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If you're like most of the readers who responded to the 1996 Insurance Conference Planner Salary and Practices Survey, you received a raise last year, your department has not been downsized in the past 24 months, and you have a solid ten years of meeting planning experience.
You believe that the number of incentive and national sales meetings your company holds this year will match the number it held last year; and you predict that the number of training meetings will remain steady next year as well, if it doesn't increase.
In addition to that healthy forecast, your survey responses revealed a median 1996 incentive budget ($554,500) that is more than double 1994's median ($247,000). Budgets for sales and training meetings also are up dramatically.
Still, you're making those extra incentive dollars work their magic for even more qualifiers-median incentive trip attendance jumped to 381 persons in 1996 from 200 in 1994, resulting in a per-person median expenditure that was up 17 percent-to $1,455 per person from $1,235 per person in 1994.
Where things are really looking up is in the executive suite: In 1994, 37 percent of marketing executives/vice presidents responding to our survey reported annual salaries of more than $79,999; in 1996, that number leapt to 65 percent, with more than half of those reporting salaries of more than $100,000.
Salaries for directors of meetings and for meeting planners also saw encouraging gains. (See charts.)
As for the movement of women up the ranks, the news is mixed. In our 1994 survey, one third of the respondents in the "executive" category were women; this year that figure is down to about 25 percent. However, women now outnumber men (58 percent to 42 percent) as directors of meeting departments; in 1994, it was an even split. In the meeting planner category, almost nine out of ten respondents are women, a slightly higher percentage than in the 1994 survey.
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About You As noted in the introduction, marketing executives reported much higher salaries than in our 1994 survey. Salaries for directors of meetings jumped significantly as well. In 1994, one quarter of directors reported a salary between $40,000 and $49,000; in 1996, almost that many reported a salary between $60,000 and $69,000. Meeting planners made gains: In 1994, more than half the meeting planners reported an annual salary of between $30,000 and $39,999; in 1996, some 27 percent earned $40,000 to $49,999 while about one third of meeting planner respondents earned $30,000 to $39,999. It should be noted as well that the portion of meeting planners earning less than $30,000 shrunk from more than one quarter in 1994 to 17 percent in 1996.
Increased salaries across the board may reflect growing levels of experience among meeting executives. The 1996 median number of years in meeting planning is ten overall (8.25 for meeting planners, 12 for directors of meetings, and ten for marketing executives).
Women dominate meeting planning. However, they remain under-represented at the marketing executive level: Even though 60 percent of our respondents overall are women, almost three out of four of the marketing executives who responded to this year's survey are men.
Marketing executives are getting younger: In the 1994 survey, more than half were over 50; in 1996, 43 percent had passed the half-century mark. The number of marketing executives between the ages of 36 and 40 increased from 14 percent to 18 percent, while those between the ages of 46 and 50 showed an even bigger jump, from ten percent to 19 percent. A similar shift is happening among the ranks of directors: Some 40 percent of our 1994 respondents were over 50 years of age, down to 30 percent in 1996. Meeting planners, meanwhile, are all over the map, a change from 1994, when more than half were thirty-something.
Our survey listed nine areas of meeting responsibility and asked respondents about their authority to make final decisions in each of those areas. Marketing executives are far more likely to have final approval for big picture items like destinations, meeting properties, and speakers than are directors of meetings or meeting planners. However, equal numbers of directors and marketing executives (about half of each group) reported that they have final approval on budgets.
Meeting planners and directors of meetings are more likely to have final approval authority for operational details (room rate negotiation, entertainment, ground operators, and menus) than are marketing executives.
About Your Meetings The vast majority of companies run incentive programs on a yearly cycle. (Among those who answered this question with "other," the time frame ranged from every three months to every five years.)
After a big dip in 1994, the median incentive travel budget cruised up to $554,500 in 1996, also surpassing 1993's median of $500,000. But attendance took a corresponding leap, with median total attendance at incentive programs up to 381 from 200. That means the per-person expenditures did not increase in direct proportion with the budget increase. Rather, median per-person spending was up about 17 percent to $1,455 in 1996 from $1,235 in 1994, its all-time low. With the seller's market now firmly upon us, those per-person expenditures may have to keep moving upward by the time our next survey comes around.
Calculating averages instead of medians (mid-points) boosts the incentive budget figure: The average incentive travel budget for 1996 is about $1.43 million (up from $1 million in 1994). Average attendance also is up to 765 in 1996 (from 457 in 1994), resulting in a per-person average of $1,874-a slight drop from the 1994 average of $2,161.
Let's consider the per-person figures of some individual respondents: One company held three incentive travel programs in 1996 in Australia and California, with a total budget of $2.5 million and a total attendance of 530. That's $4,717 per person. Another of our respondents reported holding three programs in Asia and South America, with a total budget of $1.6 million and total attendance of 570. That works out to $2,807 per person.
A third respondent reported spending $300,000 on three programs-Europe, South America, and a cruise-with a total of 200 attendees, for a per-person expenditure of $1,500. And a fourth held two domestic incentive programs with a total budget of $300,000 and total attendance of 480, spending $625 per person.
Budgets for national sales and training meetings also recovered from their just-getting-by lows of 1994. Both medians more than tripled in 1996 compared with 1994, with the national sales budget median way up to $188,000 from $50,000, and the training budget median jumping to $100,000 from $30,000. Attendance increased at both types of meetings, too. The median attendance at national sales meetings was 250, up from 105 in 1994 (with per-person expenditures nevertheless moving up to $750 from $476); the median total attendance at training meetings moved up to 300 from 200 in 1996 (and per-person expenditures moved up to $333 from $150).
About Your Departments Another interesting survey finding: Almost three quarters of respondents never work with incentive houses. In fact, only eight percent of the total number of respondents hand off all meeting planning tasks to a third party.
So what are the rest of those who use incentive firms getting from them? According to our survey, most use them to book air travel (75 percent) and provide on-site coordination (61 percent). Just over half use them for theme-party ideas; almost 25 percent use them for site selection.
The well-established meeting departments of insurance companies, it would seem, focus their full attention on meetings: Most respondents (59 percent) said they do not coordinate business travel as well.
Just over half of our survey respondents work within centralized meeting departments. And almost half are shouldering most of the workload themselves: A full 47 percent report meeting departments consisting of only one or two staffers; 30 percent have meeting departments of three to four staffers; 17 percent have five- to eight-member departments, while only six percent report more than eight members in their departments.
n Are we finally done with downsizing? Maybe, if our survey is any indicator. We asked if respondents' departments had been downsized in the past 24 months. More than four out of five respondents said no.
Of those whose departments were downsized, the vast majority said the workloads of the fired employees were simply absorbed by remaining staff. About one fifth said meeting planning was decentralized after the department was downsized. Fewer than one in five said that meeting planning functions were outsourced as a result of downsizing, and fewer than one in ten said meetings were canceled.
How This Survey Was Conducted We mailed 1,000 surveys to a random sampling of our readers-insurance meeting planners and executives-asking them about their salaries and responsibilities, their departments and companies, as well as their meetings.
We received 259 usable responses, a response rate of about 26 percent. The database of responses was analyzed as a whole and by job description (meeting planner, director of meetings, marketing executive).
Readers should note that our Agent Preferences Survey, which was analyzed in the January/February 1996 issue, will return next year. Look for the results in the January/February 1998 issue of Insurance Conference Planner.


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• Amir Johnson has very subtly (and quite unexpectedly) become the Raptors' best two-way player this season, and the only high-functioning piece that consistently makes sense amid Toronto's disarray. That's an incredible accomplishment for a player thought to be overpaid at the time of his now-reasonable contract's signing, and a boon for a franchise otherwise loaded with redundant players on lucrative deals. Eric Koreen of the National Post shines some light on Johnson's development:
[Johnson] has slowly taken a bigger part of the offence, developing a dependable right-handed hook, while improving his turnover percentage this season compared to last. His jumper has become a reasonable threat. Over the past three years, he ranks 13th in the league, averaging 3.6 offensive rebounds per 36 minutes. He has shaved his foul rate down to 4.8 per 36 minutes.
But his biggest value is perpetually difficult to measure.
"You have to be willing to leave your guy knowing that sometimes another guy might forget his assignment and your guy might end up scoring," Raptors centre Aaron Gray said of team defence. "That happens a lot, and you go, 'OK, I'm going to stop helping other guys because they're not helping me and it makes me look bad.' With Amir, he knows how to play the game the right way. He doesn't care who gets the credit. He's going to make the right play every time. He's going to try to do the right thing and continue to hope people have his back like he has ours."
Be sure to head over to read Koreen's piece in full for lots of great perspective on Johnson's growth, along with some additional overflow quotes from all the principles involved that are well worth your time.
• An awesome look at the friendship of Stephen Jackson and Matt Bonner, which is as improbable as it is delightful.
• Also: Bonner may be on to something with his jokey block catchphrase.
• This has been a weird season for the Sixers, made weirder by some of Doug Collins' rotations and tactical decisions. Among those odd calls: a general disregard of sharpshooter Dorell Wright, who seemingly could be of some help on a team with such a cramped offense.
• I very much enjoyed Michael Pina's meditation on the aging — and dwindling — Gerald Wallace for The Classical. An excerpt:
Knowing that Wallace was due for a decline and understanding how that decline might look — and how suddenly it could happen — is not at all the same thing. In an era in which players all across the league have been able to sharpen different tools to account for a natural decline in physical ability, nearly all of Wallace's abilities seem to have deserted him at once. It's a collapse so complete that it defies analysis; even Wallace himself seems baffled by it.
After a career that began with three mostly lost years in Sacramento, pile-driving garbage-time dunks and generally learning on the job after just one year at Alabama, Wallace made a quick ascent — he became a fantasy basketball beast, and a vital player on playoff teams in Charlotte and Portland. He was, during the Nets' miserable last year in Jersey, the team's best and most admirably engaged player. It's not that Wallace isn't getting the third act he deserves, although he isn't. It's that the third act seems barely to be happening at all.
• The Spurs are in need of a little something extra with Tony Parker limited and Manu Ginobili out of the lineup, but as J. Gomez explains for Pounding the Rock, Danny Green may have too specialized a skill set on both ends of the court to help in the broad strokes that San Antonio requires.
• A look at the statistical production of Kobe Bryant through a few age-related filters.
• Fantastic stuff here from Zach Lowe on the chess match between the league's most innovative defenses — geared to wall off the paint and crowd the strong side of the floor — and adaptable offenses.
• Howard Beck of The New York Times breaks down the Knicks' current hot streak to its core elements — namely, the rampant offense of Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith:
The Knicks' defensive rating over the last 12 games is 103.7, which would rank 17th for the season. That mark is virtually identical to their rating during the 20-21 stretch and just slightly worse than their rating during the 18-5 start.
So this is about scoring, and specifically Smith and Anthony, who have fueled the run with career-best streaks of their own.
Smith has averaged 23.8 points — 10 above his career average — while shooting .492 from the field. For the first time in a maddening nine-year career, Smith is showing some discipline in his game, driving to the basket more often and taking fewer 30-foot jumpers and crazy fadeaways (but also, hitting the ones he is taking). His true shooting percentage (which accounts for 2-pointers, 3-pointers and free throws) is 60.2 during the streak, which would rank him in the league's top 25.
Smith's hot hand carried the Knicks in the early part of the streak, and saved them on Anthony's bad nights. While still recovering from his knee troubles, Anthony shot 61 for 147 (.415) over a six-game stretch. But the struggles were glossed over by the wins and forgotten after Anthony rattled off three straight games of 40-plus points (while shooting .642).
• Over at Magic Basketball, Jacob Frankel dug up and dug into a set that Jacque Vaughn had been running for Arron Afflalo — a play filled with movement and diversions that afforded Afflalo plenty of space to curl into an open jumper.
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A live bronze sculpture pour is the star of the show at Crealde School of Art's Winter Open House on Saturday. The event, 5-8 p.m., includes live music, demos, kiln firings, hands-on art projects and storytelling for the kids, and lots to see and do for adults. Step inside Crealde's professional gallery at 6 p.m. for the opening reception of "Director's Choice III," a juried exhibition highlighting the work of eight of the school's faculty members. Crealde is at 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park; call 407-671-1886 for details.
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The area around Highland Avenue and Eau Gallie Boulevard in Melbourne buzzes with art, artists, and live music when the Eau Gallie Arts District stages its monthly First Friday art walk. Participating tonight are several galleries, shops, restaurants and the Foosaner Art Museum. Fifth Avenue Art Gallery is hosting a members' art show along with its annual "clean out the studios" sale with deep discounts. Just a block south on Highland Avenue, the EGAD Art Lab features the more contemporary work of its studio artists. Call 321-259-8261 for art-walk details.
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When the Edward H. Ackerman American Legion Post 397 in Hellertown closed in 2008, the public story was that the aging building had become too expensive to maintain.
In a sense, that was true, but one of the reasons it had become too expensive was that the post treasurer had embezzled tens of thousands of dollars from the place, diverting membership dues into his own pocket and forging signatures to cash checks. The post also owed back federal payroll taxes.
The sad details of that episode don't need to be recounted here. Suffice it to say the Legionnaires were forced to auction off every blessed thing in the building, from furniture to floor tiles. And while they retained ownership of the place, they had to relocate their meetings to the borough community center.
The treasurer went to jail, but the damage done was far more than financial. It cut deeply into the esprit de corps of men who had served their country and found happy comradeship with fellow veterans in the handsome brick sanctuary at 935 Main St.
But it turned out the esprit de corps of the Hellertown Legionnaires was an irrepressible thing. Thanks to four years of heavy-duty fundraising and renovating, American Legion Post 397 is home again.
Members raised the flag there on Feb. 2 and gathered for the monthly meeting on Monday. It's been an emotional return to a landmark building that, through years of vacancy, had threatened to fall into irreversible decline.
"It was empty," said John Higginbotham, 63, an Army veteran of the Vietnam War in his fourth year as post commander. "There was mold all over the floors."
Losing the building to a wrecking ball would have been a communal tragedy. Built in 1926 and named for Hellertown's first casualty of World War I, the three-story post has hosted weddings, fundraisers and movie showings.
It's been a disaster shelter and a temporary high school, too.
"You'd hate to see a building like this go to waste," said Navy veteran Jack Davco, a retired electrician who volunteered his expertise to rewire the place and renewed his admiration for its solid, enduring construction. "You can't build a building like this anymore."
The mold is gone and the building is returning to the comfortable look of old. There's plenty of work to do yet, but the barroom — the social centerpiece of any Legion post — is back in business. Coopersburg artist Edmund Moyer's wall-sized painting of the Iwo Jima invasion is out of storage and hanging again, and the new U-shaped bar has been polished to a warm gleam.
This was all accomplished by post volunteers, who begged and borrowed as much as they could to restock the building with furniture and décor. A lot of borough businesses made donations or gave steep discounts on materials.
"Everybody was wicked cooperative and helpful," said Higginbotham, employing a phrase that betrayed his Massachusetts roots but seemed just right to describe the members' keen desire to come home.
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"People used to say it's just a bunch of old men sitting around at the bar telling war stories, but it's more than that," insisted John Mulholland, the post's adjutant, eager as his fellows to spread the gospel of the American Legion to young veterans who might find the treasure of friendship through it.
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My research focuses on microbial ecology of aquatic ecosystems with emphasis on bacterial ecology of streams. Present projects in my laboratory include: Our lab focuses on examining responses of microorganisms to their environment. Examples of recent projects in the lab include:
Connecting microbial community structure and function
Microbial communities of acid mine impacted streams and changes in the community associated with remediation
Effects of dissolved organic matter on denitrification in agricultural streams
Leaf decomposition in wetlands, streams and terrestrial systems
Response of bacteria to nutrients and carbon
In each project, we use a variety of molecular biology techniques and microscopy to examine properties such as bacterial and fungal community structure, gene expression, diversity of denitrification genes, etc. We seek to integrate the fields of microbiology and ecology.
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Current and past funding from NSF, NASA, EPA, and other agencies/foundations
Editor, Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2001-2011)
Editorial Boards, Applied and Environmental Microbiology (1997-1999, 1999-2001), Microbial Ecology (2001-present), The International Society of Microbial Ecology Journal (2006-present)
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- Ghosh, S. and L. G. Leff. Impacts of labile organic carbon concentration on organic and inorganic nitrogen utilization by a stream biofilm bacterial community, Accepted, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Leff, L.G., D, L. Bade, J. Scaffidi, C. E. Williamson, and C. Woolverton. 2013. Environmental Aquatic Resource Sensing: Basic Sciences, Business Education, and Outreach Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 150: 63-69.
- Baxter, A., Johnston L, Royer, TV, and L. G. Leff. 2013. Spatial differences in denitrification and bacterial community structure of streams: relationships with environmental conditions. Aquatic Sciences. 75:275-284.
- Ghosh, S. M. Moitra, C. Woolverton and L. G. Leff. 2012. Effects of remediation on the bacterial community of an acid mine drainage impacted stream. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 58: 1316–1326
- Johnson, L. T. Royer, J. Edgerton and L. G. Leff. 2012. Manipulation of the dissolved organic carbon pool in an agricultural stream: responses in microbial community structure, denitrification, and assimilatory nitrogen uptake. Ecosystems, 15: 1027-1038.
- Kennedy, E., L. G. Leff and F. deSzalay. 2012 Effects of herbiciding on Phragmites australis decomposition. Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 180:309-319.
- Vukanti, R. and L. G. Leff. 2012. Expression of multiple stress response genes by Escherichia coli under modeled reduced gravity. Microgravity Science and Technology, 24: 267-279, DOI: 10.1007/s12217-012-9310-0
- Baxter, A, Johnston L, Edgerton J, Royer TV, and L. G. Leff. 2012. Structure and function of denitrifying bacterial assemblages in low order Indiana streams. Freshwater Science, 31:304-317.
- Vukanti, R, M. Model, and L. G. Leff. 2012. Effect of modeled reduced gravity conditions on bacterial morphology and physiology. BMC Microbiology 12:4 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-12-4
- Antibus, D., L. G. Leff, B. L. Hall, J. Baseman, and C. Blackwood. 2012. Cultivable Bacteria from Ancient Algal Mats from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Extremophiles, 16:105-114.
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- microbial ecology
- American Society for Microbiology
- International Society for Microbial Ecology
- Ecological Society of America
- Society for Freshwater Science
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Celina native Janice E. Dolfi, 74, of Naples, Fla., and formerly of Farmington, Avon and Easton, Conn., died Aug. 11, 2010, due to cancer.
She was born Dec. 31, 1935, in Celina to Reuben and Roseann Amstutz. She married Sam Dolfi, who survives.
Other survivors are three children, Lisa Dolfi Bell, Simsbury, Conn., Jeffrey Dolfi, Fishkill, N.Y., and Scott (Betsey) Dolfi, Fairfield, Conn.; a sister-in-law, Rose Kasal, Dillonvale; a brother-in-law, Nello (Wanda) Dolfi, Bloomingdale; and seven grandchildren.
She taught hearing deficient students in the Cincinnati public school system. She graduated from Celina High School, attended Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and graduated from The Ohio State University in 1957 with a bachelor's degree in education, specializing in speech and hearing therapy. She was a member of Phi Mu Sorority, Sigma Alpha Eta, the women's auxiliary committee of the St. Vincent's Hospital, Bridgeport, Conn., the women's committee of Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., and the garden clubs of Farmington and Glendale.
Private graveside services will be held in Riverside Cemetery, Farmington.
Memorials can be made to The American Cancer Society, Naples, Fla., or The Helen and Harry Gray Cancer Center Fund at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn.
Arrangements are being handled by The Ahern Funeral Homes.
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Nathan's Famous, Inc. Reports Year-End and Fourth Quarter Results
JERICHO, N.Y., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nathan's Famous, Inc. (NASDAQ: NATH) today reported results for its fiscal year ended March 25, 2012.
For the fiscal year ended March 25, 2012:
For the fiscal quarter ended March 25, 2012:
The Company also reported the following:
As previously described with respect to our litigation with SMG, on April 7, 2011, the Court entered a stipulation and order which granted a stay of enforcement of the final judgment which is in the amount of approximately $4,910,000.
On March 4, 2011, Nathan's filed a notice of appeal seeking to appeal the final judgment. Throughout the duration of the appeal, Nathan's is required to deposit post-judgment interest on the damages awarded at 9% per annum into a security account. Nathan's has made these deposits and recorded interest expense of $447,000 or $266,000, net of tax, during the fifty-two weeks ended March 25, 2012.
Certain Non-GAAP Financial Information:
In addition to disclosing results that are determined in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"), the Company has provided its non-GAAP earnings and earnings per diluted share as adjusted for the litigation expenses described above, including the interest expense that has accrued during the appeals process through the end of the fourth quarter, that the Company believes impacts the comparability of its results of operations.
The Company believes that such non-GAAP financial information is useful to investors to assist in assessing and understanding the Company's operating performance and underlying trends in the Company's business because management considers the litigation expenses referred to above to be outside the Company's normal operating results. This non-GAAP financial information is among the indicators management uses as a basis for evaluating the Company's financial and operating performance.
The presentation of this additional non-GAAP financial information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or alternative to, earnings and earnings per diluted share determined in accordance with GAAP. Analysis of results and outlook on a non-GAAP basis should be used as a complement to, and in conjunction with, data presented in accordance with GAAP.
About Nathan's Famous
Nathan's products are currently distributed in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Cayman Islands and six foreign countries through its restaurant system, foodservice sales programs and product licensing activities. The Nathan's restaurant system currently consists of 304 units, comprised of 299 franchised units and five company-owned units (including one seasonal unit). For additional information about Nathan's please visit our website at www.nathansfamous.com.
Except for historical information contained in this news release, the matters discussed are forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Words such as "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "intend", and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which are based on the current belief of the Company's management, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company's management. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: the effect of business and economic conditions; the impact of competitive products and pricing; the ability to obtain an adequate supply of beef and other food products at competitive prices; capacity; the status of our license and supply agreements; the regulatory and trade environment; the risk factors and the forward-looking statements reported from time to time in the Company's SEC reports. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update such forward-looking statements.
Nathan's Famous, Inc.
Financial Highlights
Thirteen weeks ended
Fifty-two weeks ended
Mar. 25, 2012
Mar. 26, 2011
Total revenues
$ 14,407,000
$ 12,268,000
$ 66,222,000
$ 57,255,000
Net income
$ 1,082,000
$ 555,000
$ 6,158,000
$ 2,213,000
Basic income per share
Net income
$ 0.24
$ 0.11
$ 1.26
$ 0.41
Diluted income per share
$ 0.23
$ 1.22
$ 0.40
Weighted-average shares used in computing income (loss) per share
Nathan's Famous, Inc.Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Measures
$ 6,158,000
$ 2,213,000
Litigation accrual, (net of tax)
Legal expense (a), (net of tax)
Interest expense (b), (net of tax)
Non-GAAP income
$ 1,153,000
$ 597,000
$ 6,445,000
$ 5,566,000
$ 0.11
$ 1.22
Non-GAAP income per share
$ 0.12
$ 1.28
$ 1.01
(a) Represents legal expense incurred in connection with the SMG matter during the respective periods. (b) Represents accrued interest expense incurred in connection with Nathan's appeal of the SMG damages award.
Ronald G. DeVos, Vice President - Finance and CFO
(516) 338-8500 ext. 229
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Susan Strayer LaMotte, SPHR is the founder of exaqueo, a workforce consultancy. Susan has worked and consulted with start-ups, high-growth and mature companies around the world and leads organizations and individuals to create powerful workplace, culture and talent strategies and employer and personal brands.
Susan's worked inside and consulted for some of the most renowned global brands including The Ritz-Carlton, The Home Depot, Marriott International and Arthur Andersen. More importantly, she's recognized for the results of her work.
- In 2011 she was named a Top 100 influencer in HR and a Top 100 HR/Recruiting Industry pro.
- In 2012 she was named a Top 100 Branding Expert, the social media strategy for HR she designed at Marriott International was named #1 in social media for HR by Fortune Magazine, and the Employer Brand she led and developed for Marriott was awarded Best Employer Brand.
- In 2013 she was named a Top 100 Social HR Expert.
Known for her presentations, Susan's spoken to hundreds of audiences from C-level executives to college students.
She's also shared sound bytes with media all over the world including the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, the New York Times, The Washington Post and regularly writes for publications like Forbes. She's the author of two books including The Right Job, Right Now (St. Martin's Press). Susan sits on the Board of Advisors for RemarkableHire and is on the Board of Directors for RecruitDC.
Susan has an MBA from Vanderbilt University, an MA in Human Resource Development from The George Washington University and a BA in Communications from Virginia Tech. She's also certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).
Work's always been in Susan's blood. She got her first W-2 at the tender age of 14 and hasn't stopped working since: lifeguard, head cashier, customer service manager, waitress, after-school aide, admissions marketer, camp counselor, orientation leader, cold caller, swim teacher, babysitter, PR intern and peer counselor. And that was all before she finished college.
Her coffee-induced work ethic is spurred by new music and a splash of Philadelphia-born honesty. She lives with her husband in Old Town, Alexandria, (old = 1749) just over the bridge from Washington, DC.
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