Corporate & Securities Law

Jump in my Oscars Pool

Posted on February 09, 2009
You are invited to my free fun Frog Soda The Oscars - 81st Annual Academy Awards Pool: Anthony's Oscar Pool.- go to the league page, http://www.frogsoda.com/awards_ceremony.php?Action=viewleague&lid=1014&aid=21- if clicking on the link doesn't work, copy and paste it into your browser- if you are a Frog Soda member, click "log in", if not click "Sign Up"- Once you have created an account and are signed in, click "Join League"- This is a private league, you will need the password to join: oscar

Your Mission: Improved Mission Statements

Posted on February 08, 2009
"Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes...A mission statement should not commit a firm to what it must do to survive but to what it chooses to do in order to thrive. Nor should it be filled with operationally meaningless superlatives such as biggest, best, optimum, and maximum...

Why Rumors Spread

Posted on February 03, 2009
"Rumors have a way of slipping under our mental defenses before we think to question them. The best ones sidestep common sense entirely...Most of us don't like to think of ourselves as gullible. But we're especially likely to accept as true?and do our best to spread?tales that have several specific characteristics that take aim at our best defenses...

A Story of Strength, Triumph and Oats

Posted on February 02, 2009
Defense wins championships, but the offenses stepped up when it counted in last night's Super Bowl. When Fitzgerald scored the go-ahead touchdown, I was drained, deflated, yet hopeful. Somehow, the Steelers have become a team that can mount a charge from behind in the final minutes of a game and win...

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Reverend Lowery Wows Me

Posted on January 20, 2009
Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights icon and a pastor known to speak his mind to power, opened his inauguration benediction with the first words of what is called the Negro National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and SingGod of our weary years,God of our silent tears...

It's Polamalu

Posted on January 19, 2009

Updated Steelers Polka Fight Song

Posted on January 13, 2009
Time to take a shot at updating the Steelers polka fight song (sung to the tune of the Pennsylvania polka):Da-Da-Da-Da-Ta-Da - Charge!We're from the town with that great football team, We cheer the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coach Mike and all his friends are all on the field...

How to Run a Meeting Like Google

Posted on January 13, 2009
This article from BusinessWeek offers the following cure for the ubiquitous, unproductive meetings, drawing on lessons learned from Marissa Mayer, Google's vice-president of search products. "Mayer holds an average of 70 meetings a week and serves as the last stop before engineers and project managers get the opportunity to pitch their ideas to Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page...

The Land of Hatchy Milatchy

Posted on January 07, 2009
There's a wonderful place that you really should see called the Land of Hatchy Milatchy. These are the opening lines to an infectious theme song whirling in a childhood memory.According to CoalSpeak: a Dictionary of the Coal Region, Hatchy Milatchy was a popular children's show on WNEP-TV (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre) in the 1960's and 70's...

Personal SWOT Analysis

Posted on January 07, 2009
SWOT Analysis is a powerful technique for identifying Strengths and Weaknesses, and for examining the Opportunities and Threats you face. Used in a personal context, it helps you develop your career in a way that takes best advantage of your talents, abilities and opportunities...

Christmas across the Commons

Posted on December 31, 2008
A&P, COFFEE, SANTA CLAUSfrom George Eastman HouseOn Flickr, you can check out public domain photos tagged with "christmas" from the collections of George Eastman House, State Library of New South Wales, Nationaal Archief, and The Library of Congress...

Classic Christmas Blend

Posted on December 18, 2008
I was thinking the other day that a wonderful epitaph might be, "He loved Christmas music." So here is a link to my Imeem collection of holiday music, a a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-tlHW7O/playlist/Ck6U4g7n/classic_christmas_blend_music_playlist/"Classic Christmas Blend/a.

Why Not GM, Ford Chrysler?

Posted on December 17, 2008
Gibson Dunn Crutcher provides a section-by-section analysis of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 as passed by the Senate on October 2, 2008. Before anything else, the authors focus on the all important definition of "financial institution" and troubled assets, from which all else in EESA flows...

Bing and Bowie Sing Little Drummer Boy

Posted on December 13, 2008
"Christmas variety shows were an inescapable part of Christmas for about 30 years, hosted by Perry Como (who did no less than 39 Christmas specials), John Denver, Bob Hope, The Carpenters and many others. One of the more serious, without the usual comedy sketches and ?surprise? appearances by Santa, was Johnny Cash?s 1977 Christmas special, including an all-star tribute to Cash?s friend Elvis Presley, who had died a few months earlier...

Christmas Day in the Morning

Posted on December 12, 2008
by Pearl Buck Pearl-Buck Originally uploaded by TigerTigerTiger. He woke suddenly and completely. It was four o'clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and help with the milking. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! Fifty years ago, and his father had been dead for thirty years, and yet he waked at four o'clock in the morning...

The Man and the Birds

Posted on December 12, 2008
as told by Paul HarveyThe man to whom I'm going to introduce you was not a scrooge, he was a kind decent, mostly good man. Generous to his family, upright in his dealings with other men. But he just didn't believe all that incarnation stuff which the churches proclaim at Christmas Time...

happy christmakwaanzakkuh

Posted on December 11, 2008
jpeg Originally uploaded by TigerTigerTiger. "U.S. Patent No. 5,379,202'Partially overlapping display elements have light string sets mounted thereon and sequentially illuminated to simulate animation of a decorative part of an outdoor light display...

Hannukah Christmas Merger Announced

Posted on December 11, 2008
Continuing the current trend of large-scale mergers and acquisitions, it was announced today at a press conference that Christmas and Hannukah will merge. An industry source said that the deal had been in the works for about 1300 years.While details were not available at press time, it is believed that the overhead cost of having twelve days of Christmas and eight days of Hannukah was becoming prohibitive for both sides...

A Christmas Carol

Posted on December 11, 2008
by Charles Dickens"..Once upon a time -- of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve -- old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house...The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank was copying letters...

Choice of Entity Comparison Chart

Posted on December 03, 2008
For many small business owners choosing a C corp, S Corp, or Limited Liability Company (LLC) is the first step in starting a small business. This entity comparison table from themoneyalert.com was designed as a helpful reference.Found via this Ask The VC post.

LearnVC - Your guide to raising capital

Posted on November 03, 2008
These guides from LearnVC include content from the LearnVC site and on external sites from leading experts in the startup community. Topics well covered include:New Entrepreneurs Experienced Entrepreneurs (refresher) Future Investors (Angels or Venture Capitalists) Students (Venture Capital Investment Competition participants and others)

University Entrepreneurs Portal Launches

Posted on November 01, 2008
"At a time when graduates from leading universities face an increasingly challenging job market, Campus Venture Network, Inc. is launching StudentBusinesses.com, a free online platform that connects young entrepreneurs with business partners, mentors and investors who can help them launch successful startups...

Free Business and Entrepreneurship College Courses

Posted on October 24, 2008
Through open courseware programs, you can access course materials from a wide range of top universities. Whether you decide to take these courses on your own time or just skim through the information, www.bschool.com compiled a list of 100 business and entrepreneurship courses you can take for free...

Savoring a Moment

Posted on October 14, 2008
I was among three hundred or so Pittsburgh Pirate fans that made a pilgrimage to the site of old Forbes Field yesterday afternoon. This is a quintessential 'Burgh thing - a ritual sprung spontaneously from the act of one Saul Finkelstein who decided during his lunch hour in 1985 to sit on a bench and listen to a tape of his favorite baseball game...

New Orleans Business Plan Competition

Posted on October 02, 2008
Calling ENTREPRENEURS WITH IDEAS TO retain YOUNG TALENT in New Orleans! The Idea Village has announced 504ward's $100,000 Business Competition for entrepreneurs with ideas to retain young talent in New Orleans. Check out an inspired YouTube video to get your creative juices flowing...

Yankee Stadium Memories

Posted on September 26, 2008
I remember Grandpa ? his silhouette in the dusky evening light beside the weathered workbench in the upper backyard. Firmly, yet gently, he struck hammer to chisel and chipped away bits of rock along a scored line in a flagstone destined to become a stepping stone...

Impact of Yankee Stadium Bat Day on Blunt Trauma Injuries

Posted on September 23, 2008
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of blunt trauma in northern New York City before and after the distribution of 25,000 baseball bats at Yankee Stadium. DESIGN: Prospective multicenter study, including ten days before and ten days after Bat Day (June 3, 1990)...

Free Online Entrepreneurship Courses

Posted on September 01, 2008
"Approximately 10 million entrepreneurs think about starting a business in the U.S. every year. Only 3 million of them actually do it. Be one of the 3 million with these free online business entrepreneurship courses.1. MIT- Sloan School of Management (mit...

I Have a Dream Today

Posted on August 28, 2008
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...

Your Inner Yinzer 'n'at

Posted on August 25, 2008
Yinz gotta learn Picksburghese, especially yinz not from aron here, like doze of ya in Ahia, other parts of Pensivania, and even yunz up 'ere on da Sahside slopes, or ov'ere in Sliberrty, Sharteers Crick, da Mon or da Yock or dahntahn or in da Strip or near da carline in da Sout hills or in Oaklan near where Jaynell used ta be...

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