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Thanksgiving is a time to count one's blessings, so indulge me, dear readers, as I count some fantasy football blessings. I am thankful for ...
1. ... my college friend Jay, who introduced me to fantasy football in 1989. I had already been playing fantasy baseball, and it didn't seem possible that fantasy football would be able to provide the same satisfaction. Jay's league was more of a pool with a payout to a weekly winner, but I was immediately hooked. I've lost touch with Jay, unfortunately, but since he was such an unrepentant sports junkie, I have no doubt that he's dominating multiple leagues somewhere.
2. ... league websites. I've been playing fantasy football long enough to remember a time when commissioners used to take lineups over the phone every week. Then, on Monday or Tuesday mornings, they'd get a newspaper, tabulate scores by hand and call owners to let them know how they did. It almost would have been less archaic to deliver scores via Pony Express. Now, scores are updated in real time, standings and schedules can be accessed instantly, and you can even look up how you've done against a particular opponent over the years. I probably used to spend 12 hours a week on commissioner duties. Now I'm a glorified treasurer.
3. ... DirecTV. It would kill me — absolutely KILL me — if I had to miss a Packers game because I live in Chicago and it conflicted with a locally televised Bears game. Well, OK, it wouldn't kill me. I'd go to a sports bar and watch the Packers there. But, hey, the beer is cheaper at my place, and sports bars tend not to have couches and ottomans. Long live the DirecTV Sunday Ticket. And beyond that, I've always gotten remarkably good customer service from DirecTV, ensuring that I'm never denied access to its full buffet of NFL football.
4. ... NFL Short Cuts. Football overload! NFL games condensed into 30 minutes each - what a concept. Set up the DVR on a Tuesday night, and in a few hours I have a video library that includes all the plays I missed the previous weekend. It's football manna from the heavens. (This could have been included with my thankfulness for DirecTV, but I think it deserves its own category of gratitude.)
5. ... Wes Welker. Not only is he a constant reminder to fantasy owners that no player should ever be dismissed out of hand, but he was also the MVP of a championship team of mine that had no business winning a championship. I was 12th in scoring in a 14-team league, backed into the playoffs with a 7-6 record thanks to three straight miracle wins to close the regular season and then fell ass-backward into a title when my playoff opponents had a series of awful weeks. Not even the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with a regular-season record of 83-78, were less deserving of a championship than I was. My lineup was Welker and a rotating cast of bums. But Welker and Lady Luck each took one of my arms and dragged me kicking and screaming to the luckiest championship in the history of fantasy football.
6. ... smartphones. They provide constant access to my leagues and to a near-infinite wealth of fantasy information. You college kids might take this sort of technology for granted, but Gramps here still remembers the days when phones were teathered to walls and had to be dialed. That a phone can now tell me how many receptions Mario Manningham had last year is still a source of wonder to me. Now I know how the cavemen felt when they beheld fire for the first time.
7. ... Peter King. I'm probably violating in-house protocol by praising a writer from another publication, but it's not exactly a guarded secret that King's "Monday Morning QB" column is considered essential reading for any serious follower of the NFL. The man writes his tail off. And if King wants to make the occasional digression in his column to write about coffee and beer ... well, it just so happens that I like coffee and beer.
8. ... NFL Network. It's 'round-the-clock coverage of the greatest sports league on the planet, and it's usually done well. The network has a knack for hiring terrific on-air talent, starting at the top with Rich Eisen, the host with the most.
9. ... Aaron Rodgers. As I've mentioned before, owning Rodgers in a fantasy league is like being able to start a second quarterback every week. I didn't think I'd ever consider taking a quarterback with the first overall pick in a fantasy draft, but if I end up with the No. 1 pick in any of next year's drafts, it'll be a tough call between Rodgers and Arian Foster. And then there's the fact that, as mentioned before, I'm a Packer fan. During the peak of the Favre era in Green Bay, before the Packers had drafted Rodgers, my Packer-fan friends and I used to discuss the inevitable disappointment that would come with watching another quarterback someday take the reins from Favre. It was agreed that we would have been happy with a Favre successor who was merely as good as Don Majkowski, the mulleted QB who had a couple of decent seasons for the Packers just before Favre came along. But to go from Favre to Rodgers ... wow, Packer fans are preposterously lucky. Some franchises go decades without finding a good quarterback. The Packers have had two straight quarterbacks who belong in the best-of-all-time debate. If God likes to rest on the seventh day, I suspect he does so by watching Packer games while wearing a foam-rubber cheesehead.
10. ... my competitors. The best fantasy football leagues are driven by friendships. Rare is the league in which every owner is friends with every other owner, but I've found that the best leagues revolve around several strong friendships, buffered by a layer of friendly acquaintances. I'm thankful that fantasy football has helped me preserve longtime friendships and kept me in contact with friends I might otherwise have fallen out of touch with. And I'm thankful that many of the acquaintances I've met through fantasy football have become good friends.
11. ... Tim Tebow. Whether you're pro-Tebow or anti-Tebow (and personally, I think being anti-Tebow is being like anti-Santa Claus), you have to admit that the guy is adding an awful lot of fun — and an awful lot of spirited debate — to the 2011 season.
12. ... Andre Johnson's return. I own him in two leagues, one of which is a lost cause. But in the other league I managed to tread water in Johnson's absence despite having to give WR starts to the likes of Jabar Gaffney, Hines Ward, Emmanuel Sanders and Eddie Royal. And yet I'm 7-4, and now I'm ready for No. 80 to carry me to the Promised Land. (And with that I offer this sacrifice of ouzo to Hammytheses, the Greek god of hamstrings.)
13. ... Mike Shanahan. Most fantasy owners consider him a villain, since he seems hell-bent on destroying the fantasy value of every quarterback and running back he manages. Maybe so, but you have to admit: He's an entertaining villain. Enjoy his bizarre act while you can, because it won't be long before he takes his black hat and leaves the saloon for good.
14. ... Pro Football Weekly, for providing me with a release for all this pent-up fantasy football gas. I'm particularly grateful to publisher/editor Hub Arkush for putting up with me for all these years and for paying me to do something that I'd probably be willing to do for free. (Wait ... scratch that last part.)
15. ... my editors: Keith Schleiden, Neil Warner and Mike Holbrook, who have a light touch with my stuff, do a great job of catching my not-so-occasional bonehead mistakes, and never let on just how badly they want to strangle me when I blow a deadline. Thanks, guys. And special thanks to Neil, who's been doing the heavy lifting on my Web stuff since I first began churning it out back in 2000.
16. ... HD televisions. It's getting harder and harder to remember what it was like to watch football that wasn't displayed in high-def. Actually, I do remember seeing an NFL game in high-def for the first time and almost weeping with joy. And the televisions themselves ... my lord. It's hard to believe how cheaply you can get a good-sized high-def TV these days. I used to have an old Sony Trinitron that I loved dearly. It was a great set at the time. And I remember a Super Bowl Sunday when a friend who was throwing a party for the game asked me if I could bring over my Trinitron, since his TV was too small for a bigger crowd. I damn near killed myself trying to wrestle that monster out of the house and into my car, navigating an icy sidewalk in the process. I'm not sure how much that thing weighed, but I suspect it would have been only slightly more difficult to transport Haloti Ngata from my house into my car. The weight displacement of an HD television, on the other hand, makes it relatively easy to move from place to place. We've come a long way, baby.
17. ... Cecil Lammey and Sigmund Bloom of Football Guys for doing the best fantasy football podcasts around. Every week, Lammey and Bloom ladle up chicken soup for the fantasy geek's soul. Good luck finding another podcast that offers a thorough analysis of Da'Rel Scott's potential dynasty-league value. Perhaps their finest work is done on "The Audible," a weekly marathon podcast (usually two solid hours) that also draws upon the analytical expertise of Matt Waldman and Jene Bramel. Great stuff. Keep up the fine work, guys.
18. ... Matt Forté. I've now had the pleasure of owning Forté on three different teams over the last couple of seasons, and those teams are going to be three-for-three in qualifying for the playoffs. The guy is money in the bank in leagues that offer the standard one point for every 10 rushing and receiving yards. Even on the days when the Bears' running game is getting stuffed, Forté almost always makes up for it by catching a bunch of passes and getting to 100 yards from scrimmage (or close to it) on the strength of his receiving yardage. Most of my leagues include a handful of Bears fans, and yet I've been managing to keep Forté out of their greasy clutches, grabbing him in the late-first or early-second round. Forté isn't going to get the lucrative long-term contract he's seeking from the Bears, but I hope he's able to savor the fat short-term contract he'll get when the Bears inevitably designate him as their franchise player to keep him out of the free-agent market.
19. ... new blood. I love the jolt of excitement that rookies bring to each new fantasy season. And next year's class is looking like a bumper crop for fantasy owners. Can't wait to see where Stanford QB Andrew Luck, Alabama RB Trent Richardson and Oklahoma State WR Justin Blackmon are going to end up. (Well, I suppose we have a pretty good idea of where Luck is going to end up.)
20. ... my wife and children. Thanks for putting up with an unhinged husband/father every Sunday during the football season.
21. ... you. Yes, you, one of my eight loyal readers (including you, Mom and Dad). Thanks for taking mild interest in the inanities I spew each week and for occasionally getting in touch via email. It's always rewarding to find out that someone is paying attention.


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Date of the Event: 08.28.20112011 Surf City Classic
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Felix Law and Jake Thayer take big wins for JConcepts at the 2011 Surf City Classic.
This past weekend Orange County Radio Control Raceway (OC/RC) held their 4th Annual Surf City Classic. This year was the biggest turnout in the history of the event with 310 entries. Big time players were in attendance at this year's event, including JConcepts Team Drivers, Steven Hartson, Brian Kinwald, Josh Numan, Jake Thayer, Zack Rogers, Jimmy Barnett and From Florida, Felix Law.
Track conditions were amazing all weekend. It took 3-4 runs to get the JConcepts Gold Compound Bar Codes, the tire of choice for most, to break in. There was talk in the pits of the track going to slicks and it surely did by the time qualifying was coming to an end and main events began. Jake Thayer sent us an update over the weekend saying "The track is a lot of fun, and very high speed, with fast lap times in the high 17 to low 18 second range. Robert Black and the OCRC crew have built a great layout that's very easy to learn, and made for some great racing."
Felix Law ended the weekend with 1st Place in the Short Course 4x4 class. Felix's Losi SCT-E was covered with JConcepts all weekend including the newly released #0205 Raptor X-Flow body, #3044-05 Bar Codes tires in gold compound, JC Profiled closed cell inserts, mounted on #3346B Rulux wheels.
JConcepts took the top 3 positions in 4wd modified buggy with Jake Thayer taking 1st place, Felix Law 2nd and Jimmy Barnett in 3rd. All 3 drivers relied on the aero / gripping package of JConcepts utilizing the Punisher body, 6.5" H.D. rear wing and Bar Codes tires in gold compound.
Steven Hartson took 3rd place in the 2wd modified buggy invite class joining JConcepts team mates, Josh Numan (5th) and Brian Kinwald (8th). Josh Numan scored a 3rd place finish in the Racing Truck modified invite class with teammates Steven Hartson (5th) and Brian Kinwald (7th).
Congratulations to all the winners and to OC/RC for another great event.

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Originally published: Apr 7, 2013 - 9:25 am
PHOENIX -- A two alarm fire broke out on Saturday night at the Travel Inn near 27th Ave and Indian School.
The fire started on the second floor but the cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
More than 60 firefighters responded to the call and found nearly half of the hotel rooms damaged.
No injuries were reported.
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A northwestern Pennsylvania man wanted on rape and incest charges has apparently shot himself as state police were closing in on his vehicle with an arrest warrant.
McKean County District Attorney Ray Learn says he's waiting for the coroner to confirm the man's identity, but believes he's the person sought by Foster Township police on the sex charges.
The Bradford Era reports the 36-year-old man shot himself about 9:30 p.m. Monday as state police approached the convenience store parking lot where he had parked. The newspaper says a note written in the dust on the back of the vehicle said "I love you all. I am sorry" and then identified two female relatives saying they "can now be free, the demon is dead."
The man had been reported missing since Saturday and police charged him Monday.
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Changing China
Giant on the move
One world, one dream…
Dirk Nowitzki says he's been dreaming about going to the Olympics since he saw the 1988 Games on TV as a 10-year-old boy.
He's spent the last 10 summers in the NBA off-season working hard to help Germany qualify for the Olympics again for the first time since 1992 — and the Dallas Mavericks' all-star from Germany looked completely shattered when his team came up heartbreakingly short in the 2003 European Championships, the qualifier for the 2004 Olympics.
Nowitzki and Germany again failed to qualify directly for the Olympics at last year's European Championships as well — but they still could get tickets to Beijing if they finish in the top three at a 12-team tournament set for mid-July.
It's not like I really know how Nowitzki feels because I don't. I've never been in the NBA nor have I played for Germany or any other country.
My son, the terrorist
That security would be ramped up in China before the Beijing Olympics was to be expected and is entirely normal.
My abiding memory of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City – just a few months after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. — is of removing and putting back on my heavy winter boots several times a day at security checkpoints.
What's that on top of the Bird's Nest?
Photographer David Gray took his weekly trip down to the Bird's Nest today and fortunately after couple of horribly polluted days, the skies were relatively clear.
On top of the 'nest' he captured this inflatable structure.
The stadium is now effectively shut down to visitors because of the secrecy surrounding the preparations for the opening ceremony, which everyone is expecting to be a spectacular affair.
Explorer running with the torch
Wong How Man is one of China's best known and most active explorers, whose accomplishments include an expedition that discovered a new source of the Yangtze, China's longest river.
More recently the Hong Kong native and his group, China Exploration & Research Society, have taken on a number of conservation projects in Tibetan areas of China — work that helped him land a spot as an Olympic torch runner last week.
Bach on Beijing
I caught up with IOC vice president Thomas Bach for an interview the other day in his Berlin office.
Bach has been one of the most eloquent opponents of any boycott of the Summer Olympics in Beijing — leading a lightning pro-Games campaign earlier this year when tensions in Tibet flared.
Never mind the pollution, it's the Olympic Games
Former Olympic champion Cathy Freeman, the darling of the Sydney Games in 2000, was in Beijing at the weekend with a few words of advice for Liu Xiang.
I also asked her about pollution and, although she is now long-retired, I think her reply might still reflect the attitude of many of the top athletes coming to Beijing.
"Vicious cycle" of bike thefts
China has appealed to residents to take "green" transport ahead of the Olympics, casting the city's pledge to provide clean air and unclogged roads as a civic "duty".
I used to take green transport to work, cycling a round trip of 14 miles five days a week in the cooler months, and three days a week in the summer.
The open secret of doping in sport
Balazs Koranyi was an Olympic semi-finalist at the 1996 and 2000 Games for Hungary and since 2004 has been a Budapest-based correspondent, covering mainly political and business news. He will cover the Beijing Games for Reuters.
I was first offered performance-enhancing drugs in 1998, after breaking the Hungarian 800-metre record and making the European championship finals.
Olympic-sized "Guanxi"
It's not often that speeches by Chinese policy makers make you laugh, but that was certainly the case on Wednesday evening when Vice Premier Wang Qishan spoke to an audience of U.S. business leaders after two days of high-level economic talks in Washington.
Speaking off the cuff, Wang had the audience rolling as he delicately broached the subject of the negative publicity surrounding the Olympics, which reached a cresendo earlier this year when riots in Tibet sparked protests along the Olympic torch relay in cities such as London and Paris.
Should athletes be penalized for bad behaviour off the clock?
Disgraced Australian swimmer Nick D'Arcy is fighting to save his career and Olympic dream after being banned from the Australian team over an alleged bar room bashing of fellow swimmer Simon Cowley. The 21-year-old butterfly champ has expressed regret overhis actions and promised to stay away from alcohol but it has sparked a debate about whether athletes should be penalized in the pool or on the field for bad behaviour not related to their sport. Are athletes beyond reproach?
An annual survey of sports fans conducted for Sporting News found that a majority of the 1,500 participants — 62 percent of men and 63 percent of women — completely or mostly agreed that "more and more athletes today feel like they are above the law." About half of the 12-64 year olds polled — 52 percent of men and 49 percent of women — completely and mostly agree that "athletes are less accessible and approachable today than ever before".


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Associated Press The MV Savarona, one of the world's largest yachts, which was once used by Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Photograph: AP Update: In April 2011, Tevfik Arif was acquitted of all charges. A Kazakh businessman has denied
News reports say a Turkish court has handed down suspended sentences to four suspects accused of running a prostitution ring on one of the world's largest yachts...The 10 had been on trial since December, accused of "facilitating" and "encouraging"
Investigation Alexander Mashkevich, one of Jewish world's biggest philanthropists, suspected of organizing sex party on luxurious yacht seized by Turkish police. His lawyer denies allegations, but Yedioth Ahronoth reveals what really happened on
The late founder of modern Turkey met Cabinet ministers and hosted foreign envoys aboard the MV Savarona, one of the world's largest yachts, shortly before his death in 1938. Generations later, according to prosecutors, the luxury vessel played host
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Services for Kathryn Dear Pelham, 98, of Palestine, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Bailey & Foster Chapel with Dan Manuel officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Park. Arrangements are under the direction of Bailey & Foster.
Mrs. Pelham died Tuesday at Truecare Living Center.
She was born Feb. 22, 1915 in Alto to James Wilson and Willie Ann Fry Dear.
Mrs. Pelham was a member of the Crockett Road Church of Christ.
Mrs. Pelham was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Travis Pelham, in 1962; a sister, Pearl Dear; and three brothers, Roy Dear, Hanferd Dear and Joe Dear.
She is survived by her daughter, Janyth Wade and husband Jim of Jasper; one granddaughter, Nicole LaMasters; and two great-grandchildren, Will LaMasters and Wade LaMasters.
Pallbearers will be James R. Wade, Dwight Dear, Bob Stech, Robert Duzan, Phil Sybert and George Wooden.
Condolence calls will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Bailey & Foster Funeral Home.
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Title Red Flag – Tips For Real Estate InvestorPosted by: | Comments
As a real estate investor, the title insurance company you choose can make a big difference in the quality of your transactions. Be sure you have open lines of communication with your Title Officer so that you are able to get questions answered up front on any concerns you might have on your title report. Here are a few tips to help you familiarize yourself with the title report and some common items to scrutinize.
If you don't have a relationship with a title company, you are more than welcome to call me and I'll be happy to help you sort things out!
Review Your Title Report For 'Schedule A' Concerns
Policy Type: Ensure the Owner's policy on Schedule A is the proper form of policy per the Purchase and Sale.
Agreement: Example of policy types are Owner's Standard, Homeowner's or Owner's Extended.
Ownership: Ensure the vesting name matches your seller. If the seller is deceased, yet the title company does not vest in the estate of the deceased, look for a pending probate action as an exception to title. If there is not a probate, contact your title company to find out their requirements.
Legal Description: Ensure the legal description matches the map provided with the title report or with your Purchase and Sale Agreement.
Review Your Title Report For 'Schedule B' Concerns
Easements, agreements and restrictions should be reviewed by the Realtor, seller and buyer. Is there something listed your buyer can't live with? Does the property meet the needs for your buyer for the intended use? Ensure monetary exceptions appear to be correct. Are there valid outstanding Deeds of Trusts, judgments or liens?
Are their questionable judgments or liens that have identity concerns? Does the paragraph contain the words "question of identity"? If so, a Statement of Identity (or Identification Affidavit) will be provided and required to be submitted to the title company. Individuals with common names like Baker and Smith will often have questionable judgments attached to their name.
Is there a recorded survey as a note or exception to title? An encroachment concern may be recorded on the survey. A title company may require a survey be done depending on the type of coverage.
Is there an inspection paragraph to be cleared? A title company may require an inspection based on information found in an Exception.
Exceptions are cause for concern. Exceptions are exclusions of coverage.
Notes are for information only. There is no question on title.
About the author…
Since 1983 Elizabeth Peterson has provided her clients with a level of professionalism and expertise that sets her apart in the title industry. Her years of experience and commitment to client advocacy means Real Estate Agents, Lenders and Investors receive the support necessary to successfully close more transactions for buyers and sellers and refinance loans. If you are looking for a title and escrow partner you can count on, Elizabeth is here to help you provide your clients with the added measure of service so essential in today's competitive market. Elizabeth is a senior account manager at Chicago Title of Washington. She can be reached by phone at 206-618-6786 or send an email to: [email protected]
"REAPS is the oldest – and largest – Professional Association for the real estate investor this side of the Mississippi. We provide education and networking resources for real estate investors, those who want to be investors and anyone who provides value to our members. Our goals are to motivate and support our members and guests through education, discussion, legislative action and networking. We host over 40 live events a year around Puget Sound and they are all open to the public. If you've never attended one of our meetings, just email our office at [email protected] and be our guest for free!"
Perhaps our greatest achievement this year was making the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest Growing Companies. We ranked #398 overall, and #11 in the real estate category, measured by our growth between 2007 and 2010. Considering how housing prices peaked in 2006 before beginning their steady decline, it's no surprise that Fairplay by a phenomenal 857 percent during this time.
Fueling our growth was the increase in distressed property transactions, which we helped hundreds of our customers navigate successfully this year. These transactions are popular because they allow investors to purchase real estate at rock-bottom prices. As both a real estate company and a lending firm, Fairplay can purchase properties on our customers' behalf while arranging bridge loans on a very tight timeline. In some cases, we have put deals together in 24 hours. Bridge loans are an important part of the process, allowing clients to purchase distressed properties at auction, which requires cash on the spot. We also offer traditional mortgages, which come with a much lower interest rate. This transitional service gives our clients a huge advantage, as we can immediately begin the refinance process into a traditional mortgage.
As Fairplay has grown, we've also expanded our vision beyond the Northwest. We're currently conducting feasibility studies in Los Angeles County in California, Clark County in Nevada and Maricopa County in Arizona — all prime markets for distressed real estate that we plan to service in the future. To help achieve our goals, we've added a new executive team member: Realty Sales Manager Gary Gray. Gary is the former CEO of Mortgage Reduction Group, LLC, and spent years as a consultant to real estate upper management teams developing processes and refining business metrics. At Fairplay, Gary will perform many of these same tasks, helping us achieve our vision as we grow and expand.
This year, we will continue to host our Thursday new investor workshops, which introduce people to the basics of foreclosure investing. Also, our weekly Investor Café meets over drinks and appetizers to discuss investment strategies, home improvement, financing options, and "featured properties " selected for their investment potential. In addition to these regular events, we're holding two special classes. The first, titled "Maximizing Funds from Self-Directed IRAs," will show you how to easily diversify your retirement accounts beyond the stock market by using funds to invest in real estate, all while avoiding taxes. The second class, "What You Need to Know About Title," will address your questions about these legal documents that prove ownership of a property and often pose issues for the distressed property investor. I encourage anyone interested in learning more about the amazing potential in distressed real estate to give us a call or attend one of our investor meetings. All are free, as are our membership services, which include access to our exclusive database, online tools and personal coaching. We only charge a fee when you purchase one of our properties or borrow money.
As we wrap up another exciting year, I wish you and your clients tremendous success in real estate, and in life. Here's to a happy holiday season and a prosperous new year.
About the author…
Bill Widmer is the CEO and founder of Fairplay Financial, Inc., and its operating entities. He has 19 years of experience in finance, management, real estate sales, investment and development. He is also licensed as a loan originator and real estate agent in Oregon and Washington.
Doing Your First Deal – Understanding Commercial DealsPosted by: | Comments
"A" properties are the highest end, luxury properties, built in the last 10-15 years and in prime urban locations.
"B" properties are in mixed blue collar/white collar neighborhoods, and built 10-20 years
"C" properties are in primarily blue collar neighborhoods, and built 20-30
years ago.
"D" properties are in more marginal or war zones, more than 30 years old and typically functionally obsolete. They generally need a good deal of work to rehab or upgrade. As we discussed last month, Capitalization (Cap) Rates are used as a key measure of value in any commercial property. Cap Rates typically increase from A to D properties, with A
properties having the lowest cap rates and D properties the highest. Cap rates are a measure of risk.
Cap Rate = Net Operating Income/Purchase Price
Net Operating Income (NOI) is determined by subtracting all expenses other than financing costs (debt service) from Gross Annual Income, which is all revenue generated by the commercial property. Debt service, or the financing in place on a commercial property, comes into play when calculating Cash-on-Cash Return.
There is much to learn for the commercial investor, but these last two articles in Doing Your First Deal will help the novice investor get started with terminology and understanding value.
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I've been thinking about AC Transit's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) proposal and can't help but question its necessity. There are several factors at play that undermine the plausibility for this venture and are worth considering before moving forward.
AC Transit proposes numerous benefits to be had from this new service, including increased patronage, reduced global warming by getting people out of their cars, and speedier trip times.
All well and good, but what of the current system in place?
The streets being considered for BRT are the stretches of International Blvd and East 14th Street between Oakland and San Leandro. This is one of the busiest corridors in the Bay Area and is already being heavily serviced by AC Transit.
Along with the numerous buses that use various portions of this stretch of roads, there are two dedicated bus lines in the 1 and 1R. The R line, in particular, is touted on the AC Transit website for its use of "leading-edge technology and unique on-street improvements to reduce travel time."
Scheduling for the R claims to be approximately every 10 minutes, while the 1 claims to be every 15 minutes or so. Combined with the other lines sharing International and E.14th, and suddenly you're looking at a very well-serviced street.
Indeed, going a step further, if the tech on the R line is "leading-edge", what exactly more will BRT bring to the table, bleeding-edge technology? And if that's the case, why can't the new tech simply be added onto the currently existing buses to make their trips through intersections equally as fast?
One particularly key piece of information not included on the AC Transit website is that the buses follow their respective schedules inconsistently at best. It's very common to see the 1R show up in pairs of twos (and sometimes threes), followed by an incomprehensible lapse in service for 30-35 minutes, and beyond.
Calls to 511 to inquire about these odd delays and conga-lines of buses result in denials of knowledge of any inconsistencies and "technical issues". These are the same people coming to us with their hands out and promising faster trips.
Considering the number of BART stations running parallel to this proposed route between SL and Oakland, BRT becomes even more senseless. A dedicated line in the middle of the street might seem like a speedier way to get around, but nothing beats BART, especially when it doesn't have to ever stop for traffic lights. As long as you plan your departure from BART to sync with an AC Transit departure, you can already get to your destination in an efficient time frame.
Also, though less detrimental to San Leandro, the businesses running up and down International stand to lose quite a few customers by having parking in front of their storefronts removed. As recently documented by CBS 5, many business owners are fearful that forcing customers to find parking around the corner and walking all the way back to their stores will turn away a significent amount of shoppers. What's the point of marginally improving commute times and shuttering businesses?
Ultimately, BRT is an expensive proposition that doesn't significently reduce travel time and will add to street congestion by removing a lane for each direction of traffic. If AC Transit can't competently run the buses it already has, how can they be expected to make BRT work any better?
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A Highland Springs church is trying to spearhead efforts to fight violence and crime within the community. Those efforts were on display Aug. 7, when about 75 residents of Highland Springs gathered at Broken Bread Ministries church for the neighborhood's fourth National Night Out, presenting a unified front.
Broken Bread Ministries is a small church with an enormous heart, led by Pastor Geneva Alston, who has been with the church and lived in Highland Springs since 1995. Her hope is that NNO will spread knowledge to the community that there are resources available for families in need in order to combat violence and better themselves.
Vendors, live music, food, games, mustang clubs, local law enforcement agencies and citizens of Highland Springs were all part of the effort to show support for community involvement and awareness.
"I have been involved with the NNO for four years," said Alston. "This is our community, we've bought our homes, established ministries and churches and schools and we want people to be comfortable living at home and not worrying about who's going to kick their door open or stick them up. I just want to spread wisdom and correct some of the things in our neighborhoods."
National Night Out crime and drug prevention events have been taking place for the last 29 years sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch. Citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials gather to participate in events all across the country.
The neighborhood scout database lists Highland Springs at a 15 crime index, meaning that the area is only safer than 15 percent of the cities in the United States. There is a 69 percent chance of a violent crime taking place in Highland Springs. Nearby Sandston has a crime index of 61, while Glen Allen has a crime index of 45.
Index crimes are determined by eight crimes the FBI combines to produce its annual crime index and the offenses include willful homicide, forcible rape, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, larceny over $50, motor vehicle theft and arson.
Pockets of Highland Springs have had lingering crime problems. The community includes some subsidized housing units and lower-income areas. Citizens in Highland Springs have been trying to get other nearby neighborhoods and apartment complexes involved in their efforts to subdue crime but have run into roadblocks.
"The only difficulty is some of the apartment complexes won't allow you to come in and pass out your fliers and they're the ones that need it the most," said Alston.
Wendy Dennis, NNO coordinator for Broken Bread Ministries believes the event's focus should not be only on handling violence but also on putting the entire person back together. That is one of the reasons she invites a wide variety of companies to the table.
"Some of the other churches and other businesses and apartment complexes focus on just the violence but violence is the result of so many other social issues," said Dennis. "We're trying to put services together here to bring the family together and branch out and not focus on one specific need. We want to prevent things from happening because it's a trickle effect. Schools, businesses and families should know that they can come here. Although we are a church, we're people first, and this can be a safe haven."
NNO is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness, generate support and participation in local anticrime programs, strengthen neighborhood and police-community partnerships and most importantly send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are fighting back. There is currently no Neighborhood
Watch program set up in the Highland Springs area.
Henrico Fire Chief Edwin Smith was at the NNO event along with other local law enforcement representatives.
"We live in this community too; eat here, sleep here and answer the residents' calls," said Smith. "So why not be a part of it, because we are just as much invested in this community as everyone else. This gives us an opportunity to talk to people under calm conditions and I like for my firefighters to get out and show support."
Broken Bread Ministries officials believe that through NNO, the total community is becoming more aware of the issues in the neighborhoods and the resources available to stop them.
The program has proven to be effective as well as inexpensive and members of the Highland Springs community hope that it will promote a safer neighborhood and community involvement that extends beyond the one night.
Agencies combine on new entry point to Chickahominy
Canoeing and kayaking enthusiasts soon will have a new access point to the Chickahominy River. VDOT, the James River Association and Henrico County Parks and Recreation are teaming up to establish a new site in Eastern Henrico.
The James River Association negotiated the deal with VDOT to procure official access to the area located just east of I-295 on North Airport Road in Sandston. The site includes a park-and-ride commuter lot bordering the Chickahominy River and has been an unofficial launch site used by paddlers for years. > Read more.
Equestrian clinic planned July 7-8 in Henrico
Citizen Staff Reports 07/04/2014
Henrico equestrians interested in deepening the bond between themselves and their horses have the opportunity to attend a two day clinic, held at Steppin' High Stables on July 7-8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The clinic, "Become Partners with your Horse," will be taught by multiple world champion equestrienne Terry Preiser and will focus on how riders and horses can work together to achieve more. > Read more.
Henrico school bus driver honored
Citizen Staff Reports 07/03/2014
The Henrico-based Hephaestus Society recently awarded its first annual community heroes award (the Hephaestus Award) to Hicham Elgharouch (pictured, center) for what it termed his "selfless acts of caring" in his duties as a Henrico County Public Schools bus driver. Henrico County Director of Pupil Transportation Josh Davis, joined Hephaestus Society President Travis Gardner, in presenting the award and an accompanying $1,500 check to Elgharouch last month.
Elgharouch was selected for his clear and demonstrated patience and for his infectious positive attitude, according to the society. > Read more.
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One path to greater ipv6 adoption - make it the cool kids clubhouse of the internet (self.ipv6)
submitted 1 year ago by feoh
If you're thinking about starting a new service, why not make it ipv6 only? Sure, that would restrict the audience a good bit, but it would also help ipv6 reach that tipping point. The early adopters are getting there already, now we just need to reach into that next strata of users who won't bother switching just because they should but because they want access to the cool services on offer.
My home network is ipv6 capable now (Apple Airport Extreme makes that click and drool easy - automatic 6to4 tunnel!) and I'm finishing up getting my hobby domain IPV6 enabled as we speak.
Haven't decided what I'll host there yet :)
[–]alkw0ia 10 points11 points12 points 1 year ago
Because if no one can get to your service, no one will know to tell other people and make them jealous. You have to be popular to be desirable, and right now I don't think you can get popular with v6 only.
This is why you need something like what www.kame.net did, where they had the content for everyone, but blurred it in an annoying way to make you really want to see it "properly."
It's still probably not enough impetus to make major decisions about connectivity, though. And if you gate essential information and discussion behind IPv6 only (e.g. a professional network admin forum or something), it'll likely be a ghost town.
[–]pants6000 6 points7 points8 points 1 year ago
Who says it's not that already? Or to put it another way: Arrrrrrrrr!
[–]feoh[S] 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago
Yup the ipv6 only news servers are nice!
[–]eastsideski 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago
How about your pay service is free if you access it with ipv6?
[–]JoseJimeniz 3 points4 points5 points 1 year ago
Reddit is one of the internet's coolest hangouts - and it doesn't have any IPv6 support.
[–]feoh[S] 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
A lot of people have the attitude that ipv6 is some far flung, distant pipe dream. They don't HAVE to support it, so they don't.
[–]zainin 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
And the rest of us aren't allowed in the club, because our ISPs are less then enthusiastic about implementing IPv6? No, thanks.
[–]neojima 3 points4 points5 points 1 year ago
While IPv6 tunneling isn't completely brainless, it's also not rocket science.
[–]smeenz 9 points10 points11 points 1 year ago
But it also adds latency, and works against CDNs and other locally optimised data.
For example, I'm in Auckland, NZ, and www.google.co.nz (over ipv4) currently resolves to their Sydney, Australia node, which has a direct connection to my ISP in Auckland. I happen to know that my ISP also has a local google global cache (GGC) node, servicing IPv4 traffic, so data like google maps is served from drives sitting in their data centre.
If I use an IPv6 tunnel via sixxs, the nearest tunnel node is in Wellington, NZ, and from there connects to acsdata, vocus, and finally to google in Sydney. All of that is about 65ms away, compared with roughly 35ms to Sydney via IPv4.
In other words, it's twice as slow for me to use IPv6.
[–]alkw0ia 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
Happy Eyeballs should (at least attempt to) fix that sort of thing for you, even if you turn on a v6 tunnel. The direct peerings with your ISP, though, is something you'd lose.
[–]smeenz 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago
In my situation, all that would do is use IPv4 for everything except sites that are IPv6-only.
[–]neojima 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
More likely "everything with content CDN'd locally" -- your point stands, sadly.
In New Zealand, 99% of the internet is remote, and international transit is expensive, so local CDNs and other forms of caching are big business.
It doesn't for me, even though I have ~30ms v4 pings to YouTube and ~60ms pings to YouTube via v6.
Occasionally, Chrome will pick v4 for a site I know offers v6, but by and large, it uses v6 anyway. I presume it's only catching the worse network conditions and trying to make them better.
[–]smeenz 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
I'll rephrase that then, in my situation, all it SHOULD do is use IPv4 for things like youtube and other google content, since it's all held locally at my ISP. Going international for the content will hit the traffic shapers (where tunnelled ipv6 won't be prioritised over ipv4 http), and will be squashed by the contention rules on that link.
So is the ultimate problem that there are no v6 CDNs in NZ at all? Or no low cost v6 direct links to Sydney like your ISP has for v4?
Because on the surface it seems like the only hit you'd take is getting from Auckland to Wellington, at which point Sixxs should have similar access to caches and cheap links to what your v4 ISP has. Of course, if none of these resources exists for v6 in New Zealand, that just sucks.
[–]smeenz 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago*
Yeah, basically, NZ doesn't have any of that. There may be CDNs accessible via V6, but they're likely to be restricted to use by the customers of the ISP that hosts it. I used to spend my time chasing up akamai and other CDN providers when our users were screaming at us because they were hitting international nodes instead of the local ones.
[–]bittie 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago
I believe Chrome offers IPv6 a 300ms head start before using IPv4.
Thanks, that explains it. That's a pretty huge handicap.
[–]bittie 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago
I like the way Chrome does happy eyeballs. 300ms isn't really enough for a human to notice, but it's enough to drive more traffic over IPv6. Whereas Apple just chooses the first response, which most likely will be v4.
I agree, generally, and like that it pushes traffic over v6, but 300ms is more than enough to damage your user experience.
I'm actually a little surprised, because Chrome is usually obsessive about shaving milliseconds. I guess they figure that most of their v6 services will come in way under the 300ms head start.
Why wait for your ISP? I'm using a 6to4 tunnel myself. Works great!
[–]FliesLikeABrick 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
The point is that having desirable content on IPv6 drives users to push their ISPs for IPv6 support. This was part of the idea with ipv6experiment, back when it was still being planned and showed promise.
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Ravinia Festival has announced the creation of its free student orchestra program for children 8 to 12 years old, based on the successful El Sistema orchestral education model devised in Venezuela, which is a system of total immersion in music study. This new after-school orchestra under the banner of Sistema Ravinia will be created at Catalyst Circle Rock Charter School in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.
The official launch of the "Circle Rockets" took place at the school on October 25, when over 50 students receivd their new instruments, learned their first notes and performed their first concert.
"It's a terrific experience to put a musical instrument in a kid's hand, but even better when you see the music all over his face," said Ravinia Festival President and CEO Welz Kauffman. "It's part of Ravinia's mission to provide music training and education to children who otherwise may never have the chance to experience it."
Sistema Ravinia focuses on providing exceptional music training, creating a family of musicians and fostering social development. Students in the program will receive daily after-school ensemble and orchestral instruction in their chosen instrument. The festival already supports two student orchestras that were created at William G. Hibbard Elementary School in the Albany Park neighborhood in 2010 in conjunction with the Women's Board of Ravinia Festival and People's Music School of Chicago.
Circle Rock students have already been involved in a variety of activities prior to the launch to prepare them for their new endeavor. At the end of the 2011-12 school year, Circle Rockets traveled to Hibbard Elementary to enjoy an orchestral performance and were able to interact with seasoned students and ask questions about the existing program at that school. In turn, Hibbard Elementary brought their student orchestra to Catalyst Circle Rock Charter School to perform for Circle Rock students and their families. The Ravinia Women's Board hosted Hibbard and Circle Rockets students and parents at the festival for a Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert in July. Prior to the concert, kids took part in the festival's "instrument petting zoo," where they could try out instruments to find their favorites. Ravinia staff members also visited Circle Rock to assist in painting a new mural for their practice room.
Ravinia Festival connects music to thousands of families around Chicago through multi-tiered education programs beyond Sistema Ravinia, including a family music school in Lawndale, in-school training of teachers and students in public schools, and the Chicago-wide music appreciation program One Score, One Chicago. These programs, under the banner REACH*TEACH*PLAY, serve more than 75,000 people throughout the region. For more information visit Ravinia.org.


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This year we are reorganizing the media center and trying to organize the database for Koha so that it looks better. This will be a long process that will only be accomplished with small steps along the way.
Last week, I went to Shaktoolik. I uploaded a bunch of books and got them processed and set up for their students. I just went into the OPAC and looked at recent arrivals for Shaktoolik. Each of the books show up just as they should. Their location has their school abbreviation and shelving location. Their ISBN's don't have anything extra so their pictures show up like they should. It seems funny, but just seeing that these records work like they should give me the energy to work on the older records and make them look better.
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Candidates wishing to file for positions on local city councils, school boards, drainage district, water districts and the port and navigation district may begin filing for places on the ballot on Wednesday, Jan. 29. The filing period ends Friday, Feb. 28. Early voting for the election period is from Monday, April 28 through May 6, 2014. Election Day is Saturday, May 10.
City of Orange
An election will be held for the Single Member District 3 seat, currently held by Essie Bellfield, as well as the at-large seat for Position 6, which is held by Charles Guillory. Candidates seeking the District 3 must reside within the district, while any Orange resident may file as a candidate for Position 6.
People interested in filing may contact City Secretary Rhonda Haskins at 409-883-1042 for more information.
City of West Orange
Three councilmembers have terms expiring in the City of West Orange this year.
Seats held by councilmembers Shirley Bonnin, Dale Dardeau and Mike Shugart will be open for filing beginning Wednesday. The seats are at-large position and any West Orange resident may file.
Also, the city will have the re-authorization of the its 0.25 percent tax dedicated for street maintenance on the ballot this year, and five charter amendments which council approved for placement on the ballot during Tuesday's city council meeting.
Call Theresa Van Meter at 409-883-3468 for more information.
City of Pinehurst
The City of Pinehurst will most likely have a change to its council this May as one candidate has announced he will not seek re-election.
Terms are expiring for Mayor Joseph "Pete" Runnels, as well as councilmen John D. Zerko and Ron Cowling Sr. All positions are at-large.
Call the city secretary at 409-886-3873 for more information.
City of Bridge City
Four positions are open for filing in Bridge City this year.
Seats currently held by Mayor Kirk Roccaforte, and councilmembers Mike Reed, Place 2; Eric Andrus, Place 4; and Danny Cole, Place 6, will be open for filing beginning today.
Call Sherry Tisdale, city secretary, at 409-735-6801 for more information.
City of Vidor
Vidor residents have elected many new faces to the city council over the past three years, and, this year, three seats are open for filing.
Terms are expiring for councilmembers Jay Odom, Ward 2; Jason Woodard, Ward 3; and Gary Herrera, Ward 5. Potential candidates may call Vicki Watson, city secretary, at 409-769-5473 for more information.
City of Rose City
Information for the City of Rose City was not immediately available due to the approaching winter weather system.
City of Pine Forest
Information for the City of Pine Forest was not immediately available due to the approaching winter weather system.
West Orange-Cove CISD
The West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District will have two seats available for filing on the Board of Trustees this year.
At-large positions currently held by board members Tony Dallas and Andrew Hayes are open for filing. Interested residents of the school district may contact Bonnie Tegge at 409-882-5500 for more information.
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Consolidated Independent School District will have two seats available for filing starting this week. Seats currently held by Randy McIIwain, Position 1, and Marlene Courmier, Position 3, are open for filing.
Call Lisa Ludwig at 409-883-2232, Ext. 2320 for more information.
Bridge City ISD
Only two seats are up for filing this election year at Bridge City ISD.
Terms are expiring for Trustees Michael C. Johnson, Place 6, and Mark Anderson, Place 7, this year. Interested candidates may contact Jean Magnuson at 409-735-1511 for more information on filing.
Vidor ISD
Residents of the Vidor Independent School District have elected several new members to the school board since 2011, and two of those seats which started the big changeover are up for election this year.
Seats held by Kimberly Crossley and Michael Helms, Position 6 and Position 7, respectively, are open for filing to Vidor ISD residents. Interested candidates by contact Debbie Munoz at 409-951-8714.
Several other local districts, which have elected officials, will hold elections this May as well. These districts hold elections every two years, in even numbered years, and terms are for four years.
Orange County Navigation and Port District
Three positions on the Orange County Navigation and Port District's board are up for filing this year.
Seats held by Jerry Hughes, at-large, Keith Wallace, Precinct 1, and John Young, Precinct 4 are expiring. Interested candidates may call 409-883-4363 for information.
Orange County Drainage District
Three positions on the Orange County Drainage District's board are open for filing as terms expire for Bill Dixon Sr., Precinct 1, and Karl Stephenson, Precinct 3, as well as the Director at-large seat held by Brent Peveto.
Potential candidates may call 409-745-3225 for more information.
Orange County Water Control and Improvement Dist. 1
Orange County Water Control and Improvement District 1 has three seats up for election this spring. The at-large seats are currently held by Billy Perkins, Robert Viator and Tim Beard. Call 409-769-2669 for more information.
Orange County Water Control and Improvement Dist. 2
Information for Orange County Water Control and Improvement District 2 was not immediately available due to approaching winter weather system.


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Well, so much for Fitzgerald's promise they wouldn't do this:
In a brief meeting that lasted barely five minutes, Wisconsin Republicans appear to have jammed through the union-busting, anti-collective-bargaining provision that has been the focus of the protests and political turmoil in the state for the past month.
Here, as best we understand it, is what just happened:
The Republican leadership convened a special conference committee late in the day to take up the collective bargaining provision only, separate and apart from the budget bill it was a part of. By a vote of 4-2, the conference committee just approved sending the union-related provisions alone to the floor of each chamber.
And here's the key part: Because it's no longer part of a budget bill, the collective bargaining provision can now get a final vote in the Senate with or without the Senate Democrats who fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum. It renders their protest-by-absence moot.
Jude's in the Capitol, so follow him here. I hope this doesn't send things south, but honestly? I mean, tell me what to say here. Tell me what words to give you because I've got nothing.
So much for Fitzgerald's promises in general, and the word of anybody, and fuck all these people. I wish I had something more articulate right now, but they're bastards, and not that we didn't know this, but just keep it in mind in the future. They're bastards. That's what they are, and they should never, ever, be able to kid anybody that this is any different.
Let me ask, though, if everything's solved now. If everything's fixed. If everybody's gonna be rich now, and nobody's going to have to worry, and we're all gonna be okay. Because the way they sold this, the way they did this, if you're gonna play that card you better have everything on the table. Don't do it for nothing. Don't do it to win one hand. You'd better be damn sure you're gonna take it all, you're gonna do this.
So tomorrow, probably, or the day after, Wisconsin should be rich. Manufacturing jobs should come back by the score. Those schoolteachers, now that they know their places, will begin turning out class after class of geniuses, unburdened by union thuggery and other such nonsense. Every public worker will now work twice as hard, since the distractions of dignity and decency have been taken away. Once you slash everybody's salaries and make everybody beg, each on his own, Wisconsin can just settle down and start kicking all the unkicked ass that's just been waiting for precisely this solution.
And if that isn't the case? Well, then I guess we have some questions to ask. I guess we have some discussions to have, about what happens when you promise you need something to get things done, and those things don't get done. I guess we have some motherfucking petitions to sign, and you bet your bottom dollar every dollar I can spare is going to those folks, and I'll be raising money every which way until you all are sick and tired of being bothered, because you know and I know that this isn't going to do a damn thing to fix any of the problems that exist.
But hey, the Republicans won, so I guess that should make all the unemployed feel warm and cozy at night.


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[The following letter was submitted by Joel Saslaw on behalf of Peabody Readers Youth Football.]
On behalf of the Peabody Raiders Youth Football & Cheering we would like to congratulate Mark Bettencourt on his new position as the Head Coach of the Peabody Veterans Memorial High School Football Team.
As we enter our fourth year, we look forward to working closely with Coach Bettencourt and his staff on their goals and to also continue the pride and respect in Peabody football.
With four Super Bowl championships in our brief existence, we know that the desire our our players, parents, and coaches leaves no questions about the future success that lies ahead for Peabody Tanners football.
We hope our Raiders program will be a feeder system for Coach Bettencourt and the Tanners for years to come.
Good luck and we look forward to their 2013 season!
The Peabody Raiders Executive Board of Directors


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About Me
This seems a strange way to start a Blog as its about my private business thoughts and history , but it might be of interest to you.
Of course You will have to excuse my grammar , when i say "I" in this Blog , I really mean "We" as without my wife's help and support I would not have been able to try or do many of these projects
Blogging your way to Internet success…
The continuing saga of the search for the Holy Grail of businesses
My name is Steve Blakesley and i can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com
I have been thinking about my introduction, should it be
Bright? , Witty? Informative? Honest? What would you like? OK what about the truth? YES that's it, so fingers crossed I do hope you enjoy.
I came from a modestly poor back ground, brought up in London in the fifties which was a magical time.
I had a great child hood, as a family we were always short of money though, no holidays, no car, very few treats, I have no idea why, my mum and dad both worked, and I was the only child at home, both my older brother and sister were both married.
This is where I think my search for wealth came from, as other children brought in their new shoes ,pens ,books, toys etc, the need for me to find a way to make money was instilled in me, I wanted material things to, There were many time i had to cut out cardboard inserts for my shoes as the had holes in the soles.
I will share with you very briefly some of the business and ideas I have been involved in over the last forty years.
As far back as I can remember I have had ideas popping into my head, luckily I did not suffer from procrastination, or fear of failure, and I was always prepared to put my arse on the line so to speak.
As the years wore on it became like a quest for finding the Holy Grail of business, like an itch you could never scratch always there never relenting.
I remember thinking if there are others like me out there and if there was and they did procrastinate, or had the fear of failure they would be going mad or heading for a breakdown, or even worse the nut house was waiting for them, if they had these ideas and never acted on any of them.
I remember thinking I must treat this like a gift.
Actually it started before then I was about seven when I sold my cricket bat to my auntie for 2/6p, nice lady, I recon she felt sorry for me, then I have a recollection of selling a junior set of snooker balls and a squeeze box to the second hand shop, don't ask I have no clue where I got them from.
I also remember playing cards for pennies with my parents and brother (he was a lot older) and his wife on Sundays, I loved to win, as I never had any pocket money, funny how you pick things up quickly when you need to.
What purpose are we here for I asked myself constantly when I was younger, it was a hollow feeling, and I felt like great things were about to happen to me.
The years flew by and I look back at things I should have done and never did (not many thank god), although I was ridiculed when younger, things were said like oh not another bright idea, although when I con fronted these people latter in life, they changed their story to I always knew you would make it.
But with all of my achievements and as the years fog over things I regret one thing, I should have made a journal to keep it all fresh, these thoughts and deeds would have kept it fresh, these previous thoughts and deeds would have answered many of my own questions later on.
I will reveal many secrets to you though this blog, will you be smart enough to see them? OK imagine this scenario ,I have no money (broke) but I do have an idea , I am scared I will fail, so I have a choice be scared and broke, or do it and be well paid?
YOU MUST ALL OVER COME FEAR OF REJECTION AND FAILURE; it is the biggest demon out there.
I never had any capital (ever) honestly, do you know how frustrating that is, OK my business background very quickly I will try not to bore you, at about sixteen years of age, I approached a local publican I knew and asked if I could site a shell fish stall outside the front of his pub for free! , he agreed, I ended up with three.
I built the stalls myself from 2 x 2 and ply wood storing them in the yard at the back of the pub, for the stock I travelled a few miles to Billingsgate fish market and bought my produce (I would never have swooped this experience for anything, it was an amazing atmosphere in the markets, the smells the hustle and bustle, even the journey there at 4 am was a delight.
Between all the businesses I dabbled in and studied let me share with you what I did for a living in between, Firstly at Fifteen I started work in a factory in the machine shop on the lathes, so boring, and it showed as the factory manager moved me into the maintenance department, this was terrific as I could wonder the factory floor whenever I liked.
The thing is coming from a poor background, not well educated, and not being taught good business practices etc, I was always on a sticky wicket, my problem was never about making money but holding on to it, making it grow, using it wisely.
No one told me about goal setting, no one taught me marketing,if anyone needed the Internet then it was me, if only!
It would have helped having a mentor yes, or having a family that encouraged reading books, but it's no good dwelling on this as this was not the case.
Anyway I had many jobs picking up skills and knowledge on the way, here are some of the many of the things I did.
Video boom
During my early years it used to come into my head, I will find a niche market and make loads of money and change my life, Video films was it, I got in at the very start.
No great detail here as this is a long story as I started with £29 and two borrowed videos and built it into six shops and yes it did change my life, it was the power of attraction at work, and I never knew what the hell what that was .
I sold up about three years before satellite TV, probably two years to early.
Party plan
This was one of my first really profitable businesses , and in some ways wish I had carried it further, and can be applied to many things, so if you have products you want to move on its not a bad way of getting into the market place.
I went to the east end of London and purchased some women's and children's fashion Garments (hey I had my girlfriend with me before you think anything).
I placed adds in the local paper for people to hold a clothes
party , once at the party I recruited more agents to do the parties for me , on commission , I also got more booking for more parties, and I always got them, so I had no need to advertise further.
I had three agents before I sold the business on.
Wine bar restaurant
A really funny thing happened while I was concentrating on expanding my video business a property details dropped though my letter box.
I viewed it, although it was not suitable for a video ship it was ideal for a wine bar, again I will not go into great detail how I set up this wonderful business up.
But opening night was one of the proudest moments ever, as I took my dad to the project before I began it. His word's were OMG what have you done now! To see his face on opening night and hear his admiration will be with me forever, he was so proud.
I had converted a 14th century listed building into something very special, 18 months later I sold it for six times what it had cost me, my mistake was not rolling the money over and doing it again .
I went into the taxi business,when living near Gatwick Airport I saw a great opportunity to start a private hire company, I leased 3 cars did my marketing and within a year had 33 cars 29 of which were mine, sounds great huh?
Let me tell you how hard it is keeping those cars on the road not only are you at the mercy of the staff and there strange quirks, because these guys do not treat a car as their own.
On top of that the costs of keeping the cars on the road the mechanics, insurance etc.
In fact I have started the taxi business twice in different area of the country and both times made money, however this is not a business I would do again.
Also while at Gatwick with the amount of hotels in the area , I thought I might get into the wholesale fruit and veg market, supplying the hotels, this is harder than I thought and only lasted a few weeks, as the chef's had their own agenda and that was not always the price or quality of the produce, enough said I think.
Then going back a few years I saw an opening in the potpourri market, I got hold of an electric cement mixer, found a wholesaler who sold the various component mixes for the potpourri and then found a place where to by the essence .
I put them all in the mixer and bagged them up and sold them at the market, not a great earner but I made a profit.
The golf magazine
Of course there is my nephew ( he is a fleet street photo journalist) unfortunately he also has the family genes for searching for the holy grail of business as well , not quite so bad , unfortunately he does procrastinate ,and has the fear element.
In fact he should have a site teaching people how to be photo journalist as this is very lucrative, and he has introduced and trained at least six people to it from various backgrounds from the unemployed labourer to a plumber, so if any of you agree with me and think he should do something about setting up a teaching site let me know
Anyway he and I put together a dummy sports magazine and actually went to pitch it to the publishers, quite amazing really as we did it in two days , they wanted to go ahead, we did not the cost for us was prohibitive , but this was a great lesson as it showed me that doors can be opened with just a fragment of an idea, the only thing was making the first call.
Other Businesses I started
Bureau DE Change
Pawn Shop
Buying and selling Gold
Forex Market
Buying and selling Mobile Phones
Property Investing (using no money down),
Antiques Shop,
Market Trading,
Importing electrical goods
Guest House,
Ice Cream Kiosk.
Introducer for overseas property investment
Wedding Cars (Rolls Royce)
Public houses
Fish and chip restaurants
And a few others
The ones I missed
My biggest regrets , not many but pretty big ones I think, I used to go to my local butchers to get flavoured ribs and chicken BBQ , sweet and sour etc, I asked him how he got them he showed me big sacks of powder which when mixed with the meat marinated them, and old me this was the only way to buy the product,
Now remember this was way before anyone had any sauces out in the supermarkets, I thought I should buy some sacks and re package them unto resalable packets to sell to the public, four years later someone did………..ouch
I was in Hong Kong sourcing some Tiffany light shades and other products , and came across some roller skates with one blade I thought hey these look good , I brought back some samples ,with the idea of touting them round the wholesalers and toy shops, taking orders and getting a container sorted out.
Guess what i did? yep a little bit of procrastination you could even call it laziness anyway it crept in ,and promptly left them under the stairs on my return and did absolutely Nothing.
Two years yes two years later these roller blades were in every toy shop….Ouch
Well this one was not really a miss more an unfortunate misconception , and a me not worrying and hassling the bureaucrats , the story is a couple of decades ago at Poole Quay the parking was free , i approached the harbour authorities asking to takeover the responsibility for the parking on the quay, they replied great idea but we are going to negotiate with local authority to do something similar,and i left it there.
What i should have done was kept chasing them or offered a short term option , as it took 3 years for them to get there act together, just think how much money i could have made, Ouch.
In the early 1980′s night clubs were making fortunes, remember back then we had restrictive licencing laws, anyway we found a building got the lease sorted finance in place, we went to licencing , then something out of left field happened , the solicitor never tied up the lease he put into the negotiations that it was subject to licencing whether we proceeded or not, even though we instructed him not to this, we were gazumped the on the day we got the licence in place, by a company that wanted to make plastic flowers of all things , Ouch
I can quite see how local councils get so much critasiam though thier general lack of business acumin, and there lathargic interpretation of time, as in business time is money , in the council time does not matter as the rate players will pay in the end , so whats the rush.
All though my life I have used the power of attraction without even knowing I was using it, not knowing of its exist stance, what it was, until quite recently, now of course there are many great teachers, people who know how to use this amazing tool to its full potential.
Let me tell you, try it, 100% GUARANTEED TO WORK EVERY TIME, come closer let me whisper….
You can have anything you wish for, yes anything, wealth, education, love, travel, health, yes a great gift, and we all have it! a universal gift ,Achievers are believers ,but enough of this I am not here to teach you this stuff, so back to the beginning I got a little distracted there.
Hey you might think I am a little crazy but I have travelled the world had fun and learnt a great deal.
What do I do now? What is my latest adventure? well I have been doing it for about 18 months and it works well, I made money from day one, it requires little work, and leaves me time for other projects
I will not tell you what my latest business is, you will have to buy it (laughing) tell you one thing you will make money with it.
I am going to carry on my adventure in this blog if you want to keep up Just click here for when I post my updates and I will inform you.
I have so much more to tell especially about what I found out about the Internet that only took me six years to suss it out, well not really how can you suss something that is UN sussable ,this was a real quest and as I have never failed at any business , this Internet thing was bugging me big time, but i will tell you one thing the Money is in the List!
Couple of things going on at the moment I am in the throws of trying to set up a new supply of foreign currency , this is a tough one but am close.
Secondly i am talking to a couple of TV production companies about a new TV show , about starting up in business with very little or any resources or capital, i will keep you informed.
Its really hard to explain to them that the kurgerand, ring , gold watch etc, which they bought 10/20 years ago as an investment , is actually worth less than when they purchased it, but they then argue that they read that the price of precious metal has never been so high, so how can it be worth less!
I then have to explain as they paid retail price when they purchased the item, and the Jeweler put his mark up on which could be as much as 300%, as the item may well be in his window for years before any mug , Oops person wanted to buy it or it may even be on sale or return.
And of course when they come to sell it they only get scrap value unless they can sell it privately or its insured and it gets stolen or lost , then they can claim the replacement value
My Tip is always buy Gold second Hand at scrap value, never buy Silver , as i have said before IMO the best investment is wine
In the mean time why not sign up for my news letter at the top of the page for more info on my amazing journey , as i have much more to tell.
Wow this seems strange , i have'nt been able to access my pages for a very long time due to a fault on my pages , so much to write and do
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UCLA quarterback to miss two months
Out again: Olson breaks foot
His two previous seasons cut short by injury, UCLA quarterback Ben Olson has begun his final season in Westwood with yet another cruel break.
The Thousand Oaks High graduate broke the fifth metatarsal in his right foot for the second time in five months during UCLA's fifth day of fall practice, X-rays confirmed Sunday.
The redshirt senior will be sidelined for at least two months, which would mean he would miss a minimum of five games, including the season opener against Tennessee and the Sept. 13 trip to Brigham Young, his former school.
It is at least the fifth serious injury in Olson's three-year UCLA career. A decision on whether he will have surgery is expected to be made in a few days.
Olson has begun the past two seasons as the starting quarterback and UCLA is 7-3 in his 10 starts, but the left-hander tore a knee ligament in the fifth game against Arizona in 2006 and missed five games last year with a concussion and partially torn ligaments in his left knee.
Combined with the torn knee ligament that ended the UCLA career of former starter Patrick Cowan in spring practice, Olson's latest injury leaves the Bruins with four inexperienced options at the quarterback position.
Only junior Osaar Rasshan, who completed 17 of 45 pass attempts last season, has taken a snap in a UCLA uniform, although Mount San Antonio College transfer Kevin Craft started five games for San Diego State in 2006, completing 69 of 121 passes for 737 yards, four touchdowns and six interceptions.
Craft and redshirt freshman Chris Forcier are expected to compete for the Bruins starting job.
USC and Washington have also suffered injuries to starting quarterbacks Mark Sanchez and Jake Locker, respectively, in the past week.
UCLA opens its season at home against Tennessee on Sept. 1.
— The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A beagle named Brandi survived a 70-foot fall from a New Jersey bridge.
The dog got away from its owner during a walk along the Burlington Riverfront Promenade Friday night.
Bridge officer Rob Bittner saw Brandi walking up the Burlington-Bristol Bridge toward Pennsylvania.
Bittner tells The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill he turned on his emergency lights to slow traffic and followed the dog. Bittner says Brandi was doing fine until she got to the top of the span and her paws felt a steel grate.
The officer says Brandi jumped into the Delaware River as motorists tried to grab her.
The beagle's owner recovered her and took her to a veterinarian. Brandi was bruised around the abdomen, but didn't have any broken bones.
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