The Sullivan Country Club is pleased to announce that Christina Lambing, formerly of Catering, Etc., will be the new restaurant manager at the Sullivan Country Club. Lambing spent many years with her parents, Richard and Ruth Ann Lambing, in the family business, Catering, Etc. and brings 30 years of experience in the food service industry to the exciting Sullivan Country Club Restaurant/Clubhouse. The Lambing family has had a long tradition in the Sullivan food service business for nearly 70 years.? Edna Lambing, the late grandmother of Christina, owned and operated a coupled of restaurants in her career and also ran the Salvation Army Camp in Bourbon. Edna also worked in several local restaurants in Sullivan and Branson. Christina Lambing is a graduate of Sullivan High School and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Accounting. ?I?m very excited to begin this new addition to my career in the food service industry and looking forward to managing the Sullivan Country Club Restaurant,? said Lambing. ?We have some great menu items already on the menus and are adding additional items and special items.? Lambing has worked 30 years in the food service industry including the family business, Catering Etc., working for Meramec Caverns Restaurant for nearly 25 years where she started out waiting on customers from behind the counter in her early days to working up to head chef/cook. Lambing also managed Elements Cafe for one year. ?I look forward to getting back out in the public and seeing some familiar faces as well as welcoming new faces into the Sullivan Country Club Restaurant,? said Lambing.
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Posted: 12:57 pm Tue, September 18, 2012 By Dan?Heilman Tags: Hellmuth & Johnson, James A. Wahl, Katheryn A. Andresen, Lommen Abdo Cole King Stageberg, mergers and acquisitions, Monroe Moxness Berg, Roger Stageberg
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During its lifetime, every business will do at least one of two things: close or change hands.
But the art of completing a merger or acquisition contains a number of legal steps to keep in mind for both the buyer and the seller.
Attorneys who deal with M&As say that the majority of the counsel they offer is to small-business owners looking to sell.
?I get M&A calls all the time, and at least half the time it?s the founder wanting to cash out his investment,? said Roger Stageberg, a business attorney with Lommen Abdo Cole King Stageberg in Minneapolis.
The first step in preparing to navigate M&A law is simple: The day you begin a business, know that one way or another, one day you will leave it behind. Prepare for that day by having an exit strategy and making sure that your business will be legally ready to be sold.
?Every business owner should go into it with the idea that they?ll exit in some fashion at some point,? said James A. Wahl of Monroe Moxness Berg in Bloomington. ?What needs to be done to maximize the value of the company when you?re set to sell? Unless you have a truly one-person business, there?s always the opportunity to transfer ownership to someone.?
Often, that transfer is to someone the owner knows: Children, an employee, a client, even a competitor. Even in relatively friendly transactions like those, you need to be prepared. The first thing to know is to not try to do it yourself. Talk to your lawyer, your accountant and even an M&A broker to make sure your interests are being covered.
?Tell them your motivation,? said Stageberg. If they?re experienced in M&A matters, you?ll come away knowing about 90 percent of how the deal is going to go. They?ll ask you to tell them what you think your business is worth, and they will give you some guidelines to what it?s really worth.?
You can get that process started by going through your financials and putting together realistic projections of sales and profits for at least the balance of this year and one additional year.
Make sure you have all of your business documentation organized and easy to find. An attorney can provide a list of documents a prospective buyer will want to see, such as financial statements, financing agreements, debt instruments and other corporate documents that a buyer is sure to ask for when doing their due diligence prior to a sale.
?Maintain the proper legal records,? said Wahl. ?Make sure licenses and corporate documentation are current and that copies of leases or other agreements related to operation of business are up to date and accessible so that the buyer can review those.?
Wahl even suggests consulting with your landlord, if you don?t own the property that houses the business, to see if your lease is assignable.
And don?t try to fudge the numbers. All M&A agreements have the seller making representations and warranties. If those turn out to be incorrect, the M&A agreement will likely provide indemnification for the buyer, according to Stageberg, so be sure to provide audited balance sheets.
?If after the deal closes, the buyer finds out that one of those sales was phony ? they sold it to a neighbor who sold it back to them the day after the year ended ? that would be a material misrepresentation,? said Stageberg. ?In that case, the buyer would be in a position to get his money back.?
What are your licensed workers worth?
Conversely, if you?re looking to buy, make sure the current owner has all his or her paperwork in order.
?If there are trademarks involved, check the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database to make sure they?re registered,? said Katheryn A. Andresen, a partner at Hellmuth & Johnson in Edina. ?Same with patent: Have they maintained their intellectual property? Are their logos and slogans protected? Those things won?t help the buyer if they?re not.?
Hellmuth & Johnson represents a number of construction and real estate companies, and Andresen said industries such as those present their own M&A legal issues when a sale is looming.
?Those industries are more regulated and a lot of the value that goes into them is personnel,? Andresen said. ?The licensed personnel are part of the brand that?s been created. If the company you?re selling has 10 licensed contractors, what kind of employment agreements are going to go along with those employees? Construction and real estate companies have to consider those things.?
To reinforce the level of trust between buyer and seller, some M&A agreements contain provisions that let the buyer pay the majority of the purchase price upfront, with the balance being put in a bank as escrow, or will provide a promissory note saying they?ll pay the balance two years from now once they?re sure there are no misrepresentations.
And given the complex nature of a business acquisition, both parties should be prepared to be patient.
?Be reasonable about the expectations of how things will close,? said Andresen. ?You can do the general business terms over a handshake, but getting from that point to the actual documentation can take time.?
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Ask engineers about their favorite toys growing up, and chances are, LEGOs will be mentioned. Often, they'll be discussed with great intensity and detail, as in, "The best Christmas ever was in 1988, when I turned my entire bedroom into a LEGO City." There is something about LEGOs that really takes a hold of kids and sparks their interest in building things -- giving them the bug for engineering that can often carry on into their adult lives. The fact is, though, that toys like Legos have traditionally been marketed to boys more than girls. And as it turns out, some 90 percent of people who are employed as engineers today are men. Whether those two facts are related is hard to know, but either way, the dearth of women in engineering is seen by many as a real problem. And it's a problem that GoldieBlox founder Debra Sterling has set out to help solve.
Chinese manufacturer Oppo has recently announced the Find 5, an Android phone that may very well be the world's first handset with a 1920 x 1080 screen resolution. Here's a run-down of the specs.
5-inch 1080p 1920 x 1080 (441 ppi)
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 1.5 GHz quad-core processor
2 GB RAM
12 megapixel camera
Android 4.1
Wi-Fi as/a/b/g/n
Bluetooth 4.0
The Find 5 looks a little too good to be true, and I'll believe it when I see something more than a rendering. Even if it does pan out, the odds of seeing it here in North America are pretty slim. That screen resolution sounds great, but is it overkill, or are we still looking for something sharper on our phones? Would it be worth a significant hit in battery life to use a screen that dense?
A new poll by a Catholic advocacy group shows President Barack Obama has a slight lead over Gov. Mitt Romney among non-Hispanic Catholics, despite the stalled economy and his 2012 establishment of church regulations requiring them to fund contraception and abortion-related services that they abhor.
The poll of 2,629 likely Catholic voters, an unusually large sample, showed that 46.5 percent of non-Hispanic Catholics support Obama, while 45.6 percent support?Romney.
The poll was commissioned by The Catholic Association, and it showed Obama getting 49 percent of Catholics overall, including those of Hispanic descent. Only 41 percent support Romney, while 10 percent are undecided.
Even if Romney wins every undecided non-Hispanic Catholic vote, he would only narrowly best Texas Gov. George W. Bush?s 52 percent share during his razor-thin victory in 2000. Bush won support from 56 percent of non-Hispanic Catholics during his comfortable win in 2004.
Even Sen. John McCain won 52 percent of the non-Hispanic Catholic vote in 2008, despite running a poor campaign against Sen. Barack Obama?s wave.
Romney is only slightly ahead of Obama among church-going white Catholics, 46.6 percent to 45.3 percent.
Forty-eight percent of the poll respondents were Democrats; 33 percent were Republicans.
Non-Hispanic whites comprised?65 percent of the Catholics polled; 29 percent were Hispanic.
Fifty-seven percent of respondents agreed with the statement that ?[t]he Obama Administration has gone too far in placing restrictions on religious freedom when implementing their programs and policies.?
That?s a reference to Obama?s controversial 2012 policy that forces all denominations to provide their employees with free contraception and some abortion-related services via insurance companies.
Administration officials has suggested they will exempt churches that pass a multi-part government test. Religious leaders from many denominations have promised to oppose the president?s edict in court and at the ballot box.
The poll?s numbers will be disappointing for Romney, and?should push him to step up his outreach to Catholics in crucial swing states including Ohio, Iowa, Virginia and Pennsylvania, said Catholic advocates.
But the poll showed that most Catholics are philosophically closer to the GOP than to progressives, said Maureen Ferguson, a senior policy advisor at The Catholic Association.
Seventy-eight percent said rights come from nature and God, not government, she said. ?It gets to the fundamental question of government, she said, adding that ?one [party] is 100 percent on one side, and the other is 100 percent on the other side.?
In battleground states, ?Catholics continue to account for a higher percentage of the electorate than their overall percentage of the population. ? Catholics are the key swing vote,? said Matt Smith, president of Catholic Advocate.
His group is trying to boost Catholic turnout in the 2012 election, and help elect Romney.
Also, Catholics who regularly attend Mass are also more likely to vote, he said, creating a slight advantage for Romney.
?Any successful outreach to Catholics must address the prominence issues such as the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty hold, particularly among Mass-attending Catholics,? Smith said.
Romney is trying to boost his Catholic support by hiring Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, to spur support and turnout.
The Catholic advocates were coy about their registration, turnout and advocacy plans.
?We are producing a Catholic voter guide that will be very widely distributed? before the election by lay Catholics, Ferguson said, adding that ?we don?t want to telegraph in public what we want to do.?
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Ask engineers about their favorite toys growing up, and chances are, LEGOs will be mentioned. Often, they'll be discussed with great intensity and detail, as in, "The best Christmas ever was in 1988, when I turned my entire bedroom into a LEGO City." There is something about LEGOs that really takes a hold of kids and sparks their interest in building things -- giving them the bug for engineering that can often carry on into their adult lives. The fact is, though, that toys like Legos have traditionally been marketed to boys more than girls. And as it turns out, 
