Food
Centre for Cork City has been welcomed by businesses on the Grand
The former Capitol Cineplex cinema has a strategic location on the
Grand Parade, facing towards Washington Street, but it's been vacant
since 2005.
The property is now in NAMA, but there are amitious medium term plans
to convert the building into a centre of excellence for Food.
Corks EnglishMarket is successful but does Cork need another Food focal point in City Centre? @opinionline96 l8r 2day pic.twitter.com/2qSUPViCIa
— David O'Sullivan (@David_OSullivan) August 27, 2014
Minister Coveney is confident that a partnership can be reached
between the City Council, NAMA and the owners of the site to develop
the complex.
Minister Simon Coveney says its one of around 7 key projects that he
wants to progress in the Southern Capital.
This Cork view could change soon. Details on @corks96fm News and @opinionline96 this morning #cork #grandparade pic.twitter.com/j0UCXolv0a
— David O'Sullivan (@David_OSullivan) August 27, 2014
Reporter David O'Sullivan has out on Grand Parade: speaking with local
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Cinnamon Toast is a comfort, isn't it? Make snacking croutons with dry bread for a good cheap eat.
At the beginning of the Pantry Challenge, I cleaned out the freezers and inventoried what we had. That amounted to quite a few heels from sandwich bread. Those are generally the last pieces to be eaten around here. I typically make them into bread crumbs or regular croutons or even Garlic Cheese Croutons.
This time, however, I decided to make Cinnamon Toast Croutons. They were just as easy to make as standard croutons, but they provided us with a crunchy, sweet treat. My husband thought they were weird, but that didn't stop him from coming back into the kitchen every few minutes or so for another handful.
He thought I should use fresh white bread. Then they'd be "over the top", said he.
They also wouldn't have as much nutrition as whole wheat bread or as much of a frugal aspect as using up dry bread. Save the fresh bread for a yummy sandwich. You can tell who's the good cop around here, can't you?
This recipe is a great way to use up bread that is too dry for a sandwich or the heels if your family is lukewarm to eating them. FishBoy13 probably ate what his father didn't get to first. He suggested eating them with milk, like cereal. We haven't tried that yet. If you do, let us know.
Recipe: Cinnamon Toast Croutons
- 8 cups cubed bread
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil (I prefer sunflower)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- Preheat the oven to 375°. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- In a large bowl, combine the bread cubes and oil. Toss to coat.
- In a smaller bowl, combine the sugar, cinnamon, and ginger.
- Sprinkle 2 to 3 tablespoons (or more, if desired) of the sugar mixture over the bread cubes. Toss to distribute evenly.
- Toast the bread cubes in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cook until crisp. Sprinkle with more cinnamon sugar if desired.
- Cool completely and store in an airtight container.
Preparation time: 5 minute(s)
Cooking time: 15 minute(s)
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Old dog VMware learns new server partitioning tricks
Grizzled and more functional
VMware stands as a rarity in the virtualization game. It's an old timer - a grizzled veteran. Few, if any, other companies in the x86 market can claim such a diverse, virtualized customer base or say they're on the third, fourth or fifth generation of a product.
VMware this week will talk up its maturity during the VMWorld user conference in Las Vegas because it has to. Microsoft and the Xen clan have mounted young but potentially formidable attacks against VMware's workstation and server partitioning stronghold. To prove that it's still well ahead of the competition, VMware will show users its upcoming high-end ESX Server product, a slew of more sophisticated software management tools and fresh services programs.
"We are moving forward and adding value, while the other vendors are playing catch up," said Brian Byun, vice president of products at VMware, a subsidiary of EMC. "These are things that we've talked about for awhile and are delivering on."
So what can VMware customers expect to see with ESX Server 3?
Well, first off, VMware has created even tighter links between ESX Server and the VirtualCenter 2 (new release as well) management software. Advances with this software pairing have let VMware deliver something it's calling "distributed availability services."
Essentially, VMware is proposing that customers cluster together virtual machines just like they have done with physical servers in the past. It doesn't claim that many companies will turn to this option for their crucial Oracle databases, but it does suggest that customers will choose to use virtual machine clustering on a host of applications they would usually deem not crucial enough for typical clustering.
The obvious idea is that by clustering within the same server customers save on hardware costs and other overhead. This means you might consider clustering less crucial applications just because you can.
VirtualCenter will detect if a virtual machine crashes or even worse if a server crashes and move OS and software images around a physical cluster or virtual cluster, doing load balancing along the way. It can also shift applications around if a spike in load is detected.
In addition, VMware has bulked up the ESX product to handle larger workloads. The software can support up to four virtual processors and up to 16GB of memory. That's an improvement over support for just two virtual processors and 3.6GB of memory in the current version of ESX Server.
Along with the new software, VMware has added some new services programs that again give it the look and feel of a mature player in the virtualization market. It now has tools for surveying a data center to see which applications and servers could benefit most from partitioning. With this tool, services teams can assess a data center three to five times faster than in the past, Byun said. VMware can now also give customers more detailed roadmaps for long-term partitioning plans.
Both ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter 2 are in beta testing and will ship in the first quarter of 2006. Most customers will typically install VirtualCenter on a dedicated server and then add ESX Server to different systems. A Virtual Infrastructure Node combining ESX Server, Virtual SMP and a VirtualCenter Agent starts at $5,000.®
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Being healthier is one of the top resolutions on people lists each year. Health is had in a lot of ways but the main routes that people focus on are diet and exercise. While these two are no doubt, extremely important, there are some alternative and holistic health remedies to enjoy a healthier body, mind, and life.
This year in 2017, make it one of your resolutions to test out some of these alternative health treatments and experience all of their glorious benefits.
This year in 2017, make it one of your resolutions to test out some of these alternative health treatments and experience all of their glorious benefits.
In general, the term "alternative therapy" and "holistic medicine" refers to any health treatment not standard in Western medical practice. Beyond that, complementary and alternative therapies are difficult to define, largely because the field is so diverse; it encompasses practices spanning diet and exercise changes, hypnosis, adjustment, and poking needles into a person's skin which is commonly known as acupuncture.
The benefits of alternative therapies are several. More research is needed to determine the efficacy of nearly all of these practices, but that has not stopped people from engaging in them. In 2008, more than 38% of American adults used some form of alternative medicine.
Following are the 8 major alternative and holistic health remedies as per the research of 2017, so have a look.
Aromatherapy is done by the use of plant oils in order to promote healing. These beautifully smelling extracts can come from seeds, blossoms, roots or leaves and can be applied to the skin, inhaled or in some cases, ingested.
It is normally used for a variety of reasons for treating pain and inflammation to reducing stress, depression, and anxiety. Many spas now offer aromatherapy in combination with massage and you can also experience it in saunas that mix different scents with the steam. You can also experience aromatherapy at home on your own terms with diffusers and oils.
Himalayan Salt Lamp
A Himalayan salt lamp looks like a large, more solid, lamp-like version. These things are popping up all over the place lately as their health benefits like improved skin, ease of asthma and mental disorder relief are astounding. They work by reducing harmful ions in the air while producing soothing light.
The list of benefits for the Himalayan salt lamp is long, and the only thing you have to do is plug it in. It's just one of the aspects of art therapy that helps people to relax and relieve anxiety. Through this kind of therapy, you can learn about your own thoughts, explore your feelings, increase self-esteem and reconcile problems that are on your mind.
The list of benefits for the Himalayan salt lamp is long, and the only thing you have to do is plug it in. It's just one of the aspects of art therapy that helps people to relax and relieve anxiety. Through these kinds of holistic health remedies, you can learn about your own thoughts, explore your feelings, increase self-esteem and reconcile problems that are on your mind.
This holistic health therapy also involves putting pressure on specific areas of the body especially to meridians. Apparently, these meridians are energy channels that run throughout the body and are able to become unbalanced or blocked.
With applied pressure, these energy channels can be unblocked in order to improve health and wellness. It is said that this therapy helps to reduce nausea and decrease anxiety.
Speaking of body energy is a short synopsis of Reiki. Reiki one of the form of holistic health remedies that focus on life force energy. The theory behind this treatment is that stress and sickness are indicators of a low life force energy while health and happiness indicate that life force energy is high.
During a Reiki session, the practitioner transfers their own life energy into the patient by lightly touching their body with their hands or without touching the person from any means, yes that's true. These treatments are meant to improve well-being, promote speedy holistic healing and relaxation and reduce pain.
Similar to acupressure, acupuncture works to redirect the energy in the body's natural channels. When these channels are blocked, people can experience physical or emotional pain.
However, in this treatment, the practitioner will use thin needles placed in areas all around the body to create an electric current said to align the energy flows.
This alternative therapy is commonly practiced all over the world and is said to relieve chronic pain and depression.
Ayurvedic Medicine
It's a practice that has been around for thousands of years and actually originated in India.
Actually, it's a bit of an umbrella term for a variety of treatments that include massage, diets, and herb use.
The treatments work to balance the mind, spirit, and body while producing an overall sense of well-being.
If you can handle having your feet touched, this one is worth a try. The technique works by applying pressure to certain areas of the feet, hands, and ears.
Apparently, these pressure points are directly correlated to different body organs. You can either go and see a reflexologist or give the treatment to yourself AS holistic health remedies.
Studies have found that reflexology has been used all over the world for anxiety, diabetes, asthma, kidney function and cancer.
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Having New Orleans close its public schools for good might sound worrisome initially, but the southern city isn't saying farewell to education whatsoever. Rather, New Orleans' Recovery School District is becoming a revolutionary area where the last traditional public school settings are coming to an end, to give way to an era of charter schools only. The Niagara Gazette tells more about this trending news story this June 1, 2014, and how this urban education study might actually act as an experiment of sorts for other places around the country thinking about doing away with public schools as well.
It's going to be a whole new school year for Louisiana in the fall. As New Orleans closes public schools, they are in fact opening even more charter schools, making their Recovery School District the very first in the entire U.S. nation to ever be completely comprised of only charter schools (these charter schools remain public, however, yet not solely in the traditional sense). This education "experiment" has high hopes, given their relative and increasing success in the region so far.
While it may seem difficult to believe initially, already 20 years have passed since the very first ever public charter school opened its doors to students up in Minnesota. At that time, the new educational setting was seen as a new adventure center testing the waters as well, designed as a "lab" of sorts for students to tackle new ways of learning and instructive improvements before being welcomed or passed over to traditional public schools. A full two decades later, an incredible 42 states back charters as "excellent" alternative forms of education to these conventional forms of education for students of all ages.
The Washington Post shares in their report that just like in the urban setting of the Recovery District in New Orleans, cities seem particularly fond of charter schools as an alternative place of learning. For example, almost half of all students in the District of Columbia attend specially designed public charter schools, though public schools closing still remains scarce. Unfortunately for New Orleans, this transition was less of a choice for them as it was actually a necessity. Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, the traditional system of schools was quite literally washed out as the area had to devise a new way to rebuild the education setting.
According to the press release, this alternative actually turned out to be a blessing in some respects, but a definite challenge in others. The burgeoning formation of a full charter system as New Orleans closed public schools is said to have significantly increased learning among a majority of students (albeit evidenced in test scores, says the source) but brought the negative side effect of increasing overall concerns over racial equality and a loss of community cooperativeness and institutions. Hopefully, this urban study can serve a positive role model to help not only our students in New Orleans to succeed, but possibly others around the U.S. nation as well.


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More misogyny at MSNBC: Neanderthal host attacks Laura Ingraham as a "slut;" Update: Schultz off air one week, apologizes
In January, I published "The progressive 'climate of hate:' An illustrated primer, 2000-2010."
Review it here.
Part IV was a section on anti-conservative female hate, with tons of links on the sexist rhetoric of the Left.
You'll recall that the "M" in MSNBC stands for misogyny.
Here's a new entrant in the race to the bottom, from syndicated radio host and MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz, via Radio Equalizer Brian Maloney:
ED SCHULTZ (02:52): And what do the Republicans thinking about? They're not thinking about their next-door neighbor. They're just thinking about how much this is going to cost. President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Mo., on Sunday but you know what they're talking about, like this right-wing slut, what's her name?, Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she's a talk slut. You see, she was, back in the day, praising President Reagan when he was drinking a beer overseas. But now that Obama's doing it, they're working him over.
The rant is from Schultz's radio show, which is syndicated by Dial Global.
MSNBC's parent company is NBC. NBCUniversal runs a women's corporate initiative – Women @ NBCUniversal – billed as a "powerful combination of media assets reaching women across multiple platforms. This content and marketing initiative creates custom solutions for advertisers to connect with this desirable demographic through NBCUniversal brands, including Oxygen, iVillage, Bravo, TODAY as well as other female-skewing NBCUniversal programs."
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Flashback: MRC – The Real Radio Hatemongers – Left-Wing Radio Hosts' Track Record of Vile and Vicious Rhetoric
UPDATE: Schultz takes himself off air, NBC Universal responds
Laura zings liberal male cretins on her Facebook page.
Aaron Worthing reacts just right to the idea that Schultz is "sincere."
Yes, he sincerely wants to hang on to his corporate job…
Read his whole post. Amen, amen, amen.
Return of the feckless Chick-fil-A-phobes
April 18, 2018 08:47 AM by Michelle Malkin
The war on JROTC resurrected…by unhinged liberal media
February 20, 2018 12:49 AM by Michelle Malkin
Memo to Dan Rather: Shut up about memos
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Playa Bella Apartments
If you are looking for a fun packed holiday with facilities on your doorstep then look no further than the Playa Bella Apartments.
The Playa Bella Apartments location on the beach front of the beautiful Punta Xinxo beach means that it is well positioned and offers superb views over the bay of San Antonio. Playa Bella is suitable for everyone from families to younger couples and has a high number of repeat guests.
The complex is situated directly on the bay overlooking San Antonio (3.6 kms away). With easy access to sandy beach, it provides the ideal area to unwind. The complex has 155 apartments comprising of 56 studios, 76 one-bedroom apartments, 17 two-bedroom apartments and 6 three-bedroom apartments. The apartments are spacious, beautifully decorated with rustic furniture and are air-conditioned throughout. The apartments have been specifically designed with the 'self catering' family in mind, and all have their own private balcony or terrace.
During the day guests can relax on the beach or take advantage of the outdoor swimming pool, while the sun terrace provides a perfect spot to soak up the sun in style. Active guests can take part in a number of water sports available on the beach and younger guests will also be kept well occupied with their own pool. The Playa Bella is 24 kms from Ibiza airport.
Olympic Rating: 3 Star
Official Rating: 3 Key
The newly refurbished apartments feature air conditioning, beautiful rustic, bamboo style furniture and kitchen that feature electric kettle, toaster, fridge, an oven, two electric rings and a 20 inch flat screen television with BBC Channels, Sky News and Eurosport. Each apartment also has its own private balcony or terrace.
- 24 hr reception
- 2 restaurants
- Lounge/bar
- Poolside snack bar
- High speed internet access for laptops in public areas
- Boutiques/stores
- Car rental desk
- Currency exchange
- Doctor on call
- Parking
- Room service
- Laundry service
- Wheelchair access
- Bicycle rentals
- Safety deposit boxes. Please note that some amenities may be payable locally.


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In this training course we will be deep diving into everything QBO, here you will learn how to connect to QBO, coding available, export options and much more. First, lets start with our QBO training video.
QuickBooks Online integration training video:
How Expensify exports to QuickBooks Online
The Expensify QuickBooks integration is a bi-directional integration that automatically exports reimbursable and non-reimbursable expenses to QuickBooks as the following:
- Vendor bills
- Checks
- Credit card or debit card transactions
- Journal entries
The export of expenses to QuickBooks happens automatically when a report is labeled as approved (meaning the report has been fully approved at all levels) or reimbursed (if the client is harnessing Expensify's reimbursement module). When expenses are exported to QuickBooks from Expensify all line item details of the expense are visible in QuickBooks this includes the general ledger, additional expense coding, and the receipt image under attachments within each report.
Click here To deep dive further into exporting to QuickBooks Online.
Importing client accounting codes to Expensify
The integration allows you to manage what coding the client sees once the integration is connected. It is imperative that you make the connection between Expensify and QuickBooks Online to manage the client's coding. Any adjustments, provisioning or removal of codes needs to happen in QuickBooks, the changes will immediately be reflected in Expensify - in short, Expensify looks at QuickBooks Online as the source of truth to all accounting data
- Chart of accounts (categories)
- Classes
- Customers
- Projects
- Locations
- Items
Again, you have the ability to disable codes that may not be needed, for example, if your client does not capture projects at the expense line item level, you can disable projects so they are never visible to the client. This can be done in the categories and tags sections of the client's Expensify policy.
Click here to learn more about configuring coding with QuickBooks Online.
Exporting credit and debit card transactions to QBO:
Each expense will export as a single bank transaction with the posting date that appears on the appears on the client's bank statement.
For allocations, if you split an expense in Expensify, we will create a single credit card transaction in QuickBooks with multiple line items posting to the corresponding GL accounts.
Expensify pro-tip: If you want the payee field for Credit Card expenses in QuickBooks Online to show the merchant name, a matching Vendor must exist in QuickBooks Online. Expensify looks for an exact match when exporting and if it can't find a match, the payee gets mapped to a Credit Card Misc. vendor that we create. More information can be found here.
Matching expenses to QBO downloaded credit card transactions:
When matching expenses to transactions being imported into QuickBooks, you'll need to make sure the reports are exported prior to accepting the feed in QuickBooks. Remember, the key is to export the report from Expensify into QuickBooks Online and then accept the bank feed import in QBO after this. More details on this process here.
Where to find expenses after export:
In the report history and comments section of the expense report in Expensify , there will be a link that says "View Non-Reimbursable Expenses" or "View Reimbursable Expenses." Clicking that link should take you directly to where these expenses have been exported.
New Client QuickBooks Online setup:
Ready to connect QuickBooks Online to Expensify for your client or your company? Click here for a step by step guide.


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ODU AMC® is an advanced miniature connector portfolio designed for applications that require significant weight and space reduction. The ODU AMC® connector series offer high performance data transmission, high reliability and easy handling. The product portfolio includes a USB® 3.1 Gen1, USB® 2.0, Ethernet and an HDMI®1 option. The USB® 3.1 Gen11 data transmission rate is up to 5Gbit/s, the USB® 2.01 data transfer ranges from 12Mbit/s to 400Mbit/s, the Ethernet1 data transfer rates between 10 Mbit/s to 10Gbit/s and the HDMI®1 data transfer rates up to 8.16 Gbit/s.
1These ODU specific connectors can transmit common data transmission protocols such as USB® 3.1 Gen 1, USB® 2.0, Ethernet and HDMI®, but they are not USB®-, Ethernet- or HDMI®- standard connectors.


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Back in July, I mentioned that I'd be doing a product review from CSN Stores. Since we're doing a kitchen remodel in the house we recently purchased, I thought I would review a lighting fixture from CSN Lighting. Here is my honest, impartial review of the shopping process, product, and overall experience.
Navigating the CSN Stores sites can be a bit confusing and overwhelming at times. It's a bit difficult to find exactly what you're looking for. In my case, I was looking for directional (or track) lights in a brushed nickel, silver finish. Whittling down the options was complicated. They have SO many products, so wading through them can be a bit daunting. On the plus side, they do have SO many products, so there's a very wide selection to choose from.
TransGlobe Lighting Modern Track Lights Semi Flush Mount. It's a really nice fixture! At the time that I ordered it, it was on sale for $59.67, but is now selling for $109.62
I really like that they have so many items that include free shipping, too. That was really nice not to have an extra charge put on to the bill for shipping. The shipping was fast and efficient, too. No complaints there.
When the light came, I immediately opened the box to check it out. Gorgeous! It was exactly what I was hoping for. No complaints there, either.
The problem is that I ordered the light back in July, and we didn't get around to testing it out or seeing if it would work in our kitchen until earlier this month (January). This was our mistake. When we went to inspect the light more closely, we found that it was not going to work in our kitchen set-up. And, we were disappointed to find out that we were outside of the CSN 30-day return policy. I just assumed the light would work, when we received it, instead of taking a closer look. So, now we are trying to figure out what to do with this light that we are not going to use. Again, this was not CSN's fault. Their return policy is clear. The light is pretty, and built well, but just not functional for us.
So, I was satisfied with the shopping experience, the ordering process, the shipping, and the item. I wish I wasn't bound by their 30-day return policy, but that's my mistake. Would I shop CSN Stores again? Probably. They run some really great sales/discounts, and have a really wide selection. It really is like a huge online shopping mall. So, I would recommend them, but be sure you're aware of the 30-day return policy. Lesson learned!
Bargain Shopping Product Review: CSN Lighting
Posted by Leslie at 10:31 AM
2 comments:
- KimMalk said...
Something like this recently happened to me with another online retailer. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that our problem can be rectified. I hope you can come up with a good solution.
- JaneT said...
I have this same light fixture over my computer area. For anyone who thinks about getting one of these, think twice. It does give off a lot of light, but it blows out bulbs continuously. Now I wish I had bought something else.
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Community engagement
The Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (EACPHS) provides Detroit middle and high school students with the opportunity to participate in Apple Days, an initiative through which students learn about health education programs offered by the college. The Office of Student Affairs hosts a minimum of 90 students twice a year for five hours, during which they explore programs through hands-on demonstrations and instructional lectures presented by students and faculty.
The student chapter of the Arab American Pharmacist Association packaged 10,000 nutritious meals to be sent to children in less economically advanced countries as part of Kids Against Hunger. In addition, members served meals to 200 homeless at the Neighborhood Service Organization shelter and provided education on nutrition, poison control (i.e. what plants not to eat) and wellness. The group also raised $800 for the shelter.
The college is a partner of the C2 Pipeline Program, a college and career ready initiative that exposes disadvantaged high school students to health and STEM careers in a project-based, hands-on learning environment. Faculty members representing the college's various programs facilitate activities to educate students about opportunities, academic requirements, and job responsibilities and encourage them to pursue health care careers.
Community Apple Days is an outreach event aimed at increasing community awareness about the college's programs and the diversity of applicants in the health sciences. The comprehensive, multigenerational, and interdisciplinary educational experience is a health, wellness, and career fair that educates participants about careers in health sciences while promoting healthy living through good nutrition, physical fitness, and disease prevention. The bi-annual event includes hands-on activities, demonstrations, workshops, and health screenings.
The Community Homeless Interprofessional Program (CHIP) started in late 2013 when a local church, the Cathedral of St. Paul, approached the medical school about providing basic medical services after a weekly breakfast they hosted for people of Detroit who were experiencing homelessness. WSU health professions programs collaborated to develop an initiative to educate homeless individuals about medical and community resources and provide them with some basic health services. A once monthly clinic program was designed, and the first program occurred in April 2014. Each college is responsible for providing both a faculty member and students at the monthly clinic. The Doctor of Pharmacy Program and the Schools of Medicine and Social Work have further developed CHIP and thus have become the CHIP core students and faculty.
Established in 2011, the Diabetes Education and Wellness (DEW) Clinic is an interdisciplinary, student-run free clinic that seeks to enrich the educational experiences of students as well as expand access to health care services for uninsured or underinsured individuals with type 2 diabetes. Students from several disciplines in the EACPHS, including Pharmacy Practice, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Dietetics and Nutrition, Social Work, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, and Medical Practice, work in partnership with the Super All Year (SAY) Detroit Family Health Clinic, which was founded by columnist and author Mitch Albom. With the support of faculty and staff from different departments and through interdisciplinary coordination, the clinic provides well-rounded free education about the many aspects of type 2 diabetes to individuals in the community.
The college, in partnership with the Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance, hosted a Health Care Career Night in March. The purpose of the event was to educate young people — with an emphasis on disadvantaged students and underrepresented minorities — about opportunities in the health care industry, expose them to health care professionals and encourage them to pursue health care careers. Panelists included Marquita Chamblee, associate provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer; Jerry Herron, dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College; Dennis Parker, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice; and Donald Neal, manager of the College of Nursing's C2 Pipeline program, an afterschool initiative that engages high school students in college- and career-readiness activities.
The EACPHS hosts a weekend workshop for participants in the College of Education's GO-GIRL (Gaining Options Girls Investigate Real Life) program, which seeks to expose girls to careers in STEM fields. This year, faculty used interactive presentations and hands-on activities to help participants learn about careers as a clinical laboratory scientist, occupational therapist, pathologists' assistant, pharmacist, and radiologic technologist
In support of the Health Education Programs at the Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development (LA SED) Senior Center, second-year student pharmacists make health and medical-related presentations to older adults.
The Healthy Initiatives/Detroit Public Schools program encourages elementary school students to lead healthy lifestyles and provides health screenings for faculty, staff, and parents. Student pharmacists make presentations to third through fifth grade students and conduct health screenings. This one-day program takes place during the fall and winter semesters.
Through Housing for the Homeless, second-year student pharmacists provide supervised medical care to approximately 50 men and women who are currently homeless and trying to get their lives back on track. Students take medication histories, perform blood pressure monitoring and other screenings, assess common complaints, make clinic referrals, and provide medical assistance under the supervision of health care providers on site. This community service is held for two-hours in the evenings during the first week in November at St. Fabian Roman Catholic Church, Farmington Hills, MI.
The Interprofessional Team Visit program, a collaboration between WSU's medicine, pharmacy, nursing, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy and physician assistant programs, serves 450 older adults in the Detroit area annually.
Fourth-year pharmacy students involved in the Michigan Antibiotic Resistance Reduction Coalition teach elementary school students about antibiotics, bacterial and viral infections, and minimizing the spread of germs. Student pharmacists contact schools in the metro Detroit area, schedule sessions, and conduct interactive presentations. The one-day program runs throughout the academic year.
In April, the Department of Pharmacy Practice and the WSU chapter of the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP), in partnership with the Love Detroit Prevention Coalition and Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority, hosted "Medication Generation: Just Say Know," an event to educate local teens about dangers of the nonmedical use of prescription drugs and underage drinking. Our student pharmacists led a variety of interactive educational activities — including a "Family Feud"-style game, "pharm" party, skits and role-playing scenarios — to help Detroit-area high school students understand risks associated with misuse and abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol and to encourage students to make wise choices. The partnering organizations also facilitated a Key Leaders Roundtable, which brought together physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, students, substance abuse and prevention counselors, and representatives from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and National Institute on Drug Abuse to generate solutions to the problem.
Second-year student pharmacists and first-year medical students collaborate to conduct Older Adult Home Visits with individuals living independently in southeastern Michigan. Students learn about the medical, health and social needs of older adults living independently. Students participate in one visit per team per semester as part of the Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) for student pharmacists.
The physician assistant (PA) studies program has been affiliated with Special Olympics Detroit since 1998. PA studies students work in conjunction with students from the college's physical therapy and occupational therapy programs and medical residents and staff at Sinai-Grace Hospital to provide monthly pre-sport health appraisals for the underrepresented minority, mentally and physically challenged population in the Detroit Public Schools. The program has enabled approximately 1,200 mentally and physically challenged athletes to participate annually in the Special Olympics Detroit events. The program has received two awards: the Community Based Project Grant from the Physician Assistant Foundation and the 2000 AAPA/PA Foundation/Pfizer Recognition Program.
The Super All Year (SAY) Detroit Physical Therapy Clinic is a free, student-run initiative that offers physical therapy services to medically underserved and uninsured residents at no cost. Its goal is to help students become experienced physical therapists through volunteer experiences that help them develop leadership and other skills. This past April, physical therapy students organized the DEW What You SAY 5K to raise money for the Diabetes Education and Wellness (DEW) Clinic and the Super All Year (SAY) Detroit Physical Therapy Clinic. Students are to be commended for coordinating such a successful first event; there were 120 registered runners, and they raised more than $2,200.
Second-year students in the Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences (IPPEs) participate in Underserved Clinical Activities through which they interview patients in 10 Detroit area clinics that serve the underinsured and uninsured. Students learn the value of clinics to provide medical care to the underinsured and uninsured, learn how medical conditions and treatment affect patients' quality of life, enhance their communications skills in obtaining medication histories, and provide patients with consultation on medications. They also assist clinic staff in dispensing medications and obtaining medications from various prescription programs.
In collaboration with WSU's department of human resources and the University Pharmacy, the WSU Chapter of the American Pharmacists Association's Academy of Students of Pharmacy (APhA-ASP) annually conducts WSU Campus Flu Clinics. Student pharmacists administer the flu vaccine to faculty and staff and perform glucose and blood pressure screenings. The APhA-ASP also provides health screenings for the WSU Wellness Warriors program.
Mortuary science adjunct faculty member John Desmond, with assistance from program director Mark Evely, led efforts to ensure the burial of more than 170 individuals, including 13 military veterans, whose remains were unclaimed and held at the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office. The project was coordinated by a coalition of individuals and organizations that included the Jewish Fund and the Michigan Funeral Directors Association.


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30SOF was founded in 2006 with two fundamental ingredients
– heart and hustle. We are an outlandish guild of new-age producers & filmmakers committed to endowing voice and soul to the powerful, the funny, the unpredictable, the extravagant, the dramatic and the beautiful. Our forte lies in TV commercials and Music Videos and are ever exploring new platforms. We have a closely knit clan of writers, conceptualisers and visualizers, who possess an impeccable grasp of the industry's pulse. We are based in Mumbai, India but we shoot films all over the world.
Imagination is our ace, execution is in our DNA.
30SOF was founded in 2006 with two fundamental ingredients
Uzer Khan
The word 'normal' doesn't have a place in Uzer Khan's dictionary. His films reflect the same. Each of his creations possess a distinctive personality that is raw and from the heart. If his enthusiasm behind the camera gets you curious, you should listen to him talk. His deep perspective of the world exuberates the depth in his filmmaking. There is an exhilarating thrill to his action and an alluring beauty to his aesthetics.
Sunil Shetty
A quiet man with a resounding presence. Amongst all the gentlemen of fortune riding the Indian film industry, he ranks amongst the most astute. He is a passionate man who knows his way around every crack and crevice of Bollywood; having climbed each of its steps to be the man he is today. For him, production is an art, as important as the craft of filmmaking, and therefore prefers to be called a Creative Producer.


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Beyond the Hype of a New Approach
(PDF: 750 KB / 8 pages) (originally published in the Cutter IT Journal, July 2004): Agile Project Management is becoming the latest in a long line of named approaches to driving projects that promises improved performance – watch for it on a bookshelf or seminar near you. As with most well thought out approaches, though, there is a danger that trimming down the message in order to capture an eager audience's attention can reduce the positive impact, or even cause a backlash with weak implementations. This article looks at some of the challenges that the Agile Community has faced in getting their message understood in the past, and makes some recommendations for increasing the likelihood of effective use of APM in organizations that want to leverage its strengths.


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Elysée Quartet
Violin - Viola - Cello
The Elysée Quartet was created in 1995 by former members of two string quartets, both of which had won the Grand Prize at the Evian International Competition : the Ysaÿe and Anton Quartets.The uniqueness of the Elysée Quartet lies in the confrontation and assimilation of two different schools : the French school and the prestigious Russian school.These two schools are mutually enriching. They enable the blending of different ideas, the development of new dimensions in the interpretation of music, and a strength of expression which has great originality.
The Elysée Quartet has performed in many European countries (England, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal) as well as in Israel, Japan, China, Canada, Nicaragua, Russia... In France they have featured in many festivals, such as : the Orangerie de Sceaux Festival, the Périgord Noir Festival, the Fayence String Quartet Festival, the Lubéron String Quartet Festival, the Ile de France Festival, the Abbaye de l'Epau Festival, the Saison Musicale of Proquartet in Fontainebleau, etc.
The quartet is today composed of : Justina Zajančauskaitė (1st violin), Laurent Le Flécher (2nd violin), Andreï Malakhov (viola) et Igor Kiritchenko (cello)
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Justina Zajančauskaitė : Born in Lithuania, she studied violin in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris with Boris Garlitsky and Olivier Charlier. She studied chamber music with such renowned musicians as Itamar Golan and Hea-Sun Kang. She has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions. She is also a laureate of the « Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet pour la Vocation », the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Foundation, Meyer's Foundation. From an early age, she has had opportunities to perform as a soloist with orchestra and as a chamber music player with different groups. Since she graduated from the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, she has been focusing her career on chamber music (first violin of the Elysée String Quartet since 2014). In 2007 Justina and her sister, pianist Simona Zajančauskaitė created The « Rokiškio klasikinės muzikos festivalis », chamber music festival in Lithuania .
Laurent Le Flécher : He studied at the CNSM and won a violin first prize as well as a chamber music first prize. After an advanced music chamber class in Mr Jean Mouillère's class, he got into Veda Reynolds' masterclass at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia and benefited from a further coaching by the Amadeus quartet, the Alban Berg quartet and the Beaux arts Trio. He performed in a great number of international Competitions. Laurent Le Flécher performs in France as well as abroad. He is regularly invited to participate in various radio programmes such as "Carrefour de Lodéon", "Plaisirs d'Amour" on France-Inter and France-Musique, RTFB (Belgium ); Swiss French radio.He has also performed wih Michel Dalberto, André Cazalet, Juliette Hurel, Benoît Fromanger. He is also artistic director of the Pornic Festival. He performed Ravel's and Chausson's Trio s with the Trio Archipel. The recording with the Trio Elegiaque of Pascal Dusapin's Trio and Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin des temps" was awarded a Diapason d'Or and the recent recording of Russian Trios won a 5 de Dapason.The complete recording of Beethoven's trios will soon be on sale under Brilliant Classics label.
Andrei Malakhov : He studied viola at the Lysenko Specialized Music School and at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music Tchaikovsky in Kiev. After he obtained a Master's degree at the CNSM of Paris in the class of Gérard Caussé, he followed a training course at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris with Pierre-Henri Xuereb. He has won international competitions in Ukraine, Slovakia and Finland. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician in many countries around the world and with renowned partners such as Henri Demarquette, Zakhar Bron, Anton Martynov, Laszlo Hadady, Julie Fuchs, Roman Mints, Annick Roussin, Valérie Aimard, Christophe Desjardins, Igor Volochine, Boris Baraz, Naaman Sluchin... Passionate by contempoorary music, Andrei Malakhov belongs to the ensembles "Le Balcon" and "Maja", where he collaborates with many contemporary composers: Pierre Boulez, Michael Levinas, Peter Eötvös, Valentin Silvestrov, Stefano Gervasoni and others.
Igor Kiritchenko : He was born in Odessa (Ukraine) . He began his cello studies at the Stoliarsky School. He studied withL. Evgrafov at the Gnessin Institute (Moscow), received his diploma in 1981 and completed an assistantship there in 1984. He studied chamber music with V. Berlinsky (Borodine Quartet) and completed graduate studies at the Paris National Conservatory with Alain Meunier. In 1981, he won First Prize in the All Russia Cello Compétition; in 1984 he was a winner in the International Cello Competition, Belgrade. In 1988, he joined the Anton String Quartet. In 1993, again with the Anton Quartet, he won First Prize and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of Russian music at the third Schostakovitch International Competition for String Quartets in St. Petersburg. As a member of the Anton Quartet, he has made numerous tours in France and abroad. He was invited to play by M. Rostropovitch (Prokofiev Festival, London), by S. Richter (December Nights in Moscow festival), by the Borodine Quartet, ....and has played with such artists as Yuri Bashmet, Michael Vaiman, Dina Yoffe, Michel Portal, Paul Meyer, Emile Naoumoff, Frank Braley, Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Dmitry Kirichenko, etc.... He has done numerous recordings for radio and television as well as numerous CDs with, among others, the Anton Quartet. Member of the Elysée String Quartet since 1995, Equinox Piano Trio, Trio Alta de Paris, Juon Project. Artistic director of 'Musical Season in Pays Basque'.
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Every organization has framed different definitions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Although they share a basic concept of CSR that, it is a voluntary process of an organization, which it carries out for the welfare of its employees, society, and environment as an obligation towards all three. In simpler terms, for using community's resources to make revenues and profits out of them the company pays back to it by different means.
There is vagueness and a lot of argument associated to what is owing of CSR in an organization (Horrigan, 2010). Through CSR, organizations create a constructive and affirmative image in the society (Baker, 2004).
Emergence of CSR
CSR first came into existence in the year 1930. It was after the Great Depression in 1929, when two professors of Harvard University, Prof. A.A. Berle, and Prof. C.G. Means realized that corporations must come forward and take the responsibility. They also claimed that such a condition would not have taken place if the corporations had acted responsibly.
1960s & 70s
In account of changing the perspective of society towards business in regard to civil rights movement, consumerism, and environmentalism. Many instances related to CSR were put forth in the business world. Convention and guidelines of Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) were formulated in the year 1960 with the intention of advocating the policies that can ensure the economic growth, better employment, and improved living standards amongst in nations that are its members during maintaining the financial conditions.
1980s &90s
International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN), in 1980 published the World Conversation Strategy. As per this, aim was to make more consistent world economy, enhancing world growth, world equalities and alleviate poverty and its impacts. While in 1992, a summit named the UN Earth Summit was convened in Rio De Janeiro, in which 'triple bottom line' model for business was formulated, with the basic idea of having sustainable development with the company's competitive benefit.
Since then many other important and noteworthy incidents have happened that played a significant role in establishing the concept with even more strength and convinced the business establishments to enforce it with conviction.
Types of CSR
Through this, a company's attention is on reducing the harmful effects caused on environment due to its various operations. The company invents such processes at their production level so that they can minimize the production of such by-products that are causing damage to the environment. It also takes preventive measures to avoid caused damage by burning fossil fuels to its environment by encouraging the use of non-renewable energy.
To safeguard the well-being of the society, the company with the help of other organizations, which are usually Non-profit organizations, comes forward with various programs. To enhance the living standard and conditions of the people of society, a company either provides funds or arranges funds from other companies to carry out the planned programs.
Human resource of an organization plays a vital role in its smooth functioning and success. Hence, companies pay close attention to the needs of its human resource to make their lives better. Companies do so in various ways like some companies provide extra leaves to the male employees so that they can take better care of their newly born child. In case any employee encounters an accident due to on-job danger, companies offer better medical insurance so that the employee can be healed and cured in the best possible way.
Companies often engage other organizations as partners for charity. Companies contribute charity to individuals and other organizations to assist them financially to meet their general needs. This is the most preferred type of CSR being used by the companies.
After understanding the meaning and various types of CSR, it is important to know its major merits.
The most advantageous and obvious merit of CSR to a company is that its value in terms of goodwill increases. It has two major direct benefits to the company. One is, customers are always willing to purchase products of a company that has good image in the market. The other is, in general, other companies wish to get associated with such companies to do business. CSR influences the reputation of the company in the society as the consistent and trustworthy name. It is a general human tendency that they always want to be connected with a name that is reliable and enjoys a good status that makes it the best in the market.
Candidates are attracted towards the companies that have strong CSR policies and comply them responsibly. Hence, such companies get good pool of potential candidates and their employee turnover is very low. Everyone wishes to work with a company that is concerned about its employees and makes efforts towards betterment of working and living conditions of its employees. Existing employees, as well as new employees, wish that the company has an empathetic approach towards them. Fair treatment, regular appraisals, assistance may that be financial or any other in the time of need, recognition on achievements, attention on special days like birthdays, anniversaries etc. are the few basic things that act as a major difference between a company of people and a company for people.
During tough times like condition of tight labor market, these policies of company win an edge over others. It also helps in minimizing the induction training costs and incentives cost of old employees. Employees are motivated to perform even better with incentives. This can be concluded in one statement and i.e. a company is induced to make better profits with increased productivity and reduced rework with the satisfied and contented workers.
Regulatory authorities often lay more focus on the companies that do not perform CSR for scrutiny, over the companies that do. The authorities are set to believe that the company that is performing CSR for the welfare of the society and environment and has a good rapport with the people and other organizations that means it must be complying other rules as well, such mindset allows them to be easy-going with them. To get the most out of the CSR programs other than profits, companies having well-defined CSR policies always abide by other regulations as well.
Such companies receive a fast process of scrutiny by the authorities. At times, if the competent authority realizes that any particular project of a company is going to benefit the society then it may ignore the absence of required paperwork too.
Investors are most likely to invest in the company, which has a good image in the market. Goodwill of a company is significantly enhanced if it is doing well in CSR and makes more people interested in investing in its crucial programs. Such a company will also get foreign investors in the form of FDI. Hence, it also becomes a contributing factor in the foreign exchange of the country. It is known as a reliable and trusted name, due to which it gets investors from other companies and industries as well.
In some conditions, the government of the country also reflects its willingness to invest the company, which leads to minimal regulation issues and red-tapism.
Companies that run environmental CSR programs, always make sure that none of their processes cause any damage to the environment. They introduce such production methods, machinery, and techniques that are in favor of the environment and also reduce any sort of damaging effect if it does cause any, then a clean and healthy environment can be provided to the society. During this process company also access the possibilities of generating and using renewable energy in its different processes.
By investing one-time in renewable energy for production process, company reduces its cost of overall production and fossil fuels.
There is a huge difference in publicity and positive publicity. As in the business world, there is popular saying that, 'no matter what any publicity is good publicity'. It is really important that to make people buy your products one should be a known name amongst them. However, it is also important to have a good name in the eyes of public, because being known for wrong reason also causes downfall in the sales. Hence, a company must always focus on positive promotion. A good publicity can easily be earned by performing decent CSR program. Without even investing in advertising, it works as a good advertising campaign giving you a positive promotion.
Not only this, it also acts as a differentiating factor from its competitors. Even if the competitors are selling their products at lower prices, but the company paying attention to the community and environment always wins over. People readily pay a little more, if they are aware of the contribution of the company to the environment and society.
The points on which the business groups are condemning CSR are discussed below:-
A popular economist named Milton Friedman is the biggest criticizer of CSR. As per him, CSR deviates the basic purpose of the business from earning profit to using its profit for the welfare. He suggested that the sole objective of starting any business activity is to earn maximum profit out of it. A business entity has commitment towards its shareholders, who are hoping to earn from their shares. All these needs can be met only if a company focuses completely on inventing methods by which it can make more and more profits. While companies are using their funds to carry out CSR programs for the welfare of the society and charity.
Hence, if we put it in straight words, then a company is intentionally increasing its expenditure which has no payback or role in profit-making rather it is a pure outflow with no return.
If a company has to comply with the CSR policies, then it is supposed to inform all the limitations associated with its own products. If there is any CSR policy violation in their product then it has to be made public. It can cause bizarre to the image of the company. For instance, once a car manufacturing company has to call back all of its sold cars after finding out malfunction in the model, it damaged the image of the company and its effect was seen on the sale of its other products as well.
This not only causes loss of trust amongst customers but also causes hassle to them.
At the start, people had good impression about these CSR programs. They also tend to be more inclined towards companies that have CSR programs. But, as the time passes people become more impatient and start to expect instant results out of such programs. When they could not notice instant results or instant impact on the society then they start to feel CSR programs as mere publicity stunts. For enterprises, it becomes really hard to make customers understand that such programs take time to show results. It is important for the company to have patience and trust of the customers while the company continues the programs with dedication and conviction.
Even several efforts of convincing the customers to go in vein. Constant efforts of convincing people is an extra and unproductive activity for business enterprises.
CSR programs lead to an extra cost to the company. The increment in cost forces the company to increase the basic price of the product, which is ultimately paid by the customer. This is an extra burden on the company, which is being imposed to customers.
Big companies or business leaders can easily afford such increased costs and may not increase the prices of the products. However, the small players are forced to increase the prices, as they simply cannot afford this increased cost. They are already struggling to fight against the big players in the market and these increased prices make it even more difficult for them.
CSR Related Legislation and Provisions
The provisions and legislation in regard to CSR differ from place to place. The CSR legislation being imposed on the companies varies in different perspectives, may that be based on the geography, environment, culture or legal context of different countries. The major factors in legal context that affect the organizations of three different countries – Australia, UK, and the USA are discussed below:-
OECD Guidelines for Corporate Social Responsibility
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is one platform, where 30 democratic countries can get their matters resolved in terms of social, economic, and environment-related issues. It has laid well-defined guidelines based on ethics and responsible business operations for multinational companies to operate. The guidelines clearly address the issues related to CSR. Being members of OECD, Australia, UK, USA, all the companies operating in these countries have to follow the OECD guidelines without any failure.
General Policies:
Complying with the OECD guidelines alone is not sufficient; companies need to take into account the general policies of the countries they are operating. Taking care of interest of its stakeholders like suppliers, workforce, society, investors etc in accordance with the country rules is also mandatory. Few essentials for a company to do -
The companies are motivated to :
For more detailed information on the guidelines, one can refer to the official website of OECD, where the guidelines are available in the PDF format.
The companies, which wish to or operate in Australia may contact to OECD national contact place to know more about OECD guidelines to act as an OECD member. It is mandatory for a company to be aware of CSR laws in Australia to be able to comply with as the court system of Australian local and centralized sections. For any or all the cases, High Court is the supreme and final jurisdiction. The essential parts that influence the factors of CSR in global processes are discussed below:-
Australian companies are legally bound by a surplus of Australian laws to abide by the human rights standard. For example, there are various laws made to prohibit any sort of harassment and discrimination at workplace, ensuring that employers provide equal employment opportunities. In law, there are numerous aspects that regulate or control work environment have greater impact on the implementation of CSR like occupational health and safety, minimum wage, terms and conditions of employment, collective bargaining etc. For instance, Laws imposing absolute liability on corporations' acts that have bad consequences on human rights, such as bribery offerings to foreign officials, involvement in any misconduct against humanity.
The Corporation Act and Common Law enforce the directors with power and duties for acting in shareholder's best financial interest. The directors are entailed under the Corporations Act, Section 181(1) to act in a manner in which they work or ensure the best interest of the corporation
The Australian government supports all the key conventions included in the UN regarding human rights. To protect and promote human rights in Australia, an autonomous body called 'Australian Human Rights Commission' has been created by the Australian authorities. This agency involves many responsibilities out of which most prominent ones are to safeguard the human rights and focus on CSR.
Companies who are functional or aim to commence business in Australia must strictly obey the local rules and regulations, for instance, employees working hours, frequency of breaks in between the work. Australian employment policy is regulated by the local and central legislation systems, laws and collaborative contracts that apply to specified categories like working hours, salaries, and remuneration, overtime, dispute settlement. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has identified eight main conventions that are being promoted by Australia.
The environmental aspect of Australia should be taken into account for operating any business activity or aim to operate in Australia. As Australia's environmental factor acts as a crucial factor in the implementation of CSR. Laws related to protect or safeguard the environment are formed and imposed by the central, state and local authorities of Australia. Law is made because work performed by some companies can cause bad effect to the environment. For this matter, an enterprise requires license and is liable to report to the authorities. Enterprises are supposed to report the greenhouse gas emission, energy production and consumption by them.
The UN convention to fight against corruption has been ratified by Australia. That is the reason, why it is considered as least corrupted nation worldwide.
The enterprises, which intend to extract natural resources, should take into confidence the native people of the area. In Australia, laws enforce even the consultation. Enterprises that are operating in Australia must check with local authorities and business organizations.
Violation of CSR Norms in Australia: Consequences and Punishments
CSR norms are emerging rapidly due to which expectations from the corporations are also increasing day by day. So, when it comes to violating any norms of CSR, companies can face various consequences extending from loss of goodwill to its market shares.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent Australian government body that acts in accordance to regulate and control Australia's corporate, markets and financial service. It is the duty of ASIC to determine and make sure that economic status and well- being of Australia, continues to be in safe condition. Along with that, ASIC ensures fiscal markets control or regulate justly and keep transparency. If ASIC finds out that any enterprise operating in Australia has violated any of the above-mentioned corporation law, then it identifies and carries out available remedial actions.
Type of Action
Description of Punishment
In case of any misconduct, ASIC may approach the court to take action against such organization or person. The action could be of two types: 1. Criminal penalties in form of imprisonment, community service. 2. Civil monetary penalties, which should be paid to the commonwealth.
In order to safeguard interest of customers and investors, ASIC may take administrative actions that include: 1. Disqualify to manage any organization. 2. Forbid from offering any financial service and getting into any credit services. 3. Retraction, termination, rectification of license terms. 4. Notices of public warnings.
In order to protect the assets, ASIC may take valid judicial action and compel one to follow the law.
Corrective disclosure can be made after seeking a court order.
To ensure that all who have suffered damage and recover the losses, ASIC may request the court to take a representative action.
Negotiated and Agreed Outcome
To get an effective lawful result, ASIC can negotiate on the alternatives that may include: 1. Legally enforced disclaimers. 2. Payment for breached notices.
Just like Australia, UK is one of the OECD members. This means that organizations in UK do comply the general OECD guidelines in terms of CSR. Though, there are some other laws as well that affect working of an organization in the UK.
A New Enacted Law:
Specifically, the organizations, which have their financial year ending on 31-03-2016, are the first ones to create the statement as per the UK Modern Slavery Act. It is so because the Business & Human Resource Centre reached the conclusion that the registry would be maintained of the organization statements pursuant to the act.
Violation of CSR Norms in the UK: Consequences and Punishments
It is mandatory for companies that are operational in the UK to have such policies that honor the human rights. Clearly, they must abstain from any sort of breach of corporate laws, human rights and promptly address impact of any negative human rights action may occur in their processes.
Corporations, intended to operate in the United States, have to keep up with an extensive variety of legislation obligations defining responsibilities towards shareholders and stakeholders. For example, US have come up with the ruling that ensures corporations must guarantee interest of shareholders and stakeholders. A legal outline ensures fiduciary duties of fidelity in order to make directors act and use corporation resources more cautiously and responsibly. It makes sure that directors required performing the activities in corporation's interests and holding back all the ill intentions, motives, bad purposes and objectives that can manipulate director's behavior negatively. Fiduciary duties meaning is 'the best concern of the corporation' that includes the interests of shareholder as well as the stakeholders.
All the enterprises intended to operate in the US should do charitable contribution that is supposed to be acknowledged well by the US. Seven states of The US persuade organizations to do donations regardless of corporate profit. While there are 19 other states that motivate organizations to do charity that could be benefited to the company itself as well as society. Though in rest of 24 states, the rules are not clearly defined that donations can be made or not if it is not in the interest of corporation.
Corporate laws, formed by the states enforce legal duty on enterprises and permit corporations to participate in lawful activities. Companies can form their own charters where they can precisely take participation in the CSR activities. For instance, New York Times has been established to work in accordance with the objectives of social welfare than to make profits.
The business judgment rule makes a strong assumption for affirming manager's activity. In the ratification of this act, a manager's decision can be challenged by the court until decision assures to meet all the essential needs linked to the clashes of interests and ignorance.
Violation of CSR Norms in USA: Consequences and Punishments
Companies who are not complying the corporate laws need to understand they can have substantially bad consequences on companies' image.
Examples of CSR Activities
CSR activities carrying out in leading companies reflecting how CSR system is advantageous to a company than having its demerits.
There are notable attempts made by Google to improve. Forbes has listed Google having the best CSR activities.Google's CSR based on Community
Effects: Due to Google's green initiatives, greater impact was seen on power consumption by big enterprises. Google has become footprint for all such organizations for following such idea of less power consumption. It got involved in charitable activities like permitting them to publicize free of cost.
Microsoft Company is well acknowledged for its contribution or support for the social welfare or development. Bill Gates (owner of Microsoft) is well-known for his humanitarian approach or charities giving billions of dollars in donation. There is a private foundation formed by Bill Gates and Melinda Gates named as 'The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation' that has supported millions of people by funds, medical services, and financial support to get through in medical research.Microsoft's CSR activities based on Community:
Effects: CSR activities of Microsoft have left a massive effect on development of the community and satisfaction of employees. According to a study, 86% of Microsoft employees recommend others to work with Microsoft. The same study says its 94% employees are satisfied with the justifiable treatment they receive by their superiors and commendable efforts in improving the lives of humans, it is also called 'a good corporate citizen'.
Bosch is a well-known name in the field of automotive and industrial field. The company is based out of Germany and is extremely focused on keeping its operations in accordance with the environment norms –
CSR of Bosch – based on HR
Bosch's CSR Activities based on Environment
Effects: Bosch through inventing this technology has made public more conscious of saving energy. Bosch ensured to have a better and cleaner surrounding around its production sites by self-imposed regulation in the form of HSE rules.
Hewlett-Packard is a well-known name of the IT industry. It is also known for using and making popular such technologies and approaches by which usage of lesser energy can be ensured.HP's CSR Activities based on Environment
Effects: Through innovative programmes of HP, customers and public are more aware and concerned about production of clean energy and ways to keep environment cleaner.


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Mount Meru Over View
An enchanting picturesque mountain close to Arusha. Mount Meru is the second highest mountain in Tanzania and is the topographic centerpiece of Arusha National Park. Its fertile slopes rise above the surrounding savanna and support a forest that hosts diverse wildlife, including nearly 400 species of birds, and also monkeys and leopards.
Mount Meru is the nature- lover's mountain paradise, situated just over the border of Kenya, and bounding with wildlife. Your trek will promise you spectacular views,especially of neighbouring Mt. Kilimanjaro, and a close encounter with game animals,being one of the purest African habitats Tanzania has to offer.
5 Days Mount Meru Climb (Via Arusha Np)
Day 1: Nairobi / Moshi
We can depart Nairobi this morning with the shuttle to Moshi, across the Tanzanian border. You have a comfortable stay at your hotel in the town for thenight.
Day 2: Moshi / Miriakamba Hut
After breakfast at your hotel, we can leave Moshi (or Arusha) to drive to Arusha National Park. At the gate we will meet our armed Park Ranger who will accompany us on our climb, which begins out in the grasslands of the lower slopes.Here we will likely encounter giraffe, buffalo and warthogs. Once the grasslands lead into lush forest, we can spot bush bucks, Red Duikers and many varieties of birds and monkeys, including the Skye's and Colubus species until we arrive up to the Miriakamba Huts at 2515m. We can spend the night here, after our 3- 4 hour beautiful nature walk today.
Day 3: Miriakamba / Saddle Hut
This morning we can head to our camp for the night which is at 3560m and is about a 3- 4 hour hike away. Along the way, we can stop at the Elephant Ridge Viewpoint for a picnic lunch before arriving at Saddle Huts to set up camp. This afternoon, we can trek to the summit of Little Meru Peak at 3810m, which promises magnificent views of sheer cliffs, crater walls and Mt. Meru's summit. Beneath a setting sun, we will catch the magically changing colour hues on Mt. Kilimanjaro's glaciers behind us-- truly sensational!
Day 4: Saddle Hut / Summit (4530m) Miriakamba hut
mount meru We have a very early morning rise at 2am today, if we wish to catch the spectacular sight of the rising sun behind Mt. Kilimanjaro. Along the way, we will pass the Rhino point at 2870m before the narrow ridge of the crater summit. This will take us 4- 5 hours and as long as it's a clear morning, we will see the active volcano of Mt. Oldoinyo Lengai to the West, and below us the grasslands of the Maasai Steppe and the town of Arusha. After soaking in the many soaring views from Mt. Meru summit, we can begin our 2- 3 hour descent to Saddle Huts where we can stop for lunch, before continuing down for a further 2- 3 hours to arrive at Miriamkamba Huts for dinner and to spend the night.
Day 5: Miriakamba hut / Moshi
This morning we have a leisurely descent through lush forest before arriving at Momella park gate for a picnic lunch (and representation of certificates for your climb) before being transferred back to your Moshi hotel for a hot shower! From here you may choose to go on a Mt. Kilimanjaro Trek, a safari in one of Tanzania's national parks, or of course transfer to Kenya where your options for adventure are endless!!
Please Note; All our itineraries are suggested only, and can be altered to suit your starting and destination point, or any other changes. If you do not need to transfer from Nairobi, then the first day of this trek will automatically be deducted.
Included in the price:
Þ Airport transfers.
Þ All camping equipment.
Þ Transfer to and from the base of the mountain.
Þ Full board accommodation whilst on the trek.
Þ 3 Meals a day ( special diet vegetarian and hallal).
Þ Accommodations in camps/huts as per the itinerary.
Þ All park entrance fees to include government taxes.
Þ Service of an English speaking professional guide, porters and skilled cook.
Þ Start and finish Nairobi.
Þ Water -You just need bottled water only the first day. The rest of the days we boil or add purifying tablets then filter using MSR water filtering pump before refilling in your water bottles in the morning.
Þ Rescue fee.
Þ H.F Radio communication for backup incase or rescue.
Excluded in the price:
Þ Laundry.
Þ Tips.
Þ Hikking equipments.
Þ Soft drinks.
Þ Accommodation before and after the trek.
Þ climbing gears ( we have them for hire).
Þ International flights.
Þ Visas to Kenya.
Þ Items of personal nature.
Þ Any other extras not detailed in the above itinerary.
Þ No mosquito net.
NB: Proper equipments are vital to safe and enjoyable trek.


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Here is a quick peek from my most recent birth session!
This sweet baby girl made a rapid entrance into the world and her Mama did an amazing job with labor and delivery!
I had the honor of attending this birth at The Midwife Center in Pittsburgh.
I love shooting there because I delivered two of my babies there!
Almost a week after baby B was born I went to their home to capture some Lifestyle images with
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