Your Annual Financial Check-up

The drought has affected production this year; it may also have a negative impact on the financial health of your business. So, as you wind down the production year it is a good time to take the annual financial check-up

Getting control of your money #3: Improving Cash Flow

How much short-term credit does your family farm business need for the year? When and where will cash be generated? A useful tool for finding these answers and managing the financial needs of the family farm is a cash flow budget. The cash flow budget is an estimate of cash receipts and expenditures for a specific time period. The budget only looks at money flows into and out of the business, not at net income or profitability

Presidential Campaigns and Social Networks: How Clinton and Trump Used Facebook and Twitter During the 2016 Election

The advancement in social media technology has greatly improved how people from around the world can communicate with each other. This has been quite apparent during the 2016 presidential election year, as many people have taken to social media to find their news sources and share opinions. This paper examines the use of Facebook and Twitter by the Clinton and Trump campaigns to connect with voters. These two modes of communication have been used by the campaigns to advertise their campaign and take stances on a variety of issues. By using content analysis, data from the two campaigns’ social media profiles will be examined and categorized into its respective themes: mobilize voters, fundraise, take position on issues, encourage participation in the campaign process, attack the opponent, or promote themselves or their campaign. Campaigns have begun to understand how to reach out to voters and provide them with the information they deem necessary in order to get elected. It is crucial to understand how social media has impacted this past presidential campaign season and the election through the use of social media

Sharp Prose for Green: John D. MacDonald and the First Ecological Novel

Hardboiled-fiction writer John D. MacDonald was known to fulminate with devastating eloquence against the profligate pillaging of the Florida Dream. Its post-World War II disintegration into a nightmare took form as a subtheme in numerous novels he produced between the 1950s and 1980s and ultimately as a subgenre that inspired a future generation of socially minded Florida writers.1 Having made the state his home, MacDonald sensed personal loss when the combined improvidence and greed of businesses and government leaders impaired the general quality of life. He put his concerns to creative use in cutting prose, saving his harshest words for the ungreening of Florida\u27s flush indigenous beauty. The book often regarded as a compendium of his disquietude is Condominium, published in 1977 during a rare moment of stagnation in the state\u27s construction industry. Set on one of the false keysn edging the peninsula\u27s west coast, the novel departs from his usual hard-boiled formula but otherwise remains classic-fare MacDonald. Its cast of characters includes sordid building contractors, an insolent condominium super, defrauded senior citizens, a couple of smart, get-it-done retirees, and a punishing hurricane bearing down on the hedonism of overbuilt Florida, standing impertinently in harm\u27s way.