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Opting Out of [Veterinary] Practice Ownership But Eyeing a Future of Mergers
No, I don't own a veterinary practice. I can give you a very long list explaining this lapse in my traditional vet career trajectory.
And while on paper it's a justifiable life choice, I'll confess: Eschewing practice ownership doesn't make me feel particularly virtuous or successful as a small-animal practitioner. I suspect the same is true of many of my ambitious colleagues.
Here's why I've opted out (so far):
Money: I attended an expensive school. I had big debts when I graduated (can you say $100K?). I moved to Miami, where almost half of my better-than-average vet income goes into my decidedly unluxurious home (really). And I'm a single parent. To invest in a practice, I'd have to sell my house—not a safe move in this real estate cycle and not a smart option when it comes to my child, either.
Time: Let's start with, "I'm a single parent" and pretty much leave it at that. Consequently, flexible hours are a requirement for my work. While I don't mind putting in 80-hour weeks from time to time, it's the inability to work from home (or work in the half hour here and there for school pickups and orthodontist appointments) that kills me.
Fear of commitment: Life as a practice owner seems all-consuming. I want more from my life than a half-million dollar check in my bank account when I turn 65. Which is not to say this wouldn't be desirable and laudable, but what would I have to give up? Would I be unable to explore other challenging sidelines to my career, like writing? Would I still be able to go kayaking in the Keys on Sundays?
Though this list sings my own life's story, conversations with peers echo its sentiments. And lest you think my colleagues similarly feminine in their tales of ownership woe, evidence to the contrary abounds. Most of my sub-40 male counterparts suffer practice ownership anxiety, too.
If this rationale doesn't resonate with you, you may share one or more of these practice ownership predispositions:
* You graduated with little debt.
* You live in an economically stable area and your income has grown steadily in favorably disproportionate contrast to your expenses.
* You've always embraced the concept of practice ownership for its challenges.
* You came of age in a culture where breadwinning was a huge measure of your personal worth.
* Practice ownership was expected as proof of success in your profession.
It's true, respect for making money and proving your worth with a sizable financial undertaking hasn't changed much in recent years. Practice ownership still confers significant advantages in terms of prestige and financial remuneration.
That's why those of us devoid of such an enviable position may feel frustrated and guilty over the prospect of putting off or abandoning the goal of ownership.
Mergers are whence human practitioners sagely migrated in their quest for quality of life, stable economics and the efficient use of high-priced suburban real estate and wickedly expensive equipment.
It doesn't help that earlier generations of professionals express dissatisfaction with what they perceive to be our "slacker" ways in opting out of private practice. "What, you prefer to kayak with your family instead of meeting your financial obligation to them?" To some, my honestly expressed desire for a rich family life is proof positive that our profession is going to hell in a hand basket.
My rejoinder? "If you had over $100,000 in debt when YOU graduated, you'd require regular bouts of stress-relieving exercise, too!"
Yet it's more complicated than that. Our culture has changed along with our profession's economics. The synergy of these two forces has changed veterinary medicine as we know it.
This complex shift in attitudes and finances has made way for the following:
More corporate veterinary hospitals whose business plans rest on the opportunity that comes with an excess of independent professional mouths to feed.
More specialists, many of whom select their field based not only on the potential for higher income but the opportunity to work in larger groups with the oft built-in opportunity for buy-in.
Fewer small practices—with an attendant drop in value when it's time to cash out.
The possibility of a new generation of veterinarians who may end their careers financially dissatisfied because of limited investment opportunities in their profession.
We can wring our hands over the first one and sing the praises of the high-tech savvy in the second, but it's the third and fourth that really set the larger community of vets on edge, especially those approaching retirement age. It's these colleagues who imminently face the prospect of a fire sale on their equipment as their clients vanish into the corporate vet vacuum or court neighboring mega-hospitals.


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eas |The Smoking Tire/Tuned wraps up 2012 with VF Engineering!
Its the final show for Season 1 of Tuned on YouTubes Drive network. (Dont worry, well be back in July.)
Over the season the channel was flooded with questions and comments, good and bad. So, for this episode, Matt decided to sit down and address the most common, or notable, from each episode. So grab a beer and hit play, or if you arent old enough, three 5 Hour Energy drinks. Actually dont do that. (please please please dont do that, youll die and sue us). Enjoy, and well see you in July.
Our VF620 Supercharged M3 enters in at 19:20 into the clip. For those that missed the original airing, we've embedded it here for your viewing pleasure:
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installing whole house filter on outside of house
I want to install a whole house water filter, and the only the place it can go is on the outside of the house (which is a small 1 bedroom cottage). This small house has 1 bath and there is no place inside to access the main water pipe. The house sits on block foundation with a crawl space, and all the pipe connections are under the house. But that crawl space is very difficult to go in.
With a little digging, I found the main water pipe in the yard, about 10" in the ground, that goes into the crawlspace under the side of the house. The water main appears to be 1" galvanized pipe.
So my plan is not to crawl under the house and drill through the floor to create an inside connection. Instead, I'd be ok with the water filter attached to the outside house wall, right where the main pipe goes under the house from the yard.
I'm handy with tools, but rarely do plumbing jobs. Could I do this?
What I want is just one water filter, like maybe the Big Blue 10" or Whirlpool from Lowes. And a shutoff valve.
My question as a newbie plumber is making the right connections and using the right type of piping. This plan requires cutting the galvanized main in the ground! Then installing pipe to lead out of the ground and up/down the side outside wall of house to the filter.
What pipes and connectors to use in this project case? I sure hope the galvanized pipe does not need to be threaded! Can I use a Fernco coupler, and PVC for this project? Another decision I need to make is would it be best to install the filter in the ground inside one of those large sprinkler buckets (that are like meter ground boxes)? This would provide natural insulation from heat/freeze. The water filter would sit horizontal in the underground bucket.
So here are all my questions:
1. better to install the filter on outside wall of house or in the ground in a sprinkler bucket?
2. what piping to use from the main to the filter? PVC ok?
3. once I cut the galvanized main, how to connect to the new pipe? Fernco coupler ok?
What exactly do you mean by fernco coupler? :huh:
What kind of piping do you have under the house?
I also wouldn't put that filter housing in the horizontal if I were you. Even with the bracket, thats a lot of weight. I'm not sure if they are even designed to be mounted that way at all...
We did something similar to this a while back, except meter side was pvc and house side was copper. It took a few hours working in a little pit like that. I would be hesitant to mess with an old piece of galvanized in the ground, personally.
Where are you located ?
Somewhere it will not freeze ?
You would need heat tape or something else on it most places
---hmmm Mike in Florida ?
so maybe not a huge concern
thanks for reply.
by "fernco coupler" I meant "Fernco coupling"
I looked again under the house and I might be able to crawl around on my back. I can see the main galvanized pipe under the house which changes to PVC in two directions.
There are two places I could install the filter inside the house, in a very small water heater room, or on the wall in a small hallway. So I'm now reconsidering installing it outside and instead install it inside on the wall in the hallway.
Inside plan would require drilling two holes in the floor and feed pipe down to the underside crawl space. I would like it inside much better than outside. So in this case, I would crawl under the house, and cut the galvanized main. I could use PVC for all the piping now to/from the filter, correct? My question is how to connect PVC to 1" galvanized pipe?
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The Charleston-Chichester Award
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To celebrate our 10th anniversary we joined forces with the University of Chichester to establish a major new annual literary award. The Charleston-Chichester Award for a Lifetime's Excellence in Short Fiction will recognise long-standing creativity and achievement in writing short stories.
The acclaimed Irish writer William Trevor was announced as the first winner of the award at a special event on 29th September. Tony Lacey, Trevor's longtime editor at Penguin, accepted the award on his behalf. You can listen to an exclusive interview with William Trevor and Diana Reich HERE. Further information on the award is available HERE.


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By Michael Mathes, AFP Sunday, June 1, 2014, 12:00 am TWN
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton has given her most detailed account yet of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, but said she will not join the "political slugfest" over the tragedy.
In excerpts from her forthcoming memoir "Hard Choices," Clinton offered a blunt rebuttal to Republican lawmakers who have repeatedly accused her of bungling the response to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission and of misleading the American public.
"Those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country," U.S. President Barack Obama's first secretary of state said in perhaps the book's most anticipated chapter, "Benghazi: Under Attack."
"Those who insist on politicizing the tragedy will have to do so without me," wrote Clinton, according to excerpts published Friday by the Politico news website.
"I will not be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead Americans."
Clinton, who lost to Obama in their 2008 battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, is mulling a second White House run, and her upcoming book tour — following the memoir's June 10 release — is widely seen as a way to lay the groundwork for a 2016 campaign.
Perhaps countering what some see as the inevitability of a Clinton candidacy, Republican critics and potential White House adversaries have been relentless in their investigation of the violence that killed ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
There has also been persistent talk about Clinton's role in the aftermath, as well as the U.S. mission's security shortcomings.
Earlier this month, House Republican leaders launched a select committee to investigate the Benghazi assault — a move Clinton has called unnecessary.
House Speaker John Boehner dismissed suggestions that he and others were politicizing Benghazi by convening the committee.
"This is about one issue and one issue only, and that is getting the truth for the American people," Boehner said.
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A&S Auto Sales & Service LLC in Cleveland, Ohio Adds U-Haul Rentals
CLEVELAND (Nov. 6, 2012) — Samer Eadeh, owner of A&S Auto Sales & Service LLC, located at 5720 Memphis Ave., recently added U-Haul truck and trailer rentals to the used car sales business he has been operating since 2009.
Families needing the finest in moving services now will have increased convenience and a shorter distance to travel when moving, which not only will make their move easier but also will have the positive effect of reducing the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere. U-Haul partnering with business owners across North America to increase convenience for customers while helping our environment is just one of the programs that support U-Haul Company's Corporate Sustainability initiatives.
A&S Auto Sales & Service LLC can now offer its customers a variety of moving equipment and supplies designed specifically for moving household furnishings, including moving vans, open trailers, closed trailers, furniture pads, appliance dollies, furniture dollies, tow dollies and auto transports. A&S Auto Sales & Service LLC also will offer sales items to protect their customers' belongings and make moving easier, such as heavy-duty boxes, which are made of up to 90 percent recycled content and are available in a variety of sizes.
"We here at A & S Auto Sales and Service are about serving our customers. What better way than by offering them a local U-haul location to help make their moving needs more convenient?" Eadeh said.
"U-Haul is proud to be partnering with a quality independent business such as A&S Auto Sales & Service LLC," exclaimed Scott Ochocki, president, U-Haul Company of Cleveland. "Samer is a great example of the type of successful business relationship U-Haul has established in order to build and maintain a strong network of more than 15,000 independent dealers across North America."
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Welcome to our 8 bedroom 8 bath Classic Colorado Log Mountain Estate that is located only 1 mile west of Estes Park. This stunning architectural masterpiece features a symphony of glass walls and soaring interior open spaces with authentic antique accents. The 10,000 sq. ft. lodge is nestled between mammoth rock formations, towering evergreens and aspens for privacy with majestic mountain views, colorful and dense vegetation, wonderful wetlands and ponds to enjoy with abundant wildlife. There are so many benefits to staying at Fall River Lodge! You can have your family and friends under ONE roof with 2 kitchens available for your use Catering options are available or you can cook for yourself! The 2 1/2 acre property is easily accessed yet very private and quiet. Watch the river go by, catch up on your reading or just enjoy conversation and catch-up time with your friends and family. By special arrangement, we can offer catering, gym & health club, and massages. Estes Park offers many activities throughout the year, and the property is located just 5 minutes east of the Fall River Entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. Whether you choose to stay on property where you can enjoy many indoor or outdoor games - croquet, ping pong, table shuffleboard, bicycling and hiking, or whether you choose to explore the 265,000 acre Park, you will always find something to do.
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Storytelling in Kurdistan
When Thursday November 8, 2012 @ 8:30 PM (1693 days ago)
Where University Commons, 176
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes
Senior Julia Schmidt will be sharing stories and pictures from her recent trip to Turkey and Iraq with Christian Peacemaker Teams. Peace Fellowship will provide snacks.
Intended Audience General Public
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Dresses by (clockwise from top left): Monique Lhuillier, Amsale, Reem Acra, Kenneth Pool. All photos by Dan Lecca
Another day of runway shows galore! Our second day of bridal market featured absolutely stunning dresses. Check out these slideshows to view the full collections:
Maggie Sottero: This collection features glam dresses with a 1920s, Great Gatsby feel.
Amsale: Clean, modern gowns with showstopping backs – we love the origami-inspired details.
Kenneth Pool: Luxe, glamorous gowns with varying degrees of sparkle – from a bit of beading to amped-up bling.
Christos: Ethereal and romantic wedding dresses with an almost Shakespearean-maiden feel.
Anne Bowen: The theme of this collection? Tim Burton's dark and dreamy Alice in Wonderland.
Austin Scarlett: Classic styles with flattering details
Reem Acra: Feminine and fashion-forward wedding dresses with some truly unique accessories
Monique Lhuillier: Love lace? Check out this designer's regal and romantic new collection
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SOUTHLAKESTRIDERS "Walk, Run, Live" South Lake Striders Membership South Lake Striders Membership benefits include: Complimentary entries to (4) South Lake Striders 5K events or (3) South Lake Striders events longer than 5K. Family membership includes complimentary entries to (4) South Lake Striders 5K events only for each family member. Family receives discounts to events longer than 5K. Discounts to local races where applicable. South Lake Striders meet ups for runs and other events. Access to Half and Full Marathon training programs. South Lake Striders merchandise and discounts to select merchandise. Corporate Partner services and discounts as available to members of the South Lake Striders. South Lake Striders South Lake Striders is a walking and running club with a charitable arm that helps support existing youth charities in South Lake County Florida. Support is done on three levels, "Walk, Run, Live". "Walk" is supplementing food and clothing programs. "Run" is contributing to and filling the gaps of already existing charities. "Run" also helps cover costs to camps and school programs for children of economic need. "Live" is a mentoring program being established that helps children that have gone throught the South Lake Striders program mentor other children. Volunteer Opportunities South Lake Striders supports any running event that has a charitable heart. We are proud to serve these events and their respective charities through financial or professional assistance, event management, and/or providing volunteer groups to help where needed at the events. General Contact Information, Todd Lytle firstname.lastname@example.com (407) 914-9612 Event schedule and timesSOUTHLAKESTRIDERS "Walk, Run, Live" Current Open Runs for South Lake Striders Members: Tuesday Track Time: 6:30 AM at NTC Thursday Trail Time: 7:00 PM at Minneola Trailhead Park Saturday Park Time: Parkrun.com 7:00 AM at Clermont Historic Village, please also register for the Parkrun as a South Lake Striders club member. Meet up: If you would like to host a run on a weekly or monthly basis, please contact South Lake Striders at email@example.com or contact Todd Lytle by phone or text, (407) 914-9612. Thank you again for your support of the South Lake Striders and the vision of supporting the youth in South Lake County.
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Low oil prices push up Canadian trade deficit to near record
By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's trade deficit in January more than doubled to a near-record C$2.45 billion ($1.94 billion), Statistics Canada said on Friday, amid a slump in oil prices that has crimped the resource-dependent economy.
The deficit - considerably wider than the C$1 billion shortfall expected by analysts - was the second highest after the C$2.87 billion recorded in July 2012.
Crude prices have recently recovered a little after having dropped by around 50 percent since June, cutting revenues of major oil-producing nations such as Canada.
Exports fell by 2.8 percent as the value of energy shipments dropped 14.7 percent, the eighth consecutive monthly decrease. Export prices shrank by 1.5 percent and volumes dropped by 1.3 percent. Overall imports were flat.
"Energy prices retraced some losses in February, so this could be as bad as it get for trade, assuming oil prices don't fall further," BMO Capital Markets economist Benjamin Reitzes said in a note to clients.
The Canadian dollar CAD=D4 hit its weakest level in nearly two weeks, trading at $1.2592 to the greenback, or 79.42 U.S. cents. This was softer than Thursday's finish at C$1.2506, or 79.96 U.S. cents.
In a sign of the damage done by lower oil prices, energy products accounted for 16.5 percent of all Canadian exports in January, sharply down from 26.6 percent in January 2014.
Statscan revised December's deficit to C$1.22 billion from an initial C$649 million. Continued...


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Written by a leading developer and maintainer of the Linux kernel,Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is a comprehensiveoverview of kernel configuration and building, a critical task forLinux users and administrators.
No distribution can provide a Linux kernel that meets all users'needs. Computers big and small have special requirements that requirereconfiguring and rebuilding the kernel. Whether you are trying toget sound, wireless support, and power management working on a laptopor incorporating enterprise features such as logical volume managementon a large server, you can benefit from the insights in this book.
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell covers the entirerange of kernel tasks, starting with downloading the source and makingsure that the kernel is in sync with the versions of the tools youneed. In addition to configuration and installation steps, the bookoffers reference material and discussions of related topics such ascontrol of kernel options at runtime.
A key benefit of the book is a chapter on determining exactly what drivers are needed for your hardware. Also included are recipes thatlist what you need to do to accomplish a wide range of popular tasks.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has been building the Linux kernel since 1996 and started writing Linux kernel drivers in 1999. He is currently the maintainer of the USB, PCI, driver core and sysfs subsystems in the kernel source tree and is also one half of the -stable kernel release team. He created the udev program and maintains the Linux hotplug userspace project. He is a Gentoo Linux developer as well as the co-author of the third edition of the "Linux Device Drivers" book and a contributing editor to Linux Journal. He also created and maintains the Linux Device Driver Kit. He currently works for SuSE Labs/Novell, doing various Linux kernel related tasks.
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Very easy read, very enjoyable.@norm: The content you are looking for is on the left of the page, under a link called "examples". Although, your inability to navigate a webpage using a simple browser makes me question whether you'll be able to follow any of the instructions in this equally accessible book.
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scripts, examples, errata, and any plan
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In the preface the book gives the following:[@]as a source for the scrips, examples, errata and any plans for future additions. Well, this information does not exist at this site, so it makes me wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the book.
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Thanks to the book,i become loving liunx.^_^
Great Kernel reference
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Nowadays its less common for a user to have to compile a kernel, but there are times that if you don't do it a given device will no work properly (or at all). Despite the huge amount of Linux distributions available none is able to fulfill every user requirement. Configuring a laptop or installing a server requires different sets of modules with imply reconfiguring and recompiling the kernel. If you want to listen to a music, enable power management on a laptop or install some enterprise grade features like RAID or LVM this book is surely to help you.The "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" was written by one of the most renoun Linux kernel hackers, Greg Kroab-Hartman. Greg Kroab-Hartman develops system drivers since 1999 and is currently responsible for several of the kernel's subsystems, udev and hotplug.This book was written to explain everything with is necessary to compile and install a Linux kernel. You don't need any prior programming experience but is most recommend some knowledge of the Linux system and it's command line.The "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" is quite complete and clear making it easy for the reader to compile its first kernel in just a few hours after having the book. Kroab-Hartman manages to do this supplying plenty of information in a well structured form that makes its reading extraordinarily easy.The first chapters explain how to obtain and compile the kernel with is very light reading (about one hour). In the next chapters he explains how to customize your kernel. Finally at the end there is a list of boot and compilation parameters.If you have some experience with Linux or you usually compile your kernel the information available in this book is a bit too simple never the less useful. If you never compiled a Kernel this book will save you plenty of time.I recommend "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" to every Linux user with wishes to learn a bit more how it's Linux system works.
Great for the first time kernel builder!
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When you are ready to build your own linux kernel this is a great book to read! Greg achieves his goal of providing lots of kernel building information in one easily useable source. He explains without being wordy and lets you learn from his ample experience. Chapters 1-6 deal with getting and building a vanilla kernel and should take you about an hour to read. Chapter 7 is neat because it shows how to isolate exactly what hardware you need to build for to optimize a running system. Chapters 9-11 cover half the book in reference format; boot parameters, build parameters, and configuration options.If you are a kernel hacker the material is a bit light. However, if you have never built a kernel before you will save hours by this one read. I particularly like the reference style because I can study as much as my brain can absorb, make notes, and come back when I have a question.
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Michael Masterson's book "Ready, Fire, Aim" is one of my favorites. Masterson, a serial entrepreneur who has built dozens of businesses, some to $100 million in revenue and beyond, explains that the biggest determiner between success and failure is how quickly we get going and execute…even if the plan isn't perfect. Spot on!
But, Masterson also takes great care to explain how critical (and often misunderstood) being truly "ready" is, and that "firing" without actually being ready is as bad as if not worse than delaying for perfection. So what do we do? Where do we draw the line when it comes to projects like client virtualization, with hundreds of moving parts, politics galore, and very little objective, unbiased information available?
Answer: The winners will get going today…now...and will get ready by talking to the people their work will ultimately serve, and learn enough about their needs and the technology and best practices to avoid the mistakes most likely to result in failure -- knowledge that they will acquire in less than 90 days. The fire process starts the moment they make an investment in new people or technology, and the aiming process continues through the life cycle of the service, steadily improving in value, effectiveness, and efficiency.
Posted by Clarence Villanueva on October 12, 2011
Cisco announced today a five-year strategic alliance with Citrix in the desktop virtualization space. As a first outcome of their new alliance, Cisco WAAS will be optimized for Citrix XenDesktop. It's designed to improve the end-user experience such that it has "LAN-like" performance. This translates into the capability of a more rich Unified Communication experience—HD quality video, faster print jobs, and improved app performance. Rather than buying several products to get this done, this is nicely packaged as one solution for virtual and physical desktops.
What does this mean for Sourcing and Vendor Management (SVM) professionals and what can you do?
1. If your organization isn't looking at this, it will be forced to within your next refresh cycle. While Desktop Virtualization has been around for years, it's more recently been attracting enterprise customers at a very robust growth rate. Most resellers I've spoken to enjoy double digit semi-annual growth rates as high as 40% in inquiries and many of them include desktop virtualization on tablets. At this stage, most companies are still in education mode, but adoption appears to be steadily increasing. If you're not working on it right now, spend the time to get educated on the various flavors and the elements of the project that lead to savings for your organization. ROI will vary from company to company due to the varying desktop environments.
Posted by Duncan Jones on October 3, 2011
As soon as you think you understand software companies' policies on virtualization, a new problem appears that makes you tear your hair out and scratch your now-bald head. This month's conundrum is whether or not VMware's ThinApp product breaches your Microsoft Windows license agreement:


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Elmo is back again, and after solving all my alphabet problems he's here to teach people how to add, subtract, divide and multiply in Elmo's Number Journey, taking the same route as the Letters game, you guide Elmo thorugh his merry little world where you encounter all his puppet friends and help solve math puzzles.
Graphics - Sweet, the colouring is wonderful and the sprites of all the characters look good, the background lacks a bit of depth but it is a kids game! 6 out of 10
Gameplay - Theres not a lot too it, very easy to play and only uses a few of the buttons on the PSX pad, great for kids as it's simple. 6 out of 10
Sound - Not as good as the previous game, not that the previous game was a Beethoven symphony but this one is really repetitive and quite dull sound-wise. 3 out of 10
Longevity - As each number puzzle changes each time you play it, it is a very good learning device for ids, they can replay over and over to help teach them math. 6 out of 10
Overall - As its not really as much a game as it is an educational program it's hard to rate as such, but it's easy, looks ok and does the job so i'll give it a 6 out of 10


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We donot generally get involved with discourse concerning tax protest. Do you have a specific question?
I do not want to argue that point.
I can only say that this concept is only partially correct. It is the voluntary assessment and compliance part that has created a so called "Tax Gap" between those that are in compliance with the law and those that are not.
Many of our other laws are also based on voluntary compliance. Jay walking is voluntary compliance. But the criminal code is written in such a way that we are required by law to comply, and we can choose to disobey, which would be the same as saying you are subjecting yourself to getting a ticket for non-compliance.
It is this way in our tax codes. Our tax codes mirror the other elements of common law, in that it requires us as citizens and constituents to voluntarily comply to a legal requirement.
Think of easy pass. I love this allegory. When easy pass came out, it was touted as not to be used to assess traffic fines. It was voted in on that basis. Suddenly in NJ EZ-pass was being used to give traffic tickets to people who were driving too fast through the toll booths. This created the world smallest speed trap and speed zone of about 30 feet. Of which the trap was only about 12 feet. Everyone who bought a ez pass was voluntarily putting themselves in a class of people who were subject to speed zone enforcement at the toll booth. people without ezpass had no such exposure.
In new york two years ago they started a long term test in the north and western part of the state to test ez pass to track and catch speeders. So in NY EZ pass participants are once again placing themselves in class of people to get caught not in voluntary compliance of speed laws, at their own peril, where others who are not easy pass holders do not get that exposure.
Our taxes are the same way. IN my tax panel we talk about enforcement and the tax gap. The IRS explains it this way. (from the directors mouth). They have a hard job. They have to be the collection agent, the enforcement, and they still want to be a friendly agency. They have to balance the level of audits and enforcement with the tax gap created by voluntary compliance short falls.
voluntary compliance works when there is intermittent enforcement of the laws.
Every traffic speeder on the road is not ticketed. They only stop and ticket a few. The observance and presence of law enforcement in the course of their duties, motivates people to voluntarily comply...everyone slows down at the sight of someone else being stopped for speeding.
The same things goes with the IRS. Intermittent audits, occasional criminal convictions for tax evasion, and collection activities helps to motivate people to voluntary compliance and accurate reporting of income.
The IRS has noticed for example, that because of voluntary compliance and self assessment, schedule C filers are responsible for 65% of under reported income and expenses abuse. This is causing them to double the audit contacts of schedule C filers, to motivate people to voluntary compliance.
Because our system of laws is based on voluntary compliance does not mean a thing is not legal. It means we do not have to have a one to one ratio of enforcement agents to ensure each and every person complies. (can you imagine if we each had our own police officer watching us to force compliance of traffic laws?)
It is constitutionally legal to tax us citizens. (I hate it, but it is legal); our codes and laws have been developed to sustain the system and enforce the need and right to tax. There are 195 countries in the world, and all of them tax their people in some way. We all complain about income tax. But that is a mere distraction to a tax that is more evil.
property tax is a repressive tax. it prevents people form having and keeping wealth and property. School systems can increase taxes in some states once or twice a year, and it does not have to be voted on. This is more horrific than at least having political representatives vote out taxes. school teachers vote our taxes. during recessions, property taxes rise while wages and income go down. If you own a home to retirement, by the time you pay it off, the property tax bill is the same as the mortgage was when you first acquired the property.
If we can not get past agreeing that there is a distinct difference between the concept of voluntary compliance and breaking the law, we really are intellectually masturbating here.
I am not arguing with you that the system is based on voluntary compliance and self assessment. that is agreed.
but it is voluntary compliance with laws and regulations, which if broken, and not complied with, can result in criminal charges, fines and penalties.
I understand that some people do not view it as voluntary compliance if they can be jailed, or fined. After all, if its voluntary, how can we be charged with anything.
We can use a teleologic argument or we can argue from definitions and so forth. The key is on the word compliance. Compliance of what? compliance of the written laws, the codes.
There is a legal constitutional basis giving the U.S. the right to levy taxes.
AND the congress has voted laws into place that have been codified and we have to follow them because they are the law.
There is a whole different philosophical approach to the right of a state to subjugate its people and whether it is moral, which have been argued through the ages from Aristotle to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Bertram Russel, Tolstoy and others.
Yet despite it all, we still have laws to follow. Even Jesus is purported to have said: " "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's".
Whether he actually said it or not is not important. The meaning of it has been accepted to become, in part, that we follow the laws of man, but we worship God (Christ).
The constitution may give us rights, but it also preserves the right of governments.
The liability is really not to the treasury department, the tax obligation is to the government, presumably for the benefit of the people to provide services and benefits to all.
I wish I could say something that would make it understandable. For me it is clear.
The word compliance in the phrase "voluntary compliance" means Voluntary (regulatory) compliance.
In the legal sue of the word compliance it means: either a state of being in accordance with established guidelines, specifications, or legislation or the process of becoming so.
These laws are all crafted in legal language and not the common language. Meanings therefor become obscure and fuzzy.
I do not know why it is so perfectly clear to me, and not to you.
We are voluntarily in compliance with the establish laws of the land. By becoming volunteer compliant, I do not need a police man standing behind me, and I avoid prosecution for violating those laws.
We would be a nation of anarchy, if our citizens and residents did not voluntary comply with the laws. That is why we have a crime rate. Not everyone is voluntarily compliant. Many people get dragged away kicking and screaming to jail for all sorts of crimes.
There are people in Wyoming, Montana, and CT who are hiding away because of this same issue and not wanting subjugate themselves to the laws of the land; because they can not, or will not understand or recognize the right of the U.S. to place laws on its people; it infringes on their NATURAL rights of freedom, so they say. (remember the unabomber)
I agree that our tax code is bigger than war and peace and growing all the time.
it is complicated, and is often appears to be fuzzy.
here is my last argument on the subject to attempt to help you to understand.
In a man's home, he has children who are minors. A parent is charged by the laws of the land to raise the children and to be responsible for them. As part of that obligation and responsibility, a parent has to create rules, which on the surface of it, appears to violate their personal freedoms. Things like chores, bed time, going to school, etc. An orderly household require the children to voluntarily comply with the household rules. If the children do not comply willingly, then the parents have to discipline them by confinement (restriction and early bedtime) or other punishments...else there is anarchy in the house, and the parents no longer have authority.
Thank you for your comments and feedback. Best of luck to you.
I saw your addtional comments. I apologize if I seemed a bit to bureaucratic. The fact is I do not work for the IRS. On the contrary, I am a tax advocate and member of a Citizens Group formed to help the IRS fix some of its problems related to customer service, and cleaning up conflicting information in regualtion and on their website.
You see, Congress passed some laws allowing Citizen Advisory Groups. I did not like some of the things that came out of the IRS, so I decied to apply for an appointment to that committee, so I could help do something about it.
You to can get involved by contacting http://www.improveirs.org/
Of course I have 28 years of military and workign with federal regulations, so I guess that makes me legalistic at time.
Best of luck.


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Elizabeth Banks Goes for the Gold at the 2013 Costume Institute Gala
Heading out to enjoy a night of glam fashion, Elizabeth Banks was in attendance at the 2013 Costume Institute Gala on Monday (May 6) in New York City.
Adding some shine to the big event, the "Hunger Games" hottie showed off a gold Atelier Versace mini dress as she joined the line of fellow celebs headed inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Every year, the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art puts together a killer collection of amazing goodies complete with a star-studded party to kick things off.
And this time around the theme is "PUNK: Chaos to Couture," an examination of punk's impact on high fashion from the 1970s up to the collections found on today's runways the world over.
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SURPRISE, ARIZ.: According to an internet report, Jensen Lewis has been placed on waivers, which is no surprise if it is true.
Lewis has struggled in his past two outings and seems to have put his spot in the bullpen in jeopardy. Because he is out of options, the Indians cannot send him to Triple-A unless he clears waivers. Moreover, the club can find out if a team is willing to make a deal for Lewis if his name is on the waiver wire.
With Lewis having failed to secure a job, two vacancies remain in the bullpen. The contenders, in addition to Lewis, are Vinnie Pestano, Frank Herrmann, Justin Germano.
On the injury front, Asdrubal Cabrera will sit out todasy's game but return to the lineup Tuesday.
""He's fine,'' manager Manny Acta said. ""He's working out today. It was just a typical cramp. He will play shortstop tomorrow.''
The pain from Joe Smith's strained abdominal muscle has disappeared, but there is a question whether he will have enough time to regain his edge before the season starts. He played catch from 45 feet today and will move to 60 feet Tuesday.
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I'm posting this in the forum section that seems to get the most traffic. Shipwreck, if you think there's a better place for it, please move it.
I've been called to active duty with the Arizona National Guard, for the mission on the nation's southern border. You may have seen some coverage on the TV. Anyway, I will be stationed in Yuma for probably at least a year, and perhaps more. Thus, I won't be affiliated with Galco for that year, at least in a formal capacity.
I'll still post on the forum -- I should have internet access -- but keep in mind that my Galco information may no longer be current.


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Roger Federer was relieved to have come through his first competitive match of 2013 after thrashing Benoit Paire in the opening round of the Australian Open today.
Federer opted to skip the usual warm-up tournaments and instead played a series of exhibition events in South America but hit the ground running in Melbourne with a 6-2 6-4 6-1 victory in which he was rarely troubled.
The Swiss followed fellow title contenders Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray in going through with all three looking in ominously good form at this early stage.
Djokovic beat Paul-Henri Mathieu yesterday while Murray opened the day two action with a 6-3 6-1 6-3 demolition of Dutchman Robin Haase.
Federer was equally impressive when he made his entrance and admitted to being pleased after safely negotiating the first hurdle.
He said: "Benoit's a good player, a good talent. I haven't played a match this season yet and you're not sure (how you're going to play). That's why you're relieved when you get through the first one.
"I've had a few busy years since I had kids. I just wanted to cool down a bit. It's nice to enjoy the off season. I hope it's the right decision, we'll see how it goes. I'm confident in my play."
Such was Federer's dominance he admitted he was able to experiment with certain aspects of his game.
"When you're in the lead you feel less pressure and you can try things to see if they work," he said.
"I'm obviously very happy, I felt in total control. He can be a tricky opponent but I guess his playing style doesn't disturb me that much overall."
Murray also felt he did a "pretty good job" on Haase as he moved through to a meeting with Portugal's Joao Sousa.
"It was a good start," he said. "It was very different conditions to what it's been like the last four, five days. The court was playing different, much livelier.
"But I thought I did a pretty good job from the start – dictating the points and not giving him too many freebies."
It was Murray's first grand slam match since he claimed his maiden major at the US Open last year – but he claimed he was still nervous beforehand.
"I don't think there is anyone who doesn't (get nervous)," he said.
"Nerves are a good thing. If you aren't nervous, it shows that you're really not that bothered.
"I started the year well in Brisbane but coming into the slams the first match is normally pretty tough.
"You just have to focus and play solid, not make too many silly mistakes.
"I did a good job of that today.
"It is always nice to get through the first round of any tournament but especially here."
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the runner-up here in 2008, is regarded as a threat to the 'big three', especially if can raise his game late in the second week, and he too looked good in seeing off French compatriot Michael Llodra 6-4 7-5 6-2.
The same applies to Argentinian Juan Martin Del Potro, who dropped just five games in beating French qualifier Adrian Mannarino.
Big-hitting Canadian Milos Raonic dropped the first set but hit back to beat Jan Hajek in four while there were also wins for ninth seed Richard Gasquet, 12th seed Marin Cilic, 17th seed Philipp Kohlschreiber and 21st seed Andreas Seppi.
In the late match, Bernard Tomic, the talented young Australian who claimed his first title in Sydney last week, proved far too strong for Leonardo Mayer, going through his full repertoire to win 6-3 6-2 6-3.


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CLEARWATER — From the opening tipoff Friday in the Class 7A-10 district final, Clearwater had one objective: Get the ball underneath as early and often as possible. While it took some time, the Tornadoes' frenetic pace eventually wore down St. Petersburg 43-36.
Aja Jenkins was Clearwater's main scoring threat, finishing with 21 points, all on layups or free throws. Javon McTier and Alex Alford were effective inside as well, scoring eight each. The district championship is Clearwater's sixth straight and 17th in 18 years.
"We were able to get to the basket," Clearwater coach Tom Shaneyfelt said. "We got some open outside looks, but I'm not sure that's going to win it for us. We felt like we needed to try to get to the basket as much as we could."
St. Petersburg's fullcourt press was working for much of the first half as the Green Devils (13-10) were forcing turnovers. Jordan Berenbaum hit a 3-pointer with just seconds left in the second quarter to give St. Petersburg a 20-16 halftime lead.
But Clearwater (21-6) kept pounding the ball inside in the second half. The Tornadoes attempted 29 free throws while St. Petersburg had only six. Up by just a point with three minutes left, Clearwater put together a run thanks to four Alford free throws and a Jenkins layup that made the score 41-34.
"I did my thing, but actually I didn't expect to do this well," Jenkins said. "Coach was bickering at me, saying how much he needed me. I'm just happy I got it done."
The Green Devils were led by Berenbaum, who scored 12. Deja Swinton and Michael Everhart each had eight.


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My new kitchen
The most important room in my home is undeniably my kitchen.
This became front and center while we were house shopping late last year. Finally, at the end of October–after a year and half of having our condo on the market, after selling and then not selling and the reselling and then after putting in an offer on a house we loved and not getting it and then after looking at the very last house in our price range and fighting with all we had for it to be ours and not the people's who we were up against–we moved into our new house.
A place, just two and half months later that I definitely call "home."
And one of the very best parts of our new home, like I hoped and hoped it would be, is our kithcen.
I have much more work space than I ever did in the condo, I have natural light and beautiful 100-year-old wood floors. I love how the kitchen looks out into our dining room, a feature you don't always find in these old character homes. I also love the little bar area right at the edge of the kitchen, which has already become a natural gathering place when we have guests over; the bar area sometimes makes me feel like we were lucky enough to bring a little piece of the condo with us, as we had the same type of gathering space there.
After the kitchen, I love our dining room. For most of my cooking life, I have dreamed of such a room. A place to invite people, serve good food, laugh and hang out. This Christmas, I was lucky enough to seat a couple of big groups around our table (gosh, I cannot wait for a house appropriate dining table–it's on the list with a million other things!) and serve food from my soul.
In some ways, I feel this house is the start of our marriage. We wished and prayed so hard for a beautiful, old, charming character house to be ours long before we knew exactly what the kitchen or dining room would look like. The journey to our house was long and challenging and included so much hope, so many sleepless nights and some of our hardest decision-making we have so-far faced as a couple.
The past couple of months in the house have been busy. As of yesterday, three of our ten rooms have been painted by me. I'm so anxious to pick out a series of three colors for our living, dining and kitchen spaces. Each of those spaces opens to the next, so I feel I must pick the colors as a series and that is honestly still a tad overwhelming. It takes awhile to get to know your house and how you feel in each of the spaces.
We don't know all of our visions here for our future, but we know the importance of planning for it now. My seven-year dream plan is to knock out a closet and expand my kitchen and my husband wants to fence in the last section of our back yard and do a little landscaping. I want a big, beautiful dining room table worthy of each and every guest that will sit at it and Jeff wants a grill to feed 43 people. We both want a million memories, good health and the financial ability to keep this old house in a state that we always love it this much.
Most nights, when we're tired and finally sitting down to chill, one of us will say to the other: "Our house is so nice. I hope we always love it this much."
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Love! I'm so happy for you and Jeff.
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So this is what a constitutional crisis in Britain looks like. In some countries, rival mobs would be fighting each other in the city centre, the police trying to hold them apart as screaming, smoke and petrol bombs flew through the air. Here we have a handful of bored photographers and a few dozen puzzled tourists standing outside a door. In many capital cities, they'd be marching on the presidential palace. In London, they have policemen saying: "Move along please, nothing to see, it's only a door."
"Nothing to see" is usually copper-speak for a gory scene. Though in fact there was only a door, the door to the Cabinet Office, unless you could picture in your mind's eye the British constitution spread out on the pavement while a detective draws a chalk line round it.
All morning the politicians were filmed leaving their homes for church, or returning home after church.
Most of them were wearing politicians' idea of casual Sunday rig, what we used to call Man at C&A. They may be the only people in the country who iron their pullovers. Yet they looked as relaxed as men wearing whalebone corsets and cast iron Y-fronts.
At 11am party negotiators turned up at the door. The Lib Dems – Chris Huhne, David Laws, Danny Alexander, and a man called Stunnell who you may not have heard of – arrived like bank robbers, in a fleet of black people movers. They were carrying yellow folders, possibly left over from 1974.
The Tories looked more formal, with George Osborne and William Hague in suits and ties. Oliver Letwin was in an open-necked shirt – knowing him, he may have given his tie to a beggar.
William Hague sounded optimistic. Talks so far had been "very constructive, very positive, very respectful of our positions". Yes, it was as bad as that.
Outside on the pavement the tourists were allowed to stay provided they didn't get too close. What they saw might not be much fun, but unlike everything else in London, it was free. The press, cold and bored beyond belief, fell to arguing about the colour of the door. Turquoise? Petrol blue? We settled on "teal". They were trying to hammer out a teal deal. We were told they had broken for lunch. Was it a meal to seal the teal deal?
Over in Downing Street, Gordon Brown and his family arrived and went in by the back door. A colleague remarked: "You'd have thought that Gordon Brown would have avoided doing anything that would have got the words 'back door' into the headlines."
It was brave: a squatter seldom risks leaving the squat, especially with the police outside. Once inside he'd have known that down the connecting corridor, the men at C&A were trying to find a means of getting him out of the house. He resembled a squatter coming back to find that another bunch of squatters had moved into the extension and were arguing over the best bedroom.
In No 10 itself there were gathered the legion of the lost: Ed Miliband, Peter Mandelson, press secretary Simon Lewis, who complained that he had had to miss the Arsenal match, and later Alastair Campbell. Campbell and Mandelson, the people who helped bury New Labour, were trying to dig up the corpse and plug it back into the mains.
It emerged that Gordon Brown had emailed party workers, telling them he was working hard "to resolve the situation" - with the unspoken addition, "by keeping me in Downing Street".
In the street itself a Kuwaiti reporter was trying to resolve the situation for his viewers, who were no doubt rapt over the difference between single transferrable vote and the D'Hondt method.
I bumped into a Labour MP and asked him how long Gordon Brown could stick it out in No 10. "My grandmother worked in a laundry," he said, "and she used to say that there was nothing more difficult than getting shit out of a blanket." And with that thought, he scampered.
After six and a half hours William Hague emerged to tell us talks had been "positive" and "productive", which left us none the wiser.


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Here's an excerpt from my latest column in the Huffington Post:
A couple years ago, the senior staff to one of the top leaders of the Department of Defense asked me for the most important advice I could give them for attracting and retaining Millennials. I gave them two words: emerging adulthood.
Millennials make up 70 percent of their workforce, and most of them are going through a new life stage called emerging adulthood, which begins at 18 and ends around 27 years of age. It comes after adolescence and before early adulthood.
I told them that at least a few of their staff needed to become experts in this new life stage because half of what the older generations complain about Millennials are actually characteristics of this new life stage, rather than negative traits that Millennials will carry throughout their lives. But if they don't sort out the life stage from the generational characteristics, they'll watch their commanders drive the Millennials out of the military and never understand why.
I have thousands of conversations each year with people from older generations who are frustrated with the Millennials. A few of the most common complaints:
Half of these are characteristics of emerging adulthood and not characteristics of any one generation, but most people have never heard of it so they don't know which is which. In my speeches, I often ask the audience to raise their hands if they've heard of emerging adulthood. Maybe 2 percent of the hands go up.
This generational ignorance leads to a host of problems at work and home….
Read my entire column here.
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Here's an excerpt from my latest column in the Huffington Post:
Tis the season. My wife, Laurie, and I joined millions of other families when we attended our son's college graduation this May. The lunch with the entire clan afterward was truly a time of celebration because this son struggled with dyslexia throughout school but finished college cum laude thanks to his "work then play" attitude and the ability of his old Kindle to read aloud (before Amazon yanked out the text-to-speech functionality). Then the inevitable happened. 20 minutes into lunch, someone brought up student loans and the slow job market for grads. Sadly, this is now the "new normal" topics for college graduates and their families.
The dramatic increases in student loans over the last 20 years that are now weighing on graduates in a tight job market have everyone from Robert Reich to Fortune magazine questioning whether some Millennials should skip college and learn a trade.
With all this attention on the high cost of student loans, this is a good time to bust the pervasive myth that Millennials are more interested in meaning than money. It's been repeated so many times (including by thought leaders in the generational space) that it's now taken as truth.
But it's only half the truth….
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Here's an excerpt from my latest column in the Huffington Post:
In the movies of my youth, the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black hats. One thing you knew, the good guys and the bad guys were not going to work together. They weren't human beings; they were good guys and bad guys.
So much of what I read and hear about the Millennials puts them into the white hat or black hat categories. Researchers have called them entitled, self-absorbed, naïve, and unprepared, or creative, optimistic, caring, open-minded, and productive.
Many authors and speakers describe Millennials as a remarkable, almost heroic generation that will solve our problems through teamwork and technology. These experts imply that if the old guys running our hierarchical, innovation-quashing organizations would get out of their way, the Millennials would amaze us. Some bestselling books on Millennials are so optimistic that readers wondered in online reviews if the writers had actually met a millennial. Other reviewers reckoned the author must be in love with his grandkids and believe they could do no wrong.
We wonder if the experts are talking about the same generation when we read other books worried about the Millennials. For example, a good friend, Nancy, asked me if I am as worried about our kids' generation….
Here's what I told Nancy to help her make sense of these contradictory opinions. These three reasons may help you have a better and more realistic grasp of Millennials…
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At AARP.com, Mary W. Quigley authored an article on Bring In Your Parents Day, in which she featured some of my comments. Here is an excerpt:
A LinkedIn survey found that 35 percent of parents are not completely familiar with what their children do for a living, and 50 percent thought they could offer suggestions if they understood the job better….
If you go to your child's office, does it make you look like a helicopter parent? Actually, it makes you look like an involved parent, says consultant Haydn Shaw, and companies know that "parents have a big impact on hiring and retention."
In some ways, the day is the adult version of back-to-school night. Parents get to see the desk, the workplace, the coworkers and the supervisors — and put a face to the name when their kids complain or compliment a colleague or boss. "You definitely can pick up a vibe about the people and the place when you're there," says Shaw, author of Sticking Points, about the multigenerational workplace.
Maybe most important, he says, is that the event can signal a step forward in the parent-adult child relationship….
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With four generations in the workplace, there are vastly different definitions of what it means to have a good work ethic. Don't avoid the tensions; get your team talking about these questions:
Awkward silence might follow at first, but that's okay. It's important for teams to spend some time understanding the generational differences around work ethic by finding the common need – and that need is fairness and balance. No one wants to feel cheated or taken advantage of, and everyone wants more balance in life. Unless older generations understand the reasons why GenXers and Millennials view work ethic differently, they'll continue seeing them as "slackers." In the same way, the younger generations must seek to understand Traditionalists and Boomers by learning about the world in which they grew up.
Think of work like a meal: the older two generations see work as the steak and everything else in life as the side dishes. The younger two generations see life as more of a waffle, where work is one quadrant and everything else makes up the other three squares. (So please, boss, keep your work syrup off the other three squares of my waffle.)
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At the AARP Bulletin, Mary W. Quigley featured some of my comments in a recent article. Here's an excerpt:
Flip flops are coming to the workplace whether we like it or not! So predicts Haydn Shaw, author of Sticking Points, a book about the generational clash in the workplace. We might say, flip flops … no way with my ugly feet! But the reality is that millennials, all 92 million of them vs. 78 million boomers, are rapidly infiltrating the workplace. Not only that, they are increasingly becoming our bosses….
Just as we can rattle on about self-involved and entitled millennials, they complain about technophobic, arrogant older workers. Stereotypes aside, with four generations (seniors, boomers, gen x and millennials) in the workplace cultures will clash. Shaw, 51, lists 12 sticking points of friction among generations: communication, decision-making, dress code, feedback, fun at work, knowledge transfer, loyalty, meetings, policies, respect, training and work ethic.
In an effort to work better with millennial bosses, I asked him to pinpoint three keys areas where older workers can learn to be more flexible….
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- Stephen MR Covey
When Haydn spoke to our leaders, he got us thinking about generational differences in new ways that help us better attract and empower employees of all generations.
- Ralph C. Stayer, CEO and owner of Johnsonville Sausage
Haydn's presentation on generationscontains insights and processes that do indeed work. We've had Haydn back many times to teach our managers these tools. I found it so valuable and enjoyable that I invited my wife to come hear his presentation. It will improve your ability to speak the language of other generations at work and in your personal life.
- Jim Thyen, president and CEO of Kimball International, Inc.
Sticking points helps the readers sort out how to get all four generations working together rather than complaining about each other. Very insightful and well balanced.
Haydn not only turns automatic contention between the generations in understanding, but reveals the opportunities. A must-read!
- Ron McMillan, co-author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Crucial Conversations
Sticking Points will be my reference guide for years to come as a go-to resource for both understanding and resolving generational differences. I predict it will become a reference guide for you, too, filled with ideas and insights you can apply from a person you can trust.
- Stephen MR Covey


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Sorry to hear this -- especially since the frequency of this problem seems to be creeping forward as each model year ages, and I also own a 2007...
I'm sure I would be equally unhappy as you are if this happened to me, since I also enjoy opening the panorama roof on my X3 when the weather is conducive.
But I am curious if there's a correlation between the failure of the roof mechanism and the amount of 'upkeep maintenance' that owners perform. My question is not an indictment of you; but how often do folks inspect the roof mechanism for debris and possible wear, and lubricate it? The only seemingly-recommended lubricant that I can find for this application is a MINI part number (83 22 0 397 761, "Kluberplex adhesive grease") -- which I'm willing to bet is basically lithium grease; I don't know what the corresponding BMW part number is, but I'll also bet it comes in the same can...
Anyway, I'm postulating that these roof mechanisms may be failing due to (and please pardon the term) neglect by owners. In fairness to owners, BMW doesn't provide
guidance about how frequently these complicated roof mechanisms need periodic 'upkeep maintenance' (i.e., inspection and lubrication), or even where the lubrication points actually are. In fact, when I inquired about whether BMW would lubricate the roof mechanism as part of their Free Maintenance Plan, I was essentially told "no," although I managed to get them to do mine this past July when I complained about a squeak associated with roof operation.
So I'm curious: does anyone take it upon themselves to lubricate these roof mechanisms, and if so, have you experienced any problems/failures...?
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The arts had fallen off the national agenda, Robyn Nevin said last night. The Prime Minister would attend the opening of a major new railway, she said, but not the opening of an important new theatre.
"It seems ambition for excellence is seen as elitism in a pejorative sense when applied to an artist," Ms Nevin said in an Australia Day address.
"Cathy Freeman, Lleyton Hewitt, Jana Pittman and George Gregan would assert the same level of ambition for themselves, their teams and their country."
The chief executive of the Sydney Theatre Company asked: "Why is it appropriate for these athletes to perform as elites, and for the nation to celebrate them, led by our genuinely enthusiastic Prime Minister, if it is not similarly appropriate that our artists perform as elites, be seriously celebrated and funded, so that we might produce artists of the same level of excellence?"
Ms Nevin, an actor for 42 years, a director for 20 and a producer for seven, said she often told taxi-drivers she was a housewife. "I need to believe I am useful to the community, or the 42 years doing it will be hard to justify to myself," she said.
She claimed that Australia had a history of disregarding its artists and that Australians had been uneasy around sensitive people expressing emotions.
This meant that the path of an artist was not easy. Performing arts were mainly imported for years. When he was elected prime minister, Robert Menzies referred to Labor's interest in subsidising the arts as "the galloping socialist planning of the Chifley regime".
Governments grew committed to the development of national culture from the 1960s but, Ms Nevin said: "The arts were not talked about at the top level of Federal Government in 2004. A major new railway, and its significance is undisputed, can attract the presence and the comments of the Prime Minister of Australia, but not the opening of a new theatre, the Sydney Theatre, also of national and international significance."
Ms Nevin said: "We thrived under Gough Whitlam. We might have under Paul Keating and his untried creative nation.
"We benefited from Harold Holt's Australia Council, John Gorton's film school and Malcolm Fraser's film industry funding. Don Dunstan, Neville Wran and Bob Carr have been bold in their vision for the arts in their states.
"Artists have a role to play in the unfolding of our national narrative as the citizens of this extraordinarily beautiful and blessed land."
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Scarlett Johansson is set to marry Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds after more than a year of dating, according to People magazine.
"They're both thrilled," Johansson's rep Marcel Pariseau told People.
Reynolds, 31, who is currently filming "The Proposal" in Boston with Sandra Bullock, was reported to have just recently popped the question to Johansson. The couple have not set a wedding date.
Johansson, 23, the star of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Nanny Diaries," was photographed wearing a diamond ring at Monday night's Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Gala in New York.
She is due to release her debut album, "Anywhere I Lay My Head," on May 20. It features cover versions of Tom Waits songs and vocals by David Bowie.
Reynolds, whose movie credits include "Definitely, Maybe" and "Smokin' Aces," was once engaged to Canadian singer Alanis Morissette.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Darius Morris scored eight of his 17 points in the final eight minutes Friday, leading Michigan back from a nine-point deficit to beat Illinois 60-55 in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals.
Wolverines coach John Beilein beat the tourney's winningest team and won in his 1,000th game as a head coach to set up a semifinal date Saturday with No. 1 Ohio State.
Mike Tisdale, Demetri McCamey and Brandon Paul each scored 10 points to lead the Fighting Illini (19-13). It's only the second time in 14 years that Illinois did not advance to the semis.
After closing the first half on a 17-4 run, the Illini didn't let Michigan (20-12) get closer than seven until Morris took over late.
Morris tied the score at 51 with 3:24 left, and Tim Hardaway Jr.'s 3-pointer with 1:42 left finally gave Michigan a 56-53 lead that it didn't relinquish.
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text: Winfield City Council votes to purchase building for new town hall By Lydia Nuzum September 24, 2013 Story Share WINFIELD, W.Va. -- The Winfield City Council voted 4-3 in favor of purchasing a building on W.Va. 817 to serve as the city's next municipal building and show residents and visitors Winfield's "vision to move forward.""When someone comes in for anything and the first thing they see is this little town hall here, and they ask if it was a schoolhouse and see it's an old building, they'll think we have no vision, that we're not planning to move ahead," said Mayor Randy Barrett. "I'm trying to move this town ahead."According to Barrett, appraisals to build a town hall with enough space to house the Winfield Police Department and meet the needs of the city would cost between $1.5 million and 2.5 million, or $175 per square foot of commercial property.The city was able to purchase a building that currently houses PJ's Daycare for $735,000. It also purchased land adjacent to it for an additional $30,000.It will cost $30,000 more to prep the land for pavement and $25,000 to lay asphalt, plus a projected $38,700 for interior adjustments, for a total of roughly $860,000, or $112 per square foot.The building, which is less than 2 years old, exceeds the expectations the city had for space when it looked into building a new City Hall, Barrett said."The biggest problem in planning and building that people have is they never build for the future," said Denny Sansom, a member of the Municipal Building Commission. "They built a sewer plant here and, by the time they had it built, it was too small. It happens all the time; you never look ahead. If he's got a building down there now that we can put people in and still have room to expand, that could last 20, 30, 40 or 50 years."Dale Vance, a planning commission board member and co-owner of Stone Ridge Development, the company that owns PJ's Daycare, originally proposed that the city trade the building for nearly four acres of property adjacent to its power plant, but the city opted to buy the building outright. It will be able to have the building paid for within five to 20 years, depending on the bank the town chooses to contract with and the rate it pays, Barrett said.City Councilman Frank Bannister said the decision to keep the property near the sewer plant was to ensure it was put to the best use possible as a potential commercial property. The land is zoned as "C2" commercial property, which means it can be used for nearly any non-industrial purpose, Barrett said."They have, in appraisals, what's called 'highest and best use of property.' I think the highest and best use of that particular property is commercial," Bannister said. "It needs to be a building or two buildings or even three that are a good front for Highway 817, because that's our main street."According to Barrett, the city has been trying for years to build or purchase a new city hall.The existing building, which is back away from the main road, was built to serve as a water treatment facility in the 1940s and has limited space and structural problems, he said. Barrett wants to put City Hall and the police department in the new building, and convert police headquarters along the Kanawha River into a community center."It would take 359 years to make up the $1 million difference in building a new building if we paid $2,800 a year," he said. "We could never make up the money we would save up front on this building."The next regular meeting of the Winfield City Council will be Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. Reach Lydia Nuzum at email@example.com or 304-348-5189. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 After vote delay, Capito says she opposes current ACA repeal bill 2 Six arrested in Capito's office after day of protesting health care bill 3 Overdose deaths in KY have hit unprecedented levels, officials say 4 Dozens go topless, braless in Charleston to normalize female bodies 5 'There is no justice in bargaining against the people's interest': Federal judge rejects drug plea Six injured in shooting in Huntington Previous Story Police seek Ohio man in Elkview car theft Next Story