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Friday, March 26, 2010
Seasonal Sensations - Eggs Benedict
Asparagus are sweet and green and bursting with flavor. Egg yolks and asparagus are a great pairing. This is a truly decadent dish, especially since it has Hollandaise sauce…all those egg yolks and that melted butter makes a heavenly, rich sauce! If you can find Meyer lemons, they work beautifully in this sauce. If not, use a fresh lemon in any variety available to you. Don't use bottled or frozen juice…the fresh juice helps the egg yolks accept the butter in the sauce and adds a sprightly flavor, too. This would be impressive for a springtime brunch with a select, small guest list.
I think I've only had Eggs Benedict about 5 times in my life, and never with asparagus. I've wanted to try making it for a long time but was put off by all of the parts seeming so complicated and not sure that I could pull it off. Well, dear readers, I did it! I'm going to make this my first entry in the High Five Un-group hosted by the lovely Lynn at Cookie Baker Lynn blog. If you want to participate, check it out here.
I made this for Sweetie for breakfast on a morning when we were not in a hurry. He enjoyed his coffee while I put together the various parts. I had made the English muffins ahead and had them ready to toast. This recipe did create quite a few dishes to wash up, and it does take some concentration to get all of the parts ready at the same time, but none of it is difficult.
The sauce is ready in minutes – I read the classic way to do it and blessed the invention of the food processor and blender...so much faster and fairly foolproof unlike the old way. The eggs take less than one minute to put into cups and four minutes to poach. The asparagus only take three or four minutes total. I suspect that toasting the muffins takes the longest.
TIMING is Everything
Plan the order in which you will do the different parts and everything will turn out fine. Read through the various recipes. You may want to make your own list. This is the order I used:
Split the muffins and set by toaster.
Fill the pot to 2 ½ inches and bring to boil, add the vinegar, then set to simmer
Prepare the asparagus for steaming
Juice the Meyer lemon and strain the juice
Separate the egg yolks for the hollandaise and put into the food processor
Crack an egg into four custard cups
Set out the plates, the pitcher for the sauce, and two bowls for hot water
Melt the butter for the hollandaise
Toast the first English muffin
While muffin is toasting, begin the hollandaise, through adding the hot melted butter…leave it running
Slip the eggs into the simmering water. Set timer
Pour the finished sauce into pitcher and fill bowl with enough hot water to come half way up pitcher
Put second English muffin in toaster
Steam the asparagus
Put hot water into second bowl
When timer goes off, use slotted spoon to remove poached eggs to bowl of hot water
Remove asparagus from microwave
Plate toasted muffins, add asparagus
Use slotted spoon to removed rinsed eggs from hot water, let drip, put over asparagus and muffins
Pour on hollandaise
Grind on pepper
(Take photos if you are a blogger) and prepare other plate the same way
If you like you can do the following the day before:
- Juice the lemon, strain the juice, store in a small container in fridge. Let come to room temperature.
- Split the muffins. Store in airtight container
- Prepare the asparagus but don' t steam. Store in fridge. If still cold when steamed, you may have to steam a little longer
- Separate the eggs for the sauce. Reserve the whites for another use. Store, covered, in the fridge. Bring to room temperature to use for the sauce
- Crack an egg into individual cups or containers. Store, covered, in the fridge. Bring to room temperature before poaching
Here are the parts of the recipe:
Eggs Benedicts with Asparagus and Meyer Lemon Hollandaise Sauce
The Asparagus
For each serving: 3 – 4 spears of very fresh asparagus, ends snapped off. Steam your favorite way, and keep warm until ready to assemble.( I put mine on a microwave safe plate, added a teaspoon of water, covered and microwaved two minutes on high power. I did this after the eggs had started poaching, while the second English muffin was toasting, and after the hollandaise sauce was done and keeping warm.)
The English Muffins
Prepare English muffins using your favorite recipe, or purchase some.
Split with a fork to keep the craggy interior to trap the egg yolks and hollandaise. Toast while the hollandaise is being prepared and eggs are poaching. Keep warm until ready to assemble the dish. (I covered mine with a folded dishtowel.) Plan on an English muffin per person, plus a few extras for swabbing up the copious egg yolk.
The Blender Hollandaise (I used a food processor and it worked fine)
from All Recipes:http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Blender-Hollandaise-Sauce/Detail.aspx
Ingredients – enough for 3-4 people
3 egg yolks
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup butter
In the container of a blender (or food processor), combine the egg yolks, and lemon juice. Cover, and blend for about 5 seconds.
Place the butter in a glass measuring cup. Heat butter in the microwave for about 1 minute, or until completely melted and hot. Set the blender on high speed, and pour the butter into the egg yolk mixture in a thin stream. It should thicken almost immediately. (If doing in a food processor, keep it running for another minute or two while you get the eggs into the poaching water. The extra time helps with the thickening process). Keep the sauce warm until serving by placing the blender container in a pan of hot tap water. (If using a food processor, pour the hollandaise into a heat proof small pitcher and put that into a pan or bowl of hot water.)
The Poached Eggs – enough for 2-3 people
You will need:
4 to 6 fresh, cold, eggs
2 quarts boiling water in a saucepan about 8 inches in diameter
(depth of water should be about 2 1/2 inches)
1/3 cup, white vinegar (2 1/2 tablespoons per quart)
Equipment: a perforated spoon; a kitchen timer; a bowl of very warm water (120 degrees).
Preparing the poaching water: Pour the vinegar into the boiling water, and reduce the heat so that the water is just at the simmer – quietly bubbling. Vinegar quickly coagulates the white when the naked egg enters the water, and this in turn helps preserve its oval shape – again, if the egg is reasonably fresh. If you can find fresh eggs from the farm, do use them. You really taste the eggs in this dish.
Getting the eggs into the water: Being a wuss about boiling water, I took the low road and cracked an egg each into four custard cups. Once I was ready, with the English muffins toasting, the asparagus ready to steam, and the hollandaise sauce almost finished in the food processor, I made sure that the water was simmering, then put the lip of the custard cup as close to the top of the water as possible and gently let the egg slide with one movement into the simmering water. Set timer for 4 minutes. Rapidly continued with the 3 other eggs, adding them clockwise around edge of pan. Because I didn't do the version where you prick the end of the egg and give it a quick bath in the shell in boiling water, bits of the white did trail away from the poaching eggs, but it was fine in the end.
Finishing the eggs: Regulate the heat so that the poaching water remains at hardly a bubble, and when 4 minutes are up, carefully remove first egg with a perforated spoon and slide it into the bowl of very warm water, to wash off the vinegar. Estimating how much time you took for each additional egg - it will be 15 seconds at most when you are used to the movements - remove the other eggs in turn.
Keeping eggs warm after cooking them: The eggs will keep warm as long as the water remains warm, and they cannot overcook if water is not hotter than 120 degrees; if your wait is a bit long, pour a little boiling water into the bowl from time to time. (I also added a bit of boiling water to the bowl holding the hollandaise pitcher, just to make sure it stayed warm.) If you will be serving more than three people, I would have another pan of water to poach additional eggs, but keeping the timing right is tricky for 4-6 eggs and more difficult with more eggs and toasted English muffins to keep warm. You could serve one muffin half, one egg and some asparagus alongside to double the number served, but be prepared for requests for seconds!
Putting It All Together
Have the table set and plates ready. Once the eggs are in the warm water to rinse off the vinegar, put an English muffin, toasted, both top and bottom if you are having two eggs per person, onto each plate. Top each plated muffin set with 3 spears of the steamed asparagus, laid crosswise over the muffin pieces, top each muffin piece with a poached egg (the classic method is to dry the egg in a clean towel…I just used the slotted spoon and let the water drip for a couple of seconds) placing over any part of the asparagus that is on the muffin, and immediately pour on some hollandaise sauce over all. If desired, grind some fresh pepper on top of each egg. Serve at once while everything is hot. Repeat for each plate of Eggs Benedict. Enjoy the compliments of your family and/or guests.
5 comments :
Would you believe I've never had Egg Benedict? I think I'd love it! They look deli!ReplyDelete
Very orchestrated cooking. Great job.ReplyDelete
I'm just finishing Ratio by Michael Ruhlmann and have set my sights on making hollandaise from scratch this asparagus season.
Sensational! Hive Fives times Three! Every element of your eggs benedict looks just perfect. What a yummy indulgence breakfast. Except you put in asparagus, which immediately redeems it and makes it health food, right?ReplyDelete
I LOVE Eggs Benedict, but I rarely make them because, as you say, timing is everything. Or as I say, they're a hassle to make. So I order them in restaurants when I can. A New Mexico variation on Eggs Benedict calls for green chile sauce on top instead of hollandaise. So yummy! I know just the place next time you're in Taos. (hint, hint)ReplyDelete
Baking Soda, Eggs Benedict are pretty outrageous and yummy.ReplyDelete
Andreas, Looking forward to your asparagus with Hollandaise.
Lynn, OK I'll take credit for three :) They MUST be health food with veggies in 'em!
Beth, I'll bet this with green chile sauce would be excellent, especially when the green chiles are in season in the fall. Won't be traveling much for a while...doing remodel of bathroom and putting in new window on south wall of living room...all because of persistent random leaks...the bane of my life.


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Petraeus mistress won't face cyberstalking charge
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is dropping its investigation into whether David Petraeus' mistress, Paula Broadwell, stalked a romantic rival online.
Broadwell's lawyer, Robert Muse, gave The Associated Press a letter from U.S. Attorney Robert O'Neill that says no federal charges will be brought in Florida related to "alleged acts of cyberstalking."
( PHOTOS: Who's who in the Gen. Petraeus scandal)
A retired general, Petraeus resigned as CIA director in November after acknowledging the extramarital affair, which was exposed after Broadwell emailed Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, allegedly warning Kelley to stay away from Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
Kelley reported the emails to the FBI, triggering an investigation that led the FBI to Kelley's emails to the married Allen, who is now under investigation by the Pentagon's inspector general.
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FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine
The FCC gave the coup de grace to the fairness doctrine Monday as the commission axed more than 80 media industry rules.
Earlier this summer FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski agreed to erase the post WWII-era rule, but the action Monday puts the last nail into the coffin for the regulation that sought to ensure discussion over the airwaves of controversial issues did not exclude any particular point of view. A broadcaster that violated the rule risked losing its license.
While the commission voted in 1987 to do away with the rule — a legacy to a time when broadcasting was a much more dominant voice than it is today — the language implementing it was never removed. The move Monday, once published in the federal register, effectively erases the rule.
Monday's move is part of the commission's response to a White House executive order directing a "government-wide review of regulations already on the books" designed to eliminate unnecessary regulations.
Also consigned to the regulatory dustbin are the "broadcast flag" digital copy protection rule that was struck down by the courts and the cable programming service tier rate. Altogether, the agency tossed 83 rules and regs.
Genachowski said in a statement that the move was aimed at promoting "a healthy climate for private investment and job creation." Both the Obama administration and the FCC have come under criticism by business groups over laws and regulations such as health care reform and net neutrality rules.
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 3:11 p.m. on August 22, 2011.


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The AppStore has been around a good while now. Cydia now has a retail aspect, which is being built out even more as you read this. And adding to the mix, Rock Your Phone, which we've been beta testing a while, is now live.
Rock Your Phone actually includes their own jailbreak (or soft unlock, as they've decided to coin it) software as part of the process – you'll notice the procedure is fairly similar to Pwnage Tool, but a little different, and branded Rock Your Phone. Some Dev Team help was actually put into building the application. Mario Ciabarra, creator of Rock Your Phone, says "Without the Dev Team's help, and the entire independent iPhone community – this wouldn't be possible – so we are very grateful for their help and dedication. We are intending to give back to the community as well."
One of the big pushes Rock Your Phone is advertising is every application purchased through RockYourPhone (which allows payment through PayPal, and all major credit cards) comes with a 10 day trial – you don't buy it unless you like it. Any app in their store can be installed free, and used for 10 days.
A unified experience is another big push they're excited about. Applications can be purchased through the online store at RockYourPhone.com, through the mobile application, or through the desktop client (which works on OS X AND Windows, folks – although Mac users will need a hub, heh – sound familiar?).
The app DOES require you to go through their "soft unlock," even if you're jalbroken already, but it won't mess with any of your Cydia apps, nor your AppStore apps. It sits side by side with Cydia and the AppStore, and in fact you can even see your Rock Your Phone apps wiithin Cydia in your installed packages (although the reverse isn't true).
EDIT 03/14/09: The latest version of Rock Your Phone no longer requires their soft unlock if you've already jailbroken – it will simply install the Rock Your Phone app. Again, that means if you've already jailbroken, this will just install the app – no other "soft unlock" or anything is necessary.
The application offerings are currently pretty slim pickings – there's 5. Those include Vonagent ($9.99) and IntelliScreen ($9.99), two applications which you're most likely familiar with. Elert (free) and IntelliDial ($2.99) are two other applications in the store, which are productivity enhancing apps. Elert allows you to see a popup notification of incoming emails, and IntelliDial allows you to browse contacts on your lockscreen in a CoverFlow format, and dial from there.
The fifth app is pretty nifty, actually – custom profiles with MyProfiles ($12.99). Here's the feature list:
- Custom alerting of email based on Subject, Sender, Sent Only to You, and Mail Accounts.
- Custom alerting of SMS messages and missed calls based on caller phone #.
- Modify the Vibrate Pattern so you can be quietly alerted to a specific email.
- Repeating Alerts for Email, SMS, and Missed Calls.
- Silence Calls via WhiteList or BlackList
- Escalating Rings and Vibrate 1st then Ring
- Adjust WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Push Email, Auto Lock, and 3G based on Location, Time of Day, and more.
- Automatic rules engine to enable profiles
- Manual Override Profile by holding down the home button and pressing up and down on the Volume buttons.
Overall, this is a solid system. The trial feature is nice, and the complete experience is pretty easy. It's not a Cydia replacement, as it isn't looking to distribute free software – which is where Cydia shines. It's more a commercial alternative to Cydia. (Cydia has thousands and thousands of packages, many of which are themes, and is constantly growing – with a subscriber base of over 1.5 million). Where Rock Your Phone shines is their solid retail aspect (which really is their niche – a full service independent iPhone Application Store), and the user experience. The setup is definitely attractive to devs and end users alike though, so it will be interesting to see how this app grows. I'd like to see how Cydia Store and Rock Your Phone compete, with such a large base already using Cydia. I'm pulling for them both – competition breeds innovation.
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JENA, Louisiana (CNN) -- Thousands of protesters clogged the tiny town of Jena, Louisiana, Thursday to show their indignation over what they consider unjust, unequal punishments meted out in two racially charged incidents.
Officers lead Al Sharpton, center, through Jena, Louisiana, during Thursday's protest.
They swarmed over the grounds of Jena High School, where nooses were hung from a tree in early August 2006, about three months before six black teens known as the "Jena 6" were accused of beating a white classmate.
While the tension was palpable, news broke Thursday afternoon that the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal ordered a hearing within 72 hours to determine if the only one of the six still behind bars can be released.
The order has "got to be good," Mychal Bell's attorney, Bob Noel, told CNN. "It means we have a day in court. Any day in court is going to be a good day."
Earlier, there was an aura of a pilgrimage at the site where the controversial tree once stood before school administrators had it removed.
Many people touched the ground and some retrieved a lump of dirt, said CNN's Eric Marrapodi. He said the part of the town he was in was ill-prepared for the crowds -- no water or toilets were available.
In the background, groups shouted "Black power" and "No justice, no peace."
The estimated 15000 to 20,000 demonstrators shut down the town of 3,000 in central Louisiana. Many residents left for the day, and government agencies, businesses and schools were closed.
Sgt. Tim Ledet of the Louisiana State Police said protesters in buses were still bringing people to town at midday because of the gridlock, but many protesters got off and walked into town on foot.
"There is just no room to maneuver in this small town," he said.
Jena resident Terry Adams disagreed with any accusations that there might be a black-white divide in the area.
"We are not a racial town. We get along with each other, we get along fine. This is something that got out of proportion. It really has."
Jena's racial tensions were aggravated in August 2006, when three white teens hung the nooses the day after a group of black students received permission from school administrators to sit under the tree -- a place where white students normally congregated.
The guilty students were briefly suspended from classes, despite the principal's recommendation they be expelled, according to Donald Washington, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.
A member of the LaSalle Parish School Board -- which had a role in supporting suspension instead of expulsion -- insisted the board is not prejudiced.
The panel felt it took the appropriate action, Jonny Fryar said.
"I talked to one of the parents, who called me and said their son thought it was a prank and naive to the fact of what it meant and he was sorry," he said.
"I hate to see people label us as something we are not. Because we have black students and white students playing football together. They shake hands, get along. This is an unfortunate incident. We hope that the community can heal."
Although Washington acknowledged the FBI and other investigators thought the noose incident bore the markings of a hate crime, a decision was made not to press federal charges because the case didn't meet federal criteria. The students were under 18 and had no prior records, and no group such as a Ku Klux Klan was found to be behind their actions.
On December 4, about three months after the nooses were discovered, six teens, dubbed the Jena 6, were accused of beating classmate Justin Barker. The six -- Mychal Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, Theo Shaw and Jesse Ray Beard -- were originally charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy, according to LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters.
Bell, the only one of the six who remains in jail, was to be sentenced Thursday after convictions for aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to do the same, but both charges have been vacated, awaiting further action by the district attorney.
Charges for Bailey, Jones and Shaw also were reduced to battery and conspiracy when they were arraigned, while Purvis still awaits arraignment. The charges for Beard, who was 14 at the time of the alleged crime, are unavailable because he's a juvenile.
Tina Jones, Purvis' mother, condemned Walters.
"I hope that the D.A. will wake up and realize that he's doing the wrong thing, and to release these kids," she said. "It's not equal. The black people get the harsher extent of the law, whereas white people get a slap on the wrist per se. So it is not equal here."
Jones maintained that her son was not involved in the beating, but watched from a railing, and was not arrested that same day.
"We have a long fight ahead of us, and we'll keep fighting until justice prevails in Jena," the mother said.
Purvis, who accompanied her, was asked how he's faring.
"I'm doing pretty good. I hope there is a pretty good outcome of what's taking place today," he said. Watch an interview with one of the Jena 6 and his mom »
President Bush, who was asked about the rally at a news conference, said, "The events in Louisiana have saddened me. I understand the emotions. The Justice Department and the FBI are monitoring the situation down there.
"All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice."
He advised whoever is elected next year to "reach out to the African-American community."
Hundreds of college students from historically black schools such as Howard University in Washington traveled to Jena, along with civil rights activists such as Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who helped organize the event. Martin Luther King III also attended, saying, "This is about justice for the six young men."
Sharpton called Jena the beginning of the 21st century civil rights movement.
"There's a Jena in every state," Jackson told the crowd in Jena on Thursday morning.
JoAnn Scales, who brought her three teenage children on a two-day bus journey from Los Angeles, California, to Jena, made the same point.
"The reason I brought my children is because it could have been one of them" involved in an incident like the one in Jena.
"If this can happen to them [the Jena 6] , it can happen to anyone," Scales said.
Ondra Hathaway was on the bus with Scales.
"If this young man [Bell] was railroaded to do time as an adult, how many more people has that happened to?" she said.
Jackson said on CNN's "American Morning" on Thursday that the charges against the black youths, their possible jail terms if convicted and their bail amounts are "excessive."
Punishing the teens with probation would have been sufficient, Jackson said.
Bails for the Jena 6 were between $70,000 and $138,000, and all but Bell have posted bond. Bell, 17, has been in prison since his arrest. The judge has refused to lower his $90,000 bail, citing Bell's record, which includes four juvenile offenses -- two simple battery charges among them.
Bell was 16 at the time of the attack; 17 is the legal adult age in Louisiana. E-mail to a friend
CNN's Susan Roesgen, Tony Harris, Kyra Philips, Eric Marrapodi and Eliott McLaughlin contributed to this report.
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Startup CEO's can't delegate sales and expect it to happen. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved.
Here's an example in a direct sales channel.
Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch
A VC asked me to have lunch with the CEO of a startup building cloud-based enterprise software. (Boy did I feel like Rip Van Winkle.) The board was getting nervous as the company was missing its revenue plan.
These lunches always start with the CEO looking like they had much better things to do. Before lunch even came the CEO ticked off the names of forty or so customers he talked to during the company's first nine months and gave me a great dissertation on the day-in-the-life of his target customers and what their problems were. He went through his product feature by feature and matched them to the customer problems. He talked about how his business model would make money and how the prospects he talked to seem to agree with his assumptions.
It certainly sounded like he had done a great job of Customer Discovery.
Sales Process
Next, he took me through his sales process. They had five salespeople supported by two in marketing. (They had beta customers, using but not paying for the product.)
Over lunch the CEO told me he had stopped talking to customers since he had been tied up helping get the product out the door and his VP of Sales (a successful sales executive from a large company) had managed the sales process for the last six months. In fact, the few times he had asked to go out in the field the VP of Sales said, "Not yet, I don't want to waste your time."
Too Good to Be True
For the first time I started squirming in my seat. He said, "I insist on getting weekly status reports with forecasted deal size and probability of close. We have a great sales pipeline." When I asked how close any of the deals on the forecast were to getting closed, he assured me the company's two beta customers—well-known companies that would be marquee accounts if they closed—were imminent orders.
"How do you know this?" I asked. "Have you heard it personally from the customers?"
Now it was his turn to squirm a bit. "No, not exactly," he replied, "but our VP of Sales assures me we will have a purchase order in the next few weeks or so."
I put my fork down. Very few large companies write big checks to unknown startups without at least meeting the CEO. When I asked if he could draw the sales road map for these two accounts that were about to close, he admitted he didn't know any of the details, given it was all in the VP of Sales' head. Since we were running out of time, I said, "Your sales pipeline sounds great. In fact, it sounds too good to be true. If you really do close any of these accounts, my hat is off to you and your sales team. If, as I suspect they don't close, do me a favor."
"What's that?" He asked, looking irritated.
"You need to pick up the phone and call the top five accounts on your sales pipeline. Ask them this question: if you gave them your product today for free, are they prepared to install and use it across their department and company? If the answer is no, you have absolutely no customers on your forecast who will be prepared to buy from you in the next six months."
He smiled and stuck me with the tab for lunch. I didn't expect to hear from him ever again.
What If the Price Were Zero?
Less than two weeks later, I got a call and was surprised to hear the agitated voice of the CEO. "Steve, our brand-name account, the one we have been working on for the last eight months, told us they weren't going to buy the product this year. They just didn't see the urgency." Listening, I got the rest of the story.
"When my VP of Sales told me that," he said, "I got on the phone and spoke to the account personally. I asked them your question—would they deploy the product in their department or company if the price were zero? I'm still stunned by the answer. They said the product wasn't mission critical enough for their company to justify the disruption."
"Wow, that's not good," I said, trying to sound sympathetic.
"It only gets worse," he said. "Since I was hearing this from one of the accounts my VP of Sales thought was going to close, I insisted we jointly call our other 'imminent' account. It's the same story as the first. Then I called the next three down the list and got essentially the same story. They all think our product is 'interesting,' but no one is ready to put serious money down now. I'm beginning to suspect our entire forecast is not real. What am I going to tell my board?"
My not-so-difficult advice was that he was going to have to tell his board exactly what was going on. But before he did, he needed to understand the sales situation in its entirety, and then come up with a plan for fixing it. Then he was going to present both the problem and suggested fix to his board. (You never want a board to have to tell you how to run your company. When that happens, it's time to update your resume.)
The Phantom Sales Forecast
The implications of a phantom sales forecast meant something fundamental was broken. In talking to each of his salespeople, he discovered the sales team had no standardized sales process. Each was calling on different levels of an account and trying whatever seemed to work best. This was just a symptom of something deeper – while they thought they understood the target customer their initial hypotheses from Customer Discovery were wrong. But no one had told the CEO.
He realized the company was going to have to start from scratch, Pivot back to Customer Discovery and find out how to develop a sales road map. He presented his plan to the board, fired the VP of Sales and kept his best salesperson and the marketing VP. Then he went home, kissed his family goodbye, and went out to the field to discover what would make a customer buy. His board wished him luck and started the clock ticking on his remaining tenure. He had six months to get and close customers.
Customer Validation
The CEO had discovered what happens when you do a good job on Customer Discovery but get too "busy" for to personally get involved in Customer Validation. It wasn't that he didn't need a VP of Sales, but he had entirely outsourced the Validation step to him. Until a scalable and repeatable business model is found the CEO needs to be intimately involved in the sales process.
Lessons Learned
- Ownership of Customer Validation belongs to the CEO.
- A VP of Sales can assist but the CEO needs to answer:
- Do I understand the sales process in detail?
- Is the sales process repeatable?
- Can I prove it's repeatable? (Proof are multiple full-price orders in sufficient quantity.)
- Can we get these orders with the current product and release spec?
- Do we have a workable sales and distribution channel?
- Am I confident we can scale a profitable business?
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Dozens of demonstrators huddled outside the White House for a candlelight vigil Friday to demand President Barack Obama push for tighter guns laws, after the deadly school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Speakers from several progressive groups urged the president to include reforming the nation's gun laws in his State of the Union address, making a broader appeal to address the issue in cities plagued with gun violence and other recent shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Wisconsin.
"The country is with you. Lead us," one speaker said. The crowd chanted: "Now is the time."
The Associated Press reported 26 people, including 20 children, died in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The killer committed suicide at the school, and another person was found dead at a second scene, bringing the toll to 28.
Jeff Blum, executive director of the progressive group USAction, said he expects the president to listen to the calls for reform.
"It's just depressing and outrage that the United States tolerates the level of gun violence we have," he said. "The president is our leader, and we want him to lead."
Obama became visibly emotional Friday afternoon while delivering a statement on the shootings, pledging to take "meaningful action."
"I think it's evident from his press conference that he's deeply moved," Blum said. "Now he needs to exert direct leadership. We can't wait. There are too many. How many times does this have to happen?"
Stamford, Conn., native Emilie Pollack said she was about to take a final exam when she received a news alert on her phone Friday morning.
"Right now, it's difficult to not be back in Connecticut, but it's nice to see that people are reacting so strongly," the George Washington University student said. "I've always been pro-gun laws, and it shouldn't have happened. Especially because it's an elementary school, it's crazier."


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Is deciding how to fund education in Arizona best done by lawmakers or voters?
That's a key point of debate with Arizonans ready to decide whether to adopt a permanent 1-cent per dollar sales tax that would be earmarked primarily for education but also for human services and transportation.
The money raised, estimated at $1 billion in the first year, would be off limits to state lawmakers.
Arizona State Treasurer Doug Ducey, chairman of a political committee opposing Proposition 204, said allocating resources is best left to the Legislature.
"This takes power away from the democratic process and puts the decisions in the hands of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats," he said.
But state Rep. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, said the measure is necessary precisely because the GOP-controlled Legislature has failed to adequately fund education in recent years.
"We have to make up for things that this majority has decided to take away from our schools," Farley said.
Because of the Voter Protection Act, a ballot measure approved in 1998, lawmakers aren't allowed to overturn voter-approved initiatives. And changes that advance the cause of a ballot measure require a three-quarters vote of the Legislature.
E.J. Perkins, a policy analyst with Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy, said that protects the will of voters but also makes changes difficult if a legitimate need arises.
"If you have a very complex ballot proposition that might warrant a full vetting. It might not get that if it's coming from a ballot initiative," he said. "If it passes, we might have to live with it."
Kevin McCarthy, president of the Arizona Tax Research Association, said the citizen initiative process takes away the safeguards of the legislative system, in which bills are read and vetted multiple times.
"When you're running an initiative a very small group of people get to draft legislation," McCarthy said. "Inevitably you are going to have not only policy problems but problems with how it is going to be written."
He said the problems with Proposition 204 include not planning enough for inflation and difficult-to-administer provisions.
Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said that if the initiative passes it could interfere with legislators' ability to make adjustments in the budget.
"So if we have another economic downturn, next year or in five years, we will have amply funded education and will be stopping other programs," Kavanagh said.
Some of that concern centers on what supporters call a funding floor. That provision would prevent lawmakers from reducing per-student and capital appropriations for K-12 education and general fund appropriations for higher education from fiscal year 2011-2012 or 2012-2013, whichever is higher.
"Whenever you say we are never going to spend less, no matter what, that's a recipe for disaster," said Jonathan Butcher, education director at the Goldwater Institute, an independent watchdog group that promotes limited government and free enterprise.
Kavanagh said the Legislature has already started restoring education funding and will continue doing so if the initiative doesn't pass.
"I think we need to trust the Legislature, who gets to look at the entire budget issue and not just education," he said.
But trusting the Legislature to adequately fund education is the last thing in initiative's advocates say they are ready to do.
Ann-Eve Pedersen, chairwoman of the political committee pushing for Proposition 204, said that while education is Arizona voters' top priority lawmakers haven't invested enough in recent years.
"If the Legislature were willing to reinvest in education, then this proposition would be completely unnecessary," Pedersen said.
Proponents have pointed to a recent report by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a national policy group, ranking Arizona last among 48 states measured on per-student spending decreases since 2008.
George Cunningham, the pro-204 campaign's volunteer treasurer and a former state senator, said the initiative wouldn't affect the ability of lawmakers to budget but would ensure a minimum funding level for schools.
"We did not impose constraints upon the Legislature's ability to move money around within the K-12 system," Cunningham said.
Farley, the Tucson representative, said that while the ideal scenario would be for voters to elect lawmakers who support more education funding an initiative is necessary in this case.
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Analysis: Supply crunch to take steam out of home sales
A shortage of properties could take some edge off home sales during the spring selling season, but the housing market recovery should remain intact.
The stock of houses for sale has declined rapidly in recent months as both investors and ordinary Americans rush to take advantage of near record low mortgage rates.
The surge in demand for houses, thanks to an improving labor market and the Federal Reserve's very accommodative monetary policy, is putting a firmer foundation under the economy as it deals with the headwinds from belt tightening in Washington.
In February, there were 1.94 million previously owned homes on the market, representing 4.7 months of supply. The inventory of new single-family homes available for sale during the same period was about 150,000, or 4.4 months' worth.
A six months' supply is normally considered as a healthy balance between supply and demand. With the busy spring selling season around the corner, realtors and economists are worried about the supply squeeze.
"If we don't see more people listing their properties, I don't think we will see the home sales volume increase that we are accustomed to seeing," said Glenn Kelman, chief executive officer of online real estate group Redfin, based in Seattle.
"There are far more buyers than there are sellers on the market. We would have a huge boom spurred by low interest rates if there were more inventory on the market."
The National Association of realtors expects existing home sales to rise between 7-8 percent this spring from a year ago. For the full year it forecasts sales advancing 7 percent to an annual pace of about 5 million units. Sales are currently running at a 4.98 million-unit pace.
The flow of foreclosed homes coming on to the market, which had been both a source of supply and a key obstacle to the sector's recovery, has dropped significantly in recent months.
According to Kelman, supply was now mostly coming from homeowners and that was not much, as most of the homes were still worth less than what their owners owed banks.
Data from CoreLogic last week showed so-called shadow inventory - homes either in foreclosure or being held from the market by banks - dropped 15.4 percent to 2.2 million in January from a year ago. That was well below the cycle peak of 3 million units in January 2010.
Economists said while homes were still falling into foreclosure, delays with the paper work meant those homes were not coming onto the market. Even where they had been repossessed by the banks, they were also not hitting the market.
"Banks tend to remember the experience of 2008 when they rushed to sell off properties all at once and that caused a downward spiral in house prices," said Andres Carbacho-Burgos, an associate director at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
"They are trying to be cautious about selling off too many properties all at once."
The inventory crunch is most acute in areas like Washington D.C., New York, and the coastal California cities where, according to Kelman, "homes are selling in hours."
The months of supply in coastal California has dropped to 30 days from between six and eight months last year. Even in places like Atlanta and Philadelphia, where the housing market has been slow to recover, inventory is also tightening.
"The demand for properties is insane. The bidding wars that are going on, there is not enough inventory and it has become truly a seller's market again," said Neil Garfinkel, real estate attorney at Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson in New York.
But in cities like Detroit, where the population is declining and vacant houses are everywhere, the housing recovery will probably not happen this year or even next year.
Despite expectations of a relatively quiet spring season, the housing recovery is not expected to step back, largely thanks to investors, who make up roughly a fifth of home sales and account for most of the cash sales.
Cash sales account for about a third of transactions. Wall Street investors, who were very active in the housing market over the past 1-1/2 years, are now competing with ordinary people looking to make money from real estate.
"They are buying whatever they can get their hands on. Before they were more selective," said Kelman.
The properties are repaired and rented out. While some of the big money has started to leave areas like Phoenix, Arizona as the foreclosure inventory gets depleted, Atlanta is seeing a jump in sales and prices because of the Wall Street investors.
"Investors will start to exit only after either foreclosure inventories are significantly depleted or sale discounts have fallen off so much that it's like buying a regularly priced home," said Moody's Analytics' Carbacho-Burgos.
Analysts and realtors saw little chance of a repeat of the housing market collapse.
"Back in 2007 we had very leveraged investors. They were buying a home that they would sell for a higher price in six months," said Redfin's Kelman. "That's not happening now, the investors we see now are coming in with cash."
(Reporting By Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Chris Reese)


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Gov. Corbett has proposed a novel solution to the higher education funding crisis: drilling for dollars.
Not a gas tax, mind you but gas rigs, right on campus.
Corbett told the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees today that schools could address revenue shortfalls by tapping into the riches of the Marcellus Shale beneath their campuses.
Corbett said six campuses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education sit on the lucrative Marcellus shale natural gas formation, The Erie Times reported.
Corbett has proposed slicing some $550 million or fifty percent of state funding for colleges and universities in his 2011-2012 spending plan.
The governor was speaking at Edinboro University as part of a tour of the northwest to promote his budget proposal.


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Companies have grown to embrace the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, new research has found. In fact, 70 percent of companies feel that BYOD can help to improve worker productivity.
An additional 59 percent of companies believe their organization would be at a competitive disadvantage without BYOD. Companies are embracing the benefits of BYOD for a number of reasons. In particular, researchers found that BYOD gives employees flexible working hours along with the ability to foster creativity, speed innovation and facilitate teamwork and collaboration.
BYOD also has the benefit of changing the culture of companies, researchers found. Fifty-six percent of companies say that BYOD has changed their IT culture, while another 54 percent of businesses cay that BYOD has changed their organization's culture. To take full advantage of BYOD, researchers found that companies must understand the needs and rights of each user when implementing their policies.
Additionally, researchers found that companies must be sure to have well-established policies in place to avoid the potential for setbacks from BYOD. Researchers found that 25 percent of companies with well-established BYOD policies suffered no setbacks related to BYOD.
"We're seeing dramatic changes in the way users interact with technology on their personal devices and the critical role BYOD plays in transforming business and IT culture," said Roger Bjork, director of enterprise mobility solutions at Dell Software Group, which conducted the research. "This global survey confirms what we have long suspected — companies that embrace a user-focused approach to BYOD may reap the biggest rewards, face the fewest obstacles and deliver real and immediate value in terms of greater efficiency, productivity and competitive advantage. Those slow to support BYOD or constrained by a device-centric approach may deal with greater challenges, including the risk of being left behind from a competitive standpoint."
The researchers also found that attitudes toward BYOD changed around the globe. The United States, Beijing and Australia were the three countries most encouraging of BYOD. In those countries, companies supported devices that users wanted to bring to the workplace. France, Germany and the United Kingdom were the least likely to provide support.
"The results of this latest BYOD survey reinforce the importance of putting users first in order to develop the most effective policies and turn BYOD into a long-term, sustainable business benefit," said Carol Fawcett, chief information officer at Dell Software Group.
The research was based on the responses of 1,500 IT decision makers from countries across the globe.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. — August 29, 2012. Mayo Clinic recently marked its first births resulting from in vitro fertilization using a new time-lapse incubator that minimizes disturbances from human handling as embryos develop and helps fertility specialists better identify the healthiest embryos. Mayo experts say it may improve pregnancy outcomes for all patients receiving IVF. The twins born at Mayo and babies delivered at the Fertility Centers of New England mark the first reported births in the United States using the technology.
MULTIMEDIA ALERT: Images from a time-lapse incubator and a video interview with Dr. Morbeck are available on the Mayo Clinic News Network.
Millions of women in the United States have difficulty becoming pregnant or staying pregnant. Many seek medical help. One of the most common procedures is IVF, in which mature eggs are retrieved from a woman's ovaries and fertilized by sperm in a lab. Embryos are then transferred into the uterus. IVF is highly effective, but typically requires periodic handling of embryos for observation outside of the incubator.
"With current technology, IVF is successful for many patients; however, we believe it can be improved even further," said Dean Morbeck, Ph.D., embryologist and director of Mayo Clinic's In Vitro Fertilization Laboratory. "The time-lapse incubator allows us to culture embryos in a very controlled environment with minimal disturbance, bringing us one step closer to what occurs naturally. We anticipate that patients who have embryos that struggle to develop in traditional incubators will benefit the most from this technology."
The time-lapse incubator incorporates a microscope, camera and computer that provide continuous images of embryos during in vitro culture. The photos provide a detailed record of how and when each cell in an embryo divides. The new technology helps fertility specialists better monitor embryo development to select the healthiest-looking embryos for implantation. Embryos not transferred that develop to the blastocyst stage, the stage at which embryos are implanted into the uterus, are frozen for later use.
Besides providing a safe, closed system for embryos to develop, the technology allows parents to view a video with a series of images from shortly after conception through the first few days of embryo development.
Mayo Clinic this month marked the births of twins, a boy and a girl, from IVF using the time-lapse incubator. It is one of a handful of hospitals in the United States that have the technology.
"Our births and the recent announcement of the first births in the United States from embryos cultured in a time-lapse incubator at the Fertility Centers of New England ushers in a new era in embryo culture," Dr. Morbeck says. The new technology, the EmbryoScope Time-lapse System, is manufactured by Unisense FertiliTech, based in Denmark.
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A Little Night Magic by Lucy March
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Publish Date: January 31, 2012
Publish Date: January 31, 2012
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Olivia Kiskey needs a change. She's been working at the same Nodaway Falls, New York, waffle house since she was a teenager; not a lot of upward mobility there. She's been in love with Tobias, the cook, for the last four years; he's never made a move. Every Saturday night, she gathers with her three best friends—Peach, Millie, and Stacy—and drinks the same margaritas while listening to the same old stories. Intent on shaking things up, she puts her house on the market, buys a one-way ticket to Europe, and announces her plans to her friends . . . but then she meets Davina Granville, a strange and mystical Southern woman who shows Olivia that there is more to her life than she ever dreamed. As Liv's latent magical powers come to the surface, she discovers that having an interesting life is maybe not all it's cracked up to be. The dark side of someone else's magic is taking over good people in town, and changing them into vessels of malevolence. Unwilling to cede her home to darkness, she battles the demons of her familial past and her magical present, with those she loves at her side . . . and in the cross fire. Can the most important things in life—friendship, love, magic, and waffles—get her through the worst that the universe can throw at her?
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If you need more proof that anything is possible on the internet: The lead singer of '90s rock group Smash Mouth is preparing to eat 24 eggs for charity after people bugged him to on Twitter.
Currently, the causes.com page "Smash Mouth, Eat the Eggs," has $7,234.56 pledged towards St. Jude's Children's hospital. If it reaches $10,000, Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell will eat 24 eggs.
The campaign to make Smash Mouth's lead singer binge on hardboiled eggs for charity was launched, appropriately, by a Twitter user named Fart. That's Jon Hendren, a writer for web humor site Something Awful. Seems he and some folks from the Something Awful forums became fixated on Smash Mouth after noticing the band's sadly neglected verified Twitter account. (Even after the attention from the "Eat the Eggs" meme, it still has just 1072 followers.) I follow a bunch of these people on Twitter, and they began tweeting inexplicably about Smash Mouth and eggs a couple weeks ago. At the time it didn't seem strange, because these people inhabit a world of inside jokes so arcane it would take an anthropologist weeks of field work to understand most of them. Only now, reading the TMZ and the Huffington Post articles, has their ingenious scheme become clear.
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Apple on Monday announced that the iTunes Store eclipsed 1 billion podcast subscriptions. That's a whole lot of talking. A special promotion appeared in the iTunes Podcasts directory to commemorate the big number.
Apple says that those billion subscriptions are spread across 250,000 unique podcasts in more than 100 languages, and that more than 8 million episodes have been published in the iTunes Store to date.
No doubt about it: A billion podcast subscriptions is a massive number. No doubt some of those subscriptions don't translate into nearly as many "listens"; if you've ever had newspapers or Instapaper articles accumulate over time, you know how a podcast subscription can get.
Either way, though, the milestone is significant. And it's even significant that Apple's touting the number.
When Apple crows about the number of iPhones sold, apps downloaded, or OS X updates installed, that's direct pride in profitable Cupertino creations. Though the word itself evolved etymologically from "iPod," podcasts aren't an Apple invention, and the company doesn't directly make money off them, either.
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We spend a lot of time trying to figure out who and what The Beast is, but seemingly very little time looking for the woman who rides The Beast. And, there are some interesting challenges that we have in trying to figure out the identity of The Great Whore.
The Book of Revelation gives us clues to the identity of The Great Whore. But, even though those clues are definitive, they still leave us with more questions than answers. I have tried to answer as many of those questions as possible, this week. And, the reason why I have tried to do that is wrapped up in a command by God found in Revelation 18.