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Andy Bird, executive creative director, Publicis London
Mark Orbine, creative director, VCCP
I spend an unhealthy and disproportionate amount of my life listening to talkSPORT (or talkSH*TE, as my better half likes to call it). So I hear a lot of radio ads - some good, some plain awful. And I have noticed over time that, especially on talkSPORT, much like the notion of dog-owners looking like their dogs, the ads on a radio station can start to sound like the presenters.
Shouting ads barking repeated messages from tool shops or plant-hire companies morph into shouting presenters barking about Grimsby's latest signing or the unfair amount of pressure put on managers these days. Meanwhile, in the next breath, the presenter introduces a feature called The Sack Race where their listeners can bet on who is going to get the sack next, or not (I'm looking at you, Micky Quinn of Weekend Sports Breakfast).
Anyway, I digress. Though this month's batch of radio ads feature two football-related spots that I'm sure I will be hearing over the next couple of months on talkSPORT.
The first I listen to, from Freeview, invites us to "see sport in every detail" and describes in close detail the experience of watching footy on Freeview. Surely actually going to the match is the best way to experience football? Unless you are a part-time Orient fan, in which case it's best not to experience it at all (especially for £28 and no concessions, Mr Barry Hearn). I do like this ad. It's intelligent, nicely written and well-observed. Lovely.
Kleenex asks us to have a good cry over England's departure from Euro 2012 (I was crying with laughter). It's an OK spot, but I don't think anybody will be shedding a tear for footballers this season after the Herculean efforts demonstrated by the state-school-educated Olympic heroes of Team GB. And those Olympic heroes who learned how to mess about in boats, horse-prance and shoot tigers at Eton, of course.
Moving away from football but staying with tears, Phones 4u instructs a woman bawling her eyes out that anyone can upgrade their phone with them no matter who they are, even if she or her mates are 148th in line to the throne. Or a Scorpio. Or drive a hybrid. Even if they've never been to a Phones 4u before. I've always liked this campaign on TV and, even though this is basically just an idea lifted from TV and stuck on radio, I like this too.
The Greater London Authority tells us that the Mayor of London has put the world's arts right under our noses. Really? I'd like to stick a closed library up his.
In contrast, Gocompare.com continues to "save the nation" by attempting to do away with that opera singer from those TV ads. He's still not dead, though, as in this ad, Stan, a van driver with a Runcorn accent, offers to repay Gocompare for sorting him out with a good deal on his van by doing away with Fatteroti. I like the idea of a bartering system that involves killing people for favourable insurance tips.
And, finally, Vodafone advertises its One Net business offering by telling us a story about a beaver who ...
Hang on a moment, I'll listen to it again. No, still doesn't make any sense. Is there some gag in there about getting at someone's beaver? Dunno. Read the script on the next page and, if you can make any sense of this one, well done!
To review these radio ads, I've decided to try to recreate the exact, real-world conditions in which most people will hear them.
So I've uploaded them to my iPod and am playing them through my crappy car stereo. My five-year-old daughter is in the back of the car singing The Edge Of Glory by Lady Gaga at the top of her voice, over and over again. Meanwhile, the M4 between Reading and Bristol is free-flowing (probably not normal test conditions, but what the hell ...).
First up, I hear about a chainsaw-wielding beaver. Great start, but now my daughter's reaching her crescendo, which is more than a little annoying. I try to focus on the voice that tells me that, apparently, this North American Beaver has the edge over other lumberjacks. Solid logic, I think - I'm still with you... just. This is the kind of edge Vodafone One Net gives your company, apparently. Thank God the traffic isn't bad as this analogy nearly lost me.
Next up is a guy called Stan who drives a van. Having got a good deal on his car insurance from Gocompare.com, he can, thankfully, shift anything. Even that awful, irritating opera singer from those TV ads. Well that made me listen, and I even warm to the geezer as he has virtually admitted on radio that he'll carry a corpse of that unlikeable fool. But my ears and eyes are now back on the road.
Moving back to the slow lane, I hear the next ad. Freeview wants you to know that, with them, you can enjoy the exquisite detail of summer. A sports commentator talks us through a game of footy on a beach describing in minute detail what happens as someone kicks an inflatable football that inadvertently makes a man drop his beef and onion pie. That's what catches my ear, to be honest. Because I love beef and onion pie. I remembered both it and the ad's message. Job done.
Next, a 30-second message from the Greater London Authority. A lady is worried she has something stuck under her nose. Relax, it's not a bogey, just a list of events that the Mayor of London has put on for us to enjoy throughout London 2012. Its a great line-up. Right under your nose. Geddit? I lose interest at that point as my daughter drops her felt-tips down the side of her chair.
As my wife tries to retrieve the colouring pens, Kleenex is reminding me that, sadly, England's 2012 Olympic Games journey is over and it's time to wipe those man-size tears away with a box of Kleenex Mansize Compact tissues. London 2012 was a triumph - I will miss it. But I'm not sure I'll be reaching for the Kleenex to ease my woes. And the inexplicable pizza reference is completely lost on me.
Finally, anyone can upgrade their phone at Phones 4u. Even if you're a Capricorn, drive a hybrid car or are 147th in line to the British throne. I can't hear the end as my daughter is now so distraught that I have to cheat and listen again a little later. And, when I do, it's just what I thought. They will upgrade anyone. But I'm having such a lousy journey now that I can't bring myself to care. By now, I've lost the battle for the iPod. So, instead, I agree to stick on The Best Of The Wiggles. Peace is restored.
Project: Stan
Client: Nick Hall, marketing director, Gocompare.com
Brief: Increase brand likeability
Agency: Dare
Creative team: Colin Smith, Angus Vine
Producer: Barnie Stewart
Sound studio: Scramble Soho
Engineer: James Lyme
Campaign exposure: National radio
Project: Tearful
Client: Caspar Nelson, head of brand communications, Phones 4u
Brief: Promote Phones 4u's upgrades
Agency: Adam & Eve/DDB
Creative team: Matt Woolner, Steve Wioland
Producer: Victoria Keenan
Sound studio: Factory Studios
Engineer: Sam Robson
Campaign exposure: TV, radio, print, online, outdoor, in-store
Project: Under your nose
Client: Dayna Slate, senior marketing manager, Greater London Authority
Brief: Get people to go to Showtime cultural events across London this
Agency: St Luke's
Creative team: Ed Redgrave, David Wigglesworth
Producer: Jessie Middleton
Sound studio: Grand Central
Engineer: Munzie Thind
Campaign exposure: London radio
Project: Dry your eyes
Client: Johnny Poole, brand manager, Kleenex, Kimberly-Clark
Brief: Proactive idea by Global Radio to promote Kleenex Mansize Compact
by tapping into the nation's mood post-England v Italy at Euro 2012
Agency: Mindshare
Creative: Jonathan Wood
Producer: Justin Sanders
Sound studio: Global Radio
Engineer: Justin Sanders
Campaign exposure: Heart network, Capital network
Project: Beaver
Clients: Anne Mulcahy, brand director; Mary Connolly, enterprise brand
manager, Vodafone Ireland
Brief: Launch Vodafone One Net - a unique product that combines landline
and mobile phones
Agency: Grey London
Creative team: Simon Brotherson, Alex Tizard, Jonathan Rands
Producer: Richard Donaghue
Sound studio: Greyworks
Engineer: David Lazaro
Campaign exposure: National radio
Project: Extra detail
Client: Guy North, marketing communications director, Freeview
Brief: Showcase Freeview's offering of an unprecedented summer of sports
- all in HD
Agency: Leo Burnett London
Creative team: Mark Franklin, Rob Tenconi
Producer: Adam Furman
Sound studio: Factory Studios
Engineer: Sam Robson
Campaign exposure: Radio


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- Aeolian or Aeolic order, an early order of Classical architecture
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- Eolian (Solar car), a solar car designed at the University of Chile
- Eolianite, a sandstone formed from wind-transported sediment
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- Aeolian Company (1887–1985), a maker of organs, pianos, sheet music, and phonographs
- Aeolian Hall (disambiguation), any one of a number of concert halls of that name
- Aeolian harp, a harp that is played by the wind
- Aeolian mode, a musical mode, the natural minor key
- Aeolian Quartet (1952–1981), a string quartet based in London
- Aeolian-Skinner (1932–1972), pipe organ builder
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Puerto Ricans Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez and Jonathan "Polvo" Oquendo will travel tomorrow to Las Vegas for their fights against Mexicans Francisco Vargas and Abner Mares, respectively, this Saturday, July 12, as part of the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez against Erislandy Lara show, to take place at the MGM Grand, in a Golden Boy Promotions presentation, broadcasted on Showtime Pay Per View.
The former WBO superbantamweight and featherweight champion Lopez (34-3, 31 KOs), who is going to defend his WBO International junior lightweight title versus Vargas (19-0-1, 13 KOs), will fly tomorrow from the Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport in the Delta Airlines flight #1386 at 11:44 a.m., along with his trainer Freddy Trinidad and his manager Orlando Piñero.
While Oquendo (24-3, 16 KOs), who will fight against former world bantamweight, super bantamweight and featherweight champion Mares (26-1-1, 14 KOs) in a 10 rounds scheduled bout, will travel in the American Airlines flight #1341 from Puerto Rico at 12:05 p.m. with his trainer Dennis Pantoja and his team.
The main event will have former 154 pounds world champion Canelo Avarez against the WBA junior middleweight titlist Erislandy Lara in a 12 rounds scheduled fight.


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NEW YORK -- Day 1 of the U.S. Open kicks off at 11 a.m. ET Monday, with the top half of the men's draw and bottom half of the women's draw in action. Click here for the full order of play. Tennis Channel begins live coverage at 11 a.m. ET, ESPN will pick up coverage at 1 p.m. ET, and ESPN2 will handle primetime coverage starting at 6 p.m. ET. Matches on the tournament's seven show courts (Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium, Grandstand, Court 17, Court 5, and the non-Hawkeye courts of Court 11 and Court 13) can also be streamed at USOpen.org.
Maria Sharapova opens the night session on Ashe: Maria Sharapova has a potentially tough first-round match against fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko (first night match, Arthur Ashe Stadium). Kirilenko was ranked in the top 10 last July but injuries have limited her play and she's dropped to No. 113. She has not played a tournament since Wimbledon, where she beat Sloane Stephens in the first round in straight sets. Sharapova leads their head-to-head 5-2, with Kirilenko getting the better of her at the Australian Open in 2010. One of their most memorable matches came at the BNP Paribas Open in 2012, when Kirilenko got called for a hindrance when she banged her racket like a hockey stick as Sharapova set up for a shot.
"It's one thing if you do it once, but I think she did it three or four times," Sharapova said at the time. "That's a whole 'nother story. It's not like a hockey puck or something. She forgot, I think, the sport." At the time the comment seemed to be a slight dig at Kirilenko, who was dating Alexander Ovechkin.
Venus Williams and Kimiko Date Krumm in a battle for the ages: The two oldest women in the draw will face off in the first round as Williams, 34, takes on Date Krumm, 43, on Arthur Ashe Stadium (second match). Venus has a reasonable shot at making the final if she can find the form that took her to the Rogers Cup final in Montreal a few weeks ago. That week she beat her sister Serena in three sets and proved she could play back-to-back three setters to beat some of the game's best and recover physically without any off days. This match should be a good indicator as to how Venus will play in New York.
Venus leads the head-to-head 3-0 but two of their three matches have gone deep into a third set. The best one came at Wimbledon in 2012, with Venus winning 6-7(8), 6-3, 8-6. Their last match came in Miami last year, where Venus won 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-4. Expect to see some very flat hitting.
Novak Djokovic looks for a clean start: Djokovic has played just four matches since winning Wimbledon and getting married in July, but he hasn't played particularly well in any of them (he won two and lost two). The No. 1-seed is hoping to peak at the U.S. Open, where he's made the final the last four years. He faces Argentina's Diego Schwartzman, No. 79, for the first time (second night match, Ashe Stadium).
Ireland's James McGee is the early feel-good story: The 27-year-old from Dublin, ranked No. 194, qualified for his first Slam and will make his ATP debut on Monday after six years of toiling away in the sport's lower ranks and trying to make it as a pro. His blog has always been a great read and his reaction after winning his final qualifying match on Friday says it all. That was his Grand Slam final. McGee plays Aleksandr Nedovyesov in the first match on Court 13.
Matches to watch
Andy Murray vs. Robin Haase (second match, Louis Armstrong Stadium): The last time these two played at the U.S. Open, Murray came back from two-sets to love down to win 6-7(5), 2-6, 6-2, 6-0, 6-4 in 2011. It was a thoroughly entertaining but terrible match from both men. They combined for 104 unforced errors.
Sloane Stephens vs. Annika Beck (third match, Louis Armstrong Stadium): Stephens has been playing better, more aggressive tennis under new coach Thomas Hogstedt. She should get past the 20-year-old German, who has been a young name to watch for some time.
Donald Young vs. Blaz Kavcic (third match, Grandstand): Young has a great draw if he can take advantage of it. He made his first ATP semifinal in three years this month at the Citi Open and has made the third round at two of the three Slams this year. The two have never played a main draw match but Kavcic, ranked No. 91, beat Young in straight sets two years ago in a qualifying match.
Caroline Wozniacki vs. Magdalena Rybarikova (fourth match, Grandstand): This match looked a lot trickier before Rybarikova picked up a leg injury last week en route to the Connecticut Open final, where she lost in straight sets to Petra Kvitova. Assuming she's still hampered -- she'll have just 48 hours between that final and her first round match in New York -- I don't think Rybarikova will have enough in the tank to bother Wozniacki.
Nick Kyrgios vs. Mikhail Youzhny (first match, Court 17): Can Kyrgios back up his Wimbledon run with another upset? This is a great test for him and the atmosphere on Court 17 is a perfect venue for the charismatic Australian to mount a charge.
On-site special: Anastasia Rodionova vs. Camila Giorgi (third match, Court 6). The match is not on a television court, which means only those on site who park themselves alongside Court 6 will be able to see and hear the hot-headed Rodionova pop off to anyone who will listen as she plays one of the most dangerous unseeded players in the draw. If Court 6 is packed out, move over to Court 10 where 17-year-old Belinda Bencic takes on Yanina Wickmayer (first match, Court 10).


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In this speech given amidst the Great Depression Roosevelt
sought to explain the dramatic ideological differences between himself
and Republican President Herbert Hoover. In it Roosevelt argued that
the United States had entered a new era in which only through an active
government could individual liberty and opportunity be protected from the
abuses of industry and the unequal distribution of resources. As
you read, examine how Roosevelt substantiates his view that an active federal
government is necessary to preserve opportunity and liberty for all.
And, consider how he explains why such government activism
essential to liberty and opportunity in the 1930s was not necessary
throughout much of the 19th century.
.... [During the 19th century] on the western frontier land was substantially free. No one who did not shirk the task of earning a living was entirely without opportunity.... Starvation and dislocation were practically impossible....
At the very worst there was always the possibility of climbing into a covered wagon and moving West, where the untilled prairies afforded a haven for men to whom the East did not provide a place.
So great were our national resources that we could offer this relief not only to our own people but to the distressed of the world. We could invite immigration from Europe and welcome it with open arms.
Traditionally when a depression came a new section of land was opened in the West. And even our temporary misfortune served our manifest destiny.
It was in the middle of the nineteenth century that a new force was released and a new dream created. The force was what is called the industrial revolution, the advance of steam and machinery....
The dream was the dream of an economic machine, able to raise the standard of living for everyone; to bring luxury within the reach of the humblest; to annihilate distance by steam power.... and to release everyone from the drudgery of the heaviest manual toil....
Heretofore government had merely been called upon to produce conditions within which people could live happily, labor peacefully and rest secure. Now [during the industrial revolution] it was called upon to aid in the consummation of this new dream....
It was thought that no price was to high to pay for the advantages which we could draw from a finished industrial system.
The history of the last half century is accordingly a large measure a history of a group of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too much care and who were honored... irrespective of the means they used.
The financiers who pushed the railroads to the Pacific were always ruthless, often wasteful and frequently corrupt, but they did build railroads....
As long as we had free land, as long as population was growing by leaps and bounds, as long as our industrial plants were insufficient to supply our own needs, society chose to give the ambitious man free play and unlimited reward....
During this period of expansion there was equal opportunity for all, and the business of government was not to interfere, but to assist in the development of industry.
Some of my friends tell me they do not want the government in business. With this I agree, but wonder if they realize the implications of the past. For while it has been American doctrine that the government must not go into business.... still it has been traditional particularly in Republican administrations, for business urgently to ask the government to put at private disposal all kinds of government assistance....
In retrospect we can no see that the turn of the tide came with the turn of the century. We were reaching our last frontier; there was no more free land and our industrial combinations had become great uncontrolled and irresponsible units of power within the State.
Clear-sighted men saw with fear the danger that opportunity would no longer be equal; that the growing corporation... might threaten the economic freedom of individuals to earn a living. In that hour our antitrust laws were born.
The cry was raised against the great corporations. Theodore Roosevelt, the first great Republican Progressive, fought a Presidential campaign on the issue of ëtrust bustingí and talked freely about the malefactors of great wealth....
Woodrow Wilson, elected in 1912, saw the situation more clearly.
Where Jefferson had feared the encroachment of political power on the lives
of individuals, Wilson knew that the new power was financial. He
saw, in the [concentration of wealth in the hands of a few], the despot
of the twentieth century on whom great masses of individuals relied for
their safety and their livelihood, and whose irresponsibility and greed
(if not controlled) would reduce them to starvation and penury....
A glance at the situation today only too clearly indicates that equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists. Our industrial plant is built. The problem is now whether, under existing conditions, it is not overbuilt.
Our last frontier has long since been reached, and there is practically no more free land....
There is no safety valve in the form of a Western prairie to which those thrown out of work by the Eastern economic machines can go for a new start. We are not able to invite immigration from Europe to enjoy our endless plenty. We are no providing a drab living for our own people....
Just as freedom to farm has ceased, so also the opportunity in business has narrowed. It is true that men can start small enterprises... but area after area has been pre-empted altogether by the great corporations, and even in fields which still have no great concerns the small man starts under a handicap.
The unfeeling statistics of the past three decades show that the independent business man is running a losing race.
Recently a careful study... showed that our economic life was dominated by some 600-odd corporations who controlled two-thirds of American industry. Ten million small business men divided the other third. More striking, it appeared that if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run perhaps by a hundred men.
Put plainly, we are steering a steady course towards economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.
Clearly this calls for a reappraisal of values....
The day of the great promoter or the financial titan, to whom we granted anything if only he would build or develop, is over....
[Our task] is the soberer, less dramatic business of administering resources and plants already in hand... of meeting the problem of under-consumption, of adjusting production to consumption, of distributing wealth and products more equitably, of adapting existing economic organizations to the service of the people.
The day of enlightened administration has come.
Just as in older times the central government was first a haven of refuge and then a threat, so now in a closer economic system the... ambitious financial [corporation] is no longer a servant of national desire but a danger. I would draw the parallel one step further. We did not think because national government had become a threat in the eighteenth century that therefore we should abandon the principle of national government.
Nor today should we abandon the principle of strong economic units called
In other times we dealt with the problem of an unduly ambitious central government by modifying it gradually into a constitutional democratic government. So today we are modifying and controlling our economic units.
As I see it, the task of government in its relation to business is to assist the development of an economic declaration of rights, an economic constitutional order. This is the common task of statesman and business man. It is the minimum requirement of more permanently safe order of things....
Every man has a right to life, and this means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living. He may by [laziness] or crime decline to exercise that right, but it may not be denied to him.
We have no actual famine or dearth; our industrial and agricultural mechanism can produce enough to spare.
Our government formal and informal, political and economic, owes to every one an avenue to possess himself a portion of that plenty sufficient for his needs through his own work....
If, in accord with this principle, we must restrict the operations of the speculator, the manipulator, even the financier, I believe we must accept the restriction as needful not to hamper individualism but to protect it....
The government should assume the function of economic regulation only as a last resort, to be tried only when private initiative, inspired by high responsibility, with such assistance and balance government can give, has finally failed....
The final term of the high contract was for liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We have learned a great deal about both in the past century....
We now that the old ërights of personal competencyí the right to read, to think, to speak, to choose and live a mode of life must be respected at all hazards.
We know that the liberty to do anything which deprives others of those elemental rights is outside the protection of any compact, and that the government in this regard is the maintenance of a balance within every individual may have a place if he will take it, in which every individual may find safety if he wishes it, in which every individual may attain such power as his ability permits, consistent with his assuming the accompanying responsibility....
Faith in America, faith in our tradition of personal responsibility, faith in our institutions, faith in ourselves demands the we recognize the new terms of the old social contract.
We shall fulfill them, as we fulfilled the obligation of the apparent utopia which Jefferson imagined for us in 1776 and which Jefferson, [Theodore] Roosevelt, and Wilson sought to bring to realization.
We must do so, lest a rising tide of misery, engendered by our common failure engulf us all.
But failure is not an American habit, and in the strength of great hope
we must all shoulder our common load.
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how was your day? did you have fun on your weekend? hope you had it.. :D feel so tired today.. woke up at 6.30, then left at 9 to accompany my mom go to Carrefour, then went to Kalasan to have our lunch first, continued to Brastagi again, after that, Cambridge and Sun Plaza at last.. it's quite a few days before I planned with workmates to hang out to Sun Plaza.. yeap! together with Ira, Vera, Shierly, Wilia and Billie.. arrived in Sun, I headed to Pieter Lim Saloon to meet Ira.. waited for a while then, met the others two, Shierly and Billie.. after that, headed to Dome Cafe and had our lunch over there (it's second trip for me actually) hahahahaha! tried the Tuna Spaghetti, tasted good.. had our gossiping while waiting for Wilia to come.. took pictures as well.. then, together with Wilia, back again to Pieter Lim Saloon since Shierly, Billie and Wilia wanted to have their haircut.. Ira and I waited outside while waiting for Vera to come.. after quite few minutes, Vera came, not so long, three of them finished their haircut also.. took some pictures again.. hahahahahahha! at last, went to Nelayan to have our dinner after finishing shopping.. back home around 7.. haiizzz!!! it's really a tiring day.. but, had fun also.. :))
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6 Secrets to Creating an Effective Business BudgetBuild a forecast you can use all year round to drive your business forward.
Back in the day, let's say 25 years ago, budgeting was a rather mundane task, scheduled for once a year (or maybe twice for more progressive companies) toward the end of each fiscal year with the goal of creating a budget or projection for the upcoming year.
Oh how times have changed. In today's hyper-competitive environment, even the term "budget" is a relic. Accounting types (like me) talk instead about rolling 12 month forecasts or active projections because businesses must constantly have 12, 24, and even 36 months of visibility at any point during the year to adapt and adjust to rapidly changing market conditions.
In order for your forecasting process to be effective, your "budget" must be a living, breathing thing. You need to constantly update it with real-time information on different "what if" scenarios.
With this key concept in mind, here are six tips for creating an effective, useful budget and, more important, structuring a forecasting model to bring real value to your business.
Make it a team effort
Critical assumptions and data input points will come from every function in the business, so the forecasting process should involve key team members from each one, such as marketing, sales, operations, finance and production. All management team members must "buy in" to the process to make it effective.
Design the forecast with key performance indicators in mind
All too often, accountants will want to account for and budget every last expense in the income statement, no matter how small. But don't get consumed by the details or "lost in the forest." Keep your eye on the big picture — the key assumptions and data points that really help a business move the needle.
Decide on a top down or bottom up forecast
A top down forecast model focuses on sales first and then works down the income statement accounting for costs of sales, operating expenses and overhead. For younger, smaller and/or rapidly growing companies that are still trying to figure out their real business model, a top down approach usually works best.
In a bottom up approach, best suited for larger, more mature and stable businesses, expenses by type or category (such as personnel costs and advertising expenses) are addressed first, then the forecast is built from the bottom up through the top line revenue.
Prepare multiple versions based on "what ifs"
Most businesses should prepare multiple versions of a forecast to evaluate and plan for different potential operating scenarios.
Historically, forecasts are prepared under three operating scenarios: high, medium or low. "High" is the best-case situation and "low" is the worst-case. The expected, or medium case, scenario is the one most companies ultimately rely on to manage their business.
I recommend developing a fourth scenario: the "Arm" version, for if Armageddon hits. Before the Great Recession of 2008 through 2010, nobody really paid attention to this version, but in today's economic environment, you need an Arm version so you're prepared to act, and act quickly, if all hell breaks loose.
Develop one forecast for internal and one for external use
Forecasts for internal use tend to be more detailed and center on critical and confidential business data points that are essential for management to understand.
Forecasts for external use, targeted for distribution to third parties such as lenders, investors, and/or regulators, tend to be more summarized and don't present highly sensitive or confidential information. You would be amazed at how many companies are clueless when it comes to what is and isn't appropriate to distribute to external parties.
Include your balance sheet and cash flow statement
All too often companies prepare an income statement or P&L forecast and neglect the balance sheet and cash flow statement. They focus on calculating how much money they can make and how to improve their margins. But trying to run a business without understanding how much capital you need to execute your business plan or how much cash you're consuming is like a football team attempting to execute its game plan without an offensive line. The quarterback and running backs (the P&L) may get the glory, but the blocking is done by the offensive line (the balance sheet and cash flow statement). And you can't win a game without it.
Editor's note: Tage Tracy is a financial consultant and co-author of several books including "Cash Flow for Dummies," "Accounting All-in-One for Dummies" and "Small Business Financial Management Kit for Dummies."


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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is unlikely to shift his stance against the expansion of a U.S. role in Syria's civil war, despite acknowledgment that key members of his national security staff favored a plan first proposed in June to arm the Syrian rebels.
U.S. officials said that the issue was shelved in October after an extended "red team" analysis by the CIA concluded that the limited-range weaponry the administration was comfortable providing would not have "tipped the scales" for the opposition.
Syrian opposition forces already had sufficient quantities of light weaponry from other outside sources and raids of government depots, the analysis determined. The question of providing shoulder-launched missiles to shoot down government aircraft, officials said, was never considered.
It remained unclear whether senior officials who backed the plan, proposed during the summer by then-CIA Director David Petraeus, were comfortable with Obama's decision not to move ahead with it.
Some U.S. and outside experts have argued that the provision of weapons to selected rebel groups, even if they are superfluous, could help empower and build loyalty among pro-Western factions.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress Thursday they had backed the proposal to arm the rebels. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was also said to be in favor of the plan.
Officials from several allied governments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about relations with Washington, said that they were convinced last summer that the administration was moving in a new direction, with the majority of top national security officials in favor of providing weapons. When a change in policy did not occur by September, many concluded that Obama wanted to wait until after he was re-elected.
U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about internal administration deliberations, said the subject has not been revisited since the decision was made and that there were no plans to reconsider it.
The division exposed by Panetta and Dempsey was rare among the tight circle of Obama national security advisers. Some officials said the divisions were not particularly deep and that enthusiasm for the plan was tempered by the risks it posed. Administration officials have voiced increasing concern about infiltration of rebel ranks by Islamic extremists, including some affiliated with al-Qaeda.
In the case of the mobile surface-to-air missiles, called MANPADS, one official said, "We wouldn't even consider it because God forbid they would be used against an Israeli aircraft."
Israel's air attack last month against a weapons convoy en route from Syria to its Hezbollah allies in Syria was criticized by several regional governments opposed to the Syrian regime and by some rebel groups.
White House press secretary Jay Carney stressed the administration's caution Friday.
"We have had to be very careful," he said. "We don't want any weapons to fall into the wrong hands and potentially further endanger the Syrian people, our ally Israel or the United States. We also need to make sure that any support we are providing actually makes a difference in pressuring [Syrian President Bashar] Assad."
Of those who favored some level of weapons supply during last year's discussions, only Dempsey will remain on Obama's national security team in the second term. Petraeus resigned as CIA director last fall before the agency analysis was completed, and Clinton left last week. Panetta will depart the administration soon.
On Friday, new Secretary of State John Kerry would not give his view of the debate or whether he took a position on it as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But he said the U.S. approach to Syria is under discussion now, a possible reference to an interagency policy review this spring.
"We are evaluating now," Kerry said at the State Department. "We're taking a look at what steps, if any — diplomatic, particularly — might be able to be taken in an effort to try to reduce that violence and deal with the situation."


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Step 1: Prepare the shrimp and marinade: Rinse the shrimp under cold running water, then drain them and blot dry with paper towels. Using a the tip of a paring knife, make two "starter" holes — one at the top and one at the bottom — in each shrimp.
Step 2: Prepare the sugarcane skewers: Using a long sharp knife, cut the sugarcane swizzle sticks into 3-inch lengths, slicing them sharply on the diagonal to make a sharp point. You will need one skewer for each shrimp. Thread the shrimp onto the sugarcane skewers, one to a skewer. Arrange in a foil pan and season with salt, pepper, olive oil, and lime juice, turning the shrimp to coat both sides.
Step 3: Make the glaze: Combine the jerk seasoning, butter, rum, brown sugar, and lime juice in a heavy saucepan. Boil over medium-high heat until thick and syrupy, whisking often.
Step 4: Set up the grill for direct grilling and preheat to high. When ready to cook, brush and oil the grill grate. Arrange the shrimp on the hot grate and grill, turning with tongs, until nicely browned on the outside and firm and pink inside, about 2 minutes per side. Brush the shrimp with the glaze as they cook.
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Monday, 2 May 2011
Christmas in April
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- Blue Fruit said...
I have just stumbled upon your amazing blog. Am spending far too much time looking at your wonderful images, when I should be working instead! Eeks! Will be thrilled to follow you now. I love this gentle and pale version of Christmas.
Greetings from a designer in Australia.
Cheerio, Virginia
- May 11, 2011
- Natasha said...
Thank you GOD, for leaving out the red!!! Can't wait to see the full story, sometime in November I am sure...
Just found you, looking forward to reading more :)
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Halloween was warm and mild roundabout Exit 151, and we had a good turnout. But trick-or-treaters around here don't seem to say, "Trick or treat!" anymore. Indeed, they don't seem to say much of anything. The doorbell rings and I open the door to a porchful of costumed mutes, who nonetheless look very expectant. It's somewhat excusable in the small kids; however, at some point in the evening the trick-or-treaters are taller than I am [eyeroll] and still have nothing to say for themselves. (Hopefully it's not my appearance that causes the silence!) At least most say "Thank you."
In between handing out candy, I worked on a little eye pillow.
It's loosely based on a design by Cat Bordhi, Streaming Leaves Lavender Eye Pillow. The pattern has the leaves oriented in the same direction and is worked in one direction from cast on to cast off. However, I used a provisional cast on at the center and worked outward toward each end because I think the mirrored image looks better. Maybe it's the influence of the holiday.
The outside of the eye pillow is worked in Rowan Classic Yarns Cashcotton 4 Ply, which is very soft and nice. Angora usually makes me want to scratch myself to death, but Cashcotton (18% angora) does not. Hm! The inside of the pillow is a length of recycled pantyhose containing pearl barley and some French lavender from my wonderful SP5 pal, Fannie.
This one is for Jackie's mom, Carol. I like the way it turned out so much that I plan to make more as stocking stuffers. It will be a chance to tweak the symmetry a bit.
Speaking of symmetry, DH took this palindromic photo of a beaver lodge last month when we were in Acadia. Conditions were so still, so clear, and so overcast that he got the Lake Glimmerglass effect without using any special equipment, not even a tripod. (Click on the photo for a larger view.)
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Halloween Masque
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- knitdaisyknit said...
That eyepillow is really pretty and it is for my mom! This is so incredibly nice of you. Thank you so much. I can't wait to get a look at the finished product in person.
- Wed Nov 02, 11:11:00 PM EST
- kaoticorchid said...
Nice eye pillow-I love that sort of leaf design!
- Thu Nov 03, 02:20:00 AM EST
- Helen said...
Great photo!
- Thu Nov 03, 05:25:00 AM EST
- noricum said...
Great eye pillow!
Thanks for the information about superwash wool. :)
- Thu Nov 03, 11:38:00 AM EST
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We've seen Lindsay Lohan in a lot of unflattering poses but they've been mostly candid paparazzi shots taken while the actress was under the influence of drink or drugs. This time the 25-year-old actress is deliberately portraying herself in a controversial light in a picture taken by her friend and collaborator, photographer Tyler Shields.
Wearing a revealing black bra top and with her hair dark and pulled back, the actress has fake blood around her mouth and on her body and hands as she stares directly into the camera.
She is brandishing a large knife covered in fake blood with streaks of red also spattered on the wall behind her.
It's not the first time Lohan has collaborated with Shields, having posed for numerous shoots including with a gun in her mouth for his book The Dirty Side of Glamour last year.
The photographer pays tribute to the actress in an accompanying interview saying; 'She's just so daring. She's a character in herself and she is very good at it.
'I shoot her a different way than I think anybody else shoots her, and I think she knows that and I know that and I think we compliment each other very well.'


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I accept that I'm attracted to women, but I won't act on it.
By Mary Sukala
I have almost always noticed women in a way that is not quite poker-straight. From my early teens, women have fascinated me. My favorite thing to draw was old Hollywood female movie stars.
I've noticed men, too, in the same way, waiting for my Prince Charming ever since my Cinderella phase (I read the book and watched the film at least twice a day without fail for a full year). But we live in a heteronormative society, so being open to a Prince Charming doesn't exactly go against the grain.
I have also been a devout Catholic for most of my life.
My religious side drives me to repress my homosexual desires and makes me terrified to talk to close friends whose faith is as strong as, if not stronger than, my own.
Once I passed my 16th birthday, my fascination with women grew stronger and morphed into what my religion calls "same-sex attraction."
Things kicked into high gear at my high school's spring semi-formal dance my sophomore year. It was the first slow dance of the evening and, being that I didn't have a male date, I opted to join one of my female friends for three minutes and 30 seconds of swaying in circles.
What happened during that time was entirely unexpected; I had butterflies fluttered in my stomach. and I felt myself blushing in the dimly lit auditorium. I dodged her gaze, just in case she could see in my eyes that my heart was warmer than the punch that had been sitting out for several hours.
If I didn't know for a fact that she was straight and that it would ruin my reputation, I would have kissed her right there. I'd never felt like that before, and I had zero clue what to do with that feeling, so I swallowed it.
When the next slow song led to a bunch of sweaty, hormonal teenagers squishing bodies, I avoided her like the plague.
When school let out and summer was in full tilt, I decided to open up to my best friend about these new feelings in the safest way I knew: over the phone. I used the word "bisexual" to describe myself in the most timid, halfhearted way possible. My best friend, a strong Baptist churchgoer, chalked it up to the bipolar disorder with which I had been diagnosed around that time.
Something told me this explanation missed the mark, but I decided to drop it so as not to lose her friendship or make her see me in a perverse light.
Over the next couple years, questioning my sexuality took a back seat to the exploration of a different part of my identity: my spirituality and its calling in my life. I'm a cradle Catholic who has had an on-again-off-again relationship with my faith, but for much of my senior year, I fantasized about running off to a convent or even becoming a consecrated virgin (a woman who is, for lack of a better explanation, "married to Jesus").
There were a handful of days where prayer seemed like the greatest chore and Bible reading was shoved to the back burner for YA lit, but from my final year of high school to the beginning of what was supposed to be my first semester of college, I pretty much forgot that I'd ever been romantically curious about the same sex.
But I couldn't ignore my bisexuality come October of my first stab at a freshman year of college (spoiler alert: I did not manage to finish it).
I was hospitalized for mental health issues, and I had been assigned a new roommate, the ward's freshest meat, early in the morning a few days into my stay. She could not have been better-suited to me had I put her together myself. We had a slew of things in common. We were both writers and adored the same song that I was certain no other being in the universe had ever heard. Dinner time rolled around, and I gushed about how lucky I felt to have her as a roommate.
One of the guys were were eating with was balancing his chair on the back two legs, Joe Cool as all get out.
"You're crushing, aren't you?"
I blinked. "What?"
"You like your new roommate an awful lot for just being friends."
I giggled even though I didn't find it funny. I could feel red creep up my neck. The guy I'd been chatting up over the previous week and hoped to nudge out of the friend zone was sitting across from us, absorbed in his own thoughts. In between giggles, I coughed out a sputtering: "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Straight chicks don't typically get all giddy about other chicks."
Dude I Totally Dug looked up at me. I knew he was fervent Catholic, and, not wanting to completely turn him off for all time at what he might consider an abomination, I decided then and there to deny, deny, deny.
More giggles bubbled out of my mouth. "Seriously, it's not that. Cross my heart."
He clicked his tongue. "I guess it's just between you and God."
Another young woman who had been casually talking about the joys of boobs several hours before chimed in: "It's all OK. I like girls — I'm bi-curious. Trust me, it's better to know and have that label than wonder what's going on and constantly shove it down."
"But I'm not!" I insisted.
A staff member motioned for our table to get in line to receive our piles of nondescript dietary mush and close-to-expiring milk, and the Gaydar Gang dropped it when we sat back down.
What made me uncomfortable wasn't that I was crushing — it was that someone finally picked up on a part of me that I thought no one ever would, and that struck a nerve.
I felt nothing more towards her than friendship — that much was true — but I knew then and there that I had been deceiving myself for years, and the sparks that flew in tenth grade weren't just a bipolar brain hiccup like my friend had suggested.
Over the months following our discharge, that Catholic guy and I talked for hours every day and soon made it Facebook Official. We discussed everything and anything, and I grew more and more comfortable talking to him about the things I had kept inside for far too long. Eventually, I decided to open up to him through a means that felt safer than the old-fashioned phone call: texting.
"I have something to tell you," I typed. He asked what was wrong. "Don't freak out, but I like women." I was sure that he would break up with me then and there. "I would give anything to not feel this way."
He prodded around to get a better picture, asking if it was toward specific people or just women in general. He seemed to believe that I was overreacting to the fact that I found women good-looking when they were undeniably so, and I was beginning to feel even more fearful that once he completely understood, we would be over and done with.
"I'm almost definitely bisexual." No more beating around the bush. My heart was pounding in my ears.
He took a while to reply. I braced myself for the clean break.
"If you wouldn't act on it, your heart is in the right place. We all have our temptations. I accept you, all of you. It doesn't make me love you any less."
I exhaled for the first time in what felt like minutes. He was right — because of my faith, I would never give in to the lustful urges that creep into my mind about my fellow females. And if he could accept my attraction to women, it dawned on me that I should stop beating myself up, plugging my ears and pretending this side of me doesn't exist. I could accept myself, too.
A few days later, I brought it up to my best friend again. It had been years since we talked about it. I told her that I was pretty sure that it wasn't a manic thing, that I was definitely bisexual, and that I hoped she wouldn't be weirded out or want to put the kibosh our friendship.
"You're basically my sister, she said. "It'll take more than this to kill our friendship. We've been through so much together. I don't know what to tell you, but I don't see you differently at all."
As it turned out, for a second time, I was worried about absolutely nothing. It made me feel more at ease, and having her acceptance and love confirmed the idea that I should love and accept myself. It realized that these feelings don't lower my worth as a Christian or make me dirty or unlovable.
Today, I am very comfortable with my sexuality. However, the side of me that is attracted to women is a side that will die alone, a spinster with a house full of cats. And I'm perfectly OK with that.
I'm open about these feelings with my best friends, and my boyfriend is still very much OK with it. A while back, I was watching a film with a female lead who was indisputably much more attractive than the male lead, and I had no problem texting my Christian sister to joke, "That feeling when the chick in this flick is so much hotter than the dude."
There are still days where it's a struggle, though. Having to curb lustful thoughts for one gender is hard enough — having to do it for two requires me to be more vigilant and guard my mind and heart twice as much; it makes me have twice as many instances where I feel like I let myself wander too close to the fire.
I like the term "same-sex attraction." It makes me feel as though this is a small part of me that I can keep in check while remaining true to my faith. I do find that I'm more attracted to women than men, but I am committed to one person, and even if we don't work out in the long run, I will choose to steer clear of women and opt for another male partner for the sake of my faith.
We all have our struggles. Mine happens to include having bisexual feelings as a devout Catholic woman. It's my stumbling block, but rather than tripping over it time and time again on my journey to heaven, I step around it. I am treasured for who I am — every sliver of me — by the people I look up to, and that helps me value every part of myself, including my sexual orientation.
This article was originally published at xoJane. Reprinted with permission from the author.


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It's about an Indian woman, Kavita, who gives up her second born daughter to save her life, her first was taken from her right after birth because it wasn't a boy. Her baby, Usha (she is called Asha due to a mix up at the orphanage) is adopted by a couple in America, Somer and Krishnan (who is from India).
The book does a lot of bouncing around from character to character but I didn't find it to be too much, it worked well for the story I think. The story follows Asha, her parents and her birth parents and the impact the adoption has on all their lives. This was a really enjoyable read, definitely one to add to my 'favorites' shelf.


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It started well, Melchior, Balthazar and Gaspar* brought gifts of Chanel, chocolates, and pigs in blankets.
but then it descended into chaos, as people came with desperation in their eyes, frantically searching for that last minute gift and bread sauce?
Since then it has been a most wonderfully relaxing family Christmas, I was completely bowled over by the gift of a mini Ipad. I've never had an Apple product before, so the apps are a revelation, greedily downloading ALL of them. Paper so far is my favourite.
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and there was Norfolk...
did you enjoy the festive period? And the sunshine start to 2013? Have you reflected on 2012?
given what happened with the eye 2012 should have been put in a box labelled "terrible"
but it really wasn't
I'm very proud of the work I did, whether it was a wedding, funeral or a small posy for a dinner party.
So thank you to everybody who made 2012 a good year, family, friends, brides, customers, and blog readers.
2013 is going to be even better
The shop is back in action on Wednesday 9th January. A facelift is occurring, the shop, not me.
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Pineapple upside-down slice
A glamorous, fruity showstopper that'll impress young and old
Serves 15
What you need:
For the base:
- 12 tinned pineapple slices, drained (reserve the juice)
- 200g light brown sugar
For the sponge:
- 150g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 150g unsalted butter
- 150g light brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 60ml sour cream
From Primrose Bakery Everyday by Martha Swift (£20, Square Peg).
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Experience From - Dr. Bill Misner, Ph.D. , Chuck Yeager ,
Some athletes enhance personal endurance performance by accurately measuring a variety of performance variables. Others choose not to think about the elements contributing to faster times but prefer to keep their running "complication free".
Of the two genotypes described, I enjoy applying principle analytical measurements for enhancing distance, rate, and strength during the run. Here are some of my favorite performance links or calculators I use to interpret whether my training protocols are producing progressive performance results:
Footnote: With the one important change to allow people who have no idea what there maximum heart rate (MHR) is can estimate from the equation MHR=220-age. LevelCalc is better - but only if you can run Windows software. I use the BCF method because it "feels" right. All I really need to do to achieve my own personal training goals is to spend as much time as possible at level 2, with my pedals spinning at around 90 rpm. (by Nigel Jones) (Age in years vs. Maximum heart rate, MHR.)
NOTE: Refer to the "Training & Racing" section for the calculators
There are many other types of appropriate computerized calculators that may enhance endurance performance if the athlete takes the time and applies both mind and body to improving time and distance.
I played with the Basic Prediction calculator from RunCoach and in short it amazed me. I found it to be a very accurate finish time predictor up to the marathon, which is the longest race I have done. I entered times for distances I have run, from 5k's to half marathons, and despite the different paces it still was within 2-3 minutes of my marathon time in all cases. This spring I will see how close it comes to predicting a 50 miler.


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By Haleema Akhtar
'An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor does a black have any superiority over a white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood.' – Prophet Muhammad (saws)
When someone brings up a conversation about anti-blackness, the above quote is meticulously recited. A spectacle of denial ensues. Stories about the piety of Bilal (ra) are used to shut down any conversation about anti-blackness in the Muslim community. Those examples are great, perhaps even progressive, if they were at all a representation of what our community actually practiced.
It's time we had a real look at ourselves and realised that we are racist. This isn't down to Islam, it's down to us failing to understand Islam. It's down to us thinking that dark skin is an issue and that the lighter you are, the more superior you are. We can rehearse the 'One Ummah' talk but until we internalise the meaning of this, we will never break free of racism that Muslim communities perpetuate.
We see this on an everyday level. Whether it be the fact that many South Asian or Arab Muslim families would not allow their daughters to marry Black men, or the disgusting treatment of Black Muslims in the Middle East, or when the term 'kaali' (meaning black) is used as an insult, or the fact that the murder of three Black Muslim males in the US did not generate the outrage that the murder of three Arab Muslims did.
The Black Lives Matter movement in America has not gained much prominence in Muslim communities, yet every Muslim is ready to protest and become activists (and rightly so) when it comes to the plight of the Palestinians. Our activism needs to be consistent, unapologetic and ready to call out injustice wherever we see it, in any instance where an entire community is being demonized. This is the way of our religion, the example that we have been set.
Read more: 4th of July: American Dream 101
Muhammad (saws) said:
'Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then [let him change it] with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.' [Muslim]
We only claim particular Black voices when we have something to gain from it. Think of Malcolm X or Muhammad Ali; their achievements are proudly showcased in Muslim communities, whilst South Asians and Arabs simultaneously look down on black people, use derogatory language and internalise a superiority complex. Why do we only accept them when it benefits us?
We are failing our Ummah, ourselves and Black Muslims. Speaking as a young South Asian woman, I can't help but wonder why we have strayed so far from the lessons of equality, from loving one another and from having compassion. Why have we failed to follow the commands of our Prophet (saws)? In his last sermon he told us to be fair and recognise that we are not superior to one another based on our ethnicities.
Read more: My experience of Arab racism have put me off the Middle East
Under any society, where national identities are held supreme, racism will always exist. In a post colonial world, where the white man is still placed on a pedestal, this will be even more prevalent, and so it is unsurprising that fair is still falsely equated to beauty, progress and success. Islam eradicated this understanding by uniting us upon the Deen of Allah (swt) first, rendering all other bonds secondary. Until we truly return to this understanding, recognising the value of Islam in every aspect of our lives, we will never be able to overcome such ugly, divisive attitudes.
"Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves" – Prophet Muhammad (saws)


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We recently had some super fabulous quilters come in to help us prepare for Quilt Market and one of those gals was the lovely Carol Whaley. I found Carol from one of our local quilting guilds, Quilter's Anonymous in Lynwood, WA.
I was amazed by Carol's ability to go home each night (after working with our fabric all day) and come back the next day with a brand new sewing creation. She was inspired by all of the fun fabrics she got to work with during the day and I guess that just fueled her through the evenings to be able to create these fabulous creations!
Here is a really REALLY cool bag she made using our new Floral Folio fabric by Cary Phillips. Check out those cool handles!
This is a fabulous placemat using our Holiday Celebrations fabric from Laurel Burch. What a great way to liven up your holiday table with a little more non-traditional looking Christmas fabric!
I love how creative this one is…this is the block print from the Flying Colors II collection from Laurel Burch. Carol simply took the blocks, chopped them up and made them into cute little coasters!
Everyone in the office was amazed that Carol was so able to just come up with her own patterns so I asked her about her "quilting story" to see how she became such an awesome quilter! Carol told me she began quilting in the 80's and was lucky that she lived in a small town right across the street from a quilt shop. She began learning to quilt and draft her own patterns at that shop and was able to learn early on from several really great teachers. Quilting got put on hold while she raised her children, but later on when she eventually retired, Carol's interest in quilting really began to flourish. Today, Carol is an active member in her quilting guild, Quilter's Anonymous, and continues to learn and be inspired by the wonderful quilters around her. Carol also told me she is working on putting together her very own Etsy shop to sell her creations as well as do custom sewing–very exciting!
Many thanks to Carol for sharing and inspiring us all at Clothworks!
PS–Do you have a quilting story to share? Do you have Clothworks creations you have made or are working on? Get in touch with me–I'd love to hear from you at firstname.lastname@example.com. Happy Sewing!


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Quick Installation Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1) for Solaris Operating System
November 2009
This guide describes how to quickly install Oracle Database 11g on Solaris systems. It includes information about the following:
This guide describes how to install Oracle Database by using the default installation options.
Tasks Described in This Guide
The procedures in this guide describe how to:
Configure your system to support Oracle Database
Install Oracle Database on a local file system by using the Basic Installation option
Configure a general-purpose Oracle Database installation that uses the local file system for database file storage
Results of a Successful Installation
After you successfully install Oracle Database:
The database that you created and the default Oracle Net listener process run on the system.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control run and can be accessed by using a Web browser.
Tasks Not Described in This Guide
This guide covers the Basic Installation scenario and does not describe how to complete the following tasks:
Using the Advanced Installation option to install the software
Installing the software on a system that has an existing Oracle software installation
Installing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on a cluster
Enabling Enterprise Manager e-mail notifications or automated backups
Using alternative storage options such as Automatic Storage Management or raw devices for database storage
Where to Get Additional Installation Information
For more information about installing Oracle Database, including information about the tasks not described in this guide, refer to one of the following guides:
To install the software on a single system, then refer to Oracle Database Installation Guide for Solaris Operating System.
To perform a RAC installation, then refer to Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide for Solaris Operating System. This guide also describes how to install Oracle Clusterware, which is a prerequisite for RAC installations.
Both these guides are available on the product disc. To access them, use a Web browser to open the
welcome.htm file located in the top-level directory of the installation media, and then select the Documentation tab.
Before you install Oracle Database, you must complete several tasks as the
root user. To log in as the
root user, complete one of the following procedures:
Note:You must install the software from an X Window System workstation, an X terminal, or a PC or other system with X server software installed.
If you are installing the software from an X Window System workstation or X terminal, then:
Start a local terminal session, for example, an X terminal (
If you are not installing the software on the local system, then enter the following command to enable the remote host to display X applications on the local X server:
$ xhost fully_qualified_remote_host_name
For example:
$ xhost somehost.us.example.com
If you are not installing the software on the local system, then use the
rlogin, or
telnet command to connect to the system where you want to install the software:
$ telnet fully_qualified_remote_host_name
If you are not logged in as the
root user, then enter the following command to switch user to
$ su - password: #
If you are installing the software from a PC or other system with X server software installed, then:
Note:If necessary, refer to your X server documentation for more information about completing this procedure. Depending on the X server software that you are using, you must complete the tasks in a different order.
Start the X server software.
Configure the security settings of the X server software to permit remote hosts to display X applications on the local system.
Connect to the remote system where you want to install the software, and start a terminal session on that system, for example, an X terminal (
If you are not logged in as the
root user on the remote system, then enter the following command to switch user to
$ su - password: #
The system must meet the following minimum hardware requirements:
The following are the memory requirements for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 1:
At least 1 GB of RAM
To determine the physical RAM size, enter the following command:
# /usr/sbin/prtconf | grep "Memory size"
If the size of the physical RAM is less than the required size, then you must install more memory before continuing.
The following table describes the relationship between installed RAM and the configured swap space requirement:
|Swap Space
|Between 1024 MB and 2048 MB
|1.5 times the size of RAM
|Between 2049 MB and 8192 MB
|Equal to the size of RAM
|More than 8192 MB
|0.75 times the size of RAM
To determine the size of the configured swap space, enter the following command:
# /usr/sbin/swap -s
If necessary, refer to the operating system documentation for information about how to configure additional swap space.
To determine the available RAM and swap space, enter the following command:
# sar -r -i n
where, n is the number of seconds to delay for the next iterations and i is the number of iterations you want to test.
Note:Oracle recommends that you take multiple values for the available RAM and swap space before freezing on a value. This is because the available RAM and swap space keep changing depending on the user interactions with the computer.
To determine whether the system architecture can run the software, enter the following command:
# /bin/isainfo -kv
Note:This command displays the processor type. Verify that the processor architecture matches the Oracle software release that you want to install. If you do not see the expected output, then you cannot install the software on this system.
The following are the disk space requirements for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 1:
Between 225 and 275 MB of disk space in the
/tmp directory
To determine the amount of disk space available in the
/tmp directory, enter the following command:
On Solaris 10:
# df -h /tmp
Other Solaris Platforms:
# df -k /tmp
If there is less than 400 MB of free disk space available in the
/tmp directory, then complete one of the following steps:
Delete unnecessary files from the
/tmp directory to meet the disk space requirement.
Set the
TMP and
TMPDIR environment variables when setting the
oracle user's environment (described later).
Extend the file system that contains the
/tmp directory. If necessary, contact the system administrator for information about extending file systems.
To determine the amount of free disk space on the system, enter the following command:
On Solaris 10:
# df -h
Other Solaris Platforms:
# df -k
The following table shows the approximate disk space requirements for software files for each installation type:
|Installation Type
|Requirement for Software Files (GB)
|Enterprise Edition
|Standard Edition
|Custom (maximum)
Between 1.5 GB and 2 GB of disk space is required for preconfigured database that uses file system storage (optional)
Note:The disk space requirement for databases that use Automatic Storage Management is described later in this chapter.
Additional disk space, either on a file system or in an Automatic Storage Management disk group, is required for the flash recovery area if you choose to configure automated backups.
Depending on the products that you intend to install, verify that the following software are installed on the system.
Note:Oracle Universal Installer performs checks on the system to verify that it meets the listed requirements. To ensure that these checks pass, verify the requirements before you start Oracle Universal Installer.
The following are the operating system requirements for Oracle Database 11g Release 1:
Solaris 9 Update 7 or later
Solaris 10
To determine the distribution and version of Solaris installed, enter the following command:
# uname -r 5.9
In this example, the version shown is Solaris 9 (5.9). If necessary, refer to your operating system documentation for information about upgrading the operating system.
To determine the update level of Solaris installed, enter the following command:
$ cat /etc/release Solaris 9 4/03 s9s_u3wos_
In the output of the command,
_u3 refers to update 3 of Solaris 9.
The following packages (or later versions) must be installed:
SUNWarc SUNWbtool SUNWhea SUNWlibC SUNWlibm SUNWlibms SUNWsprot SUNWtoo SUNWi1of SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs SUNWxwfnt SUNWsprox
To determine whether the required packages are installed, enter commands similar to the following:
# pkginfo -i SUNWarc SUNWbtool SUNWhea SUNWlibm SUNWlibms SUNWsprot \ SUNWsprox SUNWtoo SUNWi1of SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs SUNWxwfnt
If a package is not installed, then install it. Refer to your operating system or software documentation for information about installing packages.
Starting with Oracle Database 11g release 1, Sun One Studio 11 is the supported compiler for Pro*C/C++ , Oracle Call Interface, Oracle C++ Call Interface, and Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK) with Oracle Database 11g release 1.
Depending on the components you want to use, you must ensure that the following software are installed:
Oracle Messaging Gateway supports the integration of Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing (AQ) with the following software:
If you require a CSD for WebSphere MQ, then refer to the following Web site for download and installation information:
You can use the following optional JDK versions with the Oracle JDBC/OCI drivers. However, these are not mandatory for the installation:
Sun JDK 1.5.0
Web browsers must support Java Script and the HTML 4.0 and CSS 1.0 standards. The following browsers meet these requirements. On Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control:
Netscape Navigator 7.2
Netscape Navigator 8.1
Mozilla version 1.7
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Firefox 1.0.4
Firefox 1.5
Firefox 2.0
The following are the list of patches required for Oracle Database 11g Release 1.
|Installation Type or Product
|All installations
|Patches for Solaris 9:
The following additional patches are required for Numa Systems:
Patches for Solaris 10:
|Pro*C/C++, Pro*FORTRAN, Oracle Call Interface, Oracle C++ Call Interface, Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK)
|Patches For Solaris 10:
To determine whether an operating system patch is installed, enter a command similar to the following:
# /usr/sbin/patchadd -p | grep patch_number(without version number)
For example, to determine if any version of the 111713 patch is installed, use the following command:
# /usr/sbin/patchadd -p | grep 111713
If an operating system patch is not installed, then download it from the following Web site and install it:
The following local operating system groups and users are required if you are installing Oracle Database:
The Oracle Inventory group (
The OSDBA group (
The Oracle software owner (
To determine whether these groups and users already exist, and if necessary, to create them, follow these steps:
To determine whether the
oinstall group exists, enter the following command:
# more /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc
If the output of this command shows the
oinstall group name, then the group already exists.
Note:In Oracle documentation, Oracle Inventory group is called
oinstall. However, it is not mandatory to use the same name, you can enter a different name for the group.
If the
oraInst.loc file exists, then the output from this command is similar to the following:
inst_group parameter shows the name of the Oracle Inventory group,
To determine whether the
dba group exists, enter the following command:
# grep dba /etc/group
If the output from this commands shows the
dba group name, then the group already exists.
If necessary, enter the following commands to create the
oinstall and
dba groups:
# /usr/sbin/groupadd
# /usr/sbin/groupadd dba
To determine whether the
oracle user exists and belongs to the correct groups, enter the following command:
# id -a oracle
If the
oracle user exists, this command displays information about the groups to which the user belongs. The output should be similar to the following, indicating that
oinstall is the primary group and
dba is a secondary group:
uid=440(oracle) gid=200(oinstall) groups=201(dba),202(oper)
If necessary, complete one of the following actions:
If the
oracle user exists, but its primary group is not
oinstall or it is not a member of the
dba group, then enter the following command:
# /usr/sbin/usermod -g
oinstall -G dba oracle
If the
oracle user does not exist, enter the following command to create it:
# /usr/sbin/useradd -g
oinstall -G dba oracle
This command creates the
oracle user and specifies
oinstall as the primary group and
dba as the secondary group.
Enter the following command to set the password of the
oracle user:
# passwd -r files oracle
Note:The kernel parameter and shell limit values shown in the following section are recommended values only. For production database systems, Oracle recommends that you tune these values to optimize the performance of the system. Refer to your operating system documentation for more information about tuning kernel parameters.
Verify that the kernel parameters shown in the following table are set to values greater than or equal to the recommended value shown on Solaris 9 operating systems. The procedure following the table describes how to verify and set the values.


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Gingrich Releases Half-Hour Energy Ad
MESA, Ariz. — Republican front-runners have lived and died this year by 30-second attack ads and even shorter debate sound bites.
Down in the polls, Newt Gingrich released a 28-minute, 59-second video on energy and gas prices. The campaign says it will run the entire video in "key cities" until Super Tuesday, March 6, according to a press release. What's less clear is how the campaign could afford to do so. It had less than $2 million in the bank two weeks ago, and reportedly raised $2 million during a California campaign swing last week.
"Here is a whole new approach. It's positive, it's exciting," Mr. Gingrich, speaking in front of a blue curtain says 25:06 minutes into the video. "It means you'll have more money in your pocket."
Mr. Gingrich's stump speech now focuses more on gasoline prices — on Monday he said he could bring prices down to $2 a gallon. (He offers $2.50 a gallon in the video.) He also plans to speak on the topic at Wednesday's GOP presidential debate here.
Although U.S. crude oil production is actually rising, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, it won't lower prices at American gas stations unless international gasoline prices drop.
Among other things, Mr. Gingrich proposes more domestic drilling and green-lighting a Canada-to-Texas pipeline postponed by the White House.


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Ohio State, Notre Dame agreement another slap to face of Michigan Wolverines
Remember when Michigan versus Notre Dame was just a good story on the field? Those days ended when Notre Dame handed Michigan a note just prior to the 2012 game, canceling the series between these two schools for the foreseeable future after the matchup this Saturday night in South Bend.
Both schools and fanbases were just about to go ahead and move on with life in a new era (probably never forgetting what happened). However, that is put on hold once again as Notre Dame pulled another stunt in the lead up to a game with Michigan.
This time, Notre Dame announced a two-game series in 2022 and 2023 with Michigan's one rival — Ohio State.
Nothing like saying you aren't going to dance with a long-time opponent, and then turning around and scheduling its biggest rival to rub it in their face.
You know, because the timing of this announcement was "purely coincidental" right? Just like planting that letter hours before kickoff back in 2012 was magic timing too, right?
One thing is for sure, Notre Dame wasn't about to fan the flames in a press release…err, you bet they were.
"I am excited we are able once again to bring these two programs together on the football field," Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in a release. "Football games between Notre Dame and Ohio State make great sense from a strength-of-schedule standpoint. In addition, with [Ohio State athletic director] Gene Smith having both played and coached football at Notre Dame — and with [Ohio State coach] Urban Meyer having served as an assistant football coach at Notre Dame — there are some obvious, high-profile connections between our two institutions."
While Swarbrick chose to accentuate the ties between the schools, there was a hidden swipe taken at the state of the Michigan Wolverines' program.
By talking about helping the strength of schedule, Swarbrick pretty much put Michigan's current state of the program in to stark reality.
The fact is, Michigan football of 2014 is struggling to regain national relevancy. It isn't a Top 25 program, and Michigan has finished a season ranked in the Top 25 just once in the last f
But that's not the point really. Ohio State replacing Michigan is a massive slap in the face to the Michigan program, and doing it the week of the final matchup is just sticking the knife in deeper and twisting.
It was bound to be awhile before Michigan got over what Notre Dame did in 2012, but this latest insult could be the thread that unravels the entire rivalry for as long as Dave Brandon and Jack Swarbrick are both around their respective programs.
Let's just hope that cooler heads prevail and the fans become winners once again with the renewal of this great rivalry sooner, rather than later.
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