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New York City is remarkable for the variety of habitats and the common and rare wildlife and flora that live there. The City is widely regarded to provide stopover habitat for many migratory birds, fishes, and butterflies, as well as residence for numerous plant and animal species of conservation concern. The way that the City's greenspaces are assessed, conserved, and managed for biodiversity will affect these resources far into the future. The new Biodiversity Assessment Handbook for New York City is designed as a guide for land managers, policymakers, conservationists, researchers, consultants, educators, and students who are addressing the myriad questions about greenspaces and biodiversity in the City. The Handbook was written and compiled by Erik Kiviat, research scientist and Executive Director of Hudsonia, and Elizabeth A. Johnson, while she was Manager of the CBC Metropolitan Biodiversity Program.

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The stand-up comic and fitness instructor is the creator of Jokesercise, a comedy and exercise routine that combines laughs with bouts of stretching for seniors. The theory, he notes, is that if you are having fun and laughing, you won't even realize you are working out at the same time.
Newman, who has been a comedian for over 15 years, visits nursing homes, senior centers and assisted living homes all around the five boroughs, encouraging seniors to get active with his unique routine.
The idea all started after Newman visited his elderly mother in a nursing home one day. He realized that the seniors there needed some entertainment. So one day he decided to do a routine.
"There was no kind of human interaction," he said. "I thought it would cheer them up because they are often disregarded," he said.
The seniors immediately took a liking to it.
"I teach them that blood is the healing force of the body," he said. "It has been proven that laughter helps and if you move around everyday you live longer than when you stay sedentary, even if it's just stretching."
Newman has over 10 years of fitness experience. The Queens Village native is a certified personal trainer. He fell into comedy at the age of 25 after growing up around entertainers in his family.
- his mother was a dancer and a pianist and one of his uncles was a magician.
For years, he took his show on the road and across the country, headlining in various cities with a comedy partner. His stage name: High-Powered Howard. After he and his comedy partner parted five years ago, his mother became ill around the same time and almost in a twist of faith, while looking for a new market to do routines, he found his place among the elderly audience.
"It's a thrill to me, I shake everyone's hand after the show. That's the most important part of the show for me," he said.
Newman vistis over 150 centers in the five boroughs, including VNS CHOICE Adult Day Center in Woodside, the Bayside Senior Center, the Ozone Park Senior Center and the Midwood Senior Center in Queens. But Newman isn't stopping there.
He plans to expand his routine by taking it to television. His goal is to create a morning show called, "Start Your Day Laughing with Jokesercise." He hopes to sell it to networks after he creates a demo in April. This way, everyone can get in on the action.
"I feel I'm blessed that I could do something to help other people and at least try to make their experience more pleasant," he said.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Schulterspeck/Speck di Spalla/Shoulder speck
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When I've seen it, it has always had the skin on it. Like in this photo: http://www.mostviertler-naturladen.at/img/upload/SchulterInt.jpgReplyDelete
I know, Heath. I admitted to the error as schulterspeck was not initially intended. Spalla cotta was, which is skinned.ReplyDelete
Yum, yum! Though I haven't tasted it, the shoulder speck looks delicious. How much is that, anyway? And what is the most inexpensive sausage I can buy?ReplyDelete
I didn't mean to be dense.ReplyDelete
I'm guessing your stuff will turn out fine.
Not dense at all, Heath. I would never have skinned it if speck was my intention. Now, I have to somehow case it.ReplyDelete
Some guys I know took some seamed out leg cuts (muscle groups corresponding to the "top round", "bottom round", of a cow). They didn't put them in casings - they just hung them up after curing. They turned out fantastic - in fact, better than some bone-in hams made from the same pigs by some different people.ReplyDelete
I'm sure you've noticed the bias for bone-in hams versus "cured pieces of ham meat". I don't think that bias is rational. You personally make so many products, I'd guess you've noticed that the bone-in ones don't always taste better than the non-bone-in ones, or the cased ones versus the non-cased ones.
When it comes to products, I've given up on rules like "bone-in better" or "mixed-cure" worse than "dry-cure"; a bit like wine, the proof is in the final product.
This looks quite arresting and I'm almost certain I ate something like this in Bozen a few years ago. I don't remember what it was called though. If you're looking to case it in something bladder like, a bung casing cut and sewn works fine, or even a very big hog middle. Sometimes they're huge. IN any case, the whole thing sounds fabulous.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Ken. It's very likely you ate this or something quite similar. I cased in a beef bung. I split the bung and trussed it together. The result I call, frankenspeckReplyDelete


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A BIG thank you to everyone who participated in the 80s Movie Draft, it was tremendous success! Tank and I discuss the results (including crowning the winner) and briefly touch on our plan for those in the future, but then it's back to business!
There's box office data to look at, there's a new segment to introduce, there's ALL kinds of movies to review – seriously, we review like FIVE movies! "Safe", "The Five-Year Engagement", "The Raven", "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" and "The Raid: Redemption".
Then it's on to Part 1 of our Summer Movie Preview! Tanker and I break down the biggest movies scheduled for May and June, 2012, including "The Avengers", "Prometheus", "Battleship", "Moonrise Kingdom", and many, many more! We'll be back with Part 2, covering July and August next week!
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Posted by Bob on March 09, 2006
In Reply to: Getting the shaft ... sucks posted by Bob on March 09, 2006
: : : : I'm looking into the origins of the term "to get the shaft", which I understand has something to do with the cemetery near the French Quarter. I'd like to hear from anyone who knows New Orleans lore and can verify the origins of this phrase. Thanks.
: : : From the Online Etymological Dictionary:
: : : "...Vulgar slang meaning 'penis' first recorded 1719. Verb meaning 'treat cruelly and unfairly' is 1950s, with overtones of sodomy. "
: : I'm not sure if Brian is emphasizing the right meaning of shaft, but I used to live in New Orleans and I can't think of any reason why it should be related to St. Louis Cemetery #1. All the tombs are above ground as the ground is so wet that they would "float" up otherwise, ergo no shafts of the hole-y type. ^_^ RRC
: the "treat cruelly and unfairly" definition is right on target. Because it had, as it says "overtones of sodomy," it was vulgar and not used in mixed company ... until the movie (and hit title song) "Shaft" became popular in 1971. Yes, there's some winking going on in the lyrics "Who's the black dick..." etc.,but it was so popular that it took the shock value out of the word. A similar thing has happened with "suck" and "sucks" which have become so widely used in mainstream publications that younger people have no sense of how rude that once was.
I forgot to mention that the director of Shaft, the innovative Gordon Parks, died yesterday at age 93.
- Getting the shaft ... sucks RRC 09/March/06
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ESPN's NBA draft coverage has become so predictable it's inspired its own drinking game (one Jay Bilas even referenced on the broadcast). Every year features a buzzword like "length," "scorer," or the always-controversial "character."
Last night's broadcast was chock-full of "rimming." Analysts breathlessly informed us of players' abilities (or inabilities) around the rim, finishing at the rim, getting to the rim, and the very important protecting of the rim. Here's a sampling of your rims from last night's broadcast. [ESPN]


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A big thank you to everyone who came out this weekend and helped make our Bay Area Proud food drive so successful.
As of late Saturday we collected 11,500 bags in one day alone. A total of 18,000 bags have been donated since Wednesday.
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NBC Bay Area is proud to partner with Safeway grocery stores and Bay Area food banks this Saturday for a one day food drive.
NBC Bay Area staff will fan out across the Bay Area. You may find a familiar face at your neighborhood Safeway asking you to dig a little deeper during your weekend shopping.
We hope to collect thousands of pounds of much-needed food. We've done the work for you. All you have to do is buy a grocery bag we've filled for $10 at check out. The bags include items such as rice, stuffing, canned vegetables and cranberry sauce.
"In addition to providing on-air promotion, we are organizing hundreds of volunteers throughout the Bay Area to encourage shoppers to donate," said Lance Lew, NBC Bay Area Community Marketing Director. "It is easy to pick up a pre-packed $10 grocery bag that is filled with the foods local families need most.
Our goal is to increase awareness about local hunger while also giving community members a convenient way to help out at a critical time.
We will be at 100 stores. Once we gather what you give, we will distribute it the food banks in time for Thanksgiving.
This is Bay Area Proud event. Volunteers include Kiwanis, San Jose Junior League, Branham High School and hundreds of others.
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Bay Area Food Banks is a collaboration of eight local food banks that serve more than 600,000 people in 11 northern California counties each month. Through 1,560 food pantries, children's programs, shelters, soup kitchens, residential programs, and other emergency food providers, Bay Area Food Banks distributes 142 million pounds of food each year. With respect and compassion, the Food Banks serve anyone in need


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A second, anonymous masseur with allegations of harassment and sexual battery has been added to the $2 million lawsuit against actor John Travolta.
Travolta's lawyer issued a statement Tuesday afternoon calling the new claim "just as absurd and ridiculous as the first one." The actor had refered to the initial court filing as "a complete fiction."
The second plaintiff, who is represented by the same lawyer as the first accusser, claims to have "substantial documentation and numerous witnesses regarding the substance of Travolta's actions," according to the documents posted online by Radar. "John Doe 2," as he is listed in the filing, claims he did an in-room massage on Travolta at an unspecified resort in Atlanta, Ga. on Jan. 28, 2012.
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Previously, Travolta's rep issued a strongly-worded denial to news outlets after "John Doe 1" masseur claimed in California court documents that Travolta made unwanted advances then verbally abused him after being hired to give the "Pulp Fiction" star a massage.
According to the initial documents posted by TMZ, "John Doe 1" said Travolta exposed himself and groped the masseur inside a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Jan. 16.
The masseur said in his complaint that he ignored the actor's advances, and was repeatedly called "selfish" and a "loser" after doing so.
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In the amended court document filed Tuesday morning, "John Doe 2" alleges that during the encounter which occured at the Atlanta resort, the "Pulp Fiction" star completely disrobed, asked to be massaged in the buttucks area and continued to make unwanted advances — inculding exposing himself — to the masseur.
Referencing the location listed in the second masseur's claim, Travolta's lawyer said that it was obvious the plaintiff's representation had "checked media reports that my client was in Atlanta working on a movie."
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text: Morgan Mays, of Longboat Key, competed in the USTA Boys' 18 and 16 Clay Court National Championships held July 19 to July 26, in Delray Beach. Four hundred of the top-ranked boys tennis players in the country and 100 doubles teams competed in the competition. Mays was ranked 17th. In the first round of play July 25, Mays fell 4-6, 3-6 to No. 2 seed Jackson Withrow, of Omaha.


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The Amazing HeistThe Amazing Heist (1976) - Clue Club Cartoon Episode Guide
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- Cartoon Characters: Larry, Sheriff Bagley, Woofer, D.D., Pepper, Dotty, Wimper.
- Voice Actors: Bob Hastings, David Joliffe, James MacGeorge, John Stephenson, Patricia Stitch, Tara Talboy, Paul Winchell, Julie McWhirter, Joan Gerber; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Charles Nichols, Chris Cuddington.
- Produced By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Iwao Takamoto, Alex Lovy.
- Animated By Sue Beak, John Burge, Geoff Collins, Don Ezard, Warwick Gilbert, Gerry Grabner, Sebastian Hurple, Cynthia Leech, Don MacKinnon, Paul McAdam, Henry Neville, Di Rudder, Jean Tych, Paul Maron; more Animators ...
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- Music: Hoyt Curtin, Paul DeKorte.
- Editor: Larry Cowan.
- First Aired on November 13, 1976.
- Originally Aired on CBS-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
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Feature Interview: Principal Dancer Cindy Liu
Born in Beijing and now making her home in Toronto, Cindy Liu started dancing when she was seven, and performing at eleven. Today, she is a principal dancer with Shen Yun Touring Company and was getting ready for a show at Lincoln Center when we caught up with her.
Q: Cindy, you've been touring with Shen Yun Performing Arts since the first company was established in 2006. How have you seen the company change?
CL: Over the past six years I got to personally witness Shen Yun's phenomenal success and expansion. In 2007, on our first world tour, we had only one dance company with one orchestra. We were no more than 100 people, and had to travel between four continents—North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Now we have three equally large companies and orchestras, and about 300 artists each year going on tour around the world.
I've also undergone a personal change from a fledgling to a principal dancer. In these six years many things have changed, but I still love the company as much as I did on the first day. I'm really proud to be in one of the world's largest and most successful dance companies.
People often ask me if life in the company isn't hard. Of course, it's hard, because dancing is tiring, and traveling is tiring. But at the same time it's also very fulfilling. Each time when I see the audience with their glistening eyes, their joyful expressions, and their bright smiles giving us standing ovations, I get an overwhelming feeling of joy and satisfaction in my heart. Each time I dance with Shen Yun, I feel I have done something worthwhile.
Q: Every year, Shen Yun produces a completely new show, and you've performed in many of the magnificent dances. Where does the inspiration for all these dances come from?
CL: From 5,000 years of Chinese culture. These 5,000 years have left behind countless legends, dramas, traditions, literary classics, relics, and artworks. So Chinese culture offers an inexhaustible resource for our show.
Not just the Chinese stories are source material, but also many of the ancient values. For example, classic legends that we've performed on stage, like The Loyalty of Yue Fei or Mulan, have a deeper message behind them. In The Loyalty of Yue Fei, it's faithfulness and righteousness; in Mulan benevolence and filial piety.
Our mission is to revive the beauty of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. So, we have the highest requirement for our dances. Every single dance is designed to display the ideal of pure beauty and pure compassion.
Q: How do you work to achieve this ideal of "pure beauty and pure compassion" on stage?
CL: Pure beauty and pure compassion have to come from the heart. I believe beauty is a reflection of your mind. In classical Chinese dance, we say that every movement originates from your internal world and intrinsic thoughts. These thoughts are directly related to your morals, value system, and general state of mind. Pure beauty and pure compassion can only be achieved through a beautiful spirit and noble character.
Q: What is your everyday life in Shen Yun like?
CL: We have dance training and rehearsals every day. And we try to achieve perfection in every field—whether it's training in classical Chinese dance, dance techniques, tumbling techniques, or ethnic dances.
When we're not training or rehearsing, I like to read about Chinese history. There's so much there that you can never get through it all. Reading helps extend my understanding of traditional Chinese culture.
I love to read Chinese poems, especially poems by Li Bai—he was known as "The Immortal Poet." Poems even inspire my dancing. In a dance called Water Sleeves, I used a verse from a Wang Bo poem, written during the Tang Dynasty, to find the right feeling:
"The autumn river shares a scenic hue with the vast sky, The evening glow forms a parallel with a bird to fly."
Q: In both 2009 and 2010, you won gold prizes in NTD's International Classical Chinese Dance Competition. There was no competition last year, but there's one this summer and we heard you'll be competing. Is this something you look forward to?
CL: Dance competitions are always challenging. Participating requires a lot of preparation. First you have to choose a theme, find interesting choreography, good music, and a matching costume. Then you have to practice, practice, practice. It's a process of moving forward and making progress all the way until your final product is ready—your final dance at the competition.
The competition can be very stressful, but it pushes me forward in dancing. I can learn a lot, whether through my intensive practice or from watching my competitors.
Q: In these competitions, you've excelled in the difficult classical Chinese dance techniques. How do you practice these?
CL: Classical Chinese dance techniques are very complex. There are many turns, flips, jumping, and tumbling techniques. Many of the acrobatic flips we see in gymnastics actually originate from classical Chinese dance. These techniques require tremendous precision and coordination.
But good techniques can't just be achieved through mechanical practice. You have to think about the angles, directions, and trajectory to get the best results. Sometimes, I even use mathematical and physical axioms to improve my techniques. For example, when practicing my jumping, I discovered that for any kind of leap, the best liftoff jumping angle for achieving the maximal horizontal distance is indeed an angle of 45 degrees. So when I jump up, I try to go up at precisely this angle.
Of course, dancing demands a lot more than good techniques. On top of being an athlete, there's the art. Dancing requires form (or shen fa), expression, bearing and feeling—especially classical Chinese dance, which is so expressive. These elements are even harder to perfect than techniques. There's no exact method or solution for artistic expression and you can't measure it in angles. Every dancer has her own individual expression, and every dancer has to polish it by herself.
Q: What are your future aspirations?
CL: I hope we can perform in China one day. China is "the Celestial Empire," the Middle Kingdom, and my original motherland. I would love to see Shen Yun go back to the place of its cultural origin.
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Woman Sets Record for Smallest Waist
Setting any kind of record must be pretty awesome. Having the lowest voice on the planet or making the largest Frito pie in all of crunchy snack history garners major bragging rights. It seems like everyone these days wants to take a crack at making things bigger, better, or taller, but in the case of Nerina Orton, she's aiming for small. Really, really small.
The 22-year-old from Britain now has the country's smallest waist, clocking in at a teeny tiny 15.7 inches. Her measurements fall just behind Cathie Jung's, the current world record holder, but Orton is set on squeezing down to 14 inches one day. Ouch.
How does the Brit contort her body to such tiny proportions? Orton wears an extremely tight corset 23 hours a day, only taking it off for showers. Even though she has regular medical checkups to ensure all organs are functioning properly, Orton does have some funny effects from the intense constriction. When she takes off her corset, she can feel her organs shifting back into place. Now that's something we never want to experience.
However, we do have to commend Orton for being so focused on reaching her itty bitty goal. Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to expand our waistlines with some grossly awesome pizza.


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RELATED STORY: 18 States Petition The Obama White House To Withdraw From Union
A White House petition gathering force calls for citizenship to be stripped and exile for anyone who signs a petition in favor of a state's secession.
"Mr. President, please sign an executive order such that each American citizen who signed a petition from any state to secede from the USA shall have their citizenship stripped and be peacefully deported," the full petition reads.
The title of the petition is, "WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Strip the Citizenship from Everyone who Signed a Petition to Secede and Exile Them."
As of this writing, 2,205 have signed the petition; 22,795 more signatures are needed for the issue to be addressed by the White House.
The Washington Times reports on the numerous petitions to secede on the White House's website:
It's traditional for Americans to threaten to move to France or Canada when their candidate loses, but this year some disappointed voters are implementing a different plan.
In the wake of the Nov. 6 election, petitions seeking to secede from the union have been filed on behalf of 23 states on the White House website, https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions. Most of the petitions contain the same wording and ask to withdraw "peacefully" from the United States in order to form independent governments. source – Weekly Standard


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WE RECOMMEND: Pyongyang, A Journey Into North Korea by Guy Delisle
Pyongyang, A Journey Into North Korea by Guy Delisle
Guy Delisle's deadpan graphic memoir of his time working in North Korea is as gentle a reflection on the horrors of totalitarianism as can be imagined. An animator and cartoonist, Delisle is sent by his French employer to oversee cheap fill-in production at a firm in Pyongyang. Most of his time is spent working out ways to alleviate the crushing boredom of life in the panopticon–foreign workers in North Korea are constantly accompanied by guides and translators carefully selected for their party loyalty and overall blandness, exploration beyond obviously and hilariously scripted propaganda events is forbidden and the radio only gets one station. The art sits solidly in the journalistic/memoir comic fashion, blandly approachable in the style of Marjane Satrapi or Joe Sacco. Detail is sparse but movement and characterization are handled quite well, which helps when depicting a country where too many ill-considered dialogue bubbles could land one in a gulag. The narrator's interior monologue echoes Art Spiegelman's wry detachment to a level that can feel almost insensitive when dealing with the forced representatives of the most oppressive regime on the planet. That aside, Pyongyang provides an amusing perspective on a fascinating topic.
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Dennis Quaid and Sean Connery, "DragonHeart" (1996): The last dragon and a knight — a former dragonslayer — team up to fight an evil king. Quaid is the knight and Connery gives voice to Draco the dragon.
Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (2013): The dwarves continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. McKellen is Gandolf the grey, and Bilbo is a hobbit.
Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale and Gerard Butler, "Reign of Fire" (2002): Invading fire-breathing dragons set fire to the planet. McConaughey, Bale and Butler are in the fight.
Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich, "Eragon" (2006): A farm boy finds a dragon's egg and fights an evil king. Irons plays a storyteller and Malkovich an ex-dragon rider.
Danny Glover, "Age of the Dragons" (2011): Captain Ahab (Glover) searches for the Great White Dragon in this fantasy film, a la "Moby-Dick."
Godzilla, "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah" (1991): Time travelers use Godzilla to destroy Japan's economy.


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Lisa currently serves as a Director of Dos Margaritas, an environmental foundation with programs focused in Latin America. She is an advisor & investor in several social ventures including: New Resource Bank, Convio, Squidoo, Slide, TasteBook, MePlease, Instructables & Greener World Media.
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The Titanoboa was a one-ton, 48-foot-long snake who lived 58-million years ago. Scientists thought it couldn't exist. Yet, they discovered its fossil in Cerrajón, Colombia. She was a constrictor that could kill anything with a pressure of 400 pounds per square inch. That's the equivalent of being under three Eiffel Towers.
The people at the Smithsonian Magazine asked themselves who would win the battle between this enormous prehistoric snake—the largest ever discovered—and the most famous megacarnivore of the Cretaceous Period, the 6.8-ton Tyrannosaurus Rex. They lived in different places and different times, but that didn't stop them to imagine such an epic battle.
I hope that one day they actually grow these beasts in the lab and that we could see the battle on TV for real. Before they take over the world, killing us all. [Smithsonian Magazine]


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Usama Bin Karim Al Haremi, Head of Corporate Communications And Media of Oman Air notified that American and other writers beside travel experts remain fascinated by Oman, the oasis of peace and frankincense, which is becoming a much highly thought of tourist destination worldwide. American, Canadian, Far Eastern and other media outlets, beside various websites worldwide have vastly published the article titled "For the Middle East of storybooks, try Oman," by Shelley Emling, a well-known American journalist. The story was sent out by Cox News Service, and distributed via The New York Times News service on Monday, November 10, 2008. Founded in 1898, Cox Enterprises is one of America's leading media businesses. The company owns fifteen television stations, 81 radio stations, and a large cable television enterprise including the Travel Channel.
The interdiction reads, "Mommy, I think I have some camel meat stuck in my teeth." Now there's something I don't hear my 8-year-old daughter say every day. But then, we weren't on an everyday kind of American family vacation. My husband, Scott, my three children and I were in Oman, a place so remote that some of my friends had to look it up on their globes. Though we didn't know it at the time, this Middle Eastern gem bordering Saudi Arabia has been named by many travel guides as a major hot spot for 2009. We spent nine days in October in this exotic state on the Arabian Sea, dividing our time between Muscat, the capital, and Salalah, a port city in the far south bordered by some of the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen.
The eating of camel meat came smack in the middle, when we opted to break away from our five-star luxury hotel and trek out into the remote Empty Quarter - the world's largest sand desert - for a night of camping with a Bedouin guide. Although I would have been perfectly content to lie by the pool, my husband had convinced me that a dunes-filled desert tour was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, certainly one not to be missed by our children.
So off we went in our SUV on a four-hour journey from Salalah into the abyss, a ride that started on a smooth highway and ended on a trackless desert sandscape that rapidly alternated between ascending and descending. On the way, our guide took great delight in pointing out every gnarled frankincense tree we came across - and we came across a lot. Oman takes enormous pride in its frankincense, and the scent of the tree's resin is ubiquitous in homes, shops and hotels throughout the country. After coming to grips with the reality that fine grains of sand were going to get everywhere, I had to admit that there was something spectacular about watching the sunset in a sand dune swath covering 250,000 square miles of southern Arabia.
As we lay on our raised cots that night, out in the open, under a sky blazing with stars made me forget the white mice and black beetles scurrying across the sand. Indeed, after an alfresco dinner of camel meat, chicken, rice and garlic-touched fresh vegetables cooked by a handful of Bedouin men, the Arabian night cast a spell over me. And so did the rest of the holiday, filled with camels, beachcombing, world-class scuba diving and meals of mouth-watering tuna steaks and hummus.
Oman was an isolated, inward-looking nation until the 1970s, when the current leader, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, embarked on a lightning-fast investment and rebuilding scheme designed to bring the country into the 20th century. Today, Oman is a peaceful country that hasn't been afflicted with the same kind of turmoil so prevalent in other parts of the Middle East. Forty years ago, there were only six miles of paved road in this Kansas-sized country. Today there are thousands of miles of freeways, as well as road signs in English as well as Arabic. There also are some top-notch luxury hotels and restaurants.
In Muscat, we stayed at the massive Shangri-La's Barr Al Jissah Resort, which boasts three hotels encompassing 638 rooms and nearly 20 different restaurants. Although parts of the country are strangely Western - there's a Dairy Queen in the Muscat airport - this is still very much a Middle Eastern country, one that perfectly blends old and new.
Away from the hotels, many women still cover themselves in long black robes. And men still wear the long, flowing tunics known as dishdashas, as well as the intricately embroidered skull cap called a kumma. Besides Oman's vast desert and plush hotels, why would one make the seven-hour plane ride from London - or a much longer journey from Texas?
One major draw is the largely untouched 1,000 miles of coastline. In Oman, you can still find wide stretches of gorgeous sand, overrun with shells but with not a single sunbather. Another attraction is Muscat itself, with its mosques, palaces, and historic harbor district dominated by a pair of 16th-century fortresses, Mirani and Jalali. One afternoon we visited the city's colorful Muttrah souk and enjoyed getting lost in the winding alleyways that pass stalls hawking spices, crafts, scarves, silverware, and other souvenirs, all under a canopied roof of palm fronds.
From our Shangri-La hotel just outside Muscat, we also were able to arrange half-day snorkeling journeys on which the children were able to swim alongside huge sea turtles. There are more than 100 dive sites around Muscat alone, and even non-divers can enjoy close encounters with fish, turtles, dolphins, and whale sharks. But even better were the beaches around Salalah, a 90-minute plane ride from Muscat. Here we stayed at the lovely Crowne Plaza Hotel surrounded by some of the most pristine coastline in the world, a coastline that is especially alluring during the months of October through April.
What we liked best about Oman was that there are no glass skyscrapers of 21st century commerce to mar the skyline as there are in Dubai, Oman's flashy tourist-filled neighbor. There are simply jagged bluffs, old-fashioned food markets, hospitable people, and camels and goats grazing by the sides of roads. We left the country armed with Christmas presents for friends, as well as hopes that Oman will retain its traditional, low-key flavor. We also arrived home with sand still in our suitcases.
But after such a great vacation, who cares?
Head of Corporate Communications and Media of Oman Air notified that Shelley Emling, a native of Dallas, began her reporting career with UPI in New Orleans. Emling joined Cox in 1992 and later, she became the first Cox Newspapers New York correspondent. For the past several years in London, she has been a journalist for Cox and also writes for The New York Times, USA TODAY, Fortune magazine, and the International Herald Tribune, both in print and online.
Al Haremi further highlighted that The Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau was founded in 1974. It serves the 17 daily Cox newspapers and 26 non-daily newspapers and shoppers from Washington, domestic bureaus in New York and on the West Coast, as well as foreign bureaus in Beijing, London, Mexico City, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Stories written by Cox correspondents are distributed via The New York Times News service to roughly 650 additional newspapers worldwide with a combined daily circulation of about 35 million. Over the years, Cox Newspapers correspondents he said, have won, or shared in virtually every major American journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize.


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Heloise Rajkumari-Icy Ice Cream Bowl
At Design Interviews
Interview with Heloise Rajkumari : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Heloise Rajkumari : The idea is to bring together all elements used while serving ice cream desserts and make them appear as a whole. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Heloise Rajkumari : The primary focus was to give a minimalistic perception and make the spoon appear that it belongs to the serving dish set and not just retrofitting. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Heloise Rajkumari : Commercialize it. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Heloise Rajkumari : Three months. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Heloise Rajkumari : I designed this particular concept to change the conventional way of serving ice cream. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Heloise Rajkumari : I intent to produce my own work. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Heloise Rajkumari : It all started when dessert came in a conventional ice cream bowls and spoons on a separate plate. It provoked me to think why these elements are treated separately when they are meant to be together. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Heloise Rajkumari : Icy is very much influenced by the contemporary design trends and also by faceted crystals of various shapes such as Marquise, Princess, etc. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Heloise Rajkumari : Hotels and Restaurants .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Heloise Rajkumari : This design has an aluminium base to support the crystals and also hold spoon at the base and these make Icy unique. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Heloise Rajkumari : The name came up when I was arranging the set in order. And suddenly the frames began to appear as the word "ICY". The entire set also gives a perception of chill, cold and transparent ice crystals floating above the frames. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Heloise Rajkumari : Solidworks and Keyshot .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Heloise Rajkumari : The most unique aspect of ICY is that, it brings together all the elements required while serving ice cream by using a frame to support the crystal bowls and hold the spoon. It also has a magnet embedded at the base to keep the spoon intact. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Heloise Rajkumari : I had few discussions with my designer friends to solve technical and manufacturing problems. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Heloise Rajkumari : Technology is playing an important role for realizing this product in the way it is intended. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Heloise Rajkumari : Study and research on materials which do not shield magnetic field and also magnets which has high curie temperature were done. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Heloise Rajkumari : Casting the Aluminium frame with thin Sm2Co17 magnet embedded inside it. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Heloise Rajkumari : I felt that this design is unique in terms of its functionality and aesthetics. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Heloise Rajkumari : I had to drop many other ideas while developing this design because it will be difficult to manufacture. So, I had to think of a good idea which solves this manufacturing problems while the functionality remains the same. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Heloise Rajkumari : The Crystals bowls have faceted surfaces. Even the grooves on the frame for holding these crystals have exactly the same surface facets. This is done so that the crystals sit only in one position without slipping off. .
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Kent Beck
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Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming. He currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
His business activities include contract programming using Java/Eclipse, writing, consulting (mostly remote), and presenting workshops with his partner Cynthia Andres. Please contact him directly for more information.
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We're having some fun in this latest episode with our friend and current FantasyPros featured writer, Dan Harris. We're mock drafting from an early, middle and late round pick to give you the full spectrum of which players we like in a PPR draft (11:12).Mock Draft Simulator --> http://draftwizard.fantasypros.com/football/mock-draft-simulator/
Tony Romo's retiring and now the question is, does he belong in the Hall of Fame (1:02)? We're discussing all the latest news before jumping into the dynasty rankings and explaining why WRs tend to be ranked higher in dynasty versus redraft leagues (22:42). Is Odell Beckham the clear #1 dynasty receiver (23:48)? Should Cam Newton be ranked lower (27:52)? What about Devonta Freeman (36:49) or Kyle Rudolph (43:05)?Consensus Dynasty Rankings: https://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/rankings/dynasty-overall.phpArticle reference (1:02): https://www.fantasypros.com/2017/04/tony-romo-belongs-in-the-hall-of-fame/
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Our consensus draft rankings for the 2017 season are available for all to check out and we're going through them today with Dan Clasgens of Get Sports Info. Find out our thoughts on players from each position starting with QBs (13:50), RBs (21:51), and WRs (30:41) before we wrap up with the tight ends (45:50).Expert Consensus Rankings: https://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/rankings/consensus-cheatsheets.php
We're joined by Ryan McDowell of Dynasty League Football to have some fun as we run a straight draft picking rookies. We're giving our thoughts on the latest news regarding Eddie Lacy (2:22) and Rex Burkhead (7:58) before diving into the number one dynasty rookie (11:09). With 18 players being picked, you'll definitely want to listen in to get your fantasy football fill.
Sure, it's just March and we're already starting a mock draft, but we love football so why not? With the recent transactions in free agency, which we're discussing in detail (Brandin Cooks - 1:45... Martellus Bennett - 12:58...), an impact can already be felt as we go pick-by-pick and analyze our options. Now with March Madness happening, we had to talk some college hoops so we're joined by special guest, Keith Goldner of numberFire.com, to talk bracket strategy, dark horses, and more ahead of the tournament (43:58).Mock Draft Simulator --> http://draftwizard.fantasypros.com/football/mock-draft-simulator/
It's been a busy day with NFL Free Agency and we're covering the frenzy with our guest, Mike Wright of The Fantasy Footballers. We've got every impactful move covered starting with Alshon Jeffery (2:21), the Brock Osweiler fiasco (6:15), and we're hitting topics as they pop across our screens... Kenneth Dixon suspension anyone (15:50)? Free agency is far from over, but you'll want to listen in to get all our thoughts on what has transpired up to this point.
We're back to talk some football and are incredibly excited to introduce Mike Tagliere as the newest member of our show. The new chapter starts today with the latest free agency news including where Brandin Cooks could be playing in 2017 (2:11), what the franchise tag means for Le'Veon Bell & Kirk Cousins (11:35), as well as a position-by-position breakdown of the available players starting with QBs (16:42), RBs (26:13) and wrapping up with WRs (40:17).Free Agency Primer -> https://www.fantasypros.com/2017/03/nfl-free-agency-primer-fantasy-football/
The Super Bowl was one for the ages and we're already looking forward to the 2017 season. We're excited to have Pat Daugherty of Rotoworld joining us to talk about even more football as we dive into our early consensus rankings available now at FantasyPros.com. We're going tier by tier as Bobby and Pat talk Le'Veon Bell or David Johnson at #1 (2:57), which guys stand out in each tier, and some intriguing names further down the list (18:56).
Bobby and guest, Dan Harris, discuss who could be the surprise player for the Pats on Sunday (7:35), what to expect from their crowded backfield (8:52), and the heavily debated topic of whether or not Tom Brady is now the best QB ever (12:15). And we can't talk about this matchup without going into just how good this Falcons' offense is (17:04). For all of you who are looking forward to the next season already, we've got you covered as we make 2018 predictions (25:13) before taking a look at some of the prop bets for this weekend (28:20).
We're taking our final show of the season down to Southern California as Bobby breaks down the weekend slate with Doug Norrie of Daily Fantasy Sports Rankings. With limited options in a two game slate, find out which players you should pay up for.
We're back this week with our Divisional Round DFS coverage. With four games on the slate again, we're going to name every player that's worth considering as you build your lineups ahead of kickoff. To help, we've got Jared Kwart of FantasyCruncher joining us to go matchup by matchup starting with Seattle heading to Atlanta (2:15) to take on Matt Ryan (3:18), Julio Jones (3:36) and Devonta Freeman (4:39). On the other side of the ball, Russell Wilson (10:37) and Doug Baldwin (11:45) are the offensive leaders, but it's hard to forget about Thomas Rawls (13:10) after last week. The second game that we're breaking down has the Texans visiting the Patriots. Outside of C.J. Fiedorowicz and Ryan Griffin (26:31), Bobby and Jared aren't wasting time on any Houston players, but if you're wondering which Patriots to use, they've got you covered starting with Tom Brady (19:13) and LeGarrette Blount (21:08). The third game features the Steelers at Chiefs (27:15) and you can call it "chalky", but Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell are without question the studs to use (29:33). To finish out the show, they're looking at how unstoppable Aaron Rodgers (38:41) is as he heads to Dallas to take on Dak Prescott (40:40) and Ezekiel Elliott (41:24). Don't miss a second of this player packed episode.
We're here with our first ever playoff podcast and Justin MacMahan of Daily Fantasy Insider joins host, Bobby Sylvester to break down the four matchups this weekend. Not all the matchups are pretty, and in some cases, they're downright ugly, but we're covering all the big names starting with the G-Men visiting Green Bay (3:56) as the two talk about Paul Perkins (5:07), Aaron Rodgers (7:46), Eli Manning (8:23), Odell Beckham (9:59), Jordy Nelson (11:28), Ty Montgomery (14:17) as well as a few smaller names in Aaron Ripkowski (5:51), Sterling Shepard (13:15) and Geronimo Allison (13:39). Then it's arguably the worst playoff matchup of the season with the Raiders and Texans facing off (15:05). While there aren't many appealing plays, hear what Bobby and Justin have to say about Latavius Murray (18:26), Lamar Miller (19:22), DeAndre Hopkins (21:00) and the two Raiders receivers (21:13). The Lions will head to Seattle in a great matchup and you'll want to hear about why Doug Baldwin (24:17), Golden Tate (27:56), and Anquan Boldin (28:19) could all be solid plays. To close the show, the Steelers should rack up points against the Dolphins (32:51) and it'd be foolish to not have any Steelers in your lineup, namely Antonio Brown (34:04) and Le'Veon Bell (34:44).
The Week 17 DFS show features Doug Norrie of DSFR.com and host, Bobby Sylvester. The pair starts with quarterbacks (2:46) and are both big believers in Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson this week. Then they move on to running backs (14:46) where they discuss the controversial Pittsburgh backfield situation and whether it makes sense to fade David Johnson. When they chat about wide receivers (30:18) Jordy Nelson is an easy piece to agree on and both Doug and Bobby have cheap wide receivers they are excited about. They close out the show by talking about tight ends (41:05), defense (43:34) and stacks for the main slate (45:22)
Joe Dolan of FantasyGuru.com joins host Bobby Sylvester to hand out fantasy awards for season-long leagues position by position. The pair discusses quarterbacks at 5:09, running backs at 10:48, wide receivers at 14:24, tight ends at 20:55 and finally defenses at 23:47 before handing out league-wide awards (25:03) including the best quarterback to target for the season and the most disappointing fantasy player. Joe and Bobby close out the conversation (32:06) by taking a peek into 2017, talking about who they are excited about and which players they're targeting in keeper leagues during the off-season.
Jared Kwart (@FCJaredK) from FantasyCruncher.com joins the show to discuss the Week 16 slate for daily fantasy contests. Topics include: quarterbacks (4:19); running backs (17:32); wide receivers (27:58); tight end (39:37); defenses (43:41); and stacks (46:19).
Mike Tagliere (@MikeTagliereNFL) of Pro Football Focus joins the show to discuss his rankings versus the Expert Consensus heading into Week 16. Topics include: 2016 MVP picks (1:04); rankings for quarterbacks (8:26), running backs (16:25), wide receivers (29:36), tight ends (36:51), and defenses (42:04).
Dan Clasgens (@DanClasgens) of GetSportsInfo.com joins us to chat about the waiver wire for fantasy football championship matchups in Week 16. We begin with 'three truths and a lie', a game where Bobby gives Dan three truths and one lie, and Dan must determine the lie (1:59) and move on to wide receiver waiver wire options (6:09); running backs (22:09); streaming tight ends (26:48); streaming quarterbacks (29:53); and streaming defenses (32:45).
Derek Farnsworth, otherwise known as Notorious (@RG_Notorious) in DFS circles, chats with host, Bobby Sylvester about Week 15's DFS slate. The pair starts with quarterbacks (2:10) and are both high on Matt Ryan, Tyrod Taylor and Joe Flacco. When they transition to running backs (9:47), Derek is a big believer in running out both David Johnson and Le'Veon Bell. They also break down Kenneth Farrow and a handful of other intriguing running backs. Derek and Bobby have different opinions about the top wide receivers (18:52), then dive into some cheaper plays like Sammy Watkins and Stefon Diggs that could help listeners this week. When chatting about tight ends (27:44), Bobby gets really excited about LaDarius Green, while Derek mentions several interesting plays. Finally, they wrap up the conversation (30:28) by discussing defensive units and their favorite stacks of the weekend.
James Koh (@JamesDKoh) joins the show to discuss Week 15 rankings and the fantasy playoffs. Topics include: Week 15 quarterback matchups (2:12); San Diego's backfield (5:28); Adrian Peterson's possible return (7:57); high-end wide receiver injuries (10:43); if Dak Prescott and Marcus Mariota are worthy of starting this week in your playoff matchup (14:35); Kenneth Dixon's role in the Baltimore offense (23:22); if Mike Gillislee is worth a dart throw (27:01); if Allen Robinson, DeAndre Hopkins or A.J. Green are worth starting in a fantasy playoff matchup (29:35); Taylor Gabriel's place in the Atlanta receiving corps (33:35); and if you should start Donte Moncrief or Malcolm Mitchell despite their tough opponents (36:56).
Jeff Ratcliffe (@JeffRatcliffe) of ProFootballFocus.com joins the show to break down Week 14 and look ahead to waiver wire additions for week 15. Topics include: Matt Forte's injury and the Jets' backfield (3:15); Melvin Gordon's injury and how it impacts the San Diego backfield (6:00); Robbie Anderson's stretch of solid performances (8:20); the running back situation in Green Bay and Detroit (10:42); Dontrelle Inman's emergence in the San Diego passing game and if he or Marqise Lee are worthy pickups (13:22); Allen Robinson and DeAndre Hopkins' dynasty value (19:53); what to do with Tyler Lockett (19:48); streaming defenses in the fantasy playoffs (24:03); and tight ends worth streaming in your playoff matchups (28:22).
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Focus Now On Today
August 31, 2007
What can you say about yesterday's thriller that hasn't already been written or said?
The homestand started out pretty bleak but ended with as much excitement as been seen at Citizens Bank Park since the place opened. The place was really rocking yesterday. It was noticed by the players. The fans can be the tenth man on the field the rest of the way.
Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins will be in the mix when the writers vote for the Most Valuable Player. Votes will be sent in at the end of the season. Post-season play won't have an impact.
The return of Utley on Monday was followed by four straight wins. That says a lot for his value to the team.
Rollins is getting some national attention as Sports Illustrated has sent a reporter to Miami this weekend.
Barring injury, these three will go down in Phillies history as the greatest players at their positions.
Kyle Kendrick and J. D. Durbin have certainly given the pitching staff a shot in the arm.
Kendrick is one of four NL rookies with seven wins. His 3.89 ERA ranks second among first-year pitchers. Durbin has a five-game winning streak, which matches the season high for rookies.
There are five NL rookies with saves. Durbin and John Ennis (one each) are among the five.
Rookie pitchers are 15-9 for the Phillies this season. In 1980, two rookie pitches played key roles for the Phillies, Bob Walk and Marty Bystrom.
New Day
As much as we enjoy the four-game sweep, today is a new day. The Phillies are in Miami for the Marlins. Focus needs to be on today and not yesterday..
Looking back at four straight wins shouldn't be on the radar as were the four straight losses last week.
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The past 5 games have been great. This team is fired up, and the fans are right back into it.
I really like this team. Besides great position players like Rollins, Howard, & Utley; guys like Werth, Iguchi, and Dobbs have all stepped up big when needed.
The momentum is big right now. Now it's to Miami. Kendrick's been an exciting player this season, I look for him to keep it up!
Back on August 21, I commented that the Mets are a fragile team…They are tumbling…perfect time for them to hit a dry spell…after all the Phillies have had slumps a lot this year…and face it, the Mets are an NY overrated team anyway.
Hi Larry. Congratulations on your impending retirement. Has a successor been named?
Since we observed the second anniversary of Hurricaine Katrina lately, it jogged my memory to a story that ran about two months after that storm about how former Whiz Kids' utility infielder Ralph "Putsy" Caballero had been displaced by that storm. I wonder if you guys could do a follow-up story on his present condition. A simple reply here as to how he's doing here would be good, if you can't do a full story on the website home page. Also this month (Sept.14) marks the 63rd anniversary of Granny Hamner, then age 17, and Caballero, then 16, making their major league debuts for the Phils. At a time (1944) when the military had tapped most available baseball talent the Phils decided to sign two players who were too young for the military draft.
My research has shown that there are 22 surviving Phillies who played for the team before the end of World War Two, and naturally "Putsy" at 79 is the youngest. Thanks for any information you can provide on him.
Dennis, Irvington, NJ


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This is the third and final post in a three-part series on client profitability. In Part One, we looked at the challenges of growth and dispelled three major myths about client segmentation. In Part Two, we looked at a case study of an advisory firm that learned about its true profitability and solved its client capacity issues. In this post, we give you a step-by-step approach to determining your own firm's client profitability.
In my two previous blogs, I made the case for instituting a formal approach to client profitability in your advisory firm. By doing so, you can address some of the common challenges inherent in building a growing RIA practice, better allocate scarce resources to the right clients and prepare your firm to grow and perform more effectively.
The next step is applying the concept to your own practice. At Schwab Advisor Services we developed a comprehensive eight-week program called "Managing Client Profitability" that we implement with RIAs who want to understand their firm's profitability at the client level. You can use some of the steps from our program to do some fact-finding about your practice that can put you on the road to improving your own client profitability.
Step One: What does your practice look like today?
This first step can help you create a picture of your current client base and the services you provide. Advisors often tell me they strive to give all their clients the same high level of service. But upon further analysis of what they actually deliver and how and by whom it's delivered, it is not uncommon to see that individual client experience may vary in terms of the level and types of services they receive, the amount of time they spend with their advisor and their fee schedule. Sometimes the best way to find out how different clients are currently being served is to talk with your support staff.
Think about how you might categorize your clients into groups with similar needs. An obvious starting point is assets under management (AUM), and this criterion is often an accurate proxy for a client's degree of complexity and specific needs. But consider other ways of grouping your clients such as:
- The particular unique needs they have
- Their wealth life cycle
- The services you deliver
- How often clients want to consult with you
- The mix of team members that support your clients
- Who in the firm is primarily responsible for working with certain clients.
The goal is to pinpoint the characteristics about your client groups that you find most accurately reflect client needs and your service offer. You can then use this as a filter to help divide your entire client "pie" into smaller slices comprised of similar types of clients (whether they are similar with regard to AUM, which principal serves them, or whatever standard you have chosen to use).
Next, assign each client to one of the client categories you have identified (I suggest you limit your segments to no more than four or five.).
In my last blog, I wrote about Trinity Wealth Advisors. When they went through their client profitability exercise, they saw that, generally, they could put their clients into one of four defined groups:
- High net worth clients with complex needs
- Clients with simpler needs
- Emerging wealth and referral sources
- Friends and family
Step Two: What does it cost to serve your clients?
Now that you have created a way to view your client base more strategically—with an eye toward client need and the complexity involved in serving them—the next step is to align revenue and expenses associated with providing services for each client segment. Begin by listing the annual revenue generated by each client.
Next, estimate how much it costs to serve a typical client in each of your segments. I find that few firms track their time, which would be the most accurate way to determine client profitability. So here is a straightforward approach to estimating profitability.
In most firms, salaries and benefits comprise about 75% of expenses, and most of that is devoted to client-facing individuals—advisors, portfolio managers, planners. Determine how many hours in a year are devoted to delivering service to a typical client by specific function and role (client meetings, meeting preparation and analysis, etc.). Then apply your respective salary expenses against those roles to get a better handle on the most expensive—and variable—part of your service offer—time.
Finally, estimate other expenses, such as rent or mailing performance reports, and determine whether those expenses should be assigned equally or proportionally to each client group. This process allows you to reach a reasonably accurate estimate of what it costs to serve a particular segment so you can begin to get a handle on each segment's relative profitability.
This analytical process alone tends to open advisors' eyes to how their business is really performing; they typically begin to see opportunities to change how and what they deliver to whom.
It's important for all of you analysts out there to avoid getting too bogged down in precision during this step. Your goal is to broadly allocate the expense of serving different client groups so that you can get a picture of your resource allocation and profitability.
After doing this exercise, you will have an approximate "current cost per client." You will know not only revenue per client, but also what it costs to serve them, providing you with a fairly good estimate of your profitability at the client level. And now you have a meaningful way to discuss these results with your team to determine if all your client relationships are profitable.
Step Three: How to create a more profitable client relationship
The first two steps are intended to help you to outline and analyze the way you are currently doing business. Now the creative part of the process begins as you start experimenting with different ways to better customize the level and types of services you give to each category of client. Based on what you have learned so far, now you can think about what you want your business to look like in the future.
Essentially, this is an exercise that allows you to test—for each of the segments you've identified—what the impact would be to profitability if you were to change the type or number of services currently provided, who is responsible to deliver them and how they are priced.
Advisors who participate in Schwab's "Managing Client Profitability" program work with business consultants and their Schwab relationship managers to review different scenarios and estimate how their client profitability would likely be affected.
Advisors can see if they are providing enough principal time to key clients, or if they may be devoting too much time to others. By experimenting with the various scenarios, you are providing a clear set of offers to the different types of clients you serve, in a way that will likely be more profitable to your firm. Most important, you are preparing your team to make better use of limited resources and enable your firm to grow more rapidly.
Enhance Firm Profitability
Understanding and proactively managing client profitability is important to the growth and success of your business. Not only can this enhance your firm's profitability, but your clients will also feel better served because you are better able to tailor your offer to the specific set of services they require. Your staff will be appropriately deployed, and firm principals may be able to free up more time for business development. The data you need is at hand. By using a process like the one described here, you can use that data to implement a client profitability strategy that will benefit both you and your clients.
J. Scott Slater is managing director of business consulting for Schwab Advisor Services.He leads a team of consultants who work with RIAs across the U.S. to build their practices and grow them more effectively. Scott can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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London was referred to Levi by Bree after she found out she was looking for a hot fling. Something on the side with no strings attached and just oozing sexual magnetism. She showed up while Levi was doing some chores and pretty much tried to dominate Levi. She did not give a damn if I was filming, she did not want any small talk or anything. She pushed Levi up against the wall and went to town on him. They took the battle of sexual wills to the bedroom and battled it out like two gyrating G-Spot gladiators of the Coitus Colosseum. This girl had me worn out when it was all said and done and I did not even lay a hand on her. This is a MUST SEE update.


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the pioneer woman – a very well known blogger, ree drummond makes some seriously good looking food. probably my favourite recipe of hers is crash hot potatoes, basically the only potato dish i make these days. lots of olive oil, lots of rock salt, fresh herbs, cooked until super crispy – oh my. i think it's probably the ideal accompaniment to summer meals – especially with some chicken kebabs from the braai & a fresh salad. go get the recipe & make it now.
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The National Hockey League canceled more games on Monday due to a labor dispute that has wiped out the season so far.
Negotiations with federal mediators that ended last week in New York failed to resolve differences in contract negotiations aimed at ending the lockout of unionized players.
The NHL has now scrapped games through Dec. 30, according to a league statement.
The league first canceled preseason games and now has called off the first half of the schedule plus the marquee Winter Classic outdoor match up on New Year's Day and the All-Star game.
The door, however, still is open to a possible deal to salvage the second half of the season and the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has said any abbreviated regular season should probably have a minimum of 48 games per team, a threshold the league will cross in early to mid January.
No new contract talks have been scheduled.
"Trying to set up something for this week, but nothing finalized yet," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement on NHL.com.
The league and the players have been without a collective bargaining agreement since September.
A total of 526 games, nearly 43 percent of the season, were scheduled from the start of the regular season on October 11 through December 30, the NHL said.
A similar labor dispute canceled the entire 2004-05 NHL season.
Ashley Fantz filed this report.
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What does a good security requirement for an application look like? I am talking about functional as well as non-functional security requirements here.
For traceability reasons I consider it important that the requirement is fully testable. I also want it to be technology-independent. What else is considered important for a good security requirement?


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> No, I'm not dead. Just your typical month-long absence. Things have been hectic for me recently, and I don't know how often I'll be able to get on BWI nowadays. But I figured I owed at least one article after not even checking on the site in over a month.
A lot has happened since I've been away, with the most significant thing pertaining to Ryan Braun and his second straight eventful offseason. But first, let's talk positives: it's hard not to be positive when baseball is getting back into full swing.
> The Brewers' had their first Spring Training game yesterday, and squeezed past the Athletics in a 2-1 pitchers' duel. The A's recorded just five hits off the Brewers' pitching staff, while the Brewers themselves managed just three. But patience at the plate was what gave the Brewers the edge: they drew seven walks against an otherwise-solid Athletics pitching staff.
Braun got the Brewers on the board in the first inning with a home run in his first (and only, as it turns out) ST at-bat. The second Brewers run came on Jean Segura's RBI groundout in the fourth inning. In the seventh, prospect Michael Choice drove in the only Athletics run.
> So offense wasn't exactly the Brewers' strong point yesterday: the only players to pick up hits were Braun, Jonathan Lucroy, and Caleb Gindl. However, Carlos Gomez and Taylor Green drew back-to-back walks twice in the game. Hopefully this foreshadows that Gomez will be a bit more patient at the plate this year.
But the pitching was nothing but stellar. Aside from Santo Manzanillo allowing a run in 2/3 innings of work, the staff shut down the A's. Mike Fiers worked around a shaky 26-pitch first inning to toss two scoreless innings. From there, John Axford, Jim Henderson, Donovan Hand, Rob Wooten, Michael Olmsted, and Jesus Sanchez- who recorded the save- all had scoreless outings as well.
> Speaking of Olmsted, he's received a lot of clamor and praise from players early on in Spring Training. He pitched the eighth yesterday and recorded two strikeouts. Hopefully that's a role we'll see him playing during the regular season.
> With that out of the way, let's move onto the news that's made this past month somewhat miserable for the Brewers.
> So there's this pharmacy in Miami that's been referred to as the "Biogenisis clinic." Roughly a month ago, news broke out that it had allegedly sold PEDs to six players: Alex Rodriguez, Gio Gonzalez, Nelson Cruz, Melky Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, and Yasmani Grandal. Perhaps not coincidentally, four of these players- A-Rod, Melky, Colon, and Grandal- had all been linked to PEDs (and, in some cases, suspended for use of them) in the past.
Since this incident was first reported by Yahoo!, however, more players have come out to be linked to Biogenesis.
Braun was one of them. But you knew it had to happen since he had said just a few days before that he was enjoying his non-eventful offseason.
To be honest, though, I'm not nearly as worried about this case as I was about the whole fiasco last offseason. Braun has not been directly linked to PEDs in this case- at least not yet. His name is on some extremely sketchy piece of paper next to a sum of money, but it does not say that he bought PEDs. According to Braun, he reached out to Anthony Bosch- the Biogenesis founder- for help during his trial last offseason. Why would he link himself to someone like that? Beats me. But all I know is that he hasn't been linked to PEDs directly yet, and, until he is, he's completely innocent.
> There was a 1/10 chance that Mat Gamel was going to re-tear his surgically repaired ACL. But, since he's Mat Gamel, that automatically becomes a 10/10 chance, which it did. Now he's going to miss the whole 2013 season after getting knocked out of the 2012 season in May.
That leaves the Brewers with two injured first baseman to start the 2013 season, as Corey Hart will likely miss at least a month as well. The Brewers hope to tread water internally at first base until Hart returns, and are primarily looking at Alex Gonzalez (re-signed to a Major League deal to play a utility role), Hunter Morris (has never played above Double-A), and Bobby Crosby (former Rookie of the Year, signed to a minor league pact).
Personally, I'd like to see Morris get a chance, but I can see where the Brewers wouldn't want to waste an option on him and start his free agency clock early just so he can fill in for a month.
> And that's about it for now. The Brewers take on the Indians later today at 2:05 PM CT. Mark Rogers will take the hill as one of the many Brewers competing for a spot in the rotation. Carlos Carrasco will go for Cleveland.