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  HBD, Inc. News... ("Pat Babcock")


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       Projected 2010 Budget  $3305.65
 Expended against projection  $1899.76
Projected Excess/(Shortfall)  $  38.08

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:38:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Pat Babcock" <pbabcock at hbd.org>
Subject: HBD, Inc. News...

Greetings, Beerlings! Take me to your lager...

Many thanks to those who ponied up to the aid of the HBD. In just a short
time, the HBD has moved from underwater to able to breathe again. Thanks
to all who have come to our aid!

On that note, there have been some changes in how we expense certain items
to help flatten out our annual expenses and limit my personal exposure.
Since, as opposed to certain other entities in the news these days, we do
actually strive to be transparent in our machinations,  I have provided a
"blurb" on the HBD Finances page explaining this and why, even though we
are showing a positive bank balance for the end of the year, the HBD's
financial condition is not considered green.

Also, because the HBD traffic is reduced, causing posts to languish overly
long in the queue, I am reducing by about half the hurdle bar on the
Digest's size-to-send. Finally, things at work *should* be slowing down
for a bit soon, and I plan to do some much needed and long overdue
revisions to the Digesting software and to the web site. Assuming I'm
successful, the Digest soon will no longer gripe about line lengths,
oddball fonts, and HTML - while still maintaining the custom controls that
allow our "dead-man switch" moderation as well your ability to cancel
posts as you see fit.

Cheers!

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See ya!

Pat Babcock in SE Michigan
Chief of HBD Janitorial Services
http://hbd.org
pbabcock at hbd.org
NOTE: I am migrating my email to a new address.
Please use "Reply-to" information. Thanks.




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