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Dave Blake is a Customer Success Pioneer and Founder of ClientSuccess a SaaS based Customer Success Platform based out of the Silicon Slopes, in Utah, who is changing the way companies manage, retain and grow their existing customer base. Dave joined me on The SaaS Revolution Show to discuss why Success is the new Sales
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Alex Theuma: Welcome to the SaaS Revolution Show. I'm your host, Alex Theuma.
I'm super excited to be joined today by a SaaS founder based out of the Silicon Slopes – that's in Utah, if you didn't know – who's changing the way companies manage, retain and grow their existing customer base with his customer success platform SaaS company. Welcome to the show Dave Blake, CEO of ClientSuccess.
Dave Blake: Thanks, Alex. It's an honour to be here.
Alex Theuma: It's a pleasure to have you on the show finally, Dave. I believe you've listened to the show before, so you know the first couple of questions we want to get to know you, we want to get to know a little bit about your company as well to help the audience get a better picture of you.
Who is Dave Blake? Tell us a little bit about yourself?
Dave Blake: I'm founder and CEO of ClientSuccess and my background has been in this space for most of my career. I was early days at a company called Arthur Andersen. Most people know of them that they went out of business because of the Enron scandal. But I was on the technology team at Arthur Andersen that early on and eventually was found by a company, an early-stage startup called Omniture.
Omniture was a web analytics company. At the time, I didn't really know much about it but they recruited me and brought me in as a Customer Success Manager managing strategic accounts. Fortunately, those out there who know Omniture today know that it was an absolute rocket ship and a success and so I was able to climb the ladder, if you will, at Omniture. I built their Strategic Accounts team taking care of their top customers worldwide, and every big logo you can think of we were managing.
And then we went through hypergrowth and Omniture went public and had our IPO and then we were acquired eventually by Adobe, which was an amazing experience to be on that journey.
Then once I was at Adobe, I ran the Global Enterprise Account Management Organisation for that side of the business and was there for many years until I decided I was ready for a change and founded ClientSuccess really to bring a solution to market that I wish I would have had all those years managing a global customer success team.
I'm based in Utah. Silicon Slopes, as you said, which is a great place for a SaaS ecosystem here with some really big unicorn companies, and have five kids. When I'm not spending all my time growing ClientSuccess, I'm usually at a soccer game or dance recital with one of my five kids.
Alex Theuma: Wow, five kids. I mean, I've got two and I find that hard enough. Congrats on the five. And launching ClientSuccess with five kids must be hard.
And you mentioned Silicon Slopes. You've got some pretty big unicorns there the likes of like Insidesales.com and Domo. I think they're the ones that I know.
Dave Blake: Yeah. Insidesales, Domo, Qualtrics, Pluralsight, other great companies like Instructure and HireVue and Entrada. It is a great time to be a SaaS company in Utah right now. We feel fortunate to benefit from those before us and also hopefully lay the groundwork for other aspiring entrepreneurs who are coming behind us.
Alex Theuma: A ton of great SaaS companies there. Is there something in the water in Utah?
Dave Blake: I think so. Utah is a great place. We had some early technology successes. Most people don't realise that Wordperfect, it's not around anymore but they were founded here and NOVELL. That set a great foundation for technology, and then Omniture's success even expanded the opportunity for SaaS talent and experience to be infused into this ecosystem. The cost of living is great, we have great talent from the universities here in Utah, and just some great experience from other SaaS companies that just continue to infuse talent throughout the market.
Alex Theuma: Tell us a little bit more about ClientSuccess. You mentioned this is a product that you wished that you had throughout all your years of building out customer success teams and strategies. But give us a bit more insight into why you founded the company? how many years ago you incepted it? how much you've raised? how much you've grown?
Dave Blake: ClientSuccess we're a Customer Success Management Platform so we're very tailored for customer success teams to manage all phases of the lifecycle and surface insights and analytics that will help empower the frontline CSMs and, what I like to say, enlighten the executives around health and engagement and retention and growth.
The need came about because in my role managing our strategic accounts worldwide, our team had great success. We were told by Josh James, the founder of Omniture and founder and CEO of Domo, he had one clear objective for me and that was you will never lose a strategic account. You can imagine that's quite the scary directive to receive from Josh. We built a great team and we had success we never did. But it was really all because of a phenomenal team rather than any technology.
What we found ourselves doing is coupling together spreadsheets and custom dashboards and a few fields on Salesforce and really didn't have solutions to empower our team. When I left Adobe in 2013, I was in a fortunate position to be able to self-fund a solution and it felt like that there were very few executives at that time who had 10 years of SaaS customer success experience and decided to put the experience and best practices into a solution.
I initially self-funded it, put it together, built an MVP with some developers, and then I actually took it back to Josh James when he, at the time, he was building Domo, in the early phases of Domo. And he took a look at our MVP and said, "I'm in. I'll be your first investor." So we were fortunate to have him as our first investor.
Since then we've raised $3.3 million in seed money and we're just having a blast building this business.
Alex Theuma: Great stuff. And obviously having that connection with Josh James was, I guess, fortuitous to help you go from self-funded to getting that initial investment. But not only initial investment, investment from one of the top guys in SaaS from a founder perspective. It's good to know how that came about.
Did it help having Josh onboard as your first investor when you went to subsequently raise your seed round?
Dave Blake: Yes, definitely. Josh I just consider one of the top SaaS CEOs out there by far. He's just a brilliant CEO. He's built a great culture. I think he's built arguably the best sales teams in the history of SaaS at Omniture, and now Domo. And to have him as our first investor just brought a lot of credibility I call the street cred, if you will, across many people. I just appreciate him believing in us early. He understands the importance of customer success and is been a great mentor, friend, and investor.
And then we are also fortunate to have investments from other… Scott Dorsey, who is also a phenomenal SaaS CEO. He was the founder and CEO of ExactTarget that was sold through Salesforce. Having both Josh James and Scott Dorsey as investors in ClientSuccess has been very helpful. We were honoured to have them on our team.
Alex Theuma: Can you tell us a little bit about then your growth story since you've had your MVP to now?
Dave Blake: We were formally founded in 2014 and started selling at the very end of 2014. Many founders out there will understand when I say that our first year was very what I would call scrappy sales and marketing. It was me for most of the year and one other sales rep. We had no marketing talent full time on our team so we were using some additional resources there to build content. That was really it.
So 2015 we built a great business on the low-down, kind of under the radar, and we felt very good about the traction through 2015. This year, we've hired more marketing in sales and really started to accelerate our growth. We're very happy with how our solutions resonated in the market and where we stand in the market and are looking to just continue to fuel that growth through the end of the year and in 2017.
Alex Theuma: Where do you want to take ClientSuccess? What are the key steps you think that you'll need to execute as well to get there to wherever your goals are?
Dave Blake: We've got a big and bold vision for the company. Really, our goal as customer success continues to just receive a tremendous amount of attention and investment, we want to be a leader in this space and innovate faster and dream big and execute. For us, as we look to the rest of the year and over 2017, we are focusing heavily on product innovation and differentiation and really scaling our revenue teams, which we look at as the marketing, sales, and customer success teams. That's where we'll be focusing there. It's just staying focused on our vision and executing across that vision over the next year.
Alex Theuma: We've got some great info and insights there on ClientSuccess and your background story, your growth story, where you want to go. Let's talk a little bit about the topic of customer success.
Tell me, is customer success really the new sales? And if so, why?
Dave Blake: We have this saying that you just mentioned that success is the new sales and we really believe that. That's because, as everybody understands in the SaaS environment, your existing customers are really the lifeblood of a SaaS business. Your ability to retain and expand the revenue within your existing customer base and really authentically help your customers succeed then your success as a SaaS company will follow. There's no question.
How the saying came about around success is the new sales is that we started seeing this shift over the last year where the influence of customer success teams continues to rise to the point where many of the VPs of customer success out there have a higher quota than their sales counterpart, if you look at the renewal quota and the expansion quota within the existing customer base.
We believe that over the coming years where all this investment has been made in sales and marketing technology and investment within companies, a lot of that will shift over to the post-sales side and you truly will see this massive investment on customer success side as they focus on retaining and growing their existing customer base.
Alex Theuma: How do you build a culture of customer success within a SaaS company?
Dave Blake: It starts at the top. It starts with the CEO and the executive team really all believing in customer success. And not only believe in it but living it on a day-in, day-out basis and ensuring that all the functional groups within a company are completely aligned around the customer.
It's understanding that customer success is not a department. It is a culture. And the best way that you can drive a culture of customer success is to have leaders aligned and frontline team members aligned around customer names, customer metrics, customer experience and empowering the company as a whole to take care of their customers in little and big ways.
Alex Theuma:
What about the scenario where I've got a SaaS startup where one year in we don't have a customer success team but just raised some seed funding, we're looking to grow the team and customer success is an area that I've been identified that's going to be key for the company's growth. Maybe we've got some bad retention metrics. How would you build out a customer success team in a SaaS company if you've been parachuted into that scenario?
Dave Blake: I think early on, you typically want to see your CEO in front of as many customers as possible spending time with customers. And I would say even your VP of Product and some engineers. Because if you're really trying to align with customers, and maybe you don't have a customer success team, how can you get as much exposure to your team on your customer's challenges, their business objectives and their needs as possible?
Then when you're ready to hire a customer success team, first of all, obviously, it's finding the right people because, as much as there's technology and process that enable customer success teams, it starts with the people. And so you're looking for customer success managers and leaders who have a lot of hustle, who have empathy for the customer, who have a passion for customers and have the ability to drive change for the customer even though they don't have direct impact or ability to affect that change. Meaning like one of the toughest roles out there is a customer success manager because the company relies on them to take care of customers but they don't have the ability to change anything in the product. They have no ability to change the sales process. They're just there to represent the customer. And if you can find people who will accept that and run with that responsibility, that's the first step to building a great customer success team.
Alex Theuma: What about now we've got the team. We understand that customer success is going to be a key strategy for our SaaS company's growth in the future. What are the key components of a winning customer success strategy?
Dave Blake: Great question. I think there's 3 or 4 key components. One is obviously the people, the next is the process. And when I say process it's being able to map out how you're going to take care of your customers throughout all the phases of the lifecycle.
There's too many teams out there that I have that I call to have a retain-and-maintain strategy where it's a little bit more passive. They just have their frequent calls or checkpoints via email but they're really not engaging with customers to understand their needs and have a methodology that derives proactive engagement throughout the lifecycle. So building out a very specific journey map, as what some would call it, or lifecycle management strategy is important.
And then metrics are critical. You can't improve what you don't measure. So really having your core metrics strategy in place so that you're measuring customer success and engagement and disposition across the team.
And then like I said, just at the end of the day, I think it comes down to the fundamentals. Are you engaging with your customers on a frequent basis? Do you understand the key executives' objectives? And are you aligning and rallying the team around that and are they engaging with your product? We really focus on the fundamentals.
Alex Theuma: Great insights there into building out a winning customer success strategy from somebody that's got perhaps more customer success experience than most folks in the planet right now. Tell me about any of the sort of challenges that are facing customer success as a category? What challenges are you seeing out there that maybe client success is facing or just the movement is facing?
Dave Blake: I think it's really just the pace in which it's growing is actually the biggest challenge and the biggest opportunity. It's growing so quickly that it's hard to find great talent out there and it's hard for teams to really keep up with the pace of that they need to evolve within their organisation. And so right now there's a tremendous influx of new talent that's kind of converted over to a customer success role and it's about those teams really understanding and executing their own best practices. But like I said, that's the biggest opportunity as well.
The biggest opportunity is that these customer success teams, as they execute, have the ability to have a huge impact within their companies. And I think a lot of these teams are really looking for… they want to tout their own success. Typically sales teams, when they close a deal, they celebrate with a ringing the bell or whatever it may be, whatever kind of celebration. I think it's time for customer success teams to be loud and proud within organisations too for every renewal that they make, for every upsell or expansion deal that they drive to really educate their organisation about the value of their place within their organisation.
Alex Theuma: Can you give us a little insight into a profile of a Customer Success Manager that you would hire?
Dave Blake: There's more talent that is starting to come to where you can find customer success managers with some SaaS customer success experience. But more often than not, they don't need to come from that background. In fact, some of my best customer success managers and leaders at Omnitron and Adobe came from completely different backgrounds. One was a former sales rep at IBM, another was a Product Manager at Amazon, and another one was a Senior Merchandising Director at Tommyhilfiger.com.
But the one thing that they all brought to the table was, as I mentioned earlier, they had a hustle and a passion for customers. They were able to have this empathy for their needs, and they were very good about building a relationship and then having the tech savviness to be able to bring solutions to the table.
I think if you can find talent in any functional group that has that passion for the customer and can build a solid, productive relationship, they have the makings of a great Customer Success Manager.
Alex Theuma: I know very well that you're flying over to Dublin from the Silicon Slopes next month, on September the 21st and 22nd for SaaStock 2016, which is Europe's premiere SaaS conference. You'll be doing a keynote there. What's the title of the keynote? What can we expect to hear from you?
Dave Blake: We're really excited to be at SaaStock this year and I think that this is going to be an amazing event. Everybody should be there.
The title of my keynote would be The Customer Success Maturity Model. We'll be talking about a lot of the stuff we discussed briefly today, but how do you build and scale a customer success team from startup through enterprise and what are the key areas and building blocks that you want to focus on in each of the core pillars of building a customer success team. So we're really excited to share that. Hopefully we'll get a lot of the founders in there who are anxious to build and scale those teams and that we'll be able to provide some great insights and best practices to consider.
Alex Theuma:
I understand also that ClientSuccess you're running your own customer success conference in September as well, just a couple of weeks before SaaStock, or even maybe a week before. Can you tell me a little bit more about that?
Dave Blake: Yeah. We're hosting an event we're calling the CS100 Summit. That's to bring together the top 100 customer success leaders from around the globe to Park City, Utah. If you've never been to Park City, it's an amazing destination to come. And we're having 3 days of just authentic and deep-dive customer success conversations and keynotes and a lot of fun.
We'd love any customer success leaders out there who may be listening to this. We welcome you to join us at the CS100 event and you can find more information at cs100.clientsuccess.com.
Alex Theuma: Well, I'm not a customer success leader but hopefully one day I'll make it over to Utah. Definitely it's a place that I'm interested to visit maybe both professionally and personally.
We've come to the end of the show. It's been great speaking with you. I've learned a ton from you and looking forward to catching up in Dublin at SaaStock and maybe even having a pint of Guinness. Really thank you for being on the show today.
Dave Blake: It's great to be here, Alex. Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin and everybody else.
Catch Dave Blake's keynote at SaaStock on the 22nd September in Dublin. Book tickets here before it's too late
Register here for the CS100 Summit on 13-15 September in Utah


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Republicans Show Growing Concern Over Romney Campaign
The Republican establishment is starting to give voice to serious concerns about the viability of the presidential campaign of former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, displaying pessimism about his chances to beat President Barack Obama in November.
An editorial in the conservative Wall Street Journal, a column by influential neoconservative Bill Kristol and a series of tweets from News Corp mogul Rupert Murdoch all voice similar fears of a campaign that is playing it too safe, being too vague and giving voters no reason to vote for Romney in November.
"Is it too much to ask Mitt Romney to get off autopilot and actually think about the race he's running?" Kristol asked, comparing Romney to former Mass. Governor Michael Dukakis and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both of whom unsuccessfully sought the presidency. "It's possible to lose a winnable presidential election to a vulnerable incumbent in the White House."
Kristol compared the Romney strategy to a "prevent defense" in football, where the team with the lead plays a soft defense that, in principle, allows the other team to move the ball but not score.
"Adopting a prevent defense when it's only the second quarter and you're not even ahead is dubious enough as a strategy," Kristol said. "But his campaign's monomaniacal belief that it's about the economy and only the economy, and that they need to keep telling us stupid voters that it's only about the economy, has gone from being an annoying tick to a dangerous self-delusion."
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Whether Obama's policies are the problem is, of course, a matter of debate. What's striking, however, is how the complaints by Kristol and the Wall Street Journal both say that Romney needs to do more than simply argue that Obama is bad. Instead, they ask Romney to actually put his cards on the table and say what he would do as president.
Romney has been loath to be specific so far in the campaign, in no small part because his past record has often been at odds with his current rhetoric. As governor in Massachusetts, Romney signed a health care reform law that was similar in many respects to the Affordable Care Act, which Romney claims to now vehemently oppose. Romney also supported abortion rights prior to his election as governor of Massachusetts, and he once claimed to be more pro-gay rights than the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Republicans have started to sense that their opportunity to defeat Obama, a victory they've been planning for since the night Obama was inaugurated, could be slipping away. Obama has built a small but stable lead in the polls and is given a 68 percent chance of winning in November according to New York Times statistician Nate Silver. Moreover, Obama has begun to hit Romney on his record with Bain Capital and his overseas holdings, attacks that the Romney campaign has been slow to react to.
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The concert hall was initially up for completion in 2010. However, over time it became evident that the project could not be completed at the negotiated price. In a frenzy of discussions between the architect, contractor and the client, the construction was halted in November, 2011 after prolonged construction. In 2012, architects Herzog & de Meuron exhibited the project at the Venice Biennale and made people aware of the reality that the architecture industry faces today as a consequence of cost inflation.
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Great insights can come from asking for advice from an expert, or just from a friend who seems to have a good take on a certain topic of interest. Asking a group of people, even strangers, for advice can provide a great variety of helpful ideas. But what about when advice is offered when you didn't ask for it? New mothers, college students, and people who work with the public may be more prone to getting unsolicited advice from friends, family, or strangers, but most of us experience it at times. And it doesn't always feel helpful.

Unsolicited advice can create stress quite a bit of the time. Often it can feel like criticism more than support when someone offers their take on what you could be doing better. (Sometimes they're not judging, and it's our own defensiveness that's making the advice feel like criticism, and other times they are absolutely judging us and our feelings are spot-on.) The stress can be compounded if the advice-giver takes offense if their advice isn't welcomed and followed. When the advice doesn't feel right to you, this can put you in a difficult position and create frustration and even resentment on both sides. People who offer unsolicited advice may have pure motives (though this isn't always the case), but it doesn't always feel helpful. Understanding their motives, however, can be helpful.

People give advice for many reasons, some of which are well-intentioned, others less so. It can be confusing knowing what to do with all the types of unsolicited advice that we encounter, so it helps to examine where the words might be coming from. Here are some common reasons people are compelled to give unsolicited advice:

Helpful Motives for Unsolicited Advice:

Altruism:  Often people offer advice just because of the simple reason that they think they can help you, and they want to make your life easier. Whatever the case, their motives are altruistic. Perhaps there's something they know of that they think would work perfectly with your situation or personality, and they would love to hook you up with something that would improve your life or reduce your stress. Particularly if you are talking to them about a problem, even if you're just needing some validation or emotional support, people may assume you are looking them for answers, and might also be feeling pressure to supply those answers.

Friendliness: Sometimes unsolicited advice is offered by a stranger as a way to start a conversation. It can also be offered by a friend to perhaps forge a connection. Friends often assume they can help you by offering you a solution, even if you didn't ask for one. This type of advice is well-meaning and can often be helpful.

Excitement: Other times, unsolicited advice comes from those who have found something that works for them, and they want to share it with the world. They see your situation as a perfect fit for this new product, tool or piece of wisdom that's made their life so much better, and wish someone had told them about it sooner, so they share. It's also common for people who have faced the same challenges as you and found what was a great solution for them to want to share this solution, assuming their "answer" will affect you the same way.

Whether or not the advice fits with your values or specific situation, this type of advice generally feels good to get.

Less Helpful Motives for Unsolicited Advice:

Needing to Be Needed: People who offer unsolicited advice from this motivation may have a lot of knowledge in a certain area that pertains to your situation and they feel the need to share it with people in order to feel valueded and important.

Feeling Helpless: If you're sharing your feelings and frustrations with them, some people may want to help you and be trying to solve your problem for you as a way to help. If that's what you were looking for, great. But if you just wanted a supportive ear or a little validation, sometimes people can't tell the difference and offer advice instead. (This is often the case with men and women when women want to share their problems as a way of feeling understood so they can then go on to solve the problem with less stress, but men want to focus on solving the problem so the women will feel better because of it.)

They're Sick Of Hearing It:  If you routinely share your problems and feelings with people as a way of 'venting', but take no steps toward solving your own dilemmas, let's face it: even if they know that you just want to talk, they could be trying to get you to do something constructive rather than continually emoting. This only applies to some unsolicited advice situations, and, looking inward, you'll know if this applies to you.

Narcissism: Some people, particularly those with narcissistic tendencies, need to be in the role of 'teacher' virtually all of the time, or perhaps just like to hear themselves pontificate. Their advice is often long-winded and not always appropriate to your situation, but harmless. These people often can't imagine that their advice won't be the answer you're looking for, even if it doesn't fit your situation.

This type of advice, though generally harmless, can feel less helpful, and is sometimes relevant to your situation, but often not.

Much Less Helpful Motives for Unsolicited Advice:

Establishment of Dominance: Some advice-givers would like to take the role of 'more knowledgeable person' in the relationship dynamic, and giving advice puts them in that position.

Passing Judgment: Sometimes when people have seen something in you that they don't like, they give unsolicited advice as a way to change it. This advice can often feel like an insult more than a genuine attempt to help.

The desire for Drama:  Believe it or not, some people love conflict, love hearing themselves argue, and get a feeling of personal power from telling others how wrong they are. Such people, consciously or unconsciously, tend to give lots of advice as a way of bringing up topics to debate.

This type of advice has more to do with the advice-giver than with you, and it can sometimes feel like a subtle snub or a slap in the face, and leave you with an uneasy feeling, even if you don't know why.

Once you've thought about where advice can come from, and examined your own thoughts and feelings to see if perhaps you're being overly sensitive, you can better know how to handle unsolicited advice.


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Fluent solver settings for solid fluid interface ??
Hello everyone,
I am modeling an axisymmetric jet impingement case with 9 jets in an array directly above a heated plate. The plate receives heat flux from the bottom face and the top face is the face which is interacting with the fluid from the jets and ambient as well... What I did is:-
1) Read case file for Domain and Plate Separately.(Append both files i mean to say)
2) Then i selected the solver settings to be used and the boundary conditions too
3) I selected interface as the boundary condition for the domain face and the plate face that are overlapping each other.In Grid interface settings, i connected these faces too
4) Problem is that if now the wall or top face remains as interface then how will i input the boundary conditions i need top give there....
Secondly even if i forcefully change it into wall later then i could not plot temperature contours at the interface.... Help please....
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Turkmenistan Sees Production Increase During 1st Half of 03
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Turkmenistan increased gas production 10.4% year-on-year to amount to 30.8 bcm in the first half of 2003, with oil production up 9.3% to 4.7 million tons, a source in the republic's Ministry for Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources told Interfax.
Exports of natural gas were up 9% to 22.2 bcm. Production of liquefied gas increased 12% to 109,900 tons.
Throughput at Turkmenbashi and Seidinsky oil refineries, which are structural subdivisions of Turkmenneftegaz, amounted to 3.2 million tons of oil, up 20% year-on-year. Production of polypropylene increased 48%, while diesel production was up 37% and gasoline - 21%.
As reported earlier, Turkmenistan plans to increase gas production 26% year-on-year to amount to 67.58 bcm of natural and associated gas in 2003. It is also planned to significantly increase oil production - 50% to 13.5 million tons.
Oil production in Turkmenistan in the first quarter 2003 increased 12% year-on-year to 2.3 million tons, with natural gas production up 10% to 18.3 bcm.


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South East leaders in Enugu yesterday reiterated their demand for a five-year single term for president and rotational presidency in the country.
They also canvassed immediate recognition of the six geo-political zones in the constitution as basis for distribution of public offices.
The Igbos also canvassed that the position of the President should be rotated among the six-geo-political zones in the keeping with the principles of equity, fairness and justice.
Also, they insisted on creation of additional states for the zone, but voted against the proposed state police, insisting that it would be another invitation to anarchy.
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu in a lead presentation at the zonal public hearing on constitution review on behalf of the people of Imo State said"we don't believe on state or regional police.
"Our people support a single term of five years for the presidency and this seat should be rotated among the six geopolitical zones," he said.
He however said that more powers should be given to the local governments. He told the forum yesterday in Enugu that the people of Imo State want financial autonomy for the 774 local government areas and creation additional ones.
According to him, the group also supports the creation of Anim State from the present Imo and Anambra states. Meanwhile the deputy governor of Ebonyi State was booed at the venue of the event as he canvassed the scrapping of local government.
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In this healthy turkey meatball recipe, a base of sweet potatoes, onions and oat flour add flavor and provide a powerhouse of nutrition. Enjoy on a bed of quinoa pasta with sauce for a great gluten free spaghetti and meatball dinner.
I have been on a mission lately to stretch the protein in my meals, and have become very creative about doing so. In this recipe, one pound of turkey leads to 40 meatballs! The secret is sweet potatoes. Â Normally when making spaghetti and meatballs I get two, maybe three servings out of my meatballs. But by adding a delicious and nutritious filler, such as sweet potatoes, Â I can really stretch how far a meal goes. Its great for your health, and your pocket book too!
This recipe is super simple. Start out with peeling a medium sweet potato and chopping it into cubes. Boil in water for about 10 minutes or until tender, drain and set aside to cool. If you have gluten free oats you can easily make it into flour using either a Nutribullet or a food processor. I normally pulse oats in the Nutribullet for about 5 -10 seconds until all the oats are ground into flour.
Mash your sweet potatoes with a potato masher and combine that with the turkey, egg, diced onion, minced garlic, salt, and pepper. I used a greased tablespoon to measure out the meatballs and rounded them in my hand. Place on a greased cooking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. This recipe should make about 40 meatballs.
I used Ancient Harvest Quinoa Pasta for the spaghetti in this recipe. It pairs wonderfully with the meatballs and tastes even better with spaghetti sauce. Spaghetti sauce is relatively easy to make, combine all ingredients in the recipe below and let simmer! The longer you let your spaghetti sauce simmer, the better its going to taste. However, if your impatient, like me, 30 minutes should suffice for simmering to have a wonderful sauce. Add quinoa pasta, sweet potato turkey meatballs, and enjoy!
- Turkey Sweet Potato Meatballs
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and cubed
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 1 egg
- 1 glove minced garlic
- ¾ cup oat flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- Sauce
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 4 cloves of minced garlic
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 cans tomato sauce
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1 tablespoon parsley
- ½ teaspoon ground pepper
- Turkey Sweet Potato Meatballs
- Fill a medium saucepan halfway with water and place over medium heat. Wait for water to boil and add the sweet potatoes. Let sweet potatoes boil for about 10 minutes or until tender.
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine ground turkey, onion, egg, garlic, salt, and pepper. In a separate bowl mash sweet potatoes and then add them to the meatball mixture. Add oat flour and mix by hand until well combined. Shape mixture into 1 tablespoon-sized meatballs. Place on greased pan and bake for 20 minutes.
- Sauce
- In a large saucepan over medium heat, saute onions and garlic in olive oil for 3 minutes. Stir in tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, salt, sugar, parsley, basil, and pepper. Cover and let simmer for at least 30 minutes.


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AT THE 52nd GRADUATION CEREMONY
Members of the Board of Governors,
Mr Tan Hang Cheong, Principal, Singapore Polytechnic,
Distinguished Guests,
Parents and Graduands,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Good morning.
- Let me first begin by speaking to all of you, the beautiful young ladies and all our handsome young men, all the Graduands gathered in this wonderful Convention Centre this morning – let me say to you, Congratulations to all of you! Just a few years ago, when you first stepped onto this campus, this was the very day you were thinking and dreaming of, Graduation Day, and so today we are here, finally! All your hard work, your investments of time, emotions, energy, finances and much more, have paid off and so today, you reap your rewards and become Graduates & Alumnis of Singapore Polytechnic. This is your day!
- Secondly, my special congratulations, also go to all the parents, grandparents, spouses, family members and faculty members in this hall – all of you have also worked very hard, supporting your graduands, helping them in so many ways, often behind the scenes, pushing them gently across the finishing line. Without you, it would not be possible, and so I know that all of you should feel very, very proud this morning. Congratulations to all of you too!
- Today, as you close this chapter of your life, at the very same time, you also open the doors to the next chapter, as life unfolds towards your future. I am just so privileged to be here this morning to address all of you, and to share in these joyous moments of your lives. Thank You Very much for inviting me here this morning.
My Own Journey in Singapore Poly
- 31 years ago, in July 1981, a young man with several of his secondary school friends, arrived for his first day of studies in the then new Singapore Polytechnic here in Dover Road. Like some of you here, he chose Singapore Polytechnic versus the JC for pure economic reasons, because he needed to complete his studies earliest and get out to work to ease the burden on his parents. So he arrived when much of the campus then was still under construction; only Teaching Blocks T1, T2, T3, MLT1, and the lower floor of front block of the Library, Canteen 1 (where the T1A concourse is now located); only these were fully ready for use. Everything else of the Phase 1 campus was still in the final touches of renovations and construction, thankfully completing by the end of the 2nd semester of the first year.
- It was a great new adventure for me, that young man, now not so young anymore. Where I used to walk to secondary school, I then had to take a long bus ride every morning back and forth to studies (no MRT then in Singapore). For the first time, going to school meant I don't need to wear a uniform. (yes, we laughed at our friends in JC and Pre-University Centres then). We could keep our hair a little longer, attend classes in jeans, T-shirts and wear whatever acceptable comfortable clothes. No, we could not afford branded or Hip T-Shirts then; club and society T-shirts were quite acceptable, and we wore them till they were faded. For me, the word "Learning" took on a whole new dimension, with interaction with lecturers, classmates, the practical sessions in an engineering environment, and all these contributed to a holistic learning experience by doing. Even walking from academic and tuition classes to our workshop classes across the campus quickly became a careful art of time planning, because everything was much bigger and much further.
- Today, Singapore Polytechnic has developed both in size, stature, and the sheer diversity of the many courses offered on this impressive campus. Last week, I had lunch with the leadership team from the school, and as I was walking through some parts of the campus, I noticed so much has changed, and I am told a lot more is being planned. You now have this wonderful convention centre, so many new and modern building facilities, free Wifi, air-conditioned canteens, McDonald, Starbucks, and very soon even a full serviced bank branch on campus. All these reflect how times have changed since my days, how life and the expectations of life has changed, and how tertiary learning has changed. Indeed Singapore Polytechnic has done very well in moving with the times, and in many ways, ahead of the times. If you travel and see the world as much as some of us do, you will surely know that almost all the tertiary institutions we have in Singapore (including Singapore Poltechnic) have world-class campus infrastructure.
- Perhaps what will never change is that our time in Singapore Poly, especially for the full time students, is a special period of 3 to 4 years of being with the people around you here, the growing alongside, spending time and nurturing lifelong friendships here. I made many good friends, built many enduring friendships. Many of us went through National Service together, suffered together, went out to work around the same time, and compared notes over the years. Some classmates got married to other classmates. Even to this day, these same friends grow old along with me. Many even watch their children come through Singapore Poly, and discover their own journey in life.
- The total experience of tertiary education is never just about scoring great grades, and completing the course assignments. Certainly, my approach to analysing, breaking down, solving simple or complex problems, and troubleshooting them – all these skills find their foundations in my student days in Singapore Poly. I thank GOD for the strong fundamentals built into my life during the short 3 years spent here.
- But the full experience goes beyond the grades. It is the time spent on campus, the many meals in the canteens, the games played at the Sports Centre, interclass faculty competitions, staying behind to mug for exams and tests, outsmarting each other, teasing each other, maybe your first love with someone special, the dance and hops events, the singing, the laughing, the crying and the family we found on the campus during our time here in this home-away-from home.
Seasons and Decades of Our Life
- One of the things I do in my professional life as the CEO of a headhunting consulting firm, is that on a daily basis, I read resumes, actually countless resumes. And over time, I see patterns of how people evolve in their professional journey, over the many years that they work after graduation from Polytechnics or from Universities.
- I noticed that broadly speaking, we can divide our professional lives into different decades, roughly about 10 years, plus /minus a few years. And I observed that in our twenties, often people go through this period of "finding out what they really want to do, or like to do". This does not happen in a laid-back passive way. Rather, it starts with the first job that comes along. We take the job, work hard at it, and through that experience, we answer this question – "is this job we really want to do? Maybe it is, maybe it is not. If it is not, we change job sometime thereafter. After a few changes, either in "jobs with different companies", or in "different roles with the same company", we go through this process of defining what we are really good at, and what we really like to do. I call this a process of "eliminating away what we don't like to do, and working towards what we like to do and do well" (the assumption is that we have the financial freedom to choose). The keyword of this "twenties" season of our twenties is "Variety"
- I also observed that once we know what we are good at, and choose to move along that path, we grow into our thirties, and we begin to specialise, and become very good in building competencies, expertise and deep experience in those specialised areas. So in our thirties, I framed this as the season of "Specialisation". For example, we become a very good computer engineer, finance manager, HR leader, sales and marketing professional.
- Once we specialised for a period of time, in our forties, we realise that we have become strong and good, and we not only do good work, we now influence and make impact in bigger way. Depending on the platform we have at that time, in our forties, and also into our fifties, the key word is the word "Significance".
- Today, as you graduate, you will enter into the season of "Variety", the twenties. My advice to each of you, is this. Don't say "I don't know", don't say, "I cannot". Once you have sized up the challenges of the role, and you know you can do it, give it a good try, make it work, learn and soak from people teaching you, and "Just Do It". Once we have some measure of success, and some experience, and we know what we can do - we will do better, and develop even more. Build experience as much as you can, be open to constructive comments. Don't take yourself too seriously, if you make some mistake. After all, this is the season to make some mistakes and learn from them, when the stakes are much lower because you are not yet at a senior role. Learn as much as possible, build experience. Don't think too highly of yourself, and don't think too lowly of yourself too. Think well of yourself.
Keep improving yourself
- The Diploma you will receive is just the beginning. It gives you a special foundation, a new springboard, a different platform, because you can build upon this new foundation. After you have worked for a while, and if the finances and time allow you to do so, I would strongly urge all of you to consider furthering your studies to your Bachelor degrees and beyond, if this is your desire. There is really no end to continuing learning both from the work experience dimension, as well as from further education, whether locally or aboard.
Concluding Remarks
- In conclusion, I will wish each and every one of the Graduands this morning "All the very best in the years ahead."
- Today, as we complete this graduation ceremony, we close the chapter of our study time in Singapore Polytechnic, and we open the chapter to the new life ahead. Once again, Congratulations to all of you. Thank You and GOD Bless.


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Receiving usage of premium quality dumpster rental in Goodnews Bay is really a essential facet of operating a effective construction venture. Most people are under the wrong assumption that they could merely figure it out later, so they simply disregard it. That type of tactic never brings desired results and that's why we suggest reading this article – it's going to help you understand why you need trusted dumpster rental products and services and, most importantly, where to get them without entirely depleting your finances.
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Clean-up jobs – Every home owner has undergone this challenge at the least once: the garage, basement and back yard are filled with trash that really needs to be dumped but the waste collection company won't pick up so much clutter . Calling one of Alaska's numerous dumpster rental businesses will quickly fix the problem. You should just make certain you work with a reputable staff that won't string you along with high dumpster rental prices and your problem is as well as done with!
Festivals and other large activities – This one is quite comprehensive: Each time a large collection of people gathers in one place to have fun you'll have lots of trash on your hands if you are the one in charge. Being truly a great supervisor means preparing in advance, so be sure you look after this part of your job by getting high quality roll off dumpster rentals in Goodnews Bay.
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Depending on the dumpster sizing you choose to rent you'll have to be careful about low electric wires. As you know, these containers occupy more space vertically while they are stationed, so it is in your absolute best interest to ensure you pick the dumpster's place correctly.
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Talk to your dumpster rental company about any difficulty you might have. Powerful communication is key when it comes to finding dumpster rental in Goodnews Bay and you must only work together with providers that look like they'll help you out on the way.


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Hello all,
Its my turn again, and this time I have made a little mini book. I wanted to put together a little snap shot of my recent Take that concert. I have done 12 x 12 LOs but I wanted something that I could leave on show for people to have a nose through.
I used an ATD ACCORDIAN BOOK CREAM
The theme of the show was the circus, so I wanted papers that were bright and colourful to reflect the fun of the clowns (which the boys dressed up as). I used American craft papers, a range is available in store.
I used the word part of the scribble flower stamps and the scrolls from the wedding invite stamps.
I covered each part of the accordian book with the patterned papers and added my photos. I stamped words onto pieces of cardstock and added them to the pages as embellishments.
I also stamped onto a button and onto ribbon and added these to a tag, this tag can be used for journalling or more photos.
I hope you like my little book.
Here are a few more pics x x


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Curvy Aleira Avendano achieved an eye-watering 20 inch waist - by wearing a corset 23 hours a day.FitSportStream has a pictorial on her and this bit of commentary...
The busty model has been wearing the waist-shrinking garment for the last six years and even refers to it as her second skin.
And despite doctors' warnings that the corset poses serious health risks, Aleira continues to turn heads with her extreme shape.
Aleira, from Caracas, Venezuela, said: "I am completely obsessed with belts and corsets - I even sleep with them on.
"I love the feeling of pressure and only take it off for an hour a day to rest and to wash myself."
Aleira Avendano is the definition of physical beauty...so she thinks. After 20 plastic surgery operations, she now says she is very close to the PERFECT body..How did we get here? I mean seriously! 20 surgeries? You see women with so many enhancements that they make Jessica Rabbit look normal! Why would doctors not send her for mental help? They can't be so money hungry that they'd let this woman kill herself with elective, unnecessary surgeries would they? If she makes it to 40 and I have my doubts, I'd love to see what she looks like.


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Market Watch – new and used deals
UK Car Discount has a couple of tasty Volvo deals this week. First up the C30 with sporty D5 diesel engine and even sportier R Design SE Sport trim package. £20,244 represents a £2,777 saving.
Even better, however, is the V50 estate with the same D5 diesel, SE Lux trim and automatic gearbox for £20,852 – a £4,293 saving.
The new Ford Mondeo is a bit on the large side, which isn't helpful if you park in a busy street. If the size puts you off don't be afraid to try out the previous generation car.
Motorpoint has a selection of 2.0-litre diesels in range-topping Titanium X trim in stock.
With examples aged around one or two years old, our pick is a 2007 hatchback with just under 14,000 miles on the clock for £10,999. That's almost 50 per cent less than the original list price, and it's still an excellent car.
Looking for a fun city car, but can't stretch to the Fiat 500? Then consider the Ford Ka – being replaced this year. It's out of vogue, and ripe for a bargain.
Autobytel is offering brand new Studio models for £4,998 – £2,097 off list price. Safety isn't the greatest, and the interior shows its age, but the Ka is still a great entertainer. Incidentally the new version will share its floorpan with the Fiat 500.
Renault Twingo undercuts Fiat 500
There's a new Renault Twingo in town, and it's clearly here to tackle that pesky Fiat 500. Badged Extreme, the new Twingo is priced from £7,500, undercutting the cheapest Fiat by £400.
It also introduces a 59bhp 1.2-litre petrol engine to the Twingo; 132g/km CO2 and 50.4mpg place it in Renault's green-friendly 'eco2' range but don't match the competing 500 1.2's 119g/km and 55.4mpg.
Similarly, while the Twingo boasts reasonable levels of standard equipment, the 500 matches it, has a better safety rating, and a much bigger 'wow factor'.
Both offer plenty of personalisation options, but of the two the advantage still resides with the tiddly Italian.
The Twingo Extreme is on sale now, and a no-deposit finance offer is available. See your local dealer for details.
Jaguar X-type offers
Jaguar is offering X-type SE buyers a free trim upgrade to Sport Premium, and free metallic paint. Usually £1,500 extra,additional equipment includes 18-inch alloys, leather sports seats, and a carbon-fibre dashboard fascia.
It's applicable to any SE, and the saloon even gets a boot spoiler. However, if you prefer the range-topping Sovereign spec don't despair, as the upgrade from SE has been reduced from £2,500 to £1,000.
For that you get 10-way adjustable electric leather front seats, a better stereo (including six-CD changer), burr walnut trim, and that all-important Sovereign badging.
Metallic paint is included, too. Zero percent finance is also available. Offers end 31st March.
Not-so-new Mercedes CLC
Looking at the Mercedes on the right here, you might be struck by an overwhelming sense of familiarity. It's called the CLC, and it's an entry-level C-class based coupé.
But since it's just a revised version of the existing Sports Coupé, it's actually on the previous generation C-class platform, rather than the new one. There are 1,100 'newly developed or enhanced' parts, many presumably going into the facelift.
However, in an effort to attract younger buyers, specification is strong, and among the more useful changes is a redesigned bootlid, resulting in extra luggage space.
Sport trim gets 18-inch alloys and the more responsive 'direct-steer' system as standard, while the entry-level four-cylinder Kompressor engine now develops an extra 20bhp, taking the total to 181bhp; fuel economy is improved, too.
A six-speed manual gearbox is standard, but five- and seven-speed automatics are optional. The 'new' CLC is on-sale in June and we'll know prices nearer that time.
Special editions from Citroën and Peugeot
Citroën and Peugeot's new special editions are very different, but united in their luxury emphasis. The Peugeot 407 Coupé Bellagio is priced at £21,995, and is based on the 2.0-litre diesel Sport model.
Extra equipment includes special paint in a choice of red or black, multimedia sat-nav system, and 18-inch alloy wheels.
The Citroën C4 Picasso Lounge is based on the Exclusive model, and actually uses the same 2.0-litre diesel engine.
Upgrades here include four full leather armchair style seats (instead of the standard five-seat layout), black paint, roof spoiler, bespoke chrome grill and chromed alloys.
It also comes with a six-speed fully-automatic gearbox which should be an improvement on the EGS gearbox fitted to other C4 Picassos. The C4 Picasso Lounge is a cool £23,995 – the same price as a top-specification Ford Galaxy.
Cadillac BLS pricing
Cadillac is introducing an estate for the first time ever, and it's on sale now in the UK.
Based on the BLS saloon – which is in turn based on the Saab 9-3 – the BLS Wagon offers 1,273-litres of luggage space with the rear seat folded (measured up to the roof).
With the seats up it's 419 litres – marginally less than the saloon.The most interesting thing, however, is that opting for the estate will cost you no more than the saloon, as Cadillac is putting no price premium on the more practical bodystyle.
This is highly unusual – as is the decision to offer the entry-level diesel engine for the same price as the entry-level petrol. Changes for 2008 also mean there is now only one trim level, Elegance, adding around £4,000 value in standard equipment.
Prices start at £21,495 although discounts shouldn't be too hard to come by as UK Cadillac sales have been slow to date.
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In many ways, Vivitrol has been a wonderful idea in theory which, in reality, has been limited in it's use by doctors. The reasons for this vary, and they have to do with the fact that most addiction doctors are psychiatrists who are resistant to administering deep, intramuscular injections in their offices. Finding and coordinating with other practitioners who will agree to inject patients on a monthly basis is burdensome, and the plan to get Vivitrol often fails. Furthermore, doctors who do perform Vivitrol injections are required to follow strict guidelines regarding storing/refrigerating the medication. Other hurdles relate to the public health realities facing many patients who are candidates for Vivitrol: they live in large, residential, publically funded programs with limited addiction medicine oversight, and are therefore not availed this important medication due to economies of scale – i.e. too many patients and not enough doctors. Programs with hundreds or even thousands of eligible patients with only a few doctors to treat them, are challenged to establish and maintain Vivitrol programs that meet their patients' needs month after month.
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Our program maintains relationships with referring agencies and providers, and we require that patients receiving Vivitrol injections remain in treatment with their referring treaters. We track all patient data to ensure that they are followed up with regularly, and that they receive Vivitrol injections every 28 days. We also take care of monitoring blood work.
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Croydon School of Accountancy and Management has started the short course on how to set up a new business. Students can enrol for this course in the batches that start in the months of July and August. The course is meant to encourage the budding entrepreneur with potential business ideas to start a business and convert their brilliant ideas into reality. The course also helps the existing entrepreneur to learn and develop the skills in particular domains such as marketing which helps the business to prosper.
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Ross has deep expertise in establishing and managing the Project Management Office (PMO), defining enterprise-level governance process and metrics, and driving standardization, consistency, and compliance across the organization. He is an experienced change management professional with a proven record of successfully delivering the reorganizing of business structures, business processes, IT systems, and job roles. Ross partners with executive leaders of diverse energy and utility organizations to complete cross-functional initiatives, drive sustainable change, and execute strategic plans.
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A chapter is coming to a close in Ferrari history. No longer will you be able to order a car with a Prancing Horse on the bonnet and a proper manual gearbox. Ferrari announced that the California will indeed by the last model with three pedals. Given this news, let's take a look back at where the shift towards automated manual gearboxes first started to unfold, the F355. In the past, Ferrari had offered larger, grand touring models with full automatic gearboxes, and even offered a semi-automatic gearbox towards the end of the Mondial's production run in the early 1990s.
The F1 gearbox management appeared in 1997. Like a lot of new technology, it didn't get a whole lot of love at first, but through several evolutions, it has evolved into the automated gearboxes we have today which have eclipsed manual transmissions in both speed and efficiency. While they may be better at hustling you down the road, hardcore enthusiasts will always shed a tear that fewer sports cars can be had with a row your own gearbox. This F355 is one such Ferrari, the second to last year the hardtop F355 was available before being usurped by the F360.
Year: 1997
Model: F355 Berlinetta
Engine: 3.5 liter V8
Transmission: 6-speed manual
Mileage: 62,099 miles
Price: $47,000 Buy It Now
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I am selling my 1997 F355 GTB for a great price. I have spared no expense on maintenance and upkeep and you are receiving a fantastic machine. It has no damage history and it is in beautiful condition for a 1997 and this coupe model is considered by some to be the quintessential Ferrari of all time. It is a pure sports car, with 6 speed manual transmission, 380 hp and zero to sixty in 4.6s. The paint is original and is like a mirror and the interior is in fantastic shape. Only issue is dash near windshield has some shrinkage (see photo) but I have discounted my price to reflect repair for this. This is easily fixed and many 355s of this era have this issue. I have performed the following maintenance on the car for a total investment of $22k.
2011: New alternator, new exhaust headers, campaign #48 repair fuel block clamps replace, new luggage compartment struts, air pump assembly replace, air filter replace, censors cleaned, ABS assembly module and censors replaced, ECU replace, new fog lamp bulbs, wiper blades, oil and oil filter x3, air compressor replace, all fuses.
2012: Full engine out service with new timing belt, spark plugs and deep cleaning of engine and mild restoration work. Wiring replaced from ECU to instrument cluster. Various O2 sensors replaced.
2013: All fluids changed. Brand new Michelin Pilot Supersport tires (25 miles ago).
I also installed a Kenwood Exelon fully integrated DVD, CD, MP3, Garmin NAV, and SAT multifunction display unit. Best available on the market. It can also accommodate cameras should you want to install one. This is a total turnkey F355 in excellent mechanical and physical shape, in a rare color combination. It is the last year Ferrari used the famous flying buttress design. It handles superbly and sounds awesome. Truly a work of art on wheels and a complete driving machine. And lastly it is a Coupe and not a Spider which are a dime a dozen. I have original car cover with toolkit, owners manual and two keys. I have all service records on this car to the beginning of time, including all of mine, in a bound folder.
With Ferraris, it's imperative that any example for sale comes with documentation and service records, hopefully from day one, and this car does. The engine out service that was completed last year will save some headaches and money for the future owner going forward. At $47,000, this is reasonable money given the level of care taken, even if mileage is a bit higher than your usual Ferrari of this vintage. Now is the time to buy one of these. As time moves on and cars become a bit more arcade like, enthusiasts will clamor for the simpler days of yore.


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Coefficient of drag: 0.31
Driver and passenger power heated body color door mirrors
External dimensions: overall length (inches): 176.5, overall width (inches): 72.8, overall height (inches): 54.9, wheelbase (inches): 102.6, front track (inches): 58.9, rear track (inches): 58.7 and curb to curb turning circle (feet): 37.4
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Weights: curb weight (lbs) 3,704
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Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king's newborn infant Aurora.
As the child grows, Aurora is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realises that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.
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My day started very early (330am) thanks to some lovely roosters. I realized as my trip went on, that roosters don't only crow at dawn…they crow all day and all night. Fortunately after a few days I got used to them and all the other birds.
I had originally booked my trip to Tikal with Pacz Tours for Sunday (the 5th). But they called Thursday night and said they had another single gal about my age that wanted to go Friday. It worked out perfect because the river was still too high to do ATM cave. Pacz Tours picked me up around 730am and we were off. I was very flattered that they thought Alisa (the other single gal) was about my age…she was 25.
A lot of tour operators send you off to Tikal and then pick up a guide at the Guatemalan border or at Tikal. Pacz Tours has a guide on staff that is of Guatemalan decent who now lives in Belize. We were shuttled to the Guatemalan border by Jamal. Our guide, Juice, helped us navigate the border crossing. On the other side, there was another shuttle waiting for us. The road from the border to Tikal had some fairly rough patches. Juice informed us that the contractor that worked on that part of the road not only did a sub-par job, but it sounds like they ran out of money before finishing it.
Exchanging money at the Guatemalan border was very interesting. There were guys standing at the border with very large wads of Guatemalan money. It felt a bit funny giving them money to exchange. You'd never see anything like that in the US.
On the way to Tikal, we stopped for some photos of Lake Peten Itza. It's the largest lake in Guatemalan at a length of nearly 20 miles and about 3 miles wide. We also stopped at a nice gift shop. The prices all seemed pretty high until I remember the exchange rate was 1:10. Apparently in a couple of weeks after our visit the exchange rate would drop to 1:3.5 (taking advantage of the popular Christmas tourist season).
Our guide, Juice, was extremely knowledgeable when it came to Tikal. There is no way I would have spotted all the animals he did. And, having someone who knew the way around and could give us tons of history was well worth it.
Tikal is one of the largest excavated ruins in the world. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Tikal's growth started around 2000 BC and reached its peak around 200 to 900 AD. Tikal is estimated to have reached a population of around 90,000 inhabitants.
On the grounds of Tikal we saw (or heard) quite a bit of wildlife, including gibnet (large rodent), coatmundi (raccoon), bats, tucan, hawk, tarantula, wild turkeys, gray fox, and howler monkeys (who choose to just scare us, but never officially showed their faces).
Our tour of Tikal ended with lunch near the site which was covered in the price of the tour. We left Tikal around 215pm. Jamal picked us up at the Guatemalan border to welcome us back into Belize.
When we returned I was happy to discover that the river level had dropped enough for us to do the ATM tour the next day. My day ended with dinner at Hodes (again).