Cialis and the omerta of erectile dysfunction


Among the Mafia and some other groups, there’s a strong cultural drive to stay silent and never admit wrongdoing. This is part of a more general reaction against organized authority and strong allegiance to the group. In many cases, allegiance to smaller units is actually the better way to organize. Often the large centralized organizations are remote and uncaring, lacking local knowledge and with little commitment to serving the community. The usual loyalty is to teams within the central organization without direct interest in promoting service standards. In the healthcare industry, we see this in the building of large and impressive hospitals. The staff who work in these shining towers of excellence are paid the highest salaries, they have the best working conditions, and their status is supreme. In such a hierarchy, no one wants to work in the community where the pay is significantly less and the work of dealing with actual patients is far more demanding.


In other countries, the emphasis is on primary care in the community with local groups of nurses and support staff led by dedicated teams of general practitioners. Wherever possible, people are treated in their homes. This avoids the need to build massive central hospitals. It also treats the patients with individual dignity, strengthens the family support networks, and helps maintain quality of life. Shipping every patient off to a hospital strips them of their independence and turns them from a person into a file number.


Yet there does remain a core problem. For all doctors and nurses develop better relationships with the patients and their families, there are still medical problems people prefer not to admit. Erectile dysfunction falls within the code of silence. This is ironic.


Cialis is a convenient and effective treatment. More importantly, restoration of sexual activity has a strongly beneficial effect on the quality of life within families. Yet unless people ask for help, it cannot be given. The Cialis sits in its bottle or blister pack, a victim of shame and embarrassment. The only hope is for the men to buy online. That does maintain their privacy.


Contemporary Trends Change Magazine and Newspaper Printing Markets


The markets of magazine and newspaper printing firms are undergoing significant changes, reflecting on-going transformations in the customers they serve.

Some of the changes have been under way for 2 decades with traditional printing companies morphing into printing service companies offering more profitable value-added services and products.  These included high-end specialized printing capabilities and services, database printing, and wide-ranging distribution services. At the same time, the increasing number of magazine titles, accompanied by lower average press runs, pushed the companies toward higher efficiency and acquisition of presses and systems designed for lower press runs.

In this environment, many printers could not effectively compete and consolidation began creating large regional players in the industry.

Shorter-term trends have also played havoc with the printing industry by killing off some magazine and newspaper titles, lowering the average number of pages printed because of advertising reductions, and by decreasing demand for catalog printing by mail order companies.

These changes created excess capacity and financial problems for many printers, opening the way for private equity firms to purchase trouble companies, restructure their operations, and consolidate the industry even further. Walstead Investments, for example, bought the St. Ives Group, Southern Print and Wyndeham in the UK to do just that.

About the only bright spot for the printing industry has been that many newspapers have now decided to outsource printing—increasing the number of customers in that segment for the short term, at least. Even some large newspapers that had given up commercial printing decades ago have changed the size capacity and flexibility of their presses to gain more production options and they are now offering printing services to other publishers and advertising service firms.

The consolidation has allowed big players to grow bigger. Donnelley has expanded by acquiring firms across North America.  Quad/Graphics has moved into Europe and Latin America. The German publisher Guner & Jahr acquired Brown Printing in the US and Prisma Presse in France.

The current economy is limiting the ability of these firms to push up prices, but one can expect that to occur when better times return and capacity utilization increases.

Tips for lowering auto insurance rates for young people


If you have ever tried to get car insurance for someone who is younger than 25 you’ve probably been unpleasantly surprised by how expensive it is to insure a teen driver. Yes, it’s true, car insurance rates are the highest for younger drivers who are only accumulating their initial experience and there’s a reason for that. Younger drivers make up the group that file the most claims and tend to get in serious accidents more often than older drivers due to the lack of driving experience and general risk taking behavior. So, even if your young driver is perfect behind the wheel he or she will still be charged with higher rates. But do not despair because there are a few tips you may find useful for getting cheaper insurance for a teen driver:


Encourage better grades


It may seem like there’s no particular connection between car insurance and school grades. Yet, there’s a possibility to kill two birds with one stone if you manage to encourage better results from your teen at school or college. The thing is that insurance providers offer attractive discounts to good students and this can be a very effective way of lowering your teen’s auto insurance rates. The main aim is getting an average of B and higher and providing a copy of grade report periodically to the insurance provider. So you get both some cut in insurance costs and encourage the young driver to be a better student.


Shop around


Shopping around is a must regardless whom you’re buying insurance for. There are many companies on the market and they all tend to offer different rates. Why not using this to own advantage and saving some money right from the start. Of course, teen drivers will always be charged with higher premiums but after doing some comparison shopping you can actually find affordable offers. The main idea is getting as many auto insurance quotes from different providers as you can, comparing them and choosing the most competitive one. With so many quote comparison sites out there it’s not that complicated and will only take a couple of minutes.


Keep the teen under your policy


Many parents make the mistake of buying a separate policy for their young drivers once they get a car on their own. This of course leads to an increase in costs because such a policy will sometimes cost twice as much as your own policy even if it carries the same amount of coverage. So instead of buying an individual policy you should consider including your teen to your own insurance policy, even if the teen has a car of his own. By doing so you will still get a slight increase in your premiums because of adding a high risk driver but it will be cheaper than having a separate policy to cover the teen. And if you have several cars in the household you may opt for multiple vehicle discount to lower your current rates.


Get a cheaper vehicle


Getting a cheaper vehicle for a young driver may be not the most popular measure but it’s sure is effective from the insurance point of view. The more expensive is the car you’re trying to insure the higher will be auto insurance quotes. You should be especially cautious about sports vehicles, muscle cars and luxury autos since they are the most expensive to insure.


Human Systems Management Vs Human Resources Management

Prelude: The Evolution of Human Resource Management

From the dawn of the Computer Age to the birth of the Internet, technology and business have evolved with unprecedented speed. Technological advances have produced competitive advantages. However, competitive advantage is no longer achieved or maintained solely by technological innovation.

With the rapid ability of product developers to create new products, the only remaining competitive advantage in business to capitalize upon is not technology, but people. Simply put, those firms attracting and retaining the best people and making the most of their human resources will thrive. Those who don't, will not.

As an increasingly competitive world forces business to change, adapt and respond more quickly, companies are reconsidering the very essence of how they conduct business. These demands produce new expectations of how people contribute to organizations. People must possess greater knowledge, play new roles and operate to higher standards of performance.

The New Role of Human Resource Management

Because the emphasis today is on people and what they can bring to the business, it's only natural that the Human Resource (HR) function would one day reexamine how it supports a firm's business plan. That time is now. Once merely thought of as the organizational police, administrators or the company store, the Human Resource function is finally becoming a true strategic business partner in progressive companies.

NBC's Olympic Coverage Shows Audience Expectations Aren't in Its Cross Media Strategy

NBC’s Olympic coverage in the U.S. reveals the conflict media companies face as they try to simultaneously manage traditional media delivery and digital distribution.

The company is getting it right with the traditional broadcasts, garnering excellent audiences and more than $1 billion in advertising—a figure that surprised even its most optimistic executives and may allow the broadcaster to break even on the games which have traditionally been a loss leader for the company.

The company is also giving audiences more coverage than every before by streaming additional content on cable channels and digital live streams. These are provided on platforms that consumers have come to expect will give them the power to choose when, where, and on what device they will be viewed.  

In order to support its traditional, advertising supported services, however, NBC has used tape delays on the broadcast services and has excluded many sports or blacked them outs on live streams—angering millions of consumers and setting off one of the greatest storms of criticism in the history of social media.

In trying to put its feet in both distribution markets, NBC is forcing the digital community to live by broadcast rules and in doing so has disrespected the audience and norms of cable and online platforms. The result has been widespread audience frustration and anger.
The only thing keeping audiences from going elsewhere are the exclusive national rights and the fact that most users don't have enough technical skills or inclination to bypass the ISP-based protections against streaming material from other countries. 

Hopefully, NBC will learn from the experience and get the formula better for the 2016 Olympics.

The Daily’s rocky performance shows legacy brands create digital advantages

The News Corp’s launch of the tablet newspaper The Daily in February 2011 was heralded as the future of news and revealing opportunities for major new entrants in the news market. After a year and a half of operation, the digital newspaper has lost more than $30 million, managed to gain only 100,000 subscribers—not a trivial amount but low for a global player, and has just announced that it is cutting 1/3 of its editorial staff and ending original production of sports news and commentary.

Journalistically The Daily is not a bad news product and its app is facile and effective. So why hasn’t it been more successful? The fundamental problem is that the digital-only paper has been overshadowed by the success of legacy print newspaper brands in the market for digitally delivered news.

The Daily has never been so brilliantly written and edited that it could gain the significant attention and acclaim needed to overcome the brand advantages of legacy news providers. Major newspaper—such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Financial Times—have used the strengths of their reputations and brands to make the largest inroads in digital subscriptions. Concurrently, larger
local and regional players have also been grabbing paid digital customers in their markets and providing additional competition to the digital startup.

The Daily has also had to compete with widespread availability of free digital news from news providers such as BBC.com, CNN.com and aggregators such as Yahoo! and Google. These have all been successful in attracting consumers who are less attached to print news providers and paid services.

Those who predict the demise of legacy newspaper companies often forget the critical importance of the credibility and trust those companies have with news consumers and many assume that print organizations cannot transform themselves into digital players that may become so successful they may one day drop their print editions. 

Brands are important for habitual news consumers and they tend to be highly loyal consumers of specific news brands. The Daily has been unsuccessful in breaking that loyalty, but more successful in creating relationships with persons who have not been strongly bonded to legacy brands. It remains to be seen whether News Corp. will be willing to maintain a relatively small news digital brand among its holdings, even if it manages to move The Daily into operating profitability.