Most retailers spend the majority of

By admin July 29th, 2010, under Uncategorized

Most retailers spend the majority of their marketing dollars on advertising avenues such as radio, TV, and print adds. Although their importance in generating traffic is undeniable, there is a financial sacrifice to be made and it is high. As an example a half page black and white ad in a local newspaper may run around $1000. If you were to add color, plan on adding an addional $500. The distribution is one time. How many of those people will actually take the time to read the ad, remember the ad, and act on the ad? For a mere fraction of the price, window advertisements work 24 hours a day, every day for the duration of the ad. It provides direct attention not only to the storefront, but also up front, no nonsense information about in store promotions. All information is readily available to the potential customers right in front of their store.

Due to the demand of the well-informed consumer, the retailer has to offer far more than good deals. They must offer an experience, a felt experience.
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They justify doing personal projects on company

By admin July 29th, 2010, under Uncategorized

They justify doing personal projects on company time since the hours at their jobs are often extended – never mind that it?s often due to their undisciplined and unfocused work habits. Employees feel the inequity of being asked to assume leadership roles, if it means increased workloads with little to no reimbursement incentives. Employee theft has increased, a contributor to downsizing and cutting costs due to lost revenue. Longevity and loyalty are quickly fading concepts of the past.

To guarantee results, management has needed to adopt back up systems. Divisions of quality control and customer complaint departments are needed to fix what wasn?t done right in the first place. Numerous policies and guidelines are imported, including those of fair practices and ethics. Micromanagement is implemented to double-check work product and enforce behavioral operating rules that should be a natural mode of operation for us all.
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Take time to

By admin July 29th, 2010, under Uncategorized

Take time to learn new things about your industry, or learn new business skills that will take you into the future.

4. Learn from your success. Just like we?re all told to learn from our failure, take time out to learn from your successes. What did you do right that got you where you are today? Which pieces of the success brought you the most fulfillment and happiness?

5. Decide if you want to stay at the present level or grow your business further. Once you?ve had a big success it?s time to decide if you?re finally at the level where you?ve always wanted to be, or if there?s still another goal you want to go after. Sometimes we just pile success upon success without realizing that we created the life we wanted 5 years ago and the rest has just been ?busy work.?

6. Take stock of the balance between your personal life and your business life.
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I personally want to send

By admin July 29th, 2010, under Uncategorized

I personally want to send my deepest sympathies for what this unprecedented administration has created.

We Are ALL connected…

The unexpectedness of the attack on the WTC and subsequent pre-emptive war in Iraq has left people feeling helpless and vulnerable. Other than joining the military or donating money, many wonder what else they can do to help the victims. There is something you can do.

There are opportunities to remember who we truly are as humans from every experience. This truly is one planet, one globe–and one country’s disaster or loss affects all of us.

With that in mind, I encourage you to send messages of love, warmth, and healing to the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran and all those around the world who experienced a loss or others who believe war is the path to peace. Whether it’s through prayer, meditation, or some other form of spirituality, your good thoughts and well-wishes will create a powerful positive energy that will resonate throughout the world.

With deepest compassion, I wish you well. Peace and Love, Dorothy M.
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FAST AND FEARLESS RACERS ADD POWER TO SKATEBOARDS AT ENCINO

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FAST AND FEARLESS RACERS ADD POWER TO SKATEBOARDS AT ENCINO

0 Comments | Daily News; Los Angeles, Calif., Jul 19, 2010

ENCINO – Start with skateboarding. Add a touch of NASCAR. Put it on a track built for bicycles.

The result is the scene that unfolded Sunday at the Encino Velodrome when a bunch of dudes jumped on motorized skateboards and raced around the high-banked concrete oval in what is either the next hot sport or the latest example of California nuttiness.

“It comes down to being really Zen, and not twitchy,” Zak Mayall, 26, said of the skills required to race in a pack of competitors atop oversized skateboards propelled by electronic engines.

Six racers protected by motorcycle leathers and helmets took to the track Sunday in a series of four-lap races, each of which took little more than a minute to complete.

To answer your first question, the fastest racers were turning laps at more than 30 mph, and organizers said they’ve clocked motorized skateboards at more than 40 mph on open straightaways.

To answer the racers’ mothers’ first question, no, they don’t have brakes. Or throttles. Or handlebars.

When they squeeze the hand-held on-off toggles, the riders zoom from zero to top speed with a screech of the boards’ fifth wheels, the rear-end tires that transfer the energy from three 12-volt batteries.

Sunday’s first race was won easily by Dustin Wagenbach, the 41- year-old owner of a Simi Valley pressure-cleaning company and the reigning champion of powered skateboarding
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But had I

By admin July 29th, 2010, under Uncategorized

But had I
done that this time, and dove back into work, or tried to fix the problem, I’d have
been striving to change things from a mindset of lack. And I sure as tootin’
wouldn’t be writing about it to you, because most likely, nothing would have
changed.

Instead, I chose the “road less traveled by.”

I gave myself the space to do
what I needed, to take the time to find out what it was I needed, and not rush the
process. (We teach our clients about mercy all the time; it sure is nice when those
chickens come home to roost.)

I chose to clean up my office, and put on some music. And talk about Divine
confirmation: the first song to play (I put my iTunes on random mode, so I didn’t
know what would come up) was called “Holy Now”, which is a great heart-connector,
and a reminder of God’s Presence in every aspect of creation.
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Australian Local Government Council Creates High-Performance Disaster Recovery System with Juniper Networks EX-series Ethernet Switches

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Australian Local Government Council Creates High-Performance Disaster Recovery System with Juniper Networks EX-series Ethernet Switches

Business Wire, Oct 13, 2008

Pittwater Council Leverages Juniper’s EX 4200 Series Switches to Accelerate Off-site Data Replication, Simplify Network Management and Eliminate Bandwidth Waste

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that Pittwater Council of Sydney, Australia, has created a robust disaster recovery system, streamlined its network management and eliminated bandwidth waste with Juniper Networks EX 4200 series Ethernet switches.

The EX 4200 series switches are deployed in the Council’s main office and a remote disaster recovery site located 2Km away. The EX 4200 series switches in both locations operate as a single switch by running the Virtual Chassis technology across dual 10 Gbps Ethernet fiber links. The EX 4200 series switches increased the throughput and decreased the latency between the two sites allowing real-time data backup to off-site network attached storage. The EX 4200 series also supports VMware VMotion, the virtual systems application the Council used to mirror virtual machines to the remote site for added resilience. Extending the Virtual Chassis technology across the 10Gigabit Ethernet fiber links dramatically simplified the Council’s network management effort by allowing IT staff to administer the multiple switches as a single logical device. The EX-series switches also eliminated wasted bandwidth on idle optical fiber links.

The Council, the local authority for the northern Sydney coastal area of Pittwater, maintains a large number of records ranging from council notifications to planning approvals
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Condominium associations hit hard by foreclosures consider bankruptcy

By admin July 28th, 2010, under Uncategorized
Condominium associations hit hard by foreclosures consider bankruptcy

Journal of Property Management, May-June, 2010 by Joseph Dobrian

With the recent proliferation of condo foreclosures and owners falling behind on their monthly assessments, many condo associations are struggling to find a way to pay their bills and vendors. They are even considering bankruptcy.

“When people start to go under financially, they stop paying condo assessments before they stop paying the bank,” said Evan C. McKenzie, attorney and associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “By the time they get foreclosed on by the bank, they’re already deeply in arrears to the association. And when banks foreclose on a condo unit, they routinely refuse to pay assessments, past or present. That’s breach of contract, but they do it anyway.”

While it’s not the norm for condo associations to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it is a recourse that’s increased in the past couple of years, particularly in overbuilt markets. California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas are the markets where most condo foreclosures are occurring, McKenzie said.

At first glance, it would appear that Chapter 11 wouldn’t be available because associations are pass-through vehicles, not property owners. Still, more and more associations are finding ways to test bankruptcy law–and their efforts could lead to considerable litigation over the next few years.

DILATORY, DISALLOWED OR DISASTROUS

The tipping point whereby associations start considering bankruptcy is often when the remaining solvent owners in a building have to pay far more than their proper share in assessment fees, pushing more owners into delinquency. McKenzie said when more than 20 percent of owners are delinquent it becomes practically impossible for the association to borrow money. It also becomes impossible to get FHA or Fannie Mae insurance on sales of units.

Ultimately, he said association bankruptcy “is a disaster,” and should only be used as a last resort–in extremely rare situations. In general, the effect of association bankruptcy is merely dilatory, and courts often disallow the filing. Some associations have stopped just short of bankruptcy, asking the courts to appoint a receiver to collect fees from individual owners. But in most cases, the bankruptcy process is too complicated and costly to be useful to a condo association.

Robert Kaye, partner at the law firm of Kaye & Bender in Pompano Beach, Fla., which represents about 700 communities in southern Florida, said it’s difficult for a condo or homeowners’ associations to declare bankruptcy because they are almost never in a situation where its liabilities outweigh its assets, especially with its power to require a special assessment in order to lessen debt.

“There are a few situations where a condo association might have liabilities greater than its assets. For example, if a large judgment has been entered against it,” Kaye said. “We saw a case recently where an association was locked into a long-term recreation lease which, due to significant foreclosure issues, became unmanageable. That 50-plus-year liability was draining the resources of the remaining owners, so the association filed for bankruptcy to get out of it.”

SHOULD WE OR SHOULDN’T WE?

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based attorney Mark Schorr represented Maison Grande, a condo association in Miami Beach involved in a long-term recreation lease case. He said the seeds of disaster were sown in the 1970s, when the condo association failed to buy or negotiate its way out of the onerous lease after Florida courts outlawed escalation clauses. As a result, an assessment of $40 per unit, per month rose to $224 by early 2010–at a time when 25 percent of Maison Grande’s 502 units were delinquent on their fees.

Schorr said it was useless to put a lien on a unit because the bank was about to foreclose on the first mortgage. As a result, the condo association filed a petition for Chapter 11, in order to get out of the lease. He said the lessor is opposing the bankruptcy, as well as the motion to release the lease, because the condo association doesn’t have any assets in its name, and the unit owners as a whole still have assets.

“These are issues that have never been raised before, that need to be raised,” Schorr said.

So far, the judge in the Maison Grande case has ruled that each owner is liable for his pro rata share of the recreation lease–but not for what’s owed by delinquent owners. The association is thus relieved of its obligation to go after the delinquencies, and it’s possible the judge will also rule that the remaining unit owners aren’t liable, which would make bankruptcy very worthwhile, Schorr said.

Other cases, however, might not be as worthwhile. Another condo association bankruptcy that’s been attracting attention lately is tied to the Boca Village Association, also in southern Florida. The association proposed to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy to dissolve the organization, then create a new association that would take over the condo
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No one is certain but

By admin July 28th, 2010, under Uncategorized

No one is certain but it seems more likely that both breeds sprung from a breed of dog called ?Alaunt? which appears to have possessed a short, thick head and short muzzle with undoubted power and strength, especially in the forelegs. Here are ten more things you may not know about the Bulldog, sometimes called ‘Bull Dog’ ?..

* In the 19th Century Bulldogs were used to chase and terrify Bulls before they were slaughtered, hence the name ‘Bull Dogs’. It was widely believed the flesh of animals baited this way immediately before death tasted better than others killed in more humane fashion!

* In his diary, Samuel Pepys says he was present at a bull-baiting in Southwark, London, on August 4th, 1666, which he described as ?a very rude and nasty pleasure?.

* Bulldogs were also used to bait full-grown bears and for dog-fighting. Henry VIII had his own Bull and Bear gardens and watched many bull-baitings.
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