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BUSINESS BRIEFS
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
SHE GOT THE SEAL - June
Bertucci, spokespersonfor Small
Office Computer Support of
Cape Cod in West Hyannisport,
announced that the company's
new Web site has received the
Better Business Bureau's Seal of
Approval.
Nauset Disposal
picks up food drive
NausetDisposalwillprovide
curbsidepickupofnon-perish-
able food items through Nov.
17inOperation Curb Hunger.
Thefollowinglocalbusinesses
have partnered with Nauset
Disposal to provide drop-off
sitesfor thosewhodonot have
curbside pickup: Lily's Flow-
ers & Gifts, South Yarmouth;
O'Shea's Olde Inne , West
Dennis;BrewsterVillageMar-
ketplace; Cape Cod Voice,
Orleans; East OrleansVillage
Market;Farrel'sMarket,Well-
fleet and Village Green Gen-
eral Store, North Eastham.
The food will be donated to
Lower Cape Outreach Council
during Thanksgiving week.
Information, 508-255-1419.
Mashpee facility
praised
The American Health Care
Association (AHCA) has
named Harborside Health-
care-Mashpee as a recipi-
ent of its national Quality
Award. Harborside Health-
care-Mashpee is a 98-bed
facility whose Rehabilitation
Department includes speech
therapy,occupationaltherapy
and physical therapy.
Inventory service
offered
Do you know what you
have? Rod Nobrega, owner of
Smart-Way Home Inventory
Service, thinks you should.
The Hyannis-based business
will inventory your entire
home or small business, us-
ing digital photographs that
are then stored on a CD.
Printsare alsoavailable,along
withcomprehensive inventory
forms andindependent third-
party verification of assets.
Call 508-790-7946 or e-mail
smartway2@comcast.net.
United Waylauds
Banknorth
The Cape and Islands Unit-
ed Way has announced TD
Banknorth is recipient of the
2006 President's Award, in
recognition of its charitable
giving. Over the past two
years,TD Banknorth has con-
tributed morethan$100,000to
the Cape and Islands United
Way through its foundation
and employee contributions,
accordingto Cape and Islands
United WayPresident Richard
Brothers. For information on
helping the United Way, call
508-775-4746.
Osterville agent
completes course
KimBarnocky-Grossman of
Sandbar Realty in Osterville
has completed the real estate
course "Business Planning
and Marketing for the Resi-
dential Specialist"conducted
by the Council of Residential
Specialists of the National
Association of Realtors.
The course, conducted in
Waltham, is one in a series
of professional education se-
quencesthat must be taken by
real estate agentsand brokers
who willeventually qualify for
the Certified Residential Spe-
cialist (CRS) designation.
Stop & Shop to raise
money for hunger
relief
The Stop & Shop Super-
market Company has kicked
off its 17th annual Food for
Friends program to raise
more than $1 million for local
hunger relief organizations
throughout the Northeast.
The charitable program will
run through Nov. 30.
All Stop & Shop stores are
sellingpaper turkeys at check-
out for $1 each. One hundred
percent ofthe funds raised will
be donated to local hunger
relief organizations.
To continue to build rela-
tionships with both regional
food banks and local food pan-
tries, each Stop & Shop store
"adopts" a local food pantry
for the Food for Friends pro-
gram, donating 60 percent of
the funds raised at that store,
including a $500 company
match, to the pantry. The re-
maining $400,000 raised from
Food for Friends isdonated to
regional food banksin Stop &
Shop's operating states.
Blanco joins Realty
Executives
Patti Blanco of South Cha-
tham hasjoined Realty Execu-
tives in its Harwich office. A
licensed real estate profes-
sional since 2004, she haslived
with her family on Cape Cod
for 11 years. Blanco can be
reached at 800-648-7732 , ext.
781 orpattiblanco(«realtyexe
cutives.com.
Realtor completes
course
Michelle Tucker of Realty
Executives has successfully
completed Course 102 of the
Massachusetts Association
of Realtors Institute (GRI)
program, held recently at the
Cape and Islands Association
of Realtors in WestYarmouth.
Tucker can be reached at
508-362-1300 , ext. 48 or via
her Web site, www.Michelle-
SoldMyHouse.com.
Burger King benefits
Jimmy Fund
The Boston-Wyman Burger
King restaurantsraised more
than $96,000 for the Jimmy
Fund through "A Chance for
Kids," in which customers
are asked to donate $1 to
help kids fight cancer, and in
return receive a scratch card
to win prizes. The top fund-
raiser in the chain was the
West Barnstable Burger King,
whose manager, James Gray
of Harwich,wasrecognized at
a convention in Connecticut
as having been the second
highest fund-raiser in New
England. The South Dennis
Burger King, led by Manager
Dennis Anastasia of Hyannis,
raised more than $11,000.
Recipes on CD
Cookbook author and Cape
Cod Barbecue founder Mi-
chael Stines of Marstons
Mills has launched Mike's
Gourmet E-Meals, a compi-
lation of more than a year's
worth of original recipes on
CD. The CD includes Power
Point presentations on grill-
ing and "Barbecue 101" along
with some 370 easy-to-print
recipes. Priced at $14.95, the
CDisavailable at www.Mikes-
GourmetEMeals.com or by
calling 508-428-1513.
Talksin Hyannis
Centerville Osterville
Marstons Mills Business
Network International holds
weekly meetings, including a
10-minute talk, Thursdays at
the Hyannis Golf Club, Route
132, at 7 a.m.
Help for people over
55 who want to work
The Mature Workers Pro-
gram of Elder Services of Cape
Cod and the Islands, Inc. has
openings in its Bridge Back
to Work Program for income-
eligible people 55 and older.
Paid work experience and/or
skills training opportunities
are available in or near your
communitytohelpyou obtain
employment. Call Mary or
Betty at 508-394-4630 or 888-
394-4630 ext. 134 or 138.
Lending a hand
The USDA/Rural Develop-
ment offers help with home
repairs and rehabilitation
projects for single-family
homeowners with very low
household incomes. Call 508-
295-5151, ext. 134.
Web site forjob
seekers
The U.S. Department of
Labor has aWeb site,www.ca-
reeronestop.org, which serves
as a resource for job seekers
and workforce profession-
als alike. The local office for
employment and training
assistanceis Career Opportu-
nities at 75 Perseverance Way
inHyannis.Call508-771-JOBS
or visit www.ciwib.org.
Loans for people
with disabilities
Massachusetts residents
with disabilities have access
to reduced-interest loans
for assistive technology and
related services through the
Massachusetts Rehabilita-
tion Commission and Easter
Seals Massachusetts. Call
617-204-3851 , ext. 3623, or
508-751-6431.
It's out there...
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column.
Google has never been
the only game in town. It
achieved its enviable market
leader status by delivering
a good product and steadily
improving it. Other search
engines, notably Yahoo!,
Ask.com, and Live Search,
a recent evolution of MSN
Search. These major engines
have characteristics distin-
guish them from each other.
Some of these characteris-
tics may be pertinent to the
information you seek or how
you prefer to look for it.
Google is the market's
800-lb gorilla. It is huge in
terms of searchable Web
objects but is shy about
disclosing its size in any way
that facilitates comparison.
In addition to Web pages, its
database includes .pdf files,
Word files, Excel spread-
sheets and PowerPoint
presentations.
However, overlap studies
have shown that only about
half the searchable Web can
be accessed by Google, so
getting a "second opinion"
is highlyrecommended.
Googleindexes the first 101
KB of a Web page and 120
KB of a .pdf file. A tilde (~)
before aword sometimes
finds synonyms.Youcan use
"double quotes"to search for
a phrase, and plus and minus
signs can be used to +include
or -exclude words in a search.
Google's Boolean capabilities
are limited.AND is assumed
between words. OR must
be capitalized. Parentheses,
either single or nested pairs,
work sporadically.Forinter-
national businesses, there
is a Translate this page link
that will translateEuropean
languages, Chinese, Japanese
and Korean to English.Find
Google at www.google.com.
Right now Yahoo!is
Google's only serious com-
petition for market lead-
ership. Initially a subject
directory of sites, Yahoo! is
now a search engine and a
portal in addition to its orig-
inal function. As a directory,
Yahoo!offers quick access
to a dictionary, synonyms,
patents, traffic, stocks, an
encyclopedia and more.
Yahoo!claims more than
20 billion total searchable
Web objects. It offers full
Boolean searching (AND,
OR, NOT, AND NOT and
parentheses). It indexes the
first 500KB of a Web page
-far better than Google's
101 KB -but includes some
pay-for-inclusion sites.
"Double quotes" will search
for a phrase, and plus and
minus signs can be used to
+include or -exclude words
in a search. A SafeSearch
filter excludes most adult
Web pages. It can be turned
on and off from a Prefer-
ences tab. Reach Yahoo's
main starting point at www.
yahoo.com; reach the search
engine at search.yahoo.com
and reach the directory at
dir.yahoo.com.
Live Search is a relative
newcomer, launched by
Microsoft in September 2006.
It features its own large, fresh
and unique Web database as
well as separate databases
for News, Images, Questions
and Answers, Local, Video,
Feeds and Academic. Live
Search offers full Boolean
searching. AND is not needed
because it is the default. Re-
sults are limited to html, .pdf,
Word (.doc and .rtf) Power-
Point and Excel.
There are other search
engines and directories,
but these have the power
and versatility to point you
toward all the information
you will need.
So in the final analysis,
which is the 'best' search
engine? The correct answer
is none of the above. A
truly thorough search would
require the resources of at
least two engines, prefer-
ably Yahoo! and Google, and
perhaps several directories ,
depending on what kind
of information is needed.
Happy hunting!
StanEliaswrites on businesstechnol-
ogy issues and operates Tensor Commu-
nications,a West Barnstable marketing
communications agency that specializes
intechnology-based businesses. He
can bereachedat 508-362-8596 or
TensorComm@comcast.net.
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The lesson I learned here
is easy.First I learned
that you've got to recog-
nize a mistake. The sec-
ond and more important
lesson is applicable in
all management careers.
Once you admit that you
made a mistake, then
you absolutely must deal
with fixingthat mistake.
Now, the new orga-
nization isn't the same
old organization. The
change implemented by
the voters is significant.
The party in control of
the executive branch
recently enjoyed the
leadership and control
in both of the legislative
bodies. This election saw
the legislative leadership
swing to the opposition
party in both houses.
The change was radical.
It was seen as near im-
possible. This incredible
shift in control is more
remarkable as it comes
without the support of
the new Independent
Democrat.
Finally,the results of
this election can also be
tied to one other lesson.
The party that took it
on the chin the most
is the party of fiscal
control. This group has
been shaken to the roots
recently with both finan-
cial and moral scandals.
This lesson is simple. Be
honest and tell the truth.
If you lose, it's because
you were honest. There
is no better loss than an
honest one.
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