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NCADV currently has several positions open on for the Governance Board. You can find information, criterion and application below!
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Katherine Salazar, Board Chair
Katherine is a director of marketing for Valeant Pharmaceuticals. She has spent the last 15 years of her career developing and executing marketing campaigns for major consumer package goods and pharmaceutical companies. Her focus has been on Hispanic and cause marketing campaigns that have led brands to growth in very competitive segments. Most recently, she led the cause marketing campaign for Valeant's aesthetic and dermatology divisions which donated a percentage of sales to a non-profit to help end domestic violence.
She is a mother of a wonderful little boy, a domestic violence survivor, and a doctor of business administration. She devotes her spare time to raising her son and she uses her personal experience as a survivor to help other women find freedom from abuse.
Linda Oberhaus, Vice Chair
Linda Oberhaus has more than 25 years of professional experience in the human services field, and currently serves as the CEO for The Shelter for Abused Women & Children in Naples, Florida.
A graduate of the University of South Florida, Ms. Oberhaus also completed post graduate courses in nonprofit management at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School.
Ms. Oberhaus previously served as a board member of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the President's Family Justice Center initiative. She is a graduate of Leadership Florida Class of 2013, and completed the FBI Citizen's Academy in 2015.
Ms. Oberhaus was named Naples Illustrated Leading Lady in 2018, Gulfshore Life Woman of the Year in 2017 and received the Outstanding Community Leadership Award from the Collier County Sheriff's Office in 2016.
Ms. Oberhaus has two children: Christopher, a military veteran and graduate of the National Aviation Academy, and Brooke, a proud graduate of the University of North Florida.
Diane Rosenfeld, Secretary
Diane L. Rosenfeld is a lecturer on Law and Director of the Gender Violence Program at Harvard Law School. Her courses include "Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice"; "Title IX"; and "Theories of Sexual Coercion. " Additionally, she supervises the Gender Violence Legal Policy Workshop where she works with Harvard law students to develop cutting-edge legal policy initiatives for the U.S. and abroad.
Ms. Rosenfeld received her LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Prior to teaching at Harvard, she served as the Senior Counsel to the Violence Against Women Office (now the Office of Violence Against Women) of the U.S. Department of Justice. She also served as an Executive Assistant Attorney General in Illinois where she provided legal policy advising on women's rights, environmental enforcement, and the ethics of governmental attorneys.
Vicky Hales, Treasurer
Vicky has been a banker with UMB Bank for over 24 years. She partners with her clients to help them achieve financial success. She has held many different positions at UMB, including her current role as Financial Center Manager which allows her to coach her team to success. Highlights include Top Producer awards for both the Colorado market and the entire company in 2013 and having 3 people promoted within the company in 2014.
Vicky is passionate about volunteering her time to non-profit organizations. She has held and currently holds many board positions, volunteers regularly with neighborhood groups in Denver's Capitol Hill community, and is a past full-time volunteer with the USO. Vicky has won many awards for her volunteer efforts including the Service to Mankind award presented by the Littleton SERTOMA club for 2009-2010. Vicky's interest in helping DV victims stems from a childhood spent witnessing DV in the home.
Vicky is married, has one son and one grandson. She enjoys the beautiful Colorado outdoors, spending time with her family, cooking, and travel.
Cheryl Davis, M.A., LPC., Past Board Chair
Cheryl has a Master's Degree in Counseling and is a licensed psychotherapist in Colorado. She is the Manager of the DV Unit at the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) and the Program Director for the Colorado Domestic Violence Offender Management Board (DVOMB). Cheryl has been with DCJ in this capacity for 15 years. She also served on the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) for the past 13 years. Cheryl co-founded and has been the chair of the Domestic Violence and Sexual Offense Crossover Committee for the past eight years.
She has extensive direct experience with victim services issues, victim advocacy issues, offender treatment; management and containment issues. Her experience includes 18 years of providing trainings on the issues of domestic violence at the national, state and local level.
In 2012 Cheryl received the Carolyn Hamil-Henderson Memorial Award, recognizing outstanding efforts in providing inspiration and leadership to end domestic violence in the Denver community.
Rose Garrity
Rose, now retired, was the Executive Director, of *A New Hope Center (ANHC), in Tioga County New York since its founding in the spring of 1986. She developed all aspects of this well-known domestic violence and sexual assault program which opened with a single staff person and grew to one with 16-20 staff and many programs. Rose has written and trained extensively on various aspects of domestic violence and sexual assault as well as economic justice, anti-racism, classism, and other oppressions.
Rose is a co-founder of the NY Model for Batterer Programs Model, and developed one of the earliest domestic violence coordinated community response networks in New York while developing the batterer program work.
She also oversaw the development of the first pet rescue related to domestic violence project in the northeast. Rose is a well-known writer and trainer and has received numerous awards for her work. She has also served on several other boards, including the NYS Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the NYS Coalition Against Sexual Assault. In her retirement she remains committed to social justice activism.
Kristi Hall-Jiran
Kristi Hall-Jiran, Executive Director of the Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC) in Grand Forks, is a leader who has actively engaged individuals to work together to end violence throughout the region. Under Kristi's leadership, Grand Forks has received national attention and won both national and regional awards for its innovative efforts in improving the way our community responds to violence and in working to end childhood exposure to violence.
Kristi has developed CVIC from a six-staff, crisis-focused agency to a 64-staff, multi-program intervention/prevention organization that provides long-term solutions to ending violence. Using best practices and evidence-based interventions, CVIC now offers direct services to more than 2,500 adults and children and violence prevention education to 10,000 a year, supporting an annual budget of more than $4 million. She provides leadership to the statewide domestic violence coalition and has served as a federal grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Justice. Her community involvement includes serving on the board of directors of Altru Health System, the University of North Dakota (UND) College of Business and Public Administration Advisory Council, past chair of The Chamber Board of Directors, past chair of the North Dakota state domestic violence coalition, past president of Sharon Lutheran Church, and a founding member of the Women's Fund of the Community Foundation.
A Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with a Master's of Arts degree in Counseling from UND and Bachelor's of Science degrees in Psychology and Health from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, Kristi is married to Brent Hall Jiran, a teacher a Schroeder Middle School in Grand Forks. They have three daughters. Throughout her professional, volunteer and family life, Kristi believes strongly in a balances and healthy lifestyle, a holistic view of our community and world, and in always taking time to laugh!
David Lloyd
David is a Co-Founder and Partner of LG&P, a global in-store marketing agency twice named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the "Hot 100" Fastest Growing companies in the USA. David's responsibilities include ownership of the strategic vision for the agency and management of the research, marketing and client service organizations. Prior to co-founding LG&P, David was Executive Vice President and Director of HMG Worldwide, in New York City, where his responsibilities included management of the company's national sales and marketing organizations and integration of strategic acquisitions.
David brings not only his twenty-eight years of business and entrepreneurial knowledge to NCADV, but also his personal first-hand experience dealing with domestic violence as a child witness. David and his wife were both raised in Toronto and relocated to New Jersey in 1994 where they live today along with their two children.
Aaron B. Steed
Aaron B. Steed is president, co-founder and CEO of Meathead Movers. He founded Meathead Movers at 17-years-old in 1997 with his brother, Evan. As CEO, Steed has established an open-door style of management, similar to that of a coach, and is well-known for being happily available to assist employees at their jobs or in their personal lives.
While running full-scale ahead to success, Steed has never let Meathead Movers forget its roots. He has maintained the same mission of assisting student-athletes achieve their goals by providing them with a flexible and educational workplace. He has also maintained the practice of assisting victims of domestic violence by providing moving services at no cost. When the media caught wind of the services being provided in each of Meathead Movers' service areas, Steed and his team used its platform to launch the #MoveToEndDV campaign to continue to bring awareness to the much-needed efforts and encourage more than 200 businesses globally to get involved in similar ways.
This long-standing model has led Meathead Movers to land on the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies list for six consecutive years. He was named one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 35 at the White House in 2014 and remains the largest independent moving company in California with 400 employees, over 100 trucks and 213,000 sq/ft of mini storage.
In his free time, Steed enjoys working on his farm in San Luis Obispo, California, traveling and spending time with his friends.
Mark Wynn
A national trainer to police executives, patrol officers, training officers, prosecutors, judges, legislators, social service providers, healthcare professionals and victim advocates in all 50 states for over 30 years. An international lecturer at police academies in Australia, Canada, Germany, England, Northern Ireland, Russia, the Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of Georgia, the Federated States of Micronesia, China, the Islands of the Bahamas, Brazil, Turkey, Cyprus and Singapore. He is a survivor, enabling him to teach both effectively and passionately. In short, Mark is devoted to ending family violence as a police officer, detective, educator, program supervisor, and now consultant and adviser.
Keri Norris
Keri Norris, Ph.D., MPH, MCHES is the Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority's (FDHA) Chief of Health Policy and Administration, where she oversees the Community Health Awareness and Prevention Office and general operation matters.
Prior to coming to The FDHA, she worked at the Centers for Disease Control for seven years and held positions as a health scientist, evaluator and epidemiologist. She has also served on the advisory council for the CDC's University School of Public Health Research and Medicine. She has extensive and specific experience in the areas of eliminating health disparities for the Appalachian, Latino/Hispanic, older, African-American, American Indian and Asian Pacific Islander and other vulnerable populations in the United States. She has also served as an adjunct faculty member at several institutions of higher learning such as the University of South Carolina, Agnes Scott, Spelman and Morehouse School of Medicine.
She has earned numerous awards and was inducted into the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, 2012. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies from Agnes Scott, a Masters of Public Health in Health Administration, Management and Policy from Morehouse School of Medicine's Master of Public health Program, and a certificate of graduate study in Gender and Women's Studies from University of South Carolina. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Health Promotion, Education and Behavior from the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Norris is also a motivational speaker and author. Her book "The Other Side of Thru" (pen name Payne Nickerson) focuses on the challenges of poverty, childhood sexual abuse, intimate partner violence and survival. She spends a great deal of her time as an advocate for underserved communities and performing community service.
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This study will determine if the Lord's supper was intended as an ordinace for Israel only.
The Lord and the twelve disciples shared in the feast of unleavened bread in the day he would be sacrificed. This feast was a memorial and an ordinance dedicated to the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. It was a feast to be observed forever.
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover? Mark 14:12
They participated in the meal together. Christ told the twelve that this meal represented his bodily sacrifice for them. Christ gave the twelve instructions to do this often in the future to remember his sacrifice. His death and resurrection would bring into effect the new testament.
22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. Luke 22:19-20
We will now go onto examine if the Lord's supper was identified and participated in by the Jews.
Peter was speaking to the house of Israel in Acts 2 below.
2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Acts 2:36
The Jews who responded to Peter were baptized and continued in fellowship and in breaking bread.
2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Acts 2:41-42
The believers met in the temple, which further supports their being Jews. Again we see them breaking bread. Could this breaking of bread be carrying out the command to shew forth the Lord's death until he comes or was it just communion, celebrating being believers in Christ?
2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Acts 2:46
Could the disciples be jewish ? If so, then the Jewish disciples were breaking bread. It should be noted that Paul was The Apostle of the Gentiles ( Romans 11:13 ), but he also preached to the Jews.
20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. Acts 20:7
It is evident in the passage below that the disciples are jews. They wouldn't follow sabbath law otherwise.
12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. Matthew 12:2
The Lord Jesus Christ died to put into effect the new testament which will forgive Israel her sins and bring in his kingdom. Israel would become a blessing and light to Gentiles who would come to God thru them...the Lord's supper is to remind them of his death and future coming to set up the kingdom of heaven. This can be seen in the next two verses.
11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. 1 Corinthians 11:26
14:25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. Mark 14:25
The churches of Paul's day were comprised of both Jew and Gentile believers, and Paul speaks to both, which behoves us to rightly divide.
Now following are a few verses that seem Jewish in nature.
In scripture was only Israel chastened?
11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 1 Corinthians 11:32
Chastening appears in the book written to Hebrews.
12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Hebrews 12:6
Below he identifies his audience as being Gentiles. It can be seen that there is a distinction in the audience being adressed.
12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. 1 Corinthians 12:2
Below our fathers could only be reference to Jews and therefore, the audience, the brethren, are Jews.
10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 1 Corinthians 10:1
Ye in verse below could not be Gentiles, it wouldn't make sense; of note is that in verse 10:1 Paul is addressing Israel, so in the passage below, ye are Jews.
10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 1 Corinthians 10:20
Fornication among you could not be Gentiles below for the same reason; there is a distinction between you and Gentiles.
5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 1 Corinthians 5:1
So, upon examining alot of the verses in the Corinthian epistle leads to the possibility that Paul was addressing Jewish believers only in certain passages and Gentile believers only in others. It is a possibility that the original command to observe the Lord's supper was given to Israel only.
Participating in the Lord's supper unworthily; They would be guilty of failing to recognize that they were participating in the communion of believers. They were to aware that as Christ sacrificed himself for us they were to be mindfull of the other members of the body of Christ.
11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 1 Corinthians 11:27
Consequence of taking the Lord's supper unworthily;
11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 1 Corinthians 11:30
The cause of weakness and sickness which led to death could be the chastening of the Lord.
11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 1 Corinthians 11:32
1 Corinthians 11:30 could refer to the passage below which speaks of healing in the Body as being one of the gifts.
12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 1 Corinthians 12:9
1 Corinthians 11:30 could speak to being converted and bringing in the kingdom, in which, healing is a feature.
13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. Matthew 13:15
The Lord's supper represents the communion of believers;
10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 1 Corinthians 10:16
My determination is that a case can be made that the Lord's supper was ordained for Israel, but the body of Christ can participate in celebrating communion because it represents the fellowship and recognition that we are all in Christ in this dispensation of grace. The new covenant that the death of Christ initiated has also made provision for the body of Christ.
3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: Ephesians 3:9
12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:13


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The average book on Agile software development describes a fairyland of greenfield projects, with wall-to-wall tests that run after every few edits, and clean & simple source code.
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Press Coverage – OnProcess in the News
Learn about OnProcess in some of the many business and supply chain publications and blogs covering supply chain today.
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OnProcess Technology Named 2017 Top 10 Healthcare Supply Chain Management ProviderJanuary 9, 2018Read More >>
OnProcess Technology, a global pioneer in service supply chain management and optimization, has been named Healthcare Tech Outlook's "2017 Top 10 Healthcare Supply Chain Management Solutions Provider." The managed services company was recognized for the innovative way it uses digital transformation to help healthcare OEMs maximize uptime of on-site equipment while slashing inefficiencies and costs.
OnProcess Technology Wins One Planet "Innovative Service of the Year" for IoT-Driven Dynamic Parts PlanningDecember 14, 2017Read More >>
OnProcess Technology has earned the One Planet Bronze Award for "Innovative Service of the Year" for its Dynamic Parts Planning Service. The service is the industry's first IoT data-driven offering to predict spare parts demand. It enables companies to safely cut inventory by six to 10 percent, saving millions of dollars in carrying costs while improving service levels and fill rates.
IoT's surprising impact on revolutionizing inventory managementOctober 4, 2017Read More >>
You know disruptive technologies have reached the tipping point when non-IT pros build business plans around them. This is exactly what's happening with IoT. Because of its ability to drive wide-ranging, game-changing improvements, IoT is starting to be used across all aspects of business operations. One of the newest, and most impactful, areas is spare parts inventory management, a key aspect of the post-sale supply chain.
Making the Case for Outsourced Services in Post-Sale Supply Chain (SSC)September 7, 2017Read More >>
Improving after-sales service is essential, but getting your arms around how to achieve that is the hard part. With a high-performing SSC your organization can take out costs in spare parts inventory, spare parts logistics, and recovery of repairable assets–all while improving customer satisfaction.
Dynamic Duo: How Data & Visibility Prevent Warranty Fraud, Mitigate LossesAugust 7, 2017Read More >>
Warranty fraud seems to be a fact of life. If your business is like many electronics companies, you've had plenty of customers avoid service charges by having faulty products repaired at no cost without active warranties. You've had them obtain products for free by claiming, and sometimes re-selling, replacement parts/products without returning broken ones. So, it shouldn't be a surprise that fraudulent warranty claims regularly cause businesses to lose about five percent of their annual revenue and account for up to 15% of their warranty costs.
New Asset Recovery Benchmarks Drive Supply Chain Optimization Sky-HighJune 27, 2017Read More >>
Are you confident your company is achieving the best possible asset recovery results? Do you know whether your return rate could go a few points higher? Or how feasible it would be to slash five, 10 or even 20 percent off your days of inventory?
If not, you're not alone. Most businesses don't know what's truly achievable for companies of their kind. As a result, most asset recovery goals are guesstimates. Often, they're not aggressive enough, which means companies are leaving a lot of money on the table and dissatisfied customers in their wake.
To reach true asset recovery potential, you need industry-appropriate, well-vetted benchmarks that you can measure against, aspire to, and then, with the right plans and best practices, attain.
OnProcess On Digitizing The Post-Sale Supply ChainMay 5, 2017Read More >>
The problem in the (service supply chain) space when it comes to digital transformation is similar to those seen in other industries and processes heavily reliant on legacy systems. The challenge becomes how to go about accessing, compiling and making meaningful large, disparate sets of raw data.
Mike Wooden, CEO of managed supply chain operations services provider OnProcess, knows this problem well.
OnProcess Technology Wins '2016 Best in Biz' Awards for CEO and Marketing Exec of the YearDecember 5, 2016Read More >>
OnProcess Technology has won multiple 'Best in Biz 2016' awards. The company's CEO, Mike Wooden, and its VP of Marketing, Candyce Plante, have been named bronze winner for the Exec of the Year and silver winner for Marketing Exec of the Year, respectively. Both Wooden and Plante joined OnProcess in 2015 to help the company expand market share and cement its reputation as the leading provider of managed services for complex, global post-sale supply chains
IoT Can Drive Big Savings in the Post-Sales Supply ChainNovember 7, 2016Read More >>
The internet of things can unleash cost savings, service improvements, and better customer experiences — but ensuring collection of good-quality data comes first.
Gartner Recognizes OnProcess in Eight Supply Chain Hype Cycle and Market Guide ReportsOctober 28, 2016Read More >>
Businesses that rely on Gartner's Hype Cycle and Market Guide reports for insights into critical supply chain technology and services trends will find OnProcess well-represented over the past two years.
OnProcess employees 'make a difference' with supplies for TogusSeptember 27, 2016Read More >>
Employees of OnProcess Technology, a relatively young company in Belfast (2015), already have found a way to make a difference. They recently collected and donated more than 1,700 items to the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post for use by veterans at Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta.
Article: How IoT data boosts post-sale supply chain profitsSeptember 12, 2016Read More >>
The IoT tsunami is creating a huge opportunity to streamline and drive waste out of a costly and largely inefficient post-sale supply chain. However, most organizations are at a loss when it comes to using IoT data to solve these challenges.
Article in Tech Target
Five Keys to More Profitable DeliveriesSeptember 12, 2016Read More >>
Product uptime is the Holy Grail. But for providers of home medical equipment, it's also expensive to ensure, with costly skilled field workers required to maintain these machines. And now, with customers demanding higher service levels and more competitively priced service contracts, it's getting much harder to cost-effectively manage, especially when you consider that a good chunk of field workers' time—as much as 25%—is spent, or you could say, wasted, on administrative tasks that don't actually require their expertise.
OnProcess Technology: Driving Digital Transformation of the Post-Sale Supply ChainSeptember 7, 2016Read More >>
OnProcess Technology today announced it has been named one of CIOReview's "20 Most Promising Supply Chain Solution Providers" for the second consecutive year. OnProcess was recognized for being the only managed services provider specializing in the post-sale supply chain and leveraging powerful predictive analysts and real-time visibility technology to improve clients' profitability, efficiencies and customer satisfaction.
How IoT Data Can Cut Machine Part Safety StockAugust 2, 2016Read More >>
A Supply Chain Management (SCM) master's program thesis research project carried out in collaboration with managed services provider OnProcess Technology, headquartered in Ashland, MA, found that by using Internet of Things (IoT) data to predict machine failures, companies can reduce spare part inventory volumes and improve their ability to meet service quality levels.
Supply Chain Analytics Trends: The Internet of Things and MoreJuly 14, 2016Read More >>
Researchers at MIT, in conjunction with OnProcess Technology, developed a framework by which organizations can use data collected in real time from products equipped with IoT devices to more accurately predict failures.
This allows them to more precisely gauge how many spare parts they need to stock.
[session] Analyzing IoT Data By @OnProcess | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #API #BigDataJuly 12, 2016Read More >>
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dan Gettens, Chief Research Officer at OnProcess, will discuss recent research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and OnProcess Technology, where MIT created a new, breakthrough analytics model for spare parts forecasting and inventory planning using connected-product failure predictability. He'll show how, by analyzing IoT data, you can slash both costly inventory stock and stock-outs, and meet heightened customer expectations for repairs and uptime.
IoT Machine Failure Analyses Reduces Average Inventory & Boosts Service LevelsJune 16, 2016Read More >>
OnProcess Technology, a global pioneer in service supply chain management and optimization, announced results of a joint research project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Supply Chain Management (SCM) Program, which found that by using Internet of Things (IoT) data to predict machine failures, companies can reduce costly inventory stock while improving their ability to meet service levels.
Ashland firm predicts machine failures using web dataJune 15, 2016Read More >>
Companies who use Internet of things data to predict machine failures can cut costs by reducing inventory stock and improving their ability to meet service levels, according to the results of a research project between Ashland-based OnProcess Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
CFOs Set Their Sights on Post-Sales ServiceMay 4, 2016Read More >>
Recent research shows that CFOs are seeking better visibility into post-sales service to bring it into sharper focus.
Why the CFO Cares about Post-Sales ServiceApril 21, 2016Read More >>
Realizing opportunities for lower costs and higher revenues In this study of the importance of companies' post-sales service processes, finance executives comment on the importance of excellence in post-sales service both to bolster the bottom line and to support business growth. Three out of four agree that their companies need to improve in this area. […]
Parks Associates Research Addresses Tech Support Opportunities in the Internet of ThingsMarch 30, 2016Read More >>
Arrayent, Asurion, OnProcess Technology, ROC-Connect, and Support.com to Discuss Smart Home Market at 20th-Annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference
…"One of the biggest challenges facing connected product providers is the high percentage of consumers who either never end up setting up their products or return them soon after installation because they didn't meet expectations. There are a number of steps providers can take to combat this, but they require taking a much more comprehensive, proactive, and analytical approach to customer service," said Karen Kosh, VP Broadband and Mobility Business, OnProcess Technology.
Navigating the Uncertain New World of Outcome-Based OutsourcingMarch 14, 2016Read More >>
The days of paying supply chain outsourcers by number of FTEs are on their way out. In that purely cost-based model, the OEM's interests – keeping hours low to contain costs – are inherently pitted against their managed service provider's – putting more FTEs on a project to maximise revenue. Instead, OEMs are now exploring outcome-based models, where sellers become partners who share the risks and rewards of achieving their goals.
Listen to Your Product & Boost Supply Chain ProfitabilityMarch 1, 2016Read More >>
If your products could tell you how to save millions of dollars in the costly post-sale supply chain, would you listen? Well, they can. The products your customers are using have been speaking for years via machine log files, pointing to issues with software, infrastructure capacity, configuration, hardware, and more—all of which cause high support-related costs. But for the most part, this talk has fallen on deaf ears.
200 Belfast Employees Receive Free Training Through EMCCFebruary 3, 2016Read More >>
OnProcess Technology set up operations in Belfast last May and has hired nearly 200 Mainers.
Those employees will now be receiving training and education at no cost thanks to the company's partnership with Eastern Maine Community College and Maine Quality Centers.
How to Stop Leaking Millions of Dollars in Your Reverse Logistics Supply ChainJanuary 11, 2016Read More >>
Imagine asking a quarterback to run a play without looking up to check out the defense, or buying a used car without taking it for a test drive. Without visibility, all you're operating on is hope.
10 cool ways tech companies give it up for charityDecember 7, 2015Read More >>
The philanthropic landscape is vast, and finding the right charitable fit for a company takes time. We heard from tech companies – big and small – that have found ways to launch and develop philanthropic programs. Here are some approaches that work for them.
OnProcess Technology: Differentiate on Operational and Service Excellence, Rather than PriceOctober 30, 2015Read More >>
"With product companies, success depends as much on what happens after the sale as it does on the sale itself", delineates Michael L. Wooden, CEO of OnProcess Technology."
Glassbeam Inks Partnership With OnProcess Technology to Optimize Service Supply Chain OperationsOctober 28, 2015Read More >>
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – Oct 27, 2015) – Glassbeam, Inc., the machine data analytics company, announced today that it has entered into a technology partnership with OnProcess Technology. The partnership entails an integration between respective offerings — with the goal of leveraging machine data analytics to introduce new efficiencies in service supply chains (SSC).
Massachusetts company hires 40 of 80 employees anticipated for Belfast branchSeptember 11, 2015Read More >>
BELFAST — OnProcess Technology, the Massachusetts-based logistics company moving into a wing of Bank of America's complex on Route 3, is aiming to hire 80 people by the end of October, according to City Manager Joe Slocum.
Five Ways Analytics Can Mine the Gold in Your Post-Sales Supply ChainAugust 24, 2015Read More >>
Using real-world examples, Mr. Gettens shows how analytics can help companies save millions of dollars annually, reap significant revenue gains and improve the customer experience to such an extent that they can differentiate on operational and service excellence, rather than price.
Analytics-Based Managed Services Improve Product Companies' Post-Sales Supply ChainAugust 3, 2015Read More >>
A question and answer session by CEOCFO Magazine with OnProcess CEO Mike Wooden. A great overview of why OnProcess is the provider of choice for many of the world's leading companies.
Analytics-Driven Services Reduce Dispatch Costs by $21.5MJuly 31, 2015Read More >>
OnProcess used advanced analytics to evaluate the client's global parts and labor dispatch operations. It automated 80% of the process and custom-developed a tool connecting the client's CRM and ERP systems, transportation and 3PL providers, and provided all-inclusive data view on single screen.
OnProcess Technology Names Michael Wooden CEO of Leading Supply Chain CompanyJune 25, 2015Read More >>
OnProcess Technology, a global pioneer in service supply chain management (SCM) and optimization, today announced that Michael Wooden has joined the company as CEO.
Leveraging Integrated Supply Chain Management Solutions, by Gustavo Estrella, SVP of Technology at OnProcessJune 1, 2015Read More >>
OnProcess Technology specializes in providing managed services for companies with complex, global post-sales supply chains.
Introducing the SDCE100 for 2015May 22, 2015Read More >>
Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine, the executive's user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, this week announced its 13th annual listing of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100, highlighting 100 Great Supply Chain Projects.
Maine Senate President Says Tech Company Expansion Great News for Waldo CountyMay 19, 2015Read More >>
Maine Senate President Michael Thibodeau (R-Waldo) said today that OnProcess Technology's plan to expand in the City of Belfast and potentially hire hundreds of workers is great economic news for the entire region.
Massachusetts logistics company to open offices in BelfastMay 19, 2015Read More >>
A Boston-area logistics company has officially announced plans to open a branch in Belfast.
New tech company coming to Belfast, may bring up to 350 new jobsMay 19, 2015Read More >>
OnProcess Technology, a Massachusetts-based company that helps manage service supply chains for industries, is planning to immediately hire employees for its new Belfast service delivery center. The company will settle into one of the office buildings built in the 1990s for former midcoast credit card giant MBNA.
Massachusetts-based technology company is expanding to BelfastMay 19, 2015Read More >>
OnProcess Technology will soon be occupying a vacant building on the old MBNA campus off of Route 3, a space that also houses two of Belfast's largest employers, Athenahealth Network and Bank of America.
Massachusetts tech company plans to open Maine office, hire 50 peopleMay 18, 2015Read More >>
A Massachusetts technology company announced Monday that it plans to expand into Maine and create 50 jobs, and that the total could eventually grow to 300.
Collins, King Welcome OnProcess Technology to MaineMay 18, 2015Read More >>
Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King released the following statement welcoming OnProcess Technology, a supply chain logistics and supply chain optimization company, to Maine.
New Company To Create Hundreds of Jobs in BelfastMay 18, 2015Read More >>
Large companies like Bank of America and Athena Health have been moving to Belfast, creating many benefits in the area. And now, another big company is on the way.
Governor LePage Congratulates OnProcess Technology on Expansion in BelfastMay 18, 2015Read More >>
As many as 350 new jobs could soon be heading to Maine's midcoast region. Massachusetts-based OnProcess Technology today announced an expansion of its North America footprint. The global pioneer in service supply chain management and optimization will open a service delivery center in Belfast.
OnProcess Technology expands partnership with AribaMarch 25, 2015Read More >>
OnProcess Technology, an Ashland company specializing in service supply chain management, has extended its partnership with Ariba in North America, the company announced Wednesday.
Massachusetts company eyes Belfast for potential office spaceJanuary 26, 2015Read More >>
A Massachusetts-based company is seeking grant money as it eyes the city as a possible new location for its business.
OnProcess Technology: Comprehensive SSCO ProgramsJanuary 1, 2015Read More >>
Inadequate or excessive manual back office systems and services cause challenges in reporting, reconciliation, lack of connectivity between diverse departments and vendors, hampering insight into inventories.
In Managing Its Service Supply Chain, Nutanix Doesn't Think SmallAugust 8, 2014Read More >>
Anticipating dramatic growth in its business, the 2009 high-tech start-up acquired an optimization tool that could easily scale up in the years ahead – yet deliver a full range of services in the meantime.
Site Visit: OnProcess TechnologyJanuary 8, 2008Read More >>
Gailen Vick, President, Reverse Logistics Association recently met with OnProcess executives at their headquarters in Ashland, Massachusetts, outside of Boston.


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Cheap and Reliable Plumbers in Richmond.
Plumbers in Richmond TX — YB Plumbing has helped Richmond homes and businesses with their plumbing for over 35 years.
If you are looking for a reliable Plumber look no further than YB Plumbing Richmond TX. As licensed plumbers and professional drain cleaning, we have the tools, the equipment, and the experience for all your plumbing needs.
What's Richmond's Water Health? How does that relate to Plumbing?
With a population of only 12,000 according to the latest census, Richmond is easy to miss for most Houstonians. But for those who live, the city's size is a blessing. And since YB Plumbing began to serve Richmond over 35 years ago, our plumbers know a thing or two about the city. Indeed Richmond is family-oriented and very pretty. People driving through can check out the antique shops of old town Richmond and the rolling hills that the city is built on.
However, Richmond doesn't scare that great in it's crime statistics. Indeed Neighborhood Scout says it's safer than only 22% of US cities. In other words, 88% of US cities are safer than Richmond, Texas. For this reason it's important to have a well managed home if you are thinking of moving there.
Richmond's drinking water comes from 5 wells in the Gulf Coast Aquifer. Plus, the 2014 water audit showed 2% water loss that year. Although 2% seems small, that amounted to almost 12 million gallons of water lost! What does that have to do with you? Everything! Indeed if you are a Richmond resident, the quality of your home plumbing systems matters greatly. Richmond's water depends on citizens like you.
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YB Plumber can do a whole range of home plumbing services. In fact we've compiled this short list of home plumbing issues that our plumbers can solve:
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Covenant Soup Kitchen – Community Service Hour System
Team:Dave Bernier, Dean Cronkite, and David Watson
Spring 2009 Project:
The students created a database for keeping track of each volunteers' hours performing service work and tasks. Many of the individuals need this information to be reported back to certain institutions in order to receive credit for performing these community service hours.
The system was designed to be flexible by allowing Covenant staff to remotely verify from their cell phones that they have enough volunteers and staff members for a given day scheduled and coming in to serve meals and provide other types of assistance.


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Powder Blue Visionary Bliss Wrap Bracelet
Scroll through the charm options below to design your bracelet
$ 48.00
"No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart."
Our bliss wrap bracelets are made with gorgeous genuine crystal beads and gold/silver filled accent beads. 20" long, stretch to fit.
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Worf decides to take into his house the child of a slain subordinate, but the child is having trouble accepting his mother's death, especially when she mysteriously reappears.
First Broadcast: 23rd October 1989.
Quote: "Jeremy, on the starship Enterprise, no one is alone… No one."
Score: 5
MP3 can be downloaded here. More episode info on IMDB, Memory Alpha, and Wikipedia


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The good people at dealnews.com have gone through the effort of comparing Borders book prices before the "Liquidation Event" and after the clearance began.
Borders Liquidation Price Check
1st Week Price 2nd Week Price Lowest Price Available
The Girl Who Kicked
The Hornet's Nest $19.57 $25.16 $11.87 at Walmart
The Help $11.20 $14.40 $8.57 at Amazon
Water for Elephants $10.47 $13.46 $7.77 at Walmart
Too Big To Fail $12.60 $16.20 $10.55 at Walmart
(Sorry about the format)
Of 25 books they looked at in Borders 19 (!!!) INCREASED in price this week and none of the books listed were the lowest available price. Steer clear for the foreseeable future :)
As someone said yesterday - Washington couldn't solve a Rubik's Cube if it had only one color.
The President made a rational, if boring, presentation of the facts tonight. Rep. Boehner quoted almost every populist bumper sticker in rural Texas in a passionate speech and rallied his troops. I don't see this ending tonight :(
Monday, July 25, 2011
Borders update
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Posted on | December 6, 2012
Just Desserts Thursday Link Party – Your Favorite Christmas Dessert
Hi my dear dessert friend! I'm so happy to see you again like every Thursday at my link party! Last week we talked about tea and coffee time desserts and I want to send big thank for all my guests who shared wonderful recipes! I'm honored to have you for my party friends and I also like to participate to other dessert parties!
Your Favorite Christmas Dessert
I don't walk to talk a lot so let get straight to the point! It is just three week until Christmas and I think it is a perfect time to start sharing Christmas recipes! So if you have something to suggest as a great Christmas dessert ideas please be my guest!
I want to open this party with my Christmas suggestion ! You guess ! It is cupcake recipe of course – Christmas tree cupcakes! I hope you will like this recipe.
So let's party and don't forget to link back to http://www.cupcakesgarden.com/ or put my button on your post.
5 Responses to "Just Desserts Thursday Link Party – Your Favorite Christmas Dessert"
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking}
December 7th, 2012 @ 11:25 pm
Thanks for hosting, Vera. Are there no features from last weeks party?
December 8th, 2012 @ 7:40 am
This will be usual from this party! Regards
Maja @ thecakebaby.blogspot.com
December 9th, 2012 @ 1:37 pm
Thank you for hosting this wonderful party, Vera! Hope you have a great week. Best
December 9th, 2012 @ 1:56 pm
You're welcome.Thank you for sharing your delicious recipe at my party.I hope that you will be coming to our next parties. Have a great week, too. All the best.
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Saturday, November 2, 2013
Cup Cozy
You will need:
-1 medium button
-knitting needles (mine are ridiculously long, I know...)
(This little sleeve is composed of purls only, but you could do a knit if you wanted..or any little pattern!)
Start by casting on, I made mine 10 stitches wide. Purl all the way down, completing a total of 30 rows.
Cast off and choose your medium button.
Stitch your button in the center of one of the ends of your piece.
Using an extra piece of yarn, make a tie on the the other end of your piece. Pull it tight. You can tie a knot into this to make a loop, or leave the ends free to tie around your button once you've wrapped it around your mug. I left mine free for wrapping.
Place your new "cozy" around your cup!! I like the way this make a "bow" shape once I pulled it around. Another perk is that there will be no confusion as to which coffee/tea is mine! No more scribbled names across the lids of my cups.
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Love this idea! Also a lot quicker than knitting a scarf for a human :)ReplyDelete
That is friggin adorable!ReplyDelete
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haha thanks Cristina!!:)Delete
awww! this is so pretty! :) i love the blue you used, too :) fall/winter is always a good time to pick up knitting ;)ReplyDelete
Omg I have had such an urge to knit/crochet lately! I don't know if it's because it got cold early this year or if I've just been inspired by all the wonderful knit things I see popping up everywhere. I haven't actually knitted or crocheted anything in several years, and I've probably forgotten how. Regardless, I think it's probably a sign that I need to carve out some time for "fun" crafting soon and get some yarn! I love your little cosy and that blue yarn looks dreamy. :)ReplyDelete
This is darling! I wish I could knit or crochet... I'd make dozens to give as gifts this Christmas! I wonder if I tried to sew something similar if it would have the same cozy appearance? Love the blue with the shell button. Great choices.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm sure a fabric sewn cozy would be adorable! Go for it Jessica! ;)Delete


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Tonight, the millions who tune in to the Oscars will hear dozens of short speeches.
A few people who have been blessed with incredible opportunities to do what they do best will go to the microphone, blink back tears, and thank the people who helped them do their work. While the Oscar winners will get the attention, their pictures plastered all over the news for the next 48 hours as if this statuette is actual confirmation that they are the best, the acceptance speeches will indicate, for a few fleeting moments, that it really isn't about one glamorous celebrity. It's about a creative community who made something good happen. It's about a team effort that enabled them to contribute in a way that earned the appreciation of Hollywood. (For whatever that's worth.)
It's my favorite thing about the Oscars. I won't be tuning in tonight. (I'm hosting a Boycott the Oscars party for dozens of moviegoers who would rather watch WALL-E, Shotgun Stories, The Dark Knight, Flight of the Red Balloon, and other films that actually deserve high honors. I don't think I've ever seen the Academy blow it as badly as they did this year.)
I love to hear people give thanks to other people in public. I love it so much that I think I'll host a little Oscar Speech party right here.
The spotlight is now on YOU.
Think back over 2008, or the past couple of months in 2009.
Think about the opportunities and blessings you enjoyed. Then think about all of the people who were involved in making that happen.
This is your chance. Thank them. In public. I don't have Oscar's audience of a bazillion viewers in the audience worldwide, but I do get, oh, between 1,500 – 2,500 readers a day… so that's a decent audience for you. If the spotlight fell on you, and you had 30 – 60 seconds to thank people in your life for parts they played in 2008, who would you thank?
It's okay if you cry. We'll cheer anyway.
Make a quick list of four, five, ten people to whom you are grateful. Post your personal "speech." Then contact the friends, family, colleagues, and others who you thanked. Give them this link. Let them know you mentioned their name in the spotlight.
I'm going to make a list of my own. If I receive 10 responses in the comments below, I'll post it. Since we're all here, let's make something memorable out of it.
Gratitude. It does a body good.
And congratulations to everybody involved. Especially the Director.


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Sunday, 14 October 2012
The Pitfalls of Sharing
11 comments:
- Sisbabestitches said...
Take care. The cards have turned out fabulous.
- 14 October 2012 at 07:46
- Evie Jones said...
Get well soon.
- 14 October 2012 at 10:03
- stitcheranon said...
I hav enoticed that when our kids share their germs they always seem to be doubly generous with them and we end up far sicker than they ever were...or is it me? Great pics, they look fabulous..get better soon xx
- 14 October 2012 at 11:00
- Terry said...
I'm staying far away from you! I don't have time to be sick! LOL Feel better soon! :0)
- 14 October 2012 at 12:35
- Tudy said...
Nice cards but very sorry they gave you their bug. I have been down with a stomach bug for 2 days now. But I think I feel a little better this morning.
- 14 October 2012 at 13:14
- Annie said...
Lovely cards. Take care of yourself and i hope that cold goes away quickly.
- 15 October 2012 at 01:31
- Wendy said...
Lovely, lovely cards....hope you feel better soon...and I am keeping my distance lol so I don't catch it again...
- 15 October 2012 at 06:19
- karen said...
oh poor you...you have my sympathy. Take care of yourself and feel better soon x
- 15 October 2012 at 13:24
- Terry said...
Now that you've taken care of the family take care of yourself snuggle under the new blanket.
- 15 October 2012 at 21:04
- Linda said...
Your cards are wonderful...Sorry to hear you are ill, get better quick.
- 16 October 2012 at 05:41
- Rudee said...
I hate the germ pool. I hope you're feeling better by now.
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Sciatica or Piriformis Syndrome? How you can tell the difference
Are you suffering from a "True Sciatica Condition" or from what's called a Piriformis Syndrome? A true sciatica condition can be due to a disc bulge or some degenerative changes to the lower lumbar spine usually in the L5/S1 vertebral levels. Where as a Piriformis syndrome occurs when you have irritation to the sciatic nerve as it passes the Piriformis muscle. Now both can and will give you pain into the "butt" with pain, burning or shooting sensations radiating into the leg, some time but not always going all the way to the foot. Usually a "Piriformis" problem will only be to 1 leg where as a disc can be to both or alternating between the two sides in some cases, depending on the location of the disc bulge. Now you may say if they both cause similar pain and "feel" the same what difference does it make. The treatment approach for the two conditions can vary greatly. First how do we tell which is which?
Sciatica from a disc or injury to the lowback can be determined by performing a few different orthopedic maneuvers. If you are in a seated position and raise the leg straight out and you get shooting pain think lowback/disc. If you are sitting or lying on your back and you bring the knee up straight to the same shoulder there should be no pain, but if you cross the knee to the opposite shoulder and get pain in the "butt" think Piriformis syndrome. The piriformis muscle assists in rotating the femur. Another way we check in the office is I have the patient in a standing position and put pressure at the lower lumbar joint. If that gives them pain – think sciatica. However, if I do that and they don't get any or very little pain but when I apply digital pressure (take my finger and push) on the Piriformis muscle (which is located in the dimple of the butt) they have the pain shoot into the butt, leg etc. – think Piriformis. In my office more people come in with Piriformis injuries then actual disc/Sciatica injuries. You can try these simple checks at home but if you can't figure it out you need to get it checked by a Chiropractor to see which one it is so you know what treatments and exercises to do to get it better.


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We hit the top five as we countdown the top ten coaches in A-League history.
So far we have seen two current coaches and two former coaches named as we countdown the top ten in the history of the Hyundai A-League, today we head to the harbour city, where coaches have been plentiful but tenures have been short.
6. Viteslav Lavicka
The inclusion of the former Sydney FC boss in this list might aggrieve some fans. Viteslav Lavicka was hardly known for "total football" or "tiki-taka"; he wasn-t an entertainer on the sidelines and didn-t provide Bleiberg-esque quotes in post-match press conferences. But what he did deliver was stability, consistency and a double-winning season that Sydney FC desperately needed.
Think these two should be higher or lower? Leave a comment below.
After a tumultuous period which saw the Sky Blues go through a series of abrasive coaches in Terry Butcher, Branko Culina and John Kosmina, the calm Czech was precisely what Sydney needed. His first task was to bring a sense of European professionalism to the club set-up; training became serious business and for the first time in a long time, the playing squad had a well-developed philosophy and tactical plan to guide them.
And the team that had faltered so badly under Kosmina responded brilliantly. Lavicka brought the cliché that strikers win games, but defences win titles to life; Clint Bolton, Simon Colosimo and Stephan Keller formed the core of the best defence in the league, while Terry McFlynn, Steve Corica and Stuart Musialik packed the midfield with energy and creativity, and Alex Brosque, Mark Bridge and John Aloisi all enjoyed an excellent season upfront. Defeating sworn rivals Melbourne Victory to win both the premiership and the grand final just topped it off.
Unfortunately, Lavicka couldn-t maintain that success on the bounce and his reign faltered as the strength of that squad moved on or retired. His final season with Sydney was disappointing to say the least, but the way he brought the best out of his squad and the Cove as he led the Sky Blues to glory ensures his place in this list is fully deserved.
5. Pierre Littbarski
One season and one championship, they-re stats you can-t argue with and whatever you thought of the brand of football the German brought to the harbour city - 'boring- was how it was often described he got results in what is renowned as a typically German way.
If Sydney FC fans thought Littbarski-s style of football was boring they had zero idea of what they were in for when Terry Butcher took the helm... long ball anyone?
Of course it should come as no surprise that the inaugural Sky Blues were a success. On the field they had Dwight Yorke to rely upon and he certainly wasn-t past it when he was residing in Sydney, but on the sidelines Littbarski brought an effective style and had good man management skills to boot.
But what else could they have expected from a FIFA World Cup winning footballer? The answer is little and while he was only in Sydney for one season after a cut-price contract offer caused him to leave; he is without a doubt the best manager the Sky Blues have had.


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Lynchburg, VA – a 56-year old worker was killed when he was trapped by a fallen piece of scrap metal at a Foundry in the city.
A statement from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Roanoke said the victim, identified as Jesse Horsley, died of mechanical asphyxia and the manner of death was accidental.
Horsely was working at Griffin Pipe Products Co., 10 Adams St when the accident occurred.
According to VDLI Southwest Region Safety Supervisor Lee Willis, state investigators are allowed to take up to six months to complete the probe. He declined to say where on the company's property the incident happened.


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A trip to the frontline of the security war sounds dramatic, but this one turns out to be nothing of the kind. It starts behind the small glass door of an anonymous business centre based off Edinburgh's shopping parade, Princes Street, the home of managed security company, dns.
The Scottish company's HQ houses around 45 people at any one time, in a remarkably quiet and tidy open-plan office full of people staring seriously at flat-screens. There is almost no noise, little fuss, barely anybody moving or even talking. This is an office that appears to be emptied of the usual water cooler socialising, phone slamming, and health and safety cable worry.
In the corner of the office is another door, beyond which lies the company's main security operations centre, and a four-person team that works shifts to keep a 24/7 eye on the hardware of its 60 or so business clients around the globe. Even this would-be nerve centre contains little to mark it out, save two large flat-screens on the wall which, every now and then, flicker as they clock mysterious statistics.
Nothing is happening on the network today and that makes today a good day.
Spend any length of time in this room and idea that security is a battleground at all becomes fanciful. It is more like a sort of digital Groundhog Day. In this world business security is comfortingly dull, for the most part uneventful, but incredibly important. One of the team at dns compares it to having home insurance and that seems about right. The chances are that even senior staff at the organisations protected by dns will never notice that their network security is run through a third-party out-sourcer until something goes wrong, which is as unlikely as it is rare the dns techies quickly point out.
The company was founded in 1999, an interesting year for startups, but not particularly famous as the birth moment of many security companies. Founders Graeme Cox (managing director) and James Macintyre (chairman), émigrés from one of the UK's largest energy utilities, Scottish Power, started out selling security consultancy, before moving in the direction of managed and professional services as the business expanded.
At first, the company logo – a cartoon image of three knights in a defensive circle –seems cutely apt not only on the level of business metaphor but of location too. Peer out the dns HQ window, and the outline of Edinburgh's massive part-medieval fortress looms on its black volcanic rock, dominating the southern skyline. Closer study reveals a more complex business than the drawbridges-drawn stereotype of managed services. More and more of the revenue now comes from intangible security services such as risk, compliance and policy assessment, the unexciting but necessary grey territory in which many organisations nowadays fear getting themselves irretrievably lost.
What keeps the average dns customer worrying at night when the network lights are on but nobody is home? Is it hacking incursion, terrifying distributed-denial-of-service attacks, zero-day exploits, or the fearsome Trojans we are constantly reminded can fly into an unsuspecting network like flocks of angry bats? In fact, it's something far worse than any of that called ISO 27001 or, almost as bad, IOS 17799, security compliance standards whose simple figures nowadays hover over companies like a numerological curse.
The average public sector or private customer of dns has long ago secured their network – or so they think – what they now have to spend money doing is proving it. That is complex, and having an out-source partner makes the "proof" bit easier to take on.
The exciting client
Life sciences and energy research consultancy Wood Mackenzie is one client touted to talk about its experiences, and like dns headquartered in Edinburgh. Spun out of Deutsche Bank in a management buyout four years ago, the company has since grown rapidly from 160 staff to today's 470. The company's problem in building its network was a very simple one – it didn't have one.
"We started pretty much with a blank sheet of paper," says infrastructure manager Wood Mackenzie's David Bathgate, describing the company's inheritance from its investment banking days. The small in-house team needed to find a way of accommodating rapid growth in headcount, with an equally difficult spike in the number of satellite offices – the company's business outposts stretch across just about every continent.
Talking to Bathgate and it's clear that managing security, email, and desktop and LAN infrastructure in-house would have slowed the company's expansion down, and could even have made it so unwieldy as to be impossible in its current range. "We are a small team and it [outsourcing] has helped in reducing the number of 3am phone calls I receive, he says. "It helps in prioritisation."
Not having to fuss over complex issues of wide-area security management frees to team to focus on provisioning and managing the almost-as-troublesome desktop networking issues. "Three or four years ago we could have had a stab at it. Now we'd have trouble," he says of the notion his team could provide global 24/7 management of remote office VPNs, firewalls and other security systems.
Security out-sourcing hasn't so much helped Wood Mackenzie as it has made its global, information-driven business model viable. And the terror of compliance? Surprisingly, and perhaps unexpectedly, it appears to be a secondary issue for this outfit. The primary motive for using dns remains getting secure global connectivity round the clock for a workforce in flux. Next to public-sector compliance and auditing – which accounts for most of dns's client base - this is definitely at the excitement end of the scale.
The alert glut
Back at the dns operations centre, all is peaceful, but there is still plenty of hard work to be done. Of the 400 or so devices under management (dns puts a 1U "black box" of tricks on to every customer's network as a management gateway), there are an estimated 62 million intrusion alerts to be sifted through in an average year, a wall of data the company first strips back to its core 12.2 million real alerts, before further boiling down to 12,900 "real" events that need human intervention. Around 1,000 are sent back to the customer's admins to be looked into more carefully.
"Our competition aren't as good at this bit," says operations manager Iain Pryde, of the process of whittling alerts down from 12,900 to the 1,000 that count. Another and growing concern that's not easy to quantify is ID theft, which has fed into the company's recent launch of a managed authentication service.
There are fewer pairs of eyes monitoring company networks these days, out-sourced or not. Technology has reduced their numbers, but they are still there and will be for some time to come because technology can't do it all. These guys sit in front of screens like the ones at dns, waiting for the rare moments of digital combat that do occasionally emerge from the boredom of screen life. Perhaps the difference between now and years gone by is the acceptance that no matter how rare damaging events are – they were never common in fact – they have a new potential to inflict unprecedented pain.
Networks are riddled with ports these days, and IT has joined everything together through a jumble of software interfaces. Networks have become global entities, spaghetti-like topologies that often oppress as much as they enable and inspire. And the most dangerous element of any network is still the average user, which companies such as dns can't see directly, and can't therefore monitor and control.
Impressive though the screen world is, it's a long way from the chaos that can be wrought on the ordered world of security by human impulsiveness on the inside of an average LAN. That is one security issue that can't yet be handed over to someone else.


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I started this recipe as a marinade for beef jerky; however, it turned out so delicious I realized it could be used a lot of different ways so thought I'd give it its own post And yes, I did eat it straight from the spoon… and on some cheese… and some apple chips… and in the beef jerky. The sauce got used, okay?
Skip the long winded story and jump to the recipe now!
I also wanted to try something new out on you guys. I made my first video! It turned out half an hour long, so I edited a LOT, and sped up the whole thing. Once I got past the learning curve, this was actually pretty easy to do. The result below is only a little over a minute long, so if you hate it you won't feel like you lost time that you can never get back.
In addition to the video, I've posted the recipe in written form below if you prefer it that way. What I forgot to do – because I was shooting a video – was to take still pictures for the step by step instructions process. I will try to remember that next time, as I know some people prefer it that way.
By the way, this recipe calls for raspberries, but we were heading out for vacation the next day, so I also threw in some blackberries I had that would go bad if I didn't use them up. The result was fantastic and I bet you could use any of your favorite berries in this recipe. Next time I'm going to try this with blueberries!
Let me know what you guys think of this recipe, and the video; I love feedback!
If you want to skip the video and jump straight to the written recipe, click here.
Raspberry Chipotle Sauce
-1 tbsp olive oil
-2 – 3 large jalapeno peppers
-2 tsp garlic paste (or 2 cloves of garlic)
-1 tbsp adobo seasoning
-12 oz raspberries
-¼ cup apple cider vinegar
-½ tsp salt
-2 tbsp brown sugar Splenda (optional)
-½ cup granulated Splenda
-2 tsp chipotle seasoning
Video Demonstration (written recipe below):
There is music in the video, so mute your volume (or turn it down) if you don't want to hear it or would get in trouble for watching a video at work. But you'd never do that, right?
The options for this delicious sauce are endless! Top some cream cheese, eat it straight with some crackers or apples, top ice cream with it, or use it as a marinade.
This recipe made about 1 – 1 1/2 cups of sauce. If one person ate all of it at once, they would consume about 482 calories and 66 net carbs. Coming from someone who loves this sauce though, I don't recommend sitting down and eating a cup and a half of it at once. I decided to go conservative and say it only made 1 cup of sauce. Then broke that down into a tablespoon per serving. Using a calculation of 16 tablespoons (1 tablespoon per serving), this came to about 30 calories, 4 grams net carbs, 0 grams of protein, and 1 gram of fat per serving. I only did this for easy math, so please be aware that if you know you'll eat two tablespoons, that will be two servings in your nutritional counts. I used the MyFitnessPal recipe creator to calculate nutritional information. Nutritional values may change based off the ingredient brands you use, and of course, the size/number of servings you make.
If you liked this recipe, look forward to Wednesday's post when I use it as a marinade for homemade beef jerky!
I hope everyone enjoys! Let me know what you think in the comments!
Please don't mind the mess.
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Raspberry Chipotle Sauce recipe minus the story:
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 – 3 large jalapeno peppers
- 2 tsp garlic paste (or 2 cloves of garlic)
- 1 tbsp adobo seasoning
- 12 oz raspberries
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp brown sugar Splenda (optional)
- ½ cup granulated Splenda
- 2 tsp chipotle seasoning
- Split jalapenos in half lengthwise and remove seeds. Finely dice.
- Heat olive oil in skillet over medium high heat.
- Add jalapenos to skillet and cook about 5 minutes.
- Add 2 tsp garlic paste, 1 tbsp adobe seasoning, and stir well.
- Stir in berries and let simmer for 5 minutes.
- Stir in apples cider vinegar, salt, brown sugar Splenda, and granulated Splenda. Both Splendas are optional, but if you choose to eliminate one I recommend eliminating the brown sugar.
- Bring to a simmer for 5 minutes and add 1 tsp chipotle seasoning. Simmer another 5 minutes. Carefully check taste (be careful, it's hot!). If desired, add another tsp (or more) to the sauce and stir.
- Keep sauce simmering for another 15 minutes, stirring often, until thickened.
- The options for this delicious sauce are endless! Top some cream cheese, eat it straight with some crackers or apples, top ice cream with it, or use it as a marinade.
Video Credits
Music – Paint the Sky by Hans Atom (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/hansatom/50718 Ft: Miss Judged


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Sales promotion
BLOOM is a premium gin brand with a uniquely sweet, floral taste, and in the brand's early days they needed a little help carving out some space in a competitive market.
To give them that boost, BLOOM wanted some engaging, eye-catching promotions that'd help their brand to stand out and make an impact on both on and off-trade markets. So, we designed some stunning POS including attention-grabbing sales presenters, distinctive designs for promotional glassware, and even an unmissable decorative mirror for St. Pancras' iconic Searcys bar.
The reaction was brilliant. The team at BLOOM was seriously happy with the results, and they had fantastic feedback from customers in both their markets.


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Dear Entrepreneur…Systemize Your Business (part 1)
One of the keys to success in business is making sure you work efficiently. Being a solopreneur or small business owner can be stressful. However, don't add to the level of everyday anxiety by not systemizing your business.
People ask me how I seamlessly operate multiple business entities. Having a degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering has assisted me in this area and I look for opportunities to reduce my personal effort where possible. In every aspect of business you have to ask yourself "Am I working too hard doing something that software/technology can do easier?"
Implementing business systems is key to maximizing your efficiency. Do you have the following elements in your business? If so, what tools are you using?
1. Online Presence – Every business should have a website. Most people won't reach out to you until they've vetted you online or via someone they know and trust. There are several solutions for creating an online presence, some inexpensive, others not so inexpensive. A number of the inexpensive options like Wix and WordPress still offer you a professional appearance without breaking your budget. All of my websites, 15 of them, are built using WordPress. The tool is user-friendly and offer a number of templates you can use to customize your look. Also, your website needs to be responsive (mobile device friendly), otherwise you jeopardize losing potential customers because they can't easily conduct business with you.
2. Business Phone System – Every business should have a dedicated business phone line. This should be self-explanatory, BUT there are still a number of people doing business via personal home phone lines. There's nothing worse than calling someone for business only to have their kids answer the phone as if you're interrupting something. With a number of options out there like Google Voice and Grasshopper (my choice), there's no excuse for not having a dedicated business phone line. Plus these solutions are either free or very low cost in nature.
3. Business Branded E-mail – Another professional touch to add to your business is utilizing a business branded e-mail address. This might seem like a minor element, but there is a different view from a business perspective when you conduct business online with someone using a business-branded e-mail address versus other free options. Yahoo and Google are great companies, but I prefer to conduct business using my business-branded e-mail account. You can setup your own business e-mail account using companies like GoDaddy. I am also a reseller who offers the ability to register domains, hosting and e-mail, visit http://www.ktponlineservices.com.
4. Customer Relationship Management – Communicating and sharing products/services with your customers is a major key to the success of your business. Unfortunately, a number of people are still leveraging spreadsheets and offline distribution lists. This makes communicating with your clients and customers more complex than it needs to. Take a look at low-cost solutions like Aweber, Mailchimp or Constant Contact. You can also opt for other solutions requiring more of an investment like Infusionsoft (review Infusionsoft here) or Act-on. The main point is being able to easily organize and communicate with your customers leveraging streamlined automation.
5. Social Media Management – You can spend countless hours juggling between Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+ and/or Pinterest. Quite frankly, it can be a downright hassle trying to manage all of those social media channels while still servicing your customers. Fortunately, there are a number of applications which assist with this effort. Take a look at options like Hootsuite, TweetDeck and Sprout Social. Entrepreneur had a great article on their website highlighting 14 Tools Every Entrepreneur Needs for Social Media http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231851.
If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner and having trouble juggling the multiple aspects of your business, evaluate the various components of your current business to see if there are areas to systemize. I will share five more business areas with you in part 2 of Systemize Your Business.


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The holidays mean we hit the road looking for cultural adventures farther afield. We have loads of trips planned in the Greater Dublin area, and a few Cork, Kilkenny and Galway journeys ahead. Here is the current hit-list in our car, to make the journeys bearable for mum and the boys. Would love to hear what gets your kids going in the car.
– The Speks: Singalong Songs From Glasses Island
A brilliant Irish compilation of nursery rhymes played trad style. The instrumental interludes are as big a hit as the familiar songs. I have gifted this CD dozens of times since I came across it earlier this year. The Speks have a live show which will be hitting the Pavilion in Dun Laoghaire in September and we are very excited.
I picked up this CD by Nico Brown and Martin Brunsden randomly in the shop of The Ark. The songs are almost all animal-themed, but our favourite is Aye Aye Captain. The CD originated in a stage show, which we didn't see,
but it remains hugely theatrical, and has my boys joining in (unusual) in perfect time (a miracle).
– The Barefoot Book of Giants, Ghosts and Goblins:
We picked this one up at the library and have had it on repeat-loan for a few months. The stories are drawn from the pantheon of world myth, and apart from the legendary conflict between Finn MacChumhail and Cu Chullain we hadn't come across a single one of the tales before. The narration is by Jerry Nelson, a former member of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock Team and it is brilliant. We will be seeking out more from this series. Now if only they would do a compilation of their terrific toddler songs, which are available on Youtube.
– David Bowie: Space Oddity
Okay this one is my choice, but they happily go along with it. The music appeals to them, but it is the narrative thread of Major Tom that has the older boy in particular hooked. Major Tom itself is the anthem that finishes off many of our space games if Darth Vader hasn't taken over.