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It's been a busy month for corporate America.
American Airlines and U.S. Airways announced plans to merge, Comcast bought the rest of NBCUniversal, Warren Buffett and Brazilian firm 3G are taking Heinz private. And Michael Dell, the founder of the computer company that bears his name, led a group that wants to buy the company back from investors for more than $24 billion.
But why would a company want to leave Wall Street and go back to being privately held?
The people who initiated the process to take the business private can have their offer topped. They can lose control of the process.
For Dell, the computer industry has changed dramatically. Consumers now want to buy sleek tablets and use cloud computing. Dell needs to change its business, but when you're a company traded on Wall Street, change can be hard.
"You have shareholders who sometimes have short-term interests," says Steven Davidoff, a law professor at Ohio State University. "They're not looking to hold their shares for years. They often sell on fear."
Going private can remove that pressure from shareholders who want results now.
Michael Dell suggested as much in a statement earlier this month, saying the deal will help his company continue "the execution of our long-term strategy and focus on delivering best-in-class solutions to our customers as a private enterprise."
Making Radical Changes — In Private
Kevin Callaghan, managing director at Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, has helped a handful of companies go private over the years. When a company needs to make radical change, he says, achieving it can be easier out of the public eye.
"[It] might mean that they forgo some sales for a few quarters or a couple of years," Callaghan says. "It might mean they have to exit businesses they're in."
But it's not just struggling companies that opt to leave Wall Street, he says. For some, it just doesn't make sense to be publicly traded. It's a lot of work to comply with rules and requirements. If a business is not growing much, the markets might not give it much attention. Or its management might think it's worth more than investors give it credit for.
At that point, a company might come to a private equity guy like Callaghan and say, "Hey, I'm thinking of going private."
Not that it happens often, Callaghan says. "It's a decision that companies take very, very seriously and very, very rarely, I would say."
And there are risks. For founders and management trying to buy back the company, there's the danger of other bidders' counteroffers, for instance.
"The people who initiated the process to take the business private can have their offer topped," Callaghan says. "They can lose control of the process."
There are other potential pitfalls, too. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Business School, says management and founders sometimes overestimate their ability to turn things around.
"A lot of this is associated with hubris or pride," Pfeffer says. "You think you know better. You think you're smarter than the world."
Shifts To Private Ownership Ticking Back Up
But wise or not, expect more companies to follow Dell and Heinz down the path of private ownership. Before the Great Recession, about a quarter of deals were so-called leveraged buyouts that took companies private. In recent years, that number has been about 10 percent, but things are starting to pick back up.
Stefan Selig, executive vice chairman at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has been involved in most of the high-profile deals lately. February, he says, "has been the biggest month in a long time."
The start of this year has seen a 144 percent increase in the number of U.S. mergers and acquisitions versus the same period last year, according to analytics firm Dealogic.
Selig says the combination of plentiful capital, low interest rates and pent-up demand is fueling all these deals.
But favorable conditions aside, investors still have to like the terms. Some think Dell is worth more than the offer on the table. Likewise, some wonder why Heinz didn't look for other suitors before agreeing to the Warren Buffett-3G deal. To get off Wall Street, you still need Wall Street's approval.
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We install both fibre and rubber roofs in Wokingham and surrounding areas. EPDM rubber roofing stands for "ethylene propylene diene monomer" and is a durable rubber that is very similar to that used in the inner tubes of bikes. Rubber roofing gives the roof an excellent resistance to heat and is built to last. The rubber roofing comes in a variety of colours to suit your requirements. You can use darker colours to absorb heat or lighter colours to reflect it.
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Caffee LOS ANDES 100% Colombian Coffee 100% Arabica 1kgs BEANS
Arabic Its rich aroma and flavor are two of many reasons for Café Los Andes superiority....
Caliente como el Infierno,
Puro como en Ángel, y
Dulce como el Amor
- Talleyrand
Black as the devil,
hot as hell,
pure as an angel,
sweet as love ...
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Café Los Andes Gourment comes in an exclusive aluminium foil bag with following characteristic:
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..... Coffee "ANDES" gourmet ... - Cordillera "ANDES" ..
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..... Careful hand selection of the best fruits allowed to enjoy incredible cup of coffee with some fruit flavors, low acidity and a nice, long persistent creamy rich taste.
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Cordillera LOS ANDES
..... The Cordillera de Los Andes spans 7 000 Km. from Chile to Colombia. Los Andes, unusually in Colombia, have special conditions of soil, temperature, precipitation and atmospheric altitude above sea level, which are ideal for growing the best coffee in the world.
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I do a lot of volunteer work at my daughter's school. In a few weeks, the parent council board is throwing an end-of-the-school-year BBQ - a perfect time and way to sell up any purchased food items that have accumulated over the last few months.
As we went through the items we have to sell, we noticed one box of popcorn out six had just expired. We weren't sure if they were okay to sell, so we opened a few bags; some were stale, some could fine. Since we couldn't expect parents or kiddies to buy a possibly passable bag, I got to take them home and get creative. YAY!
14 bags of popcorn from the box were good to go. The others I fed to the birds, mainly to annoy the neighbor behind me who HATES when I feed the 'wildlife' and is not afraid to tell me so. Ppphhttt to you.
What can I make with 14 bags of popcorn besides eat it? I hit the internet and found this gem. Oh, and it's a delicious gem.
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Feel free to indulge.
I so did.
I so did.
Recipe adapted from Cookies and Cups
5 cups popcorn - if popping yourself via microwave or stovetop method, be SURE to take out any unpopped kernels.
2 cups light brown sugar
½ cup light corn syrup
12 tablespoon (¾ cups) butter, cubed
4 Tablespoons water
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups sweetened coconut flakes, toasted
4 oz (½ cup) semi-sweet chocolate
1 package Girl Scout Samoa Cookies, Keebler Coconut Dreams, or if you live in Canada, No Name Caramel Chocolate Cookies
Preheat your oven to 200° Place popcorn in large bowl; set aside. Chop cookies into bite-sized pieces and set those aside as well.
Line counter a few sheets of wax paper so you can spread you popcorn onto it when mixing the caramel. You don't have to do this, but it makes it easier.
To make the caramel, combine the butter, brown sugar, water and corn syrup in a medium saucepan. Whisk ingredients to together and bring to a boil.
Boil without stirring for approximately 5 minutes until candy thermometer reads 250°. If you don't have a candy thermometer, 5 minutes is just about the right amount of time.
Remove from heat and immediately whisk in your baking soda and vanilla. Caramel will get lighter and bubble.
Pour caramel over popcorn and stir until it's all coated.
Pour popcorn onto waxed paper and sprinkle toasted coconut on top of popcorn evenly. Leave your wax paper out, you will need it again!
In a large roasting pan or baking sheet bake your popcorn in oven for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
Spread popcorn onto the wax paper and sprinkle chopped cookies evenly over top.
Melt chocolate in microwave in 30 second intervals until melted, stirring each time.
Drizzle melted chocolate on top of cookies and popcorn. Let the chocolate set and break apart.
Store in airtight container for 3-4 days.
Happy Baking!
Happy Baking!
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6 out of 10 top stock picks from the algorithm decreased as predicted for this 7 Days forecasting period. DISH saw monumental price change of 7.05% in just 7 Days. CPRI and KSS also had excellent performances with returns of 5.44% and 4.01% respectively. Finally, good returns could also come from short positions held on the rest of successfully predicted assets, providing positive gains over the same forecast period. Algorithmic traders utilize these daily forecasts by the I Know First market prediction system as a tool to enhance portfolio performance, verify their own analysis and act on market opportunities faster. This forecast was sent to current I Know First subscribers.
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Senda Vietnam bag factory - Glad to help you avoid high tax
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Publication Procurement and Service Delivery : An Overview of Efforts to Improve Governance of Public Procurement at Local Levels in South Asia(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2009-11-01) World BankOver the past decade, the overly centralized governance structures commonly found across South Asia have begun to change, with program and fiscal responsibility being devolved to local level government authorities and community-based organizations. This has led to greater participation of ordinary citizens in governance and public decision-making. The move to localize decision-making creates enormous opportunities for increasing the effectiveness of public spending since it creates the potential for establishing direct accountability of governance mechanisms to citizens. It also raises a number of significant challenges in ensuring that public funds are spent effectively at the local level, and provokes important new questions regarding the manner by which governments can maintain oversight over the quality of assets. This paper provides an overview of the activities supported under the project, with the aim of contributing to a broader perspective on improving governance and service delivery at the local level. The paper is divided into three parts. In part one the authors explore the challenges of spending money effectively at the local level, with a special focus on the governance challenges that exist in public procurement. In part two, the authors explore different approaches to addressing those challenges by discussing innovative work that has taken place with the support of the Project in the areas of regulation, contracting, transparency, and accountability. In part three, the authors analyze some broader themes and key questions that remain to be addressed while developing a strategic research and operational agenda around local level procurement.


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Just cause the guy's a greasy thug and you're scared doesn't mean you've got to grab the tab. You bet Alaska is a tough place to drill for oil — hundreds of miles from a road, with temperatures that turn oil into sludge, where crews are remote and cold.
But if you're an oil executive you pick the politics, you choose the infrastructure, you pick your battles with the insurgencies, you choose your chance of hitting oil, you pick what you pay in royalties. Go ahead pick:
Taxes less than Alaska
(46% includes federal and state royalties)
Nicaragua (36%)
New Zealand (43%)
Falkland Islands (45%)
Taxes more than Alaska (46% includes federal and state royalties)
South Africa (51%)
Mongolia (53%)
Philippines (54%)
Bolivia (56%)
Australia (57%)
Ecuador (58%)
Pakistan (59%)
Morocco 62%)
Peru (63%)
Namibia (63%)
Azerbaijan (57%)
Thailand (57%)
Canada (58%)
Angola (58%)
Columbia (58%)
Indonesia (59%)
Turkmenistan (70%)
Uganda (70%)
Russia (71%)
Norway (73%)
Egypt (74%)
Tunisia (75%)
Myanmar (75%)
India (77%)
Cote d'Ivoire (78%)
Oman (79%)
Malaysia (81%)
United Arab Emirates
Indonesia (86%)
Venezuela (91%)
They need a tax break? Why is Conoco Phillips drilling in Malaysia? Russia? Indonesia? Norway? They can go elsewhere and have their assets seized — like Libya and Ecuador.
Alaska, you are a tax break in a sea of turmoil. You've no need to sell yourself cheap.
Gordy Vernon writes that he "is unemployed and homeless in the summer, in a tent somewhere between the Pacific and the Bering Sea, in the land he loves to be."


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I would like to say thank you to everyone who helped with our Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday baskets.
Starting out with the Veterans of Foreign War Post 10221 in Anchor Point which pays for most of the food donated. Thank you to the Ladies and Men's Auxiliaries for their continued donations and help. Thank you to the Anchor Point Senior Center for the donation of turkeys and all the collected food. Thank you to Chapman School who also puts out a donation box for the holiday baskets. Thank you to Anchor Point Hardware owner Theresa Bicondova and Smokin' owner John Cox for setting up a donation box. Thank you to each and every one of you who placed an item in one of these donation boxes. Thank you to the Marine Corps League for the wonderful toy donations that light up the eyes of these children and put smiles on their faces.
To all the Lady Auxiliary Sisters who make the phone calls, prepare the baskets of goodies and patiently wait for the community to pick up their baskets, thank you: Cherri Gramm, Theresa Bicondova, Patty Eddy, Marcie Donner, Roberta Ness, Sandra Dress, June Picard and Jennifer Henley. Thanks to our commander, Frances Richter, for picking up the food from Chapman and the turkeys from the senior center. Thanks fo all the kids who helped load up the food from Chapman. Thank you to Ray Rozak and Eric Henley for helping with the food arrival. Bob Picard, thank you for delivering holiday baskets for those who could not come to get theirs. Thanks to RJ Austin for the load of toys. Thank you to the Anchor Point Fire Department for all the stuffed bears. Thanks goes to Country Foods in Kenai for all the food delivery. Thank you to Share the Spirit for your toy donations and all you do over the holidays — you all do a great job. Thank you to everyone for dropping off food and making a donation.
For anyone else who makes this possible and has put in a bit of labor of love, thank you. May you always know what a difference each and every one of you make. We live in a great community.
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Evening Wear
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Gentleman's evening wear changed hardly at all from around 1860 until the turn of the century when the Tuxedo made its gradual march toward respectability.
From about 1860 to the 1920s, proper evening wear was a unvarying uniform of black tail coat, small white tidy bow tie, black or white low-cut vest with shawl lapels (there seems to have been some personal latitude in selecting vest hue--black being the most common) and black trousers, with a white, heavily starched shirt. The only thing that changed was the collar, which followed the current fashion.
Ironically, civilian evening attire was far more uniform and standardized than the military uniforms of the time, which were quite colorful, splendid and infinitely varied - with a variety of orders of dress (full dress, levee, mess etc.) specified for various festive occasions. This is far too complex an issue to tackle here, and I will limit myself to addressing the comparatively dull and colorless choices available to the civilian gentleman.
Starting in about 1800, black gradually displaced color in mens' evening wear and by the 1840s was fairly dominant. Knee pants with black silk stockings were an essential evening accessory until 1850s when long trousers finally took over. Up until the 1850s, the tie could be black or white, but by the '60s, white or off-white was the most common choice.
Through this whole period, and well into the 20th Century, evening pumps, rather than laced shoes were the normal choice for foot wear. They are still available today from some upscale mens' shops and are usually referred to as "Opera Pumps".
Outdoors, evening wear would be worn with a black top hat and a black cape or overcoat.
White or pale gloves were an essential accessory, especially when dancing, as touching a lady with bare hands was not only a bit crude, but one's sweat could soil her gown.
Black evening vests were nearly always of fine wool. White vests could be of cotton, linen, light weight wool, silk or any fabric capable of being white. They might have a pattern woven in, but the pattern would generally be white-on-white.
Colorful vests, with or without garish prints, such as one now sees in a formal wear or "western wear" shop, were not worn with evening attire.
Buttons on black coats and vests were usually black, flat fronted and covered with silk - either plain or in a pattern. White vests usually had white buttons.
Shirt studs might be gold, diamond, or otherwise splendid; but the buttons on the vest and coat tended to be very subtle and subdued.
"A gentleman retains his 'walking' or 'morning' attire until six or seven o'clock when he dresses for the evening"
"Everybody's Book" 1893
"The evening or full dress suit for gentlemen is a black dress-suit--a 'swallow tail' coat, the vest cut low, the cravat white, and kid gloves of the palest hue or white. The shirt front should be white and plain; the studs and cuff buttons simple. Especial attention should be given to the hair, which should be neither short nor long. It is better to err on the too short side, as too long hair savors of affectation, destroys the shape of the physiognomy, and has a touch of vulgarity about it. Evening dress is the same for a large dinner party, a ball or an opera. In some circles, however, evening dress is considered to be an affectation, and it is well to do as others do. On Sunday, morning dress is worn, and on that day of the week no gentleman is expected to appear in evening dress, either at church, at home or away from home. Gloves are dispensed with at dinner parties, and pale colors [of gloves] are preferred to white for evening wear."
"Our Deportment" 1882
"The attire in which a gentleman can present himself in a ball room admits of so little variety, that it can be described in a few words.
He must wear a black dress coat, black trousers and a black vest, and a black or white necktie and kid gloves, and patent leather pumps.
This is imperative, the ball suit should be of the very best cloth and of the latest style as to cut. The vest should be cut low, so as to disclose an ample shirt front. Small gold or diamond studs may be used with effect. Much display of jewelry is a proof of bad taste. A handsome watch chain with perhaps the addition of a few costly trifles suspended to it, and a set of shirt studs, are the only adornments of this kind that a gentleman should wear. Perfume should only be used for the handkerchief, and should be of the very best and most delicate character."
"Prof. M. J. Koncen's quadrille call book and ball-room guide" 1883
"When a gentleman is invited out for the evening, he is under no embarrassment as to what he shall wear. He has not to sit down and consider whether he shall wear blue or pink, or whether the Joneses will notice if he wear the same attire three times running. Fashion has ordained for him that he shall always be attired in a black dress suit in the evening, only allowing him a white waistcoat as an occasional relief to his toilette. His necktie must be white or light colored. An excess of jewelry is to be avoided but he may wear gold or diamond studs, and a watch chain. He may also wear a flower in his buttonhole, for this is one of the few allowable devices by which he may brighten his attire.
Plain and simple as the dress is, it is a sure test of a gentlemanly appearance. The man who dines in evening dress every night of his life looks easy and natural in it, whereas the man who takes to it late in life generally succeeds in looking like a waiter."
The Ball Room Guide. 1860
The Tuxedo
Beginning around 1900, younger men starting championing a new type of formal wear: the Tuxedo (in Britain, the "Dinner Jacket"). It was a blending of the evening tail suit and the day sack suit and featured a shawl collared jacket with a squared cut. It started out in the 1890s as a relaxed choice for all-male gatherings, with the tails worn in mixed gatherings. This changed gradually over the next few decades. Double breasted variations also existed, and followed the fashionable cut of the time for double breasted sack coats.
The illustration to the right is from a 1906 Sears Catalog, but is a common cut for Tuxedos up through the 1930s. Click on it for a larger image.
The tux was invariably worn with an evening vest, usually black, and, usually, a black tie though the rules were still in flux and some examples of deviation from the Tux-with-black-vest-and-tie rule can be seen up through the 1930s.
The advance of the Tuxedo required an adjustment in the way evening gatherings were characterized. Starting around the 1920s, if an event was fairly informal, and Tuxedos were suitable, it would be described as "black tie" and if it was a very formal affair, and only tails were suitable, it was described as "white tie".
One might see at a "black tie" affair gentlemen who did not own a tux wearing tails with a black vest and black tie - though many older gentlemen stuck to their Victorian conventions and wore full white tie and tails to any evening function regardless of the tie mentioned on the invitation. Further, as the "black tie/white tie" distinction became the norm, it became a convention to wear a white vest with tails and a black vest with a tux. Prior to that, a black vest was a far more common choice when wearing tails.
In the 1920s, white dinner jackets started to appear for wear in spring and summer. They were worn with a white shirt and black trousers, vest and tie. They were made of wool or cotton and were cut in a manner identical to the single or double-breasted black tuxedo/dinner jackets of the time.
It was a common practice to wear a black pocket square with a white jacket, as opposed to the white one worn with all black jackets.
Young men tested the limits of evening wear conventions in the 1920s & '30s, with things like cummerbunds, colored jackets or military style mess jackets, but none of these gained broad acceptance until much later.
20th Century Changes to the Cut of Evening Tails
Through the entire second half of the 19th Century, and up until the 1920s, evening tails retained the same basic cut, and this cut is different from that of the tails available in most formal wear or "vintage clothing" shops.
The primary difference is the cut of the waist on the coat and vest. The 19th Century style has the lower hem of the coat and vest cut parallel to the ground (see the illustrations above). The later cut, from the 1920s on, tapers downward toward the front to accentuate or simulate a slim waist and to change the cylindrical sense of the earlier cut.
Further, from the 1920s on, the trousers are cut fuller in a style that follows the fashion for all men's wear of the time, with pleats becoming a marked feature in the 1930s and '40s.
19th Century trousers, while they might vary a bit with the fashionable cut of the day (cut fuller in the 1860s than the 1880s), were generally of a very simple straight, high waisted cut.
The side stripes, on the outer leg seams, which were seen from time to time earlier but were not the norm; became a standard feature by the '20s and '30s.
The center crease, pressed in to the trousers, was not generally seen in any sort of mens wear, formal or otherwise, until the 1890s, when the use of steam pressing machines by cleaners became widespread, and the knife-edge crease became easy to do and a sign of a well turned out gentleman.
I particularly recommend "The Black Tie Guide" to those wishing to know more about men's formal wear.


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From the library of the archaeologist Arthur ApSimon (1927-2019). Reminiscences and obituaries in Salon (Society of Antiquaries), Mike Pitts' Digging Deeper, Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelæological Society, Cornish Archaeology (paywall). Recollections of the man himself, as told to son Trevor, here (access).
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A watercolour of Stonehenge by the young Arthur ApSimon.