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San Franciscans Eating at the Bar
We're two Chowhounds visiting from SF. We'll be in town on a Wednesday and Thursday night, staying at the Soho Grand. In San Francisco we eat a lot of meals at the bar-- we like the sociability of chatting up the bartender and/or engagaging in small talk with other customers, and the option to order a little or a lot of food.
The criteria:
- Some complexity in the food--Closer to foie gras than burgers.
- Bartenders who make their customers feel welcome, and who are likely to pour new things for us to try
- Budget not a serious constraint
The bar at Veritas and WD-50 have been suggested. Other thoughts? (I'm not trying to start another thread about WD-50--but I will say I've read the posts and am intrigued.)
Veritas is a good choice, so is Craft (don't miss Craft). I will suggest my perennial favorite, Savoy, as you will be in the general neighborhood. They are open throughout the afternoon so you can also stop in between meals for a plate or two and a glass of wine if you want to check it out but not commit to a full meal. I am an inveterate bar diner but oddly, I have found far fewer places that fill the bill you have drawn than I found in LA & SF. There is one very Tadich guy who works the oyster bar at Grand Central, but there is only one of him and you may not want to run the risk. If you do, remember to stick to oysters. Then of course there are the places where you have to dine at the bar such as Tia Pol & Bar Carerra. I recommend both. Actually, you can also dine at the bar at Eleven Madison but I wouldn't recommend it except on off hours as I have had one great meal that way with Kerry Heffernan but also a couple of dreadful ones more recently when the entire building decided to have happy hour there for the evening.
Veritas and Craft are excellent recommendations although you may want to focus on the wine selection instead of mixed drinks.
Also, Lupa and Babbo are ideal bar situtations since you don't have to deal with the hassle of reservations. The bartenders at Lupa and Babbo are very friendly and just the type to make things up if you ask them.
I've also had very good drinks at Jane (while waiting for Lupa) and they sent out a couple of complimentary dishes to show off the kitchen. The food was quite good...not too different from something you'd find in SF though.
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Second Babbo! I know my uncle who lives in the W. Village eats at the bar there every couple of weeks and loves it.
Also want to add Otto. We ate there shortly after it first opened and thought it was okay. We went back recently and ate at the bar and had a great experience. The bartenders, Dennis and Sam, were so attentive. We have a full meal and never had to wait for anything or sit there trying to get someone's attention. You could really tell they knew some of their customers eating at the bar as regulars.
It's the only way I'd eat there now.
I would recommend Degustation. Had a wonderful meal there a few weeks ago and the food is a good blend of innovative yet still very tasty. The plus is that you can only eat around the bar behind which is the chef and his two sous-chefs rather than simply the bartender. I think it adds an additional element of fun to see your food being prepared and be able to ask questions about it.
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What you are referring to at Hearth is "the pass." It has a direct view of the chefs as they cook and, as you indicated, only 4 seats. There is also a bar area to the right of the entrance, but I don't know if they serve food there.
The bar at the Gramercy Tavern is excellent! The bartender's are the nicest and the menu is much more reasonable than the main dining room w/o compromising the food. Veritas is also very good but more of a sterile experience, very quiet and not really a full-time bartender (at least when we went on a Thursday night), it's also pretty pricey for eating at a bar. Gramercy has that great lively warm feeling to it, plus the bar's mu9ch bigger than Babbo, Veritas, Lupa & WD-50 so you increase your chances of getting seated. I'll also give a nod to Gotham Bar & Grill.
here's a modest thought. walk to Union Square and scoot over to Casa Mono on Irving Place. try to get there around 4 p.m. or so (not joking here). grab a bar seat in front of the kitchen (it's a tiny place) and have Andy feed you for a few hours. tapas and wine, when well done, work for me. not too pricey. excellent selection of spanish wines.
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the one time my friend and i tried the the "go there at 4pm" strategy, they very rudely tried to kick us out around 5:30, despite the fact that we'd ordered a huge amount of food and were still finishing our bottle of wine...really offensive table-turning behavior that turned me off to the place...i've been there two other times: i like the place in theory and really wanted to love it (thus the three tries), but i found the food very uneven (some delicious dishes, some poor ones, the service snotty, and the noise level unbearable)...that last visit was over a year ago, so i could almost give it another shot during off hours, but the 5:30 ejection pretty much soured me on the place...


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Battle Creek Police responded to an address on Burr Street around 10:15 p.m. Thursday on a report of a shooting. They were told an 18-year-old man was walking with the suspect in the area of Carl Avenue and Spring Street when he got into a physical altercation.
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House of Lords abolishes 400 year old rule of law
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Expert witnesses lose immunity from suit
Supreme Court Law Report 31st March 2011
London, England
Jones V. Kaney
Before Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Hope of Craighead, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton – under – Heywood, Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore and Lord Dyson. Judgement 30th march 2011.
The 400 year old rule that immunity from suit for breach of duty that expert witnesses had enjoyed in relation to their participation in legal proceedings should be abolished.
There was no justification for continuing to hold expert witnesses immune from suit in negligence in relation to the evidence they gave in court or for the views they expressed in anticipation of court proceedings.
The Supreme Court so held by a majority, Lord Hope and Lady Hale dissenting, in allowing an appeal by the claimant, Paul Wynne Jones, from Justice Blake ([ 2010]EWHC 61 (QB) who struck out his claim for negligence against the defendant, Sue Kaney, a clinical psychologist, in respect of her preparation of a joint experts' action brought by Mr Jones following a road traffic action.
Lord Phillips said that in Stanton v Callaghan (The Times 25th July 1998 : [1998] QB 75) the Court of Appeal held that the immunity of an expert witness extended to protect him from liability for negligence in preparing a joint statement for use in legal proceedings.
The claim in the present case related precisely to such negligence and was, for that reason struck out.
The judge, however, granted a leapfrog certificate under Section 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1969.
Surprisingly, the immunity conferred on an expert witness from liability in negligence in relation to performance of his duties in that capacity had never been challenged in the past. It had simply been accepted that an immunity which protected witnesses of fact applied equally to prevent a client from suing in negligence the expert that he had retained.
The immunity of expert witnesses had a long history, dating back over 400 years. Thus the immunity was established long before the development of the modern law of negligence and long before it became common for forensic experts to offer their services under contracts for reward.
However, there was no reported case where immunity was invoked against a claim for breach of a duty of care brought against a professional expert witness by his client before Palmer v Durnford (The Times 11th November, 1991;[1992]QB 483), which applied by analogy the decision in relation to the advocate's immunity from suit in Saif Ali v Sydney Mitchell & Co (The Times 3rd November, 1978;[1980] AC 198).
In Arthur J.S. Hall & Co v Simons (The Times 21st July, 2000;[2002] 1 AC 615) the House of Lords abolished immunity from liability in negligence in the case of barristers, without questioning the immunity of experts.
Was the experts' immunity justified? The general principle was that no wrong should be without a remedy.
Accordingly, the issue was whether the abolition of immunity would probably be attended by such disadvantage to the public interest as to make its retention clearly justifiable.
His Lordship could see no justification for the assumption that, if expert witnesses were liable to be sued for breach of duty, they would be discouraged from providing their services at all. Why should the risk of being sued in relation to forensic services constitute a greater disincentive to the provision of such services than did the risk of being sued in relation to any other form of professional service? The principal justification for immunity that the defendant urged was that it was necessary to ensure that the expert performed his duty to the court.
That duty required him, whether when attempting to reach agreement with the expert on the other side, or when giving evidence to the court, to give his honest opinion, even if that proved adverse to his client's case.
The defendant submitted that the expert would have some apprehension about taking such a course and that immunity from suit was necessary to allay that apprehension.
However, as expert witnesses had, to date, had the benefit of immunity, how they would behave if that immunity was removed had to be a matter of conjecture or, more accurately, reasoned. But if reasoning was applied, it did not support the defendant's thesis.
An expert's initial advice was likely to be for the benefit of his client alone. It was on the basis of that advice that the client was likely to decide whether to proceed with his claim, or the terms on which to settle it.
If the expert subsequently formed the view, or was persuaded, that his initial advice was over optimistic, or that there was some weakness in his client's case which he had not appreciated, his duty to the court was frankly to concede his change of view.
The witness of integrity would do so.
It was possible that some experts might not have that integrity. They might be reluctant to admit to the weakness in their client's case because of loyalty to the client and his team, or because of a disinclination to admit to having erred in the initial opinion.
His Lordship questioned, however, whether their reluctance would be because of a fear of being sued; at least a fear of being sued for the opinion given to the court. An expert would be well aware of his duty to the court and that if he frankly accepted that he had changed his view, it would be apparent that he was performing that duty.
There was a lesson to be learnt from the position of barristers. It was always believed that it was necessary that barristers should be immune from suit in order to ensure that they were not inhibited from performing their duty to the court. Yet removal of their immunity had not resulted in any diminution of the advocate's readiness to perform that duty.
His Lordship also doubted whether the removal of expert witness immunity would lead to a proliferation of vexatious claims or a risk of multiplicity of suits. Accordingly, no justification had been shown to continuing to hold expert witnesses immune from suit in relation to the evidence they gave in court or for the views they expressed in anticipation of court proceedings.
It follows that the immunity from suit for breach of duty that expert witnesses had enjoyed in relation to their participation in legal proceedings should be abolished.
His Lordship emphasised that that conclusion did not extend to the absolute privilege that they enjoyed in respect of claims in defamation.
Lord Brown, Lord Collins, Lord Kerr and Lord Dyson delivered concurring judgments.
Lord Hope, dissenting, said that the lack of a secure principled basis for removing immunity, the lack of a clear dividing line between what was to be affected by the removal and what was not, the uncertainties that would cause and the lack of reliable evidence to indicate what the effects might be suggested that the wiser course would be to leave matters as they stood.
If there was a need to reform the law in this area, it would be better dealt with by Parliament following the report by the Law Commission.
Lady Hale also delivered a dissenting judgment.


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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Phoebe dangles the slumlord from the roof, the TransAmerica Pyramid can be seen behind Phoebe and Cole. A subsequent shot, after Phoebe tosses the slumlord back onto the roof, is take from the opposite side, but the TransAmerica Pyramid is still behind them, and is much closer.
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New this month Other mistake: When the Darklighter shoots Leo in the attic on the Ghost Plane, the arrow goes all the way through him. He wasn't shown to be using anything other than a normal Darklighter Crossbow, and there wasn't any evidence that, since Leo and Piper were still alive, that the physics of the Ghost Plane are any different from the Normal Plane. Yet, in every other instance of someone getting shot with an arrow from a crossbow, it never, ever penetrates the person's body, and always get stuck.
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New this month Plot hole: It's shown with the spell that the Halliwells leave for Chris in the attic that if something happens in the past, the future will immediately reflect that change. Chris had changed so much in the past that there should have been at least one thing different that mildly surprised him, even if he was careful to not give too much information to the sisters about the future.
New this month Continuity mistake: When the main Calloway throws the clear bottle with the green potion at one of the enemies, the shot cuts and it's now become a white bottle.
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Continuity mistake: In Sight Unseen, we can clearly see Cole turn the air conditioning very cold and open all the windows so that the Prue, Piper and Phoebe can see the invisible demon, and in season 2 when Prue is turned into a man Phoebe asks "did you fix the air conditioning?" But in this episode Phoebe asks Piper why they have never invested in air conditioning.
Continuity mistake: When the Charmed Ones' father, Victor, came to San Francisco in episode 1-3: "Thank You For Not Morphing," his last name was Halliwell. But when he came back in the third season and later, his last name was Bennett.
Plot hole: In episode 1-2 ("I've Got You Under My Skin"), Alec buys Phoebe a martini at Quake. but then in episode 5-11 ("The Importance of Being Phoebe"), Cole tells Kaya that Phoebe doesn't drink. Then, in episode 5-17 ("Lucky Charmed"), Jason buys Phoebe a "Martini, Dirty" at the end.
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Character mistake: Katya (as Nina) says that Pandora's Box is "a gift the gods gave to Prometheus." But the Box was given to Epimetheus, not Prometheus. Epimetheus ignored the warnings of Prometheus, his brother, and accepted Pandora herself, who bore a box, as a gift from the gods.
Revealing mistake: Before Jason Dean is shot outside the penthouse, Phoebe is waving her hands trying to convince him that the world is not real and you can already see blood on her fingers.
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Continuity mistake: In the previous episode, Piper tried out for a job as a chef at a restaurant called "L'Opera Ristorante" and was hired by Chef Moore. Then in this episode, she works at a bar and restaurant called "Quake," but she talks about Chef Moore quitting and leaving her in charge of the establishment, so it's not meant to be a different place.
Plot hole: The innocent who gets Piper's powers uses them to freeze Piper and Phoebe. But even though Piper and Phoebe no longer have their unique powers, they are still good witches; they were still able to scry, and we have encountered good witches on the show in the past who had no powers at all. And by the rules of magic within the show, good witches do not freeze.
Plot hole: According to the family tree viewed in this episode, Penny "Grams" Halliwell was born on 6/23/1937, and her daughter Patty, the Charmed Ones' mother, was born on 4/5/1950. In addition, Patty's father Jack was born in 1930. So, according to this, Penny gave birth to her daughter at age 12, while married to a 20 year old man. That's quite outlandish, to say the least.
Continuity mistake: When Paige follows Phoebe into the kitchen and is trying to convince her that she is telling the truth, Phoebe's right earring is missing in the shots showing both women, but it is there when the shot changes to close ups of Phoebe. It is an awfully large earring to be hidden by her hair in the two-shot.
Continuity mistake: When Prue was talking with the shut-in and the security guard comes up and knocks on the door you can see the the chain is on the door. When he knocks again and says he is coming in and tries to open the door the chain is off.
Love Hurts - S1-E21
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By Howard Pousner
Hale Woodruff's impact on Atlanta's visual arts scene endures, and the High Museum of Art plans to salute the late artist and educator by restoring and exhibiting a series of six monumental murals that are considered among most his most significant works.
The High announced on Wednesday that it is launching a two-year project to restore, research and exhibit Woodruff's murals commissioned in 1938 to commemorate the 1867 founding and continued success of Alabama's Talladega College.
Ranging in size from 6-by-10-feet to 6-by-20-feet, the Talladega murals will be exhibited at the High starting in June 2012. Three of the murals depict the story of the slave ship La Amistad, with the companion murals showing themes of the Underground Railroad, Talladega's founding and the construction of its Savery Library.
The murals have been on view in the library's lobby since their installation, and will be leaving the school for the first time. Their restoration will address the effects of time.
"Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College" will include other examples of Woodruff's mural commissions as well as paintings he made in Mexico, where he traveled in 1936 to study mural painting with Diego Rivera.
The exhibit, which will travel to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and other museums to be announced, will also explore Woodruff's impact on the arts and the opportunities he created for black artists while serving as chairman of the new Atlanta University art department from 1931 to 1946.
In 1942, Woodruff launched AU's annual national competition for African-American artists who had no opportunity to show at white-only museums. The competitions were held until 1970, providing an important showcase for artists including Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, John Biggers and Lois Mailou Jones.
The 291 pieces by 155 artists that the school collected through purchase prizes are today at the center of Clark Atlanta University's permanent collection, considered among the finest holdings of African-American art.
February 24th, 2011
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Will this exhibit (or the High) also point to and celebrate Hale Woodruff's six magnificent "The Art of the Negro" murals housed in the atrium of CAU's Trevor Arnett Hall? They are treasures right here in our own backyard.
For an introduction see http://www.cau.edu/art_gallery/art_gal_mur_right.html
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Fearless Brands: Patagonia
Fearless Brands is a new column dedicated to identifying and celebrating brands that are taking a stand, challenging the status quo, and working to build a better future. In other words, brands acting fearlessly. This is not a sponsored column, and brands do not pay to appear here. Do you know a fearless brand? Send submissions to email@example.com.
Last holiday season, Patagonia made waves with a campaign that encouraged consumers to buy less. That's right, a company actually spent precious marketing dollars to convince you not to buy its products, including an ad in the New York Times on Black Friday 2011 instructing consumers, "Don't buy this jacket."
This year, they're following it up with the Common Threads Initiative, described by Patagonia as "a partnership between Patagonia and our customers to reduce consumption and give our planet's vital resources a rest." Reverse psychology? Perhaps. Patagonia's financials are looking pretty good these days, but maybe it just goes to show that you can build a strong brand and a healthy company around something bigger than a profit motive.
That's why Patagonia is this week's Fearless Brand.
Who They Are
Patagonia is one of the world's best-known manufacturers of high-end outdoor gear. They've built a devoted following around the globe through their commitment to quality, durability, and environmental sustainability. We hear they're a pretty great place to work, too.
Why They're Fearless
Patagonia has long fit the mold of a fearless brand committed to environmental activism and fair labor practices, but Common Threads stands out. Consider the initiative's five pillars:
- Reduce what you buy.
- Repair what you can.
- Reuse what you have.
- Recycle everything else.
- Reimagine a sustainable world.
Note the emphasis on reducing, repairing, and reusing what you have, with recycling as the final option. Common Threads is unique because it asks us - not to buy organic, sustainable, fair trade, insert environmentalist buzzword here - no, Common Threads asks us to buy less.
The Lesson for Brands
Building a brand around buying less is revolutionary, not to mention controversial. The notion that we can buy our way to a sustainable future is a fantasy, yet even the most progressive brands are often reluctant to acknowledge that to truly live within our planet's means, we must not merely consume better, but also consume far less.
The fact that Patagonia can ask us to buy less and still turn a healthy profit offers us a glimpse into the future, not only of our relationship with brands, but of our relationship with stuff.
At present, most of our stuff in the first world is cheap, mass-produced, and disposable. Because our stuff is not made with care, we treat it carelessly, throwing away what we could reuse and buying things we do not truly need. Our stuff is made for the wants of today and does not consider the costs of tomorrow.
On the contrary, Patagonia's vision for the future of stuff is filled with care - care for the employees who manufacture it, care for its impact on the environment, care for the customers who will use it for years to come.
Patagonia also asks that we, as consumers, reciprocate that care. It's a role to which we're unaccustomed, which is why the Common Threads Initiative is so remarkable. Through it, Patagonia is laying the groundwork for a new relationship between brands and consumers - one that is rooted in care, care not only for the things we buy now, but just as importantly, care for the sake of our common future.
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• What: "Wilson Pickett: 25 at the Top" exhibit opening
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NORCROSS -- Soul music lovers, there's a new exhibit for you.
Today, an exhibit titled "Wilson Pickett: 25 at the Top" opens in The Norcross Arts Center celebrating the life of an R&B legend.
In a span of approximately 40 years, "The Wicked" Pickett recorded more than 50 songs that made the U.S. R&B charts -- some of which crossed over to the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
He's known for his hits "Land of 1,000 Dances," "Mustang Sally," "In the Midnight Hour," "Don't Knock My Love," "634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)" and "Funky Broadway."
In 1991, the singer-songwriter was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The exhibit "25 At the Top" is a pictorial overview of Pickett's career, which includes original programs, clothing, posters, scores, photos, recordings, awards, video footage and gold records.
For the opening, Pickett's brother Maxwell and widow Brenda will be in attendance, telling stories about the late performer. Pickett passed away Jan. 19, 2006, of a heart attack.
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Join us for lunch on September 23rd in Bloomington, MN where we will take a closer look at the R&D Tax Credit and how many more companies are eligible to take advantage of it.
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Because of its very specialized nature, large numbers of small and mid-size manufacturers are not taking advantage of the R&D Tax Credit. Companies of all kinds, including those that make their own products and those that make parts for their customers often mistakenly believe that they DON'T have R&D taking place. You could potentially be missing out on immediate and substantial amounts of cash, as well as reducing future tax liabilities and improve cash flow.
Since Congress enacted the R&D Tax Credit in 1981, the majority of users have been big businesses even though it was fully intended to be used by companies of all sizes. The R&D Tax Credit can apply to a variety of areas including manufacturing, engineering, software development, quality assurance, and information technology. Any companies who manufacture products, improve products, develop prototypes, design specialized tools, apply for patents, perform specialized testing, develop new technologies, build facilities, improve processes, and more should explore the R&D Tax Credit opportunity.
Costs that qualify for the tax credit include; wages, supplies, contractor research and more. When you join us on September 23rd we'll cover more details on the R&D Tax Credit while you have lunch on us.
We are excited to announce our Software Showcase event to be held September 23, 2014 in Bloomington, MN! The fall event is a great opportunity to get up close and personal with everything Microsoft Dynamics NAV can do for your company. If you've been thinking at all about ERP, MRP, CRM, E-Commerce, Sales Tax, Reporting or Dashboards you will not want to miss this information packed 2½ hour free event. Stick around after the information session for lunch on us!
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Last week I talked about how selecting an ERP, MRP, or CRM software solution is not a one person job. Which got me to thinking more about the time that gets put into that decision and the team buy-in process. Fact is that planning well in advance of your desired implementation date makes the whole process much more efficient, effective, productive and fruitful.
While 2015 seems a long way off, if you are considering integrating ERP, MRP, CRM, E-Commerce, Sales Tax and easy to use Dashboards at the beginning of the year, or in time for the start of the year, now is the best time to get the evaluation, selection and buy-in process started. Keeping well ahead of the software implementation date gives you time to have substantive discussions and allows team members to really digest the information and think through how it will work in their respective areas of the company.
Compressed timelines lead to stress and apprehension. If you are not allowing enough time to fully understand what your ERP, MRP, CRM, E-Commerce, Sales Tax and Dashboard software can provide and what needs to happen for successful implementation it is a recipe for disaster. Compressed time lines mean you may risk making sub-optimal decisions, which may lead to bumpy or botched implementation, lower user acceptance, and longer more costly implementations with lower than expected results and value.
Taking a long-view to integrating ERP, MRP, CRM, E-Commerce, Sales Tax and Dashboards in 2015 does not mean a languid approach. Working backwards from your ideal go live date, set a timeline with clear definition of steps that need to be completed before that date. Here are some to consider:
Identify a small core team to lead the selection and schedule time together to discuss requirements of the software and what needs to happen internally for success.
Explore a broad base of options with your core selection team.
Define a few key requirements with the selection team.
Allow time for everyone to reflect on what they have seen and think through how the options will fit in their areas.
Meet to discuss opportunities, challenges and other thoughts from the group that will help ensure the software selection you make is a good one.
Schedule time for vetting potential implementation partners, and for the selection and contracting processes.
Make time for development, transition and implementation – keeping in mind your schedule constraints and those of your implementation partner.
Advanced planning and scheduling makes sure everyone has time to feel comfortable with the process, and will payoff in the end with a more positive implementation and transition process as well as higher/faster user acceptance.
Solution Dynamics has the people with the experience and expertise to help you manage every step of the process. We can help you analyze and document your current situation and desired outcomes – we can create a report that will be meaningful and valuable to your organization that can be used by any software implementation company you select. Less stress is better for everyone, so don't delay – call Solution Dynamics today and start the process now.
Selecting an ERP, MRP, or CRM software solution is not a one person job. Because this is a decision that touches every part of your company, most companies try to collaborate and get buy-in from all the end-users. But interestingly enough, studies show that the key to successful implementations and higher ROIs is the participation of senior management in the selection and implementation processes.
Simply put – senior management leadership is essential to ensure proper adoption and long term use, and results in faster, better and more valuable outcomes.
Select a small core group of executives and key users to collaborate on the initial scope and final decisions and broaden participation to include that core group and more end-users in the demonstration phase. This will ensure that you gain input from the appropriate areas and understand what is important to all of them while keeping the final decision process efficient.
Here are the operational areas that should be included along the way:
Your business may have some or all of these departments and maybe more. The key is to make sure that somewhere along the line, when you are choosing ERP, MRP, CRM software, getting what management and the business needs won't take a back seat to end-user buy-in.
Software should help you run your business more effectively, more efficiently, and increase revenue/profits while lowering costs. Management understands these issues better than anyone else in the organization – it is how they are measured.
Executive involvement in software selection and implementation will ensure that the new system is aligned with your organization's short and long term goals and initiatives as well as daily processes and activities. When your executives participate in software selection and implementation, the software delivers what the end-users need and what the management team needs. Management participation and oversight sets your organization up for implementation success, broader adoption, and greater value realization.
Bringing in an outside implementation partner early in the process can help objectively bring end-user and management priorities together for faster agreement and smoother transition to your selected solution.
Microsoft NAV is a fully-integrated, enterprise-wide software solution that can be used in every department of your company. Deciding if it is the right solution for your company is an important decision, here are some of the factors to consider.
Distribution & Supply Chain Management
If distribution and supply chain management are important to your business, Microsoft NAV can help you save money and improve efficiency. With an easy to use interface, Microsoft NAV can be used by all of your employees who can interact with the system through personalized web portals. Click for a complete list of distribution & supply chain management functionality.
If you are a manufacturer, you need software that has broad feature functionality and is flexible and able to adapt to change quickly. Microsoft NAV is a great fit for manufacturers because it covers their production management requirements and much more with a quick return on investment. Click for a complete list of manufacturing functionality.
Microsoft NAV includes fully integrated CRM. This is important because it means that your entire team has access to real-time customer information. From basic contact management, to scheduling and tracking activity and service, NAV CRM can be tailored to your unique needs. Click to learn more about Microsoft NAV CRM functionality.
Service Management
With service management functionality built into Microsoft NAV, you bring the full-circle customer experience under a single solution. This means that your team is able to provide faster, better service because they aren't wasting time jumping between systems and using out of date information. Click here for more information on NAV service management functionality.
Solid financial management is critical to the success of your business. Microsoft NAV streamlines all of your financial processes and improves your ability to see what is happening with your business. Linking all of the previously discussed functions along with the financials means no re-keying of data and eliminates re-entry errors. Click for additional detail on Microsoft NAV financial functionality.
Microsoft NAV's e-Commerce solutions is robust and ties in with all of the above elements of the NAV system. So, if eCommerce is important to you – now or in the future – NAV is your best choice. Click here to learn more about NAV E-commerce.
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SFO quits Yarrows investigation
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) says it won't pursue complaints about the receivership of transtasman baker Yarrows.
SFO boss Adam Feeley says teh decision was made after a thorough assessment of the allegations and advice from Crown lawers.
"We are satisfied that the information provided does not disclose evidence of serious or complex fraud, and that there are civil remedies for the complainant to pursue if appropriate," Mr Feeley says.
However, as with any complaint, the SFO won't rule out reconsidering the investigation if new and relevant information comes to light.
Last week Mr Feeley told the NBR the agency was assessing the complaint amid fresh claims about a "conspiracy" that forced the founding new Zealand arm of Yarrows into receivership.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, speaking under parliamentary privilege, last week claimed Westpac Bank conspired with Yarrows directors and insolvency firm BDO to wrest control from owner Paul Yarrow, leading to the receivership.
Meanwhile, across the Tasman, Yarrows is fighting to keep five directors founder Paul Yarrow sacked from three Australian-based Yarrow companies, which escaped receivership, off the boards.
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Yarrows' New Zealand operations were placed into receivership last May, owing Westpac $55 million and a charitable trust nearly $20 million.
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Cognitive electrophysiology concerns the study of the brain's electrical and magnetic responses to both external and internal events. These can be measured using electroencephalograms (EEGs) or magnetoencephalograms (MEGs). With the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), another method of tracking brain signals, the tools and techniques of ERP, EEG and MEG data acquisition and analysis have been developing at a similarly rapid pace, and this book offers an overview of key recent advances in cognitive electrophysiology.
Interest in developing an effective communication interface connecting the human brain and a computer has grown rapidly over the past decade. The brain-computer interface (BCI) would allow humans to operate computers, wheelchairs, prostheses, and other devices, using brain signals only.
A Bayesian approach can contribute to an understanding of the brain on multiple levels, by giving normative predictions about how an ideal sensory system should combine prior knowledge and observation, by providing mechanistic interpretation of the dynamic functioning of the brain circuit, and by suggesting optimal ways of deciphering experimental data.
Signal processing and neural computation have separately and significantly influenced many disciplines, but the cross-fertilization of the two fields has begun only recently. Research now shows that each has much to teach the other, as we see highly sophisticated kinds of signal processing and elaborate hierachical levels of neural computation performed side by side in the brain. In New Directions in Statistical Signal Processing, leading researchers from both signal processing and neural computation present new work that aims to promote interaction between the two disciplines.
In order to model neuronal behavior or to interpret the results of modeling studies, neuroscientists must call upon methods of nonlinear dynamics. This book offers an introduction to nonlinear dynamical systems theory for researchers and graduate students in neuroscience. It also provides an overview of neuroscience for mathematicians who want to learn the basic facts of electrophysiology.
The annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation. It draws a diverse group of attendees—physicists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists. The presentations are interdisciplinary, with contributions in algorithms, learning theory, cognitive science, neuroscience, brain imaging, vision, speech and signal processing, reinforcement learning and control, emerging technologies, and applications.
Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what nervous systems do, determining how they function, and uncovering the general principles by which they operate. This text introduces the basic mathematical and computational methods of theoretical neuroscience and presents applications in a variety of areas including vision, sensory-motor integration, development, learning, and memory.
Head direction cells—neurons that fire only when an animal orients its head in a certain direction—are found in several different brain areas, with different neurons selective for different head orientations; they are influenced by landmarks as well as motor and vestibular information concerning how the head moves through space. These properties suggest that head direction cells play an important role in determining orientation in space and in navigation.
Neuroscience involves the study of the nervous system, and its topics range from genetics to inferential reasoning. At its heart, however, lies a search for understanding how the environment affects the nervous system and how the nervous system, in turn, empowers us to interact with and alter our environment. This empowerment requires motor learning. The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing addresses the neural mechanisms of one important form of motor learning.
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