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Mission Statement: Park University provides access to a quality higher education experience that prepares a diverse community of learners to think critically, communicate effectively, demonstrate a global perspective and engage in lifelong learning and service to others.Vision Statement: Park University, a pioneering institution of higher learning since 1875, will provide leadership in quality, innovative education for a diversity of learners who will excel in their professional and personal service to the global community.CourseCJ 233 Introduction to SecuritySemesterS2T 2012 DLAFacultyGadberry, James H.TitleSenior InstructorDegrees/CertificatesPhD Oklahoma State UniversityMS University of Central ArkansasBS Park UniversityDaytime Phone256 firstname.lastname@example.com@yahoo.comSemester Dates19 March -- 13 May 2012Class DaysTBAClass TimeTBACredit Hours3Textbook:
Introduction to Security (8th Edition)
by Robert J. Fischer, Edward Halibozek, and Gion Green
Butterworth-Heinemann, (2008)
ISBN: 13-978-0-7506-8432-3Textbooks can be purchased through the MBS bookstoreTextbooks can be purchased through the Parkville BookstoreAdditional Resources:
The following resources which students will need to review and use suring the course are available in the online course website, either in DOC SHARING or in the weekly units.
Risk Assessment Matrix
Facility Security Survey Tool
Outer Defenses PowerPoint slides
Workplace Violence PowerPoint slides
Fischer, Halibozek and Green Textbook PowerPoint slides
CJ 233 Introduction to Security
Gadberry, James H.
Senior Instructor
PhD Oklahoma State UniversityMS University of Central ArkansasBS Park University
Daytime Phone
256 278-9277
Semester Dates
19 March -- 13 May 2012
Class Days
Class Time
Credit Hours
Butterworth-Heinemann, (2008)
Textbooks can be purchased through the MBS bookstore
Textbooks can be purchased through the Parkville Bookstore
Additional Resources:
The following resources which students will need to review and use suring the course are available in the online course website, either in DOC SHARING or in the weekly units.
McAfee Memorial Library - Online information, links, electronic databases and the Online catalog. Contact the library for further assistance via email or at 800-270-4347.Career Counseling - The Career Development Center (CDC) provides services for all stages of career development. The mission of the CDC is to provide the career planning tools to ensure a lifetime of career success.Park Helpdesk - If you have forgotten your OPEN ID or Password, or need assistance with your PirateMail account, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 800-927-3024Resources for Current Students - A great place to look for all kinds of information http://www.park.edu/Current/.Advising - Park University would like to assist you in achieving your educational goals. Please contact your Campus Center for advising or enrollment adjustment information.Online Classroom Technical Support - For technical assistance with the Online classroom, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call the helpdesk at 866-301-PARK (7275). To see the technical requirements for Online courses, please visit the http://parkonline.org website, and click on the "Technical Requirements" link, and click on "BROWSER Test" to see if your system is ready.FAQ's for Online Students - You might find the answer to your questions here.
Educational Philosophy:
Learning Outcomes: Core Learning Outcomes
For CJ 233, all students will complete a consolidated essay which examines the following seven basic topical issues relating to the study of Introduction to Security:
The essay should provide complete and equitable treatment of all seven topical areas, but the issues and researched material should be integrated to provide a consolidated examination of the fundamental principles of security and loss prevention. The essay should contain the following technical components:
Written in APA or MLA Style
Link to Class RubricClass Assessment:
Weekly Discussions (8)
In the first discussion activity, due by Wednesday, you respond specifically to the discussion questions, based on your integration of the course website documents, textbook readings, and supplemental course material. In the second part of the week, you are responding to the responses of your classmates.
You must SUPPORT (i.e., cite and reference) your responses with ideas, examples, and/or cases from your text and external readings and class material/discussion. Remember that the online threaded discussions are public messages and all writings in this area are viewable by the entire class.
Please be sure to respond to EACH of the discussion questions for this week. Your first responses should consist of 150 words FOR EACH QUESTION, and be posted by midnight Wednesday. Then, post at least THREE meaningful responses to your classmates (i.e. a minimum of 200 total words) by midnight Sunday.
To recap – Answer EACH question by Wednesday. Then, interact with your classmates by posting at least 3 responses by Sunday.
Minimum responses do not necessarily equate to full credit. Please review the Weekly Discussion Grading Rubric in the Course Home to fully understand what constitutes a response of Exceeds Expectations. If you have questions about the grading criteria, please post them here also.
Weekly Discussion Grading Rubric
Grading Criteria
Exceeds expectation
Meets expectation
Does not meet expectation
No evidence
Content: 50%
Content is comprehensive, accurate, and persuasive; definitions are clearly stated.
Content is not comprehensive and/or persuasive.
Content is incomplete or omits some requirements stated in the assignment's criteria.
Did not complete assignment
Major points are stated clearly and are well supported with sourcing.
Major points are addressed, but are not well supported by sourcing.
Major points are not clear, not persuasive, and not sourced.
Research, if necessary, is adequate, timely, relevant, and addresses all of the issues stated in the assignment's criteria.
Research, if necessary, is inadequate in either relevance, quality of outside sources, and/or timeliness.
No outside sources were used to support major points.
Readability 50%
Organization and structure of the response is clear and easy to follow.
Organization and structure is not easy to follow.
Organization and structure detracts from the writer's message.
No structure or organization.
Response exceeds the minimum length as described in the assignment's criteria.
Response is at the minimum length as described in the assignment's criteria.
Response is below the minimum length as described in the assignment's criteria.
Paragraph transitions are present and logical, and maintain the flow of thought throughout the paper.
Paragraph transitions are fragmentary and ideas are presented without logical connection.
Paragraph transitions are not obvious.
Conclusion is logical, flows from the body of the response, and does not include new information.
Conclusion is provided but does not flow from the body of the response.
Conclusion is missing.
Citations and reference formatting meet standards for the discipline.
Paper provides citations and references for sources, but they are incorrectly formatted; reference list is provided but has some errors or omissions.
Citations and references are not provided.
Rules of grammar usage and punctuation are followed; spelling and word choices are correct.
Paper contains few grammar, punctuation, spelling, and word choice errors.
Paper contains numerous grammar, punctuation, spelling, and word choice errors.
Language is clear and precise; sentences display consistently strong, varied structure.
Language lacks clarity or includes the use of some jargon or conversational tone.
Language uses jargon or conversational tone.
Quizzes (4)
Quizzes may be subjective (short essay-type responses) or objective (true-fales, multiple choice, sentence completions) or a combination. Each quiz will cover the required readings of the previous week(s). Successive quizzes will only cover material for which you have not already been quizzed on (e.g., Week 1 quiz covers Week 1 material; Week 3 quiz covers Weeks 2 and 3 material, and so on). The quizzes, which are timed and can only be taken once, must be completed no later than midnight, Sunday of each of the appropriate weeks.
Security/Crime Prevention Project
This is an applied security research project. Students will design and report on the application of risk (threat) mitigation strategies involving a physical Target Environment (TE). A physical TE is a building or a complex of buildings belonging to a real organization, company, or business. It is acceptable to focus on a governmental organization as your TE. Students will focus on security's role in threats to the physical environment, crime prevention, and fire prevention and safety, against a particular TE.
Students will identify a physical TE; research potential and actual security/crime problem sets; and develop strategies for designing security/crime prevention programming in the TE, e.g. self-help skills, community education, training, plans, and services geared towards mitigating the risk.
Students will complete the project in three phases, with one component due each of Weeks 2, 4, and 6. Weekly components will be submitted to the Dropbox AND also posted in a Special Discussion Thread so that all students will be able to review and collaborate with each other.
Each two-week period, you will work on one phase of the project. The text for each phase should be about 750 words, not counting reference pages, appendices, surveys, illustrations, etc. You must demonstrate that you understand the terminology and the concepts used and know how to apply them. You must demonstrate that you can synthesize, analyze, and evaluate information. You must correctly use APA or MLA formatting in source citations both in the body of your text and in the references.
Project Components:
WEEK 2 (Phase 1) - Identify Physical Target Environment (TE), Problem, and Literature Review: Identify a REAL physical TE, and a security or crime problem within this TE. Contact your instructor for approval of your TE.
Upon approval from your instructor, proceed to complete this component of the project. Start by identifying and discussing the security problem. Who is affected? Are there conflicting perspectives in the TE about the extent of the problem? If so, explain them. Any other relevant situational issues (historical, social, cultural, economic, political)? Establish the extent of the problem you wish to prevent. Obtain statistics or data related to the particular crime or problem. Once the problem is identified, review literature review which discusses how to prevent the crime or solve the security problem. Report on the academic literature which informs on security/crime prevention programs related to the problem identified in the TE. Report on which programs have been successful, and which have not been successful. Use PRIMARY sources (e.g., interviews, agency documents, observations, and the course text) and OTHER sources (e.g., books and/or journal articles). A minimum of FIVE (5) resources is expected. Any resource listed in your Reference section should have a corresponding in-text citation.
WEEK 4 (Phase 2) - Risk Assessment/Security Survey: Conduct a quantifiable security risk assessment and survey of the TE, and provide a narrative report of your findings. Sample risk assessment and security survey methodologies and instruments are provided in your textbook and are available in the course.
WEEK 6 (Phase 3) - Design Security or Crime Prevention Solution: Design a solution which will reduce the occurrence and risk of the problem(s) you identified in your literature review and risk assessment/survey in the TE. Use the TE's geography, institutions, resources, and potentialities as a framework for your solution. Use resources provided by class material, lectures, course texts, and your own independent research. Demonstrate how your solution activates organizational and/or community engagement, consultations, and partnerships. Justify the design of your solution through academic literature which supports your approach. Include an evaluation program – show how you intend to measure the successes and failures of your solution.
Your Security/Crime Prevention Project elements will be assessed using the following rubric:
Target Environment (TE) and Problem Identification (20%)
Literature Review (20%)
Risk Assessment/Security Survey (20%)
Design Security Plan (20%)
Structural Components (20%)
Core Assessment:
Refer to separate instructions on Core Assessment above in Syllabus and Core Assessment Rubric below in Syllabus.
Final Exam (Proctored)
The Final Exam will be comprehensive, covering the required textbook, the class lectures, and any supplementary material provided for students during the term. It is to be completed by Midnight, Friday, Week 8.
Number of Points
900 - 1000
80 - 899
70 - 799
60 - 699
599 or below
Below 59.9
Late Submission of Course Materials:
Classroom Rules of Conduct:
General Course Policies
Course Topic/Dates/Assignments:
Week 1 19 March -- 25 March
Week 2 26 March -- 1 April
Security/Crime Prevention Project:
Week 3 2 April -- 8 April
Week 4 9 April -- 15 April
Week 5 16 April -- 22 April
Week 6 23 April -- 29 April
Week 7 30 April -- 6 May
· Submit Core Assessment assignment to Instructor via Dropbox by Sunday
Week 8 7 May -- 13 May
Final Exam:
Academic Honesty:Academic integrity is the foundation of the academic community. Because each student has the primary responsibility for being academically honest, students are advised to read and understand all sections of this policy relating to standards of conduct and academic life. Park University students and faculty members are encouraged to take advantage of the University resources available for learning about academic honesty (www.park.edu/current or http://www.park.edu/faculty/).from Park University 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog Page 93
Plagiarism:Plagiarism involves the use of quotations without quotation marks, the use of quotations without indication of the source, the use of another's idea without acknowledging the source, the submission of a paper, laboratory report, project, or class assignment (any portion of such) prepared by another person, or incorrect paraphrasing. from Park University 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog Page 93All work submitted must be the student's own. Any assistance received by a student in preparing papers or reports must be fully acknowledged and disclosed in the work submitted. Students must cite and reference any sources from which data, ideas or words are used, either quoted directly or paraphrased.
Please be aware that using other's words and ideas without proper quotations and citations is a violation of Park University's Academic Honesty Policy. This course instructor takes this seriously and reports all violations to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College for Distance Learning.
Generally, for the first instance, a student receives a grade of zero (F) for the assignment and a warning. A second instance will result in failing the course.
It can't be said any clearer: IF YOU CUT AND PASTE TEXT FROM AN ONLINE SOURCE INTO YOUR ASSIGNMENTS (INCLUDING DISCUSSIONS) AND DO NOT USE QUOTATION MARKS, IN-TEXT and END CITATIONS, YOU ARE PLAGIARIZING and VIOLATING THE ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY.
All students are advised to review the policy detailed in the Park University Undergraduate Catalog.
Attendance Policy:Instructors are required to maintain attendance records and to report absences via the online attendance reporting system.
Park University 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog Page 96
Disability Guidelines:Park University is committed to meeting the needs of all students that meet the criteria for special assistance. These guidelines are designed to supply directions to students concerning the information necessary to accomplish this goal. It is Park University's policy to comply fully with federal and state law, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, regarding students with disabilities. In the case of any inconsistency between these guidelines and federal and/or state law, the provisions of the law will apply. Additional information concerning Park University's policies and procedures related to disability can be found on the Park University web page: http://www.park.edu/disability .If you have ANY accessibility or issue of disability, please SELECT the Help and Resources link on the Course Home Menu. That takes you to the Online Student Help and Resource Page.
On that page, there is a "menu" on the left side of the page. About half way down you will find a link to "Accessibility and ADA". SELECT that link and you will have access to ALL of the ADA and Accessibility information at Park University.
Additional Information:
Changes or Modifications
The instructor reserves the right to modify the course content and schedule without prior notice and in accordance with the requirements of the course.
Contacting the Instructor
The instructor is available and willing to assist students. Please feel free to contact the instructor at any time if there are questions or need for assistance. Appointments to meet or discuss outside of class can be arranged by contacting the instructor by telephone, e-mail, or personal communication. When calling by telephone, if it is necessary to leave a voice-mail message, please indicate a preferred time of day for a response.
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The core is considerably simpler than the Cortex-M3 – the embedded microcontroller core that was the first ARM to be widely adopted in standalone microcontrollers.
"The M0 is a third of the size of the M3 in its minimal configuration," ARM CPU product manager Dr Dominic Pajak told EW – 12,000 against 43,000 gates. Both are three-stage pipeline cores with 32bit data paths.
Gate count has been cut by choosing a basic architecture and a no-frills instruction set.
M0 is a von Neumann design executing a modified form of the Thumb instruction set made popular by the ARM7TDMI, compared with the M3's Harvard architecture executing the full Thumb-2 instruction set.
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Despite the instruction set difference, York claims code size is similar. "Almost always the M0 is within a few per cent of the M3 because the M0 needs a pair of 16bit instructions where the M3 has one 32bit," he said.
Other differences between the M0 and M3 include 32 versus 240 interrupts, and 4 versus 256 interrupt priorities.
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Asked when someone might need to move to 32bit from 8 or 16bit, York said, "The protocol stack for ZigBee is atrocious on an 8bit core. It is the same with USB and Bluetooth, and if an ADC is 16bit, you are going to want 32bits to manipulate the data without overflowing."
ARM worked with several lead partners, including NXP, to develop the M0.
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Recorded: Live at the Half Note, New York, March 26, 1965
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A vital part of any extended Coltrane improvisation (this one is 20+ minutes) is the intense interplay between Trane and Elvin Jones. Elvin revolutionized jazz drumming by accenting alternating upbeats of the ride-cymbal pattern (instead of accenting on beats two and four). He is also known for his Latin-to-swing grooves and his ability to build intensity by gradually adding upbeat accents and complex polyrhythmic snare-drum comping. As Coltrane experiments with various motives throughout this improvisation, notice how Elvin is always listening and reacting to Trane's statements while building to an intense burn on the ride cymbal.
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- John Coltrane: One Down, One Up by Steve Greenlee (99/100)
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Move over Warren Haynes, Jack White of the White Stripes and The Raconteurs is gunning for your title as The World's Most Prolific Musician. Last night in the industrial section of Nashville, White unveiled his latest group – The Dead Weather – to 150 fans, friends and members of the media.
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The Dead Weather features bassist Jack Lawrence [The Raconteurs], singer Alison Mosshart [Kills] and guitarist Dean Fertita [QOTSA] with White behind the kit. The group has recorded an album called Horehound due to be available in June, while the first single from the disc, Hang You From The Heavens, is available now on iTunes. For a review of last night's five-song set and album listening party check out Alan Light's article in the NY Times.
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This week, an ad about "how to spring clean your life" came up on the Craigslist. That got me thinking that Craigslist really offers a lot of opportunities for self-improvement. Need a fulfilling relationship? Check. Need a more lucrative job? Check. Need to express yourself via a naked drum circle that meets at 2 a.m.? You can probably find that.
Okay, enough of that. Here are the spring-fresh opportunities to better yourself that I found on Craigslist this week:
Get this: you can now sell pot. From home. And make $$$. "...our weekly training calls that will teach you how to market in person, over the phone, using the internet and more, as well as how to understand the compensation plan (getting PAID!!)" Don't miss out on this one!
Help out with a social experiment. Or an art project. Or whatever. Remember that video of strangers kissing that's been all over the internet? Somebody wants to recreate that in Louisville. And you, my friend, could be one of the strangers!
Who doesn't need a little dose of inspiration when they wake up in the morning? Get some uplifting magnetic poetry for free. Put it on your fridge to look at every morning when you reach for the orange juice. Or King Cobra. Nobody's judging here. A little sampling:
How about putting your "positive energy" out there? A man seeks "Just intellectual stimulation and genuine humanity. Just good positive energy and being able to build off of that." Come on, help this guy out! Apparently, he's "stuck in a generation where loyalty is just a tattoo, love is just a quote and lying is the new truth."
After that downer, how about we end on a relentlessly positive note? "Grab your life by the reigns"!!! "WE are growing at an alarming rate!" "Sales are at an all time high! GET IN. . .GET TRAINED AND GET READY FOR THE RIDE OF A LIFETIME!!" Spoiler alert: weight loss products involved.


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Postcolonial Literature and the Nanyang Imagination
Date: December 3, 2012
Time: 2-5:00 PM
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Leading scholars in the field of Chinese literature will discuss a new book manuscript by Brian Bernards, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at USC, entitled Writing the South Seas: Postcolonial Literature and the Nanyang Imagination. Manuscript discussants include Laurie J. Sears, Professor of History and Director of the Southeast Asia Center at the University of Washington, and Lingchei Letty Chen, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Chair of the East Asian Studies Committee at Washington University in St. Louis.
Graduate students and faculty from USC and the community are welcome to attend. Interested attendees must read the manuscript. To secure your spot and request a copy of the manuscript, please rsvp to email@example.com.
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Nanyang, the "South Seas," is the traditional Chinese term for Southeast Asia. Unlike "Southeast Asia," which reflects a Eurocentric continental epistemology, Nanyang is an archipelagic, though Sinocentric, concept. It envisions the tropical southern seascape as connecting rather than separating the peninsular and island landscapes of the region. The term's varied connotations reflect its rich history, including imperial maritime voyages to tributary, "barbarian" kingdoms, massive transoceanic migrations of Chinese populations during the era of Western imperialism and Japanese occupation, and twentieth-century convergences of competing diasporic, settler, and indigenous nationalisms in the region. Writing the South Seas traces the transcolonial legacy of Nanyang as a literary trope in modern Chinese literature and explores its transnational and translingual "afterlives" in the postcolonial literatures of Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. In ways specific to each discursive context, the Nanyang imagination exposes the colonial origins of hegemonic racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic paradigms, critiques dominant diasporic and indigenous nationalisms as well as their definitions of national literatures, retraces histories of migration, settlement, and creolization, and articulates suppressed modes of affiliation with local and regional ecology.
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Shared Services Transformation: Conceptualization and valuation from the perspective of real options
Ning Su, Rama Akkiraju, Nitin Nayak, and Richard Goodwin, Decision Sciences Volume 40 Number 3 August 2009
Shared services have the potential to bring significant value to the firm. The model:
Meanwhile, implementing shared services incurs a number of risks
These risks are exacerbated by today's volatile economic environment and occurrence of unpredicted events. These risks may significantly affect the perceived and realised value of shared services, which eventually lead to limited user satisfaction.
Modelling an HR Shared Services Center: experience of an MNC in the United Kingdom
Fang Lee Cooke, 2006
An increasing number of large and multinational organisations are moving to shared services models in delivering the human resource function. It is commonly believed that the adoption of an HR shared services model can transform the role of HR by enabling the HR function to be more strategic at the corporate level and more cost-effective at the operational level.
Reilly (2000) observes four strategic reasons for setting up HR shared services:
Organisations that opt for shared services often keep a small HR team at the corporate level to focus on high-level strategy, governance, and policy (Reilly, 2000). It is believed that by so doing, companies will be able to maintain best practices, monitor delivery, be more sensitive to customer needs, and generally reposition HR as more strategic and less encumbered by administrative tasks. Therefore, HR shared services focus on administrative tasks, such as relocation services, recruitment administration, training support, and maintenance of personnel data.
The findings of the study suggest that the implementation of the new shared services initiative exhibited a number of operational problems that are typical in change management. They conclude that the financial and emotional cost of moving to a shared services model can outweigh the tangible cost savings predicted by firms. The idea of separating the HR function into strategic, operational, and administrative components may prove to be too simplistic, although it underpins the initiative of HR shared services.
Shared Services in Finance and Accounting
Tom Olavi Bangemann, Gower Publishing, Ltd., 2005
Shared services are described as:
Shared - to be used by several recipients (internal customers, partners, businesses) and Services – focusing on services (internal and administrative, not operational outputs).
Most large companies worldwide today have some kind of shared services concept in place. Over half of medium and large companies are currently engaged in some kind of shared service project activity. Within these large companies the investment in shared services is always calculated in millions. In other words, the costs of getting it right (or getting it wrong) can be huge.
There are a wide range of reasons for introducing such a model - while cost reduction is a major one, there are usually a number of reasons involved and benefits expected. The top 6 reasons companies introduced a (financial) shared services model (from 2003) are to:
Competition is key, "The key to shared services is treating what was once a corporate service like a whole new business. This is achieved by duplicating the environment of an independent service business, including customers, counting costs, and letting in the competition. Just as market competition improves a firm, so it will improve your in-house business"(Quote from JBS).
Essentials of Shared Services
Brian Bergerson, 2003, ISBN: 978-0-471-25079-1
Bergerson's definition of shared services is "a collaborative strategy in which a subset of existing business functions are concentrated into a new, semi-autonomous business unit that has a management structure designed to promote efficiency, value generation, cost savings and improved service for the external customers of the parent corporation, like a business competing in the open market."
Shared services is one of a number of options for dealing with the duplication of activities across an organisation - other, more traditional, approaches include centralising all similar activity within the organisation, or outsourcing all such activity to an external company.
"The shared services model is fundamentally about optimizing people, capital, time and other corporate resources". The main reasons for adopting a shared services model are:
Common disincentives for moving towards shared services are:
In addition, the shared services model has been found to require a certain size of parent company and overall revenue stream involved, to work. For example, "the shared services model is a viable option where the savings from reduction in staffing are greater than the added overhead of creating a management structure to run the shared business unit".
Key to the shared services model is 'competition' – the new business unit must offer the best option for the parent company in terms of pricing and services (as opposed to centralising or outsourcing) – otherwise the parent company should be free not to use it and it will fail.
The shared services model did not originally involve different organisations setting up a new 'semi-autonomous unit' between them to take over some of their processes. It tended to be departments within a large corporation, or businesses with the same parent 'owner' who set up this new unit to take on all relevant services.
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Inside the Human Genome: The Case for Non-Intelligent Design
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 240 pages.
Avise's book highlights the baroque, redundant, and inefficient features of the human genome: "None of this is easily explained by actions of either a loving and merciful God or of an unnamed but highly competent Designer," reviewers Arcady Mushegian and Eric Kessler comment. They add, "Avise's account is concise but rich in historic and medical detail, and the prose is elegant and lucid. The book is a joy to read, and is suitable for anyone who is interested in science and medicine enough to be a casual reader of Scientific American or Discover magazines."
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Bravo, Factory Theater. I can't think of a finer evening of cheap laughs and laughable stunts. The writing is preposterously adept and full of one-off lines that stick to you like so many velcro darts. The actors were punchy and fluid and were costumed in the most outrageous red-carpet thrift store finery. Get to this one before everyone else does. Awesome is AWESOME!
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"This is a tight and entertaining production, and is as close as you're going to get to seeing actual superheroes on Elston Avenue." —Gapers Block
The superheroes of The League of Awesome have done it again. A villain has been vanquished, the city's fears have been quelled, newspapers have their story and all is well. See, they decided to punish this villain by trapping him inside a Hardy Boys book. Yeah, it was a little unconventional. Sure, they know that. But it's not like The SorrowMaker, a horrible evil mastermind who inflicted sadness upon an entire city, is gonna get out of the book. Zoe, Sylvia, Penny, Kitty and Rumble wouldn't let him escape. I mean….come on! What are they gonna do, accidentally create another hero who is clueless enough to join Drake's forces or something? That's ridiculous! They'd have to be drunk to do that! Now let's watch them celebrate their victory over him with mojitos.
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About the Ticket Supplier: Factory TheaterFounded in Chicago, Illinois in 1992, Factory Theater is a theater organization dedicated to the writing, directing, performance and production of original works written by ensemble members that are accessible to inexperienced as well as seasoned theatergoers. Since 1992 the Factory has produced more than 60 productions that have been enjoyed by both critics and audience members.
Factory Theater bridges the gap between critical acclaim and audience accessibility. Most of their shows have received rave reviews and awards by various publications including The Reader, New City, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, and L.A. Weekly, among others.
In 1998, Factory Theater opened a branch company in Los Angeles, California, and many of their ensemble members relocated out west to pursue careers in film, television and screenwriting and to help create a national presence for the company. Factory Theater has also taken trips out to New York on two separate occasions - in 1998 their After-Dark award winning production of The Vinyl Shop was the hit of the Fringe Festival, and in 2001 Factory was invited to the H.E.R.E. space in Soho by PSNBC to perform The Death And Life Of Barb Budonovich, a short version of their production Varations On Death.
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What to wear…
Rule: Any reason to get drunk is always also a reason to get dressed properly (includes New Years Eve).
If any event might even call for evening dress: A classic dinner suit and polished pumps or other formal black shoes…that can be black penny loafers for those who know how to play, but admittedly that's a fairly loose description.
As most sights resulting from 'creative' interpretations of evening wear call for summary executions, it might be more effective to stick to the rules and classics if anyone slipped into dress wear for the first time (the bookshelves and the internet (!) are full of hints and rules for anyone who feels like looking up anything).
Of course, contemporary or even anachronistic elements can be a great thing, but only bearing in mind the universal rule that applies to anything in the galaxy: If it is done well, it is well. If not, not.
The first picture shows an Attolini display that I snapped a while ago during an Attolini trunkshow, though personally I would (and did and do) wear a different type of evening shirt with this rather classic and very formal configuration of a dinner suit (we kindly ignore the pre tied bow tie).
Otherwise it is a beautiful and (in RTW) not that easy to find correct type of evening wear, especially with regards to the waist covering. Obviously, the polished pumps were featured in the opening post where they already (among others) displayed my personal and sometimes anachronistic tastes when it comes to formal wear (though I am used to evening dress that ne doesn't see in random stores since I were quite young and actually Im not that old yet ).


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Lovebirds Garrett Hedlund and Kirsten Dunst walked hand-in-hand to a doctor's appointment today in Beverly Hills after Dunst attended the Met Costume Institute Ball in New York last week (May 7th).
Star Magazine recently reported that Hedlund proposed to Dunst, whom he met on the set of On The Road. "(He) asked her to marry him," an alleged source told the magazine. "She thought he was kidding because there was no engagement ring – but he told her one would be coming soon, and they kissed passionately for about a minute. Everyone applauded!"
"(The report is) so not true," Hedlund's rep told WENN (via Seattlepi.com).
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He also has extensive teaching experience the areas of family medicine, sports medicine and various exercise-related medical conditions. A Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine, Dr. Bew is also a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians.
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James Kenney – Red – The X Factor – Video
James Kenney performed "Red" on The X Factor USA Season 3 Live Shows #1. Watch the video here:
Something about his head bothers me. LOL. Let me go finds one chill. But I really like the soul in his voice as well! Simon says Kelly will have a tough decision. PauCharo whispers somethings that are quite a bit inaudible. Kelly doesn't know what she will do!
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Obama set to sign a big tax break for homebuyers
WASHINGTON Missed out on Cash for Clunkers? Congress has another deal for you: Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the government. If you're a first-time homebuyer, get up to $8,000.
As part of the government's efforts to encourage people to spend money to help revive the economy, the House voted 403-12 Thursday to expand a popular tax credit for homebuyers. The bill, which also extends unemployment benefits and expands a tax break for money-losing businesses, now goes to President Barack Obama, who plans to sign it Friday.
First-time homebuyers have been getting tax credits of up to $8,000 since January as part of the economic stimulus package. But with that housing program scheduled to expire at the end of November, the House voted to extend it into the spring – and to expand it to many people who already own homes.
Buyers who have owned their current homes at least five years would be eligible, subject to income limits, for tax credits of up to $6,500. First-time homebuyers – or people who haven't owned homes in the previous three years – could get up to $8,000. To qualify, buyers have to sign purchase agreements before May 1 and close before July 1.
"It's huge. I think it's going to have a big impact," said Patti Ketcham, who owns a real estate firm in Tallahassee, Fla. "I hope I'm right. Golly, I hope I'm right."
Like housing markets across the country, Tallahassee's has been depressed since even before the nation's economy plunged into recession. There was no huge boom and bust like there was in many coastal areas, Ketcham said, "but ask anybody trying to sell a house and they'll tell you it's been no fun."
The credit is available for the purchase of principal homes costing $800,000 or less, meaning vacation homes are ineligible. The credit would be phased out for individuals with annual incomes above $125,000 and for joint filers with incomes above $225,000.
Real estate agents say the first-time homebuyers' tax credit that's already in effect has boosted sales, much in the same way the Cash for Clunkers program increased auto sales last summer by paying car buyers as much as $4,500 for exchanging their old gas guzzlers for new, more fuel efficient models.
The agents hope the expanded housing credit will help stabilize housing markets during typically slow sales months in the winter. Today, many would-be buyers are still worried that home values could drop further, said Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors.
"Once the consumer fear factor disappears, then housing can move into a sustainable recovery," Yun said. "I think we will be there by the middle of next year."
Yun said the tax credit has helped to increase demand and reduce inventory, enabling sellers to get higher prices than they would have otherwise.
About 1.4 million first-time homebuyers had qualified for the credit through August. The Realtors estimate that 350,000 of those buyers would not have purchased their homes without the credit.
The real estate industry, including Realtors, home builders and mortgage bankers, have lobbied hard for the expanded tax credit. Lawmakers said the program will not be extended again.
Critics say the tax credit is poorly targeted because the vast majority of people receiving it would have bought homes anyway.
"Essentially we're giving money to people for doing nothing different," said Ted Gayer, co-director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
But Susan Marvin, president of Marvin Windows and Doors in Warroad, Minn., near the Canadian border, said the economic benefits can be broad. She said, "If people are buying a home, they are far more likely to replace products or upgrade products."


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It's been five years since Juan Antonio Bayona broke out with psych-horror "The Orphanage," but the Spanish helmer returns this year with "The Impossible," a drama centering around the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts. Shot in late 2010, the film has taken a while to reach its October 26th release later this year, but it's one we're greatly looking forward to. Below are two new posters from the pic, each featuring one of our two leads. [Fotogramas]
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September 30, 2013 07:30 AM by Lisa Princ
Khloe Kardashian has been holding her head high and trying her best to remain strong despite her crumbling marriage to Lamar Odom. And while the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star reportedly spent her anniversary alone, we can't help but wonder how much longer she will hold out waiting for Lamar to come to his senses.
There have been so many rumors surrounding Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom lately, that we can't even begin to figure out what is true and what is not. Some reports claimed that Khloe was giving Lamar until their wedding anniversary to seek help for his drug addiction, or she would file for divorce. However, pals of Kardashian claim that she really does want to save her marriage.
One insider told People Magazine recently that Khloe is: "Taking everything one day at a time and concentrating on herself. Everything with Lamar is very unclear," adding that the reality star has not given up on Odom yet.
Whether Khloe Kardashian decides to stick it out or give up, one thing is certain: she never expected this to be her life. "Two years ago she would have thought they'd be happily married with kids. It's been so hard to carry this secret and try to save not only Lamar but their marriage," the source went on to explain.
We know that marriage vows are "for better or for worse," but how much is Khloe is supposed to deal with? We can't help but feel sorry for Kardashians star.
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6 Responses to "Khloe Kardashian Still Hopeful Lamar Odom Will Come To His Senses"
mm811 Says:
September 30th, 2013 at 7:57 am
Its one thing to deal with drug addiction. But Lamar cheated on Khloe with up to five different women. The trust is broken…
Goldie Says:
September 30th, 2013 at 9:56 pm
Her child bearing years will be over by the time he comes to his senses. He's an adulterer, multiple times with different women. You can never trust him again. Move on and don't delay the healing process any longer.
tsktsk Says:
October 13th, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Heroin?… hmmm. Good luck with that!
I personally would not want to be with
someone capable of being a felon druggie.
You have to have some standards!..
Michel Says:
October 18th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Well, if Lamar comes to his senses well, they will be divorced soon.
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November 25th, 2013 at 6:19 pm
So, a Kardashicunt has trouble with one of their fugly-faced boytoys and the public is supposed to care?
Khloe, along with an incredibly high number of average girls caked with makeup to look marginally attractive, suffer from D.B.S. (Dumb Bitch Syndrome)
D.B.S. is a highly contagious mental illness which starts at childhood and affects more females than males.
The male version is known as B.N.S. (Bitch Nigga Syndrome).
For females, D.B.S. removes all potential for any young girl to develop into a confident, strong and beautiful woman. What develops instead is a self-hating sub-par feminine mess, who attracts immature and manipulative low-class men who's intentions are always bad. Men who are only "men" in the post-puberty sense of the word, and act more juvenile than adult.
I don't understand why anyone would waste their time giving these no talent people the time of day. You morons tune in to watch a clan of spoiled bitches who's opportunistic mother did a HORRIBLE job at teaching them good morals, all because your lives are so mediocre that you need just about anything to tune out of yourselves.
Nobody with a goal-oriented persona wastes their time watching reality shows.
Why are unattractive crackheads getting any woman in Hollywood???
Is a big dick really that important?
Lamar Ugly Ass Oduh will most likely overdose. With any luck left in the world the media can free up some airtime for real news.
Fortunately, someone of a much higher rank in the human hierarchy has taken the time to comment.
Hopefully some of you will take away something positive from this comment and perhaps do more with yourselves like read a book or pursue an education.
However, if you choose to dismiss all of what I have typed, and continue to make the conscious decision to watch the same reality shows which spawned as a result of the assholes at MTV, who insisted on creating the televised abomination known as The Real World, then I have the following message for you…
You're all a bunch of pathetic idiots who deserve to live minimum wage lives. The Kardashians are not the real problem…
…and for those of you who have yet to bare children…
colleen Says:
November 29th, 2013 at 12:30 pm
To the person who posted on Nov 17 talking about anyone that gives this family( Kardashians) any portion of their attention are pathetic, undeserving people………You must not think much of yourself either…….You devoted several paragraphs as well as multiple sentences to their cause you are not a solution dear you are just another issue:( if u want to preach well then you must practice:) shame on you:)


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Stuarts Draft Man Indicted for Parkway Shootings
Ralph Leon Jackson Faces Charges Related to April 5 Shootings at Rock Point Overlook
|U.S. Attorney's Office November 10, 2010
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—A Stuarts Draft, Virginia man has been charged by a federal grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville on charges related to two shootings that occurred at the Rock Point Overlook of the Blue Ridge Parkway on April 5, 2010.
The grand jury has charged Ralph Leon Jackson, 57, in a superseding indictment, with one count of the premeditated murder of Timothy Phillip Davis by shooting him with a firearm, and one count of using and discharging a firearm, a Harrington & Richardson 20 gauge shotgun, in relation to the murder of Mr. Davis.
Jackson was indicted in September 2010, and charged with one count of assaulting Christina Shay Floyd with the intent to commit murder, one count of assaulting Christina Floyd with a dangerous weapon with the intent to do bodily harm, and one count of using and discharging a firearm, a Harrington & Richardson 20 gauge shotgun, in relation to a crime of violence. All of the alleged incidents took place at the Rock Point Overlook on April 5, 2010.
If convicted on the new charges, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of death for both the murder charge and the use of a firearm in relation to a murder charge.
The investigation of this case was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Augusta County Sheriff's Office, the Augusta County Commonwealth Attorney's Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Parks Service. Assistant United States Attorneys Anthony Giorno and Ronald Huber will prosecute the case for the United States.
A grand jury indictment is only a charge and not evidence of guilt. The defendant is entitled to a fair trial with the burden on the government to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.


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Shares of Airbus' parent company, the
UBS analyst Colin Crook said the delay undermines the credibility of EADS management.
EADS announced that, due to "production ramp-up issues," it was delaying the Airbus A380 delivery by six to seven months. The 550-seat double-decker is the world's largest passenger airplane.
Management estimated that the A380 delay means annual shortfalls of earnings before interest and tax of about 500 million euros from 2007 to 2010, due to delayed profit recognition and late-delivery charges that are yet to be negotiated with customers.
Crook said that, as a result of EADS' deterioration in working capital, cash flow is expected to be negatively impacted by 300 million euros in 2006, rising to 1 billion euros in 2008.
As the A380 inventory builds, he said, cash prepayments will come in at a slow rate because of the rescheduling of deliveries.
EADS has had to fight off investor speculation in recent months after British defense contractor
That, along with EADS' assurances during the first-quarter conference call that any slowdown in A380 build rates would have little impact on earnings, leaves many questioning management's credibility, said Crook.
The A380 announcement comes at a difficult time for Airbus, which is struggling to develop the A350, Airbus' answer to
For now, Crook has maintained a "buy" rating and price target of 40 euros on EADS.


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Christmas with the Kranks [DVD videorecording]
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2005]
Actors, directors, writers, etc.
Allen, Tim, 1953-
Curtis, Jamie Lee, 1958-
Aykroyd, Dan.
Marin, Cheech.
Grisham, John. Skipping Christmas.
When only child, Blair, leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether. Their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever.
Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey, M. Emmet Walsh, Kevin Chamberlin, Elizabeth Franz, René Lavan, Austin Pendleton, Caroline Rhea, Patrick Breen, Felicity Huffman, Arden Myrin, Julie Gonzalo.
Christmas plays.
Christmas decorations -- Drama.
Comedy -- Feature.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
DVD-Video discs.
MPAA rating: PG; for brief language and suggestive content.
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Director of photography, Don Burgess ; editor, Nick Moore ; music, John Debney ; costume designer, Susie DeSanto ; production designer, Garreth Stover ; visual effects supervisor, Sheena Duggall.


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The number of adult great whites swimming off our Pacific Coast is alarmingly low, and they are losing their pups to deadly gillnets. If something doesn't change, they could disappear forever.
We shouldn't be scared of sharks, we should be scared for them.
Great whites help keep the ocean food web healthy and stable as they hunt their prey. Our oceans need sharks. We're petitioning the state of California to protect great whites as an endangered species. Please help us protect these iconic sharks — before it's too late.
To: California Fish and Game Commission, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
We urge you to protect great white sharks by listing the California population on the California Endangered Species List.
The Pacific coast of California, Baja California and Mexico are home to a unique population of great white sharks that are genetically distinct and geographically isolated from all other populations of great white sharks around the world. With estimates of only a few hundred adult and sub-adult individual great white sharks at their primary aggregation sites, the continued existence of great white sharks off California's coast is at serious risk.
The National Marine Fisheries Service made the wrong decision in not listing great white sharks under the federal Endangered Species Act. California has the opportunity to do the right thing. The State of California has a track record of taking proactive conservation decisions, often leading the rest of the nation. We are relying on you to make the right decision by protecting great white sharks under the California Endangered Species Act, especially in light of the fact that the state of California directly manages the set gillnet fishery, which has been identified as the primary known threat to this low population of white sharks.
Not only will an Endangered Species listing be critical in effectively addressing the continued bycatch of great white sharks and other threats through deliberate, reasonable management measures, but it will also provide a gateway for more research and monitoring to better understand and manage this important population of apex predators.
Our ocean needs great white sharks. As top ocean predators, great white sharks play a critical top-down role in structuring the marine ecosystem by regulating prey populations of seals and sea lions. The presence of great white sharks ultimately keeps the ocean food web in balance and increases the species diversity of our California Current ocean ecosystem.
We urge you to protect great white sharks by listing the California population on the state Endangered Species List.


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There is some good food for thought in this piece from WWW.ETMSTRATEGY.COM about how much government is best.
I have dropped the whole article in, but also do visit the source (link in title) and the rest of the site. NIce to read from economics-educated people with enquiring minds!
For me the central point is not just whether we now can emulate 60s policies from there, since clocks object to being wound back. The point I take is:- What drives our current rulers in their allocation of resource? If a Cowperthwaite for today is available, will he get a job? A hearing, even?
Ask youself if a person sounding like this:- "...government is a capital consumer and a poor allocator of private capital, ... without business, there can be no government. Private industry creates wealth, government consumes it. In order to free up the wealth creation capacities of a nation best, .... government must get out the way. ..." would get airtime in South Afrtica today.
Yes we have benign projects like the National Planning Commision under way, but surely those of us who think we know best should just shut up and get out of the economy's way?
Sadly, I don't expect much movement here while so many in government talk of "Job Creation" - a phrase which suggests that a job, which is essentially an obvious outcome of permitted price discovery in an uncleared market of eager hirers and available workers, can be "created" at all, presumably in a whoosh of smoke by an old man in a long beard and white robes!
So perhaps as a start we can discourage the phrase "job creation" wherever we find it!
To achieve 7% growth in South Africa, we should copy Hong Kong
Distance helps, when it's perspective that's needed.
One can envy the objectivity of investors who can look at our markets from a detached stance. Some even refer to their portfolio approach as trying to build a "Jupiter portfolio" i.e. what would an extra-planetary visitor, who could see it all - yet is wise enough to know that he knows nothing (particularly of the immediate future) put into a portfolio.
Having never been to Jupiter, the most detached I was over the break was some downtime in Europe, so here are a few thoughts:-
One must read (or better, re-read) Gibbon's Decline & Fall, and also the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Rome's empire was in peril for much of its first three and most of its last 5 centuries; yet so many expect the current imperialism to collapse at a stroke because of one bad press conference or little crisis. The US empire will last longer than I think, even if less long than George W Bush thinks.
Take Rome slowly. There is just too much to see in a rush. (wrt Venice, the same broad comments can be taken).
In a small (permanent population ~10,000) town in Austria, there were a choice of around six high street banks. Each with a banking hall, and staff (who were helpful and functional in several languages). In SA we have around one bank branch per 10,000 people. In most rural SA dorps of that size, one gets either a Standard OR an FNB OR an ABSA. Might it be that they co-operate (I am sure they would never collude) in rationalising their branch networks?
Thinking this difference through is fascinating. In Austria, the public saves - far more than here, so maybe the thought of losing cutomers with those deposits (cheap funding) makes the banks a bit more outward thinking, and reaching. Also, money is less crassly profiled - e.g. when you buy some ham in a deli, they weigh it and slap on a price sticker (just like here) but always seem to hand it to you with the price sticker facing down - as if to say that the price matters less than the ham! We are far keener to flash price and money here. Any lessons?
And we stayed at Gastehaus Schwab! Could that suggest that Klaus Schwab (the uber guru of the World Economic Forum) is scrimping for cash for his Davos jamboree this winter?
Similar age (post Wall) to our new regime, but Berlin really works.
Its public transit system is a joy - numerous examples make one wonder whether our trusty Gautrain project mangers confined their research to Bela-Bela. In Berlin, it is easy, and customer friendly, to buy a ticket. They obviously want people to buy tickets, and so one suspects are less exposed to advantageous patronage guarantess than our lot. The Berlin system appears geared to the movement of people, not to the buying of trains. Changing lines, modes, or directions is easy. And we had hefty luggage - no problem.
When a section of line is down, a substitute (ersatz is the term they use) is set in place to bridge the network gap. Trains, buses, trams etc move SLOWLY,but OFTEN. If our Gautrain can really go at a high max speed, who cares? - it seems the Berlin transport guys paid more heed to passenger volumes moved, not to the gasps as the speedometer touches the odd high!
Its shops show fair value - with high prices and exquisite merchandising at Kaufhaus de Westens (KaDeWe) in the old West Berlin, and easier pricing and better value at Galleria Kaufhof on Alexanderplatz (East). On coming back, while yes we do get a lot of sun and warmth in SA, we don't get a lot in our baskets - and do you know anyone who can still afford a trolley? Oh, and among the various joys of being in Berlin - merchants in shops present the device for your PIN with the amount of the transaction showing. Surely asking you to authorise without the amount showing is too much like asking you to sign a blank cheque?
Berlin's urban design is a delight - the bad architecture is good, and the good is wonderful, and even in the bleak dark days of January there are many treed parks to offset the human intensity. I wish I had been there out of winter - particularly because the Philharmonic Orchestra was on a break.
Some heavy post war stuff is available. At the "Topography of Terror" you should go into the (free) museum to the bizzarre era of the 30s and WW2 on the very site of Gestapo HQ.
And finally, Lufthansa staff at Frankfurt showed more aplomb in dealing with a 550-person A380 delay for 12 hours than most local airport personnel do when having to metabolise a Bafana victory!
Anyway, here's to 2012
So SAB has placed $7bn in bonds to finance the cost of their purchase of Fosters in Australia.
What is the interest rate on these bonds, and what might this all mean? (For generic comment see Vestact's Blog - If only Portugal and Greece were beer companies )
Firstly, the simple weighted average interest rate right now is 3.364%. Yes, SAB Miller has borrowed seven billion US dollars at a 3.364% interest rate - nice to see a borrower who doesn't get on its knees before a banker.
If one adjusts this for the shorter durations of the lower rate bonds, as one should, the better answer would actually be 4.175%, but still, that they have got their acquisitive paws on the first (three year) billion at a paltry 1.85% means buying beer businesses is very easy for them right now. One hopes that it isn't so easy that they are going to buy more than their stakeholders will benefit from!
Now, how do these rates stack up relative to the interest rate base (the so called "yield curve")?
Here is the at a glance summary:-
The black line shows what US government rates are at for the various durations, and the little black dots show where the SAB bond placement amounts lie. So, yes, its a fine placement by the brewer, but note that significant premium which lenders are getting for exposure to a mere brewer, rather than to the US government, lender (or printer) of last resort.
For more on the yield curve, and what is means, please follow this link - http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/yieldcurve.html - its very, very illuminating.
You can see, by clicking the animate function, where various rates have been for the last several years (and you also get to see where the NYSE was at those times - a thousand pictures saving a million words!)
And if you reflect a little, you can get your head around the entire "yield curve" concept. Here is a simpleton's way to tell it:-
Think of the interest rate as a measure of the resistance which money markets have to a business' ambitions.
A good analogy is water depth, as a person tries to walk along a canal. The short rate tells of the water depth where the person is right now, and the yield curve simply joins the "water depths" or interest rates, as the walker looks and then progresses along the canal (representing time). So right now, Washington policy has taken water away from your feet, hoping you will be able to progress, and get the economy going. Further out, however, you are reminded not to be lulled by current near-zero short rates - as you play the animation, note how much stabler long rates are - you always seem to face ~20 years of any 30 year bond at a rate of almost 4%.
Note also how while you might expect low rates to inevitably mean high share prices, the linkages are a lot more complex and interwoven.
Today (17 Jan 2012) sees a new high on the JSE, with the all share index reaching 33490 points.
[As an aside, isn't it weird how the company which runs the JSE seems unable to get out a SENS notice to advise investors in it and/or in its listings of the breakdown in its continuity of execution!]
So with a new high, and much attention thereon, many comments suggest that is a time to sell or exit, that a new high by definition is somehow unsustainable.
Well it takes opinions to make a market, and in my opinion new highs on the investment capital markets are zero cause for alarm. After all, the cost of living seems to find new highs continually, with no surprise to anyone. And the big incumbent companies which make up the lion's share of our stock market are selling into that rapacious cost of living system every day.
And the fundamentals of the JSE are none to shabby - see the attached picture, a slide from my latest fundamentals course for Standard Online (SBG), which tells of the three-year averages for return on equity (ROE) and operating profit margin. At ROE of 29.6% and operating margins of 23.7%, why be afraid to own these companies?
Lets home in on the stereotypes in the so-called PIIGS countries.
Greece? After all, aren't they lazy, dirty and tax dodgers?
Portugal? I mean look how they dive in the penalty area?
Italy? - Berlusconi, slimy and bent though he seems, has been in charge too often for any hope there.
Ireland? - All charm and blarney, they had a lucky property boom with some tax farming to get software revenues channeled through, but still no hope, surely?
Spain? - Sad-eyed lazy knife fighters, who can only glory in their arts legacy and the fact that Leo Messi works there.
Right, now that prejudice has been aired, what might facts bring to the table? It is interesting to reflect that even if Greece's entire economy doesn't exist, the Chinese scale and growth is such that the equivalent of a new Greeece economy gets added by China every four months.
But, back to the title... This table shows the top ten countries by economic decline in the years 2007-2010 measured by the disarmingly clear measure of $ decline in GDP.
And tthe leader by a country mile? BRITAIN!
So despite the joy they are trying to ooze at hosting the Olympic athletics meeting, the Rugby world cup soon, at announcing a new train to get from London to Birmingham faster, the core of Europe's problems really does seem to be larger, English speaking, and getting less profile than it deserves.
For a more comprehensive read on this, please see (the source of the table) Business Insider article:- How long until people raise the alarm about Britain?
Pick and Pay (JSE code PIK) has had a marvellous run over the past few weeks, with its shareprice being up around 17% in three months.
How should we look at that? Is the business today worth 17% MORE than it was three months ago?
Here is the DCF (discounted cash flow) valuation on PIK which I compiled last year, and which reflected that the value (based on Feb 2011 results) was around R47 per share. And that R47 required sustained annual turnover growth of 10%, and margin (at the Profit before Tax level) of 3.5%.
Now of course the valuation is not frozen (i.e. it isn't a horizontal line on a time graph), it can be expected to rise into the future and also fall backwards into the past at a slope of the discount rate. That sloping value trajectory would represent how the valuation rises in time as the growing turnover and profit come through, and all happening in a dull/orderly way at the discount rate.
Here is an illustration of that, with the price (blue) against the imputed historic valuation (red).
So now the pictiure is clearer - and if anything my valuation has been inline with the market in its demanded cash profit growth, since my red "value curve" is generally in the broad trend of the the truth (price). But maybe the recent developments in retail have knocked PIK off its old perch as the prime food retailer on the JSE. Yes, Shoprite has been aggressive here in SA and into Africa, and yes Walmart has taken a stake here, but into another PIK competitor Massmart, not in PIK. So the game is tougher than it once was.
Anyway, with the sharp resurgence in price, is it based on long term expected operating results, or is the market maybe hoping for a dividend bonanza from the long awaited sale of PIK's Australian foray? One hopes its operating driven, since the dividend bonanza would not be repeatable! But if I look at the interims to August, I can't see the signs...after all, turnover growth was only 7.4%, and PBT margin declined! So I suspect PIK has to pull some golden rabbits from the hat for the current year to Feb2012, and we will only know the final results in around April.
My conclusion?
The value has not leapt by 17%. The price may have moved too low, and has partially sought correction, and I am not a buyer at the current price.
I will look after the finals are released. Certainly, clarity after the finalisation of the Australian/Franklins story will make it a clearer call.
While the Occupy movement is giving Wall St and Davos some food for thought, data is ahead of the game as it so often is.
See this panel from one of my current guest lectures.
It uses insight from the Brookings Institute about cities on the up. And be aware, the planet has recently moved into a 50% urban state...
If you are both keen and lazy, here is the live link to the Brookings work:- http://www.brookings.edu/info/globalmm/globalmetromonitormap.aspx
Amazing results from Apple for the fourth quarter of 2011.
Amazing. This company made profits of around R471k in each and every every minute in 2011! (Twas higher per minute in Q4).
And the share price didn't do the old "buy on expectation, sell on the facts" slump, it ROSE 8%.
So lets look at the results - here is a pictorial summary from Dan Frommer's SplatF ( http://www.splatf.com/2012/01/apple-1q12-charts/ ), and there is lots of Apple result commentary like at http://abnormalreturns.com/no-one-knows-nothing-apple-edition/
So, where to now?
Is this the start of a new upcycle for Apple, with the iPhone leading it into sustainable compound growth on a new high level, or has it been a perfect sweetspot, with the Blackberry Blackout and the tragic death of Mr Jobs giving the company a one-off megaboost.
Personally, my concerns that the quarter's numbers are too dependent on one product make me bullish about smartphone and the tablet era, but more so about Samsung and other adopters. I am taking a sober view on Apple.
Murray & Roberts' shareprice responded today to the announcement of access to a further billion in debt and the raising of "circa R2bn" by issuing ">= 30% of the issued shares" by dropping. Easy value-equilibrium arithmetic says the new shares will be issued at R20, a 28% discount to yesterday's price, and a 23% discount to the equilibrium price today. So lets assume that the underwriters are in at R20, and the team will see what they can get the issue away at.
The debt could also a telling indicator, since the company has not revealed the interest rate at which the facility (now up to R4.3 bn) can be accessed. Remember the clarity with which Metorex' cost of debt told the truth?
So what is MUR worth? Its price has had a lively trajectory, suggesting one needs a clear perspective whether wanting to trade or invest.
I have done a cash-centric discounted cash flow (DCF) model, assuming a tax rate of 25%, working capital at 6% of turnover, and fixed asset turnover of 5X. The key variables of sales growth and margin then drive the story. It appears that MUR is worth R60, if you assume 10% sales growth and an 8% margin. Or MUR is worth R26, with 6% sales growth and a harsher 3% margin. (I have also imposed a higher 15% discount rate on the milk & honey projections, versus 12% on the harsh set.)
Here is a chart showing price (blue) against the two value outomes.
So it appears that the JSE price has generally been expecting the best from M&R, and hasn't penalised the team for the overstatement of turnover in 2010 which then had to be re-reported after some clients differed with the company on which work was complete and would be paid for. (see company press release at Murray & Roberts Cleans the Slate )
So what is a realistic margin to expect from this company? A solid place to start is the facts, and here is the history of MUR's operating margins:-
My conclusion? Even with the chance to add to my holding at R20, I am not enough of a serial optimist to believe that MUR's pbt margins can hit and stay at 8%.
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Wilson Kuiken
Mr. Wilson Kuiken, age 86, of Maurice, passed away on Friday, April 25, 2014, at the Orange City Area Health System Hospital. There will be a funeral service on Tuesday, April 29, at 10:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Maurice. The Rev. Donald De Kok and the Rev. Gary Hegstad will officiate. Interment will follow at the Sherman Township Cemetery near Maurice. Visitation will be after 4:00pm on Monday, with the family present from 5:00pm to 8:00pm, at the church. Arrangements are with the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.
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Under The Sea: Stained Glass Octopus Chandelier
This is the stained glass octopus chandelier lovingly crafted by Mason Parker. Mason is selling the piece for $18,000. For reference, that's $18,000 more than my decorative lighting budget will allow. The lamp measure four-feet across at its widest and the tentacles are removable for easy transport and/or pirate themed dinner theater. *swinging plastic cutlass* Yaaaar, the Kraken attacks! "Stop standing in your chair and eat your salad." But moooooooooom.
Keep going for one more shot of the octopus's garden lit up at night.
Thanks to ChaosLex, who loves chaos so much he made a deal with Poseidon to sink California in 2014. BRING IT, I CAN SWIM.


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