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Lex Leifheit, Executive Director
Lex Leifheit became executive director of SOMArts (South of Market Arts, Resources, Technology and Services) in October 2008. Since that time, major initiatives have included the following:
-Opening up the curatorial proposal process and establishing a year-long incubator for community-based exhibitions, the Commons Curatorial Residency Program
-Paying off $40k in debt and establishing an operating reserve for the long-term financial health of the organization
-Building an individual donor base from <10 people to more than 200 in four years.
-Leveraging numerous technology partnerships—including the Bay Area Video Coalition's Neighborhood News Network, and the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program—to extend the reach of arts programming and support services.
In addition to producing and presenting over 70 events annually, SOMArts serves more than 100 Bay Area nonprofits each year with production consultation, venue and accessibility services, staging, and fiscal sponsorship. Ongoing partnerships were established to offer free professional development for artists on a monthly basis.
Also during Leifheit's tenure SOMArts has made significant improvements to the facility and renegotiated a long-term lease for its satellite space at Pier 70. Infrastructure initiatives have included extensive board development, implementation of extended benefits for staff, and strategic surveying of artists, clients and curators.
Previous employers include Wesleyan University's Green Street Arts Center and Center for the Arts in Middletown, Connecticut, as well as the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Leifheit has served as a grants panelist for Cultural Equity Grants and public art selection in San Francisco and for the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a regular speaker at Bay Area universities and symposia and a contributing writer for arts publications. In 2013 she had the honor of being one of 12 "up and coming" voices in the arts who were selected for The Arts Dinnervention Project, a gathering conceived of by Barry Hessenius and supported by WESTAF.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband Dan McKinley and their son Ewan. Back to staff directory
Melorra Green, Curator for Inquiry and Impact
Melorra Green, M.A.Edm is a curator, artist, radio show host, and community activist. She is a native of Memphis, TN and has called San Francisco home for 14 years. A graduate of Tennessee State University in Nashville, the Academy of Art University where she received her Bachelors of Arts in Motion Pictures & Television, and the University of Phoenix where she received a Masters of Arts in Education. Before joining SOMArts, she was the Visual Arts Coordinator for the African American Art & Culture Complex in San Francisco. In addition to serving as the Curator for Inquiry and Impact at SOMArts, she is also a member of the Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco Executive Committee and the San Francisco Graffiti Advisory Board.
Along with her twin sister, Melonie Green, Melorra has been curating creative art experiences and traditional exhibitions for over seven years. Together they have a niche and love for bringing worlds of obscurity together to create a beautiful cohesive message that leaves the viewer feeling inspired and included and the creator feeling empowered and appreciated.
She loves all genres of art, hats, bowties, music (Latin and afro-beat), and Ethiopian and Japanese food.
Alex S. Lukas, Director of Facilities & Technical Operations
Alex S. Lukas, born and raised in Salinas, CA, has been a Bay Area resident since the late 90′s. He's been active as an experimental musician and practicing sound & video artist since his teenage years, performing regularly and showing occasionally. Alex attended both BFA and MFA programs from the California College of the Arts in Film, Video, Performance and Media Arts, respectively. Back to staff directory
Zach Slater, Interim Director of Technical Services
Bio coming soon. Back to staff directory
Rene Yañez, Director of Special Projects
René Yañez is an artist, curator and producer who lives and works in San Francisco Bay Area. A founder and former Artistic Director of Galería de la Raza, Yañez was one of the first curators to introduce the contemporary concept of Mexico's Day of the Dead to the United States. Since the early 1970s, René Yañez has been instrumental in establishing the Day of the Dead as an important cultural celebration. Active as both a visual and performing arts curator, Yáñez co-founded the successful Chicano performance trio Culture Clash. Yáñez is widely recognized for his innovative art projects that promote a greater awareness of our culturally diverse city. He has curated numerous exhibitions including the art exhibit "Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge." The collection features works by Chicano artists from around the United States. During its five-year, 15-stop tour, "Chicano Visions" was shown simultaneously with its companion cultural exhibit, "Chicano Now: American Expressions." In 1998, he received the Special Trustees Award in Cultural Leadership from the San Francisco Foundation for his long-standing contribution to the cultural life of the Bay Area. He remains a strong role model and vital cultural force in the San Francisco arts community. Back to staff directory
Jess Young, Director of Communications & Community Engagement
Jess Young coordinates outreach efforts and serves as the social media voice of SOMArts Cultural Center in her role as Director of Communications & Community Engagement. Before joining the team at SOMArts in 2011, she was an Outreach Fellow for the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and conducted and edited interviews for Aorta, a radical arts magazine featuring a diversity of emerging and established female, queer and transgender artists. She has taught professional development workshops for ArtSpan's Make Your Art Your Business series and California College of the Arts' Career Summit on topics such as growing your fanbasem selling art online and equity in community outreach. In 2013–14 she served on the curatorial review panels for 2 x 2 Solos at Pro Arts Gallery and the group exhibition Queer Prophesies. She is the curator of a group visual art exhibition and evening of performance Second Helpings, which opens at SOMArts on June 7, 2014 as part of the National Queer Arts Festival. Back to staff directory
LaVette Virden, Bookkeeper
Mother, daughter, sister, auntie, cheerleader, Mom and Bookkeeper is La Vette P. Virden. As a native child of Frisco she has lived in many neighborhoods through out the city, Haight-Ashbury being her most favorite as it gave her a sense of style and freedom to BE without inhibition…though she has always hated being skinny so some shyness came from that. Her grandmother, Enola D. Maxwell was Executive Director of the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House for 28 years thus her introduction into the nonprofit world. She has been a little kid running around playing hide-n-seek to program participant, program coordinator, and bookkeeper for several non-profit organizations such as Booker T. Washington Community Center, Cultural Odyssey, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House and SOMArts. Her hobbies are reading, dancing, chocolate, shopping at flea markets and, just recently, boxing. Back to staff directory
Debra Bok, Fiscal Sponsorship & Administrative Office Manager
Debra Bok graduated from Mills College in the late seventies and moved directly to San Francisco, enthralled by the emerging alternative music scene. Participating in music, performance and writing as a member of Modern Masters Recording's Danny and the Parkins Sisters, all-girl rock band Wild Women of Borneo and the San Francisco Women Writers Workshop (SFWWW), she performed at classic venues such as Club Generic, The Sound of Music, Mabuhay, Elbo Room, Modern Times Bookstore and more. She contributed to three collections published by SFWWW: Anima in 1998, Dirt in 1990 and Land of Extremes in 1991.
Debra Bok started volunteering at SOMArts in 1995, coordinating mural projects and applications. As she took on more reporting and grant management tasks, she joined the SOMArts staff. She now manages the SOMArts fiscal sponsorship program, helping emerging and established artists and arts groups seek funding, support and stability for their artistic visions.
She also runs the volunteer program at SOMArts, and manages SOMArts' Dia de los Muertos annual school tour program. Having raised two children in San Francisco's public school system, she loves helping provide field trips and cultural enrichment to some of the city's underserved schools.
As the upstairs admin office manager, reporting and grant management are still part of Debra's duties at SOMArts. She handles issues pertaining to human resources, insurance and compliance and is the staff liaison to the SOMArts Board of Directors.
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Mary Molly Mullaney, Technical Services & Events Office Manager
Mary Molly Mullaney is a second generation San Francisco native, raising a third. If she hadn't lost her fearlessness once she became a mom, she would probably be a taxi cab driver since she knows the city like the back of her hand. She comes from a family of "closet" artists that "keep their day jobs," and loves to work on her arts and crafts at night. She started out as a drama major in college, but quickly ran from that department when she couldn't take acting like a ping pong ball seriously. She ended up getting a bachelor's degree with a double major from California State University, Sacramento, in Communication Studies, Media Production, and Film Studies with an emphasis in Screen Writing. Mary Molly came to SOMArts as an intern in 1999 for the Tech Services Department, and hasn't left since. She worked her way up from Stagehand to Office Manager to Events Manager. She loves being surrounded by all the art and diverse performances that come through SOMArts' galleries and theatre, and especially helping the diverse cultural celebrations throughout the city with the Tech Services Dept. Back to staff directory
Cathie Anderson, Building Manager & Technician
Cathie Anderson works in production management of special events and as a stage lighting designer. Highlights of her career include working as the Assistant Production Manager for Blaisdell Center, Honolulu's largest entertainment facility, and as a Convention Service Manager for Moscone Center's in-house audio visual department. She also worked as Brava Theater's Rental Production Manager and remains as their in house lighting designer and technical advisor. Cathie has extensive experience in event coordination and working with a wide variety of artists, technicians, vendors, security, house and union personnel. Events have included intimate settings for 50 persons to larger arenas with over 8,000 attendees. Today she continues to be active in freelance lighting design, and is very happy to have discovered and become part of the team at SOMArts as a Lighting Technician and Building Manager. Back to staff directory
Katie Gilmartin, Building Manager & Technician
Katie Gilmartin's checkered past includes stints as a miserable graduate student, buoyant union organizer, bona fide sex researcher, and deeply engaged college professor. She attended Oberlin College and Yale Graduate School, then for over a decade taught cultural studies. Her adult venture into printmaking began shortly after receiving her doctorate, with an urgent quest to relocate pleasure. Gilmartin became utterly smitten with printmaking as art and as craft, and eventually surrendered her academic life. In 2000 she assumed care of Chrysalis Print Studio at SOMArts, where she now teaches linocut and monotype classes and works as a building manager. She founded City Art Cooperative Gallery and the Queer Ancestors Project, which is devoted to forging sturdy relationships between young LGBTQ people and their ancestors. In 2014 Cleis Press will publish her first novel, Blackmail, My Love, an illustrated noir mystery set in 1950s San Francisco. Check out her rave reviews on yelp, and her artwork at katiegilmartin.com. Back to staff directory
Dion Reiner-Guzman, Building Manager & Technician
Dion Reiner-Guzman is a SF native also raised in San Diego & Mexico. Dion has been an employee of SOMArts since 2001 building stages since age 16. He has been DJing 8+ years under the aka Dion Decibels. A graduate of Ex'pression College For Digital Arts he has been recording/mixing/producing music & doing live sound for 5+ years. Back to staff directory
Rio Yañez, Building Manager & Technician
From the moment he was conceived in an artist's studio, Rio Yañez' fate as an artist was sealed. Born and raised in San Francisco's Mission District, Yañez is a curator, photographer, and graphic artist. As a curator he is a frequent collaborator with his father, Rene Yañez, and the pair have been developing exhibits together since 2005. He has exhibited in cities ranging from San Francisco to Tokyo. His re-imaginings of Frida Kahlo have included the Ghetto Frida Project, a series of prints, writings, and performance pieces featuring a thugged-out Kahlo. Yañez is also a founding member of The Great Tortilla Conspiracy, the world's most dangerous tortilla art collective. Back to staff directory


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This weekend it became another search for that new ride I had never done before. I'm sure many have ridden it, not so sure many have hit it in this combination or all at once. I called Guacamole and he was game for an all dayer so to the Park we go.
Straight outta the gate a 2100 ft climb begins our day
This brought us to some trestles
and some deep snow to cross, unfortunately Guacamole did not get the picture of me hitting one of these at 20 mph and flipping over the bars only to wedge myself up to my hips
How do we get up there? Ah, there is a way
We got to the top and see Winter Park Resort off in the distance
and then we go down, down, down...Broken Thumb
a few miles of dirt road and a connector bring us to the Idlewild Trails
Guacamole on the Whoops! Trail
Creek crossings always remind me of home
Teepee in Idledale
a picturesque barn
a few miles of bike path and I see a KFC, who needs some potato wedges, I do!
onto the Fraser Pkwy
a few connector trails and dirt roads brought us to the infamous Tipperary Creek
and eventually Flumes and Creekside then another road to the top of Zoom Trail
a view of the Elk Meadows
the idea is getting to be the same, a few more roads and trails bring us to the Sunken Bridge and eventually Elk Mountain where thunderstorms chased but never caught us
Ice Hill, a fun little trail that lead us to Serenity and back to our vehicle some 9 and a half hours and 65 miles after we started our little adventure. I'm sure that time could've been a couple hours shorted but a little route finding required pulling the map no less then 20 times and that 15 minute nap beside the creek was delightful.
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By Sanjeev Miglani and Roberta Rampton NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama ended a landmark day in India on Monday with a pledge of $4 billion in investments and loans, seeking to release what he called the "untapped potential" of a business and strategic partnership between the world's largest democracies. Earlier in the day, at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Obama was the first U.S. president to attend India's annual Republic Day parade, a show of military might that has been associated with Cold War anti-Americanism. India only accounts for 2 percent of U.S. imports and one percent of its exports, Obama said. While annual bilateral trade had reached $100 billion, that is less than a fifth of U.S. trade with India's neighbour, China.
U.S. stocks edged lower in early trading Monday as investors shrugged off an election victory by a party in Greece opposed to that country's bailout plan. Traders also pored over the latest batch of company earnings.
Greek singer Demis Roussos, best known for operatic pop ballads in the 1970s and 1980s, died in Athens at the weekend aged 68. Roussos sold about 60 million records worldwide with a high-pitched voice and a style that brought together melodies inspired by Greek folklore, romance, relationships and break ups.
NEW YORK (AP) — Officials cautioned Northeast residents to not be misled by a relatively smooth Monday morning commute, and pressed their cautions to prepare for a "crippling and potentially historic" storm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine in up to 2 feet of snow starting later in the day.
Notorious former Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court on Monday, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. "Prior to my arrival at court I was a soldier in the LRA," said Ongwen, with short hair rather than the trademark dreadlocks of his time as an LRA commander. Ongwen is the first leader of the brutal Ugandan rebel army led by the fugitive Joseph Kony to appear before the ICC, created to try the world's worst crimes. Known as the "White Ant", Ongwen was one of the most senior commanders of the LRA, which is accused of killing more than 100,000 people and abducting some 60,000 children in a bloody rebellion that started in 1987.
Rain failed to dampen spirits at India's Republic Day parade Monday as Barack Obama became the first US president to attend the spectacular military and cultural display in a sign of the nations' growing closeness. Thousands of cheering spectators braved wet weather and heavy security to watch the parade, which marks the birth of modern India and includes everything from tanks and state-of-the-art weaponry to camels and traditional dancers. The invitation to the annual celebration is one of the biggest honours the country can bestow on a foreign leader and underscores the increasing warmth between Obama and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Indian premier's style choices have drawn praise from Obama, but he was mocked on Twitter for wearing a bespoke jacket with his own name embroidered into a pin-stripe to meet the US president on Sunday.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A commander in warlord Joseph Kony's feared militia made his first appearance before an International Criminal Court judge Monday, calling himself a former soldier who was abducted and "taken to the bush" when he was just 14.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising sales helped boost hiring at U.S. businesses in the last three months of 2014, and companies are optimistic that continued improvement in business conditions will bring increased employment and wages in the current quarter, a new survey shows.
By Renee Maltezou and Deepa Babington ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras was sworn in on Monday as the prime minister of a new hardline, anti-bailout government determined to face down international lenders and end nearly five years of tough economic measures. The decisive victory by Tsipras' Syriza in Sunday's snap election reignites fears of new financial troubles in the country that set off the regional crisis in 2009. It is also the first time a member of the 19-nation euro zone will be led by parties rejecting German-backed austerity. Tsipras' success is also likely to empower Europe's fringe parties, including other anti-austerity movements across the region's economically-depressed south.
Alexis Tsipras, the 40-year-old leader of anti-austerity party Syriza, was sworn in on Monday as Greek prime minister, the youngest in 150 years. The leftists plan to challenge the multi-billion EU-IMF bailout, which they say has sparked a "humanitarian crisis" in Greece.
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The voices of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out in a pained voice: "I don't want to come here anymore!"
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The first U.S. drone strike in Yemen since the start of the year killed three suspected al-Qaida fighters on Monday, signaling Washington's determination to keep targeting the global terror network's most lethal branch despite the resignation of the Yemeni president, a top U.S. ally, in the face of a Shiite rebel power grab.
By Phil Noble YORK, England (Reuters) - The Church of England consecrated its first woman bishop on Monday, the culmination of years of efforts by Church modernisers to overcome opposition from traditionalists - one of whom briefly shouted a protest during the service. More than two decades after the Church allowed women to become priests, 48-year-old mother-of-two the Reverend Libby Lane became Bishop of Stockport in a ceremony at York Minster, a Gothic cathedral in northern England. The protest came as John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, asked the congregation whether Lane should be consecrated as Bishop.
LONDON (AP) — Male domination in the leadership of the Church of England ended Monday, as the 500-year-old institution consecrated its first female bishop.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The election in Greece of a radical party that wants to overhaul the country's bailout program raises new uncertainties for the eurozone. But several European creditor nations hinted they will seek a compromise deal to avoid disastrous scenarios, like Greece falling out of the euro.
BAGHDAD (AP) — "Sleeper cells" made up of former Iraqi police officers and soldiers are tipping off authorities to Islamic State group positions in the northern city of Mosul, a prominent lawmaker has told The Associated Press.
PARIS (AP) — Fashion royalty Salma Hayek — the Academy Award-nominated wife of the luxury heir François-Henri Pinault — led the front row pack at Saint Laurent, the highlight of the Paris menswear shows on Sunday.
By Silvia Ognibene FLORENCE (Reuters) - An Italian prosecutor asked a court on Monday to sentence the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner to more than 26 years in jail for his role in the 2012 disaster that killed 32 people. Francesco Schettino was the commander of the vessel, a floating hotel as long as three football pitches, when it came too close to shore and hit rocks off the Tuscan holiday island of Giglio. In summing up arguments at the trial in the nearby of Grosseto, Prosecutor Maria Navarro said Schettino should serve 14 years for manslaughter and causing injuries, nine for causing a shipwreck, three for abandoning ship, and a further three months for giving false testimony. The prosecutor said that if he is convicted, Schettino should be jailed immediately because there was a risk he would try to leave the country.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek singer Demis Roussos, whose often high-pitched pop serenades won him household recognition in the 1970s and 1980s across Europe and beyond and who sold more than 60 million records, has died in Athens at the age of 68, a hospital confirmed Monday.
By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army commander accused of war crimes made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday, giving thanks to God as he took the stand after a decade on the run. Dominic Ongwen, a child soldier who rose through the ranks of the rebel group that abducted him, was among five senior LRA commanders indicted by the global court in 2005. "My name is Dominic Ongwen and I am a Ugandan citizen... I was abducted in 1988 and I was taken to the bush when I was 14 years old," he said through an interpreter. He faces seven counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, enslavement, pillage and attacks on civilians committed during a 2004 attack on a camp for displaced persons in Uganda.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Radical left leader Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as Greece's new prime minister Monday after forming a surprise alliance with a small right-wing nationalist party Independent Greeks, signaling possible confrontation over the country's bailout.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — One prospective juror said she had a panic attack. Another claimed to have a bad back. A third is in the military and worried he would be deployed during the trial of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials struck a defiant note Monday after Western leaders threatened to further punish Moscow for escalated fighting in eastern Ukraine over the weekend.
Senegal reopened on Monday its land border with Guinea, the Interior Ministry said, five months after closing transport links in August to prevent the spread of the worst outbreak on record of the deadly Ebola virus. Senegal had already lifted in November a ban on air and maritime traffic with Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - the three countries worst-affected by the epidemic of the deadly hemorrhagic fever. In recent weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said the outbreak in West Africa appears to be ebbing as the rate of new infections has declined. In the week to Jan. 18 there were 20 new cases in Guinea, versus 45 the week before, WHO data showed.
NEW DELHI (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday took in a grand display of Indian military hardware, marching bands and elaborately dressed camels, becoming the first American leader to be honored as chief guest at India's annual Republic Day festivities.


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Well Society sign-up at Fir Park tonight
Anyone with concern for the welfare of Motherwell FC will be made welcome at Fir Park on Thursday evening from 6.30pm as the Well Society holds an open Sign-up/Renewal event in the Centenary Suite.
It's vital for the future stability of the club that the Society continues to add new members and that existing members renew their commitment to the wider ownership of MFC. Anyone who still has a lingering faith that stability will arrive in the form of a benevolent sugar daddy should cast their eye in the direction of Ibrox, Tynecastle or East End Park.
The future of our club will be based on community support. Although the Society board is working to enlist local businesses to the cause, it is the number of individual members that gives legitimacy to our aspiration to become a fan owned club.
Tonight's event will give prospective and current members a chance to talk to board members and to meet many of the players and there will be a chance to explore the hidden depths of the stadium.
Membership levels are:
Junior Steel Membership – £25 (for juveniles under 15)
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Claret Membership – £1000
Amber Membership – £5000
1886 Membership – £25000
and each comes with an increasing range of benefits.
Anyone interested, whether a regular at Fir Park or not, will be made welcome.
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Is there a good online resource that describes all the different Clematis types, how to prune with listing of cultivars in each type? Or maybe a book? I am finding it challenging to identify suitable varieties and answer questions like - Prune hard variety that is purplish red big flowers that blooms in late summer and will work in my zone and can work on a arbor with a rose. |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 16, 13 at 19:21
In a word, no :-) Well, maybe Mary Toomey's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Clematis could. But it's big and expensive and cumbersome (but a really great refererence!) You might want to try approaching this from a more specific direction. You can search by pruning groups - hard prune is pruning group 3 (or C). And to simplify things, clematis that should be hard pruned DO tend to be late summer bloomers, as they bloom on current year's growth. And any clematis will work in your zone - you are not exactly limited to variety. One of the most helpful online clematis resources is Clematis on the Web. It has a very user-friendly searchable data base but not exactly aligned the way you like - the closest you can come is the 'clematis text search' fwiw, the clem that best fits your question is 'Madame Julia Correvon'. |
If you use the Clematis on the Web search form as gardengal suggested, you can generate lists of plants that will fit your needs, though you won't be able to find all the plants in commercial production. Put in the requirements you want in the appropriate line, and just leave the others blank. It will give you a list that you can click to see photos and more information about the individual plants. |
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The Ninja Turtles are heading back to the city. As Mikey would say, "Aw yeah, son!"
Chas' daughter is in a coma. The team heads out to find out who did this to her.
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Franklin is the son of Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four. Franklin is an Omega-level mutant possessing nigh-omnipotent psionic powers.
Johnny Storm is the Human Torch, a member of the Fantastic Four and brother to Sue Storm. Due to a space accident he can fly and manipulate fire, including turning his entire body into a fireball.
Susan Storm is a founding member of the Fantastic Four and later the Future Foundation. She is able to create invisible force fields of any shape she conceives and able to turn herself and anything she's in contact with invisible.
After he was kidnapped by terrorists and gravely injured, billionaire industrialist and brilliant engineer Tony Stark was pressured to create a weapon of mass destruction. Instead, he created a suit of power armor to escape. Now vowing to protect the world he helped endanger, he became the Invincible Iron Man.
Reed Richards is Mr. Fantastic, leader of the Fantastic Four, loving husband of the Invisible Woman, mentor to the Human Torch, and best friend to the Thing.
The mutant mistress of magnetism, Polaris is also the daughter of Magneto. After a long sojourn in space she rejoined the ranks of X-Factor, fought alongside the X-Men against the Avengers, and now leads Serval Industries' All New X-Factor.
Charles Xavier is Professor X, head of the X-Men and founder the Xavier Institute for mutants. His telepathy makes him one of the world's strongest mutants.
Quicksilver is a mutant with superspeed. He is the son of Magneto, and twin brother of the Scarlet Witch and half-brother of Polaris.
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21 jealousy, drunkenness, partying, and other things like that. I warn you as I have already warned you, that those who do these kinds of things won't inherit God's kingdom. | 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. |
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The Hardcore Justice themed episode of Impact Wrestling will air next week on Wednesday night. Low Ki will challenge Samoa Joe for the X-Division Championship. Bram will face Abyss in a "Stairway to Janice" Match where they will have to climb a ladder and retrieve Janice from above the ring.
Eric Young, Austin Aries, Gunner, James Storm, Magnus, and Bobby Roode will compete in a Six Sides of Steel Number One Contender's Match for the TNA World Championship.
Gail Kim retained her Knockout's Championship against Taryn Terrell, Angelina Love, and Velvet Sky in a four-way match. Team 3D beat The Hardys in the main event.
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The Many Faces of Kim Gordon
Coming Apart, the debut full-length from Body/Head, drops this week. On the album, the untucked guitars of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace conjure impressionistic drones as Gordon's vocals lay passive-aggressive waste to the semi-public wreckage of her divorce from Thurston Moore, a fellow member of the late, lamented Sonic Youth. In honor of this very literal exorcising of personal demons, we thought it was high time for a look back at some of Gordon's finest vocal moments.
For ace bloodcurdling social commentary laced with bile, try Gordon's turn on Dirty classic "Drunken Butterfly." Better yet, check grunged-out Bad Moon Rising chestnut "Brave Men Run": Gordon yowls through clenched teeth, like she's in the thick of a convenience store stick-up, as opposed to the existential cool she exudes over the tumbleweed riffage of "Cinderella's Big Score" from Goo. By contrast, her vocal on Rather Ripped standout "Jams Runs Free" is all breathy, heathery perfection: the indie-skronk equivalent of a barefoot hippie dance on a Malibu beach. Her Britney Spears and Madonna send-ups attracted the most ink, but her baby-talked Mariah Carey takedown bears the most replay value ("Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream," from Sonic Nurse).
There's much to be said, though, for her less conventional turns: rolling around, disembodied, through eternal cymbal taps, on-the-fritz electronics and jazz-blat flatulence of ["Invito Al Cielo"]; trading non sequiturs with Moore and Yoko Ono on "Early in the Morning"; gasping over and quailing through the smothering, uber-workshopped noisescape of "Fried Mushroom" from her collaboration with Ikue Mori and DJ Olive. The dirty little secret of Gordon's career, though, is that she's at her sharpest when paired on the microphone with Pussy Galore's Julia Cafritz for their group Free Kitten, goofing on 1990s alt rock minutiae or blithely melding trad rock and turntablist mores.


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Whiteface Mountain Memorial Highway
On a fair day with good snow conditions, a trip up and down Whiteface via thehighway can seem like a deceptively easy way to "bag" a 4,000 ft winter ascent. Underless than ideal conditions, however, the skiing can be treacherous and the weather just assevere as it can be on any of the peaks above timberline. Furthermore, the wide road andopen vistas that start about a mile up highway mean that one is more exposed to theelements than on a narrow trail. It is the potential weather conditions that cause this tripto be rated "Experienced" for snowshoers even though the grade is never steep. Becauseof its high altitude and smooth surface, the highway has long been a popular early-seasontour or a last resort in low snow years. After most storms a track should be quicklybroken out either by other skiers or by vehicles used by researchers at the AtmosphericSciences Research Center located just below the tollhouse. After a thaw and freeze cycle,however, this vehicular traffic can leave an icy, rutted, chattery mess to ski on.Remember also that the wind can blow all the snow off, exposing the pavement oncorners especially. All these grim warnings aside, on more days than not the snow is justfine for this exceptionally scenic trip.
The start is at the tollhouse approximately 3 mi above the village of Wilmingtonon Rt. 431. From the tollhouse (0 mi) the first views are at 0.8 mi, followed by a smallshed on the left at 1.7 mi. At 3.2 mi the highway crosses the base of a slide and thencomes to the first hairpin turn, Lake Placid Turn, at 3.5 mi. With a view of Lake Placid(surprise!) and the steep ridge above leading to the Castle and summit, this makes a gooddestination if the weather is too inclement to continue. Wilmington Turn is reached at 4.5mi, and from here conditions can range from deep drifts to glare ice to the Castle at 5.3mi. From the Castle a summer walkway with railings leads to the summit at 5.5 mi.
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"When massive, seemingly soulless corporations recognize that the happiness of the workforce is a great predictor of long-term sustainable success, then you'll see the societal tip occur." ~Shawn Achor
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In 1998 Martin Seligman, then president of the American Psychological Association, set a new direction for the discipline: Positive psychology. What has followed is an unprecedented publication of robust research and applied interventions. In 2000, Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, published an article in the American Psychologist that anchored positive psychology as an evidence–based practice.
Since then the positive psychology movement has boomed. Founded with the intention of building thriving individuals, families, and communities, proponents of the discipline can be found in popular and academic publications, working with an array of corporate entities, and teaching on college campuses throughout the world. There are even graduate degrees in positive psychology.
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Congratulations Dan and Dan on a fabulous interview! This is truly wonderful, and Shawn is an amazing advocate for positive psychology in the work world. Kudos all around!
Enjoyed the article. Positive psychology and Appreciative Inquiry enhanced my life; helped shape my work as a Peace Corps Volunteer; and inspired me to become a life coach when I returned to the States in 2009. I'm still receiving FB messages and emails from people, whose lives were also positively impacted by Achor and Seligman's words and work during my Peace Corps assignment.
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While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.
Don't sneeze! November is National Peppercorn Month.
Usually salt gets all the credit for making a dish stand out, but it's time to focus some of that attention on pepper. Pepper has been around for more than 3,000 years, and back in the day, was even referred to as "black gold." The spice was so prized that pharaohs would be buried with peppercorns ... stuffed up their nostrils.
Peppercorns also had a hand in global exploration: When Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in search of India, he was looking for the source of pepper so that Portugal could control the trade of the precious spice. Peppercorns are the dried fruit of the Piperaceae plant. Usually the peppercorns are ground, but some food preparations use them whole.
In addition to black pepper, today, you'll find white, pink, green and even orange peppercorns in gourmet grocery stores and markets. While most people use peppercorns in savory applications, pink peppercorns are often used in dessert or even in cocktails.
If you're going to make pepper the star of your dish, it's worth investing in a good pepper grinder; one that has different settings for finer grinds will allow you to get more use out of your peppercorns. Peppercorns also last a long time if sealed in an airtight container.
I think you may have missed the point. The only way to get good pepper is to buy whole peppercorns and crush or grind them yourselves when you are ready to use them. Even when making a pepper steak I will crack the peppercorns before coating the meat with them. The only time that whole peppercorns are commonly used is when making the traditional green peppercorns sauce to go on the pepper steak. The green peppercorns are relatively mild and the sauce is delicious.
We have a recipe for pepper steak (and others as well) at our web site. http://www.pepper-passion.com in the blog section.
One reason that the different sea-salts get a lot of attention is the variation in color and textures. Visually they are quite different, but the flavors are pretty similar in most cases. Whole Black peppercorns are very similar looking (except for the rare Pohnpei pepper which is jet black.) However, if you take a close small of a bag of peppercorns of grind some up into your hand, the differences (terroir) reveal themselves. At http://www.pepper-passion.com we have eight different black peppercorns and they are all distinctive and subtly different enough to make it interesting to do taste comparisons.
Last piece of advice. Never buy pre-ground pepper even if it is advertised as gourmet. Once cracked or ground the flavor diminish rapidly. That is why we don't even sell it.
I like pepper, but not peppercorns in my food. Too much.
And that corned beef spice mixture is putrid.
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Would you pay to watch Corrie extras online?
But let's take a vote of Corrie fans who read this blog.
8 comments:
- Tvor said...
I wouldn't because i can't see it anyway, not often anyway. Sometimes in the newspapers, those videos can be viewed outside the UK but on the itv or bbc sites, you can't see them unless you do some fancy jiggery pokery.
- 28 September 2010 at 19:08
I'm with Tvor. As an overseas viewer, I'd only pay if I could watch. It should be possible to set up a subscription system where non-UK fans paid the Royal TV Tax (or whatever it's called) as part of the price.
- 28 September 2010 at 19:16
- Celeste said...
I agree. I am out of the UK, and I wouldn't mind paying if I could watch episodes. The extras could be nice, too.
- 28 September 2010 at 20:24
- Ange said...
Same here. Too tricky to get at online for me. I'm also not keen to watch alternative endings and the like. I just love pure Corrie. Even the occasional bad Corrie is better than no Corrie. What I love about it is that it's always reliable. Corrie's been with me my entire life and regardless of what bombs are being dropped in the world, Corrie remains.
I'd definately pay for DVDs of old episodes with favourite story lines though. - 28 September 2010 at 23:23
I don't think Adam Crozier has the overseas audience in mind with this one. Sounds more like a money grab to me. It also sounds like a terrible idea for Corrie. I prefer to imagine what could have been, or would have been with my own creative mind. It's all part of the fun of watching the show.
- 29 September 2010 at 04:51
- Tvor said...
Yes definitely a money grab. I don't think even if i was in the UK, that i would pay just for the extras. They don't film alternate endings very often, and previews? pah, spoilers are all over the internet anyway
- 29 September 2010 at 11:56
- seapenguin said...
No, I wouldn't pay. I'm with Ange - I like "pure Corrie". Not interested in alternative endings and the like.
- 29 September 2010 at 12:29
- gab said...
no i wouldnt pay any online fee for extras-apart from ripping people off wots the poont in having endless alternative endings-i liked it when they do it occasinally so noone gets to know wot happens till the las tminute but not all the time just for the sake of charging people
- 30 September 2010 at 11:39
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National Fuel Gas Company ("National Fuel" or the "Company") (NYSE:NFG) today announced consolidated earnings for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2013, of $47.8 million, or $0.57 per share, and $260.0 million, or $3.08 per share, respectively. Consolidated earnings before items impacting comparability ("Operating Results") for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2013, were $52.5 million, or $0.63 per share, and $264.9 million, or $3.14 per share, respectively.
- Operating Results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 of $52.5 million, or $0.63 per share, increased $16.5 million, or $0.20 per share, from the prior year's fourth quarter due to higher Operating Results in the Upstream and Midstream businesses.
- Operating Results for the fiscal year of $264.9 million, or $3.14 per share, increased $53.6 million, or $0.61 per share, compared to the prior fiscal year due to higher Operating Results across all businesses.
- Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA") for fiscal 2013 were $852.1 million compared to $704.1 million for the prior year, an increase of 21%.
- In the Pipeline and Storage segment, Operating Results for the fiscal year of $63.2 million, or $0.75 per share, increased 32% compared to the prior year. The increase is largely driven by higher revenues from contracts with non-affiliated shippers to transport gas through the Northern Access and Line N 2012 Expansion pipeline projects that were placed in service in the first quarter.
- Seneca Resources Corporation's ("Seneca") fourth quarter production of natural gas and crude oil was 33.2 billion cubic feet equivalent ("Bcfe"), an increase of 8.7 Bcfe or approximately 35%. Total production for fiscal 2013 increased 45% to 120.7 Bcfe, an increase of 37.3 Bcfe.
- Seneca's total reserves at September 30, 2013, were 1,549 Bcfe, an increase of 303 Bcfe or 24%. Seneca replaced 351% of fiscal 2013 production.
- A conference call is scheduled for Friday, November 8, 2013, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time.
Ronald J. Tanski, President and Chief Executive Officer of National Fuel Gas Company, stated: "The fourth quarter topped off another great fiscal year for National Fuel. While operations in all of our business units improved, Seneca's exploration and production results were particularly impressive. Seneca had a 57 percent increase in natural gas production over the prior year, and increased its total proved reserves by 24 percent. At the same time, we saw terrific success from our delineation efforts in our legacy Marcellus acreage within the Western Development Area in Pennsylvania. Our team has done a remarkable job evaluating and understanding this acreage, and as a result, we believe we have the opportunity to drill as many as 2,000 future well locations across this acreage.
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It's a connected world
Right now I am sitting in a jungle camp site in Thailand (I kid you not) with 3G on my phone and 6Meg wireless running through the camp. Already this morning I have looked at my emails through Gmail, I checked out Facebook for 5 minutes, I checked my bank accounts, I accepted 11 new LinkedIN connection requests, I had a look on our online community to see of the client chatter and I looked at the daily report on the key metrics of my business. About 10 minutes of total 'checking what is going on in my world' time.
The daily report is automatically generated through our CRM program (www.salesforce.com) and we customise the main report every quarter in line with our quarterly theme. I can see the critical results of what we are focusing on right now. Event numbers, campaign results, client numbers, revenue & profit etc.
With everything on the 'cloud' you truly can run a business from anywhere in the world. I can see what it happening as it happens and respond accordingly. I don't have to wait for the next meeting to jump on something I can see as a trend right now. I don't have to wait for a lengthy report to tell me what an automated report can tell me.
I have team members in Brisbane, Darwin, Manila, Delhi and Vancouver. I have clients who use our software in 8 countries. How could you manage that with old technology systems on a hard drive or server? Well you can but it is very expensive and very slow.
It's business real time. It's a connected world. It's exciting. It's now time for a coffee then Elephant rides and Tiger cuddling later in the day. Stay tuned.
Product Development for Accountants
Accountants haven't really needed to invent new products in the past. They did what the government told them to do and occasionally they did some special projects for clients – business advisory type projects. Everything was on a 'do and charge' basis.
That's all changing. The profession is evolving into a technology driven, leveraged IP model where firms are looking at new ways to systemise and leverage their IP base. The objective is to look at what you know and then innovate new ways of delivering that. The delivery could be in a number of wide and varied formats such as:
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- Video / DVD in a box
- Webinar
- Seminar
- Training program
- Software program
- Online subscription
It is the same IP but packaged in different ways. The hardest part (judging by the 46 Accountants we had in workshop last week talking about this) is coming up with what you actually know. Once you document your IP base then it's a case of packaging it up and marketing it to your target audience. So what do you know? What does your firm know how to do? Here is my list….
Be Proactive with new services
Most Accountants I meet believe that there are opportunities for additional business in their current client base. However, they don't seem that active in discovering the opportunities nor promoting the services. I think it is a BIG dis-service to the client if you do not promote new ideas and new services.
We recommend that you 'stay close to the numbers' with your service offerings. That way you can leverage the delivery of the services to other team members. By all means offer high level consulting however typically that means that very experienced (read expensive) people need to deliver them.
One of the reasons Accountants do not offer additional services is because they are unsure what the client will say and they doubt if they have the knowledge base to deliver the solution.
You have to differentiate between coaching and consulting. Consulting is where the provider comes up with the answers, coaching is where the client is guided and the answers are coached out of the client.
Financial coaching is the way to go. We recommend that your service categories fall in 8 areas. We call it the Awesome 8! It's what your clients are interested in – over and above compliance services.
If you follow the Awesome 8 then here are a dozen new services you could create:
- Revenue enhancement – product & service
- Cash flow analysis, forecasting & monitoring –product & service
- Profit improvement program – product & service
- Debt re-structuring
- Receivables management service
- Inventory management service
- Book keeping (serviced from lower cost countries)
- Virtual Management Accounting
- Cloud conversions
- Sort out the numbers program
- Planning session
- Monitoring & Accountability program
At the end of the day every client should be buying every product they need that helps them achieve their goals!
That should be your goal.
Disruption in the Accounting profession – Part 3
Disruptive area # 3 – Clients are using the internet for your advice
It seems we use the internet everything we need to know!
Addresses/ companies / people / products/ concerts / store opening times / weather / golf handicap / cycling routes / friends whereabouts (or what they are eating – yuk) and the BIG one…'how to do' everything. The internet seems to be our first port of call for anything we want to know or find information on.
Whatever happened to the Yellow Pages, asking people personally, the Encyclopedia Britannica or a Catalogue? All (or nearly) GONE!
Social behaviour is indicating we need(?) to be connected to our device. And the device rules supreme. A few weeks back I was at an airport lounge and my travelling companions had a 'device bag' full of connected gadgets.
The world is connected and it is getting more connected every day. Currently we go to our device (pick up a phone or tablet) and tap in the requested search. We can also talk to our device (the annoying Siri in the iPhone as a good example) and she/he can help us. Or talk to our car and another annoying voice (but very proper diction) will give us directions to your destination.
Does this give us an enhanced human experience? Probably not. But it sure is efficient.
Mobile technology is booming. It's what consumers want. They want information at their fingertips. Tap tap tap and hey presto – I have the answer and now I am an expert.
And that is an issue for anyone in the advice business. AKA Accountants!
Let's say I wanted to learn about borrowing money through my pension scheme to buy a property. I could 'Google' that and find the answer in a few seconds. What if I wanted to work out how to improve the profit of my Winemaking business? I could go to a LinkedIN group and discuss that and get an answer. What if I needed a payroll or tax question answered? I can search it and go directly to the government portal and get the answer.
Uncle/Aunty Google has all the answers it seems.
Enter IBM.
The IBM super computer 'Watson' is an extraordinary piece of engineering. It can beat humans (really smart ones) at Chess and Jeopardy (proven) and 'some say' he/she is so smart he knows what the President of any country will say next! OK…I made the last bit up.
You get the idea. Watson is a supersmart supercomputer.
IBM have announced this year (2014) to >$1BN investment to develop Watson into a usable resource. There are >2,000 people in the Watson team and their job is to enable Watson into the world. One of the cool ideas is to create 'Watson for business.' Think of it as 'Siri' (iPhone fame) for business. You have a business question, talk to the device and it gives you the answer. BOOM. Great for the user – not so great for you.
You see, Watson is a sponge like a human. It can absorb / disseminate / translate / organize/ conceptualize any information and then send it back in a usable format. Pretty much all of the worlds 'texts' (as in manuals, books and all forms of content) are accessible on the internet. But the internet is a bit of a mess. There is a lot of content to absorb and disseminate. Watson can do sort it out and give it back to you in a usable format.
I got interested in Watson a few months back by the following line in a newsletter I received…
"This is the start of the end of professional services as we currently know it"
WOW. WOW and more WOW!
Does that mean the super computer can replace the Adviser? For repetitive and systematic information absolutely YES. And there will be 'an app for that' very soon.
I don't mean to scare you but I do. This is real and it is happening right now and the Accounting profession is in the firing line for massive disruption. Without notice and appropriate action these 3 'disrupters' have the capacity to wipe out a (BIG) chunk of revenue / profit / business value in the profession….QUICKLY.
Disruption in the Accounting profession – Part 2
Disruptive area # 2 – Labour is being sourced from less expensive countries
Manufacturing companies have been using low cost labour in developing countries for decades to produce their products. Just look at the clothes on your back. I bet very few of them are made in your current country!
The reality is that (because of escalating labour costs) most western countries have priced themselves out of markets by attempting to produce the product locally.
Up until a few years ago it was primarily 'hardware' based companies using this resource. Now we are seeing 'services' companies embrace the trend with fully resourced teams.
Most people think of this as outsourcing where in actual fact the correct term is offshoring.
Outsourcing is where you get someone else to the task who does not exclusively work for you. Accountants are a classic outsourced service. You work for many clients and they send their work to you because you are better at it than them.
Offshoring is where you set up a team (maybe starting with one person) off shore and they exclusively work for you. The banks and airlines have been doing this for years. They get themselves an office in a developing country, fill it with desks/chairs/computers/phones, hire & train some people and viola they have an office that can support their customers.
For one off projects outsourcing is the way to go however for larger ongoing tasks offshoring is the way to go.
Accountants have recently embraced the idea very quickly and are hiring people in developing countries with some degree of vigor right now.
I went on an offshoring study tour (in the Philippines) and the opening speaker said 2 things to me that got me excited;
- "Any job that can be done over the phone or behind a computer we can do for 50% – 90% cheaper, faster and often better"
- "I have been a virtual assistant for 5 years for a university professor in New York. I have gotten to know her job so well that I now mark her student papers for her"
I thought WOW. There are smart, hard workers, there is an abundance of them and they are relatively inexpensive.
If you think about an Accountants day. Most of it is spent on the phone or behind a computer. Most of the day is spent dealing with client queries and processing Accounting work. The technology products will take a lot of the processing work away and the balance can be done by cheaper labour off shore.
What is left are team members who are customer facing and adding value. The Accounting firm of the future has a local team who are customer facing (nurturing, sales and advice) and everything else (back office and processing) is done offshore.
There are 3 compelling reasons why this makes sense;
- An abundance of labour
- A labour force who are supremely qualified
- A lower cost structure.
Let's take the Philippines as a case in point. It is estimated that circa 1.3M work in this space. It is growing every day. Their English is fantastic, the schooling system is very good, they are very family orientated, the time zones are reasonable and the government is right behind the initiative with infrastructure. They cannot build the office towers fast enough.
The table below highlights the salaries (March 2014) that Accountants in the Philippines are being paid. These are considered 'middle class' salary levels as the cost of living is so inexpensive. Compared to western salaries they are very reasonable.
You can set this model up one of 3 ways:
- Hire people directly who work from home.
- Go through a serviced office business (called a BPO) and hire the people through them.
- Incorporate a company and set up your own office – viable if you need 20+ people.
When hiring someone you do it via video conference (Skype, Google hangout, Go to meeting etc) and you do it the same way you already do. Place an ad, go through a recruiter, receive resumes, cull them out and hire the best for the job.
If you go through option 2 then the BPO (stands for Business Process Outsourcing) will help you hire the people. The training is up to you – again vide video conferencing or personally. They are your employees and they need to be trained in your systems and your way of doing things. They become part of your team so they need to be treated as so.
As an example my Australian team had a cooking class the other night. My team in the office in Manila did one on the same night in their city. My Australian team does daily huddles and they Skype in our team every day in the Manila office. What we do in one office we do in another.
Some people have a problem with this idea. "We must keep the jobs in our country" I hear. "What will our Accountants do if we send the work to a team elsewhere" is also another one. "What would my clients think" is a common one. Well, most Accounting firms will have different nationalities employed already. What's the difference? You just have a team working for you in a different country in your office.
If you pare the comments down often they are either racist related comments or the person saying them has inadequacies and hang ups that their job can be done by someone else for a 10th of their salary.
All of this is globalization and a change in social behavior. I think the concept got off to a bad start with telemarketing companies calling you at home and you could not understand what they are saying. It also got off to a bad start because the term 'outsourcing' was created and many Accounting firms sent jobs off shore and because the person worked on the job was not working 100% for that firm there was a lot of re-work needed.
As a disruptive trend we are seeing Accountants use the available resource in the following way:
- Hiring marketing people to do the marketing work for the firm. I know of an Australian $4M firm who has 8 marketing team members offshore.
- Hiring client service coordinators to handle data collection and job set up from clients.
- Hiring book keepers to do book keeping work for clients – on charging clients @ $20 per hour and making a 5 times margin.
- Hiring data integrity people to sort out client data before it gets to the Accountant.
- Hiring technical people who can do 'cloud conversions' and other software help.
- Hiring product development people to create product for the firm.
- Hiring administrators to do document scanning, corporate secretarial, debtor collection, filing etc.
- Hiring Accountants to do the accounting work that does not involve client facing meetings.
Now here is the BIG one.
Businesses (your clients) are being directly targeted by Accounting firms (offshore or local ones who have an offshore team) offering accounting work from $8 – $25 per hour.
This is escalating at a great rate of knots.
As a consumer of accounting services why would I pay $200 per hour when I can get it for $20? There has to be some compelling reasons as to why I would continue paying for something 10 times as much!
The profession has to be real as to how long you can hold your prices when technology is commoditizing compliance and global markets are offering lower cost labour direct to your clients.
To hold prices you will have to add value, add value and add more value to remain relevant in the future. Accountants will have to offer valuable commentary to the data in front of them and move much more into business advisory services.
My view is that as an Accountant if you are not adding value to the data that is in front of you then your days are numbered!
This is a big disruption to the labour force of Accountants in western countries. It is also a great opportunity to capitalize on. The world is changing fast. Are you ignoring it, embracing it or hoping it will go away?
It won't.


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I purchased this from Suki at Tropic Nature over 4 years ago. Finally an inflo on Apricot Locks. Very small, size of a quarter and a nice scent. Anyone have this? Anyone know what happened to Tropic Nature on the North side of Oahu? roxanne |
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- Posted by freak4plumeria So CA zone 10 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 14 at 0:41
Rox, I had one when Suki first introduced it, I think it was 2005. It does perform in cooler temps. I gave mine away in 2009, as I was thinning out my collection. As for Trop Nat, the website is gone and the owner does not post on any forums anymore, though she does have a FB page. Originally TN was run from her house in Ewa Bch, then she finally bought a house and moved to Waianae, then ran the website for couples of year and then poof gone, other than a few rumors that were circulating around as to what happened at the end. I know that Matt aka onestopaloha on Ebay, carries many of the same varieties like Bonnie Fox, Wave Rage, etc. Fuzzy Moody aka Blooming Plumerias also supplied Trop Nat with some of her stock that she sold so you can find some of the same varieties in Bloomingplumerias Ebay store. From 2001 to 2006, I had purchased a ton of stuff from her but only have 3 of her plumies left in my collection as I gifted the rest away. Hope this helps answer your question. |
- Posted by gidgetsocal none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 14 at 2:02
I love the beautiful color!! |
mahalos freak4plumeria...after waiting so long for blooms, wish they would be bigger! Were yours small too? roxanne |
- Posted by freak4plumeria So CA zone 10 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 14 at 13:16
Rox, My plant bloomed the 2nd season I had it and initially were small, but later flowers got bigger and with the drooping slight curve to the petal like Suki's. May not be warm enough now, might have to wait till Aug/Sept. |
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