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Kevin Pietersen has said there is still a chance he could play 'white ball' cricket for England again despite retiring from limited overs internationals.
However, the South Africa-born batsman -- who remains a Test cricketer -- said it would need a drastic change to England's packed schedule for him to consider a return to one-day and Twenty20 matches for his adopted country.
"I've had my wife, mother, dad, mother-in-law, brothers and my best mates all saying to me 'don't you wish you were out there batting against Australia (in the on-going one-day series)?' Pietersen told Monday's Daily Mail.
"And I've said to them I haven't missed it at all. But maybe all I needed was a break. Who knows? I've played a lot of cricket in the last seven years."
Asked if he would reconsider his retirement from international cricket's two shortest formats, the 32-year-old said: "Never say never. I'm a lot older and more mature than a few years ago, so you never know.
"Anything can happen. I'll never say no, but the schedule would have to be a hell of a lot different for me to come back. Wait and see." Pietersen, one of the undoubted 'box-office' stars of world cricket, called time on his international limited overs career when the England management denied him his wish to carry on playing Twenty20s while quitting 50 overs per side one-dayers.
They said he had to make himself available for both formats amidst concerns that, otherwise, the 50-over side would be weakened by several players following Pietersen's lead.
Pietersen, man of the tournament when England won the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean two years ago, still harbours hopes of helping the side defend their title in Sri Lanka in September.
"I still hope there might be a compromise for the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka," he said. "The squad hasn't been announced. "I would love to play in that and defend our title with England. If it happens, great, but I'm not holding my breath."
England's geography means that, uniquely among cricket countries, they are guaranteed a near year-long programme of international cricket. However, Pietersen's critics insist he could have kept playing for England in all three major formats and still have given himself a break if he'd opted out of the lucrative Twenty20 Indian Premier League.
But Pietersen said expecting him, or other world stars, to miss the IPL was unrealistic and that his participation wasn't simply a matter of cash.
"Okay, the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) may say me playing in the IPL makes it hard to rest me but what annoys me is that, with every other board the IPL is a matter of fact. It's not going away," he said.
"It's going to be there and players want to play in it. Players want to go and earn their money and unless you let them decisions will have to be made. "Big players want to play in front of big audiences. You want to hear your name chanted by 50,000 people. It's amazing. It makes you feel so good.
"The window for that has been created by the other boards but unfortunately not ours." England have so far coped well without Pietersen and lead Australia 3-0 in a five-match one-day series ahead of Tuesday's finale at Old Trafford.
In particular Ian Bell, since being recalled to the one-day side in Pietersen's place as an opener, has scored 364 runs in five innings at an impressive average of 72.8.

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Analysts, Economists: Britain May Become Lehman To Greece's Bear Stearns
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com [1]
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Leading financial analysts and economists have warned that Britain may crash and burn following the European bailout of Greece, comparing the situation to that of Lehman Brothers following the rescue of Bear Stearns in 2008.
"The big question I am asking myself is whether Greece is Bear Stearns" Anthony Fry, senior managing director at Evercore Partners, told CNBC [2].
"What I really fear is that if Greece is Bear Stearns then the UK is Lehman Brothers." Fry, who previously worked for Lehman added.
While other economists disagree, indicating that the UK can and will continue to devalue and print money, Fry believes the country's huge deficit puts it firmly at risk.
"I can't believe (the UK) can avoid trouble," he said. "The current coalition talks are like arguing over a birthday cake." Fry said, alluding to the ongoing negotiations between the political parties following the indecisive election last week.
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"Once they decide how much of the cake they get they realize no one bothered to bake the cake." Fry added.
"My big fear is that after (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Alistair Darling refused to support the EU/IMF/ECB bailout of the euro zone bond market, the euro zone may stand by and do nothing when the UK gets into trouble," he said.
Fry's warning is particularly pertinent following comments by senior French policymaker Jean-Pierre Jouyet [3], who today indicated that Britain will be punished for refusing to fully sign up to the trillion dollar bailout of the eurozone, despite pledging €60bn in taxpayer funds.
"The English are very certainly going to be targeted given the political difficulties they have. Help yourself and heaven will help you. If you don't want to show solidarity to the eurozone, then let's see what happens to the United Kingdom," the head of the French markets regulator told Europe 1 radio.
Anthony Fry added that he expects to see a strengthening of the Euro through consolidation and centralization of fiscal policy in Europe, echoing comments made yesterday [4] by other leading bankers and economists.
"Talk of the euro breaking up is nonsense," Fry said. "What we will get is tighter fiscal cooperation. If Germany is lending money to Spain it will demand tough measures on spending."


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Adam Greenberg's career slash line is .000/1.000/.000. On July 9, 2005, Greenberg made his debut with the Chicago Cubs when he entered a game against the Marlins as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning. His major league debut ended abruptly, though, when Valerio de los Santos's first pitch, a 92-mph fastball, hit Greenberg on the side of the head.
Greenberg would struggle for years afterward with post-concussion syndrome, bouncing around the minors and eventually spending several seasons in independent leagues. Most recently, he joined Team Israel for its World Baseball Classic qualifiers.
Today, however, Greenberg will risk his perfect career OBP in one at bat for the FloridaMiami Marlins.
The Marlins signed the 31-year-old lefty to a one-day contract, and he will get a chance to face baseball's reigning best comeback story, R.A. Dickey. Greenberg's return will be the culmination of a social media campaign called "One At Bat," started by filmaker and Cubs fan Matt Liston, who's video about the One At Bat campaign can be seen above.
There's a risk of one comeback story ironically screwing up another here, though, as it's possible Greenberg could cost Dickey his 20th win (and consequently the Cy Young), or Greenberg could look hopelessly overmatched after not seeing too many 80-mph knuckleballs in the indy leagues. Or Dickey could walk Greenberg, depriving him still of one official at bat. (Let's not talk about the fact that Dickey has also hit nine batters this year.)
Whatever the outcome, it should be a memorable day for Greenberg. Besides, he already got his rematch with De Los Santos in the minors, and got a hit.


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The Greatest Collapse in History?
Pater Tenebrarum
April 3, 2013
he Cyprus Disaster Zone Reopens
After having been sent on an involuntary two week long 'holiday', the stock market in Cyprus reopened on Tuesday. We were surprised to read that it actually declined less than 3% on that occasion, although shares in Hellenic Bank apparently tanked by 20%. Shares of Popular Bank and Bank of Cyprus remained suspended, so traders didn't have an opportunity to learn whether the strong technical support at zero would hold. Below is a rather terse statement on the market's reopening which seems to indicate that nothing special has happened. In fact, there is apparently so little to talk about in connection with the stock market, that it repeats that Cyprus has now been 'rescued', whatever that is supposed to mean these days:
"Cyprus General Index traded 2.4% lower at 99.67 on Tuesday, on its first trading day after trading was suspended for two weeks, as lawmakers negotiated bailout terms for the country. Trading in shares of Cyprus Popular Bank PCL and Bank of Cyprus PCL remained suspended amid measures to consolidate the two banks. Cypriot lawmakers agreed last week on a 10 billion euro ($12.9 billion) rescue package with international creditors, including a haircut on large bank deposits. Officials from Cyprus are expected to finalize the bailout conditions this week, with government spokesman Christos Stylianides expressing that he wants to negotiate easier terms, according to The Wall Street Journal. The international lenders have already softened the terms by giving the nation an extra year to meet budget targets, the newspaper said, citing a draft copy of the loan agreement."
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I've written here before about the extraordinary obstacles to change created by the endowment effect — our tendency to place enormous value on those things (and energy systems) we already have all out of proportion to their actual worth, to fear irrationally for the loss of what we have, and to undervalue what could be gained by using something else.
One particularly bothersome aspect of the endowment effect is its unequal distribution: we tend to be especially deeply invested in certain pieces of the status quo, no matter how woefully inefficient or laden with negative side effects. We'll adopt a new phone or a whole new technological basis for our TVs in a blink — we went from good ole cathode tubes that'd held us in their warm glow for half a century to LED to plasma in less time than it takes a sitcom to reach syndication — but we'll fight like trapped wolverines to keep everything but cars off our roads.
We're especially squirrely when it comes to energy. Consider the way we treat the news of exotic future-tense breakthroughs in the energy field. In fact, consider a specific one from just this week: the absolutely mind-blowing news of a new technology developed at Penn State that uses the embodied energy in seawater and garbage to produce hydrogen, which has of course long been touted as a potential replacement for gasoline in our cars' engines.
The science is of course pretty complicated — few of us have the scientific background to readily parse a sentence like "The key to these microbial electrolysis cells is reverse-electrodialysis or RED that extracts energy from the ionic differences between salt water and fresh water." But then, few of us really understand how an iPhone's touchscreen turns our light swipe across it into the deadly parabolic arc of an Angry Bird, but that hasn't stopped us from dedicating way more time to doing so on any given day than most of us spend contemplating the cosmos.
So really, what we should be paying attention to is Penn State engineering professor Bruce E. Logan's summation of the value proposition, based on peer-reviewed, technical-journaled research. Which summation is sufficiently Jetsonian that I'm going to boldface it and set it off in block quotes, like so:
This system could produce hydrogen anyplace that there is wastewater near sea water. It uses no grid electricity and is completely carbon neutral. It is an inexhaustible source of energy.
This is the kind of thing that should evoke your best dumbstruck Keanu-esque whoa. This is lightning in a bottle, something for nothing, gold from dross, all that. Now of course it's also way future-tense, undoubtedly riddled with technical hitches and logistical wormholes and all the other stuff that often stretches the process from lab to marketplace across many years.
On the other hand, it exists. There's a lab in Pennsylvania where a versatile fuel source is being made from a renewable and currently worthless resource, creating no waste in its production or use, and easily adapted to supply power to a range of devices from long-prophesied fuel-cell cars to Bloom Energy's boxes that have been setting Silicon Valley's hearts racing in recent years. This is an actual, functional prototype of a thing that works.
So imagine in my next breath I said that governments around the world — the American and Canadian ones in particular — had decided this was promising enough to dump billions of dollars into bringing it to market and in fact were basically predicating our future energy supply on this new hydrogen production system. I bet even if you're a cleantech renewables nut like me, that'd give you pause, elicit a whole other genre of whoa, the one from old Westerns that means slow down there, hoss. It would likely strike you as starry-eyed, reckless, a dangerous gamble on an unproven technology to supply us with one of our most vital needs in turbulent times. Right?
Now compare this to our reaction to the phrase clean coal. There is, at this moment, not a single coal-fired power plant anywhere on earth that captures and buries all of its carbon dioxide emissions. There's one in West Virginia storing away 1.5 percent of its smoke, at a cost of $13 million. (Plans are afoot to expand this to 18 percent, at the low, low price of another $673 million.) Doing so actually reduces the efficiency of the overall plant — you actually have to make more power to compensate for the energy spent hiding the horrifically awful side effect of the energy you need. The Norwegian government has declared sequestration on this scale at natural gas plants to be its equivalent of the Apollo program, and yet the flagship test has abandoned the idea of actually burying all of the emissions at a single plant as too expensive and complex at present, choosing instead simply to try to demonstrate that it would be theoretically possible, which it is having a hard time doing.
There's ample evidence, in other words, to suggest that clean coal couldn't possibly be broadly feasible for another generation or more. It may never really be. It is, in fact, much more in the realm of speculation than Penn State's hydrogen-based perpetual motion machine is. And yet both the Canadian and American governments have sunk billions into it, as has the government of my home province of Alberta. We've sleepwalked through the last 20 years, our emissions jumping by 45 percent globally, and a cornerstone of our current strategy to do something about it rests on one day being able to inject our carbon dioxide emissions back into the earth.
Why? Why does clean coal seem so plausible and reasonable to energy bureaucrats and politicians and business leaders when lab-tested, truly gamechanging renewable technologies are treated as cute, peripheral novelties? Simple: vested interests and the endowment effect. The vested interests are theirs — in North America, in particular, our political and business elites are deeply invested in our lucrative, catastrophically destructive status quo — and the endowment effect is ours. They sell us the pipe dream of clean coal because we buy it. It doesn't challenge the value we've invested in the system we've got, the one that keeps our plasma TVs aglow and our new mobile phones charged for another round of Angry Birds. It says we'll stick with what we've got and bolt a miracle fix onto it when we need to.
Clean energy from wastewater and the sea upends the status quo; clean coal perpetuates it. Deluded by the endowment effect, we'll pick the devil we know every time.
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Beauty Home Salon in Sandton before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A Local Mobile Hairdresser is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
Portable Hair Salon Stations For Mobile Hairdressers
1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A Traveling Hair Stylist Prices hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
How to Become a Successful Mobile Hairdresser
4. Always Use a qualified hairdresser. As with Salon hairdressers, your mobile hairdresser should hold formal hairdressing qualifications. The UK national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only recognized qualification system, and more than 60% of mobile hairstylists are now trained to this standard. They should also hold professional indemnity insurance.
Your mobile hairdresser should be happy and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and often make-up to accentuate and compliment the individual looks of the customer, and offer suggestions on what hairstyle or make up should best suit the client.
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There are a variety of methods used to start dreadlocks. The method and size selected mostly depends on the texture and length of the hair. Other variables that affect the lock starting technique include hair's thickness, fullness, and versatility desired. The methods discussed in the article give you insight into the most popular methods used and what works best on various hair lengths and textures. The methods discussed include: two-strand twist, three-strand twist, comb coil twist, palm rolling, latch stitching, and individual braids.
In the palm rolling method, the hair is sectioned and rolled between the palms. This is usually achieved on hair that is longer than 2 inches. For best results, you should not wash your hair until it has started to lock. As the hair grows, the new growth is twisted using a palm rolling or similar twisting method. Alternatively, the new growth can be groomed using the interlocking or latch hook method discussed below.
The comb coils is a method where the hair is sectioned and is twisted into coils using a (rat tail) comb or by hand. This is usually achieved on shorter hair. For best results, you should not wash your hair until it has started to dread. As the hair grows, the new growth is twisted using a palm rolling or similar twisting method. When hair starts to lock, it will begin to not look like comb coils and may start to get fuzzy or begin to poof. However, this is not a cause to create worry because it is all apart of the dreading process.
The last method we will discuss is back combing. Back combing is a common method on hair that is a straighter, less kinky texture. Back combing (also known as "teasing" or "ratting") means repeatedly combing the hair towards the scalp, causing the hair to tangle. For best results, the hair should be at least shoulder length. With this method, the hair cannot be washed until it starts to lock. Because of the straighter texture, it may take 4-6 months for the hair to start to lock. During this time, the hair should NOT get wet. Some type of product, like wax or honey, is usually added to the hair to help facilitate the locking of the hair.
No matter the method you choose to start your locks, understand the commitment you are taking by locking you hair. Happy Locking!
The Role of a Mobile Hairdresser
It won't take long to find a salon that does eyelash extensions in Southport, Queensland. However, not all of them offer mobile services that come directly to your front door. This is ideal for those planning a bridal party or a girls' night out, whether you live in Broadwater Parklands or Pivotal Point. These beauty professionals come to women who don't have time to get away, as they offer a beauty innovation that is straight from Hollywood.
You can go online to discover places that offer eyelash extensions in Southport. Another option is to look in the phone book. This way you can find the right place for you.


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Organization(s):University of Hawaii - Manoa,
Albireo Endeavors,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
What does this program measure?
The MFRSR (Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer) simultaneously measures the total sky, diffuse sky, and direct solar beam intensities at seven wavelengths between 400 and 1050 nanometers. Intensities are converted into irradiances in units of Watts per square meter per nanometer.
How does this program work?
The rotating band is controlled by a dual purpose computer and data logger. Intensities are measured with the band in four different positions: when the band is down the total intensity of the sky is measured; when the band blocks the Sun only the diffuse sky radiation is measured; supplementary measurements are taken with the band adjacent to the Sun to correct for the portion of the diffuse radiation hidden by the band when blocking the Sun. The computer then subtracts the diffuse intensity from the total to obtain the intensity of direct radiation from the Sun.
Why is this research important?
From the irradiance data we extract the optical depths (amounts) of atmospheric aerosols, ozone, and water vapor.
Are there any trends in the data?
Seasonal trends in aerosol amounts from localized sources are superimposed on longer term trends caused by both naturally occurring aerosol events (dust and smoke plumes, volcanic eruptions) and human-generated aerosols (pollution in general). The case is much the same for ozone.
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How does this program fit into the big picture?
What is it's role in global climate change?
By monitoring aerosol amounts over time scales of at least a decade the relative influences of naturally occurring and human-generated aerosols on climate can be separated. This will help to answer the question of how people are affecting climate change.
Comments and References
The MFRSR Aerosol Monitoring Network has instruments in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Washington, and Australia.
Lead Investigator(s):
Nels Larson
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MLO Contact(s):
Paul Fukumura
808-933-6965 (x223)
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The Python Package Index (PyPI) holds meta-data describing distributions packaged with distutils, as well as package data like distribution files if the package author wishes.
Distutils exposes two commands for submitting package data to PyPI: the register command for submitting meta-data to PyPI and the upload command for submitting distribution files. Both commands read configuration data from a special file called the .pypirc file. PyPI displays a home page for each package created from the long_description submitted by the register command.
The distutils command register is used to submit your distribution's meta-data to the index. It is invoked as follows:
python setup.py register
Distutils will respond with the following prompt:
running register
We need to know who you are, so please choose either:
1. use your existing login,
2. register as a new user,
3. have the server generate a new password for you (and email it to you), or
4. quit
Your selection [default 1]:
Note: if your username and password are saved locally, you will not see this menu.
If you have not registered with PyPI, then you will need to do so now. You should choose option 2, and enter your details as required. Soon after submitting your details, you will receive an email which will be used to confirm your registration.
Once you are registered, you may choose option 1 from the menu. You will be prompted for your PyPI username and password, and register will then submit your meta-data to the index.
You may submit any number of versions of your distribution to the index. If you alter the meta-data for a particular version, you may submit it again and the index will be updated.
PyPI holds a record for each (name, version) combination submitted. The first user to submit information for a given name is designated the Owner of that name. They may submit changes through the register command or through the web interface. They may also designate other users as Owners or Maintainers. Maintainers may edit the package information, but not designate other Owners or Maintainers.
By default PyPI displays only the newest version of a given package. The web interface lets one change this default behavior and manually select which versions to display and hide.
The distutils command upload pushes the distribution files to PyPI.
The command is invoked immediately after building one or more distribution files. For example, the command
python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload
will cause the source distribution and the Windows installer to be uploaded to PyPI. Note that these will be uploaded even if they are built using an earlier invocation of setup.py, but that only distributions named on the command line for the invocation including the upload command are uploaded.
The upload command uses the username, password, and repository URL from the $HOME/.pypirc file (see section The .pypirc file for more on this file). If a register command was previously called in the same command, and if the password was entered in the prompt, upload will reuse the entered password. This is useful if you do not want to store a clear text password in the $HOME/.pypirc file.
You can specify another PyPI server with the --repository=url option:
python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload -r http://example.com/pypi
See section The .pypirc file for more on defining several servers.
You can use the --sign option to tell upload to sign each uploaded file using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard). The gpg program must be available for execution on the system PATH. You can also specify which key to use for signing using the --identity=name option.
Other upload options include --repository=url or --repository=section where url is the url of the server and section the name of the section in $HOME/.pypirc, and --show-response (which displays the full response text from the PyPI server for help in debugging upload problems).
The format of the .pypirc file is as follows:
index-servers =
repository: <repository-url>
username: <username>
password: <password>
The distutils section defines a index-servers variable that lists the name of all sections describing a repository.
Each section describing a repository defines three variables:
username, which is the registered username on the PyPI server.
will be prompt to type it when needed.
If you want to define another server a new section can be created and listed in the index-servers variable:
index-servers =
repository: <repository-url>
username: <username>
password: <password>
repository: http://example.com/pypi
username: <username>
password: <password>
register can then be called with the -r option to point the repository to work with:
python setup.py register -r http://example.com/pypi
For convenience, the name of the section that describes the repository may also be used:
python setup.py register -r other
The long_description field plays a special role at PyPI. It is used by the server to display a home page for the registered package.
If you use the reStructuredText syntax for this field, PyPI will parse it and display an HTML output for the package home page.
The long_description field can be attached to a text file located in the package:
from distutils.core import setup
with open('README.txt') as file:
long_description = file.read()
In that case, README.txt is a regular reStructuredText text file located in the root of the package besides setup.py.
To prevent registering broken reStructuredText content, you can use the rst2html program that is provided by the docutils package and check the long_description from the command line:
$ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py > output.html
docutils will display a warning if there's something wrong with your syntax. Because PyPI applies additional checks (e.g. by passing --no-raw to rst2html.py in the command above), being able to run the command above without warnings does not guarantee that PyPI will convert the content successfully.


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urbaninfusion brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 113 Designs von 40 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
photographer needing a logo, I'm looking to adjust my brand in 2009 and focus more on my name rather than a "company" name
Looking to have an official logo for my photography business. I would like something "ladylike" to represent me, but also modern, sexy, but elegant too..
I've been promoting myself under "UrbanInfusion", but I would like to move away from that with regards to my photography and focus more on my name. I'm looking at sticking with "Photography by Stacie", but am willing to look at different variations of that if it wows me. Some other variations (from my hubby and mom) were SB Studios (??), Stacie Batiste with just photographer as a sideline...I'm somewhat flexible...BUT, I am PICKY, it has to WOW me.
I want something more than my name in a script font, although, again, if it wows me then ok..but I can do my name in a script font...would like something with more substance
- Unique, I don't want to look like everyone else.
- Can be easily adaptable for my portrait and wedding sites, as well as my business materials (so can be flexible/adjustable on light and dark backgrounds), no specific colors-flexible on that
- Can also be used as a watermark..so somewhat compact, nothing that will spread across the page
- Can change with the times...I stick with stuff for long periods of time...so, I don't want to have to redo this process anytime soon.
- It should be a vector image so I can adjust it and place it on absolutely everthing I do.
- It has to look high-end--I'm also hiking up my prices in 2009!
- I LOVE the designs this company does, they are more geared to the beauty industry---but just to give you an idea--http://www.phrizbie-design.com/logo_design.html
- Scriptina-I love the font, but I use it frequently for my client's albums and such and well....it's just so common! I see it on flyers for parties, I've seen it on so many websites....
- PLEASE, don't get wild and crazy :-)..
- I don't want any camera symbols/pictures in the logo.
- No characters (as in cartoon) of any sort...
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Every once in a while, an application's feature is so simple and obvious that it goes overlooked even by those who use the program regularly. Excel's zoom capabilities are a good example of an overlooked feature that can increase your efficiency when working with both large and small spreadsheets.
Why Use Excel's Zoom Feature?
There are many studies in the management field that have examined the efficiency of employees. One study found that when the resolution of a monitor is set too high, employees have to squint to see the words on the screen reducing their work efficiency. Another study found that workers under similar conditions experienced more stress leading to further inefficiencies.
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To begin using Excel's zoom feature, open up any spreadsheet and click on the View tab on the Ribbon. Locate a section of the Ribbon labeled Zoom and notice that there are three buttons from which to choose.
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We all know that Honda is a famous Japanese automobile company which had established its operations in India in the 1990s, and launched iconic cars like the Accord and City. The first generation Honda City, which gave the Honda brand image in India, was launched in 1998. Since then various design changes and facelift was seen, first in 2003, under the name Honda City ZX, then the 10th Anniversary Special edition in 2008 under the same generation. The next generation Honda City with a complete design overhaul was seen in late 2008-early 2009, featuring an all-new front design and an even more aerodynamic body. This was continued until 2014 when the next generation Honda City with minimal design changes like chrome lining on the front grille was launched. This was the first Honda City to be launched with i-DTEC diesel engine option. It doubled up the sales and in March 2015 it became the fastest selling compact sedan reaching the 1lakh mark in just 15 months. In 2017, the latest generation Honda City was launched and, here is the big thing, over 10,000 orders were received in less than a month after its launch.
The Honda City represents Honda's brand image and reputation as a world-renowned Japanese carmaker. And the features tell you why-
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For the first time in India you can book a car online. Pay the 'Booking amount' by clicking "BOOK NOW" button. You can pay by using your Credit/Debit card or Inter-bank transfer. Incase you prefer the Cheque payment mode - please inform us the best suitable time and our authorised dealer partners will be happy to collect the cheque from your address
Our 'After sales team' will contact you to confirm your booking details withing 24hours of the booking. MYNEWCAR will co-ordinate will the dealer and will act as your personal concierge to keep you updated untill your car is delivered. The balance payment will be paid to the dealer at the time of delivery
For cancellation - please write an email to MYNEWCAR on 'email@example.com' with your booking details. MYNEWCAR will refund the full booking amount within 2 working days if cancellation is done within 48hours of booking online on our website. If cancellation is done after 48hours from online booking or if the booking amount is paid directly to the dealer; MYNEWCAR team will co-ordiate will the dealer to process your refund.
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Nmap 4.01 improves on this indispensable free tool with better services, updated OS identification and modest speed improvement.
Nmap is perhaps the best-known port scanner available and the standard against which all others are measured. Freely available from Insecure.org under the GPL license, Nmap will run on just about any operating system in existence, from Microsoft's Windows to your favorite variety of Linux/Unix.
At this point in its life cycle, Nmap 4.01's core port-scanning engine is mature, robust and capable of scanning both IPv4 and IPv6 hosts, independent of whether or not they are protected by firewalls.
Our lab testing on a SUSE 9 Linux workstation showed improved speed (about 10 percent) over the 3.81 Nmap release with which we compared it. (Information Security reviewed Nmap 3.75 in December 2004.) Considering that a typical SYN scan takes about 1.5 seconds per host, the difference will likely be imperceptible to the user when scanning a small number of machines on a network.
The big improvements in Nmap's 4.01 release are in the areas of service and OS identification. If you're willing to take a substantial hit on the amount of time Nmap spends on a host (our results varied widely from 15 to 90 seconds, depending on the number of open ports/services on the host and command-line options used), the application can give you a wealth of information about services running on the target being scanned, including the type of service and the version number (e.g., Microsoft IIS 6.0).
Nmap has expanded its database to include more than 3,000 signatures for some 380 service protocols; this is a very handy tool for determining if the host is running vulnerable versions of popular services, and for giving you the information you need to take appropriate steps to remediate the vulnerabilities.
The OS fingerprinting re-sults in 4.01 were better than what we obtained in 3.81, but there is still room for improvement with this cool feature, especially in speed and accu-racy. For example, Nmap could correctly identify a Windows 2003 SP1 VMware target on a VMware ESX server, but could not identify a Windows NT SP6a target on a different ESX server (it did identify the latter as a generic Windows host).
The service and OS identification portions of Nmap are of particular interest to the security community, so we expect these capabilities to be improved with future versions.
Exec Summary
- Rich information
- Easy installation
- Optional GUI
- Free
- OS IDs not perfect
Both application source and binary installation packages are available, so you should be able to get the application up and running via standard methods, including RPM installation for Linux, or by simply unzipping the Windows binaries if you don't want to compile them yourself.
The Linux versions provide a GUI front end that will help users familiarize themselves with the various choices available for starting and running Nmap. The GUI is quite nice, but, quite frankly, it's not much more than a thin wrapper covering the rich command-line flags that Nmap supports, and will only be of value to the greenest of newbies. If you're not familiar with it already, do yourself and your organization a favor and learn the command-line interface as soon as possible so that you can get the most value out of this highly versatile tool.
Nmap is an indispensable component of any system administrator's toolbox, and is one of the best examples of what can be accomplished with well-managed and useful open-source projects. It's freely available, and if you haven't used it yet, download it now and start exploring its deep capabilities.


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Real 'Lennay Kekua' hits TV to discuss Manti Te'o hoax
Manti Te'o isn't the only one to break his silence this week on the hoax that has revolved around the Notre Dame linebacker.
Diane O'Meara, the real-life likeness of Te'o's fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua, appeared on television shows to discussf how her photos were taken and used to dupe Te'o.
O'Meara said Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who went to high school with her, had been silently lifting photos from her Facebook and MySpace accounts for five years. Then, in December, Tuiasosopo reached out to her to ask for photos holding specific signs. O'Meara appeared to be out to emphasize that she was tricked into what could have been considered personal messages and had nothing to do with the hoax.
TE'O TO COURIC:'What I went through was real'
BRENNAN:Te'o caught in seemingly well-rehearsed lie
Here is the interview she did on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," providing what could be the boilerplate of a convincing social-media privacy speech.


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Pope Benedict XVI leaves the papacy: Is this the end of the oldest monarchy?
Even readers only mildly interested in Catholic affairs can hardly have missed the deluge of speculation and commentary following Pope Benedict's surprise announcement of resignation.
Of course we really don't know all that led to this first resignation of a pope in over 500 years. Undoubtedly, as Benedict has said, and as video footage clearly suggests, it had to do with his failing health and the need for a more energetic successor to deal with the many challenges facing Roman Catholicism.
It probably also involved astute church politics. For while Benedict will not be directly involved in the next pope's election, it's hard to believe that the electing cardinals, so many of them appointed by Benedict himself, will not be affected by his living presence more than they might have been by the memory of a deceased pope.
Yet I also suspect that a scholar like Benedict was very aware, not just of such immediate or practical implications of his resignation, but also of its long-term historic and symbolic significance. For the act of resignation inescapably shifts the image and meaning of the papal office.
Many Catholics didn't know a pope could resign – so fixed in Catholic and public imagination is the sense of the pope as monarch, as an unto-death holder of a sacred office. Bishops can and do resign – indeed since Vatican II they are required to do so. And we know of late that even some monarchs resign. But not the pope!
Yet now we are all reminded that the pope is in fact a bishop – Bishop of Rome and "first among equals" (to cite a very traditional description of the office). He is elected to an office and able to resign when it makes sense. Indeed, we've known, had we cared to look, that there have been popes in the past who should have resigned or been forced to – because a good number were not up to the job.Some were even quite evil men.


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The Virginia government ended its last fiscal year with a $585 million surplus, the largest in eight years, because of better-than-expected tax collections from a state economy emerging from a crushing recession and dealing well so far with federal spending cutbacks, Gov. Bob McDonnell said Monday.
In a sunny valedictory that contrasted with personal woes from federal and state criminal investigations, McDonnell told legislative budget writers that his administration is the first since George Allen's in the mid-1990s to end all four fiscal years with unspent balances totaling nearly $2 billion for his single, non-renewable term.
Unspent cash in government accounts and cost-cutting measures accounted for $320.7 million, or 54 percent, of the final surplus for the budget year that ended June 30, McDonnell told lawmakers, while the state took in $264 million more from general tax collections than forecast.
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That, he said, pays for the 2 percent pay raise that kicked in for state employees on Friday -- their first since 2007 -- and boosts the state's "rainy day" reserve fund to more than $1 billion, or almost 3 ½ times the size of the fund at the recession's 2010 depths. It also slowed what had been meteoric public college tuition increases because of $400 million applied to higher education.
"Our good performance is concrete evidence that the commonwealth's job picture is improving, the real estate market is improving, and the overall economic conditions that are promoting private-sector job growth are also improving," McDonnell said in his annual August address to the House and Senate committees that oversee taxation and spending. His final appearance before them comes in mid-December, less than a month before he leaves office, to present his final executive budget.
The final numbers from the 2013 state fiscal year show that revenues topped overall forecasts because taxes collected on dividends and the self-employed, as well as levies paid to record real estate deeds, contracts, wills and lawsuits exceeded expectations while the state's income tax refunds were down by 4 percent.
They reflect robust capital gains and significant non-wage income and a home mortgage industry that has come roaring back from a historic meltdown four years ago. The number of individual non-withholding tax payments of $100,000 increased by 50 percent, from 1,177 in fiscal year 2012 to 1,771 in the most recent year, accounting for an additional $591 million. Brisk home sales after four years of pent-up demand increased recordation tax collections for the past year by 12 percent.
What didn't meet expectations was the tax withheld from paychecks, which Finance Secretary Richard D. Brown said showed a substantial decline in the final three months of the last fiscal year because of a decline in federal contracting in Virginia. The state relies heavily on federal spending from next-door neighbor Washington, D.C. Withholding taxes, which account for nearly two-thirds of all general state revenues, came in $115 million -- or 1.1 percent -- shy of their budgeted estimates.
McDonnell urged lawmakers to keep a wary eye on another potentially harmful game of federal budget brinksmanship between a Democratic White House and a Republican-ruled House. The governor said the worst bite from federal cuts known as sequestration that began in March likely lies in wait.
"Policies and indecision that comes from Washington will potentially have a tremendous adverse impact on all of the states, and especially Virginia," he said, focusing on potential national defense cuts resulting from sequestration and the economic hardship it could inflict on a state that is home to the Pentagon, 19 military bases, about 150,000 active-duty armed forces personnel and 837,000 veterans.
McDonnell stuck to his cheery fiscal message both in his prepared remarks to legislators and in comments later to reporters. He refused to discuss media reports about the ongoing federal probe of the relationship he and first lady Maureen McDonnell had with Star Scientific Inc. chief executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr., a major political donor and personal benefactor whose gifts and loans to members of the governor's family topped $145,000.
Authorities are investigating whether McDonnell misused his office or state authority to benefit Williams or his nutritional supplements company as a result of Williams' gratuities, many of which McDonnell says he has repaid.


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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Piazza's post 9 -11 HR Tribute!
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great tribute.ReplyDelete
I was on the heels of high school at the time and one of the most loyal mets fans in flushing NY. I still choke up when I see the footage. I just remember the days following the attack being quite, somber, and depressing. Everything was fresh and lingering. Humor, elation, and felicity were hard to come by in neighbors, friends and family.
Jumping up and down in my living room with my brothers, who aren't baseball fans and scarcely watch games, summed it up for me. We all NEEDED something to cheer about. We have Mike to thank for that moment.
He cemented his place in NY sports that night - I'll always be a fan.
- This one just made my PC background Joe... I hope you don't mind me saving down the image!
Thanks Alex Enjoy it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Joe, you brought it back to me as well. I was so proud to be a New Yorker and this was a great moment for all of us. Thx.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 3:00 PM
should have found a way to work the blonde dye job inReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 3:54 PM
I believe this might be your best work yet!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 9:15 PM
Beautiful job Joe.....Mike P, is a class guy and so proud to be Met Lover (Theres always Next Year! :o) ) Big John MassapequaReplyDelete
Unforgettable moment in sports history. He absolutely crushed that ball into the second deck of the camera tower. I also remember the Mets and Braves shaking hands before the game. That was a very nice touch that put things in perspective at such a difficult time.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 10:06 PM
very coolReplyDelete
that was a beautiful moment...and beautiful piece of artReplyDelete
Este blog é uma representação exata de competências. Eu gosto da sua recomendação. Um grande conceito que reflete os pensamentos do escritor. Consultoria RHReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 17, 2013 at 7:41 AM
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WASHINGTON — Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill.
Lawmakers called it a step toward a more expansive biometric system that would use identifiers such as fingerprints to keep track of immigrants and visitors exiting the U.S. Currently no such system is in place, something viewed as a security weakness, particularly because some 40 percent of the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally overstayed their visas and there's no good system for tracking them.
"This is an agreement that we need to build toward a biometric visa exit system," said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who offered the amendment by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who was absent Monday. "Implementing this biometric exit system is long overdue."
A full-fledged biometric entry-exit system is favored by many senators but was deemed too expensive and unworkable to include in the bill. Current law already requires such a system to be in place, but the Department of Homeland Security has not implemented it. Instead the bill seeks electronic scanning of photo IDs.
Under Hatch's amendment, the nation's 10 busiest airports would have to establish a fingerprinting system within two years after enactment of the immigration bill. Within six years it would have to be in place at the 30 busiest airports.
The amendment passed 13 to 5.
"The entire system, as current law requires, should be implemented," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who voted no. "It's a retreat from current law, a weakening of current law."
The committee last week rejected an amendment by Sessions to fully implement a biometric screening system. After Sessions' amendment failed, one of the authors of the immigration bill, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., announced publicly that he regretted the failure of Sessions' amendment and would continue pushing for a biometric system to be put in place. The passage of Hatch's amendment Monday allows authors of the legislation to argue that they're working to boost security provisions in the bill as Rubio and others have said is necessary to ensure its passage.
The vote happened as the Senate Judiciary Committee plunged Monday into its third week of deliberations on the immigration legislation, which aims to secure the borders, improve workplace enforcement and legal immigration, and offer eventual citizenship to millions of people here illegally. The committee is wading through around 300 amendments as it aims for a final vote on the bill by Wednesday night. Democrats have enough votes on the committee to ensure its passage, which would send it to the Senate floor.
Also Monday the committee approved adding more visas for Tibetans, increasing information sharing among federal agencies when people overstay their visas, and tightening up the nation's asylum and refugee system so that people would lose their asylum or refugee status if they returned home to the country they fled, unless they can show a good reason for doing so.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the asylum change was merited in light of the Boston Marathon bombings. The brothers who allegedly set off the bombs arrived in the U.S. as boys when their family sought asylum here.
An attempt by Sessions to block immigrants who gain legal status under the bill from getting the earned income tax credit was defeated on a party-line vote.


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Guy got to check out the time-consuming process while in the Market.
Guy got to check out the time-consuming process while in the Market.
Once again, turned off by the Disney-esque cover, I almost passed this one over the last time I was at Cover to Cover. Forutnately Franki was there to say, "It's Patricia Maclachlan!"
I loved this story but it took me a long time to get through it. Not because it was a hard or long read, but I just kept thinking that there was no way there way going to be a happy ending, and I just kept not being in the mood to read anything that might make me cry.
Hence, this slight 120 page book took me over four months to finish. Patricia MacLachland knocked it out of the park again with this one. I loved the relationship between boy and grandfather, as well as grandfather and dog. What a great story.
Everyone who has a daughter or is friends or family members with someone who has a daughter should read this book. Brave Girl Eating has been on my shelf since 2010, but as I packed up books for the move, it grabbed my attention. I read the whole book late into the night. I considered myself pretty educated on eating disorders but this memoir gave me a whole new insight into one family's struggle. How the simple pleasure of having a meal together as a family can be forever altered into the worst part of your day. The author (mother) is a research reporter and does an excellent job of incorporating her research about this disorder into the book.
There are no movie theaters or big grand malls or theme parks, but if you ask me if
there is anything to do in the Dakar – below is the detailed account of what I did last
Sunday, and loved every minute of it.
The temperature was perfect. It felt like OBX North Carolina in spring time. The
breeze was fresh, the sun was bright and the sky was perfect baby blue. Contrary
to my previous week's note's declaration that I would be running the marathon,
I didn't. I stayed at home on Saturday, apart from a quick pizza at the Surf Shop
along Route les Almadies as we enjoy the view of the ocean, read books that
I've not had the chance to, and watched Modern Family like it was my job. So
cooped up the previous day, which I preferred, I decided to hit the road on Sunday!
I did not need to travel very far as everything was literally 2 minutes away.
We started at 10:30 am (It was a Sunday, obviously we slept in). My boys, husband
and child, hit the driving range at Hotel les Almadies. Never crowded, you are
guaranteed to get a spot most of the time. And if you are not a golfer and want to
learn, Levi – the golf pro – will be there to help. He also gives private lessons, and
could even take you to the course as your pro guide.
Since I am not a golfer, I went to the Nature SPA inside the hotel. Located below the hotel lobby reception on the right soon as you walk in, it is one of Dakar's well kept secret (I find peace and tranquility when I visit – really!).
Heading towards the spa on a small ramp, you will find a little store of wellness treasures from candles, massage oils to perfume and scented products for home. These items come from France, and although a little pricey, they are guaranteed to be enjoyed. My first treatment was a mani-pedi. They do these treatments on a small porch facing the ocean, where you can relax and unwind whilst drinking a cup of tea on a comfortable lounge chair. That has already made my day. After that, I jumped straight into their ―Sportif‖ massage treatment. Like a tenderized meat, I was paper weight soon after.
Alas lunch time! Although we've discovered that Hotel Les Almadies is still doing Sunday Brunch buffet, which we marked for next time as it truly looked scrumptious, we all drove down to the boat stop for Ngor Island. We went to Maison de Italia, formerly Chez Carla, by boat, which was an experience by itself. Truly a paradise in Dakar! Someone even uttered that it felt like we were in the French Riviera, which I could not contest. It has a pier lined-up with lounge chairs, where you can relax and read a book and sun bathe (do not forget those sunscreens, though). We
had hearty meals of grilled seafood, huge fish and gambas, whilst my pasta lovers had Spaghetti Basil and Arrabi-
ata! As we wait for our meals, we played at a tide pool, which is perfect for a dip and playing for kids.
And of course, Ngor Island is perfect enough to explore by foot!
We made it back home at 5pm, having a mini-holiday just around the corner, which we didn't need to drive or get stuck in traffic for – priceless! Try it sometime; it made us realize how amazing it is to be in Dakar this time of the year!
I'll start by saying that this isn't me and that these aren't my photos from the trip. The are images from a Google search but are the same facility that I saw.
The Franciscan sisters have run this amazing orphanage since 1948 for children and infants under the age of two. We'll be spending part of Saturday afternoons volunteering here after we move in August. Dakar La Pouponniere has been one of three charities that ISD has focused their outreach/service learning on.
I was pretty scared about what I was going to see when we went into La Pouponniere (French for nursery). There have been plenty of Dateline specials over the years about different orphanages around the world and none have necessarily been able to shine a positive light on any of them, at least that I have seen on television.
La Pouponniere is run by Franciscan nuns and is a bright and cheery place. The walls have been recently painted pink with Winnie the Poo mini-murals around (think pediatrician office waiting room). There are two sections-one for infants and one for toddlers under 24 months. All in all, there are currently ninety-three children in the Sister's care. Guy and I had a chance to meet the nuns, as well as some of the many young women that they have working as "nannies-in-training" that help to care for the children. There is a small school for those young women that is part of the facility. My understanding is that the young women are from rural villages and that they receive education (think one-roomed school house) and job training that will be of help to them in finding paid employment upon adulthood. It's also my understnading that the majority of the infants/toddlers are at La Pouponniere because the mother either died in childbirth in a area where they had no access to medical care or the infant was abandoned. Without a nursing mother, the families do not have access to formula or the ability to take care of the infant. The sisters take care of the infants until they are 2, eating table food and able to return to their family. Families can visit on Sundays if they are able to get to the city.
There are a few YouTube videos of La Pouponniere that different volunteers have made. It's a pretty amazing place.
Guy started with the infants and I started with the toddlers. It was a hot day and there didn't appear to be air conditioning, but there was a nice breeze coming through the windows. Guy ended up with some of the older toddlers outside with another volunteer playing with toys in a little courtyard. I stayed with the toddlers, played toddler games, gave hugs, rocked some, helped give a bottle to one (the bottles had little metal hang tags with numbers on them that identified which child got which bottle). The young women helpers were playing with children, handing out bottles, taking a couple at a time for a bath, etc. I'm sure they have many other things that keep them busy non-stop. While I didn't have enough French to communicate with the girls, they were very smiley, sang and played music for the children and seemed very personable. My inability to communciate with the girls and nuns as well as I'd like to, will be one big reason that I keep brushing off my very rusty French.


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In the last post, we presented a quick overview of the push and pull concepts.
The first context for the push/pull definitions was the business model strategy where the firm needs to establish how far can it postpone the creation of goods and services to fulfill customer orders. An example in this context is seen in the manufacturing strategy for Dell's online channel where the computers are assembled only after a firm customer order has been placed. This allows Dell to simply carry the generic sub-assemblies like the HDD, RAM module, motherboard, and so on, and assemble the final customized product to order when an order is placed. This helps in reducing the finished goods inventory that is otherwise subject to obsolescence as the trends for product and demand change. But if you consider Dell's manufacturing strategy for computers that it sells through retail channels (such as Wal-mart), it must produce and distribute the machines without a firm knowledge of what the customer may demand. This is similar to the conventional "build-to-stock" model. These two examples also exhibit what is known as the postponement or speculation strategy.
In the postponement strategy, the firm has the ability to postpone the final assembly of the product to the latest stage possible. The company avoids building finished goods as long as possible but must contend with a short lead-time to fulfill orders and manage demand variability. The company has traded the cost of obsolescence for cost of extra resources by trading inventory for ability to quickly react to demand.
In the speculation strategy, the firm builds to stock by estimating demand. The company can build to forecast demand but carries the risk of finished goods obsolescence. Here the cost of obsolescence has been balanced against the increased efficiencies.
Of course, these two strategies of postponement and speculation do not lend themselves equally to all types of products and services, therefore constraining the options based on the industry, product, and the targeted customer segments.
The second context in which a push/pull concept can be seen is the point in a supply chain where demand is fulfilled through orders on suppliers (replenishment) and beyond which demand is fulfilled through stock (inventory) in the supply chain. For example, consider a typical retail operation. Should the company directly replenish the stores as the stocks on the shelves deplete? Or, should the company replenish the stores from a warehouse that stocks inventory and then replenish its warehouses by placing orders on suppliers? In the first case, when stores are directly replenished by orders placed on the suppliers, the company saves on the warehousing expense altogether, though it may carry higher inventories as it manages several hundred stores, each individually carrying inventories to avoid the risk of stock-outs. In the second case, the company can build a warehouses to optimize inventory to hedge against the stock-out risk, but adds the cost of creating and maintaining a warehouse.
In both of these scenarios as well, the company is dealing with balancing the cost of inventory against the cost of resources and fulfillment-time.
Therefore, in making the push-pull decisions, companies are primarily balancing the cost of inventory, resources, and fulfillment cycle-time. The factors that generally affect these conditions are as following. While no generic determinations can be made, understanding the concept of balancing these costs and the factors governing them provides an objective method for making such decisions.
- Demand Variability: When the product demand is certain, stable, and can be forecasted with relatively high accuracy, then a push strategy may work well. But when demand uncertainty is high, consider pull strategies for managing demand. Low demand variability provides an opportunity to create highly efficient manufacturing or distribution processes that may not be very flexible but minimize the cost of unit production. High demand variability works against such efficiencies.
- Product Variability: The products that are customized and typically require personalization at the consumer level, will do well with a pull strategy for effective demand management. These products are typically branded and consumers place high emphasis on personalization aspects, examples being custom handbags, custom shoes, computers, and even some cars. Some industrial products like rolled steel can fall in this category as well. However, the fulfillment lead-time must be managed to be competitive. When the products are utilitarian, they lend themselves to push strategies for manufacturing as well as supply chains.
- Economies of Scale: The product characteristics described above generally also describe the economies of scale. With manufacturing based on large economies of scale (and hence no or low customization), push strategies are generally compatible, otherwise consider pull strategies.
- Manufacturing Setup Changes: When the manufacturing setup changes are expensive and time-consuming, a push-based strategy should be evaluated. Consider pull strategies when setup changes are quick and do not affect the manufacturing efficiencies substantially.
- Lead-time: Lead-time in this context means the lead-time to fulfill demand. This can be a replenishment, manufacturing, or distribution lead-time or a combination of these, depending on the specific situation. Higher lead-time generally favor push-systems to build inventory so that end-demand can be fulfilled relatively quickly.
The push/pull decisions afford a balance between the responsiveness (agility) and cost (lean). Pull systems must be responsive to be effective, push systems are generally more cost effective though they not have the same amount of flexibility as the pull-systems may have. Of course, all systems are generally a combination of the push & pull strategies to be most effective. We will discuss these aspects of push/pull concepts in the next post.
Want to know more about supply chain processes? How they work and what they afford? Check out my book on Enterprise Supply Chain Management at Amazon. You will find every supply chain function described in simple language that makes sense, as well as see its relationship to other functions.
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Bord na Mona Puraflo Peat Fiber Biofilter systems will incorporate American Manufacturing's Perc-Rite residential and larger flow drip systems
Bord na Mona Environmental Products U.S., Inc. recently announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with American Manufacturing Company, Inc. of Elkwood, Va., to package American's Perc-Rite drip systems with its own Puraflo Peat Fiber Biofilter onsite wastewater treatment systems in difficult soil condition environments. According to Bord na Mona Executive Vice President John Payne, the first such combination system under this partnership has already been successfully installed at a residence in Charleston, S.C.
"Our partnership with American Manufacturing promises to bring a new level of onsite treatment quality and flexibility to areas known for having difficult soil conditions such as shallow bedrock, clay, and high water tables, or where the customer wants to reclaim the treated water for irrigation," Payne said today. "What's more, these combination systems will feature a single control panel that significantly simplifies long-term operation and maintenance."
American Manufacturing's Perc-Rite Drip system is a single- or multi-zoned fluid handling system for drip dispersal utilizing disc filtration followed by low-volume timed dosing. The drip dispersal system delivers the treated wastewater equally to a dispersal area providing unsaturated flow for an aerobic soil environment resulting in enhanced performance. The company offers systems that feature anywhere from one to multiple zones all managed by a single control panel.
Bord na Mona's Puraflo system, which is certified by NSF to NSF/ANSI Standard 40, is a low-energy natural wastewater treatment solution for onsite wastewater treatment requirements utilizing a unique, natural biofibrous peat filter media.
According to Payne, Bord na Mona's partnership with American Manufacturing is open-ended and will in the future include collaboration on other treatment and reuse solutions for both the residential and commercial market segments. American Manufacturing has agreed to feature a selection of its products and solutions at the newly opened Bord na Mona Innovation Center in Greensboro, N.C. "There is a lot of room for future cooperation between our two companies, " Payne said. "This is a collaboration that will be certain to produce a number of innovations that will advance the state-of-the-art in environmentally responsible wastewater treatment and reuse solutions."