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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=100 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="15c00640egdysm.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial" ><B>Home</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>    |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="April 2005 Newsletter"><U>April 2005 Newsletter</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#0000BF" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="id169.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="4.05 New Features Overview"><U><B>4.05 New Features Overview</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id163_act_needs_evaluation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="April 2005 Newsletter"><U><B>ACT Needs Evaluation</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id164.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BEST News From SAGE!"><U><B>BEST News - From SAGE!</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><This link's target cannot be found></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id166.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRA News"><U><B>ABRA News</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id168.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FRx"><U><B>FRx</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5e75a310.gif" border=0 width="90" height="49" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>TimeClock Plus</I></div> <div> "Time, the moving instant, separating an infinite past</div> <div> from an infinite future."  </div> <div>                                                                        Shakespeare</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="484" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1258 WIDTH="478"><div>  <A NAME="q1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><B>Real Time and Time & Attendance</B></div> <bR> <div> Celestial bodies — the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars — have provided us a reference for measuring the passage of time throughout our existence. Ancient civilizations relied upon the apparent motion of these bodies through the sky to determine seasons, months, and years. </div> <bR> <div> We know little about the details of timekeeping in prehistoric eras, but wherever records and artifacts are turned up, it is commonly discovered that, in every culture, some people were preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time. </div> <bR> <div> We have no written records of Stonehenge, built over 4000 years ago in England, but its alignments show its purposes apparently included the determination of seasonal or celestial events, such as lunar eclipses, solstices and so on.  Mayans of Central America relied not only on the Sun and Moon, but also the planet Venus, to establish 260 day and 365 day calendars. </div> <bR> <div> As best we know, 5000 to 6000 years ago great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa began to make clocks to augment their calendars. With their attendant bureaucracies, formal religions, and other burgeoning societal activities, these cultures apparently found a need to organize their time more efficiently.  The sun dial was developed, and water clocks, followed by pendulum clocks and the atomic clock.  Tracking time is integral to the success of almost any undertaking.  </div> <bR> <div> Today's markets are more competitive than ever before.  Not keeping up with time tracking technology puts a company at a disadvantage.  Up-to-the-second tracking and reporting of employee clock transactions, and their resulting time accrued, allows management to calculate, to the second, what their companies' goods and services cost.  </div> <bR> <div> Most of today's other major time clock brands still use 'stand alone' clocks to store punches which require a modem and phone line forcing payroll clerks or managers to "go get", or poll, the employee time. Once received, someone has to track down employees to correct the exceptions that have been stored since the last poll. </div> <bR> <div> TimeClock Plus uses your computer's power as the backbone of the system; your remotely placed employees access clocks in strategic locations, around the office, or around the world. When employees use the clock, the records are immediately written to the confines of your hard disk, either on a stand alone computer in a small office, or across hundreds of nodes on a LAN or WAN. The employee pay period data is safely backed up along with your other most valuable information. </div> <bR> <div> That information is immediately available to those who wish to analyze labor cost, labor cost as a percentage of sales, or to review current employee attendance.  </div> <bR> <div> TimeClock Plus - an affordable advantage for small and medium businesses.  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5ec909a0.jpg" border=0 width="144" height="154" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>