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Miami Hurricanes
|8 years ago
|'04 #5823
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Practice Report: 8/19 Morning
Aug. 19, 2009
By: Christopher Stock
Eric Moncur
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Miami returned to practice this morning in full pads in part of their third two-a-day of the fall.
Read here for the latest from today's practice including what Shannon is saying about the latest string of injuries, how players are handling the two-a-day practices, and more.
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Randy Shannon Statement
On Friday's upcoming scrimmage:
"For them (it is the best part of practice), just because if they work hard in the heat and all of those situations, now it is game type situations and see if they can actually do it, the competition factor, scoring touchdowns, stopping them from scoring touchdowns, getting off the field on third downs, also some special teams situations, who can actually return and block on returns, getting off blocks, that's the best thing about watching it on film. You can see where you come from from day one to now."
• The team will resume practice in the afternoon, have a day off on Thursday, followed by their second scrimmage of the fall on Friday, which is closed to the media.
• The focus of the practice was stopping the run and third downs.
• RB Graig Cooper was in pads in today's practice after missing Tuesday's practice as he was in a protective walking boot. "He moved around today, did some individual stuff, he should be fine," Shannon said. "I don't know if he'll be ready to go for the scrimmage (on Friday), we'll know more after this afternoon's practice."
• DE Eric Moncur did not practice. "We are still resting him, that's all," Shannon said.
• There are currently four defensive ends out with injuries as Eric Moncur, Adewale Ojomo, Olivier Vernon, and Gavin Hardin are out leaving the team with Marcus Robinson, Steven Wesley, Dyron Dye, and Andrew Smith as the healthy ones. "If we didn't have the numbers at that position, it would be really tough for us to even practice. It would be like three years ago. We couldn't practice really half the time, we had to walk through a lot."
• LB Colin McCarthy also missed the morning practice because they are "resting him". Shannon tends to do this with upperclassmen, who have been injury-prone.
• DE Olivier Vernon did some individual work and some work on third downs, but did not participate in all of the full contact drills.
• Friday's scrimmage will feature more reps by the first-team guys although the younger players will get plenty of reps too. Shannon plans on increasing the reps of the first-team guys progressively in each of the three scheduled scrimmages. The third is on August 25.
• Senior defensive end Eric Moncur returned to practice today after missing yesterday.
• The NCAA is investigating a potential recruiting violation with Tennessee RB Bryce Brown, a former Hurricane recruit, and younger brother of Miami LB Arthur Brown. Shannon said the NCAA has not contacted them about Arthur.
• K Jake Wieclaw will be given every opportunity to be the team's kickoff guy relieving Matt Bosher of those duties so he can concentrate on kicking field goals and punts. One of the reasons why the coaches would like to see Wieclaw handle those duties are because of the potential strain and injury possibility it could cause Bosher for overextending himself on kickoffs. Wieclaw, a redshirt freshman, will need a good effort on Friday's scrimmage to secure this role.
• The team will not start preparing for Florida State in a game week situation until seven days prior to the game.
|8 years ago
|'04 #5824
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Practice Report: 8/19 Afternoon
Aug. 19, 2009
By: Christopher Stock
Sam Shields
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Miami practiced in the afternoon completing their third two-a-day of the fall.
Read here for the latest from today's practice including what Shannon is saying about the latest string of injuries, how players are handling the two-a-day practices, and more.
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Note: Randy Shannon does not address the media in the afternoon practice of a two-a-day.
• RB Javarris James had a 65-yard run and a 30-yard run during team drills. It was good to see James stand out as he prepares for his senior year. If healthy, he can be a solid back who can excel in short yardage situations. James has also proved to be a good receiver out of the backfield, something that Graig Cooper did not do well last season.
• CB Sam Shields and S Vaughn Telemaque recorded interceptions in practice. The defense has done a good job of intercepting passes throughout the fall and hope to continue their success during the season.
• LB Sean Spence says he likes the adjustment to strongside linebacker and thinks he'll be able to make big plays there this season after playing weakside in 2008.
• DE Eric Moncur was not at practice.
• DE Olivier Vernon was in a walking boot on his left foot after practice. His injury is not expected to be serious according to Shannon.
• TE Jimmy Graham is doing very well and is looking forward to the Florida State game. He said it will be "100 times different" than a Duke game in basketball.
• OL Joel Figueroa has been doing well as the first-team right guard this fall with Harland Gunn backing him up. There might not be two bigger guards in the country that Figueroa (6-5, 330) and Orlando Franklin (6-7, 318).
• The team is off on Thursday before having a closed scrimmage on Friday. They will be off Saturday and have their final two-a-day on Sunday.
|8 years ago
|'04 #5825
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No More Deep Balls Says CB Grant
Aug. 19, 2009
By: Christopher Stock
Chavez Grant
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- The Miami defense is doing well with their enthusiasm, but need to continue to work on preventing the deep balls according to senior captain Chavez Grant.
Grant, who has 75 tackles and two interceptions in 37 games, likes the defense's attitude mid-way through fall practices.
"I like our enthusiasm and ability to play well the most," Grant said. "Sometimes the offense plays good, but we always come right back. The offense beats us up a few plays, but we don't lose our enthusiasm and never lose our fire. That has a lot to do with playing well as a defense, being able to bounce back. Coach got on us one day real hard and we bounced back and played well."
On the flip side, Grant said he would like to see the secondary, which finished seventh nationally against the pass last season, improve on preventing the deep ball as they have been prone to allowing big plays during fall camp.
"I would like to see us improve on the deep balls," Grant said. "In the secondary you are going to give up deep balls, I understand that. Guys are going to make mistakes and sometimes you are going to be out of place. To be honest, we are not going to eliminate deep balls, but we can minimize them to the most, that's what we want to do. The more we can do that, the better we will be as a defense."
So what does it take to succeed against the deep ball?
"You have to concentrate on body position, you have to judge the ball right, make sure your body is in the right place, know where your help is because if you are on the inside and the safety is on the inside also and they throw the ball outside, then you are beat," Grant said. "It's a lot of things that go into it. The last thing is you have to judge the ball correctly. If the ball is way in the sky and there is nothing around it, but the ball, it's kind of hard to tell where it really is and where it's really going."
The Hurricanes held their first scrimmage on Saturday, which was closed to the media, but Grant said there were some positives and negatives.
"It was productive," he said. "I had a few mistakes, but of course that happened in the first scrimmage. But overall we did pretty good. Some guys stepped up and played really well. Some guys didn't play so well, but that's expected. Everybody is not going to have a good day. We saw a lot of things we need to fix and we saw a lot of things that we did well. We found out some of our strengths and weaknesses. We are just coming back this week trying to get them corrected."
Grant noted that Ryan Hill, Randy Phillips, Vaughn Telemaque, and Jared Campbell all played well in the scrimmage.
In particular, he talked about what Hill did that was impressive:
"Ryan Hill did pretty well. He did his a.ssignments. He was always where he needed to be and always doing what he was supposed to do. He played hard, hustled to the football, and made his tackles. Basically that's what football is—be where you're supposed to be and making tackles."
|8 years ago
|'06 #5828
$62,078 | 21223
i still cant understand how a f**king walk on breaks ojomos jaw
are you f**king serious... who is this walk on???
im bout to send my goons myself
|8 years ago
|'04 #5830
$12,869 | 2085
hardin, ojomo, and moncur = all wiped out in 1 week
guess this means more burn for vernon and dye, but i dont like seeing true freshmen having to contribute immediately
|8 years ago
|'05 #5831
$12,980 | 552
im hearing dude was sucker punched...when u get sucker punched ur vulnerable to a hit no matter who hits u
|8 years ago
|'05 #5832
$12,980 | 552
|8 years ago
|'05 #5833
$12,980 | 552
University of Miami defensive end Eric Moncur landed in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon to be examined by a physician for pain near his groin that Moncur hopes is unrelated to a large tear in his abdominal muscle that was repaired in December, someone close to the family told The Miami Herald on Wednesday afternoon.
Moncur is one of three UM defensive ends who are injured, at least one or more of them severely. Defensive end Gavin Hardin also has been out, and Shannon said earlier in the week that he would be out ``a while.''
Fellow end Adewale Ojomo underwent surgery for a broken jaw Tuesday and is expected to miss substantial playing time.
Moncur was granted a rare sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA after sitting out most of last season with abdominal pain that he initially thought was related to a sports hernia surgery he had in the summer of 2008.
The specialist Moncur is seeing is the doctor who repaired the muscle tear.
The UM staff and officials don't want to take any chances, the source said, adding that there's a possibility Moncur overcompensated after the first sports hernia surgery and might have an injury in the right groin area.
It is still unknown whether he will miss any games.
Moncur missed practice Wednesday morning and has been extremely limited during fall camp.
Coach Randy Shannon said after Wednesday morning's session regarding Moncur's absence: ``Just resting him.''
One of the Hurricanes' deepest position groups was at defensive end. Freshman Olivier Vernon went through limited practice Wednesday after what is believed to be a minor ankle injury he sustained several days ago.
Other defensive ends are Marcus Robinson, Andrew Smith, Steven Wesley and Dyron Dye. Shannon said Wednesday that he did not intend to move defensive tackle Allen Bailey back to end.
Bailey said after the Wednesday afternoon practice that ``there are a few nicks and bangs, but we have the young guys stepping up and other guys playing different positions to contribute.''
Bailey said he is playing defensive end ``in certain situations like third down -- same stuff as last year.''
Freshman Dye said the older players are ``really impressed'' with his play at right end and have told him he has stepped up to the challenge. ``I'm a big factor now so I just have to keep going hard every day.''
Robinson, a sophomore, said the ends are all rotating.
``Rotating keeps us fresh,'' he said. ``We feel like the people playing end now are good enough to carry the team.''
Shannon spoke only after the morning session. He was asked about media reports concerning Tennessee running back Bryce Brown, the former UM recruit and younger brother of UM linebacker Arthur Brown.
Bryce Brown is being investigated by the NCAA in connection with his relationship with mentor/trainer Brian Butler. ESPN reported that the NCAA ``is looking into some of the fundraising Brown accepted in high school to visit college campuses and what role Butler might have played.''
Shannon was asked if the NCAA was investigating Arthur, who also had trained with Butler. ``Never heard of it,'' Shannon said. ``No, none of that stuff has happened.''
UM athletic director Kirby Hocutt concurred.
``All I know about the case is what what I read in the paper. There's no concern in any way. I would think if there was something that pertained to Miami, we would have been contacted, and we have not been contacted.''
|8 years ago
|'06 #5834
$62,078 | 21223
what the f**k is a walk on doing a.ssaulting one of our most promising players on the team.
dammit man!
|8 years ago
|'04 #5835
$12,859 | 0
Let's all take a chill pill and relax for the time being....
let's not hit the panic button just yet.
Moncur might just miss one game anyways. Thankfully Vernon has stepped up a lot this year.
This could be another chance for a guy like Wesley to step up as well and come in for a few plays.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves and crown Ponder as a Payton Manning who can k!ll us from the pocket. FSU will always run first and run second. Passing is a third option for them. Marcus Robinson is very good against the run and Allen Bailey can slide in at DE for a few plays. With that being said, Ojomo was probably our best DE against the run when he played last season.
Also, remember when Jason Witten played 4 games last year with a broken jaw and his mouth shut? If Ojomo misses the FSU game, he'll be back by GT or VT.
Reports from camp are that Dyron Dye has come up a long way... i still don't want him in the game just yet however but he may just make an impact if he plays against FSU.
Again, Shannon has been very cautious of burning his players this camp, with needed rest, Moncur will probably be back by FSU, still 2 weeks and a half away.
C'mon, again, we're not doomed. Our offense is explosive and will put up points, gurantee that. Specially with an inexperienced FSU secondary and besides Dakota Watson, their LB play is so so.
|8 years ago
|'05 #5836
$12,980 | 552
Ojomo 'trying to stay positive' say teammates
University of Miami defensive end Steven Wesley visited Adewale Ojomo at the hospital Tuesday night -- not long after he had surgery to work on his broken jaw.
Ojomo Wesley said the 6-4, 253-pound sophomore defensive end, who was sucker punched by a walkon Sunday in the team's lockerroom, is trying to stay positive after what teammates have described as an "unfortunate incident."
"I told him to keep his head up, stay focused and be in a good mood," Wesley said. "We were still clowning around. He's still in good spirits and stuff. I've been texting him everyday to make sure his mind is right. He's just saying what he can, appreciating the support."
Said defensive tackle Marcus Forston: "We just keep telling to stay positive, let things go. He's taking things slow, taking the surgery well."
UM coach Randy Shannon still hasn't acknowledged or addressed the locker room incident publicly other than to say Ojomo was injured "horsing around." But chances are Shannon may be more forthcoming tonight during WQAM's Hurricanes Hotline show. From what we've heard from team members, the walkon, a former offensive lineman at Miami Norland who joined the team at the start of fall camp, was kicked off the team shortly after the incident.
The loss is the second big injury to a UM defensive end thus far. Senior Eric Moncur saw a specialist for his groin in Philadelphia Wednesday, but has been on and off the practice field since camp began. It is unclear how long either he or Ojomo could be out. But both injuries could potentially be season-ending. Redshirt freshman Gavin Hardin is expectd to miss the season also, but wasn't expected to see major minutes anyway.
UM's strength defensively entering the season was its depth at defensive end. But that's obviously thinning. Welsey said he and sophomore Marcus Robinson are now the primary players rotating at left end and freshmen Olivier Vernon and Dyron Dye are getting most of the work on the right side. There are reports that Allen Bailey and Marcus Forston are seeing more reps at end now, too. But I was told by Forston he and Bailey are still getting the majority of their work at tackle. If any defensive tackles could move outside, it is Bailey and Forston.
> The Canes will scrimmage for the second time this fall on Friday, but will be off Thursday and Saturday. Expect Shannon to talk about it Sunday.
> WEDNESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS (Provided by UM's Sports info staff): Randy Phillips stood out in morning drills with a sack and pass deflection in 11-on-11 play... In a series of 15-20 red zone plays, the defense held the offense to just one TD (a Taylor Cook pass to LaRon Byrd for a 20-yard score)... Javarris James had a run and catch of more than 20 yards in the morning and followed it up by breaking off runs of 65 and 30 yards in the afternoon... Lee Chambers had a few runs of 10-15 yards in rushing drills... Sam Shields and Vaughn Telemaque had interceptions... Jacory Harris hooked up with Thearon Collier (twice), Jimmy Graham and Travis Benjamin for big gains during 11-on-11 work.
|8 years ago
|'05 #5837
$12,980 | 552
Linebacker Jordan Futch, one of UM's friendliest players, said with enthusiasm earlier this week that he is happy anywhere the coaches put him -- as long as he plays.
``Coach [Randy] Shannon and Coach [John] Lovett are doing great things with us,'' said the 6-2, 235-pound sophomore, who played at Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna. ``The learning curve is coming around. I'm primarily at [the weak side] now, but I play all positions. Coach Lovett is making sure every linebacker knows every position, from the Nick, the Will, the Dime, Mike, Sam -- all of it.''
Futch said he did well in the first scrimmage and was hoping to continue his good play in UM's second scrimmage Friday. It was closed to the media and public.
``To be honest with you, it doesn't matter,'' Futch said about his position preference. ``As long as I'm on the field making tackles, it doesn't matter.''
• Defensive end Eric Moncur is expected back at practice Sunday, though it is not known whether he will participate. He is awaiting word on medical tests he took in Philadelphia. Moncur went there Wednesday to see a specialist about his groin pain.
• UM is off Saturday.
|8 years ago
|'05 #5838
$12,980 | 552
[pic - click to view]
:cool-smiley-009::cool-smiley-009::cool-smiley-009: Probowl U
|8 years ago
|'04 #5839
$17,571 | 3378
awesome pic.
Just over 2 Weeks left fellas!!!
im so f**kin ready
|8 years ago
|'04 #5840
$12,859 | 0
Agrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh. I wanna freeze my a.ss off and just wake up for labor day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't wait to see J12 throwing bombs all over the field to AJ and Big Byrd, lighting s**t up all night. I want this game to be over by halftime like 30-0 or something like that. :applause::applause::applause::applause:


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Do you know what we think of our cost accounting system? It is a bunch of fictitious lies -- but we all agree to it."
That's a complaint an operations manager of a Fortune 500 company made to me recently. Unfortunately, his tale of woe -- that his company uses flawed and misleading cost data for price quoting, profitability analysis, and justifying improvement projects -- is more the rule than the exception. And using faulty data diminishes the value of the business performance management (BPM) systems and processes many companies are considering, and implementing, today.
Misleading managerial accounting data and management's lack of deep visibility into what causes costs -- that is, their drivers -- prevent an organization from achieving a full vision of its integrated BPM system. An increasingly accepted solution to this problem is activity-based costing (ABC), which computes the cost data, combined with activity-based management (ABM), which applies the ABC information for better decision-making.
All ABM activities are supported by ABC calculations that provide visibility into the work activities that belong to business processes, particularly those indirect expenses (commonly referred to as "overhead") that are hidden in traditional cost reporting. ABC also provides substantially improved accuracy by tracing and assigning expenses to the calculated costs of outputs, products, service lines, channels, and customers rather than applying arbitrary allocations that use broad-brush averages such as sales dollars or number of labor hours.
ABM is an integral component of an effective performance measurement and management system. ABM information assists managers strategically by informing them (with much greater accuracy than traditional accounting) about which products and customers are profitable. ABM also explains what drives operational costs and how to improve them. Organizations with ABM systems, for example, are discovering that the output of their ABM systems provides excellent, highly accurate key performance indicators (KPIs) for their Balanced Scorecard systems.
ABM Changes Decision-Making Processes
When managers combine ABM with other components of BPM, such as strategy maps and scorecards, employees better understand what their organization's priorities should be and can change their behavior to focus their work efforts on strategic and operational issues. BPM becomes more powerful when managers and employee teams have access and visibility to fact-based intelligence. The fact-based intelligence provided by ABC data increases the likelihood that correct strategies will be formulated and enables employee teams to analyze what is happening and what might happen through what-if scenarios.
In addition to improving corporate decision-making, an ABM system accelerates profit and productivity improvement. Managers can use its repeatable and reliable information to both assess past progress against plans and support future decisions. Exhibit 1 illustrates a generic ABM cost-assignment system. This diagram is not as complex as it initially looks; it is a logical representation of how costs flow from resources. Note how the demands on work move from bottom to top, with the costs reflecting back, measuring the effect. ABM is a consumption model and not a flowchart, although the activity costs do belong to processes, which is an alternative view for displaying ABM cost information.
Executives are trained to focus on financial accounting data, such as period-end reported sales, balance sheet ratios, profits, and spending. But BPM encourages managers to broaden their focus to include profit margin and computed cost data from ABM that can be useful as KPIs found in most scorecards. Regulatory compliance dictates financial accounting, but the issue here is managerial accounting for internal purposes.
The belief that organizations can set up only a single enterprisewide ABM system is a common misconception. In fact, companies can construct multiple ABM systems to suit the needs of their enterprise. In practice, two broad types of users and decision-makers view ABM data: strategic and operational users. A different type of ABM model design serves each type of user, but both types of ABM systems follow the same cost-assignment principles. The difference between them is the scope of organizational expenses included plus the inclusion or exclusion of pricing or revenue data for calculating profit margins.
Are All of Your Customers Profitable?
Strategic ABM supports an organization's BPM by measuring which products and customers are profitable so that it can apply its resources to the highest returns. If some customers are excessively high-maintenance, then those customers erode profit margins. Is the extra work worth it? Who are the troublesome customers, and how much do they drag down profit margins? More important, once these questions are answered, what corrective actions should managers and employees take?
Some customers purchase a mix of only low-margin products. After adding the costs-to-serve for those customers apart from the profits (or losses) from the products and service lines they purchase, a company may determine that these customers are unprofitable. Other customers who purchase a mix of relatively high-margin products may demand so much in special services that they, too, could potentially be unprofitable. What kinds of customers are profitable? How does an organization properly measure customer profitability? With that information, how and when does a company deselect, or fire, a customer? The concern here is not only determining the profit contribution of customers, including accurate costs for the products and service lines they buy, but also understanding the elements of customer-specific work that make up the entire costs to serve each customer.
Strategic ABM information builds business cases for actions that management would usually take based on intuition or hunches. With more accurate and robust profit and cost data, a company can answer questions about its customers, such as "Do we push for volume or for margin with a specific customer?"; "Are there ways to improve profitability by altering the way we package, sell, deliver, or generally service a customer?"; "Does the customer's sales volume justify the discounts, rebates, or promotion structure we provide to that customer?"; and "Can we realize benefits from our changing strategies by influencing our customers to alter their behavior to buy differently (and more profitably) from us?"
Traditional methods of costing products result in under- and overcosting from flawed, volume-based averaging methods of cost allocation. The profit margin math subtracts the true ABM product and service-line costs from the revenues. The profit margin is always a derivative -- it is the money that is left over. With ABM, product and service-line costs shift from what the company believed them to be, while the price and volume do not shift but remain unchanged. As a result, the profit margins are also revealed to be substantially different than what the organization had believed. This result is also due to the fact that margins are usually very thin, so even slight changes in costs make a large difference in profits.
Exhibit 2 is a graph that shows how unrealized profits can be hidden because of inadequate costing methods. The accountants are not properly assigning the expenditures based on cause-and-effect relationships. The graph -- often referred to as a profit cliff -- displays the result of the cost subtracted from its sales to reveal each product's and service line's profit.
The products are rank-sorted, left to right, from the largest to the smallest profit margin, and then cumulatively added. The very last data point equals the firm's total net profit, as reported in its company P&L statement. For this organization, total revenues for the period were $20.0 million, with total expenses of $18.2 million -- a $1.8 million net profit. But the graph reveals the distribution of the product mix of that $1.8 million net profit. It shows that roughly $8 million of unrealized profits came from the most profitable three-fourths of the products and roughly $6 million was lost on the remainder. This revelation can be shocking to the management team.
Think of the last data point, the one that ties to the P&L, as being on a vertical metal track; it can only slide up or down. Looking at the graph this way reveals that products and service lines to the left of the profit cliff's peak (where an item's sales amount exactly offsets its costs at the peak) are also fair game for increasing profits. Many managers focus only on the losers to the right, but increased profits can also come from up-selling and cross-selling the most profitable products located to the left of the peak. When the cost-to-serve for each customer is combined with the unique P&Ls of the product or service-line mix that the customer purchased, then a P&L statement for each customer (or typically customer segment) can be reported and analyzed. This adds power to BPM and links it to customer relationship management programs.
What does a commercial organization do with the customer profit information? In other words, what actions can an organization take to increase its profits? Some customers may be so unprofitable that the company will conclude that it is impractical to try to achieve profitability with them. These customers should be terminated. After all, the goal of a business is not to improve customer satisfaction at any cost but rather to attempt to manage customer relationships in order to improve long-term corporate profitability.
ABM-Calculated Outputs Provide a Subset of a Scorecard's KPIs
Operational ABM supports an organization's BPM system by measuring the costs of the output of processes. Management uses it to drive productivity and improve asset utilization. Most organizations have very little insight about their outputs -- not the obvious products and standard service lines they deliver to end customers, but rather the internal "outputs" of the work their organizations perform. For example, internal outputs reflect the work effort and cost to generate sales calls, processed invoices, processed customer complaints, returned goods, etc. These examples are not the "work activities" that employees perform. They are descriptions of the results after the activities have been performed; in other words, they are the outputs of work. A collection of outputs leads to "outcomes" -- products, services, and the like -- a more macro result for which cost can also be calculated.
So where does ABM fit in? ABM can assign attribute tags to activity costs, such as cost of quality measures or valued-added codes, to focus on what activities need attention. ABM also does a great job tracing resource expenses to all sorts of internal outputs. This does not mean that the work processes producing these outputs are unimportant. It simply means that many people react more to the visibility of output costs than they do to the process costs to which the work activity costs belong.
In short, when unit costs are trended or compared with other unit costs, employees and managers gain more insight. They can benchmark to deduce whether they have a best or worst practice. Per-unit-of-each costs should not only be included as KPIs in the balanced scorecard's financial perspective but should also appear in the other perspectives as well. While unit costs represent dollar figures, they are much more like a representation of the equivalent resources the unit measure consumes, in this case stated in terms of money.
ABM Converts Data Into Business Intelligence
When used in conjunction with a BPM system, ABM should not be promoted as an improvement program, or users may perceive it as a temporary fad or "project of the month." Instead, ABM simply reflects the economics of how an organization behaves and consumes its expenses as calculated costs, such as for products, services, processes, channels, and customers. The information the ABM calculation engine reports should always be the input for something else, such as for performance measurement scorecard systems. Exhibit 3 illustrates from an IT perspective how an ABM system developed by SAS imports data from transactional financial and operations systems and then pushes the data into other business process systems, including a scorecard and customer relationship management system.
For example, within a large mutual fund company, management recognized that it is much more costly to acquire new customers than to retain existing ones. Knowing it must efficiently utilize its already-scarce resources, the company decided to deploy them to serve its more profitable customers. Its marketing and sales personnel shifted from pursuing increased sales volume at any cost to pursuing profitable sales volume. And the chief marketing officer (CMO) now requests customer profitability data from the CFO to target marketing strategies to microsegments of customers and optimize the company's increasingly targeted marketing campaigns -- regardless of the communication channel (e.g., e-mail, call center, mailing brochures) -- to achieve the highest ROI per campaign. This is another example of integrating the solution suite of BPM methodologies.
But don't confuse ABM with performance measures. ABM is not the measurement system. The output of ABM can be an important input of performance measurements in a scorecard system, and the presence of ABM data can stimulate greater numbers of actions.
Certainly, ABM is not a prerequisite for designing and using a BPM scorecard system. Scorecards are much more about communicating strategies to employees and increasing alignment of the work with overall corporate strategies. But the introduction of ABM data can populate the scorecard framework with robust and high-octane information that can give executives a much better sense of how well the organization is aligned with its strategies right now and how this information will influence the bottom line down the road.
With fact-based, relevant cost data from ABM systems, managers and teams can see things they've never seen before, and some of it might not be pretty. Often organizations are surprised when they realize the consumption patterns from their cost structure. As with scorecards, finding someone to blame or punish is not the point of having ABM data. It is important to treat ABM data responsibly. The key is to use the ABM data as a guide to better decisions, and the data for performance measures as a valuable benefit. Senior management's attitude is critical in successfully implementing a balanced scorecard. They should view the strategy map, scorecard, and ABM as supportive tools for remedies, not for punishment or embarrassment.
ABM Is a Cost-Reassignment Network
In complex, support-intensive organizations, there can be a substantial chain of indirect activities prior to the work activities that eventually trace into the final cost objects. These chains result in activity-to-activity assignments, and they rely on intermediate activity drivers in the same way that final cost objects rely on activity drivers to reassign costs into them based on their diversity and variation.
Given the existence of integrated activity-based costing/management (ABC/M) software, the direct costing of indirect costs is no longer -- as it was in the past -- an insurmountable problem. ABM allows intermediate direct costing to a local process, an internal customer, or a required component that is causing the demand for work. ABM software is arterial in design. Eventually, via this expense assignment and tracing network, ABM reassigns 100 percent of the costs into the final products, service lines, channels, customers, and business-sustaining costs. In short, ABM connects customers to the resources they consume -- and in proportion to their consumption.
The ABM cost-assignment network in exhibit 1, on page 37, consists of three modules connected by cost-assignment paths. This network calculates the cost of cost objects (e.g., outputs, product lines, service lines, customers). It is basically a snapshot view of the business conducted during a specific time period. (Life-cycle costing is associated with a customer relationship management topic, customer lifetime value.)
Resources, at the top of the cost-assignment network, enable the company to perform work because they represent all the available means that work activities can draw on. Resources can be thought of as the organization's checkbook; this is where all the period's expenditure transactions are accumulated into buckets of spending. Examples are salaries and operating supplies. These are the period's cash outlays and amortized cash outlays, such as for depreciation, from a prior period. During this step, the applicable resource drivers are developed as the mechanism to convey resource costs to the activity.
"Expenses" and "costs" are not the same thing. All costs are calculated costs. Recognize that assumptions are always involved in the conversion and translation of expenses into costs. The assumptions stipulate the basis for the calculation. Expenses occur at the point of acquisition with third parties, including employee wages. This is when money (or its obligation) exits the company. At that moment, "value" does not fluctuate; it is permanently recorded as part of a legal exchange. However, all costs are calculated representations of how expenses flow through work activities and into outputs of work.
In sum, resources are traced to work activities. During this step, the applicable resource drivers are developed as the mechanism to convey resource expenses into the activity costs. A popular basis for tracing or assigning resource expenses is the length of time that people or equipment spend performing activities. Note that the terms "tracing" or "assigning" are preferable to the term "allocation," because many people associate allocation with a redistribution of costs that have little to no correlation between source and destinations. Thus, some firms cynically view overhead cost allocations as arbitrary.
The activity module is where work is performed,where resources are converted into output. The activity cost-assignment step contains the structure to assign activity costs to cost objects or other activities, utilizing activity drivers to accomplish this assignment.
Cost objects, at the bottom of the cost-assignment network, represent the broad variety of outputs and services where costs accumulate. The customers are the last final-cost objects; their existence creates the need for a cost structure in the first place. Cost objects are the persons or things that benefit from incurring work activities -- the "what" or "for whom" work is performed. Examples of cost objects are products, service lines, distribution channels, customers, and outputs of internal processes.
Once established, the cost-assignment network is useful in determining how the diversity and variation of things, such as different products or various types of customers, can be detected and translated into how they uniquely consume activity costs.
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His career track has been wisely calculated for just that climb: A few years after Bratton took the reigns of the LAPD, and while he was at a respectable number-two position at the department, Gascon moved to Arizona to take over the top cop job in Mesa. He could add a mid-sized city and number-one leadership status to his resume. He needed to run his own show.
In Mesa, Gascon shook up the department and clashed with local redneck Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who allegedly conducted illegal-immigrant sweeps in the city without informing the local law (e.g. Gascon). (Arpaio has denied that he failed to inform Mesa police of his raids). The two have had a contentious relationship since and, after taking the S.F. job in summer Gascon reportedly invited the notoriously anti-immigrant sheriff to come out to the Bay for Italian dinner with him. The invite was in Spanish.
Gascon was born in Cuba, and that puts another point in his favor: He would become the LAPD's first Latino chief in a city where Latinos make up nearly half the population. Bratton worked hard to make the LAPD reflective of its community, and the department is now majority minority. A Gascon appointment would put an exclamation point on the effort.
Gascon earned the respect of the Mesa force and is already adding Bratton-style management practices, including crime-statistics-based enforcement, to the SFPD repertoire. Bratton, whose opinion seems to hold a lot of weight in the matter, is a fan.
He told the Chronicle, "I've worked in this business for 40 years, and he's one of the best there is."
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Palmadulla Majistrate Chandani Niranjala Diyas ordered that the 4 suspects of the Kahawatta dual homicide case be remanded yet again until the 23rd of April.
Appearing before court, the chief suspect of the case as well as his wife, pleaded of court to provide them with the opportunity to make a confession.
Subsequent to the case being taken up, the suspects made an 'in-curia' statement at the official court chambers of the Palmadulla. This is the first instance in which the chief suspect of the case named 'Raju' had requested of court to make such a confession.
The confession made by the wife of the chief suspect marks the second occasion on which she had done so.
Meanwhile the CID requested of court to have the bone & fingernail samples of the two deceased women sent to the 'GENE-TEC' institute.
Accordingly the Magistrate had ordered the remnants of the two victims to be sent over to the relevant institution. In a further development when the case was taken up previously, it was ordered that the CID provide information before court regarding the bank account details of one of the suspects.
In keeping with this order today, the CID provided court with the details of 3 private bank accounts. It was noted by the CID that none of the banks had accounts maintained by the suspect.


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Double Shot: Pocatello Blend, Rare Beans
Obermayr, Raimond & Gino Sky
Place Published: Pocatello, ID
Publisher: Blue Scarab Press
Date Published: 2004
Edition: First edition, 1/100
Binding: Paperback
Book Id: 14727
[12pp.] Octavo [21 cm] Tan stappled wrappers. Fine. This volume is ninth in a series of chapbooks featuring Southeast Idaho writers under the Pocatello Blend title.
By This Author: Obermayr, Raimond & Gino Sky
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September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999
Chicago, Illinois
Sheldon Allan Silverstein was born on September 25, 1930 he lived in Chicago, Illinois and died on may 10 1999. He was a author, poet, cartoonist, songwriter and a play writer. He styled himself as uncle Shelby in many of his works. His work has been translated into 30 different language and sold over 20 million copies.
Sheldon Allan Silverstein grew up to attain an enormous public following, but always preferred to say little about himself. Silberstein believed that written works needed to be read on paper. He usually would not allow his poems and stories to be published unless he could choose the type, size, shape, color, and quality of the paper.Most of his books did not have paperback editions because he did not want is work to be diminished in any way.
Last night, while I lay thinking here,
some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
and pranced and partied all night long
and sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I'm dumb in school?
Whatif they've closed the swimming pool?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there's poison in my cup?
Whatif I start to cry?
Whatif I get sick and die?
Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?
Whatif I don't grow talle?
Whatif my head starts getting smaller?
Whatif the fish won't bite?
Whatif the wind tears up my kite?
Whatif they start a war?
Whatif my parents get divorced?
Whatif the bus is late?
Whatif my teeth don't grow in straight?
Whatif I tear my pants?
Whatif I never learn to dance?
Everything seems well, and then
the nighttime Whatifs strike again!


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The TIME SCALE project is investigating the feasibility of growing food crops in space and whether this might provide astronauts with long-term supplies of food and oxygen. The findings could lay the foundations for a manned mission to Mars and also lead to more sustainable production back on Earth.
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Astronauts who undertake short duration journeys or spend time at the International Space Station (ISS) are completely dependent on supplies of oxygen, water and food being sent up from Earth. Each day, crew members require around 30 kg of water, food and air, which over time accumulates to a huge amount of cargo.
The ability to grow crops in space is therefore a key component in making long distance space travel feasible, and is the reason why plant experiments have been carried out on board the ISS since 2006. These experiments have taken place in the European Modular Cultivation System, a small greenhouse operated remotely from ground.
TIME SCALE aims to step up this research, with the ultimate goal of developing a closed regenerative life support system for the ISS where water, nutrients, air and waste can be recycled continuously. The idea is that astronauts would eat food grown in space, with the resulting waste turned into fertilizer for plants. This in turn would create oxygen and more food.
This research has implications for agriculture closer to home. Ever-increasing pressures on available arable land and water resources mean that maximising resources and minimising waste need to be prioritised. Sustainable greenhouse-based crop production methods could lead to a significant reduction in fertilizer and water use.
Looking further ahead, the team hopes to find out how crops cope under different gravity conditions, which might one day open the door to agricultural colonies on the moon – or even Mars.
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Distract yourself from the fact that everyone who lives near a Muni stop's rent suuuuuuuucks with the only thing that doesn't: these 10 new restaurants and bars that opened in SF this May and include a just-opened Mid-Market spot doing boozy coffees, and your new go-to for pork belly buns in the Tenderloin.
Geary Street has its fair share of cocktail spots, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a swanky-yet-cozy spot to sip a pre-dinner glass of wine until... RIGHT NOW WHEN WE TOLD YOU THAT RESOLUTE JUST OPENED. A sure to be go-to date spot, Resolute offers eight flights of wine, 25 bottles by the glass, and a whopping 120 hard-to-find bottles you can open there or take home or even buy by the case (you're gonna be the "buys a case" person, aren't you?). Artisan beer and cheese and charcuterie plates are also on the menu if wine isn't your thing, though it might kinda be after you hit this place.
So the simple Mexican dishes don't quite deliver on the name (what restaurant could?), but just so long as you don't mistake this colorful, mural-covered taqueria for a totally different type of business, you're sure to leave satisfied -- and perhaps a little sleepy. The house specialty cochinita sope is the winning move here: slightly spicy citrus-marinated pork, slow roasted in banana leaves and topped with all the fixin's in a handmade tortilla bed.
Floor-to-ceiling windows up front, a long, spacious interior, brick walls, and a perfect people-watching balcony lend this cocktail spot a New York vibe when you walk in, but the attention to interesting spirits and innovative flavor combinations is all San Francisco. Tending vets Jacques Bezuidenhout and Ken Luciano have partnered with the PlumpJack Group to create this already-bustling bar next to, of all places, a Firestone Tire right where Mid-Market Mission curves into Mission Mission. Get the Pickled Swede with dill-infused vermouth -- it's both savory and refreshing -- but also don't sleep on the cocktails of the month, tipples from bartender friends of the bar that have already included a Tommy's marg and a cocktail from a buddy who tends in Ibiza.
The Mission
Hoping to follow in the steps of Saison by opening an ambitious pop-up in the old behind-Sable Cafe space that used to house, uh, Saison, Charin is a new experimental dinner series where a team of chefs (handpicked from fine-dining behemoths such as Benu, Coi, SPQR, and others) is doing a once-a-month-ish dinner where each course isn't just "OMG-what-did-I-just-eat?" interesting, but most dishes look more like a Monet painting than food. Seating is limited with tables for two (and sometimes four) doing a 9- to 11-course menu delivered at the perfect pace with optional (/expensive) wine pairings. This is really a rare, special occasion-type place, but if you're gonna do a rare, special occasion it's the type you'll want to do it at.
The Chairman
The Zagat-rated food truck still roams the Bay, but now you can count on this sunny lunch spot that quietly opened in April for all your bao cravings. The classic pork belly bun is still the star here, but new items, such as Japanese curry beef, rice bowls (add an egg for $2), salads, and a to-die-for short rib bun join the band in a not-just-backup singers kind of way.
Equator Coffees & Teas on Market
Having made a name for itself with cyclists and surfers in Marin, Equator Coffees & Teas finally made its move into San Francisco in May, dropping a chic industrial spot into the Mid-Market food-and-drink wasteland. Best part though (outside of the "dropping a chic industrial spot into the Mid-Market food-and-drink wasteland" thing): they've got BOOZY coffee drinks exclusive to this location like the dangerously delicious coconut White Russian, a "Naughty Brew" Irish-style coffee, and a boozy milk tea. Also: arepas or salads, in case you want your liquid lunch to be more solid.
Super Duper
Could Super Duper get super-er? How about if it added BREAKFAST SANDWICHES to its menu? Yeah, that's a good start, but not the end: house-made DONUTS made fresh daily with an old-fashioned machine also join the menu/your SF breakfast dream journal entry for today.
House Rules
Russian Hill
The empire builders behind Campus in the Marina and the FiDi's Eddie Rickenbacker's have bestowed you with another excuse to hit up Polk Street in House Rules -- an opened-just-this-Thursday boozing den that offers up all the Polk St musts (plenty of TVs, eight tap beers, 10 house cocktails), plus some Polk St super bonuses like bar bites from the Hog & Rocks guy, and A FIREPLACE.
Slice House by Tony Gemignani
Eleven-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani's pizza empire expands to SOMA in the historic Chronicle Books building and is determined to meet all of your baseball pre-gaming, lunching, brunching, and slice-eating needs. The classic slices and pies (from New York-style to Sicilian) that draw crowds in North Beach are on the menu, but Tony also steps out of his pizza comfort zone by coining a new California-style pizza with an artisan ancient grains crust and farm-fresh toppings. With a nod to their ballpark neighborhood, this bi-level restaurant has plenty of TVs and a couple pinball machines, and the team promises promotions and extra hours on game nights. Oh, and the restaurant also debuted its brunch menu last weekend featuring a $20 breakfast buffet that includes breakfast pizzas and $10 bottomless mimosas. So... when can we move in, Tony?!
Cow Hollow
Remember Belga? We were a little skeptical that this classic Belgian brasserie would even have a shot at filling the oyster-sized hole in our hearts left by the beloved Marina bistro it replaced. But after an afternoon spent with the Belgian beer-heavy bar program (10 beers on tap, 50 more in bottles, and an impressive curated cocktail list), we were more than smitten. Pair beer, cocktails, or... beer cocktails with shareable brasserie-style dishes from the culinary minds that brought us Flour + Water and RN74.
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1. Resolute678 Geary St, San Francisco
2. Tacorgasmico2337 Market St, San Francisco
3. Forgery1525 Mission St, San Francisco
4. Charin2124 Folsom St, San Francisco
5. The Chairman670 Larkin St, San Francisco
6. Equator Coffee and Tea on Market986 Market St, San Francisco
7. Super Duper Burgers98 Mission St, San Francisco
8. House Rules2227 Polk St, San Francisco
9. Slice House by Tony Gemignani680 2nd St, San Francisco
10. Belga2000 Union St, San Francisco
Resolute offers eight flights of wine, 25 bottles by the glass, and a whopping 120 hard-to-find bottles you can open there, take home, or buy by the case. Artisan beer and cheese and charcuterie plates are also on the menu.
This place offers Mexican dishes in a colorful, mural-covered taqueria. The house specialty, Cochinita Sope, is the winning move here: Slightly spicy citrus-marinated pork, slow roasted in banana leaves and topped with all the fixin's in a handmade tortilla bed.
This 2,000sqft bar was once home to a printing press and a glass blowing studio, and though those things are both pretty cool, we've found that we have a lot more appreciation for the open space now that it's home to a laid-back cocktail bar that serves quality cocktails without the mustache wax and pretense you'll find at some other SF spots. There are over 300 spirits to choose from, but we always start with a "Forgery Original" before moving on to one of the classics with a twist. (The Fall Gimlets and Sour Cherry Negroni are also favorites.)
Charin offers a new experimental dinner series. A team of chefs does a once-a-month-ish dinner where most dishes look more like Monet paintings than food. Seating is limited with tables for two (and sometimes four). They do a 9 to 11-course menu delivered at the perfect pace with optional wine pairings.
The Zagat-rated food truck still roams the Bay, but now you can count on this sunny lunch spot for all your Bao cravings. The classic pork belly bun is the star here, but also try the Japanese curry beef, rice bowls, salads, and a to-die-for short rib bun.
Having made a name for itself with cyclists and surfers in Marin, Equator Coffee and Teas finally made its move into San Francisco , dropping a chic industrial spot into the Mid-Market food-and-drink wasteland. They've got BOOZY coffee drinks exclusive to this location like the dangerously delicious Coconut White Russian, a "Naughty Brew" Irish-style coffee, and a boozy milk tea. They also serve arepas and salads.
The Mission locale of this super-hot SF burger chain is just as good and just as juicy. Hang out with an original-style burger, fries, and delicious shake.
Equipped with a fireplace and plenty of TVs, this Polk Street bar combines the intimacy of a neighborhood bar with upscale food. Its hair-of-the-dog brunch offers all the booze-soaking classics like huevos rancheros and breakfast sandwiches from Hog & Rocks chef-owner Scott Youkilis, plus actual hair-of-the-dogginess in the form of a spicy Bloody Mary and Silver Fox Fizz. Sideway seats make it even more a fair-weather destination.
Tony Gemignani (gold medal winner of the Food Network's Pizza Champions Challenge!) brings Italian-style pizza to his 2nd Street pizzeria, featuring two roomy floors in which to experience his creations by the slice (as the name would suggest) or by the whole pie. The famed Cal Italia is an award-winning treat featuring sweet fig preserves, prosciutto, and a balsamic reduction.
The first thing you'll notice when you walk into this Belgian-inspired brasserie in Cow Hollow is the wall of refrigerated bottled beers, complete with a sliding ladder. Belga has both killer cocktails and an extensive Belgian beer menu (10 beers on tap, more than 50 in bottles), and a menu that's perfect for sharing (Belgian frites, oysters on the half shell, sausage plates). Oh, and it's got a really great brunch menu with waffles, beignets, and schnitzel with eggs.


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It took the help of at least 50 volunteers to sort through piles and piles of donated books (around 50,000 or so) in various categories: history and politics, war and military, self help, hobbies and interests, hardcover fiction, paperback fiction, biographies, drama and poetry, mystery, fantasy, romance, just to name a few.
"It was a monumental effort by a number of people," said Connie Smythe of the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township. Smythe served as co-chair of the event along with June Campbell.
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The Adele Mare Hotel is on the beach approximately 1.5 miles from Adele village and 4 miles from the centre of Rethymnon. The area around the hotel has a varied selection of shops, bars, taverns, restaurants, cafe's and clubs. Guest accommodation is traditionally Cretan styled.
Distance from Airport:
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All have * balcony/terrace * bathroom/shower * WC * hairdryer * air conditioning 15/6 to 15/9 * telephone * satellite TV * fridge * (certain amenities may be payable locally)
Transfer time:
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Rethymnon is centred round an old harbour and the beach, which starts in the centre of town and stretches for miles. There is a local bus service which makes the short trip into the centre of Rethymnon and leaves from in front of the hotel. The beach is next to the pool area and has a number of organized activities and watersports to try.
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At 11:11 today, tha Nameless appeared on chat and she said she's going to kill me. That was fine, it's not the first time I've heard that I'm going to die. But then I sent her a PM and nothing but silence. She was still there just not answering, that's what I thought.. When I asked if she was still there, they said she was gone, but the thing is, she was still there.
Not long after they said she'd gone. I got a PM from the Nameless (TheKnowings) Something very troubling for me. Now it won't leave my head. I now need time to think, time alone and away from the i9, and as far away as I can from the Nameless. I'm truely terrified. I never wanted to admit that but come on..
If she says his name anywhere near me, he'll see what I have done. What we have done. He ignores us for a reason! We are nothing to him, not anymore.
Red. Running down my face from my eyes it goes everywhere and makes me look dead. It doesn't stop..
the Nameless will make it stop.
unhappy rose x


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