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Wednesday, February 10, 1999
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Life sciences company Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MTC) gained $2 1/4 to $47 3/8 on news that its new anti-arthritis drug Celebrex is selling rapidly, generating 83,000 prescriptions in only its third week on the market. In comparison, Warner-Lambert's (NYSE: WLA) popular Lipitor cholesterol-lowering drug, itself a fast seller right out of the starting blocks, logged "only" 14,000 prescriptions during its third week, according to a report by health data tracker NDC Health Information Services. While the quick pace is definitely good news for Monsanto, the behind-the-scenes winner in this pharmacological version of the 100-meter dash may very well be Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). Since Pfizer is co-marketing both Celebrex and Lipitor, a fast start for both drugs translates into an equally quick expansion of the "Alliance Revenue" line of Pfizer's income statement in coming quarters. Pfizer also picked up $1 1/2 to $126 1/2 today.
Internet advertising firm DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK) gained $5 to $79 3/4 after reportedly telling analysts and investors at a Goldman Sachs investing conference today that it delivered 5.3 billion online ads in Q4 and that it forecasts that number to hit 20 billion by Q4 of this year and a whopping 80 billion by Q4 of fiscal 2000. "We feel confident in 1999 and 2000 that we can keep up this pace," said DoubleClick CFO Jeffrey Epstein according to Reuters. That breaks down to 39% compounded quarterly ad placement growth this year, followed by 41% compounded quarterly growth next year. Those heady growth rates will put pressure on other online ad shops, such as NetGravity (Nasdaq: NETG) and 24/7 Media (Nasdaq: TFSM), to keep up. NetGravity dropped $1/16 to $20 3/4, while 24/7 lost $1/2 to $29 3/4 today.
QUICK TAKES: Investment and insurance holding company Rushmore Financial Group (Nasdaq: RFGI) rocked $9 1/2 higher to $11 3/4 after announcing it will offer real-time market information and a fast order entry system for day traders through its RushTrade.com division... Call center automation systems designer InterVoice (Nasdaq: INTV) gained $9/16 to $12 3/4 after receiving a $5.8 million order for its interactive voice response systems from a new customer, which it categorized as a "major provider of local and long distance telecommunication services"... Musculoskeletal and orthopedic medical products maker Biomet Inc. (Nasdaq: BMET) picked up $1 11/16 to $34 following upgrades from Bear Stearns and BancBoston Robertson Stephens today.
Outsourced pharmaceutical manufacturing services firm ChiRex Inc. (Nasdaq: CHRX) advanced $1 3/4 to $21 5/8 after reporting Q4 EPS of $0.34 (before charges) vs. $0.03 last year, beating the Zacks mean estimate of $0.29... Transportation logistics management company Ryder System (NYSE: R) motored ahead $1 3/4 to $26 1/16 after receiving an upgrade to "strong buy" from "neutral" from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The brokerage's price target is $35 per share... Discount shoe retailer Payless ShoeSource (NYSE: PSS) skipped $4 higher to $53 1/4 after saying stronger-than-expected sales in December and January will result in Q4 EPS between $0.35 and $0.40, topping the First Call mean estimate of $0.28.
Telecommunications embedded processors maker RadiSys Corp. (Nasdaq: RSYS) moved up $1 5/8 to $30 3/8 after agreeing to buy IBM's (NYSE: IBM) communications coprocessor adapter hardware and software development unit for about $22.8 million in cash... Combination casino-hotel operator Mirage Resorts (NYSE: MIR) rolled $1 3/16 higher to $15 1/2 after Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette raised its rating to "top pick" from "market perform"... Electronic transaction services provider Concord EFS (Nasdaq: CEFT) bounced back $4 7/16 to $29 15/16 after tumbling 21.5% in trading yesterday. Analysts reportedly chalked up yesterday's dive to concerns that the company may disappoint investors when it issues its Q4 earnings report, which is scheduled for Friday. Such pessimism dissipated a bit today, however.
British-based pay TV broadcasting firm British Sky Broadcasting Group (NYSE: BSY) rose $5 3/8 to $47 1/8 after announcing it will supply content from its Sky Sports website and other sources to online services conglomerate America Online (NYSE: AOL). In return, AOL will market the company's SkyDigital service to its users... Financial services holding company Equitable Cos. (NYSE: EQ) moved up $5 7/16 to $64 9/16 thanks to a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter upgrade to "outperform" from "neutral"... Aircraft ground support and fueling services provider Hudson General Corp. (AMEX: HGC) rose $5 1/2 to $68 after receiving a $67 per share cash buyout bid from a subsidiary of German airline Lufthansa.
Earnings Movers
Cigna Corp. (NYSE: CI) up $3 5/16 to $76 7/8; Q4 EPS: $1.04 (before gain) vs. $0.81 last year; estimate: $1.00
General Instrument Corp. (NYSE: GIC) up $1 7/8 to $33 1/2; Q4 EPS: $0.26 vs. $0.10 last year (excluding charges); estimate: $0.23
Network Solutions (Nasdaq: NSOL) up $5 7/8 to $153 7/8; Q4 EPS: $0.22 vs. $0.11 last year; estimate: $0.20
Shared Medical Systems (NYSE: SMS) up $7 5/16 to $50 5/16; Q4 EPS: $0.69 vs. $0.67 last year; estimate: $0.67
SOFTWORKS (Nasdaq: SWRX) up $1 3/32 to $8 15/16; Q4 EPS: $0.20 vs. $0.07 last year; estimate: $0.16
Unigraphics Solutions (NYSE: UGS) up $1 1/4 to $19 15/16; Q4 EPS: $0.28 vs. $0.26 last year; estimate: $0.22
Maryland-based biotechnology firm EntreMed (Nasdaq: ENMD) was crushed for an $11 5/8 loss to $12 7/8 after drug and personal care products maker Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) said late yesterday it won't develop EntreMed's Angiostatin protein, a developmental cancer treatment. The decision by the world's largest cancer drug company to back away from Angiostatin is a major blow for EntreMed, which now is faced with the task of finding another partner. Covance (NYSE: CVD), which has an agreement to develop Endostatin, another EntreMed cancer fighter, was reportedly mentioned by EntreMed as a potential future manufacturer for Angiostatin. But if Bristol-Myers' reasoning for giving Angiostatin some time alone holds true -- the company apparently wasn't happy with preliminary trial results -- the search for a replacement could be difficult. Bristol-Myers retained the option to reclaim development and marketing rights for Angiostatin "once clinical proof of principal has been demonstrated."
Investors should probably be forgiven for taking out some frustration on Shop At Home (Nasdaq: SATH) today, as the direct retailer lost $6 7/16 to $13 9/16 following its announcement of the Internet strategy it teased investors with late last month. Oh, there was a strategy all right, including plans for a website selling collectibles with Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and iXL Inc. But clearly that didn't live up to expectations when the market's buzzing about deals involving Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS), USA Networks (Nasdaq: USAI), and Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch (Nasdaq: TMCS). Shop At Home also announced a move to the Nasdaq National Market System from the exchange's SmallCap Market, effective today, and reported fiscal Q2 losses of $0.02 per share, a penny better than market projections but down from last year's nickel per share profit.
QUICK CUTS: All three heads of the multimedia hydra now known as USA/Lycos Interactive Networks lost ground today. Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch (Nasdaq: TMCS) moved back $5 1/8 to $37 1/8, while web portal Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) stumbled $7 to $87 1/4 as both stocks extended yesterday's losses. Cable TV networks operator USA Networks (Nasdaq: USAI), which picked up $3 11/16 yesterday, forfeited $2 3/8 of that today to finish at $39 1/4. The Fool's Warren Gump logged on to this one in today's Lunchtime News... Millennium bug exterminator Keane Inc. (AMEX: KEA) was squashed for a $3 1/4 loss to $27 following reports that the company overstated Q3 backlog by $81 million because of a spreadsheet error.
Nutritional science firm Natural Alternatives International (Nasdaq: NAII) flaked off $1 1/2 to $5 1/2 after CEO Mark Le Doux said second-half EPS may fall below year-ago levels as capital expenditures and administrative costs rise in accordance with growth efforts... Propane grill cylinder exchange company Blue Rhino Corp. (Nasdaq: RINO) was gored for $2 7/8 to $11 5/8 after saying last night it will adjust Q1 earnings down to a loss of $0.01 per share from the previously reported $0.05 after figuring in charges related to the acquisition of certain assets from Bison Valve... Outerwear maker Columbia Sportswear (Nasdaq: COLM) cooled $3 1/4 to $12 1/2 after it said warmer winter weather is leading it to expect that domestic fall sales in 1999 will be flat with 1998 levels.
TV station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group (Nasdaq: SBGI) sank $3 1/4 to $13 1/2 after the company said CEO-designate Barry Baker is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Q4 losses at Sinclair were $0.14 per share, down again from last year's penny loss and missing First Call's anticipated $0.06 profit... Aluminum producer Century Aluminum Co. (Nasdaq: CENX) rusted $1 1/4 to $7 5/8 after Chairman Craig Davis said 1999 holds "little promise of earnings improvement" with aluminum prices at or near five-year lows... Non-contact manufacturing sensors and systems maker CyberOptics Corp. (Nasdaq: CYBE) blurred $2 1/8 to $14 after the company said Q1 results will come in below last year's $0.28 mark. CyberOptics' largest sensor customer reported an order slowdown over the balance of the first quarter seen extending into Q2.
Automated animal feeding and watering systems maker CTB International Corp. (Nasdaq: CTBC) lost $7/8 to $6 7/8 after it said it expects the devaluation of Brazilian currency to have an unspecified negative impact on Q1 earnings... Enterprise software developer Peregrine Systems (Nasdaq: PRGN), which agreed to buy privately held transportation fleet management software developer Prototype Inc. for $21.3 million in stock and cash, lost $5 15/16 to $48 11/16 today... Industrial fluid handling devices maker Robbins & Myers (NYSE: RBN) leaked $2 5/8 to $19 3/4 after the company said this morning it expects fiscal Q2 earnings to come in as much as 30% below Wall Street's $0.39 consensus estimate because of a plant closing charge.
Data network company Equant (NYSE: ENT) dropped $5 9/16 to $73 1/2 following news that company shareholders raised the number of shares they will sell in a secondary offering to 42 million from 35 million... E-business software company Segue Software (Nasdaq: SEGU) moved back $4 15/16 to $11 on last night's news of Q4 losses of $0.19 per share, well off Wall Street's $0.05 per share profit estimate. The company this morning announced a deal to provide Netscape Communications (Nasdaq: NSCP) with server software tools... Hydraulic systems maker Commercial Intertech Corp. (NYSE: TEC) steamed off $1 to $13 1/4 after the company said fiscal Q1 EPS is seen coming in between $0.11 and $0.15 per share, missing Wall Street's $0.23 consensus projection.
Earnings Movers
Chicago Title (NYSE: CTZ) down $3 3/8 to $37 3/16; Q4 EPS $1.20 vs. $0.70 last year; estimate: $1.19
MedPartners (NYSE: MDM) down $5/16 to $6; Q4 EPS $0.06 vs. loss of $0.01 last year; estimate: profit of $0.07
NOVA Corp. (NYSE: NIS) down $2 3/4 to $27 1/2; Q4 EPS $0.21 (before charges) vs. $0.19 last year; estimate: $0.21
Omega Protein (NYSE: OME) down $2 3/4 to $6 1/8; fiscal Q1 EPS $0.18 vs. $0.27 last year; estimate: $0.20
Policy Management Systems (NYSE: PMS) down $11 9/16 to $38 1/4; Q4 EPS $0.51 vs. $0.43 last year; estimate: $0.51
Provident Cos. (NYSE: PVT) down $4 5/8 to $34 1/2; Q4 EPS $0.60 vs. $0.52 last year; estimate: $0.62
RehabCare Group (NYSE: RHB) down $15/16 to $18 1/2; Q4 EPS $0.46 (before gain) vs. $0.38 last year; estimate: $0.43
Unum Corp. (NYSE: UNM) down $7 9/16 to $48 1/4; Q4 EPS $0.71 vs. $0.64 last year; estimate: $0.73
Verio Inc. (Nasdaq: VRIO) down $2 3/8 to $28; Q4 EPS loss of $1.02 vs. loss of $1.03 last year; estimate: loss of $1.08
An Investment Opinion
by Louis Corrigan
$1 for 90 cents. Sounds Great
Online business models have been under attack for a while. Every card-carrying curmudgeon has felt compelled to mock the major e-commerce players for sporting apparently lofty stock market valuations while still bleeding losses. Sure, they say, the revenue growth is impressive; Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) will soon be booking a billion bucks a year in sales. Yet, it's easy to grow revenue if you're selling stuff below cost. Then comes the yack-yack dismissive line, "Oh, but I guess they plan to make it up on volume," as if this old saw is such a hands-down truism that it sums up all the thinking one needs to do on the subject. I'm not exaggerating, either. As the "venerable" British weekly The Economist put it recently, "Amazon could yet become a $10 billion business with the profits of a corner shop."
Maybe so. But while the Web is still in a state of flux regarding which business models will ultimately work best, it is worth highlighting the fact that even supposedly freakish models aren't as ugly or bizarre as commentators seem to think. In fact, they're downright old-fashion if you get beyond the Web-worthy bells and whistles. Let's consider The Economist's ultimate putdown of the future of e-commerce: "Is it too implausible to imagine Dollar.com -- a company that sells dollar bills for 90 cents and makes money from advertising?"
Actually, no. Neither is that a necessarily stupid idea. In fact, that pretty much describes The Economist's own business model. Another way of saying you want to sell dollar bills at a discount, of course, is to say that you want to offer an attractive product to customers for less than it costs you to produce. And that's what most content providers do today. Subscriptions for magazines and newspapers typically cover just a fraction of the cost of paying writers, editors, and other personnel; maintaining office facilities; buying paper and ink; and distributing the product. Advertising pays for the vast majority of these expenses. No ads, no profits, no business. Period.
Indeed, many local newsweeklies made the rational business decision long ago that they can make more money giving their product away. That's because ad rates are based on circulation ("eyeballs" in Webspeak), and a free product usually attracts a larger circulation. The same is generally true of the television networks. Think about it. Everyday, your television carries hours upon hours of entertainment and news content -- for free. Sure, there's cable, which many of us can't live without. But over a quarter of American viewers watch good old free TV. These viewers have made an implicit deal with the networks and their local affiliates: Give us something worth watching, and we'll more or less let you assault us with advertising for 14 minutes every hour. Radio works with the same business model.
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All of this would seem pretty elementary except that the Web has a way of confounding our perceptions even as it ought to be sharpening them. Trading the proverbial $1 for a customer's 90 cents -- or, maybe nothing but some required ad viewing -- may prove just as powerful with the Web as it has with other entertainment technologies.
Consider the offer made on Monday by Free PC, a California startup led by the venture capital firm Idealab. As the name suggests, Free PC will give away personal computers, beginning with 10,000 Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) Presarios with a 333MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, a 33.6kpm modem, Windows 98, CD-ROM and floppy drives, a 15-inch monitor, and a 4-gigabyte hard drive. Idealab's ultimate goal, assuming all goes as planned, is to give away millions of PCs. Interested? Go to www.free-pc.com and register by answering a list of questions. If you meet certain demographically attractive requirements, then you'll qualify. The main catch is that you must agree to be bombarded with ads (apparently for at least two years) every time you've got your PC on, whether you're online or not. About 2 gigabytes of the PC's hard drive will be reserved for storing ads (which will be updated each time you go online) and certain data gathered by Idealab.
The company's business model is based on the notion that your eyeballs are worth more than the $600 price of the PC. It's actually just a savvy twist on the patented concept launched long ago by Idealab's business partner Cybergold (www.cybergold.com). This California company works up deals in which advertisers pay consumers for reading their ads. More recently, Cybergold has attained a business-method patent for the concept of a product that would store a consumer's demographic info (income, hobbies, and so on) and allow consumers to be compensated for giving this data to advertisers. This, too, sounds novel, but it's really little different than getting paid to answer a marketing survey.
Still, these developments suggest the obvious: Soap operas are designed to sell soap. If you can get customers to either sit through your ads or divulge information about themselves, then giving away financial commentary, entertainment programming, or even cash may make plenty of sense. The real value in this nexus may be your customer's time and personalized data. The Free PC initiative, however, reveals precisely how far e-commerce may go along these lines. It may end up being smart to give away merchandise (books, PCs, you name it) at or even below cost if you can make up the difference and salvage some profits on the ad front.
In light of Free PC, then, the move by online auction firm Onsale (Nasdaq: ONSL) that left The Economist in a tizzy may actually prove relatively conservative. In mid-January, Onsale (www.onsale.com) launched atCost, an e-commerce site that allows consumers and small businesses to buy any of some 35,000 PC-related items at wholesale prices. Customers also pay a fixed premium of $10 or less per item plus the costs of shipping, handling, and credit-card processing. As the company's press release reads, "This shift is reminiscent of the changes online brokerage firms brought to the securities industry with low- and fixed-price charges per transaction."
Of course, Onsale will supplement this modest markup with high-margin ad revenues. As company CEO Jerry Kaplan has said, the goal is to generate gross margins from atCost in the 7% to 9% range. While that's below Onsale's overall gross margin target of 9.7%, it could really help the bottom line since "the company expects only an incremental increase in related operating expenses" from this initiative since Onsale's already got the basic infrastructure in place. Assuming an efficient enough distribution operation, of course, it's not hard to imagine a world where e-commerce in general operates on even more of a magazine or newspaper model. Consumers may be asked to cover just a tad of an etailer's expenses, with profits coming all from advertising. In that world, volume -- or better said, eyeballs -- will mean everything.
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"Expression of Joy" Creative Built upon Unique Artistic Collaboration
Woodcliff Lake, NJ - BMW sought an innovative approach for the launch of the all-new BMW Z4 Roadster, and had to look no further than its rich legacy of commitment to art for inspiration. The result, an aesthetically powerful marketing campaign entitled "Expression of Joy," rolls out in early May. The campaign, which relies heavily on vibrant video content, includes an MSN.com homepage takeover on May 11 with which BMW will be the first advertiser to make use of the Web site's new feature - an expandable video unit that will allow users to view the BMW Z4 spot in full-screen mode. Also, the conventional 30-second spot is complimented by a 30-minute documentary.
At the heart of the campaign, created by BMW's Austin, Texas-based agency GSD&M Idea City, is an artistic collaboration between BMW, contemporary artist Robin Rhode and filmmaker Jake Scott. Rhode choreographed the movements of two BMW Z4 Roadsters mounted with special paint dispensers behind the wheels to create a football-field size painting, while Scott captured all the action with 40 simultaneous camera angles. The final Rhode piece and video elements form the foundation of the campaign's creative treatments.
"BMW has a long history of collaborating with contemporary artists," said Jack Pitney, Vice President of Marketing, BMW of North America. "Through this latest collaboration with Robin and Jake, we've extended our tradition of engaging leading talents in the art community for the introduction of the all-new BMW Z4 Roadster."
A 30-minute documentary that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Rhode piece, as it was directed by Scott at Downey Studios in Los Angeles last November, forms the centerpiece of the campaign. The documentary will air on Discovery HD Theater at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on May 10, with subsequent multiple airings on the network through May and June. Additionally, a tie-in with TiVo will extend the reach of the documentary by allowing TiVo users to preview and record it for later viewing.
The BMW Z4 campaign's online presence will rely exclusively on video-based assets, to bring the performance art to life online. Video banners will run from May 8 June 30 on leading news, business and lifestyle Web sites, including CNN, CNN Money, Dow Jones, Yahoo!, Condé Nast and Wired.
National print pieces, many with unique creative treatments, will be published in May and June issues of art, lifestyle and design magazines, including Art & Antiques, ArtNews Esquire, W, and Elle Décor. Notably, an eight-page, photo feature-style insert, written and photographed by actor Dennis Hopper, will run in the June issue of Vanity Fair, and a cover page takeover is slated for the June issue of Dwell magazine.
An out-of-home component is planned for the nation's busiest airports in ten key markets for BMW. The airport billboards feature representations of the Rhode piece alongside images of the BMW Z4 with headlines that read, "Expressionism meets Exhilarationism," "Not all artists are depressed" and "Rarely does the paintbrush rival the painting," or the succinctly stated "Art Movement" and "Muse."
While the core of the campaign breaks in May, some elements that laid the groundwork for the campaign began to appear as early as late-March, including: a public art installation featuring the Rhode/Scott collaboration at New York City's Grand Central Terminal from March 25April 6; an iPhone application that lets users replicate Rhode's experience of creating artwork with the BMW Z4 as "paintbrush;" and the launch of the BMW Z4 micro-site
. Additionally, special video spots are now running in mainstream and independent movie theaters nationwide a 30-second spot prior to the house lights going down and a two-minute cinematic piece as a lead-in to the feature presentation.
The new BMW Z4 Roadster goes on sale May 9 with a base MSRP of $46,575. For more information about the BMW Z4, please visit
BMW and Contemporary Art
BMW has a long-standing commitment to contemporary art starting with Gerhard Richter's 1972 commission of three large-scale paintings for the foyer of the company headquarters in Munich. Karl Schwanzer's architectural post-war icon, the "four-cylinder" building, marked the beginning of the company's emphasis on an innovative, dynamic style of construction which was extended in 2005 with the central building of the BMW Leipzig Plant, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and the BMW Welt designed by
The BMW Art Car program was originally conceived by French racecar driver Hervé Poulain in 1975. Since then, prominent artists throughout the world have joined the elite cast of Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, and have created sixteen BMW Art Cars, based on both racing and regular production models. The most recent contributors to the BMW Art Car Collection are David Hockney (1995), Jenny Holzer (1999) and Olafur Eliasson (2007). New artists are chosen by a prestigious panel of international judges, and BMW is currently in discussions for the development of the seventeenth Art Car.
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This is Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian modelling the new Kardashian Kollection swimwear line for US shop, Sears.
Now let's take a moment to enjoy this. Firstly, there's the K in Kollection - you've got to love a Kardashian. Total klass.
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Khloe looks about as angry about Kim's waist as we feel, and Kourtney's gone with a plan of 'turn to the side so at least we're not directly comparable'. It's one we'd probably go for ourselves.
But the main thing to note here is Kim Kardashian's boobs, which look as though they've decided to go and join Paris Hilton in Sydney and are making a run for the plane.
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If you have a California business, meet the requirements of a qualified purchaser, and have use tax to report, you can register online using electronic registration (eReg).
Once You are Registered
- You will be required to file your use tax returns using BOE-file, BOE's free electronic filing (eFile) system that enables taxpayers to use the Internet to file a sales and use tax return and make payment for amounts due.
- After you have completed registration through eReg, you can use your eClient User ID and password to efile your use tax returns. Returns will be available the next business day after registering for a permit.
- If you are required to efile use tax returns for prior years, you will need to file those use tax returns immediately.
- Each subsequent calendar year's use tax return is due on or before April 15 for the preceding year's use tax purchases (If the due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, returns are due the following business day).
- Please visit the File a Return page for more information.
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- If your only business is one that requires you to hold a seller's permit, you do not need to register for a use tax account.
- If you have a business that requires you to hold a seller's permit and a service business under the same legal entity, you do not need to register for a use tax account. You must report purchases subject to use tax for your service business on your sales tax return.
- If you have a business that requires you to hold a seller's permit and a separate service business that are different legal entities, you will be required to hold two accounts and file two returns. You must report purchases subject to use tax for the business requiring a seller's permit on the sales tax return. You must report purchases subject to use tax for the service business on the annual use tax return.
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- If you receive gross receipts from business operations from multiple businesses, none of which require you to hold a seller's permit, you only need to register for one account and only need to file one annual use tax return.
Statute of Limitations
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Updating Registration Information
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Year End Checklist: 9 Ways to Prepare Your Finances for 2013
The year is almost over, and while you may be eager to turn the page on 2012 and start a fresh new year, there are a few things you need to get in order first. In fact, taking care of business before the year is through will help set up your finances for a stronger 2013. Here are some of the things you should tackle before the ball drops on January 1st.
1. Hit Your Maximum Retirement Contributions
If you haven't made a any contributions to your 401(k) or IRA, there are some good reasons to make a heroic effort to get as much cash in these accounts as possible before the year is out.
Playing retirement catch up will help you accumulate greater savings over time. Better still, many retirement plan contributions are tax-deferred, which means that you won't pay tax on the amount you deposit (at least not until you withdraw it during retirement). This reduces the tax you will pay in 2012.
Maximum retirement contributions for 2012 are $17,000 to a 401(k) and $5,000 to an IRA. Deduction limits may apply to IRA contributions depending on marital status, income and whether you have a workplace retirement plan, so check with your accountant to determine the optimal type of retirement plan and contributions for your situation.
2. Contribute to a 529 Plan
If you have children, you may want to make contributions to a 529 Plan for their college education. These plans allow funds to grow tax-free, and some states even let contributors deduct a portion of their contributions from state taxes.
Plus, if your kids have grandparents or other family members who want to chip in, those contributions are eligible for the annual gift tax exclusion ($13,000 in 2012, or $26,000 for married couples filing a joint return).
There are no maximum contribution limits for 529 Plans, although they do have a lifetime contribution cap. This is between $100,000 and $270,000 and varies by state.
3. Compare Capital Gains Against Losses
Did you know that you can deduct up to $3,000 in capital losses? If you have a losing stock in your portfolio that you don't think will turn around, selling it before the end of the year could be of benefit.
If your losses on that stock exceed your capital gains for the year, you can deduct that loss against other income. If your overall capital loss is more than $3,000, you can even carry it over and deduct it in 2013.
4. Take Required Minimum Distributions
If you are 70.5 or older, ensure you've taken your Required Minimum Distributions (RMD) from tax-deferred retirement plans such as 401(k)s or IRAs. As with all rules related to retirement plans, there are exceptions. You can learn more about RMDs by reading IRS Publication 590.
5. Review Your Beneficiaries
It's a good idea to review your beneficiaries each year to cover any changes that may have occurred in your family. The assets in your retirement accounts, life insurance and annuities bypass your will because of the beneficiary forms these accounts require. If you want to make changes to your beneficiaries, remember that your need to make those changes to both your will and your beneficiary forms.
6. Use Up Your Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
If you've set up a flexible spending account (FSA) with your employer, now's the time to use it. Although some employers offer an FSA grace period that stretches into the new year, they are generally a use-it-or-lose-it benefit that expires at year end.
If you need medical services or plan to incur other eligible expenses soon, be sure to get it done before your plan's coverage period deadline to avoid forfeiting those FSA funds.
7. Review Your Long-Term Financial Goals and Set New Ones
You might be caught in holiday shopping and entertaining this month, but set some time aside to plan for 2013. It's best to do this before the end of the year so that you can hit the ground running when 2013 arrives.
Think about what you learned in 2012 and what you can do in the upcoming year to improve your financial situation. Also think about your long-term goals, and break them down to determine what you need to be doing each year to hit them. Finally, write it all down and set some manageable goals for each quarter of 2013. This will help keep you on track.
8. Make a Budget
You can have all the goals in the world, but if you don't make a plan for how you want to spend your money, you are unlikely to achieve them.
Pull out your bank and credit card statements for 2012 and find weaknesses in your budget. Are there areas where you could cut back and divert more money to saving? Are there some things you aren't spending money on (such as insurance) that you would like to divert money to next year?
Make a plan now and begin enforcing it on the first day of 2013. It takes at least three weeks to establish a habit, so the sooner you start, the better.
9. Set Up Automatic Savings
Once you determine where you want your money to go in 2013, take a trip to the bank and set up automatic deposits to your savings and retirement accounts. This will enforce your saving habit and keep your savings out of your reach, making it harder for you to break your commitment to putting that money aside.
If you can, time the withdrawals to occur on the same day you receive your pay check. This way, your savings will be whisked away before you get a chance to even think about spending the money elsewhere.
The end of the year is hectic time for many reasons, but don't allow these distractions to keep you from addressing your financial affairs one last time this year. Like it or not, your finances will play a major role in how 2013 shapes up for you. Set yourself up for a more prosperous new year, and many more to come.


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Yvette of NBC's "Community" is on The Couch! A natural hair vanguard, this gorgeous actress dishes on everything from her routine to what it was like being natural before it was in vogue.
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Yvette: I've been natural for about 12 years. Before that, I've had every style known to man...relaxers, braids, press & curl, you name it, I had it! I decided to go natural because I realized that my hair had been manipulated or processed in some way from the time I was 6 or 7. Which is true for most of us. Most black women don't know what their natural texture is because most of us have never seen it. Growing up, I always admired the curls of Cree Summer ("A Different World") and Karyn Parsons ("Fresh Prince of Bel Air"). I never knew that without a relaxer, my hair would curl in exactly the same way. I transitioned before anyone was talking about things like "the big chop." I just let my new growth continue to come in. A mild texturizer is another way to ease your way into a natural style...it blurs the line between natural and relaxed hair a bit. But it does prolong the time it takes to get to completely natural hair.
CN: Have you always liked your curls? If not, how did you come to embrace your natural hair?
Yvette: My hair's pretty thick, so I have always been grateful for it, no matter what form it's in (pressed, relaxed, natural, etc...) But natural hair is my favorite because it's healthier and can withstand most weather conditions. Rain doesn't scare me. LOL! And though it may get bigger when faced with humidity, I love big hair so I just let it swell!


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I seem to have a problem with building my site. I have a content area(300px) positioned verticaly and horizontaly in the middle/center. Now when I put more content in there I am using tinyscroll(before cScroll) to scroll if the content is bigger than 300px. Let say I put a couple of toggles(or some other js that will increase the content) inside the content. How would I make my scroll content bigger on the fly when opening a toggle. There is an tinyscrollbar_update() but does not seem to work for me. Is there a solution for this?
Should I use any other scroller( I just want it to be compatible with all major browsers as well as iPad, iPhone, android…
Many thanks for all the help.
Try jScrollPane.
It's the only one I've seen behaving correctly on touch devices.
Alternatively, you could activate your jQuery scroll script only for desktop devices, and have overflow: auto on your container for mobile.
Hi digitalimpact,
thanks for the advice. Still I can't manage to get the contentheight increase when some javascript(for example toggle) get opened.
Here's my code: code download
If you run it you will see that at the bottom, there is a toggle. When opening it, the content is not be be seen, because the content height doesn't increase.
If the toggle is opened by default, it can be seen but than after cloding an area where the content was stays there.
Any advice mybe how to do this so that the content would get bigger on the fly?
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"Coach Dunn put me in during the first quarter which has not happened much during the season," Tina said of the Liberty game. "It was kind of nice because I still felt somewhat warmed up and not so stiff. I haven't shot well all season, but I got some open looks during the game and was able to knock them down. It just felt good to play again."
More recently Tina contributed 14 minutes, eight of which occurred in the crucial fourth quarter with four points to give Fever starters a much needed rest in the team's 88-79 playoff win against the Washington Mystics. The Fever will next play at home September 25 against the Detroit Shock in the Eastern Conference Finals after sweeping the first playoff round against the Mystics.
The extra court time is a good warm-up to the winter season when she and Jennifer will provide the spark for a Slovakian team officially named BK PU Bemaco Prešov.
"We told our agent we didn't care about the money or location, and he said, 'if that's really how you feel, I'll make it work.' He made it a priority and worked hard to find a place that welcomed both of us," Tina said.
The friends' first order of business was to locate Slovakia on a map. "It was definitely a country that neither one of us had ever imagined ourselves going to so we had a lot to learn about it."
The versatility both players helped with placement on the team. With Jennifer transitioning from a gritty guard to relentless post to earn national Defensive Player of the Year honors, and shooting specialist Tina switching from guard to post to center, the Slovakian team added numerous positions to their roster.
Tina explains that Americans are often the stars on European teams – the moneymakers that bring in fans. "Americans are usually the highest paid. The teams bring you over to improve their team and make them more competitive. It will definitely be an adjustment in terms of playing style. Vanderbilt has a very structured, team-oriented system whereas in the WNBA, there is a lot more one-on-one basketball. Overseas is kind of a combination of the two with Americans having a lot of freedom, especially offensively."
The European game is less physical but more up tempo than the U.S. version. There is also what's called "the European step" when local players are not called for a travel when Americans do the same. "It's a questionable move that would be called a travel in the States but in Europe they let it go – except for Americans. It's a fine line," Tina says, "but we'll just have to get used to how they call it."
Jennifer, who moved to the Prešov in early September, is learning the language by immersion with new friends and with study. She is blogging about her adventures in the area and playing tournaments with as many as five games in a week for the season which ends in late April 2010.
After a flight into Budapest and a taxi ride a few hours northeast to the Slovakian town, Jennifer lunched with the mayor on her first day. The mayor owns the team, and casually mentioned that the first game was that evening! Playing point guard and shooting guard, Jennifer says she also would play post if they need her "because post players overseas don't know how to be as tough as American players."
Tina's last visit to Europe was with the Commodores during the summer visit to Spain in 2007. Now, as she says, "I can't really see a better way than for someone to pay me to travel and play with my best friend. I'm not ready to be done playing for a lot of years. I'm very happy to have the opportunity and grateful for the chance."
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During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated
women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet Guest's new study, which explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism and the relations between public and private categories permitted educated British women to imagine themselves as political subjects.
Small Change considers the celebration of learned women as tokens of national progress in the context of a commercial culture that complicates notions of gender difference. Guest offers a fascinating account of the women of the bluestocking circle, focusing in particular on Elizabeth Carter, hailed as the paradigmatic learned and domestic woman. She discusses the importance of the American war to the changing relation between patriotism and gender in the 1770s and 1780s, and she casts new light on Mary Wollstonecraft's writing of the 1790s, considering it in relation to the anti-feminine discourse of Hannah More, and the utopian feminism of Mary Hays.
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A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC
Posted on Apr 26, 2012
By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch
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However, BRICS cohesion, to the extent it exists, centers mostly around shared frustration with the Masters of the Universe-style financial speculation that nearly sent the global economy off a cliff in 2008. True, the BRICS crew also has a notable convergence of policy and opinion when it comes to embattled Iran, an Arab Sprung Middle East, and Northern Africa. Still, for the moment the key problem they face is this: they don't have an ideological or institutional alternative to neo-liberalism and the lordship of global finance.
As Vijay Prashad has noted, the Global North has done everything to prevent any serious discussion of how to reform the global financial casino. No wonder the head of the G-77 group of developing nations (now G-132, in fact), Thai ambassador Pisnau Chanvitan, has warned of "behavior that seems to indicate a desire for the dawn of a new neocolonialism."
Meanwhile, things happen anyway, helter-skelter. China, for instance, continues to informally advance the yuan as a globalizing, if not global, currency. It's already trading in yuan with Russia and Australia, not to mention across Latin America and in the Middle East. Increasingly, the BRICS are betting on the yuan as their monetary alternative to a devalued U.S. dollar.
Japan is using both yen and yuan in its bilateral trade with its huge Asian neighbor. The fact is that there's already an unacknowledged Asian free-trade zone in the making, with China, Japan, and South Korea on board.
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And talk about messy, who could forget what Dick Cheney said, while still Halliburton's CEO, at the Institute of Petroleum in London in 1999: "The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies." No wonder when, as vice president, he came to power in 2001, his first order of business was to "liberate" Iraq's oil. Of course, who doesn't remember how that ended?
Now (different administration but same line of work), it's an oil-embargo-cum-economic-war on Iran. The leadership in Beijing sees Washington's whole Iran psychodrama as a regime-change plot, pure and simple, having nothing to do with nuclear weapons. Then again, the winner so far in the Iran imbroglio is China. With Iran's banking system in crisis, and the U.S. embargo playing havoc with that country's economy, Beijing can essentially dictate its terms for buying Iranian oil.
The Chinese are expanding Iran's fleet of oil tankers, a deal worth more than $1 billion, and that other BRICS giant, India, is now purchasing even more Iranian oil than China. Yet Washington won't apply its sanctions to BRICS members because these days, economically speaking, the U.S. needs them more than they need the U.S.
The World Through Chinese Eyes
Which brings us to the dragon in the room: China.
What's the ultimate Chinese obsession? Stability, stability, stability.
The usual self-description of the system there as "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is, of course, as mythical as a gorgon. In reality, think hardcore neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics led by men who have every intention of saving global capitalism.
At the moment, China is smack in the middle of a tectonic, structural shift from an export/investment model to a services/consumer-led model. In terms of its explosive economic growth, the last decades have been almost unimaginable to most Chinese (and the rest of the world), but according to the Financial Times, they have also left the country's richest 1% controlling 40%-60% of total household wealth. How to find a way to overcome such staggering collateral damage? How to make a system with tremendous inbuilt problems function for 1.3 billion people?
Enter "stability-mania." Back in 2007, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao was warning that the Chinese economy could become "unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable." These were the famous "Four Uns."
Today, the collective leadership, including the next Prime Minister, Li Leqiang, has gone a nervous step further, purging "unstable" from the Party's lexicon. For all practical purposes, the next phase in the country's development is already upon us.
It will be quite something to watch in the years to come.
How will the nominally "communist" princelings—the sons and daughters of top revolutionary Party leaders, all immensely wealthy, thanks, in part, to their cozy arrangements with Western corporations, plus the bribes, the alliances with gangsters, all those "concessions" to the highest bidder, and the whole Western-linked crony-capitalist oligarchy—lead China beyond the "Four Modernizations"? Especially with all that fabulous wealth to loot.
The Obama administration, expressing its own anxiety, has responded to the clear emergence of China as a power to be reckoned with via a "strategic pivot"—from its disastrous wars in the Greater Middle East to Asia. The Pentagon likes to call this "rebalancing" (though things are anything but rebalanced or over for the U.S. in the Middle East).
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Pressure Switch Question
My heater quit working and the code light says that the pressure switch failed to close. I checked the hose from the flu vent fan to the pressure switch and it is clear. I also blew on the hose that goes to the pressure switch and nothing happened. However, when I did suck on the hose, I heard a click and the burner started.
What does this mean? All of the other posts say that the pressure switch needs positive pressure, not suction. Does this mean that something is wrong or do some switches work different than others?
Thank you!
Draft inducer motor sucks the pressure switch closed IF there is no leak in the heat exchanger. If your draft inducer motor is coming on, it should first in heating mode and it should pull the pressure switch closed, but the pressure switch is not closing then you may have a crack in the heat exchanger.
OR it may mean your flue is blocked, or the inducer may not be coming up to full speed, or your inducer doesnt work at all, or the press switch is going bad or the port on the inducer where you removed the hose from is plugged.............. It could be any number of things.... Check out the list above. It is almost always never the press switch. Most of the time the port on the inducer is plugged. remove hose, take a small drill bit or paper clip and ensure the the port is clean
Need a manometer to see if it has enough vacuum to pull in to diagnose it properly.:thumbsup:
I will check everything that you guys listed (checking the flue is going to suck though :(). I did notice that quite a bit of air can be felt around the draft inducer when it comes on. I would imagine that not much air would be felt around the inducer since most of the air should be directed into the flue.
Since I can feel a lot of air being blown around the inducer, does that mean that the air isn't going into the flue possibly because it is blocked?
Post the brand, model and serial # so we know what we are working with. Is it a high efficiency furnace with plastic vent pipes or a medium efficiency one with a metal pipe to the chimney? The inducer has a fan on it to cool the motor and that may be what you are feeling.
The furnace is made by Goodman Manufacturing Company and its model number is GMP075-3 REVB. It also has a metal vent pipe that goes all the way to the roof with a vent cap on it. No work has been done on the furnace since I bought the house three years ago.
I live in California, so no one is going to freeze to death without the heater but it still would be nice to get it fixed :).
I was able to clean out the nipple from the pressure inducer and it fixed my problem :) I tried cleaning it yesterday with a paper clip but I wasn't getting far enough into the nipple. I wanted to use my tiny drill bit but I snapped it just last week :censored: So, I used the metal end of a spare flag that is used to mark landscape irrigation. It worked like a charm!
Heater now works and the wife is happy. Thanks for all of your help.
I noticed some questionable connections on the vent pipe that makes me concerned that exhaust may be leaking into my basement (I can't verify that any is leaking though). In the meantime, I have my carbon monoxide alarm plugged in the basement and I will fix the flue connections next week.
Thanks again!
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Re: List of Interpolated functions inside plot
Hi chris,
you should try it with Evaluate e. g.
Plot[Evaluate at Table[xyinterp[m][x], {m, 1, 10, 3}], {x, -5, 5}]
By the way: Without Evaluate you get no result not because of "the value of x
needs to be defined pior to the execution of the Table command".
Plot has Attribute HoldAll an takes its arguments unevaluated. With Evaluate
you suppress this Attribute and Plot gets the argument in an evaluated form.
"Krautschik, Chris G" wrote:
> If have defined the following interpolation for arbitrary integer m:
> xyinterp[m_] := Interpolation[Table[{x, Sin[m x]}, {x, -5, 5, 0.25}]];
> I can plot a number of the interpolated functions on one plot as follows:
> Plot[ {xyinterp[1][x], xyinterp[2][x], xyinterp[3][x]}, {x,-5,5} ];
> Let's say I want to plot a large number of the functions of integer m but I
> like to use the Table command since typing can become quite tedious:
> Then
> Plot[ Table[xyinterp[m][x], {m, 1, 10, 3}],{x,-5,5} ]
> doesn't work because the value of x needs to be defined pior to the
> execution of the Table command. I have tried various forms of Hold but that
> doesn't seem to work.
> Any help or suggestions on how to make this work would be appreciated.
> thanks,
> Chris


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Game On: Super Bowl Ads Are Already Playing OnlineBy
The battle over the coveted 47 minutes and 10 seconds of Super Bowl TV ad time is as heated as ever—this year, 30-second spots sold for as much $4 million—but the game's advertising war is no longer confined to television, and many companies aren't waiting for the kickoff. Most advertisers now send out previews of their commercials online to generate buzz. (YouTube reported that ads released before the game last year averaged 9.1 million total views; those making debuts during the broadcast got only 1.3 million views.) Meanwhile, some advertisers have opted to bypass the game altogether, trying to get Super Bowl-sized returns without forking out Super Bowl-sized bucks.
One creative way of getting an ad out on the cheap: Run a quirky, low-budget spot in a small market and watch it go viral. (Old Milwaukee beer pioneered this trick last year with an ad, featuring comedian Will Farrell, that ran during a local ad block in North Platte, Neb.) According to Adweek, Old Spice will run a Super Bowl ad, in which wolves crash a party and hawks interrupt a poker game, exclusively in Juno, Alaska. (The spot is already online.) The deodorant company says it chose Alaska because the state has the highest wolf population in the country. Because of the rise of small market ads like these, CBS said local ad sales at network-owned stations have hit a new record this year, with some markets charging up to $1 million per ad.
Meanwhile, the adult site PornHub has brilliantly played off the peculiarities of decency standards, producing a boring, G-rated commercial that features an elderly couple but was rejected because of the company's business. Pornhub gleefully quoted a "CBS spokesman" who said its standards didn't permit "advertising related to pornography." (The network has previously rejected racy ads from sites such as Ashley Madison and GoDaddy.) The PornHub ad is thriving online and CBS is getting criticized for running an equally boring Mercedes ad in which Kate Upton suggestively washes a car.
Even companies that are affiliated with the Super Bowl are looking for more creative ways to capitalize on TV's most expensive advertising space. Witness the social-media campaigns that invite consumers to create ads (Doritos), name a horse (Budweiser), get their fan picture on the ad (Pepsi) or choose how a commercial ends (Audi and Coke). Nike, meanwhile, is hawking the fact that the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens will both take to the field in the NFL Nike Elite 51 uniform—"the most innovative uniform system" the company has ever produced.
Then again, the only way to leave a lasting impression on consumers is to create an artful, memorable commercial. Few ad agencies have mastered the art of the Super Bowl ad as BBDO has done.The agency has put out spots in which cowboys herd cats, Betty White gets tackled, and an M&M strips off its shell to dance naked.
David Lubars, chairman and chief creative officer of BBDO North America, advises keeping an ad simple and honest. "It should also be an easy, reductionist message," says Lubars. "You're getting a canvas that 120 million people will see. You have to go where nobody has gone before. The ad has to be single-minded, relevant, funny, and emotional. If it's done right, $4 million is a bargain. I would say 90 percent of the people running ads are wasting their money."


text: There's a guy in my neighborhood that got a new RL (very nice car). He basically chased after me leaving the neighborhood. Then he got right on my rear bumper and when he got a tiny opening in traffic he raced around me (got right in front of me actually). Every chance he got he tried to prove to me he was faster than me. Unfortunately there was way too much traffic and I will not race in traffic. So I had to basically ignore him. I got very frustrated. I would have given anything for a clear stretch of road. I just thought I would share my frustration. Eventually I will get my chance. But for now I will just grin and bare it.


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"The Customer Go-to-Market Imperative: Transforming
Silos to Social Business and Community Building" | Workshop & Webcast
Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 6pm-7:30pm EST
CEO LEADership Lab – Greenawalt Student
Development Center, Conference Room D
Creese Student Center, Lower Level
3210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Presented by: Richard Blumberg, Drexel Alumnus;
President, World Sales Solutions, LLC
Sponsored by: Office of Student Leadership Development & Traditions
LIVE Virtual Webcast – Thursday, May 16 at 6pm EST:
Workshop Description: Increasing revenues, profits, value, and growth depends on collaboration with customers at the center of an organization's support system. Silos impact performance when geographic, business unit, and functional boundaries impact sales and the delivery of products, solutions, and services. For today's students, who are the future business and technology leaders, it is critical to recognize the compelling business issues, priorities, and market conditions which impact CEOs and customers' decisions. Those who understand these trends have better job and career opportunities which ultimately results in more hiring (and less firing). Learn about the best practices, case studies, tools, and resources required to help organizations go from ordinary to extraordinary. Understand the critical importance of equipping the sales team on a daily basis. Find out how executives, experts and content contributors provide the essential source of information which customers require one economic decision maker at a time.
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Recognize market trends and compelling business issues in the marketplace.
- Assess emerging job and career opportunities.
- Learn more about leading "leaders" around the globe from cross-teams (representing all majors!).
- Hear customer success stories, best practices, and lessons learned.
*This CEO LEAD Workshop is open to all students.
CEO LEADership Lab – Greenawalt Student Development Center, Conference Room D – Creese Student Center, Lower Level – 3210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Professional Development/Leadership


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Once upon a time dogs were allowed. Not any more. Even my friend who is very small got kicked out! How Rude! But still a good bar.posted: December 5th, 2007
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