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Green Business stands out

Steve — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:59:17 GMT

Want a great new door? A great company to do business with and enviromentally sane, too! I wish all businesses with a huge, flat roof could follow their lead.

See them at Liberty Valley Doors and buy a door from a real green business!

Talking to a reporter

Steve — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:41:53 GMT

most crucial point, from InvestmentNews, an Internet firm.

How to talk to a reporter guidelines:

What you sould know as the press

Set the ground rules for the interview at the outset, but understand the reporter might not agree to them.
As soon as someone says "I am a reporter," assume anything you say may be used in print, quoting you by name, title and company affiliation. Unless you state otherwise at the outset, you are on the record.

In our experience there are a few other unwritten rules:

1. Speak to the reporter loudly and slowly, as if you're talking to someone who recently had a lobotomy.

2. If you don't want to answer a question, tell the reporter that you can't disclose that information because it would be a RegFD violation (REGULATION FAIR DISCLOSURE ACT, effective as of October 2000). If you don't work for a public company and RegFD isn't applicable, tell them it's a RegFD violation anyway. They won't know the difference.

3. If you're a private company and you get the sense that the reporter in question doesn't understand basic finance (very, very common), it's a good time to inflate your valuation. Insist that twenty times revenue is a perfectly reasonable multiple, and if the reporter expresses any skepticism, tell them you also put together a DCF using a conservative discount rate and arrived at the same number. You'd show them the model, but there's a buggy macro you have to get your analyst to fix, and... hey, maybe later?

Manage Your Democracy

Steve — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:23:33 GMT

If it's broke... Don't waist time creating another till you've fixed your first one (too many outside controls).

We need more robear repore and john stewart news... life is too short to be soooo serious!

If you think losing in Iraq is a non-starter... your not very creative! We lost that war after the first hundred billion.

That's about how much funding is needed to jump-start alternative power resources so we can reduce oil consumption by twenty-percent.

Kick in another hundred toward education and you've got the smartest kids on the planet.

Look at the pentagon money... excuse me, are we paranoid? or something? Must be our failed foreign policies.

Europe by way of Hostels

Steve — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:55:02 GMT

We are all interested in how to save mulla. Well here is the scoop. Swiss hostels are clean and provide a great, healthy breakfast, and German schwarzwald locations are the same. If traveling as a foursome (2 kids and 2 adults)... you can get your own room, with bunkbeds and a table. Their surprisingly comfy, and the mattresses are fine for that 6'1" streach. Most hostels are in parks and near the train stations. With a Eurail pass there is no need for a car. During peak season you could save about 120 euros a day... and some global warming credits, as the locals like to say.