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TUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama men's tennis team (10-13, 2-8 SEC) will take on 16th-ranked Auburn (15-8, 4-6 SEC) today at 5 p.m. in the regular-season finale. The match will serve as Senior Day, recognizing Ricky Doverspike, Vikram Reddy and Michael Thompson in their final home match.
The Crimson Tide beat UAB 4-0 and Samford 4-3 earlier this week.
In the latest rankings, the Tide has three nationally ranked singles players in No. 102 Daniil Proskura, No. 119 Reddy and No. 121 Doverspike, and two ranked doubles teams in No. 34 Jarryd Botha and Doverspike and No. 72 Carlos Taborga and Proskura.
Auburn enters the match on a two-match losing skid, having fallen 5-2 to No. 19 Tennessee and 6-1 to No. 4 Georgia at home.
Alabama is 55-31-1 all-time against Auburn, but the Tigers have won the last two meetings.
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Mixing It Up In 2015 And The Hot Iron Turns 8
Happy 2015! As today, the second day of January, officially marks the first business day of the year, and by now most have recovered from the merriment of New Year's Eve, I would like to wish you all a great new year.
Where rolling to a new calendar also comes with resolutions, mine is simply to mix it up in 2015. I started the new year off much differently than I did in past years: sans kids, just me and my lovely wife at a Spanish restaurant, where just about every year that I can remember has involved Chinese food (a Boston tradition) and the past several years have been with our kids, even if they were sleeping in the next room. This was a fun change, and a great way to ring in 2015.
So in mixing it up in 2015, I am not looking to make major strategy changes, but smaller, incremental changes that I see as adding up to something bigger and better. Maybe I take a different route to go someplace, or a different approach to reaching out to someone, or simply wear a different color socks on occasion – I am hoping to stop and think when I get into doing something routine or that comes too natural to me, and think how to change it in some way.
The Hot Iron at 8
December 30 marks the official anniversary of the launch of this little blog which is now 8 years old. It's almost wild to think I have been at this, at varying degrees, this long. Writing is something I have enjoyed more and more over time, and it has been both a creative outlet as well as a way to vent some of my frustrations over business and technology – the overarching theme of this repository. Whether this is your first time reading or you are a long time subscriber – thank you!
I have written an anniversary post of mixed sorts over the years, and if you're so inclined you can read them for the following anniversaries of The Hot Iron: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh.
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My Worst Managers Never Took Me To Lunch
When I look back across my career at the variety of managers I have had, there is a broad spectrum of them from amazing to horrible and everything in between. As I was recently thinking of those I considered the "worst" – those whom I had a poor experience working with – a common denominator came to light that I feel is central to why things did not work out well.
They never took me to lunch.
More Than A Meal
Don't get me wrong, I am not just looking for a free meal, nor do I think these people are cheap in any way. Frugality with a corporate spending account has come up in dealings with past managers, and for me it is near the bottom of the list.
The fact these managers did not take me to lunch goes well beyond the meal itself and its cost. It has to do with the overall action itself – getting out of the office, a 1-on-1 meeting in a different setting and the discovery and insight about each other that comes with the conversation over the meal. Or in short – the manager getting to know me better, and me getting to know the manager better. This deeper knowledge about a person is important for a working relationship, going beyond the surface and skillsets to truly get the most of that person, and ensure they are happy and satisfied in the work environment.
Meals Alone Don't Make A Manager
Where I feel that the invitation and act of taking someone to lunch is important in a working relationship, it is not the defining moment for a manager if they do so. In all honesty, most all of the managers I have had in all my years have broken bread with me, some at least once and others on a regular basis. And those managers would be represented across the above-mentioned spectrum. Even those whom I would rank along the lower end of that spectrum, I feel by having had a meal with them, and getting to know them as more than what was written on their business card, outranks those few who did not take this time or see it as important.
My Own Experience With Meal Invites
Where I have been talking about being on the receiving end of a meal invite from a manager, in my own role as a manager over the years I have taken many people to breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee, snack or food in some capacity outside of the office and away from the grind to have a conversation. Call it the Italian-American in me, or just call it effective, but this opportunity to further connect with a team member or colleague is a very important part of how I have been successful throughout my career.
Here's a couple of ways I have integrated lunch and my teams.
Re-energizing After Being Dazed And Confused
It was one of those meeting where you sit there and wonder, with all of this brain power, could we possibly cure cancer? But alas in the end really nothing was accomplished other than puzzled looks on everyone's faces and bad tastes in everyone's mouths.
I was asked to come to an "emergency" meeting and to bring my developers and even my graphic designer. As the manager of the front-end design and development team part of my job was to be the conduit between my team and senior leadership, who called the meeting and the people who did the great things to make our application a reality. In short, I would shield them from the insanity of such meetings. However the requesters pulled rank - literally - and demanded all of us in the meeting.
To make a long story - and long meeting - short, we all didn't need all of the king's horses and all of the kings subjects to be in the meeting, and after an hour or so we all staggered out of the meeting room with the above mentioned looks and tastes.
Once we all collected in the lobby I decided the team needed to be rewarded for enduring this, so I told them that I would be taking them to lunch. The meal would be on the company, but only if we did not talk about work; if anyone brought up work they would have to pay for their own meal. Needless to say everyone agreed. As we walked back from the restaurant, I realize that we had bonded even deeper as a team than we had before and learned a lot about each other's backgrounds and beliefs, and I feel it had a great impact on our teamwork going forward.
Not When But When I Want To
After joining a start-up company and signing my life away (and possibly my future first born) I was then given our business plan our operating guides, policies and procedures. Reading through all of it I noticed there was no mention about specific business expenses, namely meals. I raised this with our HR director who told me to talk with our CFO, and my conversation with him went something like this:
Me: "Hi Homer (not his real name), what is the policy on expensing meals?"
CFO: "Um, who are you taking to lunch?"
Me: "Members of my team, and others in the company?"
CFO: "Um, when?"
Me: "Whenever I want to!"
CFO: "Um…"
At that point I talked with the company president, whom I had interviewed and talked with extensively during the onboarding process to the company, and he knew my leadership philosophy and told me to take whomever, whenever, and to expense it. These meals, sometimes, at the local mall food court, sometimes at a sit-down restaurant, were integral to me getting to know the team I inherited at the start-up, who they were, what motivated them, and importantly issues they had within the company. Although I was only with the start-up for 6 months and 5 days (a story for another time!), it was a productive time and I got some great things out of our team.
More Than A Skillset
If you read other posts here at The Hot Iron you will see I talk quite a bit about managing and leading people, and it involves a deeper knowledge of who they are, in addition to what they do. Frankly, it just works for me – always has, and I believe it will in the future. Some have labeled my approach as "touchy-feely" and so be it – we all have our styles, and in the end it's up to the person as to whom they want to work for. Needless to say, I am not looking to work again with those past managers who didn't take me to lunch.
I welcome your thoughts and comments on my approach in the comments to this post. Has meetings over meals worked for you or not? Do you see it as a way to deepen a working relationship, or just fill your belly?
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What I Learned From Writing What I Learned This Past Year
Earlier this year I decided to write weekly posts here at The Hot Iron about what I learned over the past 7 days. Over 8 months I wrote 32 posts sharing numerous things that I learned. I wrote the last one on August 29, 2014, which will be my last in this series.
Fun for me while it lasted
The catalyst for this topic thread was simple - I had too many things I learned and/or wanted to write about but not enough time to write the posts. As much as I would like to simply "bang out" my thoughts on the keyboard, for me the writing process is more elaborate than that, from the thought on the topic to writing, to editing, to an accompanying photo… it takes me time. That being said, writing is something I enjoy and is a great creative outlet for me.
Writing posts that were more of a collection of nuggets of information was a good idea at first and something that interested me. I was also hoping to write single-topic pieces as well. Over time though the thrill waned and then it got to where I was not writing one every week, then the most recent gap of a couple of months. As for those single-topic pieces, they were few and far between.
Back to where it began
I've decided to retire this thread and return to writing as I gave before - posts on single topics on business and technology and other occasional diversions. For those of you who are my loyal readers I thank you and I hope that you'll enjoy this change as well. As always, I will never fully promise any number of posts, but am hoping to at least write one a week.
Still learning
As I still get disappointed when a day goes by when I don't learn something, I am still logging those thoughts and will be sharing them on my Twitter account – you can follow me there at @thehotiron. Of course there may be more diversions than in the blog itself, as well as more conversations and other thoughts but I still share all the business and tech news with my unbiased opinion as much as possible.
I hope you won't miss my "learned" posts – or will you? Please let me know either way in the comments to this post.
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Quick Poll – What Is The Work You Do Really To You?
Is the work you do a vocation, career or simply a job?
This is the question I am asking in this quick poll. As I am reading the book 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal by Dan Miller, this question is the activity of day 6 of the 48, where one is supposed to discuss this with 2 people about what they do for work and if it is a vocation or their calling, part of the progression of their career path or if it is merely a job where they are collecting a paycheck.
I have decided to go wide with this query and am asking all readers of this post to answer this poll. In addition, I am interested in the discussion of why you made your selection and welcome your thoughts in the comments to this post. As the comments are moderated, you may respond anonymously, and providing you are not spamming the comments with ads for knock-off merchandise, I will post them.
Thank you in advance, and I am eager to see your votes as well as your comments as to if what you do for work is a vocation, career or job.
Please make your selection below - if you cannot see the poll question please answer the poll here.
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My Takeaways From The Book Who Moved My Cheese?
I was aware of the book Who Moved My Cheese? for some time, yet I had no idea what the story was about. When I found the book after moving, I decided to take it and give it a read. It was a short book yet it was packed with a powerful message to me.
Written by Dr. Spencer Johnson, the co-author of The One Minute Manager (yet another book I have not read, but I digress) Who Moved My Cheese? is a story of people telling the story and discussing "who moved my cheese?" and what they took away from it. When you read the story it's hard not to put yourself into the characters of the story, whether it's those who are hearing the story or those who are in the story "who moved my cheese?" Interestingly, the discussion of the story takes place in Chicago.
After putting down the book, my takeaways were very obvious to me.
- Everything is in constant change – whether we realize it or not, things are always changing. This may be obvious for some things but for many things in our lives it probably isn't as obvious as others, yet we need to be aware of all change.
- Laugh at yourself – This is something I have always felt that I was really good at, but it's something that when you go down a certain path you may forget to do. By stepping back and taking yourself out of the situation, it will help you see things much clearer and allow you the opportunity to laugh at it a little bit.
- Be the "haw" – The character "Haw" in the story Who Moved My Cheese? is the hero, the one who decided to move on when things were bad. His line in the story about what you would do if you weren't afraid is something to take to heart.
- It's never too late to change – Even if things are very bad and you don't think there's an opportunity to change, there is a choice to make to remain where you are or get out and move on.
Granted this isn't the only book that has ever been written about picking up and moving on, but I think it tells it in a way that it realizes the struggles people have with just doing that and spells it out in a way that makes it easier for you to relate to it.
At 96 pages, Who Moved My Cheese? is an extremely quick read and I read it in about an hour. Though the book was originally published in 1998, it is a timeless story and very relevant today for what I'm doing and what other people I know are doing. I highly recommend you pick up a copy of the book. As I am done reading it, if you would like my copy please let me know and I'll share it with you.
I welcome your thoughts on the book Who Moved My Cheese? in the comments of this post. Was it a good story for you, or a silly read, or something else?
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The Work Project I Never Politically Worked On
Ah, company politics. They can be anything from mildly amusing to wrenchingly painful. In any case, they are at a minimum something you shake your head at. Unfortunately there are politics of some form in every work place and it really depends on the people involved as to how bad the politics can be.
The following story is one of company politics that to this day I still shake my head and laugh at. However at the time I admit I was pretty pissed off about it. It is a true story – one that I went through myself about a dozen years ago. The names of people in the company of all been changed to protect the innocent or feeble.
I was working in internal IT for a software company supporting the software and hardware for its public Web site and Intranet. Along came a major project where the company was going to implement PeopleSoft, an enterprise resource management or ERM system. As a result, everyone in IT was supposed to be working on the PeopleSoft project and not on anything else, including the work I was doing on our Web site and Intranet. Of course reality is always something different, as there was nobody else to technically support either of those projects, and I continued to support both.
One day I got a call about a major project the company was undertaking. It was going to go through a significant rebranding effort, keeping the same logo but rebranding all products and services including a new Web site. Although we had plenty of technical people in the company, I was the person to work on the new Web site as I knew it best, from the marketing team to the infrastructure to code behind it. The call had come from the marketing manager whom I had worked with since I've been there supporting the Web site. I then told her what the new "situation" was in IT, where I was not supposed to be supporting the current Web site, let alone build a new one. Needless to say this didn't make any sense to her, but she understood well how the company politics was, especially in IT.
Next up for her was to raise the "situation" up through her management, which then brought it up to the IT management and then came back down to me. I got a call from my manager who told me that after all I was supposed to work on the new Web site. But there was only one stipulation: I wasn't politically supposed to be working on this project therefore I wasn't supposed to tell anyone about it. So technically I was wasn't working on the project, even though it was going to take most all of my time for the next several months.
Makes perfect sense right? I didn't think so.
Despite the insanity of the "situation" I had a job to do. A lot of work went into building the Web site, but it was something enjoyed doing very much and it didn't seem like a job at all. I was working very closely with our marketing manager, where I was located in Boston and she was in Vermont. Throughout the entire project we never actually saw each other, but despite that we were extremely successful at what we built.
In addition to building the Web site, I was also responsible for registering and acquiring new domain names for our rebranded products and services. As this was a publicly traded company, the rebranding was very secretive and very few people knew what the new product names were to be. But I was one of them. So that's a lot of faith and confidence in the guy that's not officially working on the project.
Overall the project was a success and we launched the new Web site on the day the company launched the rebranding. A lot of hard work and long hours went into it, and where we were very relieved when it was over, there was a lot of pride in the work we did. About a week after the rebranding, an email came out from the president of the company thanking individually all the people who worked on the rebranding. That is, all except for me. Of course this made complete sense because the president wasn't told I worked on the project because for political reasons I wasn't working on the project as nobody from IT was supposed to be working on anything else but the PeopleSoft project.
No sooner did the email come out from the president, I got a call from the marketing manager who was completely shocked that I was left off the list. I have to admit I was slightly irate I didn't get official recognition, but I knew the "situation" and took it for what it was. At least my immediate colleagues knew I worked on the project and I got kudos from them. Where I did not get credit from the president, I knew what I did and was just as proud as I was before the email came out.
Several weeks later we had an all-hands meeting for the IT organization. As I wasn't really in the mood for going to listen to this meeting in person, I decided just to dial into it from my desk. At the conclusion of the meeting the chief information officer, or CIO, brought up the rebranding project and even singled me out for the work that I did on it. What? Public recognition from the guy who had decided I technically didn't work on the project and made sure that I didn't get credit for it from the president of the company? Needless to say I was mildly irate and may have even made a gesture at the phone as I was listening to this. Interestingly, the CIO himself never personally thanked me for the work that I did on the Web site, and knowing how he operated even his public acknowledgment was very halfhearted.
It's one thing going into a consulting project or a contract knowing that for proprietary reasons you can't reference you worked on a project. When it comes to political reasons for not working on a project, they typically make absolutely no sense and are more to cover for someone than anything else. This was the case here, in a company with plenty of resources and a "leader" who would not acknowledge a significant company effort in order to keep to his marching orders that all-hands would be working on the ERM initiative. Of course by that statement alone there is no leadership shown.
Have you ever been in a similar situation? How would you have reacted if it was you? I welcome your thoughts in the comments to this post.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Fall Is The Best Season
Happy Fall! Or at least the first weekend of it.
Fall, also known as Autumn, is my favorite season. Why? Here's my top 10 reasons.
10. Summer is wicked overrated. There is too much pressure to have your fun and vacation in the summer, when there is just as much to and plenty of time to do it in the fall.
9. Everything is cheaper in the fall, from hotel rooms to gas, as demand is higher in the summer due to the reason above. For what it would cost you to do what you do in the summer, you can do more – and more of it – for less in the fall.
8. It's a lot cooler in the fall than in the summer. Walking from your front door to the car won't cause you to sweat profusely. It's a great season to get outside and have a nice cool breeze going for you.
7. Fall colors are amazing. Growing up in New England, for me a short drive to the shopping mall gave me an amazing view of some of the best foliage in the world. Not to forget the fall colors you wear are equally striking.
6. Crunching leaves make for a great sound.
5. Fall is all about heartier foods. The meats and vegetables, and the soups and stews and meals they make, warm on the inside and are a great compliment to the weather. Fall even has its own fruit, the pumpkin (yes, it's a fruit, not a vegetable).
4. Halloween comes at almost the halfway point of the fall, and is a great celebration of fun and mischief for people of all ages. Plus the annual visit to the pumpkin farm prepares you for the night of bewitching.
3. Fall is when you go back to school. Where some kids like that and others don't, most parents agree and like it.
2. When you change your clocks at the end of Daylight Savings Time in the fall, you get back that hour you lost in the spring.
1. It's football season – the American kind! From playgrounds to the pros and everywhere in between, it's the time to cheer for your gridiron champions, not to mention the tailgating parties that go along with it.
It was somewhat tough to choose what order to put some of these in, as they all contribute greatly to my favorite time of the year.
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree on my favorite season? Or do you have other reasons to love fall? Please share your thoughts in the comments to this post,
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What I Learned This Week For August 22 2014
Armed with a to-do list, and an item named "write blog post" has helped me get this relatively on-time out the door!
- I visited "The Maxwell" this week. It is a retail complex in Chicago's South Loop, whose name comes from the now-gone nearby Maxwell Street retail area. It combines street-level stores, upper level stores accessible through a lobby and parking. The lobby is nothing to look at, but its ceiling is, and is pictured here.
- Did you know I am renting my Chicago Loop loft condo?
- I had keys made this week at that big-box orange-logoed hardware chain. They had this machine that scanned the keys then cut them. Impressive, only that one of my keys did not work in one door. Then I went to the local Ace hardware store who had one of the "old-fashioned" key cutters where you manually trace the key to make a duplicate, and the key worked perfectly.
- I had an extremely positive experience with Comcast customer service this past week, and an incredibly painful experience with their technical support a few days later.
- The more I learn about mobile app development, the more I realize people don't really know what their app is doing, such as what and when it is accessing something either on your device or over the Internet.
- I have heard about IRS form 990, which a non-profit must file with its taxes. However, I have not ever really looked at one at depth or compared them against other organizations. I did so this week, for the group Barrel of Monkeys whose Board I have joined, as well as for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Just create an account at GuideStar and look away!
- Strep – it's not just for your throat, and you can get strep in your nose and other body parts I won't mention.
- You can stain concrete. It is similar to staining wood, in that you are enhancing the appearance of the texture.
- My 10+ year old grocery cart finally came to an untimely collapse when one of the wheels snapped off and I wasn't able to repair it. I am honestly surprised it lasted that long.
- Amazon has a new feature called Amazon Smile where a non-profit organization you choose can earn a percentage of your purchases when you use the specific URL smile.amazon.com. It is unclear if the charity can earn money when you use the Amazon mobile app. I chose the Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company Inc. to receive whatever pennies they can earn from my purchases. Omayra was a long-time client of my Web consulting business and she is an amazing dancer and performer. Check out her Web site and look for videos of her online to see, and choose her dance company to earn whatever you can send their way.
- This blog was down for about 8 hours this past week – did you notice?
- After my ordeal with Comcast I hooked up a new wireless router, a Cisco/Linksys EA3500. When I went to run the setup, I noticed something called "Smart Wi-Fi" which immediately caused me to shudder – this wasn't the typical, very techie setup and router administration I was used to. First off, it wanted me to create an account to remotely administer my router. Really? Then, the setup failed, which never – ever – previously happened to me. After a little searching, I found similar people lamenting to this, and a solution to revert to the traditional, previous router administration Web interface. Not surprising, everything worked as expected.
- Did I mention I am renting my loft condo in the Chicago Loop? Actually, I did blog about renting my condo.
- This week someone closed an email with "be good to yourself!!!" This took me aback. First, this is nothing I have ever gotten in writing from someone. As I thought more about it, I was trying to think of the last time anyone ever said it to me. Then it dawned on me, it did happen, and way back in the day, by people I have never met in person. Yes, I am referring to the song Be Good To Yourself by Journey. Watch it on this link to YouTube or see it embedded below, and either way take a trip back in time… and be good to yourself!!!
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What I Learned This Week For August 1 2014
Writing a catchy opening to the presentation of what really resonated with me over the last week isn't always as rewarding as the things I learn, so this time I won't dwell on it.
- It's one thing to accuse Hallmark or other greeting card makers of creating holidays to sell more cards, but I never thought retailers would go to the depths of segmenting seasons. Granted the cooler temperatures here in the Windy City may cause some to think about what to wear in a couple of months, but I am not one of them.
- Feedback is a dish best served hot and fresh, right out of the over, and not several months later, as it sits on the counter, covered with something but allowed to rot and not satisfy anybody.
- A while back ago I registered the domain name SayMyNameRight.com, with the idea of having a Web site where people could post videos of themselves saying their name. If I recall correctly, it was after having lunch with my good friend Tom Ordonez that the idea came to mind. If you click the link it's clear I didn't do anything with the domain name other than point it right back to this very blog. Yet for some reason over the past several weeks it has been getting a noticeable amount of traffic. Maybe now is the time to act?
- I was reminded not everybody knows what a "hashtag" is.
- Where the bidding wars over the potential mergers of "dollar" stores is going on, one thing piqued my attention, that the "activist investor" Carl Ichan was involved. Personally, I don't get the guy. Granted, I am no student of finance or investment wiz, but is someone who buys a ton of stock in a company and tries to get them to merge really an activist, as in the same term that can be prefaced with the phrase "civil rights?"
- Keeper Security, the Chicago-based app for secure password storage, just announced file storage. It is being pitched as a way to store images of a driver's license or passport in case it is lost or stolen, or any other important personal files. As a current user I can get 5 free file uploads and then pay an annual fee from $10 a year and up, depending on the space used. I need to think about this, and where to best spend money on "cloud" services, or on my own server.
- In my quest to try new restaurants I finally went to Protein Bar, a Chicago-based chain of healthy quick-serve food. And I have to say, upon my first visit I have become a fan. I was impressed with the store, the menu selections and most importantly the taste. The price is comparable to even Subway and other restaurants in the city. They also have locations in the Washington DC area and in Colorado.
- For as many times as I have referred family, friends and complete strangers to get from point A to B with my friend Rashid, Chicago's premier cabbie and expert on customer service, who goes by the trademarked name of ChicaGoCabbie™, for reasons that I don't quite know for sure, I have never ridden in his cab. Granted, because of his work with cab-hailing service Hailo I am a loyal customer. Perhaps it is timing, I am not quite sure. But he has delivered both pizza and cupcakes to me in his chariot!
- This past week Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester was traded to the Oakland A's. For several weeks leading up to it, my sports mobile app was buzzing non-stop with alerts on rumors and speculation around the trade. It got so bad I almost turned off the alerts altogether. Unfortunately that is the business of sports today. When I was a kid, I had no idea what any of the players on the Red Sox made, nor did I care.
- One of my favorite blogs is Brand New which features logo, design and branding, especially changes to brands. They recently featured a YouTube video interview of the creator of the Hartford Whalers logo. For those not familiar, the New England Whalers hockey team moved from Boston to the capital city of Connecticut in the 1970's, then moved to North Carolina in the late 1990's and became the Carolina Hurricanes. They played not too far from where I grew up, so I was familiar with the team and got to go to many games. Though the team is long gone, the defunct team's logo is almost a cultural icon and is being worn by trendy celebrities. The interview on Hartford's Channel 3 is embedded below or follow the link above to watch it. Note the mention about who really owns the logo, which is something that I wouldn't be surprised would end up in court someday.
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Typically a 2 fer 1 offer is something people look forward to. I am now finally getting around to posting this almost a week late and for 2 weeks, which means if I keep this up, I will most likely lose readers, especially if this is all I ever post. But I digress…
- July 18 marked 6 years of being a Dad. And talk about learning!
- I sat down and made a list of all of the small things that needed tweaking, tightening or fixing around the condo. My, what a long list – you would think the place was falling apart. It took a couple of days to get through them all, but it felt really good to get them done.
- Have you ever had a Rainier Cherry? I hadn't until last week – they look like tiny Macintosh apples and are very sweet. My guess is they are also not a GMO fruit. Thanks to my colleague Mike G. for the proper introduction.
- Whenever I hear about food deserts why is it grocery delivery services like Peapod or food trucks are never considered as a solution? I guess that isn't something I learned, but more an observation I learned from repeated exposure to it recently.
- Yet again, I was reminded not everybody knows what a "browser" is, especially when related to the Internet.
- I got a check in the mail from CentUp for a US$15.84, which was my earnings thus far. How did I earn it? People clicked the little CentUp icon at the bottom of my blog posts, and I earned whatever pennies they sent my way. It's a form of micropayment which I think can be quite successful, but many more people need to get on board – both readers and publishers!
- Now everyone around the world can be as stylish as a member of the European Union Parliament with your own EU Parliament sash. For only 146.95 euros, you can show your true colors, either in the chamber or on the street. Who knows, maybe these will next show up in the Chicago City Council chamber.
- If you are using Microsoft Lync for a conference call that was scheduled in Microsoft Outlook, and while you are in the call you decide to cancel the meeting series altogether in Outlook, not only will it delete all meetings in Outlook but it will throw you out of the meeting you are currently in, with no way of getting back in.
- The Art Institute of Chicago has a mobile app to digitally store your membership card. That's one less thing I need to stuff in my wallet, and I usually have my mobile device within reach at all times, which comes in handy for getting into special exhibits in the storied museum as you have to show your card to get in them as well as the front entrance.
- A while back I was thinking of a lot of the DJs I used to listen to in Boston back in the 1990's, and started searching for them online. One of them, Nik Carter, I wasn't able to find. But low and behold, he is hosting VH1 Classic On Tap, a segment highlighting bands from back when he was on the air on WFNX and WBCN. I tweeted him and he responded back in the style I was expecting from him, self-deprecating and hilarious. I'm catching up on On Tap segments whenever I can.
- A few bus shelters in Chicago were turned into Coca-Cola advertisements, playing on their latest campaign where you can get bottles of the carbonated beverage with your name on them. Of course they don't have every name, so this shelter had a large touchscreen where you could spell out your name and take a picture of yourself with it. When I saw the first one, I had to "test" it and tried a few choice words that would never end up on a soda bottle. As I typed them, the letters turned to stars like I was typing a password, then I got a message that the name was not in the database – a safe message I was expecting from the global drink giant. Fortunately my Goddaughter's name was allowed, so I got a picture for her as she was not expecting to see it on an actual bottle.
- YouTube has been running ads all over the place in Chicago, promoting certain content creators. For as many of these ads I see, I am still not compelled to watch any of the videos, especially when someone who is supposed to be Al Capone looks more like Mark Cuban.
- Clearly nobody at Foursquare heard the famous phrase by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, "less is more." The once popular social media check-in service has lost much of its luster not to mention purpose of hopes for a revenue model over the years. Last week they formally split into 2 apps – Swarm, which is for checking-in, and the old app will be more Yelp-like with reviews and suggestions. Even seeing this spelled out doesn't make it any clearer to me why they did it, and I have yet to find anyone to explain how this will make the service – or services – even better.
- I've had some déjà vu moments recently on a project I have been working on at work which is an animated promotion for a mobile app. The flashback is back to the mid 2000's when I produced one for a client. Where the steps we went through were very similar to today, the style and length of it are 2 things that stand out as being much different, not to mention it was the "splash" page for the Web site, a concept that fortunately has all but vanished. Years later I had the animation converted to a video and we uploaded it to YouTube, and you can view the animation for Boston Village Auto Body on the YouTube site or view it embedded below.
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When I opened the box (which was damaged) pieces of the chairs were all over, nothing was secured in the box, or properly protected for shipping. I was very disappointed in the quality of these chairs. I put the first one together wrong because the instructions were terrible, the chair wobbled. The next chair went together perfectly, and it also wobbled. Two other chairs could not even be used due to damage (a crack in the seat of one and crushed back on another.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? I thought they were a dark brown, but they are black
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- How accurate was the on site description of the product? Not accurate, I was expecting a better quality.
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Skip to comments.If Obama Had Told Us Before His Election
Posted on 10/13/2009 8:44:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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"Weirdly enough, this is one of the rationales the Chinese have on these huge billboards justifying mandatory abortions (after the first child)."
I just read an article that there is such an imbalance of males through "selective" abortions that there are more than 30 million who are marrying age with not enough wives to go around...
that's what's so discouraging.
And also why history has all but disappeared from the schools - without knowing what steps lead to what, which is WHY history is not longer taught, REAL history - we are doomed to repeat it.
BTW, did you know that Winston Churchill has be deleted from UK school books?
I send my kids to Catholic school and teach 'em history at home.
I don't think it's such a huge problem. More and more, East Asian societies without this gender imbalance are staying single. Anyone who wants to get married will be able to get a spouse, provided he has the financial means to do so. The problem is that the trend towards the single life is becoming epidemic throughout East Asia (except for the Muslim portions, which are breeding like rabbits). For instance, in Japan:
Most single Japanese women prefer not to marry and believe they can live happily alone for the rest of their life, a poll showed Friday, casting another shadow on the future of a country plagued by a falling birthrate.
About seven in ten single Japanese women surveyed by the conservative Yomiuri newspaper said they would rather stay unwed.
Prior to the adoption of Western-style laws banning polygamy and bond slavery roughly a century ago (together with the collapse of the last declared Chinese dynasty), Chinese men had it far worse. Rich men hoovered up a good chunk of the available women, and bottom strata pretty much had to make do with renting by the hour.
Phyllis Schlafly is one of the intellectual giants on the American scene, and her ability convey her point so effectively in this fashion is a graphic affirmation of that fact.
The fact that most liberals dismiss her as a lightweight irrelevancy tells us all we need to know about liberals and their religion of liberalism.
Agreed, he was elected by the fraud of ACORN. But even to this very day people are afraid to say this outloud for fear of being called a racist. We have been taken from within.
I don't think that his rabid and insane voters would have changed their votes if they knew about what we know now.
They would have called the presenters of the info, racists.
Maniac —
Thank you for an intelligent post that hits the nail on the head.
This Obama mess is the fault of Americans who didn't pay attention or who are too shallow and morally bankrupt to understand the threat he posed.
If we're to get out of this mess, we must quit blaming "media," (which, by definition, includes any method by which you receive information, including FR and talk radio) and start taking responsibility ourselves to reclaim this country.
Yes, we should reclaim this country and we are. People are wide awake believe me.
BUT... (always a but huh?) ACORN stole the election for 0bama.This is a fact.
Moderate Independent voters were asleep at the helm and voted for the false messiah.
Based on the number of voters who were in love and didn't care what anyone was saying, I think it might have been a bit closer, but we would still be where we are today.
For everyone who says it is all Bushs fault that we got Obamao, remember the left has been trying to do this far-left reach for EIGHT YEARS - this didnt just happen because of Bush!
No, it certainly didn't. The evidence was there, the data was marshaled, well enough in advance of 2008.
If you'll pardon the expression, they had their chance---they did not lead.
We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, what's left of it in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.---Edward R. Murrow.
Unfortunately, most of those "religious black chr*stians" seem to put race ahead of any and all other considerations (though they won't vote for an "uncle tom" like Alan Keyes or Clarence Thomas).
I lost all confidence in the Black church long ago. It's nothing but American Protestantism's domestic Armenian Church--all ethnicity and no theology.
Not if one of the things he's done is grant amnesty to illegals and given them voting rights.
I would argue that the actual church-attending, Jesus following, neighbor loving black population is much more prone to vote Republican, but that doesn't get picked up in polling out of
A) peer pressure to be silent about political views
B) blacks wearing Republican stickers get ignored by pollsters
C) voter fraud (look at Detroit)
Besides, since 1988, only Dole in 1996 was a decent front-running Republican to vote for. God fearing blacks won't generally vote for a Republican they know to be a hypocrite.
What the Hell do you mean "if he had told us"?
Anyone here on FreeRepublic could have told you most of what is going on now.
The real question here is: How can American voters be this stupid?
I wish you were right, but I long ago lost all faith in the "actual church-attending, J*sus following, neighbor loving black population."
Besides, since 1988, only Dole in 1996 was a decent front-running Republican to vote for. God fearing blacks wont generally vote for a Republican they know to be a hypocrite.
Dole wasn't too much to write home about either, but I don't think most Blacks will vote for a Republican under any circumstances.
"Yup...remember the Joe the plumber exchange. Many very quickly forget it."
Even worse, they fell for the lies and the "jokes" by the MSM that covered for what SHOULD have been his Joe the Plumber disaster and they didn't understand the nature of what a FREE REPUBLIC should be...
Yep. Basically, the neocons (W), have been offering Democrat-Lite solutions and like Tanner's books asys (paraphrasing), if the choices are a little of everything (Repugs) or a lot of everything (Demoncrats), then people are going to choose the "a lot" option!
I have been saying for years, Repugs can NEVER out spend the Demoncrats, they can only open the door for the Demoncrats to spend more. There were doors and corridors that even the Demoncrats were not willing to go down. But even though the Repugs only open the door a little and offer a tiny taste, the Dems now go whole hog and kick the door open. And it is the Repugs fault for even opening the D@MN door (No Child Left Behind is a perfect example).
The Department of Indoctrination is one of the most USELESS departments in the US Government. So, instead of getting rid of the thing, the Bush Neocons said, "Lets make it more prominent, let's SHOW the people that we Repugs care!" That opened the door to a whole new level of funds to actually force a Federal level mandate for acceptable foods, classes, etc... A little gets turned into a lot. As much as the Dems have a closet full of bad results of good intentions, the new Reps helped usher in a large portion of those by saying "let's show America that we 'care'!"
The best way to show someone that you care about them is to give them opportunities and then get the HE!! out of the way and let them flourish. If they don't, then that is not your fault - you gave them everything they needed; you gave them "a chance!"
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One who repeatedly beats his rod (in a sporaticly random motion, similar to banging a kettle drum) against the vaginal mound. The purpose to either further stimulate the clit/penis or to maintain a solid erection. In some cases "bush whacking" is used to intensify orgasm after "pulling out" instead of the more commonly used hand jerking motion.
"Judy finished cumming just as Harold pulled his rod out, finishing the fuck with a vigorous bout of bush whacking, Harold quickly filled Judys navel with a stout squirt of man juice."
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The 43rd President of the United States.
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guys who somehow come to your party (typically through lame chicks or dudes you know) and proceed to scare off all the eligible poon tang. They are obnoxious and never welcome as the ladies at your party will slowly disappear thanks to these guys.
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Skip to comments.WILL OBAMA PULL OUT? DICK MORRIS TV: LUNCH ALERT!(video)
Posted on 09/27/2011 8:55:25 AM PDT by Signalman
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In this video commentary, I discuss the possibility of Obama pulling out of the presidential race. As the negative poll numbers pile up and his base desserts him, will Obama actually run? If he doesnt who will? How will it impact the race?
There is no way this megalomaniac is going to withdraw. He knows better than us, you know. Just ask him!
I consider it highly unlikely. Given THIS scenario though I can't see where Hillary wouldn't run and be the Dem favorite.
no way he pulls out.
The community organizer will carry on to the bitter end....
I think the won would gladly waste a billion of donations then blame his base.
If Bill and Hillary got the "Chicago goods" on him, he would drop out...
I think it is more along the lines of the Democrats will carry on to the bitter end, since I don't see any difference between him and the other democrats.
I do not think Hillary will run. Too risky for her to end her political career going down in flames, either losing the election or winning and being unable to right the ship. And I don't think she has the stamina and energy to go through the campaign, plus serve out four years.
I can see 0bama pulling out, but with some lie/excuse about something related to the family such as a health issue or along that line.
I do not think the DNC has the courage to pull him or not give him the nomination if he stays in the mix, even if it is clear he will lose.
Just MHO on all....
Obama is another socialist Hitler in the Bunker.
Obama is genuinely insane and will never give up his efforts to destroy the hated USA.
"There is no way this megalomaniac is going to withdraw. He knows better than us, you know. Just ask him!"
Well said!
If nothing else, the Narcissist-In-Chief will double down.
As another FReeper stated on another thread....I wish his father had
Dickie...they have WAY more DESTROYING of our economy to do and WAY more Vacationing on OUR dime to do!!
It's hard to believe that Hillary didn't go after obama when she had the chance.
The guy is so arrogant I couldn't stand watching him scream & yell at his latest speech.
His approval has dropped into the 30s.
Dem elites cannot have that, going into an election where they most certainly will lose the Senate.
If Obama's numbers aren't at least in the mid-40s by the first of the year, the Dem elites can pressure him to step aside [shades of LBJ].
And, Hillary or some other strong contender could shake up the entire race. The GOP wannabes are stumbling around horribly.
If Barky dumps Joe Biden and hooks up with a competent reassuring experienced white guy like Evan Bayh he just might pull off another win
Democrats and "independents" would be starving for a candidate like Bayh and would blow the entire GOP roster off the stage...imho
Be afraid
agreed... no way he will pull out..it is more likely that he will react as a cornered animal, lashing out at everyone and everything and shouting racism, etc.. We ain't seen nutt'n yet. I fully expect to see riots in the inner city streets when he loses in 2012.
No way.
At the very least the Wookie wants four more years of perks and will threaten to reveal secrets about him if he doesn't tow the line and keep her as she's grown to become accustomed.
"The community organizer will carry on to the bitter end...."
I have a mental image of Hussein, beaten, bloodied and unable to see, in the ring corner looking like Rocky before he said, "Cut me, Mick."
In the ring's center is a well-toned uninjured Tea Party fighter looking good, and Hussein's handlers in the corner are saying, "You're winning, champ, you've got him against the ropes. One more round and he's YOURS."
I wish someone would draw us that cartoon.
No way he will quit.
He thinks much too highly of himself.
And the racist Hussein Heads want as many checks as they can get out of whitey.
"DESSERTS him"?
As another FReeper brilliantly put it last week:
If only Obama's father had pulled out....
"I fully expect to see riots in the inner city streets when he loses in 2012."
I have no doubt that you are right on target. Be ready for it.
Is Herman Cain the left's worst nightmare?
....and take the entire country down with him. The entire world, too, if he thinks he can pull it off!
Or of Lautenberg.
Suburban victory celebrations will be targeted as well.
My Goron neighbors threatened me as I was lighting off fireworks to celebrate when Algore gave his condescending non-concession concession speech.
The Dems might want him to leave, but I don't see him going willingly.
As for Hillary, I think she's nowhere near as strong as people seem to think, if only because she has been a complete nothing as SOS and obviously holds the position (which now seems to be completely powerless) just to keep her quiet.
The GOP has a number of candidates, which is more than you can say for the Dems (they'd haul out somebody from their past, such as Kerry), and it's reasonable for there to be a shaking out going on. My only concern is that the strongest contender won't get it, but that instead it will go to the one with the most money. In this case, that's the least desirable candidate of all, Romney, who would most certainly lose the election.
Aside from the whole power lust, ego and live like a King thing,there is the fact that are so many scandals and criminal investigations that Obama and his cronies are using the full power of the Presidency and Executive Branch to keep a lid on that this crew simply cannot allow power to slip from their grasps lest they all end up in jail and broke.
Obama is in this to the bitter and and he does not care how much he damages the country in the process. Go read the news stories from 1997-2000 to see how it's done
Narcissist don't accept a reality different from their own view of themselves. Valerie Jarrett is as detached from reality as Obama and she is his most trusted advisor.
I truly believe his inner circle simply can't understand why their glorious plan is not working. Like communism, it worked perfectly on paper, at their social events, in the classroom, and on the street. They all believed it had never been implemented by smart and enlightened people such as them. "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
This entire administration, especially Obama, has no clue how our Republic functions. Look at the frustration that leads to edicts from on high and the hyperbolic statements from the teleprompter. Obama was born to be a dictator. Anyone with delusions of grandeur can be a dictator. Being a successful American President takes a personality and inner core that is intertwined with our culture and constitution. Obama has never had that and you don't gain it occupying the White House.
For the good of our nation, I would love to see him withdraw from the race but it is very unlikely. Like all rabid progressives, it's never their ideas that won't work.... it's always the fault of others who stood in the way.
Point is, this guy is double-tripling down. He has shown ZERO indication he is even remotely wrong. He has taken ZERO responsibility for ANY of the nations problems. What on earth makes anyone possibly think he would step down? I would be less shocked if space aliens landed on the White House lawn with free energy and a real promise of world peace and the announcement of our admittance into a federation of friendly planets.
As I posted.....be prepared.
I wish Obama's father had pulled out.
I agree he wont pull out because he is a meglamaniac . He isn't as political astute as LBJ. It tells you one thing - he is the best reason why the Republicans are growing in ranks . I know hispanics will vote for the GOP candidate or stay home . He will only get the black vote . He will embarrassed the Democrats.
This is Dick Morris trying to get people to listen to him.
Unfortunately, Morris is always wrong.
If Obama "pulled out", I doubt if Mooochelle would even notice.
POSOTUS and TOTUS Interruptus?
Obama would take down his party and the country rather than ever admit he was wrong or that he is unpopular for any reason other than racism. Frankly, the Democrats have no one to replace him with (Hillary has lost all ambition) and the Republicans could beat Obama with just about anyone they nominate so I hope Barry hangs in there, blaming everyone else for his failures as he goes down in flames on election day. Of course what follows election day and until January 20th, 2013 may not be pretty but removing a cancer on the body politic never is.
Time to reprise an anti-Nixon slogan:
Why change dicks in the middle of a screw? Vote for Barry in 0-1-2.
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The latest celebrities on the dance show Jhalak Dikhla Jaa (JDJ) are Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor. The duo were here to promote their latest Bollywood release Raanjhanaa.
The actors entered the sets in style. Sonam Kapoor came in a modern Ghagra, whereas Dhanush came in a Sherwani. Both the actors looked stunning together and they seemed very enthusiastic on stage too. The duo are the lead stars in Raanjhanaa, the film is releasing today worldwide and is already receiving pretty good reviews.
The show has been having many celebrities on their sets. They are following the trend of promoting films on the reality shows. There have been many films being promoted on reality dance shows. The cast of films Ghanchakkar and Lootera are the latest films that are following this.
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Toasting marshmallows by the fire, shooting arrows in the woods. Those were the best days of your life, but they don't have to be over.
Toasting marshmallows by the fire, shooting arrows in the woods. Those were the best days of your life, but they don't have to be over.
o in my travels around the interwebs I found this video and there is something about it that I just love. I'm not sure what it is but I guess it may be that I have never seen anything like it before. It seems that the people at "Camp Rockmont" decided to see what would happen if a huge crowd just began to mimic the actions of a 15 month old. the results are amazing for the little boy.
Another fun time with a really fun group of kids. I just love getting out into the community and visiting of all things -a community center!
The summer is almost done, and I've had a last minute cancellation. I want to go to one more summer camp and write an end of season song. Who's up for it?
Have you heard the story? Is this justified or political correctness gone wild? A girl gets bounced out from a summer camp for smooching? How do you feel about this?
85 enthusiastic campers and counselors. That's what I found on my visit today on the Reading, Writing and Rhyming school tour. (Yes, it continues in the summer too!)
I'm not sure if you folks are aware of this, but the Reading, Writing and Rhyming school program also operates in the summer. If you are a summer school teacher or counselor, you can fill up the limited availabilies right now.
The Reading Writing and Rhyming Tour this week made a special "whistle stop". This was the first of the summer camp appearances, and certainly not the last. Many of these summer camps that I go to take place in regular classrooms. Nothing wrong with that, but to actually be outside singing in the Grafton State Park with the Hope 7 kids? Nothing like it!
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CDOs are a grab-bag of debt instruments of varying quality that are pooled and then sliced into tranches, with the top tranche typically (and, as was seen during the financial crisis, often erroneously) rated triple A. The complexity of CDOs meant that Hong Kong retail investors had no clue what assets backed minibonds and, indeed, the offer documents were utterly vague on this matter.
The minibonds that caused Hong Kong investors so much pain were linked to CDOs arranged by Lehman Brothers. They were also linked to Hong Kong blue chips such as HSBC, Hutchison Whampoa, Swire, and so on. The minibond issuer offered insurance against default by these blue chips, for which it received income that was used to boost the interest payments of the minibonds. If any one of these entities went bust, the value of the minibonds would have dropped substantially.
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Fast Lube & Tune took ford pick up in for clutch and drive line repairs recived truck back and it will not idle correctly and it and motor dies this did not happen when i too the truck in sara the technition say theres nothing wrong with it and they wont repair it please help Beaumont California
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Chances are, with the problem that you are describing, it is most likely a loose/broken vacuum line, or possibly a sensor.
Bring it back to them again, arrange to drop it off first thing in the morning and demand that they perform a diagnosis. If they continue to blow you off, insist that they give you an invoice, or some sort of paperwork showing that your vehicle was there as a "re-check" or a diagnosis.... make sure they write/type in your complaint on this paperwork, and their
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You may want to do this at least twice, give them 2-3 chances to correct the problem (be sure to get paperwork each time) if they can't fix it.... bring it to a trusted repair shop, explain the problem and show them your paperwork. You will most likely have to pay for a diagnosis and/or repair, if it was something that Fast Lube did, or neglected to do, have the second shop put it in writing.
With that, you can consider small claims court.
But I have a feeling, whatever the problem is it will cost you less then $100 to correct and it may not be worth the time and effort to bring a claim against them.
This could turn into a costly lesson ..... don't bring a clutch/ driveline repair to a "Fast Lube and Tune".
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Shortly after that, I received a very cheap shower cap in the mail from the seller. I couldn't help but laugh at this. I filed an appeal with Paypal and am awaiting resolution after giving them plaenty more info such as this site as evidence. If you want to know more about this scammer, just google xixiang jiedao zhongwu zonghedalou 4. There is a lot more going on here. BEWARE!!
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