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A Chakra Meditation
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- Andrea
- 10-02-2005
Really good to relax and meditate!
I bought this one after having bought, from the same author, "A Guided Meditation for Relaxation, Well-being and Healing". As for the other title, I?m really happy with the content. The author is accompanying you to discover the 7 chakras of your body, and I find both his voice and the sound effects very relaxing and soothing. The only reason why I rated it 4 star rather than 5 is it that there are two meditations, as in the other title, but in this case they are almost identical, one just slightly shorter than the other. I think it would have been nice having two different meditations, to enable the listener to alternate between the two.
57 people found this helpful
- Jean
- 01-02-2009
Among His Best!
I love all of Glen Harold's books, but A Chakra Meditation is my favorite. I listen to it daily, and each night and sometimes first thing in the morning. "Every time" I align my chakras just before going to bed, I have very lucid dreams, and they are in such beautiful and vibrant colors. I've never had such consistency of this type dream until listening to this audio book.
28 people found this helpful
- Keith
- 27-03-2005
A really great audio program for relaxation. I have listened to many different of self hypnosis programs and this is as good as I have found.
29 people found this helpful
- Tom Gunsmoke
- 14-12-2011
Any additional comments?
I have several of Glenn Harrold's hypnotherapy/meditation audio books, for me, this was the most powerful I've heard. His style took a bit of getting used to at first (this is my 4th one), but glad I stayed with it. I can't deny the results from this particular one, deep physical and spiritual shifts.
12 people found this helpful
- Dorothy
- 15-11-2009
It works
I don't know exactly what Chakra meditation is. All I know is that when I listen to this recording, I feel good for the whole day. My day starts with a good feeling and I accomplish a lot more than I might have otherwise. I have some other hypnosis recordings by Glenn Harrold and they are all good. I don't know why hypnosis works, but in my case it does. I listen to one of his recordings every morning after I eat my breakfast. The only problem I have is: he says the best way to listen is to lie down on a bed or a couch when you won't be disturbed. My cats don't seem to realize that I don't want to be disturbed so they make sure that I am. I am able to settle into the hypnosis anyway. Recommend very much.
20 people found this helpful
- Zarina
- 21-04-2011
I love it
different people have different reactions to stuff like this, but I love this meditation. It puts me to sleep. The only thing I do not like about it is the fact that the recording consists of 2 identical readings, and he wakes you up. I have to turn my ipod off every time he gets to counting, so I can fall asleep. But in general, an awesome thing. Just bought another one of the same author, will see what that is like
8 people found this helpful
- Samantha
- 01-01-2006
Fantastic Journey
This is a fantastic journey for the mind. I was completely lifted away through time and space and awakened feeling renewed energy and hope. I highly recommend this title!
15 people found this helpful
- wordings
- 10-05-2011
Simple and Effective
I've tried lots of different hypnosis recordings and Glenn Harold's are for me the best by far. I'm not sure exactly why they are so much more effective than the others I've tried, but I have some theories: first, he is a natural at performing hypnosis, unlike many others who seem affected or artificial in their voice and manner--Glenn's voice is very soothing and monotonous in a good way; second, the recording quality is good, which makes a difference; third, the timing is just right in terms of what's said, when it's said, repetitions and pauses; forth, the wording is simple but effective: he uses some "confusion" techniques, but it is subtle and thus non-distracting. This recording is somewhat different from the "raising energy and motivation" hypnosis that I also use (and like equally well) in that it is more of a guided meditation. But all of my observations above still apply. Affirmations are included relating to the function or theme of each chakra, but again the explanations and statements are simple and direct, which makes for a better experience in my opinion. Because it is an enjoyable experience I find it much easier to listen repeatedly without becoming bored, which is important since the more repetition the better with both hypnosis and meditation/relaxation. I am buying some new Glenn Harold products today and intend to use one in the a.m. and one at night.
19 people found this helpful
- Farrok
- 24-05-2013
Excellent for a Bad Back
What did you love best about A Chakra Meditation?
This Meditation is very good for a sore back. For unknown reasons my back feels better after doing these Chakra Meditations. It works. Follow the 21 day rule and listen for 21 days and you will feel a change.
What did you like best about this story?
Simple to understand and easy to use.
Have you listened to any of Glenn Harrold's other performances before? How does this one compare?
This is one of the better ones. In other recordings Glenn Harrol makes statements like, "It may help you?" For me I don't want to spend 10 dollars for something that "may help" I want something that Will Help ........................... May Help you is a negative suggestion!
5 people found this helpful
- Joan
- 02-05-2008
Wonderful, Awesome, Perfect
The sound for each Chakra feels so good, the words, positive affirmations that you can put to use and feel where they resonate in our body's....Just what this ol'e girl needed!
P.S. I have never heard this author before, but thank him!
Blessings to YOU, now............... Practice,Practice,Practice;o]
10 people found this helpful
- Dawn
- 01-12-2010
Bit rich for this novice, will try another Glenn
Glenn Harrold has heaps of recordings here on Audible and I sense he knows of what he speaks.
Not having heard his voice before, I was struck by the down-to-earth London accent and delivery. At first I could only think of him as a character from 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', but eventually I grew accustomed to Glenn's voice and found the down-to-earthness reassuring.
As a novice to meditation I reckon I probably picked an advanced recording, so will go back to find something more basic.
6 people found this helpful
- Nicola
- 15-02-2014
Amazing and so healing!
Very nice recording with lovely background musical tones to match each chakra. Each chakra is worked on individually and closed down after the overall healing has taken place, also with proper grounding of the energies into the body and Mother Earth.
The voice of the therapist is mesmerising leaving me feeling refreshed and noticeably different after I use this. Also great that there are 2 different chakra meditations both with powerfully enhancing healing qualities.
Just what I need thank you! x
4 people found this helpful
- Amazon Kunde
- 26-03-2011
Good meditation!
Good meditation by a great narrator. One does need to be a little familiar with this type of meditation, it is somewhat lengthy and detailed. Suggest you do this early or first thing in the morning, else you may fall asleep if you doing it lying down in bed!
4 people found this helpful
- FoxleyTowers
- 24-04-2013
Good meditation Tool!
'A Chakra Meditation' is one of a few meditation tools that, for me, resonates. This may well be a timely purchase. Glenn's guiding voice, the soothing background music and calming chants really focuses my mind. I look forward to meditating with 'A Chakra Meditation' and I feel totally relaxed and gently energised afterwards. I have bought, over the years, quite a few meditation tools some music only. This is definitely in my top five - Namaste!
2 people found this helpful
- Mickey Brown Eyes
- 28-02-2015
Truly Awesome!!!
I've been practicing spiritual techniques for a long time including variations on chakra meditations. This particular meditation is excellent at clearing-out imbalances and re-energising new positive energies. I highly recommend this practice. Excellent introduction into you own life energy.
1 person found this helpful
- 06-04-2019
Great relaxation audio
I find this really relaxing. Can focus on your energy points and feel good afterwards.
- dan
- 14-10-2012
very good meditation tool
I found this a useful and effective visualisation exercise. The narrator has a good, thankfully not too 'new age style' delivery and I have used this often since purchasing.


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Many Americans have Scottish roots, whether they descend from 18th and 19th century settlers emigrating directly from Scotland, or from Scots-Irish emigrants from Ulster. In either case, successful research in Scottish records will depend upon determining an approximate date of birth or marriage for the Scottish-born ancestor and identifying the place of origin. This task is easier for the 19th century emigrant because of the abundance of resources in Scotland, including civil registrations of vital records from 1855. Those searching for earlier emigrants have fewer sources available and must rely on church books, legal records, and other public documents. Sometimes members of the same parish in Scotland settled together in the New World; thus, beginning researchers should also fully examine American records, such as county histories, death certificates, obituaries, church registers, and family Bibles for clues.
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There are several ways of identifying books on Scotland and the Scots in the library's online catalog found at www.ACPL.Lib.in.us. Look under Scotland followed by the name of a record type; for example: Scotland. Directories. One can also look under a subject, or under a specific place, author, or title, if known. An extensive collection of Scottish records is found under the heading, Scottish Record Society. The online catalog allows for flexible keyword searching, and includes most all of the department's book collection. Dial-up access is available at (260) 489-7087. One should also check the Family History Library Catalog at www.FamilySearch.org for other references. Researchers with further questions about the collection or catalogs should ask a librarian for assistance.
The Genealogy Department contains a large collection of guides for doing Scottish genealogical research. Many include helpful bibliographies for further study.
Bigwood, A. Rosemary. Tracing Scottish Ancestors. Edinburgh: Harper Collins Publishers, 1999. /Gc 941 B488t/
Bloxham, V. Ben. Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland from the Earliest Times through 1854. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1970. /Gc 941.0004 Sco8aa/ A guide to church records by parish, with dates and Family History Library film numbers.
Burness, Lawrence R. A Scottish Historian's Glossary. Aberdeen: Scottish Association of Family History Societies, 1997. /Gc 941 B933s/
Cory, Kathleen B. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996. /Gc 929 C792t, 1997/ A good, basic guide which discusses research at New Register House and other repositories. Includes illustrations of records, a lengthy appendix with addresses and a list of parishes with register dates.
Irvine, Sherry. Your Scottish Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans. 2nd ed. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2003. /GC 929.1 Ir19y/
Jonas, Linda and Paul Milner. A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage. Cincinnati, OH: Betterway Books, 2002./Gc 929 J69g/
Kitzmiller, John M. In Search of the Forlorn Hope: A Comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and Their Records (1640-WW1). 2 vols. Salt Lake City, UT: Manuscript PublishingFoundation, 1988. /Gc 941 K65i/ Covers Scottish regimental records.
Moody, David. Scottish Family History. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990. /Gc 929 M77sc/ A guide for weaving family with local history; includes a bibliography.
_________.Scottish Local History: An Introductory Guide. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990. /Gc 929 M77s/ Descriptions of local record sources. Bibliography included.
Robinson, Mairi. Concise Scots Dictionary. Aberdeen: Univ. Press, 1985. /Main 427.9411 C74/
Scotland: A Genealogical Research Guide. Salt Lake City, UT: Genealogical Library, 1987. /Gc929 Sco75/ A guide to Scottish research in the Family History Library.
Simpson, Grant. Scottish Handwriting, 1150-1650. Edinburgh: Bratton Publishing Ltd., 1973. /Main 421.7 Si5s/ A guide for interpreting Scottish handwriting styles in early records.
Sinclair, Cecil. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestry Research in the Scottish Record Office. Rev. ed. Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 1997. /Gc 929 Si62t/ A definitive guide,including descriptions of vital, legal, and military record holdings.
Gazetteers are useful for locating places in Scotland and determining the relevant record-keeping jurisdictions to which they belong. The following list of sources can help the researcher obtain more information about the ancestral place of origin, once it is determined.
Bigwood, A. Rosemary. Index to Parishes (with Related Sheriff Courts, Commissary Courts and Burgs). Edinburgh: The Author, 1993. /Gc 941.0004 P488i/ Lists all parishes and includesinformation about where the associated court records can be located.
Findlay, James. Directory to Gentlemen's Seats, Villages, &c. in Scotland. Edinburgh: Kennedy, 1843. /Gc 941.003 F49d/ Includes a directory of land owners.
Gardner, David E., et al. Genealogical Atlas of Scotland. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, Inc., 1962. /Gc 941.003 G76g/ Contains county maps with a key to towns and villages.
Groome, Francis. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. 6 vols. London: Mackenzie, 1895. /Gc 941.003 G89o/
Lewis, Samuel. Topographical Dictionary of Scotland. 2 vols. London: S. Lewis, 1846. /Gc 941.003 L58t/ Includes descriptions of towns and villages in 1846.
Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, Scotland: Indexes to the 1/2500 and 6 Inch Scale Maps. Kerry, Wales: David Archer, 1993. /Gc 941.003 G79or/
The Parishes, Registers and Registrations of Scotland. Aberdeen: Scottish Association of Family History, 1993. /Gc 941.0004 P219/
Smith, Frank. A Genealogical Gazetteer of Scotland. Logan, UT: Everton, 1971. /Gc 941.003 Sm5g/ A detailed list of towns and villages, including Church of Scotland and nonconformist chapel register dates.
There are also a number of very good Internet sites for locating town and parish names. The UK and Ireland web page is one such site: www.genuki.org.uk/big/parloc/search.html.
Numerous directories of Scottish immigrants have been compiled for the United States and Canada. Many of these provide clues about places of origin in Scotland. In addition, passenger lists from U.S. ports, beginning in 1820, are relatively complete and available on microfilm.
Cameron, Viola Root. Emigrants from Scotland to America, 1774-1775. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1959. /Gc 929.122 C14e/
Dobson, David. Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775. Baltimore: Clearfield, 1990. /Gc 929.122 D65di/ More than forty volumes of reference material on Scottish immigrants have been compiled by David Dobson. For additional titles, check the online catalog under his name and limit the search to the Genealogy Department.
_________.Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (G.P.C.), 1986. /Gc 975.6 D65d/
_________.Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825. 7 vols. Baltimore: G.P.C., 1984- /Gc 929.122 D65d/ U.S. and Canadian immigrants with arrival date and origin.
_________.Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783. Baltimore: G.P.C., 1989. /Gc 929.122 D65o/
_________.Scots on the Chesapeake, 1607-1830. Baltimore: G.P.C., 1992. /Gc 975 D64s/
Filby, P. William. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1981-present. /Gc 929.11 F47pa/
Whyte, Donald. A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986. /Gc 971 W62d/
_________.A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the U.S.A. 2 vols. Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co., 1972-86. /Gc 929.122 W62d/
Many Scottish vital records before 1855, including church records and tombstone inscriptions, have been indexed and published. In addition to the records listed below, church registers from Melrose, Linlithgow, Durness, Dumbarton, and Dunfermline, and marriages in Edinburgh, 1595 1800, have been published in the Scottish Record Society series (Gc 941.0004 Sc087s).
International Genealogical Index. Salt Lake City, UT: Genealogical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. /www.FamilySearch.org /
Maxwell, Archibald S. Scottish Society of Friends, "Quakers": Register of Births, Proposal of Marriage, Marriages, and Deaths, 1647-1878. Aberdeen: Genealogical Research Services, n.d./Gc 941.0004 M45s/
Pre-1855 Gravestone Inscription Series. Scottish Genealogy Society, 1969-. /various call numbers/ An extensive collection of tombstone inscriptions, available at present for the following areas: Angus, Kilmarnock, Spey, Upper Donside, Upper Deeside, Kincardineshire, Sutherland, Berwickshire, Dumbartonshire, Isla Munda, Peebleshire, West Lothian, Perthshire, Fife, Stirlingshire, Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire, and Lanarkshire. Check the catalog under the name of the shire or place.
Surname Index to Christenings/Marriages in Old Parochial Registers to 1855 (O.P.R.). Salt Lake City, UT: Genealogical Department. /microfiche/ An extensive index to baptisms and marriages from Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) church registers to 1855.
The Scots were not permitted to dispose of their real property through wills until the last half of the 19th century. Instruments for disposing moveable property were called "testaments" and include the Testament Testamentar, when one died intestate, and Testament Dative, when one died testate. Testaments were probated in a specific Commissary Court before 1823. To determine the proper jurisdiction, consult the following:
Gibson, Jeremy. Wills and Where to Find Them. London: Phillimore, 1974. /Gc 942.0004 G35w/
Indexes to many testaments before 1800 have been published in the Scottish Record Society Publications (Gc 941.0004 Sco87s). Included are testaments from the following areas: Edinburgh (1601-1700); Aberdeen (1715-1800); Glasgow (1547-1800); St. Andrew's (1549-1800); Argyll, Caithness and Peebles (1674-1800); Brechin (1576-1800); Dumfries (1624-1800); Dunblane (1539- 1800); Dunkeld (1682-1800); Lauder (1561-1800); Lanark (1595-1800); Moray, Orkney and Shetland (1684-1800); Stirling (1607-1800); and Wigtown (1481-1800).
Because real property could not be inherited through wills, heirs had to prove their right to the land. The act of proving this right, or of transferring the land to another grantee, is known as a sasine. Many sasine records before 1780 have been indexed and published in a series of volumes by the General Register House (Gc 941.0004 Sc084i). The following areas are included: Argyll, Dumbarton, Bute, Arran, and Tarbert (1617-1780); Berwick and Lauderdale (1617-1780); Banff (1600-1780); Aberdeen (1599-1660); Lanark (1618-1780); Kincardineshire (1600-1657); Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Annandale (1617- 1780); Ayr, Kyle, Carrick, and Cunningham (1599-1660); Caithness (1646-1780); Edinburgh, Haddington, Linlithgow, and Bathgate (1599-1660); Elgin and Nairn (1617-1700); Fife and Kinross (1603-1660); Inverness, Ross, Cromarty, and Sutherland (1606-1780); and Forfar (1620- 1700). A yearly index to Scottish deeds (1663-1694) is included in this series. Several other useful compilations of probate, land and legal records have been published:
Dobson, David. Scottish-American Court Records, 1733-1783. Baltimore: G.P.C., 1991. /Gc 929.122 D65s/
____________.Scottish-American Heirs, 1683-1883. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990. /Gc 929.122 D65sco/
____________.Scottish-American Wills, 1650-1900. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991. /Gc 929.122 D65sc/
A List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion ...7th May 1746. Edinburg: Scottish History Society, 1890. /Gc 941.0006 Sco1p, volume 8/ A list of rebels from the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, with occupation, residence, acts of rebellion, and legal disposition. An important volume, since many rebels emigrated to America.
Scotland Owners of Lands and Heritages, 1872-1873. Edinburgh: Murray & Gibb, 1874. Murray & Gibb, 1874. /Gc 941.0004 Sco8s, oversize/ Lists all owners of one or more acres of land in 1872.
Some of the guides below discuss the history of clans and the use of heraldry. They may help the researcher narrow the geographic area of search in Scotland for an uncommon surname. Check the Genealogy Department's catalogs under the name of the family for previously compiled genealogies on individual Scottish families.
Adam, Frank. Clans, Septs, and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands. Edinburgh: Johnston, 1960. /Gc 929.122 Ad13d/ An excellent general guide to clans and tartans.
Black, George F. Surnames of Scotland. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. /Gc 929.4 B56s/ The definitive work, with extensive etymological references.
Ferguson, Joan P. S. Scottish Family Histories Held in Scottish Libraries. Edinburgh: Scottish Central Library, 1960. /Gc 016.929122 F38s/
Gayre, Robert. Roll of Scottish Arms. 2 vols. Edinburgh: The Armorial, 1964-69. /Gc 929.80941 G25r/ Lists armigerous persons of the 17th and 18th centuries with description of arms.
Paul, James Balfour. Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Green, 1903. /Gc 929.80941 P28o/
__________.The Scots Peerage. 9 vols. Edinburgh: Douglas, 1904-14. /Gc 929.7201 P28s/ The principal published record of nobility, arranged alphabetically.
Scott, Hew. Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae. 9 vols. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1915-54. /Gc 941.008 Sco8f/ Biographies of Church of Scotland clergy since the Reformation.
Stuart, Margaret. Scottish Family History: A Guide to Works of Reference on the History and Genealogy of Scottish Families. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1930. /Gc 016.929122 St9s/ Abibliography of hundreds of genealogical books and articles on Scottish families.
Way, George. Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1999. /Gc 929.122 Sco87wa/
The Genealogy Department houses a collection of some Scottish and Scottish-American genealogical periodicals. Check the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) under the name of the Scottish family or locality for citations to relevant articles. Most periodical titles are now listed in the online catalog. A useful guide to serial publications is the following:
Stevenson, David and Wendy B. Scottish Texts and Calendars: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications. London: Royal Historical Society, 1987. /Gc 016.941 St4s/
Audio cassettes of Scottish lecture subjects at national genealogical conferences can be checked out at the Genealogy Reference Desk by any patron. Check with a librarian if you want to know about these tapes.
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Teen dies in crash after pursuit by deputy in Montgomery County
A Montgomery County teenager died Saturday after crashing into a brick culvert as he tried to outrun a patrol car on this four-wheeler, authorities said.
The 17-year-old teen, Samuel Paul Acreman, of Montgomery died at the scene of the accident on Lakeview Drive, not far from his home in the Cape Conroe subdivision, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Erik Burse. The teen was not wearing a helmet, he added.
"It happed just before 2 a.m. Saturday when it was very dark," said Burse. "The teen was driving very fast without any lights when he almost rammed a Montgomery County squad car patrolling the area. The deputy turned on his emergency lights and gave pursuit."
But the teen refused to pull over his Honda 2007 four-wheeler, Burse said. So a chase ensued for about 10 minutes until the teen lost control on a curve, jumped a curb and crashed into the brick concrete culvert.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and district attorney's office will look into the deputy's handling of the incident, officials said. Sheriff's spokesman Brady Fitzgerald declined comment.
The boy's family could not be reached for comment.
On high alert
Deputies had been in the neighborhood doing extra patrols because that same subdivision had been struck the previous weekend by four teens who committed a spree of automobile break-ins, stealing everything from computers to guns, authorities said.
Burse said investigators saw no obvious signs of the youth being under the influence of any drugs or alcohol, but they are waiting for an autopsy Monday to determine whether any drugs or alcohol contributed to the death.


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New Canaan buries Barlow in home win
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NEW CANAAN -- Flinging himself between a pair of New Canaan defenders, Joel Barlow attack Jack Shaban soared towards a crowded net with possession late in the third quarter. Now firing from a sharp angle, Shaban miraculously scored, cutting the Falcons' deficit to a manageable four.
His teammates, energized by this rare spark in an otherwise sluggish game, roared in approval.
Moments later, Shaban's inspirational goal would hardly matter. For as dangerous as the spark may be, it is never a match for real, enduring firepower.
The New Canaan boys lacrosse team blasted Joel Barlow 14-3 Tuesday, scoring seven unanswered goals after Shaban's effort to close the game. Michael Kraus and Robby Peal each notched hat tricks for the Rams, who won their fourth straight and improved to 10-3 overall. The Falcons (8-6) ultimately fell as a result of a tired defense, which surrendered 29 shots.
"Our offensive efficiency is extremely high this year," New Canaan coach Chip Buzzeo said. "When we have the ball, we've got an excellent chance of scoring, and I attribute that to a lot of good players we have not only on our attack but in our midfield."
Joel Barlow took the opening faceoff and maintained possession for the ensuing five minutes, as dictated by its slow-paced gameplan. However, the Falcons failed to produce a goal, while the Rams later tallied three scores over a 90-second span at the end of the first frame.
"We've been having a little bit of trouble putting the ball in the net all year," Barlow coach John Distler said. "Our defense has been doing well, but they can't play defense for the entire game."
Rams junior Teddy Dumbauld continued to claim the majority of faceoffs in the second quarter, which led to goals from both Kraus and Paul. An unassisted score from Falcon midfielder Spencer Tunick eventually gave way to a 5-1 halftime margin, which lasted less than three minutes into the third quarter.
"I thought Teddy did a great job and from there we did really well with our different offenses," said New Canaan attack Justin Meichner, who finished with three points.
At the outset of the second half, Kraus gained possession behind the net and wrapped a shot around the right post of the Barlow cage for his second goal of the game. Shaban and Connor Martin kept the Falcons within reach soon thereafter, but six different Rams went on to score and put the game away.
"Honestly, I think our guys were just getting tired," Distler said. "We don't have a lot of depth, and I think it caught up with us."
Rams senior attack Harry Stanton suffered a neck injury in the second quarter and was held out for the remainder of the game as a precaution. He is expected to play in New Canaan's final two regular season games against Don Bosco (N.J.) and Fairfield Prep.
New Canaan 14,
Joel Barlow 3
Records: Joel Barlow 8-6, 6-1 SWC, New Canaan 11-3, 9-2 FCIAC.
Scoring: JB -- Jack Shaban 1 goal, 1 assist, Connor Martin 1g, Zach Pompea 1g;NC-- Michael Kraus 3 goals, Robby Paul 3g, Justin Meichner 2 g, 1 assist, Clayton Burt 2g, 1a, Owen Towland 2g, Teddy Dumbauld 1g, 1a, Harry Stanton 1g, Cole Turpin 1a, Max Begoon 1a, Ryan O'Connell 1a; Goalies: JB -- Thierry Jean (12 saves) NC--Trent Nader (4), Will Hooks (1). Shots: JB--15; NC--29. Highlights: JB -- The Falcons held possession over the game's first five minutes and back-up goalie Thierry Jean made a dozen saves. NC -- Seven different Rams scored, including Robby Paul and Michael Kraus, who each earned a hat trick. New Canaan recorded seven unanswered goals to close the contest.


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Since tonight is all about welcoming the future, we thought we would go with a space age cocktail. This one comes to us courtesy of Bubbles Bar at the InterContinental Thalasso Resort & Spa in Bora Bora. We're not sure how it tastes, but it sure looks interesting. Kind of like what we imagine the waters or Bora Bora to look like.
Bubbles Cocktail
Layer a dash of Blue Curacao, 1⁄2 oz Banana Liqueur and 5 oz Champagne into a champagne glass, serve immediately.
Happy New Year, all you Jet Set Girls!


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Kluge mixes oil and wine
"I'll have a bottle of your best Bordeaux and $20 of high-test, please."
Pairing a fine wine and gasoline might seem a little unlikely, but you just might find yourself uttering such words in the not too distant future– if Patricia Kluge has her way.
The former wife of America's twelfth richest man, John Kluge, has not one but two new food businesses in the works to showcase her fledgling winery.
The first is an upscale restaurant/gas station slated for the corner of Ninth and Market Streets, on which Dish reported a month or so back. The second is a retail store that she plans to open on the grounds of Albemarle House, Kluge's sumptuous estate south of town.
To get the low-down on her high falutin' plans for the estate retail store, Albemarle Farm Shop, Dish climbed into Kluge's Range Rover with the grand dame herself at the wheel. We headed for the shop past the vineyards lining Kluge's private road, Grand Cru Drive, for an exclusive tour of the store that also will serve as a tasting room for Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard.
Kluge's passion isn't only for wine. Walking into the stone and wood international-and-American-style shop, visitors will first encounter chocolates from the internationally acclaimed host of the Food Network's show, Chocolates from Jacques Torres, Kluge says.
As construction workers scurry to get the shop finished for its November 15 opening, Kluge points out the location of the charcuterie, or meat section. "We'll make our own foie gras," says Kluge.
Another section features fruit from her orchards made into homemade jams and "eau de vie" brandy.
Of course there's a wine tasting room, and Kluge emphasizes the importance of having the right glass for each type of wine tasted. So don't worry about having to drink her Bordeaux-blend New World Red from a champagne flute.
The store will also have a coffee shop, bakery, and a gift shop that will sell topiaries.
For those who aren't inclined to take the drive south, Kluge says the inventory will be available online, and better yet, the store will deliver.
As for the downtown gas station/sandwich shop/wine bar/restaurant, Kluge was forthcoming with details. She's considering calling it "Fuel" although "Pump House" is another contenderand hopes for a January 2003 opening.
For those who think Charlottesville's gas stations are already fancy, Kluge plans to rev it up a notch or perhaps several notches.
"First of all, it's a full-service gas station selling cheap, yet high quality gas," says Kluge. Both Kluge and Dish agree– we hate to pump our own gas.
But that's not even the richest part.
"The attendant will give you a menu, and if you'd like a cappuccino, he'll get that for you, too," she says. Talk about putting the "service" back in service station!
However, getting a glass of Kluge's blanc de blancs even in the proper glass, of course– while filling up is a luxury best saved for those with their own personal drivers.


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No hockey you say? Nay, nay. ESPN has you covered. Because over the pond in the eastern block are a series of games in the Kontinental Hockey League (or KHL for short). A mostly Russian league that was supposed to keep local prospects from jumping the Atlantic for the NHL, has struck a deal with an American sports network, ESPN.
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 at 1 pm (mark it on your calendar) Alex Ovechkin and the Dynamo Moscow will take on Lev on ESPN 2 (originally all games were going to be on the online channel of ESPN 3, but looks like they will spare some time on the dos).
This will be the first time Ovechkin has skated live on any of the ESPN channels since the NHL made their deal with the then OLN network that would eventually become the NBC Sports network.
You will be at work you say, and can't watch. Well, they have you covered again with a re-air at 8 pm. If you really want to watch it online, they will broadcast on ESPN 3 as well.
From what I can gather, there will be English speaking play-by-play done by announcers in Connecticut watching the KHL feed in Russia. Not like ESPN has the budget to send anyone over there.
Future dates for KHL action include Sunday Oct. 14 DM vs. Amur - 9 am, Tuesday Oct. 16 DM vs. Sibir - 11:30 am, Thursday Oct. 18 SKA vs. Sibir - 11:45 am. All slated to be on the online channel ESPN 3. If you have a smart phone and cable, you can download the "Watch ESPN" App and get all the channels by signing up for free. You can also access it online at espn.go.com.


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Wonders of India
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As a tribute to this fragrance of eternal desire, Parisian jewellery designer Sylvia Toledano created an exceptional jewellery set that follows the sensual curves of the one-and-a-half litre bottle of Extract. This creation, gilded in fine matt 24-carat gold, is bejewelled with a myriad of fine stones from Jaipur in shimmering colours, the very stones used in the sumptuous decoration of the Taj Mahal: lapis lazuli, amethyst, carnelian, malachite, chalcedony, tiger's eye, rose quartz and yellow quartz.. This exceptional edition sets off the legendary love potion to perfection, like the shimmering, multi-coloured finery of an Indian dancer.
Only 48 numbered pieces are available worlwide.
In its Extract version, Shalimar is a flight of citrus notes that stirs an enveloping, delicately powdered heart. The spellbinding trail of a carnal vanilla, the penetrating charm of iris, the balmy roundness of opoponax and the gourmand warmth of tonka bean orchestrate an intimate, languid symphony of scent.
Shalimar is displayed like a gem; the meeting with Sylvia Toledano was a logical chapter in its story. This Parisian designer creates "lucky charm" jewellery - made of golden metal and gemstones from Jaipur in India - in a colourful and very Couture style. All her creations are handmade and only a few pieces of each model are available. This singular artist perfectly captured the spirit of Shalimar: "an invitation to love, sensuality and exhilaration".


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Cryptic Data: Challenges and Rewards in Finding and Using It
February 19, 2016 in Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Performance Management (CPM), Financial Performance Management (FPM), Human Capital, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Social Media, Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM) | Tags: Analytics, big data, Budgeting, Connotate, cryptic, data, Data Science, Datawatch, equity research, Finance Analytics, Forecasting, FP&A, Hadoop, import.io, Kapow, Kofax, Office of Finance, Planning, predictive analytics, Statistics | by Robert Kugel | Leave a comment
Using information technology to make data useful is as old as the Information Age. The difference today is that the volume and variety of available data has grown enormously. Big data gets almost all of the attention, but there's also cryptic data. Both are difficult to harness using basic tools and require new technology to help organizations glean actionable information from the large and chaotic mass of data. "Big data" refers to extremely large data sets that may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends and associations, especially those related to human behavior and interaction. The challenges in dealing with big data include having the computational power that can scale to the processing requirements for the volumes involved; analytical tools to work with the large data sets; and governance necessary to manage the large data sets to ensure that the results of the analysis are accurate and meaningful. But that's not all organizations have to deal with now. I've coined the term "cryptic data" to focus on a different, less well known sort of data challenge that many companies and individuals face.
Cryptic data sets aren't easy to find or aren't easily accessed by people who could make use of them. Why "cryptic?" As a scuba diver, I donate time to Reef Check by doing scientific species counts in and around Monterey Bay, Calif. Cryptic organisms are ones that hide out deep in the cracks and crevices of our rocky reefs. Finding and counting them accurately is time-consuming and requires skill. Similarly, it's difficult to locate, access and collect cryptic data routinely. Because it's difficult to locate or access routinely, those who have it can gain a competitive advantage over those who don't. The main reason cryptic data is largely untapped is cost vs. benefits: The time, effort, money and other resources required to manually retrieve it and get it into usable form may be greater than the value of having that information.
By automating the process of routinely collecting information and transforming it into a usable form and format, technology can expand the range of data available by lowering the cost side of the equation. So far, most tools, such as Web crawlers, have been designed to be used by IT professionals. Data integration software, also mainly used by IT departments, helps transform the data collected into a form and format where it can be used by analysts to create mashups or build data tables for analysis to support operational processes. Data integration tools mainly work with internal, structured data and a majority have little or no capability to support data acquisition in the Web. Tools designed for IT professionals are a constraint in making better use of cryptic data because business users are subject matter experts. They have a better idea of the information they need and are in a better position to understand the subtleties and ambiguities in the information they collect. To address this constraint, Web scraping tools (what I call "data drones") have appeared that are designed for business users. They use a more visual user interface design and hide some of the complexity inherent in the process. They can automate the process of collecting cryptic data and expand the scope and depth of data used for analysis, alerting and decision support.
Cryptic data can be valuable because when collected, aggregated and analyzed, it provides companies and individuals with information and insight that were unavailable. This is particularly true of data sets gathered over time from a source or combination of sources that can reveal trends and relationships that otherwise would be difficult to spot.
Cryptic data can exist within a company's firewall (typically held in desktop spreadsheets or other files maintained by an individual as well as in "dark" operational data sets), but usually it is somewhere in the Internet cloud. For example, it may be
- Industry data collected by some group that is only available to members
- A composite list of products from gathered from competitors' websites
- Data contained in footnotes in financial filings that are not collected in tabular form by data aggregators
- Tables of related data assembled through repetitive queries of a free or paid data source (such as patents, real estate ownership or uniform commercial code filings).
Along these lines, our next-generation finance analytics benchmark research shows that companies have limited access to information about markets, industries and- economies.Only 14 percent of participants said they have access all the external data they need. Most (63%) said they can access only some of it, and another 14 percent said they can't access any such data. In the past, this lack of access was even more common, but the Internet changed that. And this type of external data is worth going after, as it can help organizations build better models, perform deeper analysis or do better in assessing performance, forecasting or gauging threats and opportunities.
Cryptic data poses a different set of challenges than big data. Making big data usable requires the ability to manage large volumes of data. This includes processing large volumes, transforming data sets into usable forms, filtering extraneous data and code data for relevance or reliability, to name some of more common tasks. To be useful big data also requires powerful analytic tools that handle masses of structured and unstructured data and the talent to understand it. By contrast, the challenge of cryptic data lies in identifying and locating useful sources of information and having the ability to collect it efficiently. Both pose difficulties. Whereas making big data useful requires boiling the ocean of data, cryptic data involves collecting samples from widely distributed ponds of data. In the case of cryptic data, automating data collection makes it feasible to assemble a mosaic of data points that improves situational awareness.
Big data typically uses data scientists to tease out meaning from the masses of data (although analytics software vendors have been working on making this process simpler for business users). Cryptic data analysis is built on individual experience and insight. Often, the starting point is a straightforward hypothesis or a question in the mind of a business user. It can stem from the need to periodically access the same pools of data to better understand the current state of markets, competitors, suppliers or customers. Subject matter expertise, an analytical mind and a researcher's experience are necessary starting capabilities for those analyzing cryptic data. These skills facilitate knowing what data to look for, how to look for it and where to look for it. Although these qualities are essential, they not sufficient. Automating the process of retrieving data from sources in a reliable fashion is a must because, as noted above, the time and expense required to acquire the data manually are greater than its value to the individual or organization.
Almost from the dawn of the Internet, Web robots (or crawlers) have been used to automate the collection of information from Web pages. Search engines, for example, use them to index Internet pages while spammers use them to collect email addresses. These robots are designed and managed by information technology professionals. Automating the process of collecting cryptic data requires software that business people can use. To make accessing cryptic data feasible, they need "data drones" that can be programmed by users with limited training to fetch information from specific Web pages. Tools available from Astera ReportMiner, Connotate, Datawatch, import.io, Kofax Kapow and Mozenda are great examples on where you can get started for leveraging cryptic data. I recommend that everyone who has to routinely collect information from Internet sites or from internal data stores that are hard to access or who thinks that they could benefit from using cryptic data investigate tools available for collecting it.
Robert Kugel – SVP Research
The Office of Finance in 2016
February 14, 2016 in Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Collaboration, Business Performance Management (BPM), Cloud Computing, Financial Performance Management (FPM), Human Capital, Mobile Technology, Social Media, Uncategorized | Tags: Accounting, Analytics, big data, Budgeting, CEO, CFO, CIO, close, Continuous Accounting, Continuous Planning, CPQ, end-to-end, Financial Performance Management, Forecasting, FPM, Governance, GRC, in-memory, Planning, predictive analytics, quote-to-cash, Risk, Risk Management, Tax, tax data warehouse | by Robert Kugel | Leave a comment
The imperative to transform the finance department to function in a more strategic, forward-looking and action-oriented fashion has been a consistent theme of practitioners, consultants and business journalists for two decades. In all that time, however, most finance and accounting departments have not changed much. In our benchmark research on the Office of Finance, nine out of 10 participants said that it's important or very important for finance departments totake a strategic role in running their company. The research also shows a significant gap between this objective and how well most departments perform. A large majority (83%) said they perform the core finance functions of accounting, fiscal control, transaction management, financial reporting and internal auditing, but only 41 percent said they play an active role in their company's management. Even fewer (25%) have implemented a high degree of automation in their core finance functions and actively promote process and analytical excellence.
Despite these findings, we believe that today finance transformation is both necessary and achievable. Practical, affordable technology is available to enhance productivity in order to de-emphasize the department's "bean counting" role and promote its ability to enhance the performance of the entire corporation. Technology enables Finance to be more proactive and more strategic in providing analyses and methods that enhance its capabilities and improve the performance of the entire corporation. Of course, technology by itself will not transform a finance organization, but most of the longstanding issues that it must address to improve performance can be fixed using information technology to address interrelated people, process and data issues in a comprehensive fashion.
Our Office of Finance research agenda for 2016 emphasizes three broad technology-related themes serving the goal of finance transformation:
- Applying a continuous accounting approach to promote greater departmental efficiency and effectiveness
- Adopting technology that promotes action-oriented continuous planning, using rapid, short planning cycles to promote agility, coordination and accountability
- Using software and other information technologies to achieve continuous optimization to promote ongoing organizational alignment across departments and business units.
Continuous Accounting
We introduced the term "continuous accounting" last year to identify the three areas where our research consistently finds tactical roadblocks to achieving a more strategic finance organization. By focusing on these three areas, finance executives can achieve steady gains in effectiveness.
The first area concerns how the organization uses technology and manages information. To enhance effectiveness, finance departments must use software to automate all mechanical, repetitive accounting processes in a continuous, end-to-end fashion. Automation improves efficiency by eliminating the need to have people perform repetitive tasks. For example, we find that most (71%) companies that automate substantially all of their financial close complete it within six business days of the end of the quarter, compared to 43 percent that automate some of the process and just 23 percent that have automated little or none of it. Using software enables the department to manage the flow of data through its processes in a continuous, end-to-end fashion. This ensures data integrity, which in turn eliminates the need for checks and reconciliations that can consume time that could be spent more productively. Data integrity is undermined every time data is re-entered manually or when a spreadsheet is used in a process: for example, when data from one system is manually transferred to another; when the same information is entered twice in two different systems; or when a spreadsheet is used to perform an allocation or a set of calculations.
The second aspect of continuous accounting involves optimizing scheduling of tasks. Continuous accounting incorporates a process management approach that, wherever possible, distributes workloads continuously to flatten spikes of activities, whether in the month, quarter, half-year or year. This approach eliminates bottlenecks and optimizes when tasks are executed. It reduces stress on the department and can eliminate the need for temporary help and its associated expense. Much of the traditional accounting cycle and related departmental practices are artifacts of paper-based bookkeeping systems. These methods dictated the need to wait until the end the month, quarter or year to take accountants off line to perform aggregations, allocations, checks and reconciliations; that rhythm represented the best trade-off of efficiency and control in such antiquated approaches. Today's systems offer far more flexibility that enables departments to spread workloads more evenly over time and complete them more expeditiously.
The third aspect of continuous accounting is the need to instill continuous improvement in the departmental culture. This steps counters tendency of any organization – but especially finance – to embrace a "we've always done it this way" mindset that resists needed change. Continuous improvement acts as a mission statement that sets increasingly rigorous objectives. To achieve those objectives it's necessary to have regular reviews of performance toward those objectives and make addressing shortcomings a priority. For departmental executives, communicating the need for continuous improvement is an essential element to achieving finance transformation.
Used as an organizing principle for the department, continuous accounting frees up time and therefore the resources needed to implement changes that result in performance improvements in a sustained and steady fashion. Adopting a continuous accounting approach enables CFOs and finance executives to reduce the amount of time spent "fighting fires," many of which are the result of not using capable technology.
The Transformation of ERP
In most companies, ERP systems are the backbone of the accounting function, and this software category will continue to be an important focus of our research in 2016. The ERP software market is set to undergo a significant transformation over the next five years. At the heart of this transformation is the decade-long evolution of a set of technologies that enable a major shift in the design of these systems – and it amounts to the most significant change since the introduction of client/server technology in the 1990s. Vendors are seizing on technologies such as in-memory computing, improving the user interface and user experience, adding more in-context collaboration and extending the use of mobility to differentiate their applications from rivals. Those with software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription offerings are investing to make their software suitable for a broader variety of users in multitenant clouds. These and other topics will be addressed in the results of our next-generation ERP benchmark research, which we will release in 2016.
We'll also continue to look at the application of financial performance management (FPM) to improve results. Ventana Research defines FPM as the process of addressing the often overlapping issues that affect how well finance organizations support the activities and strategic objectives of their companies and manage their own operations. FPM deals with the full cycle of the finance department's functions, including corporate and strategic finance, planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, closing reporting and statutory filing. In each of these areas, using inappropriate technology has a negative impact on how well a company performs. We will continue to highlight the importance of improving the creation and use of analytics. For example, our Office of Finance research finds that on average, companies that are heavy users of spreadsheets in their closing process take longer to close their books than those that limit them or don't use them at all. Elsewhere, our next-generation finance analytics research finds a high degree of dissatisfaction with finance analytics in the company: 58 percent said that significant or major changes are necessary while just 7 percent stated no improvements are necessary. The research also shows that heavy use of spreadsheets for all forms of analysis is at the heart of this dissatisfaction. In 2016 also we'll publish the next installment of our Financial Performance Management Value Index, which assesses vendors and products in this software market.
Financial Performance Management
As noted above, we recommend that finance organizations that want to play a more strategic role in the management of their corporation should adopt a continuous planning methodology for their financial planning and analysis function. A continuous planning approach uses frequent, short planning cycles to promote agility, coordination and accountability in operations. It includes establishing an ongoing dialogue among finance and line-of-business managers and executives to track current conditions as well as changes in objectives and priorities driven by markets and the business climate. To manage planning in such a comprehensive way requires dedicated software that enables members of the FP&A organization to focus more of their time on analysis and modeling. Technology also enhances the quality of plans, forecasts and budgets. In particular, in-memory computing makes it feasible to rapidly process computation of even complex models with large data sets. Consequently, it can expand the range of planning, budgeting, forecasting and reviewing performed in rapid cycles. It enables organizations to run more simulations to understand trade-offs and the consequences of specific events, as well as change the focus of reviews from what just happened to what to do next. For these reasons, in-memory computing also may encourage more companies to replace spreadsheets (which have practical limits to the size, complexity and adaptability of the models that are created in them) with dedicated planning applications that can harness the power of in-memory processing.
Sales and Operations Planning for Finance
Companies that deal in physical goods that are manufactured or sourced and then sold direct or into distribution channels often benefit from using sales and operations planning (S&OP). The process of orchestrating the flow of parts and materials through the production process to meet expected customer demand involves many functional units, each of which make plans, as well as the finance organization, which assesses the financial impact. Sales and operations planning is a discipline aimed at aligning and optimizing the plans of several business units. There are sales plans, product plans, demand plans and supply chain plans. Within a corporation, the performance of each of the functional units that produce these plans is assessed using different, often conflicting metrics. Information technology enables corporations to manage their inventories more skillfully and minimize their working capital investment while maximizing their ability to fulfill demand. S&OP is designed to align a company strategically so that it can execute tactically in more effective fashion. The ultimate goal is to determine how best to manage company resources, especially inventory and cash, to be able to profitably satisfy customer demand with the lowest incidence of stock-outs. The output of an S&OP group is a SKU-level demand forecast that is used to create a detailed inventory plan. This quantitative plan is a major driver of a process that guides the purchasing an optimal amount of inventory (the one that best balances desired fulfillment rates while minimizing the investment in inventory) from the best set of suppliers (balancing a range of considerations including goods availability, pricing, discounts, economic order quantities and supply chain constraints). To enhance their strategic value, the financial planning and analysis group should play an integral role in the sales and operations planning process.
Advanced Analytics
We also will monitor the ongoing development of advanced analytics for business users. Using technology to make better use of data through advanced analytics can provide companies with breakthrough results. Often that's because using capable information technology can provide insights and visibility that are unavailable by eyeballing data or using spreadsheets. Advanced techniques such as predictive analytics provide companies with more nuanced forecasts as well as the ability to spot deviations from expected results and thus address problems or seize opportunities sooner. For example, price and revenue optimization is rapidly developing applied analytic techniques that enable businesses to achieve higher profitability, increased sales or some combination. Software that helps manage pricing and profitability is spreading from hospitality, transportation, retailing to consumer financial services and other areas, especially business-to-business verticals. Used properly, this type of software enables a company to tailor its control of individual decisions regarding pricing, discounts and other terms to achieve the results best suited to its strategy. It can continuously make adjustments consistent with longer-term objectives in response to market conditions. Price and revenue optimization is impossible to achieve without using software and analytics that can deal with the huge volumes of today's data.
Tools for Promoting Productivity and Effectiveness
There are a range of specialized software tools also can promote a more effective finance function, and executives must focus on acquiring and using those that enable the department to take a more active role in improving performance in the company's operations. Finance has the necessary analytical talent and is positioned to be a neutral party in balancing the requirements of different functional groups or where issues cross business units or geographic boundaries.
The Office of Finance practice will continue to focus on software categories that can improve corporate efficiency, increase visibility and enhance agility. Our main objective is to enable finance organizations to be more effective by eliminating the root causes of time-wasting, low-value activities. For example, more companies are adopting a subscription or recurring revenue business model. This model isn't always handled well by ERP systems, especially if a company is selling something more complex than simple subscriptions. These companies need to automate their quote-to-cash process from end to end, with the objective of controlling the flow of data, from configuring, quoting and pricing all the way to billing. Using this type of automation to ensure data quality enables companies to achieve two usually conflicting goals: substantially reducing finance and accounting department workloads while still allowing sales and marketing to offer customers flexibility in how they buy their services or products. Expense management is another classic time-waster poorly executed in most companies. Automation not only can save the finance department time, it also can reduce the "administrivia" workload for employees who have to submit expense reports. The cost of these expense management systems is typically less than one full-time equivalent employee, but it can save a multiple of that amount of time.
Managing Taxes More Intelligently
Taxes are one of the biggest expenses corporations face. There are two basic types of taxes: direct or income taxes and indirect taxes, which include sales and use tax and value taxes. Managing direct tax provision and analysis is still in the dark ages in most companies. We recommend to corporations that operate in multiple countries and that have even a moderately complex legal entity structure that they consider tax provision software that is supported by what we call a tax data warehouse of record. Taxes operate in a parallel universe from business management. Our research confirms that most companies use spreadsheets to manage their tax provision and analysis: Half (52%) rely solely on spreadsheets, and another 38 percent mainly use them. Several issues arise in using spreadsheets in the tax function: They are time-consuming, provide limited visibility to senior executives and pose unnecessary risks through errors. International companies are facing increasing scrutiny of their tax positions and can benefit from using dedicated software to manage their direct taxes more intelligently. Among the indirect taxes, in the United States, sales taxes are notoriously complex to administer. We recommend that any company with 100 or more employees doing business in more than a handful of states adopt a sales tax service for the same reason that they use a payroll service: It's not worth the time, hassle and potential liability to do it in house.
The Impact of Changes to Accounting Rules
The Office of Finance practice at Ventana invests a great deal of time in researching software applications and related information technology. Uniquely, though, we also read accounting bulletins. The world of accounting is undergoing a substantial change now and over the next three years as a result of the adoption of accounting rule changes for revenue recognition and, to a lesser extent, lease accounting. The impact of revenue recognition changes will be profound because it is built on a fundamentally different conceptual framework than classical accounting. The upshot of this framework is that systems must account for revenues and expenses in a parallel fashion rather than in a balancing one. This type of approach would have been extremely problematic in paper-based systems. It's feasible only because of the nearly universal use of computer-based accounting systems. Almost all ERP vendors are gearing up to support the new accounting rules, but it's important for companies to plan ahead to make the transition as smooth as possible. And it's important to be sure that sales contracts and documentation are designed to make accounting for them as efficient as possible.
Technology's Role in the Office of Finance
One major reason for investing in technology is to help senior executives achieve better results by supporting more effective business management techniques. For example, our benchmark research on long-range planning demonstrates that better management of technology and information can improve alignment between strategy and execution. And when it comes to cloud computing, far from simply being a technology concern, cloud computing enables corporations to cut costs and gain access to more sophisticated technology than they could feasibly support in an on-premises deployment. Using technology can boost performance. The improper use of spreadsheets as seen in our research continues be an unseen killer of corporate productivity because these tools have inherent defects that significantly reduce users' efficiency. Relying on spreadsheets makes it impossible to find the time to improve performance. Increasingly companies have inexpensive options that are easier to use and enable more advanced, reliable modeling, analysis and reporting.
Information technology is an essential element of business management and promotes a discipline of continuous optimization, a term we use to emphasize the importance of achieving better alignment of organizations to a company's strategy. Yet many senior executives and managers have too narrow and too limited an understanding of IT's full potential, much as those managing corporate information technology usually don't appreciate business issues and how IT can address them. The business/IT divide is a barrier that prevents many companies from achieving their performance potential. The divide need not exist. Business executives don't have to be able to write Java code or master the intricacies of an ERP or sales compensation application. However, they should master the basics of IT just as they must understand the fundamentals of corporate finance, the production process and – at least at a high level – the technologies that support that process. Our research practice addresses the significant business issues where technology plays an important role in addressing those issues. Because business is dynamic, optimization must be continuous to adapt to changes in markets, the competitive landscape and customer demands. Continuous optimization requires companies to operate in faster cycles and have real-time visibility to improve responsiveness and agility. Information technology can remove the barriers that prevent them from achieving more optimal results.
Robert Kugel – SVP Research


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RICK EYMER,Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Matt Garza pitched eight sharp innings for his third consecutive win, leading the Chicago Cubs to a 3-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday night.
Garza (4-1) allowed one run and four hits, struck out five and walked three in his fourth consecutive quality start. The right-hander is 3-0 with a sparkling 0.90 ERA since yielding a season-high nine runs to the Cincinnati Reds on June 11.
With the Cubs well off the pace in the NL Central, Garza could be one of the top targets for contenders looking for pitching help ahead of the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline.
Luis Valbuena homered for Chicago, which has won five of seven. Alfonso Soriano and Brian Bogusevic each drove in a run, and Kevin Gregg pitched the ninth for his 14th save in 15 chances.
Brandon Moss went deep for the Athletics, who had won five of six.
Oakland right-hander Bartolo Colon (11-3) gave up two runs and nine hits in seven innings in his first loss since May 9. He was 8-0 with a 1.66 ERA in his previous nine starts.
Colon won the AL pitcher of the month award earlier in the day after going 5-0 with a 1.75 ERA during June.
Colon's first wild pitch in over four years helped the Cubs score in the first. Starlin Castro singled with one out, advanced to second on the wild pitch and scored on Soriano's single.
Colon's last wild pitch was on May 26, 2009, a span of 1,499 days and 443 innings.
Valbuena's seventh homer of the season gave the Cubs a 2-0 edge in the third. It was his first home run in just over a month.
Moss connected for his 15th homer in the fourth, but Dioner Navarro and Bogusevic hit back-to-back doubles to make it 3-1 in the eighth.
NOTES: The Cubs designated RHP Shawn Camp for assignment and optioned LHP Chris Rusin to Triple-A Iowa, making room for RHP Matt Guerrier, acquired in a trade from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and RHP Pedro Strop, part of the deal that sent RHP Scott Feldman to the Baltimore Orioles. Chicago manager Dale Sveum called designating Camp "not my finest day as a manager." ... Colon is the A's first pitcher of the month since Dan Haren in May 2007. ... Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville will throw out a ceremonial first pitch at Wrigley Field on Saturday. ... A's RHP Jarrod Parker (hamstring) had his start pushed back to Saturday. RHP Dan Straily (4-2, 5.00 ERA) will be recalled from Triple-A Sacramento to make Thursday's start. ... LHP Travis Wood (5-6, 2.85 ERA) starts for the Cubs. He's 0-3 in his last five starts. ... The A's drew a sellout crowd of 35,067 on fireworks night despite an ongoing BART strike. ... Soriano has 37 RBIs in his last 50 games.
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Hircine wrote: I thought i would create a channel so developers can discuss things.
Server: irc.esper.net
Channel: #openmw
raevol wrote: We <FIXME - OLD LINK> discussed this recently.
Hircine wrote: lol, i missed the entire discussion.
well its there if people want to use it.
Star-Demon wrote: Join up, people!
Greendogo wrote: Here's the Mibbit link to the #openmw channel on Chatspike:
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So last night, I got into a very heated, very emotional debate with someone on Facebook. In case you didn't know, that's what Facebook is for. You get on there, you find some post that some friend has put up, and you troll the shit out of it. That, obviously, is a joke, but it can sometimes be seen as truth. I took screen captures of the conversation with the woman I was "debating," but in order to keep identities private, I will not post those screen caps, even though I feel her…Continue
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So the title of my blog today is Get Off My Lawn. The reason I have chosen to title it as such is because I feel like a sour, mean, crotchety, toothless old man in a wife beater sitting on his porch with a shotgun yelling at the neighborhood kids to "Get off my lawn!!!"
In this instance, I will assume the role of the mean old man, and I will hold that position with pride. The neighborhood kids in this instance are theists, mainly Christians. Since I am a lower…
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How I came to be atheist is actually a pretty long story. I've explained it to a few people in the past, and even moreso in recent times, since reason, logic, and atheism have been more prominent in my thoughts. I'll start from as far back as I can remember, which is probably when I was 5 or 6 years old.
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Stranded Raccoon on St. Paul Office Tower Lights Up Social Media
By RJ Johnson - @rickerthewriter
June 12, 2018
It's a "Hold My Beer" moment - but for raccoons.
A raccoon that manged to strand itself on the ledge of an office building in St. Paul Minnesota has become an unlikely hero to many on social media after trying to escape a precarious situation.
Minnesota Public Radio reports that a mottled brown raccoon was first spotted hanging out at the Town Square Building in a nook above the sidewalk. When workers tried to remove the animal from the ledge, it decided to scurry over to the UBS Plaza and start climbing.
By Tuesday afternoon, the wayward woodland creature had managed to scale 20 stories up the office tower, and settle into a new nook next to a window.
The radio station began tracking the raccoon's progress using the hashtag #mprraccoon. One unknown Twitter denizen even went so far as to create a mock/parody account for the St. Paul Raccoon to track its ascent. So far, only two messages have been posted, including one saying, "I made a big mistake."
The Washington Post reports that St. Paul Animal Control believes the animal may have been stranded on the ledge all night before it decided to try and escape by going skyward. Firefighters are currently trying to lure the raccoon to the roof where they'll hopefully usher the little daredevil to safety.
Good luck Mr. Raccoon. You'll need it.
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LONG BEACH – Police are seeking the public's help in finding a cat burglar who made lewd comments to a woman.
The incident took place July 13 about 10:30 p.m. near Seventh Street and Temple Avenue, police said.
The woman woke up in her home and found the man standing over her. He made some "lewd comments" and then fled, said Lisa Massacani, a spokeswoman with the Long Beach Police Department.
A cat burglar is a person who enters a building, where someone is present, with the intent to commit a theft or any felony.
The suspect is described as Latino, in his 40s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and from 160 to 170 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a mustache, Massacani said.
Anyone with information about this incident should call Long Beach Police Sex Crimes Detective Louie Galvan, 562-570-7368. Anonymous tips may be submitted via text or online at www.tipsoft.com.
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Jevon Kearse was arrested and booked early this morning in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the first such offense for the defensive end who returned to the Titans just a few months ago as a free agent.
Metro Nashville police said Kearse was seen speeding and swerving several times while travelling west on West End Avenue.
The officer who pulled the Titans over said Kearse exhibited slurred speach, red eyes, and smelled of alcohol. He reportedly refused a breath test.
The officer said Kearse stated that he only had one vodka and a red bull.
That's unfortunate for everyone involved. It makes you wonder how many cases of Bud Jevon had to drink to score that killer boat.
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AOA's Optometrist of the Year shares his keys to legislative successes.Read more >
AOA's Optometrist of the Year shares his keys to legislative successes.Read more >
December 27, 2018
Young doctors joined the AOA seeking help with consolidating student loans, finding authoritative clinical resources and saving on group purchases such as insurance. They also discovered, through the AOA's 24/7 advocacy efforts on the state and federal levels, that there is power in numbers. Read more >
December 25, 2018
Study calls the uptick of diabetes in youth 'a substantial clinical and public health burden.'Read more >
December 24, 2018
Once again, AOA is recognized among the nation's most effective, elite advocacy organizations in the nation's capital with an honor that reflects the association's hard-working Board, volunteers, members and staff. Read more >
December 20, 2018
According to its end-of-year report, HEHC projects benefited an estimated 22,500 people in need.Read more >
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Also known as lazy eye, amblyopia is one of the most common eye conditions among children.Read more >
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The Woodside-area Horse Owners Association (known as WHOA!) will hold the seventh annual Woodside Day of the Horse on Saturday, Oct. 8, with a horse fair and progressive trail ride.
Proceeds benefit the local equestrian community, says spokesperson Nan Meek.
The horse fair, at the Woodside Town Hall complex at 2955 Woodside Road, will have activities, entertainment and information about horses and local riding programs for kids and adults.
There will be Wells Fargo Stagecoach rides, a petting zoo, a puppet show, and an opportunity to listen to a horse's heartbeat. Visitors can drop by the Woodside Museum, and hear live gypsy jazz music by Doug Martin and the Avatar Ensemble.
Equestrian organizations will answer questions about riding programs, and educational exhibits will shed light on the relationship between horses and the environment.
"Hundreds of riders will gather for California's largest progressive trail ride," Ms. Meek said. Donations are $75 (cash only) on the day of the ride for riders who have not yet registered.
Riders from all equine disciplines participate, she said, many dressed in costume.
Riders travel the Woodside town trail system via their "ticket to ride" map, with treats for horses and riders at ride stops along the way. Riders costumed in this year's Mardi Gras theme will receive special recognition at the Paparazzi Ride Stop.
Concluding the ride is an end-of-the trail celebration held at the grounds of the Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County.
Among the sponsors are the Woodside-area Horse Owners Association, the town of Woodside, Wells Fargo, Until There's a Cure, the Village Pub, UC Davis Center for Equine Health, Alan Steel & Supply Co., the Davidow Family, Thomas Fogary Winery & Vineyards, and many more.
Visit whoa94062.org for more information.
Horse trial
Nine years have passed since the Horse Park at Woodside last hosted an international horse trial, but on Oct. 7-9 internationally sanctioned eventing competition will return. The Event at Woodside will offer CIC divisions at the three-star, two-star and one-star levels.
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