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Franchise companies represent excellent vehicles for money laundering, drug distribution networks, and, indeed, far higher and more dangerous opportunities for those whose inclinations are such.
And, in the main, few if any franchise companies even have an eye on the potentiality for takeover by infiltration on the part of subversive/mob interests, or are represented by counsel, or have access to security facilities, capable of addressing these issues. In the main, the scenarios by which adverse infiltration would/can/will take place are not novel. It is just that now criminal organizations are looking at the franchise industry as a target rich environment with greater seriousness.
What, in any franchise system, would constitute sufficient critical mass which, if controlled by nefarious interests, would have the potentiality to grasp control of the franchisor itself? The answer may be derived through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis. The two must be used together. Only a quantitative or only a qualitative value would not fully address the issues.
To date, the industry has addressed this problem only indirectly and feebly through contract draftsmanship. Franchise agreements purport to prohibit transfer of ownership/control interests in a franchise to any entity not first approved in writing by the franchisor. More sophisticated agreements seek/purport to deal with this by requiring approval of any borrowing that would create security interests convertible into franchisee ownership. Twenty years ago that was thought to be truly sophisticated draftsmanship. Its failure of efficacy lies in the superficiality of due diligence by franchisors when exercising their rights under such provisions, the fact that more franchisees are of sufficient scale to be publicly traded, in which instance limitation of capital share ownership is really not controllable, and in the fact that such draftsmanship is naïve -- there are too many other ways to control franchise operations that can be used in tandem with the exploitation of these enumerated weaknesses.
If a franchise system is profitable and has a valuable 'franchise', it is a target in itself for that value. Depending upon its financial statement, it may be in a position to leverage far beyond anything ever considered by current management. That is an infiltration invitation in itself, just as low debt companies were in the instance of hostile tender offers. The interest of the infiltrator is in the fund borrowed, not in paying it back. Repayment is simply not in the cards. It is hit and run.
Even if a franchise system is not very profitable and not highly leverageable, its dealer network is a real plum for the distribution of drugs and other contraband and for money laundering.
The bottom line here is that diligence at the franchisor corporate level is not sufficient to deal with this threat. System misuse infiltration is potentially detectable if you know what to watch for and have in place the appropriate protocols to enable you to stop it.
The red light here is greatly brightened by the impact of technology upon 'white collar' and organized crime, and the advent of the Russian mafia heralds an enormous escalation in the toughness of the element you are dealing with. If the franchisor is very lucky, the infiltrating element will be a group of franchisees who believe they can further the success of the enterprise better than present management, and they are probably correct and indeed a blessing for the system, though they are not seen as a benign event by those whom they will quickly replace if they can.
Contract provisions that are made less stringent in terms of the control options of the franchisor by the SBA and other so-called 'fairness' factions actually facilitate infiltration. Concerns for lessening franchisor control of franchisee management to avoid/reduce risks of vicarious liability for franchisee negligence also smooth the way for the infiltrator. How far to go and how much protection can yet be preserved in the contexts of these issues is a question more of art than of science.
Patterns of franchisee conduct will emerge which, if noted, tell you when something like this may be afoot. To be sure, there are one size fits all signals, but in each company and in each system there can and should be customizing of the list of things to watch for. Most of these things have as much potentiality to be benign, and further examination is called for to determine whether what is being observed is or is not an invasion.
Similarly, patterns of franchisor management conduct frequently are telltale signs of infiltration. Key personnel can become compromised in the same manner in which corporate integrity can become degraded in any non-franchise environment. Management personnel can and will be targeted specifically for the nature of their function in the company and/or specifically for their potential weaknesses. Moreover, this is frequently a two front attack, at the system level as well as at franchisor management level. The presumed identities and affiliations of those with whom you deal, internally and vendors, can change or become compromised on very short notice and totally without bubbles on the surface, especially if you aren't looking and don't know where to look in the first place.
We are living in an age where the assumptions that gave us comfort in the past are proving more and more frequently to be untrue or unreliable. Sixty years ago we worried about submarines off our coastlines. Thirty years ago we watched the skies and our early warning went down to twenty minutes. Today we worry about threats that are already here and ready to be used to our extreme detriment. There is an infiltration and takeover of business threat that is equally as insidious. It may have been put in place already over several months or years without the company having the slightest clue. The parallels between military threat to our nation and infiltration threat to our companies are compelling for the reason that they are identical in the suddenness of onset and the potentially devastating impact. Just as FEMA could never evacuate New York City in any emergency, franchise systems lay stretched before infiltrators with serious capabilities, unprotected and without easy possibility of resurrection in a real case scenario.
They can be out to get you even if you are paranoid.
When the traditional lawyer thinks of the menu of events that would be found if s/he knew how to do the due diligence to find it in the first place, s/he immediately thinks of the RICO statute in the United States, that legislative construct originally aimed at the Mafia. And that is the scenario the statute was conceived to deal with. However, as it has been so misused by the litigating bar, seeking to apply it to every business pattern mistake that can happen in any commercial setting, that the courts have severely circumscribed its application. It is now more difficult than ever to use the RICO statute in a private civil litigation setting. Moreover, the entry onto the scene by competent trial counsel would have had to be far in advance of the normal retention mode for trial counsel. Normally, trial counsel is summoned at the moment of battle. In this scenario, creative approaches to evidence must already have been in place as the normal modus vivendi of the target business, so that the absence or reluctance of witnesses may be remedied by records of regularly performed activity that are kept in the normal course of the target company's business may be used as exceptions to the hearsay evidentiary rule. Without that advance planning, proofs may be quite difficult to come by. That is another reason why infiltration defenses need to be thought of as something done far in advance, just as poison pill articles and by-laws have been used to thwart tender offer activity. Very few franchise lawyers have ever had experience that could prepare them to perform this kind of work. Franchise company infiltration defense planning is a very discreet sub specialty, the members of which could currently hold their annual convention in any telephone booth.
Other statutory schemes should be screened for usefulness, especially the securities regulation laws if the franchisor or the relevant franchisee is publicly held. Securities regulation rules governing manipulation and proxy information may well be applicable to conduct not customarily thought of in this context. Economic espionage statutes may also provide jurisdictional and substantive opportunities.
State law claims should not be ignored here, but it is important that litigation of these issues occur in Federal court. The issues are complicated and not likely to be familiar to elected state court judges who frequently lack time and resources to deal with multi-issue business cases and lots of legal research. It will usually be harder to get to meaningful relief in a state court than in Federal court in this kind of case. State law claims should be thought of mainly as pendant jurisdiction issues.
Arbitration clauses in franchise agreements need to be revisited to prevent them from being obstacles to relief when relief is most needed.
Current practice arbitration clause drafting does not answer the issues presented by this problem except in rare instances.
In any normal case evaluation, the need to depend upon third party witnesses who have no dog in the fight reduces the prospects for success. In many instances, third party witnesses actually have an interest in the truth of the matter not coming to light. Illustratively, if a manufacturer of hospital diagnostic or surgical equipment had engaged in nefarious conduct, hospital personnel would be excellent witnesses to the conduct and to its detrimental effects. However, to do so could expose the hospital and its doctors to liability for malpractice arising from their knowing application of the dangerous instrumentalities to the treatment of their patients. Thus, obtaining this testimony would be quite difficult to say the least. There are many other illustrations of this evidentiary problem in many different settings. In the context of this article, one would assume that witnesses were either hostile or that they have been compromised through inducement or threat. Admissible documentary evidence must be already in hand to fill this testamentary void. It will, therefore, have to be part of an extant business records system when the suspicion of infiltration first arises. It will, therefore, have to be part of the long-term records management protocols. In these days of electronic data management, file boxes of paper need not clog warehouses. The generation and management of the requisite data is greatly facilitated, but a careful eye must be focused upon the preservation and integrity of the data for reasons of demonstration of reliability under the new evidentiary rules for electronically generated and preserved evidence.
At some point it must be recognized that this project is to be multi disciplinary. Lawyers alone cannot complete the job properly. Accountancy types and investigators will be working in tandem with and under the direct supervision of the lawyers, especially if any qualified privileges of attorney work product are to be preserved. To be sure, the data itself will not be privileged, but the management of the effort should be considered a confidential endeavor in every sense of the word.
A good trial lawyer can teach a lower level accountancy person to become forensic without compromising the integrity of the work. It is not a matter of coaching toward a specific result. If the result is compelled by the data, that would be unnecessary. If the desired result is not compelled by the data, the witness will be destroyed on cross-examination by a competent opposing trial counsel. The job is to teach the accountancy person to testify truthfully in an effective communicator mode. Judges and jurors will quickly tune out the boring accountancy witness if s/he is dull, no matter how high the quality of the data. The lawyer must have a good understanding of the data as well. The lawyer must lead the accountancy projects, not simply turn over a vague and generally described project to accountants and expect them to produce good data. Their discipline teaches them to do many things that are simply evidentiary 'noise'. They need to be schooled to eliminate the noise without compromising the professionalism of the product, and the lawyer must be able to be the professor.
Similarly, the use of investigators is an effort that must be controlled by counsel. Typical notions of competent investigator resources are frequently off the mark in this kind of case. Lawyers who use investigators in their work are mostly specialists in catching the errant spouse flagrante in delicto at some tryst, and specialists in surveilling disability claimants to catch them climbing ladders, cutting down trees and fixing their roof. Assumptions that former FBI agents or former police department detectives will know what to do once you tell them what you are looking for are not reliable. These too must be schooled to achieve investigative focus and to eliminate 'noise'. Here again, the lawyer must know what to do in order to instruct the investigative resource what to do, and, with equal importance, what not to do.
When you believe you have uncovered something that could smack of infiltration, either of the franchisee(s) or of the franchisor company, the issue of remediation arises.
Here again, notions of touchy-feely, fair dealing and second chance to screw up, which are the typical approach of the franchise company, may need to be re-examined. Omelets are not made without cracking eggs, and in any real battle, throats must be cut. Weak franchisees are natural targets for predacious elements. In this day and age, you are potentially dealing with a compromised dealer who, if not terminated, will get your company name in the paper next time in an article dealing with drugs and prostitution. Provisions in franchise agreements that permit multiple defaults before summary termination is provided for should be revisited in this context. They may need to be tightened up to provide intensified visitation and supervisory interim remedies, notwithstanding that a default is cured when notice is given. Slow broom opportunities for defaulting franchisees to take forever to get their acts together need to be eliminated. Delayed access to information may need to be a summary termination trigger in itself. A 'right to hack' provision may be appropriate in your franchise agreements, for they would allow you to get at information clandestinely, before it is compromised upon receipt of a notice of audit letter.
Large, multi unit franchisees are also natural targets for infiltration. Their ownership profiles may indicate areas of exploitability. Executives with reputations for aggressive celebratory tendencies and womanizing are easy prey for the syndicate to compromise and control. Indiscretion is the hallmark of the infiltration pigeon, and lavish ostentation is a neon sign invitation. There are many such people in every successful franchise system, and they need to be considered as potential weak links and dealt with accordingly. The tendency of franchisor management to accept rides in their private jets, and to participate in their lavish 'events' as their guests should be re-examined with an eye to how evidence of such camaraderie will play out later before a jury. Infiltrators will usually attempt to use the compromised large, multi unit franchisee as a cat's paw for the furtherance of their agendas. When one thinks, for example, of how much revenue potential is accounted for by control of franchisee purchasing source discretion, the obvious temptation should not be overlooked in the context of this article. This kind of franchisee may not be in default under the customary standards of franchise agreement draftsmanship today. Where are the mechanisms to deal with adverse relationship issues for the non-defaulting major franchisee? They are needed.
To be sure, there are also issues of compromised franchisor management as the avenue of infiltration at the franchisor company level itself. Where there is suspicion of potentially compromised management conduct, the most obvious mandate is that suspected personnel should not be made aware of any concern or decision to investigate. Sometimes it may eventuate that the situation that is causing concern is not some organized crime infiltration, but merely a friend or relative of one or more executives being placed in a position to exploit the relationship. It is important to deal with this, to be sure, but it may well be easier to deal with if it is identified as such and it appears that it is not a true organized crime infiltration agenda. On the other hand, people who are exploiting executive relationships are themselves targets of organized crime, for obvious reasons. Usurping those relational opportunities are major goals of the criminal influence. Immediacy of action is, therefore, extremely important. The operational integrity of the company and of the system is as degraded by inappropriate management executive opportunism as it may be by criminal infiltration, and, to be sure, the one frequently leads to the other.
The selection of the lead counsel for this kind of project is extremely sensitive. A company's customary counsel, even if experientially qualified, may be so involved in the general governance of the affairs of the company that its being in charge of this kind of project may compromise relationships and duties of long standing confidence that have preserved their usefulness to the company over the years. This is, in most cases, special event work that should be delegated to a firm that has no other potentially impacted relationships within the company or its franchise system. That counsel should also be able to recommend appropriate protocols for how much information about the project and its progress is shared, how often, and with whom.
These are traumatic events in any company, and they should be dealt with decisively and with appropriate sensitivity to the wide range of interests and issues upon which they may impact. This is not yet, and will not become for some time, an area of law practice for the corporate generalist or even the franchising generalist.


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This year, moreover, if you use two fingers to swipe your smart portable device content to the TV, that content will be stored onto a USB storage device or SD card if you've got one installed in the TV.
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Overall, though, the combination of my Home Screen, enhanced support for tablet/phone secondary devices and the introduction of twin tuners results in a Smart experience that represents a quantum leap over previous Panasonic smart TV interfaces. So much so that from what we've seen to date, Panasonic's 2013 Smart TVs could give the previous Smart champs of LG and Samsung something to get really hot under the collar about.
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Pork Chops Mexicana is made using boneless lean pork chops with salsa, peanuts, a touch of cocoa powder, cinnamon and cilantro.
Recipe Ingredients
4 boneless lean pork chops, 1/2-inch thick
1-1/4 cup salsa
1/2 cup finely chopped cocktail peanuts
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped cilantro or green onions
Recipe Directions
Cook chops in large nonstick skillet sprayed with cooking spray on medium-high heat two to three minutes on each side or until browned on both sides.
Combine salsa, peanuts, cocoa and cinnamon; spoon over chops.
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Yield: 4 servings
Serving size: 1 pork chop
Calories: 290; Total Fat: 16g; Cholesterol: 55mg; Carbohydrates: 10g; Protein: 28g; Fiber: 3g; Sodium: 710mg
Sugars: 5g
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Your small well behaved dog is welcome here!
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Directions to the apartment:
If you are coming with the train to the main station (Hlavní nádraží ) you have to take the subway C to the station Florenc. Take the bus number 135 ( thes top is front of the Mc Donald) to station Slovinska. It will take you about 20 minutes. When you get of the bus you have to cross the main road go to the left and than go around the corner up to the hill. The building is 2 minutes walk on the corner on the left hand side. The number is 31
If you are coming from the airport you will take the bus number 119 to the station Dejvická where you will get of an will take subway A to the station Náměstí Míru. From this station you will take the bus number 135 to the station Slovinska.Cross the main road go to the left and than go around the corner up to the hill. The building is 2 minutes walk on the corner on the left hand side. The number is 31
If you are coming from the main bus terminal Florenc you have to take bus number 135 and get of the bus stop Slovinska. Cross the main road go to the left and than go around the corner up to the hill. The building is 2 minutes walk on the corner on the left hand side. The number is 31
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The apartment was nice and clean and the best thing is the good connection to public transport. You are in the middle of the city in 15 minutes.
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Sona is very nice and helpful. When we arrived, she showed us the save parking areas and gave us all the information we needed about Prague. The apartement was very clean and comfortable. It was also well-appointed. There was enough space and the kitchen was great.
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great story telling and a surprisingly amazing multiplayer considering everyone was calling it a late added on addition to the game.
Re: Thank you Naughty Dog
Game is really good. Personally, haven't experienced any issues/glitches/bugs that I could even think to report. Aside from the game taking forever to initally load, it plays smoothly once loaded up!
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Mine initial loading was fine. Idk why all saying?
some have issues with their ps3; the one legit complaint is how the friendly ai will hide in plain sight of an enemy, yet that enemy doesn't see them


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|Reviews for The Power of Three
| jc chapter 19 . 4/7/2010
I always wanted to see the Mix of Batman with Spider-man,I hope some one would do it.
| Gaby chapter 19 . 3/24/2010
I like to see a Amalgam of Batman/Spider-man,Who in Batman,s villains combo with Spider-man,s Villains?
| prayerrun chapter 15 . 1/26/2007
I love the detail in this story...I'd love to read it till the end.
| karly chapter 1 . 7/19/2006
WOW! that was so good! have you ever thot of writing books or anything? that was so good. i had to keep reading and reading. omg that is so good. ok well im gonna quit rambling. great job.
| sandra chapter 12 . 3/4/2006
| Magnificent the Destroyer Lord chapter 12 . 1/3/2006
Nice sotry; I like, I like! Please update soon.
Good luck
| turbomagnus chapter 11 . 8/27/2005
I recently had the chance to purchase many of the Amalgam comics and was pleased to find that ones like Dark Claw and Iron Lantern depicted Amalgamations of some of my favorite DC and Marvel heroes that I liked as much as the originals.
Dark Claw, especially, and I have to say that from the limited amount of comics to work from, you've captured him great, something that's only made better by teaming him up with his seperate componants of Wolverine and Batman...
I honestly can't wait to see where this story heads.
| Raven Hufflepuff chapter 3 . 6/5/2005
Wolverine and Batman helping out Dark Claw?Is that what you're heading for?
Well,it's different.
| nothing-boyINC chapter 3 . 5/22/2005
Damn, where this story will go? Who the hell knows! Its so good so far, just a little bit of work here and there and stuff, but otherwise, its really good, so continue!
| Winged Knight chapter 3 . 5/2/2005
Very interesting. I can't say that I'v read much of Dark Claw, but this looks cool. Keep writing the good ones!


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The cloaked man simply nodded, his blue eyes locked on Alice.
"I thought you were, y'know," Roxas stammered.
"Dead?" Demyx offered. "Well he got you too, didn't he? And you're still here."
Roxas tilted his head, confused. "Wait, who got me? And what do you mean by 'here?' Do you know where 'here' is!?"
"So many questions, Roxas!" the other man laughs. "I thought you'd be happy to see me. You've been gone too long, buddy. Don't you remember Agrabah?"
Demyx's question was met with silence, so he pressed onward instead.
"So, you don't remember anything, do you, Roxas?"
Before Roxas had even opened his mouth to answer, Alice spoke up. "Why do you keep calling him that? If Sora is no longer Sora, than Wonderland really doesn't have logic or rules at all, now."
"Sora!" Demyx spat, shuddering. "He's the one that did this, y'know."
Now it was Roxas' turn to become angry, his voice raised in Sora's defence. Even his keyblade flashed into his hands. "What do you mean, he did this? It wasn't Sora, it was… it was–"
"If you can't remember your past, you can't remember what Sora did to you, Roxas," Demyx interrupted. "You fought Sora and lost, buddy!"
Oblivion fell from the keyholder's hands, dropping to the lush grass with a muffled thump. Roxas' mouth hung open, and even Alice gasped.
"I fought Sora?" he whispered, looking down at the keyblade.
Sora. Oblivion. And… an oath? Have I kept it?
Shards of memories pieced themselves together.
Riku. I fought him, too. But I won.
"Yes Roxas, you fought Sora," Demyx said. "So did I. So did we all."
"And you," Roxas mumbled. "You were defeated, too?"
Demyx only nodded.
"And, and the others, too?"
Another solemn nod from the Melodious Nocturne.
"How?" Roxas breathed.
"We all fought him alone, Roxas," Demyx explained. He had lost his care-free mannerisms in his final battle with the wielder of the keyblade, his mood now dark and sombre. "We came at Sora one by one, and so he defeated us: one by one."
Unbeknownst to either of the Nobodies, Alice had slipped away, off to a surprise un-birthday party.
"Together, though," Demyx began, his voice growing stronger. "Together we can beat him. The thirteen of us can beat him if we join forces once more."
A line of Dancers moved nimbly behind their master, spinning in a circle about the pair.
"So what do you say, Roxas, buddy?"


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Tips For Selling A Business
So you've decided the time has come to sell your business. It's important that you do things right so that you maximize your profits and sell your business quickly. Here are great tips for selling a business and walking away happy with the outcome.
When you started your business way back when you probably weren't thinking about the day you are going to sell. After working hard for years and building a successful business the time has come to turn your interests elsewhere. No matter what type of business you have these tips for selling a business.
1. Determine a value – the very first thing you have to do is determine what your business is really worth. There are a variety of formulas that can be used to value your business. At least part of the value is based on assets, gross revenue, cash flow, growth, and a host of other factors.
No matter what the factors are at the end of the day it really is about profits. The sale price is almost always a multiple of the business profit. The multiple depends on the industry and the business.
2. Reflect True Financials small business seldom shows a profit that's great for tax purposes what it's not so great when you are looking at a value for your business for resale. That's why it is important to do what is called tax pros recast profit which backs out all your legitimate right offs like auto expenses, health care, your salary, and things such as depreciation.
3. Don't wait For The Cash – almost half of all small business that sell are financed by the owners up to 70% with terms that can vary in payoff terms ranging from 2 to 5 years and interest rates set by the seller.
4. Hush – Don't broadcast that your business is for sale. When suppliers get word that a business is up for sale too often lines of credit are closed down and deliveries are on a cash only basis. So keep it quiet!
Often the key employees are told when the business is put up for sale and even though they are told in secrecy suddenly the whole world knows as they tell one person in confidence and that person tells someone else in confidence. Suddenly the world knows.
5. Go through a broker – a good business broke can help you come up with the right price and one that's realistic so as to generate a sale. Your broker will qualify people before having all your personal information and financials exposed. This is private information that you don't want to be sharing with every body that comes along.
Analyze your business – when you've been running your business for some time you tend to forget many of the things about your business that might actually be selling features. So take some time and grab a pen and paper and start making a detailed list about all the benefits of your business as well as any perks that come to mind. Just write away. You can fine tune it after.
The tips for selling a business will get you on the right track to success and soon you'll be involved in a new life adventure.
Intromission to Business phone Systems
Why this business phone system?
As we all know that people engaging in business work have huge workload and they have plenty of work to be done each day. They take the help of technology to somehow reduce the workload. The technology nowadays is growing at very fast speed and the launching of many devices especially for business work proved to be very useful to the business class.
Business phones are very different from the ones that we have in our homes. Business phones can be connected with multiple lines means a single line for two business phone systems. The phones are made only to suit business environments. The business phones are mostly cordless so there is no need to stay there while talking, cone can talk while walking or doing other office work too.
Features of Business phone systems
Well, here are many features associated with these. A Caller Id option is available in all of these phones which can display about 50-1000 numbers (depends on the memory of the handset). Plus to see the dialed or incoming number clearly, a LCD screen too is there, the size may vary. Some of the high end business class phones can even store numbers in its phonebook memory, so it will eliminate the use of extra phonebook that one carry to store the numbers. The data cabling too is very simpler and effective that the previous cabling, thanks to the latest LSI technology. With the use of this technology, we can divide the control into two individual business phones.
The office phone systems are designed to give the high end facilities to the people and take care of all the conversation related queries. There are many companies that make business class phone especially to cater the needs of special business class. Panasonic, which is the top player in the business phone making segment has the world class instruments. They have many varieties of these. They have both types- cordless and with cord too.
Features of Panasonic business phones
We all know that mostly cordless phones are preferred in the companies. So, all the business phone makers make the cordless phones.
Panasonic cordless phones have many features like a bright LCD screen that can show the incoming or outgoing number, the pre-installed phone book feature than can store many numbers (depend on memory). Plus the rechargeable batteries too are provided along with the handsets, so that your phone battery doesn't run away. Some of the phones also have a certain feature that will enable you to continue your conversation even if the whole power supply has been cut off. Almost all the business phones they offers, all are wall mountable or can be placed on a desk. So, Panasonic cordless phone has many features than its competitors and that is why it is most preferred amongst all other phone makers.
Business Valuations In New Jersey
The success of a business transaction can have a major influence on business owners. In fact, most business owners only experience one exit in their life and most owners do not have any idea or plan of how they will exit. This lack of a plan and knowledge of business transactions can lead to major mistakes than can have a huge impact on a family and others lives. When in the right hands however, these mistakes can not only be avoided, but the business transaction can be a huge success resulting in a very positive impact on lives.
One of the major mistakes in a business transaction is determining true market value. A buyer does not want to pay much higher and a seller does not want to sell for much lower than true market value. As experts in business valuation NJ, A Neumann and Associates has completed thousands of Business Valuations. Confidentiality is key as is getting a Business Valuation from a professional third party to avoid any bias. In fact, most business buyers and financing underwriters will not take a business seller seriously if they do not have a professional, third party business valuation.
With 25 years of experience as a premiere and reputable Business Broker in New Jersey, A Neumann and Associates have been providing expert service to Business Owners including Business Valuations in NJ. The testimonials, track record and network of affiliates have long been a huge buying and selling advantage. As expert Business Valuations NJ specialists, they can assist business owners determine the true market value for any reason. Be it sale of the business, estate planning, financing, dissolution of a partnership, divorce or other reasons, you will be in expert hands with A Neumann and Associates.
A lot goes into a Business Valuations, a formula or calculation does not exist that can actively determine the true market value of a business. Many things have to be considered such as assets, profits, years in business, potential growth, similar business sales, economy, financing options, buyer demand, buyer and seller motivation, timing, terms, location, etc. Professional Business Valuations are a crucial part of business transactions. They are obtained only through professional third party experts.
Why a third party? This is an important question. When a business valuation is conducted by a party that is representing the buyer, it may not be objective. The valuation could be favorable and much lower than true market value. Similarly, a party representing a business seller can value a business much higher as that benefits their client.
Advantages of Having Office in a Business Center in Noida
You are always busy servicing your corporate clients, ensuring quality products, quicker turnarounds and proper customer service. Opening your office in a good location can give an instant boost to your reputation, and build a stronger, longer lasting relationship with your clients. Renting a business center in Noida can be the smartest solution, especially if you are looking for a prestigious office space in a popular industrial area. Let us see how.
Make a lasting impression
The location of your office should be such that your clients identify with it. If you are servicing clients in a big city like Delhi, and many of them are located in reputable business offices, then your office location needs to meet the same standards expected by your clients. For example, if you meet a new client and you want to do business with him on a continual basis, then calling him to your office that is located in a small cottage with poor facilities can instantly turn off the client. On the other hand, if your office is a prestigious one, with all the facilities involved, then it will surely impress your new client, and he would be glad to do business with you. He will also be proud to refer your service to other prospective clients and customers.
Have a corporate look
A business center in Noida will provide a ready-made high-end corporate look to your business. Having an office in such a business center will save you money and time as well, as you do not need to worry about other office details of your business, including installation of computers, copiers and fax machines, designing and furnishing of the office space, setting up of the Internet connections and phone lines, buying equipment etc. When you move into a reputed business center, all things that you need in your office are already in place.
Professional styling and designing
The design and style of a business center in Noida offer the feel and look of a large corporate office. An elegant front desk staff is placed on the reception to greet your guests and clients. You have a professional, clean environment to welcome your clients. If you want a bigger space to meet your clients, then you can reserve the conference room too. All up-to-date equipments will be available at the business center to meet your and your clients' business needs.
A reputable business address
Being placed in a business center in Noida enables you to give a well-known business address to your clients, that too without any extra expense. Even the clients who have never visited your office will instantly recognize your professional address. Such a business address also reflects your professionalism and seriousness towards the business.
You can impress your clients and enjoy the convenient by renting the North Star business center in Noida. A great company image will largely help your business gain exposure and succeed.
Setting up Your Business in Dubai
Dubai has transformed itself from a local trading community into one of the most successful cities in the world. It has become an attractive destination for both tourists and businesses.
Thanks to its appeal in terms of investment incentives, the number of expatriate residents has reached the 2 million mark. Dubai remains the best place to flex your entrepreneurial muscles, set up a company, or open an offshore branch.
Last year's Brookings Global MetroMonitor survey ranked the emirate as the fifth-highest performing metropolitan economy in the world, based on growth in GDP per capita and employment rates.
Starting Your Business in Dubai
UAE's visionary government has always had pro-investment and pro-business policies, and has encouraged foreign investment. However, if you're planning to register a new business in Dubai, expect some legal and bureaucratic hurdles along the way.
For start-up entrepreneurs, having a local sponsor/agent is a legal Dubai Economic Department (DED) requirement. Finding the right sponsorship/agent for your company is one of the core issues to start your business in Dubai.
Sponsorship takes charge of all the legalities and liaise with the relevant government branch, associated with your start-up. It includes planning, filling up application forms, processing requirements, finalizing legal documents, and more.
Setup Your Business in Dubai
Hiring a sponsor/agent will cost you money, but it's worth every dollar. If it's your first time to setup a business in Dubai, it's best to have an expert take care of it to save both time and money.
Understand restrictions. Dubai is strict when it comes to company registration, especially with the legal requirements involved. If you have a sponsor/agent, it makes the process easier. With their help, you can instantly determine what you need, and how much you need to maximize your operation.
Finding a sponsor. Foreign investors should find a company/individual with good experience and reputation to act as their sponsor. If you want a competitive edge, pick a sponsor/agent with affiliate and contacts in the local business group.
Research and planning. It's not recommended to go into the process blindly. The ideal action is to plan and research every opportunity for a higher probability of success. Learn all about the legal requirements involved, and ask your sponsor/agent for any clarification.
Hiring a Sponsor/Agent for your Business
Other than the free zone, local sponsorship is required in order to commence a business anywhere in Dubai. It is very important to appoint professional advisors who understand its legal framework and economic contexts.
The type of sponsor/agent you choose can make a big difference. It can give you financial benefits, quotas, and access to important government offices. The right sponsorship is also useful in getting new licenses, maximum visas, permits, and more.
Austria Business Center – Your one-stop-shop in Dubai
Let Austria Business Center take care of your start-up, so you can focus on your business. With their help, you can get valuable insights into the common pitfalls of start-ups. You can avoid queues, government bureaucracy, and evolving rules and regulations.
Austria Business Center has extensive local contacts and can provide you with instant, effortless sponsorship under our own trusted sponsors/agents. All you need to do is sit back, and wait for them to deliver the final paperwork.
Make your business set up in Dubai successful and find a sponsor/agent with a verifiable track record – Austria Business Center can help.
A Precise Business Valuation
Business managers are each in interesting scenarios, bringing about an assortment of explanations behind the requirement for a business valuation. Off and on again it is home arranging, different times a business transaction if getting or offering a business, different times it could be financing, association questions, separation, and so on. Most business possessors begin a business yet they have no clue, arrangement or method to passageway the business. Likewise, most business possessors just encounter one business transaction in their life that is not a ton of business transaction experience and can accelerate immoderate failures. A standout amongst the most regular is the absence of or a mistaken Business Valuation New York . A precise business valuation by a master third party expert will be considered important by purchasers, venders, financing guarantors, and so on. Anything besides an expert business valuation won't be taken genuine. It is in this way basic to have a master firm who represents a respectable level of expertise good to go valuations furnish an expert Business Valuation in Pennsylvania.
We should check out some sample scenarios. The predominant scenario is a gathering standing for the business dealer performs a business valuation throughout a business transaction. This gathering is inclined towards the customer attempting to pitch; along these lines the probability of the valuation coming in elevated is extremely normal. A second scenario is a business valuation is led by a gathering standing for the business purchaser. Once more, this gathering is predisposition towards the customer and the business valuation will conceivable come in flat. As you can see there could be a gigantic disparity in the consequence of the business valuation in the aforementioned two scenarios. Some of the time worlds separated, the fact is the main path to precisely confirm correct market quality is for an impartial third party business valuation firm to perform a business valuation in Pennsylvania.
Numerous equations might be utilized to figure the worth of a business. In any case, there are no exact recipes as each business is one of a kind. Moreover, each business sector, the economy, timing, financing, interest, comparative bargains, terms, and so forth are everything special. The aforementioned all must be calculated into the mathematical statement when led a business valuation and confirming correct showcase quality of a business. Possessions, potential of development, land, leases, contracts and different components additionally must be recognized.
The significance can't be underlined enough of a precise business valuation in a business transaction to all gatherings included. This incorporates the business purchaser, merchant, representation of both, financing guarantors, and so forth. Once more, the business transaction experience of most is a single business transaction in a lifetime. The outcome of overpaying or underselling a business could be a fantastic slip that must be evaded and can. The route to maintain a strategic distance from this is to host an expert third gathering impartial master performs an exact valuation of the business.
A Neumann and Associates has long been a regarded and reputable firm that might be depended on. They have been included with many Business Valuation Pennsylvania , have over 100 years of consolidated business transaction experience and dependably have a pledge to secrecy and professionalism.
Useful Tips for Low Cost Business Start Ups
With decreasing number of jobs and few solutions at work, the best suggestion to the people who face this problem is to start their own business. Although might be economic turbulence, but starting a business of your own is surely a path of financial recovery. There are few tips for the people who have a plan of low cost business start ups. Making a big investment is not always necessary. If you do not have such a great amount to invest, it is better starting with a small investment. Here are the tips that can help you in doing so:
* It is good that you have planned to start a business of your own, but it is essential that you must be clear in yourself. You must be clear about your aim and must possess the answer of the question that why you want to start a business of your own.
* You must be determined that what type of business you want to start with. Never ever think of doing investment in something that is new to you. Doing something like that is full of risks and you have to go blindly towards a direction about which you are not at all sure. It is essential that the business you are planning to start should be familiar to you. It should not be like hit and trial case.
* Planning is most important in any business. Most of the aspiring business people believe that they have to sit down for hours and make a lengthy business plans clearly showing the amount of money that you will make in the coming years. There is no need of keeping such complexity as it will become difficult for you to understand. The business plan should be simple and precise.
* Something that has great importance for any business is the customers. So, one should be clear with the customers that he as to target. Their preferences, thinking, liking, everything matters a lot to you. You have search everything about your target audience, what they like and what they do not like about the business that you are plan to start.
* Prices are something that attracts everybody. It might be possible that a person do not have any interest in the product in which you deal, but looking at the genuine prices, he can start taking interest as he find it beneficial in one way or the other. Always compare your prices with your competitors and make sure that you are providing genuine rates, keeping quality at the topmost priority.
* The next thing, which has importance of its own, is to reach your target customer through proper advertising and promotion. Advertising has great significance as it is the only way of telling people about your product, introducing them what it is all about and how your product is different from the other similar existing products.
It is good to follow such tips when you are new to a business and doing it for the first time.
Common Hazards To Avoid With a Small Business For Sale
If you are planning to sell your business on your own, there are numerous pitfalls along the way that you need to avoid. The problem is when you don't even know how to spot these dangers even if they are staring you in the face. There are two ways to go about the sale of your business: either you market your business for sale online on your own or hire a credible and experienced business broker to assume that responsibility. The first route is more stressful and labour intensive, particularly when you have no prior expertise in the field. The second way is obviously more ideal if you want to sell your business at the highest price in a shorter time frame at little extra effort on your part whilst you continue to concentrate on running your business.
Mistake 1: Lack of planning
Whether you are looking to sell or buy a business in Australia, it's all about the timing. You will miss an opportunity to obtain the best price if you wait too long or act too soon. Perfect timing takes careful planning. The important thing is to never be impatient. On average in the current market it takes 6 months to a year to sell a small business. Even putting your business in the hands of a really good broker doesn't guarantee a quick sales because there are too many external factors to consider.
For example, you should have a good record-keeping system so when it's actually the time to sell, you won't have to go back through a mountain of paperwork or incomplete data just to show the status of your business at the time of the sale.
Mistake 2: Trying to take on too much
Just consider the task involved. You will have to carefully prepare the listing of your business, design an advert or some brochures, come up with proactive measures to aggressively market your business, available be always when the prospective buyer comes to call, contact a tax professional or legal counsel to handle the paperwork, and spruce up the place to add value to the property. Even then, there's no guarantee you are going to get the maximum possible price for your business. These days most marketing takes place through sophisticated and professional websites most of which are not available to the general public, which means you will often miss the opportunity to reach the target market.
If you can't make heads and tails about the business for sale market, taking on too much can be very dangerous indeed. Do notget too caught up about the broker's fees because a professional broker can often obtain a higher price in the market which will more than pay for these costs when you put up your small business for sale. It's the classic case of failing to see the forest for the trees.
Mistake 3: Jumping the gun
Jumping the gun is an idiomatic expression to denote over-eagerness. Just because somebody makes an offer does not mean you should immediately accept it. This is the most common mistakes by first-time sellers who did not hire the services of professionals.Knowing how to negotiate to obtain the best deal is very important when you sell one of the largest assets that you own, your small business for sale.


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Soap King, Inc. (SKI) focuses on manufacturing top-quality detergent and cleaning products catering to food, medical and industrial markets, as well as for everyday household use. Established in 2005, the company has since become one of the leading companies in its market in providing products that are effective yet affordable.
Using innovative and advanced techniques in the formulation, development, and manufacture of top-quality products, the company thrives on fresh and excellent ideas, as well as revolutionary, state-of-the-art technology to provide the best products to suit the needs of consumers.
In addition to these, safety is also a foremost concern in the manufacturing of its products. Accredited by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), consumers are confident that the products are safe, effective, and environment-friendly.
SKI has developed and produced an extensive array of kitchen, household, laundry, and pet care products. Over a short span of time, the King Wash product line has gained a long list of client-consumers, consisting of top hotels and restaurants, medical institutions, large industrial plants, offices, and residential villages, among them.


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'Fashionpb' announces online exhibition of fashion wear on coming EID!
"UDDOGTA" @ Projotno Bangladesh Web: http://projotnobangladesh.com/
Daily Event: 10:00 AM to 8:30 AM (PDT)
You are most welcome to join the event, it's online base as well as you will find your favorite one at Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The place and the location will be announced a week before starting the event through online and print media. The rural women artisan and the entrepreneurs are the initiator of this event also invited the entrepreneur and the designers of local and from abroad. The event would be different from conventional ones as we are going to present the pure producers who the owners as well as maker. Not only the display of the products but also the items carryout information, projection and arts will also take place. Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bcnyn9PLA&list=PL6VeJh466nfBEVT2GqaMMbFq45nge9Im0
'Projotno Bangladesh' designs with indigenous design in fashion wear and the fashion accessories. The producers are rural women artisan,the products are completely hand made and we use herbal reagents, such as 'Bengal indigo' to color it. Our main products are alternative fashion garments, traditional Bangladeshi and Indian saries, fashionable menz wear, jute and jute fabric items such as hand bag, parts, carpet, mat etc.The most importantly, these rural women support their families specially, their children for better feeding and nutrition, health and education. More over, by improving their economic condition they are able to combat the social trauma and the taboo and discrimination. That helps them to lead the equal participation and right, through improving by using the means in every works of life.
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Nikko 5000 I 12 Gauge (S7533)
Guns International #: 100660121 Seller's Inventory #: S7533
Category: Nikko Rifles - Shotguns - Japanese Double
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Seller: Collectors Firearms
Company: Collectors Firearms, Inc
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State: Texas
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Phone: 713-781-1960
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Nikko 5000 I 12 Gauge caliber shotgun. "Golden Eagle" over and under field gun with 26" modified improved cylinder barrels. Very good condition with light wear.
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Skelos: Paterson Lacks Authority to Name Lieutenant
New York, NY —
Long Island Republican Senator Dean Skelos, in a response to the governor's announcement, said he agreed with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that Paterson lacks the constitutional authority to appoint a Lieutenant Governor. And he said the real crisis was one of taxing and spending by Democrats.
SKELOS: The crisis peaked a month ago when democrats and republicans in the state senate said enough is enough. Something dramatic had to happen.
REPORTER: Skelos led a coup against the Senate's Democratic leadership a month ago today.


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New Delhi, Mar 5: Hours after British broadcaster BBC defied Indian government's request of not airing the controversial documentary featuring one of the December 16, 2012 gang rape convicts and broadcast it in Europe, the video has now been uploaded on video sharing website YouTube by an individual.
The video uploaded on YouTube, in wee hours of Thursday, has already gone viral and social media is flooded with debates over government's decision over banning the documentary.
Meanwhile, Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi has said police will take action against the person responsible for uploading the video which has been banned.
"We will take steps to ensure that it is not broadcast anymore. We are going to take action, whatever is required will be done under law," Delhi CP, told media persons on Thursday.
However, the BBC site says "BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only".
The home ministry on Wednesday said orders were obtained from court to restrain the broadcast of the documentary.
In a communication to the Home Ministry, the BBC said that in compliance with the Government of India's directive, it would not telecast the documentary in India, official sources said. However, in the same communication, the British media giant said that it has broadcast the film in United Kingdom last night 10 PM (GMT).
The Union Home Ministry had on Wednesday asked BBC not to broadcast the documentary anywhere. Officials had said the Home Ministry is also planning legal action against British filmmaker Leslee Udwin for allegedly violating stipulated permission conditions.
The documentary "India's daughter" by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin has kicked up a storm over the interview of one of the six men who raped the 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist on December 16, 2012 on board a moving bus in Delhi. She later died in a Singapore hospital where she had been airlifted for specialised treatment.
A Delhi court had said the order restraining airing or broadcasting the interview of the convict Mukesh Singh, which was conducted inside the Tihar jail here, will continue till further orders.
The documentary includes an interview conducted by Udwin and BBC, of Mukesh Singh, the driver of the bus in which the 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally gangraped by six men on December 16, 2012. Mukesh has made derogatory statements against women in the documentary.
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The German economy has recovered well from the most severe economic crisis of our lifetime. In spite of continued global economic turbulence, growth is now steady at 1.4% in 2015 and close to 1.3% in 2016. We are expecting this growth to improve slightly to 1.7% in 2017.
I want to congratulate Deputy Secretary-General Stefan Kapferer on his move to become the head of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW).
We in the OECD share a conviction with many of you: "Policies to foster innovation, raise productivity in an inclusive way and reduce inequality at the same time are critical for the future well-being and the future of our societies."
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Key findings on the German health care system
2015 is the year in which we aim to develop a new architecture for financing development for the Sustainable Development Goals and to build, during COP 21 in Paris, a new framework to tackle climate change. In all these arenas, decisive action for women's rights and enhanced gender equality can play a crucial role.
OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría welcomes the initiative of President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel to put forward a structural and ambitious response to the current refugee crisis.
Trade and tourism are central to today's global economy and must be underpinned by efficient and reliable transport systems, which are vital for the smooth functioning of global value chains. Despite the importance of the transport sector, it remains heavily regulated. Furthermore, transport policy can and should play a role in tackling climate change.
Skills drive economic growth and can boost social cohesion. With growth increasingly driven by productivity improvements, the future economic and social well-being of OECD countries will depend upon providing our young people with the right skills to succeed in the 21st century job market.
We, in the OECD, share the conviction that investment is one of the key cylinders of the global economy – but it needs new fuel and probably another kick-start to function again properly, in order to support a stronger and more inclusive recovery in Europe and on a global scale.
Sustainable supply chains can transform global trade and development by ensuring that businesses behave responsibly even in countries where social, environmental and human rights standards are weak or not adequately enforced. We have witnessed too often the disastrous consequences that can result if this is not done.


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Rajeev K Khattar
Using astrology to analyse and solve life's myriad puzzles and problems. Guiding businessmen, industrialists, politicians and film personalities to take right decisions in light of their favourable and unfavourable time periods. Suggesting the luckiest time to start any venture be it when to leave home to take exams, or when to embark on travel abroad, or when to meet a potential client, or when to sign contracts, etc.
He considers the positive changes that he has brought about in the lives of his clients all over the world through the remedies suggested by him, as his biggest achievement. Accurately predicted the winner of the FIFA 2010 final match, and made many other correct predictions posted in various Yahoo astro groups. Blessed by Shankracharya of Badrikashram and honoured by Mr. Giridhar Gomang and Ms. Kiran Bedi.
Pioneer in popularising Lalkitab astrology in south India and Vastu in Mauritius; personal consultant to celebrities, industrialists, politicians and film personalities.
16 years
Muhurata Shastra (lucky time to begin any important task), Lalkitab, legal matters, astro-remedies, stock market astrology, numerology (lucky name spellings of a person/company/film/TV serial), and Vastu.
Reading books about Astrology and spending time with family.
His interest in astrology began in 1981 after he started reading rare books on the subject left for him by his late grandfather. Encouraged by correct predictions and result-oriented astro-remedies, he became a professional astrologer when he realised that he could serve humanity better through it rather than by assembling machines or building bridges. By practising astrology, he feels closer to God, and simply puts it gives him job satisfaction to see his clients smiling!


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From Defiance to Cooperation: Real Solutions for Transforming the Angry, Defiant, Discouraged Child
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Juni 2001
BeschreibungChange Your Child's Life! Turn Negative Behavior into Positive TraitsHow do you deal with a difficult and defiant child or teenager? What can you do if your child has been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) or is resentful and constantly in trouble at school? Are there "constructive ways to channel such oppositional energy and determination? Dr. John F. Taylor will tell you how. Inside, you'll find new hope and hundreds of specific, sensible, and easy-to-implement suggestions for improving life with a rebellious and argumentative child. Parents and teachers -- anyone who deals with difficult children, teens, or young adults -- will also learn how to tap the potential of these natural-born leaders by discovering how to: -Understand "why an oppositional attitude exists -Open up new, safer avenues for children to express needs and wants -Enhance communication, avoid common mistakes, and reduce undesirable behavior -Teach a child conscience-based self-control -And much more!
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You spend a lot of time in this year's Turner Prize show in the dark. Film and video art have been a fixture of the prize in the last two decades, and the last two winners, Elizabeth Price and Laure Prouvost, are both video artists. But rarely have three artists shown the same medium at once.
And while James Richards, Duncan Campbell and Tris Vonna-Michell make very individual work, they share an interest in poetic journeys into film, still images and archival material. It means much of the show is stuck in one gear. The work is often uneven, too. Richards's Rosebud (2013), a video collaged from his own footage and material he has found elsewhere, is excellent — a sensual exploration of surface and skin. But his other works here, including projections of pictures depicting wounds and grazes from a theatrical make-up manual, are far less compelling.
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In the running: Ciara Phillips's Things Shared 2014 / pic: Lucy Young
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Printwork: Ciara Phillips's Things Shared 2014/ pic: Lucy Young
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On show: James Richards's Untitled Merchandise (Lovers and Dealers) / pic: Lucy Young
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Screenprinting: Ciara Phillips's room features floor to ceiling prints in vivid colour / pic: Lucy Young
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Colour and action: Ciara Phillips's Things Shared 2014/ pic: Lucy Young
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Tris Vonna-Michell has been nominated for his solo exhibition Postscript (Berlin) at Jan Mot, Brussels
Campbell's film It for Others (2013) is impressively ambitious in its scope, with footage of everything from a classic art-house film to images of anthropomorphic consumer products, but at 54 minutes it feels far too long. Vonna-Michell's themes and imagery are often interesting, but his tense, fidgety narration just irritates me.
All of which means Ciara Phillips stands out a mile. Entering her daylight-filled space, with floor to ceiling prints in vivid colour, is electrifying. Her room is a paean to the power of screenprinting — I hope it wins her the prize in December.
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Well, it's great to have found such a great resource!
I don't own a WRX - and may not in the foreseeable future. Actually, I have just found a 1998 Outback with a dead engine (at a killer price), that I'm planning to put a WRX engine in it. I'm still doing my research on the swap. Although I'm inexperienced with cars, I have worked for years on bikes and am used to taking machines completely apart.
Like I said, I'm still exploring my options but I think I'd prefer to stick to an engine I could find parts for here. So, I guess I have two questions :
1. What is the best place to find a wrecked WRX?
2. I'll research this quite a bit further, but what are the most cost-effective modifications to do to increase power (RELIABLY) while the engine is out of the car?
Oh, I guess I'd have a third one, but again, I'll research : How much of a WRX interior would fit in my Outback?
Cheers to all!


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Blizzard, Winter Storm Warnings & Wind Advisory in Effect for Four State
The National Weather Service has issued the following winter/severe weather alerts for the Four State Region:
Blizzard Warning: Western Allegany, Western Grant & Western Mineral Counties through 6:00 PM Saturday.
Winter Storm Warning: Garrett County, MD and Somerset County, PA through 6:00 PM Saturday.
Wind Advisory: Until 6 PM on Saturday with wind gusts up to 50 mph at times.
A strong low pressure system will bring rain changing to a rain/snow mix on Friday for Most of the area except for Mountain Maryland which will be all snow, with the potential of 8-12 inches of snow falling through Saturday Afternoon.
Blowing and drifting of snow will be possible in the higher elevations through Saturday Afternoon.
Winds on Friday across the area could gust as high as 40-50 MPH and then close to 50-60 MPH on Saturday.
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Wouldn't it be great not to have to ask permission but to take our place in Denmark because of our inherent right as an independent nation – the nation with the most ambitious climate change targets in the world?
Alex Salmond's dig at the refusal to include a Scottish minister in the UK's delegation to Copenhagen drew the loudest applause from a packed auditorium in Inverness for the opening of this year's SNP party conference.
In a largely unscripted performance, the Scottish first minister predicted that without a block of at least 20 SNP Scottish MPs in the next UK parliament, such snubs would become commonplace and Scotland would be more vulnerable to cuts – whichever UK party wins the general election.
"The only disagreement between the Lib Dems, Labour and Tories is how savage the cuts and how speedy the timescale."
Suggesting several times that the UK election result was almost an irrelevance for Scotland, Salmond claimed that only a block of "at least" 20 SNP MPs, would turn the nos from Westminster into yeses and transform the Scottish government's relationship with No 10: "They must have a pigeonhole full of standard replies for my requests – Alex, no."
Past voting trends and the first past the post system suggest the SNP will have difficulty transforming its current opinion poll lead in Scotland into 20 Westminster seats.
But opening their 75th annual conference, Salmond said two stages of the route-map to independence had already been achieved – the establishment of a Scottish parliament and the election of an SNP government – against a backdrop of disbelief and attack from many "informed commentators."
Wendy Alexander … said that never in my wildest dreams would I become first minister. Well, maybe I'm dreaming now – but it's happened. Never in our 75-year history have we been closer to achieving stage three – independence for Scotland.
The bullish tone of the opening speech seems to have gone down well with delegates, although some questioned the wisdom of implying that cuts were driven only by "wicked Westminster diktat" and one prospective Westminster candidate raised an eyebrow at the new target of "at least" 20 MPs. There was no mention of the vexed referendum bill the SNP intends to table and – on current parliamentary arithmetic – looks certain to lose early in 2010.
But this will almost certainly be part of Salmond's keynote speech on Saturday, after remarks earlier this week when he predicted that opposition in 2010 will simply mean the unionist parties lose the right to have any say in the bill if the SNP wins Holyrood elections with an increased majority in 2011.
"Do the parties in Scotland really believe the people will give them a vote if they refuse to give the people of Scotland a vote on their future?"
Hot on the heels of the SNP's objection to UK leaders debates being broadcast in Scotland without his participation, Salmond hopes the independence referendum will harness the Scots' easily aroused sense of unfair play. Each UK party is currently proposing a referendum on pan-British issues like Europe or PR, but refusing to consider the SNP's independence referendum call.
This afternoon delegates have also sent best wishes to countries which found independence after the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, welcomed the extension of free bus travel to army and service veterans under the age of 60 and called on HM government and other industrialised nations to follow Scotland's climate change policy at Copenhagen – even though no Scottish minister will be present to explain it.


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