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$800,000 up for grabs
I contend that public art is the most challenging field for an artist, more so than any other medium, whether in the performing arts or visual arts. The artist has to have a thorough understanding of materials in order to create a piece that will withstand the test of time, Mother Nature and potential vandalism. The artist has to have sensitivity to siting and scale. The artist's aesthetic sensibilities have to be worthy of public attention for decades.
The monumental skill set required is one of the reasons why permanent public art is so expensive. Take, for example, Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" in Chicago's Millennium Park. It cost $23 million.
Though this was not the case for Millennium Park, much of the money for public art is generated through percent for art programs. These programs exist all over the world. One of the first in the United States began in Seattle in 1973. The way the programs generally operate is that some percent of certain budgets for certain types of construction is set aside for public art. Milwaukee County has a one percent for art program. Money can be amassed and used at any of the locations where there is a project that contributes to the funding. Typically about $150,000-$200,000 a year becomes available.
An exciting opportunity, similar to slight of hand magic, has recently materialized. Due to stimulus money, there is going to be a two-year surge in construction in Milwaukee County. In essence, money that would have been spent on projects during the next four to five years will be condensed into two years, creating a large one percent pot of $800,000.
I serve on the Milwaukee County Public Art Committee that will make the decision about what to do with this money. The first question that needs to be answered is whether to use the money for one project or split it up. We Milwaukeeans want a lot of food on our plate if we spend a lot of money for a meal. Some members of the committee think the funding should be divided for two $400,000 pieces of art.
I disagree. Ned Kahn's "Wind Leaves" near Discovery World, purchased by an anonymous donor, is perhaps Milwaukee's most recent piece of significant public art. It cost half a million dollars in 2006.
If that $800,000 stays pooled, we can attract a recognized talent to get a distinguished piece of art. The artist doesn't have to come from outside the state. To throw out a name, someone like Mequon's Susan Falkman has the capacity to do a brilliant marble sculpture given that budget.
Because a regional artist doesn't need to add in lots of travel and lodging expenses, this could be a way to get the best food on the plate for the money.
The next meeting of the Milwaukee County Public Art Committee will be on January 22 at 10 a.m. at Quorum Architects, 3112 W. Highland Boulevard. Public art is public! Come listen to the discussion.
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I've got an incredibly progressive suggestion, and one guaranteed to make a public statement that I'm sure would get national attention.
Send it back.
"Public art is public! Come listen to the discussion."
Listening is a fraction of participation. If it's truly a public forum, then more than just listening should be invited.
I'd suggest Milwaukee rethink it's definition of public art. $800K is a fantastic pot of seed money to create something bigger than another piece of pathetic plop (including "Wind Leaves"). Change the question from "what to buy?" to "what initiative(s) to fund?". These initiatives could be built to generate tourism and income to our city.
The artistic vomit that is Bronzie did have one respectable goal of bringing more visitors to Milwaukee. I'm highly doubtful His Hideousness is packing airlines, but creating a draw is an obviously worthy notion beneficial to all. The upcoming influx of cash should be implemented as an investment, rather than as an expenditure. Whatever is suggested for the funds should be measured by it's return and potential benefits.
These are the times we live in, and the thinking about the money and public art has to be more proactive and creative than "what to buy".
Quality over quantity. Art should be there to benefit a city and make it a better place.
In the past all of public art was funded by private donors and groups. Although I'm not a conservative, I do have feelings of responsibility being a burdened taxpayer. That, and I believe the filthy rich who are getting huge tax breaks and benefits should be the sole donors of art and culture to our city. For some reason, the Laytons, Plankintons, Pfisters, etc of the past are seemingly lacking in today's Milwaukee although I know their equals are out there.
"Food on the plate"? While Milwaukee has got to be the full plate capital of the world, how about aiming higher? Pursue the best art available? Even if we fail, at least Milwaukee can demonstrate that excellence is what we strive for.
I wish people would stop criticizing "The Fonz" statue on the riverwalk. It's the most popular art exhibit for tourists from all over the world. Everyone who views it has a huge smile on their face. If art is created for people to enjoy then the Fonz statue has met its goal ten times over.
Long live the Fonz bronze! I celebrate your presence with laughter and good cheer!
Hi, this is Pegi Christiansen.
Thank you for the comments.
I am not going to engage in "The Fonz" debate, but I want to mention two things:
1) The Milwaukee County Public Art Committee offers a variety of ways for citizens to get involved. You can certainly do more than listen.
2) James J's notion about private versus government support for the arts might lead to a future story. For example, the US historically has had stronger private funding for the arts than in Europe, where there has tended to be stronger government funding.
Thank you Pegi for your addition to clarify that more participation beyond just listening by the public is possible and encouraged. Perhaps you can add the necessary details and information on the how, what, where, when of those various ways that citizens can get involved.
"delafield"- for many the sharing opinions, often widely varying ones, are integral to art and the experience and fulfillment of it. However, whereas everyone is entitled to their own opinions, everyone is not entitled to their own facts. With a definition of an "art exhibit" so broad to include a cast off idea from an obsolete ad campaign, I'd guess that broad definition may include architecture as well? Although popularity isn't on my personal checklist to measure arts importance or success, surely the MAM/Calatrava (a tough candidate to be beat for the best of art of the last decade in Milwaukee) would top Bronzie (a tough candidate to beat for the worst of "art" of the last decade in Milwaukee) in global visitor popularity.
Which- more pointedly on topic- brings me to these questions; What public percent-for-art works would rank high on anyone's list for the best of Milwaukee art of the last decade? What do those candidates- or lack thereof- say about the works completed in Milwaukee under percent for arts, about the audience, awareness, management, and participation in the program? Perhaps most importantly, what does a long term review suggest about what might change to make best use of the future opportunity for Milwaukee? I hope this is the nature of the discussion on January 22 at 10 a.m. at Quorum Architects, 3112 W. Highland Boulevard.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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I am not a detail oriented person and as soon I hear the word, I run...But we all know that devil is in the details. I find that in order to overcome this weakness or challenge, one must break details down into manageable parts and tackle one part at a time. This makes the task look not so detailed and overwhelming.
For example if you want to review a document, first identify the areas that you want to review and set aside separate time for each of these areas. In one pass, review the document only for one area and don't even bother about the other aspects.
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ROI is often used for business initiatives in order to justify the spending on the project and how it relates to business's bottom-line. For some initiatives, calculating return on investment is straightforward by doing the money calculation. You spend a certain amount of dollars and you save dollars for business on an ongoing basis and therefore the returns are clearly identified. In other cases, the returns cannot be calculated in terms of money but it could be in terms of reduction in the man hours spent by employees. Reduction in man hours spent by employees in turn implies that their time can then be spent on other projects. In other cases, an initiative may not even result in saving in employees' time but could enhance customer loyalty which in turn improves overall business.
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Chris Wragge is training for the triathlon in Montauk, NY in October. But his training schedule is about to get a shakeup. Beginning Sept. 6, Wragge will anchor the 6pm news on WCBS while also continuing to co-anchor the network's "The Early Show."
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Wragge: Oh my God. Amazing. The added workload is going to be great. (laughs) Look I wouldn't have agreed to it if I didn't want to do it. These guys (at "The Early Show") are my family now, but I also had a great family in local, with (WCBS execs) Peter Dunn and David Friend. The opportunity presented itself. I'm doing the 6 so it's a little bit easier than before when I was doing the 5 and staying to do the 11.
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DIY fiscal sustainability analysisMonday, March 19, 2012
There's a whole bunch of terminology surrounding fiscal sustainability, such as the structural balance mentioned here. Getting the different definitions of the fiscal balance straight can be a bit of a head-spinner.
The structural balance is probably more complex than most, but it directly addresses some of the problems with using the overall balance as a measure of fiscal sustainability, and the public arguments arising therefrom.
Plenty of people are worried over Malaysia's rising public debt level, pointing to its rapid average growth over the past 5-6 years. I'd point out that much of the increase relative to GDP occurred in 2009 due to a sharp drop tax revenues, something which a structural approach would cater for.
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"Flight of Shadows" by Sigmund Brouwer was sent to me as a review copy from the group "Blogging for Books" through WaterBrook Multnomah Publishers.
"Flight of Shadows" is a science fiction book that takes place in a post-apocalyptic America. There is even a large section of America that has seceded and has formed its own nation, an ultra-religious society called Appalachia. Our main character is Caitlyn, who, because of genetic manipulation, is valuable to many sects of people in Appalachia and in America. Unfortunately, she doesn't know that. All she knows is that she is being chased.
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In addition to this book being pretty one dimensional, it is extremely graphic. The violence in this book is off the charts. It starts out early with one of the characters losing an eye in a terrible and grotesque fashion. I will not burden you with any of the details, but it was over the top and unnecessary. Plus, there are multiple mentions of rape and child molestation as cultural norms. The rich do whatever they want to the poor and the poor just have to take it. It seemed as if that is what the author was trying to write about. The differences between the four classes of people in this society are staggering and very sad. I am sure the author is trying to teach a lesson in social policy or something, but it gets lost in the gore of the rest of the book. He tried to create a vehicle to teach a lesson and got very lost along the way.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 06:17 PM
and yup... it was one of those noises that made me say "holy shit!" and yank the door open to stop it
once dismantled i first noted that the glides were gone and the plastic bearing they mount to was worn through in spots. but.... this had been repaired, by attaching self adhesive felt strips like you paste to the bottom of chair legs to prevent floor scrathes. and this surely wasn't the noise i had heard
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this was a rental and a new tenant that was complaining about the noise, so god only knows how long this abortion had been in use before the new tenant
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I had a Whirlpool dryer the other day that ran and sounded half way decent. I took it apart and couldn't believe my eyes. This was an extra capacity top filter dryer. There was no rear felt strip on the back of the drum, somehow it was in the center of the drum under the belt. After scrathcin ma head and doing some PI work I concluded that someone had taken a frigidaire belt and tried to install it but it was too long so they got a rear felt strip off a front filter dryer and installed it on the drum which fit nice and tight and then put the belt in the center of it and did away with the idler pulley and hooked the belt directly to the motor. Someone put some real thought into this rig..I was slightly impressed.
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one of our other techs saw this and said the machine ran great and he actually replaced the belt on the unit
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It's not illegal to lie to the Chicago Police Department.
That's what former police Supt. Phil Cline and other top cops told the special prosecutor investigating David Koschman's death in explaining why they didn't charge Kevin McCarthy, a key witness, with obstructing justice for repeatedly lying to the police to keep his friend Richard J. "R.J." Vanecko, a nephew of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley, from being arrested in 2004 for punching Koschman.
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Why Won't Andrew Witty Take the Dive? (Updated 7/30/10)
By admin | Published: July 29, 2010
AIDS: An epidemic without end. It's mostly fallen off the front pages—who has time or money or compassion for a decades-old global health crisis when we've got our own global economic crisis?—except for every two years when the International AIDS Conference comes around. The one held in Vienna last week earned some ink, but the […]
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Merck KGaA received word July 25 that its application for the multiple sclerosis treatment Cladribine had received priority review status by FDA, decreasing the evaluation period from 10 months to six months, and closing the gap between Merck and the competition. "This is a critical milestone on the path to potential approval for short-course therapy […]
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An increased focus on targeted medicine has become a staple for all facets of healthcare, from drug developers to consumers to pharma companies. Gerson Lehrman and Bloomberg jointly commissioned a survey that gauged the reactions and predictions of this trend from 52 leading US physicians. The survey covered a number of topics to assess which […]
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It's been another rocky few weeks for pharma in Europe. Particularly for big brand name companies. But necessity is proving the mother of invention, says Pharm Exec's Brussels correspondent, Reflector. AstraZeneca suffered a serious setback at the start of July when the European General Court ruled that it had illegally prevented generic competition. The case […]
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An FDA advisory panel on Tuesday voted 12–1 to discontinue Avastin (bevacizumab) as a treatment for advanced breast cancer due to post-market studies stating that the treatment does not to increase patient lifespan by any significant length of time. This is a huge problem for Roche who purchased the treatment as part of its merger […]
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Emkay Global Financial Services has reiterated `Accumulate` on ICICI Bank with a price target of Rs 1,200 as against the current market price (CMP) of Rs 902 in its report dated Jan. 31, 2012. The broking house gave the following rationale:
Inline results; q-o-q improvement in asset quality was a surprise:
ICICI Bank Q3FY12 NII at Rs 27.1 billion was marginally ahead of expectations. The muted growth in non-int income (8% y-o-y) was compensated against stable operating expenses and lower provisioning. GNPA / NNPA at Rs98.2billion / Rs20.8billion declined 3%+ q-o-q each and thereby attributed for lower provisioning. This is against over 6%+ q-o-q increase in GNPA for its peers HDFC Bank (GNPA at Rs20.2billion up 7% q-o-q) and Axis Bank (GNPA at Rs 19 billion up 10% q-o-q). Resultant, net profit at Rs 17.3 billion was up 20% y-o-y (15% q-o-q) and significantly ahead of our / street expectations. Restructured loan portfolio increased to Rs30billion or 1.2% of total loans.
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Loan growth at 19.1% y-o-y (5.2% q-o-q) was largely led by healthy growth in SME and domestic corporate front. Growth in international book was aided by INR depreciation. However, adjusted for the same, growth in international bookwas at 16.5% y-o-y. Deposits were up 20% y-o-y and 6% q-o-q. Despite 100bps q-o-q decline in LDR, NIM actually improved 9bps sequentially to 2.7%.
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Q3FY12 NIM at 2.7% (+9bps q-o-q) was aided by strong 20bps q-o-q uptick in international NIM and 6bps increase in domestic NIM. Stable yields on assets with easing cost pressuring compensated for LDR contraction. However, given declining share of retail loans + lending to PSL book in Q4, we expect NIM to ease to 2.6%.
Loan growth at 19% y-o-y driven by SME + domestic corporates bookQ3FY12 loan growth at 19.1% y-o-y (5.2% q-o-q) was largely in the nature of SME (+5.2% q-o-q), domestic corporates (+15% q-o-q). The combined book (SME + domestic corporates) actually grew 24% y-o-y and 13% q-o-q. Demand from domestic corporate has been in the nature of working capital / term loans and broad based across various sectors. Growth on the international book too came in healthy at 38% y-o-y and 4% q-o-q. However, adjusted for INR depreciation, the book actually expanded 17% y-o-y.
… declining share of retail loans remains a bit worrisome:
Unlike its peers (HDFC Bank and Axis Bank) who made remarkable improvement in its retail loan mix during Q3, ICICI Bank (Q,N,C,F)* actually witnessed declining share. Retail loans now account for 33.5% of total loans against 38% in Q3FY11. The bank has been consciously reducing its exposure to risky segments of Personal loans + credit cards which now account for 4% of retail book against 7% in Q3FY11.
CASA mix still healthy at 40% levels:
A 20% y-o-y and 6% q-o-q growth in total deposits was well supported by 18% y-o-y (10% q-o-q) growth in CASA deposits. CASA ratio as at Q3FY12 stood at 43.6%. Adjusting for one-offs in CA account (up 21% q-o-q), CASA ratio actually stood at 39%.
Muted performance on core-fee front; dividend from life insurance: subsidiary came in as rescue:
Non-int income at Rs18.9billion was up mere 8.2% y-o-y (9% q-o-q). Growth in core-fee income continues to remain dismal at mere 5% y-o-y (flat sequentially). The bank management attributed lower fee income to limited M&A activities and syndication business. It has however guided for increasing traction in transaction banking and remittances business and guided for fee income growth in sync with balance sheet growth. Other income at Rs 2.6 billion included Rs 1.5 billion of dividend income from life insurance business for H1FY12. Adjusted for the same, non-inc int would have declined 0.4% y-o-y.
Asset quality improves sequentially…:
GNPA / NNPA at Rs 98.2 billion / Rs 20.8 billion actually declined 3%+ sequentially. This is against its peers (HDFC Bank and Axis Bank) which have reported uptick in NPA. Gross slippages at Rs 8.8 billion remained broad based and constituted 1.4% of total loans. Retail GNPA at Rs 61.7 billion too declined 2% q-o-q.
… however, expect sudden shocks on restructuring front:
During Q3, bank restructured loans to the tune of Rs8.8billion (0.4% of total loans) taking the total o/s. book to Rs 30.7 billion or 1.2% of total loans. The management stated for restructuring across large corporates. It also stated for higher restructuring in Q4 as Rs 13 billion of loans are referred to CDR. Assuming 15-25% NPV loss on the CDR portfolio would account for 4- 7% of net profit for M9FY12.
International subs continue dismal business:
Given tough operating environment, the bank continues with its balance sheet consolidation at the UK subsidiary front. For Q3FY12, balance sheet stood at USD 4.8 billion (USD 5.1billion in Q2FY12 and USD 7.0billion in Q3FY11). With CAR at 29.4%, profit after tax came in at USD 7.7 million (USD 2.2 million in Q2FY12, USD10.9million in Q3FY11). On contrary, Canadian balance sheet moved to CAD 5.3billion with net profit under IFRS at CAD 6.6 million and CAR at 31.6%. The bank has USD 3.2 billion of loans / USD 2.7 billion of liabilities due for re-pricing in FY13.
Domestic subsidiaries report sequential improvement:
Non-banking subsidiaries reported sequential improvement in PAT. Despite challenging business environment, a 10%+ q-o-q growth in ICICI securities, ICICI Prudential AMC, ICICI Home Finance is commendable. ICICI Pru life reported a 2x rise in M9FY12 PAT to Rs10.6billion. It continues to enjoy healthy 6.3% market share in insurance space. The bank reported APE business of Rs 8.6 billion with NBAP margin at 16% and assets under management of Rs632billion (Rs 649 billion in Q2FY12, Rs 663 billion in Q3FY11).
Adequate capital for balance sheet growth; ICICI Bank remains adequately capitalized with CAR at 18.9% including Tier I CAR at 13.1%. Improved loan mix (more in favor of secured loans) and enhanced asset quality has enabled the bank to conserve capital and in-turn suffice balance sheet growth.
Valuations and view:
The clean-up act has started bearing fruits over the past couple of quarters in form of lower NPA accretion, balance sheet growth and in-turn capital conservation. The bank has reported material improvement in its asset quality (including retail GNPA) while holding on to its provisioning requirement. Loan growth too has held up well at 18-19% levels and largely in form of secured assets.
We remain upbeat on the bank given its healthy 1.4% RoA and improving RoE. We expect core - RoE to inch to 15% levels by end-FY13. A sudden spike in restructured portfolio would be compensated by higher provisioning. We expect bank to report 18% / 19% CAGR in net profit / customer assets over FY11-13E. Maintain Accumulate with price target of Rs 1200.
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People are very time poor, or maybe just a little impatient. Regardless of which it is we have to be able to tell our story quickly.
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Even this chart below tells the story on long term 'index' investing. Of which Vanguard are the founding forefathers.
The recent downturn is a best a 'blip'.
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One of our jobs in business is this:
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It's already hard enough to convince people to buy our product or service, so why some businesses minimize payment options is beyond me.
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Live example is a café in Melbourne called 'Journal'. I had a company breakfast there and they wouldn't accept my credit card. They even had the audacity to say 'Who doesn't carry cash on them?' Answer: plenty of people. That's fine. I'm never going there again and they missed out on around $100 this week.
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Maybe you're a great web designer
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Maybe you're a financial wizard
Maybe you've got a flair for industrial design
Maybe you're a craftsman with unique skills
Maybe you're great at managing and building a supply chain.
Maybe selling isn't something you enjoy, like or even care about. Maybe making presentations is the part of business that really isn't your thing.
Problem is this: There's plenty of great ideas, businesses and people who never reached their full potential because the selling bit was missing.
Step forward the 'Sandwich man'
Startup blog definition: Sandwich Man – a gun presenter and public communicator who presents the ideas and sells the dream on behalf of the business.
A sandwich man is called such, because he holds together all the good things like the bread does on a yummy sandwich. Without him all the ingredients, nutrition, 'reason for being' could all fall away.
A good sandwich man would start and close any business presentation to people like venture capitalists, suppliers, key accounts, customers and the media.
Quite often successful businesses are run by a team where one of the members is the tech genius and the other is the Sandwich Man. Who then communicates the ideas and vision to get people on board. Rarely people are lucky enough to have both skill sets. Regardless of which skill set we have, we always need a sandwich man. We can even bring one into the team on a needs basis.
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Chatting with Chris Mander from docolo.com and he came up with an awesome idea – which every business should have.
The Chief Mojo Officer, or the CMO.
Sure, I asked him what they did and here's what he told me: (with some embellishment)
"Firstly you have to believe in mojo. If you don't believe in mojo, then forget it. If you do, the CMO is in charge of general "Vibe Strategy". The CMO has to make sure that the 'vibe' is right. There are no real quantitative measurements for mojo – you can just feel it. The CMO is the type of dude who can just feel it. They'll know when it's out of whack. The CMO is in charge of things which are nebulous, but actually matter. When the CMO has the general vibe grooving, the mojo is right, and revenue happens."
Good news for startups with small staff is that we don't have to wait for the employee head count to justify a new CMO. We can and should be doing it anyway. It's our job!
But when you make it, I reckon it would be the best investment any company could ever make.
Nature or Nurture?
I noticed this morning that a particular area of my box hedge isn't growing as well as other areas. See the two photos below.
In order to remedy the situation I thought about what the different things I could do:
- Ensure the poor performing area was getting enough water
- Make sure the soil wasn't poisoned in that particular area of the garden
- Remove the weeds from the periphery
- Add some fertiliser to the struggling area
- Aerating the soil with a hoe
- Ensure the area is getting enough sun
In fact, I'll try the methods above. What I wont do is 'remove' the box hedge. I really need it because it forms part of the garden perimeter. It provides the required symmetry. It's an integral part of the garden. I will give it the extra attention it deserves, and talk to it. I won't pretend it will fix itself, because I know that is just a fantasy.
So, why do we take the opposite view with our staff / employees or business partners? We rarely ask first what we can do, and most often just 'cut them out', get rid of them, or even chastise their performance, before we look at the reasons for it. Maybe they:
- Aren't getting enough cash to do their part?
- Maybe their part of the organisation has structural issues?
- Maybe they have non functional 'hangers on' stealing time & resources?
- Maybe we need to invest in some training or programs to boost the area?
- Maybe we need to give them more space & freedom to perform?
- Maybe we are not providing enough reward & recognition?
You've probably noticed how many of our people problems have strong analogies to my box hedge. In fact, both nature and people, need nurturing.
Steve – founder rentoid.com
Your worst nightmare
From a competitive viewpoint, imagine for a moment that our worst business nightmare came true.
Maybe Google decides to enter our market space. Or the Coca Cola Company launched a beverage with the same consumer benefit we've been bootstrapping. Or large company X decided to compete against "us" head on.
Well – you'd be surprised how that feels. How it makes us react, and how it very quickly changes our perspective on what is the most important element in 'winning'. In competing effectively for our share of wallet.
All of a sudden many of the projects we are investing our time on seem far less important than they were yesterday. Maybe that front page redesign can wait, maybe the shiny new web 2.0 buttons are a little less important. Maybe our packaging will do for now and quite possibly every project we have on the agenda, excluding customer 'centric projects' can be put on hold.
Here's an exercise worth doing with your team. Act as if. Act as if it has just happened. Have an 'emergency session' with your team on how you'd react if a more well resourced, financed and well known competitor came to play. Build your battle plan. Once your battle plan is drawn up – throw out your current business plan and work on that instead. Because they are coming, especially if your startup is in a fertile consumer territory.
After the intital fear, most entrepreneurs just get inspired, get angry and get on with it. A good scare never hurt anyone.
Steve – founder rentoid.com
Today's task is boring, even hateful. Doing invoices. As with all great ironies, this ought be a task we revere look forward to and basically enjoy. 'Payment'.
Given we often forget the important stuff we all know. I sometimes write a reminder and stick it to my office wall.
Here's my pic: (Art's never been a strong point)
Yep, I'm reminding myeslf that this somewhat laborious task is actually a cause for celebration, the celebration of hard work as we collect our earnings.
Startups struggling with boring stuff – remind yourself why it's important!
Steve – founder rentoid.com


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If you raid a consolidate power order do you get a power token for raiding it?
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Hi guys,
If you raid a consolidate power order do you get a power token for raiding it?
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That is correct and called "pillaging", as per page 14 of the rulebook, the fifth paragraph under Resolve Raid Orders. In addition, the player being pillaged must discard an available power token back to the Power Pool, if they have any.
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Thanks very much kind sir. Much appreciated.
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Thanks a lot ! Our group as been playing a lot but we never knew this rule !
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Can the player being pillaged still get the additional power token from the area later?
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Resolving a Raid Order discards the targeting Order Token.
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But the protests at the closed WWII memorial in Washington escalated over the weekend.
Sarah Palin was there, "The Commander and Chief, the president, today he could be here today, saying, 'Yes, we will tear down these barricades.'"
But the Vets saved him the trouble. They picked up the barricades, carried them to the White House, and stacked them in a pile.
And even though it sounded raucous, you could hear one protester saying be careful, we paid for these barricades. Which we did - and now we'll be paying for them to be put back in place. So obviously closing these memorials isn't saving a dime - and it's confusing people.
The signs "Closed except for First Amendment Activities," which apparently means some vets can go in and some can't. Yet, last Tuesday there was an immigration march which was allowed on the National Mall on First Amendment grounds.
So why barricade the WWII Memorial at all? Does it mean that if you show up with a protest sign, you're allowed in, but without a sign, you're not? If that's the case, how about if a camper shows up at a closed park with an "End The Shutdown" sign, could they get in?
It would be good to know what the ground rules are on these public places because Default Thursday is getting pretty close, and from what I hear, once that happens, we may all have to think about camping in the parks.
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Heatrae Sadia commercial director, Steve Rickards, right, and head of marketing, Jon Cockburn, talking to lead operative John Davies, left, in the factory by the automated machinery. Picture: Denise Bradley
By shaun lowthorpe Business editor
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Water-heating specialists Heatrae Sadia has invested nearly £2m in a new automated production system at its Norwich factory as it eyes new markets in solar renewable energy and the commercial sector.
The firm, which employs 221 staff mostly at its base in Hurricane Way, said the new facility comes as it marks the 25th anniversary of its pioneering Megaflo unvented hot water heating systems, which are manufactured in Norwich.
The market-leading systems are a common feature in many new build homes, but with the housing market slowing in recent years, the firm has been pursuing other areas of potential growth as well as export markets, particularly in Russia and New Zealand.
And the investment tops a remarkable period for the company, as it also emerged that it had previously delivered a £7m contract to fit the Megaflo systems in the athlete's accommodation at the 2012 Olympic village.
And, in a more unusual request, it has also adapted one of the megaflo systems for use by British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes' 'Coldest Journey' exhibition across Antarctica.
Commercial director Steve Rickards said: "We are looking at the catering and commercial market and we are moving into the solar renewables market and stealing little bits of market share from others. For us commercial is anything from small warehouses up to industrial estates. In terms of growth, I would expect that to be 5-6pc this year and next. However, what you have to balance that against is that we are currently building half the amount of units that we used to."
The unvented market has seen considerable growth over the last 25 years, with consumer demand for powerful showers and fast-filling baths keeping sales buoyant. And the market was still seeing double figure annual growth in 2007 and into 2008, prior to the difficult economic climate and the subsequent reduction in construction projects.
But Mr Rickards said the firm did not want to rest on its laurels and the investment, which features automated computer-controlled welding equipment, reflected that.
"While Megaflo has been a successful, market-leading product for the past 25 years – so much so it is seen as the generic term for unvented water heating – it needs to keep improving and evolving to meet changing consumer require-ments, as well as forthcoming legislation," he added. "We need to see volume growth in order to keep the people that we have got and improve on the numbers. We need to improve the levels of production. In the current climate that's not going to happen in existing markets in the UK so we either have to look outside of the UK or markets that we don't currently operate in."
Heatrae Sadia, which won the sustainability award in last year's EDP Business Awards, has been manufacturing water heating and heating products in Norwich since the company was established in 1920. The Megaflo brand itself was launched in 1987 and acquired by Heatrae Sadia in 1993. It has since remained the strong market leader in the unvented sector, despite increased competition.
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