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When involved in an accident and providing documentation, a slip and fall lawyer looks at all viewpoints of any given condition. It does not matter whether it occurred yesterday or two months ago, a legal professional will always recommend clients to go back and fill out a report about what happened. The more facts presented, the better.
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When the accident occurs, it is important to report it right away. While sharing with a passing witness may quicken assistance and assistance, it is not considered to be an official notice. A slip and trip law firm wants to make sure that the client sat down with a member of the company and filled out the imperative records.
This doesn't mean that a person from the professional office in another location or state needs to make the expedition to the site. It does mean that someone with authority to speak for the company should be addressing the incident. A slip and fall legal representative can be present at the stating if needed.
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Once the statement is submitted, a slip and fall lawyer or attorney makes sure that the individual keeps a transcript of any and all documents that are filled out and signed. These data sheets will come in handy when the time comes to put together a case. Remember that even if the statement was not recorded until much later on, it does prove that someone was made aware of the situation. From there, an attorney can document how the other person took care of the info and what was done to make enhancements to area in question.
Phone calls, documents and any other papers will be kept by the injury lawyer to support in proving liability on the part of the other person. Even if the legal representative is hanging onto numerous papers, it can't hurt to maintain an extra photocopy at home.

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This essay has been submitted by a student. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers.The Impact of Social Networking on e-Business
What is exactly the social networking and what is its impact to our daily life and e-business? This paper answers these questions and also it is introducing possible applications focusing on benefits, opportunities and risks. It is discussed, how could a company take advantage from social networking tools, what to consider of and what should care about. After all, everybody should take a look at the future!
AS an effect of the growth of the internet and WEB 2.0 new capabilities and tools have been added to make our daily life easier and also more entertaining.
Networking can already offer us plenty of options, capabilities and applications. The social networking is a new feature of the internet and it met a sudden big extension, growth and support from a huge number of fans.
The services of social networking aim at the creating of on-line communities by people with common interests and activities. These services operate mainly on the Internet and offer multiple means of communication and interaction to registered users/members. In order to create such an account, users have to make a registration by providing personal details and by creating a personal profile which can also described as a personal page or blog.
The users of these services may publish and share personal information with other groups of users or individual members, such as matters relating to hobbies, their work, short biography, CV, preferences, their loved ones, etc, via their personal page (profile section) and they can publish photographs, video, and more in their private page (blog) or in the form of messages, private or not. The members of these services can retain this personal page (blog) and customize its appearance and control its content by themselves.
Subsequently, a user can seek old fellows, friends and colleagues or to make new contacts and exchange with them all the above information and data.
There is no doubt that the services of the social networking constitute a new form of socialization and communication, especially among young people. However, these services give a new dimension to the meaning of personal space but it is also creating serious concerns about the infringement of users' privacy, whose personal data are made available to the Internet.
Facebook was created at February 4th 2004 in Massachusetts U.S.A by a twenty years old American student, Mark Zuckerberg, as a mean of communication of students and graduates of the University of Harvard. It reached around 60 million users at the end of 2007 and is one of the most popular websites worldwide together with the Google, Yahoo! and e-bay.
On the other hand, it is estimated that the MySpace had over 110 million users worldwide at the beginning of 2008.
(Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C. & Lampe, C. 2007, http://www.answers.com/topic/facebook & The social repercussions of the internet by Computing & New Technologies Centre of Florina, Greece). In the meantime, similar student networks have already created in other countries such as Greece, Germany, Russia and China.
"As a consequence of this fast take-up, Social Networking Sites have become one of the largest identity and reputation management systems in the world, and mobile social computing applications such as Twitter have rapidly become a global phenomenon, providing almost real-time access to, for example, the development of socio-political events" (The Impact of Social Computing on the EU Information Society and Economy, page 17).
The social networking websites give the impression that the world has now become very small and that we all belong to the same community. These websites and also the social networking applications provide many different abilities and tools for communication and expression and any user can choose with who will communicate. Members of these sites may participate in forums, which are groups with people who have common interests and concerns. In other social networking sites, users are able to share their professional background and interests in order to find new prospects.
It is true that the faster users browsing into the internet the more opportunities large companies gain to collect information in order to start bombing users with commercials and be advertised.
So, it have been given a taste of what the social networking is and at the next chapter will be discussed its impact on e-business. Additionally, will be provided details on social networks capabilities and how users react on this new features and functions of the internet and networking generally.The impact on e-commerce and e-business
Some years ago in order for the employees to have a short time break from the office environment, they were listening some music, were reading the latest news from the newspapers or they were going for shopping. Today all the above and many more (like online flash games), can be easily done in the comfort of the workplace/office utilizing of the huge networking and internet speeds and the extremely many choices of new technologies.
Research in major Western countries, has shown that approximately half of the employees of companies, admit that the Internet and social networks of any kind is their main activity at the hours they spend in their work and this is due to the endless options offered for all and for any interest by the Internet and the social networks (The social repercussions of the internet by Computing & New Technologies Centre of Florina, Greece).
In 2000, the American Mitch Maddox (known also as DotComGuy) had not seen the world outside his house for a whole year, neither his neighbourhood, because he didn't get out of his house. He had experienced a "normal life" in the virtual environment which was offered by a personal computer and a telephone cable. He was the first long-term experiment of whether it is possible for someone to survive depending only on the Internet and the services that it can offer. And the experiment had absolute success. The internet and social networking technologies helped Mitch to manage all his needs. He went shopping, he bought food, he had contact and communication with other people, he had entertaining and he also fell in love through the Internet! (http://www.disabled.gr/lib/?p=7212, volume 22).
So, as can be seen, the internet and the social networking are deeply inside our daily life with a huge acceptance. As a consequence, this can easily affect any business and the commerce in several ways.
E-business (electronic business), is the adaptation of traditional business model in the new electronic reality or the growth of new business model with object only the Internet.
Otherwise, is the transaction of business by way of electronic media and the internet, such as telephones, fax machines, computers, websites and video-teleconferencing equipment. This generally is broader than e-commerce although some may view e-business and e-commerce as interchangeable terms.
"Enterprises strive to take advantage of computing and networking advances in order to provide additional functionality and support increasingly complex business functions. The holy grail of the modern enterprise is e-business, which can be loosely defined as the discovery, procurement and sourcing of goods and services, over computer networks and within, but especially across, the boundaries of business units and enterprises. The challenge of conducting e-business across organisational boundaries is the space of opportunity for agents and ontologies." (Labrou 2002).
There are many benefits of leading a business to the direction of networking. It automatically gains e-business and e-commerce features and it is also able to gain reputation, financial benefits, abilities for expanding, etc.
Two giants of printed journalism, "Wall Street Journal" and "New York Times", decided to abolish the electronic subscription of their newspapers and to make them available on the Internet free of charge. They simply found that the revenues from electronic subscriptions were slightly ahead in profit that they could have from the online advertising, which is a fast rising market (The social repercussions of the internet by Computing & New Technologies Centre of Florina, Greece).
It is widely verified that the readers do not pay in order to obtain information electronically. They know well that they will find it free of charge on the Internet. Thus, the newspapers have seen their influence to be reducing drastically and this because they had set subscription for the electronic version. The result was that the printed version was reading more from the readers than the online one.
There are several reasons why companies should advertise on the social networking sites and one of them is because despite the fact that these sites have thousands of users, most of the pages that their users are browsing, are the same. This means that users will see the same advertisements every time, even though these advertisements will change at every page refresh or reload.
The traffic growth of some websites by social networks is a result of a number of factors. Some of them 'organic' and some of them down to clever marketing. "The earliest examples of successful social network marketing are typically more organic or grass roots, whether it is the Arctic Monkeys building a following via MySpace or 14,000 people successfully campaigning for the return of Cadbury's Wispa on Facebook" (The Impact of Social Networking in the UK, Hitwise 2007).
The Internet and social networking is the most important factor that affects developments in the process of direct promotion of the company and its products or services. Thus the creation of a website, blog or any other social portal is necessary according to the characteristics of the markets in the new reality.
Even a small business, a small blog or small podcasting sites can become a source of revenue and this is because of the advertising. Advertising is one of the biggest sources of revenue but exact the opposite for the one who needs to be advertised.
Media industries, like television and radio have lost a lot of traditional audience but they gained much more from the internet free live streaming. At first this was a financial hole but it soon covered by the revenues from the online advertising and commercial banners.
"The internet has enabled consumers to interact directly with advertisers and advertisements" (Electronic commerce, Efraim Turban).
A research which took place to many countries all over the world, found that three-quarters of PC uses were willing to spend more time to communicate and be updated over the internet and social networking sites and tools (like social networking software applications) than to watch television (The social repercussions of the internet by Computing & New Technologies Centre of Florina, Greece).
An example could be the IM applications (Instant Messaging) or the online chat rooms. With e-chat and IM the participants are able to exchange messages (often they can also exchange photos, documents, sound files, etc.) in real time. The software industry estimates that several hundred thousand web sites have millions of chat rooms and forums.
Nowadays, in most of the cases, the customer-supplier relationships are not sustained with face-to-face meetings. Here is where online communities give the solution, which is increasingly being used to serve business interests.
Figure 2 is an exhibit which has been printed to the "Internet business models and Strategies" of Allan Afuah & Christopher L. Tucci, 2000, and can be seen the e-business revenues by percent and categories for year ended December 31, 1997.
A discussion of possible applications on e-business focusing on opportunities, benefits and risks will take place at the next chapter.Possible applications focusing on opportunities, benefits and risks
"E-business, derived from such terms as "e-mail" and "e-commerce", is the conduct of business on the Internet, not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners" (Tim D. Nelson, 2001).
IBM used that term first in October 1997, when it launched a thematic campaign built around the term. Nowadays, big corporations or even small companies and shops are rethinking their businesses in terms of the Internet and the new capabilities of social networks and applications.
Any company now is able to use the internetworks to buy parts and supplies from other companies (B2B: business-to-business direct business model), to collaborate on sales promotions (B2C: business-to-consumer model) and to do joint research. Exploiting the convenience, availability, and world-wide reach of the Internet, many companies, such as Amazon.com, the book sellers have already discovered how to use the Internet successfully.
The electronic trade, particularly in the B2B model has been developed in satisfactory degree in all enterprising branches. Enterprises show willing their incorporation in their everyday routine practices of electronic sales and supplies enjoying as return reduction of their functional cost (e-business [email protected], "The European e-Business Report", 2005 edition).
On the other hand B2C model allows to a company as big or small it is to reduce the cost of customer service and support by allowing customers by helping themselves to information and downloads as well as service and support applications. It is a good point for referring to the forums and other discussion groups created by users who share their knowledge with other users in order to find a solution to a possible problem they are experiencing. Also, a smart application of the social networking capabilities is what McAfee enterprise done about its customer support. McAfee uses his own software of instant messaging (chat) in order to directly guide its customer to the solution of his/her problem.
So, B2C model in co-operation with social networking capabilities can encourage customers to make use of the lower cost web channel and make easier for customers to do business with the company as in the meantime business managers can get other works done in other more expensive channels.
Furthermore, the customer offers the potential for personalised e-marketing campaigns and the company can improve the customer service something that is critical to maintaining and increasing customer loyalty. All these can be done with the help of the information that will have been collected for all customers and customers' needs from forums, customer comments on company's blog for example, groups and any other customer information source that is born from a social networking tool and media.
"Dell found that quality of customer service was the most important factor of e-loyalty and repeat on-line sales followed in second place by on-time delivery. These factors considered more important than the product or the price." (DataBase Associates International Limited© 2000, Information Age Magazine, June 2000).
There is an issue that the business managers must have in mind. Many companies are rushing into e-business without well planning and without take under serious consideration the risks that may occur. One of these risks is the adoption and the applying of wrong and old traditional business models to e-business environment. The key of success about the web in a B2C model is that the web puts the consumer in control. "Therefore, even though the internet magnifies everything making it easier to be customer centred and build loyalty, it also makes it easier to look disorganised and removed from the customer. It is the customer who will drive business in the e-business world" (DataBase Associates International Limited© 2000, Information Age Magazine, June 2000).
Some other applications of social networking tools that a company can take advantage of are the creation of portals, blogs, forums and groups for direct and more social interaction with the consumers, which covers concrete conditions and requirements, because the right communication with consumers and customers is always the primary goal.
Some of the including topics of that blog could be the enterprising missions, assignments, studies and researches, news and achievements including of course a kind of advertisement, meetings, congresses and conferences that the company would join or organise.
Additionally, can take advantage of the creation of questionnaires inside its blog or a discussion group, which is the most widespread method of collection of primary information and elements. Its basic advantage is the high speed of collection and editing of information and the final results as well as the low cost of concretisation. As well as the spread of smart designed and personalized advertising banners into relevant sites, chat rooms, etc.
The main objectives of the creation of this portal/blog are the promotion and projection, its operation as a familiar especially to youth and easy to use channel of communication, the support of the general and operational planning movements, the announcement and distribution of their results and in generally the overall support and aid of company's picture.
Finally, if the company find it useful and profitable in any way, can send newsletters in e-mail format to customers and could head of the creation of a social networking software like IM/Chat for e-marketing and customer support purposes. (Internet Business Models & Strategies, 2002 - Advertisement in Electronic Commerce, 2008)
The final chapter of this paper is the conclusion. The synopsis of all the above, the lessons that have been learnt and the recommendations that can be made as a result.
Social Networks keep people in touch, give to their users the capability of sharing personal information and context like photos with friends. They are also a source of meeting new people or even join a forum, a discussion group or at the friendlist of their favorite music band or computer software enterprise. These are a place from which you can promote yourself in order to find a job or a job to find you.
Social network media are nowadays deeply inside our daily life and of course companies would not lose a chance of use this media and its tools for advertising, marketing or other beneficial purposes even more personalized than the traditional marketing way. And anybody who uses this technology can cover almost all of his needs by the comfort of his desk or even his home.
However some enterprises are increasingly concerned about large number of their employees turning to social networking tools for job related purposes and they are trying to find a sensible way to manage it.
The highest executives of enterprises will not be supposed to prevent and prohibit the use of social networking websites as Facebook and MySpace by their employees.
The encouragement of employees who use such technologies helps in the creation of relations and narrow contacts between company employees and customers thus it can be proved beneficial for the company.
Peter Bradwell (researcher at Demos, www.demos.co.uk) declared that such internet services can improve the productivity, the innovation and the democratic processes inside the enterprises. However, it will be necessary the existence of practical directives that would determine their use in the workplace. As Bradwell said, the prohibition of Facebook and YouTube it is almost impossible to be applied. The companies could only impose a maximum permissible time limit for such activities.
Bradwell's research led that the effort of control of web pages as Facebook, in which hundreds millions users are participating around the world, could have negative repercussions, while it considers erroneous the ignorance of importance that has acquired the social networking of employees. (http://www.cpusers.gr/showthread.php?t=846)
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This is one of my favourite appearances of David Bowie on TV. I had never seen a "Live By Request" before and I now believe I was missing out on some good stuff! This was filmed in 2002, after the release of "Heathen". Bowie performs a few tracks from his new album but also lots of old favourites like "Ziggy Stardust" and "Ashes to Ashes". However, what I enjoyed most was his interaction with the callers and the host. There are quite a few jokes and we get some mini-interviews between tracks, which fans of David Bowie are going to cherish. If you're a Bowie fan, you have to watch this. If you're not, it still makes for an entertaining evening with lots of good music.


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New Delhi, Nov 1 (UNI) Castlewood Investment Properties, one of the largest real estate developers in Europe and the US, today said it has joined hands with Singapore-based Homeplace International and its exclusive Indian associate Land Solutions for their entry into India by helping people invest in properties abroad.
The company showcased a bouquet of real estate properties, mainly based in Hungary, the US, and the UK as NRIs and Indian Resident of High Income Group are investing more on global properties.
Studies show that Indians constitute 85 per cent of clients interested in owning properties in high-end luxury and unusually located residential developments, Castlewood MD Christopher said.
''Indian investors are always in radar of any international developers. Castlewood will soon launch projects in the US, the UK and Hungary in association with Homeplace International,'' he added.
Not only High Net Individual and NRIs, the client spectrum comprises both investment seekers and investors such as corporate, developers, banks, MNCs and Millionaire Clubs, Mr Christopher said.
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Summary: Sometimes the smartest people are also the slowest on the uptake…
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"You have got to be the dumbest smart person I've ever met!"
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"You're too uptight."
The engineer looked up from the datapad he'd been studying. Okay, not really studying; more like absentmindedly staring at while his CPU meandered around the wonderful world of scientific equations. There was a particularly burly velocity/weight one relating to an upgrade for Sideswipe's jet pack that was giving him trouble. At Ratchet's off-hand – and off-the-wall, too, Wheeljack thought – comment, the equation fled to be replaced by confusion. He arched a brow ridge at the medic.
"I have two questions for ya," he said after a moment. "Why are ya here and where in the Pit did that assessment come from?"
Ratchet gave him a long stare, as if rolling the questions around in his CPU before answering. "Well, now. The first question is difficult to answer in the metaphysical sense, but in the physical, I am here, Wheeljack, because I walked in that door –" He gestured at said door with an expansive wave of one arm. "—and sat down on this berth." The medic patted the cool metal of said berth with one hand. Then he pinned Wheeljack with one of his patented Pre-Flying-Object glares. "And that assessment came from the fact that you tore Swoop a new one for practically nothing this afternoon."
"He dropped the –"
"But –"
To Wheeljack's chagrin he did, in fact, stow it. He knew in his spark that Ratchet was right. He had been irritable lately, Primus knew why. Of course, Primus wasn't going to tell him why, so he'd have to go to the next best source. Namely, the source that was currently sitting on his recharge berth and giving him a smug smirk.
"Thank you," Ratchet said. He gave Wheeljack another stare. The engineer fidgeted slightly, wondering just what was going on in his friend's CPU. They'd known each other for a long, long time, and some would assume that meant that Wheeljack had some sort of insight into how Ratchet's mind worked. That simply wasn't the case; Ratchet was far too complicated to be read, at times.
This was one of them.
Just as Wheeljack was about to speak, headfins flashing dimly, the medic spoke.
"So, how long has it been since you last overloaded?"
Wheeljack stared, optics wide. What the hell kind of question was that? If he hadn't been wearing his customary battleguard his jaw would have dropped; if he'd been human he would've been blushing. As it was, he fidgeted with the datapad on the table, normally dexterous fingers fumbling distractedly.
"Uh. I dunno, Ratch. Why?"
"Because that, my friend, is your problem."
Another incredulous look and Wheeljack leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms over his red-white-and-green chest. "Okay. Assuming that's the problem, what do ya propose I do about it?"
Ratchet crossed his arms over his chest and leaned back, unconsciously mimicking the engineer. "Weell that is a dilemma, isn't it? There aren't any femmes on base, are there?"
"Ya know there aren't."
"Mm-hmm." Ratchet looked at the ceiling.
Wheeljack just gave him a blank look. "…am I missing something here?"
The medic's optics flicked to him, an optic ridge rising. He gave Wheeljack one of his patented If-You-Were-Any-More-Stupid-You'd-Be-Dysfunctional looks, and said nothing.
Ratchet rolled his optics, stood up, and moved to stand next to the thoroughly flummoxed engineer. He patted his shoulder companionably. "Nothing, 'Jack. I was just throwing out an explanation. Really, I think it's more likely lack of proper recharge. Get some sleep," he said.
Wheeljack watched Ratchet leave, completely and utterly confused. He turned back to the datapad on the table as the door hissed shut. What was that all about? Why had Ratchet even brought the matter up, and then dismissed it a moment later? And what in the name of Primus had been with all those Looks?!
He sighed, resting his helm in the palms of his hands. There was an even bigger question here…
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Since 1955, they've been proud to serve the world some of its favorite food. And along the way, they've managed not just to live history, but create it: from drive-thru restaurants to Chicken McNuggets to college credits from Hamburger U and much more. It's been quite the journey, and they promise this is just the beginning-they've got our hearts set DCon making more history.
The first McDonald's drive-thru was created in 1975 near an Arizona military base-to serve soldiers who weren't permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.
Being the world's prominent junk food restaurant, Mcdonald has its high standards of objectives and to maintain sound rapport world wide the management has to have a compact strategy and performance review system to compete and survive as setting sublime standards.
"If you don't know where you're going, then sure as anything you won't get there."
Setting Goals
The major outcome of strategic road-mapping and strategic planning, after gathering all necessary information, is the setting of goals for the organization based on its vision and mission statement.
A goal is a long-range aim for a specific period. It must be specific and realistic. Long-range goals set through strategic planning are translated into activities that will ensure reaching the goal through operational planning.
Setting Objectives
An objective is a specific step, a milestone, which enables you to accomplish a goal. Setting objectives involves a continuous process of research and decision-making. Knowledge of yourself and your unit is a vital starting point in setting objectives.
Strategic planning takes place at the highest levels; other managers are involved with operational planning. The first step in operational planning is defining objectives - the result expected by the end of the budget (or other designated) cycle.
Setting right objectives is critical for effective performance management. Such objectives as higher profits, shareholder value, and customer satisfaction may be admirable, but they don't tell managers what to do. "They fail to specify priorities and focus. Such objectives don't map the journey ahead - the discovery of better value and solutions for the customer."6
The objectives must be:
be focused on a result, not an activity
be consistent
be specific
be measurable
be related to time
be attainable
Quality definition:
Generally: measure of excellence or state of being free from defects, deficiencies, and significant variations. ISO 8402-1986 standard defines quality as "the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bears its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs."
Manufacturing: Strict and consistent adherence to measurable and verifiable standards to achieve uniformity of output that satisfies specific customer or user requirements.
Objective: Measurable and verifiable aspect of a thing or phenomenon, expressed in numbers or quantities, such as lightness or heaviness, thickness or thinness, softness or hardness.
Subjective: Attribute, characteristic, or property of a thing or phenomenon that can be observed and interpreted, and may be approximated (quantified) but cannot be measured, such as beauty, feel, flavor, taste.
The basic objectives of quality control are to maintain quality standards in order to ensure customer satisfaction and to reduce the costs associated with the scrapping of defective goods.
Quality control has two different aspects:
Quality of design related to the appropriateness of the product for the customer's purpose. After establishing customer requirements or the customer's insight of quality it is personified in production design and requirement.
Quality of conformance related to the extent to which the goods that are produced conform to the condition laid down. This aspect of quality concerns steadiness of the product.
There is a trade off between the costs associated with the maintenance of quality and the costs resulting from failures. Quality control involves the use of resources in the inspection process. To this has to be added the costs of prevention (special investigation in to failure, personnel training, and maintenance) which have to be balanced against the cost of failure (scrap, reworking, sorting rejects, loss of sales, after-sales service, serving complaints, additional operations).
However, quality control costs can be reduced by the inspection of variables in the production process. These include the raw materials that go in to the production process, work in progress and the machinery used.
one selling or buying goods or services in the same market as another or an organism that lives in competition with another.
In the excellent book [Even More Offensive Marketing], Davidson likens the process of gathering competitive data to a jigsaw puzzle. Each individual piece of data does not have much value. The important skill is to collect as many of the pieces as possible and to assemble them into an overall picture of the competitor. This enables you to identify any missing pieces and to take the necessary steps to collect them.
In his excellent book [Even More Offensive Marketing], Davidson likens the process of gathering competitive data to a jigsaw puzzle. Each individual piece of data does not have much value. The important skill is to collect as many of the pieces as possible and to assemble th em into an overall picture of the competitor. This enables you to identify any missing pieces and to take the necessary steps to collect them.
What businesses need to know about their competitors
The tables below lists the kinds of competitor information that would help businesses complete some good quality competitor analysis.
You can probably think of many more pieces of information about a competitor that would be useful. However, an important challenge in competitor analysis is working out how to obtain competitor information that is reliable, up-to-date and available legally(!).
Overall sales and profits
Sales and profits by market
Sales by main brand
Cost structure
Market shares (revenues and volumes)
Organisation structure
Distribution system
Identity / profile of senior management
Advertising strategy and spending
Customer / consumer profile & attitudes
Customer retention levels
What businesses would really like to know about competitors
Sales and profits by product
Relative costs
Customer satisfaction and service levels
Customer retention levels
Distribution costs
New product strategies
Size and quality of customer databases
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Contractual terms with key suppliers
Terms of strategic partnerships
Market trends for any organization like Mcdonalds should be considered as prerequisites to formulate the mission statement and objectives in order to achieve the sublime.


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What makes us pick up new books by the same crime novelists time and time again? The jaundiced aficionado demands only that a favourite author recycles their sure-fire tropes in a surprising fashion and couldn't give a damn about redefinitions of the thriller form. On that basis, both Carl Hiaasen and John Connolly can be relied upon to push all of our buttons without challenging conventions too radically.
Connolly delivers such grisly and adroitly plotted novels as The White Road without working up a sweat. A sardonic Irishman who has become one of the most distinguished practitioners of US crime-writing, he has an unerring ear for the American idiom, so that all his books (notably this latest) convey vividly evoked locations.
In the South Carolina of The White Road, a black man has been condemned to death for the rape and murder of the daughter of one of the richest men in the state. Needless to say, nobody wants to come near a case like this, but laconic dick Charlie Parker – the "Bird" encountered in previous offerings from Connolly – is an old hand at unwinnable cases. For him, though, an involvement in the case becomes very personal. A fundamentalist preacher in a prison cell takes a bizarre revenge on Parker using a strange creature that keeps its secrets buried near a riverbank.
The book synthesises literate, poetic writing with scarifying grue: a marriage that produces far more persuasive results than the by-numbers blood-letting of so much crime writing. As the phantasmagorical narrative barrels towards a bizarre conclusion in the Southern swamps, Parker must travel the eponymous White Road to a nightmare reckoning.
Connolly's speciality has always been strip-mining the evil that resides in the darkest psychic corners, and this is his most extreme venture into that territory. There are few writers who are prepared to take such a plunge into the kind of psychopathology that underpins The White Road, and the squeamish would be better off with something cosier. Agatha Christie this ain't.
When a whole slew of authors admit to being influenced by Carl Hiaasen, it's clear that his cult status is established. But the self-conscious, surrealistic quality of his writing is a hard act to sustain. Although such books as Tourist Season brilliantly create a world very much his own, there is a certain suspense with the appearance of each new title.
Can he pull it off again? In the case of Basket Case, the answer is a (qualified) yes, although his delirious plotting is more reined-in than usual. Set in his Florida stamping ground, this new outing sports a mélange of journalists, rock'n'roll, and lizards. Always count on a nasty reptile in the Hiaasen mix, as omnipresent as the bears in John Irving.
Basket Case is as outrageously entertaining as its predecessors. Jack Tagger is the kind of journalist encountered many times in the crime novel, haplessly given to screwing himself in both career and relationships. Rubbing up people the wrong way has consigned him to the graveyard of the obituary page. He has made a particular enemy of his paper's owner, Race Maggad III.
Then Jack stumbles on the story of a lifetime: rock star James Stomarti has cashed in his chips in a diving accident, and Jack finds that his sexy starlet widow stands to gain from her husband's death. Jack begins to dig for the truth, but finds himself up against not just the politics of his paper, but some pretty dangerous enemies. The lunacies of the rock world are vividly conjured, and this is no mean achievement – this territory is always a snare and delusion for thriller writers who can't resist warmed-over, Spinal Tap-style digs.
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THE Murray Smith Accountants Cheshire County League gets under way this weekend, and Bramhall will be delighted to see Andy Hall back in the captain's role following a winter injury scare.
Cheshire skipper Hall, aged 30, is set to feature in Saturday's home game against Warrington after he escaped serious injury in a freak February accident while the passenger in a car near Geelong, Australia, where he played grade cricket throughout the winter.
Hall was struck above the eye by a stone which flew through the side window from a motor mower and had to be rushed to hospital. He had 10 stitches inserted in a wound, but happily for the Church Lane outfit, Hall will lead the fightback to the premier division after relegation in 2003.
Cheadle Hulme get their first division campaign under way at Toft, and welcome new overseas player Terry Kennedy, a 25-year-old Aussie right-arm all-rounder who comes from Fairfield-Liverpool CC in the Sydney Grade competition.
Other new players at Grove Park include Paul Slattery (ex-Didsbury), Chris Grindley (ex-Cheadle) and Takir Mirza from Huddersfield.
Cheadle Hulme's first XI are looking for a scorer for their 2004 matches.
They are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, experience is not essential but would obviously help.
The role would suit either a young or an old cricket enthusiast, and renumeration is available. For further details contact Ewan Macray on 0161 485 3034.
Meanwhile, Bowdon's contracted all-rounder Gary Yates has welcomed the news that the CCL is to go 'open' for the first time since it's inauguration in 1975.
Yates, the Lancashire all-rounder, topped the ECB premier division averages last season with 77 wickets and 930 runs at an impressive average of 93. And as his first-class career winds down, Yates is more than happy to continue playing for Bowdon.
At the league's Annual General Meeting at Bowdon, 20 clubs voted for the word 'amateur' to be removed from the constitution, thus allowing players to be paid to play. Nine clubs voted against the move and two clubs abstained, but a two thirds majority was enough to make sure the regulation which outlaws 'payments in cash or kind' was removed.
"I'm sure going 'open' will help attract some really top players," said Yates.
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National Club Championship 1st Round (1.30pm): Bootle v Hyde; Warrington v St. Helens; Bramhall v Huyton; Hindley St.Peter's v Nantwich; Bowdon v Northop Hall; Oxton v Whitchurch; Timperley v Ormskirk.


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A night-by-night look at the fall TV season
Hart of Dixie
CW, Mondays, 9 ET/PT, Sept. 26
Sometimes with TV, you have to take your funny where you can find it.
Outside of New Girl, you won't get as many laughs as you'd like out of the new sitcoms, but don't despair. Hilarity reigns at Hart, an atrocious teen soap that tries to sell The OC's Rachel Bilson as a hard-charging would-be cardiothoracic surgeon who finds her drive to the top of the New York medical heap temporarily derailed and responds by taking over a private practice in a tiny Alabama town. It's hard to be sure what's more amusing: the show's clichéd fantasy view of small-town life or Bilson's tendency to over-enunciate cardiothoracic as if the word had been taught to her five minutes before.
STORY: Fall's top 10 shows
INTERACTIVE: Fall TV calendar
MORE: PBS and cable
ABC, Tuesdays, 8 ET/PT, Oct. 11
You can go Home again — but maybe you shouldn't.
Tim Allen has made no bones about what he wanted for his TV return: a show that mirrored his old hit Home Improvement but with girls instead of boys, a switch that puts this "man's man" into a domestic world dominated by women. The idea isn't without merit, and there's no question Allen is the kind of star who should be happily welcomed back into the TV fold. But not, sad to say, in a creaky, moldy, outmoded vehicle that makes him look as ancient as Terra Nova's dinosaurs, and considerably less lifelike.
Man Up
ABC, Tuesdays, 8:30 ET/PT, Oct. 18
Say this for ABC: It managed to find a companion for Last Man Standing that's so tired it makes Standing seem fresh.
Where Allen's character is a man asserting his manhood, these three leads (Christopher Moynihan, Mather Zickel and Dan Fogler) are grown-up boys searching for manhood, a "man-child" act that is as tired as it is unappealing. They're intimidated by their wives and girlfriends — and with good reason, as the women are always right. They break up weddings, scream for no particular reason, model their lives on movies and generally engage in the kind of witless, pop-culture-littered conversations you pray only take place in bad sitcoms. Just not, you pray, for long.
CBS, Tuesdays, 10 ET/PT, Sept. 20
It's never wise to give your show a title it doesn't live up to.
That's not to say Unforgettable is bad; it's one of fall's better bets. It has a fine, attractive lead in Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace). It has a functional procedural premise, with Montgomery as a cop with a rare (and real) medical condition that causes her to remember everything that's ever happened to her. It's a well-produced, efficient piece of popular entertainment. What it lacks is a spark, anything special enough to want to talk about with friends — or even remember — the next day.
The X-Factor
Fox, Wednesdays/Thursdays, 8 ET/PT, Sept. 21
Normally you won't find reality shows in our fall preview, which is designed to focus on scripted programs. But X-Factor is no normal reality show. It is, quite simply, the season's 500-pound gorilla — the series everyone expects to succeed and Fox needs to succeed. Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul reunite for this U.S. version of Cowell's hit British talent show, which allows all ages to compete individually or in groups and assigns each to a judge/mentor. Even with those twists, is there really room in prime time for yet another singing competition?
Up All Night
NBC, Wednesdays, 8 ET/PT, Sept. 14
Move over for Maya.
That wasn't the original plan for this series, which stars Christina Applegate as a brand-new mom with a stay-at-home husband (Will Arnett) and a crazy boss —Maya Rudolph as the head of a public relations firm. And then Bridesmaids became a big hit, and overnight, the show was revamped to give Rudolph a more prominent role. The new version is not yet available for preview, but she now plays a talk-show host, Applegate works as her producer, and the focus shifts from home to the workplace. Shows can have trouble pulling off that kind of last-minute switch.
Free Agents
NBC, Wednesdays, 8:30 ET/PT, Sept. 14
Maybe something was lost in the overseas transfer. For its latest attempt to Americanize a foreign sitcom, NBC has imported this British hit about an office sort-of-romance, bringing along one of the original stars (Buffy's Anthony Head) in the bargain. And they've hired two strong actors to play the show's two sometimes-romantically involved press agents: Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn. The original must have its merits, but none are visible in a sex-obsessed, thuddingly unfunny pilot.
ABC, Wednesdays, 8:30 ET/PT, Sept. 28
City fish, meet suburban water. Winning the prime slot between The Middle and Modern Family, this comedy stars Jane Levy as a New York teenager whose single father (Jeremy Sisto) moves her to a big house in the suburbs. Levy and Sisto make an appealing team, and while some of the Stepford Wives jokes are familiar, they're almost all well-told. The show might be a better lineup fit with its ABC companions if it toned down the irony and humanized some of the suburb-dwellers — but even as is, it's one of the more amusing new comedy entries.
I Hate My Teenage Daughter
Fox, Wednesdays, 9:30 ET/PT, Nov. 30
So do we, and that could be a problem. The two mothers involved — played by Emmy winner Jaime Pressly and Tony winner Katie Finneran— don't really hate their daughters; they're exasperated, sweet, former nerd single moms whose daughters have turned into mean girls. Deep down, they all love each other, and everything is meant to turn out well. But the mothers come across as so inept, and the daughters so charmless and humorless, they actually do approach hateful.
ABC, Wednesdays, 10 ET/PT, Sept. 21
The prime-time soap may be down, but it's not out. ABC moves a star of the late Brothers & Sisters, Emily VanCamp, to the Hamptons, as a young woman out to destroy those she blames for her father's death and disgrace, a social elite led by Madeleine Stowe and Henry Czerny. The cast is fine, the setting lovely — but week after week, without the victims figuring it out?
Charlie's Angels
ABC, Thursdays, 8 ET/PT, Sept. 22
Sorry, ladies, but you're no Angels.
Even if anyone actually does believe there was some crying need for a new version, what possible use is there for one that's this much worse than the original? To be sure, the original Angels was no great shakes itself (well, except when it jiggled on purpose), but at least it had energy, humor and a clear sense of frothy purpose — all of which are missing in this dreary, empty retread. As for the newest Angels, let's just say they make you sorry fans were so hard on Shelley Hack. Angels, my eye.
How to Be a Gentleman
CBS, Thursdays, 8:30 ET/PT, Sept. 29
Here comes another odd couple. This latest variant was created by Davd Hornsby, who also stars as Andrew, a refined etiquette columnist whose boss (Dave Foley) orders him to become less refined. For help he turns to his old nemesis Bert, a school bully turned fitness coach (Entourage's Kevin Dillon). The setup, while old, is sturdy enough to provide amusing moments in the pilot. But too few of those moments come from Hornsby, because the jokes are all aimed at Andrew.
The Secret Circle
CW, Thursdays, 9 ET/PT, Sept. 15
If at first you succeed, repeat, repeat again. Having found a hit in The Vampire Diaries, CW now turns to its producer, Kevin Williamson, adapting more books by author L. J. Smith. So you get a series that looks and feels an awful lot like Diaries, only with witches instead of vampires and an even stronger female-teen skew. The likable star is Life Unexpected's Britt Robertson, as an orphan who discovers she's the latest in a long line of witches.
NBC, Thursdays, 9:30 ET/PT, Sept. 22
For Whitney Cummings, two shows may be one too many. She's the co-creator of CBS' promising 2 Broke Girls. But odds are most of her energy is being poured into this starring vehicle — and going to waste. In this oddly artificial show, she's a single, very opinionated woman who bounces those opinions off a set of insufficiently fleshed-out supporting characters. But too many lines sound like they were lifted from her stand-up routine, and too many scenes seem based on the idea that everything she says and does is hilarious.
Prime Suspect
NBC, Thursdays, 10 ET/PT, Sept. 22
Remaking Prime Suspect is close to insane: Why force comparisons to a 20-year-old British classic when you can't hope to recapture its impact — not when so many other female cops have followed — and why force an actor to take on a role indelibly linked to one of the great actors of our age, Helen Mirren? Still, there's a lot of talent here, from star Maria Bello, Aidan Quinn and Brian O'Byrne in front of the camera, to Peter Berg behind it, and cop shows are always popular. Tone down the sexism angle, give Jane a bit more maturity, and get rid of that ridiculous "signature" hat, and perhaps it can work.
Allen Gregory
Fox, Sundays, 8:30 ET/PT, Oct. 30
Jonah Hill stars in this unpreviewed animated series as a proudly pretentious 7-year-old who is about to leave home-schooling for elementary school.
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Clinical research and the electronic medical record: Interdisciplinary research agendas Michael G. Kahn MD, PhD Biomedical Informatics Core Director Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of Colorado Director, Clinical Informatics The Children's Hospital, Denver firstname.lastname@example.com
Submission & Reporting Evidence-based Review New Research Questions Study Setup Study Design & Approval Recruitment & Enrollment Study Execution Clinical Practice Public Information T1 Biomedical Research Investigator Initiated T1 T2 Translational Research Industry Sponsored Commercialization Clinical Trial Data Basic Research Data Pilot Studies Required Data Sharing Outcomes Reporting Outcomes Research Evidence- based Patient Care and Policy EMR Data A Lifecycle View of Clinical Research
The Promise of the Electronic Medical Record Merging prospective clinical research & evidence-based clinical care –A "front-end" focus Improving care one patient at a time (decision support) Merging clinical care and clinical research data collection Clinically rich database for retrospective clinical research –A "back-end" focus Making discoveries across populations of patients Improving care at the population / policy level
Grand Vision: Any clinical investigator can "belly up to the bar" for research-quality data
The Tale of A Trivial Data Request The original data request: "For an upcoming grant application, how many patients were seen recently with neurofibromatosis-1 (NF-1) and scoliosis?" "Recently seen" = an encounter of any type since 1/1/2008 NF-1: ICD-9 code starts with "237.7" Scoliosis: ICD-9 code starts with "737.3" Result: N=15
The Tale of A Simple Data Query Drilling down: –This query required both diagnoses to be coded on the same encounter (event). N(Pt) Encounter Dx1 = NF-1 Dx2 = Scoliosis 1/1/2008 - today
The Tale of A Simple Data Query Second query: –NF-1 and Scoliosis diagnoses can be coded on different encounters, both within time window –N= 28 N(Pt) Encounter Dx1 = NF-1 Dx2 = Scoliosis 1/1/2008 - today Encounter
The Tale of A Simple Data Query Investigator still did not like the answer: –NF-1 is a life-long genetic illness –Scoliosis develops as a complication. –Therefore: NF-1 diagnosis at any time Only scoliosis need to be "recently seen" –N= 47 N(Pt) Encounter Dx1 = NF-1 Dx2 = Scoliosis Encounter 1/1/2008 - today
One Question Three temporal structures Three different answers N = 15 N = 28 N = 47
Tale of a research query Use of C-Reactive Protein as a marker of clinical infection in the NICU First Temporal Structure: No Abx 2+ days CRP test 2 days Abx Start Days(Antibiotics) Abx Stop
Tale of a research query This is not right! No Abx 2+ days CRP test 2 days Abx Start Days(Antibiotics) Abx Stop Abx Stop could occur during 2-day window for CRP test, as long as CRP test occurred before CRP test
Tale of a research query Does this capture the desired relationship? Want to allow for Abx Stop to occur within the 2-day CRP window but only if after CRP test. But do not want to require Abx Stop in the 2-day window No Abx 2+ days CRP test Abx Stop 2 days Abx Start Days(Antibiotics)
Tale of a research query What if I do want to constraint Abx Stop to the 2-day window? What does that look like? Is the difference visually obvious? No Abx 2+ days CRP test Abx Stop 2 days Abx Start Days(Antibiotics) No Abx 2+ days CRP test Abx Stop 2 days Abx Start Days(Antibiotics)
Different temporal structures - Different answers Different Clinical Meanings/Interpretations
Representing Meaningful Temporal Relationships Three weeks prior to admission, a bright red patch appeared under the patient's eye. The patient developed a maculopapular rash that spread to her hands and then her knees the following day On admission, she began having fever to 40 o C which resolved by HD #2 She was discharged on HD #8
Original Assertions 6 Fever resolved 7 2 1 5 6 4 3 1 2 Red Patch appeared Hospital Admission 3 4 Rash over Hands Rash over Knees 5 Fevers 7 Hospital Discharge Explosive number of derived temporal concepts (full transitive closure) Not all of them are useful. But which ones?
Full Temporal Closure 6 Fever resolved 7 2 1 5 6 4 3 1 2 Red Patch appeared Hospital Admission 3 4 Rash over Hands Rash over Knees 5 Fevers 7 Hospital Discharge Explosive number of derived temporal concepts (full transitive closure) Not all of them are useful. But which ones?
Surgical cut time Abx start time Abx stop time Abx redose time Abx d/c time 4 3 2 1 5 7 6 8 Time Milestones Associated with Surgical Antibiotics Prophylaxis Eight (of 10) clinically-meaningful time intervals Which ones are clinically relevant? Which ones have recommendations? Which ones can we extract?
Supporting Ad-Hoc Queries: Who is the User? Clinically-knowledgable but data-naive clinicians Goal: To ensure underlying temporal assumptions are explicit What type of user interface visual paradigm would support this type of interactive queries? –What meta-data support is needed for clinically-meaningful derived temporal concepts
PatternFinder (Lam: University of Maryland) From: Lam. Searching Electronic Health Records for Temporal Patterns. A Case Study with Azyxxi, 2008. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ehrviz-workshop/ www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/patternfinder
Relational operators –"relative increase greater than X" –"relative increase greater than X%" –"relative decrease greater than X" –"relative decrease greater than X%" –"less than value in event X" –"equal to value in event X –"not equal to value in event X" –"within X prior to (relative)" –"within X following (relative)" –"after X (relative)" –"before X (relative)" – "is equal to (relative)" –"equal to value in event X" –"not equal to value in event X" 22 Key Querying Features From:Lam. Searching Electronic Health Records for Temporal Patterns. A Case Suty with Azyxxi, 2008. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ehrviz-workshop/
Patients with increasing dosages of Remeron followed by a heart attack within 180 days From: Wang, Plaisant, Shneiderman. Workshop: Interactive Exploration of Electronic Health Records, 2008. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ehrviz-workshop/ PatternFinder Interface
Patients with increasing dosages of Remeron followed by a heart attack within 180 days SELECT P.* FROM Person P, Event E1, Event E2, Event E3, Event E4 WHERE P.PID = E1.PID AND P.PID = E2.PID AND P.PID = E3.PID AND P.PID = E4.PID AND E1.type = "Medication" AND E1.class = "Anti Depressant" AND E1.name = "Remeron" AND E2.type = "Medication" AND E2.class = "Anti Depressant" AND E2.name = "Remeron" AND E3.type = "Medication" AND E3.class = "Anti Depressant" AND E3.name = "Remeron" AND E2.value > E1.value AND E3.value >= E2.value AND E2.date > E1.date AND E3.date >= E2.date AND E4.type = "Visit" AND E4.class = "Hospital" AND E4.name = "Emergency" AND E4.value = "Heart Attack" AND E4.date >= E3.date AND 180 <= (E4.date – E3.date) From: Wang, Plaisant, Shneiderman. Workshop: Interactive Exploration of Electronic Health Records, 2008. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ehrviz-workshop/
Result Set Visualization: Ball and Chain
LifeLines2: Align-Rank-Filter www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines2 From: Wang, Plaisant, Shneiderman. Workshop: Interactive Exploration of Electronic Health Records, 2008. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ehrviz-workshop/
Health Services Research Temporal Templates? Look-back Window End of Observation Date Observation Window Index Event Date Accrual Window Maximum Follow-up Date Patient-specific Dates Time Study-specific Dates From A. Forster. The Ottawa Hospital-Data Request Form 2009
Data quality – Dirty Laundry Suppose the previous issues were solved and investigators can easily construct complex temporal and atemporal queries…… …..what is the quality of the results that come back?
Let's assume the query interface issue is solved! Would this result be worrisome?
It's tough being 6 years old…….
Should we be worried? No –Large numbers will swamp out effect of anomalous data or use trimmed data –Simulation techniques are insensitive to small errors Yes –Public reporting could highlight data anomalies –Genomic associations look for small signals (small differences in risks) amongst populations
Research Challenge Can we create a dynamic measure of data quality that is provided with the results of all queries? Query Results, quality measure
What would be the elements of QM? Book cover images from Amazon.com
Measuring Data Quality Observed versus expected distributions Outliers Missing values Performance on data validity checks –Single attribute analysis –Double- / triple- / higher level attributes correlations –Physical / logical domain impossibilities
Defining data quality: The "Fit for Use" Model Borrowed from industrial quality frameworks –Juran (1951): "Fitness for Use" design, conformance, availability, safety, and field use Multiple adaptations by information science community –Not all adaptations are clearly specified –Not all adaptations are consistent –Not linked to measurement/assessment methods 37
How to measure data quality? Need to link conceptual framework with methods Maydanchik: Five classes of data quality rules –Attribute domain: validate individual values –Relational integrity: accurate relationships between tables, records and fields across multiple tables –Historical: time-vary data –State-dependent: changes follow expected transitions –Dependency: follow real-world behaviors 39 Maydanchik, A. (2007). Data quality assessment. Bradley Beach, NJ, Technics Publications.
Data Quality Assessment METHODS Five classes of data quality rules 30 assessment methods –Attribute domain rules (5 methods) –Relational integrity: (4 methods) –Historical: (9 methods) –State-dependent: (7 methods) –Dependency: (5 methods) 40 Time and change assessments dominate!!
Dimension 1: Attribute domain constraints 41
Dimension 2: Relational integrity rules 42
Dimension 4: State-dependent rules 44
Dimension 5:Attribute dependency rules 45
Implementing the Framework in SAFTINet One of three AHRQ Distributed Research Network grants –SCANNER (UCSD) –SPAN (KPCO) Focused on safety net healthcare providers Includes financial/clinical data integration with Medicaid payments Using Ohio State /TRIAD grid-technologies 46
SAFTINet: Distributed research network Grid Portal
Related DQ Work: Visualizing Data Quality
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