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The median home value in Glen Ellen, CA is $517,700.
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The national median home value is $152,300.
The average price of homes sold in Glen Ellen, CA is $517,700.
Approximately 52.26% of Glen Ellen homes are owned,
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Great location! Workshop or Wine Storage....Use your imagination!! Close to Glen Ellen. Easy access to Sonoma and Santa Rosa.
Like having your own 145-acre state park! Ranging up to 1800 ft. elevation in the Mayacamas just off Trinity Road, Arcadia has a rare mix of evergreen forest, oak woodland, meadows and chaparral. Stuart Creek's headwaters create numerous waterfalls and pools. The fully modernized 3/4-century house has legal 3 BR, 2.5 BA & a new 80 gpm well. The RRD40 zoning potentially gives flexibility of additional housing or subdividing. Refined rusticity.
Space, light and views, Villa de la Luna offers all. Voluminous rooms, high ceilings and large windows make this a wine country home that dances with daylight. Nestled on approximately 4.4 gentle acres off of Sonoma Mountain, enjoy seamless indoor-outdoor living with the Mayacama Mountains as your backdrop. An orchard & some two thousand Cabernet Sauvignon vines produce high-quality fruit that has gone into an estate designate wine by Wellington.
Fabulous getaway includes a light-filled main residence w/screened in porch, view, fireplace, master wing. Charming 1br det'd guest house w/frplc, private deck. Structures & verandas surround pool, 2 spas, relaxing pagoda. Gated entries to approx. 4 deer fenced acres: Groomed trails, gardens with patios, gazebo, bocce court & a small vineyard. Speciman oaks & pastoral views of wine country & Sonoma Mountain surround this compound minutes to town.
Spectacular wine country estate with modern finishes and panoramic valley views. This home features the ideal entertaining space with 2 large west facing decks; custom kitchen with Viking/Thermador appls; spacious dining rm w/deck access; living rm with 15ft ceilings and floor to ceiling windows; large master suite with expansive views. Located on a 10 acre parcel above the Valley of the Moon, 6.5 miles to Glen Ellen, 8 minute drive from Hwy 12.
Rare opportunity to build country estate on a stunning view parcel one-mile off the Sonoma Valley floor. Panoramic vistas across Sonoma Valley from a 77-acre hillside parcel complete with installed roads, 50 GPM well, electricity at the road and an Adobe Associates 3-bedroom septic design. Minutes from bucolic Glen Ellen, yet affords ultimate privacy with vineyard and mountain views and the opportunity to plant 20-acres +/- Moon Mountain AVA.
Approached through a gated entry and surrounded by acres of vines. Expansive views of the Sonoma mountains. 2 bedroom, 2 bath main house with Great Room. Cathedral ceilings, fireplace, chef's kitchen with granite counters and stainless appliances. Light filled Master Suite with outdoor deck/spa access. Exercise room & office. Recently built 1 bedroom, 1 bath detached guest house w/ full kitchen, fireplace, cathedral ceilings and sleeping loft
Vineyard, winery & home on 40+ acres in Moon Mountain AVA. +/- 2.5 acres cab sauv, cab franc, merlot, malbec & sangiovese with another +/- 1/2 acre plantable. +/- 1400 s.f. humidity controlled winery & office with large outdoor entertaining space & adjacent 700 square foot bonded crushpad. 500-case county use permit can convey; equipment negotiable. Rustic A-frame 1/1; gardens, greenhouse, bocce ball court complete this gem in the redwoods.
Glen Ellen Country Retreat. Your ideal staycation spot in the heart of wine country, full time residence or weekend getaway. Surrounded by lush landscaping, property offers privacy & outdoor lifestyle with pool, hot tub, mountain & creek views. Two homes - 3BD/2.5BA main home & 2BD/1BA inlaw cottage - both with French door access to private decks & patios. 2 garages. Close to historic downtown Glen Ellen. Excellent rental income.
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December 17, 2008
All-Star Skills Competition Changes
There will be changes coming to this year's All Star Weekend at the Bell Centre in Montreal. As reported by TSN's Darren Dreger, the YoungStars game will take a page out of the NBA's book by changing formats from East v. West to Rookies v. Sophomores. The game will be 3 v 3 with the teams playing three, six-minute periods.
The skills competition itself will have a different look. Only players who want to participate in the individual challenges will do so and no longer will each conference need someone involved. A single knockout shootout and the "trick shot" shootout will likely be the highlights of the competition along with the always popular hardest shot. Alex Ovechkin is said to be on board again for the trick shot shootout and the NHL is looking for five other players to be involved. Goaltenders for the trick shot competition have not been decided on, but Canadian University goalies are being considered.
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- Whale4ever said...
Thank goodness. From the voting and on to the "trick shot" thing, the entire weekend, save for the hardest shot and the rookie gamen are a joke and an embarrassment. Don't mean to pile on but...wait. Yes I do.
Good thing it's on Versus otherwise it might grab some attention.
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SalemNews.com, Salem, MA
November 22, 2007
Where were you when you heard the Danversport explosion, and what was your first thought when you heard it?
Where were you when you heard the Danversport explosion, and what was your first thought when you heard it?
Your Story
I live in Wenham and was woken out of my sleep by a huge bang. I almost fell out of bed.
I received a phone call telling me I should check on my parents that there was an explosion near their house. My parents live at 4 Rainbow Terr. I called them-they were OK but then another explosion happened. I was scared-I needed to get to them. I did get to them and saw that physically they were OK, but the house was damaged. A lot of emotions but 1yr later they are doing OK and the house is repaired.. I am disappointed in your article that you seem to have forgotten the Left side of Water St., the damage they sustained and their emotional toil.
Doreen Bedard
in bed and I thought it was Eastern propane that went upm I live on Cottage ave. but when I heard it was that company I wasn't surprized at all, I work for then back in the 80's and they were a shadey company to work for they didn't have ANY safety codes to protect the workers or the people living near the company shame on THEM !
Bob Plante
I was in bed sleeping. I woke up to the sound, and my father telling me it was just thunder and I should return to sleep. I did, but found out the next morning it was a little more than thunder.
Sean Hallinan
I was coming onto rt 128 from rt 1..as i was driving I saw what appeared to be heat lightening.. it flashed twice..as i came closer bout near the split of 128 to 95..there was a large mushroom cloud rising..sorta like the atom bomb...I could see the flames from 128 near the exit for the liberty tree mall..thought it was the old school for the deaf building so drove down to water st to see..the road was just being blocked off.. I did not hear any sound or explosion was all just visual..my first thought was just weather related...then with the rising cloud thought it was a bomb...
I was asleep on 16 Riverside Street. My first thought was "that was BIG." I thought that we were at war. Then I thought a plane or truck had hit the house. Then I ran into the hallway and walked on all this broken glass. The windows were gone. I saw the fire and thought that the gas station had blown up. Then the neighbors were screaming "help!" and "get out of your house!"
Anne Vinsel
I was sound asleep in our Bates Street home, and was blown out of bed. My initial thought was a plane had hit our house when i saw fire out my bedroom window. I ran outside with the kids and saw neighbors running towards my house. We all finally realized it was the chemical plant and got in our cars and got outta there! Thanks to everyone that helped us during the past year!Happy Thanksgiving.
Lori A.
My boyfriend and I were sound asleep in downtown Salem when the explosion woke us up. And somehow, each of us knew that the other was awake--wide awake. We each asked each other, "What was that?!?" After 5 minutes or so, and after listening for emergency vehicles and not hearing any, we gradually fell back asleep, and we were both shocked to see what had happened on the morning news.
I was in bed sleeping, when I heard the explosion. I thought it was thunder at first, then I heard it again and I woke up to sirens.
We were at home in bed, 2 miles away. Our first thought was that something really serious had happened. We turned on radio and tv and got no info.
Helen Burns
i woke up and wa scared and then the first thought in my head was "oh my god I hope Nelson is alive!!" my friend lived above the pizza factory at the time of the explosion.
Asleep.. I thought we were being attacked.
I was asleep in my house in Peabody (across from Bishop Fenwick), when a loud bang woke me. I thought a car hit my house because of the vibration I felt. Or, my other thought was a plane crashed on the next street from me. I could see the flames over the roof tops across the road from me. The explosion was actually @1/2 mile away. As I walked to find out what it was in case I need to evacuate my house, I couldn't believe how far I had to go to get to the fire.
Judy Collins
My family was sleeping... out 8 year old daughter came into the room crying because she thought a T-Rex was coming to the house!
Diane Lockhart
I thought we had an earthquake.
Rachael Loughlin
I was home on Mildred road and my first thought was a plane crashed. I live near the Beverly Airport.
I got up from bed to use the bathroom and i heard a loud bang that sounded like a bomb went off and looked out of my 2nd story window and way across the river i could see smoke. At that point I knew it was something really bad. Thank God nobody was killed. It was truly a miracle!
did not hear it at all and i live a mile away.
I was asleep in my apartment near Salem Common. My apartment door was shaking, and I heard dogs barking and car alarms so I was sure it was an earthquake. I was in the Northridge Quake in L.A. in 1994 (my account of it was published on the front page of the Salem News!). I turned on my police scanner and stayed up all night listening to the first responders, who were incredibly impressive I thought. It was especially cool to hear how all the local communities pitched in and sent teams.
Erik Smith
I was about an 1/4 of a mile away when the Danversport Explosion occurred. I was rocked out of bed and my first thought was that we were hit by a bomb.
Jack Bauer
We live in Georgetown and thought a plane had crashed or that Eastern Propane had blown up
I was at home in bed in Danvers.My Roomate who works in Boston then walked into my bedroom after being woken up and he said to me my god I hope that was not the LNG tanker if it was I'm going to be called into work at Mass General.
Got rocked out of bed a 1/4 mile from explosion. Thought a plane crashed and from our second floor watched the flames shoot up over the tree line.
I was in my house. The sound and feel gives me new definition to the term "earth-shattering". I thought initially it was a gas explosion in the house, then I realized it couldn't be because I was still alive. 2nd thought was a plane crashed very close by. We really did not know what it was but we could see the flames when we went outside. We talked to a few neighbors, and then evacuated very quickly from the area.
Ed Sanborn
I was asleep when the explosion occured and my first thought was that an earthquake was taking place. I was very nervous when i awoke and checked on other family members. I turned on the news to get some type of explaination for the loud noise.
Jason Alexander
My husband Anthony and I were asleep when we heard and felt the explosion. We immediatley thought that terrorists had struck Logan Airport. Even though we live in Salem our walls cracked and my vases fell and damaged our original wood floors.
Amie Aloisi
Asleep on the couch,(Beverly, Dane st.) I looked out the door, saw the mushroom cloud, and thought it was eastern propane. Turned out to be a good guess! eastern is right across the St. from the site. I had a small crack in a wall from it. I know it was from the explosion because, I just painted the wall that day!
I was asleep in bed and was awakened by what I thought was possibly a plane crashor a bomb since the noise was so loud and strong!!
Mary Jane Carey
I was in St.Croix, US Virgin Islands (my sister and brothers in Danvers notified me. I used to work for the "old" Liberty Marina when Mel Nelson ran it. That company was just a ticking bomb. The place looked like a run down mill(drums and things laying about). Terrorism never crossed my mind.
Michael Baldwin
i believe if my memory recalls me it was early wednesday morning at 2:50 a.m and i was in bed. i live in the goat hill area of beverly and the vibration of the explosion came across the water. the house shook and i got out of bed and felt another shaking of the house. my first thought was we were having an earthquake and i remembered that in the 18oo's we had a very powerful earthquake on or around thanksgiving. i stayed up and put the local radio station on and nothing was said. i went out at four to go to a a.t.m to give my daughter money to do my shopping for the holiday as i had to work. when i went outside i looked across the water and saw a very large ball of fire and lots of helicopters flying above. now i thought we were at war as it was still dark. i went to one stop on rantoul street and when i arrived home my daughter was there and told me she heard about the explosion and tried to call her brother as he lives in the area next to hartnett's carwash. i was ! very upset as i thought my son's home had been affected and he had already had his share of grief being a Katrina victim and moving back home to Massachusetts. he wasn't answering as he was dealing with his poor dogs who were shaken beyond belief. luckily his home was not damaged and only pictures and things had fallen. a very eventful day and all the more reason to be thankful for the next day Thanksgiving that no lives had been lost.
Cynthia Hartnett
I was in bed sleeping when my 10 year old daughetr woke me up because she heard "a loud boom and the house shake". I checked the house and told my daughter it must have been a dream and to go back to bed.
Steve Kapantais
I was in bed in my house in Andover and felt a thud, which I thought was something falling on the roof. My wife and I had been at the Danversport Yacht Club the night before and we were shocked to hear of the explosion on the news in the morning. At first, all I could think of was the Devcon building off of Endicott St.because I had never heard of another chemical plant in that part of Danvers.
James Sellers
I was sleeping in my third floor apt. with my two dogs in Beverly, near the Central Station firehouse. The blast shook everything in the apartment and caused the dogs to have a barking frenzy. To help calm the dogs and entertain my curiosity, we took a walk outside; the skyline over the port area was a fiery red glow. Later that day I was resetting my wind gage and noted it had registered the maximum speed it is capable of, 110 mph at the time of the blast.
The sound woke my wife and me from a deep sleep in Marblehead. My first thought was that it was a plane crash. I had heard a large plane crash from a distance many years ago and the very low deep rumble I heard was eerily similar. After seeing no evidence a crash within sight of our house, we went back to sleep expecting to hear where the crash was on the morning news.
Harry Kindle
My wife and I were asleep. Our entire house shook, I thought a car had slammed into the house or that the gas furnace had exploded. I looked out the window and saw nothing. I then checked the furnace and it was OK. Thank God no one was seriously injured.
Tim Hosman
We were in bed in our Peabody home. The explosion threw me out of bed and onto the floor, and my husband jumped up. My brother in law came running into the room and thought it was an earthqake, while my husband ran downstairs thinking a truck, or plane flew into the house. Looking outside, we could see the red sky, and at 2am, neighbors flocked into the streets. It was SO scary not knowing what was happening.
The explosion woke me from a very deep sleep. I lived on the second floor of a two family house in Salem about 2.5 miles from the explosion. As I struggled to get my wits about me I noticed that the house was trembling like we were having an earthquake. I thought I had awoke to the sound of thunder, but no more followed. It wasn't until the next morning that I realized the explosion was what had disturbed my sleep.
Bert Capella
I was at home in bed on Symonds Street in Salem about a mile from the blast. My roommate and I jumped out of bed and thought there was an explosion right outside. We went outside and saw the ball of fire coming from Danvers. We made it as far as Treadwells.
Katie St Pierre
I was home in bed in Rowley when I woke up from hearing and feeling the explosion. When my brother called and said it happened in Danvers, I was shocked that I had felt it from so far away!
I was on my way to work. My mom and step dad live in danvers. First thought was to call to make sure that they were ok.
Home in my bed. I live in the woodvale section of Danvers on the Wenham line. The expolsion woke the whole house but about 5:30 am a phone call from the school department made me aware of the nature of the Boom. My first thought was for the safety of the people in the bates street area since we know some of the residents.
Randy Bird
Asleep in bed. Earthquake.
I was in bed and jumped out of bed not sure of what happened. I thought that a car had hit the house. My husband thought it was an earthquake. We live about 2 miles from the explosion.
I lived about a mile from the explosion and was awaken by the loud blast and shaking of my house. It was a scariest thing I have ever experienced, I thought a plan crashed in my backyard. Although I'm sure it doesn't even begin to compare to what the residents of the port experienced,my prayers go out to all those families.
Kim Dunn
I had just put my head on my pillow after watching a late night (early morning) movie. It was a pre-911 terrorist movie set in NYC with Denzel Washington called "The Siege". Obviously, there were LOTS of explosions in the movie so you can imagine what went through my head when the loudest noise that I've ever experienced went off just outside my home. Very unnerving and surreal. We had a special toast at dinner two days later giving thanks that no one was killed.
Brian in Danvers
I was in bed sleeping. I live less then a mile away. My first thought was that an airliner crashed. I went to the window that was facing away from the explosion area expecting to see a glow in the sky. I didn't see a glow, but what I did see was a lot of people walking up high street towards the danversport area. I thought it strange to see that many people outside as early as it was in the morning so I went out my front door and that is when I saw the glow I expected. My wife and I walked to John George park with the rest of the people walking the street and that is where we saw the fire.
Bob Burnett
In bed. It woke us up and we thought it was an earthquake. It was so strong that it shook open my front door, and we are on Conant Street. Then my sister called to tell us she heard on the police scanner about the explosion and that the Home for the Deaf was being evacuated. We were concerned because a relative lives on Appleton St. so we jumped in the car and at 3 in the morning we hit rush hour traffic. We could only get as far as Sam & Joes, but there were people walking everywhere and the parking lot at Sam & Joes was full of people trying to see what happened. The police had the bridge blocked at that point.
I was sound asleep in bed. I live near the Beverly airport and I literally jumped in my sleep, I thought a plan had crashed in my neighborhood.
Natasha Coyne
I was jolted right out of my bed, and thought we were being attacked!!!! I live near the Danvers Square and can only imagine what it would have felt like closer to the explosion .
Michelle Miano
My husband and I were at home,sleeping. We initially thought a plane had crashed at the Beverly Airport.
Sue P.
At home asleep in bed. I thought it was thunder then realized that my home was in shambles.
Andrea Farrell
Just got home from Boston and i was laying in my living room when i saw this flash then a boom i thought for sure a plane had crashed.I got off the couch and went out side but nobody seemed to be out.Went to bed and when i woke up I put on the news and well you know the rest.
I live in Marblehead and was just getting out of bed. I actually thought it was an earthquake,every window just shook. I turned on the tv to see if they said anything on the news. That is how I found out it was an explosion.
Kathy Warburton
i was asleep in my bed with my wife.after the explosion i told my wife to look out the window towards the water and if she sees a ball of fire that an airplane just crashed into the water at the end of our street(riverview ave. danvers)sure enough she sees the ball of fire!for sure i thought it was a jet plane crash.
dave bevan
I live in Gardner Park. My house shook, a few windows cracked and I jumped out of bed. I thought the gas service in my house exploded.
I was in bed on Cabot St., in Beverly when I thought my cat woke me up from a sound sleep, I heard the boom,the house shook and being half awake, I thought,"Why would a cat dropping a toy upstairs make the house shake?" I fell back to sleep. When I woke up at 6am I turned on the news. I didn't dawn on me that I felt the Danvers explosion until they said it was felt into the Peabody area. Aha!
Cindy Caler
I was awakened from my sleep by what sounded like one of the boilers in the basement lighting roughly. Thing is...I live in Ipswich. The wave hit the side of my house hard enough to wake me up, about 12-14 miles away.
My family and I were sound asleep in our North Beverly home. We all awoke thinking that there was an earthquake. Our whole house shook. We didn't hear any sires.
Mary Beth Kluge
I was sleeping when I heard what sounded like a loud crash. I thought that my daughter had rolled out of her bed and I ran to her room, only to find her sleeping soundly. We live in downtown Beverly; I can't imagine how loud the blast must have sounded to people who lived closer to the site.
I was in bed sleeping and I thought at first that there was an earthquake because my building shook. When I heard what sounded like machine guns, and then sirens, I thought that Iraq had come to bomb Danvers. Of course, that sound turned out to be all the blown out windows of the neighboring buildings. The sinking feeling in my heart and what to do with my son who was asleep, is something I had a hard time getting over. I can't imagine how the people in Iraq can live their lives with that impending disaster day after day. My heart goes out to them and I pray for peace for them soon.
Joanne Berry
I was in bed sleeping, with my husband Mike, He called the Peabody Police and they said it was an explosion in Danvers. We woke up thinking a plane crash. Then called my daughter in law in Danvers to make sure they were ok. She answered the phone crying and saying there was fire and firetrucks all around. They were ok but very frightened.
Terry Annese
I was sleeping in my bed at my home address Lynn St. Peabody just a few miles away when I heard the big noise in the distance. It woke me up around 3:00 am from a deep sleep. I thought it was an airplanes jet engine back firing go by my home or a real bad smash up mutiple car accident at route 128/95 north. I watched the news the next morning on the tv and was very sad to hear about the explosion but was happy that no one was killed.
I was in bed and asleep. I thought a sixteen-wheeler had slammed into my apartment building.
A. Prouty
I was asleep in my home. I thought a car had hit my house!
I was driving north on Rt 128 coming home from a night job. I saw a mushroom cloud and heard what sounded like firecrackers going off, then a loud boom. I could see the resulting fire from 128 just before I went past the Endicott St. exit. This was just before 2:50 a.m. Soon after, people started calling up WBZ radio to report what they saw or heard and by 4:30 am Boston TV stations started to cover it. But I'll never forget that mushroom cloud.
Bob Nelson
I was in Shanghai and saw it on the world news in China. My first thought was sabotage at the factory.
Jason Quinlan
I am up at 6:00am to watch the news every morning, and it was the lead story on channels 4, 5, & 7. I immediately called my boss as he lives in Danvers to check on him and his family. I have relatives in Danvers and called them all to see how they were. Only after the first news accounts were published did I learn one of my former bosses from Lechmere, John Lantych lost his home. I hope he and his family have begun to rebuild their lives. It was very gratifying to read about residents and businesses who stepped up to help those in need. May 2008 be a good one for all who were affected by this terrible accident.
Mary Parsons Sulzer
Sleeping in bed in Salem, MA, near the Salem PD. I thought we were being bombed!
Asleep, in my house on Park Street. I thought either a car hit the house or our furnace had exploded, since the smoke detectors were all going off.
I was home in bed just across the river and thought the gas burner had blown up in the cellar...
Julie Andrews
Of course, I was sleeping and thought of my daughter who lives in Winthrop. I prayed that a plane had not come down on her house while landing at the airport in Boston.
Bonnie A.
In my house. I thought a bomb went off or a plane crashed.
At home in Salem we live in witcthcraft heights ,and I thought someone hit the back side of the house.
Debra Gillooly
We live less than a mile up the road in Peabody near Treadwell's Ice Cream. Our house has been hit in the middle of the night by a car before and we have woken numerous times in the middle of the night by the loud sounds of car accidents in front of our house and on our front lawn. Our entire house shook. I awoke from a sound sleep and truly thought I would find a car or even an airplane in my downstairs living room, that's how loud it was. My heart was in my throat and my wife was nearly hysterical. After assessing that nothing had actually hit my house, I looked out my window and noticed flames leaping in the air and thought that maybe someone had lit a car on fire in the Bishop Fenwick parking lot. I hopped in my car to investigate and was really concerned to see what had happened as my sister and brother-in-law and my two nephews lived on Bates Ave. They never went back to their home and have since relocated to Arizona. Lucky for us only our basement windows we! re blown in. Not sure I'll ever forget the sound, the feeling, the devastation, the site of walking down Bates Ave to help my brother-in-law collect stuff from his crippled house. The closest I've ever been to a war torn zone.
Brian Rich
I was in bed, the explosion moved the bed and the cat scampered away scratching me. My son was in the bathroom, my first thought and question was what the heck did he do in there! Then we went out to the living room and could see the fire in the distance. My daughter called me on the phone and said she and her friends were on line trying to figure it out. Eventually it was on the news.
George Blanchette
I was in bed, and i live right across from Sam and Joe's. I thought an airplane crashed....my huge bed moved, and it wouldn't stop shaking for at least a minute.
At home, on Arthur St. in Danvers...My first thought was that either a plane crashed nearby, or Eastern Propane blew up.
Jay Pierce
I was staring out my front door at 104 margin st. after assuring it was locked when my eldest son came home that night. I saw the blast go off. Timing is everything.
Brian Sultzbach
In bed, in byfield mass I thought a tree had hit the house, you could feel the bang of the explosion.
tammy warren
I was home in bed in Salem and it woke up everyone in the house. At first I had thought that maybe it was just some thunder.
Jenn Julien
I was lying in bed when I heard the explosion. The initial sound I heard sounded like the rumble of a jet, so I thought that it was a jet taking off from Beverly Airport. When the explosion sounded, I thought that a plane had actually crashed.
Marsha Lally
We lived next to the John George Park in the Danversport. When I woke up to the explosion, my first thought was that a car hit my house, and my second thought was that a plane crashed at Sandy Beach. We realized this wasn't the case when we ran outside and saw the fire across the river.
I live in Peabody and was sound asleep when the explosion occurred. My first thought was that Eastern Propane blew up.
My mother had died the previous day, so I was flying to Boston, then on to Danvers, MA, where my brother lives, to attend the funeral. I was sitting in SEA-TAC airport, waiting for an Alaskan Airlines flight to Boston, when CNN reported the explosion. It was quite a shock to hear the town's name that I was to travel that same day. I immediately called my brother to make sure the family was OK. I was the main topic of conversation & it made getting around much harder since Rte. 35 was closed.
I was sound asleep in my bed not quite one mile from the explosion. It woke me up immediately and I first thought it was an earthquake. I lay paralyzed in fear for a while until the I heard and felt more explosions.
I was at home on Longmeadow Rd in Beverly and I remember waking up and thinking the World had come to an end. I stayed awake for about 5 minutes, listened for the sound of Fire Engines to see if I wasn't just dreaming. Did not hear them and promptly went back to sleep dismissing it as a dream. Guess I was wrong!
Peter Stevens
I was in bed. It shook the house. I jumped out of bed and ran downstairs. Through the front window I saw a mushroom cloud and a large glow in the sky. At first, my neighborhood being low, I thought the glow was coming from the direction of the house my son and nephew live in around Chandlers Ice Cream. After getting my bearings, I thought it may have been an explosion at the North Shoure Mall. I have a scanner and at first I didn't hear nay chatter, but a couple of minutes later, all you know what let loose. Truly God walked through that niehborhood at the moment of the explosion that night. Thankfully there weren't any real serious personal injuries or deaths. Though my heart went out to those who lost thier homes and or personal items they will never replace.
Cyndi Ransom
My wife, the dogs and myself where all fast asleep at our home on Liberty Street when we were rocked out of bed, in a state of confusion and the first thing I thought was that it was a very loud clap of thunder. I then remembered the stars being perfectly visible in the clear sky from earlier in the night when I took the dog out. I then walked over to the front door in amazement to see the towering inferno above the roof and tree tops across the river. I thought Eastern Propane or the gas station had blown up.
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i was home, in bed and thought my heating unit blew up.
I was sleeping and thought a car had just hit my house.
I was home and couldn't sleep. I got up and was using my computer when I heard, and felt the explosion. I thought something had slammed into the side of the house. I ran and got my fiance and made him check outside. I stayed up because I was scared and waited for the 5AM news.
sleeping in Bradford, Ma. I heard the blast and sat up knowing right away it was an explosion, having worked at Ventron in the 60's and 70's where there was a couple big explosions and fires. And Borregaard Synthesis in Newburyport where there was also a couple big booms.
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I was rattled awake in my bed by the blast just two miles east of my home, over the water. My first thought was that a truck had hit the building. Then as I lay awake, I thought Boston may have gotten nuked. But in my half concious mind I reasoned that the electro-magnetic pulse of a nuclear blast would have taken out my clock radio, which was still functioning ... so I went back to sleep.
Brian Hall
I was in bed with my wife on Cheever st when we were startled by the sound of our house rattling and our hallway ceiling collapsing. We thought it was an earthquake.
My husband & I were sound asleep at our home in Salisbury, MA. The explosion shook our home and we both shot straight up in bed and looked at each other...my husband asking "WHAT was THAT!?"...we thought it was the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant and waited for the alarms to sound, but nothing but silence followed. We both went back to sleep and figured, "well...if it IS the nuclear plant, it's too late now." When we saw the news the next day, we just could not beleive the explosion was so far away. I would have bet a million dollars that it was right here in Salisbury. With the magnitude of that explosion, the fact that there were no fatalities is just uncomprehendable.
Christine Masiello
I can see the Gas tank near the Beverly Bridge from my bedroom window. My first thought was it went KABOOM. I knew something big exploded but the Girlfriend said it was just thunder.
I live in the Goat Hill section of Beverly and my third floor bedroom window faces the Kernwood Bridge (towards Danversport). Being asleep, I first thought it was a loud thunder crack that that jolted me out of a sound sleep. I have a skylight above my bed and also saw the flash of light through my closed eyes. My house shook for a good 5-10 seconds. Being in a sleepy daze I decided to go to the bathroom and I kept thinking that someone had hit the house, but because I was half asleep I would let the downstairs neighbors deal with it (how thoughtful of me, haha). As I walked back to bed I happened to glance out my skylight and saw this orange glow and black, black smoke. I am visually impaired without glasses or contacts, so for me to be able to decipher anything but the darkness of night, I knew something was wrong. I put on my glasses and could NOT believe my eyes. This enormouse ball of fire was leaping from the sky. I sent late night text messages to all my friends in the Ryal Side area asking if they were alright because all I could think of was someone's house exploded and the poor people had no chance of getting out alive. I sat there with a heavy heart for quite sometime just watching in awe. I eventually found out (within an hour) that a chemical plant had blown up and not a house. I was very glad to hear it was not someone's home, but I can never forget the profound sadness I felt just thinking of anyone who may have been injured without any sort of warning. It is an image I will never forget and I am so happy no one was hurt or killed. I have cracks that formed in the walls of my house as a result of the blast. It is truly something I will never forget and I am all the way down the river from those most closely affected.
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Lead by brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, Dawes returns
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and icon of Americana music JamesMcMurtry also appears. No stranger to Mountain Stage audiences, McMurtry made his
first appearance on the show in 1989. Host Larry Groce rightfully calls
McMurtry "One of America's greatest songwriters," and influential blogger Bob
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You'll also hear a set from Jason Isbell and his band The 400 Unit. As former member of Drive-By Truckers, Isbell was responsible for
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Community Action in Self Help, Inc. is located in Lyons, NY and services Wayne County and the towns of Manchester and Phelps in Ontario County. The Agency administers the local Section 8 Program, a homebuyers program, housing counseling programs and owns and manages several affordable housing complexes within Wayne County.
In recognizing the interconnection of these services to both the success of individuals and the community at large, Community Action in Self Help, Inc. is also active on a number of community wide forums, ranging from homelessness intervention to revitalization of downtown areas. Through sharing our expertise and cooperating on community wide efforts, the Agency intends to be an integral piece to the continued economic development and viability of our community.
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Community Action in Self Help, Inc. is dedicated to the goal that everyone is entitled to decent, safe, sanitary and affordable housing, regardless of race, color creed or personal circumstances.
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The Agency's history dates to February, 1970 when it was officially incorporated as an agency to assist low-income families in organizing self-help housing projects in Wayne County. The agency secured 501(c)3 status the same year. Over the past 40 plus years it has administered programs through the Farmers Home Administration and the Small Cities' Block Grant program, and has built a number of subsidized apartment complexes throughout Wayne County. Detailed descriptions of the Agency's current programs can be found under the "Programs" tab.
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OTTUMWA — Mary Margaret Bradley, 87, formerly of 12467 55th St., died at 8:15 a.m. July 29, 2013, at The Good Samaritan Society-Ottumwa.
She was born October 19, 1925, in Ottumwa to Leo and Catherine Wrenn Murray. She married Lyle R. Bradley on April 30, 1949. He preceded her in death on December 5, 2005.
A 1943 graduate of St. Joseph Academy, Mary had worked at John Morrell & Co. for 19 years.
She was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church and the Altar & Rosary Society.
Mary especially enjoyed family and friends get togethers. She was an avid Chicago Cubs and Iowa Hawkeyes fan.
Surviving are two sons, Dennis (Patricia) Bradley and Stephen Bradley both of Ottumwa; two daughters, Patricia (Matt) Scott of Ankeny and Theresa (Steven) Schleisman of Carroll; six grandchildren, Nicole, Shane, Tyler, Trevor, Aaron and Jacob; two great-grandchildren, Jasmine and Ryder; a brother, James (Margaret) Murray of Urbandale.
She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Catherine Murray; three brothers, Leo Jr., William and Patrick Murray; and a sister, Kathleen "Kay" Bunnell.
Funeral Mass will be 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Patrick Catholic Church with Father Patrick Hilgendorf presiding. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Visitation begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Reece Funeral Home with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. A Christian Wake will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
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The New Albanian Brewing Co. has appealed a citation the business was issued Friday for dispensing beer without a temporary food permit.
The Floyd County Health Department cited NABC during a concert sponsored by the city of New Albany at Bicentennial Park. NABC — which owns the downtown Bank Street Brewhouse and the Pizzeria and Public House off University Woods Drive — elected to appeal the citation.
NABC co-owner Roger Baylor filed the appeal Wednesday with the Floyd County Health Department. In a statement sent to the News and Tribune, Baylor said the company "can find no coherent precedent" for requiring alcohol vendors to obtain a temporary food permit.
Baylor said the state "clearly supports the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission as primary regulator of drinks businesses, both on- and off-premise."
The other alcohol vendors at last Friday's concert — River City Winery and The Irish Exit — also were cited for serving without having a temporary food permit.
"We support the Floyd County Health Department's daily work to ensure food safety for all of us, and we bear absolutely no malice toward those who have made this decision to ignore precedent and attempt an extension of the department's control to an area which it lacks coherent statutory authority like that clearly possessed by the ATC," Baylor said.
However Floyd County Health Officer Dr. Tom Harris said Wednesday the regulation has been enforced for some time. The fee for the temporary food permit is nominal and alcohol is covered under the license, Harris said. Other people and groups have been cited for not having the temporary food permit, he continued.
"A lot of times, it tends to be nonprofit groups that are setting up a booth to sell, say, corn dogs at the fair, and they just simply don't know," Harris said.
While the temporary food permit typically is issued to vendors at festivals like Harvest Homecoming, Harris said it is also required when businesses or groups pour alcohol for public consumption at events.
Just because the substance being sold is alcohol doesn't guarantee it's safe, he continued.
"Beer is not sterile," Harris said.
NABC has possessed the ATC's Type 222 Supplemental Catering Permit for all events that it serves beer at, and it's the belief of the business that the permit is the only necessary license needed, Baylor said.
"Furthermore, we believe that in legal terms, the health department cannot impose more pervasive regulatory restrictions on an existing ATC permit bearer, unless the Indiana legislature has specifically allowed it to do so," Baylor stated in the appeal.
The citation doesn't carry a penalty fee, but Harris said NABC and other vendors that don't obtain the temporary food permit will continue to be cited. Additional action can be taken if a vendor fails to garner the temporary permit after multiple citations, he continued.
"It's a state regulation," Harris said. "We're not singling him out."
NABC, River City Winery and The Irish Exit will be allowed to continue to sell beer and wine during the concert series, Michael Hall, director of operations for the city, said Wednesday.
"There will be no change in the operations or format of the Bicentennial Park Concert Series," Hall said. "We are hopeful that the vendors and the Floyd County Health Department can work together to ensure that Friday nights in downtown New Albany continue to be something special."
When it comes to appeals, Harris said the health department has sided with parties who objected to certain regulations.
"We have agreed in the past that the law was unfair and helped the person with their protest," he said.
But when it comes to the NABC appeal, it doesn't appear likely that the citation will be overruled.
"If [Baylor] wants to overturn a statute, he basically has to go to court to get an injunction against a government agency invoking a statute," Harris said.
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London Air Services ordered five Learjet 75 planes, valued at $65 million. LAS is currently flying five Learjet 45 XR aircraft, one Challenger 604 aircraft, two Challenger 605 jets and a Global 7000 business jet will be arriving in 2017.
Wynne Powell, LAS President and Chief Executive Officer, said the new jet will compliment the company's existing fleet.
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The Syracuse Crunch have signed four players to AHL contracts: defensemen Evan Oberg and Matt Taormina and forwards Mike Angelidis and Pierre-Cedric Labrie. Per club policy financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
The AHL deals allow the four to play in that league because they are normally on two-way deals and were not placed on NHL waivers before the lockout. A fifith player in the category, defenseman Keith Aulie, has yet to be signed to an AHL pact.
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Channahon Police are reporting that Arsenal Road has been temporarily closed from I-55 to about Baseline due to material released from Exxon Mobil.
"The release is reportedly close to the plant and had no known affect to the Village of Channahon," Channahon Police Lt. Mark Fischer said in a written release. "The petroleum-based by product is reportedly not hazardous."
Police are reporting that crews are applying sand to the roadway and that Arsenal Road will reopen as soon as possible.
"We were told that they had a release of a hydrocarbon-based material," Channahon Police Chief Jeff Wold said.
The release should not effect Channahon.
"The wind is blowing towards Elwood," Wold said.
Channahon police sent patrol cars to the south east area of Channahon to check on the roads.
Arsenal Road was closed from Interstate 55 east to Baseline by Elwood Police.
According to a story in the Herald News, Exxon Mobile has agreed certain measures in reaction to the airborn release of the chemical this morning.
The company will reportedly set up a toll-free number for people whose property or vehicles were effected by the release, will reimburse those whose cars had to be washed because of the release and semi trailers can was free of charge at A&R Transport, 2223 Empress Road in Joliet.
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The Crown Trophy Bandolero Series features the bandolero division of U.S. Legend Cars International. The cars are smaller and simpler to drive than legends cars, as there is no gear shifting required and foot pedals operate similar to go-karts that require the left foot for braking.
Bandoleros often serve as a stepping stone in racing for the more powerful legends car. Drivers in this series can be as young as eight years old and have often moved up from go-kart racing.
Bandoleros began racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in May 2013. All races are run on the 0.25-mile mini oval located in turns one and two of the Magic Mile's oval. The creation of the series emphasizes the growth of developmental racing at NHMS. The Granite State Legends Cars dealership is located on property and opened in September 2012. It sells everything needed to begin a racing career in either bandoleros or legends.
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All I know is that Katelyn didn't collapse at 2012 Nats, Junior Worlds, Nebelhorn Trophy or Skate Canada (and after beating Sotnikova, you can't say there were no hopes/expectations).
Worlds in Canada is a whole different level I know - only short of the Olympics. But she has been surprisingly resilient so far so let's see.


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Paul Ryan Budget Won't Solve Deficit Crisis
"The Path to Prosperity" budget does not really advance the ball in addressing the nation's fiscal challenges.
Chad Stone is chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The House will soon pass the budget blueprint of Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's The Path to Prosperity. Budget hawks like Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, give the Ryan budget their customary salute for its aspirations to cut federal deficits and reduce federal debt (as a share of the economy). But even they recognize that it does not really advance the ball in addressing the nation's fiscal challenges.
As MacGuineas says, "It is tough to imagine this proposal gaining broad-based bipartisan support, which is what we need to move toward adopting a plan." President Obama's bipartisan National Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (the Bowles-Simpson Commission) laid down a set of principles "to meaningfully improve the long-run fiscal outlook." The Ryan plan flouts at least two of its key principles for achieving a bipartisan solution: "protect the truly disadvantaged" and "everything must be on the table."
[See a collection of political cartoons on the budget and deficit.]
The Ryan budget aspires to cut the budget deficit (as a share of the economy) from 8.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product, known as GDP, last year to 1.2 percent in 2022. That's the same 2022 deficit that the Congressional Budget Office estimates we would reach anyway if we made no significant legislative changes affecting the budget for the next 10 years (see office's "baseline" projections here).
Policywise, of course, the Ryan budget aspires to pursue a path that's radically different from putting the budget on autopilot. Under current tax law (which calls for all of President Bush's tax cuts to expire at the end of this year), federal revenue would rise from a recession-depressed 15.4 percent of GDP last year to 21.2 percent in 2022. By contrast, the Ryan budget would hold revenue to 18.7 percent of GDP in 2022. Under current law, the Congressional Budget Office projects that federal outlays would fall from 24.1 percent of GDP last year to 22.4 percent in 2022. By contrast, the Ryan budget would cut spending to 19.8 percent of GDP in 2022.
[Read: Conservatives Should Be Wary of Paul Ryan's Budget Plan]
How would Chairman Ryan cut spending that much? Technically, a budget resolution is not a detailed budget. It sets broad spending and revenue targets but does not provide specific program-by-program details about how to reach them. But, on the spending side, the direction is clear—and the results are inevitable. Analysis by my colleagues at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows how seriously the Ryan budget violates the Bowles-Simpson principle of protecting low-income households:
The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document—one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. In essence, this budget is Robin Hood in reverse—on steroids. It would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation's history).
On the tax side, meanwhile, the Ryan budget violates the principle that everything should be on the table; it relies exclusively on spending cuts to achieve its deficit targets. Indeed, it proposes new tax cuts that would cost $4.6 trillion over the next decade (beyond the cost of implementing Chairman Ryan's call to make all of the Bush tax cuts permanent), according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. At the same time, he does not provide any details of how he would scale back the tax credits, deductions, and other preferences, known collectively as "tax expenditures" that the plan says it would use to finance those tax cuts.
[Read the U.S. News debate: Do the Rich Pay Their Fair Share in Taxes?]
Chairman Ryan asked the Congressional Budget Office to confirm if his policies would indeed reduce the deficit, and the office obliged by carrying out that exercise in arithmetic. But as the Congressional Budget Office notes,
Those calculations do not represent a cost estimate for legislation or an analysis of the effects of any given policies. In particular, CBO has not considered whether the specified paths are consistent with the policy proposals or budget figures released today by Chairman Ryan as part of his proposed budget resolution.
President Obama's 2013 budget does not set targets for deficit reduction that are as ambitious as the Ryan plan's. But, as a president's budget must, it specifies its proposals in much greater detail. And, as the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the president's 2013 budget shows—using the agency's own economic projections and estimating techniques rather than the administration's—a combination of revenue measures and spending cuts that does not savage the social safety net can achieve meaningful deficit reduction over the next decade, although the challenge of achieving the necessary further gains in subsequent decades remains daunting.
Clearly, a bipartisan solution to the deficit challenge remains elusive. Unfortunately, the Ryan budget does more to sharpen partisan differences than to move us toward a resolution.


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Clayton Christensen has an interesting article in the New York Times, pointing out that no matter which candidate wins the presidency tomorrow, the economy will still be on life support, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, with no real turnaround or presidential remedy in sight. The article is strong on parts of the diagnosis, but doesn't go far enough in terms of appropriate action.
Christensen rightly pooh-poohs the idea that the economy is in some kind of recovery and rejects the thought that the new president—any president—has any obvious tools to get it going again. Neither Obama's patient more-of-the-same-economics nor Romney's tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy worked in the past. Why should we think the future will be any different?
Nor does the Federal Reserve have any viable options: it is injecting more and more capital into the economy with less and less result. The Fortune 500 and hedge funds are sitting on several trillion dollars in unused cash, while entrepreneurs eager to start companies can't seem to get the financing they need.
Christensen notes that the US is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. Prior to 1990, the average recovery was six months. The 1990 recovery took 15 months. The 2001 recession took 39 months. After the current Great Recession, the economy has been grinding along for 60 months, with life-support from the Federal Reserve and still "losing horsepower". Why?
Christensen's diagnosis of the economy's accelerating lethargy is "New Finance", a subject that is "taught with increasingly religious zeal by economists and business schools". This doctrine measures profitability in a way that guides the private sector away from investments that create real economic growth and employment.
Christensen explains the impact of New Finance in terms of three kinds of innovations that the private sector might pursue to make money.
"Empowering innovations" transform complicated and costly products available to a few into simpler, cheaper products available to the many. Examples include the Ford Model T, the Sony transistor radio. IBM's personal computers, online trading at Schwab and cloud computing. Empowering innovations create jobs, because they require more and more people who can build, distribute, sell and service these products.
"Sustaining innovations" replace old products with new models, such as a new model car. They replace yesterday's products with today's products and create few jobs. They have a neutral effect on economic activity, on capital and on jobs.
"Efficiency" innovations" reduce the cost of making and distributing existing products and services. He gives as examples, minimills in steel and Geico online insurance underwriting. Such innovations reduce the net number of jobs, because they streamline processes. They also preserve many of the remaining jobs — because without them entire companies and industries would disappear in competition. Efficiency innovations free up capital so that in theory at least it could be deployed "as fuel for new, empowering innovations that would create more jobs.
The problem, Christensen says, is that the capital liberated by efficiency innovations is being reinvested in still more efficiency innovations. The economy is generating fewer empowering innovations than in the past, and so jobs are hard to come by. (Christensen's qualitative judgment that big firms have contributed little to employment is supported by a study by the Kauffman Foundation, which showed that in the quarter century between 1980 and 2005, around 40 million net new jobs were created. Almost of these jobs were created in firms less than five years old, i.e. start-ups. The big firms with all the cash contributed little.)
Christensen, a business school professor, says the doctrine of "New Finance" taught by business schools has been key in creating this situation. New Finance emerged in stages between the 1930s and the 1950s, when capital was relatively scarce in the economy. So business schools taught that firms should focus on getting the most revenue and profit per dollar of capital deployed so as to increase profits for the firm and its shareholders.
To measure efficiency, business schools used ratios like ROA (return on net assets) and ROIC (return on invested capital) and the internal rate of return (IRR). To make gains, firms can add to the numerator of the ROA ratio with empowering innovations or they can reduce the denominator by efficiency innovations, through quick wins that push assets off the balance sheet — through outsourcing. Both routes can drive up ROA and ROIC. The problem is that efficiency innovations are much quicker and easier and less risky and so firms have concentrated on those, at the expense of employment-creating empowering innovations, firm life-expectancy and ultimately the health of the entire economy.
According to Christensen, these results reflect the microeconomic paradox that he explored in his classic book, The Innovator's Dilemma, which showed how successful companies systematically fail by making the "right" management decisions. Now the US economy is in a macroeconomic paradox that he calls the capitalist's dilemma. Executives, investors and analysts are doing what is "right", from their perspective and according to what they've been taught: the result is economic paralysis and decline.
According to Christensen, continuing to measure the efficiency of capital through ratios like ROA and ROIC discourages investment in empowering innovations that would create the new growth we need, because empowering innovations have low ROA and ROIC. Instead it encourages investments in sustaining innovations or efficiency innovations which kill jobs, firms and ultimately the economy.
The problem with Christensen's argument is that it's simply not true. If Christensen was right and the problem lay in the use of ratios like ROA and ROIC, and firms that were focused on maintaining their ROA and ROIC, then the ROA and ROIC should have remained strong throughout the period, even as the economy and jobs suffered. The opposite is the case. ROA and ROIC have continued to decline since 1965.
The graph shows that Harvard Business School's graduates were making "the wrong decisions" even on the basis of ROA and ROIC. If businesses were sharply focused on enhancing their ROA and ROIC, they were doing a very poor job of it.
The truth is that the problem lies deeper than the ratios of ROA and ROIC. It lies in the goal of the ratios: making money for the company and its shareholders. So long as the goal is making money for the firm and its shareholders, the firm will be encouraged to do things that systematically discourage empowering innovations that create jobs and encourage efficiency innovations that destroy jobs.
The chance of an empowering innovation "paying off" in terms of money for the company is somewhat less than 25 percent, while the chance of an efficiency innovation "paying off" in terms of money for the company is usually more than 90 percent. Once the goal is one of making money, empowering innovations never have a chance, no matter what the tax rate or the discount rate.
Similarly, the internal rate of return focuses attention on short term gains at the expense of medium-term sustainability. So the instead of investing in empowering innovations that pay off in five to eight years, a focus on internal rates of return encourages investments in quick wins in efficiency innovations, even if these actions end up killing jobs, the firm and the economy. The discounting embedded in the internal rate of return "discounts away" most of the future benefits and assumes that the survival of the firm and the economy will happen "anyway".
Christensen misses another fundamental shift since the 1950s when the shareholder value idea started gathering momentum. Power in the marketplace has dramatically shifted from the seller to the buyer. With the customer as the boss, big firms had to generate empowering innovations if they wanted to delight customers and so survive. A sustained focus on efficiency innovations amounted to committing corporate suicide in the new marketplace.
Instead of blaming the ratios, we need to join theorists like Peter Drucker, Roger Martin and Ranjay Gulati as well as practitioners like Jack Welch who have recognized that the very goal underlying these ratios is wrong. Fixing the goal of the firm on making money for the company and its shareholders used to work but is now "the dumbest idea in the world".
The ratios are merely the means of implementing an obsolete idea. We need to root out this obsolete idea and recognize that the goal of making money for the firm and its shareholders leads systematically at the microeconomic level to the destruction of the firm and at the macroeconomic level the destruction of the economy.
Maximizing shareholder value is a powerful idea that attracted many fine thinkers over the years. It was simple. It was elegant. It was intuitive. It had one big problem: it didn't t work.
As Roger Martin wrote in 2010: "Have shareholders actually been better off since they displaced managers as the center of the business universe? The simple answer is no." It became steadily more apparent that focusing attention solely on shareholder value in the short term tended to lead to the management to do things that destroyed long-term shareholder value.
Lorsch and Fox write in HBR: "There's a growing body of evidence (for example, Rosabeth Moss Kanter's "How Great Companies Think Differently," HBR November 2011) that the companies that are most successful at maximizing shareholder value over time are those that aim toward goals other than maximizing shareholder value."
As Jack Welch said in an interview in 2009 with the Financial Times and said, "On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy… your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. Managers and investors should not set share price increases as their overarching goal. … Short-term profits should be allied with an increase in the long-term value of a company."
Even worse, shareholder capitalism has morphed into something else: C-suite capitalism. "Maximizing shareholder value" turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure. Roger Martin writes that between 1960 and 1980, CEO compensation per dollar of net income earned for the 365 biggest publicly traded American companies fell by 33 percent. CEOs earned more for their shareholders for steadily less and less relative compensation. By contrast, in the decade from 1980 to 1990, CEO compensation per dollar of net earnings produced doubled. From 1990 to 2000 it quadrupled.
Since 2000, the situation has only deteriorated. According to Professor Mihir Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, over-compensation of the C-suite has produced a giant financial incentives bubble, that is inexorably pushing the US economy into decline. His 2012 HBR article makes clear that overcompensation of the C-suite is not merely an issue of "fairness" or "whining by the 99 percent". The phenomenon is having disastrous business consequences, including a serious misallocation of capital and talent, repeated governance crises, rising income inequality and an overall decline of the US economy.
What to do? As it happens, Peter Drucker gave us a clue, way back in 1973. He addressed the question: why do we have organizations in the first place? and wrote:
To know what a business is, we have to start with its purpose. Its purpose must be outside of the business itself. In fact, it must lie in society since business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one value definition of business purpose: to create a customer…
It is the customer who determines what a business is. It is the customer alone whose willingness to pay for a good or for a service converts economic resources into wealth… What the business thinks it produces is not of the first importance—especially not to the future of the business and its success…. What the customer thinks he is buying, what he considers value, is decisive—it determines what a business, is, what it produces and whether it will prosper. And what the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or service does for him…. The customer is the foundation of a business and keeps it in existence. He alone gives employment. To supply the wants and needs of a customer society entrusts wealth producing resources to the business enterprise.
Peter Drucker was a man of his times and did not foresee the eventual implications of his insight. In 1973, global competition was just getting under way and the shift in power in the marketplace from seller to buyer as a result of the Internet had yet to happen. In 1973, the world had not yet seen the exponential growth that would occur when firms like Apple [AAPL] or Amazon [AMZN] or Salesforce [CRM] or Costco [COST] or Zara fully dedicated themselves to delighting customers. The world had not yet seen the full development of Agile management as an alternative to hierarchical bureaucracy that could combine disciplined execution with continuous innovation. Nor had the world yet discovered how to measure in a simple and practical way whether and to what extent they were adding value to, and delighting, their customers.
By 2010, when all those elements were in place, the world was ready for customer capitalism. Roger Martin writes:
"We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value," says Martin. "The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders."
If you take care of customers, writes Martin, shareholders will be drawn along for a very nice ride. The opposite is simply not true: if you try to take care of shareholders, customers don't benefit and, ironically, shareholders don't get very far either. In the real market, there is opportunity to build for the long run rather than to exploit short-term opportunities, so the real market has a chance to produce sustainability. The real market produces meaning and motivation for organizations. The organization can create bonds with customers, imagine great plans, and bring them to fruition.
Similarly in Reorganize for Resilience, Ranjay Gulati writes:
Those companies built around an inside-out mind-set—those pushing out products and services to the marketplace based on a narrow viewpoint of their customers that looks at them only through the narrow lens of their products—are less resilient in turbulent times than those organized around an outside-in mind-set that starts with the marketplace, then looks to deliver creatively on market opportunities. Outside-in orientation maximizes customer value—and produces more supple organizations. Embracing an outside-in perspective—focusing on creatively delivering something of value to customers instead of obsessing over pushing your product portfolio—builds an inherent flexibility into organizations.
Customer capitalism has advantages similar to those of shareholder capitalism. It is simple. It is clear. It is elegant. It is measurable. It is implementable. What's different from shareholder capitalism is that it actually works. It is theoretically sound, inspiring for employees, and hugely profitable.
Yet customer capitalism isn't easy for traditional managers to implement because it requires a fundamentally different way of managing. It's a new ecosystem, a new way of speaking, thinking and acting in the work place. It implies not just a new organizational goal, but also a number of other changes in managerial behavior:
These shifts imply a revolution in the way firms are run. Fortunately there are many books describing the change, which has yet to be absorbed by business schools, business journals and consulting firms, let alone the C-suites that are running the organizations.
Clayton Christensen is right in suspecting that there is something wrong with the ratios that he has been teaching all these years. But the problem runs deeper than the ratios: it goes to the very goal that those ratios pursue and the management practices needed to achieve that goal.
The ailment that afflicts the economy is thus not a problem that can be addressed in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Its treatment entails a change of mind and heart in the board rooms of the Fortune 500, in the business schools that teach business leaders how to manage and on Wall Street that decides what companies are really worth.
And read also:
The dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value
The phase change to the Creative Economy
The identity crisis of American capitalism
Is delighting the customer profitable?
The best-kept management secret on the planet: Agile
The five big surprises of radical management
Steve Denning's most recent book is: The Leader's Guide to Radical Management (Jossey-Bass, 2010).
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'recessions are lasting longer and longer.'
Yet NY Times and Forbes still think they are "recessions," as in "everything is fine, you just have a little recession, drink plenty of fluids…."
No. This is the endgame of Keynesianism. The acceleration of core damage is evident. The point of no return is approaching with alarming speed.
Why are business sitting on cash? They don't think it is safe to put it to work in (what used to be) the economy.
Wealth is created by production, saving and investment. People/businesses will not produce if paid to not; people/businesses will not save when the government prints fiat money and waters down the currency; people/business will not invest if profit is targeted for confiscation by burdensome regulation and taxes.
Steve – excellent article as usual. I think that having a reminder about Roger Martin's point about stock has become such a big part of the C-suite overcompensation merits some attention here and should be tied together with Mr. Christensen's suggestion for a sliding tax scale on investment income. If an executive is compensated with a high percentage of stock, the tax penalties for exercising options and draining the organization of that cash (which could otherwise be used for investment purposes) should be steep when the executive is still employed by the firm, or retains a seat on the board – like the penalty for taking money out of your retirement account too early. After the executive has left the position the sliding scale should be implemented (beginning 3 years after departure) to provide incentive to the exec into keeping the investment. I believe this would take some of the selfishness and and shortsightedness out of corporate decision making while maintaining the original intent of stock compensation, which was to align the manager's compensation with the goals of the corporation and investors – FOR THE LONG HAUL! I believe this would also reduce some of the volatility in the markets by taking away the knee-jerk reactions of professional investors who watch for execs exercising their options. A trickle-down effect – It would help keep up employment numbers by keeping the execs from dumping employees along with abandoning longer-term, higher risk / higher reward investments in order "paint the numbers picture" to meet their short-term goals.
I follow you because I agree with you 100% that tying comp to shareholder value is the wrong foundation – but it's what they're (still) teaching in schools and the practice is not going to go away overnight. I was suggesting that until corporate leadership gets the new religion which you and Roger Martin and others propose, and until it starts to sink in to the corporate mindset that the true rewards are in delighting the customer, our leadership in Washington have the opportunity to start changing the game immediately by discouraging "Fixing the Game" – via penalizing selfish, short-termism and providing positive, revised incentives for longer-term, domestic investment and employment through the tax codes.
Excellent thoughts, but I am puzzled by your comment that ROA and ROIC should have remained strong for Christensen's comments to be valid. After all, managers are not the prime movers of these measures – it's secular and cyclical movements in the economy. What I read in your graph is the declining slope (first derivative) of the top half of an S-shaped economic life-cycle with a business cycle showing clearly. So there is a long-run decline in returns with a cyclical oscillation that may have little to do with the efforts of managers.
I agree entirely with your call for a change in managerial behavior and the minds and hearts of the players you identify. But this begs the question of how exactly this is going to happen. Christensen's view of innovation changing from "empowering" to "sustaining" to "efficiency" can also be seen as the stages of a life cycle. But his call for a change in metrics does not go nearly deep enough.
As Superstorm Sandy just demonstrated, nature renews ecosystems through destruction that creates the conditions for creativity – open patches where small-scale experimentation can begin again. Throughout history communities of trust and practice have played a critical role in the development of capitalism – should we not be looking for these and rely on the the institutions you identify being swept away by "wind and fire"?
As Walter Bagehot, founder of The Economist put it: 'The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards." Isn't it time we looked for alternatives to them on the edges and in the open patches of the ecosystem?
The issue is the lack of democracy in the production process. Neither the workers nor the customers decide how the work is done. It is the small group of people who have the greatest total amount of shares in a company that makes the decisions as to how the company is run. Workers are forced to work solely for the sake of a profit (in many but not all cases) because they have no voice through which they can express their moral standing. Good people work for Walmart because they have little other choice, despite the fact that Walmart customers and employees have no say in their working conditions.
In our current paradigm, it is normal either for a select few to own the means of production or for a retirement-investing group of people to invest in companies they have no investment in besides money. Environmentalists often have shares in Exxon Mobil or other fossil fuel companies through their mutual funds and 401k's. The business world in general is devoid of morality. The sole purpose of a business (especially one publicly owned) is to make money, at all costs.
This is because the people who own the companies do not have a say about how it works, and neither do the people working for the companies. The only things the investors have in common are, one, the general desire to make money, which sometimes works against compassion, and, two, the ability to make all of the decisions amongst each other about how the company must be run.
The machine has overtaken the people. The workers have no say in what happens at the company unless it is directly under their jurisdiction. And they are held accountable to those above them in the hierarchical structure of greed.
Take, for example, RadioShack. RadioShack's sales associates are required to meet certain sales numbers to keep their jobs for any long time. They are not able to bargain with the customers, despite the ridiculously high prices at RadioShack. They have no flexibility in the manner in which they deal with customers; their jobs are very rigid in the responsibilities they have. If they fail, they will be fired. If they are not fired, their managers are responsible.
Their store managers are responsible for making sure that the store is profitable. Managers have a few more rights when it comes to bargaining, but if they do not deal with workers who may not be meeting their numbers or who may not be constantly at work, they will be fired or sent to a store where they will not make as much money.
Now the main issue here is the fact that the store managers and employees are already because of this fact natural adversaries. The store managers feel that the ungrateful, lazy employees are endangering their jobs, while the employees feel, everyday, that their jobs are being threatened by the draconian store managers. There is a lot of stress, which leads to hostility, which leads to an unhealthy work environment. Since stress is unhealthy, it will affect the type of work that people do.
Obviously, there are some managers who are fair and just and well-liked by their employees. These stores are usually more successful than other stores, as long as the manager knows how to motivate his employees without threatening their livelihoods. If people are able to be managed without their livelihoods being threatened, they will be more willing to contribute to the well-being of the store. They become a team.
However, this requires the managers to be level-headed. The managers often find themselves stressed out from two different sides: their employees, who are lazy and ungrateful, and their managers, who, themselves, may have more say in the company but are generally quite stressed themselves.
This hierarchical structure of a corporation continues up through the various ranks: store managers are managed by district managers, district managers are managed by sectional managers, sectional managers are managed by regional managers, regional managers are managed by the CEO, and the CEO's job is defined by the Board of Directors, who have the ability to fire him if they so choose. This Board of Directors is owned by the stockholders, proportionately to the amount of money invested.
Here's the problem: the actions of the company are ultimately decided by the super-rich who own the most shares. Rather than an everybody-gets-one-vote democratic approach to governing the means of economic production, we are left with a structure based on the idea that whoever owns the most has the most right to run the company.
The workers are beholden on all hierarchical levels (until they begin to be given stock options when they are in higher management, although even then because of how small a share those options are) to the owners of the company, who have managed to become an ever-shrinking group with no desire to help the people.
People who have managed to amass such large sums of money as to be able to control such an organization as RadioShack no longer run in the same social circles as the employees of the company. These people therefore think of all the people working under them as not other people but just faceless factors in their own growth of wealth. They are no longer concerned even with satisfying the customer (who generally is not somebody whom he runs in the same social circles with, but instead is a regular middle-class person).
These owners of the businesses only want to make a product do enough to make somebody buy it when he or she needs it. The product doesn't need to be of quality if, when it breaks, the customer has to return to get another one, and the product needs to be as expensive as it can be in order to grow the wealth of the owners.
In markets in which the people have the ability to choose between companies genuinely competing against one another (for example: grocery stores), the products will have to stand up to each other on a quality and a price level. Capitalism works where there is competition, or at least some customer and worker involvement in which company to use or work for in an industry.
However, most industries in a capitalist society without worker or customer representation will trend towards a monopoly, at which point these industries no longer work to please the customer, since the only things you can buy instead of their products are the higher-end versions of their products that they decided to make to satisfy those who were willing to shell out more cash.
Only through the organization of the workers and the customers as a massive democratic body can lead to the ultimate reinstatement of innovation and freedom in a society in which our property has all shifted away from the hands of the many into the hands of the few.
Thanks for Reading,
Ted Holcomb


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Lee Ward
The Independent
In the category of banana desserts, in my mind, nothing will top my grandmother's banana pudding — a rich, warm concoction of homemade pudding layered with vanilla wafters and bananas and topped with fresh-from-the-oven meringue.
This recipe, from justapinch.com, takes a warm and cozy winter dessert and turns it into a cool summer treat.
Pat Duran, Las Vegas
4 large eggs, separated
3⁄4 cup granulated sugar, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3⁄4 cup cake flour
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
3-ounce package instant banana pudding
11⁄2 cups milk
2 or 3 bananas, peeled and left whole
Strawberry, chocolate or caramel topping
Combine pudding and milk, beat well until it starts to thicken. Place in refrigerator until ready to use.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line the bottom a jelly roll pan (15x10x2-inches) with good waxed paper.
Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored. Gradually beat in 1⁄4 cup sugar and vanilla.
Beat egg whites until almost stiff. Gradually add remaining sugar and beat until very stiff.
Fold yolk mixture into whites. Then add sifted dry ingredients, folding in carefully by hand with large spatula.
Bake in oven for 12 to 15 min. Loosen sides and turn out onto towel sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Remove wax paper from bottom of cake carefully. Trim off crusty edges to make easy rolling. Roll quickly with a fresh sheet of waxed paper on inside of roll. Wrap in sugared towel; cool.
Unroll, remove paper; spread with pudding.
Place 2 or 3 straight bananas near edge (2 inches) of long side of roll and roll up again.
Place seam side down on serving platter. Chill slightly (20 minutes).
Serve with any extra pudding and a scoop of ice cream with ice cream topping, if desired.
Justapinch.com has some suggestions for introducing onions to palettes not used to such a bracing flavor.
‰Tasty Onion Chicken by Wendy Garnder: Combine mustard, Worcestershire, butter and French friend onions, crushed. Dip chicken breasts in the mixture and bake.
‰Onion dip by Jenni James: Combine sauteed white onions with sour cream and Neufchatel cheese. Toss in a pinch of salt, pepper and garlic powder and serve with vegetable sticks.
‰Deep Fried Onion Ball by Kathy Sills. Using pearl onions, Sills was able to achieve bite-sized balls of fried deliciousness without much of the hassle of traditional onion rings. Similarly, her accompanying Cajun Ranch Sauce is a dippers' delight yet a breeze to prepare. A simple mixture of sour cream, ranch dressing powder, red pepper and Cajun seasoning, the sauce is cool and creamy with a punchy after-bite.
I was recently a guest for lunch at a local woman's house and was served something I'd heard of but had never tried: cornbread salad.
I'm not a beans and cornbread fan, although I'll eat it in a pinch.
However, this dish, which contained beans and cornbread, was delicious.
When I got home that evening, I immediately searched the Internet for a recipe for cornbread salad and found this one from Paula Deen on FoodNetwork.
1 batch cornbread, cut into 1-inch cubes, recipe follows
1 (14.5-ounce) can red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 (15-ounce) can niblet corn, drained
1 medium Vidalia onion, finely chopped
1 large green bell pepper, finely chopped
3 large tomatoes, chopped
2 cups grated sharp Cheddar
1 (8-ounce) bottle ranch dressing
Chopped fresh parsley leaves, for garnish
In the bottom of a large glass bowl, place cornbread cubes. Layer beans, corn, onion, bell pepper, tomatoes and cheese on top of cornbread. Spread ranch dressing evenly over cheese. Cover, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired.
1⁄2 cup vegetable oil, plus 1⁄4 cup for greasing pan
1 cup self-rising cornmeal
3⁄4 cup self-rising flour
1 cup cream-style corn
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 cup grated sharp Cheddar, optional
1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne pepper, optional
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Generously season a cast iron skillet with up to 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil. Preheat the pan either in the oven or on the stove over medium-high heat.
Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl, stirring with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula until combined. Pour batter into the preheated cast iron skillet. Place skillet in the oven and bake until golden brown, approximately 30 minutes.
If making individual size cornbreads in smaller pans, they will require a shorter cooking time.
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