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After serving as an assistant football coach at the NCAA Division III level the past 10 years, Kevin Krausz will get to call his own shots for the first time with a high school program coming off a runner-up finish in the Class 2A playoffs.
Krausz, an assistant at Knox College since 2006, has been hired as the new head coach at Staunton.
Krausz, 33, will take over for Mike Parmentier, who resigned after nine years with the Bulldogs. Parmentier, who last season guided Staunton to a 9-5 finish and a school-best second place in Class 2A, has accepted positions as a teacher and assistant coach at Bethalto Civic Memorial.
Also hired as a full-time substitute teacher at Staunton, Krausz said Saturday he has to hit the ground running. Most recently the co-offensive coordinator at Knox, Krausz doesn�t plan to give the Bulldogs a cram course in learning his brand of offense.
�I was down there (Staunton) this past week to get some things together, and the players responded well,� said Krausz, an advocate of the �pistol� offense with the quarterback about four yards behind the center.
�I think the challenge is more on me than it is on the student-athletes.�
College background
A 2003 Knox graduate, Krausz spent one year as a student assistant coach. He then assisted for two years at MacMurray College in Jacksonville. Krausz and his wife, Jamie Mitchell, were living in Springfield at the time, when he was a substitute teacher at Lanphier High School.
Krausz and Mitchell, who is an attorney, returned to Galesburg and Knox in 2006.
Krausz is a Belleville native, but his family moved to the Chicago area and he graduated from Palos Hills Stagg High School. He played football for two years at North Central College in Naperville before transferring to Knox.
Krausz said he�d been looking into high school head coaching in recent years. Earlier this year, he interviewed for the Southeast job that eventually went to Matt Lauber.
But when the Staunton job opened up in late June, Krausz said he benefited from a Knox-Staunton connection. Rich Stempinski, the new superintendent of schools at Staunton, attended Knox at the same time as Chad Eisele � currently Knox�s athletic director and the Prairie Fire�s head football coach from 2009-12.
�Chad knew I wanted to do something different soon, partially because of my age and my family obligations,� said Krausz, who with Mitchell has one son, 21-month-old Camden.
�(Stempinski) contacted Chad, wondering if he knew of anyone who�d be a possibility (to replace Parmentier). Staunton contacted me to see if I was interested, and I thought, �They just finished second in the state, and they�re interested in me.� It was pretty exciting.�
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In any good jail drama, there's always someone waiting on the other side. In Lindsay Lohan's case, it's the director of her pornstar biopic who is going to wait it out while she does her time.
While Lohan might be heading to jail, the brains behind the independently financed "Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story" say they'll be waiting for the troubled star -- even if it means a production delay into 2011 and beyond, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Lohan's sentencing to 90 days in jail and a subsequent 90 days in a drug rehab facility would normally mean big trouble for the already troubled career of the once-promising child star. But "Inferno" director Matthew Wilder communicated his willingness to stick it out for Lohan to the Times through an email.
"Not moving on, not re-casting, not under any circumstances," Wilder said, adding that the production is "fully financed, prepared to go" but was nonetheless "fully committed to Lindsay."
It's not to say that Lohan's career has not suffered due to her erratic behavior in the past years. It has suffered tremendously and possibly past the point of a true return. But Wilder's position shows that even as she has fallen far, Lohan's recent developments have not pushed her any lower. If there is a rock bottom on her career, she hasn't reached it yet.
And who knows what would happen if Lohan ever truly started to effectively deal with the issues which have brought her ruling Hollywood after "Mean Girls" to actually considering taking on "Celebrity Apprentice"?
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Lohan was also slated to appear in "The Dry Gulch Kid," an adventure comedy with country star Willie Nelson that would be produced by his company. According to the Times, producer Kerry Wallum said they too will wait.
"We have a bunch of music videos we're doing right now, so we can just be busy until she gets out," he said. "We hadn't really negotiated the full deal yet, but we'll see how it works. She's a good actress. We'll wait."


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Identity Theft Protection and Prevention
Identity theft protection is a kind of insurance that acts as a shied whenever any identity theft occurs. This type of protection is usually offered by credit card companies, banks, and companies that specialize in this. If you want the best protection, there are some things that you should know.
You should always check the reputation of the company to see whether they provide quality service with their customers. The company should also be able to provide you with a firm security and notify you with fraud alerts, pin number verifications, voice verifications, and credit freezes. An identity theft protection company should will be able to assist you with a full recovery of your information if there is any sort of identity theft. They will file the reports, recover the stolen information, and dispute any unauthorized transactions. Companies such as Trusted ID, Life Lock, Identity guard, ID Watchdog, Protect my ID and Debix are some of the most well known and bests identity theft protection companies in America today.
As we all know, prevention is better than waiting to treat a cure. Here are some of prevent identity theft protection tips from happening to you:
1. If you are going to throw away a document, always completely destroy all the papers that contain important personal information such as credit card numbers, contact numbers, passwords, and financial information.
2. Always protect the your social security number. Never put it on checks. Be cautious in bringing your card that contains your SS card out in anything that could be lost or forgotten.
3. Credit card receipts should never be left behind. This can also provide important information to others.
4. Keep your mailbox locked. Try not to mail outgoing payments or your bills from home.
5. Do not use credit cards in suspicious places. And when you pay using credit card, observe where they swipe it.
6. Check your credit card bill for any unknown purchases. Many time times the thief will begin with small purchases to avoid awareness.
7. Ask for your free credit report at least twice a year. Having a credit report with you will enable you to see what's going on. If you see something not right, you can always report it to your credit card company and let them solve the problem or explain why that showed in your credit report.


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I usually make plain yogurt but, on this day, I was experimenting with flavour and culture. I used to use store bought skim milk but now that I have a milk cow (Belle) I have tons of super delicious whole milk. I used to use plain yogurt as starter but I don't get to the grocery store much anymore and I find it much easier to keep on hand the little packets of powdered yogurt culture. They work awesome and I can keep them in my fridge for ages! A few years ago I did a blog post on making yogurt but things change so here's my new updated version.
You will need:
One gallon of milk
Powdered culture (I use Yogourmet brand)
Skim Milk Powder
Agave Syrup
Brown Rice Syrup (or honey, sugar, more agave, xylitol, any sweetener you can add to fruit)
Frozen Fruit
I use this brand of culture. I have tried their other kind that has casein in it and I did not like it! My yogurt was jiggly and did not set well at all plus it's more expensive. Stick with this box and you can't go wrong.
One gallon of raw whole milk (or any milk you prefer). I skim off the cream and save it for other things, Belle gives me pretty good tasting milk so I'll use the cream in my tea, or make butter, or even pour it over homemade cottage cheese- and the skimmed milk is still good on/in everything else. You'll end up with a bit of cream on the top of every yogurt jar even if you do skim, you can mix it in or just eat it as is.
Pour the milk into a pot and heat it up to 175-180F.
Hold this temp for 15-30 minutes stirring so as not to scorch the milk. Holding the temp will make your yogurt firm up like the commercial brands.
After about 10 min add 1/2 cup of Agave Syrup if you want it sweetened.
Today I wanted to add frozen strawberry and raspberry fruit so while your milk mixture is heating get your fruit ready. I add a bit of fruit to a pot, sorry I didn't measure but it was maybe 2 cups of frozen strawberries and 1/2 cup of raspberries.
Add 1/2 cup of brown rice syrup (or whatever sweetener you prefer) to the fruit and stir.
Brown rice syrup added to the fruit. Heat to boiling and then set aside to cool.
When the milk gets to temp add 1/2 cup of skim milk powder, this will help stabilize the yogurt.
Cool the milk down to about 110F. You can place the pot into a sink full of cold water to bring the temp down faster but I usually find something else to do while it cools, and believe me, there's always something else to do! lol
While the milk is cooling get your jars ready. Today I used 7 Gem jars, 1 recycled jar, and one regular pint jar. Make sure they all have lids!
I used my Braun mixer to chunk up the fruit, I wanted it chunky and not total puree so don't do it for long!
Add about 1/8th of a cup of fruit to each jar.
Now that the milk has cooled to below 115F take about a cup and put it into a jar. Add your powdered yogurt culture. The directions say to add one envelope for each quart but I add one envelope for each TWO quarts, two envelopes in total and it works just fine.
Stir well!
Add back to milk in the pot and stir again.
Keep stirring because you want the culture to spread throughout the milk.
Pour it into jars and put the lids on.
I use my dehydrator to make my yogurt but there's lots of other ways you can do it; oven, yogurt maker, cooler, thermos… Google for more ideas.
Keep your temp between 110-115F. Anything over and your culture will die.
I've marked my dehydrator where my temp stays pretty consistent but I also added the electronic thermometer as well.
At four hours my yogurt was done! The longer you leave it in the more tart the taste, I like it mild so I turn off the dehydrator and let my jars cool for about 1/2 hour and then I put them in the fridge. The only time I've seen it take much longer to set is when I did blueberry yogurt, for some reason it took about 8 hours.
This was the first time I heated the milk and held it at temperature for that length of time, it worked out well and everyone seemed to enjoy it.


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Floaroma Meadow is located at the north of Floaroma Town, where there is a huge land covered with flowers. This is the place where you can buy Honey, an essential item if you want to catch Pokémon that only appears on honey trees, found in many places in Sinnoh. If you have a Pokémon which knows Surf, enter the Floaroma Meadow from Fuego Ironworks using Surf and there are many hidden items found at the back of the meadow, use the Itemfinder application on your Pokétch to uncover them.
Team Galactic
After you battle the Galactic grunt at the entrance of Valley Windworks, proceed to this place. You will find two Galactic grunts talking to a man. Proceed forward and you overheard them saying about gathering a lot of honey to attract a lot of Pokémon. Then they noticed you and will battle with you so that there will be no witness.
|Galactic Grunt #1
|Galactic Grunt #2
|Wurmple ♂
|Silcoon ♂
|Zubat ♂
|Lv. 9
|Lv. 9
|Lv. 11
|Money: 360
|Money: 440
After the battle, the Galactic Grunts retreat, and drop the Works Key on the ground. Then the man pick it up and give it to you. The man then gives you a free Honey for saving him. Head to Valley Windworks now.
Honey Trees
There are many honey trees in Sinnoh and you will see such trees the first time at the Floaroma Meadow. You can get some Honey from the man at the entrance of this place for 100 Poké, and slather the honey onto the bark of the tree. It will attract Pokémon such as Wurmple. But if you are lucky enough, you may attract a Combee or a Munchlax.


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Activity-cycle momentum continues to build in the Eurozone and in Japan, with the expansion stage remaining well-anchored in both regions. The Eurozone in particular has seen the unemployment component finally contribute positively to the overall indicator. In the US, while weaker ISM figures have dragged the activity-cycle indicator lower, the overall outlook now appears to be rather mixed, thanks to strong manufacturing PMI prints and low unemployment figures. The consequences of the disaster caused by hurricane Harvey as well as the progress around the much-awaited tax reforms and fiscal stimulus are important factors to be monitored in order to determine the state of the US economy, which remains unclear as we appear to be nearing the end of the expansion phase of the activity cycle. The other developed countries are a mixed bunch, as Australia and Canada (which continues its acceleration) are in the expansion stage, while the UK and Sweden are experiencing a downturn. On the debt cycle, the slowdown in US credit creation continues (lower M&A activity and weaker loan demand), while Europe and Japan now appear to be taking the lead.
After marking a peak in June, the inflation indicators in the G4 countries are trending lower. In Europe, though sub-indicators remain relatively strong, some of the recent weakness can be attributed to the stronger euro, as well as to lower wage inflation. Expectations and consumer prices are also driving downwards the US inflation indicator, as it pursues its sharp retracement. Overall, inflation expectations have declined over the past month and our indicator seems to be suggesting that most G10 countries are increasingly likely to experience softer inflationary pressures.
On the monetary-policy front, the much-awaited Jackson Hole symposium (at which hints on upcoming decisions were expected) resulted in a collective silence of central bankers on future monetary policies. Overall, the trend still indicates less monetary support, as we await an announcement on ECB QE tapering in October and a reduction in the Fed balance sheet before the end of the year. We note, however, that inflation continues to stubbornly trend below targets. In this context, central banks would be under less pressure to engage in monetary normalisation immediately. Close attention to political risks will be necessary as a result of heightened tensions between the US and North Korea over missile-testing, the uncertainty that continues to hang over the Trump administration's ability to pass a fiscal reform package and the tough rhetoric being heard at every turn of the Brexit negotiations.
With uncertainty hanging over the current inflation levels and questions over the ability of president Trump to finally deliver on the fiscal stimulus policies, we are maintaining our current long position on US rates. Treasuries are also likely to rise in the wake of the geopolitical risk present as a result of tensions between the US and North Korea. In Europe, on the other hand, the continuous rise in the activity cycle and the probable tapering of the ECB QE has incited us to hold a short position on the EUR curve. Valuations continue to be at extreme levels, especially in German rates, thereby comforting us in our strategy.
The non-core European bond markets continue to be supported by the ECB, and flow dynamics are also positive. Furthermore, investor-positioning remains close to its record lows. We are hence overweight Spain, where valuations are still relatively attractive, and have taken profit on our long position in Portugal, which had delivered a strong performance. However, in the wake of political tensions in Italy (on the back of Berlusconi's anti-European rhetoric and its potential impact on the general elections early next year), we are maintaining a neutral stance on the country's sovereign debt. .


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and bid farewell to the Microsoft Zune player, which will be discontinued. Oh, Zune. You were just like the iPod, only no one wanted anything to do with you. So sad. LET'S GO!
THE COMEDY CENTRAL ROAST OF DONALD TRUMP – 10:30PM (Comedy Central) Time for Comedy Central to do that thing where they select a random person to make fun of for ninety minutes. For Donald Trump's festival of mocking, the network has assembled the usual blend of seasoned roasting veterans and poorly chosen non-comedians. So keep the TV on for Jeffrey Ross, Whitney Cummings, and Lisa Lampanelli. And then flee the crime scene whenever you see the likes of Snoop Dogg (Juh?), Larry King (Wha?), Marlee Matlin (Bizzuh?), and whoever else happened to be around that night. The Situation was also one of the roasters for this event (again, I'm as puzzled as you are), but he reportedly bombed so badly that he was booed off the stage. So who knows if that will actually make the cut for the televised portion of the roast. Why do they always have such random roasters? Can't they just have comedians do it and leave it at that? I don't get it. ANTICIPATION: HAIR JOKES!
NCAA TOURNAMENT – 6:30PM (truTV) You're probably used to the NCAA Tournament beginning on a Thursday, the way it ought to. But the NCAA, being the aggressively odd people that they are, decided to add three more teams to the mix this year and have them play in the "First Four," four play-in games that they love so much they shuttled them off to truTV for reasons that no one can explain. Your first game is Arkansas-Little Rock (go Trojans!) versus UNC-Asheville, followed by UAB and Clemson. It's an amuse bouche of madness, if you will. ANTICIPATION: MADNESS!
GLEE – 8:00PM (FOX) It was really only a matter of time before Kathy Griffin showed up on "Glee," and now here we are. Tonight's episode centers around original songs, so expect a couple of numbers tonight that are NOT cover versions, along with your standard array of butchered Top 40 hits such as Pink's "Raise Your Glass," Maroon 5's "Misery," and the Beatles' "Blackbird." Can't believe they went there with "Blackbird." The gall of these people. ANTICIPATION: GRIFFIN!
FOUR OF A KIND – 11:00PM (Lifetime) Lifetime's new reality show focuses on a group of quadruplets in Minnesota. The twist? They aren't babies! That's right. They're 17 years old and getting ready for senior year. It's four times the awkwardness and mild rebellion. ANTICIPATION: QUADROPHENIA!
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF MIAMI – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Alexia hosts a Cuban-themed dinner, but Lea gripes about meat being on the menu because she's a vegetarian. I already strongly dislike Lea. ANTICIPATION: INSUFFERABLE!
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And don't think the Sox would be getting some top prospect for Konerko. It would be to dump money and do Konerko a solid.
If Williams does trade Konerko, he won't get much of anything back in return. Sure, Konerko is one of the big bats likely to hit the trade market this summer, but he's likely nothing more than a three or four-month rental.
While Konerko would be a nice boost to a contending team, that he's a rental player means the Sox won't get anything better than a B-/C+ prospect in return.
How about a pitcher like Fabio Martinez (B-/B-), Tyler Skaggs (B-/B-), Jordan Walden (B-/B-), Jon Bachanov (B-/C+), Ryan Chafee (C+/C+), Tyler Chatwood (C+), Pat Corbin (C+)? Letter grades are from John Sickels' and Baseball-Intellect's 2010 Angels prospects lists. More prospect lists here.


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This day in history - in 1990 to be exact - the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law. This civil rights legislation helps ensure that all citizens, regardless of disability, have the same rights and privileges as all other Americans.
We are actively working to make the Energy Department a welcoming place to work. Our disability coordinator in the Office of the Chief Human Capital Office is on hand to make sure we are a model employer for individuals with disabilities, that we're responding to the needs of our employees with disabilities, and that we're addressing Equal Employment Opportunity discrimination complaints quickly and effectively under the law.
"The promise of the ADA was that all Americans should have equal access and equal opportunity, including Americans with disabilities," said President Obama in a statement today. "The ADA was about independence and the freedom to make of our lives what we will. We celebrate that today, and we recommit ourselves to ending discrimination in all its forms."
In the Obama Administration's statement today, we announced new efforts that will continue to support increased employment opportunities for persons with disabilities and will also help make the government more open and accessible. Specifically, the Administration is working to release a draft comprehensive strategic plan to improve compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 508 requires federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to individuals with disabilities, including employees and members of the public.
This strategic plan will ensure federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities, both inside and outside the government. Here at the Energy Department, we're integrating these principles into our website. As our Director of New Media and Citizen Engagement, Cammie Croft, said in a blog earlier this year, "Our vision is to turn Energy.gov into a cutting-edge, 21st century, interactive information platform that delivers resources and services to you whenever and wherever you want it while also empowering Energy Department staff with simple tools and guidance to engage with you and also each other." This information platform will provide for a more integrated approach to 508-compliance, such as full video transcripts and easy to use download pages with machine-readable documents.
Today, the Department reaffirms the vision and responsibilities of the Americans with Disabilities Act. For more information about the work of our Office of Civil Rights, visit www.diversity.energy.gov.


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2 missing kids, grandma found dead
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A woman who picked up her two young grandsons from daycare and was supposed to bring them home so the 2-year-old could open his birthday presents instead drove them to a neighboring town and shot and killed the children and herself, state police and family members said.
The bodies of 47-year-old Debra Denison and her grandsons, 2-year-old Alton Perry and 6-month-old Ashton Perry, were found Tuesday night in a car parked near Lake of Isles in Preston, in the southeastern part of the state.
State Police called the deaths a double murder-suicide Wednesday, saying they believe Denison shot the boys and herself. Autopsies were planned.
Family members said Denison had bipolar disorder and a history of mental health problems.
Tuesday was Alton's second birthday. Denison picked up the children from their daycare in North Stonington Tuesday afternoon and was supposed to bring them home so Alton could open his presents, family members said.
"I wanted him to come home and play with his new toys and have a good day," Alton's mother, Brenda Perry, told WVIT-TV.
In Facebook postings late Tuesday and Wednesday morning, Brenda Perry thanked people for their prayers and said she loved her sons.
"God (has) two beautiful angels helping him now," the postings said. "My boys are in an amazing place we got a few great angels watching over us. love you Ashton and Alton."
On Monday she wrote: "So excited making mini cupcakes and play dough for Altons day tomorrow can't believe 2 years old already. So blessed"
Perry and her husband, Jeremy, told WVIT that Denison had a gun and suffered from split personalities.
A man who answered the door at the couple's home on Wednesday declined to comment to an Associated Press reporter.
Denison was armed with a gun when she left her home Tuesday afternoon and had permission to pick up the boys from daycare, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
A phone message seeking comment was left Wednesday at the daycare, Kidds & Co. A posting on the daycare's Facebook page said, "Our love and prayers are with the Perry family. Tomorrow (Wednesday) will be difficult for all of us but we are here to offer our support to all our families and staff."
The bodies were found at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, about two hours after state police issued a statewide Amber Alert for Denison and the boys.
Denison had two convictions for minor driving offenses, said Peggy Muckle, a clerk at New London Superior Court. She was fined $35 in 2003 for following too closely and, in 2004, she pleaded guilty to reckless driving but a judge did not require her to pay the $100 fine.
The staff at a Connecticut daycare center where a woman picked up her two grandsons before apparently killing them in a double murder-suicide says she gave no signs of distress.
Center director Nikki Salaun says Debra Denison was friendly and talkative when she arrived Tuesday afternoon to collect 2-year-old Alton Perry and 6-month-old Ashton Perry.
The bodies of Denison and the two children were later found with gunshot wounds in a car in the neighboring town of Preston. Family members say Denison had a history of mental health problems.
The staff at the Kidds & Co. daycare center in North Stonington says Denison was on the list of people authorized to pick up the children.
A state police spokeswoman says Denison left a suicide note but declined to say where it was found.


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The war of the former "Dancing with the Stars" contenders continued on Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday when Margaret Cho stopped by and dished about her recent blog battle with Bristol Palin.
"I had a lot of time to gossip because I wasn't dancing, because I got voted off real early," the comedienne told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover, referring to her blog post which suggested Bristol was forced to join the show by her mother — former Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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"I didn't know if it was true, I was just reporting on stuff that I was gossiping about," Margaret admitted. "I just wanted to say what I thought and mostly I just wanted to say that I was upset because people were criticizing her because of her body, because I felt that before and I hated that when it happened to me. So, I wanted to say, 'She's not fat she's a beautiful girl!'
"She was great, what she was doing and she did her best," the recently again Grammy-nominated comedienne continued. "But, you know, there were other things at work, and if Sarah Palin is trying to run for President, I wish she would just admit it, because I want to stop it."
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Following Margaret's blog posts, Bristol took to her own Facebook page, writing, "If you ever have a question, call me, girlfriend… You say you 'don't agree with the family's politics at all' but I say, if you understood that common sense conservative values supports the right of individuals like you, like all of us… you would embrace us faster than KD Lang at an Indigo Girls concert."
"Which is good, cuz I'm trying to ask KD Lang out for a date," the funny lady joked after Billy read Bristol's statement aloud to her. "The way that [the statement] was written, it also sounds like it was written by somebody in Nigeria who has a lot money for me."
Margaret stressed to Billy and Kit that she has no ill will towards the single mom, saying, "I like her, I'm a supporter of Bristol. I'm not a supporter of their family's politics, but I think she's a cool person."
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The comedienne also said she has no regrets about her comments.
"I'm a stand up comic. I'm here to just talk about what I think and what I'm seeing. To me it was just funny. I can't believe the incredible reaction to it," she continued.
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"But even ABC was like, 'You're going to go on Access Hollywood? Well, that's a perfect opportunity for you to set the record straight and retract what you said," Margaret claimed. "And it's like, 'I'm not going to retract what I said,' it's like, 'What? Are you going to vote me off again?"
Adding, "I didn't know if it was true, and I didn't care. Its just gossip, I'm just reporting on the gossip."
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Networking is communicating with people and developing contacts in order to locate possible opportunities. This is how the majority of people (sources claim 75-85%) get a job- not solely job search websites. Networking involves connecting with current contacts and generating new ones in the career field you are interested in. Professionalism and tact are vital if you want to get anywhere with networking. Here are some basic preparatory steps to begin building and using your network:
Know Yourself
It may sound simple, but many people are not prepared to articulate their attributes in a way that will impress potential leads or employers. Know your career-related skills, interests, and values and be able to convey them to others.
Know the Field
Before starting a conversation with someone in a particular organization or field of interest, research that organization/field so you appear motivated and informed.
Professional Up-to-Date Resume
Always have your resume current and ready to go to a contact; you never know when you might need it.
Prepare What You Want to Say
Presenting yourself in a professional manner is essential, so you should prepare a statement of purpose. For example: "I am interested in obtaining more information about ________. I was hoping to schedule a time that I could ask you a few questions about your position, the organization you work for, and what you might recommend for someone with my background entering this field."
Know (Specifically) What you Want
The more specific details you can provide to your contacts, the better chances people will have to help you out.
Begin Networking Early
Don't wait until spring of your senior year to begin networking.
Be Polite and Personal
Get to know people not only from a professional perspective, but a personal one as well. Always be grateful when you receive assistance, referrals, advice, etc.
Get Involved
The more clubs and organizations you belong to, job and internships you have, etc., the more contacts you have.
Take Advantage of Networking Events
Attend networking events like Speed Networking and Network Nights, and career fairs like the Job and Internship Fair and CIC.
Remember Names & Follow-Up
Make it a point to remember the names of your new contacts. Make sure that you capture their contact information and remember to thank them.


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Greater Madison Inauguration Week Breakfast
Remarks to Greater Madison
Inauguration Week Breakfast
Jonathan R. Alger
James Madison University
March 13, 2013
Welcome, everyone. Thank you to Jim Sipe for his continued leadership of the Greater Madison board and organization. The signature on the original 1970 agreement between Greater Madison and Madison College is by none other than Jim Sipe Senior—Jim's father. In addition, a group of city fathers led an effort in 1907 to lobby the General Assembly to locate a new college in Harrisonburg. A member of that group was George Sipe. Thank you also to the board members, and members at large, of Greater Madison.
Greater Madison has undergone a metamorphosis over the last few years, and those changes continue. Just before my arrival, the university elevated the status of Greater Madison to a "strategic partnership." Now the role of Greater Madison will grow even more central to many of our efforts moving forward.
JMU is an institution that can become a model for the Engaged University. This idea of "engaged" means that we connect with ideas and the world, including our community. The Carnegie Foundation recognizes James Madison University in its Community Engagement classification, which includes only 8 percent of all colleges and universities nationally. This is quite an honor. As others have clearly recognized, we are doing a lot together, but we can still do much more.
Tomorrow, I will be leading a walk from campus to downtown Harrisonburg. The walk will serve as a symbol of our solidarity with the community and our dedication to it. I will be presenting the keys to the university to Harrisonburg Mayor Ted Byrd and County Supervisor Fred Eberly. This tradition of presenting keys dates back to medieval times and symbolized welcome and free entry to dignitaries when cities had high walls and locked gates. I hope this gesture will usher in a new era of closeness between the university and our community.
There is much more for us to accomplish together and I look forward to working with all of you in Greater Madison. It is an exciting time to be at the university, and it is certainly wonderful to be a member of Greater Madison.


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The program followed two lines of descendant of actress and activist Margot Kidder's maternal line in search of an "explanation" for some of her personality traits. The exploration took her to Prince George, BC, and Newmarket, Ontario.
One of the pleasures of pursuing your family history is the places you get to visit, often well off the well-trod tourist routes, that grow in meaning to you as you delve further. Most often there are no relatives left in the area, yet as Margot Kidder's journey illustrated, you can draw sustenance from visiting the buildings, churches and museums, known to your ancestors, and the archives and libraries which document them and their environment. You gain an appreciation of the importance of community to their lives, and yours.
Once again, for those who want the more detailed story, including information on the sources used, the program web site has a three page extended story.
I found the program went by very quickly. CBC should be pleased with the way this series is developing. I understand they had more viewers for the first episode than they expected, and LAC's Canadian Genealogy Centre had 92,000 people using their new Ancestors Search facility that evening.
It's slightly ironic that the version of the CGC home page shown in the program is the old version, before the recent update.
Thursday, 18 October 2007
WDYTYA - Margot Kidder
The program followed two lines of descendant of actress and activist Margot Kidder's maternal line in search of an "explanation" for some of her personality traits. The exploration took her to Prince George, BC, and Newmarket, Ontario.
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Some thoughts on WDYTYA Canadian edition
• Nice to see Margot Kidder after all these years, especially given her history as Lois Lane in the motion picture "Superman" (1978), her time with Pierre Trudeau and the widely publicized manic episode in 1996. But how does any of this rank her amongst those selected for this show? This is all the more strange given that she has lived the past 36 years in the United States and became an American citizen in 2005. The show's selection criteria would be something interesting to behold!
• The search of an "explanation" for some of her personality traits, while interesting, is a bit hard to take, particularly when these "traits" include "political activism"(which has included criticizing the Gulf War in the 1990s and protesting the current war in Iraq) and philanthropy (some how connected to her Quaker roots of which she was apparently not aware). Such predetermination is just not believable.
• At no time do we see Margot Kidder and her CBC crew/researchers visiting a cemetery containing the remains of her relatives yet she does go to a church they once frequented. The cemetery of past generations is a stop often made by genealogists but somehow not important for this show. Curious.
• The active role played by curators and archivists to track down specific records of an individual, lay them all out and then carefully explain them to a researcher may make for good television footage but is artificial in the extreme. Perhaps the series should contain a warning label that such scenes do not represent reality.
• Now we know where the resources of the LAC public service area have been "reallocated." While we were told that it was for digitization, it was actually to pay for the commercials that run with the show. Only Ancestry.ca (which we know has deep pockets) and the LAC are sponsors for this program (and the LAC also advertises on the WDYTYA website). Such sponsorship does not come cheaply, so where did the LAC get the money? Could it be from the public service budget? Nice. Cut public services funds and related services, put the money into a highly publicized program, find that there is (surprise, surprise) an increased demand that can not be satisfied (just look at all those hits the next day, aren't we all surprised?), have the public clamoring for services (which have just been cut). A perfect scenario for going to Treasury Board to seek additional resources. Bureaucratically brilliant!
- 19 October, 2007 10:28
I would be interested in the source for your information on the reallocation of LAC funds.
Perhaps it's time that anonymous started his own blog to criticize LAC
- 21 October, 2007 14:43
- JDR said...
I'm grateful for anonymous' comments, and yours too Mike. Blogs work better with lots of interaction.
Just this afternoon I was talking to another person, and heavy users at 395, who could hardly stop once I asked about the impact of the change in hours, and other service reductions at LAC. She was angry. Some people are really handicapped by the changes, for example, when they bid on a contract assuming the old hours and now have much less time available.
It has struck me that maybe we need a more appropriately titled blog just for LAC matters.
- 21 October, 2007 19:35


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Art to See at NOMA
"Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France," 1788, By Elisabeth Vigeé-Lebrun
At the recent opening of "Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III" at NOMA, chef Leah Chase said, "We've got some mighty women in this city!" Elisabeth Vigeé-Lebrun is arguably the most important female painter of the 18th century. For the museum's 75th anniversary, NOMA's Women's Volunteer Committee raised the funds to purchase this official portrait of Marie Antoinette. Visitors can see her each time they visit on the museum's second floor.
Susan M. Taylor, a museum director in the United States for more than 20 years, serves as The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art and encourages this magazine's readership to visit NOMA soon. Visit NOMA.org for more information.


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Examining the long-debated Alzheimer's risk from aluminum
I've seen friends fret over the purported link between aluminum and Alzheimer's disease and have often wondered if their fears are founded on fact. Should they give up aluminum pans or aluminum-containing antiperspirants? I've always heard that aluminum's health dangers are just hype. So what's the real deal?
The connection between aluminum and Alzheimer's disease is less a myth than a longstanding scientific controversy. It began in 1965, when researchers discovered that injecting rabbits' brains with aluminum caused them to develop neurofibrillary tangles, the twisted proteins found in brain cells of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative brain disorder that destroys memory and cognition.
The finding spurred a rush of research. Just eight years later, a Canadian group studying brain tissue from deceased Alzheimer's patients found that certain parts of their brains had two to three times more aluminum than a normal brain. By 1980, Daniel Perl and Arnold Brody had managed to actually peer inside human tangle-bearing brain cells -- and found aluminum there, too.
"That really changed the whole complexion of the thing," recalls Perl, now a professor of pathology in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. "I was getting called all the time, because there was so much public interest."
Despite the rise in interest, no one could figure out what this meant for human health. Part of the problem was that scientific techniques were -- and still are -- too imperfect to provide an answer. Whether they were studying brain cells or conducting population-wide epidemiological studies that tracked aluminum exposure and Alzheimer's risk, researchers lacked the tools to get very precise or conclusive results.
"Aluminum is so common, so prevalent in the environment, that studying it is a hard task," says John Savory, a professor emeritus of pathology at the University of Virginia who helped discover that aluminum exposure can cause neurological and dementia-like symptoms in dialysis patients. "Just a speck of dust can contaminate your sample, because it's everywhere."
Naturally occurring aluminum is the third-most-abundant element on Earth, so it really is everywhere. Because it's present in the soil, it can be found in certain foods, such as spinach and tea. It's also used in a number of industrial processes that bring it into close contact with humans. Although many studies of aluminum exposure have focused on drinking water -- utilities often use aluminum salts to clarify and purify their water -- it is also found in cookware and food packaging, in antacids, antiperspirants and a handful of medications, and in some processed foods. That makes teasing out people's exposures to aluminum over a lifetime, and the effect of those exposures, "very hard to do," Perl says.
It's no surprise, then, that 30 years of studies on the aluminum-Alzheimer's link have yielded conflicting results.
For example, a 1997 study of nearly 1,000 men from England and Wales found little association between their Alzheimer's disease incidence and their estimated exposure to aluminum through drinking water, but a 15-year study that followed 1,925 French men and women concluded that high aluminum consumption from drinking water might be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. In a 2003 World Health Organization survey of six high-quality epidemiological studies of aluminum in drinking water as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, three found a positive association, while three did not.
These differing results are due to the difficulties inherent in epidemiological studies, which require researchers to rely on potentially inaccurate records and to follow people over long periods, says Amy Borenstein, a professor of epidemiology at the University of South Florida College of Public Health.
Borenstein studied Alzheimer's disease risk and aluminum exposure through antiperspirants and cookware more than 20 years ago, also with unclear results. "We do the best we can," she says. "Studying humans is hard."
Another problem is that the topic simply fell out of favor. As Alzheimer's disease researchers pursued more easily testable avenues for understanding the disease, such as its genetic risk factors and its formation of brain plaques (instead of the tangles), aluminum fell by the wayside, Savory says.
"It became very, very difficult to get funding to work on aluminum. As soon as you mentioned aluminum, you're dismissed with 'Oh, that hypothesis was disproven years ago,' " Savory says."But it has not been disproven. The truth is, nobody knows."
Perl also met with difficulty in funding his aluminum research, and he eventually shifted his efforts to the link between trauma and neurodegenerative diseases. Although he doesn't -- and never did -- believe that aluminum causes Alzheimer's disease, he says that it may be involved somehow in the disease's progression and that not investigating this may put Alzheimer's research at a disadvantage.
"We don't know what causes diabetes, for example, but we can treat it," Perl says. "So just because something isn't the . . . direct cause of a disease doesn't mean it's not important."
But Borenstein believes aluminum's contribution to Alzheimer's risk is too small to warrant a lot of research. "If aluminum plays any role, it's very small," she says. "And there are many other, much more important risk factors to study."
These other factors include genes as well as metabolic and vascular disease -- things such as diabetes and heart disease -- that studies have shown are strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease; level of intellectual stimulation and educational attainment; and social engagement. These factors may one day help researchers treat and even prevent the disease, Borenstein says.
So where does this leave a concerned consumer? You can try to limit your aluminum consumption by choosing aluminum-free products, Perl says, "but we don't really understand enough about [aluminum's possible association with Alzheimer's disease] to make good recommendations."
For what it's worth, Perl and Borenstein haven't replaced their cookware, changed their antiperspirants or given up using aluminum foil. Savory hasn't, either, though he does make a point of drinking water only from his own well, which he says contains considerably lower levels of aluminum than his town's water supply.
Avoiding all aluminum isn't possible, because the metal is so ubiquitous. If Alzheimer's is your worry, you're better off making sure to keep your mind active and your heart healthy, Borenstein says. In the long run, these steps will do far more to protect your brain.


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Bad Day at Black Rock
I wish the screenplay for Bad Day at Black Rock was taught in screenwriting classes as a model example of how to craft a perfect thriller. Ideally it might inspire a confidence in economic storytelling that students today would have little familiarity with. An incredibly suspenseful movie that lasts just 81 minutes, Bad Day at Black Rock could be the perfect corrective to every lousy impulse by movie executives to lard up a story with overkill. I think that's the real problem with modern studio fare. Lest their movies be ignored by an increasingly fractured and distracted audience, movies nowadays are oversold into oblivion. Even trailers are exhausting to watch. It's a simple case of too much information at every turn. As far as Hollywood is concerned, a film that treats the audience like adults with the capacity to figure things out for themselves is a risky prospect for the 15-year-old fan boy market and, at this point, what's not good for the fan boys is not good for Hollywood's bottom line. And this all-pervasive tendency for movies to be too long and too obvious even extends to the contemporary thriller where it tends to spoil them from the outset.
The mantra of a good screenwriter is "show, don't tell" but the inclination of most movie people nowadays is show, tell, and then add a commentary track to the DVD that spells out even more useless information. It can be said that independent film has created a forum for more offbeat storytelling, but there was a time when a good story was enough reason for a big studio such as MGM to produce it. Which brings us to the case of Bad Day at Black Rock. It represents the antithesis of the overkill approach.Continue Reading


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Facebook added a fourth amendment to its initial public offering filing, updating investors about its recent multi-million dollar deals with Instagram and Microsoft.
The amendment tells us that Facebook paid $300 million in cash and 23 million shares of Facebook common stock for the photo-sharing service and that it intends to use the service to "enhance" mobile engagement and photo sharing. The deal is expected to close by June. (For those keeping count, 23 million shares of Facebook are worth about $710 million, according to TechCrunch.) Facebook also dishes on its deal with Microsoft, which we previously covered on Monday, but also mentioned that Facebook now has 901 million monthly active users. More surprisingly, more than 500 million of those users access Facebook on a mobile device.
Total revenue dropped about 6 percent from $1.13 billion to $1.06 billion between Q4 2011 and the first quarter of 2012. Facebook took home $872 million in advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2012, down 8 percent from $943 million in the last three months of 2011. All the numbers weren't bad, however, because year-over-year Facebook's numbers showed significant improvement. International revenue also made up 49 percent of its total revenue for the first quarter, rising slightly from previous quarters.
Facebook's first quarter revenue was only about $1 billion ($1.06 billion), just a tad over what Facebook paid for Instagram ($1.01 billion). But the most important thing to take away is that revenue, including advertising were down -- something that doesn't bode well for an IPO that just sank $1.5 billion in acquisitions this month. While Microsoft patents could be seen as a necessity in the increasingly litigious tech climate, Instagram's acquisition now seems like an impulsive purchase.


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Stewardship (responsibility for the upkeep of things around you)
Ownership (claim the right to tear it up if you want)
This may break your bubble, but if you can't take it with you when you die, it was never really yours.
As a human, you have stewardship over the material world while you are here, but when you try to "own" physical stuff, you waste your precious time defending that claim.
Your time cannot be saved for later and is at the center of all that matters.
Spend it wisely in stewardship of all that surrounds you.


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To quote the purpose of the video from its web page:
This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG.
The concept aims to capture the essence of magazine reading, which people have been enjoying for decades: an engaging and unique reading experience in which high-quality writing and stunning imagery build up immersive stories.
I was fascinated by this video and the digital magazine concept. Being a lover of reading, I was mostly struck by the idea of trying to preserve some of the traditional paper-based reading experience while moving to a digital medium. I'm actually encouraged by this.
One of the issues I have having been born and learning to read in the pre-digital era is the experience of reading is not the same quality for me when I am reading on a computer screen. I have not as of yet tried a Kindle or any other brand of e-reader simply because the idea of reading an entire novel on a small digital screen holds no appeal for me. I realize as an educator that this is the way things are going, and I should probably force myself to try an e-reader or e-book, but I don't really want to invest in one when it appeals to me so little.
The conceptual digital magazine caught my interest, though. I wanted to hold it and try it out. I think the fact that I would interact with it makes me think it will be closer to the paper-based experience I am used to. I also started to imagine the possibilities for longer works - plays, short stories, even novels - where more graphics could be incorporated with the text. Not that I want to ever give up being able to imagine the settings and events in my head, but think of classic works of literature with historically accurate graphical backgrounds enhancing the text. Or works set in the future with the author's concepts of the settings visually represented. Just leave the characters out so I can still picture them in my mind, please. :-)
Anyway, you can see the video stirred up some ideas in my head. Take about eight minutes to view it, and see if it does the same for you. Maybe it will "rock your world" as well!
Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.


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Patriots sign Winslow and re-sign Branch
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots have signed tight end Kellen Winslow and re-signed wide receiver Deion Branch.
The announcement Wednesday came three days after tight end Aaron Hernandez was sidelined with a right ankle injury. The Patriots have not said how many games they expect him to miss.
Winslow was released by the Seattle Seahawks on Sept. 1 after spending the past three seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers following five seasons with the Cleveland Browns. He had 75 receptions last season and has 437 in his career.
The Patriots released Branch on the final roster cutdown after he caught 51 passes last season.
New England also re-signed linebacker Niko Koutouvides and released running back Lex Hilliard, linebacker Mike Rivera and wide receiver Greg Salas.
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Recovery continues for financial advisory firms. Driven predominantly by sustained appreciation in security markets, virtually all performance indicators for advisory firms trended upward in 2010. As firms grew again, so did their need for people. Always an important part of a firm's budget, people-related costs increased from 77 cents of every dollar in average expenses in 2008 to 80 cents in 2010. People will continue to be a priority in 2011, with the typical firm projecting to expand from 6.1 to 7.4 full-time equivalents (FTEs) (See Figure 1).
For advisory firms, people represent the critical ingredient for growth as well as building value and effective succession planning. Achieving these objectives, however, will require firms to shore up weaknesses with regard to how they deploy and develop staff. Reflective of growing labor scarcity, compensation levels are on the rise again, retention is at risk and the source of the next generation of firm leaders is unclear.
With The 2011 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms: People and Pay, FA Insight endeavors to support advisory firms in confronting these challenges. People and Pay, our recently released third annual industry study, is our second study with a special focus on human capital. A primary intention of the 2011 People and Pay study is to assist firms to not only attract and retain the right individuals, but to map a path that progresses people toward ownership and management responsibility.
Upward Trends and New Challenges
While the industry is yet to return to pre-recession growth rates, recovering security markets fueled a healthy rise in advisory firm assets under management (AUM) during 2010, which in turn supported strong revenue growth for the year (See Figure 2, next page). Typical firm revenue jumped 18% in 2010. Despite increasing rates of client growth, the pace of revenue growth is expected to slow to a 13% rate in 2011 as AUM growth cools.
Profit margins expanded in 2010 as revenues outpaced growth in expenses. The median operating profit margin in 2010, at 19%, represented an eight-percentage-point improvement over 2009 (See Figure 3). Owner income, including profits and owner compensation, also showed strong improvement over the year. Median owner income as a share of revenue rose to 50% in 2010 from 44% the previous year. Median income per owner, at $261,000, was up 14% in 2010 relative to 2009.
Improved firm performance has put owners in the mood to hire again, which is beginning to put upward pressure on wages. Firms are most interested in beefing up support personnel, with a 16% average increase expected in 2011. Hiring is also expected to be strong for professional positions. In the past two years, compensation growth for advisor positions has surpassed national all-industry averages as the advisor labor market tightens. Median compensation for associate advisors jumped most sharply in the two years since 2009, increasing 17%. This mid-level advisory position is clearly in demand as firms seek to plug the gap between their most experienced advisors and their support personnel.
While just 45% of firms had an associate advisor on staff in 2009, by 2011, 60% of firms had at least one team member in the position. Despite the growth, roughly two associate advisors exist on average to replace every three lead advisors (See Figure 4, next page). Further, the typical lead advisor has 20 years of experience, more than double that of associate advisors. Their level of seniority is not only difficult to quickly replicate, but a very real reminder that many lead advisors are soon approaching retirement. Firms will need to do more to ensure that a new generation of advisors is in place in order to better build, sustain and transfer firm value over coming years.
Looking to Standout Firms
Despite clear signs of recovery, firm owners cannot afford to relax. Unless the development of personnel can be strengthened, high-quality talent becomes scarcer, firm growth is restrained and succession options for owners narrow.
One source for guidance on these issues is the industry's best-performing firms, which we designate as Standout firms. Standout firms represent the top 25% of firms at each stage of development in terms of two key performance indicators: revenue growth and owner income as a percentage of revenue. Depending on firm stage, Standouts showed 9% to 33% higher revenue growth than other firms in their stage, and produced 11 cents to 20 cents more owner income per dollar of revenue.
With regard to use of personnel, people-related expenditures tend to account for a greater share of total Standout expenses. This greater allocation pays off for Standouts, whose team members are more productive, managing more clients and more revenue per FTE. Standout pay practices also help to support this productivity advantage. While compensation levels are similar between Standouts and other firms, Standouts more frequently use performance-based incentive programs and use them more effectively than other firms, linking pay to a wider range of individualized objectives.
Providing more team members with further incentive to perform, Standouts show a broader distribution of firm ownership. Owners account for a greater share of total FTEs in Standout firms compared with other firms. A more open approach to ownership, combined with greater internal career opportunities brought about by growth, also contributes to generally better staff retention among Standouts.
Although Standouts clearly outperform other firms in important areas, with certain personnel practices there is no apparent superiority. One area of weakness for Standouts, as well as other firms, is the lack of a clearly defined organizational structure that can support firm growth and progress team members. Standouts are also comparatively lax in offering formal training programs and conducting routine performance evaluations. These deficiencies in developing personnel may be affecting the ability of Standouts to move toward effective succession planning. Despite proportionately more widely spread ownership, only a minority of Standouts feel they are adequately prepared for succession.
The Challenge of Succession Planning
Without a proper succession plan, even Standout firm owners will have only limited success in extracting liquidity from their firms upon exit. Lack of succession planning is of concern across all firms. As the business ages and grows and founding owners prepare to retire, shares become increasingly valuable and less affordable to a new generation of owners, causing ownership to become increasingly concentrated.
In 2010, fewer than one in six staff members were primary owners (holding 5% or more ownership), with the ratio falling to one in 10 for the largest firms. Additionally, nearly half of primary owners (48%) are within 12 years of retirement, and almost 18% expect to retire within seven years. Despite the need for urgency, the level of succession preparedness is largely unchanged in recent years. Two-thirds of firms do not have an adequate succession plan, and more than half of these indicate having no plan at all.
The most effective plans will support the transfer of equity shares as well as a smooth transition of responsibilities for client relationships, business development and management oversight. Striking differences exist between firms that do and do not have an adequate succession plan. It is not surprising that these differences primarily relate to the ability of better-prepared firms to develop and advance people, thereby creating a fertile environment for grooming qualified succession candidates.
Progressing People Is Paramount
Good people practices tightly correlate with succession preparedness, but effective use of people can also be an important solution for controlling costs, improving efficiency, preserving culture and building sustainable value in the firm over the long term. Although expenditure on people dominates a firm's expenses, even the best firms appear challenged to properly progress their personnel in order to maximize their return on this investment.
Organizational structure can provide a vital road map for a firm in advancing people upward through its ranks of responsibility, but is a relative weakness for firms of all sizes. Although more than two-thirds of firms have documented their current organizational structure, just 14% have a plan for how their structure should change as they grow. A clearly documented organizational structure will also include detailed position descriptions, supporting productivity by clarifying accountability. Despite the benefits, only 38% of firms have documented position descriptions.
Formal career path planning is limited as well; fewer than one-quarter of firms have structured paths for all roles, and more than 30% have no career paths in place. Having three levels of advisory roles—support, associate and lead advisors—offers a primary path for progressing professional staff, but fewer than one-quarter of firms have at least one of each of these roles. Even among the industry's largest firms, fewer than half have personnel in all three positions.
Retention of talent will support a firm's ability to progress personnel along a career path, with good hiring practices being a prerequisite for limited turnover. As well as current qualifications, the longer-term potential of a recruit is an important consideration in hiring. The leading reason for terminating staff was an individual's job performance, cited by 49% of firms that had terminations. Retaining talent long-term and progressing team members internally through a career path is a struggle without a program to purposefully enhance the capabilities of staff. Firms spend a surprisingly small percentage of revenue (less than 1% on average) on personnel development, with almost 30% of firms providing no formal staff training.
Transitioning Equity to Build and Realize Value
Developing and retaining good talent is vital for continuing the growth of a firm and upholding its value. Experienced employees are a valuable commodity on the job market, and retaining them will typically be difficult unless there is an opportunity for equity. Without an ability and willingness to share equity, however, staff retention is put at risk and succession options are obviously limited.
As ownership in advisory firms becomes increasingly concentrated and shares become more valuable, finding creative ways to transition equity is a challenge but increasingly critical. Just 13% of firms added a primary owner in the past two years. The addition of new owners has not kept pace with rates of departure of owners or of acquisition of employees, resulting in a shrinking proportion of owners to total firm personnel.
Affordability of shares for a new generation of owners is an increasing challenge. Despite the need for creative solutions, at present most buy-ins are through up-front cash or personal financing. If current owners are truly serious about creating succession solutions, they will need to get more involved in exploring other viable ways to facilitate funding an acquisition that will support the succession plan.
The question of sharing control is another common hurdle preventing owners from more broadly sharing equity. Some firms (16%) sidestep this concern by not granting voting rights to certain ownership share classes. A complete succession solution, however, depends on transitioning full voting rights with ownership at least in proportion to ownership share. A proper evaluation and admission process for new owners will provide original owners with the confidence to grant new owners their rightful input on strategic decisions.
Sustaining Success
Advisory firms weathered tough times in 2008 and 2009. A better business climate has tenuously emerged since 2010. While the recent recovery is welcome, new areas of focus arise for advisory firm owners who are anxious to continue building and realizing business value. To sustain firm performance over time requires that firms not only attract and retain the right individuals but also map a path that progresses people toward greater responsibility and ownership.
The greatest vulnerability for all firms, however, is a lack of preparedness for succession. Building long-term firm value, and ultimately realizing this value, will require a wholesale shift to more active and comprehensive succession planning, including creative financing and a transition plan for equity, client relationships and firm management responsibilities.
While people are imperative to successful advisory firms, the supply of good people is becoming increasingly scarce. Unless addressed, this situation will threaten growth and limit succession options. The good news, as uncovered in People and Pay, is that there are practical solutions that can be applied to ensure that a firm gets the most from its team members and that team members get the most from their firm.
More to Come
In the months ahead, Investment Advisor readers can look forward to additional articles that will further explore effective deployment of human capital within advisory firms. While our current article provides a high-level overview of the 2011 People and Pay findings, future articles will probe best practices as they relate to personnel development, succession planning and transitioning equity.
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Leola Sudduth Kennedy
Family and friends are celebrating the life of their matriarch Leola Sudduth Kennedy, who died in her Pasadena home on January 2.
"My mother was a very humble woman who dedicated her life to her children," said John J. Kennedy, one of Leola's ten children.
"She never had an unkind word for anyone. She was selfless and would sacrifice her very last for us. Her legacy is for her children to be as selfless as she was."
Leola Sudduth Kennedy was born on June 29, 1923 in Starkville, Mississippi to J.D. Sudduth and Bessie Mae Plair Sudduth. She was the 3rd of 18 children of whom only 9 survived past childhood, her family said.
Leola grew up on an over 200 acre farm that her father purchased, which was a great accomplishment for a black man in the South during the early 1900s. That farm remains in the family as a cherished part of the family heritage and legacy.
As a child, Leola loved basketball and excelled in her Home Economics classes. Leola was fortunate to complete her high school education at Oktibbeha Training Boarding School (now Henderson High School) in Starkville. This was a significant feat; at that time, most blacks in the South had to leave school after the eighth or ninth grade. After finishing high school, Leola planned a career as a nurse. With the help and support of her father, she moved to California to pursue her dream.
Upon arriving in California, Leola began working at USC – Los Angeles County Medical Center. There she met United States Army Sergeant Thomas Foster Kennedy. The couple married in 1950. Leola joined her husband in Pasadena where they reared ten children.
According to those who knew her, the matriarch had a deep sense of spirituality and faith.
"Her faith sustained her over the years and was visible in her sense of responsibility, commitment and care for others," said family members.
"She had a Christ-like spirit. She lived by Christian principles that were demonstrated in her understanding and compassion for her family, friends and neighbors. Her faith provided guidance and support. She loved getting up early each morning to have her devotion and prayer time with God. When something went wrong, an accident or family problem, she would immediately pray and quote scripture. Under pressure, she was always calm and not easily rattled. Her faith was unyielding and strong…"
Besides her faith, her devotion to her children was also notable.
"Her children were her crown of glory," they said.
"She would always say, 'my happiness is my children.' She gave more than was deserved and her sacrifice was endless."
She took pleasure in the simple things, they said, like See's Candy, Sunday dinners and the Ed Sullivan Show.
Leola was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Kennedy; two children Michael Kennedy (Faye) and Gladys Kennedy; her brothers: Monroe Sudduth, Theodore Sudduth, Willie D. Sudduth and Pete Sudduth; her sisters Bernice Bishop, Kittie Mae Carruthers, Suzie Brandy and Georgia Kate Mason. She leaves to cherish her memory two sisters: Almeda Sudduth Taylor and Lottie Bevill; eight children: Geraldine Kennedy, Malcolm Kennedy (Elizabeth), Sharon Billlingslea (Jack), Rosalinda Spratling, Lena L. Kennedy, Elizabeth Ellis (Redell), John J. Kennedy and Glenda Kennedy; 15 grandchildren; 22 great grandchildren; and many more members of her extended family and friends.


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Malawi Designs and Field Tests an Educational Poster on Climate Change for Primary School Teaching
In order to promote integration of climate change knowledge, skills and attitudes into the primary school curriculum of Malawi, the Malawi Institute of Education (MIE) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Management produced a poster centred on the message Climate change is real. Act now!. This poster aims to raise children's awareness and is developed as part of the national UN CC:Learn pilot project, with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The poster was first designed during a workshop attended by 12 professionals from the Malawi Institute for Education, the Environmental Affairs Department, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, in Liwonde, Malawi. It was then field tested in 15 primary schools covering the districts of Zomba, Machinga and Balaka. Both urban and rural primary schools were targeted for the exercise. A total of 377 learners (193 male and 184 female) and a total of 59 teachers (32 male and 27 female) participated in the pilot exercise. This second phase of the project showed that the poster was generally effective in terms of clarity of content, and student and teacher comments were helpful in enhancing it even further. The entire activity was conducted from 15 to 26 July 2013.
The poster comprises three sections: 1) human activities that influence climate change, 2) negative effects and impacts of climate change, and 3) learner actions. Pictures were drawn to illustrate all the three sections of the poster. It will be printed in both English and Chichewa and sent to about 6000 public primary schools, 400 Teacher Development Centres, 7 public Teacher Training Colleges and other relevant offices and institutions.
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Tortoises (亀, Kame) are the characteristic summon of Might Guy. At some point in time, Guy made a contract with ninja tortoises which allows him to summon them as he wishes. Not much use has been made of them by Guy throughout the series, because he prefers not to use ninjutsu around his student Rock Lee who is unable to, as a means of fostering his taijutsu skills. Nevertheless, when the situation calls for it, Guy will use his ninja tortoises.
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The first tortoise Ningame, was seen during the Chūnin Exams, when he stopped Lee from attacking Sasuke Uchiha, later scolding him for attempting to use the Front Lotus. Ningame wasn't seen again until Part II, when Guy was chasing down Kisame Hoshigaki on the remote island. In the anime, Guy later summoned Ningame to enter into a contract with his other student Tenten, but she offended Ningame, and he refused to enter into a contract with her. A messenger tortoise was also summoned by Guy in the anime, a small tortoise that can travel a long distance and then lights up with the words "S.O.S." to signal allies that Guy was in trouble.
Throughout the series other tortoises have been seen, though not contracted to Guy. The Island Turtle is a gigantic tortoise that has an island complete with wildlife and vegetation growing on its back along with several structures on top of, as well as inside its shell. Another large tortoise was also seen on the island where Ningame landed after Guy uses his shell as a platform, several times larger than the summoned creature who stated that he had never seen a tortoise that big.
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Union leader says supervisor threw department under plow
The head of the union for Brookhaven Highway Department rank-and-file workers challenged Supervisor Edward P. Romaine's assertion that the group botched last week's blizzard cleanup.
Romaine said Thursday that the highway department is not under the town board's control. But Wally Greene, president of the town highway department union and a member of the Civil Service Employees Association, said Town Deputy Supervisor Dan Panico visited the department the day before the blizzard, took control of the unit, and led the entire storm recovery effort.
"They can say they weren't in charge, but they were in charge the whole time," Greene said. "Panico didn't have the experience to try and run the department."
Both Romaine and Panico denied that town officials were running the department. Romaine declined to comment further. Panico said he did not take control, but if he had not worked with highway officials "we would still be digging ourselves out."
Romaine was criticized for being on vacation in Jamaica during the blizzard, which stranded cars on snow-laden roads and kept people stuck in their homes. After he returned, he said at a news conference Thursday that he had been in touch while away and managed operations through his staff. "I don't drive a snowplow, and the highway department is not under my direct control or supervision," he said then.
He blamed the highway department for the slow cleanup and said town voters rejected efforts to make the highway superintendent an appointed position and create a new public works department that would include highway operations.
Greene said Romaine should not have left town on Feb. 6 as there were already warnings about an approaching storm. "He left and acted like it didn't mean anything," Greene said.
About 30 inches fell in some areas during the Feb. 8-9 storm.
Since the blizzard, acting highway department Superintendent Michael Murphy has resigned. Greene said highway officials told him Murphy missed the storm because of a root canal and a family emergency. "Highway workers believe Murphy was the scapegoat," Greene said. Murphy has not returned calls for comment.
Greene said 230 highway and at least 200 contract workers helped during the storm over seven straight days. "If you think it's that easy, walk in our shoes and drive a snowplow truck," he challenged Romaine.
"The upsetting part is we're the front line of the storm. We didn't drop the ball. The ball dropped on us in an unprecedented storm. You can't blame anyone; we can't control Mother Nature," Greene said.