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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

A New Coat Of Paint | Tootzypop

My husband and I closed escrow on our house in 2000. More than a decade has passed since we walked into the front door, bright-eyed and ready to work. When we bought the house, it sported a nasty 1980s ?retro? deco interior ? not the best fit for a 1929 Spanish house, but we had big plans. Our house had to be period PERFECT or it just wouldn?t be a worthy home for us.

So, we yanked up the dog pee-stained gray carpet to find some serviceable hardwood floors beneath. We painted the dingy white walls with tasteful colors. We ripped out the crappy marble tiles around the fireplace and hired a handyman to mold an adobe-style plaster fireplace. We were ten years younger and had a lot of energy and some kind friends to help.

Our home improvement mission continued for years and then it stopped. The house wasn?t ?finished? ? oh no, there was plenty more to do. We were finished ? with manual labor every weekend.

Eventually, the hideous countertops in the kitchen didn?t seem so disgusting to our eyes. In fact, they became invisible to us. Life went along with its endless challenges and having the PERFECT home was no longer our #1 priority.

We were recently re-bitten by the home improvement bug. It started out innocently? I bought some new curtains for our guest room, never suspecting that it would lead to re-painting the dining room. As we prepped the dining room walls that we painted a decade ago, I couldn?t believe how many new cracks had to be repaired. After years of living here, we couldn?t see the flaws that slowly overtook our home? again.

We?re planning on painting more rooms next weekend. We might even replace that hideous tile in the kitchen. Or we might go on a hike instead.

Feeling a little down, but just don?t know why? Look around your home, maybe there?s something that needs a little TLC that you forgot to notice years ago. My little spurt of home improvement helped me out of my winter blahs. If you?ve got the blues, maybe all you need is a new coat of paint in your dining room.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Bowling results | Daily Republic

There were two 300 games rolled at Stars, Don Henry laying out twelve in a row on Tuesday in the Vacaville Honda All Star Draft league, and on Wednesday in the Stars & Strikes, Ken Manchester fires off 12 strikes in a row for his 300. Nice bowling guys

City tournament is next weekend (now called the CSUSBC Open Championships) and is open to all league bowlers, the sign up sheets are at the desk and the deadline is today, your info and registration fee can be dropped into the CSUSBC mail box at the bowl.

Saturday ?at Stars there is a six game scratch tournament at 9 am, with $250 added to the prize fund by Vacaville Honda. You can pre register or sign up that day but space is limited and there is only one squad.

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Thursday Rejects: James seale Sr. 225, James Seale Jr. 246 Leroy brown 215 Kim Lincoln 212 David Hutson 236 Earl Copper 203 Ernie Trejo 202, 214, 605 Larry Gale 234 Bill Bollman 236, 215, 623 Carl Case 235, 202, 607 Linda McAuliffe 203 John McAuliffe 227 Rudy Ramirez 269, 259, 718 Mike Julio 226 Steven Pangborn 209, 211, 202, 622 Bernie LuVisi 228, 237 David Davis 226 John Kirgan 236, 675 Glenn Evans 238, 226, 676 Debbie Paulos 230 David Jones 228 Scott Stacey 213 Kim Long 246, 619 Ted Basden 202 Dennis Reed 237, 248, 276, 761 Kenny Paulos Jr. 245 Dennis Partlow Jr. 258, 680 Gary Woodward 211 Ben Wood 245

Rancheros: Bruce Stewart Jr. 232, 238, 693 Matt Holman 201, 203 Gary Filzen 201 Jason Vallette 225 Barry Purves 215, 211, 617 Les Warner III 216, 235, 645 Gary Nesbitt 202 Ron Biesenthal 235, 202, 631 Charles K Hunter 206 Bill Slade 200 Ben Brown 203, 210, 600 Mario Ochoa 254, 230 Jim McKim 227, 258, 248, 733 Bill Oliver 210 John Moffett 201, 211

Saturday Mixed Rowdies: Louie DeBartolo 234 Tex Davis 212 Chris Jensen 222 Denny Jensen 227 Rose Ann Melton 201 Brenda Moore 215 Bill Moore 224 Tony Bares 220, 214, 624 Don Spurgeon 243

Friday Mens HDCP 11-Vacaville Honda: Dave Miller 235 John Kosar 203 Kip Hartnett 279, 676 Tony McKinney 234 Sean M. 217, 235, 636 Tony Broome 203, 205 Paul McKinney 288, 235, 245, 768 Jeff Lopez 215, 202 Raymond Vasquez 256, 254, 711 Jim Seale Sr. 237, 267, 267, 771 James Seale Jr. 242 Dennis Partlow Jr. 236, 246, 694 Mike Bell 201, 231 Glenn Valledor 210 Wayne S. 279, 655 DJ Weitzel Jr.-R 264, 235, 671 Joe Quitoriano 201 Ron Mitchell 212 Mel Gordon 214 Ken Peterson 225, 290, 709 Ken Doizaki 256 Ken Sanders 225, 215 J. Wiley 216 Andy Anderson 201, 214 Jeff Parker 254, 240, 709 Paul Vowels 249

Hiz N Herz: Nick Bell 212 Irvin Crews 207 Josh DeGeorge 225 Brandon Neal 201 Debbie Paulos 214 Jeff Graham 221 Dennis Danielson 222 William Moss 203 Eric Garrett 201 Greg Beasley 223, 228, 601 Keity Warner 209 Cyndi Warner 203 Les Warner 232 Cheryl Broome 202 Tony Broome 214

Vaca Employees: Sam Rowe II 216 Robbie Kazen 232 Cliff letterman 268, 662 Joe Vizzini 216 Nick Giusto 202 Chris Palwick 233 Jon Roberts 236 Allen Weihe 206, 206 Bill Thompson 218 Rick Johnson 205 Ron Kellogg 212 Kertis Hursh 203 Joy Sullivan 225 Rob Larsen Jr. 226, 201, 619 Ervin Hadenfeldt 227 Bob Antony 203 Dennis Hooten 229 Daryl Gish 266, 275, 726 Les Warner III 209

Thursday Seniors: Willa Reiff 207 Jim McNeely 235 Chris Leo 237 Bill Slade 210 John Perry 212 Mike Julio 226, 213, 202, 641 Hope Steele 201 Jim Helton 237 Darrell Baker 200

Friday Twilighters Mixed: James Irvine II 237, 246, 696 Phil Miranda 237, 254 697 Brian Harris 222, 204 Nate George 225 Curtis Ecalnea 204, 225 Melissa Williams 220 Kenny Manchester 257, 226 Dick Banks 211 Tom Millett III 246 David Dickson 269 Eric Castleman 200 Lucius Booker 236, 211

Vaca Valley Wives: Diana Cavins 205, 223 Kim Meredith 206

Starlifters Trio: Nate George 203 Len Harris 214, 212 Brian Langston 203

Monday Mixed Rowdies: Mark Grainger 205, 230 Debbie Paulos 204, 233 Leroy Brown 200 Kip Hartnett 226 Freeman Iverson 210 Richard Banks 232, 601 Joy Sullivan 213 Mark Masiclat 202 Chris Jankans 217, 204 Darius Cook 228 Tyler Butts 245, 267, 704 Alvin Thomas 203 Bernie LuVisi 227 Adam Lofton 224 Nelson Burton 200 Donny Phillips Jr. 279, 227, 729 Daniel Bradshaw 211 Rodney Smith 202, 213 Aaron O`Connell 259, 237, 261, 757

FSUSD: Rick Bryan 202 Bill Thompson 214, 233, 637

Genentech 2012: Joe Fiori 217, 604 Matt Herring 269, 202, 660 Jackie Knudson 215

Sandbaggers: Jim Anderson 200, 202 Ralph Buss 210 Carl Evans 203 Richard Evans 233 Larry Lawrence 201 Walter Mansfield 202 Robert Ward 224 Ron Anderson 224 Sig Flores 204, 201 Louis Green 209, 214 Verne Miliron 228 Steve Sardenga 215

School Employees Mixed Trio: James Lincoln 204, 202, 256, 662 Don Reppond 204 Michael Vanhoy 216, 202

Goodrich 2012: Kyrie Bell 222 Michael Bell 250, 201, 633 Sal Godinez 212 Aaron O`Connell 247, 226 Ross Reppond 200, 262, 652 Kristian Violette 234

Die Hards: May Duncan 217

After Niners: Bill Hartman 202 -Tommy Johnson 230 Ray Wesolowski 203,243,620 Justin Wesolowski 202 201 Andres Guzman 227 Bobby Hale 224

Stars & Strikes: Matthew Appleby 201 Cortney Baker 220 Dudley Baker 201 Annie Black 255 Brady Bluske 204, 235 Courtney Bourn 210 James Burt 205, 221 John Callan 246, 236, 675 Kyle Coburn 234 Russ Costanza 226, 202 Herbert Cruz 202, 201 Pete Frost 211 Bramley Gardner 213 Anita Harris 205, 219 Ron Hatfield 201, 211 Jim Hayes 209 Ronald Hedspeth 213, 212, 607 Donald Henry Jr. 258, 202, 204, 664 Wayne Houseman 208, 202 Joseph Latona Jr. 219, 222, 632 Kenneth Manchester 226, 300, 728 Kenny Manchester 243, 237, 695 Larry Millimen 212 Jim Purdy 201 Christopher Reynolds 232, 658 Alan Sabugo 205, 247, 234, 686 Ben Santos 213, 256, 664 Robert Sessoms 204 Dan Simmons 213, 222 William Slade 203 Keity Warner 204 Kimberly Wheaton 211

Funtimers: Tony Stone 215,255,654 Eric Vaughn 201,224,620 Luis Nunez 223,228,236,687 Rhonda Sparks 202 Don Sparks 211 Shawn Reynolds 249,234,656

Vacaville Honda All Star Draft: Top Ten High Game, Don Henry 300 Fred Varner 279 Kevin Mecham 276 Rob Collins 269 John Reed 267 Daryl Gish 265 Ed Chappell 264 Kevin Mecham 259 Bob Pauly, Jim Seale 258 Top Ten High Series, Kevin Mecham 783 Jim Seale 749 David LuVisi 727 Daryl Gish 723 Robby Callan 714 Don Henry710 Dennis Reed 706 Jon Roberts 705 Glenn Evans 704 Ed Chappell 702

Travis Bowl Highlights

Travis Youth League: Alex Boyce 200-201-561; Daniel Holoubek 170-193-525; Robert Holoubek 259-221-669; Patrick Patenia 187; Manika Squadrille 201-214-570; Shane Wright 213-202-605.

Travis Seniors: Dean Anderson 243-256-220-719; Sanders Dyson 245; Ralph Estrellado 215; Richard Evans 208-222-629; Cris Gomez 236-609; Louis Green 201; Lynn Knight 221; Alfredo Maynigo 217-227-602; Frank Porter 205; Gerry Propp 213-204-609; Clint Sloan 230-257-216-703; EJ Weitzel 211.

Travis Classic(4 Games): Neal Allard 212-212-206-817; Dean Anderson 238; David Dickson 207; Dennis Emory 201; Roger Horn 220; Rich Lutton 204-213; Chet Mallory 201-217; Stephen McColloch 203; Sam Rothenbaum 216; Jim Seale 207; James Seale Jr 200; Brian Vaughn 205; Roy Worthan 200; Scott Wouda 202; Mike Yonetoni 202.

Military Wives: Masako Franks 180; Carol Garcia 179-210-536; Sue Getsinger 178.

Boozers N Snoozers: Mike Ambruso 201-200; Ed Bauman 200-203; Anucha Boontip 223-216-641; Kevin Childers 245-620; Dan Clark 203; Chris Cobler 224-200; Nikki Dunsmore 212-212-620; Ralph Estrellado 211; Chris Hoffer 232; Roger Horn 211; Della Kallenback 245-234-695; Mike Kallenback 228; Noli Ladringan 226-235-634; Roi Ladringan 224; Jason Lemay 226-620; Miriam Mauel 210; Darren McIntyre 203; Fred Ramirez 223-232-655; James Richardson 246-228-234-708; Geno Rodriguez 215; Nick Slaybaugh 209; Dave Sventek 222; Ben Tadano 213-204; Owen Turner 248-220-651; Sina Walker 202; Brian Weber 214; Chuck Wetzel 215; Steve Yarbrough 224-212-632.

Wednesday Mixed: Dean Anderson 219-234-623; Anucha Boontip 231-237-687; Bo Bousley 237-225-654; Mike Carrillo 238-213-647; Dave Dickson 205; San Dyson 235; Richard Eisen 215; Bev Germany 200; Louis Green 200; Lorna Hopkins 201; Jim Irvine 203-242-647; Alfred M 201; Darren McIntyre 214; Mike Omler 222-212-625; Herb Parson 213-205-620; Jim Seale 224-247-683; Rosetta Sennette 214; Sina Walker 200; Roy Worthan 225-620.

Little 21/2: Masako Franks 190-174; Darlene Propp 181-190-542; Doris Shultz 175; Irene Tritch 180.

Travis Intramural: Tom Astarita 233; Andy Bergan 229; Anucha Boontip 249-217-647; James Brewster 235; Dan Brown 222-262-686; Ricky Brown 209; William Farmer 201; Rob Heap 217-216; Michael Hornbuckle 227-226-656; Stephen McCulloch 257-256-676; Herb Parson 232; Daniel Rodriguez 210.

Guys and Dolls Mixed: Dean Anderson 200-235-629; Anucha Boontip 202-238-621; Bo Bousley 233-207-644; Ben Brown 204; Tom Bruno 212; Ed Chappell 223-233-647; Rob Collins 222; Herb Cruz 211-240-631; Erika Davis 205; Dennis Emory 204-210; Cres Gomez 235-615; Louis Green 221-213-638; Jimbo Henry 201; EL Johnson 222; Lynn Knight 212; Del Kohrt 204; Al Lucas 200-216; Chet Mallory 247-203-630; Dave Nicholas 200; Gerry Propp 231; Jim Raudy 216; Geno Rodriguez 220-246-670; Ray Scates 227-243-652; Cliff Semmler 200; Clint Sloan 236-203-638; Owen Turner 267-619; Bob Vunesky 224; EJ Weitzel 208; Michael Wright 226-239-670.

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UFC 144: Ben Henderson dethrones Frankie Edgar in Japan

After five grueling rounds, Ben "Smooth" Henderson dethroned Frankie Edgar, and is now the new UFC Lightweight champion.

Beaming with confidence, Henderson dominated Edgar during all five rounds, giving the champ the worst beating of his MMA career. Edgar responded with his second to none heart and endurance, but it was not enough to withstand Ben Henderson physical power and size advantage throughout the fight.

Edgar and Henderson threw an equal amount of strikes, but once again, it's the challenger's power that was responsible for the champ's swollen eye and broken nose.

The judges scored the bout unanimously in favor of Ben Henderson, as Frankie Edgar shook his head in disbelief. Edgar perhaps went toe-to-toe with Henderson during all five rounds, and was never out of the fight, but there's no doubt that Henderson not only won the decision, but also the fight itself.

Henderson improves his MMA record to 16-2, and will now face, most likely, the man who dethroned him as the WEC Lightweight Champion - Anthony Pettis. "Showtime" KO'd Joe Lauzon with a vicious head kick, which gave him the right to cash in the title shot cheque he never used since merger between WEC and the UFC.

Ben Henderson could also find himself in the cage against the winner of UFC on FOX 3 encounter between Jim Miller and Nate Diaz, who are both fresh off important victories inside the Octagon.

As for Frankie Edgar, the former champ has no choice but to move down to Featherweight, where could set himself a superfight with the reigning champion Jose Aldo.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

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Choosing the Best Anti-Aging Skin Care ... - New Health and Fitness

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Women in their 20s or 30s are already worrying about the telltale signs of aging ? wrinkles, spots, and so on. Even though it?s entirely normal to be concerned with maintaining the youthfulness of the skin, worrying won?t do any good. In fact, constant worrying can cause stress and stress will simply speed up the aging process.

Do not be obsessive about how your face looks every morning. Stop trying to find those facial lines on the corners of your mouth or forehead. You?re better off using your time looking for good anti-aging products to maintain your skin?s health.

Some women believe that only those who have already begun showing telltale signs of aging are the ones who would really benefit from using anti-aging products, but that?s not the case at all. As a matter of fact, women in their 20s can usually benefit from using anti-aging products if they select the most appropriate ones for them. Concerning selecting an anti-aging skin care product, age is a vital factor. Suppose you?re over 60 and the wrinkles are very apparent on your skin. In this instance, you?ll want to pick from those anti-aging products that are specifically created for reversing the aging process. If you?re still in your 40s or 50s, on the other hand, select from products meant to arrest skin aging.

With all the different sorts of anti-aging skin care products on the market, it can be very perplexing to figure out which is the perfect match for you and your skin. It?s best to narrow the choices down to products that are from good companies and have been tested to be effective and safe to use. Keep away from products manufactured by companies with shady reputations or haven?t been adequately tested to be safe and effective.

Stay away from products with harsh ingredients. This is something you must bear in mind especially when it?s your first time to use an anti-aging skin care product. Mild products are perfect when you?re only starting out. You can work your way slowly to the more powerful anti-aging skin care products. Also pick products that are created for your skin type. There are several skin care products for different skin types ? combination skin, oily skin, dry skin, and so forth. You should know what your skin type is and search for a compatible product. Using an anti-aging product that?s suitable for your skin won?t just stop the signs of aging, it will also keep your skin healthy.

Go for natural skin care products. It?s super easy to find natural anti-aging products for skin care these days because most manufacturers now are making organic versions of their regular products. You?ll see that they are kinder on the skin, but are as effective as their counterparts with chemical ingredients. Some of the natural ingredients you need to search for are Coenzyme Q10, Phytessence Wakame, and Cynergy TK.

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Vanessa Summer is a freelance writer and has written many articles in online magazines and websites. She is one of the contributors for this website: Natural Fish Oil Supplements

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Company claiming iPad trademark sues Apple in US

Customers look at Apple products at an Apple Store in Shanghai, China, Friday Feb. 24, 2012. Proview Electronics Co., a unit of Proview International Holdings, which claims it owns the iPad name, filed a lawsuit against Apple's use of the trademark in mainland China at the Santa Clara Superior Court on Feb. 17, Proview spokeswoman Alice Wang said Friday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Customers look at Apple products at an Apple Store in Shanghai, China, Friday Feb. 24, 2012. Proview Electronics Co., a unit of Proview International Holdings, which claims it owns the iPad name, filed a lawsuit against Apple's use of the trademark in mainland China at the Santa Clara Superior Court on Feb. 17, Proview spokeswoman Alice Wang said Friday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

SHANGHAI (AP) ? Apple Inc. is facing yet another challenge to its use of the iPad trademark in China ? this time in a court in California.

Proview Electronics Co., a unit of Proview International Holdings, which claims it owns the iPad name, filed a lawsuit against Apple's use of the trademark in mainland China at the Santa Clara Superior Court on Feb. 17, Proview spokeswoman Alice Wang said Friday.

An attempt by Proview to win an injunction to stop Apple from selling iPads in Shanghai was foiled this week when a court there rejected the case pending the resolution of a similar lawsuit in a higher court in China.

Apple had no immediate comment on the California lawsuit.

The companies are feuding over whether Proview sold the mainland Chinese rights to the iPad trademark to Apple in a 2009 deal.

Proview claims the sale of the iPad China trademark to a company representing Apple by its Taiwan affiliate in 2009 was invalid. Proview has not challenged the sale of other worldwide rights to the iPad trademark to Apple in the 35,000 British pound ($55,000) deal.

Apple contends that Proview included the mainland Chinese trademark in the sale and says it violated that contract by failing to transfer the trademark rights to Apple.

Proview's lawyers have indicated their company is open to settling its claim to the trademark. In the meantime, the two sides have engaged in legal skirmishes in Hong Kong and in southern China's Guangdong province, where Proview's main office is based.

There, lower courts have sided with Proview in two cases. The Guangdong High Court is due to hear Apple's appeal of the first decision on Feb. 29.

Proview International Holdings was once one of the world's leading makers of computer monitors, with sales in 50 countries and more than 7,000 employees in factories in Taiwan and China.

But the company's main focus on manufacturing cathode-ray tube displays ? the boxy monitors that have since been replaced by LCD screens ? appears to have hurt its performance.

The company's website now says it makes LCD displays, LCD televisions and LED lights. But Proview is deep in debt and faces its shares being removed from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The company developed what it said was an "iFamily" range of products, including iTV, iWeb and iPAD. It launched its iPAD in 2000, but unlike Apple's 2010 tablet computer, Proview's earlier version failed to hit the market sweet spot that might have made it a hit.

Proview has sought to have commercial authorities in many Chinese cities stop sales of Apple's iPad. In suspending the case being heard in Shanghai, Pudong District Court rejected a demand for an injunction to stop iPad sales in Shanghai, where Apple has three big stores.

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Researcher Fu Ting contributed to this report.

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Friday, February 24, 2012

How To Get The Biggest Personal Injury Settlement

People are involved in accidents every day. Perhaps that is why personal injury cases are such a common legal issues throughout the United States.

If you or someone you love was severely injured in an accident that was caused by another party?s negligence, then it is imperative that you hire a personal injury attorney. An experienced personal injury attorney can help you understand your legal options regarding personal injury claims. This will help allow you to pursue a personal injury lawsuit against the parties at fault in the most effective manner, and hopefully lead to you receiving the biggest personal injury settlement possible.

A lot of people assume that their family lawyer can handle their case, so they will go to them for help. However, the reality is that family lawyers often don?t have expertise, in-depth experience and specialized knowledge in personal injury law and may not be best able to handle the case.

You need an expert such as a personal injury lawyer to utilize their experience navigating through this part of the legal system to handle your case. Experienced attorneys will also be more likely to successfully pursue a case in order to ensure that a guilty party is punished and that you receive the largest compensation possible.

A personal injury attorney will protect you from insurance companies who are looking out for their own best interests. In many instances both your insurance company and the defendant?s insurance company will try to convince you that your case isn?t valid and that you should not receive compensation.

If an insurance company does offer compensation, there is also a significant chance they will not initially offer you the full amount they are prepared to pay.

Experienced personal injury lawyers know how to deal with insurance companies because it is part of what they deal with on a daily basis. These attorneys are fully cognizant of insurance law, know how it applies to your situation, and are aware of how to deal with insurance company?s tactics.

Personal injury attorneys also know how much you should expect to be compensated and will do whatever they can to make sure that you will be receiving the compensation that you are entitled to in such circumstances.

It is also in your best interest to hire an attorney from your area because he or she will be more familiar with your local laws. Local attorneys also will be better acquainted with the judges in your area, which may have a positive influence on your case.

So, in order to receive the biggest personal injury settlement, hire an experienced personal injury attorney in your area. To find successful attorneys in your area go to http://www.sokolovelaw.com/

Wendy Moyer on behalf of Sokolove Law.

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The Beauty of Thin Brick Veneer | Home Improvement Catalog

Are you considering doing a project in your kitchen? You might be surprised with exactly how many options you have open to you when doing so. In some cases, you?re going to be able to purchase items that will make a striking difference in the way that the overall project looks, even though it is not going to impact your budget to the extent where it will make it difficult to afford. An example of this is using thin brick veneer in your kitchen, particularly in the backsplash around the countertops. This type of veneer offers you both beauty and durability, without the expense of having full brick installed in the area.

This type of glazed thin brick is also something that can be used in other areas of the kitchen as well. Some people prefer to use it in an accent wall, even though they have many other choices that are available to take care of that type of project. Using this type of glazed thin brick over top of using stone or ceramic is beneficial because of the many different choices that it makes available to you. It certainly is true that when you use some of these glazed tiles, you are going to have almost any color and texture you could want available to you. Of course, there may be times when you?re going to need to special order some of these items to get exactly what you want but once it is in place, you will be very happy that you took the extra time to wait for it to arrive.

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

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Travel management services enjoy growth | Business Destinations ...

Travel management was among the industries hardest hit during the recent worldwide recession. As consumer spending decreased sharply, fewer people traveled for business or leisure, leaving travel agencies and management companies with substantial losses. However, the travel management industry has recently experienced a bit of a rebound, due to the growth of business travel, advances in technology, and signs of an economic recovery.

Whats behind the growth?
Recent signs of economic recovery have contributed greatly to the travel management industry?s rebound. While national economies remain at low levels compared to their levels before 2008, there are indications that a number of countries are beginning to stabilise. As these economies become less volatile, citizens are beginning to spend money again, and this may spur a renewal of interest in leisure travel.

While a number of corporations scaled back operations or closed their doors because of the recession, many of those that remained open are spending more money on business travel than they did previously. In an effort to adapt to the globalisation of commerce, a number of corporations have begun to engage in business travel at record levels. This trend is supported by the comments of the president of a design firm based in the US who recently said: ?We have to go where the work is, and more and more of our work is out of town. We?re on an airline nearly every day.?

The Global Business Travel Association reported that business travel revenues actually increased in 2011, growing by over seven percent. The association?s Executive Director, Michael McCormick, summarised the increase, saying: ?Although the economic recovery is still modest, we see business travel remaining healthy and growing at a steady rate that outpaces GDP growth.?

Advances in technology have also played a role in the travel industry?s gains.? As consumers increasingly use the internet to arrange their trips their costs go down, encouraging them to travel more frequently. Savvy corporations have seized upon this convenience, giving travellers greater control over their own arrangements and making it simpler for them to find reasonable prices.

Concur: A leader in e-travel commerce, Concur provides travel arrangements through a variety of websites and applications, including Room 77, RideCharge, and AppExchange Mobile. The company also created the Concur Connect platform, which enables users to take advantage of a cloud system for travel and expense arrangements.? Concur reported a 25 percent revenue increase in the first fiscal quarter of 2012.

China International Travel Service Limited: As more Chinese citizens attain middle class status, they are spending more money on travel within their own country.? Drawing on the booming Chinese economy, China International Travel Service Limited (CITS) has expanded into new regions of the nation, providing business tourism and travel services to more individuals.? The company was named in the Top 50 of the 500 Most Valuable Brands in China in 2011.

Statesman Travel Group: Already known for its high levels of customer service, Statesman Travel Group recently partnered with a travel management company to allow employers to reconcile their business travel expenses more efficiently.? Statesman recently received a ?4.25m capital investment from Business Growth Fund, which plans to combine Statesman with Commodore Travel. The joint company is expected to report annual revenues approaching ?100m.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

COMPUTER Games Vs . Gaming console Games | Submit Article for ...

In the playing games environment, there are several solutions to choose from in regards to that stage the game is being played out on. There are PC activities, and there are actually console activities. That change lies inside the fact that sport is actually played out.

Gaming generally is some sort of way of living choice consequently your genetic enjoys a just a bit several strategy in regards to the way they play a sport. Some enjoy computer games, because computers permit them to help tailor-make the way they play this online game along with several tweaks within video or graphic details and equipment.

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But each time an online game arrives together with it?s made for Pcs, after that you must check on precisely what the machine requirements which performance provides just to be played out correctly. Since matches understand they can count heavily relating to the specs, and also computer with the ?console? they?re work, for PC users this could necessarily mean there?s a continuing battle to continue to be before games construtor world together with build or choose the maximum gaming pc.

In certain instances, it?s a lot easier to escape that have a problem as a result of selecting a gaming console while not having to worry but if the process meets the essential minimum computer to be able to operate a game.

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In contrast, when working with a computer, it?s not thay hard to help purpose benefits of the mouse at the opposing team since you may well okay get your mouse tenderness and discover the computer mouse to figure at precisely what speed you require.

Some peripherals allow you to change which sensitivity right in the games environment and the ones are termed gaming peripherals. These are typically assembled only using Personal computers in your mind.

Units in contrast are suffering from in recent years to make a more partaking environment for any person.

We now have witnessed a lot of brand-new progress in this area in the Nintendo wii game console remote, letting you actually ?swing? a golf club, or even inside Kinect environment, actually uncovering your body activities to help play inside playing games environment. This means that some sort of gaming console customer might get a bit more activity compared to a regular PC gamer.

Additionally, certain video game titles which might not use units, such as strategy activities. These kind of matches be dependent a great deal on the utilization of a computer mouse for unit choice together with giving requires.

Several associated with advantages to PC gaming and gaming console games, and there are specific games that can be played on each of those podiums, with no possibility of going from type to your many other. It?s an issue of amount of proposal and immersion that every gamer requires that he get hold of in the gameplay again.

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The Death of SMS? Maybe So With Mountain Lion

2/20/2012

When Apple introduced iMessaging last year as part of iOS 5, there was talk that it could have an impact on texting?the ubiquitous mobile-to-mobile form, that is. If this had been any other platform besides iOS 5, or any other provider besides Apple, the talk would have been laughable. After all, texting? Statistics by comScore Mobile Metrix show that some 70% of U.S. mobile subscribers use text messaging on their mobile device.

A New Wrinkle

iMessaging, though, was a new wrinkle to a channel that has?as Pew has found in a separate set of statistics?stabilized, as in no more huge leaps in growth.

The next stage for texting may even be, hard as it is to grasp right now, a state of decline.

Earlier this year, the New York Times? Bits blog looked at this issue and found that, yes, texting might very well be in trouble one day.

It pointed to a post by iOS app developer Neven Mrgan, who collected data on his texting use before and after the iOS 5 launch.? There was a noticeable decline, Mrgan said in his post.

Bits? conclusion was that even though the number of text messages sent by cellphone customers in the United States is still growing, that growth is slowing and will likely taper off. In addition, ?countries like Finland and Hong Kong are already seeing serious shifts in the number of text messages their cellphone customers send.?

Mountain Lion Steps It Up

Now we have?or will have this summer?Apple?s OS X Mountain Lion, whose Messages feature, Gizmodo argues, will be the future of instant messaging. ?You can start a FaceTime conversation using the same program you use for AIM. Or Google Talk. Or Jabber. Want to text your friends, and you?re sitting at your laptop? No need to pick up your phone?just use Messages and send unlimited iMessages, just like you would on your handset.?

SMS interactions are logged separately, though, Gizmodo said. ?Every communication but SMS lands in one place.? Those few friends or family still clinging to their feature phones? ?With Messages, communication with them is going to be off on its own island,? Gizmodo concludes.

Other Providers Too

It?s not just Apple taking aim at SMS. Microsoft?s acquisition of Skype and GroupMe will likely spawn a similar service. And rumors are always afloat about a new Google service that will go beyond Google Talk and other IM apps.

In this context, last year?s Pew Internet survey about texting seems, in retrospect, like one giant nail in SMS? coffin.

It found that both text messaging and phone calling on cell phones have leveled off for the adult population as a whole. Not to misstate texting?s popularity: text messaging users send or receive an average of 41.5 messages on a typical day, with the median user sending or receiving 10 texts daily. However, these figures are largely unchanged from 2010.

Study author Aaron Smith told Wired News at the time that he thinks that people have just found their natural level of texting. ?For those already texting a lot (some users text upwards of 3,000 messages a month), there?s only so much you can increase from there,? he said.

The BlackBerry Argument

Companies that would hate to see SMS disappear or dwindle in use?a group that first and foremost consists of all telecom providers selling these services at a fabulous mark up?no doubt are taking comfort from RIM?s history with Blackberry Messenger. It has been around for ten or more years, and yet even when the BlackBerry was a coveted mobile platform, people were still sending texts to non RIM users.

But the mobile market has, to say the least, changed dramatically in the last ten years. The Blackberry Messenger argument, for a lot of reasons, is no longer a sure thing.

New Ways to Use Text

Not that companies are giving up on SMS services. Some companies, like retail REIT DDR, are dressing up the plain vanilla text with, for example, location-based offers. Last December it launched ValuText, which sends offers from retailers within a designated shopping center via text message to opted-in shoppers.

These and other efforts will keep the technology going for some time even if (as?) Messages eats into its market share.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Four dead in Washington state avalanches (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - Four people were killed in two separate avalanches near Washington state ski resorts on Sunday, but eight others initially said to be missing were found alive, authorities said.

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Polarized Display Sheds Light on Octopus and Cuttlefish Vision-and Camouflage

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Image courtesy of Shelby Temple

Octopuses are purportedly? colorblind, but they can discern one thing that we can?t: polarized light. This extra visual realm might give them a leg (er, arm) up on some of the competition.

And a team of researchers has created a new way to test just how sensitive cephalopods are to this type of light. Their results were published online Monday in Current Biology.

?We now know that polarization is tuned much more finely than we thought it was,? says Shelby Temple, of the Ecology of Vision Laboratory at the University of Bristol in the U.K., who led the study.

But testing polarized light is tricky, especially since we humans aren?t tuned to see it. As Temple and his co-authors wrote in their paper: ?For animals that can see it, the polarization of light adds another dimension to vision, analogous to adding color to a black and white image.? Polarized light is different from what we see in that it comes from a single angle, and animals that can detect it seem to see it in different resolutions based on changes in its angle. (The closest we can get to using it is putting on a pair of polarized lenses to cut down on glare.)

Polarized light perception in the best-tuned animals was assumed to be limited to differences of about 10 to 20 degrees. But in the group?s new experiments, the mourning cuttlefish (Sepia plangon) responded to just 1.05-degrees change of polarized light orientation.

For the experiments, the team used computer screens that had had the polarizing light filter removed (without these front filters on our liquid crystal displays?LCDs?our monitors would project polarized light images that we wouldn?t be able to see).

These modified displays played digital movie versions of ?looming stimuli? such as an expanding circle, which would suggest a potential predator approaching. But instead of a color or intensity-based image, the one they created was based on changing polarized light orientation only.

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Image courtesy of Shelby Temple

Octopus don?t yet seem to be quite as sensitive as cuttlefish to the fine gradients in polarized light, responding only after about 10 degrees shift. But, says Temple, ?it may be the way that we?re testing.? As he points out, cuttlefish?s knee-jerk response to an approaching predator is a quick change of color, which the researchers could use as an indication that they had seen even fine shifts in the polarized light angle.

?Cuttlefish, they wear their emotions on their sleeve, quite literally,? Temple says. ?They?re showing everything that they?re doing as a neural response.? In fact, the cuttlefish responded so well, that he and his colleagues thought they were doing something wrong. They were afraid that in the digital renderings they might have accidentally included a non-polarized light clue, such as brightness or intensity. But they went back and checked and found that it was, indeed, just the slight change in polarized light that was frightening the animals.

With octopus, ?there?s no comparison,? he says. But, he concedes that it is possible that the octopuses might have seen finer resolutions of polarized light shift but just didn?t have the same simple, speedy reaction as the cuttlefish.

And says Temple, ?it could be that some species could do it better than others.?? So far, he has found that the blue ringed octopus looks to me more sensitive than the day octopus. He has plans to test different species of octopus soon.

Researchers are still working to get to the bottom of cephalopod vision, which is turning out to be highly complex. And this new work supports the idea that such sensitivity to polarized light emerged precisely because these animals don?t see color well?if at all.

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Image courtesy of Shelby Temple

And if octopuses, cuttlefish and squid?and some of their predators and prey?can see polarized light so keenly, are they also using it, as they use color and luminosity, to actively create camouflage?

Other researchers are working on that very question. And Temple and his colleagues have observed that, at least in some cuttlefish, they can create a polarized light-based pattern on their skin. This play in light might ?be used as part of a covert communication channel, invisible to animals lacking polarized vision,? they wrote.

But the patterns remain tricky for us to pick up on. For that, Temple and his colleagues have developed a way for us to get a peak into the invisible world of polarized light and dark by modifying a digital single-reflex lens (SLR) camera and creating a computer program to feed false-color into varying degrees of polarized light. These mysterious rainbow-colored ecosystem images make it clear that, ?We?re not done with the story yet, for sure,? Temple says.

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Monday, February 20, 2012

China paper says West stirring civil war in Syria (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - China's main newspaper accused Western countries of stirring civil war in Syria and two Iranian warships docked at a Syrian naval base, underscoring rising international tensions over the near year-long crisis.

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Romney's earmarks for Olympics get new attention

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Mitt Romney is shown in October 2001, when he was president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. On Saturday evening, Romney spoke at a celebration honoring the 10-year anniversary of the games.

By Michael Isikoff, NBC News

Mitt Romney oversaw a wide-ranging lobbying campaign to snare tens of millions of dollars in federal earmarks for the Salt Lake City Olympic Games at a time?critics were charging the games had become a prime example of out-of-control ?pork barrel? spending, according to Senate lobbying records.

Romney?s role in overseeing the 2002 Olympics, long seen as a major political asset, is providing new fodder for political adversaries. The Democratic?National Committee released an attack video Friday assailing him for running ?the most expensive games in U.S. history.??

GOP rival Rick Santorum also accused Romney Saturday of "hypocrisy" for raising the issue of earmarks given his record at the Olympics. The Romney campaign responded that Santorum was "shooting himself in the foot" over the issue.?

In recent weeks, Romney has portrayed himself as an uncompromising fiscal conservative and criticized Santorum for being a ?strong defender? of federal earmarks. ?Look, I?m in favor of a ban on earmarks,? Romney said during a recent interview on Sean Hannity?s television show. ?I think spending in Washington is out of control.?


But Senate lobbying records show that the Salt Lake City Olympics Committee under Romney spent $3.5 million employing five lobbying firms in addition to its own in-house lobbying shop. Among their goals: winning federal earmarks that included $60 million for "perimeter" security; $15.8 million for? "international sporting competitions"; $3 million for an extension of a Salt Lake City light rail project; as well as millions more for communications equipment, sewer projects and other programs aimed at supporting the Olympics.

The overall federal cost of the 2002 Olympics has been estimated at about $1.5 billion, although Romney defenders say much of this was put in place before he took over the Olympics Committee in 1999. But Romney later touted his efforts in his book about the Winter Olympics, ?Turnaround,? writing that he directed his chief Washington lobbyist ?to bring in more federal funding than had ever been appropriated for any Olympics, summer or winter.?

And he made his success in doing so a selling point when he ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002. ?I was successful in organizing the Olympics, got record funds from the federal government," he said then.?

Santorum seized on Romney?s aggressive pursuit of the federal earmarks at a campaign appearance Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.

"He heroically bailed out the Salt Lake City Olympic Games by heroically going to Congress and asking them for tens of millions of dollars to bail out the Salt Lake Games -- in an earmark, in an earmark for the Salt Lake Olympic Games," he said. ?Does the word hypocrisy come to mind??

Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, responded:??Sometimes when you shoot from?the hip, you end up shooting yourself in the foot. There is a pretty wide gulf between seeking money for post 9/11 security at the Olympics and seeking earmarks for polar bear exhibits at?the Pittsburgh Zoo. Mitt Romney wants to ban earmarks. Senator Santorum wants more ?Bridges to Nowhere?? ? referring to a proposed bridge in Alaska that was canceled after it became a symbol of pork barrel spending.

Saul also said that??the? majority of federal funds for the Salt Lake Games was for security purposes," and noted they took place "just months after? months after 9/11," when "security was heightened.?? She added:? ?Taxpayer support of the games was only 18 percent, enabled by Mitt Romney's ability to secure new corporate sponsorships to bring the taxpayer tab down."

Romney?s stewardship of the 2002 Winter Olympics is getting fresh scrutiny this weekend amid conflicting claims about his record. Romney flew back to Salt Lake City Friday for a campaign fundraiser -- co-hosted by his former chief Olympics deputy and attracting many leaders of the city?s business community. He?also was?participating Saturday evening?in a gala civic celebration commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Games.

His campaign ? and financial supporters ? see Romney?s Olympics stewardship as a prime?example of his leadership and management skills under fire. And they are hoping to make more of it: A media firm hired by Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney super PAC,?also is in Salt Lake City this weekend to film footage about Romney and the Olympics for use in upcoming television ads.

Then the head of Bain Capital, Romney was recruited in 1999 to become president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, or SLOC, which ran the games,?after it was engulfed in a bribery scandal that resulted in the loss of sponsors and a huge projected deficit.

?Mitt described it as stepping into an empty elevator shaft,? said Fraser Bullock, a former Bain Capital colleague who served as Romney?s No. 2 at the Salt Lake Olympics committee. ?We were in deep trouble financially, operationally, morale-wise. It was about as difficult as you can imagine.? (Bullock co-hosted the Romney campaign fundraiser in Salt Lake City and has contributed $100,000 to the Romney Super PAC.)

Romney, Bullock says, engineered an ?extraordinary turnaround? of the Olympics -- restoring confidence, tapping his business connections to bring in new corporate sponsors and slashing costs. In one of his more memorable moves, he put an end to the committee?s habit of catering lavish boardroom lunches, replacing them with Dominos?s pizzas.

??He bought a pizza for $5, cut it into eight slices, charged $1 dollar a slice,? said Bullock. ?So we could make $8 for a pizza that cost $5 and have a profit of $3. That sent a great message throughout the entire organization that we would watch every penny.??

In the end, Romney is credited by supporters like Bullock with turning a projected $479 million deficit into a $100 million profit. But detractors charge?he also used the games for self-promotion, even sanctioning official Olympic pins bearing his image with such captions as "We Love You, Mitt."

In turning around the 2002 games, Romney got a big helping hand from U.S. taxpayers. The federal government poured $1.5 billion into the Salt Lake games ? more than twice the amount spent on any previous U.S. Olympics.

?Republican Sen. John McCain called it a ?fleecing? of the U.S. Treasury.

Santorum accuses Romney of hypocrisy on earmarks

??The Olympic Games supposedly hosted and funded by Salt Lake City, which began in corruption and bribery, has now turned into is an incredible pork-barrel project for Salt Lake City and its environs.? McCain said in a Sept. 19, 2000, speech on the Senate floor.?

Although Romney spokeswoman Saul asserted that a majority of federal funding for the Olympics was for security, McCain, in leveling his charges, relied on a General Accounting Office report that documented a litany of direct and indirect federal earmarks for the Salt Lake Olympics that had little if anything to do with security. Among them: $645 million for new highways and roads, including a repaved mountain road? to the Snow Basin ski resort, owned by a wealthy local oilman. There was also hundreds of millions more for light rail, parking lots, bus rentals, sewer construction, housing for the news media and weather forecasting ? in addition to?$161 million for security (a figure that climbed even higher after 9/11.)

??I do not understand how we Republicans call ourselves conservatives and then treat the taxpayer dollars in this fashion,? McCain said in his 2000 speech. ?This has to stop.?

Bullock, Romney?s chief deputy at the Olympics, disputed suggestions that there was any ?federal bailout? of the Olympics and noted that most of the funding that?critics objected to was planned ?years before Mitt got there.? Former GOP Sen. Robert Bennett of Utah served on the Senate Appropriations Committee and is credited with inserting many of the Olympics earmarks.

But, as president of the Salt Lakes Organizing Committee, Romney fully embraced ? and aggressively defended ? the earmarks. In an Aug. 18, 2000, letter to the GAO, Romney called the Olympics ?a massive undertaking? and added: ?Recognizing that our government spends billions of dollars to maintain wartime capability, it is entirely appropriate to invest several hundred million dollars to promote peace.?

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Business Agility with ERP Systems, or How to React to Business ...

ERP and business agilityIn today?s ever-changing world, successful business leaders know that just-in-time decision making is of high value because their business environments appear to be very sensitive to real-time changes. And their ability to quickly and cost-effectively react to those changes makes it possible to ensure business agility. The way to make the businesses agile and highly responsive to both internal and external environments is through using a modern ERP system. ERP implementation allows the companies to operate nimbly, with no delay in decision making? Today we are going to talk about the advantages of using ERP systems in the context of business agility. This article describes how organizations can make their ability of change management more cost-effective and agile, through ERP deployment.

What is Business Agility?

First of all, let?s figure out what the term ?business agility? means. Below I give the definition of business agility:

Business Agility is the ability of a company to make rapid business-critical decisions in order to respond immediately to any changes happening within the operating environment. Because the decisions are made quickly and implemented cost-effectively, the company is able to adjust its business activities to the current market demands, and to take advantage of customer satisfaction.

An agile business is a business that is enabled to be responsive to any variation happening within the environment. This ability helps make just-in-time and informed decisions. Agility means that the company gains the four states, as follows:

  • Flexible: the company is able to cost-effectively vary the output within a certain range of conditions
  • Balanced: it operates with no surplus or deficit
  • Adapted: it has the ability to alter itself and its activity to the changed circumstances
  • Coordinated: it synchronizes and integrates business resources to ensure the success of specific objectives

So when we judge about the business agility of some organization, first we must look at how quickly the decisions are made and whether the company cost-effectively responds to the changing environment. We also need to check if the company reaches the flexibility, balance, adaptability and coordination in its decision making. Below I talk about how ERP systems can be helpful in reaching these four states of business agility.

Being Agile with ERP

In order for your business to be agile, you need to have a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution deployed in your corporate environment. In Internet you can find a lot of ERP software examples. I personally used Google to search by the keyword ?ERP software reviews?. I found an interesting report (on this website: softwareresearchtools.com) showing top ERP solutions, with reference to their developers. The most popular solutions are:
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Software Title

Developer

URL

Orion 3i Infotech, Germany www.3i-infotech.com
E-Intelliprise American Software, Inc., United State www.amsoftware.com
Alcie Enterprise Edition ALCIE Integrated Solutions, Canada www.alcie.com
Ability 585 Ability LLC, United States www.ability585.com
1C Enterprise 8 ERP 1C Company, Russia www.v8.1c.ru/eng
ABAS Business Software ABAS Software Company, Germany www.abas-software.com
AIM Vision AIM Computer Solutions, United States www.aimcom.com
Impuls 5 BPSC SA, Poland www.bpsc.com

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Having deployed one of these or other systems, your organization can start its way to business agility. Here are the steps you can take to ensure you make your business agile with your ERP solution.

  1. Analyze data with real-time business intelligence
  2. Encourage process improvements
  3. Benefit from mobile technology
  4. Ensure complete automation
  5. Leverage cloud architecture

Step #1. Analyze data with real-time business intelligence

The very first thing an ERP system must provide to you is the delivery of real-time business intelligence (BI) data. Immediate BI reports will let understand the company?s internal and external strengths and weaknesses and gain insight into the relationship between business processes. BI via ERP allows you to detect opportunities for innovation and cost reduction.

For example, you can use the power of ERP analytics to set the pricing for a new sales order, and then share this data immediately between the people and departments involved in sales activities. Real-time BI reports will show how the change is responded by the sales team and by the buyers as well. You do not spend valued time on analysis, but just extract the data directly from an ERP database and see what?s happening now. As a result, your business becomes more accurate and agile to the changes in sales.

Step #2. Encourage process improvements

Improvements to the process environment make your business activities error-free and thus more agile. Business agility can be reached, because ERP systems with strong process analytics and BI reports generate credible and incontrovertible real-life information about the current state of processes. You can see what processes work fine and what processes appears to be failing or have some troubles. This analytical data helps you understand what improvements are required.

For example, the inventory manager of your company needs to be sure there are no interruptions at production, sales and customer service levels. This person uses real-time ERP reports to perform immediate inventory analysis and understand what problem areas exist. ERP software allows for inventory control which is fully based upon the data retrieved on-the-fly from the ERP database.

Step #3. Benefit from mobile technology

Mobility helps improve business agility. It is the fact, and companies which use ERP systems are able to increase their sales and reach customer satisfaction. Mobile technology is another great way to make your business agile. ERP software in combination with mobile devises will give your business an opportunity for automatically triggering appropriate actions along the entire value chain. This combination enables you to save time and money while reaching higher return on investment.

For example, with a few clicks on a mobile device, one of your sales representatives can send the shipper a massage about the need to take the shipment off the dock immediately. Because an ERP system allows for process automation, the sales rep can update the order using his smartphone. The data will be added to the ERP database immediately, and the sales manager along with the account dept will be notified of the changed order and status of the shipment. As a result, the company is able to process sales orders much quicker and the customer is satisfied with immediate response.

Step #4. Ensure complete automation

ERP plays a supporting role in ensuring business agility through promoting process automation. Best practices of process automation incorporated into a single ERP solution help your organization perform activities faster and work more efficiently. You are provided with the additional capacity that lets your business be nimble and responsive to the changing environment.

Using modern ERP software solutions you can automate the collection of business data from across multiple functional areas and then develop analytical reports for making informed decisions. The data about sales, finances, administration, warehousing, HR and other areas is now automatically gathered and stored in a single ERP database. The relationships between the functional areas are fully automated as well, and your ERP system controls how the information flows are moved across the people and departments.

Step #5. Leverage cloud architecture

The key idea here is that you must use technological innovation to make your business agile. Modular design of ERP systems in combination with cloud computing allows you to lower any barriers that arise in front of technological innovation. ERP deployments and cloud architecture create the basis for your business to invest more effort in running business activities and less effort in worrying about IT environment.

For example, your company worries about the need to adopt IT enhancements and software upgrades and updates. Improvements to the IT environment require time and effort, and thus your business may be disrupted. However, with use of ERP systems you can reach the enhancements with much less business disruption and risk. ERP with cloud architecture enables you to focus on business issues rather than on IT transformation, which is actually run as a background process.

Conclusion

Business agility is the art of being able to react to business changes in a quick and cost-effective manner. It also means reaching flexibility, balance, adaptation and coordination in decision making. Once an organization gains these four states of business agility, it is able to operate with higher efficiency and ROI. And enterprise resources planning solutions will be the foundation for that organization to be agile. ERP implementation allows for real-time business intelligence, process improvements, mobile technology, process automation, and IT transformations.

Source: http://www.mymanagementguide.com/business-agility-erp-systems-how-react-business-changes/

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Here at Coldwell Banker in Myrtle Beach, news reports of foreclosures and their effect on Myrtle Beach real estate listings seem to be part of the new normal. ?But, even more than politics, all real estate is local. And, what is true in one market does not necessarily apply in another. Myrtle Beach real estate listing and sale prices are most impacted by what is happening in the Myrtle Beach real estate market today. Whether foreclosures affect existing Myrtle Beach real estate listings, and how much, depends on several independent factors.

The number of Myrtle Beach real estate listings sold after foreclosure compared to the number of non-foreclosures sold is the most important factor affecting home prices. As the National Mortgage Professional Magazine notes, it?s all relative. Take as an example Florida, an area where many sales are foreclosures. The situation dictates that appraisers and agents use those foreclosures as fully weighted comparables in their appraisals and comparative market analyses. In contrast, the smaller number of Myrtle Beach foreclosures compared to non-foreclosures will?affect sales prices less. Those foreclosures appear more like aberrations than true representations of the whole market.

The actual sales prices of Myrtle Beach real estate listings sold as foreclosures are another important factor.? Throughout 2011, foreclosures frequently sold for something around 20% ? 30% less than non-foreclosures, according to many national studies.? The lower the selling price of the foreclosures, the more they draw down comparable estimates and the affected market.?

Proximity is an important factor, as anyone with a nearby foreclosure will agree. But ?spread? is important, too. If the foreclosures have occurred at every price point in every location and subdivision, prices are likely to be impacted more severely than if foreclosures are confined to a distinct area.? A clear example occurs when two subdivisions out of dozens contain the lion?s share of foreclosures. Of course, prices within the unlucky subdivisions will inevitably be more severely impacted than prices elsewhere.

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