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6. How did early humans obtain food? 5
7. How did early humans make tools? 5
8. Explain early humans' patterns of residence. 5
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10. Explain any two differences between hunter gatherer societies of past and present. 5
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Unidentified assailants suspected to be Al shabaab have shot and killed a civilian woman in northern Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday night, eyewitnesses said.
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Nestled amongst small leafless trees, and stroked with beige and brown hues, this house is situated on the edge of a tumbling hill in the National Forest. With stunning views of the river, this exciting house has an open plan layout with enormous windows looking out at the views. Built with natural materials and stone panels, the exterior looks every bit as earthy as its surroundings whilst carrying some traditional features such as the chimney. The interior is very spacious and has stone panelling on many walls in the main living space, creating a warm and rustic look. The addition of modern furnishings enables this house to carry an unusual yet homely style. This is a project of pod studio.
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- In from the Cold: Traditionally styled home is warm and inviting
- Chalet on the Mountainside
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- Curvy in the Cold: Magnificent house in the snow looks modern and inviting and offers wonderful views
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I contacted my client, told her of the 95% chance that I have found "our boy" and asked if she would like me to make a road trip. The first few words out of her mouth were, "Why aren't you on the road already?!"
So I put on my deerstalker cap, grabbed my magnifying glass, and I headed to the courthouse five counties away. I marched up to the window and ordered a death certificate of this boy, figuring that if he was born in 1883, the chances were pretty good that he has died by 2012. To my surprise, they printed off the death certificate and I find he has a "new" wife and son, well at least their names are new to me, and the death certificate lists a cemetery name!
I turned to my husband who had accompanied me on this trip, exclaimed "The Game is Afoot" and then I was off and running. He laughed briefly, but soon found that it was all he could to keep up with me as I headed for the door. With fire in my eyes and my Smart Phone in my hand, I began searching for a map to the cemetery as we walked!
As he drove, I contacted the cemetery sexton by phone and asked him how to locate the plot. This gentleman knew exactly where our boy was buried and he gladly gave us directions. We arrived, parked by the flagpole off the west entrance, and start to head up the small hill. We apprehensively but anxiously approach the plot and there he was… right before our eyes, our boy! It was just like a magic trick… he vanished in 1910,died in 1945 and was found in 2012!
I selected some tools from my "Graving Bag" and cleaned the moss that covered his stone and removed debris from the engraving. Sure enough, we had found "our" boy, even though he was no longer using his "proper" given name, but a common nickname..
I looked at my husband and told him "This boy may have run away, but he couldn't hide." Of course, he may not have not run away, and he may not have been hiding either. There are two sides to each story, but we may never know the complete story of how they met and why they divorced, since they both took their stories to the grave.
The boy's family, who started to write this book, had looked for him unsuccessfully for years by using the "front door" method of looking up obituaries online and ordering from the big town newspapers before they contacted me. As I discovered, local small town newspapers sometimes lets you in the "back door" and have much more of a story to tell you.
So, do keep looking high and low, and remember that when you see those two special words "Survived By …" you should read more carefully, for that can make all the difference in your hunting.
We not only found this boy because of those two words in his son's obituary in a local newspaper, but we also found another wife and child to hunt for!
But, that is another story.
– Genealogy Huntress
Below is a photo of the 'distraught widow' and her son – OR – does that snicker say "I know something you don't know"? We may never know!


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I have had spell where I wake up with anxiety and I just go slow and work my way through it. If I know I have to be somewhere first thing in the morning I allow extra time so I do not have to rush which adds to the anxiety.
I am sure you will get some great advice from the members. A warm welcome to HealingWell. We are so glad to have you onboard.
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Hi Dadana1,
Welcome to HW, I'm sorry I am so late in saying hello, but I've not been well (bad anxiety). I used to wake up all the time feeling really anxious and it could take me hours to shake it off. It was only recently that I was feeling so unwell and anxious again and it came back for the first time in ages. I was not being able to get out of bed until almost midday, and evn called into work sick. When it was just nerves, not illness.
I think the key for me is to get up as soon as I wake up so I can't dwell on anything negative. I find exercise first thing in the morning helps too.
Hope this helps, again, welcome
Dear Dana,
There are treatments for agraphobia too so know you have options. Talk with your PCP about recommending therapy for you.
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TIL: America; THE Consumerist Society
To preface this piece of writing, I would like to say that I have thus far thoroughly enjoyed my time in the States, and Texas for that matter and found the American people nothing but welcoming. Any of the gripes expressed in this blog are not intended to give the impression that I have been another one of those snooty European visitors who complain about every insolent characteristic of US society.
Within the first few days of life in the US, one thing became apparent to me: The three R's are not high on the American people's agenda. Now I have visited America before, but only in the tourist capacity. On this occasion, I have been a temporary resident, which means that I have had to engage in all the various American affairs necessary for making my time in the States as comfortable as possible. For example; shopping in Walmart.
Before charges for plastic bags became a common feature in supermarkets across EU countries, people were far too frivolous with the consumption of bags given to them for free. Rarely did anyone reuse a bag or find a suitable place to recycle these throwaway items. Keep that era in mind, and then double the usage and half the occasions when people find suitable recycling locations and you have your average Walmart customer. I won't go through every encounter I have had with this shop, but on one occasion I had bought a bag of apples which I had bagged myself before weighing the items. The worker at the cash register saw it fit to then wrap my bagged apples in a plastics bag before eventually bagging them in another plastic bag. In all, there was my doubly bagged apples and a bagged can of Febreeze in one plastic bag. You could have easily fit triple the items in there. This was the first of the major consumerist culture shocks which my brain had to take.
I'm not quite sure if the next brand of consumerism is unique to the desert and swamp states of the South and South-West of America, but the majority of people here simply do not drink water from a tap. Or faucet as the Americans call it. Instead, people purchase cheaply bottled mineral water in huge bulk for a very low price. This would be fine, were it common custom for the American people to then recycle the plastic bottles appropriately. But of course they do not. And just for equities' sake; the European exchange students exercise much of the same behaviour which this society is conducive to. The amount of non-biodegradable waste which this must amount to almost makes me wince when I think about it.
Driving through San Antonio during the night for my first time presented me with a whole new environmental offence which again, boggled my mind. Almost every light in every shop, bank, hotel and any other type of establishment is on for the entirety of the night. In other words; 24/7. I realise that this is in order to deter thiefs and to make it easier to identify the faces of those who attempt to steal from these places, but even the most minor and pointless of lights are still on. Like the lights above the tables in a McDonald's. The cash register I can understand, but who is trying to steal a couple of benches and a table screwed to the floor? 'Luckily', gas is not an issue in Texas and the electricity bill might not be as substantial as one might think, but again, the heinous amount of natural gas that this must consume wracks the brain. All because humans can't trust each other.
The last point leads nicely into the final part of my rant, about a consumerist trait which is not uniquely Texan, but is certainly heightened in this part of the country. I would estimate that 3 out of every 4 motorist in Texas drives a pick-up or jeep of some sort. Even the girliest of girls in Texas drive a Chevy. Again, this does not cause too much of an upset in the wallets of those living here as petrol and diesel prices are absurdly cheap. This gives free reign to the Texan people to have zero qualms about driving their souped-up 2014 white Chevy pick-up with gigantic wheels and custom alloys to buy a can of coke and some cookies in their local supermarket. To only exasperate matters, cities in Texas are so expansive and public transport is so weak that residents are forced to drive almost everywhere.
While I realise this has all been documented to death in the media, seeing first-hand just how much resources American people expend for day-to-day tasks which could easily be achieved in a less wasteful manner is quite shocking. I would implore anyone who stays here for a period of time to try and not give-in to this way of living. It really is very easy to find yourself throwing plastic bags and bottles into general waste like Starburst wrappers and hitching a ride with the local rich friend you made because he's one eighth Irish in his father's Land Rover to the cinema.


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Part 1: One of the reasons I enjoy creating software is that I'm fascinated by researching and understanding users of the technology we create. I sometimes refer to myself as a software anthropologist. That's part of why I also enjoy user interface design. So, enough about me… lets get on to the topic.
Over time, I've noticed how the form of communications we use is generational. By that I mean as time marches on, we create new ways of communicating and that tends to be the form users of that generation stick with. Some make the transition to the next generation, some have a foot in both camps, and others stick with what they've been comfortable with.
When I first started my career, business people communicated very differently than they do today. Besides the phone, communication was written, either through memos or reports, or personal letters between friends and family. There were no cell phones yet, and desktop computers were just beginning to make their way onto desktops. Yes, I'm really dating myself here.
But how I communicated was a bit different, a hybrid actually. I was a computer science student in college and had a side business writing medical software for the Apple II. I was exploring online bulletin boards and using word processing software (that's what we called it back then) to create my content, but few were doing this when I started creating software at the bank where I worked. Very soon after that, I was setting up my first LANs and starting to deploy email servers and email clients, something else that was also very new to the PCs in businesses where I worked.
So, with that as a starting point, I noticed that I was different from those around me in the bank and in the IT department. Everyone lived by pen, paper or a typewriter, while I was always on a computer. And over time I observed how our communication patterns tend to change with new generation of users and stay the same for others.
Here's how I break down the generations of communications and how users of that generation create and consume content.
Non-computer – short hand, dictation, pen and typewriter. I collapse all of these forms together because they don't involve the use of a computer, matter of fact they largely predate computers. Content was handwritten or created verbally and either written down in shorthand or recorded into a Dictaphone type device, and then transferred via typewriter into written form. This is the generation my parents and grandparents grew up in. My grandmother was well known at the local hospital for her typing speed and accuracy at deciphering and spelling medical jargon dictated by doctors. That couldn't have been easy. Other than the use of the phone, all of our communications were written. (You could go back in history and talk about typeset, printing press and when everything was handwritten, but I'm not going there in this blog post.)
Word processing. When I officially joined the workforce (after college), word processing was making it's way through businesses. This was the Wang word processor era, specialized hardware and software just for word processing. I was using PC software for word processing, like ScreenWriter II (Apple II), MacWrite (Mac), WordPerfect, WordStar and eventually Microsoft Word (PC). I really only saw the tail end of dedicated word processor generation, as it was pretty short-lived from my experience. I recall on the first development project I worked how many people created content by writing it on yellow pads, and then the word processing pool (formerly typewriter operators) transferred it to typed pages. This was an odd period for me because I was using my own word processing software to create content and either printing it on my own printer or handing it over to the word processing pool to retype. (Go figure.) As computers moved onto the desktop, thanks largely to VisiCalc and Lotus 123, word processing shifted to the desktop as well. Understand that ultimately what we're talking about here is content that's only consumed once it's printed. Creation of content is still written but it's being translated to the computer rather than being created at the computer.
Email. I'm largely of the email generation. I remember setting up one of the first LAN-based email servers in EDS where I worked. The email software was InterMail and it ran on the Mac (and I believe later became part of ccMail.) Most in the email generation send, receive and consume content via email while they are at their computer. They do it themselves. (This probably sounds like no big deal to you because that's likely how you work and communicate.) An interesting side effect is that non-computer and word processing generations typically didn't fully make the transition to email. I remember countless managers and executives who had their assistants print out their email for them, write comments and responses on the printed page for their assistants to type up and reply back to the sender. That seems as uncomfortable to me as having someone act as a mediator between myself and a caller on the phone, but for those of the written communication generation, computers, mice, keyboards and email programs seem just as foreign or strange.
Instant Messaging (IM). A relatively collapsed generation are IM users. I say collapsed in that IM tends to be an extension of email users, not really a generation in and of itself. It doesn't replace email, but gives instant communications to individuals and groups. The audience of people who you IM is usually pretty small, such as co-workers in your immediate workgroup, some family members and friends. Except for a relatively few users on the extreme, I don't see this as a way an entire generation changed their communication patterns, giving up email in place of IM.
Texting. My kids are of the texting generation. They rarely use email (mostly to communicate with me) and they don't use email to communicate amongst their friends and social groups. They text, and they text a lot. They see email as something Dad does, but not them, though they use email for other purposes such as their school email account where information is delivered to them via email. Both my kids and I are hybrids, but at different extremes. I text, but use much more email while my kids' generation text and use a little bit of email. We're at that crossover point in this transition from email to texting in a variety of forms as we'll see in a moment. People like myself who have adopted texting will better communicate with the next generation and may transition there themselves (I hope I do), and those who haven't will still require their audience cross back and forth between their preferred method and previous generation's methods.
Twitter and social networking. Clearly social media, with the exception of blogging, is designed around the same types of short messages we've seen from the texting generation. But it's different in that social networking can reach one person (such as with a direct tweet or wall-to-wall message) and also go out to many within our social networks, both close friends and family or more distant observers. An interesting aspect of social media is how it has quickly crossed multiple generations. While mySpace was primarily a youth and music oriented community, Facebook is used by a much broader spectrum of age groups. Twitter is rapidly making its way into businesses as a new medium for reaching their audiences, but we're still largely in that early adoption phase.
One of the things I haven't addressed yet is mobile communications, i.e. cell phones. Clearly mobile technologies have enabled options like texting, while twitter, IM and email communications can be performed with and without cell phones. I won't go into mobile communications any deeper here as I think I could write a very similar blog post about how mobile communications has shifted from one land line phone per home to wide spread use of mobile phones and to a lesser degree SmartPhones.
Okay, that's the breakdown. In Part 2 of this blog post I'll discuss how thinking about communications in this generational context is important and how it influences our products, IT systems and methods of reaching customers and communities.
In a blog post It's All About The Faces, Brad Feld talked about the impact on his readers after changing from his normal portrait style avatar to a more artistic version. Followers commented how he seem so much less accessible, resulting in Brad changing back to his orginal picture.
That blog post immediately reminded me of a somewhat releted experience I had that same day. While creating a new group on Facebook, I ran into some challenges when trying to invite some of my Facebook friends to the group. For some reason my web browser would only display my friends avatars, and not their names, so I could only identify them by the avatar they'd selected. Many friends were easy to recognize, I was shocked by how many I was unable to recognize only having an avatar to go by.
Why? The friends I couldn't immediately identify all had something other than a picture of themselves for their avatar. Examples included bears in a field, pictures of their babies and kids, scenary from a vacation or favorite location, far off shots that basically showed the person in sillotte, or they were just difficult to make out in the picture.
Now, I'm not saying it's bad to be creative with your Facebook, Twitter or other social networking avatar. But the avatar you chose may impact friends and followers and the connection they feel with you. Some of my friend's avatars have the person's face front and center. I really like those because I immediately feel I know who I'm talking to, and in some esoteric way it refreshes for me a small part of the relationship I have with them.
The Facebook experience caused me to think about my own choice of avatars. I rotate primarily between three pictures; the first two are more "professional" in nature with one being based on the same picture you see in the heading of this blog, and another taken from a video interview I did a while back with Network World. The third is a little more distant shot of me playing my project Strat guitar, which I use for my music and personal posts. Those first two are pretty clear pictures of me, and should make it easy to recognize me from my mug shot. The third is not as easy to make out, though playing music is a deep passion of mine and I do enjoy showing off my guitar. I suppose showing me in that way does present my connection with music, and that's something most who have non-professional relationship with me know if an important part of who I am.
In any case, I think the important thing here is to recognize that your choice in the pictures you use to represent yourself via an avatar does influence both people's ability to recognize you, and more importantly, to establish and re-establish their connection with you. Unless you're twittering under an account used for your business, your choice in avatars is more than just your badge or logo, it's you we're talking about. After all, isn't that what social networking is all about… enabling interpersonal relationships, and building communities with others based on interests, topics, events, work, pop culture and social causes?
So take 2 minites and go check out the avatars you're using. If they don't help others relate or connect with you, maybe it's worth considering a new avatar or dusting off that avatar you set aside in favor of some new, more artistic but less personal version. Remember that ultimately, social networking is about you and the connections you build with others. Some cool new Facebook survey you completed may say you relate to the world as a bear, but that doesn't mean the rest of the world should see you that way or that you want them to.
My editor at Network World Microsoft Subnet, Julie Bort, posted this video parody of the movie The Matrix that pokes fun at Microsoft Windows. No matter if you're a Linux fan, Mac user or you use Windows regularly, I think everyone will enjoy this video.
Cloud, featured, Microsoft, Mobility, Product Mgmt
Continued from a previous blog post…The Digital Age Will Save Us… Uh HuhIf you haven't noticed our world of software is changing right from under us. We rarely receive CDs or DVDs when you buy software. All the Microsoft products I use in my business all come direct via the web, downloading an installer or the ISO image of the DVD to my computer. We buy and download our music through Amazon and iTunes. Now customers have much greater access to products, and we have instant delivery of online services and software products to our customers.Fall 2008 at the Microsoft developer's conference, Microsoft announced Windows Azure, their strategy for bringing applications and infrastructure services into the cloud. It's a bold step but nothing short of bold will do to be able to compete against the lead created by Google and Amazon. We're entering an age where computing power, storage and network bandwidth are services we can spin up or wind down as needed. That's a product manager's digital dream, right? Well, it's never that easy.Yes there are automated processes for provisioning services and bringing new servers online, and they work, but not always in peak situations. There's always more to it than standing up a dozen or more servers and "bring them online". Databases, load balancers, firewalls, application software, backup/recovery, bandwidth, failover schemes… it all plays into the equation.Microsoft was down for nearly a full day reconfiguring their service to be able to handle the huge demand for the Windows 7 beta. We don't yet think of Microsoft as hosting thousands of computers like a Google or Amazon EC2 and S3 (Amazon's hosting and storage services). But Microsoft runs a huge infrastructure that delivers MSN Messenger, MSN email, MSNBC site content, Windows Update service (all those patches you keep receiving), automated anti-virus updates for OneCare…. see there's a lot. So, Microsoft's no newb at the online services hosting game and it still took them a day to get back on their feet delivering Windows 7 downloads on the Internet.It's Not A Successful Launch Unless The Order System Gets HurtI see a trend happening. It's obviously not intentional but it may become one of the criteria for any mind blowing, gang buster style product launch. The trend: crashing the servers.Apple's iPhone 3G was plagued with enormous problems which revealed a single point of failure in their online and SmartPhone strategy – the iTunes service. Yes, that nice little program you have on your Mac or PC to play songs, sync up you iPod and iPhone, and buy digital songs and movies. Behind your desktop app are the iTunes service which not only provide the online store for buying digital content, it also is crucial to provisioning iPhones and delivering software upgrades. Apple unwisely chose to bring out a new iTunes and iPhone software upgrades, and convert the .MAC service to MobileMe… all within a few days of each other. Busted. When demand peaked, the iTunes servers couldn't handle the demands and customers were impacted on all fronts.Verizon's Blackberry Storm was plagued with similar issues when their ordering system overloaded during the first day of product launch. Call me silly but I'm pretty sure they knew the demand was coming following several very public product launch date delays, tons of attention from online on technology sites and blogs (like mine) and Verizon's own billboards plastered around town more than a month before launch. (A consequence of moving the launch date once too often.)Don't Do It To Yourself… or Your CustomersWhat's the second most under appreciated component of any piece of software? Answer: The installer. And what's the number one under appreciated component of any software product? Answer: The upgrade.My mom used to say that you don't get to go to kindergarten until you can remember three things. (I forget what the other two things she says are, but I digress.) My adage is a product team doesn't really know how to ship a successful software product until they can reliably do software upgrades successfully at least three times consecutively. (And not just minor upgrades.)Apple is notorious for really bad upgrades, the consequences of which are bricked iPhone, wiped out data and pissed off customers. It's not happened with just one software release, but occurs time and again. I've personally had two iPods blanked from Apple's software updates, one of them was totally DOA and not recoverable without sending it to Apple. The most recent episode smacked down my buddy Alan's iPhone, wiping it and causing him to wait while fix was tested and posted. That one experience moved him from being an iPhone advocate to an iPhone protagonist.In IT shops software upgrades might be something we do once or twice a year. They are well planned (or should be) and timed, and include a recovery strategy should something go afoul. But that's become much different for consumers and PCs in small and medium businesses. An upgrade or patch to Windows or Mac OS X could happen at any time, resulting in our PCs being reboot overnight or creating a capability problem you didn't have the day before.Upgrades are crucial to a positive customer experience. Their importance is drastically increasing. In my opinion, we're not far from the day where every company needs to learn to do upgrades flawlessly or they get to go away.The Fundamentals & Learning FasterShifting to the age of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online hosting, services on demand, and digitally delivered products are launch and delivery strategies we all are likely to consider and use at sometime. It opens up new possibilities, gives us access to new customers and markets, and drastically decreases the time to reach customers before, during and after the sale. It also means we need to be smart about learning from our experiences and the experiences of others in market.Jumping onto some new technology often means we forget or ignore the fundamentals. Who's the customer, what really are their needs, what will create a satisfying experience for them, positioning, messaging, the 5 P's, etc. If anything technology accelerates and shortens the window between a buying a experience and a satisfying product experience. That means we have to learn faster, plan better and be prepared for more contingencies. We have to be open and transparent with our customers because they see the magnitude of product issues we experience and the age of whitewashing problems through some fancy PR campaign of CEO slight of hand are gone. Ask Jet Blue's former CEO who is Passenger Bill Of Rights won over unhappy customers who sat in the plane grounded for hours.Transparency. Something I'll talk about at another time.
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If you create products (or run a business that does), it's your professional and personal goal to create something everyone wants so badly that products fly off the shelves like Nintendo Wii's at Christmas (and most of the year, actually).
There are countless examples of this kind of demand, including the Wii, XBox's, iPhone, Tickle Me Elmo, and Cabbage Patch Kids to name just a few. Now we're seeing the online equivalent of customers banging down the virtual doors of our servers and networks to get at products. Rockies world series tickets and Apple's MobileMe service are examples where servers cratered over the demand by users within a very short time window.
A very recent example is the public-beta of Windows 7, the successor to the much maligned Windows Vista. Microsoft had to shut down their download servers and regroup on Friday as too many requests were coming over the gun walls, causing a bad experience for everyone trying to get new bits.
As a product creator I haven't (yet) been fortunate to have that kind of success for a product. (But you gotta believe you've got that in ya 🙂 ).
Limited Supply Can Be A Good Thing
In the recent Blackberry Storm SmartPhone product launch, much was made about the Storm being the device to knock the iPhone off the top of the leader board. While the Storm certainly didn't do that, it was a very successful product launch. It's no doubt by anyone there would be high demand for the Storm, but Verizon stores had limited supplies of them on hand the day of the product launch. The store I visited at 6am on a Friday morning only had an allotment of 30 Blackberry Storms. All stores only had a limited few phones, and before I left with mine in hand, other Verizon stores were calling the into the store I was in looking for more phones. The warehouse was out by days end.
Certainly Verizon and Blackberry anticipated high demand upon launch of the Storm. But did they purposefully limit the number of units available on day one to help keep demand for the Storm high and in the buying market's mind? Or were they just being prudent and protecting themselves on the backside from an over supply if the product's acceptance didn't live up to the pre-launch hype. The only recent product I'm pretty certain has been purposefully kept in short supply is the Wii. There's been a shortage of Wii's (at least a perceived shortage) virtually since the gaming console came out.
It's A Manufacturing Problem
Then there's the "RAM factory burned down in Japan" or "manufacturing can't keep up" situation. Now that's something no product manager wants to have happen. The customers are there but the product can't get to the customer due to manufacturing.
There's a flip side to this dilemma too. At a training course (I think it was a Florida Power and Light Quality course, but I'm not sure) we played something called the "beer game". No, it wasn't a drinking game like you're thinking. It was to show how decisions in the supply chain can run afoul. You come out with the hottest new beer on college campus' but no one anticipated that outrageous demand you're seeing. Beer isn't like CDs, you can't just stamp out more… it takes time to cook. Long story short, folks in the supply chain start over ordering attempting to raise their position in the queue, and fill demand for beer money that's been left on the table, and then… demand suddenly drops off, that beer's not in vogue anymore. Suddenly everyone's cancelling orders and sitting on more product than they know what to do with. It was a very enlightening scenario, which emphasized the need for systemic thinking.
Note: I always tell clients and friends I coach about blogging and social media to keep it short, three paragraphs or so. With that in mind, I'll break this up in to more than one post.
To be continued…
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We have another network security blog in the house. Not too far on the heals of Secure64 CEO, Steve Goodbarn, two of his technical guys have decided to join the ranks of the network security bloggers. The blog, www.Paths2Trust.com, is co-authored by Joe Gersch and Bill Worley. Joe, the head of development for Secure64, has taken the lead and started putting up some blog posts while Bill's been heads-down cranking out DNSSEC product code.
The primary topic of their blog is DNSSEC. Both are active in secure DNS product development and I expect they'all also share some of their experiences with the standards bodies, DNSSEC adoption, and implementing DNSSEC. Both Joe and Bill have the career chops to talk tech and I'm sure we'll enjoy hearing what they have to say not only about DNSSEC but also their past experiences in networking, RISC computing platforms (in which Bill is an industry pioneer) and other topics of interest.
I enjoy working with all of these guys as part of my Converging Network LLC business. It's a real pleasure to see them joining the security blogging community. Take a moment to welcome them by checking out both www.paths2trust.com and www.stevegoodbarn.com. You can also check out Steve on his recent SSAATY podcast appearance.


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Treat an earache at home by using over-the-counter pain medications, applying heat to the affected ear, and using eardrops, according to WebMD. Resting allows the body to fight off the infection that causes most earaches.
Pain-reliving medications, including Motrin and Tylenol, help soothe the pain of an earache, notes WebMD. A warm washcloth applied to the ear area can also ease pain. If an earache persists after a couple of days, the patient requires evaluation by a medical professional. For bacterial ear infections, doctors generally prescribe antibiotics. Many doctors prescribe antibiotics for all ear infections since it is difficult to determine if an infection has the potential to clear up without antibiotic treatment.


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First Day Of Spring Social Media Marketing
Spring Begins – March 20, 2016
Ideas to post:
- Have a Spring Sale and post it on social media.
- Change your cover on your social media accounts a few days before the first day of Spring to Spring weather coming .
- Have a contest on the first Day of Spring and give away something from your business.
- Create a board on your Pinterest page about Spring activities.
- Use hashtags like: #spring #springtime #blossom #flowers #beautiful #season #instaspring #ilovespring #warm #sunny #sun #tree #pretty #flower #bloom #colorful
- Post fun facts about Spring and how the weather is changing
- Post creative images that are fun or educational about Spring.
- Write a blog article about any activities related and include an image or video
Next Holidays in March
Here are the next Holidays and National Days that coming up in March that you can utilize on your Social Media accounts and your website to create engagement and drive traffic towards your business.


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Lagos state government has approved a total of NGN6.25billion fund for 281 micro-enterprises for four years, totalling N25billion, the Trust fund bill was signed since January by Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode to support small businesses.
According to the government about 150 of the beneficiaries have received offer letters under the pilot scheme of its Employment Trust Fund (ETF). The vision if the ETF scheme is to support 1000 micro,small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and create 300,000 and 600,000 indirect jobs by 2019.
Mr Akintunde Oyebode, the Executive Secretary of the ETF, made the remark on Friday in Lagos, at the presentation of offer letters to some of the beneficiaries.
He said that under the pilot scheme, beneficiaries would be given 5% interest loans between NGN300, 000 and NGN500, 000 and are expected to repay within 12 months.
"Subsequently, we will roll out the SME loan programme of up to N5 million for three years,'' Oyebode said.
One of the recipients, Mr Charles Obi, on behalf of other beneficiaries, thanked Gov. Akinwumi Ambode for keeping to his promise.


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Date(s) - Sun. Sep 11, 2016
10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Confederation Beach Park
You're invited to join the Hamilton/Burlington SPCA with your family and friends (and dogs!) to raise funds at the 27th annual Wiggle Waggle Walk – all for the animals! Sunday, September 11th, 2016, Sign in at 10:00am, Edgewater Pavilion.
Fundraise and walk as a PACK or as an INDIVIDUAL at Confederation Beach Park to help homeless and neglected animals at the shelter. With your donations and pledges, together, the SPCA can help those who cannot help themselves. Check out the event information page to see what's new this year .


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Douglas C. Powers
Jan. 21, 1938 - April 10, 2006
Douglas C. Powers of Mukwonago passed away Monday, April 10, 2006, at AngelsGrace Hospice in Oconomowoc. He was 68.
Doug was born in Mukwonago on Jan. 21, 1938, the son of Donald and Charlotte (nee Perkins) Powers. He was a graduate of Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha.
In 1993, Doug retired from the U.S. Postal Service in Mukwonago where he was a postman for many years.
He was a U.S. Army veteran and a member of the American Legion Post #375 in Mukwonago. Doug founded the Gerald Rudolph Scholarship Fund and was a member of St. James Catholic Church in Mukwonago.
Survivors include his children, Patti (Cooper) Dyke of Cedarburg, Jeffrey (Traci) and Steven (Tracey), both of Mukwonago; his brothers, David (Jenny) of Waukesha, Donald of East Troy and Tom of Colorado; five grandchildren, Clay and Sarah Dyke and Carly, Hannah and Erin Powers; and other relatives and friends.
His parents and a brother, Phil, preceded him in death.
Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. until the 7 p.m. memorial Mass on Tuesday, April 18, at St. James Catholic Church, 830 Highway NN East, Mukwonago. The Rev. Robert Drutowski will officiate. Interment with military honors will take place at Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Union Grove.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family are appreciated.
Schmidt & Bartelt-Van Valin Funeral and Cremation Services of Mukwonago, 363-7126, is serving the family.


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Monday, 26 December 2011
Free Download: OG'z - Oh Geezus, It's Christmas AGAIN!
Following up from 2009's 'Oh Geezus, It's Christmas' mixtape P Money, Blacks and Little Dee are back fronting this free eight track release. With features from some of the less known OG members and the beats being provided by a tight selection of some of the most in demand producers at the moment (just take a look at the beat selections from Lord Of The Mics 3 for an idea of how dominant these guys currently are) this is a welcome return to the mixtape format from the crew, who have remained relatively quiet since 'OG Season' and the departure of Dot Rotten.
Download: OG'z - Oh Geezus, It's Christmas AGAIN!
1. OG'z - This Is GRIME! (feat. Kozzie, Jammin & Shower) (Prod. By Darq E Freaker)
2. OG'z - Taking It Old School (Prod. By Preditah)
3. OG'z - Who We Are (Prod. By Zdot)
4. Blacks - La La La (Prod. By Faze Miyake)
5. OG'z - Dead Battery Freestyle (Prod. By Faze Miyake)
6. Stormer - Sisters (Prod. By Preditah)
7. OG'z - Shutdown Vs. OG'z (Prod. By Sukh Knight)
8. OG'z - Numbers & Letters (Prod. By Faze Miyake)
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Those of you who follow me know this quilts story. For newcomers, in short, it is the last quilt top my Grammy ever made.
I did get it bound, washed and in use. I am happy to report that I the markings that had been done in pencill, and had been there a good many years all washed out. As with all quilts made in this house, feline inspections are required, they were both under (they like to play tent just like the grand kids (preferably with the grand kids) - and they we ended up with one on top chasing the one under. Nice free entertainment.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Race Report: Chicago Undie Dash 5K
I'll keep this short and sweet. So the race was on my birthday...me and my cousin Briget met downtown and walked over to DuSable Harbor, adjacent to the Chicago Yacht Club, a great place to be reminded that your liberal arts major didn't lend much to the pursuit of the almighty dollar... As we picked up our packets (because there was ONLY race day packet pickup) I was confronted with two unfortunate things: No official timing and there were a GANG of biting flies in this particular area near the lake. So for 90 minutes, we swatted away flies and watched the crowd roll in, including my bestie Annah. The premise of the Chicago Undie Dash is to raise money for an organization that promotes awareness of women's breast and ovarian health. I certainly wasn't gonna go out in my drawers, and a whole LOT of people could have done the same--but didn't. The course was on the lakefront path, and even in the grass at some points. Runners were probably more there for the underwear gimmick, because there were lots of people who were walking within the first mile on what was a crowded "course." So while it was fun enough, I probably won't do it again next year. Not much else to report other than there was an ugly headwind for about the last mile and some change. 3.1 miles/34:14 (pace 11:03)
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Great job! Cute pic.
- July 28, 2012 at 3:49 PM
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BC: This is a picture of my old Youth Group the Youth Of Blaze, we took this picture back in Richmond Virigina on our church Confrence trip.
1: I first arrived in this World at 1:35 a.m. at Huntsville Hospital 1990 located in Alabama. I am the only girl out of 3 brothers and 1 step brother. I am also the baby of the family. I am 18 years young and i am a twin but my twin died when she was 3. And i love to hang out with my friends. I originally moved her to North Carolina.
2: When i first arrive in NC i was upset because i knew i was going to be away from all my family and friends. It was really hard for me to find my way around this state. Because where i came from it wasn't as big as Charlotte, NC. But now as you see that i am starting to like it now. I have met new people and friends. The reason why me and my family moved here to NC is because my step dad is a Pastor for New Life Outreach International Church by Baber Scotia College. Once i realized i was moving from a place where i learned how to do everything at Walk talk and learn i was really mad I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama all my life i really didn't want to move anywhere else but now as i am getting older and have been here in North Carolina for 2 years i am starting to like it.
4: LITERARY TERM MOOD- I am always happy i keep a smile on my face. And i like to hang around friend's and family.
5: Thank you for reading my short story! THE END!!!


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Sweet pea
Sweet peas belong to the family of legumes. This plant variety can transform air-nitrogen into a plant-available form with the aid of symbiotic bacteria living on the root of the plant. The component of sweet pea increases the protein content and thus the good usability in cattle fodder. Differentiation is made in the usage between summer sweet peas (vicia sativa) and winter sweet peas (vicia villosa). Both varieties can be cultivated in rows, but have an additional significance as important component in seed mixtures with other legumes or grasses. Summer sweet peas are used as a quick-growing component e.g. in our "topsoil nitropro" mixture. Winter sweet pea is used in the catch crop "topsoil winterfest" mixture, where it forms good ground cover to protect against erosion prior to winter together with other components in the event of later sowing (up to mid September).
Seed quantity: 100-140 kg/ha (in case of pure seed)
Sowing time: June to July (winter sweet pea as main fruit March to April)
Seed depth: approx. 50 mm
Row distance: 12 - 15 cm
Fertiliser: According to soil inspection tests
Further information for the usage of sweet pea available under topsoil mixtures.


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When we rent a house,most of us do not investigate the history of it whether it is a haunted house or not. Like most of us, This family made the same mistake and their child began to experience mysterious activities in the haunted house. Read full to discover.
As usual, she was the first to fall asleep. She and my oldest son shared a room because they weren't too fond of sleeping by themselves. (That will be explained in other publishings.) I carefully pick her up and take her to the bed and head back for the living room. No more than 10 minutes later she comes running out full speed, all the while looking behind her as though someone is chasing her, her face pale as a ghost.
She runs to me and jumps on my lap. Now me, knowing this look, I asked her what was wrong. She tells me a girl was in the room and she wanted to play.I ask her what did she do? She says to me, "Momma, she started jumping on the bed and woke me up and she said she wanted to play. I told her 'No I'm tired." So I carefully asked her what did she look like. She responds she was and had short red curly hair and had a dress on.This spooked me and my husband and our boys. So I get up and walk into the room, expecting to see a ghost girl standing there. I turn the light on and nothing, just a chill in the room. I ask her to come here and look. She says, "Momma, she was right there." I said, "I know." After this she started to sleep with me and talking in her sleep. She refused to play alone in any of the rooms without one of her brothers with her. This is just one experience we had in this duplex.


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March 13th in history:
Attorney Clarence Darrow, the defense lawyer at the Scopes "Monkey" trial, died on this date in 1938. It was exactly 13 years after the day the Tennessee House voted to ban the teaching of evolution in state schools. Passage of that law led to the Scopes trial.
A major scientific discovery on March 13th, 1781: Astronomer William Herschel announced that he had found the planet Uranus. It was the first planet in the solar system to be discovered by telescope.
And on this date in 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh announced to the Harvard College Observatory that he had discovered a ninth planet, which would be named Pluto. In 2006, Pluto was downgraded to the status of "dwarf planet."
February 4th in history:
The Electoral College met for the first time to choose a U.S. president on February 4th, 1789. Electors unanimously chose the man whose face is on the dollar bill, George Washington.
You can probably find the faces of many friends on the Facebook website, which was founded on this date in 2004. Mark Zuckerberg started the social web page while still a student at Harvard, and it was originally meant to be used only by other Harvard students.
You may not know her face, but Janet Waldo was a familiar voice in the cartoon world and February 4th was her birthday. Waldo's most famous characters include Judy Jetson and Penelope Pitstop, but she also played Alice in an animated version of "Alice in Wonderland."
It's also the birthday for a famous "Alice": rock star Alice Cooper, born Vincent Furnier on February 4th, 1948.


text: Some of the first images from the spacecrafts low altitude science orbit are available. http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/HiRISE/hirise_images/ http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/gallery/press/20061006c/rover-color-close-up2-annot.jpg Showing its capability, HiRISE reveals the Opportunity rover near the rim of Victoria Crater in Meridiani Planum, as well as its shadow on the Martian surface and wheel tracks in the Martian soil behind it. The HiRISE image also reveals eroded segments of the crater rim and other landscape features in great detail.


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Waffles worth waking up for
By: Jessie Price
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
I'm pretty savvy when it comes to making healthy food choices. And at the very least, when I do make unhealthy choices, I usually know what I'm getting into. Waffles, however, seem to trip me up. When I selected
healthy breakfast recipes
for our cookbook EatingWell for a Healthy Heart with Dr. Philip Ades, I was surprised when I compared our healthy waffle recipes with traditional versions—waffles can be really unhealthy!
Many traditional waffle recipes use melted butter in the batter. But for Dr. Ades, a leading cardiac researcher at the University of Vermont, using butter in recipes is an absolute "no-no." He's adamant about the importance of limiting saturated fat as part of a
heart-healthy diet
. (We had to keep all the recipes butter-free in
EatingWell for a Healthy Heart
, including our recipe for
Amazing No-Butter Apple Pie
Anyway, we developed
this delicious waffle recipe
that even Dr. Ades could approve of. Here's how we made it healthier:
* Reduce calories and fat and eliminate saturated fat by using canola oil in place of butter.
* Use egg whites in place of whole eggs to cut down on calories and saturated fat.
* Replace all-purpose flour with whole-wheat flour to add fiber.
* Top waffles with fresh fruit or yogurt instead of whipped cream or additional butter to keep fat and saturated fat down.
Here's how our waffles stack up against traditional versions nutritionally:
Traditional Waffles:
* Calories: 560
* Fat: 27 g
* Saturated Fat: 18 g
* Sodium: 938 mg
* Fiber: 2 g
EatingWell Waffles
* Calories: 241
* Fat: 4 g
* Saturated Fat: 0 g
* Sodium: 450 mg
* Fiber: 3 g
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There are lot of reasons John Brady should retire as head boys basketball coach at Annapolis; but there are also a lot of reasons he should return for at least next season.
Those reasons and more are what the 14-year head coach will ponder over the weeks to come before making a decision.
Brady's claim that he would retire once he got 300 wins remains on hold at 298 after his Fighting Panthers dropped a 62-60 semifinal heart-breaker to Parkdale of Prince George's County at Cole Field House at the University of Maryland Thursday night.


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Boater Myths Busted!
By Charles Fort
Q: I have to take my new boat back to the dealer I bought it from to get it fixed under warranty, right?
A: No, any factory-authorized dealer can perform warranty work on your boat. But if you take your boat to a nonauthorized dealer, you'll have to pay for repairs out of pocket unless you have an authorization from the manufacturer. When you buy a new boat, keep in mind that if you don't have a dealer close by, you may be hauling your boat a long distance for warranty work; it's a rare dealer who will come to you for warranty work.
Q: Does my new-boat warranty cover my engines, too?
A: While the boatbuilder offers a warranty on the boat itself, usually the engine manufacturer provides separate warranty coverage for the engine(s). As a result, you may have to go to two different places for warranty repairs. Look for dealers that have technicians who can provide warranty work for both — a big plus. Read your new-boat warranty to learn what the dealer can fix and what you may have to take elsewhere for repairs, such as electronics. A few boat manufacturers now offer true "bumper-to-bumper" warranties that cover everything on the boat, just like new-car warranties.
Q: I'm an experienced boater who does my own maintenance. Will this void the warranty?
A: No, provided you follow the manufacturer's recommended schedule and use quality parts and fluids. Keep detailed records of maintenance, including dates of service, engine hours at time of service, and a description of services and/or parts installation performed.
Q: Is my extended-service contract an extension of my manufacturer warranty?
A: Nope. Service contracts are insurance policies, often underwritten by third parties not associated with manufacturers. These contracts are moneymakers for dealers; some retailers can mark up contracts more than 100 percent over the actual cost paid to the service-contract company. A true warranty offers broad coverage and has the weight of state and federal warranty laws behind it. The best service contracts are those backed by large manufacturers, and some offer their own in-house service contracts. Read the fine print. Most defects in new boats and engines show up within the original warranty period, so spending money up front on a service contract may be a waste of money.
Q: My boat has flotation, so it can't sink, right?
A: Only monohull powerboats 20-feet long and smaller and built after 1972 are required to have integral flotation designed to keep it from sinking, even when swamped. The U.S. Coast Guard requires these boats to be able to remain afloat and, in most cases, upright when filled with water. Sailboats aren't required to have flotation, and inboard/outboard boats have less-stringent requirements than outboard boats. Some manufacturers, such as Grady-White, install flotation in all of their boats, regardless of size.
Q: Do I need bottom paint to protect my boat from blisters?
A: Bottom paint (also called antifouling paint) is designed to protect your boat from marine growth, such as barnacles and slime. You only need it if your boat will be kept in the water for longer than a few days. Blisters, on the other hand, are caused by water seeping into the underlying fiberglass over a long period of time. While they may look unsightly, they rarely affect a boat's structural integrity. An epoxy barrier coat can prevent blisters but is expensive and often isn't needed, especially if your boat lives on a trailer or lift. Hauling a boat out every fall for dry storage ashore can reduce water absorption and the chances for developing blisters.
Q: You should use the highest octane gas you can find, right?
A: Using a higher-octane gas than your owner's manual recommends is a waste of money. Modern engines use electronic controls to let engines run safely with low-octane gas. Some engines can make more power with premium 91-octane gas, but unless the manual says high-octane gas is required, you can safely use regular 87-octane gas. With the price of premium gas often 20 percent to 25 percent more than regular, if your owner's manual says it's OK, you can probably save a bundle using the less-expensive gas, if you're comfortable with its ethanol content.
Q: Marine surveys are a waste of money for smaller boats, aren't they?
A: A professional "condition and valuation" marine survey (typically costing around $15 to $20 per foot) can often pay for itself. It provides a list of deficiencies as well as needed repairs, focusing on safety. Deficiencies can be used to renegotiate the sales price or scrap the deal altogether if the repairs are too expensive or complicated. Without a survey, you may overpay or be faced with unexpected and expensive repair bills. For most people, a boat worth more than a couple thousand dollars is a candidate for a marine survey.
Q: My boat has a capacity plate. Does that mean the U.S. Coast Guard certified that my boat is safe?
A: Neither the U.S. Coast Guard nor any other federal agency certifies boats. Only a few federal laws govern boatbuilding, including flotation requirements for powerboats under 20 feet, passenger- and weight-capacity labels, and fuel-system safety. Manufacturers self-certify that their boats meet these legal standards. The Coast Guard does, however, have a factory-visit program that audits boatbuilders periodically for spot checks and tests a few dozen boats for flotation compliance every year.
A comprehensive list of voluntary standards has been written by the American Boat & Yacht Council (ABYC). Boatbuilders who are members of the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) and build to ABYC standards will have an NMMA-certification label in plain view on most boats built after 2007. www.nmma.org/certification/boats/certified-manufacturers; abycinc.org
Q: My car runs fine on ethanol gas, so it's OK for my boat engine, too, isn't it?
A: Ethanol is bad for your boat engine. It absorbs water and can contaminate your fuel tank, leading to engine damage. Unlike cars, which have closed fuel systems, boat fuel systems are exposed to air, which allows gasoline to easily absorb water. Also, cars may burn through a tank of gas in only a few days, but gas may remain in boat tanks for weeks or months. Adding a fuel stabilizer helps, but nothing works as well as using your boat before gas goes bad.
Q: Cheaper auto-engine parts work just as well on a boat, right?
A: Not so fast! Substituting certain automobile parts in your boat's engine can be dangerous. Inboard and sterndrive engines are housed in an enclosed space, unlike car engines, which are exposed to air. A small spark can set off gas fumes that build up in a boat's bilge. Boat-engine parts, such as starters and alternators, are designed to be spark-proof or "ignition protected," while automotive parts aren't.
Q: Aren't boat and car insurances pretty much the same?
A: They're different. With boat insurance, you'll buy a policy with an agreed value (an amount you and your insurance company agree your boat is worth) or an actual-cash-value policy (what your boat's "book value" is at the time of the incident). With an agreed-value policy, you'll receive the agreed-upon amount if your boat is totaled. An actual-cash-value policy may give you less than you anticipated.
If you're in a car accident, in most cases you simply call your insurance company and drive your car to an authorized shop. A few days later, you pick it up, sign a document, and you're on your way. Boat claims are different because of the vast differences in boats, the lack of standardized repair parts, and the challenges of making sometimes-complex repairs using a much smaller pool of repairers. Boat repairs also are often significantly more expensive than owners expect.
— Published: October/November 2016
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The Belgium international is half-owned by Cagliari, but looks set to have his full ownership bought by the capital city side.
With Steven Gerrard set to play his final Merseyside derby for Liverpool against Everton later today, the Reds have been linked with a host of midfielders as potential replacements for the Anfield legend.
One name that has been consistently linked is Radja Nainggolan, who has been starring for Roma this term.
The Reds were linked with him as recently as yesterday, with reports at the end of last year stating that the Merseysiders were readying a £20 million bid for the 26-year-old.
The Belgium international's ownership is shared between the capital city side and Cagliari, but it looks like the combative midfielder will be staying at the Stadio Olimpico.
Cagliari sporting director Francesco Marroccu has stated that the two Serie A clubs have an excellent relationship and that negotiations over Nainggolan's full ownership being transferred to Roma had begun.
"The Nainggolan affair will see us play a protagonist role, in fact we're already at the negotiating table," the director told Sardegnasport.com.
"I think we'll find a deal that will be satisfactory for everyone."
Both Davide Astori and Victor Ibarbo are also on loan at Roma from Cagliari.
Nainggolan's excellent form has made up for Kevin Strootman's absence through injury, with the 26-year-old starting 16 Serie A games this season and scoring three goals.
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The Alfred Quimby Trust sponsors scholarships for residents who do not qualify for the Doris L. Benz Trust. This means if you are a Sandwich resident but did NOT graduate from Interlakes High School or you are a graduate student or an adult student, you may qualify for the Quimby scholarship.
The Alfred Quimby Trust scholarships are managed through the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Applicants must fill out the online application form (there may be different deadlines depending on whether the applicant is going to a 2- or 4-year college or if the student is an independent adult). Instructions may be found on the Foundation's website (www.nhcf.org). April 13 is the deadline that applies to most students.
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Watch the wingbats froth from the mouth over this one.
Fancy threatening to deny electricity and water and gas to the very people trying to kill you? Its so inhumane....
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Israel on Wednesday branded the Gaza Strip a "hostile entity," clearing the way for it to shut off basic supplies to the Hamas-run territory in revenge for rocket fire, a senior official told AFP.
"Following extensive legal consulations, Israel has decided to declare Gaza as a hostile entity, with all the international implications," the official told AFP following a meeting of Israel's powerful security cabinet.
"This move will prepare the groundwork for sanctions against Gaza, such as the interruption of gas, electricity and water supply, which will occur in a gradual process," the official said on condition of anonymity.
The official said the cabinet did not take any immediate decisions to turn off the taps to the territory -- home to 1.5 million Palestinians -- but that the move "clears the way for the government to do so."
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According the National Center for Employee Ownership, there were approximately 10,900 ESOPs in the United States at the end of 2011. Fifteen years ago when I started working in this field, the number was approximately 11,000. The number of ESOPs suggests little or no growth in employee ownership, but the assets held by ESOPs tell a different story.
Much of the asset growth in ESOPs can be attributed to changes in the tax code in 1998 that made 100% ESOP ownership in an S Corporation feasible. With so many ESOPs today becoming majority or full owners, managing the finances of both the company and the plan in a sustainable fashion is critical.
SES Advisors applies its expertise in plan design, finance, feasibility and recordkeeping to help ESOP companies develop sustainable ESOP practices. This includes repurchase obligation forecasting; distribution policies; plan funding alternatives; benefit policies; management incentive plans; and best practices for corporate governance.
In this article, I present some practical tools and advice for keeping your ESOP sustainably funded.
5 Characteristics of Sustainable ESOP Companies
- Develop and periodically review a repurchase obligation funding plan and capital budget;
- Have a sound understanding of company valuation methodology – particularly the linkages between company decisions, valuation, ESOP benefit levels and repurchase obligation;
- Develop prudent and fair benefit plans, incorporating repurchase obligation funding decisions and fair compensation principles;
- Promote and foster an employee ownership culture; and
- Engage in practices of well-managed companies such as: good governance procedures, appropriate management incentive/compensation policies and succession plans.
Repurchase Studies
Sustainable ESOP practices and policies are built on the foundation of a good repurchase obligation study. An ESOP sponsor should consider this forecast to be as integral to management of the companys finances as a capital expenditure budget.
A repurchase study should provide:
- Estimates of the total repurchase obligation and related capital needs over the next several years;
- A sensitivity analysis for a range of company growth and profitability outcomes; and
- Benefit outcomes for individual or groups of participants at various ages/situations and demonstrations of how funding decisions impact these stakeholders.
Stock Appraisal Methods and their Link to Sustainability
Generally valuation methods that rely heavily on cash flows are more compatible with ESOP sustainability because the valuation outcome changes proportionally as profitability changes, thereby reducing repurchase obligations in a downturn and better matching available capital. Even in discounted cash flow or earnings capitalization valuations, the impact of the reduced profits is not immediately proportional because these methods typically look back to profits over the last few years and ahead to profits over the next few years based on the companys financial forecast.
A sustainable ESOP company makes its best effort to deliver the best information possible to its independent appraiser and trustees in order to ensure that the price being paid to redeem or recycle its stock is both fair and sustainable.
Combining Appraisal Methodology, Repurchase Forecast & Funding Decisions
A good repurchase funding study will combine the employee turnover rate analysis, the concentration of ownership and the valuation forecast and methodology to produce a flexible, integrated model that demonstrates the impact of an ESOP companys distribution policies, funding policies and loan structure.
SES Advisors combines these concepts into an ESOP Asset Turnover Rate (EATR). EATR is a measurement of the percentage of the ESOPs company stock assets the company or the plan will have to repurchase in a given year (or over a longer period). EATR typically ranges between 4 and 15 percent in any plan year. In the long run, EATR will tend to
average between 5 and 10 percent.
EATR allows us to compare the ESOP repurchase obligation and benefit levels to other ESOP companies. Combined with valuation concepts such as multiples of EBITDA, EATR also allows simple evaluations of whether the tax benefits of being an ESOP company will largely fund the future repurchase obligation.
Applying the Concepts
If your ESOP repurchase obligation is unsustainable, there are several options to consider:
- Find out if your appraiser is willing to factor the cash flows related to the repurchase obligation into his or her analysis;
- If your appraiser is not willing to factor the obligation, take pro-active steps to achieve a reduction in valuation by either pre-funding the ESOP trust ahead of the obligation, or engaging in a re-leveraging transaction;
- Consider segregation of terminated accounts ahead of any bubble in the repurchase obligation;
- Understand the repurchase obligation funding methodologies and how they affect benefit levels and company value differently (e.g. dividend funding vs. contribution funding);
- If you have disparity in benefit levels created by past plan design or funding policies (commonly referred to as the have/have not problem), consider a re-leveraging transaction or a prefunding strategy combined with account rebalancing;
- Set a benefit target rate based on a reasonable compensation analysis (e.g., a target percentage of annual compensation that may or may not be adjusted for annual profitability); and
- Understand the funding techniques to employ if the repurchase obligation exceeds available cash plus the target contribution in any year.
ESOP sustainability is ultimately a matter of ensuring that your ESOP company has sufficient financial resources and planning tools to meet its future repurchase obligations and the right corporate governance structure and culture to ensure you get the most out of your ESOP. We strive to provide
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New Delhi: CBI is likely to investigate the role of a Mauritius-based company for alleged irregularities in executing over Rs 70 crore contracts for providing consultancy for Commonwealth Games-related works after receiving a reference from Sports Ministry in this regard.
Acting on PMO recommendation, the Sports Ministry has sent a letter to CBI to probe the antecedents, flow of funds and works carried out by Event Knowledge Services (EKS), an international private consultant, for alleged wrongdoings.
EKS was given three contracts of over Rs 70 crore by the Games Organising Committee to extend consultancy services for the venue development and management, games workforce, and games planning and project management services.
"A reference has been received from the Sports Ministry and a preliminary enquiry into the matter is on," a CBI official said.
Taking a serious view of the Shunglu Committee``s findings, the PMO had suggested to Sports Ministry a probe by CBI and Enforcement Directorate.
It has directed "expeditious action" on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh``s order in the matter and sought the reply of Sports Ministry within a month on the fifth report of the high-level committee appointed by him.
"We will also be sending a reference to ED to probe alleged violation of foreign exchange acts and money laundering," a Sports Ministry official said.
The Committee in its report estimated financial loss of over Rs 18 crore to the Government due to alleged irregularities in granting workforce contract. .
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I am going to mix a bit of the philosophy of my life into this blog as I continue to highlight some of my baseball card collection. (hoping the card collectors of this world welcome me back)
Its been a tough 18 months for me . . . the Chicago Cubs have had it rough as well.
This site will be devoted to all those who need to define what "wait til next year" means.
Monday, June 8, 2009
to tweet or not to tweet
For the two people left reading (ok maybe less than two if not only one or none) I can be found here: Wait til next year Twitter
Twittering, or as they say "to tweet", is the craze these days. Real-time short messages from people and organizations all around the world telling of what is happening "now". My life is certainly not exciting enough to be followed by too many but if you do have an account I would like to follow you.
Maybe I have lost my mind but with this blog, facebook and now twitter I think I have entered the 21st century of communication (albeit nine years late). Time for me to tweet.
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