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Yep -- Name a Kentucky Derby winner.
Back in the day, we held this horse-naming contest numerous times and many of you seemed to enjoy it. So, with the Kentucky Derby two weeks away, we are doing it again.
Rules are simple and similar to the actual rules for naming a thoroughbred to race: Your name may not contain more than 18 characters, including spaces and punctuation. You may run words together such as "MynameisJerry" but you do not have to do that. You just cannot go beyond 18 total characters.
The names you create do not have to have a sports connection but that probably gives them a better shot at glory here. Either post your entries below this column at orlandosentinel.com or email them to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include a name and town with your entry.
No limit to the number of entries. Also no prize other than the fame of being mentioned in next week's Cheap Seats. Deadline is noon Thursday.
I carried this tradition to ESPN.com when I worked at the Page Two there. My last call for names included these entries: "She'sGotANineIron" (Very topical about three years ago); "TebowChangedMyLife" (exactly 18 characters); "Steroid Stablemate;" "LeBronchitis;" and "Fave-atar."
Last year's real Kentucky Derby winner was "I'll Have Another," a somewhat boring name. Surely you can do better than that?
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Last week I'm watching Jason Day at the Masters when he hits a little flop shot from beneath the green -- and watches the ball land, start rolling backward and settle at his feet for another try. This made me start wondering about the most humiliating moments in sports and this impromptu list:
10 - Bowling: The gutter ball. (If you admit you are lousy, this doesn't count. But if you have your own ball and shoes, you are so busted.)
9 - All sports that require hitting a ball: The whiff.
8 - Golf: Throwing a club in anger and having it land at the feet of a woman 50 feet away, then making the long walk to get it back. (Happened to me.)
7- Running: Falling down.
6 - Fishing: "Thisclose" to landing what surely would have been a record breaker and then watching it swim away.
5 -Basketball: Airball free throw. (We've seen this at the highest level.)
4 - Football: No defender within 20 yards when you drop the winning TD pass.
3 - Slow-pitch softball: Striking out. (Your "manhood" account is empty after this.)
2 - Beach volleyball: Any suit malfunction (male or female).
1 - Golf: Losing control of your golf cart in the rain, crashing into a parked car, totaling the cart and having to fill out an accident report in the rain with an unhappy police officer who wondered where his career was going. (Also happened to me.)

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The poor, poor Orlando Magic.
They can't even get their steroids right.
Hedo Turkoglu, a veteran player who is a shell of his former self and having the worst year of his career, was suspended for 20 games by the NBA on Wednesday for testing positive for an anabolic steroid known as methenolone.
Somebody needs to tell Turkoglu that PED stands for Performance-Enhancing Drug, not Performance-Extracting Drug. If Turkoglu is on the juice, he needs to call the trainer who gave him the stuff and demand his money back.
It's hard not to feel for the Magic and their fans. The news of Turkoglu's positive drug test is yet another blow to a floundering franchise doing everything in its power to move past the Dwightmare on Church Street that haunted the franchise for two years. The Magic and its leadership triumvirate of CEO Alex Martins, general manager Rob Hennigan and coach Jacque Vaughn have been trying diligently to put a positive spin on a season that is circling the drain.
And now, suddenly, the Magic are the Lance Armstrong of the NBA — without the championships. Only eight NBA players in history have ever tested positive for PEDs, and two of them have played in Orlando. The Magic have seen their greatest season tainted by steroids and now one of their worst seasons, too.
Rashard Lewis, the Magic's second-best and highest-priced player, was nailed for PEDs during the 2009 NBA Finals against the Lakers. Lewis was suspended for 10 games at the outset of the following season because of the positive drug test.
Lewis, after testing positive for a testosterone-producing PED known as DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), told me back then he unknowingly ingested the substance after he purchased an over-the-counter nutritional supplement at GNC.
"I take full responsibility for what happened," Lewis said then. "But I'm telling you it was an honest mistake."
Ironically, Turkoglu said essentially the same thing Wednesday when quizzed about the positive drug test. He said that, while back in his native Turkey during the off-season, his trainer gave him a medication to help him recover more quickly from a shoulder injury. "I didn't know that this was a banned substance and didn't check before taking it," Turkoglu said.
Sorry, but I'm not buying Turkoglu's explanation, and neither should you. As sports fans, we've been deceived too many times to give any drug cheat the benefit of the doubt. Seemingly every athlete ever suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs lies, cries and denies before ultimately being forced to come clean (see Armstrong, Mark McGwire, et al.).
A more likely and believable story is that Turkoglu, 34, is an aging athlete who saw his ability drastically decreasing and was desperately looking for a shortcut to prolong his career. I also think Turkoglu is just one of many NBA players on PEDs.
When Vaughn was asked whether the NBA has a PED problem Wednesday, he definitively answered, "No. I can speak as a former player who's been in a lot of locker rooms, and I say no."
I'm speaking as a sportswriter who's written a lot of columns about drug cheats in every sport, and I say yes. Superstars in nearly every athletic endeavor have been nabbed for PEDs; why would the NBA be immune?
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NBA Commissioner David Stern even laughably said once that he didn't think NBA players would benefit much from PEDs. That's right, he actually said with a straight face that performances in his sport — a sport where a premium is placed on running fast and jumping high — wouldn't be enhanced by PEDs.
It's inexcusable for the commissioner of a league where athletes make more money and compete for fewer roster spots than other leagues to think his athletes wouldn't take PEDs in order to earn a guaranteed $110 million contract.
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Thanks Rodolfo, an i saved the best one for last.
Last edited by kikibalt; 04-17-2006 at 05:26 PM.
Frank, great job of reprinting the photos. Looking at the Puddu pic got me thinking of a story Bill O'Neill told me recently. Being a west coast writer and knowing the person throwing the party, he got himself invited to Puddu's title-winning celebration. This was a little like the 'Dewey beats Truman' headline in the wishful thinking department. Anyways, after Rodolfo tempered Puddu's ambitions Bill attended the party anyway. He said it was very comical, the party was now a very solemn occasion because the guest of honor was sitting in a chair with two eyes swollen shut. Hey Rodolfo, did you get an invite to this 'party'?
Hey Dan great story.
Absolutely terrific pics, Mr. B! Champ, you were quite the handsome & suave looking gent in that pic with Connie Stevens!
I was talking to Rick Farris earlier today, an i told him a story about the night that Rodolfo " Gato " Gonzalez won the title from Chango Carmona, later on Rodolfo called me and i told him the same story, been that Rick called him and told him what i had told him, i had gotten 6 comp. tickets from Don Chargin , so i took my wife and my one daughter and my three sons ( Now we have four sons ) to see the fight , we were sitting about 15-18 rows from ringside, well there was a guy with thousand's of dollars, an he was putting all his money on Carmona, so very time he made a bet his money and the money from the guy he was betting was given to my wife to hold, at the end the guy backing Carmona had $100 left and he could't fine any more takers, so i went for it and took his last $100, well you should have seen the rush of guys trying to get their money from my wife after Gato won, she did't know who was who, i got my two hundred dollars from her and told her just give the money to who ever said they won and let's get the hell out of here, which we did, and the guy that lost? well i thought he was going to cry, he probably lost the rent money.
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Estimado Rodolfo:
Thanks for the very welcome phone call last night. It had been so long since we were in touch via the cyberboxingzone message board. It was really good to visit with you and touch bases once more.
I have given you my email address, although I won't be receiving any messages on my own computer as it is not yet hooked up to aol. What you email me will show up on my dear daughter's computers, laptop or desktop and she can access them for me.
Take care and remember you have my best wishes, of course, always.
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Guys, Bill O'Neill sent me on this photo from his collection. We can tell who the real Paddy's are in this photo, but check out the three Latino/Irish. Oh well, on St. Paddy's Day the beer goes down the same with everyone.
Hi Everyone---
It has been many days since I last posted here. Frank and Dan, you have done such a great job in putting all of these old time photos here. That one with Connie Stevens brings back fond memories. She was so beautiful and such a "down to earth person", very humble. I didn't know whether to hug the statue they gave me or to hug her. I played it safe and hugged the statue. The other picture that Bill O'Neill sent to Dan also was a great photo. It was probably taken after the weigh-in on Mar. 17, 1973 at lunch time. That was the biggest card that they had ever had in the State of California with 4 world champions fighting that night. The 4 stars on the card in order of appearance were myself vs Ruben Navarro, Roberto Duran vs Javier Ayala, Danny "LIttle Red" Lopez vs Kenji "Ace" Endo, and Chango Carmona vs Jimmy Heair. Somehow Danny Lopez missed the photo.
We sure did have a good conversation the other night. Also another conversation today. I'm sorry to hear that you broke your leg and hope that you have a speedy recovery. And Congratulaions that you are going to be inducted into the California State Boxers Association Hall of Fame. You are very deserving and should have been there many years ago.
El Gato
you just made me think about something. i have never seen a tape of your fight with navarro but it seems like it should exist since i do have a tape of the danny lopez- ace endo fight. this is the fight in which endo jumped all over danny and outlanded him a hundred to five. only trouble for endo was all five of those punches danny landed scored knockdowns and finaly a knockout.
i wonder why danny's fight is on tape and yours with navarro is not.
Hows the quality of our Lopez vs Endo fight?
oly..not bad. i have a lot of danny's fights. whatcha got in mind amigo?
When you wrote about that gathering of the great Mexican fighters a while back you might remember that I asked you how your cousin, the great, Jose Becerra, was recieved & you mentioned that a lot of the older 50's & 60's fighters did not get a lot of attention, including Becerra.
That shocked me because I lived in Mexico then & Jose was the equivelant of a sports hero in the U.S. like Michael Jordan. He was a national treasure to the Mexican fans & non boxing fans as well.
At the time he was like a rock star & the most recognized athelete by far in Mexico.
What I would like to ask you to do if you would, is the next time you talk to him tell him that there is this middle aged gringo you know that still considers him a personal hero & one of the greatest bantamweights in history.
It really bothers me that he is basically forgotten in Mexico because he was not just a great fighter but one of the key figures in the history of Mexican sports.
Not to mention a good, honorable man & a real role model to hundreds of thousands of Mexican kids & one gringo that will never forget him.
Hello everyone,
I did not read this whole thread but I read the first page about the old webpages that were lost. Has anyone tried using something like the Internet Archive to see if the pages can be retrieved? Here is the website:
Hello MTZ
I just checked out that site, some of the links or dates given did not work for some reason. But here is the good news. For anyone to check out. The date below worked for me. MTZ Thank You So Much. Your The Man.
Type in cyberboxingzone.com
Click on Nov 19, 2003
Then enter the Cyberzone,
Post to our Bulletin Board
Old Timers
and there is the first 45 posts
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Below Champ is the first post you ever did
To "El Gato" Boxing Fans!Wow! I am overwhelmed by the response of so many people who love and understand the sport of boxing. It is an honor to read all the compliments from all of you who followed my boxing career.
First, I want to thank my friend Dan Hanley for his wonderful interview with me. Also my special thanks to the editor, "GorDoom" for taking the time to post my boxing record.
By the way, I would like to mention that over the years my name has been spelled incorrectly many times with an "s". The correct spelling is Rodolfo "Gato" Gonzalez (with a "z" at the end).
Now to get started---
To Jean,
Yes, I was very young when I started my career. Only 14 years old when I had my first 6 round professional fight. My opponent was 27 years old. I was very scared. When the bell rang he came straight at me. I closed my eyes tight and started swinging lefts and rights. Luckily I was hitting him. Moments later I wasn't hitting anything so I opened my eyes. I was shocked to see my opponent lying on the canvas. What a surprise. My first fight and I won it by knock out in the first round.
To Wildhawke and PD,
Thanks for your wonderful compliments.
And to Non A Yer Bizniz,
Regarding my fight against Chango Carmona, it was an easy fight. I could have knocked him out in the 2nd or 3rd round. I wasn't hitting him hard, only having fun. I wanted the boxing fans to get their money's worth so I prolonged the fight.
Hi Flatnose,
About the Jimmy Robertson fight---He had beaten 17 Mexican fighters. The news media said I would be #18, but it didn't turn out that way. I won by unanimous decision in a 10 round main event fight at the Olympic Auditorium. This was not a title elimination bout.
To Rick,
The reason I was less impressive in the mid-60's is because I was still recovering from my near fatal liver illness. However, about my lack of power punch, the 71 opponents I knocked out have a different opinion. And 47 of those I knocked out with a left hook to the liver--one punch. Another fact is that when I fought Claudio Adame, the #2 in the world at the Long Beach Auditorium, I knocked him down in the 7th round with a right upper cut to the chin. I hit him so hard that my red glove explded. It ripped apart about three inches and the insides came out. The referee stopped the bout temporarily until they brought me another glove-but this one was black. I remember the crowd screaming,"hit him with the red", "hit him with the black". You don't see gloves bursting even with the hardest hitters in the world.
For Greg and Robert,
You are right on! Thank you for stating the facts about Duran. His manager never gave me a chance to fight him. It would have been one of Duran's toughest fights. I had studied his style and had him figured out. I felt very confident. We are good friends although we haven't seen each other since 1998.
Again , thank you all for your great responses. I just returned from Miami where I was interviewed on the "Don Francisco Presenta" show on Univision, the Hispanic Television Network. The show will be aired nationally this Wed., Dec. 11. Check your TV guide for the channel and time.
I would like to hear from all my boxing fans and will answer any questions you might have.
Do you remember where you got the Lopez vs Endo fight tape? Whoever taped that fight may have also taped my fight with Navarro or maybe they would know who might have taped it. I would like to have that tape myself.
About Jose Becerra, it is sad that the new generation doesn't recognize the older, great fighters. In Cancun he got such a poor introduction, only a few people applauded him. Part of the problem was that there were so many champions there that nobody got a detailed introduction so the only ones that stood out were the younger fighters who were recognized by the crowd.
Thank you so much for posting the Internet Archives website. We were able to follow Wildhawke's instructions and found most of the first 45 pages, about 833 posts. That's really great.
That was very nice of you to post my first greeting to everybody from the old thread. I actually remember writing it. I was so surprised to hear that Gordoom had started my thread and had posted my fight record with the help of Dan Hanley who had also posted my prior interview he did with me. It really impressed me to have so many boxing fans and friends write.
El Gato
Rodolfo, watching Ricky Hatton last night obviously struggling with Luis Collazo's southpaw style had me wondering how you dealt with southpaws. With no amateur career behind you and at a youthful age, how did you react when the jab came firing in at the opposite angle?
Greg which Danny Lopez fights do you have?
Regarding the southpaws I fought in my career, there were only four that I remember and they were not standing long enough to give me any problems. I believe the one that was standing the longest I dropped in the third round. What I had learned from the very beginning from my cousin, Jose Becerra, was that you always fight a southpaw by moving towards his left and never to pull back after you throw a jab, but always go under. Today you do not see fighters do this.
El Gato
Hi Gato,
I tried to send you an e-mail a few weeks ago, but never got a reply - did you change your e-mail address? If you didn't receive it, I can send it again.
By the way, the shots of Gato are a GREAT addition - keep up the good work!
Your excellent post finally showed up-----but only on my daughter's computer, and several days late! I don't know why this is happening, but I'm happy to have received it anyway.
That entire context should probably be in the hands of the people entrusted with making the selections for the International Hall of Fame in New York. It is absolutely a plus to your credit and when added to your other accomplishments achieved in the past 18 months could weigh heavily in your favor.
Meantime, thanks for sending it to me and keep punching until you score the ultimate kayo.
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It is good to hear from you. I'm sorry your e-mail didn't come through. You probably sent it to sbcglobal which I don't have anymore. The newer one is aol.com (same first part). But I will call you anyway.
I'm glad you finally received the article that Dan Hanley wrote about me, "What Makes a Fighter Hall Worthy". It's nice to know I have your support and good wishes.
Thanks so much for posting the article that Bill O'Neill wrote about "Puddu's Party". I'm sure the readers like to read an inside story that took place in those days.I never knew anything about the party that night. I only knew that Puddu told the press that he was going to name his newborn child "Angel" after he beat me in Los Angeles. Being that he lost the fight I wonder what he named his child.
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El Gato and Gor -- I was thinking about Jose Becerra the other day when one of his fight programs arrived in my mail -- I bought it from another collector. I must say, they made the most beautiful programs for Mr. Becerra's title fights. Here's a great example:
And Gor, if you're ever looking for a Jose Becerra souvenir, although I don't usually purchase from this dealer, the price is right on -- a steal even.
hey peter,
interesting choice for a boxing program you purchased. if you cross reference that date...feb, 4th 1960 on boxrec. you will see that on the day that becerra ko'd halimi....a young kid down in jiquilipan, mexico ko'd one jose garcia in one round...the kids name was rodolfo gonzalez. busy family that day.
That is too cool Greg -- coincidence or what!
naw...i believe it was a concerted effort on the part of the promoters in jiquilipan to put the LA colliseum out of business.
funny thing is, it seems everytime i go to one of benny georginos casino fights at the luck eagle it is on the nite of a big fight. the first time i went was on the nite of pacman-marquez.
june 10th i am going there to watch our man, chauncy. of course that is the nite of b-hop-tarver....but it doesn't stop benny. he is up to something like 50 cosecutive sellouts now. me and the bucket could sellout there in the main. i would train hard to make the contracted 3 ten second rounds (no weigh in)...a war of attrition.....
anyway...i would rather watch chauncy.
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Here's a recent example:
This past Saturday, I was out surveying the damage the recent cold wave reaped upon our bamboo. After cutting back the worst-hit canes, an idea was born. Make a hut. I constructed a simple frame from the bamboo, placed it in our front yard, and let the kids 'run with it.' Quite simply, I cut the bamboo (canes roughly 1"-3" in diameter) into four foot lengths, used some dollar store cut-length twist ties, and just like that, a frame was born.
My tying activity was observed from our dining room table as the kids ate lunch, and of course, the curiosity factor was 'killing them.' This was unlike my usual yard work, and they could tell. Evidently, a wonderful dialog, with a question-and-answer session for Mommy, ensued inside – premise: 'what is Daddy making?'
When lunch was over, I could hear the cries of 'What is that?,' from a distance and with our front door barely shut. I heard some running, and then, two young faces stood at the edge of the driveway, and asked that very question…my response: 'I'm making your hut. You two can now work together to put on the sides, you can use the pavers, if you like, for the 'floor,' and go from there.' The comedic value of them running all over the yard, thinking, looking for cladding material was hilarious, so I simply said, 'maybe you can start with Palm Fronds…' 'Ooh, good idea, Dad…' And off they went again, collecting, piling, and readying the materials for the 'fort.' I built a rough pyramid frame, so stacking, vertically, was easy to achieve with Sabal palm fronds. The recent winds knocked most of the brown fronds from their perches above to the ground, within easy reach for them. From dead or dying plant material (enter sustainability (exception to the twist ties) and low cost!), to a play house! They spent the rest of the day, incorporating pine cones, rubber play mats, for an 'entry walk' and 'patio,' and finished on Sunday, by incorporating some gravel and 'jewels' which were left over from a bygone fish tank…Good times were had by all, as my wife and our two-year old, set up chairs on the driveway, and either watched or joined the initial 'Design Team.' It was great to see sibling rivalry turn into an impromptu Design competition, where no one person, truly triumphed. Even better they coordinated their efforts and worked together.
More examples:
Indoors: enter the Lego, one of the most, single brilliant inventions of the decade. The pre-boxed designs are built, typically 'destroyed,' after they are enjoyed, and are amassed in two drawers dedicated to Legos. ALL of us create our own Design, from ships, to jets, to houses…these are, in turn, taken apart, to build something new, in another exciting 'Lego session.' If they need a 'Design Seed,' similar to the hut frame, I generally ask about the idea they have, and begin by assembling about a half dozen pieces, just to them going on their Project…of course, within an hour, the various designs are paraded out, for our enjoyment, and rationale begin their, individual creation.
Indoors and Out.
Boxes. We recently have a 'dishwasher disaster,' and so the oversized box, saved. This, in my mind, represents the 'classic fort,' premade and ready for 'installation' of windows, doors, and escape hatches, with the aid of a utility knife.
Plastic containers. Marketing, these days involve the 'containerization' of almost everything we buy; thus, ice cream, lunchmeat, and margarine containers, and are cleaned and see reuse as sand buckets, jewel boxes, and collection buckets (leaves, pine needles and cones, flowers, insects, lizards, and other natural wonders are temporarily 'collected' during outside adventures…)
Bedding. Our old bed sheets become everything from frost covers to picnic 'flooring' to another simple design idiom, the roof – with rope or duct tape, the sheet is spanned from tree to tree, with enough length on one side to become a 'wall.' Again, from there, the children 'design' their idea use of the new space.
If you have more examples, I would love to see them in the 'Comments' area below – parents are always open to innovative suggestions, so please share your thoughts! So that was our weekend, and I hope yours was filled with the joy that only young minds and youthful energy can inject. Laughter, Exercise, and Escape. It represented a getaway, of sorts, for my family, from the monotony of the economy, and perhaps more importantly, from the monotony of our yard!
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The PEM fellowship research curriculum at CNMC is a novel approach to fellow research training. It is based on an NIH model of clinical researcher development that has been shown to be successful in multiple fields of medicine. We have adapted it to your (fellow) level of expected research expertise and further individualize it as you refine your career goals. Though there may be a de-emphasis on research as a part of PEM fellowships nationally, we feel strongly that this is an important part of your training, regardless of whether you choose an academic career. Clearly a fellow with aspirations for NIH funding will be trained differently than one with aspirations for a purely clinical career. That said, at minimum fellowship graduates from this program will be competent at understanding published research and conducting their own research, if they ever decide to do so. The scholarly rigor and attention to logistical detail required to complete a research project will provide valuable training that will carry over into other areas of professional development.
Importantly, this curriculum is an interactive model of training which means that your input and participation are a must for its success and your success. In reality only two things are required of you: active participation in all outlined activities and active support of your peers' efforts.
Recent fellow projects include:
Orthopedics Follow-up after ED Visits
Analysis and Outcomes of Abnormal ECGs in the ED
Identifying Predictors of Surgical Outcomes in Children with Abdominal Pain
Simulation as a Model for Medical Debriefing
Sex Steroids and Asthma
Non-urgent Visits to a Pediatric Emergency Department: A Geospatial Analysis
An Educational Video Improves Technique in Performance of Pediatric Lumbar Punctures
Faculty have a wide variety of areas of interest. Some are as follows:
James Chamberlain: Quality/Performance Assessment and Improvement
Kathleen Brown: Prehospital Medicine Stephen Teach: Asthma Management
Dewesh Agrawal: Education, Sedation
Shireen Atabaki: Traumatic Brain Injury
Joanna Cohen: Ultrasound
Robert Freishtat: Asthma, Sepsis
Karen O'Connell: Trauma Management, Gastroenteritis
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It's been a couple of years since we have had the pleasure of the Metal company that is Germany's Destruction in New York City but tonight with a brand new album under their belt, Schmier and company would return and play a gig at the Highline Ballroom. The mood was intense and the atmosphere a crazy one. Click the logo below to see the full on concert report and some photos on the main PiercingMetal.com website.
There is no real "marquee" for the shows that hit the Highline and while that displeases me in terms of something else to photograph, there was a cool tour poster that I have included below for your visual indulgence.
In my narrative I mentioned how the crowd was something impressive this evening in terms of movement and overall response to the band. Here are a couple of shots of them during the all too brief lulls in the insanity.
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Hi all - I searched through countless posts looking for an answer to my problems but couldnt find one that was related to this specifically. Im competent with computers but a n00b by most of this site's standards...so
im installing osx86 on a dell latitude d820 using iDeneb v 1.4 (10.5.6). here's the specs
Chipet: Intel 945GM (Intel), 945PM (NVIDIA)
Processor: Intel Core Duo (533 MHz FSB), Core 2 Duo (667 MHz FSB)
Mem Architecture: 1.8 V DDR2 SDRAM
Mem Module Socket: two user-accessible DDR2 SDRAM sockets
Max Mem: 4096 MB*
Mem CLock Speed: 667 MHz
Vid Type: Intel UMA integrated (945GM), NVIDIA discrete (945PM)
Vid COntroller: Intel GMA 950 (Intel), NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 (NVIDIA)
Vid. Memory: 8-224 MB (Intel), 256 MB (NVIDIA)
Audio Controller: Sigmatel 9200
Netowrk Card: Wired: Broadcom 57xx Gigabit Integrated Controller
Wireless: Intel 3945 802.11 a/b/g, Dell 1490 802.11 a/b/g
Display Type: WXGA WSXGA+ WUXGA+
Max Resolutions: 1280x800, 1680x1050, 1920x1200
when customizing the install I've accounted for the chipset and mem speed, audio & network, & the Intel Vid contoller. The NVidia Quadro option is not avail and I have been previously instructed to select NDarwin. The 256 memory option is also accounted for.
Darwin boots normally but right before launching osx I get the following messages:
starting hibernate
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hibernate failed
after I get the grey apple loading screen, followed by a flicker of the light blue screen, then black screen. as some others have mentioned the black appears to still be "on" or lit but unusable. on another blog a guy suggested unplugging & closing the laptop and waiting about 20 mins. i tried this and when i reopened i had the first osx registration screen but it was covered by the dk grey box saying "you must restart your computer" in 20 different languages. ive reinstalled and restarted countless times.
anyone have ideas of what's (or what Im doing) wrong and how to fix? Any adivce is much appreicated.


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The alleged theft of a church bus in Elkhart last week by an employee of a local auto sales company has prompted police to "broaden their investigation" into whether more such thefts are occurring in the area.
John Kline, 53, of Elkhart, who works for Michiana Auto Sales on West Jefferson Boulevard in Mishawaka, allegedly towed the bus without the owner's permission and took it to a scrap yard to be recycled.
Kline was arrested on Thursday and charged Saturday with receiving stolen property, a class D felony, and forgery, a class C felony. He bonded out of jail on Saturday.
Kline is accused of stealing the church bus on Feb. 27 or 28 from Open Gate Praise and Deliverance Ministries at 137 Division St. and taking it to Indiana Auto Parts in South Bend, South Bend Det. Sgt. Ian McQueen said.
"We don't think this is a unique occurrence, especially in these times," McQueen said of the theft. "We expect to step up the frequency of routine calls to the scrap yards."
Police have recovered numerous stolen vehicles from Indiana Auto Parts in the past, according to documents. A call to an official at Indiana Auto Parts was not returned this week.
Kline, meanwhile, will have an initial court hearing on March 26.
According to charging documents, an Indiana Auto Sales employee told police that Michiana Auto Sales had forged paperwork for eight other vehicles brought in on Feb. 29.
After an investigation, police went to the scrap yard at 3300 S. Main St. on Thursday and recognized the stolen maroon colored bus with lettering on the side. The bus was reportedly next to the crusher, and one of the employees was in the process of removing the wheels. The catalytic converter also was missing as well as the battery.
Police said they also found an altered and forged certificate of vehicle registration, as well as a doctored bill of sale and copy of an Indiana ID at the scrap yard pertaining to the bus. The scrap yard did not have the title for the bus, McQueen said.
During the investigation later that day on Thursday, police discovered who brought the vehicle in and were able to stop Kline at Michigan and Broadway streets in South Bend while he was in the process of towing another vehicle.
Police said they were able to talk to a witness who saw Kline taking the bus from the church lot in Elkhart.
Kline admitted to police that he towed the bus from Elkhart and took it to Indiana Auto Parts, but said he purchased the vehicle from a man he believed was the owner, according to charging documents.
Chris Kline, John Kline's son and manager of Michiana Auto Sales, said Tuesday his father did not steal the bus. Chris Kline said he purchased it from a man who walked out of the church and presented himself as the owner.
"They know the van was bought," Chris Kline said of police. "The guy came out of the building and had paperwork."
Regarding not having a title for the bus, Chris Kline said that is common, adding only about 50 percent of people have titles immediately available during the transaction of a vehicle sale.
Vernard Malone, pastor at Open Gate Praise and Deliverance Ministries, told The Tribune Tuesday he did not talk to anybody about selling the 15-passenger church bus and had the title for the vehicle.
"I was shocked, totally shocked," he said. After identifying the bus at Indiana Auto Sales, Malone said he sold it to them because it had extensive damage and he didn't want to deal with the hassle of getting it back to Elkhart. The church had recently bought a new church bus.
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Effective leadership
As leaders, we understand that our actions, whether good, bad, positive or negative, are being continually examined. Our job as leaders is to create a vision, develop and execute strategic plans, define goals, and set objectives aimed at creating excellence through products and services that address the needs of the customers and markets we serve.
Accomplishing these tasks cannot be done in a vacuum; a team of highly skilled and dedicated leaders is needed to accomplish these goals. CEOs and business owners are constantly challenged to seek out the talent needed to build an effective leadership team. Though difficult, it is paramount to find talent that has a keen understanding of your organization's market, vision, mission and objectives.
Building a team of talented leaders that share similar capabilities, traits, ambitions, and that are qualified to lead an organization is one thing, but getting this group to function together to lead a business effectively and efficiently requires special attention.
It is vital to have a leadership team that consists not only of highly skilled, functional leaders but also those who possess the ability to understand the broader picture. Members of this team must be willing to contribute, provide productive opinions and work as a team to reach consensus, and then collectively execute these decisions throughout the organization.
Leading strong leaders requires managing egos, resolving conflicts, balancing power and integrating opinions in a way that ultimately fosters a team that is aligned with your organization's vision, goals and objectives.
Reflect for a minute on the qualities that have brought you to your leadership position. You are a visionary and you're high on confidence. You likely have charisma and years of experience. You have a wealth of important contacts and you are a person that most would consider to be "plugged in."
Now assume that those in your organization, technically your subordinates, share many of those same qualities that you possess. The possibility and likelihood of friction in these relationships is high if you don't manage these relationships carefully.
Below are some action steps to take to enhance your leadership within your organization.
1. Set the expectation that leaders actually lead, be accountable, take risks and don't wait for direction. If those around you are not willing to do the same, then maybe it's time to make a change.
2. Spend quality time with leaders individually to understand their views on their role and their vision of how their functional area contributes to the mission of the organization. Are they thinking big, stretching their direct reports and delivering the results you expect?
3. Challenge the team and individuals to stretch their thinking and share their "big ideas." Be clear and concise. Put things into context so they understand the meaning and possible outcomes of decisions.
4. Set clear expectations of leaders and the leadership team. Expect individuals to know the overall business and be able to separate themselves from their functional role and contribute to the enterprise by tackling complex issues.
5. Mandate open and frank dialogue between leaders while reiterating that these discussions remain confidential.
6. Expand their role by asking them to contribute by taking lead roles on enterprisewide matters.
7. Allow leaders to lead so they own their actions and decisions. It is your responsibility to identify and select high-quality talent with the knowledge and experience needed in order to contribute to the organization.
These steps are the beginning to a harmonious relationship with your top team members. Remember, the goal is the respect that you earn along the journey, not friendships or three people to round out a great foursome on the links. Your energy, vision, determination and drive are the active ingredients in leading by example. ?
Tony Arnold is founder and principal of Upfront Management, a St. Louis-based management and executive consulting firm. He can be reached at (314) 825-9525 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Focus on the critical few
As businesspeople and business leaders, we have full plates. Whether it's balancing work, home, community, social obligations, aggressive business targets, strategic initiatives to sponsor/support/implement, unwelcome external influences, or customers expecting more for less, prioritizing all of that can be a daunting challenge.
Prioritize and focus are the business vernacular terms we always hear. We smile grimly, mutter "uh huh," and return to our overwhelming pressure cooker without changing a thing about what we do or how we are approaching our work.
But those words really are the key to managing our crazy world of over-commitment and under-capacity — when combined with two more words: critical few. Prioritizing and focusing on the critical few results, products and people who truly matter more than others is job No. 1 for executives.
How to look at it
The facts: You have a critical few customers, without whom your business would dramatically suffer. Ensure that your organization serves those customers disproportionately well. That does not mean ignore the others; ideally, all customers would be served flawlessly.
You have a critical few products/offerings that make up the 80 percent in the 80/20 of your business. Ensure you get them flawlessly right. Your brand is set by those core products or services. If you get it wrong there, the rest may not matter.
You have a critical few employees/direct reports who play a disproportionately impactful role in the success of your business. Your time should reflect that understanding. It doesn't mean ignore everyone else; it simply means that you cannot leave to chance that your key people are sufficiently directed, motivated, feeling challenged by their work and appreciated.
They are people you can build the rest of the organization around. You've got to get it right with these folks above all others and then rely on their help to reinforce and motivate the rest of the organization.
Optimize and organize
So clearly, identifying your critical few customers, products and people is job No. 1 for results. How do you optimize your short list of the critical few? Simply answer these three questions:
? What are the critical business results you need to deliver?
? Who are the key performers who will deliver those results?
? What are the critical few behaviors that your key performers must do?
That reads like common sense, and it is. But achieving it isn't so simple.
Don't forget reliability
You know your critical results and key performers right now, but what about those all-important critical few behaviors that people must do to make it work? If people don't do the right things, you won't get results.
Many initiatives are designed to get those critical few behaviors to occur — behaviors that we think should automatically happen, but they don't. How do we get people to do the right things reliably?
It's not about making people happier at work. Many happy workplaces go belly-up. It's easy to be distracted by things that create fun and do little to improve performance.
It comes down to (1) pinpointing those actions, which if performed reliably, will move the needle for your organization and (2) ensuring there are reinforcing consequences for those critical few behaviors and corrective consequences for behaviors inconsistent with what you need. That alignment is necessary, and it is often overlooked.
So in a nutshell: Ensure focus on the critical few results, people and behaviors. Don't allow yourself or your organization to be distracted. Without the critical few happening well, you will spend many more hours fixing things than growing your business. ?
Emotions are contagious
Long work hours, heightened competition, demands for efficiency, and new laws and regulations are all challenges faced by executive leaders today. It often feels like we're running up the down escalator — constantly in motion, exerting excessive energy with our adrenaline pumping just to get through a normal day.
After awhile, the demands take their toll. In addition to serious potential health consequences — including heart disease, the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. — stress has behavioral side effects, making us anxious or depressed.
The result of that chronic stress can severely compromise our ability to lead. It affects not only each of us personally but also the teams we lead and the organizations we run. When we acknowledge the power we have over our people and businesses, this subject takes on real urgency.
Check your emotions
Emotions are contagious, so as leaders we need to be vigilant about the emotions we're passing on to those around us. Are you carrying fear and stress to those around you?
Imagine different scenarios: a boss who responds to stress and fear by acting aggressively toward employees and becoming overcontrolling, a leader who appears calm but buries his head in the sand, or a leader who remains calm and responsive.
The first two will create fearful, stressed out or frustrated employees whose performance is stunted or paralyzed, while the latter creates an atmosphere of trust and confidence, where people are encouraged to act. Where would you rather work?
We can start by paying attention to the emotions we're passing on to others and honestly assessing whether we're contributing to their productivity or inhibiting it. If it's the latter, we have to find ways to defuse our stress — through exercise, relaxation or levity — and avoid taking it out on those around us.
Be honest
The ability to speak openly and honestly is a critical leadership behavior. If a team member isn't performing up to par, avoiding a conversation only increases ineffectiveness and raises anxiety.
When we find the courage to have honest conversations, we create a climate of transparency and openness — necessary elements of healthy and productive workplaces.
At the same time, we relieve stress and anxiety by being proactive and confronting tough situations head on.
Stay connected
Being connected through devices means we're always available.
But are we? Being available to everyone all the time can leave us unavailable at any one time. It's hard to focus on the conversation you're in when you're constantly ready to respond to the outside world.
We can enhance our leadership by demonstrating that we're present and connected in the moment, in face-to-face conversations. Those human interactions make us better leaders and reduce stress.
Be open to learning
A hallmark of effective leadership is openness to learning. Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock," said, "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."
As leaders, we're besieged by information, and the contexts in which we work are changing daily. That's why it's more important than ever to be not only willing to learn but eager to learn as well.
Emotions are like an on-off switch to learning. If you're resistant and fearful, you're in "off" mode, and it will be nearly impossible to learn. If you face new situations as opportunities for growth with an attitude of willingness and curiosity, you get turned "on."
Our leadership ability is directly correlated to our openness to learning. Once you're "on," learning isn't a source of stress and anxiety but is a source of energy and creativity. ?
Donna Rae Smith is a guest blogger and columnist for Smart Business. She is the founder and CEO of Bright Side Inc., a transformational change catalyst company that has partnered with more than 250 of the world's most influential companies. For more information, visit www.bright-side.com or contact Donna Rae Smith at email@example.com.
Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?
Steve Jobs was credited with inspiring Apple's trademark advertising campaign challenging each of us to "think differently." But how does one go about thinking differently? Since founding the Alliance of Chief Executives in 1996, I have passionately studied and experimented with how CEOs can generate breakthrough ideas — which are the most visible examples of thinking differently.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Marty Neumeier who in 2003 launched a think tank called Neutron to merge design thinking with business management. He's written three best-sellers, but his newest book, "MetaSkills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age" suggests that we are entering a new age in which the "left-brain" skills of the industrial age, while still very important, will be surpassed by the "right brain" skills of creativity, sensing and learning.
As computing advances have made information immediately and almost totally accessible, Neumeier believes that we must develop the ability to cultivate five "metaskills" if we are to reshape the world.
The ability to draw on human emotion for intuition, aesthetics and empathy is a talent that's becoming more and more vital. It's the ability to connect deeply with people through vicarious imagination or "putting yourself in another person's shoes."
Integrative thinkers don't break a problem into separate pieces and work on them one by one. Instead, they see the entire architecture of the problem — how the various parts fit together and how one decision affects another. By resolving the tensions that launched the problem, they can craft a holistic solution, which often requires them to reject the urge for certainty and grapple with the messiness of the paradox.
The No. 1 hazard for innovators is getting stuck in the tar pits of knowledge. Knowledge has a powerful influence over creativity. When we're stumped or in a hurry to solve a problem, our brains often default to off-the-shelf solutions based upon what everyone knows. The proper approach to invention is not logic but wonderment. Creative thinking begins with phrases such as "I wonder," "I wish" and "What if?"
Creativity is a messy process, and we arrive at better decisions by making not-so-good decisions and then constantly improving upon them. The best designers believe in failing fast. Their drawings, models and prototypes are not designed to be perfect solutions.
If you're seeking new information or fresh insights, you need to look beyond your clique, since a clique is a closed system that acts more like a mirror than a window. The antidote to the clique is to open the window and connect with groups outside your own. Put yourself in the way of meeting like-spirited people, not just like-minded people.
So how do normal people like us think differently? Steve Jobs was smart — but not exceptionally smart. However, he learned the trick of divergent thinking. Biographer Walter Isaacson said Steve's "imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected and at times magical. He had the ability to make connections that other people couldn't see, simply because they couldn't let go of what they already knew."
We need to stop seeking only current best practices and challenge our assumptions about our current limits and ask questions about what might be. Howard Schultz once said, "Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?"
In order to solve the global problems facing us, we must think differently than we have done in the past. No single individual is as smart as all of us, so we must learn from others with different knowledge and skills. By seeing our problems from new perspectives, dreaming big ideas and fast prototyping new solutions, we can make a dent in changing our world.
Paul Witkay is the founder and CEO of the Alliance of Chief Executives. Based in Northern California, the Alliance of Chief Executives is the most strategically valuable and innovative organization for CEOs in the world. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
An extension of your team
Every company, irrespective of size, at some point needs a variety of service professionals. The amount and experience these professionals possess can substantially add value to your business and mitigate risk.
Technical matters of law, financial audit, tax, industrial marketing and public relations are usually best handled by outside experts. Attorneys, auditors, tax experts, public relations and industrial marketing professionals have specialized knowledge and skills that you couldn't and shouldn't hope to duplicate.
Clark-Reliance's business philosophy has always been that we make service professionals an extension of our team. We frequently invite them to sporting events, company dinners and other internal events. Knowing our service professionals on a personal basis and allowing them access to know our staff makes it a better and more effective partnership.
Our senior management works closely with these providers so that they can answer questions efficiently and quickly whether it's a simple or complex business issue.
It is also good practice to formally meet with service providers on a frequent basis, even if the meeting is only an update. This practice will allow your providers to gain a better understanding of your business and provides a discussion forum that is different than just dealing with them on an as-needed basis or for "crisis interventions."
Legal services
Whether you have in-house counsel or not, outside legal service providers are an imperative partner to help you grow and protect your business. Partnering with a reasonably sized firm allows you access to worldwide contacts, practices and procedures.
Almost everyone has four distinct reasons to use an attorney or specialized law firm, even if you do employ general counsel:
Acquisition — When your company is engaged in an acquisition, you need a highly specialized legal team to provide expertise in areas such as due diligence, negotiation, asset acquisition, purchase agreements, taxation and employment transactions.
Intellectual property — The need to safeguard your new product ideas can be ensured by a highly specialized attorney who can protect and defend your intellectual property, patents, trademarks and copyrights, both domestically and worldwide.
Product liability — The misuse and misapplication of products that have been sent into the stream of commerce may result in litigation or unjustified claims that need to be addressed by competent legal counsel.
Labor and employee issues —The multitude of employment law issues, regulation and compliance requirements and employer/employee legal issues demands a working relationship with a labor/employment legal professional.
Financial services
The changes in the United States Federal Tax Code and the continuing compliance with tax laws for federal, state and local taxation demand comprehensive and technical knowledge. Most companies also need to have audited financial data for borrowing purposes or to meet public company regulations. This highly specialized and technical knowledge can only be accessed through a tax and financial adviser.
There are four areas where a financial/tax service professional can assist any business.
Taxes — Whether you are an S-corporation, C-corporation or LLC, you need to have a tax adviser analyze the tax implications of business decisions to ensure that you are properly taking advantage of the complex tax code.
Grants and tax credits — The research tax credit remains a valuable source of support to businesses that conduct qualified research and development.
Acquisition process — During the acquisition process, it is imperative to include your financial advisers in terms of due diligence and specific issues like goodwill, inventory valuation and working capital adjustments.
Audit — Private or public, it is a good idea to have your financial data analyzed and scrubbed by experts in areas of revenue recognition, inventory valuation and off-balance-sheet transactions.
Utilizing service professionals provides a road map to avoid the pitfalls that can present significant obstacles to your business success. ?
Matthew P. Figgie is chairman of Clark-Reliance, a global, multi-divisional manufacturing company with sales in more than 80 countries, serving the power generation petroleum, refining and chemical processing industries. He is also chairman of Figgie Capital and the Figgie Foundation, a member of the University Hospitals Board of Directors, corporate cochairman for the 2013 Five Star Sensation and chairman of the National Kidney Walk.
Rick Solon is president and CEO of Clark-Reliance and has more than 35 years of experience in manufacturing and operating companies. He is also the chairman of the National Kidney Foundation Golf Outing.
Learning opportunities: What the Office Max / Office Depot merger can do for you
In late February, Office Max and Office Depot agreed to merge, pending normal government and shareholder approvals — and while this merger had been anticipated by the financial community for many years, the reasons why this took place are all too common.
The office supply world has changed dramatically over the past 16 years. In 1997, Office Depot attempted to merge with Staples, but the courts halted this due to the potential monopoly. Since then, the rise of stronger independent dealers working in the B2B marketplace, the rise of e-commerce sales (both independent dealers and others), and department stores expanding office supply goods in the B2C marketplace have forced marketplace changes.
Is this just a temporary rearrangement of the deck chairs? There are a number of reasons that make up the failure of these two companies to make it on their own. The first reason boils down to debt.
The bottom line is that these two firms combined have nearly 2,100 stores across the United States. This in itself has created massive amounts of debt — both on the balance sheet and off the sheet too. Office Max has more than $1 billion in off balance sheet debt and $1.7 billion of debt listed on the balance sheet. In addition, there has been another $2 billion in write-downs during of the past five years.
The second lesson is having a stagnant business model heavily based on brick-and-mortar stores. This new company, as yet un-named, will have 2,100 stores nationwide. Competitor Staples will have about 2,000 stores. However, all of the self-serve stores have been in a retail retraction for a few years and have been closing or reducing the size of stores in an effort to cut costs.
What you can expect to see
In order to create a healthy balance sheet, my crystal ball tells me that, due to duplication of resources, over the next few years, you can expect closures of distribution centers, a continuation of store closings, financial write-downs, layoffs and reductions in debt. Will this be enough to please shareholders? Stay tuned.
Since Depot bought Max, will Office Depot bring all of its outsourcing back from overseas or send more out? Will the handling of customer service issues improve or decline? Some clients have been told not to order on Friday, because they won't deliver on Monday. Will they outsource all delivery personnel?
Will these changes affect their B2B clients? It is very likely — and not in a positive way.
By far, the biggest question is whether all of these changes will impact the remaining store, B2B and e-commerce sales.
What to do right now?
Businesses should control their business destiny and not wait for their dust to settle.
Look at your company's strategic initiatives. Many common strategic initiatives include cost cutting, vendor reduction, "buy local" and sustainability.
Take this change in the marketplace as a reminder to examine this line item in the budget — even if you aren't using Depot/Max. As we've seen, there isn't a line item in a company budget that is above scrutiny.
I've worked with many clients nationwide and have been able to show them a double-digit price decrease compared to self-serve stores — all the while providing a higher level of service. While the pricing makes one competitive, it's the service level that maintains loyalty.
Caution: Businesses that look strictly on price may likely be short-changing themselves by not looking at overall value. Consider working with a local partner who can make your office run smoothly. This will lower both hard and soft dollar costs while helping achieve strategic initiatives.
Independent office supply companies carry thousands of products. They have formed their own buying consortiums to lower the cost below self-serve stores and provide nationwide delivery. These include furniture, janitorial/sanitation, coffee/breakroom and computer supplies.
If you could purchase nearly everything for the office, with a reduced number of vendors and have a favorable impact to your balance sheet — wouldn't you make a change? ?
Bill Botkin is a sales consultant for Today's Business Products. Contact him at (800) 536-5163 or email@example.com.
Images versus text - which is stronger in the world of social media marketing?
With 88 percent of businesses now active on social media, the social media landscape is becoming more cluttered and more difficult. This means that, for businesses, it is becoming harder and harder to break through the noise and be heard.
In order to penetrate the noise, businesses must deliver the right message to the right person in the right way. Increasingly, the way that people want to receive messages online is visually.
We've heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, and this is true. The brain can process images faster than text. This is why images are breaking through on social networks — because they provide a quicker way for people to comprehend information.
Image-based social networks, such as Pinterest and Instagram, are among the most popular and quickest-growing social networks online. Images are the most liked and commented on content on Facebook and links to images get the most clicks on Twitter. All signs point toward images as the most popular, most shared and most liked content on social networks.
The point is that with so much content on social media, images are increasingly the content that is breaking through and getting results. I realized this trend and recently published a book called "Visual Social Media Marketing" about how brands can take advantage of this and get results.
So, what can you do to take advantage of this trend? Here are three simple steps to start taking advantage of the visual revolution online.
Include images on your website
The visual Web focuses around images, and as your website is shared online, the images from your website are usually the focus of how your website content is shared.
For example, when I post a link to a website on Facebook, the image is shown beside the link to my content. In this example, I'm sharing a link to our report on Google+. The image of the Google+ report is on our website.
Having the image on our website is important to how the link to our website shows up on Facebook. The reality is that if you want to drive traffic to your website from social media, each page on your site should have relevant images that are appropriate for sharing on social networks.
Use images on existing social networks
If you want your business to be successful on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+, images must be a part of your strategy. Consider these statistics:
? Images are the most shared and clicked on content on Twitter.
? Images receive 50 percent more interactions on Facebook.
? Google+ users have uploaded 3.4 billion photos.
? Recruiters spend more time examining a LinkedIn user's picture than actually reviewing the person's qualifications.
These statistics show that if you want to break through on the leading social networks you must have an image strategy. Images are easy to consume and eye-catching, and with all of the content on social networks, images break through and get better results than text updates.
Consider joining Instagram and Pinterest
Instagram and Pinterest are two of the quickest-growing social networks and they can be your way to reach new audiences and get results ahead of your competition. Consider joining these networks and participating in the community to reach your audience in a new and interesting way.
Visual marketing is a trend in social media that you just can't afford to ignore. If you want your business to stay relevant, drive traffic to your website and build shares and likes on social networks, you can't afford to ignore the power of images in achieving these objectives. ?
Krista Neher is the CEO of Boot Camp Digital. She is an international speaker and social media thought-leader, as well as the author of "The Social Media Field Guide," "Visual Social Media Marketing" and "Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach."
Overzealous bottom-line moves can cause anything but savings
Business owners are still cutting corners to cut costs and stretching their staffs in an attempt to stretch their budgets, but a lackluster economy shouldn't be the only thing affecting their business decisions.
When companies try to manage "on the cheap," the result can be anything but savings. The price of cutting corners in HR can lead to escalated risks, decreased productivity, increased turnover and ultimately higher costs.
Risk of noncompliance
To mitigate risk and minimize costs, HR compliance should be a constant consideration for business owners. Employment laws govern how companies hire, schedule, compensate and behave toward their employees. Adhering to these and other government regulations is not just the lawful thing to do, but it's also the smart thing to do to protect a business from unnecessary risks.
Federal wage and hour laws are one of the most common noncompliance violations for companies. According to one report, the average settlement per case is nearly $13 million.
Allegations include employers' failure to pay minimum wage, unpaid overtime and inaccurate "exempt" or "nonexempt" employee classifications. Exempt, or salaried, employees are not eligible for overtime pay regardless of extra hours worked, while nonexempt, or hourly, employees can earn overtime.
Corporate anorexia and the cost of turnover In a lean economy, making do with less is simple common sense, but when companies try to operate with too little staff, the unhealthy result is what some experts call "corporate anorexia."
Remaining employees are expected to carry a heavy portion of the company's workload. When consistently stretched too thin, employees become less productive, and the most marketable and highest-performing employees eventually look for better opportunities.
Experts estimate that turnover costs companies anywhere from one-half to five times an employee's annual wages depending on his or her position within the company.
While that may sound like an exaggeration, consider the hard costs of recruiting and training a new employee. Add to that the softer costs of lost productivity and lost opportunity.
Cost-saving solutions
So why would a business owner ever choose to ignore employment laws? Or risk losing the most experienced staff? For most, it's not a conscious choice but an unavoidable outcome.
When a company is making do with less, its HR function is often severely understaffed or nonexistent. How can a small business owner or a one-person HR department effectively manage the volume of duties and stay abreast of constant changes in employment law?
HR experts suggest that when limited means dictate that companies cut corners, they should focus on the fundamentals. That includes a comprehensive employee handbook and regular compliance audits.
A handbook is the first line of defense in employee matters. It outlines company policies and establishes a guideline for behavior. When employees review and sign a handbook, they acknowledge that they have reviewed and understand the company's policies and intend to abide by them.
Regular compliance audits can help ensure a company is properly meeting its obligations and can help identify potential risks before they become costly oversights.
Business owners can also augment their HR by outsourcing part or all of the function. Professional employer organizations and HR outsourcers employ experienced human resource professionals who have extensive knowledge in a variety of HR disciplines.
PEOs and HROs also dedicate significant resources to developing proven processes and systems that can help minimize the most common and costly mistakes. As for cost, many qualified firms cost roughly the same as one full-time HR employee.
Cutting costs can be smart, maybe even necessary, but cutting corners on critical functions or deeply into staff can backfire. If you cant cover all the bases, focus on HR's fundamentals and enlist assistance where needed.
John Allen is president and COO of G&A Partners, a Texas-based HR and administrative services company that manages human resources, benefits, payroll, accounting and risk management for growing businesses. For more information about the company, visit www.gnapartners.com.
How to let egos go — and let your business grow
Egos are a big factor in business. Egos can cost companies a lot of money.
I learned this simple fact a long time ago, and to this day, it amazes me how much time, energy and resources are wasted by individuals unwilling to check their egos at the door and let their companies be successful. Believe me, I have an ego myself, and I have to remind myself that all the time.
We all know the type — the guy or gal who always has to be right and whose questionable judgment in business stems either from a sense of self-importance or is based upon what they feel others expect from them because of their position. This person can even be fairly pleasant and well-meaning. But when they turn out to be someone with whom you have a working relationship, things can go downhill very quickly, especially when they're pushing ideas and making decisions for all the wrong reasons.
I sell a line of bison meat products, which is marketed as a healthful alternative to beef. One day, the company with which I was partnered hired a new marketing fellow who immediately wanted to change the packaging. It was clear that he wanted to make a big splash with his new bosses, but I was dumbfounded by his decision.
I argued, "We've been enjoying tremendous success, and our branding has been very clear. Why in the world would we want to change it when we have a winner?" I'm a pretty agreeable guy, but I also know when to dig in, especially when I'm fighting for something I believe in my heart is right.
After a brief internal debate, my partners agreed with my logic, and we happily continued on with our hit product.
In business, it is paramount that everyone looks for the perfect solution that works for everybody else. This isn't about getting along with each other just for the sake of it but rather about learning to be successful together.
Ego, when it comes from a place of experience, confidence and wisdom, actually can be a tremendous asset if properly managed by the individual.
I've recently started working with a good friend of many years, and I totally respect his ego. He understands exactly what it takes to be successful and has the experience to enable him to accurately size up a situation and make sound business decisions. He also knows how to work with partners like me, creating a complementary relationship, not one in which there is constant bickering.
When you're around people with healthy egos, they create an aura of chemistry and trust and can provide a nesting ground for others to be their best. These types of individuals don't make radical changes on a whim, but they try to understand their business environment, then make decisions to either build upon existing success or fix what is not working. People like this aren't afraid to make wrong decisions because they have the confidence — the ego — of knowing that eventually they will make the right decision.
In dealing with complicated business relationships, the most critical relationship is the one we have with ourselves. Always ask yourself the reasons behind your decisions, especially if you are challenged by peers, partners or others in trusted positions.
There is nothing wrong with standing up for what you truly believe in. But be sure you are guided by wisdom and a clear thought process with the intention of truly solving a problem or building upon previous achievements. If not, allow yourself to hear other voices and have a healthy enough ego to let them contribute to your success. ?
Tony Little is the founder, president and CEO of Health International Corp. and executive chairman of Positive Lifestyle International. Known as "America's Personal Trainer," he has been a television icon for more than 20 years. After overcoming a car accident that nearly took his life, Little learned how to turn adversity into victory. Known for his wild enthusiasm, Little is responsible for revolutionizing direct-response marketing and television home shopping. He has sold more than $3 billion in products bearing his name. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
David Harding: Avoid mediocrity, but don't promise more than you can deliver
If you're among the companies that start your fiscal year on July 1, it may be time to do some thinking and planning. But no matter when you start your business year, here are some points to consider.
The beginning of another business year is at hand. No matter what your business faced or how your organization pulled through, now's a great time to provide your team with a well-deserved "pat on the back" and a thoughtful review.
First, give thanks: Consider a half-day retreat. Begin with a celebration or recognition lunch. Find something positive you can recognize in each staff member, i.e., "Rookie of the Year," "Best Use of Humor in a Low Moment," "Most Inspirational," etc. Make a big deal of each success.
Second, measure: Take stock. List your division's accomplishments. How close did you come in each category compared to your goal? Where was growth centered? How did this last year stack up to year's past?
Third, staffing: Which sectors are growing? Where do you need to build?
Lastly, what did you learn: Where is your business headed? What will you keep as is? What needs to be changed or discarded altogether?
There's no better time of year to reflect, regroup and analyze. If you take the time to do this now, it can prevent you from launching automatically into a repeat of the past year.
What are your strategies? What tactics will accomplish them? How will you delegate and hold people accountable? How will you track progress, share the vision and the results? How will you involve the entire staff?
Measurements are critical
The worst kind of clock is one that is wrong. Fast or slow doesn't matter. What matters is that it is wrong. Why? Because it's human nature to be tempted to accept what it tells us.
The same holds true to any measurement standard. Keeping track of the wrong data — or interpreting it wrong — is worse than not keeping track at all.
Are you sure you are measuring the right information for your business, your products, your team?
Exceed expectations by giving less; it doesn't sound possible, exceeding expectations by giving less.
People (customers and employees) don't care how much you offer them. What they want is to get more than they expected.
In our rush to get noticed, chosen, grow bigger or achieve more, we often promise the moon — and raise expectations above what is possible.
How about promising less and bragging less? Instead, deliver on the promise to delight.
Demand the best
Too often, we are presented with choices that don't please us. And too often, we pick one.
Why settle? Because it's easier. Or we run out of time. Or the best is too expensive. Name your excuse. It's simply easier to choose the least objectionable alternative than to hold out for the best or go out and find it.
Like Steven Jobs — we should demand the best of our people, processes, vendors and standards.
What are you settling for?
By demanding the best, you are setting an example for your staff. Too often we set a "lower bar," and if each time you set that bar lower, mediocrity starts to set in. ?
David Harding is president and CEO of HardingPoorman Group, a locally owned and operated graphic communications firm in Indianapolis consisting of several integrated companies all under one roof. The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has voted the company as one of the "Best Places to Work" in Indiana. Harding can be reached at email@example.com. For more information, go to www.hardingpoorman.com.


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Backus receives recognition by The Global Compact for residual waste waters treatment
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Ricardo Briceño Villena, Elect President of CONFIEP; Fernando Zavala Lombardi, Backus Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Relations; Jorge Chediek, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Representative and Catherine Nettleton, British ambassador.
Lima, March 20, 2009 - The Confederación Nacional de Instituciones Empresariales, CONFIEP, [Confederation of Business Organizations], as the secretariat of The Global Compact in Peru, jointly with the British Peruvian Chamber awarded Backus with The Global Compact Peru: Ethics and Business Leadership Recognition for their work in the protection of the environment, reflected in the implementation of residual waste waters treatment.
This recognition is awarded to companies that demonstrate their advances in the application of the Ten Principles of The Global Compact, which cover the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. The companies that participated operate in Peru and they are aligned with The Global Compact.
"The Global Compact Peru: Ethics and Business Leadership Recognition" is promoted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the consultancy RH Resource and the International Labor Organization (ILO), and its main objective is encouraging a new business culture in the country by identifying the private companies whose responsible practices promote and strengthen the principles of The Global Compact.
It is important to mention that this recognition is the result of the efforts made by different departments in the company, especially Manufacture, which is in charge of four of the priorities of Sustainable Development that Backus promotes, and that they are related to the protection of the environment.
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