. . . is a catch phrase best known in the United States and Canada, and made popular in a series of 1984 Wendy's commercials starring the late actress, Clara Peller.  It has since become an all-purpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea, event or product.  Clara Peller was 4' 10" tall who came to the U.S.A. from Russia as a child.  In the commercials, she portrayed an elderly lady (she was 83 at the time) demanding to know "Where's the beef!" as she visited various non-Wendy's hamburger joints.  The commercials helped increase Wendy's annual revenue by 31% and made Mrs. Peller a television star, leading to licensing deals for "Where's the beef?" T-shirts, coffee mugs and beach towels.  The big-dollar advertising campaign ended in 1985 after Mrs. Peller performed in a commercial for Prego pasta sauce, saying that she "really found" the beef.  (Clara Peller died at her home in 1987 at the age of 86.)
 
Factoring your invoices with Mazon might just be one best way to "beef up" your business.  Our factoring fees start at only 5% per purchased invoice (quite low compared to our competition!) and, depending on your total monthly invoice volume, could go as low as 2%.  What do you, as our client, get in return?  Consider Mazon as a low-cost substitute for a high-cost accounts receivable employee in your company.  Collectively, our staff receives and enters your prepared invoices into our computer system and generates same-day payment to you (a 5-step process); promptly mails your invoices to your customers; does "soft collections" beginning at 30-day aging (i.e. weekly courtesy phone calls to your customer regarding past due amounts); mailing weekly computer-generated past-due statements to customers; faxing or emailing copies of invoices as requested by customers; same-day problem resolution for returned invoices and notifying you of appropriate address changes; providing you with daily cash reports on payments received, bi-weekly reserve and aging reports, and month-end reports.  If you have a potential new customer, we will perform a credit check on their credit-worthiness for you in advance of your doing business with them.  We never request "paid time off" for vacations, personal time or sick leave.  We are your back-up invoice system in the event of a disaster.  We are your savings partner if you should choose to keep your available reserve dollars with Mazon (earning interest of prime plus 3%).  And, should you refer someone to us who becomes a Mazon client, we will pay you a monthly referral of 10% of the contracted factoring fee for as long as that business remains a client of ours.  You definitely know "where's the beef" is in this burger of a deal!

Aircraft maker Bombardier Aerospace has an eye on the Dallas/Fort Worth area for its planned 60,000sf U.S. aircraft repair station, which could employ 100. No news as to how many other U.S. cities are also being considered, but DFW finalists for the facility are Dallas, DeSoto and Mesquite. Bombadier's Belfast, Northern Ireland facility (with 5,300 employees) designs and makes aircraft fuselages and engine casing systems, called nacelles. The new U.S. repair station would specialize in repairs on aircraft nacelles. (Ref. Dallas Business Journal)
 
AT&T announced on June 27th that it will move its corporate headquarters from San Antonio to its existing Dallas offices (at Akard and Commerce Streets) to gain better access to its customers and operations throughout the world, and to the key technology partners, suppliers, innovation and human resources needed as it continues to grow both domestically and internationally.  The move will begin in the coming weeks and is expected to be complete around yearend.  It is expected to involve about 700 of the company's nearly 6,000 San Antonio-based employees, and will make it one of the largest Dallas employers (AT&T already has about 3,500 people in the central business district).  AT&T's Telecom Operations group will remain in San Antonio; Atlanta will continue to be the headquarters for AT&T's Mobility group; New Jersey will continue to be the headquarters for the company's Global Business Services group and AT&T Labs; and St. Louis will continue as home to the company's Directory operations.   (The Dallas area is currently home to one of the country's largest communities of telecom companies, nearly 1,300 strong with 45,000 employees.)

 As reported in Information Week (June 2, 2008), Microsoft is planning to debut their new Windows 7 operating system in late 2009 or early 2010.  By that time, it is anticipated that companies likely will have upgraded many PCs to a level that will run Windows 7 with no trouble, and which Microsoft says will support the same applications and devices as the current Vista OS - good news for folks who hope to avoid the incompatibility fiasco that was the initial Vista launch.  So, if you are running Windows XP now, you can probably sit tight and wait for Windows 7!

Effective April 22, 2007 (and maybe news to you!), Notaries in Texas (other than a court clerk) are prohibited from recording in his/her official journal an ID card number from a state-approved identification card used by the Notary to positively identify the signer.  This includes, but is not restricted to, driver license numbers and social security numbers.  This new administrative rule reflects what is likely to be a growing trend to limit the amount of personal identifying information recorded in Notary journals.  The Texas Government Code does not currently require Notaries to record a driver license number, passport number, etc. in the journal, but since many Notaries have been doing so, and since the Government Code states that information in the journal is public information, there is a possibility that this personal identifying information could be divulged.  (Source:  TexReg 2275)  
 
A Notary should be allowed to personally view your original (not a photocopy), non-expired driver license (noting your correct address, identifying photo and matching handwriting) and then record in the Notary journal under Signer's ID, "Driver license viewed," without the actual number recorded.

 

 

1) Lower corner of screen has the words "Etch-A-Sketch" on it. 
2) Its celebrity spokesman is that "Hey Vern!" guy. 
3) In order to start it you need some jumper cables and a friend's car. 
4) Its slogan is "Pentium: redefining mathematics". 
5) The "quick reference" manual is 120 pages long. 
6) Whenever you turn it on, all the dogs in your neighborhood start howling. 
7) The screen often displays the message, "Ain't it break time yet?" 
8) The manual contains only one sentence: "Good Luck!" 
9) The only chip inside is a Dorito.
10)You've decided that your computer is an excellent addition to your fabulous paperweight collection.