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Yes, it's true that Jesus' own prayer was directed toward God as Father. The prayer which Jesus teaches his disciples in ths gospels of Matthew and Luke is addressed to "our Father" and does not mention Jesus at all! We still pray this as "The Lord's Prayer" and regard it as a central Christian prayer.
Apart from the Lord's Prayer, most prayer in Catholic worship is addressed "TO the Father, THROUGH the Son, IN unity with the Holy Spirit." This formula expresses two basic beliefs of Catholics: the Trinity and the Incarnation.
The Apostle's Creed, one of the earliest Christian professions of faith, states: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary…" This awareness of Jesus being one in nature with God the Father and yet also (as "Son of Mary") completely human was most fully articulated at the Councils of Nicea in 325 and Chalcedon in 451 but its roots are in the New Testament. For example, in the gospel of John, Jesus says to his disciples at his "last supper": "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, "Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?" (John 14:9-10). For another instance, when Paul concludes his letter to the Romans with the phrase "to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ be glory for ever and ever" (Romans 16:27) he is associating Jesus with the conclusion of a prayer traditionally addressed to God alone.
The most correct title for Jesus, following upon the Apostles' Creed, is not "God" but "Son of God." What does it mean that Catholics believe that he is "one in nature with the Father?"
Perhaps the best insight comes from the first letter of John: "let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God…God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him" (1 John 4:7,16). If the essence of God is love, Christians have come to believe in Jesus as the embodiment of self-sacrificing love. The Catholic theologian Edward Schillebeeckx has referred to Jesus as "the sacrament of the encounter with God." The Anglican Bishop J.A.T. Robinson used a similiar metaphor, calling Jesus "the human face of God." For Catholics, the mystery of God is revealed in the person of Jesus.
Because of this awareness, Catholics and other Christians direct some prayers to Jesus. An example of these would be the "Lord, have Mercy" prayers of the Penitential Rite at the beginning of Mass, and the "Jesus Prayer" that is a tradition of Orthodox Christians. The more common and perhaps more appropriate address for Christian prayer is "TO the Father, THROUGH the Son, IN unity with the Holy Spirit."

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Hi, I'm Stephen Bittrich. In this inaugural episode of Off Off Pod, I interview my buddy, actress Margo Martindale, who is known for such television shows as JUSTIFIED, THE AMERICANS, A GIFTED MAN, and most recently, THE MILLERS. (As of this writing you can watch the latest episode of THE MILLERS for free online.).
She is also known for movies like AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Christmas, 2013), MILLION DOLLAR BABY, and DEAD MAN WALKING.
While temporarily rooming with Margo and being her assistant while she transitions into THE MILLERS, I ask what the day to day process is like for an actor working on a 4 camera sitcom and what the audition process was like.
The Margo section was taped on 10/30/13 in Los Angeles.
And after the interview I talk about the origins of Off Off Pod, my inspiration Marc Maron from WTFPod and a little about the my growing pride in the words "Off Off."
The theme song "Here We Go Again" is written and performed by my buddy Sal Clemente. Here's his band — Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra. Check 'em out!Share this on Facebook or Twitter.


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Apple Butter Weekend
I'm excited to share with you all a family tradition of ours that I am pretty proud of. Last weekend we headed to my hometown and joined up with family and friends for "Apple Butter Weekend." I don't know how long the tradition has been going but it's been WAY longer than I've been alive. Rumor has it that our family has been doing it for 80-100 years. Nobody really knows. All I know is that I have such fond memories of this weekend and continue to walk away with more memories each year.
It starts on a Friday night when we gather to peel and chop 8 bushals of apples. It's quite the process!
We all have our jobs to do in order to get it done. Before we had the handy-dandy apple peelers, this used to last far into the night. Now we usually wrap up around 9 p.m. and head to the bonfire after that. When it's all said and done, we end up with 10 buckets of chopped apples that are bagged up and ready to be cooked the next day.
Early Saturday morning, a fire is started and apples start to be dumped into the huge copper pot. They have to be stirred constantly so they don't burn. We all take turns stirring the huge pot throughout the day.
When you aren't taking your turn, there are tons of other things to do! Between the canoes, kayaks, pumpkin decorating, touch football games, swings, bonfires, tons of food, playing fetch with dogs, and yard games, you won't find yourself with a lack of options.
After the apples have been cooking all day, ingredients have been added, and the apple butter has passed the "weeping test," it is ready to be canned!
After the scramble to get the apple butter canned up, there is only one more thing to do…
Grab a roll and clean out the pot! At this point we get to test out the fruits of our labor. Nothing is better than warm apple butter that is 100% fresh! My daughter sure didn't mind her first taste of it.
We all leave happy and tired from a fun-filled day.
Just wanted to share a fun family tradition that I feel proud to be part of. I have apple butter all year long to remind me of the great fall weekend with my family.


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With all the Arizona heat in the past few months, the building progress slowed down. I did manage to get a few things done though. I'm nearly complete with the internal structure of the horizontal stabilizer. Here are some detailed pictures of the progress.
One of the tasks, in preparation to attach skins to the internal structure, is to build some cradles. The first pic, below, shows how these cradles will assist with the initial insertion of the skeleton into the skins.
Now that the weather is cooling off, it's time to make some real progress with the horizontal stabilizer. The skins are fully prepped now, and I'm building out the internal structure.
The next steps will be to complete the "internal skeleton" and attach the skins.


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An integrated bioarchaeological approach to the Medieval Agricultural Revolution. The case study of Stafford, England
Professor Helena Hamerow
Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (2012)
In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of Anglo-Saxon communities. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has expanded enormously in recent years - for such settlements from across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and what it reveals about the communities who built and lived in them, and whose daily lives went almost wholly unrecorded. Helena Hamerow examines the appearance, 'life-cycles', and function of their buildings; the relationship of Anglo-Saxon settlements to the Romano-British landscape and to later medieval villages; the role of ritual in daily life; what distinguished 'rural' from 'urban' in this early period; and the relationship between farming regimes and settlement forms. A central theme throughout the book is the impact on rural producers of the rise of lordship and markets and how this impact is revealed through the remains of their settlements. Hamerow provides an introduction to the wealth of information yielded by settlement archaeology and to the enormous contribution that it makes to our understanding of Anglo-Saxon society.
The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Since the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of physical evidence - settlements, cemeteries, artefacts, environmental data, and standing buildings. This evidence has confirmed some readings of the Anglo-Saxon literary and documentary sources and challenged others. More recently, large-scale excavations both in towns and in the countryside, the application of computer methods to large bodies of data, new techniques for site identification such as remote sensing, and new dating methods have put archaeology at the forefront of Anglo-Saxon studies. The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, will both stimulate and support further investigation into those aspects of Anglo-Saxon life and culture which archaeology has fundamentally illuminated. It will prove an essential resourse for our understanding of a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.
Research interests:
- The archaeology of early medieval Europe
- Rural communities in the early Middle Ages
- Early medieval trade and exchange
My research and publications focus on the archaeology of rural communities in early medieval Europe, particularly in the North Sea Zone. I am especially interested in the impact of the establishment of kingdoms, monasteries and towns on rural producers and on the early medieval countryside. My publications in this area include two books, Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (OUP 2012) and Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Communities in Northwest Europe AD 400-900 (OUP 2002).
More recently, I have begun to explore the formation of the earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, in particular the kingdom of Wessex, whose origins lie in the Upper Thames Valley. This has led to a project ('The Origins of Wessex') that is deploying a range of archaeological and landscape evidence to investigate the British contribution to West Saxon identity and explore how the leading families of the Gewisse (a group who later came to be known as the West Saxons) used material culture and the landscape itself to consolidate their position (www.arch.ox.ac.uk/wessex). The discovery in recent years of several richly furnished female burials in the Upper Thames region (including one near the prehistoric standing stones at Rollright, see image) has also led me to investigate the changing role of women in England more widely during the Conversion period (Hamerow 2015 and 2016).
I am co-Director of excavations at the Roman small town of Dorchester-on-Thames (www.arch.ox.ac.uk/DOT1) and PI of the AHRC-funded Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale, an on-line database of Anglo-Saxon graves and grave-goods from Kent (www.arch.ox.ac.uk/NIS1).
Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale. Anglo-Saxon graves and grave-goods from Kent: http://inventorium.arch.ox.ac.uk
Dorchester-on-Thames excavation website and blog: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/DOT1 and discoveringdorchester.blogspot.com
An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval 'Agricultural Revolution': A Case Study from Stafford, England, c.ad 800–1200
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The bioarchaeology of an agricultural revolution
Early Medieval Places and Spaces. Breaking Down Boundaries in British Archaeology
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution ('FeedSax')
The circulation of garnets in the North Sea Zone, AD400-700
The Circulation of Garnets in the North Sea Zone, c. 400-700
Furnished female burial in seventh-century England: Gender and authority in the Conversion Period
A well furnished seventh-century female burial at West Hanney, Oxon
An Anglo-Saxon Great Hall Complex at Sutton Courtenay/Drayton, Oxfordshire: A Royal Centre of Early Wessex?
Current DPhil Students
- Irene Bavuso
I would be willing to hear from potential DPhil students regarding early medieval archaeology and material culture.
I would be willing to hear from potential Masters students looking at early medieval archaeology.
I currently teach:
- Mst Archaeology, 'Emergence of Medieval Europe', The Archaeology of Early Anglo-Saxon England', The Archaeology of Later Anglo-Saxon England'
- MSt Medieval History, supervision of dissertations
|Approaches to History & Further Subject 1
- 2014 'King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons' (BBC 4; bbc.co.uk)
- 21 Feb 2011 Interviews on Radio 4 'Today' Programme and Radio 5-live
- September 2010 'Digging for Britain' (BBC 2)
- June 2010 'Time Team', 'In the Hall of s Saxon King', on Youtube.com (Time Team S17-E05)
- 2009 Presenter of 'The Lost World of the Vikings', Atlantic Productions for The History Channel


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Weld Riley Attorneys Anders Helquist and John Behling present at UW-Eau Claire
Weld Riley attorneys Anders Helquist and John Behling (a member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents) recently gave a seminar to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Geology Department on Preparing Expert Testimony for Permit Hearings.
Thank you for your commitment to our community, Anders and John!
Weld Riley, S.C. was founded in 1991. The firm consists of more than thirty lawyers across three offices (Eau Claire, Menomonie, and Black River Falls) and offers a full range of legal services, including labor and employment, business law, estate planning, tax representation, municipal law, mining and mineral rights, environmental law, banking and creditor rights, civil litigation, worker's compensation defense, criminal defense, immigration, and family law.


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Ecoway ltd offers such a fuel materials as: ecological fuel pellets for retail and industrial use: straw pellets, wood pellets, sunflower pellets. Also we do have briquetts of different types: Nestro, RUF, Pini Kay.
Businesses, factories and public institutions can use pellets as a heating fuel for locations such as production facilities, business premises, greenhouses, as well as municipal and state-owned properties such as health centres, schools, hospitals and office buildings.
The use pellets is easy to automate. The most efficient implementation of pellet heating involves pellet burners, which can be installed in combination boilers or solid fuel boilers. Due to their high energy content and homogeneity, pellets can increase the peak output and operating reliability of all heating plants using solid fuels.
The burning of pellets and briquetts is released as much CO2 how many tree take from the atmosphere during their growth. Who heats with pellets, not only does not contribute to global climate change, but also helps to reduce global warming and preventing another disasters, that might occur.
We have experience in supplying biomass to large power plants, and also to small domestic farms. We work with heat and powers plant on the principles of punctuality, compliance and trust. For a several years we'd been supplying biomass to big Polish power plants, such as CEZ, PGE, Energa and other. We build our bussiness relations on the basics of high-quality service, supported with the high quality of our products.
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4817 Parmenter St, Middleton, WI 53562
- Lots for Sale
- Status: Active
- County: Dane
- Acreage: 5.83
- Elementary School: Call School District
- Middle School: Call School District
- High School: Middleton
- Property Taxes: $5,359
- Property Tax Year: 2019
- Listing Company: Re/Max Preferred
Property Description
4817 Parmenter St, Middleton, WI 53562 - OVER 5 ACRE LOT IN MIDDLETON...POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS IN THIS GROWING CITY + NEAR WEST MADISON & HOSPITALS! This land is already in the Middleton TIF district! Build your commercial building, doctor's office, dentist office, lawyer's office or multi-unit...investment opportunity awaits with growing Middleton! High visibility from Hwy 12 with easy access from the on & off ramp by Hwy 12 & Parmenter exchange (land is adjacent to Hwy 12 for great visibility & signage)! Currently there is a 3-unit investment property on the land with outbuildings (property is across the street from Nonn's Flooring).
Additional features
Building and Construction
- 5+ Unit Lot, City, Other
Land Features
- Topography: Level, Rolling
- Zoning: Agricultural, Commercial/Industrial, Multi-family, PUD, Single family
- Waterfront/Access: N
Property History
MLS Number New Status Previous Status Activity Date New List Price Previous List Price Sold Price DOM 1874699 Active Jan 9 2020 11:48AM $2,999,900 294 1834082 Expired Active Jan 8 2020 1:16AM 568 1834082 Active Expired Jun 20 2019 11:50AM 568 1834082 Expired Active Jun 20 2019 1:15AM 568 1809546 Expired Active Jun 20 2018 4:48PM 331 1809546 Active Withheld/Delayed Jul 28 2017 1:51PM 331 1809546 Withheld/Delayed Jul 18 2017 2:07PM $3,100,000 331
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Do you find the content on this blog helpful? Would you like to see an even more steady stream of original content, including monthly book reviews, bimonthly self-help videos, weekly answers to readers' questions and a thought-of-the-day each morning? These are just some of the agenda-items I would like to pursue if this blog could become self-funding.
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Dulin lawyer says probation terms misrepresented
MILFORD -- The lawyer for Robert Dulin, who served 18 months in prison for having sex with a girl he coached, claimed in court Wednesday that it's state probation officials who are out of bounds.
Hugh Keefe charged that a probation officer misled Superior Court Judge Eddie Rodriguez Jr. into signing an arrest warrant charging Dulin with violating the terms of his release.
The officer sought Dulin's arrest in May because the former University of Connecticut basketball player would not agree to random polygraph testing and other conditions.
"He didn't tell you that those conditions were expressly rejected by Judge [John] Cronan when sentencing Dulin in September 2007," Keefe told Rodriguez at a hearing in Milford Superior Court. "That is a flat-out, total deception."
Dulin has complied with all of the terms of probation set by the sentencing judge, but staff of the Probation Department's sex offender unit and the treatment program the Milford man attends are trying to impose new conditions, Keefe said.
Dulin, of Milford, was not allowed to attend his daughter Casey's games this spring while she played with an elite basketball team that traveled along the Eastern seaboard, and he could not take another daughter to look at colleges.
"That is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and it's gone," the lawyer said. "They single-handedly deprived him of it despite a court order.''
Dulin, dressed in a purple sweater and black jeans, did not speak during the hearing. His wife, Lynn, also attended the session during which Rodriguez considered several motions, including one to remove himself from the case because he had signed the arrest warrant.
The head of the Middletown counseling and treatment program for sex offenders allegedly told Dulin that "she had the power and fully intended to make him move out of the house and to only see his four daughters on supervised visits," Keefe said.
Assistant State's Attorney Maria Sous said the former youth basketball coach is required to submit to polygraph tests if they are deemed necessary. "That's why we are here today.
"He explicitly refused to comply, and [Keefe's] interpretation of Judge Cronan's order misses the mark,'' Sous said. Probation officials were attempting to execute the court's orders, she said, and didn't lie or misrepresent the terms of Dulin's probation.
Rodriguez rejected Keefe's motion to transfer the case back to Cronan, the sentencing judge, who no longer serves in the Milford court.
He set aside Aug. 18-20 to hear evidence in the violation-of-probation case and to consider Keefe's motion to sanction the probation officer who sought Dulin's arrest.
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Tanglewood 2012
February 28, 2012 by Applegate Inn
Tanglewood 2012 is going to have an exciting lineup, for it is the 75th anniversary season of the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The season runs from June 22 through September 2. Two Gala Celebrations will be held to mark the 75th Anniversary, one on July 14 and one on August 18. Special musical guests will include James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Peter Serkin. Guest conductors include John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons.
It isn't too early to make your Tanglewood 2012 plans. Visit Tanglewood to see a schedule of performances, then visit the reservation page of our Bekrshire Inn. Once you're here, we'll share our secret shortcut to Tanglewood with you.
You know spring is just around the corner when you start to make your summer plans.
Music at The Clark
February 20, 2012 by Applegate Inn
Did you know that there is music at The Clark Art Institute?
If you time your stay at our Berkshire Inn right, you'll be able to enjoy the ongoing music series offered at The Clark. In the coming weeks, the Clark will play host to a varied lineup.
- Victor Hill Concert, Sunday, February 26, 2102. If you've never heard Victor Hill make music on his harpsichord, don't miss this free solo recital. Bach's "Chromatic Fantasy and Fuge" and selected sonatas by Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti will be featured, along with a suite by François Couperin. 3:00 p.m.
- Dual Recital by Edward Arron (Cello) and Jeewon Park (Piano), Sunday, March 4, 2012. Chopin, Debussy, Beach, and Mendelssohn will be well treated by Arron and Park. Meet the artists at a reception immediately following the concert. 3:00 p.m.
- John Pizzarelli, Friday, April 6, 2012. This world-renowned jazz guitarist and singer is praised for "reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz" (The Boston Globe). It is sure to be a fun evening. 8:00 p.m.
- The Clark will broadcast two Met "live in HD" operas in the coming weeks: Verdi's Emani on Saturday, February 25 at 1:00 p.m. and Massenet's Manon on Saturday, April 7 at noon.
Add a little music to your time in Berkshire Bed and Breakfasts. Please see The Clark for a complete list of music events.


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1.0 Executive Summary
Interstate Travel Center is intended to be the major travel center in Dallas, Texas. It will consist of a convenience store, gas/diesel islands, restaurant, and amenities for the trucking business. Interstate Travel Center is a corporation owned and operated by Steve and Janet Smith.
The company's management philosophy is based on responsibility and mutual respect. Interstate Travel Center has an environment and structure that encourages productivity and respect for customers and fellow employees.
Interstate Travel Center is organized into two main functional areas: convenience store-gas/diesel, and the restaurant, each will have its own on-site management. Steve and Janet Smith are the founders and co-presidents. They will head the operation, and will concentrate on product sourcing, sales, marketing, finance, and overall administration. Each area will have a manager responsible for daily operations who will report to the Smiths.
Standard & Poor's estimates that the U.S. commercial freight transportation market had aggregate revenues of $436 billion in 1998.
In other words, five cents of every dollar of U.S. gross domestic product that year was spent on transportation. With some $344 billion in 1998 revenues, the trucking business claimed 79% of the U.S. commercial freight transportation market. This total was divided among two sectors: private carriage and for-hire.
The initial start-up costs will amount to $2.75 million, which will be used to purchase land, develop it, and construct a 6,000 square foot travel center, complete with gas/diesel islands, scales, and a restaurant. The initial capital injection will be $250,000. The remaining will be in the form of a $2.5 million loan.
1.1 Mission
The mission of Interstate Travel Center is to start a new public travel center which will service the truck fueling and shopping needs of NAFTA trade, the general traveling public, and local Dallas customers.
2.0 Company Summary [back to top]
Interstate Travel Center is a start-up company whose management perceives a growing demand for commercial vehicle services within the Dallas area. The company's management staff includes Steven Smith, who has extensive experience within the automotive repair industry, and Janet Smith, who has provided budgeting and bookkeeping services to small companies for twenty years, who will provide the logistical support for the business. It is Interstate Travel Center's long-term goal to create multiple service centers within the southwest area to service the NAFTA commercial traffic and create a brand awareness that transcends state borders.
2.1 Company Ownership [back to top]
Interstate Travel Center is solely owned by Steven and Janet Smith. It is not anticipated that the company will seek additional shareholders for the foreseeable future.
2.2 Funding Requirements and Uses [back to top]
Funding Requirements and Uses
The initial start-up costs will amount to $2.75 million. This will be used to purchase land, develop it, and construct a 6,000 sq./ft travel center, complete with gas/diesel islands, scales, and a restaurant. The initial capital injection will be $250,000. The remaining will be funds in the form of a $2.5 million loan. Figure 1 provides a breakdown of how the funding will be used and Figure 2 provides the Expenditure Outline for Phase I.
Figure 1. Use of Funds
Working Capital $250,000
Inventories (Travel Ctr.) $65,000
Land $200,000
Land Development $150,000
Highway Improvements $350,000
Building $500,000
Pre-Paid Expenses $250,000
Gasoline Facility $200,000
Diesel Facility $150,000
Equipment (Travel Ctr.) $100,000
Equipment (Restaurant) $200,000
Contingency $235,000
Other fixed Assets $50,000
Scales $50,000
Total $2.75 million
Figure 2. Phase I Expenditure Outline
Land Development $100,000
Building (6,000 sq. ft.) $500,000
Gasoline Facility (includes all equipment) $200,000
Diesel Facility (includes all equipment) $150,000
Equipment: Store $100,000
Equipment: Restaurant $200,000
Highway Improvements* $50,000
Miscellaneous $50,000
Land Costs $200,000
TOTAL ALLOWABLE BUDGET FOR PHASE ONE $1.55 million
*Texas Department of Transportation - 50/50 split with state.
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Start-up Expenses
Prepaid Expenses $250,000
Travel Center Equipment $100,000
Restaurant Equipment $200,000
Contingency Costs $235,000
Other $0
Total Start-up Expenses $785,000
Start-up Assets Needed
Cash Balance on Starting Date $250,000
Start-up Inventory $65,000
Other Current Assets $50,000
Total Current Assets $365,000
Long-term Assets $1,600,000
Total Assets $1,965,000
Total Requirements $2,750,000
Steve Smith $150,000
Janet Smith $100,000
Other $0
Total Investment $250,000
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable $0
Current Borrowing $0
Other Current Liabilities $0
Current Liabilities $0
Long-term Liabilities $2,500,000
Total Liabilities $2,500,000
Loss at Start-up ($785,000)
Total Capital ($535,000)
Total Capital and Liabilities $1,965,000
2.3 Company Locations and Facilities [back to top]
Interstate Travel Center will be located between I-45 and I-635 in Dallas, Texas. Access to the travel center will be through these major highways. The advantages of this site are listed below and should be evaluated accordingly when investments for site developments (or improvements) are being considered.
Visibility of this site is considered good.
Competition at and around this location is low.
Quantity of competition is classified as limited.
Accessibility to location is good.
Traffic count potential (during rush hour traffic) at this location is considered good.
House count at this location is very low.
Demographics at this location are excellent.
Growth of area around this site is fair.
3.0 Products and Services [back to top]
Interstate Travel will be a travel center/truck stop offering an array of goods and services. The travel center will have a convenience store as well as gas/diesel fuel pumps. Amenities for NAFTA and other travelers, such as public restrooms, separate trucker entrances, showers, telephones, game room, trucker lounge/TV room, scales, and a parking lot, will also be included.
The suggested branding is for market impact. The branding recommendations made by the feasibility study are Chevron, Diamond Shamrock, Texaco, or a private brand.
3.1 Product and Service Description [back to top]
The following sections relate the goods and services that are suggested for the travel center. These suggestions are based on our findings and the location classification. It must be stressed that the development of Interstate Travel's travel centers will be completed in stages. This is in order to create maximum efficiency while still remaining within the spending boundaries.
3.1.1 Store [back to top]
Suggested Goods and Services, Convenience Store:
Two registers and checkout areas.
16-20 quantity walk-in cooler.
16-20 quantity fountain drink selections.
Coffee offering based on customer mix.
Heavy snack items.
Travel grocery items.
Extra-heavy oil and other offerings based on the customer mix.
Public restrooms which will be both large and nice.
Separate amenities for truckers, such as entrances and restrooms.
All sites that have been evaluated by Paragon/Solutions list the above retail goods and services, and we feel these will contribute the most to the success of the location. Any variance from these suggestions could have a direct affect on the success of this site.
3.1.2 Food [back to top]
Suggested Goods and Services, Fast Food:
The following fast food offerings are suggested for this location based on our findings:
National brand fast food: Phase III only
Privately-owned full service restaurant (Interstate Travel): Phase I
Other Suggested Fast Food Amenities:
Indoor seating for 64-69 patrons (develop and grow in phases).
Drive-thru window (with car stack capabilities): Phase III.
Order station (with car stack capabilities): Phase III.
Interior menu board and order line.
Phase III: Introduce additional fast food.
Phase III: Increase to seating for 120 patrons.
3.1.3 Gas [back to top]
Suggested Goods and Services, Gasoline Installation:
Multiple Pump Dispensers at gas islands/Phase I.
Quantity of MPDs: four/Phase I.
Diesel offering at one or more gasoline islands both outside islands.
TV monitors and credit card acceptance on MPDs.
Gasoline Canopy:
100% coverage/Phase I.
Branded/Phase I.
Gasoline Configuration (layout style):
Head-in/Drive-in (cars face building when fueling)/Phase I.
Gasoline Development Phases:
Phase I: four gasoline MPDs.
Phase II: four gasoline MPDs.
Phase III: six gasoline MPDs.
Phase IV: six gasoline MPDs.
3.1.4 Diesel [back to top]
Suggested Goods and Services, Diesel Facility:
The following type of diesel facility is suggested for this location based on our findings compared to the site size, traffic flow and competition.
Fueling lanes for large trucks/quantity: four (Phase I).
Diesel pumps with slaves (clones), dual-sided fueling capabilities.
Single fuel lanes for smaller vehicles/quantity: one (Phase III).
High speed pumps at dual fueling lanes.
Air, water, and window cleaning equipment at fueling islands.
Un-branded diesel.
Charge/pay systems associated with the trucking industry.
Truck parking capabilities/quantity. 50-75 (Phase I only).
Diesel Development Phases:
Diesel Phase I: four fueling lanes.
Diesel Phase II: six fueling lanes.
Diesel Phase III: eight fueling lanes.
Diesel Phase IV: eight fueling lanes.
3.1.5 Facility [back to top]
Signage Recommendations
High-rise highway sign (essential).
Brand pole/Street family sign.
Store name sign.
Gas/Diesel price sign.
Fast food sign.
Building sign.
Other: Highway billboards (North, South, East, and West of site, 20-25 miles).
Other: Directional signage.
Suggested Goods and Services: Miscellaneous
Auto parking: develop in phases.
Truck parking: develop in phases.
Air and water.
Signage (per brand).
Parking Development Phases:
Parking quantity Phase I: 50-75 spots.
Parking quantity Phase II: 150-225 spots.
Parking quantity Phase III: 250-425 spots.
Parking quantity Phase IV: 400-425 spots.
Parking quantity Phase V: Purchase more land.
3.2 Fulfillment [back to top]
Gasoline/Diesel branding
The suggested branding is for market impact. A positive draw of highway customers is more likely on a branded unit than on a non-branded unit. Branding will draw those customers that might have otherwise traded in a larger area. Branding will help to draw local trucks and long-haul NAFTA trucks that need fuel between their designated stops.
It is highly recommended that the location be promoted for local and long-haul businesses, and for companies to fill their vehicles at the new travel center. Suggested promotions include special pricing and/or national charge accounts such as Comcheck.
Branding recommendations:
It is suggested that the new site be branded with one of the following options for national or regional recognition.
Diamond Shamrock
Private Brand
Branding advantages:
The primary advantage to branding is the dollar assistance offered by the oil companies. Most major companies have rebates and allowances that will assist in the total dollar investment by the retailer. Regionally, we are seeing oil companies upgrade their company-owned leased facilities. The brand suggested is in a strong growth pattern in many communities similar to this one. Additional advantages are listed below:
It is best to be branded on a highway and/or commuter type location.
In a transit location, it is best to be branded to draw credit card sales.
Branded locations (on average) have a larger dollar sale per visit than do unbranded locations.
Being branded will enable the owner to take advantage of the rebate dollars and advertising dollars available.
Constructing the facility as a branded location will enable the owner to take advantage of the rebate programs, thus improving their return on investment (ROI).
The rebate program will reduce the total investment over the next three to five years. This fact alone improves the risk factor and should carry a great deal of weight when being considered by local financing and/or banking services.
The owners have chosen Diamond Shamrock as their brand preference for their new business. Their selection was based on several factors, such as incentives, advertising allowances, company flexibility, and their acceptance of all major credit cards.
3.3 Future Products and Services [back to top]
A motel and full service trailer/truck repair shop are planned for phase III of this project. Other lease spaces for services, such as shoeshines, haircuts, a medical center, and other kiosk centers, will be available in the critical third phase of development.
4.0 Market Analysis Summary [back to top]
Truckers Dominate Freight Market
Based on value of service, trucking (excluding warehousing and logistics) accounted for 79%, or some $344 billion, of U.S. commercial freight revenues in 1998, but only 45% of total ton-miles. This is because products transported by truck tend to be lightweight manufactured goods that move short distances, rather than the heavy, long-haul, bulk commodities that travel by rail and barge.
Motor carriers specialize in higher-value freight that moves 750 miles or less, and for which delivery is required within three days. Some 36% of truck freight (measured by shipping cost) never crosses state lines. Examples of this type of freight are food and consumer staples delivered locally, and manufactured goods shipped between commercial establishments or delivered to consumers or retail outlets.
Truckers have the largest share of the freight market. Unlike railroads, pipelines, or water carriers, they don't face geographic limits caused by physical constraints, and can offer door-to-door service. They also pay relatively little to use the nation's highway system. Railroads, by contrast, must build, maintain, and police their rights-of-way.
The trucking industry consists of two broad segments: private and for-hire. In turn, for-hire truckers fall into two broad categories: truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers.
The accompanying Market Analysis chart and table reflect the total projected potential customers that Interstate Travel Center might acquire. The categories have been simplified to include all instate commercial trucks (both the TL and LTL segments) and all instate private vehicles as listed in the U.S. Department of Transportation's 1997 Vehicle Inventory for the state of Texas. The listed number of private vehicles in Texas is approximately 17 million, however, only a small percentage of private vehicle owners will be inclined to prefer truck stops over gas stations. Therefore, instead of using the larger number, a percentage of the overall private vehicles based on the percentage of private vehicles that truck stops service is used. The third category contains all interstate and NAFTA-based commercial business that passes through Texas, and the final category reflects all out-of-state private vehicles, such as tourists. Again, the numbers in this final category reflects a percentage of out-of-state private vehicles that truck stops normally service.
The growth rates used in this table are based on figures available from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The growth rate for the out-of-state and NAFTA commercial vehicles is only approximate, as it is difficult to project what affects investments in the "Port-to-Plains" trade corridor will have on traffic that passes adjacent to the travel center.
Finally, it must be noted that although the Market Analysis table indicates that the largest market segment is instate private vehicles, the actual percentage will probably be significantly less. Experience has shown that the largest percentage of vehicles serviced by truck stops, such as Interstate Travel, is in the commercial truck segment.
Market Analysis (Pie)
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Market Analysis
Potential Customers Growth 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 CAGR
Instate Commercial Trucks 4% 500,102 517,606 535,722 554,472 573,879 3.50%
Out-of-state Commercial Trucks 6% 285,111 302,218 320,351 339,572 359,946 6.00%
Instate Private Vehicles 3% 1,286,952 1,325,561 1,365,328 1,406,288 1,448,477 3.00%
Out-of-state Private Vehicles 4% 458,154 476,480 495,539 515,361 535,975 4.00%
Total 3.63% 2,530,319 2,621,865 2,716,940 2,815,693 2,918,277 3.63%
4.1 Market Segmentation [back to top]
With some $344 billion in 1998 revenues, the trucking (or motor carrier) business claimed approximately 79% of the U.S. commercial freight transportation market. This total was divided among two sectors: private carriage and for-hire.
Figure 3. Commercial Freight Distribution
(In billions of dollars)
Transportation Billion $ % of Total
Trucking, Total $344 63.6%
Private, Interstate $115 21.3%
Private, Local $85 15.7%
Truckload $65 12.0%
Local For-Hire $40 7.4%
LTL, National $9 1.7%
LTL, Regional $11 2.0%
Package/Express (ground) $19 3.5%
Railroad $36 6.7%
Pipeline (oil & gas) $26 4.8%
Air freight, Package Domestic $17 3.1%
Air freight, Heavy Domestic $6 1.1%
Water (Great Lakes/rivers) $7 1.3%
Transportation Total* $436 80.6%
Warehousing $70 12.9%
Logistics Administration $35 6.5%
Distribution Total $105 19.4%
Total $541 100.0%
*Excluding $5 billion in international cargo.
Sources: Standard & Poor's, Data Resources, Inc., and Cass Information Systems.
Private Carriers
Although private carriers comprise the largest component of the motor carrier industry, financial information isn't available for them. However, the industry is estimated to provide services valued at some $200 billion annually (or 58% of motor carrier revenues in 1998).
The Private Truck Council estimates that there are more than three million trucks operated by private fleets, and these transport 3.5 billion tons of freight annually.
For-Hire Carriers
The For-hire category generated $144 billion in 1998, or 42% of the industry total. Of that $144 billion, some $105 billion (73% of the sector's business) came from truckload shipments, and $39 billion (27%) was from less-than-truckload and package/express delivery.
Truckload (TL): The national for-hire truckload segment had total revenues of $65 billion in 1998. The TL sector is largely privately owned, with the exception of the top ten publicly owned companies. (For this reason, we focus on the LTL sector in this survey.) Schneider National Carriers is the largest TL operator, with revenues of $2.8 billion in 1998, followed by J.B. Hunt Transport Services ($1.8 billion) and the Landstar family of truckload carriers ($1.3 billion). Of the 50,000 truckload carriers, perhaps 95% have annual revenues of less than $1 million.
Less-than-truckload (LTL): We estimate that the less-than-truckload market garnered $20 billion in 1998. Of this amount, the fast growing regional segment accounted for slightly more than the national market.
The largest national LTL carrier in 1998 was Roadway Express Inc., with $2.32 billion in LTL revenues in that year; the company's total revenue of $2.55 billion includes TL freight. Yellow Freight System (a unit of Yellow Corporation) was close behind, with $2.25 billion (out of $2.46 billion total). Consolidated Freightways Corporation was third, with $1.95 billion in LTL revenues.
In the regional LTL market, Con-Way Transportation (a unit of CNF Transportation Inc.) was the largest player, with $1.5 billion in LTL revenue in 1998. Second place belonged to US Freightways, whose family of five carriers has generated some $1.4 billion in LTL revenue. American Freightways Corporation was third, with $928 million in LTL revenues.
4.1.1 Market Trends [back to top]
Industry Trends
While a driver shortage continues to plague the truckload sector, the LTL carriers have adapted to changing market conditions in order to capitalize on growth opportunities. Intermodal shippers also stand to benefit from market trends. Finally, the evolution of e-commerce stands to intensify competition among all carriers.
E-commerce is Big Business
The Internet is rapidly changing how the consumer selects and purchases merchandise. Age-old relationships between vendors, distributors, retailers, and carriers are being torn apart. For many Internet users, the computer has displaced the telephone as a means of transmitting a purchase order, while catalog vendors who have put their wares on the Internet may now receive orders electronically, in addition to mail and phone orders. For the shipping industry, e-commerce is changing the way in which goods are ordered.
The estimated size and growth potential for e-commerce varies widely. Forrester Research, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has estimated e-commerce at the consumer level at $7.8 billion in 1998, and projects that it will rise to $18 billion in 1999, $33 billion in 2000, and $108 billion in 2003. According to Forrester, total worldwide e-commerce, including business-to-business transactions, was estimated at $43 billion in 1998, and projected to hit $127 billion in 1999.
The Direct Marketing Association has calculated that e-commerce generated just $5.9 billion in 1998 (or 0.2% of sales), and will climb to 2.5% of retail sales by 2004, representing a 50% annual compound growth rate during this period.
4.1.2 Market Growth [back to top]
Dallas Support
According to information released by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), nearly $600 million in projects are already programmed over the next four years, and more than $1 billion in additional transportation projects are recommended for the Dallas region. The projects are on top of a $175 million increase in NAFTA transportation funding through 2003 that was part of the border initiative announced in April, 1999.
It is said that a Ports-To-Plains Trade Corridor could be in the future for Dallas, making it a major port of entry to Mexico. The corridor has been named a high priority corridor by the U.S. Congress, which has placed a greater emphasis on improving transportation in these regions. The major highway would have a direct route from the northern United States to two major port entries: Dallas and Eagles Pass.
4.2 Business Participants [back to top]
Industry: Trucking Terminal Facilities
Figure 4, below, indicates the Market Statistics for trucking terminals. These are defined as establishments primarily engaged in the operation of route transshipment facilities used by highway-type property-carrying vehicles, including complexes which provide maintenance and service for motor vehicles.
Figure 4: Market Size Statistics-Terminal Facilities
Estimated number of U.S. establishments 1,386
Number of people employed in this industry 64,105
Total annual sales in this industry $181 million
Average employees per establishment 52
Average sales per establishment $.8 million
Industry: Gasoline Service Stations
Gasoline service stations primarily engage in selling gasoline and lubricating oils. These establishments frequently sell other merchandise, such as tires, batteries, and other automobile parts, or perform minor repair work. Gasoline stations, combined with other activities, such as grocery stores, convenience stores, or carwashes, are classified in Figure 5 below according to primary activity.
Figure 5: Market Size Statistics-Gasoline Service Stations
Estimated number of U.S. establishments 71,159
Number of people employed in this industry 471,041
Total annual sales in this industry $98,817 million
Number of employees per establishment 7
Average sales per establishment $1.8 million
Market Analysis by Specialty
Figure 6 provides a market analysis by specialty for the gasoline service stations segment.
Figure 6: Market Analysis by Specialty
SIC Code SIC Description Number of Businesses % of Total Total Employees
5541-0000 Gasoline Service Stations 50,544 71% 286,062
5541-9901 Filling Stations, Gasoline 18,844 26.5% 137,897
5541-9902 Marine Service Station 171 0.2% 1,123
5541-9903 Truck Stops 1,600 2.2% 45,959
Total/Average 71,159 100% 471,041
Note: Not all establishments have a specialty.
5.0 Strategy [back to top]
Interstate Travel Center's strategy is to develop a major travel center in Dallas, Texas. The center will consist of a major convenience store, gas/diesel islands, restaurant, and amenities for the trucking business. Key components of the company's initial strategy are summarized as follows:
Advertising. Promote the new business through extensive advertising.
Location. Provide a clean, safe and appealing location for travelers.
Convenient center. Provide a convenient center with a full array of products and services for those that are traveling as well as for the citizens of Dallas and the surrounding communities.
One-stop shop. Be the one-stop shop for travelers to and from Dallas.
NAFTA trucking trade business. Cater to the NAFTA trucking trade business.
Good return on investment. Maintain a profitable business with a good return on investment.
Interstate Travel Center will be developed in four phases. Phase development will enable the owner/operator to introduce viable, profitable goods and services without over-building. Over-building at this location would be easy to do because of the slower growth of the area associated with NAFTA, it would also mean certain failure if the owner/operator cannot secure resources for several years of financial staying power to support a negative cash flow. The timeline for the implementation of the various phases is contingent upon customer response and profitability and action is initiated at the discretion of the owners. It is assumed that the implementation of Phase II will occur sometime after the first three years of operation.
Phase I: Initial Development
Diesel fueling lanes: four; dual-sided fueling.
Gasoline MPDs: four dispensers.
Travel Store: Approximately 3,000 square feet.
Showers: Approximately four stalls.
Truck Loungers.
Game Room.
Restaurant: Seating for 64-69 patrons.
Truck Parking: room for approximately 100-150 trucks.
Scales: Owner to purchase scales.
Phase II: Increased Goods and Services, Third Year of Operation
Diesel fueling lanes: add two for a total of six lanes.
Truck parking: add 100-150 spaces.
Phase III: Increased Goods and Services, Fifth Year of Operation
Diesel fueling lanes: increase to eight dual-sided fueling.
Gasoline MPDs: increase to six dispensers.
Travel Store: Enlarge to 4,800 square feet.
Showers: Add four for a total of eight stalls.
Truck services: Add lease space for truck services such as tires, batteries, oil and lube.
Phase IV: Increased Goods and Services, Sixth Year of Operation
Add fast food unit.
Add additional restaurant seating for a total of 100 patrons.
Motel: Add 48 room unit.
Truck Parking: Add 100 spaces (Total 400-525).
Truck Wash.
5.1 Marketing and Sales [back to top]
A small traveler's guide will be published to advertise the travel center and all it has to offer. Advertising will be disseminated through the use of local newspapers, and radio and television commercials. Other promotional items, such as billboards and local chamber of commerce propaganda will also be employed. Customer service will be the number one priority of this business. This will, in turn, generate repeat business.
5.2 Sales Strategy [back to top]
The sales figures are based on projections of vehicles using the major highways adjacent to Interstate Travel Center. The yearly growth figures are based on conservative projections of increasing customer use as marketing and customer retention builds an established customer base. The growth rate for gas/diesel is five percent per year for the first three years. The restaurant growth rate is slightly higher, at seven percent per year. It it assumed that this venture will grow a stable customer base more quickly than the other ventures due to its more unique product experience. Finally, the growth rates for the travel store is set at four percent per year. This again reflects the belief that this venture will have the most difficulty in building service awareness and retention.
Sales Monthly
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Sales Forecast
Unit Sales 2001 2002 2003
Diesel (gallons) 2,550,000 2,677,500 2,811,375
Gasoline (gallons) 1,050,000 1,102,500 1,157,625
Travel Store 230,004 236,904 244,011
Interstate Travel Restaurant 81,276 86,965 93,052
Rebates, allowances, etc. 246,600 246,600 246,600
Total Unit Sales 4,157,880 4,350,469 4,552,663
Unit Prices 2001 2002 2003
Diesel (gallons) $1.75 $1.75 $1.75
Gasoline (gallons) $1.50 $1.50 $1.50
Travel Store $3.75 $3.75 $3.75
Interstate Travel Restaurant $13.00 $13.00 $13.00
Rebates, allowances, etc. $1.00 $1.00 $1.00
Diesel (gallons) $4,462,500 $4,685,625 $4,919,906
Gasoline (gallons) $1,575,000 $1,653,750 $1,736,438
Travel Store $862,515 $888,390 $915,041
Interstate Travel Restaurant $1,056,588 $1,130,545 $1,209,676
Rebates, allowances, etc. $246,600 $246,600 $246,600
Total Sales $8,203,203 $8,604,910 $9,027,661
Direct Unit Costs 2001 2002 2003
Diesel (gallons) $1.67 $1.67 $1.67
Gasoline (gallons) $1.40 $1.40 $1.40
Travel Store $0.75 $0.75 $0.75
Interstate Travel Restaurant $2.00 $2.00 $2.00
Rebates, allowances, etc. $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Direct Cost of Sales 2001 2002 2003
Diesel (gallons) $4,258,500 $4,471,425 $4,694,996
Gasoline (gallons) $1,470,000 $1,543,500 $1,620,675
Travel Store $172,503 $177,678 $183,008
Interstate Travel Restaurant $162,552 $173,930 $186,104
Rebates, allowances, etc. $0 $0 $0
Subtotal Direct Cost of Sales $6,063,555 $6,366,533 $6,684,784
6.0 Management Summary [back to top]
Steven and Janet Smith will be the sole owners of Interstate Travel Center for the foreseeable future. It is planned that a management staff, consisting of a full-time manager and a part-time assistant manager, will be hired to handle the day-to-day operations of both the gas/diesel service and the restaurant sections of the travel center. As the company continues to grow, so too will management.
Personnel Plan
2001 2002 2003
Steve Smith $50,000 $50,000 $50,000
Janet Smith $50,000 $50,000 $50,000
Convenience store/Gas station Manager $31,200 $31,200 $31,200
Restaurant Manager $36,000 $36,000 $36,000
Assist Manager - Cook $28,800 $28,800 $28,800
Cook 2 $26,880 $26,880 $26,880
Cook 3 $26,880 $26,880 $26,880
Cook 4 $26,880 $26,880 $26,880
Cook 5 $26,880 $26,880 $26,880
Cook 6 $26,880 $26,880 $26,880
Waitress/Waiter $11,808 $11,808 $11,808
Waitress/Waiter $11,808 $11,808 $11,808
Waitress/Waiter $11,808 $11,808 $11,808
Waitress/Waiter $11,808 $11,808 $11,808
Waitress/Waiter $7,680 $7,680 $7,680
Waitress/Waiter $7,680 $7,680 $7,680
Waitress/Waiter $7,680 $7,680 $7,680
Waitress/Waiter $7,680 $7,680 $7,680
Waitress/Waiter $7,680 $7,680 $7,680
Waitress/Waiter $7,680 $7,680 $7,680
Waitress/Waiter $7,680 $7,680 $7,680
Waitress/Waiter $7,680 $7,680 $7,680
Assist. Manager - Cashier $9,000 $9,000 $9,000
Cashier $6,000 $6,000 $6,000
Cashier $6,000 $6,000 $6,000
Cashier $6,000 $6,000 $6,000
Cashier $6,000 $6,000 $6,000
Maintenance $9,600 $9,600 $9,600
Total People 0 0 0
Total Payroll $481,672 $481,672 $481,672
7.0 Finance [back to top]
The following topics outline the financials for Interstate Travel Center.
7.1 Assumptions [back to top]
The chart indicating the projected cash account does not take into account the investment needed to initiate Phases II-IV. The General Assumptions table states some of the more important business assumptions for the company.
General Assumptions
2001 2002 2003
Plan Month 1 2 3
Current Interest Rate 10.00% 10.00% 10.00%
Long-term Interest Rate 10.00% 10.00% 10.00%
Tax Rate 25.42% 25.00% 25.42%
Other 0 0 0
7.2 Break-even Analysis [back to top]
The break-even chart and table below describe how much money will need to be made to be profitable each month. As can be seen in the table, 224,821 units per month, or $116,907, is necessary for Interstate Travel Center to be in the black. These numbers can also be seen with the accompanying chart.
7.3 Projected Cash Flow [back to top]
The following table and chart reveal the projected cash flow for Interstate Travel Center for fiscal years 2001, 2002, and 2003.
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Pro Forma Cash Flow
2001 2002 2003
Cash Received
Cash from Operations:
Cash Sales $8,203,203 $8,604,910 $9,027,661
Cash from Receivables $0 $0 $0
Subtotal Cash from Operations $8,203,203 $8,604,910 $9,027,661
Additional Cash Received
Sales Tax, VAT, HST/GST Received $0 $0 $0
New Current Borrowing $0 $0 $0
New Other Liabilities (interest-free) $0 $0 $0
New Long-term Liabilities $0 $0 $0
Sales of Other Current Assets $0 $0 $0
Sales of Long-term Assets $0 $0 $0
New Investment Received $0 $0 $0
Subtotal Cash Received $8,203,203 $8,604,910 $9,027,661
Expenditures 2001 2002 2003
Expenditures from Operations:
Cash Spending $714,316 $732,403 $772,642
Payment of Accounts Payable $6,500,180 $7,133,241 $7,484,370
Subtotal Spent on Operations $7,214,496 $7,865,644 $8,257,012
Additional Cash Spent
Sales Tax, VAT, HST/GST Paid Out $0 $0 $0
Principal Repayment of Current Borrowing $0 $0 $0
Other Liabilities Principal Repayment $0 $0 $0
Long-term Liabilities Principal Repayment $275,000 $275,000 $275,000
Purchase Other Current Assets $0 $0 $0
Purchase Long-term Assets $0 $0 $0
Dividends $0 $0 $0
Subtotal Cash Spent $7,489,496 $8,140,644 $8,532,012
Net Cash Flow $713,707 $464,266 $495,649
Cash Balance $963,707 $1,427,973 $1,923,622
7.4 Projected Profit and Loss [back to top]
The chart and table below projects the yearly profit and loss for the company. For a monthly breakdown, please see the appendices following the plan.
Pro Forma Profit and Loss
2001 2002 2003
Sales $8,203,203 $8,604,910 $9,027,661
Direct Costs of Goods $6,063,555 $6,366,533 $6,684,784
Other $0 $0 $0
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Cost of Goods Sold $6,063,555 $6,366,533 $6,684,784
Gross Margin $2,139,648 $2,238,377 $2,342,878
Gross Margin % 26.08% 26.01% 25.95%
Payroll $481,672 $481,672 $481,672
Sales and Marketing and Other Expenses $220,800 $278,800 $378,800
Depreciation $30,000 $30,000 $30,000
Leased Equipment $49,800 $49,800 $49,800
Utilities $49,200 $49,200 $49,200
Insurance $91,800 $91,800 $91,800
Rent $24,000 $30,000 $34,000
Payroll Taxes $72,251 $72,251 $72,251
Other $0 $0 $0
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Total Operating Expenses $1,019,523 $1,083,523 $1,187,523
Profit Before Interest and Taxes $1,120,125 $1,154,854 $1,155,355
Interest Expense $235,104 $208,750 $181,250
Taxes Incurred $224,890 $236,526 $247,585
Net Profit $660,131 $709,578 $726,520
Net Profit/Sales 8.05% 8.25% 8.05%
Profit Monthly
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7.5 Business Ratios [back to top]
The table below outlines industry profile statistics for the gas and service station industry, as determined by the Standard Industry Classification (SIC) Index code 5541, Gasoline Service Stations. These statistics show a comparison of the industry standards and key ratios for this plan.
Ratio Analysis
2001 2002 2003 Industry Profile
Sales Growth 0.00% 4.90% 4.91% 10.80%
Percent of Total Assets
Accounts Receivable 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 10.60%
Inventory 8.91% 8.08% 7.40% 13.30%
Other Current Assets 1.76% 1.52% 1.33% 25.60%
Total Current Assets 44.65% 53.10% 59.86% 49.50%
Long-term Assets 55.35% 46.90% 40.14% 50.50%
Total Assets 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Current Liabilities 17.14% 15.18% 13.98% 31.60%
Long-term Liabilities 78.45% 59.39% 44.52% 23.10%
Total Liabilities 95.59% 74.58% 58.50% 54.70%
Net Worth 4.41% 25.42% 41.50% 45.30%
Percent of Sales
Sales 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Gross Margin 26.08% 26.01% 25.95% 16.50%
Selling, General & Administrative Expenses 17.99% 17.77% 17.86% 10.40%
Advertising Expenses 2.34% 2.32% 2.77% 0.20%
Profit Before Interest and Taxes 13.65% 13.42% 12.80% 0.50%
Main Ratios
Current 2.60 3.50 4.28 1.55
Quick 2.08 2.96 3.75 0.91
Total Debt to Total Assets 95.59% 74.58% 58.50% 54.70%
Pre-tax Return on Net Worth 707.28% 113.35% 62.39% 2.50%
Pre-tax Return on Assets 31.20% 28.82% 25.89% 5.50%
Additional Ratios 2001 2002 2003
Net Profit Margin 8.05% 8.25% 8.05% n.a
Return on Equity 527.55% 85.01% 46.54% n.a
Activity Ratios
Accounts Receivable Turnover 0.00 0.00 0.00 n.a
Collection Days 0 0 0 n.a
Inventory Turnover 24.00 24.58 24.59 n.a
Accounts Payable Turnover 14.37 14.33 14.28 n.a
Payment Days 24 25 25 n.a
Total Asset Turnover 2.89 2.62 2.40 n.a
Debt Ratios
Debt to Net Worth 21.67 2.93 1.41 n.a
Current Liab. to Liab. 0.18 0.20 0.24 n.a
Liquidity Ratios
Net Working Capital $780,131 $1,244,709 $1,726,229 n.a
Interest Coverage 4.76 5.53 6.37 n.a
Additional Ratios
Assets to Sales 0.35 0.38 0.42 n.a
Current Debt/Total Assets 17% 15% 14% n.a
Acid Test 2.08 2.96 3.75 n.a
Sales/Net Worth 65.56 10.31 5.78 n.a
Dividend Payout 0.00 0.00 0.00 n.a


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Interference - Book Two (The Hour of the Geek) was the second volume of Lawrence Miles' two-part multi-Doctor novel Interference. Like the first volume, it was released by BBC Books on 2 August 1999 and featured the Eighth and Third Doctors alongside their companions Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, and Sarah Jane Smith.
This was the final book to feature Sam Jones as a regular companion, and it includes one of the only prose-based regenerations of the Doctor.
Publisher's summary Edit
They call it the Dead Frontier. It's as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.
But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown. The past is meeting the present, cause is meeting effect, and the TARDIS crew is about to be caught in the crossfire.
The Third Doctor. The Eighth Doctor. Sam. Fitz. Sarah Jane Smith. Soon, one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one of them will be something less than human...
Plot Edit
- Main article: Interference (novel)
Characters Edit
What Happened on Earth (Part Two) Edit
- Eighth Doctor
- Sam Jones
- Fitz Kreiner
- Sarah Jane Smith
- K9 Mark III
- Kode
- Compassion
- Nathaniel Guest
- Laura Tobin
What Happened on Dust (Part Two) Edit
References Edit
Books Edit
- Kode reads Genetic Politics Beyond the Thirdzone while in the TARDIS.
- Sarah finds a magazine in the TARDIS called House and TARDIS.
- The Doctor tries to read The Time Machine once an incarnation.
The Doctor Edit
- When the Doctor was younger, some of his friends learnt the skill of internal chronometry.
- The Eighth Doctor spends ten days trapped in Saudi Arabia.
- The Third Doctor is shot by Magdelana Bishop with a shotgun and regenerates on Dust. In the process, not only is his history altered, but he is infected by Faction Paradox's biodata virus.
The Doctor's items Edit
- There's a street aboard the TARDIS along which several thousand volumes of the TARDIS Instruction Manual are kept.
Drugs and medicines Edit
- Kode smokes cigarettes while on Earth but isn't quite sure why.
Faction Paradox Edit
- The Justinian was the ship that originally brought the first settlers to Ordifica. It was used by the Faction Paradox to take them away from the colony prior to its destruction by the High Council.
- Laura Tobin, Guest and Fitz Kreiner were all together on this ship.
- The Justinian is sent via a time jump to the late 18th century: Anathema in 1799.
- The Faction Paradox leaves biosphere manipulation technology with the Remote in 1799.
- A Faction Warship (created from the body of a Dæmon) travels to the planet Dust to deliver the Faction virus and watch as events unfold there.
Gallifrey Edit
- The Seal of Rassilon is an omniscate.
Gallifreyan technology Edit
- The Cold is the Time Lord warship's computer system. By releasing it, it detonates the ship (which is a planet-sized bomb) and therefore destroys the Earth.
- During one of the narrative constructs Sam experiences in the Media, the Doctor mentions a time ring.
Individual Gallifreyans and Time Lords Edit
- Regeneration away from a TARDIS is slow and clumsy.
Groups Edit
Individuals Edit
- Sam mentions wanting to see Fitz, saying, "We did have sex and everything," though adding, "It was a parallel-universe-alternative-reality kind of thing."
- Iris Wildthyme makes a brief appearance in Sarah's Voodoo Economics documentary as UNIT's scientific advisor.
- Fitz Kreiner joins the Faction Paradox and ends up becoming Father Kreiner.
- Kode is restored by the TARDIS using a remembrance tank to become what the TARDIS remembered Fitz to be.
- The Doctor bought Sarah her stuffed owl at a jumble sale in Brighton in 1948.
- Sarah can't remember the Doctor's regeneration properly.
- Sarah isn't sure if she was on Dust.
- Sarah reflects on the two incidents where she met the Doctor (or the things related to the Doctor) in 1983 and 1995.
- After leaving Ordifica, Nathaniel Guest goes by the name of Guest while on Earth.
- Laura Tobin used to crack her knuckles. She gave Fitz the nickname "code-boy".
- Father Kreiner is who Fitz Kreiner became after a century (or more) with the Faction Paradox and the Remote.
Locations Edit
- The Doctor's TARDIS was left in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Anathema is the Remote's city, located on the side of a Time Lord warship.
Objects Edit
- Father Kreiner has a glove made of dwarf star alloy.
Planets Edit
Species Edit
- Sarah's memories of the Doctor are a bit fuzzy. She keeps getting her Krynoids mixed up with her Pescatons.
TARDIS Edit
- The Doctor discusses I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show.
Technology Edit
- Zoe picked up a mask of James Stewart at the Grand Festival of Zymymys Midamor. It's made of a memory polymer.
- The Remote's receivers pump active temporal biodata into the colonists bodies.
- The Cold is probably validium based.
- Sarah used the Remote's "TARDIS tracker" to find the Doctor's TARDIS.
- Faction Paradox warships are made from the bones of Dæmons.
- Sam Jones gets put in the Media.
- K9 Mark III is made out of a ZX-81.
Theories and concepts Edit
- Sarah mentions the "Blinovitch Limitation wotsit."
Dates Edit
- Anathema 1799 is out of reach by the High Council.
- Between 1799 and 1800 the Remote build the transmission tower on Anathema.
- By 1801 on Anathema Fitz and the rest of the Remote are sterile.
- The 20th century is when Earth starts to turn itself into a major galactic power.
- The events on Dust occur a thousand years after the fall of the Earth Empire.
Vehicles Edit
- The Doctor has an S-reg Mini Metro parked in the TARDIS console room to replace his destroyed Volkswagen Beetle.
Notes Edit
to be added
Continuity Edit
- Sam reflects that the Doctor has told her the 'real' story of Jack the Ripper, a possible reference to the events of PROSE: Matrix.
- Sarah recalls being poisoned by the Cybermen. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen)
- The Doctor recalls and compares his imprisonment to his experiences in PROSE: Seeing I.
- PROSE: Alien Bodies was the first appearance of the Faction Paradox.
- Sam found out her life was stage-managed by the Faction Paradox and that a (sort of) alternate version of herself had sex with Fitz in PROSE: Unnatural History.
- At the end of PROSE: Autumn Mist Sam told the Doctor the next time the TARDIS landed on Earth close to her time she would be leaving him.
- PROSE: The Blue Angel is the next novel and the first novel to show Compassion as a genuine companion.
- PROSE: The Ancestor Cell brings all that happens in this novel (and those in between) to a conclusion.
- TV: Silver Nemesis introduces validium.
- PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles attempts to explain / re-interpret many of the events that lead up to and followed this novel.
- Sarah mentions mixing up Pescatons and Krynoids. They are from AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pescatons and TV: The Seeds of Doom.
- The two events Sarah remembers from 1983 and 1995 are TV: The Five Doctors and PROSE: Downtime respectfully.
- The dialogue "Drop the sonic device, Time Lord," is a reference to TV: The Visitation.
- There are some references to the Time Lords escaping to a universe in a bottle which is seen in PROSE: Dead Romance.
- During Iris Wildthyme's interview she mentions a "space wheel" (TV: The Wheel in Space) and people in Geneva wanting to put bases on the Moon, which would come to pass in TV: The Moonbase and The Seeds of Death.
- Sarah and Sam swap companion stories, just as Rose and Sarah do in TV: School Reunion.
- Before the Third Doctor regenerates, he says the same thing he did in TV: Planet of the Spiders: "A tear, Sarah Jane?"
- The Doctor promises Sarah that he will attend her wedding, something he does in TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith.
- The Time Lord warship on which Anathema is built features briefly in PROSE: The Infinity Doctors when Voran suggest using it to destroy the Needle.
- The Doctor tells Sarah that she should see K9 Mark IV. Eventually, in 2007, the Tenth Doctor will leave Mark IV to Sarah following the destruction of her Mark III. (TV: School Reunion)
External links Edit
- Interference at the Faction Paradox wiki
- Interference - Book Two at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Interference - Book Two at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: Interference - Book Two
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