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Retail sales statistics for March should be released by NPD Funworld to its customers after the close of the stock market tomorrow. In anticipation, industry analysts from investment firms around the United States are chiming in with their predictions today.
Michael Pachter and Edward Woo of Wedbush Morgan Securities and Boris Markovich of TerraNova Institutional have upbeat views on the industry and on many companies, although they occasionally conflict.
TerraNova's analysts write that "we expect monthly sales for Majesco, Take-Two, THQ, and Activision to be up over 25 percent year on year. We expect an increase for Atari, a flat month for Electronic Arts and a down month for Midway."
On the other hand, Wedbush analysts predicted the following March results:
--Atari is expected to deliver $13 million in sales, up 8 percent.
--Electronic Arts' sales will be $85 million, down 1 percent.
--Majesco sales will be $3 million, up 152 percent.
--Take-Two will deliver $18 million in sales, flat with last year.
--THQ's sales should be $30 million, up 6 percent.
Despite their conflicting views on some companies, both firms expect overall sales growth. In 2004, total March sales of video games reached $414 million. Sales in February 2005 were up 9 percent over the previous year, and both Wedbush and TerraNova are predicting similar growth for March.
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An interesting note in TerraNova's predictions was its strong buy rating for Majesco, which
"Video game publishing accounts for a little more than 50 percent of the company's revenue base. Over the next several quarters, Majesco will have a number of frontline and value titles released. Based on the strength of the frontline titles in the next several quarters, we believe that our FY05 expectations for the video game business may prove conservative. We identify five drive titles in FY05 which have the potential to perform beyond the company's expectations, driving revenues and margins: Psychonauts, Advent Rising, Jaws, Aeon Flux and Infected."
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Re: The "binder" issue! Any intelligent person realizes the missing word was "resumes." To twist this is stupid distortion.
The government can only create government jobs. Government-funded projects (construction) are temporary jobs and these are the jobs President Barack Obama is talking about. The private sector creates permanent jobs and these are Mitt Romney's jobs.
Obama will only hurt businesses with his taxes. Romney plans to make or change regulations/laws to enable big and small businesses create these jobs and at the same time limit foreign competition.
What is Obama's plan? Why hasn't he done anything?
Constant bashing of Romney like the Obama ads deflects the facts that Obama has done nothing in four years to help this economy, jobs, imports from China, deficit or anything.
Obama is all words and no action. He is saying the exact same things he said four years ago. His bashing is deflecting people from thinking about his record.
Making the wealthy pay more will not reduce the deficit. If we took all the money from all millionaires and billionaires, it may only come to $1 trillion, will not affect the $15-trillion debt. What would happen without the wealthy supporting jobs? Historically, giving government more money only allows the government to spend more. It won't reduce the devaluation of the dollar caused by the deficit.
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If you've suffered as a spectator at cricket grounds in Pakistan, you might be tempted to make a case that international cricket should not return to the country. For even without the terror factor, Pakistan's cricket authorities lack the ability to stage matches at a standard that could be described as "international".
The stands are dusty, ramshackle, and uncomfortable. Crowd management is inefficient and insensitive. Food arrangements are just about adequate, while toilet facilities are abominable. There isn't a culture of observing queues and the authorities are too indifferent to enforce it. The sale and distribution of tickets, typically outsourced to branches of local banks, is needlessly disordered. And car parking and traffic coordination are customarily chaotic. It is no small mercy that the national team is an exciting one, and once inside the arena you invariably pick up great memories. But getting in and out in one piece is an ordeal.
On top of all this, there is the terror threat. Three years have passed since the horrific attack in Lahore - years that Pakistani fans have spent willing the incident into becoming an insignificant spot in the national rear-view mirror. But when you start thinking about it, you realise the wound is still raw.
Most disturbing is the possibility of what might have happened that day. As the bus carrying the Sri Lankan team sped away, the militants launched a rocket aiming for its fuel tank. What if that rocket hadn't missed? The answer chills the bone and scrambles the mind.
The terrorists behind the Lahore attack were eventually caught and killed, but that had nothing to with the ineffectual investigation that had ensued. In fact, more than two years after the Lahore attack, the same group staged a brazen assault on a major naval base in Karachi, that embarrassed and humiliated Pakistan's military brass. It was only last December that the police force finally reached them, tracing them to a hideout where they were holding a wealthy industrialist to ransom. Computer materials in their possession revealed that they had also been behind the Gaddafi Stadium episode.
There is no question that the lack of international cricket in Pakistan is a tragedy, but it hasn't been the unmitigated disaster that it threatened to be at one point. Many observers were initially concerned that without teams visiting from abroad, cricket in Pakistan would die. But there are no signs of that happening; nor has it ever happened elsewhere, in fact. Sri Lanka and South Africa both endured a prolonged drought of international cricket at home, with each resuming seamlessly when those chapters came to a close.
If anything, interest in cricket these days in Pakistan is at fever pitch. People have been stimulated by the astonishing Test whitewash over England, as well as agitated by the patchy show in the limited-overs games. Team selection is hotly debated, batting merits and demerits are dissected, spinners and seamers provoke endless arguments, and a passionate love-hate relationship has evolved with captain Misbah-ul-Haq. Now the Asia Cup has everybody engrossed, with the upcoming match against India becoming the primary focus of national attention.
More than anything else, Pakistan's cricket mood follows the team's fortunes, and the team and its supporters have all been basking in the warmth of a heartening revival, going back more or less to the start of the 2010-11 Asian season.
|There is no question that the lack of international cricket in Pakistan is a tragedy, but it hasn't been the unmitigated disaster that it threatened to be at one point. Many observers were initially concerned that without teams visiting from abroad, cricket in Pakistan would die. But there are no signs of that happening
As for neutral turf, it has hardly been a liability. Since 1999, Pakistan have played 16 Tests at neutral venues (one each in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, two in England, and 12 in the UAE), winning eight and losing four, for a win-loss ratio of 2.00. Over the same period, Pakistan's win-loss ratio has been 1.75 on home soil (from 33 Tests), and 0.73 at the home of the opposition (from 65 Tests). This is not to argue that Pakistan should keep playing in neutral venues, but to make the point that by no means have neutral venues been a detriment for them.
When Zaka Ashraf, the PCB chairman, took office last October, he said the resumption of international cricket in Pakistan was his foremost priority. It struck many as an unrealistic and even misplaced claim, but Ashraf was determined to deliver, and he reached out to Mustafa Kamal, his counterpart at the Bangladesh Cricket Board, for a strategic partnership. The arrangement may have been founded on a set of bartered favours - including an implicit agreement to nominate Kamal to the vice-presidency of the ICC - but that can only be considered par for the course in such matters. The ICC approved tacitly, coming up with a special dispensation to let the tour proceed with "non-neutral" umpires and officials, should neutral folks feel queasy about visiting Pakistan. But Kamal, rationally, has declined to go ahead with the tour if the ICC isn't fully on board.
Bangladesh's reluctance makes sense, because terrorism as a problem in Pakistan remains alive and well. Scores of militants are scattered across the country, hell-bent on harming Pakistani people and national interests. Cricket's enormous popularity and outsized profile in Pakistan would make this home series another natural target.
Pakistan's interior ministry keeps making glib statements about foolproof security arrangements, but so far they have nothing to show that would inspire much confidence. All corners of the land continue to be victimised by terrorism, usually in the form of suicide bombings by crazed fanatics, but also increasingly through group executions by masked gunmen. This reality flies in the face of the government's spin on security. Nothing would be better than the peaceful return of international cricket to Pakistani shores. But a pre-requisite for that is that peace itself should come back. We are still waiting for that to happen.
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Like so many others in Spokane, in the spring I go down to pay my respects to the river. Fed by snowmelt and rain, the Spokane River swells and grows and becomes, seemingly overnight, a powerful monster roaring through the canyon it has chewed through solid basalt.
This dramatic sight draws people of all ages and the spectacle takes your breath away. Water spills over the falls, churns, boils and foams sending curtains of fine mist, droplets of water that ride the wind, coating the bridges, paths and spectators before it rushes on, making its way to fill the aquifer that quenches this thirsty land.
This year, with so much snow and rain falling so late in the season, the river is at its wildest, just under flood stage. We were there on Saturday afternoon and we walked along the path to the viewing platform at the base of the Monroe Street Bridge. That is one of my favorite places to see the falls and feel the incredible power. The land drops away at the edge of the rail, the ground vibrates and the sound makes conversation difficult. We stood for a few minutes admiring the view and taking photos before we strolled up another block to the Post Street Bridge.
From there I noticed a group of boys on bicycles ride down to the place we'd just been. Gathering at the rail, they were roughhousing as boys of that age do, pushing, punching, shadowboxing as they peered down at the water. Suddenly, one of the boys climbed up and dropped over the rail in one fluid motion, landing on the deceptively thin layer of spongy soil covering the slick rocks abutting the concrete arch of the big bridge. He moved to the edge of the steep slope that plunges down to the raging water.
My heart slammed against my ribs and I heard myself make an instinctive, involuntary, sound like a frightened animal. I was terrified he would slip at any minute. The ground was still soaked from days of rain and there was nothing to reach out and grab if he lost his footing. And the river, always dangerous, is completely unforgiving at this stage. Whatever falls into it is quickly gone forever.
I looked for my husband but he was out of sight. I raised my phone to call 911, sure that if I took my eyes off the boy he would be gone when I looked up, but at that moment one of his friends must have called him back because he turned and just as quickly hopped back to safety.
"Oh, you stupid boy." I whispered. "You stupid, lucky, boy."
The group stayed another few minutes—long enough for me to snap a photo—and then hopped back on their bicycles and moved on, off to swagger and impress one another in other ways, I suppose.
I finally walked away but I was still trembling.
I keep replaying the scene in my mind, thinking how one wrong step could have changed everything, but I doubt the boy has given it a second thought.
I know this is nothing new.
When my children were that age they laughed at my constant worry. They thought I was simply overprotective, but the truth is, I was unhinged. They had no idea how many dangers there were outside our door and I suppose I believed if I could think of it and warn them against it (whatever it was) I could somehow protect them. New fears would hit me in the middle of the night. What if… What if… What if…
At that age—adolescence and early adulthood—we are vulnerable because we have not yet developed an awareness of just how fragile we truly are. Age, experience, and exposure to the shocking misfortune of others gradually brings on the understanding that at any given moment any of us is fair game to tragedy. Terrible things can happen when we least expect it.
Eventually, wisdom—and with it a greater chance of survival—comes with the understanding that the reckless make themselves better targets. So most of us grow cautious, careful. Some of us become worried mothers and fathers, nagging our children to take care.
Perhaps one day, when he is a man and he's watching a teenage son drive away, the same lucky boy will remember the day the river didn't get him and he'll call out, "Hey, don't do anything stupid!"
But his boy will not look back, and the words will roll off his back like the clean, cool, spray from a waterfall.
Note: The group of boys mentioned in this column appears in the photo above.
Cheryl-Anne Millsap's audio essays can be heard on Spokane Public Radio and on public radio stations across the country. She is the author of "Home Planet: A Life in Four Seasons" and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
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I don't deny it. I'm smitten with my new granddaughter. This new addition to the family is the last thing on my mind at night and the first thing I think of when I wake in the morning.
And as I hold her, watching her adjust to this new bright, noisy, chilly, world, I can't help but project forward, imagining the life she will have and the wonderful, incredible, changes she will see. And I hope I'm always close enough to share some of those adventures.
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My son, who has been working in Japan, is on his way home. We haven't seen him in several months and I'm hungry for some time with him. My son has grown up to be a wonderful man; an adventurer, a tinkerer and a master of creating complex machines from bits of metal.
He'll be home for Christmas Eve and wrapping his gifts and putting them under the tree, thought about the boy who loved contraptions and I was reminded of something he taught me one Christmas years ago.
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December 25, 2003 | Cheryl-Anne Millsap The Valley Voice
Early each Christmas morning, as I turn out the lights and make my way to my bed, knowing I will be pulled out of it again when the sun rises, I stop for a moment, overwhelmed by memories and the knowledge that time is flying past me.
The children, who have been the reason I wake each morning and fall into an exhausted sleep each night, are growing up so quickly. Already one has left the nest, and another is perched on the edge. Their Christmas lists are more sophisticated now, with high-tech gadgets replacing Easy-Bake ovens and G.I. Joe.
When my son was six, he fell under the spell of a miniature arcade game, the kind where you manipulate a giant claw to pick up prizes and stuffed animals and drop them down a chute. He wanted the game more than anything and put it at the top of his Christmas list.
He was thrilled when he found the game under the tree and played with it constantly. But it was a complicated toy that was never meant to go the distance. When it stopped working, he was disappointed and put it away in his closet.
I didn't think about it again until the next year on Christmas Eve when I was getting everyone ready for bed and another visit from Santa. He walked in and placed the broken game under the Christmas tree with a note asking Santa to please repair it.
I could only gape at him, speechless. It was already midnight and to paraphrase the poet, there were miles to go before we could sleep.
My little boy had no idea that his mother was staggering under the weight of postpartum depression or that his father, who was in graduate school and wearied by final exams, was scheduled to work a 24-hour shift on Christmas Day.
My son wasn't jumpy and distracted from listening for the cries of the colicky baby sister or thinking about the 2 a.m. feeding that would cut into the few productive hours of the night.
The way he saw it, Santa brought that game to him and he would want to know there was a problem. And since the big guy was going to be in the neighborhood, it wouldn't hurt to have him take a look at a broken toy. So he left it with a note asking that Santa "make it work again."
Somehow, the two elves-in-residence, Sleepy and Weepy, did everything that needed to be done. The baby got her 2 a.m. feeding and Santa placed the surprises, including the refurbished toy, under the tree before the children woke with the dawn.
I was watching my son the next morning when he found the game. He was pleased but he wasn't surprised. It was just where he expected it to be. His face shining with pleasure, he took it to the kitchen table, turned it this way and that to admire Santa's handiwork, and began to play contentedly while new presents waited under the tree.
Whenever I am confronted with the reality that life doesn't come with guarantees, I think about that Christmas morning. And when I think about it, I wish I could be seven years old again, with that much trust in everyone around me to do the right thing. I wish I hadn't learned that sometimes things break so completely that no one can fix them, not even Santa. Not even for a day.
Now, years have passed. Dad got through graduate school, Mom got over the blues, and the new baby stopped crying. The toy, which wasn't built to last, stopped working again and found its way back to the closet, to be eventually taken apart and its parts scavenged for a little boy's inventions.
For my son it was proof that Santa cared enough about him to take the time to try to make something work again. For the elves, it was an exercise in patience. For all of us it was a sweet reminder that love has responsibility.
Maybe this year under the tree I'll leave my heart, just to see what Santa can do.
Walking down the streets of Nashville, it's not uncommon to see a star; an artist stepping out of a studio or having a beer at a downtown watering hole. You might see them in the grocery store or jogging through the neighborhood. Nashville is that kind of town. Most are famous for the songs they've sung, but the thing most people forget is that most of those songs were hammered out by other people. Men and women who put happiness, hard work and heartbreak down on paper, one note, one chord, one word at a time.
Tin Pan South is the songwriter's time to shine.
Once a year Nashville fills the Honkytonks, the cafes, the dives and auditoriums with the talent behind the talent. Songwriters, not necessarily the names and faces you associate with well-known songs, gather to perform. It's fun to watch and interesting to occasionally spot a famous face, a famous fan of the relatively unknown man or woman on the stage, standing in the crowd. They are there, like the rest of us, to see the masters at work.
On my last night in Nashville, I sat in the crowd at Puckett's, just up the hill from the old Ryman Auditorium. On the stage, four musicians, the featured songwriters of the evening - Regie Hamm, Karen Staley, Billy Kirsch and Wil Nance, and laughed and joked and sang. Regie Hamm was the spokesman for the group.
Each took a turn playing and singing a song they'd written. But what made it so interesting were the stories they shared, the stories behind the songs. It's funny what can happen to a song, like any offspring, when it leaves home. Ballads become rock and roll. Hard rock tunes turn mellow, intimate.
"As a writer, I say my piece and then let it go," Hamm told me later. "I've had to learn how to allow the song to live on its own, without me. I can't know how people will react to it or how the message will be received."
That can't be easy.
At the end of the evening Hamm, having saved his best work for last, began to talk. He had a song, and a story, he wanted to share.
"This is a cruel business," he said. "It can kill you."
"One minute you're riding high and the next you're as low as you can get."
He should know. He's been there.
In 2003, with an album climbing the charts, he and his wife traveled to China to adopt a baby girl. They were gone less than a month but when they returned their world was already beginning to spin out of control. His song was pulled, tour dates were cancelled and the big money never showed up. Hamm went from being the next big thing to just another artist trying to get a gig.
But the biggest blow was the discovery that their daughter had a rare genetic disorder. Angelman Syndrome. They lost their home and faced a landslide of medical bills.
Hamm grieved for what was lost and what would never be.
Hamm's wife asked him to write a song - something she'd never done before - for the American Idol songwriting contest. At first, Hamm wasn't interested. She persisted and finally, a week before the deadline, more excited about the furniture store jingle he'd been hired to compose, a jingle that would bring in a guaranteed $500, Hamm sat down to write. He wrote what he thought would win, words about happy endings and fairy tales come true. And then he stopped.
"I realized I didn't believe any of it," he said.
So, he started over and wrote what he'd learned. Life isn't fair but it's all we've got. And, even when it hurts, life is worth celebrating.
He paid the $10 entry fee and sent it along with the song.
There were 40,000 entries but Hamm's song won.The song was "This is the Time of My Life."
Idol winner David Cook recorded it. It spent 16 weeks on the top of the charts. Oprah blessed it. The song was played at the closing ceremony at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, a particularly bittersweet moment for Hamm.
"We'd said we would return for the Olympics, with our daughter," he said. "That was before."
For Hamm it was a second chance.
"Sometimes, you get surprised and someone takes your song to a new level with an amazing performance," Hamm said. "That is always a blessing and is often the rush that keep you writing another day."
I left the show that evening and walked back to my hotel - a nobody in a city of somebodies - wondering how many people have listened to Hamm's song, connected with it on some level, hummed along, tapping the steering wheel with their fingers as it played. People like me who had no idea what led to its creation but felt the power of peace and acceptance in every word. I walked on, filled with gratitude for people like Regie Hamm. People who are willing to live out loud and put it all down on paper - the good and the bad and the sheer, blind, hope that keeps us going.
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Cheryl-Anne Millsap writes for The Spokesman-Review. Her essays can be heard on Spokane Public Radio and on public radio stations across the country. She is the author of "Home Planet: A Life in Four Seasons" and can be reached at email@example.com
I didn't pay much attention to the first shoe. It's not unusual to see a lone shoe on the road, although I almost always wonder who dropped it and left it behind.
The second shoe, the mate to the one I'd just passed, did get my attention. They were expensive-looking men's leather shoes, lace-ups, and the one that had landed upside down showed a good sole, no holes or worn spots.
Who loses both shoes in the road?" I wondered.
But it was the pants that slowed me down. Not more than 100 feet down the road, a well-traveled arterial through an upscale residential neighborhood, a street lined by stately homes and old trees, a pair of men's trousers, a nice wool gabardine by the look of them, were thrown across the center line.
Pants, shoes and then, yep, you guessed it, a little farther down the block, a shirt. A man's light blue cotton dress shirt. By this time I was almost afraid to look ahead, afraid I would see some guy, stripped down to his boxers, splayed on the pavement like a scene from CSI.
Fortunately, I didn't find him. But there was a belt. A nice black leather belt with a shiny brass buckle.
I drove the rest of the way bemused. There had to be a story there somewhere.
Was this what was left of a stockbroker who'd decided enough was enough and had switched off his computer, pushed away from his desk and peeled out of the parking lot, stripping off his work uniform like a snake moves out of his skin? Did he walk into the house wearing only his underwear and carrying a brief case and say, "Guess what, Honey? I quit," to his startled wife?
Or, perhaps it was something a little sexier. Had he been driving with a beautiful babe by his side urging him on as he peeled off his clothes, waving them once out the top of the convertible and then letting them fly as he sped away? If so, the pants and the belt impressed me. I mean, that would be hard to, well, pull off.
I suppose the clothing could have been put there by an angry girlfriend, a trail of spiteful crumbs left by a woman who felt a little better with each garment she threw away. Relationship roadkill.
I finally settled on another scenario. Not as romantic, but probably a little more realistic.
I pictured a car, maybe a minivan, driven by a man who left the office and stopped by the gym for a quick workout before picking up his toddler from day care. While he drove home, distracted, still connected to the office by a Bluetooth umbilicus, the curious child fished around in his gym bag, pulling out one thing after another and then deliberately pushing each out the window, delighting in the way the objects simply disappeared as the car moved on. I imagined his reaction when he opened the door and leaned over to unbuckle the grinning child.
The next morning everything was gone. The street was clothing-free. But somebody, somewhere, must have had some explaining to do.
Cheryl-Anne Millsap writes for The Spokesman-Review. Her essays can be heard on Spokane Public Radio and on public radio stations across the country. She is the author of "Home Planet: A Life in Four Seasons" and can be reached at email@example.com
Chances are you've got love, or something like it, on your mind. After all, it's Valentine's Day.
Did you buy roses? You need to buy roses. And a card covered with sentimental poetry written by a stranger.
Don't forget the chocolate, the expensive perfume, something from Victoria's Secret, a gourmet meal at a five-star restaurant and jewelry. Isn't that what it takes to show love? Well, one day a year, maybe. But it's the other 364 days that tell the tale.
The truth is, love doesn't always come with balloons and words that rhyme. True love usually comes to us just like the groceries – mixed with the necessities and wrapped in plain brown paper.
Love is spread between the peanut butter and jelly in a school lunch sandwich and folded into baskets of clean laundry.
It is carried in a soft look at the end of a hard day and the gentle sound of your name on another's lips.
Love is scrambled into eggs for a quick supper on a hectic night and sweetens a cup of coffee brought to you before you get out of bed on a cold morning.
Real love isn't just tender whispers in the dark. It's pillow talk about unreliable cars, failing hot water heaters, thinning hair, expanding waistlines, ominous medical tests and parent-teacher conferences.
Love is the glue that holds us together and the fuel that drives us to work, piano practice, dentist appointments and soccer games.
Love is the smell of a newborn baby. Love is the sound of a sullen "goodnight" muttered by a teenager who, only moments before, expressed a keen desire to become an orphan.
Love is when you tell the one you chose, "I'm scared," and they hold your hand. For as long as you need it.
Real love is letting someone hold your hand.
Sometimes love is only visible, like the growth rings in a tree, when we've been cut and left with an open wound. And love is the bandage that binds our wounds and helps us heal.
Real love has very little to do with the candy and cards we buy and give once a year. It isn't in romantic music and movies.
For most of us, love is hidden in the shadows of an ordinary life, when you open your eyes in the cold, gray light of morning and make the choice to stick it out one more day.
Most of us learn to take love where we find it. And when we look, really look, past all the frills and fuss of a made-for-retail holiday, it's all around us.
Cheryl-Anne Millsap writes for The Spokesman-Review. Her essays can be heard on Spokane Public Radio and on public radio stations across the country. She is the author of "Home Planet: A Life in Four Seasons" and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
It was one of those beautiful spring Saturday mornings that thrill you. When the sun is out, the air is suddenly warmer and there are tender green shoots peeking up in the flower beds. The kind of day you remember. The kind of day that makes you remember.
Out on weekend errands, we drove through the neighborhood passing rows of houses, many with people in the front yards talking to neighbors, enjoying the sunshine.
When we stopped at a red light I looked over to see a man playing with his young son. The little boy was behind the wheel of one of those motorized child-sized toy cars. A Power Wheel. In this case, a Jeep. He was steering but his father was behind him, helping him push the little vehicle up a particularly steep place in the front yard.
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I was wondering about this souvenir that I have. It's a big cardboard poster map of Toon Town. It's about 16 inches long and 12 inches tall. I got it in 93/94 right after Toon Town opened. My mom says they had them for other lands, but I'm not sure. Did they? And if so, do they still make them/sell them? It'd be cool to get either updated ones or ones from other lands.
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I am just starting prepping and looking for a group or like minded people,I have many outdoor skills and good with firearms. I don't know anyone who has the same mindset as I do, just seen doomsday preppers on tv, and my wife told me I was a prepper, now looking to join or start a group. I live in Clarksville iowa
hello Iowa preppers I am one of the co's of old glory a local militia in the Sioux city area. We are not a typical militia we are preppers as well, we also are a family and community orientated militia. We have that bug out location if y'all don't have one. We have a well that is never ending. We ask if y'all come bring as much food, medical supplies I.e pain killers, antibiotics , bandages, and bring ammo and guns. You don't have to have any security training we can train you. The two people in charge are formor military we can and have the will power to protect you. With in the community we have what you can call a government by having one person from each family sit on something like a congress and you will make votes on what the best route the safe haven to do to keep the community safe from any potential threats. We also have our own law enforcement. For more info you can email me at starsandbars [dot] oldglory [at] gmail [dot] com
god bless you all and god bless America
and stay safe
good morning to you all. Mike here. I am currently living in NW Iowa, and hoping to relocate to NE South Dakota in the next 6 to 18 months. I'm a retired lpn nurse, have studied and used herbs for well over 3o years, and believe in our God given rights as stated in our sacred Constitution. Looking for other like minded folks in the general area who want to share knowledge
Mason City here, way North Iowa. I am 31 yo. with 14 years Army Infantry experience with multiple combat tours so far, still going at it. I also have a BS in Sports Medicine and am a practicing herbal medicalist. My wife is a BSN Nurse with extensive experience in critical care and cardiac care. We can bring a lot to the table and would love to meet up with like minded people here in North Iowa.
We are looking to put together a group for a knowledge base to draw from. To start we want to have monthly meeting at a central location with a learning goal in mind each month. Each member of the group will be able to contribute from their own subject matter expertise.
If things go well and people are able to bug out to a similar location we could have an amazing group to be co-located with when SHTF.
Please contact me through this site first, then we can work on a more personal e-mail/phone basis.
I moved back to Iowa about a year ago and I really just want to find some like minded people that are also Preppers like I am
My family and I have been getting ready for whatever comes our way for a year. We are looking for like minded people near us to help plan and prepare together. We live in northwest iowa close to South Dakota and Minnesota. Anyone near by?
I wanted to reach out to anyone in the North-West Missouri and North-East Kansas area's and let you know that you are not alone.
Since moving to the Kansas City area in the fall of 2011 my wife and I have discovered that there are many like minded people in the area. Most of the folks we have met seem very down to earth and not over zealous by any means or on any level.
We have been fortunate enough to network with several of them and found there are several groups that meetup regularly and are very helpful to their fellow friends, neighbors and countrymen. Several of these groups are looking to grow and are also looking for people with particular skills. I have met all of them and my family and I have grown to trust and become quite fond of several of them.
If you are looking for a group of "Friends" to turn to as a support system in times of need, or just looking to network and exchange thoughts and idea's, feel free to send me and email and I will do my best to assist you in whatever capacity I can.
pabarnes4038 [at] g.m.a.i.l.com
Thanks and best wishes,
I live in the Mason City area. I'm fairly new to prepping but am well informed. Looking to meet others in the area and maybe start a group. I own my home and a small parcel of land. Working to get off grid and become self suficient.
New to the area, just moved here from Missouri and looking for like minded people to compare notes with and maybe help each other out. Didn't know if there were group meetings any where like we had in Missouir or how was best to hook up.
We are in CB and would like to start networking with like minded preppers. Talk about ideas, storage, good places to purchase from, etc. We have been prepping for 2-3 years and really don't know many others around us.
Looking for a prepper group in Hardin county Iowa?
Or feel free to call 515-460-2287 for more details.
Hi I live in central Iowa and have just recently (about a year or so) started prepping for whatever disaster may be looming in the future.
I have military experience, and many hands on skills that can be very useful if/when a disaster strikes. I have been working on my long-term food and water storage (seems to take quite awhile to get a good supply stored), as well as medical and general purpose items.
I'm looking to meet other people close by that share the same thought process. I would like to meet people that want to share ideas and techniques for storing stuff, and possibly for joining forces, after all there is strength in numbers. If anyone wants to know more you can reach me at schmit1983{at}yahoo{dot}com. Looking forward to meeting and talking to other like minded people!
Thanks for reading
I am new and am looking for like minded people to compare readyness levels and prepare better.
Hi, I am currently living in southern Iowa between Indianola and Osceola … My wife and I have 6 kids one of which is a tennager who comes and goes as he pleases. I have been prep minded for several years, ever since y2k I suppose. I am a Christian first and a Patriot second. We allowed a family to stay on our place during hard times once and it only took a few weeks before we realized why things were alwasy so hard for them.
After a recent sickness lasting about 5 days I realize that none of us will last if we can't get along and stick together. If anyone is intersted in talking about joining their current group or starting a new group, please feel free to email me. We are on the poorer side of the economic scale, but truly intend to support ourselves and supply our fare share of whatever is needed and plan on helping however and whoever we can.
Looks like most people are only interested in saving themselves, but I was hoping to develop or join a group that was prepared to help the unprepared as much as possible. I am fully aware that we are under the control of a corrupt government and that they intend to disarm the american public. I believe that if any worthy resistance is to be formed that today is the day to act. We all have houses and jobs, but they have dropped the hammer so to speak (:


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Interview with Christian Häfner (FastBill)
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Catholic Charities' Our Place program to participate in March 18 Strengthening Families Summit
Hosted by the N.H. Strengthening Families Leadership Team, the second annual summit will bring together organizations focused on preventing child abuse and neglect throughout the Granite State.
"Our staff was very pleased with the summit last year and were impressed by the people who are working to prevent child abuse," Karen Munsell, an Our Place social worker, said. "We're really looking forward to this year's event and taking another step toward our goal of creating safe environments for children."
Organizers of the Strengthening Families Summit expect to bring together more than 250 child care and early education providers, home visitors and family support workers, elementary school administrators and early childhood professors from across the state.
Last year's summit presented the "Unsung Hero" award to Sharon Riggs, of the Our Place program, for her dedicated work with a young New Hampshire family. This year, Our Place will have an informational booth at the event to educate attendees about programs and services that help to prevent child abuse and neglect.
As part of New Hampshire Catholic Charities' work with NH Children's Trust, the OUR PLACE Program has teamed up with a nationwide effort to educate parents with infants about The Period of PURPLE Crying®, the phrase used to describe the time in a baby's life when they cry more than any other period of development. It is also the span of time most often associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome.
For more information about New Hampshire Catholic Charities or the OUR PLACE Program, visit www.nh-cc.org. To learn more about NH Children's Trust, visit their website at nhchildrenstrust.org.
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Marie Claire Hosts Intimate Hollywood Dinner
Last night, Marie Claire hosted an intimate, celeb-filled dinner at Fig & Olive in West Hollywood, where a bevy of VIPs including major talent agents and powerful producers and the year's most talked-about actresses hobnobbed, dined, and even had time to snap a few pictures! And although the stars gabbed about their early call times the next morning, the soiree went well into the night.
Marie Claire Goes Hollywood
Anne Fulenwider holds court alongside Leslie Mann and Zoe Saldana. It was her first soiree in L.A. since becoming editor-in-chief!
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