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Here are some strategies for creating real satisfaction when it comes to helping customers.
Here's a fun exercise: For the next month, seek out and complete every survey and customer comment card you are offered. I warn you, this exercise isn't for the faint of heart, as they will be everywhere! The truth is, we are so inundated with surveys that we ignore most of them. Accept this challenge and by the end of the 30 days, you'll be amazed at how many organizations seem interested in obtaining your feedback with the implied goals of improving service and exceeding your needs.
During my month of surveying the surveys, several recurring themes made me question the effectiveness of these widely accepted tools. The most revealing finding was that almost a year later, I haven't seen one process change at the restaurants where I eat, the hotels I stay in, my gym, my bank or my barber. It may appear that these cards are the fabric that keeps organizations running, but I've peeked behind the curtain, and more often than not, our comments are given less consideration than we give to filling out the surveys.
Let's analyze a classic survey on a five-point scale and see if any of these sound familiar.
1: Very Unsatisfied - Strongly Disagree
When I get bad service, the last thing I want to do is tell someone about it on paper. I may want to scream at someone, but more often than not, self-control gets the better of me and I choose to tell them about my disapproval by never coming back. If I bring my truck in for new tires and leave with a four-inch scratch in the door, I'm not sure a comment card is going to accurately capture my feelings at that moment, or if any response could possibly convince me to return for future service. The damage is done and I want to go home.
2: Unsatisfied - Somewhat Disagree
In addition to reaching me after the damage is done, comment cards never seem to ask the questions I want to answer. I recently purchased some new computer hardware online. The electronic survey that came two weeks later asked if I found what I was looking for on the Web site, if the product was reasonably priced, if shipping time was acceptable and if the product met my needs - along with a host of demographic questions seemingly more interested in marketing than customer satisfaction. What was not on the survey was the biggest disappointment I experienced: the time it took to install due to the lack of adequate instructions. That question was conveniently left off the survey.
3: Neutral - Complete Apathy
It's great that the employee at the drive-through was smiling. I appreciate being offered a receipt, and my food was served at the proper temperature. I guess I feel like I got "good value for my food budget dollar," but I went through the drive-through. I didn't use the restrooms; I can't comment on the establishment's cleanliness, and no I'm not going to tell a friend. After all, I'm getting a burger from a clown's mouth. I just want my burger and let me go.
I really don't care about your business, and the comment card does little to further my relationship with your organization. You're asking the wrong customer.
4: Satisfied - Somewhat Agree
During my tenure at a large marketing firm, we tracked customer comment cards from more than 30 clients in a Microsoft Access database that would have made the staunchest application developer proud. I could break out data so detailed that only a statistician could truly appreciate it. But when it came right down to it, all I had was a lot of subjective ratings, and worse yet, we had no idea what to do with the information we collected.
You could score 4.3 one month and 4.6 the next, but no one knew why the numbers fluctuated, or if anything we changed made any impact. Ultimately we had relatively meaningless measures.
5: Very Satisfied - But I Still Disagree
A couple years ago, I bought a new pickup truck. When I signed the final papers, the dealer handed me a new customer survey that was already filled out. The dealer correctly assumed I would never fill out the eight pages of questions so he did it for me. He also assumed I was going to answer fives across the board.
I've now heard similar stories from friends. Apparently various companies use these surveys to rate dealerships, and anything less than a five leads to issues with the manufacturers. I'm sure the intent is that dealers are so concerned with getting a bad survey that they are changing all their processes and tactics to meet today's customer expectations ... nope, they just fill out the survey for you.
On principle alone, I filled out a fresh survey and sent it in. They sent me lawn chairs. That was nice.
So what does any of this have to do with IT? Unfortunately when we attempt to measure customer satisfaction in our field, this is the model we use - a flawed instrument that provides us little more than a warm fuzzy feeling when the ratings look good.
We see this primarily in our support centers or help desks. Typically these folks have the most interaction with customers and usually under unpleasant conditions - when something is broken. They are the face of IT, but by the time customers see them, those customers are generally dissatisfied. Because of this relationship, most IT organizations measure customer satisfaction as a matter of survival and self-preservation. Show customers and executive management a warm fuzzy or else feel the wrath of the business director.
Despite not typically having caused the problems, as well as sharing the customer desire to fix problems as quickly as possible, these support centers are still the targets for customers venting their frustration with technology. With unhappy people calling all day, every day, and very little control of call volume, we measure what we can to show anyone who will look that we're doing a good job. Did we answer the phone? Were we courteous? Did we fix the problem? And if we can track it, how quickly was the problem resolved?
We e-mail surveys after each work order is complete and dutifully collect the 3 percent that are returned. This way, when it hits the fan - and it will hit the fan - we can justify the six months it took to install new speakers by showing a 90 percent "satisfied" rating at a staff meeting.
I've seen IT directors and CIOs use help desk measures as ratings for the entire technology department. It's ludicrous to think that the complete customer technology experience and the shop's ability to meet the organization's needs can be captured in end-user support comment cards. In many cases, that's the best we have to offer because that's the best - or at least the most common - model we see. However, other than the warm fuzzy, survey results often have little else to offer.
I'm not suggesting that measuring customer satisfaction in our field is easy. First of all, very few people really know what IT does. We were recently asked in a budget hearing for a "regular English" definition of circuits, routers and switches. Eyes glazed over before we could even answer. Face it: We operate within the fog of war, and although many times it works to our advantage, when trying to communicate customer satisfaction, it makes our task very difficult.
Three other things hinder our ability to adequately measure customer satisfaction:
1. In most cases, we don't make an easily definable product. We may store and manage terabytes of data, but it's not really our product since the data is created and used by the organization. We simply house it. So exactly what is the product of the data center?
2. We juggle competing interests. In addition to having to spread limited resources across abundant demand from various divisions, IT must fight for infrastructure costs, such as disaster recovery, that end up competing for funding with new system development.
3. We rarely interact with our customers. Over the last five years, we've made significant strides in project management, and bridging that gap between IT and the business side. But the customer is too often out of sight and out of mind for the everyday technician.
With everything stacked against us, we either give up under the pressure or resort to the help desk survey. I would argue there is a better way.
Step 1: Talk to your customers, and they'll tell you what they want.
It starts with opening the lines of communication between the CIO and the division business leaders. In a consolidated environment, you may have 20 distinct entities that you must balance. In the increasingly rare case that you serve only a single agency, you probably have competing divisions. I encourage you to reach out to each and every one of them regularly.
When Missouri consolidated IT functions for 14 executive departments, we segmented our new customers into groups and asked the group leaders a simple question: "What results do you expect from your IT provider?"
We noticed a pattern. They wanted reliable systems that were secure, available and accessible to end-users. They wanted dependable project management on application development, and better communication regarding timelines and budgets. This was excellent to hear because we already measured some of these things. Maybe they hadn't been addressed on an enterprise scale or with the appropriate gusto, but most network managers look at available service, server farms calculate uptime, and we all should have software that helps us with security and disaster recovery.
For the areas where we had no current metric, we worked with the customers to define what we could count and measure that would demonstrate the effectiveness of that area. At the end of step one, we had a list of expectations and metrics for each item identified that were developed in conjunction with the customer. That's the exact opposite of a comment card where the "what to ask" and "how to rate" is set by the service provider. Comment cards assume we know what the customer wants in the same way the car dealer assumes that if I bought the vehicle, I must be happy.
Step 2: Have your customers set the performance targets.
The expectations and measures are the foundations on which you can build your service-level agreements or your management dashboards, but in themselves, they don't help you determine the real levels of customer satisfaction. Setting a performance target or level of service that will make your customer happy requires more discussion.
If a division tells us the most important thing IT does for it is update its Web site, we can set up a metric that measures how quickly the site is updated by counting the time between a request being made and the update. Using a simple follow up question, we can determine a measure of customer satisfaction: "How fast does the update need to take place for you to be extremely satisfied?"
If the answer is one day, we can easily count how many requests are posted within a day. That percentage is the percentage of customer satisfaction. For updates that took more than a day, we know we missed the mark. No survey, comment card or follow-up is needed - just simple up-front communication combined with clear expectations and meaningful measures.
Step 3: Improve your processes.
Unlike a comment card, you can use these performance targets to drive process improvement. Let's say the performance target is three hours. You know from the measures that you average two working days. Closing the gap between two days and three hours is the goal. Changes to your processes and procedures can be measured by the time they save and how much closer they bring you to the performance target.
You can see how improvements impact your customer satisfaction in a very real way - and a way that's different than looking at a comment card and trying to guess why you went from 4.3 to 4.6 this quarter. This approach changes the entire mindset of customer focus. We move away from the idea of, "are you satisfied with what I'm giving you?" to one of, "I understand what you need or want, and we're striving to provide that to you."
Step 4: Lather, rinse, repeat.
Customer expectations change over time. About every three to five years, it's essential to review the customer satisfaction measures, and make sure you're still delivering the right service the right way and meeting your business customers' needs.
Defining the process in four easy steps isn't intended to give you the impression that customer satisfaction measurement is easy. Internally we struggled with developing measures that were meaningful to our customers. Sometimes what's most meaningful to our customers is very difficult for us to measure.
The availability of an application depends on at least four major factors: the software itself, the performance of the platform (servers and desktops) it runs on, the availability of the network it uses, and the end-user utilizing the application. With a customer satisfaction target of 100 percent availability during work hours, I know disruption in any of those areas can result in application downtime for the end-user. Measuring each of the four factors as a stand-alone system is relatively easy. Measuring them all as they work in harmony to bring the application to the end-user is a challenge worthy of another article altogether.
After the measures are set, the benefits of objectively measuring improvements and the confidence in knowing what you have to do to meet customers' needs, as well as what you must do to proactively exceed their expectations, is a reward worth all the work - a reward that I am betting you will enjoy twice as much as scoring a 4.8 on that subjective survey.
So take my challenge: First complete as many surveys as you can, then put the surveys away and actually talk to your customers. You will find it to be a much better measurement method.


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Friday, March 30, 2007
The North American Lookey-Loo
The North American Lookey-Loo is a very common creature in Emergency Departments. They are somewhat shy but can be easily lured out of their holes by any sort of perceived delay in the care of their significant-other. Their method of conflict resolution is passive-aggressivity. When approached they will usually retreat in their holes with their distinctive alarm cry which sounds something like "how much longer?" Commonly, they hover at the door of their significant other's room or near the edge of the curtain and direct their pitiful stares towards the doctor's or nurse's station. They pose a dilemma for proponents of evolutionary theory because their behavior is, in fact, deleterious, in that it inevitably delays disposition of the patient. In fact, their behavior brings out the florid passive-aggressive nature of the powerful nurse-doctor beast. We expect, therefore, that they will select themselves out of the population. Curiously though, they do not seem to be decreasing in number as they may also be seen (in huge numbers) craning their necks out of car windows near motor vehicle accidents or crime scenes. It is therefore possible that their behavior may have an as yet undiscovered reproductive advantage.
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Ah yes, those lookey-loo's. I think they go to mime-school to study how to put on that certain facial expression which says: "I'm trying not to be rude (YET) but WHEN is someone going to come back in here and DO SOMETHING?" And you're right about them bringing out passive-aggressive behavior in the nurses. Whenever one of them flagged me down, it always made me want to ask them their name, look at my clipboard and say: "Oh dear. I don't have you on the list. It must be a computer malfunction again. I'm afraid you'll have to go back to triage and start over..."ReplyDelete
HaHaHa--I never knew what these creatures were called. I have seen and photographed them prior to ducking into their holes. After much research, i have discovered the scientific name---homo enormicus painicus assicus (family-genus-species-subspecies). If you see one-be careful. They have a poisonous barb that sticks out from a slender tail, one prick of which is fatal.ReplyDelete
They may look benign, but if they see you sitting at the desk charting or talking on the phone, they will gain the courage to come out of their holes and spew their venom at you.ReplyDelete
I love the picture!
- Anonymous4:24 PM, March 31, 2007
The lookey-loo always accompanies an actually sick person into our department and manages to make my 63-year-old sweet-as-pie secretary pray to god for them both to be thrown under a combine harvester. Almost makes me want to see them more often (? survival advantage - you decide).ReplyDelete
Sent your post out to my residency. Got a funny reply back from someone who thought the Looky-loo was my invention. (You have been properly credited.) Here is his response....ReplyDelete
Dear Dr.(name withheld)
We at the Institute for Human Behavior Confounding Darwinian
Principles (IHBCDP) wish to complement you an your accurate
definition of the 'Lookey-Loo'. Once thought to be extinct, the
ancestors of today's Lookey-loo were thought to have avoided certain
disester as various sub-populations seem to have been conveniently
distracted away from the larger group at the times danger presented
itself. It is now commonly believed this 'distraction' was a shiny
object of some kind.
While fetching high prices on the European trade market for
their fur, we at The Institute strongly believe in the humane
treatment and preservation of the Lookey-loo and wish to end this
cruel enterprize. We therefore emplore you to reconsider the way in
which you treat these poor creatures. True, many physically
resemble Homo sapiens, but I believe you know very well that they
have a cognitive capacity far below our own. As such, we do not
believe the Lookey-loo is truley aware of it's actions or
surroundings but acts in a purely instinctual way. We, again,
emplore you to consider this when dealing with the Lookey-loo.
Might we introduce a proposal? Instead of trapping and sending them
downriver for processing, please consider using their instinctual
behavior to your advantage when dealing with them. Purely diurnal
in nature, they may be rendered inert by merely throwing a blanket
over their heads. Like many domestic avian species, ths has a
curiously calming effect on the Lookey-Loo as the percieve the
darkness as nighttime, resulting in a sudden spike in melatonin
levels which, in effect, induces a 'hibernation' of the metabolism
of these creatures.
It is with earnest thanks that you have read our proposal. We
hope you find it in your heart to be another link in the chain of
freedom for this beautiful animal.
Chris K., Director IHBCDP
Does it ever help to more assertively tell a lookey-loo something that gives them a time clue before they begin to pout? Something like "Sorry we're running at about a 2-3 hour delay for patients not having a true emergency - we'll get to you as soon as possible but is going to be a wait."?ReplyDelete
Or does giving an estimated timeline in the ER just make them worse?
Seems like a lot of people calm down if they know what they are in for. On the unfortunate days that I get 40-60 minutes behind in clinic, our receptionist tells people as they sign in and gives them an opportunity to reschedule if necessary.
They may not leave and reschedule, but they seem to lose their cool less if they know a guestimate up front. Regards - Echo Doc
We called them lesser-spotted cubicle watchers in my old A&E Dept.ReplyDelete


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Cain's perfecto lauded by San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO -- Matt Cain entrenched himself not only in Giants lore with his perfect game, but also in the city's calendar.San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, on hand at AT&T Park to give Cain the key to the city in recognition of his June 13 gem against Houston, declared that every June 13 will be "Matt Cain Day" here."Thank you for treating us to a wonderful, historic tribute of your skill," Lee said in a pregame ceremony Tuesday.Also during the festivities, baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson received first base from Cain's big game and the spikes and cap the right-hander wore that night. Those items will be displayed at the game's shrine in Cooperstown, along with other mementoes of Cain's performance: a game-used baseball, one of the "K" signs denoting a strikeout that hung on the wall in right-field foul territory, copies of San Francisco's two newspapers, the Chronicle and Examiner, dirt from the pitcher's mound and a collection of game tickets.Idelson said that through the rest of the year, the Cain mementos will be displayed in the "Today's Game" exhibit gallery, which features items culled from milestones that occurred this season. After this year, most of the Cain relics will move to a perpetual Giants gallery. The ball will join a collection of baseballs taken from every no-hitter thrown since the Hall's museum opened in 1939.


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I am working on a dissertation about self-documentation and social media and have decided to take on theorizing the rise of faux-vintage photography (e.g., Hipstamatic, Instagram). From May 10-12, 2011, I posted a three part essay. This post combines all three together.
Part I: Instagram and Hipstamatic
Part II: Grasping for Authenticity
Part III: Nostalgia for the Present
Part I: Instagram and Hipstamatic
This past winter, during an especially large snowfall, my Facebook and Twitter streams became inundated with grainy photos that shared a similarity beyond depicting massive amounts of snow: many of them appeared to have been taken on cheap Polaroid or perhaps a film cameras 60 years prior. However, the photos were all taken recently using a popular set of new smartphone applications like Hipstamatic or Instagram. The photos (like the one above) immediately caused a feeling of nostalgia and a sense of authenticity that digital photos posted on social media often lack. Indeed, there has been a recent explosion of retro/vintage photos. Those smartphone apps have made it so one no longer needs the ravages of time or to learn Photoshop skills to post a nicely aged photograph.
In this essay, I hope to show how faux-vintage photography, while seemingly banal, helps illustrate larger trends about social media in general. The faux-vintage photo, while getting a lot of attention in this essay, is merely an illustrative example of a larger trend whereby social media increasingly force us to view our present as always a potential documented past. But we have a ways to go before I can elaborate on that point. Some technological background is in order. Read More »


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Some of the country's most popular castles and chateaux opened their doors to the public this weekend, marking the start of the tourist season. Among them are Karlšejn, Křivoklát and Konopište, which annually attract over half a million visitors. Prague Castle also opened its doors to visitors this weekend. The country's other historical attractions are due to open the season on April 1st or the long Easter weekend with price cuts and special events for visitors.
The 120 vehicle strong US military convoy, which is expected to cross Czech territory on its way back to Germany from a NATO military exercise in the Baltic states, is due to arrive at the Polish-Czech border at around 10 .30 am on Sunday. The convoy, which is travelling through six NATO member states to demonstrate NATO unity and US commitment to stability in Europe, will spend four days in the Czech Republic before heading for its home base in Bavaria. It is expected to meet both with supporters and opponents who disapprove of what they describe as NATO muscle-flexing on Czech territory. On the eve of its arrival several hundred people gathered on Wenceslas Square to air their views. Protesters, largely communist party sympathizers, mingled with supporters carrying US flags and the two comps engaged in heated verbal disputes. The police was out in force to keep the demonstrations under control. According to a recent poll 82 percent of Czechs have no problem with the convoy passing through and Czech politicians have repeatedly stressed that the US convoy is an allied force, not a foreign army.
The winner of the 2015 Prague Half Marathon is Daniel Kinyua Wanjiru from Kenya who covered the 21 km distance in 59 minutes 51 seconds. The first woman to reach the finishing line was Worknesh Degefao who covered the track in 1:07:14. Over 12,000 participants from around the world took part. The Prague Half Marathon holds IAAF Gold Label Road Race status and is managed by the same organization that holds the Prague Marathon in May.
The annual shift to summertime or daylight saving time is due to take place at 2am on Sunday, when clocks will be moved forward by an hour. In the Czech Republic the shift to summertime, introduced for economic reasons, has been implemented, with a number of breaks, for 36 years. Until 1995 summertime in the Czech Republic lasted for six months of the year, after that the country brought it in line with EU norms and it now lasts for seven months- i.e. until the end of October.
The Czech authorities have not disclosed any details with respect to the
negotiations leading up to the release of the two Czech women who were
kidnapped in Pakistan in 2013 or said where they were kept in detention.
Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek said that the ministry did not want to
reveal further details at this point. Interior Minister Milan Chovanec
indicated that the Czech Republic had not paid a ransom to bring them back.
The Czech Republic does not negotiate with terrorists or pay ransom money,
he told Czech Television.
President Miloš Zeman's spokesperson said the president was extremely happy to hear that the two young women had been freed and expressed his gratitude to the IHH NGO for negotiating their release.
Two freight trains collided head-on near the town of Litomerice on Saturday morning. One of the engine drivers was badly injured in the accident. It is not yet clear how the trains came to be on the same track. An inspection team is at the site of the accident and the rail track will be closed at least until the end of the day. The preliminary damage estimate is around 100 million crowns.
Two Czech women who were kidnapped in Pakistan two years ago have been released, Czech Television reported early on Saturday citing Turkish media sources. The IHH Turkish charity reportedly participated in negotiations to secure their release and the two young women returned home via Turkey late on Friday night. The news of their safe return has since been confirmed by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, who thanked the IHH for helping to secure their release and asked the media to respect their and their families' privacy in order to enable them to return to a normal life as soon as possible. The Turkish media published a photo of the young women on which they both appear to be unharmed.
In connection with the tragic Germanwings plane crash, the Czech national carrier Czech Airlines has said it has an internal regulation according to which there must be two crew members in the cockpit at all times during a flight. If one of the pilots needs a few minutes break they must wait to be replaced by one of the cabin assistants before leaving, a spokesman for Czech Airlines told the news site novinky.cz. The regulation has been in force for the last ten years. The airline Travel Service has confirmed a similar policy.
Defense Minister Martin Stropnický said all was in readiness for the 120
vehicle strong US military convoy, which is expected to pass through Czech
territory at the end of this week. Speaking at a press briefing in Prague
on Friday the minister said the smallest details had been taken care of to
ensure a smooth transfer, and all was in readiness both at the military
barracks where the soldiers will be staying the night as well as along the
given route. Traffic police are prepared for the event and we have all the
necessary licenses, the minister noted. The cost of the operation
–estimated at 175,000 crowns will be covered by the US army.
The convoy, returning from a NATO exercise called Operation Atlantic Resolve in the Baltic states, is travelling through six countries on its way to a military base in Germany. It will arrive in the Czech Republic on Sunday and spend four days on Czech territory.
The Labour Ministry is working on a proposed legislation which should enable up to 4,000 miners to go into early retirement – by up to five years earlier than the present pension law allows. The present criteria for early retirement allow miners who have worked below ground since 1993 and who undertook 3,300 work shifts by 2008 to ask for retirement 5 years earlier. Labour Minister Michaela Marksova said on Friday she wanted to all miners who have undertaken the said number of work shifts without specification by what date to have the same advantage. The measure is being undertaken to ease the social impact of the planned mine closures.
Czech Republic opens up to more tourists from Europe and beyond as coronavirus travel restrictions eased
Brno scientists pair with Czech biotech firm to develop healing artificial tears
Facemask requirement eased but new restrictions for area hit by spike in Covid-19 cases
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Registration is under way for many programs offered by the New Milford Parks & Recreation Department.
For more information, call 860-355-6050, check www.newmilford.org or visit the office at 47 Bridge St. Hours are weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Dog owners who visit the Village Green or other town parks are reminded to pick up after their pets. Dog waste is unsightly and can spread disease. Owners should carry plastic bags to clean up after pets.
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Signup is open for youths from age 4 to grade K-6 for Saturday sessions meeting from April 13 to June 8 (except May 25) at the Sarah Noble School fields. Cost will be $35 if a child played in the fall or $40 if needing a T-shirt.
Mets baseball game
Reservations are available for $65 for a May 11 bus trip to see the New York Mets play the Pittsburgh Pirates at City Field in Flushing, N.Y. Departure for the 1:10 p.m.game will be at 10:30 a.m. Cost includes transportation and a leftfield reserved seat section 138.
An April 16 bus trip to the Bronx Zoo will depart from Patriots Way at 8:20 a.m. and leave the zoo at 3:30 p.m. Cost of $43 for seniors aged 65 and older, $45 for adults and $41 for children will include transportation and a full day at the zoo and entrance into zoo shuttle, Bug Carousel, Butterfly Garden, Children's Zoo and Congo Gorilla Forest.
Boat slips
Registration for the 2013 season at Lynn Deming Park is underway at New Milford Parks & Recreation at 47 Bridge Street. Cost of $1,200 also includes one vehicle pass. Applicants must be New Milford residents/taxpayers.
Mohegan Sun trip
An April 19 coach bus trips for a multi-hour stay at the casino at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville will cost $25 for transportation. Participants will receive $15 food vouchers and $15 for Match Play. The bus will depart the Patriots Way parking lot at 8:30 a.m. and leave Mohegan Sun at 4 p.m.


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Graduate overcomes educational barriers
PLAINVIEW – Earning a bachelor's degree in college is for some easily attainable. For others, completing their childhood schooling is daunting at best, and college is not normally in the cards.
Such was the case for Santos Rodriguez, who overcame several barriers to his education in order to earn his bachelor's degree a few years. On Saturday, Rodriguez will far surpass even his own goals by receiving a Master of Arts degree in religion at Wayland Baptist University. Commencement ceremonies will be held at 2 p.m. in Harral Auditorium.
His struggles started as a child in his native Mexico, where he finished the sixth grade. Further educational opportunities did not exist in his hometown, and going away to attend more school was the only other alternative.
"The townspeople where I lived all took up money to send me to another town, but the paperwork got messed up and I didn't get to go," Rodriguez said, recalling how his dream of education slipped out of reach.
In addition to this, family difficulties made the boy's life tough as well. His mother died when he was nine, and his stepfather mistreated him. His mother's family refused to take the boy in and suggested he go to an orphanage instead.
Finally, an aunt took the boy in and raised him and a brother, who now lives in Oklahoma. At age 15, Santos left Mexico and came to the United States, specifically to California. Working as a laborer in various fields, he lived in eight different states for the next several years, recalling his love for the adventure of moving to a new place.
In 1977, he moved to Plainview and worked for the Edmonson Co-Op Gin, where he soon met a local pastor named Glen Godsey. Godsey was preaching at Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana in Plainview and invited Rodriguez to attend church services there. He began attending and was saved in 1979. Soon thereafter, he began dating Godsey's daughter Yolanda, though the two "didn't like each other at first." Things would change, however, as the two were soon married.
Rodriguez continued to work in labor fields including carpentry and electrical work, but surrendered to the ministry, feeling God had a calling on his life. He also participated in many mission trips through the years, often serving as an interpreter for Spanish-speaking people. It would be on one such trip that Rodriguez would get a clearer picture of his call.
"On one of these trips, I was informed at the last minute that I would be preaching because the local pastor had an emergency," he recalled. "During the invitation time, I came down myself and surrendered to preach."
In 1984, Rodriguez suffered a back injury that left him unable to work in the same manner he had before. During his hospital stay, he had plenty of time to think about the future and decided that pursuing his education might be the only option.
"Every time Yolanda and I would pass by the campus, I'd say, 'This is the school I'll be coming to,' but I was cynical about that, because I had no education," Rodriguez said. "I think I was being rebellious against God, so He put me on this path."
After he recuperated, he approached the admissions office at Wayland about pursuing an associate's degree and did so within the next few years. In 1990, he felt led to earn his GED through the Plainview schools. Content for the time being, Rodriguez continued working in labor fields. A trip to Russia in 1995, however, changed his course again.
"We went on a mission trip, and God opened my mind to coming back to school for my bachelor's degree," Rodriguez said. "It's not me, it's only God that always makes things work out."
He returned to Wayland that year, carrying a full load while working full-time in a new position: he was now serving as pastor of Iglesia Bautista Date Street in Plainview. Rodriguez earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and religion in 2000, an enormous feat in his opinion, given his educational background.
But that milestone would prove to be just another step in his educational journey.
"A year after I finished my bachelor's degree, I began to have that urgency to learn more," Rodriguez said. "It's just something inside me. I like school and I like to learn. I think I'm trying to fulfill God's purposes and fill a void in my own life."
Rodriguez researched the graduate program at Wayland, noting that going further with his education "seemed like a dream." With the religion faculty supporting and encouraging him to pursue the degree, he felt confident to tackle the task.
And on Saturday, Rodriguez will be hooded for the master's degree in religion, as more than 100 students receive diplomas from Wayland. The process has been one he's enjoyed, particularly the theology and Biblical history classes. But there have been some struggles along the way, particularly with math and writing term papers, a skill he admits is troublesome.
"There were times when I wanted to quit, but I'd calm down and decide to go on another day," he said.
But looking back, Rodriguez said he never regrets one step of the journey.
"My mind has opened to the fact that there's more than one way to see the Bible," Rodriguez said. "I think it's making me a better pastor. I understand and love people more, and I'm more open-minded to people and understand more how they feel."
Rodriguez plans to remain in the pastorate in Plainview and said he might try teaching one day if the Lord leads him in that direction.


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In an effort to get FREESCO translated into a few more languages Howler has designed a web interface for making the translations a LOT easier to do. The new web pages do not require technical knowledge of manually editing files for Linux and they show what sections are required code and what parts need translating.
So anyone who's native language is not English, please take a look at the pages and spend some time translating them. We are NOT interested in any type of online translators because they will not work for our needs. Although if you routinely use one to understand what is in English it would probably work fine for some things.
There is also a link to the translation pages on the main site as well at http://www.freesco.org/
If the language you would like to translate FREESCO into is NOT listed then please just let Howler or myself know with an email or PM on the forum and we will add it to the list.


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Team rivalry. Seemingly nothing wrong with it, and actually it's abnormal to not have some friendly competition and strive a bit harder to win against a certain team more than others. Maybe it's two cities that battle in more ways than sports, maybe it comes about from a trade that develops a grudge, or maybe it's something rooted in history that carries itself over 100 years of one the most well known and deepest hates – the Yankees and the Red Sox. But why are some rivalries the way they are today, why carry on the tradition of hate throughout generations, and why hate so hard?
One of my fellow Ladies hit it on the head with the lack of love for the Cubbies, and being a Yankees fan born and raised only to be brought in to a Mets house, it was instilled in me to hate all Red Sox men and now the Phillies as well. Hell, when I was barely old enough to talk I was being taught to yell "Squish the Fish!" for the sake of my Buffalo Bills. But why such hatred? Have I ever met any of these guys that I supposedly hate now? Am I right in actually saying out loud "I hate Utley?" Have I developed a valid opinion of their personalities from a press conference and have a completely reasonable hatred for them even still? Of course not. Varitek could be the nicest, sweetest guy behind a plate, but as long as he's wearing red, I have to hate him. It streams through my Yankee-loving blood, and if I showed a slight sway in a mere liking of his personality, I would probably be disowned by the "real" Yankee fans. Why though? What's the point of hating so much that causes fans to cheer out when a member of the opposing team gets wailed with a line drive to the kneecap? I can understand some friendly competition and have even been known to get into a tiff or two with nearby inebriated fans, but cheering on injury isn't something you'll hear me do. It might make you sound like a good fan, but then you'll also sound like a pretty terrible person.
This photo is a friendly reminder of the serious, serious hatred that extends back over 100 years between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. It's the kind of hatred that caused a Boston fan working on the new Yankee stadium to bury an Ortiz jersey in hopes of cursing them. It's the kind of hatred that causes fans at Fenway to boo Johnny Damon every single time he comes up to the plate. Sadly enough, it's even the kind of hate that costs lives. To make a long story brief, once upon a time in the early 1900s the BoSox were an incredible team with some financial troubles. They sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees, and so began the Bambino curse. Why bother hating thereafter? Because it feels completely normal to cheer for your team and root against the opposing team whether they're a true rival or not. But when history gets involved and fans become emotionally vested, the hatred becomes so strong that I have actually thought twice about dating a Boston fan (what would my brother say?) Doesn't anyone remember how seeing an image of an Ohio student making out with a Michigan student on a commercial a few years back was enough to turn stomachs?
The Mets – Phillies rivalry isn't quite as intense as a century of hatred, but ever since the 2006 season it's been a growing pain in both city's sides. After the game we saw this weekend, it was made even more apparent and obvious that 1) the Phillies are very proud of their World Series Champions of 2008, and 2) they really, really hate the Mets. But was it okay for the drunken Phillies fan to taunt the gentleman wearing a Piazza jersey in front of me for the first half of the game and question his manhood, followed by screaming at Reyes that he is a bad person and he should go to hell? Or is he taking it too far? I think that it's one thing to jokingly tell the Mets fans to go back to Queens, and quite another to cheer and clap when a wild pitch smacks Beltran in the foot. It's okay to love your team, and it's definitely okay to have some friendly fire with a rival fan. Just don't take it so far that you sacrifice character and sensibility. And you might as well calm down with the haterade, friend, because when it all comes down to it, I hate you too. Just a friendly hate though. That is, until you call me "Wright jersey girl" and tell me to go home one more time…
And PS – in light of our rivalry theme for today, I find it wildly inappropriate and yet completely necessary for this Mets girl to post a bonus taste of a Phillies pitcher that I just cannot hate. I can't. Meet Chad Durbin.


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Schlotzsky's leaps into spring with the return of the limited time only Hand-Carved Sandwiches. From now until May 18, the home of The Original round toasted sandwich will bring back the Roasted Turkey with Avocado & Havarti Cheese, the Hickory Smoked Ham with Bacon, Havarti Cheese & Honey Dijon, and the Braised Beef with Mushrooms & Fire-Roasted Vegetables.
"Our guests loved the hand-carved sandwiches so much when they debuted in 2012," says Kelly Roddy, president of Schlotzsky's. "We pride ourselves on the fresh in-restaurant, hand-carved meats that these sandwiches have to offer. With savory flavors and unique sandwich combinations, they're sure to be a hit again. The variety of proteins combined with savory flavors offer our guests unique sandwich combinations that are sure to be a hit again."
The three signature sandwiches include:
- Roasted Turkey with Avocado & Havarti Cheese: Thick slices of hand-carved roasted turkey breast, tomato, bibb lettuce, avocado slices, and shredded Havarti cheese with mayonnaise served on Schlotzsky's signature toasted sourdough bun.
- Hickory Smoked Ham with Bacon, Havarti Cheese & Honey Dijon: Slices of hand-carved hickory smoked ham, applewood bacon, hearts of romaine lettuce, tomato, red onion, and shredded Havarti cheese with honey Dijon mustard served on Schlotzsky's signature toasted sourdough bun.
- Braised Beef with Mushrooms & Fire-Roasted Vegetables: Hearty slices of hand-carved braised beef, Portobello mushrooms, fire-roasted vegetables, and both Swiss and mozzarella cheese with chipotle mayonnaise served on Schlotzsky's toasted signature sourdough bun.
Schlotzsky's restaurant offers guests more than 15 different sandwiches on its round freshly-baked buns, as well as gourmet pizzas made with Fresh-from-Scratch crusts, freshly made-to-order tossed salads, a variety of soups, and desserts. Catering options are available as well.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Sports News
Pick 6: College hoops' early season surprises
By AP's John Marshall
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[November 30, 2012]
A decade ago, Butler beating North Carolina would have been huge news, an upset that sent shockwaves throughout college basketball.
When the Bulldogs knocked off the Tar Heels at the Maui Invitational last week, it barely registered a blip.
An upset? Sure, but Butler did play in consecutive NCAA championship games a couple years ago, so it wasn't totally surprising.
In fact, it wasn't even the most remarkable thing that happened in Maui.
Here's a look at the unexpected twist at Maui and some of the other early-season surprises in college basketball so far:
Illinois wins in Maui: The Maui Invitational typically has one of the most talented fields of any tournament all season, with a list of recent champions that includes Duke, North Carolina, UCLA and Connecticut. Add the Illini to that list. A team that missed the NCAA tournament for third time in five seasons after an ugly collapse last year, Illinois was expected to be in rebuilding mode under new coach John Groce. After beating Hawaii on a buzzer-beater, the Illini turned the Maui Invitational into a walkover, beating Southern California, Chaminade and Butler by double digits to cruise to a title few expected them to win.
UCLA: The Bruins had a disappointing start to last season and lost one of their key players when Reeves Nelson was dismissed from the team. It's starting to feel like 2011 all over again in Westwood. UCLA opened the season No. 13 in the AP preseason poll and got good news when the NCAA cleared prized recruit Shabazz Muhammad to play by the fourth game. The past couple of weeks haven't gone so well. The Bruins needed overtime to beat UC Irvine by one at Pauley Pavilion on Nov. 13, then lost Cal Poly
-- yes, Cal Poly -- at home by two. Worse yet, junior guard Tyler Lamb said last weekend that he's transferring to another school to get more playing time and center Joshua Smith announced on Wednesday that he's quitting the team. UCLA needs to get it straightened out soon or coach Ben Howland could be out of job.
Memphis in the Bahamas: Another year of preseason hype for the Tigers and another year of struggling to live up to them. Memphis was ranked in the Top 25 preseason poll for the third straight season and was considered the favorite to win Conference USA in their final year in the league. Coach Josh Pastner has been criticized for not being able to lead the Tigers to a win in the NCAA tournament and has taken more heat for their nearly winless run through the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas. Memphis opened with predictable wins over North Florida and Samford, but suffered a 13-point loss to Virginia Commonwealth in the first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis. The Tigers followed with a loss to Minnesota and needed a tight win over Northern Iowa to keep from coming home without a win in the Bahamas. Chances are Memphis will turn it around and get back to the NCAA tournament, but 3-2 is not how the Tigers envisioned starting the season.
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Jahii Carson. We know, the Arizona State redshirt freshman was touted as one of the nation's best newcomers. Still, it would have been hard to predict the impact he's had on the Sun Devils. A 5-foot-10 point guard who's not exactly bulging in the biceps, Carson has been dominant at times, blowing past defenders with his quick first step and exploding to the rim with his bouncy legs. Playing with a confidence that belies his age, Carson looks like he's been at Arizona State for six years, not six games. He leads the Sun Devils with 19 points and 5.5 points per game, and became the fourth freshman in school history to score 30 in a game when he hit that mark against Creighton in the Las Vegas Invitational last weekend. The national spotlight is starting to shine in his direction and it's likely to get brighter.
Boise State beats Creighton: The Broncos are known more for their football program and were coming off a 13-17 season in 2011-12. Boise State opened this season 4-1
-- its only loss was by four to Michigan State -- but still wasn't expected to beat Creighton and its All-American, Greg McDermott. The Bluejays opened the season in the Top 25 and went into Wednesday's game ranked 11th after a pair of impressive wins over Wisconsin and Arizona State at the Las Vegas Invitational. Boise State went right at the Bluejays in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday night, beating them 83-70 after Derrick Marks scored a career-high 35 points, including 18 straight in the second half. It was arguably the Broncos' biggest upset as a program and their first road win over a ranked opponent since 2005. It also was Creighton's first regular-season November home loss since 1989.
Jack Taylor's 138 points. Grinnell has been known to use its gimmicky offense to help players score in bunches, including Griffin Lentsch's 89 points a year ago against Principia. But what Taylor did was stunning, no matter how he did it. A 5-foot-10 sophomore guard, he hoisted shots like he was playing pop-a-shot, obliterating the NCAA single-game scoring record
-- one that had stood since 1954 -- by 25 points. Taylor put up a ridiculous 108
-- one every 20 seconds -- including an are-you-kidding me 71 from 3-point range, making 27. His record night drew attention across basketball and beyond, earning him praise from NBA players like LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Kobe Bryant, along with appearances on national morning shows. It's doubtful anyone saw that one coming.
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I started using GNU/Linux with RedHat 5.2. It came with plenty of packages (GNOME 0.20, Linux 2.0.36, etc) and I was quite happy to deal with RPM (RedHat Package Manager, hum) telling me which package is required to install another one, which package contains which files. You simply had to go to RPMFind.net to get missing packages. If no package was available, you could write a clean RPM spec to build one or use checkinstall to build RPMs on the fly when doing make install. It was more than ten years ago, still, nowadays Microsoft Windows XP (sorry, I never used Vista/7) have no clean packaging system that I know of; you have a clumsy list of installed software (InstallShield, whatever it means), no clear idea of dependancies, you can remove pieces of software required by other still installed software and there are plenty of installed pieces of software that you have no way of clearly listing.
At that time, I had a Pentium II 350 MHz and a Pentium 200 MMX as workstations and a Pentium 133 MHz as home server. I, soon enough, had the idea to write a script to produce a list of installed packages readable over intranet and so I published a BASH-based script to output an HTML view of a RPM database called pdbv, standing for Package DataBase View, the first version 1.0.0 being released in June 2002. On the Gna! project page, when listing pros and cons of pdbv, the first pro that came up was "it does not require lucid/gtk+/qt or other big libs": nowadays, GTK+ and Qt probably no longer strike the mind of anyone as "big (bloated) libraries" and I assume Lucid is no longer even installed on most GNU/Linux systems. Later, I rewrote pdbv in Perl which made if was faster and lighter. Here are demos of pdbv: pdbv 1.x with French locale, pdbv 2.x.
As you can see browing pdbv's demos, it obviously supports also dpkg (Debian Package, duh). I gradually switched over Debian GNU/Linux for two reasons: apt-get and the branching stable/testing/unstable. Apt-get was the end of wasting time on RPMFind. Debian stable offers astonishing stability for servers while testing/unstable provides brand new desktop software in a timely fashion.
Nowadays, I spend less time dealing with computers and I no longer rely much on pdbv. Due to lack of support (I guess I'm to blame; but KPackage or Synaptic are surely more useful to endusers anyway), it will be removed from Debian at its next stable release (it is still in Debian lenny but no longer in testing). I no longer care much about which software is installed, I use debfoster to keep clean my systems (I know, just like apt-get, debfoster is deprecated in favor of aptitude, but I cannot help using it instead).
However I'd like to know which upgrades are pending. For this reason (and I'm quite sure I'm reinventing something that already exists, but I failed to find it and I wanted it my way), I wrote a small script called apt-warn that will run apt-get update and then warn you of pending updates (only if it has not warned you already about them). It requires Apt::Pkg. It is supposed to be installed a cronjob in /etc/cron.daily. Running on my workstation this morning, it outputs:
Follows 4 newly updated package(s) that you could upgrade on bender:
hicolor-icon-theme (0.11-1 -> 0.12-1)
sudo (1.7.2p7-1 -> 1.7.4p4-2)
xserver-common (2:1.7.7-4 -> 2:1.7.7-6)
xserver-xorg-core (2:1.7.7-4 -> 2:1.7.7-6)
Follows 5 recently updated package(s) that you also could upgrade:
autopoint (0.18.1.1-1 -> 0.18.1.1-2)
gettext (0.18.1.1-1 -> 0.18.1.1-2)
gettext-base (0.18.1.1-1 -> 0.18.1.1-2)
login (1:126.96.36.199-1 -> 1:220.127.116.11+svn3283-1)
passwd (1:18.104.22.168-1 -> 1:126.96.36.199+svn3283-1)
Autopoint, gettext, login and passwd pending upgrades were already warned about yesterday. A second run will return no output since there is no other available upgrade not already warned about.


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Web Trendy: Nancy Sinatra Said (Sang) It Best…
"These boots are made for walkin'…" No matter what the season, boots are my go to footwear for either a casual walk to class or a night out with friends. I love every style. Whether they be booties, ankle boots, riding boots, moccasin boots, over-the-knee boots, or snow boots. I can never have enough pairs. Boots can often be very high priced but if you know the right places to search, deals aren't hard to find.
Studs and grommets are very in this season and they are even being shown as embellishments on fancy footwear. I found these on-the-knee, edgy boots on Top Shop's site. I love them because even with a casual, plain ensemble these boots can add some flare.
There's a new style that I've seen several times and can't wait to get my hands on; short ankle boots with a foldover cuff. I found a pair on the Urban Outfitter's website. I LOVE the brown ones. The cuff is really bold and that's what I like about them. Also found a cute pair on Nordstrom's site.
Over-the-knee boots are making their way into the fashion scene. In past seasons, celebrities were the only ones brave enough to don this extreme look. But, not anymore. Free People offers several different styles of over-the-knee boots. They are pretty reasonable, as well. These "Joust Over-the-Knee" boots are flat and casual and could be worn during daytime while the "Vamp Over-the-Knee" boots are perfectly chic for a date or a night out with friends.


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There are some things we just can't live without -- even in a recession.
Urban Outfitters, American Apparel and BJs are some of the retailers that are bucking the downward trend and posting gains -- and it's not just because Americans aren't willing to part ways with booties and bulk cereal, according to Forbes' list of the "10 Stores Americans Can't Give Up."
"They're not like every other store in the mall," says Howard Tubin, director of soft line retail equity research at Montreal-headquartered RBC Capital Markets, about the unique set-up and product mix of each store location. "These aren't cookie-cutter locations."
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Stores such as Aeropostale, Hermes and GameStop have remained popular because they are a lifestyle brand, experts told Forbes.
Buckle, J. Crew and Wal-Mart, which fit this mold, are also on the list.
Brick-and-mortar stores are not the only retailers who are reapping the financial benefits. Amazon.com also made the top 10.
"Amazon did what they needed to do early on: They built a sense of community," Dr. Robert Passikoff, founder and president of the brand consultancy firm Brand Keys, Inc., told Forbes.
Online and off, the secret to retail success in these tough times isn't so much of a secret at all. It's appears that some retailers are better positioned to take advantage of the conditions than others.
"The name of the game is differentiation," says Tubin. "Consumers are not looking to part with their money. Newness, excitement: That's how you win."


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
– Isaiah 1:16 and 55:12
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A new face for a new season.
Stand-up comic Jon Rudnitsky joins the cast of "Saturday Night Live" for its 41st season as a featured player.
The 25-year-old comedian hails from Harrington Park, New Jersey and graduated from the University of Southern California. Rudnitsky won the 2012 Laugh Factory Laugh Bowl, featured in this year's New Faces showcase at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival and gained a YouTube following thanks to his parodies of "House of Cards" and "True Detective."
"SNL" returns with new episodes on Oct. 3 with host Miley Cyrus. Amy Schumer makes her hosting debut on Oct. 10, and former cast member Tracy Morgan returns on Oct. 17.
Morgan has been recovering from a traumatic brain injury after a June 2014 car wreck on the New Jersey Turnpike. Soon after the news of his return to "SNL" broke, the comedian said on Twitter he was "stoked to be going home."
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Animation of the muscle Peavy strained here.
Peavy will be re-evaluated Wednesday. With this type of injury, time on the disabled list is a likely occurrence.
The latissimus dorsi is a stronger shoulder adductor when the shoulder is somewhat externally rotated. It is a stronger shoulder extensor when the shoulder is neither internally or externally rotated. The latissimus dorsi does not extend the shoulder beyond anatomical position (shoulder hyperextension). In strict transverse extension, the latissimus dorsi is weak. Incidentally, the posterior deltoid is strongly involved in both shoulder hyperextension and transverse extension.
The biarticulate latissimus dorsi enters passive insufficiency through the completion of shoulder flexion and abduction when the scapula is more rotated upward, elevated and abducted. The biarticulate latissimus dorsi enters active insufficiency through the completion of shoulder adduction when the scapula is more rotated downward and depressed or through the completion of shoulder extension when the shoulder girdle is more protracted and depressed.


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Metalor Technologies (UK) Limited (MUK)
Taxation risk management strategy 2019
Ownership structure
MUK is an UK registered company, primarily selling and distributing from the Warstone Lane, Birmingham, premises, and also serving the Netherlands and other local markets from a warehouse in Eindhoven. The company is registered for VAT in the UK and the Netherlands.
MUK is a directly owned subsidiary of Metalor Technologies International SA (MTSA) a company incorporated in Switzerland. MTSA is 100% owned by Tanaka Holdings Co. Ltd (Tanaka) a company registered in Japan.
It is the intention of Tanaka and MTSA to comply with all applicable tax laws, rules, regulations and disclosure requirements: and to pay the right amount of tax in a prompt and timely manner in all territories where they operate.
Attitude to tax risk
Tanaka, MTSA and MUK have a zero tolerance attitude to tax risk.
The management of tax affairs
MUK, whilst qualifying as a large business from the sale of precious metal products only has 26 employees, and pays varying amounts of tax to local and national fiscal authorities namely:
· Corporation Tax
· Employers National Insurance
· Local property taxes
· Customs and excise duties
· Environmental taxes
On behalf of employees:
· Income tax
· Employees National Insurance
In addition to the accounting for, and reporting of, the tax categories above, MUK as the seller of standard rated gold uses the procedures as set out in the special accounting scheme for VAT.
Tax planning and compliance
Corporation tax planning is undertaken by MUK, but the reporting and compliance service is provided by external professional advisors.
In all the other tax categories MUK seeks and uses guidance from external professional advisors as and when appropriate.
Working with HMRC
MUK has a frank and open working relationship, and is completely transparent in all its dealings and disclosures, with HMRC.
Finance Act 2016 requirements
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Kaleidoscope Pendants
While in Houston at International Quilt Festival, one of our customers turned me on to a great product called Little Windows. It's an easy way to turn photos into jewelry, but I immediately thought of using kaleidoscopes instead of photos.
I can't tell you how much fun I've been having the past few days making some pendants with our new Template Mini-Packs! I've already used up the resin in the starter kit I purchased and ordered more.
The resin is truly low-odor (though I still wear a mask as a precaution when using it since I plan on making a bunch of these for gift giving, i.e. greater potential for chemical exposure.) I won't go into detail on how to use the resin since that process is explained quite well on the Little Windows website, but I'll give you some hints as to how to size & cut out the kaleidoscopes.
I've made two styles of pendants. The first is a cast pendant. The starter kit comes with a mold with three 1 inch squares. When creating your kaleidoscope, be sure to add a background color/texture when using any template shape other square. Save your kaleidoscope to a file with a size of at least four inches at 300 dpi. Little Windows provides a free online photo cropping tool which will perfectly size your kaleidoscopes to fit in the mold that's in the starter kit. Use it – it's great! For the pendant below I chose to crop just a quarter of the kaleidoscope, but I could have chosen the entire kaleidoscope if I wanted. Notice how the sides of the cast piece reflect the printed design!
The other style of pendant that I made is a domed pendant. You are free to print & cut any size when using this technique since it is not dependent on a mold. I made my domed pieces double-sided, so I needed to print two identical kaleidoscopes for each piece. Because the two pieces need to be identical in size, I used a circle punch to cut out the circles. I sized my kaleidoscopes to be 0.1 inch smaller than the punch size and added a 0.2 inch print margin when printing the kaleidoscopes. (Remember to turn the punch upside down so that you can line up the printed kaleidoscope inside the punch. See my blog post on our CHA Make-n-Take project for more details on punching.)
After punching, go around the outside edge of the kaleidoscope with a felt tip marker in either black or a color that matches the kaleidoscope. This will give it a more finished look. Then follow the instructions for doming on the Little Windows website.
After the resin hardened, I used a high-tack tape to adhere the two pieces to one another and then drilled the hole for the hanging wire. I chose to purchase pinch bails for these first pendants which are super-simple to attach – just pinch into the drilled hole! You should be able to find pinch bails at any bead shop or wherever jewelry findings are sold.


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Seventeen miles of quiet country roads brought me to the Gateway to Cape Cod, Wareham. It's a quaint town located on the South Coast of Massachusetts that comes to life in the summertime. Everyone is outside, biking, walking, fishing and boating.
The ride to Wareham has some moderate rolling hills and a couple of tricky traffic areas to maneuver. Riding early afternoon on a weekday when the traffic is lighter is not a bad time.
Just before arriving at the town line I came across a herring run. In the fall the fish return upstream using man made runs. These were done when roads or other obstacles interfered with the runs. Ecology was alive and well in the early 20th century around here.
I arrived in town sometime around 10 or 3 according to the Presbyterian church tower. The actual time was around 1:30, but I'm sure both those times on the church are correct twice every day.
That loop near the church was a new route for me. In the past I had avoided the Bike Route signs which detour us around the center of town and in stead stayed on Main St. Today Wareham was my turn around point which made my decision to go with the signs. I was pleased when I ended up down by the bay and the boat yard and pleasure boat docks.
The lightship Nantucket was used by the coastguard mostly in the George"s Bank area of the Atlantic. A beacon of safety for the local fishermen and scallopers. The contraption used to lift boats out of the water was invented by a local resident from Mattapoisett, MA. It replace the old railroad style way of taking boats out of the water. Then a wood cradle would slide into the water on rails, the boat would float onto the sunken cradle and a very heavy chain that was attached to the cradle would drag the boat ashore. When the maintenance was complete the boat would slide back into the water and off she went. The down side was that the shipyard could only work on one boat at at time. Now the boat can be lifted and dropped onto a work area anywhere in the yard and many can be worked on simultaneously.
Although the waterfront is filled with working class men, they don't live there. It's prime property and the homes and condo's go for top dollar. Also the insurance for hurricane, flood and wind is astronomical if you buy it. Many of the waterfront property owners have no need to buy insurance. Any damage they take care of themselves. Pocket change for some.
The total ride was and easy 34 miles on a fantastic summer weekday. Seventy degrees, sunny and a slight ocean breeze made this one of the better rides of the season.
Herring run in Rochester, Ma.
I arrived in Wareham sometime around 10 or was it 3?
Light ship Nantucket
Little sailboats all in a row. How cute.
This lift replaced the system of rail, chains and pulleys to get boats ashore for maintenance.
Yachting and condos. A perfect match
An old Duck Boat. For moving troops over land and sea
Tiger Lilies maybe
Upon arriving home I found a message on my phone to fill in on a whale boat row. Naturally I accepted and had quite a workout because of the wind and whitecaps in the harbor. It was a hoot and some of the members are gearing up for the Whaleboat Races over the weekend.
Entering the harbor in 5 oar boat
Boston Fire boat in for repair


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About Gemini Observatory
Gemini Observatory's YouTube Video Channel
The Gemini Observatory consists of twin 8.1-meter diameter optical/infrared telescopes located on two of the best observing sites on the planet. From their locations on mountains in Hawai'i and Chile, Gemini Observatory's telescopes can collectively access the entire sky.
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I am looking for some help on BC Radio History and the website http://www.bcradiohistory.com
I have not been as faithful to it in recent years but I wanted to share this with you.
The site is a reference library/info museum and about 3500 unique computers a month look at some part of it.
The querys are mainly for Kid Carson and Squire Barnes. The two main areas of the website looked at
are biographies and the sound machine with old radio shows/announcers at NW and WX.
I will always keep the site "UP" as long as I am around but love to meet someone with energy that could
take it over. It should be integrated with some of the other history websites in BC. It would be nice to have
a brand new look and a modern web architecture.
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Alpine Adventure
Not just for the great outdoors, the technical trend looks right at home in city, too. They key to wearing it well is to blend practical pieces with a smattering of contemporary ones. That's where our alpine adventure edit comes in, shop retro-inspired fleeces, belt bags and cargo trousers as well as sportier styles like hiking and walking boots, backpacks and down jackets right here.


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FULLERTON, CA — The first walls of the California State Fullerton (CSUF) Student Recreation Center were lifted in mid-January. The rec is planned as a comprehensive facility and program designed to serve fitness, recreation, education and social needs of the campus community. Funded by the Titan Student Union, the facility will feature fitness equipment, indoor gyms, multipurpose activity spaces, sports courts, a multimedia cardio room, an indoor track, a rock wall and an outdoor swimming pool.
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To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, LEGO Systems, Inc. and Lucasfilm Ltd. are summoning the force of LEGO® and STAR WARS fans and families to participate in a three-day collaborative build of an eight-foot tall, 15-foot wide LEGO mystery mural to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The mural will be constructed by attendees of Star Wars Celebration V and a LEGO Master Builder at Orlando's Orange County Convention Center from August 13-15.
Five of the largest Star Wars collecting clubs in the US are pleased to announce a set of five themed patches for Star Wars Celebration 5. Theparticipating clubs are The Washington DC Area Star Wars Collecting Club (DCSWCC), The Kentucky Star Wars Collectors Club (KSWCC), The Ohio Star WarsCollectors Club (OSWCC), The Pennsylvania Star Wars Collecting Society (PSWCS), and the Star Wars Grand Florida Alliance (SWGFA). The five triangular embroidered patches, each sponsored by one of the clubs, fit together like a puzzle to form a larger image of Boba Fett, the show's de facto mas
There was noticeably a greater confluence of Emma Frosts and Red Queens this year than Amidalas and Leias (except for the Slave variety). But Comic-Con still showed its muscle and staying power, though its future in San Diego remains uncertain.
Our Hasbro Comic-Con Image Bank is updated with new shots of the upcoming final 4 Comic Packs exclusive to Entertainment Earth. They include Darth Nihl and Deliah Blue (Legacy #7), Jaster Mereel and Montross (Open Seasons #2), Jareal and Rohland Dyre (KOTOR #6), and Baron Fel and Ysanne Isard (Rogue Squadron #29).
Our Galactic Image Bank is updated with new photos from Gentle Giant, LEGO, Sideshow, Kotobukiya, EFX Collectibles, the Lucasfilm Pavilion, and last but certainly not least, our traditional Views From The Floor. Enjoy!
An unusually overcast and drizzly morning in America's Finest City for the warm up to the big event. A brave and dedicated few have been sitting in their lawn chairs since the wee hours of the morning as exhibitors set up inside the cavernous convention center floor. We took a few random shots of some marketing marquees and banners draped across the buildings, hotels, and lamp posts as the run up to Comic-Con begins!
If you haven't heard, there's this little shindig in a lush seaside town featuring a mass convergence of fans of the pop culture over the next 5 days. Galactic Hunter will be there with new armor, new paint, and we hope a better engine beginning this evening for Preview Night.


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'Polar Vortex' ice sculpture in Bay View taken down due to safety concerns
Is it art? Or is it a safety hazard? Either way, a 30-foot-tall ice formation in Bay View has been taken down.
David Schardt created the sculpture by suspending a hose from his house and allowing the dripping water to slowly freeze.
VIDEO: Bay View ice sculpture brought down
"I just thought it'd be cool for people to see and check it out and thought it was kind of a fun experiment, and the neighbors were all liking it, getting started and watching it and growing and everything," Schardt said.
The "sculpture" eventually reached 30 feet high and could be seen from Interstate 794. It caught drivers' attention, but also caught the attention of local officials.
"Well, it was pretty tall, two-thirds of that house, yeah it was big," said Brad Kelch, who drove by on his lunch break to see it.
"So are you surprised to see it down?" WISN 12 News reporter Hillary Mintz asked.
"Well, that's why we came down here to see what was up with it," Kelch said.
Todd Weiler with the Department of Neighborhood Services said that the ice column posed a safety hazard and had to come down.
"If that thing were to fall left, right or sideways, (it would) take out the house, take out the fence, the bleachers and possibly injure somebody," Weiler said.
Municipal crews dismantled the ice formation on Wednesday morning.
Weiler said Schardt may receive a citation as the sculpture was located on public property without permission. He also said that "limited tax dollars" were being used to remove the sculpture, which Schardt could also be responsible for.
WISN 12 News also learned it's illegal to spray water on your neighbor's property, especially if it creates icy conditions.


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Carole King will be honored as the MusiCares person of the year during the 2014 Grammy Awards week.
The Recording Academy announced Thursday that King will be saluted by performers Lady Gaga, the Dixie Chicks, Bette Midler, Steve Tyler, James Taylor and Jason Mraz with more to be announced later.
The fundraiser for the academys charitable foundation will be held on January 24th in Los Angeles, two nights before the Grammy Awards. Previous honorees include Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Neil Young.
A songwriter and performer with scores of hits from "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" to "Youve Got a Friend," King has won four Grammy Awards and was honored with a lifetime achievement award at this years ceremony.


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I get hit up to take a lot of surveys from a lot of different sources.
Sometimes vendors of various products or services lure survey respondents with offers to take a brief survey and receive a free copy of their latest white paper, special report or e-book about the "War for Talent" or some other nonsensical topic.
While I'm not particularly tempted to participate due to publication prizes at the end, I do have certain geeky curiosity about surveys in general. Being that I occasionally need to create and/or administer surveys for one reason or another, I'm always interested to see how others put together their questions and/or compile results.
When I take surveys I pay attention to the overall structure, type of questions and available choices for answers. Many times those elements reveal potential for flaws in accuracy or validity of the survey outcomes. For example, if questions are posed in such a way that "none of above" or "other" applies, yet that isn't an available response, nor is leaving it blank, those being surveyed are likely to select any option just to move to the next question.
Earlier today I received an email from LinkedIn Research with the subject line: LinkedIn Request for Expertise. The body of the email explained that LI was inviting global Human Resource and Talent Acquisition professionals to help LI learn about the most relevant channels of information and influential figures in the profession.
So far, sounds relevant to me, my occupational interests and definitely topics that I have opinions on. The email goes on to say that the survey will begin with questions to verify if you qualify to participate. Sounds reasonable, I suppose, but wondering what LI means by "qualify."
I clicked the survey link and answered the first question. There were three choices for answers. Unfortunately, I didn't capture them verbatim, but to paraphrase, one option was: I work in corporate HR/TA. The next was: I work in agency HR/TA. The third was, I do not work (or am not working) in HR/TA.
Since at the present time, if taken literally, the first two didn't reflect my actual situation, I felt the third was the most logical choice. Well, apparently that was the end of the survey for me. So what's up with that?
Did LI do a crummy job in vetting relevant survey takers to solicit input from? Did the survey creator neglect to consider that sometimes professional "work" status doesn't always fit into basic categories? Therefore, not "qualify"?
Or, are they jumping on the bandwagon to discriminate against or devalue the unemployed? Either way, in the case of this survey, it seems to mean: hey, sucka, you ain't got no job and you ain't got no expertise!
By the way... Happy 11th Birthday to LinkedIn!
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WASHINGTON—The Vatican has approved the publication of the "Rite for the Blessing of a Child in the Womb," which will be printed in English and Spanish in a combined booklet and should be available for parishes by Mothers' Day. The U.S. bishops who collaborated on the development of the blessing welcomed the announcement of the recognitio, or approval, by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome.
"I'm impressed with the beauty of this blessing for human life in the womb," said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). "I can think of no better day to announce this news than on the feast of the Annunciation, when we remember Mary's 'yes' to God and the incarnation of that child in her the womb that saved the world."
"We wanted to make this announcement as soon as possible so that parishes might begin to look at how this blessing might be woven into the fabric of parish life," said Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Divine Worship. "Eventually the new blessing will be included in the Book of Blessings whenthat text is revised."
The blessing was prepared to support parents awaiting the birth of their child, to encourage parish prayers for and recognition of the precious gift of the child in the womb, and to foster respect for human life within society. It can be offered within the context of the Mass as well as outside of Mass.
The blessing originated when then-Bishop Joseph Kurtz of Knoxville, Tennessee (now archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky) asked the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities to see if a blessing existed for a child in the womb. When none was found, the committee prepared a text and submitted it to the USCCB's Divine Worship committee in March of 2008. It was approved by the full body of bishops in November 2008, and then sent to Rome for editing and final approval.
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text: Leukemia Cell Line Panel (ATCC® TCP-1010™) Organism: Homo sapiens, human / General Information Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Organism Homo sapiens, human Components KASUMI-1, ATCC CRL-2724 HL-60, ATCC CCL-240 THP-1, ATCC TIB-202 K-562, ATCC CCL-243 RS4;11, ATCC CRL-1873 MOLT-4, ATCC CRL-1582 CCRF-CEM, ATCC CCL-119 Disease leukemia Applications Biological understanding of top genetic alterations in leukemiaValidation and characterization of potential cancer driver genes Functional profiling and molecular profiling of subtype-specific cancer cell linesTesting small molecules or biologics for cancer drug development Type Strain no Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Comments A panel of 7 leukemia cell lines representing Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Acute Monocytic Leukemia (AMoL), Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML), and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Each culture contains genomic mutations in one or more of the following genes according to the Sanger COSMIC database: CDKN2A, KDM6A, TP53, NRAS, NOTCH1, PTEN, FBXW7, FLT3, KRAS, MLH1, and PIK3R1. Product Format frozen Storage Conditions LN vapor (less than -130°C) only Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS Other Documentation Leukemia cell line mutation data