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You'll do great. I am so happy to be back. Was very happy for you guys when you stuck it out to 36 and was waiting and waiting to get in. We will fly back to batesat
Not bad timing, yep old friend? GL
Could not stay away, too good to pass July 27 calls. Should be good soon. GL all
GS took more money from those who sold
Sentiment: Strong Buy
What no news! Goldman lowered 24 to 20. You know what they say, Goldman lowers signals a buy
Absolutely doc, keep er writing
Nah, it's a cake walk for a couple of days. Then it will go down
Bought 31, 32, and 33 march calls, and apr 32 calls. Easy money. Tomorrow will be a good day. Good luck
Yeah, he was a riot. Hope porky is alright
Huh? Wow. Pure talent.
And even ww2, nobody was clean. How could others permit for the occupation of other countries? Only when it affected them did anyone make a move. Germany was hailed as the liberators by many in the United States. So not all is clean sadly either
I could easily put my father into the this subject, who was able to achieve incredible things as a human being and creator, while against the soviet union's idiology (during Brezhnev's time) at its peak of lunacy and the united states' perspective in the 80's
Most of the these dislikes were probably posted by those who did not like Doc's mlp picks ;) But we will show them wrong Doc :). There are a lot of intellegent people in the world, this is why there is always hope. But the hope starts with the human being. This human being can have a discussion with the other and then another. Writing posts is a difficult process because it is easily misinterpreted. To meet and speak with the person is much better. Idiocy will always exist, but so will intellectual, rational thinking.
Absolutely Olee. We are a part of humanity
What I wrote was written completely without rant or anger. This was a calm depiction of a perspective that is mine. When "you" look at a situation from one perspective, for instance being vehemetly pro Israel or pro Palestine, "you" miss the point that it is horrible what BOTH sides are doing to each other. So when people state I am pro these groups, they are already wrong by not admiting that both are wrong for killing. This is a situation about killing over land. Then there is a situation of the media, which poses one side or the other. It is not objective, because there is always a side (or agenda) of one or the other. It is paid for by the certain few to show one group is wrong while the other is always right. It is not true or objective. There are no clean situation for such a situation. Then, let's dumb the masses down by bring 95% of tv shows to either lie, cheat, or put down others. We can go on and on. My point is that I do not want to be part of these kind of attacks on my personality and freedom. Because feeding me genetically modified food for me to later buy pharmaceutical pills just to keep me longer enough to pay my money is immoral, no matter which way you put it. And anyone who disagrees, in my mind, is either a complete buffoon, or a misguided mass. One always chooses, or at least tries to choose their path, but no matter what, in each situation that I encounter, no matter how it could better me financially or other materialistic manners, I will always choose a moral, to me decision. I have been given plenty of chances to make an incorrect decision: Ruining a fellow musician at Juilliard to better my position with a teacher, which is did not do, and plenty other in that and lower and higher situations. The best way is not to interpret a perspective that is one sides, otherwise you are that mass that cannot think for themselves. Let's say I am Armenian. I will never say that during the genocide Turkey is fully to blame. Never! That is because life is so much more complicated than just vehemetly pinning one side over the other. We will never know all the information that happened during any way, during any situation which we were not even a part of. We might know some limited information, but those are the ones that were written down. The only thing we can do as individuals is answer for ourselves, not a building, a street, an avenue, a county, city, country, a given time in the world, and exc. Every moment there is a decision to do something or not, to answer or not, to like or not, but let whoever deals with these issues, if they even do, let them deal with it. We answer for our own action. And don't ever state that I am bitter about it. Otherwise you are lying and interpreting it this way to diminish my positive nature. Everywhere I have gone, have people remembered and state that I have helped them in situations, so bitterness or anger rant is completely wrong!
Humans are such gullible idiots. How can you 1. Press like for Israel bombing Palestine or Vice Versa? 2. Press like vehemently either for Romney or Obama? And other things of the same nature. Humans are idiots. People getting killed or a country is raping you with their laws, ideologies, financial slavery, genetically modified foods, and you think you are doing something by pressing like on Facebook? You guys are just minuscule, arrogant nothings. Again how can anyone of you press like on killings? Nobody knows who starts the wars and yet everyone has the opinion that "their" people are always right. When you have this kind of thought, in my book you're an idiot in this time and situation. Life is so much more complex, but because you are a slave and dumb, you join a religion, country, and no matter if their wrong, you'll still back them. Well stay dumb and stupid. I am so happy that I have actually met some good people who 1. have cut themselves from being slaves of two puppet politicians who sucked every #$%$ to get to where they were to screw your country 2. Have cut themselves from being slaves of the media propaganda enjoying countries killing other countries 3. Have cut themselves from All Religious fanatics who think their place is the real heaven and others will go to hell. You guys are ignorant people who will always be slaves. Enjoy this kind of life, because while you were bitter about your own personal stuff that will have 0 meaning when you die, I am not a slave of false commercialism!
This was written on Facebook and wanted to share it with my agnc friends.
This is a worthless company and more so stock. You won't get people to pay for something they can do for free
Sentiment: Strong Sell
You know where it went from there. This will be worse.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
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There's something about Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark that makes comic geeks cry tears of joy when he appears on screen. Few would argue that Downey wasn't made for the role. Even the substance problems that both actor and comic hero share seem a perfect match. It's the snarky charm combined with Stark's jerk personality that make it all work, so we revisit the film whenever possible. For those looking for a taste of nostalgia, the Texas Theatre screens Iron Man's solo career — you know, before he became a team player in the Avengers, Saturday. The free showing of Iron Man, presented by Texas Theater and Mega 107.5 FM, is at Crawford Memorial Park. The movie begins at dusk, but show up early to get a prime space for your blanket and picnic basket. Crawford Memorial Park is located at 8740 Elam Road. Visit thetexastheatre.com.
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Supreme (cookery)
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The term supreme (also spelled suprême)[1] used in cooking and culinary arts refers to the best part of the food, and it has different meanings depending upon the food type.
In cookery, the term supreme (or suprême) is used to describe a breast of chicken with the wing bone attached, generally referred to as Chicken Supreme[1] (in French: suprême de volaille). The same cut is used for duck (suprême de canard), and other birds.
The pieces of chicken can be cooked in chicken stock and added into a white sauce, which is made from corn-flour. The rice is cooked in slightly salted water, either in a pan on the oven hotplate or in a plastic bowl within a microwave until soft to the touch. Once both are cooked, the chicken is placed into the middle of a dinner plate and the rice is added around the outside of the chicken to form a circle. This method can be adapted for any rice based dish.
To supreme a citrus fruit is to remove the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds, and to separate its segments.[2][3] Used as a noun, a supreme can be a wedge of citrus fruit prepared in this way.
Suprême sauce (sauce suprême) is a rich white sauce[4] made of chicken stock and cream, a sauce suprême.[1][5] This sauce is often served with chicken dishes.[1]
A dish dressed with a sauce suprême is another manner of the term "supreme" is used (e.g. a suprême of barracuda)
Chicken breast with sauce suprême, along with a side dish
Other cooking uses[edit]
Supreme can also be used as a term in cookery in the following ways:
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- ^ a b c d Chabers 21st Century Dictionary. Allied Publishers. p. 1421.
- ^ Going Raw. p. 72.
- ^ American Cookery. p. 249.
- ^ Meyer, Adolphe (1903). The Post-graduate Cookery Book. Caterer Publishing Company. p. 59.
- ^ Choice Cookery. pp. 23–24. Retrieved 11 October 2014.


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French data protection watchdog slams Google over privacy failings
Google needs to shed light on how personal data is used
THE FRENCH DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY CNIL has delivered its findings on Google and its most recent privacy policy, and the results should make uncomfortable reading for the internet giant.
The CNIL said that the policy is too wide, and that Google has not cooperated with it in resolving these issues.
It has asked Google to publicly commit to the rules of data protection, and told it to give users more control over their data and make it easy for them to opt out of any changes that it might bring about.
The CNIL said that it was not clear whether Google actually respects "key data protection principles," adding that it, and other European data protection authorities, want it to publicly commit to things like "data quality, data minimisation, proportionality and right to object".
As an example, it said that the privacy policy makes no distinction between how Google processes something like a search query and a credit card number. The CNIL and its peers have asked Google to be clearer about what data it collects, and why it collects it.
It said that it should provide comprehensive information on this, and offer three levels of detail that could be applied, or referred to, by users depending on to what level they engage with its services. "The ergonomics of the Policy could also be improved with interactive presentations," it added.
Currently, the Google collection picture is bleak. The firm collects too much information, said the CNIL, and combines it in very broad ways.
"The European DPAs note that this combination pursues different purposes such as the provision of a service requested by the user, product development, security, advertising, the creation of the Google account or academic research," it said in its statement.
"The investigation also showed that the combination of data is extremely broad in terms of scope and age of the data."
Google has been told to change its practices when collecting and combining data and to make sure that it has its users' consent before it does any such thing. It should, said the CNIL give users the chance to consent, or refuse such combinations.
The CNIL said that it had the agreement of 27 other European data watchdogs.
Google and the CNIL had apparently been working closely on resolving their differences, but still failed to meet an accord.
Following earlier criticisms, Google told us in May that it had requested a sit down and discussion with the French government watchdog.
"We asked for a meeting with the CNIL," said a spokesperson. "Having a meeting with them gives us chance to put things into context and explain the broader actions we are taking to protect our users' privacy."
The CNIL criticisms followed Google's decision to create a single privacy policy that covered users across all of its services. When they launched, the CNIL called them unlawful and wrote to Larry Page with its concerns.
"Our preliminary analysis shows that Google's new policy does not meet requirements of the European Directive on Data Protection, especially regarding the information provided to data subjects," said Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin from the CNIL.
"The CNIL and the EU data protection authorities are deeply concerned about the combination of personal data across services: they have strong doubts about the lawfulness and fairness of such proceedings." µ
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Xavier Woods is a Level 21 Pokémon GO Trainer & We Have an Exclusive Interview With Him!/
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"I have been a client of Mr. Scott's for 20+ years. I have used Jim's law firm for our corporate filings, wills and living trusts. I have also recommended Mr. Scott to my friends for personal injury cases and have had a great response from them. He has always been fair and extremely thorough." - Randy Aron
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Elvira Nabiullina
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|Elvira Nabiullina
|Governor of the Bank of Russia
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24 June 2013
|Prime Minister
|Dmitry Medvedev
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29 October 1963
Ufa, Soviet Union (now Russia)
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|Moscow State University
Elvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina (Russian: Эльвира Сахипзадовна Набиуллина; Bashkir: Эльвира Сәхипзада ҡыҙы Нәбиуллина; born 29 October 1963) is a Tatar born-Russian economist and head of the Central Bank of Russia. She was Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser between May 2012 to June 2013[1] after serving as minister of economic development and trade from September 2007 to May 2012.[2][3] As of 2014, she is listed as the 72nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[4]
Early life and education[edit]
She was born in Ufa, Bashkortostan on 29 October 1963.[5] She graduated from the Moscow State University in 1986.[6][7]
Between 1991 and 1994 Nabiullina worked at the USSR Science and Industry Union and its successor, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.[6] In 1994, she moved to the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade, where she rose to the level of deputy minister by 1997; she left the ministry in 1998.[6] Nabiullina spent the next two years with Sberbank chief executive and former Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref's non-governmental think tank, the Center for Strategic Development, before returning to the Economic Development ministry as first deputy in 2000.[6] Between 2003 and her September 2007 appointment as minister, Nabiullina chaired the Center for Strategic Development as well as an advisory committee preparing for Russia's 2006 presidency of the G8 group of nations.
Russian President Putin appointed Nabiullina to the post of minister of economic development and trade on 24 September 2007, replacing Gref.[2][6] She found working with then-deputy premier and finance minister Alexei Kudrin "difficult but always interesting",[8] and remained in that position until 21 May 2012.[3] In 2012, she was one of six senior government figures to accompany Putin back to the Kremlin administration after Putin was elected president of Russia for a third term.
In 2013, she was appointed head of the Central Bank of Russia, becoming the second woman after Tatiana Paramonova to hold that position, and thus the first Russian woman in the G8.[9] In May 2014, she was named one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes, which noted that she "has been given the difficult task of managing the ruble exchange rate during Ukraine's political crisis and facilitating growth for an economy trying to avoid a recession".[9] In an effort to stop the ruble's slide, the Central Bank of Russia, under Nabiullina's leadership, hiked interest rates, free-floated the exchange rate, and kept a cap on inflation, [10] thus stabilizing the financial system and boosting foreign-investor confidence.[11] Euromoney magazine named Nabiullina their 2015 Central Bank Governor of the Year.[12]
- ^ New Kremlin Aides Allotted Responsibilities, RIA Novosti, 23 May 2012. Retrieved: 27 June 2012.
- ^ a b Levitov, Maria (September 2007). "Putin Replaces Russian Economy Minister Gref With Nabiullina". Bloomberg.
- ^ a b "Andrei Belousov appointed Economic Development Minister". Interfax (Moscow). 21 May 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
- ^ "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women". Forbes. Forbes. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "Elvira Nabiullina" (PDF). ECE. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Elvira Nabiullina. Biography". RIA Novosti (in Russian).
- ^ BackGround People: Nabiullina, Elvira Sakhipzadovna, Russia Profile 28 July 2008. Retrieved: 27 June 2012.
- ^ Policy behind Kudrin ouster. Anna Arutunyan, Moscow News, 30 September 2011 Retrieved 27 June 2012.
- ^ a b "Russian Central Banker Nabiullina Among Forbes' Most Powerful Women". MoscowTimes.com. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ Kirby, Paul (16 December 2014). "Russia economy: What is the risk of meltdown?". BBC News. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3488368/Central-bank-governor-of-the-year-2015-Nabiullina-displays-crisis-fighting-skills.html
- ^ http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3488964/Nabiullina-named-Euromoney-Central-Bank-Governor-of-the.html
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Netroots Victory: "The Green Collar Economy" is a NYT Bestseller
Not too surprisingly (and thankfully), Thomas Friedman's book Hot, Flat and Crowded holds spot #2 on the NYT's list of non-fiction bestsellers. A bit more shocking is that Van Jones' book "The Green Collar Economy" landed the #12 spot.
The blogosphere is delighted by the news. As should be all advocates of the clean energy economy.
"The Green Collar Economy" received a major online push. Green for All, Jones' organization founded to explore green solutions to poverty, launched a massive, online networking effort to spread the word about the book. They turned to e-mail lists, various forms of online promotion (videos, for example), and the blogosphere. Once the bloggers caught wind of the story, online sales skyrocketed. Next stop – NYT bestsellers.
At first, that sort of success seemed a long shot.
Jones is a first-time author and doesn't have a whole lot of publicity outside of his choir (environmentalists and some community development advocates). Plus, the book's marketing budget was … well, it wasn't.
But the achievement is equally huge for the progressive and environmental communities. In my opinion, it is those of us that advocate for a clean energy economy who should be celebrating the most.
Naturally, The Huffington Post has taken the opportunity to bask in the wonders of the blogosphere's astonishing influence. But the post doesn't mention that Jones is also the first African-American to make the bestsellers list with a book about the environment (this being something Jones is very conscious of).
That in itself is a statement. What it's going to take to transition our economy to one that is no longer carbon-intensive is busting the myths of what it means to be an environmentalist (it's not necessarily for the elite, and it shouldn't see class or race). Van Jones is an inspirational leader with a powerful message about mobilizing the masses toward a green revolution.
In a 2007 article, he envisioned:
Imagine a coalition that unites the best of labor, business, racial justice activists, environmentalists, intellectuals, students and more. That combination would rival the last century's New Deal and New Right coalitions.
The blogosphere is a potent tool these days, no doubt. But there's real substance to Jones' message, and the bloggers' success in catapulting the book to the bestseller list is evidence that a 21st century coalition could be emerging, with a force, a purpose, a shape, and roots unlike anything history has seen.
— Kari M.
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Recognizing that which is a product of arrogance and also shameful behavior.
Our lexicon of business activities is being expanded daily, thanks to the "wonder boys" on Wall Street. We are learning about derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, recapitalization, puts, short selling and so on. We are gaining a new vocabulary from the recent meltdown of the financial system and expected slowdown of the real economy worldwide.
Where did this debacle begin? Well, it began in the center of human community's banking and investment houses in the financial district of NYC. Supposedly, the "brightest and best" among us go to Wall Street, know what they are doing and do the right thing. Unfortunately, such assumptions turn out to be colossal mistakes.
How did this calamity occur and why is the human family in such dire economic straits? It appears that grotesque greed and a culture of corruption have come to dominate significant operating systems of the global political economy.
Powerful people in high offices within huge business institutions with access to great wealth are recklessly and deleteriously manipulating the unbridled expansion of the global economy in the small, finite planetary home God blesses us to inhabit.
Self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe have surreptitiously "manufactured" a sub prime "asset bubble" and perversely fostered its uneconomic growth within the world economy. Not unexpectedly, this asset bubble did what bubbles do. The sub prime bubble burst and made a mess. Global credit markets have frozen, stock prices are tumbling and the value of the dollar is gyrating.
Evidently organizers, managers and whiz kids overseeing the global economy, and the unraveling {ie, deleveraging} of the worldwide sub prime swindle, are running the artificially designed financial system of the global economy as a pyramid scheme. This is to say that the international financial system is being operated so that most of the wealth funneled pyramidally into the hands of a small minority of people at the top of the world economy where this wealth is accumulated and consolidated. Note that thirty percent of annual corporate profits end up in the accounts of a tiny number of people. At the same time, the vast majority of people on Earth, near the bottom of the global economic pyramid, are left with very little wealth. Does the economy of the family of humanity exist primarily to provide wealth to the already stupendously wealthy? The "bankstas" among us evidently think so.
In the 1980s, this extremely inequitable method of distributing wealth and arranging business activities was called a "trickle down" economy. We have been repeatedly told how this 'rational' economic scheme is good because it "raises all ships." And yet, from my limited scope of observation, the billion people living on resources valued at less than one dollar per day and the additional 2.7 billion people being sustained on two dollars per day of resources now appear to be stuck in squalid conditions. The 'ships' carrying these billions of less fortunate people {ie, more people than lived on Earth in the year of my birth} do not appear to be lifting them out of poverty.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
Thanks Kari, book ordered from amazon.


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International Women's Day Breakfast
- When Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 7 a.m.
- Where Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, 5998 Alcalá Park, University of San Diego, San Diego Map | Website
- Age limit All ages
- Categories Food
- Cost $35 - $400
Above: Promotional graphic for Women PeaceMakers Program.
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice will share a report from the 58th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, where the focus will be on the challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls.
Proceeds from the breakfast support the Women PeaceMakers Program.
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Thatcher's Cabinet Saw Need to Educate Public on Spending Cuts
Margaret Thatcher's first Cabinet decided it needed a campaign to educate the British public about the "economic facts of life" to gain acceptance for spending cuts and pay restraint, according to documents released today.
"We have to dampen down the deeply entrenched expectations among the public at large that their money incomes increase each year and that there is an entitlement for pay in line with some concept of a going rate," Industry Secretary Keith Joseph wrote in a briefing note to Thatcher in July 1979, less than three months after their Conservative Party was elected.
The document is among 200 pages of correspondence published by the National Archives in London. Thatcher came to power after the 1978-79 "winter of discontent," in which public-sector labor unions staged widespread strikes to protest Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan's attempt to cap pay.
Nine days ago, the current Conservative government under Prime Minister David Cameron announced details of cuts totaling 81 billion pounds ($129 billion) by 2015, the biggest since World War II, to slash the record budget deficit. A total of 490,000 public-sector jobs will be lost.
"The government are committed to a high quality of public services, but their provision must be in line with what the economy can afford," a 1979 briefing note said. "Over-ambitious public spending plans can only damage the wealth-creating sector of the economy."
'Dangerous Consequences'
The Thatcher government's strategy was split in two, according to the documents. Firstly, there would be a quick campaign to influence the current round of pay negotiations, convince businesses that the government would attack inflation and "bringing home to trade unionists and the wider public the dangerous consequences of higher pay unrelated to higher output," according to a memo.
Secondly, a "long campaign" would aim to gradually educate the public "in facts of economic life and the relevance of government policies to the country's recovery."
"Never in the whole of British postwar economic history -- not even in the oil crisis of 1974 -- has the economic outlook been so utterly bleak," said one 31 year-old government memo.
In the third quarter of 1979, the economy shrank by 2.4 percent. That contraction hasn't been equaled since then, with the drop in gross domestic product for the first quarter of last year having been revised up to 2.3 percent. The decline heralded the beginning of a slump that would last through the first quarter of 1981.
Though many in government delivered sobering assessments of the economy and the future, a Treasury special adviser, Peter Cropper, proposed offering optimism to the public.
"There is no hint of the reforming crusade that some of us think we are launched on," he wrote. "No hint of the end goal of it all -- joy, wealth, national power, two acres and a cow, a second car in every garage, interesting jobs, leisure, comfortable trains, Channel Tunnels, atomic power stations, gleaming new coal mines, everyone a bathroom, patios for all etc., etc.,"


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Isabel M. Castillo, 93
Published: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
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Isabel Maria Cortez Castillo, 93, of Mills River, formerly of Patchogue, N.Y. and Punta Gorda, Fla., went home to be with her Savior on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, at her residence.
She was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico, and was the last survivor of nine children and the daughter of the late Juan Ramon Cortez and Eufemia Perez Cortez. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 55 years, Hector Elias Castillo; and a beloved son, Edwin A. Rodriguez. She was a member of St. Barnabas Catholic Church in Arden.
She is survived by two daughters, Milagro "Cookie" RodriguezBruer of Etowah and Yvonne Castillo of Mills River; five grandchildren, Matthew Elias Castillo, John J. DeSola, Michael P. DeSola, Nicholas D. DeSola and Joseph "Joey" Rodriguez; four great-grandchildren.
Mass of Christian burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Barnabas Catholic Church with Father Adrian Porras officiating. Memorials may be made to St. Barnabas Catholic Church, 109 Cresent Hill Drive, P.O. Box 38 Arden, NC 28704. The memorial register is available at "Obituaries" at www.grocefuneralhome.com.
Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian on Long Shoals Road is in charge of the arrangements.
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At Tidemark our vision is to re-imagine budgeting, planning and forecasting by unlocking the information stored throughout organizations so better decisions can be made with data that improve a company's performance. Since our inception, we've been fortunate to partner with many brands, leaders, CEOs, CFOs and CIOs on their journey to transform finance and operations for the digital era.
Today, we're fortunate to gain a new ally in one of the top technology investment firms.
It's an exciting time for Tidemark customers, partners and employees as we're thrilled to announce a growth investment from Marlin Equity Partners! With over $3 billion of capital under management, the firm has resources and relationships across multiple industries and geographies. Marlin also has a very strong track record to significantly strengthen a company's outlook while enhancing the value they deliver to their customers. We're incredibly honored to partner with the global investment firm in our mission to advance and enrich FP&A!
As Tidemark continued to surpass important milestones over the past year -- like its first Fortune 50 customer, surging ARR growth and more than 30 new go-lives in the past six months -- it become clear that in order to maintain the accelerated rate of growth, the company would need to find a special type of partner. With a range of industry leading brands like ENGIE Group, the no. 1 independent power producer in the world, or Acxiom Data Corp., the top provider of consumer data, or the elite academic institution Stanford University, we sought an investment firm to help accelerate the maturity of our operations to deliver better services and support to our customers. Marlin's global network and history of success with other first-to-market technologies stood out as the most complimentary and ideal partner.
Corporate finance has long been a black box. Analysis from financial and operational data is perhaps the key to unlocking better planning and performance across the entire business, yet historically it remains relegated to only a select few. Marlin has deep experience with innovation in the market, and together we look forward to continue our work to help FP&A teams become high performance finance teams and lead with transformation in their enterprise performance management (EPM) efforts.
Research and survey data can serve as useful benchmarks for assessing your performance. So when I wonder what other financial leaders are concerned about, I turn to a select set of reports to learn from. This week, I reviewed the latest Ernst & Young survey data and got this disheartening feeling when I saw that of 1,000 CFOs at companies with revenues of more than $500 million:
"Only 55 percent of CFOs express confidence in their ability to meet reporting requirements, compared to 84 percent a year"
19 percent is a pretty noticeable drop. With quarters ending and earning announcements well under way, it may be time to reconsider some of the traditional processes that have long been associated with these responsibilities.
In fact, it doesn't have to be this way. With today's arsenal of better technologies at their disposal, modern finance executives struggling to meet reporting requirements and expectations can move away from the old way of doing things, and attack the problem head on. Here are three steps they can take right away:
1. Streamline consolidation. If compliance regulations were a poker hand, many public companies would be holding half the deck. EY found that effectively half (48 percent) of businesses surveyed must comply with at minimum 10 reporting standards, from IFRS to local GAAP, often exceeding that number. As a result, these companies employ a constellation of reporting procedures, with nearly one in three (32 percent) using 16 or more reporting systems. Does battling complexity with more complexity equate to the best strategy?
A better approach is to streamline and simplify consolidation and reporting. But that's hard to do with traditional approaches. Even companies that have invested heavily in consolidation efforts, including establishing a dedicated consolidation department, still find themselves gathering and sharing crucial data via manual, error-prone tools like email and spreadsheets. A new generation of cloud delivered consolidation and reporting solutions connect directly to financial, operational and transactional systems, and even social and mobile platforms. Unlike old legacy platforms, these new systems import and integrate data from cloud and on-premise management, ERP, CRM and sales systems. Users of all kinds then access a single platform that allows them to automatically see the impact of any adjustments made to key performance indicators (KPIs) such as operating profit, sales by product, sales by region and more.
2. Communicate more effectively with board members. Fewer than half (48 percent) of CFOs say their reporting has earned the confidence of the board – a sizable drop from a year ago, when 71 percent felt board members were confident in their reporting. This is understandable, since corporate boards are under increasing pressure to scrutinize the numbers companies report, with 84 percent of EY survey respondents saying audit committees and boards have intensified their focus on reporting in the past three years, with 34 percent noting that attention has increased "significantly." As EY notes, the better relationship CFOs have with audit committees, the more confidence their reporting instills.
Building those relationships becomes much easier when board members can quickly investigate costs, revenue and net income in any business configuration and at any level of granularity. And it's now possible for them to visualize key metrics, review highlights in an intuitive, infographic-style interface, and drill into financial, operational and transactional data to appreciate the impact of changes, trends and adjustments. The result is a vastly more collaborative process that delivers insights and results faster, and that allows board members to be confident in their numbers.
3. Be ready for changes in recurring revenue reporting. Any business with a subscription or "as a service" business model, which is becoming increasingly popular for many industries beyond software, will eventually find their already complicated reporting framework to become even more convoluted. That's because these companies face fundamental changes in the way they recognize recurring revenue and associated expenses. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have decided to align their respective accounting standards, with the new "harmonized" framework set to go into effect for annual reporting periods starting after Dec. 15, 2017.
The new framework represents a real sea shift for organizations that have added recurring revenue models to more traditional transaction-based models. To tackle that complexity, CFOs should consider platforms that integrate business planning, analytics and reporting into a single environment so all stakeholders can collaborate using one system. Currency conversions and other time-consuming tasks can all be automated, and decision-makers can easily keep track of subscription-based KPIs like annual contract value (ACV), annual recurring revenue (ARR) and total contract value (TCV).
CFOs wishing for more confidence in their reporting environment should take steps to simplify it. That may well be the answer they – and their boards – are looking for.
In the offices of CFOs, particularly at large publicly listed companies, confidence appears to be waning. In fact, numerous surveys indicate that in 2016 optimism is low. The problem? Many finance chiefs have lost trust in their ability to accurately track, report, and improve performance across the enterprise.
One big challenge CFOs are dealing with is complexity. With the growing volume and velocity of data, myriad reporting mandates, and outdated and archaic planning processes, there's a burgeoning fear that finance is getting further and further behind in its efforts to partner and support their organization's lines of businesses, key departments and CEO.
I've long believed that what can make or break a company is their approach to collaboration and how they plan their business. For too long, we've seen companies structure their organizations into a number of small teams that operate in silos. Separate goals, processes, communication and data. The byproduct of age-old corporate structure (and subsequently reporting), these top-down hierarchies typically have each team (with minimal to zero communication) feed their own data and plans into some type of system-of-record, with the pertinent data usually only accessible to the "Office of the Few."
Respected author Geoffrey Moore, known for his groundbreaking work in Crossing the Chasm, coined the term "system of engagement." A concept designed to eliminate silos within organizations (as I described above), systems of engagement were originally focused on CIOs and IT leaders. Yet as digitalization modernized, and all departments (from marketing, to sales, to HR, to finance) became impacted, forward looking CEOs saw the potential and entrusted their right hand women and men to utilize the progressive framework as a foundation for transformation.
This brings us back to the office of finance. A respected study by Accenture notes that more than 80 percent of CEOs at large organizations select their CFOs as the architects of transformation. Their ability to measure, analyze, and forecast growth have put them at the forefront of strategy (the same study reports that now an astounding 3 out of every 4 CFO has seen their role in supporting strategic decision making increase in the past two years). Yet in order for finance to drive transformation, they too need change. When reviewing the recent data on CFO optimism, it's clear to me that the lack of confidence in improving performance across their enterprises is tied to their outdated, legacy planning systems. These systems-of-record prohibit the type of real-time information sharing, department-to-department collaboration and ease-of-use that non-finance users need in order to engage with complex financial and performance data.
Similar to the idea popularized by Zuora's founder and CEO, Tien Tzuo, around new tools for new relationships, I believe new responsibilities require new processes. High performance finance teams understand that you can't improve performance enterprise-wide without changing existing processes. New systems-of-engagement put an emphasis on making it easier for not only the core users, but for the non-technical user as well. In finance, this means the planning system must support not only the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) team, but also the lines of businesses users. Yet a financial planning system that encapsulates a system-of-engagement framework should include more than collaboration features like instant messaging and annotations. Modern systems need to not only make communication easier and more routine, but they must also help illustrate performance data in a user-friendly way.
Having attended the MIT Sloan CFO Forum at the end of 2015 to watch my CFO speak on a panel, we heard a recurring theme around the need for storytelling and performance narratives. "Stories, not just graphics and visualizations, help explain trends and patterns to the masses," is what one CFO said. Getting the masses to engage is how you help move a siloed company towards greater companywide collaboration. Her words resonated with us because this type of collaboration is what we call 'planning at the edges.' Modern systems-of-engagement, unlike their predecessors, make it possible for the CFO and someone in the field to have access to the same numbers and performance data. This allows both the CFO and those in separate departments to track not only their own team's goals, but because they are using the same integrated system they can also track against the company's overall goals. No longer is critical data discretely kept to a select few, rather that information is freed throughout the organization so employees at all levels, regardless of location, can leverage it to improve what they do.
Shared data can result is greater alignment and better communication, which -- as we all know -- improves decision-making. When those outside of finance can think like the CFO, and vice versa, organizational transformation is underway.
Oracle recently commissioned a survey of CFOs to determine which key performance indicators (KPIs) matter most in a world where intangibles like customer satisfaction increasingly drive brand value. The survey forms the basis of a white paper titled, "The Digital Finance Imperative: Measure and Manage What Matters Most." What's surprising is how many of the survey results – and the resulting prescriptions offered by the paper – actually end up exposing some inherent weaknesses in Oracle's own Hyperion Planning platform and Essbase analytics.
When you dive into the survey data, there are some interesting results. For instance, back in the industrial era of 1975, 83 percent of the market value of S&P 500 businesses was determined by tallying up tangible physical and financial assets, with intangible assets (such as human capital, brand reputation and intellectual property) accounting for just 17 percent of value. Fast-forward to today, and the tables have turned completely upside down: 84 percent of S&P 500 market value now is driven by intangibles.
This puts pressure on finance organizations to wrangle data about those intangible assets and integrate that information into business processes that help every part of the organization. That requires new KPIs able to measure the things that matter most. It also requires new software capable of tracking and managing those KPIs derived from across the organization; something Oracle users know all too well isn't actually possible in Hyperion.
We explore those shortcomings in detail in a complimentary new white paper from Tidemark: "Sifting Through the Hype(rion): Why Enterprises are Abandoning Hyperion Planning and Essbase." Download the complimentary research paper to get all the facts, but for now, let's touch on three areas where we readers can better understand what is hype or reality.
1. Analyzing external data. A key finding from Oracle's survey reveals that businesses need to find new ways to measure the intangibles that drive business value today. The top value driver, by a long shot, is customer satisfaction (76 percent of respondents recognize its importance). Yet measuring factors like customer satisfaction requires businesses to analyze not only the structured data generated by their internal enterprise platforms, but also "complex, often unstructured digital data such as social media streams." That can be a problem for Essbase, which extracts data from the source in a process known as ETL (extract, transform, load). Note where "transform" appears in this sequence. Because data is transformed before it's loaded into the analytics system, it can be inherently dated – which is not desirable when tracking and analyzing a real-time KPI like customer satisfaction. In contrast, Tidemark uses an ELT approach, which brings data closer to the user by extracting it from multiple sources, loading it into the Tidemark computational grid in the cloud, and then transforming it on the fly, and only when business users are asking questions (at runtime) and performing modeling and analytics processes. So when it's time to ask questions about customer satisfaction, users want fresh insights based on the latest data. Former Oracle customers tell us Tidemark delivers in this area where Hyperion and Essbase did not.
2. Exploring new paths to insight. It's a given that the point of establishing and tracking new KPIs – as Oracle's paper endorses – is to achieve data-driven insights that help grow profit, sharpen efficiencies and improve competitiveness. But with the multidimensional database (or cube) architecture that underpins Hyperion Planning and Essbase, users are subject to strict limitations that are imposed by cubes and that -- as a result -- actually hobble an organization's ability to explore new paths to insight. The inherent rigidity of cubes means business users generally can't explore new avenues, compare data side by side on the fly, or ask questions they haven't previously considered – unless these tasks have been enabled ahead of time by IT. (And even for IT, the process isn't straightforward.) Compare this to Tidemark, whose grid-based applications feature varying dimensionality that allows for far greater flexibility. For instance, when you add a new dimension, instead of reconfiguring the cube and reloading the remapping data, you simply configure new relationships among objects in the application. Those new paths to insight are just a few clicks a way – with no help from IT needed.
3. Modernizing finance. Much is made in Oracle's paper about the need for finance to modernize, and a key part of this is taking a partnership role with LOBs and other functions, which includes engaging business managers in "collaborative conversations." While I agree wholeheartedly with this concept – in fact, making finance a participation sport is a core design principle of Tidemark – our experience with former Hyperion and Essbase users suggests that, for Oracle at least, this notion remains much more of a future goal than a current reality. One user calls Hyperion "ridiculously outdated and clunky to use." Others note the unintuitive Hyperion interface, which requires users to access the application through a series of folders. And they complain that Essbase's Excel spreadsheet front end is fine for highly trained analysts but isn't well suited to the stakeholders at the edge of the business who executives hope will participate in modern finance processes. Upon seeing the Tidemark user experience for the first time, however, Hyperion and Essbase users remark on Tidemark's natural, consumer-grade interface. That's intentional: Tidemark apps are built to deliver a self-service experience; they're designed around recognized business processes and workflows, not folders. This makes Tidemark far easier to understand for the average user.
These three examples alone suggest that the vision laid out in Oracle's new white paper is just that: a hyped vision of the future. And while it's reasonable to believe Oracle will ultimately get there, a growing number of businesses aren't waiting around for that "someday" to arrive. Can your business afford to wait while the competition moves forward?
To find out why more enterprises are abandoning Hyperion and Essbase, download our complimentary new white paper.
Retailers expect overall year-to-year sales to increase only 3.4 percent in 2016. That's less bullish than last year's expectations of 3.9 percent and below the industry's historical 4 percent growth outlook. Against this backdrop, BDO recently surveyed 100 retail CFOs to learn what worries them most.
According to BDO's study, 29 percent of CFOs surveyed said they mostly worry about competition and consolidation in their space – that's natural, as the two often go hand-in-hand. And they realize if brisk consumer spending alone can't drive sales growth, it will be up to them to plan better, forecast more accurately, and outmaneuver competitors fighting for the same shopping dollar.
For many retailers, this requires shopping for a new mindset and strategy. Brands long accustomed to differentiating themselves with a superior shopping experience and unique product assortment are looking to further set themselves apart by doing a better job analyzing customer spending, understanding where profit may be hiding, and quickly making adjustments to promotions and supply at the store level.
Retailers will do this through insights gleaned from new layers of performance analysis (e.g. revenue, profitability) that haven't been possible until now. Imagine the actionable intelligence that would result from analyzing performance at the SKU level across the entire span of operations on a daily basis. For the first time, drivers for each SKU would be revealed. SKU-level correlations would emerge. Weather impacts, weekly seasonality, and time of day factors could become clearly understood. Link up competitive data, and the impact of competitor promotions and pricing would be apparent.
From a performance management perspective, financial and operational forecasting takes on a whole new life via the revelation of these newfound drivers and correlations. New cohorts of stores and departments within stores across the operating map can be created based on actual performance traits in addition to (and perhaps in lieu of) traditional operating or demographic traits. Procurement and stock management can become more effective when influenced by product-level intelligence and forecasting. Through deployment of mobile applications, store and department managers can understand and effect local performance in real time.
While the competitive playing field is in near-constant turmoil and the economic outlook for 2016 is uncertain, it's still possible to drive better performance through modern performance management. Take advantage of the transformative opportunity presented by the evolution of performance management to understand and manage your business in a new and better way.
Only four out of 10 C-level executives are "very confident" that the data their organizations use is data whose quality they can count on, according to a study from 451 Research. That doesn't say much for the majority of businesses, particularly when 94 percent of senior leaders worry that poor data quality leads to limited information and, "…lost revenue or bad strategic decision-making."
As CIO magazine's Clint Boulton observes, problems with data quality often result from a disconnect between those who gather, clean and report the data, such as the CIO, and the line of business (LOB) managers throughout the organization who are actually accountable for it. When these two groups don't collaborate on important data such as performance metrics, important checks and insights are overlooked. And that leads to business decisions based on bad business data.
It doesn't have to be that way. Laredo Petroleum, which operates more than 1,000 wells in the Permian Basin of Texas, has created a planning and forecasting environment led by its CIO that gives every stakeholder an opportunity to make decisions based on the same set of data. Traditionally, Laredo Petroleum supervisors and foremen had to wait up to two weeks to learn how much revenue a particular rig was producing or whether it made financial sense to continue or stop drilling on a site. With oil prices near record lows, the ability to answer these questions is more crucial than ever. Fortunately, managers and field personnel alike now can access their planning environment from virtually any device to get answers to those questions immediately, enabling them to save expenses by taking the right actions sooner.
When CIOs and others who "own" performance data can work with those managers whose functions have to rely on it, great things happen. And before long, those C-level executives can cross data quality from their list of worries.
It's earnings seasons and corporate finance pros everywhere are gearing up for the quarterly Super Bowl, i.e. the earnings call.
See the 5 changes in finance Christian Gheorghe, CEO and founder of Tidemark, will be looking for in 2016.
When asked about Netflix, a popular catch phrase we continue to use is 'killing it.' That phrase may be more relevant today when thinking about the global entertainment company. When a business combines third party data insights with operational and financial data in the same environment, decision-makers can access not only outside sentiment but also correlate that to company information that helps them budget and operationalize a plan.
With competitive benchmarking, it's crucial to measure aspects of your business that reveal how you're performing against Brands X, Y and Z. This means tracking KPIs that go beyond financial performance to include operational metrics like production, efficiency and market share.


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Three officers involved in an off-duty shooting that wounded two men will not face criminal charges.
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